| Show A FEARFUL PARISIAN PANIC encile zola writes of one in kis graphic hiie SKETCH OF A vivid picture oribe shutting donai ofa great foun iou miry lary the proprietor anti anil tile work workmen on tho thea corpse of toil Sc arching rr for work with none to lie ile I 1 ind torn atu t iona or of alio llio lie poor still starring twining I 1 1 1 that morning the workmen canto camo as a anai to iq their dilly toll toil b bill t they 11 0 aut i found the HID firest out and tile tho w workshop h c y i i cold arid and dark it was a sat sad sight ilcy lionized at once the signs of the III busi si ral nem ne M cruh crash it was upon theme them ohl 1 fee how they missed the putting and noise of tire hin huge steam anzine which usually animated the iho whole aholo foundry as witt 11 tho the pulsations of a giants KiJ irit s heart assile II 11 silence nee lent additional melancholy to tho the scene while tho workmen more waiting tile tho proprietor ranio canto to thom them from roin his office I 1 llo lie addressed them in a tone toile of unfeigned fel greed sorrow my aly nion men me have havo been boon forced to shut shot down arid and there Is no niora more work tor for you here bore has absolutely ceased sort and ovon even tho the orders wo we had it hivo been countermanded no ho that largo large quantities of manufactured goods are a ro apil lotion on our hands tire the present month merrill december generally so busy threatens ruin to civery foundry yes wo we havo have failed i that thai is tho the cholo story the workmen glanced nt at each other oilier they dreaded to lo return homo borne they wore afraid of hunger on the ihu morrow tho the proprietor saw their codr despair and added in I a low voice wo have lone dono tho the best we could but bait our situation Is as bid bail as ad yours youra worse perhaps wo vo lost francs in he a 0 single week it if wo we wont went on ao e should but our without any prospect oct ot of meeting it indeed w we 0 havo have not a sou son on hand towards making our payments duo on tho the site I 1 speak do as bour friend and hido aldo nothing from froin son olt eager creditors havo have proc proceeded ceded against us and I 1 expect tho the bailiffs will make inako it ft levy tomorrow to morrow you soo see it was not nob our fault we vo held oil onto to tho the last for your a blako a k G wo we would bilte li aie to bridge tire chiasm but it cannot bo be done for all 64 over I 1 no DO longer haxo hao broad to sharo share with anybody IN lie ile put out his hand arid and efin workmen workman graser d it in silence then for several they gated nt at their idle toot clenching their gt G t at fato fain ohl how different it was from other mornings when tho the files scraped and tho the hammers ran out tin the iho already tile tho dust of bankruptcy wils was spread oer everything anil and abe th nies files and the heart hau liters were wn as sound asleep ai aa tho the stern engine twenty Ps OP thirty families would starve title tho oming wiek week some I 1 women in tho the ligator toll of tho the packing department vero mere sobbing bobbins in a corner then mea put jul on a look of firmness and courage co they sald said that krople could noelle loof 0 hunger in fit the tha vat vast rich city of park 11 lion lien tire tho proprietor had gone they said bo be lead had aged LI ln liu u year lie in tho the pat past wool wee anti and that his back was bent benl like that of tin an old man ono one more though ful fill than tire rest wild hit troubles ere doubtless greater rrelier than lie ho adil admit admitted tod thoy had lumps in their threats they were choking as they quitted the lh work shop chop one by ono one it seemed scorned to t thein her I 1 as it if they were leaving a death chamber tho the corple was work represented by ahn big kutub bleam engine tuta extended to io that ihn banister nistor si gloom A W week had ss and id ona of tho the workmen from tills suspended foundry was walking tire tho pat ement lent tor for six days ho he load had ha haunted tinted tire tho streets ls like ghost of famine work hou however caver he could not find filed lie iio laid offered to 10 do any anything aveo tile most inertial toll but every door had bad been closed aga agai lusti last him trie TRE then ho he had bid proposed to work for half price but tile tho doors did not open had lie ho tendered lon dered his junices without pay it would we hao acon tho the amo nobody body could employ him there m wai as absolutely statute sol ly nothing to do and tho the knull of tile tolling population had soon sounded ded alio ito fearful plante panic limit blocked every in duttry anil and money to bo be almost arly it from circulation at tho the end card of tho the week there was wa nothing to lo do tit but told lem to abo ili terrible situation tho the nork mau though gnawed by bud brad mado made a last lal depora tar effort court but with the samo same luck hick if ho had not son as bo bovi ly started to return retarn boroo borne it was a torn tam positions night and tho the streets of paris mere thick with lied but bul ho he did I 1 not t ao feel tho the pelting rain lie realized only ly that he was hungry arid and that ho he ct to go 90 home ito il reached the colne arid went on ono of alb abu bridges leaning over a parapet U bo riis swollen D flood end dashed along with A fill un an 1 I la ru r it Ilal struck ruck at ii arch of tho the bridge and leaped up tip in jets jeta of elilio aalto atmar t tim the workman leaned further in 0 i la thought of casting himself atilo list surging waters which seemed to lo bo be I 1 summoning him to that thai death courted by no be many poor carls work girls but tin no no not suicide was cowardly coward liy no fro rushed off the bridge mitT ATIO the storm was over in tho the jewelers w windows the ilio gas on diamonds and ad gold 0 fanno ft lira lift had only to lo hatler a pane of glass ruid and nib ith one hind fraud ho be could snatch enough to keep himself anti and hi hio star starling ing family in bread tor for years tho the was strong but bait tho the workman was as honesta ilo ile saw brilliantly lighted palatial fal restaurants le and till through their windows people in rich attire eating tod tied how coequal was tho distribution on of t world go ri alcha s bened ml steps passing cook shops pork ven vendors ders s shops hop pastry paltry shops all the iho raven on oil parts was appo appeasing aln q its ila hunger while bo be had bad not so eo much 4 AI a single moral off of bonill a toll that an morning 0 r ing hit his ulfo and little daughter b bad A de nept scalding tears and lie ho had bait promised I 1 to n bring them broad at night ilo ile asked himself how ho he should outer enter his homo borne what ta ho in shot should id say to 1 liis I Is loved ones to make thoin them patient lint hut thoy they must havo to P oat a t ile iia try to lo do without they could not all nt at onro once lie ho thought ho he would bog beg but athon tion ile hn stopped slopped a passerby passer by hn he to felt t such site h that ho be could not ott or a word lift he was pushed aside people thought him intoxicated tho the workmans work mans wife had bad como come down to tire ilio door leaving their child asleep upstairs lie was almost a skeleton and nit tho the ley icy blasts mado tier her shiver milver in her callen calico dross dress as thin a as a water everything had gono gone to tho the pawnshop in that single week the day before IIA lead had sold cold tire tho last handful of filling filline frow from hor her mattre tu to a junk dealer ali tho the filling bad gono gone that way and now but tire tho ticking was left that sho she bad hopff before the iho window to koep keep the iho air from the iho child who had a bad cough TUB THIC tho the w mire ifo also had bad sought work though vilt without hout her knowl ed eden ge hut but tho the women were more 0 ro o verely affected by tho the panic than tho the mon men in rooms on the iho sanio same landing as hers she heard board unfortunate creatures crea turoa sob ob all night long one ino of ebeo wretched women site eho had bad seen standing like a statue at the corner of a street another 1 ana a doad dead and a third had vanished fortunately sho she had a good sober husband nod and they would have boon been quite comfortable bad not the panic robbed them of 0 everything but now she owed everybody the baker the tha grocer and tho the trul fruiterer her credit was eab exhausted a is toll anti and site was afraid to pass their shop s lor for fear of being donned that afternoon she had gone to her sisters to bo borrow r twenty son sous but had found sue such h poverty there that site she had bad not dared to ask lor for them but bait had burst into tears fear hor her sister weeping we epting with her when she departed sho she promised to bring hor her slater i A t 0 1 0 of bread ad should her husband huster husher tei aret anie h larey b n n return u w with i t any ter her husband had not nob returned it was raining arid and sho she took refuge in the aitio door doorway tho drops pattered paltered palt patt ered erod about her feet and tier her thin dress was stashed soaked occasionally her impatience mado made her rno rain through the storm to tho the street corner to we nee it if site she could not c etch catch glimpse glimp of lift hr husband in the distance she was wet through and through ahon hen she mae got bark back and passed paita ler her hands bandt over hor her halt to dry it sho she strove to lo bo be patient a talho longer the pedestrians elbowed her she sh contracted herself to be out of tho the way men stated tier her in the iho iaco face she fe feit it attl fiina their warm breath eliner all suspicion paris that tb street with its retail mud it ita glaring lights and its clatter of 0 vehicles lehi cles seemed scorned to wish to lo helo her and burl tier into tho the gutter man was hungry and everybody had A right to crush her there was it a bakers baker it shop across the iho street and abe thought of the child asleep upstairs at length her bor husband carno came in sight eight slinking like lukea a thief along the linuci eft she ran to him and looked anxiously into his face well silo asked aked I 1 lie ito shook ills his bead thon then as a prefix palo asi as death she bont upstairs in front of little 1 tile CHILD OV OP POVERTY I 1 upstairs the child was swake a and thinking with tier her eyes fixed on a 91 slowly ox y consuming candle baump upon tho the table A monstrous and heartrending expression was on the face of that girl ol of 7 hose failed arid and andlous features wor 1 those of a grown woman A chest was as her bed and she sat flat Is upon pon the edge of it with her slithering hare bare foet feet dangling don hor puny it sells hands had drawn tier rags against her bor breast when she bho felt a burning moosa tion ili ft ore she wished to quench I 1 phil things slie she had never had wanti want of shoos had kept her from school I 1 sho she was waa younger her motto r baj bad taken abcar out in tile tho sunshine imi but that was A little dim branco of long ago they were forced to hour arid and sinie since then terrible cold had bad reigned lie in their house while site vai ani alkalis hungry was everybody hungry sho she asked herself tho lite question but bait could coo id not answer A itin ingvalo valo bad bibo striven to so ac custom herself to hunger she thought she would learn by people had not enough to oat cat when she aho got bl til girer lizer iler her mother of courtat couro knew inow but it was i hidden from children had she ho dared she eho would have hatie asked her who brought people lot into the iho world to be furnished famished ear thing lie in their room was as so wretched she looked at ilio the window agal arst which tho the mattress licking was brating boating the lite bare walls the broken furniture all the wretchedness wretched boas of a garret which litch A lack of ork estaing with walli its despair silo bol loved in her that she abo had bait dreamed of warm apart fill beautiful glittering articles arlt cloa J anthem in tham she fichot her eyes to see them again and through her emaciated eyelids eyelid tho the glare of the th candle prow grow to a groat great golden brightness into which sho she wanted to go but tho the wind roared and such a draught camo came jn in at tho the window that be began to lo cough violently tears colled up p in lif tier royes eye sho she used lifted to foar fear being loft ifft alone now slim rl did dial not mind IL they had bad not nob eaten caton mere 0 tho the previous day anti and she thought hor her mother had gono gone for broad bread then she abo amused herself with the idea of eating ashe would cut her bread into little bit and devour them slowly one by ono one sh she would play with hor her brad ifer her mother camo came in her bor father shut t h A door tile child saw they brought nothing air and was greatly surprised then its As her parents said not dot a word sho she whirled im hun arryl rm im hor bur aryl gryl her father cathor lint sobbing la in a corner silently his face covered with his hands hor cpr lumber forcing back her milars puk pug her to beat again on the iho chest after h olt pang all tho the old garments in ID the room upon U pon lur her sho she told her to bo be quiet ind and so go to sleep lint the iho childs teeth were chattering with cold and tho the fire in her brait had grown moro intense hence chenoa stan ho grow grew very bold and casting her amis about her mothers mot tiers nock duck she whits pored softly why aro are we vio hungry toll inel mala mammal mailo zo |
