The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-09-29
Eleventh Page
Thrilling Story of Packingtown
Novel That Has Startled Nation

car and see what happened Now,
however, het was to Ill to notice it
how the people In the car began to
gasp and sputter, to put their hand
kerchiefs to their noses, and transfix
him with furious glances. Jurgis only
knew that man In front OF him I'm
rnediately got up and gave him a seat:
and that half minute later the two
people on each side Of him got up;
and that In full minute the crowded
car was nearly empty--those passen-
gers who could not get room on the
platform having gotten out to walk.
OF course Jurgis had made his home
a miniature fertilizer mill minute
after entering. The stun was half an
inch deep in his skin--his whole sys-
tenn was full Of 1t, and 1t would have
taken a week not merely OF scrubbing,
but OF vigorous exercise to get It out
of him. As 1t was, he could be COM
pared with nothing known to men,
save that newest discovery Of the ga
wants, a substance which emits ener-
gy for an unlimited time, without be-
ing itself in the least diminished In
power, He smelt 50 that he made all
the food at the table taste, and set
the whole family to vomiting; for
himself It was three days before he
could keep anything upon his stomach
The might wash his hands, and use a
knife and fork, but were not his
mouth and throat filled with the poi.
son?
And still Jurgis struck Il out! In
spite of splitting headaches he would
stagger down to the plant and take up
his stand once more. and begin to
shovel In the binding clouds OF dust
And so at the end OF the week he was
a fertilizer man for life--he was able
to eat again, and though his head
never stopped aching, Il ceased to be
SO bad that he could not work.
Sothere passed another summer,
It was a summer OF prosperity all over
the country, and the country ate gen.
erously OF packing house products,
and there was plenty of work for all
the family, In spite OF the packers Of
forts to keep superiuity of labor.
They were again able to pay their
aebts and to begin to save a little
sum; but there were one or two sac
rifices they considered too heavy to
be for long--it was too bad that the
boys should have to sell papers at
their age B It was utterly useless to
caution them and plead with them:
quite without knowing 1t, they were
taking on the tone Of their new en-
virOnment. They were learning TO
swear in voluble English; they were
learning to pick up cigar stumps and
smoke them, to pass hours of their
time gambling with pennies and dice
and cigarette cards: they were learn
Ing the location of all the disorderly
houses on the "Levee," and the names
Of the s'madames" who kept them,
and the days when they gave their
state banQpets, which the police cap
tains and the big politicians all at
tended. IL visiting country custom
err" were to ask them they could show
him which was "Hinkydink's" famous
saloon, and could even point out to
him by name the different gamblers
and thugs and ''hold-up men" who
made the place their headquarters.
And worse yet, the boys were getting
out OF the habit Of coming home at
night. What was the use, they would
ask, of wasting time and energy and
q possible carfare riding out to the
st0ckyards every night when the
weather was pleasant and they could
crawl under q truck or into an empty
doorway and sleep exactly az we'll?
So long as they brought home half
dollar for each day, what mattered It
when they brought 1t? But Jurgis de-
clared that from this to ceaslng to
come at all would not be very long
step. and 80 Il was decided that VIII
mas and Nikalojus should return to
school In the fall, and instead EIzbie.
In ahnuld sEn naaf anA "a s.os,ao sx.l..lr