The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-07-21
Eleventh Page
Thrilling Story Of PaCkin$town!
Novel that has Startled Nation!
Upton Sinclair

singing, each group It's own song. -
AS time goes on there 10 variety OF drunken ,k
ness, among the younger men, especially. SOME
stagger about In each others arms, whispering
maudlin words; others start quarrels upon the
slightest pretext, and come to blows and nave 70
be pulled apart Now the fat policeman wakenS
definitely, and feels OF his club to see that IL -
ready for business He has to be prompt-fcf
these two-o clock.in-the-mOrning fights, II they
once get out OF hand. are like a forest hre. ana
may mean the whole reserves at the station,
The thing to do Is to crack every fighting head
that you see, before there are so many hghtng
heads that you cannot crack any OF them. There
Is but scant account kept OF cracked heads IN
back OF the yards. for men who have to crack the
heads of animals all day seem TO get into the
nabit, and to practice on their friends. and even
on their families. between times This makes y
cause for congratulation that by modern meth
DDS q very few men can do the painfully nece+
sary work Of neadcracking for the whole OF the
cultured world.
There is no night that ght-perhaps because
Jurgis, too Is watchful-even more so than the
policeman. Jurgis has drunk great deal, as any
one naturally would on an occasion when II all
has to be paid for, whether 1t Is drunk or not;
but he Is q very steady man, and does not easily
lose his temper. Only once there Is tight
shave-and that Is the fault of Maria Berczyns
kas. Marta has apparently concluded about two
hours ago that II the altar In the corner with the
deity In soed white, be not the true home of the
muses., 1t 10, at any rate, the nearest substitute
on earth obtainable. And Maria Is just hghting
drunk when there come to her ears the facts
about the villains who have not paid that night
Maria goes on the warpath straight on, without
even the preliminary OF good cursing and when
she Is pulled of II ia with the coat collars OF two
villains In her hands. Fortunately the policeman
Is disposed to be reasonable, and 30 1t is not Ma
ria who Is flung out OF the place
All this interrupts the music for not more THAI
a minute or two, Then again the mercess TUE
begins-the tune that has been played for the
last half hour without one single change. II Is
hns,
picked UP on the streets; all seem to know the
words of it--or. at any rate. the first line Of It
which they hum to themselves, over and over
again without rest: In the good old summer
tme---in the good old summer time! In the
good old summer time--in the good old summer
time!" There seems to be something hypnotic
about this. with Its endlessly recurring dominant
IT has put stupor upon every one who hears IT.
as well as upon the men who are paying It. No
one can get away from It, or even think OF get
ting away from It; It 10 o'clock In the morning
and they have danced out all their Joy, aud
danced out all their strength, and all the strength
that unlimited drink can lend them-and still
there Is no one among them has the power 70
think OF stopping M
ing they will every one OF them have to be In
their places at Durham's or Browns or Jones'H
each In his working clothes II one Of them be
minute late, he will be locked an hours pay, ana
his brass check turned to the wall, which will
send him out to join the hungry mob that waits
every morning at the gates OF the packing
houses, from o'clock until nearly half.past eight
There 10 no exception to this rule not even little
Ona'-who has asked for holiday the day after
her weddingday o holiday without pay and
been refused While there are 80 many who z.
anxious to work as you WISH there Is no1fNIV
sion for incommodng yourself with tho Obhhy
must work otherwise
Little Ona is nearly ready to faipAN 49,
stupor herself, because of th&6X M XX
the room. She has not takaz "a ~
one else there Is literally 1h.E%X ESM
sound asleep In thei 3z5 II "a 81 ~
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