Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1885, Page 7

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PATTFERSON, ReaEstate Agent, North Platte, Neb. TR N 3 ' edical Co, 504, § = . J. SIMPSON D A - LEADING GARRIAGE FACTORY I Cmaha_Nebraska THE 409 and 1411 Do'ge St. ACADEMY of the SACRED HEART Park Place, Omaha, Nebraska, Poarding Schoal for young Iadies undar the direction of the Ladies of the 8 acred Heart : Estlmates Furolshed on : Apj 00, Thae course of studies embraces all the branchrs of a useful and refined education, Sha scholastio year comm wu the first Wednesday i September. TERMS ~Payable in advance, includivg board, washiog. tuition in Eoglish and Freunch, natrimantal music, use of books, per seesion (f bmonths, 8160, EXTRA! i Drawing, German, Vooal Mucic, Harp, Guitar, Violin, For iursher . —Painf nformation apply te the Right Rev. Jas, O'Connor, or to the Lady Superior, GERMINAL Or, the Story of a Great Miners' Strike, BY EMILE ZOLA. Translated from the French. Bumsany Caarrens I 1o IV ~The trials of & machinist in quest of work—A coal miners’ village described—A job in the mines —~The hardships of the miners —Small wages and little food, CHAPTER 1V, The four diggera stretched themselyes out, one above tha other, on each ledge in front of the drift. Scparated by the hanging floors which kept back the coal, each man occupled thirteen feet of the veln; and that veln was so narrow, noarcely mors than two feet wide, that they scemed flattened out between the roof and wall, drsgging themsclves along on thelr knees and eibows, unable to turn without knocking thelr shoul- ders. They were obliged to mine the coal lylng vpon ths s'de, the neck tw ed, the arms ralsed In a slantiog pos! tion, strikiog short blows with the plek. Zcharle worked nesrest the gallery; over him was Ohaval, then Lovaque, and above all on, Hach, with his plck, removed the layer of slate found In the vein. when they Lad fially loosenod the stratum upon the bottom, they made two vertleal notches and then defached the bles by driving a gad of iron In the up- per part, The cosl was rich, tha blea broke In pleces the length of thei bod- les. When these pleces, kept back by the board, were ol heaped up, the diggers dissppeared, ssemivg to wall themeelves up in the seam thue detached. Mahon was the greatest sufferer. Whera he tolled the temperature wss Eigher by thirly degrees, the aic did not clrculate, at length the suffocation became more Intolerable than the heat. His lamp, fastened to a stud above him enabled him to seo clesrly, but so waermed hls hord as to bring his blood to fever heat. Buat his angulsh was in- crossed by the dampuess. From a rock some fcet above his face, came a contin- ual snd rapid drlpping, n obstinate rythm, always falling in the eame place. Ho tkrow his head back; the water beat ageinat his face, streacing dewn, deip- ping over him without relaxation. 1In a quarter of an hour, with persplration and water combired, ha wai wot through. That morning a drop fell i bis eye cans— ing him to swear. Unwilling to leave his position, he gave such heavy blows that the violent shaking of tho rocks placed him a posttion siwilar to a moth held botweon two leaves of a book, threatened with complete destruction. Not a word was cxchanged. No sound was heerd yave the regular blows of the fcl, mofllad o8 though coming from a dlstance. Not an csho resporded as_the tounds came forth in the silll alr, Even the shudows were of an unknown dark- ness, dense with tho fljing coal dust, rendered heavy by the gas which welghed upon the eyelids. The lamp wicks,under their cover of wire gauze, threw out only reddish glesms, Nothing was dlstin- guishable, the drift arose liko s large chimney, level, then cblique, where the oot of ten winters was hesped up, mak- irg a profound night. The dlm lig feit on spectral forms, flliting to and fro, revealing rounded hips, knotty arms and beads smirchod as though from a brawl, At times picces of detached ooal were sudderly Lt up with a crystal like refloc- tion, Then darkness returned, while the beavy blows stiil continue, counled with the panting of weary chests and groana of uneasiness and fatlgue from tho heavy alr and falling water. Zacharle, weak from a wedding party of the night bsfore, soon slackened his work, under pretext of belcg lame, snd forgetting himeelf, he whiatled sotdly, his eyea roving on the shadows, Behind the diggers, almcst ten fost cf the vein re- msiced cleared, without thelr having taken the precaution to suitain the rock above, heedless of the danger, and stingy of their time. “Halloo!” crled the young man to Anton, “giva me some wood,*’ Anton, whom Catheride had tavght to use his shovel, was obliged to carry up the wood Into the drifc. There was a small emount 13ft there from the day be- fore. A portlon, ready cut, was brought down to them every morning. ““Hurry up now,” crlod Zicharle, see- ing the mow-comer awkwardly ralslng htmeelf vp smong the coal, his arms en- cumbered with four pieces of oak, With his pick, he made a notch in the celllng, and auvother in the wall; and wedged in two pleces of wood, thus propped up the rock. In the afternoon other workmen took the gobblng lelt at the end of the gallery by the diggers, and filled up 1hs trench made in the veln where they saw the sapports, arranging carefolly through the Inferior and supe- rior roads, over which the cirs were pushed, Mahon pausad, haviog at 1ast detached his blea. Ho wiped his pereplring face nleeve, uncasy st the work of Zcharie, behind him, “Leave thatalone,” sald he. “‘Woll nee to it after lunch, IVIL be better todlg, if we want to havo our number of cars.” “\This is sinking,” responded the young man, “Look, there's a crack, I'm afrald 1t's giviog way.” But h's father shrogged his shoulders. “Ah, giviog way! 1t wouldn's be the first time; they'd get out of it all the me,” He ended by becoming avgry, and eending his zon back in front of the drift, The othezs continved thelr work, Lovaque, lying upon his back, was awesr- ing; w falliog stone had cut hle left thumb, from which the blood wes flow- ing. Chaval, overheated, had removed bis sbirt, and was now at work naked to the waist. The parepiration, added to the fine coal dust which blackened them, ran in stresms down thelr half naked bodles Mahon was the first to agaln commene: steiking, lower down, h's head cloge to the rock. Now tho drops fulling upon his face 8o perslatently seemed to plerca bis skull, It alo't worth while to catch them,” euld Catherlne to Anton. “They'll al- ways yell.” And the obliglog gi'l resumed ber in- strietic Each loadod cor arrived st the top just es it et out from the drift, marked with » epecial character, 80 that tho recelver could put it on the account of that sectlon. Thur, they were obliged to ba very careful in filing is ouly to take the good cual or it would be rejsoted at the office. The young man, whose eyes hed be- come habituated to the obscurity, watched her, 1o pslld with her taint of ohloroels; aud ke could not have told her{§ sge, not more than twelve years to hlm it ecemed, sho looked so frall, However, Ish liberty, she appeared sive hcldness which slightly embarratsed him; she did not pleass him, she was too much of a boy Bat thet which sstonlshed bhim most wa she strength of the child, & mervous bu: skillfal sttength., She filled hor oar more qulokly than he, lifting her shovel with rapld regalarity; then she pushed it as far as the Inclined plane, with a slow thrast, without impediment, passing at ense under the lowest rocks. Hlis car, frequently becoming derasiled, added to his perplexity. Ia trath it was not an ocasy road. It was two hundred feet from the drift to the Inclined plane; and the road, which the repalrers had not yet enlarged, was a mere patsage way, whilothe uneven celling was filled with projections of coal. At certaln places, which the tilled occra pasted through, the pusher was obliged to shove the car by erouching down upon his knees to keep from splitting hls skull, while at other points the timber wes bent and already cracked, They saw 1t along the walls, split in the mid. dle, In long thin pleces like Invalids crutches, Care was neces to avold rabbing off the skin agalost these pro- jeotlons, and owlog to the heavy pres.ure from above, pleces as large as a man's thigh frequently flaw off, causing the workmen to lie flat down, not knowing how soon they might be crushed. “‘Again!” eald Oatharlne, laughingly. Anton's oar had just gone off the ra in the most difficult pi Ho had not yet lerrned to push stralght, upon theso rails which hau become twisted by the eoft earth; and he swore, he flow in- to a passlon, savagely fightiog wi'h the wheels, which In splte of the most re- vere efforts he could not replace. “Now walt,” sald the young glrl, “'If yon get mad iv'll never go right.” Having placed a chock under the wheels of her own car, she adroitly crept by him, and with a allght lifting of hee back, raieed the car onto the track. It weighed three hondred pounds. He, turprleed and ashamed, stammered an excase. She was compelled to show him how to braco himself agalnst the tlmber on ench eide of the gallery, thus glving solid meacs of support. The body should be hent, tho arma stiff, in order to give tho fall strength to the muscles of the shoul- ders and thighs in pushing. Daring one trip he kept behind, to obgerve her man- per of working, with Iywer limbs bent and hands low, she seemed to walk on four paswe, like ono of thoss dwatf bossts who travel in the olrona. She perspired, panting for breath, crackicg in il the jointe, but without a murmor, with the Indiffercnco of habit, as 1 the common lot of all was to llve thus bent up, His shoes annoyed him, he suffered from walking with head bent down, Atlength this position became a torture, an lntol- erablo agony, 80 painful that he fell on h's knees for an instant to hold up his hend and breathe. Thon at the inclined plane came a new drudgery. She taught him to load his car qulckly. Above and below that plane which was used by all tho dr.fts from one atory to the other, a boy was placed, the sender above, the recelver below. These rogues of twelve or thirteen years were always screaming and to warn them it was necessary to shout stlll londer, Then when there was an empty car to go up, the recelver gave the signal, the sender locsened his bresk and the car (filled by tho pusher descended by gravlty, bring- ing the empty car up, In the gallery bo- low the tralns which the horses drew to the foot of the ehaft were fermed. “Hello , there!” cri:d Catharlae, down the plane, wooded the length of a handred yards, which resoundea ke a huge speaking trampet. Tho bogs must have laln down for thera was no response. At each story the wheellng was arrested. A shrill girlish voico cyled out: “Yon can bet this is Mouguette's fault.” Mockirg laughs broke out. “Who's that?” sald Anton to Oather- Ine. She told him it was llitle Lycic, who knew as much and wheeled her car a8 well as sny woman, in spits of her doll-like arms. Bat euddenly the voics of the sender was heard, giving the order to start. Without doubt sn overscer was passing above. The rolling was resumed at the nine floors, the only sound heard was the regular calls of the boys, and the pantings of the pushers who were sr- riving at the plane, utterly ex- heusted. And, at each trlp, Anton sgain noticed the closeness at the bottom of the drift, the dull, broken thud of the picks, the great, beavy eighs of the diggers, obstinately bent on thefr work, Toese nearly nude men were completely covered with a black mud. Then ha was obliged to asslst Mahon, who was hauling swey the plank to allow the coal to elide down upon the track., Zachsrle and Lisvaque were In a rage at the vein, which, they eald, had becomo dlirty, rendering thelr work valueless, Coaval turned around to abnre Anton, whose presence exisper- ated him, “Yon're a fine one; you haven’t the strength of agiil! Ah! can you fill your cart? Well, there's nothlog like belog saving of one's srmv. Good heavens! I'm willlog to lcso ten sous if you make two for us,"” The young man refrained from reply- fog, only too bappy at haviog found this galley-rlave work, willing to accept the bhrutal trestment of both workman and overseer, But he could work no more; his feet were bleeding, hls limbs racked with terrible cramps, hls body as if presced in a vice, Happlly, it was 10 o'clock, and the workmen declded to lunch. Mahon had a watch which he did not oven consult, At the bottom of that starles night ho wes never mistaken as to time; he could tell it within five min- uter: All resumed thelr shicts and vestn, Then descending from the drift they oronched down, thelr elbows st their sldee, slitlog on thelr heele, » poaltion so habitusl to miners that they tock it even when out of the mine, without pecing the need of even a stone to slt wpon Axd each one haylng taken out a eand. wleh, gravely bit into tho thick slice, letting sllp & few words upon the work of the morning, Calharlne, who bad re- malned standing, st laot jolned Anton, who, & short dlstauce «ff, hed stretched il f out across some ralle, bis back sgalost the wood, whers 16 was lome damp, “‘Why don't you eat 117" she esked, with mouth full and sscdwich ia her hand, Then the remembered Anton wander- ing sbout in the ds:rkuess, without a scu or & moreel of bread. “Won't yon sbara with me?” And when ho refused, swearlng he was not bungry, bis v P the craviogs of hls stomach, she rald woyly: h!go you're dlsgusted! But, hold on! 1'veonly bit into that side; L'll give ou the other pert.” She had already broken the sllces in two, The young wmsn took his hulf, con- trolling hiuself, 80 88 not to deveur it in one mouthfu d he placed hls hands up-n bis hipe, 8o that she could not ree bim tremble, With her tranquil eir of & lively comrade the bad thrown herself down beslde hlm, flat on her etomach, y A her chin in oue hand, slowly eatlng feom the other. Their lamps between them 11t them up. Ontherine rezarded him a moment in sllence. She began to think him® hand- eome, with his fine featares and black mustache; she smiled. “8o you're a_machinist, and they've sent you away from your shops Why?" “Because 1 slapped my boss.” She was amazed; her inherlted ideas of snbordination and paesive obedience was upset. “I must own up I was drank,” con- tinned he, “‘and when I drink It makes me orazy, why, 1'd eat myself and eve body else. 1 can't take two little glas without wantlog to fight. And I was alok for two dags.” “‘You musn’t drink,” sald the, serl- ously. “‘Ahldon’t be afraid I know myself.” Auod he shook his head, he had a hatred of rum, the hatred of the child of & race of drankards,whose natura suffered all that burning thirst produced by aloohol, knowing that the least drop was for him, a polson, “‘It’s on account of my mother that I'm annoyed at having been put out In the street,” sald hs after having awallowed a mouthful. “My mother Is not well off, and every onoe In a while I send her a handred sous,” “‘Where {s yonr mother?” “In Parls, She's a wash-woman, in the rue de Ia Goutte d'Oz.” He was sllent. When he thought of these things his black eyes gloamed with eharp paln, as he brooded over injury re- celved. For an instant, his looks were lost in the depths of the mine's shadows; and In that darknoss, under the weight and confinement of the earth above, he again saw his childhood, his mother, still pretty and healthy, cast ff by his father and then taken back agaln, after having boun marrfed to another, living between the two men who rulned her, and, at last, ended wlith them in the gatter, in wine and filth. Ho recalled the atreet; some detalls came back to him, the dirty 1tnon fn the midile of the ship, some drunkon men who gathered at the house and the boxlog which almost broke his oars “Now, rerumed he, In a low voise, ©' ehall not be able to give her much out of thirty sous, * % * She will die In misery, that's certaln.” Ho sbrugged his shoulders in despair, then agiin blt into his sandwich. “Won't you have a drlnk?’ asked Catherine, who wes holdlog her pail to her lips. ~ *‘Oh! 1t's coffec; that'l do you no harm. You'll choke without some- thing to wash down the bread.” But be refused. It was bad enough for him to havo taken half of her bread. However, ehe inelsted in a good-natured way, saying: *'Well, I'll drink bofora you, if you're sopolite, * ¥ Only it would be mean to refuse any longer,” She tenderad him her pail, kneellng down before htm, 1t up by the yellow tnga of the two lamps. Wby had he thought her ugly? Now that sho was black, her face covered with coal dust, to him she seemed to have aslugalar charm, In tho half gloom, the teeth in her large mouth were of a dazzling whiteness, her eves grew larger, shining with a greenish reflection, like the eyes of a cat. A mass of aubura hair which had ercaped from the pall delighted him, and he laughed quletly. Sho no longer appeared so young, ske was at least fourteen. “To plesse you,” said he, drinklog and ratuening the pail. She sgain drank, then forced him to take anocher swallow; and that pail ge- ing from one to the other amaused them, Suddenly he askod himself if he ocught not to selzs her ln his arms and klss her upon the lips, She had fall lips of pale roso color, heightened by the cosl, which tempted him with an incressing passlon. bet ho dared not, he was abashed before her. In Lillle he had only had the lowest kird of girls, ignorant,such as one wounld expect to mate with a workman. “You're about fourteen, are you not?’ he asked, after going back to his bread. She was surprized and somewhat an- Ty, ““How much? Fourteon! Why, I'm sixteen! I.'s true, I'm not very large. He continued to question her; sh spoke of everything without boldness or shame, Though she was not Ignorant of anything pertalnirg to man and woman, Le Instinctively perceived che was of vlr- gln purity. When he spokeof Mouquette, to embarrass Ler, she related some dread- ful stories—her qulet voice becomlng avi- mated. Ah! that one had domo soms terr ble things! Aud when he asked her if sho had not a lover, she sniwered play- fully that s1e did not wich to annoy her mother, but that wculd come some day. Her clothlng, wet with perspirsticn, csused her to shiver elightly. She ohragged her shoulders in a reslgnod manner as though ready to do anything. “They don't lack lovers when they live all together, do they?” “*No indeed.” *“Then that dou’t hurt any one, needun’t tell the priest.” “'Oh! the priest, I don't care for him But there's the black man,” “What black wan?’ “‘The old miner who comes back in the mines and wiings the necks of the bad glela. He looked st her, fearing she was mak- ing gamo of him. Do you bolleve that nonsento, don't you know anythiug?” “0f course, I know how to read and wrlte. That’s very usefal in cur house, for in my father's and mother's time they dida’t Jesrn such thinge. She was certainly very nlce, When ehe finished ber sl'cacf bread he wculd take her 1o his arms and kiss ber on her large rosy lips. 1t wasa timid resolu- tion, & thought of violence, which made bim slightly uncomfortable. Those boya' clothes on that girlieh form made blm feel uvessy. He swallowed his last mouthful, and agsla drinking feom the tin pail he gave 1t to herto emp'y. Now the moment to act had cowe. He wae slyly glancing toward the miners below him, when a shadow darkened the gollery. For some {ime Chaval had Leen watch- fng them from a dlstance; then rlog bimself that Mahon was not looking he came forward, and selzlng Catherine by the shouldere, he turned back her head to cover her mouth with a bratal kiss, tranquilly affecting not to have seen Antoo, In that kiss there was a takiog posseesion.—a sort of jealous decislon. Bat the young glrl wae dlagusted, & Leave mo alone, will you!” He held up her head, lookicg straight into her eyes, His red mustache snd besrd partially covered bis black fase, while hls big nose stooa ou: llke the beak of an esgle. At last he loosened her, end weat (ff without a word, Anton was selz3d with a chill. Tt was stopld to hsve weited. He could not cmbrace her now, or sbhe wounld belleve that he wished to treat her like that other., At last in Lis burt vanlty he felt arex] despalr, “Why heve you led?” ra'd he In a low voice, *‘Tbal's your lever,” They I awear to you,” orled *‘There's nothlog between ns, Some- times ne waats to fool. Besldes he's only bsen hero s!x months, feom Pas.de Onlais,”" Both had rieen, abont to begln work sgin, When she miw him 85 cold, she was chagrinyd, Withont doubt, she thought him handeomer than the pothers; sho wonld have preferred him. The thought of a reconolliati-n arose in her wind, and whon the young man, still angry, was examining his lsmp which was burniog with a pale, blus flame, s3e trled to attract hls attentlon, ‘“‘Come on, “I'il show you something,” murmured she good-oataredly, When she had led him to the end of the drift she showed him a crevice In the coal. A slight bobbling arose from it :)nddl little nolse like the whistling of a ird. “Pat_your hand there; you can feol the wind, Ivs fire-damo.” He was surprised, Was that the ter- rible fire-di mp which made everything explode? She laughod, saylng there was a good deal of 1t that day, and that was the reason the Jamps burned so blue, “Whon will yon fools stop your tonguee?” crled the angry volse of Mahon, Oatherlne and Anton hastened to rafill thelr cars, and push them to the Inclined plane, thelr backe bent, crawling uuder the uneven celling of the track, From the second trlp, the presplration sosked them and thelr benes cracked anew. In the drifc the work of the diggers wea resumed, They often cut short thelr lunch 80 &8 not to chill themselyes, and thelr saudwiches, eaten thus far from the sun, with speechloas voracity, filled thelr stomsche as {f with lead. Stretched cut upon thelr sides, they dug etlll bardor, having only one fixed idea, that of com- ploting a geeat dsy's work. Kyerythlog elso dwappeared in the struggle for galn 8o rodely conteated. They coseod to feel the water dripplng upon their limba, the cramps from the forced attitude, elwaye the seme, tho blackness of the wight where they withered lika plants buried In & cave. In proportlon, as the dsy ndvanced, the alr became mote vitisted trom the smoke of the Ismps, tho impure breaths and the gas from the fire- dump, welgling down the eyelids like cobwebs, All this combined was suffi- clent to deatroy the ciisct of any pura alr. Each ons, burle his molehole under the carch, with ecarcely a broath in his weary budy, atill tolled on. |0 BE CONTINUED ] SEL NI “The play’s tho thing, Wherein” I'll reach the consciense of the king,” Aud equally trae {s {t that Dr. Pierce’s *‘Pleasant Purgative Pollets” (:he origiral Little Liver Pulle) are the most cffectusl means that can bo used to reach tho seat of dleease, olesnsing ths bowels and eys- tem, and asslsting natore In her 1ocuper- ative work., By orugalsts. T —— Selection of S:ed Corn, There has boen serious loss to farmera In tho groat corn-gTowing regibns of the Ubnited States, in at least three of the last four years, from difficalty in secaring good seed corn. Mauch of this losa might bave been provented by wiser attentlon 10 the svlectlon and care «f the corn de- slgned for eced. “Lhe early full s the best time ln which to make this selection, because corn then telected can be ko kept es to icsare L vitality when us2d for seed, and also bo- cause selection at this time better enables the farmer to improve his corn by the cholce of that which pozsesscs the greatest number of good qualitics. Teials of many varleties on the university farms, from difforont parts of Lilinols and other states, have shown mo that very many localitien have varietles of great merli; often better adapted to thelr scil snd climato then would be almcst any varfety 4 brought from other reglons. Any varlety mry be tmproved by con- tinued careful eolection of seed. Aay verlety will deterlorato if s2ed be care- lessly or unwisely selected. Selection of seed from the bin, especlally if this be done In the spring, only gives opportun- ity for tho seleotion of satisfactory oar Selection in the field, in tue early tumn, glves opportunity to determine © | the comparatlve earliness of the chosen cars, and the character of the stalks on which they were produced. And In both thete raspects great diffarences will be found in corn of the same varioty, even when growing in the rame Lill. There is no neceseity that corn designed for keed should fully mature on the stalk, Experiments have shown apparent strong vitality in kernels which were shriveled up from the ears haviog been plusked long before matarity, I would not ad- vise this in practice, but there can bs no abjeotion to plucking seed cora soms weeks befora 1t would do to put in the crtb. The essentlals in {r:atment of the corn seem to be that both kernels and coba shs1l bzoome pretty thoroushly dry before there latevere freezing. Flie heat may be used to eecure thie, but s wualy not essential, The old plan of tracing up the esrs, palr by palr, by the husks, and henging them up in & dry, warm rqom, will almost car- tatoly give good resulta. 1 liko battor the use of the cork-icraw wire, pat in the batt of each esr and elipped over a vertleal wire In ord!nsry seasons there is no diffioulty in gettiog seed that will grow from any good crib 8> 1 do not urge tho early selectlon chicfly on this ground, Maln. talninz the standerd of «xcellence already galoed, or stll farthor improving a va- rlety, ls the chlef advantage. G. E. Monrrow. 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