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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 . — «Vsn nnAnln ft |f»»» W UHUOfoiBiiu ** » ", 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 ■ HI Hunt UlCllli * sivov . " 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 STATUARY. you interested in ol art? If so, you ipreciate very much hoice gathering of in our Art Rooms, irest Carara and aCs- narble wrought into of compelling bcapty pealing grace, e studies arc ebarm- • gifts as well as for ual possessiou. ER & BERKflLE. 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 SHA BATTLE By Seventeenth U. S. Infantry and Fifth Regiment Infant ry, N. G. of Ga. ADMIS-oe ( SION v ,/vIltui 5.30 P. M. 1,000 Soldiers, 50,000 Blank Cartridges, a Battery of Artillery, and a Gatling Gun. Children Under 10 Yrs. Old Admitted Free When Accompanied by a Parent. PIEDMONT PARK