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■' " THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. jm- ~ m '" BATrilDAT. Jl'XK 30. 130* 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. 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