THE WEALTH MAKERS.
September 17, 1895
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(OOWTWUtD FROM I.AIT V1IK.)
CHAPTER IX
A CHICAGO INTERIOR.
"Idont know what to say about
buying so much on credit, George. It
iavery nice to have so many pretty
things about the house, but this easy
seeming installment plan may lead
into deep waters. There's the quarter
ly payment on the house ' and lot, the
assessments , for Insurance in the
Mutual company, and sixty cents a
week on the sewing machine still the
books are very legant, and"
The speaker paused, standing with
her babe in her arms looking wistfully
at her husband, a perfect type of an
American mechanic's wife, young,
strong, healthy, handsome, and, what
would be considered in other countries,
educated utterly beyond her sphere.
The interior of the room was worthy
of the pen of a Wilkie. Humbly,
though cozily furnished, the floor
covered with a substantial rag carpet,
the walls adorned with pretty chromos,
a huge Connecticut clock ticking
merrily in the comer, a cheerful wood
stove radiating warmth and light from
its glowing micas, and beyond, through
a half-opened door, a peep at an apart
ment of a more utubltloas nature the
parlor, only to be used on state oc
casions. Hut the crowning figure of
this homelike scene was the young
mechanic, George llarland, as he sat at
a table with his three-year-old boy on
his knee. He looked at his wife as sne
spoke, and a merry gleam lit his honest
brown eyes.
"Why, Nell, what freak of prudence
has bitten you now? If a master ship
wright, earning four dollars a day and
doesn't spend a cent in drink, has cause
to be scared at getting into a book
agent's debt a few weekly installments,
why-"
"But, George, you might take sick,
and"
"Pigs might fly. Pshaw, girl, there's
not much of the interesting invalid
about me; now, is there? Then, there's
that prize-packet lodger upstairs,
whom you seduced into paying a dol
lar and a half a week for his room."
"Oh, yes, he's very nice, isn't he? But
I fear he's out of work, and, though he's
such a perfect gentleman, I don't think
we can rely on his stopping with us for
long."
George laughed with enjoyment at
his wife's forebodings; it was rather
too good a joke to think that a Chicago
shipwright in full pay couldn't afford
to. indulge in tho purchase of a picture
book. 1
"You are incorrigible, George," the
wife said with laughing lips. Then a
little seriously: "Is it likely "to be a
'busy season at the dry-dock?"
"You bet. Why, Moore & Marston
have more orders en hand than they
fran ever fill. The Red Star company
has the lines laid for a hundred thou-
and dollar passenger boat. Burroughs
& Watts have given orders for two
first-class tugs, and there are six barges
I know will bo turned out of our yard
this summer."
"Times should be good, George."
"Never better."
At that moment the front door opened
and a young woman entered a tall,
shapely girl, with good features, and
fair hair lying on her forehead like a
cloud of feathery glory; yet, there was
a shadow of unhealth in the flawless
transparency of her complexion, and
her step lacked tho litheness and ac
tivity of buoyant youth.
I Alice Palmer's lines had not been cast
In pleasant places, except so far as she
was enabhid to board with her sister,
Mrs. IIarland.She "clerked" iu a great
dollar bazar kept by a Hebrew mer
chant, who cared nothing for the help
less girls who sold his glittering wares,
knowing well that when one broke
down as, poor things, they were often
in the habit of doing there wereascore
to take her place.
' "You look tired to-night, Ally," the
mechanic said anxiously, as the girl
took her place at the table.
"Tired!" she replied, "I am clean
worn out. A big country excursion
came to the city to-day, and the store
was over-run. ou'd be tired too,
George, if you'd had to stand twelve
hours without rest, and with the
thought ever uppermost in your mind
that in this land of boasted prosperity
there were thousands like you, selling
their young lives and hopes for a beg
garly payment that just keeps them in
food and clothes."
"Seems to me," said her brother-in
law gravely, "there's something wrong
in a state of society which permits such
things; there ought to be a law to put
a stop to it. I here oupht to be
law passed to compel employers of
female labor to pay fair wages and de
cent treatment. But, Ally, throw the
thing up, and rest till you can better
yourself. You know how welcome you
are to live with us.
"It may come to that, George, for
something that has happened to-day
leads me to expect my discharge on
Saturday mght.
"Oh, Ally, dear, how is that? They
seemed to think so much of you?'
Sirs, llarland asked.
"It was through no fault of mine,
You know Charlie Grant, don't you?"
"The reporter on the Herald who is
going to marry Carrie Chambers? Yes,
sure."
"Well, he came into the store to
give me a message for her, and while
he was talking to me Mrs. Buddulph
the millionaire pork-packer's wife oh
Nellie, how I do hate those new rich
people drove up m her carriage ana
walked straight to my counter. Char
lie stood respectfully aside till she
should give her orders, but as soon as
she had seated herself she began a
tirade against servant girls, and wound
up by indignantly demanding why I
was stuck there behind a counter, in
stead of earning an honest living as a
domestic, when hired help was hardly
to be had for love or money."
"What did you say?"
"I felt ready to sink with vexation;
but I dared not reply, for she is a good
customer; but what do you think Charlie
Grant did? He raised his hat in the
politest manner, and said in a voice
that could be heard all over the store:
You ought to be very grateful to Mrs.
Biddulph for her kind advice. She
speaks from experience, you know,(W
she was her husband's cook before he married
Iter!"
George burst into, a hearty roar of
laughter. "Good for tho newspaper
bovl" ho said, "that was well done."
"Ah, but Mrs. Biddulph did not think
so. WMie an uie cieriss ami customers
were convulsed with laughter, she
flounced out of the store, and a few
minutes afterwards Cohen came to me
and said that he couldn't allow his
clerks to receive admirers during busi
ness hours."
"lie did, did he, the insolent pup?"
George voeiffcrated, his faco flushing
with passion. "Back to the, bazar you
shall never go, Ally. Tomorrow I will
call on him and settle it."
"You will do no such thing, George
llarland," his wife interposed, decisive
ly. "You will only be getting yourself
into trouble, and no good will come of
it. Perhapi Ally had better resign her
position and wait for something more
suitable."
Thus, it was resolved that another
incumbrance should be laid on the
broad back of the breadwinner, who
shouldered the burden cheerfully, for
George llarland had a big heart and
never fretted over trifles.
The young women retired to put the
children to bed, and the mechanic, well
pleased with himself and his surround
ings, drew his chair closer to the stove
and lit his pipe to enjoy his usual even
ing smoke. As the clouds curled up
wards to the ceiling the tint of his
thoughts became less roseate a feel
ing of unrest possessed him. Ally's
broken health and Cohen's brutality
rankled in his mind, and for the first
time in his life he found himself wan
dering whether "Windy" Atkins, the
demagogue of the yard, was not right
after all in his denunciation of capital
ists and his florid portrayal of the
wrongs of labor. It did seem cruel
that a fairly-educated, well-behaved
girl like Ally should be wearing herself
out for a bare subsistence.
Then, there was that little trouble
down at the yard not worth making a
fuss about, certainly not to be men
tioned to Nell perhaps, after all, he
ought to have taken more interest in it
and attended the meeting at O'Brien's
saloon to-night. Hanged, if he didn't
thiuk it would be a good thing to go
and talk the matter over with that
editor-fellow, Grey, if he should chance
to be m his room.
lie found our hero up to his eyes in
study, but cordially glad to see him.
I read that paper of yours, which
Col. Gilchrist tossed into the waste
basket, and see many good points in it
perhaps too conservative for these
critical times, but that is a good fault.
"Well, sir," llarland answered, "I
don't know, after all, that I'm right.
It does seem hard that there should be
so much suffering in this land of plenty,
that one man should be rolling in
riches and another equally industrious
for 1 take no account of loafers
should hardly be able to keep the wolf
from the door."
"Itdoes, indeed," Grey responded, df
cisively, thinking of his own attenuated
services ana inability to secure em
ployment. "It is a hard problem to
solve, and " Ho paused and blushed
scarlet. "I'm trying to master it,
Don't think that I ever hope to be the
apostle of the New Civilization, but I
may be one of its pioneers."
llarland gazed at him with open-
mouthed wonder.
"Concentration of wealth led to the
French revolution, class privileges, and
unequal taxes. How is it in America?
Big concerns backed by huge capital
crush the life out of small tradesmen,
who must become servants or starve.
We have law enough, but no justice.
Who cares for the law who has money
"TOU ought to bs vert grateful to
MB. BIDDULPH."
and influence sufficient to defy it? Our
tax administration is a disgrace to civ
ilization, and"
Still it's a pretty good country to
live in, Mr. Grey."
Yes, as long as yonr ox is not gored.
If you could shut yonr eyes to the mis
ery of thousands in this city of Chicago,
you might think it a charming place to
dwell in."
"And what are you going to do about
itr.
Mass labor against capital."
"By trades unions?"
Yes. By concentrated action. By
the power of the ballot box."
"Talking of trades unions, I want
your advice as to a case in point."
"Proceed."
"We had two men in our yard who
have scamped their work and, as the
saying goes, 'sassed the boss,' who
gave them the sack. Now, there's
some kind of a fuss about the matter
and some of the men are attending a
meeting to-night to talk the matter
over. 1 don t suppose it win amount
to much, but I'm kind of uneasy, and
that's why I came upstairs."
"Oh, that is all nonsense. The work-
ingmen of this country are too intelli
gent to make a mountain of such a
molehill as that. I wouldn't worry about
it if I were you."
Nevertheless, just as llarland that
night was going to bed, a tap came to
the door, and a fellow workman beck
oned him outside.
I've been to the meeting, George,
and I thought I'd drop in and tell you
how things went."
'You might have saved yourself the
trouble," llarland laughed. "I know
how things went, just as though I'd
been there. 'Windy' Atkins made a
screed on the bloated lumber lords,
there was a good deal of beer con
sumed, and then Fred Sawyer and a
few old hands just sat down on the sil
ly performance."
You are wrong, George, was the
serious reply, "The only man who spoke
at length was tho walking delegate
from New York, and"
Who in thunder's he?" llarland
asked fiercely. "What can a New
Yorker know about our local quarrels?
And what did he say?"
'Ordered us all out on a strike without
an hour's notice"
CHAPTER X.
A woman's W0R0.
"From plague, pestilence and famine,
from battle and murder and from sudden
death," says the grand old Litany,
"Good Lord, deliver us;" and assuredly,
if the inspired sage who wrote these
words had lived in the latter days, he
would have added: "And from strikes
and walking delegates," for humanity
confronts no evil more appalling than
the pitiless edict which goes forth that
the breadwinner shall not toil, and his
women and children shall be martyrs to
the Great Cause of Labor versus Gapital.
Down in the dust fall the devotees of
reform and the juggernautic car of
demagogism crushes them to powder.
Only one little mouth of four weeks
has elapsed since the shadow of evil
fell upon the shipyards, and see what
changes it has wrought. Men's very
natures seem twisted from their normal
beings from the passions which stir
within them.
And poor Joe Henderson Harland's
young friend, who had just carried him
the evil tidings as honest a young fel
low as ever wielded an adze, was one
of the first victims of the unreasoning
hatred of wealth wrecking everything,
even to Alice Palmer's love, for the
bright "saleslady" was betrothed to
him.
The shipbuilders, driven to exaspera
tion by the unreasonable demands of
the union on Moore & Marston, had
voted a general "lock-out," and two
thousand heads of families in the city
of Chicago were out of employment.
Men gathered at the street corners,
crowded the great labor halls, paraded
with bands and nags, or cheered in
mass meetings Schlossinger's fierce de
nunciations of the bloated bond
holders.
Meanwhile supplies from the labor
league were served with tolerable reg
ularity, and all felt that right must
triumph over might.
Two months passed, and the subsidies
from the central committee became
less frequent. Still the masters stood
firm: the men solid. Ihen went the
startling whisper abroad that one hun
dred French-Canadian skilled mechan
ics had been hired in the place of the
strikers, and that work would be re
sumed, under protection of big patrols
of police, at Moore & Marston's yard
on the following Monday.
Meanwhile how fared it with the
narlands? But badly. The insurance
policy has lapsed, the upholsterer has
taken away the parlor furniture, though
it was nearly paid for, the sewing ma
chine has been replevied, and Nellie's
pretty volumes have been seized under
"cutthroat contract" by the book agent
It is not a question of luxuries with
them, but of bare subsistence.
An empty cupboard! It is difficult
for one living in this land o plenty
to realize what that means what it
means to see one's loved ones in want
and lack the means of relieving them,
In vain Alice Palmer humbly ap
pealed to Cohen for reemployment; the
6trike had hurt business, she was told
and she was not wanted.
Grey meanwhile was busy. He had
spoken at one or two meetings and per
haps had done more harm to the cause
of order than Sehlossinger could ac
complish in his wildest flights of bla
tant fury, for this young enthusiast
brought forward batteries of strong ar
gument that appealed to the reason
rather than the emotion of men and
made him converts of the cooler.
steadier-hands, who had but laughed at
their comrades' frenzies. Grey was in
tense, earnest, ready to lay down his
life for the cause.
.Now, when the Monday morning
came on which it was announced that
Moore & Marston's yard would be
"full blast" again, George llarland.
who had all along declared that no
union in a free country should stop him
from working when work was to be
got, started from his home with his
dinner pail in his hand.
"Do not be a fool; you are risking
your life," had been Grey's advice, net-
tied at the obstinacy of the man who
would not acknowledge that the few
must suffer for the benefit of the many.
'Do not go!" Alice cried, clinging
tearfully on his arm.
"Pshaw, girl!" he replied roughly.
I never drew a cent of the union's
money, and I've always declared that I
would take the first job that came
along. No man shall dictate to me
whether I work or lie idle." !
So George llarland went to his doom.
The day passed wearily for the
women, rugnt came on, ana with
heart-beating anxiety they waited the
coming of the breadwinner. "George
late," Nell said, nervously; "I do
wish he would come." .
Oh, he will be here before long, g
Alice replied, with assumed cheerful
ness. "Hark!" the young wife screamed as
she flew to the door: "What is that
noise in the street?"
Grey, attracted by the tumult, flew
downstairs and joined the trembling
women.
What a sight met their gaze! Their
George the idol of this humble home
with blood-stained face and torn clothes
swinging his ax over his head and
battling for his life against a hundred
fierce assailants. In vain a dozen po
licemen raUy round him. They are
beaten down like grain before the
sickle; and the mob, hoarse and furi
ous, rushed over their bodies on to the
victim. There was something grand in
his despairing efforts, as, like a gladi
ator, he faced his enemies.
"Down with the scab! Kill him!
kill him!" shriek a score of angry
voices.
Ah, surely it is all over.
Felled to the earth by a crushing
blow on the back of the head, he drops
at the feet of his persecutors.
Hang him! Hang him!" yell the in
furiated mob.
But over his prostrate body stands
Frank Grey, unarmed pouring forth
an impassioned appeal to the frenzied
men to spare their victim. Impotent,
but heroic effort. Men had lost their
reason and become tigerlike in blind
ferocity. An instant and he would
have lain beside his senseless friend.
when the hissing pings of rifle bullets
pread terror among the crowd. "The
inkertons! The Pinkertons!" is the
cry, and as the name 01 that dreaded
police agency is heard, the mob sways
backwards and forwards for a moment,
then breaks like an ocean wave spent
by its own fury. All fly but one. He
bends low over the fallen figure and
lifts the nerveless arm which hides the
battered face.
"George flarland!" he shrieks. "My
God, what have I done?"
He helps Grey bear the lifeless bur-
en to the House, he hears little Wil
lie's piteous cry, as they lay it on the
bed, he lingers for one moment at the
door and tries to utter a few words of
sympathy, which his parched lips re
fuse to form, he looks in mute appeal
to Alice, he sees her pointing to the
door, and hears her scornful "Go!" with
groan, as he slinks into the deserted
street, straight on his way to give him
self up at the nearest police station.
For days George Harland's spirit
hovered between life and death and
all the time the wolf was at the door,
and the poor, stricken women kiiew
not where to turn for help, tooproud
even to let their lodger know they
were lacking the bare necessities of
life.
'Allie," said the sorrowful wife one
day, when George was convalescing,
'will you take care of Willie? I am go
ing doWn town."
"Yes; but where are you going,
Nell?"
"To the pawnbroker's," was the sad
reply.
"Oh, Nell!"
Those wholive inless prosperous coun
tries could hardlv understand the tone of
anguish in the girl's tones, where none
' WHAT 1IAVE I DONE?"
is so poor he would not blush to own
he had fled to that last refuge of the
destitute.
"And I must bear my share of the
sacrifice. Oh, do let me, JSell," ana
Alice ran to fetch the pretty trinkets
nn.l best dress it had cost her so much
pinching to earn.
In rapid succession all otner super
fluities followed then the necessities,
the spare sheets and blankets, George's
best clothes, and one sorrowiui uay
saw the young, sobbing wife draw her
wedding ring from her finger and pass
down the street to the house with the
three golden balls.
How vain had been George Harland's
boast of his superb strength, mechan
ical skill, temperate habits, and profita
ble employment, ne, who had defied
sickness and laughed at misfortune,
now lay a physical wreck in a gaunt
home blighted by the curse of a walk
ing delegate.
(To be Continued.)
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NEW WING OF THE STATE NORMAL
SCHOOL HALF RUINED.
HAVOC OF THE ELEMENTS.
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the Walls and Rain Play Havoc With
the Interior Buildings Reported
Wrecked in Two Other Towns
Fort Scott Visited by
Another Flood.
Empobia, Kan., Sept. 10. A fierce
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yesterday afternoon and when it had
passed it was found that the new east
wing of the state normal school, which
was dedicated last week by Governor
Morrill and which had cost the state
$50,000, was almost completely ruined.
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here, suffered severely from the floods
and wind. Five business houses were
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damaged.
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Henry was blown away and Mr. and
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Decker livery barn was blown down
and a number of horses killed.
The rainfall, which aggregated eight
inches was the heaviest since 1885,
when eight and one-fourth inches fell
in one night.
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Is the Northwestern, the only one-line-route.
No transfers. No delays. Morn
ing and afternoon trains to Sioux City.
Reduced round trip rates to St. Paul,.
Duluth and other places. City office 117
Bo. 10th Street. (
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Si
