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UPTON SINCLAIR PICTURES THE VARIED TORTURES OF THE WORKINGMEN IN PACKINGTOWN
THE JUNGLE” TELLS HOW KILLING BEEF KILLS MEN
GRAPHIC STORY REVEALS LINKING OF CRIMINAL POLITICS WITH THE PACKERS’ OPPRESSION OF LABOR
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
fc^emiwwtTnvwrtr*atIon fito tw> meOiod* einBU>y^!’b»*th«
C It* "f**" •» an actual Packlngtown romance 1 by th *
Beef Tout,
The llrst chapter ahowa a broad-shouldered butcher betna .
who .eee In him a hero. The wedding. In anT.^gro^tene.*
Practically. pcnnUees, Jurgls tells his bride she shall .
the packing house—In- will work early and late. n0t , return t0
work
*the p«c*' n * " 1,1 . w °™ early and late. ■.
l» » ( tb ™“* b ji.. .tock®aft^hW^2 n t JsM;:
The little coterie decided to purchase a house. Thev mm »n *1*
• month for it.. They find they have been sninrih a t" t0 pa> **“
Jharpcs such interest that they will be unable‘to pay lhftt th com P an V
jun?i» refused to Join a labor union that would hnv« nmt*».. ’»«
*«* " c a,t iIe d “ n °‘ understand that the^Mfi wX| P „g worked out oi
" m The mtle family itocovers that the real estate agent of the Packing-
torn concern for which Its mature members worked had taken advantire of
their ignorance, and thrust Into the lease of the house Jurgls, Ona MarlJa
and the rest had obtained a clause compelling them to pay exorbitant Inter?
«t Oil the structure. Stanlslovas, the youngest of the party was then sent
• ™ e JSSSS*^!. f?. h ?!?_ b L him lied ft Sw 1 i," wai.UtMm
u tribute totheforelady wK.^dhe, r J^.^alfh^fa.^ ,*£
jSimpne^ and n ov?“o?k. ” WeekS B ' th "eructating pain, because
Yesterday's InstallmenttoW how MarlJa lost her job. because the fsc
WT closed down, how Jurgls, working on “time" during the slack season.
n» In the packing house ten or twelve hours a day. and yet recelvedpay
only (or ( hc few hours ho worked. Sometimes thlrty-nve cents represented
Ik dally earnings. The working members of the family join a labor union
mil attend the mootings. The eyes of Jurgls are opened to the fact that
rtn "( wealth are oppressing those who labor for them In Packlngtown.
sad, strange thing for him, he begins to think of deep problems and ways
*f rectifying conditions.
THE JUNGLE By Upton Sinclair.
right, 1906, by Upton Sinclair. AH
Rights Reserved.
CHAPTER IX.
e nf the first consequences of the
bowery of the union was that Jurgls
icime desirous of learning English.
« wonted to know what was going
i it the meetings and to be able to
ike part in them, and so he began to
ok about him and try to pick up
ord?. The children, who were at
tool and learning fast, would teach
m a few; and a friend loaned him
little book that had some in it, and
Ona would read to him. Then Jufels
•came aorry that he could not read
to self, and later on In the winter,
iben some one told him that there
Wi a night school that was free, he
wnt and enrolled. After that every
gening that he got home from the
»rds in time he would go to the
ieho<fI: he would go even if he were
time for only half an hour. They
rere teaching him both to read and
tipeak English—and they would have
iu?ht him other things if only he had
ed a iittle time.
Also the union made another great
ffereme with him—It made him be-
n to pay attention to the country. It
w th* beginning of democracy -with
hm it was a little state, the union,
miniature republic; Its affairs were
swy man’s affairs, and every man
a real say about them. In other
torts, m the union Jurgis learned to
alk politics. In the place where he
•d eotnn frqm there had not been
Wf politics—In Russia one -thought of
‘ government P* nn. affliction, like
the election was very close, and that
was the time the poor man came In.
got out an Injunction to stop him. and
afterwards gathered It themselves. The
banks of M Bubbl> cm£~ are plastered
thick with hair, and this also the p.ick-
era gather and clean.
And there were things even stmnger
than this, according to the gossip of the
men. The packers had secret mains,
through which they stole billions* of
gallons of the city’s water. The news
papers had been full of this scandal—
once there had even been nn investi
gation. and nn actual uncovering
the pipes; but nobody had been pun
lshed, and the thing went right on
And then there was the condemned
meat Industry, with Its endless horrors.
The people of Chicago saw the govern
ment Inspectors In Packlngtown. and
they all took that to mean that they
were protected from diseased meat;
they did not understand that these hun
dred and sixty-three inspectors had
been appointed at the request of the
SINCLAIR SENDS SCATHING LETTER TO WADSWORTH
that all the disease'
the state. They hod no authority be
ynnd that: for the .Inspection of meat
to be sold In the ettv and state the
whole force In Packlngtown consisted
of three henchmsn of the local political
machine!
And shortly afterwards one of these.
lightning and'the halt. “Duck, lit'
brother, dyck.” the wise old peas-
■ would whisper; “everything pass-
tray." And when Jurgls had drat
to America ho hail supposed that
i tras the same. He had heard people
*f that It Was a free country—hut
*»at did that mean? He found that
precisely as in Russia. there were
men who owned everything; and,
is could not find any work, was
the hunger he began to feet tho
* sort of hunger?
When Jurgls had been working about
“tw weeks at Brown's there had como
bhn ti man. who was employed as a
fht watchman, and who asked him
b" would not like to take out nat-
Uznilon papers and become a cltl-
Jurgts did not. know what that
hut the man explained the ad-
'wtages. in the first place. It would
1st mst him anything, and It would
[PJ him half a day off, with his pay
j?* 1 the same; and then when elec-
™ Hme came he would bo ablo to
tote-ond there was something In
Wat. Jurgls was naturally glad to ac-
*Pt and so the night watchman said
■ (an words to the boss, and he was
sensed f„ r the rest of the day. When,
M'f.on, he wanted a holiday to get
Jnrrled he would not get It; and ns
J a holiday with pay Just the same—
'bai power had wrought that miracle
»ave n only knew! However, he went
>hh the man. who picked up several
tber newly.landed Immigrants, Poles,
Lithuanians and Slovaks, and took
" f "< all outside where stood a great
Jnr-horse tally-ho conch with fifteen or
, n;v men already In It.
j‘t "us a fine chance to see the sights
F the city, and the party had a merry
Jtue. with plenty of beer handed up from
J»h|... Hi> they drove down-town and
Ptnppwi before an Imposing granite
national and stnte elections, for In
local elections the Democratic party
always carried everything. The ruler
of the district was, therefore, the Dem-
®L r , ttt| c b< *"' B ,,ttle Irishman named
Mike Scully. Scully held an Important
party office In the state, and bossed
even the mayor of the city. It was
said; It was his boast that he carried
the stockyards In his pocket. He was
an enormously rich man—he had a
hand In all the big graft In the neigh
borhood. It was Scully, for Instance,
who owned that dump which Jurgia
and Ona had seen the first day of
their arrival. Not only did he own
the dump, but he owned the brick fac
tory as well; and first he took out
the clay and made It Into bricks, and
then he had the city bring garbage to
All up the hole, so that he could build
houses to sell to the people. Then, too,
he sold the bricks to the city, at his
own price, and the city, came and got
them In Its own wagons. And also
he owned the other hole near by, where
the stagnant water was; and It was
he who cut the Ice and sold It; nnd
what was more, If tho men told truth,
he had not had to pay any taxes for
the' water, and he had built the Ice
house out of city lumber, and had not
had to pay anything for that.
The newspapers had got hold of that
story and there had been a scandal;
but Scully had hired somebody to con
fess nnd take alt the blame, and then
skip the country. It was said, too, that
he had built his brick kiln In the same
way, and that the workmen were on
the city pay roll while they did It;
however, one had to press closely to
get these things out of the men,
for It was not their business, and
Mike Scully was a good man to
stand In with. A note signed by hint
was equal to a Job any time at the
packing houses; and also he employed
a good many men himself, and worked
them only eight hours a day, and paid
them the highest wages. This gave'
him many friends—all of whom he
had gotten together Into the “War-'
Whoop League,” whose club house yotf
might see Just outside of the yards.
It was the biggest club house, and th<?
biggest club In all Chicago; and thej*
had prise fights every now and than,
and cock fights and even dog fights.
The policemen In the district all be
longed to the league, and Instead of
suppressing the fights they sold tick
ets for them. The man that had tak
en Jurgls to be naturalised was one*
of these “Indians,” as they were called,
and on election day there would bei |
hundreds of them out. and all with big
wads of money In their pockets, am*
free drinks at every saloon In the dis
trict.
That was another thing, the men
said—all the salonakrner- had to '
Indians,” and put up on demand,
erwlse they could not do business on
Sundays, nor have any gambling at
all. In the same way Scully had all
the Jobs Jn the Are department at hte
a physician, made the discovery that
the carcasses of steers which had been
condemned as tubercular by the gov
ernment Inspectors, and which there
fore contained ptomaines, which are
deadly poisons, were left upon an open
platform and carted away to be sold In
the city; and so he Insisted that theso
carcasses be treated with an Injection
of kerosene—and was ordered to re
sign the same week) So Indignant were
the packers that they went further and
compelled the mavor to abolish the
whole hureau of Inspection; so that
since then there has not been even a
pretense of nnv Interference with the
graft. There was sold to be 3300 i
week hush money, from the tuberru
from the hogs which had died of
cholera on the trains, and which you
might see any day being loaded into
box cars and'hauled away to a place
called aiobe. In Indiana, where tney
made a fancy grade of lord.
Jurgls heard of these things little by
little, In the gossip'of those who were
obliged to perpetrate them. It seemed
as If every time you met a person from
a new department you heard of new
swindles nnd new crimes. There was,
for Instance, a Lithuanian who was a
cattle butcher for the plant where
MarlJa had worked, which killed meat
for canning only; and to hear this man
describe the animals which came to
his place would have been worth while
for a Dante or a Zola. It seemed that
they must have agencies all over the
country, to hunt up old and crippled
nnd diseased cattle to be canned. There
were cattle which had been fed upon
“whisky malt,” the refuse of the brew
eries, and had become what the men
called “steerly"—which means covered
with bolts. It was a nasty Job killing
these, for when you plunged your knife
into them they would burst and splash
foul smelling stuff Into your face; and
when a man's sleeves were smeared
with blood, and his hands steeped It
It, how was he ever to wipe his face,
or to clear bta eyes so that he could
see? It was such os this that made the
"embalmed beer' that killed severs!
times as many United States soldiers
ns all the bullets of the Spaniards; only
the army beef, besides, was not fresh
canned; It was old stuff that had been
lying for yean In the cellars.
Then, one Sl/nday e-/>nlng, Jurgts'sst
puffing his pipe by the kitchen stove,
and talking with an old' fellow whom
Jonas had Introduced, and who worked
In the canning rooms at Durham's;
and so Jurgls lenmed a few things
about the great nnd only Durham
canned goods, which had become a na
tional Institution. They were regular
alchemists at Durham's; they adver
tised a mushroom .catsup, and the men
who made It did not know what' n
mushroom looked like. They advertised
potted chicken”—and It was like the
pers. through whli
walked with rubbers on. Psrhaps they
Princeton. N. J„ Juno I#.—Upton
Sinclair sent the following letter to
Representative Wadsworth, chairman
nf the house committee on agriculture,
today:
“On Friday morning, lost. I wired
you requesting a hearing before your
committee, and the request was re
fused. I again wired you protesting
against this decision, nnd have re
ceived a reply to the effect that the
. iimtulHc,. a d In i. a t, • II
“f have, of course, no appeal from
the verdict, except to the sense nf fair
play of tho American people. It wns
beenuse of my charges tnat the In
vestigation was begun Into conditions
In the Chicago packing houses, ai,d
the uuestlon of my honesty is Inex
tricably* bound up with the subject.
I have been quoted before your cim-
mittc, as making alt sorts of state
ments that 1 h.i \ e Iin.1 made. .111.1 1
should have an opportunity to be
heard.
“I am able to apeak from first-hand
lin.io I. dg.- ..f cndil ions In I'.o ldng-
town. and of the need of legislation.
1 spent seven weeks there, living with
the men. ond studying the plants, In-
Id* end out. before the packers had
had any warning anti had done any
leonine up. I saw with my own eyea
spoiled hams tiring doctored In Ar
mour's, the stench of them being so
great that I could scarcely remain In
the room; 1 saw sausages hanging In
vats, to be dyed. In order" to save the
time and losa of weight Incidental to
smoking; I saw poisoned rats lying
near sausage meat, and waste emla^flj
smoked beef stored In cellars. In damp
barrels, moldy and defiled by the
workingmen. I saw men spitting upon
piles of fresh meat, and washing thetr
hands In water which was ladled Into
the sausage hoppers while 1 stood and
watched. I stood for forty minutes
in Armour's and saw hogs killed with
no Inspector on duty. I saw cattle
killed In Morris' under the same cir
cumstances for nearly as long.
“I consider that these things should
be of concern to youi committee, you
wire me that ‘conditions In the pocking
houses have been fully reviewed.'
Possibly you think so, but I can as
sure you that the public does not think
so. As a matter of simple fact, not
one shred of evidence unfavorable to
the packers has been ullowcd to gel
before your committee, excepting onlv
Whe
which you could not get away
“That your hearings were held, not
to elicit any facts, but solely In order
to whitewash Ute packers, was proved
by the treatment which you accorded
to these gentlemen. A paid agent of
tbe beef trust was received by you
with open arms; you heard his tricks
and dishonest statements with cordial
approval, and the commleetoners nni*
personal friends of the president you
that
the horses were being canned.
Now It woe against "the law to kill
horses In Packlngtown, nnd the law
was really complied with—for the
preeent, at any rate. Any day, how
ever, one might eee sharp-horned and
shaggy-haired creatures running with
the sheep—snd yet whnt a Job you
have to get the public believe that a
good part of whnt It buys for lamb and
It. —wall" flout)
mutton Is really goat's llesh. ■
There was another Interesting set of
statistics that a person might have
gathered In Packlngtown—those pf the
Various afflictions of the work. When
Jurgls hod first Inspected the packlrtg
plants with Sxedvllas he had marvelled
while he listened to the tale of all the
things that were made out of the car-
cosees of animals, and of all the leeser
Industries that were maintained there;
now lie round that each ona of these
Industries was a separate little In
ferno, In Its way os horrible as the
killing beds, the source and fountain
■I them all. The workers In each of
cm had their own peculiar dl^H
had a secret process for making chick- I sceptical about all tbe swindles, but he
knowe? laid Jur- could not be- sceptical about these,
UPTON SINCLAIR.
Author of "The Jungle."
treated as criminals before the bar of
justice, ^on-beating and Insulting them
outrageously.
•Tou will doubtless continue Is your
present course to tliu end; but I pre
dict, sir, that you will live to regrot
the insult which you have offered to
tho Intelligence of the American peo-
pie. They are thoroughly arouted upon
this question, and bent upon Justice.
They realise that your committee bus
been largely to blame for the contln-
disposal; he was building a block of
flats somewhere on Aehland avenue.
l * injure nn impuBini?
JjlMlnir, In which they Interviewed an
JUrial, who hod the papery all ready.
*lih ,. n |y ,j, e nam ,„ t 0 bo filled In.
each man In turn took an oath of
■Jjrii he did not understand a word,
then was presented with a hand-
mamented document with a big
i"-al and the shield of the United
“ate' upon It, and was told that he
a citizen of the republic
equal of the president him
A m-inlh or two later Jurgls had an
JJet Interview with this same man,
an told him where to go to “regls-
And then finally, when election
*> fame, the pocking houses posted a
"lire that men who desired to vote
“*ht remain away until 9 that mom-
5, the same night-watchman
Wt Jurgls and the rest of his flock
r’ >he bock room of a saloon, and
jnwed each .if them where ond how
• tnark a ballot, and then gave each
J. 1 ?, dollars, and took them tt> the
„ ln * place, where there was a po-
fjcian on duty especially to eee tho.
got through all right. Jurats feL
"t'.Proud of this good luck until he
? home and wet Jonas.-who had
the leader aside and whispered
’ b| tn, offering to vote three tiroes for
j»r dollar* which offer had been ac-
Atkl now In the union Jurgls met
*h who explained all thlg mystery
Lhlm. and he leaned that America
“T* from Russia in that Us fovrrn-
•“ -listed under the f‘jn* A
™'>cracy. Th* ..tlk-lals wife ruled It,
be elects
and the man who was overseeing It for
him was drawing pay as a city In
spector of sewers. The city Inspector
of water pipes had been dead and bur
led for over a year, but somebody was
still drawing his pay. The city In
spector of Sidewalks was a barkeeper
at the War-Whoop Cafe-«td maybe
he could not make it uncomfortable for
any tradesman who did not stand In
with Scully! , ,..
Kven the packers were In awe of him.
so the men said. It gave them pleasure
hfe, for Scully stood as the
to believe thl-, . - ,
people's man, and boosted of It bodly
when election day came. The packer#
had wanted a bridge at Ashland ave
nue. but they had not been able to
get It until they had seen Scully; end
It was the same with "Bubbly Creek,"
which the city had threatened to make
the packets cover over, until Scully
had come to their aid. "Bubblv Creek j
Is on arm of the Chicago river, and
forms the southern boundary of tho
yards:' all the drainage of the sous re
mile of parking houses empties Into It.
so that It Is really a great open sewer
a hundred or two feet wide. One long
arm of It la blind, and the filth etays
there forever and a day.
The greaee and chemicals that are
poured Into It undergo all sorts of
strange transformations, which are the
causes of Us name; It Is constantly In
motion, os If huge fish were feeding In
It. or great leviathans disporting them
selves In Us depths. Bubbles of car
bonic add gas will rise to th# surface
and buret, and mgike rings two or three
feet wide. Here and thsre the grease
and filth have caked eolld. and the
rreek looke like a bed of lava: chick
ens walk about on It, feeding, and many
times on unwary stranger hoe started
to stroll icross, and vanished tempora
rily. The packers used to leave the
rr*ek that way, until «• very now and
then the surface would catch on flrv
and burn furiously, sod the Are de-
nertment would have to come and put
— kexaeae Inrpnlrilth
ens chemically—who
gls' friend; the thlhgs that went Into
the mixture were tripe, and the fat of
pork, and beef suet,- and hearts of bsef,
and Anally the waste ends of veal,
when they had any. They put these
up In several grades, and sold them at
several prices; but the eontenta of the
cane all came out Of the eame hopper.
in,1 ihnn thera vama” and
And then there wart "potted game" and
“potted grouse,” “potted ham,” and
'devilled hem"—de-x-yled, as the men
—iui It "IVe-wlnil" ham made
railed It. “De-vylOd” ham was made
out of the waste elide of smoked beef
that were too small to be allced by the
machines; and also tripe, dyed with
chemicals eo that It would not ehow
white: and trimmings of hams and
corned beef, and potatoes, skins and
all; and finally the’ hard cartilaginous
gullets of beef, after the tongues had
been cut out.
All this Ingenious mixture was
ground up and flavored with eplcee to
make It taste like something. Any
body who could Invent a neiy Imitation
had been sure af a fortune from old
Durham, said Jurglg’ Informant; but It
was hard to think of anything new In
a place where eo many sharp wits had
been at work for ta long: where men
weloomed tuberculosis In the cattle
they were feeding, because It made
U1PJ Wei v IUWUU*», ssara-vesesv I*
them ratten more fcutckly, and where
they bought up all the old rancid but
ter left over In the grocery stores of a
atr process, and eoli
cities. Up to a year or two ago It had
been the custom t<» ‘ ' *
yards—ostensibly
after long agitation the newspapers had
been able to make the public realise
WO. m _ ■waaoam _ _ J m
for the worker bore the evidence of
them about on hts own person—gen
erally he had only to hold out hie hand.
There were men In the pickle rooms,
for Instance, where old Antanaa had
gotten hla death. Hcarce a one of these
that hud not some spot of horror on hts
Anger pushing e truck In the pickle
rooms and he might have a sore that
would put him out of the world; all the
joints of hts lingers might be eaten by
the acid, one by one. of the butchers
nnd (loorumen, the beef-boners and
trimmers, and all those who used
son who had the use
tlmp snd time again the base of It had
been slashed, till It was a mere lump
of flesh against which the man pressed
the knife to hold It. The hands of these
men would be criss-crossed with cuts
until you could no longer pretend to
count them or to traeo them. They
would have no nails—they had worn
them oft pulling hides; their knuckles
were swollen eo that their Angers
spread out like a fan. There were
men who worked In the conking roome,
In the midst nf steam and sickening
time limit that a man could work In
the chilling room waa said to be Avo
years.
There were the wool pluckers, whose
hands went to pieces even sooner Ihnn
the hnnde of the pickle men; for the
I>elta of the sheep had to be pftlnted
with acid to loosen the wool, anil then
tho pluckers had to pull out this wool
with their bare hands, till the ucld had
eaten their Angers off. There were
those who made the tins for the canned
menl; nnd their hands, too. Wera a
maze of cuts, and each cut represent
ed a chance for blood poisoning. Home
worked nt tho stamping machines, and
It was very seldom that one could
work long there at the pace that was
set and not give out or forget hlmielf
and have a part of hts hand chopped
off. There were the “holsters,” as they
were called, whose task It was to press
the lover which lifted the dead cattle
off the floor. They ran along upon a
rafter, peering down through the damp
and the steam, nnd, as old Durham's
arrchltects hod not built .the killing
room-for the convenience of the holst
ers, ot every few feet thoy would
have to stoop under a beam, say
four feet above the one they
ran on, which got them Into the habit
of stooping, so that In a few years
they would be walking like chimpan-
sees. Worst of any, however, were the
fertiliser men, and tboss who served
In the cooking rooms.
These fieople could not be shown to
the visitor—for the odor of a fertiliser
inan would scare any ordinary visit
tinnce nf the condemned meat Indus
try since It lias been your task, year
after year, to smother the request of
tho secretary of agriculture for funds
to maintain nn efficient Inspection:
and now that you have been toned
Into the open, as the servant anil
champion of the criminate Involved, I
shall be surprised If the people do not
find a way to make you feel the weight
of their dlepleneure.
’•r
'•UPTON SINCLAIR.”
id f r
neelble
nnd that
dltlon they had counted on U
they would not have to pay f
and It was Just at this time t
IJn'e hoard began to fall. T
the: warm “.-esther bronchi
Its own. F.a<-h season hud I
as they found. In the sort
were cold-ruins, that turned tl
Into canals and bogs; n> -
be so deep that wagons wo
up to the hubs, so that half
horses could not move them
of course. It ws« Imr
one to get to work wltt
this was bud for men that v
clad ami shod, snd still
women nnd children.
Later came midsummer,
stifling heat, when the dim
beds of Durham's became a
gatory; one time, In a single
men fell dead from sunst
day long the rivers of hot b
ed forth, until, with the si
down , and tbe ., air motlc
stench ivss enough to knock n ir
over; all the old smells of a g.-nei
tlon would be drawn out hj- this b
—for there woe never am- wuidibig
the walls anil rafters and pm
min
id 1-"
ales*.
they were caked with the
lifetime. The men who w
killing beds would come
foulness, so that you cou
of them DO feet away; tin
ply no such thing ns kee
the most carcRil man guvt
end. and wallowed In
Tl -I • ll"t el ' H II id
man could wash his hni
.mill
en at'
t hi
nt dinner time
work they col
their faces—th
noiv-born balm
nsy seem 11
m the twei
their necks am
to bother, them. II
being burned allv
the slaughter hoi
that ware responi
say. bat with the
de»i-ended upon l 1
table Kgyptlnn pi
the
like
uld be no i
eklngtow n
Ml"
lg till" til
dump*
old not
r there
a ven-
. ther"
In i
would "be
wai no eerapR
nit your doors
screens, but l
would be like
The
ind
sh In
or at a hundred yards, and as for the
other men, who worked In tank rooms
full of steam, ond in some of which
there were open vats near the level of
tht floor, their peculiar trouble waa
that they fell Into the vats, and when
they were fished out there was never
enough of them left to be worth ex
hibiting—sometimes they wobld be
overlooked for dope, till all but the
bones of them hail gone out to the
world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!
thdir wntr-r fr»>xn ami hur«t; and
whan. In th*lr iRnorunro, tbay thnwt>il
them out. they had a terrifying ilood
in their houM. It happened while tin*
mm were a way, nnd poor Elxhietu
rtmhed out Into tin* iitVeet ncreaminK
for help, for *he Old not even Know
whether the (loud could bo mopped,
or whether they were ruli
It wntf nenrly nn had iih tho latte
they found In tin* end, for tho plumhi
charged thorn 7i cento nn hour, and *
cent* for another man who had ntoc
and watched him. and Inc duded Ml U urnw „ IW
time the two had been going and A ^ oor dev ,| of a |
life.
they would
‘ 1 were driving thorn,
rlmpe, the lummer tf
to you thoughts of the t
Iona of green fletda and m<
apnrkling Inkea. It had n
neatlon for the people ir
The great packing machtn
remoraeleaeljr, wlthirut
flelda; and the men
and children who wore pat
aaw any green thing, nut «
Kour or five mllen to the <
lay U 1 * blue wntara of Lnli
hut for all the good It
might have been na far i
r.jri/lc ocean. They had
dava, nnd then they were
walk. They wero tied t
packing machine, and tied
The managera and auperini
clerka of Packlngtown v
crulfed from another cln*>
from tho worker*; they
worke™, the
I imj til r
room* the germ* of
live for two yea™, but the ouppty wae
renewed every hour. There were the
beef luggera, who carried 200-pound
quarter* into the refrigerator can; a
fearful kind of work, tnat began at 4
o'clock fn the morning and that wore
out the most powerful of them In a
few yeara. There were those who
worked In the chilling rooma whose
special disease waa rneumatism; the
[Tool Onca, however, an lagvnlra
'Vd th i, lo ft v ,!. Now and then of; then the packen took the cue, and
WAREHOUSES
Now It lb. ilia, ta
liitfld. No rooting eo
hear adapted to Ibis
Vulcanite.
ficad M SWn cr
tut roofs Order It
today aiKt tta*Mt^to»
oRieadMt by the N*
ilerw
Koetli™»f«*ra Tariff
A wanrtatloa a a d
VOL CAM PJtTT IT
ATLANTA SUPPLY CO.,
Sole State Agents for Georgia.
29 and 31 South Pryor Street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
i. c etiunaa, ro
CHAPTER X.
During the early part ot the winter
the family had had money enough to
live and a little over to pay their debts
with; but when the earnings of Jur
gis fell from nine or ten dollars a week
to Avs or six there was no longer any
thing to spare. The winter went and
came and found them still living thus
from hand to mouth, banging on day
by day, with literally not a
■PWapSWaWWP^Mnionth's
wages between them and starvation.
MarlJa was In despair, for there was
still no work about ths reopening of
the canning factory, and her savings
were almost entirely gone. Hhe had
then; the family could not get along
without her—though for that matter
she was likely soon to become a burden
back what they owed her In
anxious conferences until
Agure how they
would hold anxious c
late at night, trying to _
could manage this, too, without starv
ing.
Huch was the cruel terms upon which
their life was possible, that they might
never have or expect a single Instant's
Ing, and also a clmrg
of material and extra*,
again, when they went
Jnnunry Installment on t
agent terrified them by
Jf they hud tho Insurant
yet. In answer tn sucl
showed them a clausa
which provided that they were to keep
the house Insured for 11.000 hh tqon »"
the present policy ran out, widen
would happen In n few days. P» tr
Klzhlcta, upon whom again fell the
blow, demanded how much It would
cost them. Heven dollars, the nn a
said; and that night come Jurgls, grim
and determined, requesting that the
X nt would be good enough to Inform
i, once for all, si to all the expenses
they were liable for.
The deed was signed now. he said,
with sarcasm proper to tho new way
of life he had learned—tho deed wae
signed, and so the agent ban bo longer
anything to gain by keeping quiet.
And Jurgls looked the fellow aquarely
In the eye, and so he did not waste
any time hi conventional protests, but
read him the deed. They would .mve
to renew the Insurance every year;
they would bare to pay the water ta.,
about l« a year— (Jurgls silently re-
n working In Durlu
year* nt n salary
night work there t
to no better, woutt
irlf a gentleman.
:ho poles from tho
■r on tho killing be
Ilfferently, and live
nkkr-epi
tho
vn.
nt hou
| way mako s
..Ik — , u Ilk
if thi
day
Ith a laboring
this
thi
the
nrk;
rate, tl
rked with their hood
apart, and were made
It waa a long story,
that h was because of
tbe union. The pock
hod spies In all the
addition they made a p
Ing up n i ■ rtnln In
Mall in Insists
>dictate
did Ho
ery
solved to shut off the hydrant). This, I preaching to the
Installments, would be all—unless by
chance tho. city should happen to do- closed, Ms
ctde In put In a sewer or to lay
sidewalk. Tea. said the agent, they
would have to have these, whether
they wanted them or not. If the city
said eo. The sewer would cost them
about 122 and the sidewalk 219 If l<
were wood; (21 If It were cement.
Ho Jurats went home again; It was
a relief to know the worst, at any rate,
so that he could no more be surprised
her pay for thi
and WHISKEY HABIT*
cured *t home with*
Book of per-
i. Book of per-
rent FMF.R.
Mi
h M WOOLI.KY. M. D.
Office 104 N. Pryor Stmt.
thought nf money. They wouli
sooner escape, as by a miracle, from
one difficulty than a new one would
come Into view. In addition to all
their physical Hardships, there was
thus a constant (train upon their
minds; they wars harried oil day and
nearly all night by worry and fear.
This wae In truth not living; It was
scarcely even existing, and they felt
(hat It was too little for the price thev
told. TMr were willing to work all
lie time, and when people did thel
* be abl
beat ought they not be able to keep
There seemed never to be an end
to the things they had to buy and to I
unforeseen contingencies. Uni e
"Best'* Bolster Spring; $4.50 and up
according to she.
Indispensable for the load. Prolongs life of your
wagon. Relieves strain on team. Desi
rable for driver. Economical in
cost. Universally useful.
“EVERYBODY KNOWS.”
Special Discounts
on Quantities.
Give Witt ot
Slakes.
E. D. CRANE & CO.
Front New Depot
All Sins,
Big Stock,
Qiick
Shipment
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