eight o'clock
It was a long way to his home , so he would step round the corner and have a cup of coffee and a couple of `` sinkers '' at `` Tom 's '' . He first conscientiously asked if anybody needed anything , and Comrade Mabel Smith told him to hurry back to help her put out the leaflets on the seats , and Comrade Meissner would need help in arranging the chairs on the stage . When you went from the Leesville Opera-house and turned West in Main Street , you passed Heinz 's Cafe , which was a `` swell '' eating-place , and not for Jimmie ; and then the `` Bijou Nickelodeon '' , with a mechanical piano in the entrance ; and the `` Bon Marche Shoe Store '' , which was always having a fire-sale or a removal sale or a bankruptcy clearing-out ; and then Lipsky 's `` Picture Palace '' , with a brown and yellow cowboy galloping away with a red and yellow maiden in his arms ; then Harrod 's `` Fancy Grocery '' on the corner . And in each of these places there was a show-card in the window , with a picture of the Candidate , and the announcement that on Sunday evening , at eight o'clock , he would speak at the Leesville Opera-house on `` War , the Reason and the Remedy '' . Jimmie Higgins looked at the cards , and a dignified yet joyful pride stirred in his bosom ; for all of them were there because he , Jimmie , had interviewed the proprietors and obtained their more or less reluctant consent . Jimmie knew that on this Sunday , in cities all over Germany , Austria , Belgium , France and England , the workers were gathering by millions and tens of millions , to protest against the red horror of war being let loose over their heads . And in America too -- a call would go from the new world to the old , that the workers should rise and carry out their pledge to prevent this crime against mankind .