Newspaper Page Text
CHAPER IV (CONTINUED).
Over this document the family pored
long, while Ona spelled, out Its con
tents. It appeared that this house
contained fbur rooms, beside* a bi
m. nt and that ft might be bought
ft -Oi) the lot and all. Of this. .
tibo had to*be tmld down, the
Sg paid at the rate of M2 a ..
These were frightful sums, but
lh 7 v were In America, where •
talked about such without fear.
hid learned that they would have
MV a rent of J9 a month for a (tat.
r.,, re was no way of doing be
unless the family of twelve wns to
In one or two rooms, ns at present,
they raid rent, of course, they
pay forever, nnd be no better
whereas. If they could only meet
o'— nw in the beginning, there
they
base
t for
only
balance
month,
t then
people
They
and
better.
exist
little
J50
i farm.
1 have
pay-
It
might
off;
2tra Mpense In tiie beginning,
would at last come a time when
would not have nny rent to pay .
the rest of their lives.
They figured It up. There was
tittle left of the money belonging
Teta Elzbleta, and there was a 1*
left to Jurgls. Marlja had about
ninned up somewhere In her stockings,
Grandfather Anthony had part m
the money he had gotten for his »-■
If they all combined they would
enough money to make the first
Lent; and If they had employment,
thev could be sure of the future,
might really prove the best, plan,
was. of course, not i thing even to „v
talked of lightly: It was a thing they
would have to sift to the bottom. And
vet Ort 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 the assurance of a man who
had lust made a dollar and fifty-seven
cents in a single day. Jurgls was at
a loss to understand why. with wages
a« they were, so many of the people
of this district should live the way
,h The next day. Marlja went to see he.*
■•forelndy,” and was told to report the
first of the wee#, and learn the busi
ness of can painter. Marlja went home,
singing out loud all the way, and was
lust In time to Join Ona and her step
mother as they were setting out to
r,, 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 n half from the
vards; they were wonderful bargains,
ihe gentleman had aksured them—
personally, and for their own good..
He could do this, so he explained to
them, for the reason that he had him
self no Interest In thetr sale—he was
merely the agerit for a company that
had built them. These were the last,
and the company was going out or
business, so If any one wished to take
advantage of this wonderful no-rant
plan, he would have to be very quick.
As a matter of fact, there was Just a
little uncertainty as to whether there
was a single house left; for the agent
had taken so many people to see them,
and for all he knew the company
might have parted with Oiq last. See
ing Teta Elsbletas evident grief at
this news, he added, after someheal-
tatlon, that If they really Intended to
make a purchase, he would send a tel
ephone message at his own expense,
nnd have one of the houses kept. So
It had finally been arranged-andjthey
wore to go and make an- Inspection
the following Sunday morning.
That was Thursday, and all the rest
of the week the killing-gang at
Brown's worked at full pressure, and
Jurgls cleared a dollar and seventy-
five cents every day. That was at. the
rote of ten and one-hnlf dollars a weea,
or forty-five a month; Jurgls was not
able to figure, except it was a very
simple sum. but Ona was like lightning
at such things, and she worked out
the problem for the family. Marlja
and Jonas were each to pay »•**•*"
dollars a month board, and the old
man Insisted that he could do the
same as soon as he, got a place—widen
might he any day now. That would
make ninety-three dollars. Then Ma
rlja nnd Jonas were between them to
take a third share In the house, which
would leave only eight dollars a month
for Jurgls to contribute to the Pay
ment. So they would have eighty-
live dollars a month—or, supposing
that Dede Antnnas did not get work
nt once, seventy dollars a month—
which ought surely to be sufficient for
the support of a family of twelve.
An hour before the time on Sunday
morning the entire party set out. They
had the address written on a piece of
paper, which they showed to some one
now and then. It proved to be a long
mile nnd a .half, but they walked It,
ami half an hour or so later the agent
put In an appearance. He was a smooth
and ilorid personage, elegantly dresseu
and he spoke their language freely,
which gave him a great advantage in
dealing with them. He escorted them
to the house, which was one of a long
row of the typical framfe dwellings or
the neighborhood, where architecture
i s a luxury that Is dispensed wltn.
Ona’s heart sank, for the house was
not as It was shown In the picture,
the color scheme was different, for one
thing, and then It did not seem quite
*o big. Still, It was freshly painted,
and made a considerable show, it was
■Hftrand new, so the agent told them,
i... 'innossanfiv that tney
nr.uiu new, iu uw "/ . .u...
he talked so Incessantly that they
e quite confused, and did not have
r to ask many questions. There
e all sorts of things they had made
iheir minds to Inquire about, but
■n the time came they either forgot
n or lacked the courage. The other
sex In the row did not seem to be
, and few of rihem seemed to be
jpled. When they ventured to hint
hie. the agent's reply was that the
baser, would be moving In snort-
To press the matter would have
ned to be doubting his word, and
STATUARY.
you interested
|Are you interested in
lorks of artl If so, you
‘ill appreciate very much
he * choice gathering of
tudies in our Art Rooms,
lie purest Carara and aCs-
ilian marble wrought into
"nns of compelling beauty
ml appealing grace.
These studies are chaini
ng for gifts as well as for
miividual possession.
MAIER & BERKELE. ’
never In their lives had any one of
them ever epoken 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, anil n
single etory, about six feet above It,
reached by a flight of atepa. In addi
tion there waa an attic, made by the
peak of the roof, and having one amall
window In each end. The atreet In
front of the house waa unpaved and
unllghted, and the view from It con
sisted of a few exactly slml'nr houses,
scattered here and there . eon 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 agent ex
plained that the houaea 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 had been figur
ing that In case of an emergency they
could rent this attic, but they found
that there waa not even a floor, noth
ing but Jolats, and beneath them the
lath and plaster of the celling below.
All of this, however, did not chill their
ardor as much aa might have been ex
pected, because of the volubility of the
agent. There waa no end to the ad
vantages of the houses, as he eet them
forth, and he was not silent for an In
stant; he showed them everything
down to the locks on the doors and the
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 Elx-
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 bo they
tried to shut 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 thatithe
agent hinted at promptness—they
would- see, they would see, they told
him, they could not decide until they
had had more time. And so they went
home again, and all day and evening
there were figuring and debating. It
was an agony to them to have to make
up fhelr minds In a matter such as
this. They never could agree all to
gether; there were so many arguments
upon each side, and one would be ob
stinate, and no sooner would the rest
have convinced him than It would
transpire that his arguments had
caused another to waver. Once, In the
evening, when they were all In har
mony, and the house was as good as
bought, Sxedvllss came In and upset
them again. Sxedvllas had no use for
property owning. He told them cruel
stories of people who I had been done
to death In this "buying a home" swin
dle. They would be almost sure to get
Into a tight place and lose all their
money; and there was no end of ex
pense that one could never foresee, and
the house might be good-for-nothtng
from top to bottom—how was a poor
man to know? Then, too, they would
swindle you with the contract—and
how was 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
be 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 Sxedvllas went away, and
Jonas, who was a sharp little man. re
minded them that tile delicatessen bus
iness was a failure, according to Its
proprietor, and tjiat this might account
for hla pessimistic views. Which, of
course, reopened the subject!
The controlling factor was that they
could not stay where they were—they
had to go somewhere. And when they
gave up the house plan and decided to
rent, the prospect of paying out nine
dollars a month forever they found
Just as hard to face. All day and all
night for nearly a whole week they
wrestled with the problem, and then
In the end Jurgls took the responsibil
ity. Brother Jonas had gotten Ids Job,
and was pushing a truck In Durham s,
and the killing-gang at Browns con
tinued to work early and late, so that
Jurgls grew more confident eretr hour,
more certain of hli 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 ahow them how to do
It. He would work all day. and all
night,’too. If need be; he would never
rest until the house was paid for and
his peopie had a home. So he told
them, and so In the end the decision
* TThey^had talked about looking at
more houses before they made Ihe pur
chase; but then they did not know
where any more were, and they did
not know any way ot flndlng oat TM
one they had seen held the sway In
their thoughts; whenever they thought
of themselves li
house that the?
they went nnd ti
were ready to
They knew, aa
tlon, that In m
men are to be ac
could not but hi
all they had he
agent, and were
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The story of 'The Jungle," Upton Sinclair's novel, which has caused the government Investigation Into
the method* employed by the beef trust, has Ita origin in an actual Pncklngtown rOtnoncc.
In Ashland avenue—“back of the stock yarda"—the wedding took place. The first chapter merely shows
a broad-shouldered butcher being wedded to a young girl who sees in him t hiro. "he weddlns^In ay Ita
when Jurgls'and his bride, Ona, depart, aadly realising that tho contributions, which are a feature of the
feast, will not nearly bear the expense of the ceremony. ,. , .
Practically penniless. Jurgls tells Ills 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. Saved Has, a Lithuanian, who ran a delicatessen store In Pncklngtown, guided
Jurgls, Ona, Marlja and the remainder of the party through the stock yards, nfter ha 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 n government Inspector, typical of hla kind, ells at the door of the freeslng room nnd feels the glands
or the rattle for tuberculosis—but If one conversed with the lns;iector nnd heard Interesting things about cat
tle disease, the otriclal would let a dozen bodies pass him without Investigation. The method of preparation
of meat Is vividly portrayed tn this installment, nnd even the simple-minded children of nature from Lithu
ania revolt against the conditions described nnd witnessed dolly In the contaminated prarlncts of Packlngtown.
Marlja. who "had nothing to take with her save her two brawny nnm and the word Job, had found
work In one of the smaller plants labeling nnil painting cans. The little coterie were happy and had but one
thing to bother them—the coat of living. Their board and lodging wns costing too much. So they decided,
against the advice of Sxedvllas who said they would be swindled, to buy a small house, dividing the owner-
* h * P .They l cou*d not but have been Influenced by nil they had benrd from the eloquent agent,” Saturday's
Installment of the story concludes, 'and were quite persuaded the house wns something they had run a risk of
losing by their delay. They drew a deep breath when the agent told them they were still In time.
(Copyright, 1»0S. by Upton Sinclair. All rights reserved.) .
oped that he had good reason for do
ing so. For a horrible suspicion had
begun dawning In his mind; he knit
ted his brows more and more as he
read. This was not a deed of sale at
all, so far as he could see—It provided
only for the renting of the property!
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 nnd agrees to rent to the said
party of the second parti" And then
again—" a monthly rental of Ml for a
period of eight years and four months!
Then Sxedvllas took oft his spectacles
and looked at the agent nnjl stammered
a question.
The agent was most polite, and ex
plained that that was the usual formu
la; that It waa always arranged that
the property should be merely rented.
He kept trying to show them some
thing In the next, paragraph Hbut Sxed-
vllaa could not get by the word rent
al"—and when he translated it to Teta
Elxbleta, she, too, was thrown Into a
fright. They would not own the home
.4 —It ok—« fni. naaaltf nlliA Vnfim' Till'
was this
And so
:hat they
reement.
proposl-
Iness all
but they
enced by
eloquent
ded that
the"house~waa something they had run
a risk of losing by their delay- They
drew a deep breath when he told them
that they were still )n 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
not go hlmaelf-
he could not g<
he might lose 1
there wee nothl
trust It to the
las, who promli
Jurgls spent e i
Ing upon them
occasion—and tl
numerable hldli
persons and In
forth the preclo
be done up tlgh
sewed fast In tl
Meta's dress.
Early In the
forth. Jurgls hi
Instructions and
so many perils
quite pale with
he could
him that
and that
ling. So
e but to
Sxedvl-
th them.
Impress-
is of the
it of In-
lut tbalr
t*. came
ioney, to
bag and
'ate Klx-
y sallied
so man;’
i against
isn ware
sven the
imperturbable delicatessen vender who
prided himself upon being a buslneas
man. was III at ease. Theagent
had the deed all ready sad ..Invited
them to sit down and read It.
Sxedvllas proceeded to do—a painful
ind laborious process, during which
the agent drummed upon th# desk. Tata
Elibleta was » embarrassed h thatoM>a
head >l ™ t beadx* I Vor wss not this rid
ing as much as
sitlamnn'a flCi that IWY OOUDifu nl»
at all, then, for nearly nine years! The
agent, with Infinite patience, begnn to
explain again; but no explanation
would do now. Elxbleta had firmly
fixed In 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
agonizing moment, but she sat In the
chair, her hands clenched like death,
and made a fearful effort, summoning
all her powers, and gasped out her
purpose. . , '
Jokubas translated her words. She
expected the agent to .fly Into a mis
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 purpose to find a man who
would not be ft confederate. Then let
any one Imagine their dismay when,
after half an hour, they came In with
a lawyer, and heard him greet the
agent by his first name!
Lawyer Read Dasd, and They Wars
Trapped.
They felt that all was lost; they sat
like prisoners summoned to hear the
reading of their death warrant. There
waa nothing more that they could do—
they were trapped! The lawyer read
over the deed, and when he had read It
hq Informed Sxedvllas that It was all
perfectly regular, that the deed was a
blank deed such as was often used In
the old man asked—t hree huni
dollars down, and the balance
at tit ft month, till the total of tl.KOO
had been paid? Yea, that was correct.
And It waa for the sale of such and
such ft house—the house and lot and
everything? Yes—and the lawyer
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 Sxedvllas 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 their
fate depended. And when at last he
had questioned until there was no more
questioning to be done, and the time
came for them to make up their minds,
and either close the bargain or reject It,
It waa all that poor Teta Elxbleta could
do to keep from bursting Into tears.
Jokubas had asked her If she wished
to sign; he had waked hsr 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 say 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, she began
fumbling In hsr Jacket, where she had
pinned the precious money. And she
brought It out and unwrapped It before
the men. All of this Ona sat watching
from a corner of the room, twisting her
hands together,' meantime, In a fever
of fright. Ona longed to-cry out and
tell her stepmother to stop, that It was
all a trap; but there seemed to be
sometljjng clutching her by the throat.
saying, but his eyes were fixed upon
the lawyer's face, striving In on agony
MIC IllH.Mi m lau, niitimn “0****e
of dread to read his mind. He saw
the lawyer look up nnd laugh, and he
gave a gasp; the man said something
to Hxedvllaa, nnd Jurgls turned upon
his friend, his heart almost stopping.
“He says It Is all right," said Sxed-
Vila*.
"All right I"
"Yes,, he says It Is Just as It should
be," and Jurgls, In his relief, sank
down Into a chair.
"Are you sure of It?" he gasped, and
made Sxedvllas translate question after
question. He could not hear It often
enough; he could not ask with enough
variations. • YeS, they had bought tho
house, they lied really bought It. It
belonged to them, they bad only to pay
the money and It would bo 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 had
had such a horrible fright; strong man
na ho was, It left him almost too weak
to stand up.
The lawyer explained that the rental
wns a form—the property woe said to
be merely rented until the last pay
ment had been made, the purpose bo-
Ing to make tt easier to turn the party
out If he did not make the payments.
So long os they paid, however, they
had nothing to fear, the house was all
theirs. ,
Jurgls waa so grateful'that he paid
the half dollar the lawyer asked with
out winking an eyelash, and then rush
ed home to tell the news to the family.
He found Ona In a faint and the babies
screaming, nnd the whole house In an
uproar—for It had been believed by all
that he had gono to murder the agent.
It was hours before the excitement
could be calntbd; nnd nil through that
cruel night Jurgls would wake up now
and then and hear Ona and her step
mother In the next room, sobbing soft
ly to themselves.
CHAPTER V.
They had' bought their home. It
waa hard for them to realise that tho
wonderful house was theirs to move
Into whenever they chose. They spent
all their time thinking about tt, und
what they were going to put Into It.
As their week with Antele was up In
three days, they lost no time In getting
ready. They had to mako some shift
to furnish It, and every Instnnt of their
leisure was given to discussing this.
A person who had such a task be
fore him would not need to look very
far In Packlngtown—he had only to
walk up the avenuo 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, tt
was quite touching, the zeal of pcoplo
to see that his health nnd happiness
were provided for. Did the person
wish to smoke? There wns n little
discourse about cigars, showing him
exactly why th# Thomas Jefferson
Five-rent Perfeeto was the only cigar
worthy of the name. Had, he, on the
other hand, smoked too much? Here
was a remedy for the smoking habit,
twenty-five doses for a quarter and a
cure absolutely guaranteed In ten
doses. In innumerable ways such as
this, the traveler found that somebody
had been busied to make smooth his
paths through tbs world, and to let
him know what had been done for him.
In Packlngtown th# advertisements
had ft style all of their own, adapted to
the peculiar population. One would
be tenderly solicitous. "Is your wife
paleT’ It would Inquire. "Is shs dis
couraged, does she drag herself about
the house and find fault with every
thing? Why do you not tell her to try
Dr. Lanahnn'x Life Preservers?” An
other would be Jocular In tone, slapping
K u on the back, so to speak., "Don't
n chump!” It would exclaim. "Oo
and get the Oollath Bunion Cure.”
"Get a move on you!” would chime
In another. "It's easy. If you wear the
Eureka Two-fifty Shoe."
Among tbeee Importunate signs was
one that had. caught the attention nt
the family by Its pictures. It showed
two very pretty little birds building
hammer, and a pound of nails. These
last were tn be driven Into the walls
of the kitchen and the lied rooms, to
bang things on; and there was a fam
ily discussion as to the place where
each one was to be driven. Then Jur
ats would try to hammer, and lilt hla
fingers because the hammer was too
small, and get mad because Ona had
refused to let him pay 15 centa more
and get a bigger hammer; and Ona
would be Invited to try It heraelf, anil
hurt her thumb, and cry out, which
neceaaltated the thumb's being klaaed
by Jurgls. Finally, after every one had
had a try. the nalla would be driven,
and something hung up. Jurgls bail
come home with a big packing box on
hla head, and he sent Jonn* to get
another that he had bought. lie meant
to take one aide out of these tomor
row, and put ahelvea In them, and
make them Into bureaus and places
to keep things for the bed rooms. The
nest which hod been advertised had
not Included feathers for quite so
many birds as there were In this fam
ily.
They had, of course, put thslr dining
table In the kitchen, and the dining
room was used aa the bed room of
Teta Klableta and flvs of her chil
dren. She and the two youngest slept
In the only bed, and the other three
had a mattress on the floor, Ona and
her cousin dragged a mattress Into
ind ale;
the parlor and slept at night, and the
themselves ft homo: ond Marlja had three men and the oldest boy slept In
asknl nn acquaintance to read It to the other room, having nothing but
her, nnd told them that tt related to' “
tho furnishing of a house. "Feather
your nest.” It ran—nnd went on to say
that It could furnlnh nil the necessary
feathers for a four-room nest for the
ludicrously small sum of seventy-five
dollars. The particularly Important
thing about this offer was that only a
small part of the money need be had
at once—the rest one might pay a few
dollars every month. Our friends had
to have some furniture, there waa no
getting nwny from that; but their little
fund of money had sunk so low that
they could hardly get to sleep nt night,
and so they fled to this as their deliver
ance. There was more agony and
another paper for Elxbleta to sign, and
then one night when Jurgls came home
he waa told the breathless tidings that
the furniture had arrived and waa
safely stowed In the house; it parlor
set of four pleres,. a bedroom set of
tKwaa nlanna ' n illnlnv mnm llhlfi nnd
three pieces,' a dining room table and
four chairs, a toilet set with beautiful
pink roses painted oil over It, an as
sortment of crockery, also with pink
roses—and so on. One of the plates In
the set had been found broken when
they unpacked It, and Ona was going
to the store the first thing In the
morning to make them change It; also
they had promised three sauce pans,
and there had only two come, and did
Jurgls think that they were trying to
cheat them?
The next day they went tp the
house; and when the men came from
work they ate a few hurried mouth
fuls at Anlelo'a, and than set to work
at the task of carrying their, belong
ings to their new home. The distance
was In reality over two miles, but Jur
gls made two trips that night, each
time with n huge pile of mattresses
and bedding on his head, with bundles
of clothing nnd bngs and things tied
up Inside. Anywhere eise In I'hlcngo
he would havo stood a good chance of
being arrested: but the policemen In
Packlngtown wero apparently used to
thess Informal moving*, end contented
themselves with a cursory examination
notv nnd then. It was quite wonderful
to *eo how fine tho house looked, with
all the things In It, even by tho ffilm
light of n lamp; It was really home,
und almost as exciting as the placard
hod described It. Ona was fairly
dnnclng, and sho and Cousin Marlja
took Jurgls by the arm and escorted
him from room to room, sitting In each
chair by turns, and then Instating that
ho should do the same. One chair
squeaked with hi* great weight, and
they erreemed with fright, ond woke
the bnby nnd brought everybody run
ning. Altogether It was a great day,
and.tired 5s they were. Jurgls ond Ona
sat up late, contented simply to hold
each other and gaxe In rapture about
the room. They were going to be
married ns eoon as they could get
everything settled, and n llttj. spare
uvcryuiiiiB «»»»»• «*
money put by; and this was to lie their
home—that little room yonder would
be theirs!
It was In truth a never-ending de
light, tht fixing up of this house. They
had no money to spend for the pirns
ure of spending, but there were a few
nr necei
absolutely necessary things, nnd the
buying of these was a perpetual ad
venture for Ona. It must always be
done at night, so that Jurgls could go
along; and even If It were only a pep
per cruel, or a half dozen glr
10 cents, that was enough for an ex-
came home with a great
things, and spread them out on the
table, while every one stood around,
and the children climbed up on the
chairs, or howled to be lifted up to
tea and cracker*, and a can of lard
a milk pall, and a scrubbing brush,
and a pair of shoes for th# second old
est boy, and a can of oil and a tack
the very level floor to reel on for the
present. Even so, however, they slept
aouniUy—It was necessary for Tata
Elxbleta to pound more than once on
the door at a quarter past 5 every
morning. Sho would have ready a
great pot full of ateamlng black cof
fee, and oatmeal and bread and smoked
sausages; and then she would fix them
their dinner palls with more thick
their dinner palls with more imm
slices of bread with lard between them
—they could not afford butter—and
some onlona nnd a piece of cheeae,
und ao they would tramp away to
This waa the flrit time In hla life
that he had ever really worked. It
seemed to Jurgls: it waa the first time
that he hod ever hnd anything to do
which took all ha had In him. Jur
gls had stood with the rest up In 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 aide of It—that In, not until he
actually got down Into the pit nnd
took off his coat. Then he saw things
In a different light; he got at the In
side of them. The pace they set here.
It was one that called for every fac
ulty of a man—from the Instant the
first steer fell to the sounding of. the
noon whistle, and again from half pant
12 till heaven only knew what hour
In tha late afternon or evening, there
wns never one Inatnnt's rest for a man
—for hla hand or hla eye or hla brain.
Jurgls saw how they managed It; there
were portions of the work which de
termined the pace of the reel and for
these they had picked men wiiorrt they
paid high wages, und whom they
changed frequently. You might easily
pick out thraa pace-mnkers. for they
worked under the eye of the bosses,
and they worked like men possessed
This wa* called “speeding up the
gang." and If any man could not kem>
up with the pace, there were hundreds
outside begging to try.
T<*t JurglB Hid not mind It! h# rather
enjoyed It. It saved Min ths neces
sity of flinging his arms sbout and
fidgeting n» ho did In most work. He
" . . . ... s- i. • .1/ ha rnn ilritvn
would laugh to himself na ha ran down
tho lint, darting a glance now and then
nt tho mnn ahead of him. It wm Mg
the pleneonteat work one could think
of, but It waa necessory .work; and
what more had a man the right to nek
than a chance to do eomethlng useful
nnd to get good pay for doing It?
So Jurgle thought, and eo he epoke,
In hie bold, free way; very much to
hie surprise, he found that It had a
tendency to get him Into trouble. For
most of the men hers took a fearfully
different view of the thing. He waa
quite dismayed when ho flr»t began to
And It out—that moat of the men hat
ed their work. It eeemed strange. It
waa even terrible, when you came to
And out the universality of sentiment;
but It waa certainly the fact—they
hated their work. They hated the
boeaea and they hated the owners!
they hated the tvbolo place, the whole
neighborhood—oven tne whole city,
with an all-Inclusive haired, bitter and
fierce. Women ond little children
would fall to cursing sbout It; It was
rotten, rotten as hell—everything wae
rotten. When Jurats would ask thsm
what they meant, they would begin to
get auspicious and content themselves
with saying, "Never mind, you stay
here and see for yourself." ,
One of the first problems that Jur
gls ran upon was that ofjhe unjons.
had had no experience with unions,
and he had to have It explained to him
that the men were banded together
for the purpose of fighting for their
rights. Jurgls asked them what they
meant by their rights, a question In
which he was quite sincere, for he hart
not any Idea of any rights that he hart,
except the right to hunt for a Job,
nnd do ns he
Generally, I
question wni
low worklngn
call him a fo
of tho Butche
Tli
told wh#*n he got It.
er. thlK harmless
nly make 1>Ih fel-
s<* their tempers anti
•re \NflH a delegate
lp<
.11 hln
;ind
id Jurgls
that
camo to see Jurgls to
wIumi Jurgls found that this meant
that he would have, to part with soma
of his money, ho froze up directly, nnd
the delegate, who wns nn Irishman
nnd only knew a few wo rdf of Lithu
anian, lost hla temper
threaten him. In the e
Into a fine rage, and i
flclently plain that It wo
than one Irishman to eci
union. Little by little he
the main thing the men wanted was to
put a stop to the habit of ‘ speeding
up;** they were trying their bowt to
force a lessening of the pace, for there
were adtae. they said, who could not
keep up with It. whom It wns killing.
But Jurgls hnd no sympathy with such
Ideas ns this—he could do the work
himself, and so could the rest of them,
he declared. If they were good for any
thing. If they couldn't do It, let them
go somewhere else. Jurgls had n<*t
studied the book*, nnd he would not
have known how to pronounce “Inls-
sezfalre;" but he had been round the
world enough to know that a man has
to shift for himself In It, nnd that if he
gets the worst of It. there Is nobody
to listen to him boiler.
■Yet there have been
ore
by Malinins III fio UUVIMI win
nevertheless, subscribe to n relief fund
In time of famine. It won tho sum** with
Jurgls, who consigned the unfit to de
struction. while going about all day
■lek at heart bemuse of his poor old
father, who waa wandering somewhere
In the yarda begging for n chance to
earn his bread. Old Antanas bad been
a worker ever alnce he waa a child;
he had run away from home when he
waa 12 because h}a father bent him for
trying to learn to road. And ha was
a faithful man, too; he was a man
you might leave alone for a month, if
only you had iqade him understand
what you wanted Mm to do In the
meantime. And now here he was,
worn out In soul,and body, nnd with
no more place Ih the world than a
alck dog. He had hla home, na It hap
pened, end aome one who would tare
for him If he never got a Job; but
his son could not help thinking, sup-
poae this had not* been the cn««* ’ An
tanas Kudkus hid been Into every
'•■iii- nil' In I ■.'« U111 w t 1 •" II 11 > this t Inis,
and Into nearly every room; he had
atood mornings among the
come to know hl» face nnd to t<
to go home and give It up. lie ha
been likewise to all the stores an
aaloons for a mile about, begging f«
aome little thing to do; arid eveu
If til. V li.nl I him out. sonif
times with cureea, nnd not om <• e\»*
stopping to ask him a question.
(Continued In Tomorrow’s Georgian
INVOKE INFLUENCE
OF POPE OF ROME
By Private !.eased Wire.
New York, June 25.—The domestic
Infelicities of Anna Gould, the Am**r«
h .ill >■ 111. V hll «'\I luing* d In* i fortune
of gold for the more or less proud title
of (’ountess Do Castellano, have, ac
cording to today's cable advice* fr<»m
Rome, been carried Ig iMt cmirt of
last resort to those loyal to the t’ath-
ollc Church and Its teaching* -the p*-
pal tribune at the Vatican.
There, In private audience with hla
holiness, Pope Plus X, the sister und
sister-in-law of Countess Anna huvo
pleaded that the Influence of U»e
church be extended In every way pos
sible to prevent further scandal, to
protect their much abused sister In
her mnrltnl rights and to preserve to
her the custody of her three children,
which the French civil law, In the
event of her obtaining her divorce,
will give to her husband. Count Ikml
De Ostellane.
In all the opposition to the dlvtcoe
Idea as the panacea for the countaa*’
troubles with the count can bo seen
the personality ond the beliefs *f Mia*
Helen Gould. 8be has i>• *• n unalter
ably opposed to divorce In general »%nd
quite as strongly applied to tha ,(aee
of her sister Is her vlewe.
Ho, with the pope on her side, if ha
will If. and I'nun' Fmil a** well, h*Kh
Paris nnd Sew York are asking them-
flw< Hu* *|U«'Hi|i»n If Hi unless, 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
Hpeels I to The (ieorglau.
New Orleans, La., June Ar
rangement a hav^ tMda hv the
New Orleans Republican Club to es
tablish a dally newspaper In this city,
there being no Jlcpuhlh nn publication
of thU kind In the city at present.
The capital stock will bo $250,000.
President L. P. Bryant, of th»* club,
aaya that the editor-in-chief will be
paid $6,000 a »yonr and more as the
paper grows. He believes the paper
can be made a success.
and she could not make a sound. And i
»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. I
Then he gave a Tilgh of satisfaction,
and roee and shook hands with them
all, still as smooth and polite as at
ths beginning. Ona had a dim recol
lection of the lawyer t«Uing Bsedvllaa
that his charge was a dollar, which
occasioned some debate, and more
agony; and then, after they had paid
that, too, they went out Into the street,
her stepmother clutching the deed In
her hand. They were ao weak from
fright that they could not walk, but
had to alt down on the way.
Went Home With a Deadly Terror in
8oule.
Sd on; and presently Uxrx <Mv«I-
Bo th#y went horn# with a deadly
txrror gnawing at their xoulx; and that
evening Jurglx cam# home and heard
their story, and that wax the ,nd. Jur
glx was xure that they had been swin
dled. and were ruined; and 1m tore hlx
hair and curxed like n madman, swear
ing that he would kill the agent that
very night. In the end he mixed the
paper and rushed out of the house, and
ill the way across the yards to Halsled
street. He dragged Sxedvllas out from
hlx supper, and together they rushed
to consult another lawyer. When they
entered hlx office the lawyer sprang
up, for Jurglx looked like a craxy per
son, with flying halt* and bloodshot
eyes. Hlx companion explained tha
situation, and the lawyer took the pa
per and began to readit, while JurgM
stood clutching the desk with knotted
bands, trembling In every nerve.
Once or twice the lawyer looked up
and asked a question of Szedvllae; the
other did not know a Word that he wa*
SHA
BATTLE
By Seventeenth U. S.
Infantry and Fifth
Regiment Infant
ry, N. G. of Ga.
ADMIS-oe (
AVI 4*0
SION v
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