The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-10

| A1u 1 uIun Lnlnk u WHh THU bnenutnR n
much money on the s~treets-though I may b
glad enough 10 come TO a street Job myself
little Ne | ever thought IT, lie added with
groan. ~ wish ! hadn't gone against him now
for I got 10 go to see him with Fitzmaurico an,
young LOSING TO. morrow"
"will he help you, do YOU think, Billy1"
II amt much hope. You see he's after nj
oil or lard or some kind Of inspectorship, goot
pay and awful little work; and Timbcrly car
git IL for him: and Timberly's for the strike
and | bet he won't mad Tlmberly and the boys
But why is MIR. Timbcrly for striking,
"Iie don't cnrc. Judy. He's running for tn,
he's. making a big splurRe." Easel,
How smart yon. ore. Rill, about such
ffeisned praise only brought dark cloud to the
thing, 70 sT 2iiln he; 70 ,I Mis y;i. 'i'S so iGreTT" s,s 1 he Is |,
Job there; and he told me to-day he recon-.
n,endcd me TO the boss; and he as much as said
oh. RLl, do you. call that bad news2 II
would be $40 9 month miore;i 1t would pay che
And do YOU think" said Bill. bitterly. "do
foreman; So: thsy?iIi SrInsa strange iSlioT
lie got W; lie began to walk t. the floor n
B %Sr'' for rv almost SSse'4 dt e. the y nSlll''S We'll R"H I ' Tsl
member my poor mother fetching me To
Moore, who was foreman then. and his prom,
th was sh S1S' p 6oe dS an imTodiYliistterr, Ot the io't old Mi''n mSn
imR. 'fh %sn' a 'G roodf io Hng yo Se re- MAKING ms IN a 2 GGsi.
ter says he. He remembered my name. lie
knows a good job when he sees one. There's
good things about the old man. If he Is pig
II can't but think it'll come right"
urged Judith. She ComfOrted him.. unreason-
ably. Int lust ms efficiently ma wives IO conn
fort their husbands, whatever their class, |
may say whatever their intellect, ,Insensi.
bly,. under the spell Of her pretended hopeful
ness and her real tenderness. his heavy heart
lightened and HE sore vanity was soothed.
asleep. Perhaps 1t was later before the wife,
who had seemed go peacefully slumbering,
driftei beyond the reach of her own forebodinss.
Alderman McGinnis was popularity sup.
posed TO hold the Eighth ward in the hoiloy
shook her. head over the Alderman's paving
contracts T ,his own ggrhl S ' ito location Ro wp (. that bat
other cities at the. exncnse of rival railways.
hoping to haul rival b~rickmakers' brick. and
solid. and liquid. furnished them somehow;
she declared aloud that he was in every Job
fSsf hp" wsra sy tae oS c1ty e GSH % . Of Fu Hirt tns
and reelected Alderman McGinnis.
with the popular Alderman-and had been de.
tss,sa' int tsrf business ae .h With f'% bi;s f fasht 'Hs he D %as
Just beginning to feel the exhilarating pressure
OF large affairs on shoulders so young and
strong that they welcomed rather than
finched from burdens; and he was in the first
blaze of q yonnE mans enthusiasm for mu.
about the town marshallins' the iangnid and
forces of the decent citizens'
against Ssa arS certain rSsn p ,ba giS %sSntraet of the h Alder,
for him In the Council, had detied MIN In his
Therefore. McGinnis had been elected by
rather more than the usual majority. and that
was how II. came To pass that poor Billy Hun
ter; all night was haunted By spa sches Of his
ward. and tortured his brain trying Tin tho
clumsy fashion OF a man used to express him
self by action only to explain those fatal Jokes
Before Harry had finished his breakfast next
morning nmd I'M vt the workinsmS%nI, was at at the he house nn;.
ing. It was barely half past = thai Sunday
morning when Harry was seen by the neigh
fast gray horses with BILLY Hunter on the back
seat at a rattling pace down the hill.
Tommy lat the period Of which am writing
was a ward politician. and in spite of Harry's
fiery eloauence. and his own affection for
the corner OF 9 wet blanket in his greeting.
faced expression. II don't. know which way
Mac Is going, hope he looks at the strike the
under ! do do, end sIS d thns,s tae way to s Koa t ao i,a but him linn
in this and risk his job, and that's the TRUTH
But have you considered what mischief a
hopeless strike like this will worhf' began
he Fl hs sssftis Slept, two w,nss this night, con.
/ Anu h1ed to light Mac. andsi ddon's sant to,
And what will Mac dor" said Harry. biting
off a useless argument at his cigar end, biting
Tina I can't say" Tommy answered, ~
He wasn't home. i left word. + left, word
that I'd be over this morning. but when I
went over before breakfast he was gone. Left
down and wrote him al! about the thing, and
told him I was on the chase after him, and If
for a talk? l guess he will. but we'll try run
ming him down, first. because the committee
II may we 40 w mTre T They said .p Ge f Sad s Mae e to Shao
Ills mother being dead" The Meyers were
Russian name OF which the first two syllables
ran into Into, s zone .. sim mi l,,do. to Mh NE Ell, and Mex,
sc cau shsy nsS been Th SA fatEsT was sy ve ehs'G DID, Gen and
the family were supported by a son who dealt
IN Junk and rags, They were not popular IL
one considered. there was no especial reason
why they should be clean; q feeble; old woman,
care for an a. old. old man. and a son who lived
by, collecting and asserting rubbish. But no one
And guess" said Tommy. medltatively.
that the Alderman is about the only person
in tho world who ever gives the N q civil word
and he does it from habit: without knowing
All this time Billy was listening with a mind
distraught, YEARLY coming the ugly. possibili-
OF the future. wishing that he had not been
30 foolhasty az 10 mad Alderman McGinnis'
and struggling after a way ont OF these troubles
that should not be through favors asked. II
never asked anybody to give, me nothing" he
thought, "'cept only Mr.. Mathe VS., at the store,
to wait q month for the grocery bill. when
was so sick" He looked at the two young
fellows on the front seat, well dressed and
prosperous. Much they care!" he groaned in
his heart; and for the first time In all his hard
self.denyinR life he was stung by the
grudging envy OF the poor against the rich,
and felt the desolatene' s Of the humble man.
Then he caught a turn of Harry I~ossing's
maurice's wakeful night. and his honest con.
about il. after all" thought he, II do believe
the strikes bexinnin' to make me 20 wrong,
suspecting everybody. even my
il was n relief to be diverted by the Meyers
house. the scolding stock Of the ward, a lean
and livid two-story tenement. where. plainly,
tenants aid their own repairs and patched the
rlckety outside staircase and me nded the
crooked windows from the MeJers' Junk heap.
'Hello, Meyers" hailed Tommy.
Tho faIIar an ont hRnrIuU them fnllnu.n1