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UPTON SINCLAIR'S
FAMOUS NOVEL
THE JUNGLE
TELLS TRAGEDY OF
PACKINGTOWN
CHAPER IV (CONTINUED).
Over this document the family pored
Ions, while Ona spelled out Its con-
tents- It appeared that this house
contained four rooms, besides a base
ment and that It might be bought for
the lot and all. Of this, only
IjnO had to be paid down, the balance
iming paid at the rate of 112 a month,
■raeso were frightful sums, -but then
they were In America, where people
talked about such without fear. They
had learned that they would have to
' „V a rent of $2 a month for a flat, and
(here was no way of doing better,
unless the family of twelve was to exist
in one or two rooms, as at present. If
they paid rent, of course, they might
nay forever, and be no better oft;
Whereas, If they could only meet the
extra expense In the beginning, there
w„uld at last come a time when they
would not have nny rent to pay for
the rest of their lives.
They figured it up. There was a
little left of the money belonging
—I was a little
Tcta Elxbleta, mid there „oo ■»
left to Jurgls. MarIJa had about }60
Tinned up somewhere in her stockings,
ind Grandfather Anthony had part of
and Granaiamer antoony nuu two ui
the money he hnd gotten for his farm.
If they all ——- |
IIO IIOU ivii urn *»**iss.
It mey »■■ combined they would have
enough money to make the first pay
ment; and If they had employment, so
they could be sure of the future. It
might really prove the best plan. It
was of course, not a thing even to be
talked of lightly; It was a thing they
would have to sift to the bottom. And
vet on the other hand, If they were go
ing to make the venture, the sooner
they did It the better; for were they
not paying rent all the time, and liv
ing in a most horrible way besides?
Jurgls was used to dirt—there was
nothing could scare a man who had
been with a railroad gang, where one
could gather up the fleas oft the floor
of the sleeping room by the handful.
But that sort .of thing would not do for
ona. They must have a better place
of some sort very soon—Jurgls said it
with all ths assurance of a man who
had lust made a dollar and fifty-seven
cents in a'single day. Jurgls was at
loss to understand why, with wages
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as they were, «or*many of the people
of this district should live the way
they did.
The next day, MarIJa went to see he?
"forelady," and waa told to report the
fliVt of the week, and learn the busi
ness of can painter. MarIJa went home,
singing out loud all the way. and waa
Just In time to Join Ona and her step
mother as they were setting .out to
go and make Inquiry concerning the
house. That evening the three made
their report to the men—the thing was
altogether as represented in the circu
lar, or at any rate so the agent had
said. The houses lay to the south,
about a mile and a half from the
nrds; they were wonderful bargains,
"ad assured them—
or their own good.
io ouiu ovf so he explained to
hem, for the reason that he had hlm-
elf no Interest in their sale—he was
lerely the agent for a company that
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ml the company was golng out
uslness, so If any one wished to take
dvantage of this wonderful no-rent
Ian, he would have to be very quick,
s a matter of fact, there waa Just a
Ule uncertainty as to whether there
as a single house left; for the agent
ad taken so many people to seethem,
nd for all he knew ‘he . com^tny
light have ported with the la, t Se J'
Ig Teta Elxbleta s evident grief at
.Is news, he added, after "ome hesl-
itlnn. that If they really Intended to
»ake a purchase, he would Bend a tei-
phone message at his own expense,
nd have one of the housesikept. So
had Anally »>«n arranged-and they
/ wen uuaiifttw
re to so and make an t Inspection
vini “ *
p following Sunday morning.
That was Thursday, and all the rest
the week the killing-gang at
•mvn's worked at fu)l prefsure and
irgls cleared a dollar and seventy-
0 rents every day. That was at the
ie of ten and one-half dollars a week,
forty-live a month: Jurgls was not
,le to flgure, except It was nvery
tnple sum, but Ona was like Hflhtnlng
such things, and she worked out
e problem for the family. ManJa
Jonns were each to pay sixteen
liars
month board, and the old
ne ae soon as he got a place—which
ght be any day now. That would
ke ninety-three detlars. Then Ma
li nnd Jona* were between them to
;e a third ehare In the house, which
uld leave only eight dollars a month
Jurgls to contribute to the pay*
So they would have elghty-
dollarB a 9 month—or, supposing
- - ” J —t get work
t Dede Antanas did not get
once, seventy dollars a roontli
Ich ought surely to be sufficient for
support of a family of twelve
n hour before the time on Sunday
ntlr
ii uuur uviui.c — -—^.r
rnlng the entire party set out. They
i written on a piece of
IIIC nuuinw nil*"" ' -
er. which they showed to some one
— - J to be a long
and then. It proved -----
s and a half, but they walked It,
half an hour or so later the agent
In an appearance. He waa a smooth
tlorid personage, elegantly dressed
he spoke their language freely,
eh gave him a great advantageln
ling with them. He escorted them
he house, which was one of a long
of the typical frame dwellings of
neighborhood, where architecture
a luxury that Is dispensed with.
i's heart Bank, for the house was
as It was shown In the
color scheme wae different, for one
ig, and then It did not seem quite
big. Still, It was freshly painted,
made a considerable show. .It was
brand new, so the agent told them,
he talked so Incessantly that they
e quite confused, and did not have
e to aak many questions. There
e all aorta of things they had made
their mlnda to Inquire about, hut
■n the time cam* they either forgot
n or lacked the courage. The other
ms In the row did not seem to be
\ and few of them seemed to ”*
■Pled. When they venturedtohint
his. the agent’s reply wasthatthe
chasers would be moving ln «h°ri-
To press the matter would have
tied to be doubting his word, and
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never In their lives had any one of
them ever spoken to a person of the
class called “gentleman” except with
deference and humility.
The house had a basement, about
two feet below the street line, and a
single story, about six feet above It,
reached by a flight of steps. In addi
tion there was an attic, mode by the
peak of the root, and having one small
window In each end. The street In
front of the house was unpavod and
unllghted, and the view from It con
sisted of a few exactly similar houses,
there
scattered here and there . non lots
grown up with dingy brown weeds. The
house Inside contained four rooms,
plastered white; the basement was but
a frame, the walls being unplastered
and the floor not laid. The oglnt ex
plained that the houses were built that
way, as the purchasers generally pre
ferred to finish the basements to suit
their own taste. The attic was also
unfinished—the family hnd been figur
ing that In case of an emergency they
could rent this attic, but they found
that there was not even a floor, noth
ing but Joists, and beneath them the
lath and plaster of the celling bolow.
All of this, however, did not chill their
ardor as much as might have been ex
pected, because of the volubility of the
agent. There was no end to the ad
vantages of the houses, as he set them
forth, and he waa not silent for an In
stant; he showed them everything
down to the locks on the doors and ths
catches on the windows, and how to
work them. He showed them the sink
In the kitchen, with running water and
a faucet, something which Teta Els-
bleta had never In her wildest dreams
hoped to possess. After a discovery
such as that It would have seemed un
grateful to find any fault, and so they
tried to abut their eyes to other de
fects.
Still they were peasant people, and
they hung on to their money by In
stinct; It was quite In vain that the
agent hinted at promptness—they
would eee, they would see, they told
him, they could not decide until they
had had more time. And io they went
home araln, and all day and evening
there were figuring and ‘ *
debating,
was an agony to them to have to make
up their minds In a matter such as
this. They never could agree all to,
upon each side, and one woul
stlnate, and no sooner would the rest
have convinced him than It would
transpire thdt his arguments had
caused another to waver. Once, In the
evening, when they were all In har
mony, and the house wah as good as
bought, Szedvilas came in and upset
them again. Szedvilas had no use for
stories of people who had been done
to death In this "buying a home” swin
dle. They would bo olmost sura to get
Into a tight place and lose all their
Into a tight place ana lose an meir
money; and there was no end of ex
pense tjmt one could never foresee, nnd
the house might be good-for-nothing
i—how was a poor
from top to bottom,
man to know? Then, too, they would
swindle you with the contract—and
how waa a poor man to understand
anything about a contract? It was all
nothing but robbery, and there was no
safety but In keeping out of It. And
pay rent? asked Jurgls. Ah, yes, to
bo sure, the other answered, that, too,
was robbery, it was all robbery, for a
poor man. After half an hour of such
depressing conversation they had their
minds quite made up that they had
been saved at the brink of a precipice;
but then Szedvilas went away, and
Jonas, who was a sharp little man, re
minded them that the dellcatesaen bus-
Iness gas a failure, according to its
proprietor, and that this might account
for hla pessimistic views. Which, of
course, reopened the subjectl
The controlling factor waa that they
could not stay where they were—dhey
had to go somewhere. And when they
gave up the house plsn and decided to
rent, the prospect of paying out nine
dollars a month forever they found
Just aa hard to face. All day and all
night /or nearly a whole week they
wrntled with the problem, and then
In the end Jurgls took the responsibil
ity. Brother Jonas had gotten his Job,
and was pushing a truck In Durham a,
and the killing-gang at Browns con
tinued to work early and late, »o that
Jurgls grew more confident every hour,
more certain of his mastership. It
was the kind of thing the man of the
family had to decide and carry through,
he told himself. Others might have
failed at It, but he waa not the falling
kind—he would show them how to do
It. Ho would work all day, and all
night, too. If need be; he would never
rest until the house was paid for and
his people had a home. Bo ho told
them, and so In the end the decision
*Tiiey*had talked about looking at
more houses before they made the pur
chase; but t|jen they dklnotknow
where any more were, and they did
not know any way °*.
one they had seen held the swsy In
their thoughts; whenever they thought
of themselves In a house. It was this
house that they thought of. And so
they went and told the agent that they
were ready to make the agreement.
They knew, aa an abstract proposi
tion, that In matters of business all
men are to be accounted liars; but they
could not but have been Influenced by
all they had heard from tha eloquent
agent, and were quite persuaded that
the house was something they had run
a risk of losing by their delay. They
drew a deep breath when he told them
that they were atlll in time.
They were to come on the morrow,
and he would have the papers all
drawn up. This matter of papers was
one In which Jurgls understood to the
full the need of caution; yet he could
not go himself—every one told him that
he could riot get a< holiday, and that
he might loee his Job by asking. 8o
there was nothing to be done but to
trust It to the women, with Ssedvl-’
las, who promised to go with them.
Jurgls spent a whole evening Impress
ing upon them the seriousness of the
occasion—and then Anally, but of In
numerable hiding places about their
persons and In their baggage, came
forth the precious wads of money, to
be done up tightly In a little bag and
sewed fast In the lining of Teta Elx-
bl Ear*y dr fn*the morning they sellled
forth. Jurgls had given them so manj'
Instructions and warned them agalnat
» many perils that the women were
quite pole with fright, and even the
imperturbable dellcatesaen vender, who
prided himself upon being a business
man. was 111 nt ease. The agent
had the deed aU ready and Invited
them to alt down end rfcad It, thi#
Szedvilas proceeded to «o-*
and laborious process, during *hlch
the sgsnt drummed upon the desk. Teta
Elxbleta was so embarrassed that the
perspiration came out upon her fore
head In bead*; for wee not Ihle read
ing aa much aa to say plalnly to the
gentleman's face that they doubted hla
honesty? Yet Jokubas Szedvilas read
on and on; and presently there devel-
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The story of "The Jungle,** Upton Sinclair’s novel, which has caused the government investigation Into
the methods employed by the beef trust* has Its origin In an actual Packlngtown romance.
In Ashland avenue—'“back of the stock yards"—the wedding took place. The first chapter merely ■nows
a broad-shouldered butcher being wedded to a young girl who sees In him a hero. The wedding in all its
grotesqueness is described In this chapter. Tho wedding ceremony is typical of Packlngtown. It eudi at dawn
when Jurgls nnd his bride, Ona, depart, sadly realising that the contributions, which are a feature of the
feast, will not nearly bear the expense of the ceremony. . . ^ . . .
Practically penniless, Jurgls tells his bride she shall not return to work in the packing house—he will work
early and late. He could not work harder, but the thought of seeing her contribute toward their support was
abhorrent to him. ^ .. .
On arriving In Chicago, J. Ssvedilas, a Lithuanian, who ran a delicatessen atore in Packlngtown, guided
Jurgls, Ona, MarIJa • and the remainder of the party through the stock yards, after he had given them lodg
ing. In this section of the story the author reveals some of the things that have startled the country. He
tells how a government Inijiector, typical of his kind, »Us at the door of the freeitng room and feels the glands
of the cattle for tuberculosis—but If one convened with the Inspector nnd heard Interesting things about cat
tle disease, the official would let a dozen bodies pass Mm without Investigation. The method of preparation
of meat Is vividly portrayed In this Instalment, and even the simple-minded children of nature from Lithu
ania revolt against the conditions described nnd witnessed daily In the contaminated precincts of Packlngtown.
MarIJa. who "had nothing to take with her save her two brawny arms and tho word Job, had found
work In one of the smaller plants labeling nnd painting cans. Tho little coterie were happy and hnd but one
thing to bother them—the coet of living. Their bonrfl nnd fodglng was costing too much. So they decided,
against the advice of Szedvllae who said they would be ewlndled, to buy a email house, dividing tho owner-
Sl11 Ii?*not but have been Influenced by nil they had heard from the eloquent agent,” Saturday's
Installment of the story concludes, "nnd were quite persuaded the house wns something they had run s risk of
losing by their delay. They drew a deep breath when the agent told thsm they were still In time.
(Copyright, IMS. by L’pton Sinclair.
All rights reserved.)
oped that he had good reason for do
ing so. For a horrlblo suspicion had
begun dawning In his mind; ho knit
ted his brows more and mbra ss he
read. This was not a deed of sale at
all, so far as he could see—U provided
only for the renting of tho propertyl
It was hard to tell, with all this strange
legal jargon, words he had never heard
before; but was not this plain—"the
party of the first part hereby cove-
nants and agrees to rent to the said
party of the second pert!’’ And then
again—“ a monthly rental of 112 for a
period of eight years and'four months!
Then Szedvilas took off his spectacles
and looked ot the agent nnd stammered
a question.
The agent wns most polite, nnd ex
plained that that was the usual formu
la; that It was always arranged that
the property should be merely rented.
He kept trying to show them some
thing In the next paragraph; but Sxed
vitas could not get by tho word ”rent-
sl’’—nnd when he translated It to Teta
Elxbleta, she, too, was thrown Into a
fright. They would not own the home
at all, then, for nearly nine years! The
agent, with Infinite patience, began to
explain again; but no explanation
would do now. Elxbleta had firmly
fixed la her mind the last solemn warn
ing of Jurgls: "If there la anything
wrong, do not give him the money, but
go out and get a lawyer.” It was an
agonising moment, but she sst In the
chair, h»r hands clenched like death,
and made s fearful effort, summoning
all her powers, and gasped out her
purpose.
Jokubas translated her words. She
expected the agent to fly Into a pas
sion, but he was, to her bewilder
ment, as ever Imperturbable: he even
offered to go and get a lawyer for her,
but she declined this. They went a
long way, on purposo to find a man who
would not be a confederate. Then let
any one Imagine their dismay when,
after holt an hour, they came In with
a lawyer, and heard him greet the
agent by his flrst name!
Lawyer Read Deed, and They Were
Trapped.
, They felt that all was lost; they sat
like prisoners summoned to hear the
reading of their death warrant. There
was nothing more that they could do—
they were trapped! The lawyer read
over the deed, and when he had read It
he Informed Bzedvllas that It was all
perfectly regular, that the deed was a
blank deed such as was often used In
these sales. And was the deed good
the old man asked—three hundred
dollars down, and the balance
at 112 a month, till the total of (1,600
had been paid? Yes,-that was correct.
And It was for the sale of such and
such a house—the house and lot and
everything? Yes—and the lawysr
showed him where that was all writ
ten. And It was all perfectly regular
—there was no trick about it of any
sort? They were poor people, and this
was all they had In the world, and If
there was anything wrong they would
be ruined. And so Bzedvllas went on,
asking one trembling question after an
other, while the eyes of the women folk
were fixed on him In mute agony. They
could not understand what he was say
ing, but they knew that upon It tlielr
fate depended. And when at last he
had questioned until there was no more
saying, but his eyes were fixed upon
questioning to be done, and the time
came for tni
em to make up thetr mlnda,
iln
of dread to read h!« mind. He saw
the lawyer look up and laugh, and he
gave a gasp; the man said something
to Bzedvllas, and Jurgls turned upon
his frlsnd, his heart almost stopping.
’’He says It la all right,” said Ssed-
vllas.
"All right!”
"Yes, he says It Is Just as It should
be,” and Jurgls, In his relief, snnk
down Into a chair.
“Are you sure of It?" he gasped, and
made Bsedvlloa translate question after
question. He could not hear It often
enough; he could not ask with enough
variations. Yes, they hod bought the
house, they had really bought It. It
belonged to them, they had only to pay
the money and It would be all right.
Then Jurgls covered his face with his
hands, for there were tears In his eyes,
and he felt like a fool. But he hnd
had such a horrible fright: strong man
ax he wns, It left him almost too weak
to stand up.
The lawyer explained that the rental
was a form—the proporty was said to
be merely rented until the last pay
ment had been made, tho purpose be
ing to make It easier to turn the party
out If he did not make the payments.
had nothing to fear, the house was i
theirs.
the half dollar the lawyer
out winking an eyelash, and then rush
ed homo to tell the news to the family.
He found Ona In a faint and the babies
screaming, and the whole housa.ln an
uproar—for It had been believed by all
that he had gone to murder the agent
It was hours before the excitement
could be calmed; and all through that
cruel night JurglB would wako up now
mother In the next room, sobbing sof
ly to themselves.
CHAPTER V.
They hnd bought their home. It
was hard for them to realize that the
wonderful house was theirs to movo
Into whenever they chose. They spent
all their time thinking about It, nnd
what they were going to put Into It
As their week with Anlele wns up in
three'days, they lost no time In getting
Thi *
It was all that poor
do to kaep from bursting Into tears.
Jokubas had asked her If she wished
to sign; he had asked her twice—and
what could she say? How did she
know If this lawyer were telling the
truth—that he was not In the conspira
cy? And yet. how could she er-> so—
what excuse could she give? The eyes
of every one in the room were upon
her, awaiting her decision; and at last,
half .blind with her tears, shs began
fumbling In her Jacket, where she had
§ !nned the precious motley. And she
rought It out and unwrapped It before
the men. All of this Ona sat watching
ready. They had to make some shirt
to furnish It, and every Instant of their
leisure was given to discussing this.
A person who hnd such a task be
fore him would not need to look very
far In Packlngtown—he had only to
walk up ths avenue and read the signs,
or get Into a street car, to obtain full
Information as to pretty much every
thing a human creature could need. It
wae quite touching, the zeal of pooplo
to see that his health and happiness
were provided for. DU1 the poreon
wish to smoke? There was a little
discourse about cigars, showing him
exactly why the Thomas Jefferson
Flve-cent Ferfecto was the only rlgsr
worthy of the name. Hnd he, on the
other hand, smoked too much? Here
was a remedy for the smoking habit,
twenty-five doses for a quarter and n
cure absolutely guaranteed In ten
doses. In Innumerable ways such as
this, the traveler found that somebody
had been busied to make smooth hla
paths through the world, and to let
him know what had been done for him.
In Packlngtown the advertisements
had a style all of their own, adapted to
the peculiar population. One would
be tenderly eollcltoue. "Is your wife
paler* It would Inquire. "Ie she dis
couraged, does she dreg herself about
the house and find fault with every
thing? Why do you not tell her to try
Dr. Lana linn’s Life Preservers?" An
other would bs Jocular In tone, slapping
you on the back, so to apeak. "Don’t
be a chump!” It would exclaim, "do
and get the Goliath Bunion Cure.”
"Get a move on you!” would chime
In another. "It’s easy. If you wear the
Eureka Two-fifty Shoe."
Among these Importunate signs waa
hammer, and a pound of nails. Theso
last were to be driven Into the walls
i of the kitchen nnd the bed rooms, to
I hang things on; nnd there was a fam
ily discussion as to the place where
i each one wns to be driven. Then Jur-
I gls would try to hammer, and hit hts
fingers because the hammer was too
small, and get mad because Ona had
refused to let him pay 16 cents more
nnd get a bigger hammer; and Ona
would be invited to try It herself, and
hurt her thumb, and cry out, which
necessitated the thumb’s being kissed
by Jurgls. Finally, after every one had
one that had caught the attention ot
the family by Jts pictures. It showed
otty 111
two vory protiy little blrde building
themselves a home; and MarIJa had
asked nn acquaintance to read It
her, and told them that It related to
the furnishing of a house. “Feather
yopr neet," It ran—and went on to aay
that It could furnish all the necessary
feathers for a four-room nest for the
ludicrously small sum of seventy-five
dollars. The particularly Important
thing about thta offer was that only a
small .part of the money .need be had
at once—the rest one might pny a few
dollare every month. Our friends had
to hovo some furniture, there was no
getting away from that; but their little
fund of money hnd sunk so low that
they could hardly got to sleep at night,
and so thoy fled to this ns their deliver
ance. There lyns more agony and
nnother paper for Elzblota to sign, nnd
then ono night when Jurgls enmn homo
ho was told the breathless tidings that
the furniture hnd arrived and was
safely stowed In tho house; a parlor
set of four piece*, a bedroom set of
three pieces, a dining room table and
four chnlre, n toilet set with beautiful
plllk lilSrS plllllle,I III! ever It. nil IIS
uj uuiKin. riuiui/t asset aim/ uuo
hail a try. the nails would be driven,
and something hung up. Jurgls had
home with a big packing box on
Jurgls
corns _ - _ . _
his head, und he sent Jonas to get
to take one aide out of these tomor
row, and put shelves In them, and
make them Into bureaus and placi
to keep things for the bed rooms. Tl
sortment of crockery, also with pink
roses—and so on. One of tho plates In
the set hail been found broken when
they unpacked It, and Ona was going
to the store the first thing In the
morning to make them rhango It: also
they had promised three sauce pans,
and there hnil only two come, nnd did
Jurgls think that they were trying to
cheat them?
The next day they went to the
house; nnd when the men came from
work they nte a few hurried mouth
fuls at Anlele's, nnd then set to work
nt the task of carrying their belong
ings to their new home. The distance
was In reality over two miles, but Jur
gls mnile two trips that night, onch
time with a huge pile of mattresses
and bedding on Ills head, with bundles
of clothing nnd bagB and things tied
up Inside. Anywhere clan In Chicago
ho would have stood a good chanco of
being arrested: but the policemen In
Packlngtown' were apparently used to
these Informal movlngs, and-rontented
themselves with a cursory examination
now nnd then. It wns quite wonderful
to see how fine the house looked, with
nil tho things In -It. oven by the dim
light of a lamp: It was really home,
und nlmost ns exciting as the placard
had described It. Ona was fairly
dancing, and sho and Cousin MarIJa
took Jurgls by the nrjn and escorted
him from room to room, sitting tn each
chair by turns, and then Insisting that
he should do tho same. One chair
squeaked with his great weight, nnd
they screamed with fright, and woko
tho baby nnd brought everybody run
ning. Altogether It waa a great day,
and tired ns they were, Jurgls and Onn
•nt up lalo, contented simply to hold
each other and gaze In rapture about
the room. They were going to bo
married na soon aa they could got
everything settled, nnd a lltt;i spare
money put by; and this waa to bs thslr
noma—that little room yonder would
be theirs!
It waa In truth a never-ending de
light, the fixing up of this house. They
had no money to spend for the pleas
ure of • ponding, but there were a fow
absolutely necessary things, nnd the
buying of these waa a perpetual ad
venture for Ona. It must always be
done at night, so that Jurgls could go
along; and even If It wey only a pep
per cruet, or a half dozen glasses for
10 cents, that was enough for an ex
pedition. On Saturday night, they
cams horns with a great baskstful of
things, and spread them out on the
table, while every one stood around,
and the children climbed up on tho
chairs, nr howled to be lifted up to
lira, or nowiea to ne iineo up io
i. There were sugar and salt and
tea and cracker*, and a can of lard and
a milk pall, and a scrubbing brush,
and a pair of shoes for tha second old
est boy, and a can of oil and a tack
neat which had been advertised had
not Included feathers for quite so
many birds aa there were In this fam
ily.
They had, of course, put tlielr dining
table In the kitchen, and the dining
room was used os the bed room of
Teta Kliblets and five of her chil
dren. Bhn and the two youngest slept
In the'only bed, and the other three
had a mattress on the floor. Ona and
her cousin dragged i a mattress Into
the parlor nnd slept'at night, and the
three men nnd the oldest boy slept In
tho other room, having nothing but
the very level floor to rest on for the
present. Eh'rn so, however, they slept
soundly—It was necessary for Teta
door at a quartet; past 6 every
morning. She would have ready _a
great pot full of steaming black cof-
n ' . - - -* - *'" J
fee, and ontmeal and bread and smoked
sausages; and then she would fix them
their dinner ixilts with more thick
slices of hr eat] with lnrd between them
—they could not afford butter—and
aome onions and a piece of cheese,
and so they would tramp away to
This was tha first time In hla life
thut ho had ever really worked, It
seemed to Jurgls; It was the first time
that lie hnd over had anything to do
which took all he had In him. Jur-
gin hnd stood with the rest up tn the
gallery and watched the men on the
killing beds, marveling at their speed
and power as If they had been wonder
ful machines; It somehow never oc
curred to one -to think of the flesh and
blood side of It—that la, not until he
actually got down Into the pit and
took off hts coat. Then he saw things
In a different light: he got at the In
side of them. The pare they set here.
It was ono that called for eyerjr fac
ulty o( a mah—from the Instant the
first steer fell to the sounding of the
noon whistle, and again from half past
II till heaven only knew what hour
In ths lats aftsrnon or evening, there
was never one Instant’s rest for a man
—for his hand or hla eye or his brain.
Jurgls saw how they mnnagedlthere
were portions of tne ** ’”
work which de
terminal] the pace of the rest, and for
these they had picked men whom they
paid high wages, ami whom they
chnnged frequently. You might easily
pick out theso pace-makers, for they
worked under the eys of tho bosses,
and they worked like men possessed.
This was cnlled "speeding up the
gang," nnd If any man could not keep
up with tho pace, there were hundreds
outside begging to try. . ..
Yet Jurgls did not mind Its ho rather
enjoyed It. It saved him the neces-
■njujrwu it. it .
eity of flinging his arms about mnd
fidgeting u» ho did In mo,l work. II,
would laugh to hlmaclf a, hs ran down
tho Dm, darting a glance now and then
at the man ahead of him. It waa not
th* plensanteat work dno could think
of, but It was necessary work: and
what more had a man tho right to a»k
than a chance to do something useful
and to get good pay for doing It?
Bo Jurgls thought, nnd so ho spoko.
In hla bold, fres way; very much to
hla surprise, lis found that It had a
tendency to gst him Into trouble. For
most of tho men hero took a fearfully
different view of the thing. He wns
quite dismayed when he first began to
find It out—that moil of the men hat
ed their work. It soemeil strange, It
waa even terrible, when you come to
find out the unlverenllty of sentiment;
but It wns certainly the fact—they
hated their work. They hated ths
bosses nml they tinted the owners;
thoy hatsd the wholo place, the whole
neighborhood—even ths whole cttjTs
with nn all-inclusive hatred, bitter and
fierce. Women and llltls children
would fall to cursing about It: It was
rottsn, rollon as hell—everything was
rottsn. When Jurgls would ask them
what they meant, they would begin to
get suspicious nnd content thomselves
with saying, "Nsvsr mind, you suy
here and see for yourself." .
One of tha first problems that Jur
gls ran upon wns Ihnt of tho unions.
(Is had had no experience with unions,
and be had to have It explained to him
that the msn were banded together
for ths purpose of fighting for their
rights, Jurgls asked thsm what they
meant by their rlghte, a question In
which h, was quite sincere, tot; he had
not any Idea of any right, th,t h, hed.
except the right to hunt for a Job,
Generally,
when he got It.
thl* harmles*
make his fel
low workingmen lone their tempers and
call him n fool. There was si delegate
of the Butcbcr Helpers’ Union who
came to see Jurgls to enroll him; and
when Jurgls fount! thut this meant
that he would have to part with some
of his money, he froze up directly, and
the delegate, who was an Irishman
nnd only knew a few words *»f Lithu
anian, lost his temper mid began to
threaten him. In the end Jurgls got
Into n fine rage, nnd made It suf
ficiently plain that It would take more
than ono irishman to scare him Into a
union. Little by flttlo ho gathered that
tho main thing tho men wanted was to
put a stop to tho habit of “speeding
up;” they wore trying their best to
force a lessening of the pace, for there
were some, they said, who could not
keep up with It, whom It was killing.
But Jurgls had no sympathy with such
Ideas as this—he could do the work
himself, and so could the rest of them,
he declared, If thoy were good f*»r any
thing • ''Uhln't d" It. let then#
go somewhere else. Jurgls hnd not
studied .the books, nnd he would not
have known how to pronounce “Inls-
soxfalre;" but he had been round the
world enough to know that a man haa
to shift for htinaelf In It, nnd thnt If he
gets the worst of It, there Is nobody
to listen to him holler.
Yet there have been known to be
e liiloffophers and plain men who swore
y Malt bus in the book*
nevertheless, subscribe to a relief fund
In time of famine. It was the same with
Jurgls, who consigned the unfit to de
struction, while going about all day
sick at heart boenuso of his poor old
father, who was wandering somewhere
In the yards begging for n chance to
earn his bread. Old Antanas had boon
a worker ever since he wns a child;
he had run away, from Jiome when he
was IS because his father beat him for
trying to learn to read. And he was
a faithful man, too; he was a man
you might leave alone for a month, if
only you had made him understand
”U auto.I him to do In the
meantime. And how here ho was,
worn out In soul and Imdv. and with
no more place in the world thnn a
sick dog. He hnd hla home, ns It hap
pened, and some one who would care
f"» him If ho imv.r got a Job; hut
his son could not help thinking, sup
pose this had not been tho caae? An-
tanas Rudkus had been Into every
building In I’.o klngtow n by this time,
and Ini" n* a11\ every room; he hnd
stood mornings among the crowd of
applicants till tha very pollcemejl had
come to know his face nnd to tefl him
to go home and give It up. He had
been likewise to all the slores nml
saloons for a mile about, begging for
some little thing to do; nnd every
where they had -.nb’fd I no mil. N-mie-
times with curses, and not once even
stopping to nak him a question.
(Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian.)
INVOKE INFLUENCE
OF POPE OF ROME
Ilf Private I.en*ed Wire.
New York. June SS.—Tho domestic
Infelicities of Anna Gouhl, the Amer-
h an glil, v ho t v hanged hei fortune
of gold for the more or less proud title
of Countess De Castellano, have, nc-
« «*rdlng t" today’s • able ndvb es from
Rome, been carried to that court «>f
Inst resort to those loyal to the Cath
olic Church nnd Its teachings—the pa
pal trlbuno at tho Vatican.
There, In private audience with his
holiness, Pope Plus X, tho sister nnd
sister-in-law of Countess Annn have
pleaded that tho Influence of the
church bo extended In every way pos
sible to prevent further scandnl, to
piotct flmlr much abused s|««ter In
her marital rights and to preserve to
her tho custody of her three children,
which the French civil law. In tho
event of her obtaining her divorce,
will give to her husband, Count Bonl
De Castellano.
In all the opposition to the divorce
Idea ns tho panacea for tho countess*
troubles with the count enn be seen
the personality nnd the beliefs of Miss
lldi-ii 11'iuld Hla- ham I unalter
ably opposed to divorce In genoral and
quite nh strongly applied to the case
of her sister Is her views.
Ho, with tho pope on her aids, if he
will be, nnd Count Bonl as well, both
Paris and New York are asking them
selves tho question If the countess, aft
er having been to the courts for relief,
will at the eleventh/hour undo all that
she has done.
REPUBLICAN DAILY
WILL BE ESTABLISHED
Hpedal to Tin* Georgian.
New Orleans, La., June 2.'».- Ar
rangements have been made by the
New Orleans Republican Club to es
tablish a daily newspaper in this city,
there being no Republican publication
of f 111 •* kind In It v at present.
Tin* . apital Mm k will he $2r,0.000.
President L. P. Bryant, of the club,
says thnt the editor-in-chief will he
paid fMOO a year nnd more ns the
paper grows. He believes tlm paper
can be made a success.
from a corner of ths room, twisting her
hands together, meantime, in a fever
of flight Ona longed to cry out and
^'—*■—i, thi
toll’Sr stepmother to stop, that it was
all a trap; but there seemed to be
something clutching her by the throat,
and she could not make a aoun£. And
•o Teta Elxbleta laid the money on the
table, and the agent picked It up and
counted It, and then wrote them a re
ceipt for It and passed them the deed.
Then he gave a sigh of satisfaction,
and rose and shook hands with them
all, still as smooth and polite aa at
the beginning. Ona had a dim rocol-
lection of the lawyer telling Siodvtlaa
that his charge was a dollar, which
that nis cnarge wmm n
occasioned some debate, and mow
agony; and then, after they had paid
that, too, they went out intothe street,
her stepmother clutching the deed In
her hand. They were so weak from
fright that they could not walk, but
had to
to sit down on the way.
Went Home With a Deadly Terror in
Soul*.
Bo they werit home with s deadly
terror (iwwlng at their aoule; snd that
evening Jurgte came home snd heard
their ztory, snd that was the end. Jur
gls wse sure that they had been swin
dled,’ snd were ruined:, snd he tore hie
heir snd cursed like n madman, swear
ing that he would kill the agent that
very night. In the end he seized the
Dsner snd rushed put of the boflze, and i
all the way across the yards to Hslsted .
itreet He dragged Bsedvllas out from ]
and tog
hU supper, and together they rushed
to consult another lawyer. When they
entered his office the lawyer sprang
up, for Jurgls looked llke a «wy per
son, with flying hair and bloodshot
.yes. His companion explained the
situation, and the lawyer took the pa-
per and began to read It, while Jurgls
stood clutching the desk wttb knotted
bands, trembling In every nerve.
Once or twice the lawyer looked up
and asked s question of Szedvilas; the
other did not know a word that be
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