The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-07-28
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THE JUNGLE

Government tnvestigGtiOn into the
methods employed By the Beef Trust,
had sts origin In an actual Packing
toion romance.
/. In AshIGs,d GvenGe--'DGck OF the
stock .yGrds"---the tpedding took place.
The fret chapter merely shoWs
br0Gd-sh0aldered butcher being toed-
ded to a young girl Dho sees IN him
q hero. The ioedding IN oil Its gro
tesQueness 10 described In this chap
ter. The toedding ceremony Is typical
of PGckinDtoicn. 1t ends at dGton,
scheB JurOis and hts bride, OnG, de-
part, sadly redIizin0 that the contribu-
lions, tchich are feature OF the feast,
tCilI not nearly bear the expense Of the
ceremony.
The romance Is a prelude to the
story of actual Hfe IN the stockydrds.
At the end of the toeddtng festiVity,
tcith guests drunk, JurOts fears free
fighting, and huYv.cs his bride of,
carrying her. He says she must not
return to the packing house, but she
teGrfuIly protests that her idleness
toould ruin their happiness. He says,
reGssurtnOly and tenderly: LeGve II
to me. t0ilI earn more money. I
iOtll spork harder"
The "boss" under 1ohom JurOis
slGUed tD0uld hare smiled had he
heard this assurance. Jur0is could
not tOork nGrder.
The n0veHst then tells h0p JurDis,
poor, get toith the strength OF the
oren he scGs later fated to Kill, aspiyed
to the hand o. OnG; hoto her father
objected; hon the young giant toent
sadly GtoGy and iOorked Ike mad until
ne had accumulated a little money,
and hoto eventually America and the
tcord "ChtcGg0" Jured them to this
country, tOhere they believed all men
tCere literally equal, and gold GtUdited
those Dho pOrEed hard and faithfully.
OnG's father being dead, J1T0is ICON
hts sIit, after he had obtained JOB
IN the yards.
Copyright, 1900, by Upton Sinclair.
All Rights Reserved
Published By Courtesy of Doubleday
Page 6 90.
Chapter II (Continued.)
It was nearly year and half ago
that Jurgis had met Ona, at horse
fair, q hundred miles from home.
Jurgis had never expected to get mar.
ried--he had laughed at 1t as foolish
trap for man to walk into; but hers.
without ever having spoken a word
to her, with no more than the ex-
change OF half dozen smiles, he
found himself purple In the face with
embarrassment and terror, asking her
parents to sell her to him for his wife
and Offering his fathers two horses
he had Deen sent to the fair to sell.
But Ona's father proved as a rock
the girl was yet child. and he was
a rich man, and his daughter was not
to be had In that way. So Jurgis went
home with heavy heart, and that
spring and summer toiled and tried
hard to forget. In the fall, after the
harvest was over. he saw that It
would not do. and tramped the full
fortnight's journey that lay between
him and Ona.
He found an unexpected state Of az
fairs--for the girls father had died,
and his estate was tied up with credi-
tors: Jurgis's heart leaped as he
realized that now the prize was with
In his reach. There was Elzbieta
Lukozaite. Teta, or Aunt, as they call
ed her. Ona's stepmother, and there
were her six children, OF all ages
There was also her brother Jonas. a
dried-up little man, who had worked
upon the farm. They were people OF
great consequence, as 1t seemed 10
Jurgis, fresh out Of the woods; Ona
knew how to read, and knew many
other things that he did not know;
and now the farm had been sold, and
the whole family was adrift--all they
owned In the world being about seven
hundred rubles, which Is half as many
dollars. They would have had thrse
times that, but 1t had gone to cours,
ana the Judge had decided against
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