THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT MARCH 14, 1907. V.t 7i Tkm mrm BUILT That what the aamc meaas. all Heaas wear "HMeram" sites. Demand them of your dealer INIIST. fcold everywhere. writ to us. We alto make the "Martha WasLbllfea" comfort t jl of mea's, women's and children's shoes. Our trade mark is stamped on every 1 Mayer Doot & miiu..l.. Slaves of Manchester Chronicle: I don't know whether I'd rather be Maxim Gorky's "Dock thief" than any or j of the fel lows I saw tearing themselves to pieces this morning in the struggle for cheap bread, cheap beer, and a more or less insanitary home, I was watching some dock laborers pulling, punning, twisting, and wrench ing themselves in getting some thick and long logs of wood from the hold of an old ehip in No. 16 dock. "Good God!" I thought to myself, "and the best of us may have to come to it "after all one. never knows!" You must not suppose for a moment that all dock laborersGodforsaken as they may look in their industrial hades are the Sikes and Hooligans of soci ety. Nothing of the kind. They help more than any other class, I' admit, to keep up the petty criminal annals of all our big, busy ports. Po lice courts there are black with the crimes of dock laborers. And the Jago of the docker ia no less thrilling than that of Arthur Morrison's. And what of the record of dock trag edies and dock heroism, which one might cull from the unimaginative documents in the alcoves of the coro ners' courts? I have glanced through 'Ihese at one of the-courts. I came away thinking what a fine opportunity of adding one more piece of realism to his numerous volumes Emile Zola missed through not being acquainted with the conditions of English dock laborers. Still the material is there for any Eng lish Zola who cares to come forward. ' But. there are among the docks ex amples of pluck which some men will show .to be independent of the help of friends, relatives or charity. - "Facilis est descensus Averni!" And often when men bpgin to sink morally and socially, when they begin to sink through this or that, or some other misfortune, they gravitate towards the docks, towards that ferim. grey world of the casual la borer, fearing the der?cension, as if they were soing to the devil before their time. . . A Scholar. Whv frmo time a man a man of good breeding, education, and opulent relatives used to come and regale his classical knowledge with me o' nights o nlcrhts poim-times when the wind wa.s whistling and thundering about tho dixk. And at 4 o'clock in the morning you might have Keen htm wending his way toward the srain wnrehou'S skirting nme. clock or other, to am Just enough to keep him self. h wlV and bin children on mere bread itnd butler and cheap potatoes. "It's ay." he us-d ! exclaim, "to ink to that level" pointing"' to t lic docks. "Hut, my Rud once in. how tt get out in th trouble!" Welt I my, 1 m watching wrnie cWken. ter themnHvo to pieces. Thei" wa.i a ol:,? Mn,i m" ftj4 ,,f inihimr noinewhere. ' m "! mi I did m the pur- guerV iner.aH.Hl. Th-y ultimately tiled t u Ma"'! '""l' No- U "of'ioun I knew what they were rn.ru r They w fler J"h uTtu.-l to unload the bU for the llmthlrV fplnnlruc Fifty-It snoES for hen iTke kigheit degree of style, fit and werkaaa ship are embodied ia these solendid ahaea mm thai m9I ka I. ..... ail neariif a,iaiity at tic price. They are ON HONOR That's what a trial will arove. Iv It you canaot fet thei , "Vesfera Lady," and the shoea and a full line sole. Shoe Co., :. the Docks dred fellows for sixty-six men's jobs! That is the kind of thing which is the cause of so much tragedy in dock life; of so much poverty, profanity, and hellishness in the homes, and the streets, and the jerry-shops of the dockers. ' The ConMcioiiMiiFMfl of Strength. And there they were one hundred men! young men, middle-aged men, and old men. Broad-shoildered men, pale-faced men, crippled men, hungry looking men, and strong men strong men buoyed up by an air of confidence. They were buoyed up because they knew that physiclal strength there was more than character; They knew that here they the young and muscular were the fittest to survive. They had, day by day, seen their weaker broth ers, their older brothers pitilessly tumbled to the wall. And an overseer, with a red face, a well-fed body, a book and a pencil, came to select the fifty-six men he wanted; he came to select them much as he would select cattle for the shambles, or just as an eastern plu tocrat, in the old days, chose his wo men slaves from the public market place. rne ntty-six neeaea men were chosen. The others the rejected, the human ovcrllow they "slunk" away as if they had committed some crime against society. No doubt the poor beggars had, but whether society was the aggressor or "not well, that's a knotty problem. They "slunk" away. And it is in those that have to "slink" away that one may measure much of the cause of crime, -the cans-? of immorality, the cause of starvation, of intemperance, of insanity, of physical inefficiency, and of the unemployableness of middle-aged men in a city of docks and ships and casual labor. "Where'er yer goin' to, Bill?" one of them asked his mate, standing near to me. i aun Know," saia am, wun a pnarl, "an' it don't matter, either," his under lip protruding beyond the upper. And I learned that Bill had been to four stands that morning, and had failed on each occasion to get a Job He started the round breakfastlessly, ana enafi so. Head to Kiuotion. Hut Bill took it all as though it had to be couldn't be helped, tie took it all as though it were part and parcel of his fate, part and parcel of what experience had convinced him to ex pect. Thoxe emotions that bring tearn to the eye of some men were dead iiough In liill and hla mate. "Can ver givo us a nip o' tobacco. gitviu-r?" ald Bill to me.. taking ad- vantage of my apparent Intercut in him and bin mate. "So help me. 1 Kin't had a nmoke today, euvner!" rrobably Hill was uttorlnir an un truth, but I'm not going to hlamo lilm. Hill and his equally unfortunate pal plunged Into my pouch. iu1h! their dirty pipe", felt In all their pocketa without discovering a match. "Match, guv-tier?" aaked Bill. I handed him a boi. They lit thdr pipe and nmoked them, not as mnn mok ia an va-sy chair after a sub I i -.aSBVllB I ismw I iSX In Tra...' 1 3 I stantial meal. They lit their pipes and puffed at them like men who want to stifle hunger. I was wondering why they had been rejected. Of course, I had an Idea. Bill's mate, through a hard and harsh and somewhat inhuman life had been made old before his time, been made old at forty. He was thin and pale,, and weak in the legs. As for Bill himself, he said: "I ne'er bin the same, guvner, since the smash on the ," and he mentioned a ship's name. "Yer never heard o the smash, guvner? Yer see, there were six ov us workin' on the deck, when the main jib ov a crane gav' way, an' drop slap-bang on six on us. Michael O'Flaherty was knocked to the bdttom o' the hold, sir. An' they brought him up dead ah, Mike was dead as the jib itself, he was, was Mike." - And Bill's mate nodded in assent, and said: "He was, Bill." "Yes, Mike was dead," repeated Bill. "He was dead, and owld Bill Barley, what keeps the 'Dockers' Spit' well, Mike was dead an' he owed Billy tvvo-an'-four for a night's spree, an' his pals paid it awf in memory o' Mike what was dead as dead as the Jib itself, guvner!" - "He was, Bill," again said Bill's mate. "Well, yer see, guvner, I was car ried to the big place there" pointing to the hospital "an' I lay there for eight' weeks with all my innerds awry never been the same bloke since. guvner can't do a day's- work the same; an' these divvils" meaning the stevedores and foremen "knows it; they knows it, guvner!" And Bill re-lit his pipe and scratched his chin with the uncharred end of the match. He re-lit his pipe, drawing at it as if he wanted to suppress the hunger which was driving him not to tears, but to profanity and desperate thoughts. . An "All-in"' FJkt. He struck another of my matches, and as the light glowed in his hard, wrinkled, thick-skinned face, those who had been selected for the job filed past us, towards the incoming ship, filed past us laughing, jesting and caring not a I nearly said a damn well not caring the snap of tip finger for the uncertain ouiiook or tne rejected. xney knew that it was all in the fight. They knew that they might be hurled at one side on the morrow. They iv.icYv Liia,i was no use Deing in the aumps anout what was Inevitable. And Bill said. "Don't care that mnnh for miseif, guvner!" and he waved his cnriy. Jcnaried fingers in tho air. "Don care that much for miseif. eruvner! knows, an' my mate1 knows, wheer we can ptnen a meal. We mebbe cop"t but waat odds! Don't chre for miseif guvner it's the wife at 'ome, and' the Kias at 'ome!" And Bill paused. Afterwards he ex claimed, "My Gord, guvner, what'll they do when I goes 'ome an' tells 'em as I've had no luck agen? Do yo' think I can race It sober? Blast 'em! They winnat nave me now the stev-dores But before the smash I told yo' about the smash, guvner I were wa'th three or four 'o these divvils" and he pointed toward the weird procession the "Jolly Beggars" wending and winding towards the expected cotton ship. . "I could make my six bob a day then, givnei" an' never be short ov a job, never! But like my mate what's called Bill like miseif I don't earn six bob a wlk now! And Bill stepped on one side to let a lurry pass heavily laden with foreign goods. . 'But what about gettinrr something to-eat?" I asked. "Ah, well now," said Bill. "Ah, well now," he repeated. "Thai's somethin' o' course, that mun be done. But there's only three ways, guvner either take stinking charity, steal, or send the missus send the missus out!" Then in a whisper: "Do yo' know what that means, guvner r - I was too dumfounded at tho mo ment to say anything. The suggestion was not new to me. A few weeks' Investigation into . the social ' and do mestlc conditions of dockers had opend my eyes to tha meaning before. But never before had I heard it rrom the Hps of a man who confessed that he had done it! Since the 5mik, Bill had been made hard as hard as nails by rough experience. And since tho "smash there appeared no ordin ary crime to which he had not been forced to stoop, Remember .since tho "smash." "But what odds." lie kept on saying to me; "I -was a bit of oil right be fore the smash!" And so he might have been. "Give os a copper, guvner. ho asked . . . . I 1.1m mo aa I snowea signs oi leaving mm and his mate. "And you'll take soma of It homo to tho wife and chlldrenr I aaid. "S'elp mo God, ruvner. I wiin But do you think ho did? Not ho. It doesn't matter how I got to know. hut Hill and his mat a had a good hour or so with the money; they treated ono or tww or their paia in tbo baxgala. Msrs!Mers!!Hot!iers! Urs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MIL LIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN while TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CH2I4, SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN ; CURES WIND COLIC, and Is the best remedy for DIARRIKEA. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Ee sure and ask for "Mrs. Wiuslow's Soothir Syrup,'' and take no other kind. Twenty-C ve c.s. a bottle. "What a hard wretch!" you say. No doubt. But don't forget tho nasty trick that fate had played upon him, and the way that society had neg lected him. I know that when I've seen Bill and a . i , ' . A. 1 .11-- nis liKe in anoiner oock me pouuw court dock I've, somehow or other, had a sort of sympathy for them! Tolntoi In H! Home. Flynt in Success: By all odds tho rv- rcii- infaraof Irtm Aatfiva Vl O t T? 1 1 eel a. allowed me to see was Count Tolstoi, And yet I had never read any of Tolstoi's novels before meeting him, and my notions of his altruism were vague, indeed about what the -ideas are of people who have never been in Russia or seen Tolstoi, and who, on learning that you have been there-and met him, ask immediately: "Say, on the level, is he a fakir or not?" Once and for all, so far as my simple intercourse with him Is concerned, it may be most boldly declared that ho never was a fakir no more of one when he was sampling all the vices he could hear of, than he is now in urging others not to follow his example as an explorer of Vicedom. j The man at Yasnaya Polyana, in 1896, was a fairly well preserved old gentle man, with white beard, sunken gray eyes, oyerhanglng bushy eyebrows, and a slight stoop in the shoulders, which' were carrying, I think, pretty close to seventy years of age. - t The place looked neglected and un kept in many respects, but the two remaining wings of the old mansion wr rnnmv and enmfnrtahle. THiht children of the original sixteen were ' living at the time of my visit, ranging: in years from. thirty and over to four-' teen. The- countess was the ''boss" of the . establishment in and out of. tho house. What she said of a mnm'ne constituted the law for the day, so far as work was concerned. She had as sistants, and I think a superintendent, to help her, but she -was the final au thority in matters of management. The count did not appear to take any active part in the direction of affairs. He spent his time writing, riding, walking, and visiting with the guests, of whom there were a goodly number. At one time he may have worked ia the fields with the peasants, but in July ol xaun ne uia not snare any oi meir toil at least I personally did not see him at work among them. . What the countess really thought about the whole business I never found out. We had one short conversation which she delivered hirself of these re marks: "You will hear many things here that I do not agree with I be lieve it Is better to "be and do than to preach." I judged from these senti ments that Tolstolism as a cult had not captured her. But that she thought much of the count as a man and hus band was evident from her solicitio.ua care of him. , . 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