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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY, JUNE B, DOC CHAPTER III. (Continued.) At the Mine Instant the ear «m palled by a most terrifying shriek; the visitors started In alarm, the women turned pale and shrank hack. The ibrlek wae followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing—for, once started upon that , Journey, the hog never came back; at the top of the wheel he was ah unted off upon a trol ley, and went sailing down the room. And meantime another was swung up, and then another nnd another, until i. there waa a double lino of them, each a dangling by a foot and kicking In frenzy—and squealing. The uproar was appalling, perilous to the ear-drums; one feared there was too much sound for the room to hold— that the walls must give way or the ceilings crack. There were high squeals and low squeals, grunts and walls of agony; there would come a' momentary lull, and then a fresh out. burst, louder than ever, surging up to a deafening climax. It was too much for some of the visitors—the men would look at each other, laughing nervously, and the women would stand with their hands clenched and the blond rushing to their faces, and the tears starting In tbelr eyes. Meantime, heedless of all these things, the men upon the floor were going about their work. Neither the squeals of hogs nor. tears of visitors made any difference to a them; one by one they hooked up the hogs, and one by one wltti a swift stroke they ellt their throats. There was a long line of hogs, with squeals and life-blood ebbing away together: until at last each started again, and vanished with a splash .Into a huge vat of boiling water. . , It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork- I making by applied mathematlce. And yet somehow the moat matter-of-fact lierson could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so Innocent, they rumo so very trustingly, and they were SO very human In their protest!—and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve It, and It was adding Insult to Injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up In this cold-blooded. Impersonal wav. without a pretense at apology, without the homage of a tear. Novy and then a visitor, wept, to be sure; but this slaughter machine ran on, vis itors or no visitors. It was llko some horrible crime committed fh * dungeon, oil unseen and -unheeded, burled out of sight and. of memory, THF II llsin F © gs Thrilling Story of Packingtown! 3 R Y IIDT/YM CIKin A ID 111C JUnviLc s Novel That Has Startled Nation! j$ Dl Ur 1 UN jINLLAIK SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS The story of “The Jungle," Upton Sinclair's novel, which has caused the government Investigation Into the methods employed by the beef trust, had Its origin In an actual Packtngtown romance. In Aghland avenue—"back of the stock yards"—the wedding took place. The first chapter merely shows a broad-shouldered butcher being wedded to a young girl who eeea In him a hero. The wedding In nil Its grotesqueness Is described In this chapter. The wedding ceremony la typical of Packingtown. It ends at dawn, when Jurgia and his bride, °. n *L <5 *P* rt - aadly reatlilng that the contributions, which are a feature °‘ will not nearly bear the expense of the ceremony. • The romance le a prelude to the story of. actual life In the stock yards. ... At the end of the wedding festivity, with guests drunk, Jurgia averts free-lighting and hurries hie bride off, carrying her. He says the must not return to the packing house, but she tearfully protests that her Idle ness would ruin their happiness. He says, reassuringly and tenderly, "Leave It to me.- I will earn more money. I will work harder." The “boss" under whom Jurgls slaved would have smiled hod he heard this assurance. Jurgia could not work harder. The novelist then tells how Jurgls, poor, yet with the strength Vf the oxen he was later fated to kill, aspired to tho hand of Ona; how her father objected; how the young giant went sadly away and worked like mad until he had accumulated a little money, and how eventually America and the word "Chicago" lured them to this country, where they believed all men were literally equal, and gold awaited those who, worked hard and faithfully. Ona’s hither being deaa, Jurgls won his suit, after he had obtained a Job In the yards. On an|vlng in Chicago, J. Ssvedllaa, a. Lithuanian, who ran a deli catessen store In Packingtown, guided Jurgls, Ona, MarIJa and the re mainder of the party through the atock yards, after he had given them lodging. In this section of the story, the* author reveal* some of the things that have startled the country. He tells how a government In spector. typical of his kind, slta at the door of the freeling room and -feets the glnnds or the cattle for tuberculosis—but If one 'conversed with the Inspector and heard Interesting things about cattle disease, the official would let a dozen bodies pass him without investigation. The method of preparation of meat Is vividly portrayed In this Install ment, and even the simple-minded children of nature from Lithuania re volt against the conditions described and witnessed dally In the contam inated precincts' of Packingtown. It came to him. One scraped the out side of the leg; anothed scraped the Inside of the same leg. One with n swift stroke cut the throat; another with two swift strokes severed the head, which fell to tho floor and van ished through a hole. Another made a silt down the body; a second opened the body wider; a third with a saw cut the breast bone; a fourth loosened the' entrails; a 'flfth pulled them out— and they also slid through a hole In the floor. There were men to scrape each side and men to scrape the back; there were men to cleave the carcass In side; to trim It and wnsh It. Looking down this room, one saw, creeping slowly, a line of dangling hogs a hun dred yards In length, and for every yard there was a man working as If a demon were after him. At the end of this hog's progress every Inch of the carcass had been gone over several times, and then It was rolled Into the chilling room, where It stayed for St hours, and where a stranger might lose himself In a forest of freesing hogs, Before the carcass waa, admitted _ here, however, It had to pass a gov- One could not stand nnd watch very ernment Inspector, who sat In the door way and felt In the glands of the*neck for tuberculosis. This government In spector did not have tho manner of a man who was worked to death; he was apparently not haunted by a fear that the hog might get by him before ho had finished his testing. It you were a soclablo person, he was quite willing to enter Into conversation with you, and to explain to yoii the deadly nature of the ptomaines which are found In tuberculosis pork; and while he was talking with you you could hardly be so ungrateful as to notice that a dozen carcasses were passing him untouched. This Inspector wore blue uniform, with brass buttons, long without becoming phllosoplcai, without beginning to deal In symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal of the universe. Was it permlted to believe that there waa nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heav- en for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was * separate creature. Some were white lings, some were black; some- were brown,' some were spotted; some were fold, some were young; some wero long and lean, some were monstrous. And each of them had nn Individuality of his own, l a will of his own, a hope and a heart’s desire; each was full of self confidence, of self-importance and a sense of dig nity. And trusting and strong In faith he had gone about his business, ths while a black shadow hung over him and a horrid Fate waited In his path way. Now suddenly It had swooped upon him, and had seized him by the leg. Relentless, remorseless. It was; all bis protests, Ills screams, were nothing to It—It did Its cruel will with him, ns If hln wishes, his feelings, had •Imply no existence at all; It cut his throat and watched him gasp out his life. And how was one to bflleve that there was' nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog-personallty was prec ious, to whom these hog-squeals and agonies had a meaning? Who would take this hog Into his arms and com fort him, reward him for his work well done, and ahow him the meaning of his sacrifice? Perhaps soma glimpse of nil this was In the thoughts of our bumble-minded Jurgls, as he turned to go on with the rest of the psrty ind muttered; "Dleve—but I’m glad I'm not a hog!" The carcass hog was scooped out of the Vat by machinery, and then It fell to the second floor, passing on the way through a wonderful machine with numerous scrapers, which adjusted themselves to the size and shape of the animal, and nent It out at the other »nd with nearly alt of Its bristles re- moved. It was then again strung up bv machinery, and sent upon another trolley r ide ;thla time passing between the lines of men who sat upon a raised platform, each doing a certain thing as and ha gave an atmosphere of author ity to the' scene, and, as It were, put the stamp of approval upon the things which were done In Durham’s. Jurgls went down the line with the rest of the visitors, staring open-, mouthed, lost In wonder. He had dressed hogs himself In the forest of Lithuania; but he had never expected to live to see one hog dressed by sev eral hundred men. It was like a won derful poem to him, and he took Jt all In guilelessly—even to the conspicuous signs demanding Immaculate cleanli ness of ths employees. Jurgls ’ was vexed when the cynical Jokubas trans lated these signs with sarcastic com ments, ofTsiing to take them to the secret rooms where the spoiled meats were to be doctored. The party descended to the next floor, where the various waste materi als were treated. Hefb came the en trails to be scraped and washed clean for sausage-casings; men and women worked here In the midst of a sicken ing stench, which caused the visitors to hasten by, gasping. To another room cam# all the scraps to be "tank ed," which meant boiling and pumping off the grease to make soap and lard; below they took out the refuse, and this too was a region In which the vis itor* did not linger. In still other places men were engaged In cutting up the carcasses that had been through the chilling rooms. First there were the "splitter*,’’ the most expert work men In -the plant who earned as high as BO cents-an hour, and did nothing all day except chop hogs down the middle. Then there were "clever men,” great giants with muscles of Iron; each liad two men to attend him—to alkie the half carcass In front of him on the table, nnd hold It while he chopped It, Mf Mbtail dM 'pket -as that he might chop It once more. His cleaver had a blade about two feet long, and he never, made but one cut; he made It so neatly, too, that his Implement e ld not smite through and dull Itself— here waa Just enough force for a per fect cut, and no more. So through various yawning holes there slipped to the floor below—to one room hams, to another forequarters, to another sides of pork. One might go down to this floor and see the pickling rooms, where the hams were put Into vats, and the great smoke-rooms with their air tight Iron doors. In other rooms they prepared salt pork—there were who!* cellars full of It. built up In great tow ers to the celling. In yet other rooms they were putting up meat In boxes and barrels, and wrapping hams and bacon In oiled paper, sealing and lab elling and sewing them. From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks, to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be tilled: and one went out there and realized with a start that he bad romo at last to the ground floor of this enormous building. • Then the party went across the street to where they did tho killing of beef—where every hour they turned four or five.hundred cattle Into,meat. Unlike the place they had left, all this work was done on one floor; and In stead of there being one line of car casses which moved to the workmon,’ there were fifteen or twenty lines, and the men moved from one to another of these. This mnde a scene of Intenso activity, a picture of humnn power wonderful to watch. It was nil In one great room. Jlko a cirrus amphitheater, with a gallery for visitors running over the center. Along one side of the room ran a narrow gallery, a few' feet from tho floor; Into which gallery the cattle were driven by men with goods which'gave them elsctrlo shook*. Ones crowded In here, the creatures were prlspned, each In a separate pen, by gates that shut, leaving them no room to turn around: and while thejr.: atoad bellowing nnd dunglivv over the top of the pen there enned one of the ’ "knockers," armed with a sledge hammer, and watching for a chance to deal a blow. The room echoed with the thuds In quick succession, and ths stamping and kicking of the steers. The Instant the animal had fallen, the "knockers” passed on to another; while a second man raised a lever, and the side of the pen was raised and the animal, still kicking and struggling, slid out to ths "killing bed." Here a man put shackles about one leg, and pressed another lever, and the body was Jerked up Into the air.- There were fifteen or twenty such pens, and It was a matter of only a couple of minutes to knock fifteen or twenty cattle and roll them out. Then once more’the gate* were opened, and .another lot rushed In; and so out of each pen there rolled a steady stream of carcasses, which the men upon the killing beds had to get out of the way. The manner In which they did this was something to be seen and never forgotten. They worked with furious Intensity, literally upon the run—at a pace with which there I# nothing to bo compared except a football game. It was all highly specialised labor, each having his task to do; generally this would consist of only two or three specific cuts, and he would pass down ths line of fifteen or twenty carcasses, making 'these cuts upon each. First, there cams the "butcher.’* to bleed them; this meant one 8Wtft stroke, so swift that you could not see It—only IIhe flash of the knife; and before you could realise It, the man had darted on to the next line, and a stream of bright red was pouring out upon the floor. This floor was half an Inch deep with blood, In spite of the best efforts of men who kept shovelling It through holes; It must have made the floor slippery, but no one could have guessed this by watching the men at worth The carcass hung for a few minutes to bleed; there was no time lost, how ever, for there were several hanging In each line, and one was always ready. It was let down to the ground, nnd there came the "headsman," whose task It was to sever the heed, wltn two or three swift strokes. Then came tho "floorsman," to make the first cut in the skin; and then another to finish ripping the skin down the center; ami then a half dozen more In’ swift suc cession. to finish the skinning. After they were through, the carcass waa again swung up; and while a man with a stick examined the akin, to make sure that It had not been cut, and another rolled It up and tumbled It through one of the Inevitable holes In the floor, tho beef proceeded on Its Journey. There were men to cue It, and men to spit It, and men to gut It and scrape It clean Inside. There were some with hose which threw Jets of boiling water upon It, and others who removed the feet and added the final touches. In the end, as with the hogs, the finished beef was run Into the chilling' room, to 'hang Its appointed time. The visitors, were taken there and shown them, all neatly hung In rows, labelled conspicuously with tj)e tags of the government Inspectors—and some, which had been killed by a special pro cess, marked with the sign of the "kosher" rabbi, certifying that 'It was lit fbr snle to the orthodox. And then the visitors were taken to the other parts of the building, to see what be came of each particle of the waste material that had vanished through the floor; and to -the pickling rooms, and the Mltlnr rooms, the canning rooms, and the packing rooms, where choice meat was prepared for shipping In re frigerator cars, destined to be eaten In all the four comers of civilization. Af terward they went outside, wandering about among the mases of buildings In which waz done the work auxiliary to this great industry. There was scarce ly a thing needed In the business that Durham * Co. did not make for them selves. There was a great steam power plant and an electricity plant. There was a barrel factory, and then a holler repair shop. Thera waa a building to which ths grease was piped, end made Into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for making soap boxes. There waa a building In which tho bris tles were cleaned and dried, for tho making of hair cushions and such things; there was a building In which the skins were dried and tannod, thero was nnqther where heads nnd feet were made Into gluo, and another where bones were rnado Into fertilizer. No tiniest particle of organic matter was wasted In Durham's. Out of tho horns of tho cattle they made combs, buttons, hairpins and Imitation Ivory; out of the shin bones and other big listen open-mouthed—It seemed them Impossible of belief that any thing so stupsndous could have been devised by mortal inan. That was why to Jurgls It seemed almost profanity to spenk about tho pise* as did Joku bas, sceptically; It was a thing as tre mendous as the universe—ths law* nnd ways of Its working no more than the universe to be questioned or under stood. All that a inero man could do. It seemod to Jurgls, was to tako a thing llko this as he found It, and do as ho was told; to be given a place In It and a share In Us wonderful ac tivities was a blessing to bo grateful for, as one was grateful for the sun shine and the rain. Jurgls was even glad that he had not seen tho place beforo meeting with his triumph, for ho felt that the size of It would have overwhelmed him. But now he hod been admitted—he was a part of It all! He had the feeling that this whole ea- bonea they cut knife and toothbrush I tabllihment had taken him under Its handles, and mouthpieces for plpos: protection, and had breofne responsible out of ths hoofs they cut hairpins and for his welfare. So guileless was he, buttons, before they made the rest Into 1 and Ignorant of^the nntureof business, glue. From such things ns feet, knuckles, hid* clippings, nnd alnew* came such strange and unlikely products as gela tine. Isinglass, and phosphorous, bona black, shoe blacking and bone oil. They had curled hair works fos the cattle tails, and a “wool pullcry" for the sheep skins; thsy made pepsin from the stomachs of ths pigs, and al bumen from the blood, ana violin strings from tho entrails. When there was nothing els* to be dona with a thing, they first put It Into a tank and got out of It all the tallow and grease and then they mad* It Into fertiliser. All these Industries ware gathered Into buildings near by, connected by gal leries and railroads with the main es tablishment ; and it was estimated that they had handled nearly a quarter of a billion animals sine* ths founding nf the plant by the elder Durham a gener ation and more ago. If you counted with It the other big plants—and thsy were now really all on*—It was, so Jokubas Informed them, the greatest aggregation of labor and capital ever gathered together In one place. It tm- ployed 10,000 men; It supported directly ISO,000 people In Its neighborhood, and Indirectly It supported half a million. It sent Its product to every country In the clvllsed world, and It furnished the food for no less than thirty million people! To all these things our friends would that bo did not even realise that he had become nn employee of Brown's and that Brown or Durham were sup posed by oil tho world to be deadly rivals by the law of the land, and ordered to try to ruin ssch other un der penalty of fins and Imprisonment! CHAPTER IV. Promptly at seven ths next morning Jurgls reported for work. He came to the door that had been pointed out to him, and there he waited for nearly two hours. Ths boss had meant fpr him to enter, but had not sold this, and so.lt was only when on his way out to hire another man that h* cams upon Jurgls. Hs gave him a good cursing; but as Jurgls did not understand a word of II h* did not object. Hs followed Ih* boss, who showed him where to put his •treat cloths*, and welted while he donned the working clothes hs had bought In a second-hand shop and 1th him In a bundle; then he the "killing beds.” Ths work which Jurgls was to do here was very simple, and It took him but a few min utes to learn It. He wsa provided with a atirr broom, such as la used by street and It was his plies to fol- .... ths line the man who drew out ths smoking entrails from ths car cass of the steer; this mass wsa to hs swept Into a trap, which waa then closed, so that no one might slip Into It. As Jurgia came in, tho tlrst cattle of tho morning wero Jurat making tlielr appearance; nnd so, with scarcely time to look about him, and none to aiteak to any one, ho fell to work. It was a anelierlng day 111 July, am! tho place ran with steaming hot blood—one waded In It on tho floor. Tho stench WIU! nlmoat overpowering, but to Jur gls It was nothing. Ills whole soul was dancing with Joy—ho was at work at last! Ho was at work and earning money! All day long ho was figuring to himself. Ho waa paid tho fabulous sum of 171-5 cehts n hour; and as It proved a rush day and ho worked until nearly ? o'clock In tho evening, he went homo to tho family will) the tidings that he had earned more than a dollar and half In a single day! At homo also there was more good nows: so much of It at once that thero was quit* a celebration In Anlele'a hull bedroom. Jonas had boon to have an Interview with the special policeman to whom Hzcdvllns had Introduced Idin, nnd hod been taken to see several of tho bosses, with tho result that one had promised him a Job In Iho begin ning of the nest week. And then there around tho odgos; It was was MarIJa Bercsyoskns. who. tired 1 every tiniest detail, even the door- wlth Jealousy by the success of Jurgls, knob. Bnd there wa* a hammock on next day nnd aha would perhap* Rive her a chance to lewm the trade of painting ram The pwlntlng of ran* be ing f killed piece work, and paying aa much aa iZ a day. Murfja burnt in upon the family with tho yell of a Comanche Indian, nnd fell to capering about the room so aa to frighten the baby almost Into convulsions. Better luck than all this could hardly have been hoped for; there waa only one of them left to seek a place. Jurgia waa determined that Teta Klzbleta should atiiy nt homo to keep houae. and that Ona should help her. He would not have Ona working—ho was not that «ort of a man, he said, and nhe waa not that sort of a woman. It would be a strange thing If a man like him could not support the family, with the help of the board of Jonas and .MarIJa. He would not even hear of let ting the children go to work—thorn wero schools here In America for chil dren, Jurgls hod heard; to which they could go for nothing. That the prleat would object to these schools was something of which he had as yet no Idea, and for the nresont his mind was made up thnt the children of Teta Klzbleta should have a* fair a chance us ony other children. The oldest of them, little Btanlslovas. was hut 13. and small for his ago at that; and while the oMeat son of Hsedvh.n tra* only 12, and had worked for over a y**sr at Jones’, Jurgls would have it that Btan lslovas should learn to speak Kngllsh and grow up to bo a skilled man. So, there was « n: "id l Antsnas. Jurgls would have had him rest, too, but he was forced to acknowledge that this was not possible, and, besides, the old man would not hear It spoken of— it Was his whim !•• In-l-t that he was •s lively ss any boy. He had come to America as full of hope as the best of them, and now he was the chief prob lem that worried his son. For every one that Jurgls spoke to assured him that It was a waste of time to soek employment for the old man in Pack- lngi..n. Szi-dvlbiH told him that tho packers did not even keep tho men who had groint old In their own service -to say nothing of taking on new ones. And not only was It tin* rub* here, it was the rule everywhere In America, so far as he know. To satisfy Jurgia he hid asked the policeman, and brought back tho message that the thing was not to bo thought of. They had not told this to old Anthony, who had consequently spent tho two days wandering about from ono part of tho yards to another, and had now come homo to henr about tho triumph of the others, smiling bravely and saying that It would be his turn another day. Their good luck, they felt, had given them tho right to think about a home, and sitting out on tho doorstep that summer evening they held consulta tion about It, and .luigl* took occasion to broach a weighty subject Passing down tho avenue to work that morn ing he had seen two boys leaving an advertisement from house to house; and seeing that there wero pictures upon It. Jurgls had asked for one. and hod rolled It up and tucked it Into his shirt. At noontime a man with whom he had been talking had rood It to him and told him a little about lt^ with tho result that Jurgls had conceived a wild Idea. Ho brought out the placard, which was quite a work of art It was near ly 2 feet long, printed on calendered paper, with a selection of colora so bright that they shone even In tho moonlight. The center of tho placard was occupied by a house, brilliantly painted, new nnd dazzling. Tho roof of It was of a purple hue, and trimmed with gold; tho house itself wae silver}', and the doors and windows red. It wo* a two-story building, with a porch In front, and n very fancy scrollwork mplete in had set out upon her own reeponalblli ty to get a place, ilarlja had noth ing to take with her save her two brawny arms and the word ’’Job," labo-j rlousfy learned; but with these ehe had marched about Pocklngtow'n all day, entering every door where thero were signs or activity. Out of some she had been ordered with curses; but MarIJa wan not afraid of man or devil, and asked every ono she saw—visitors And strangers, or work poopls Ittl Mwt and once or twice even high and lofty office personages, who stared at her as If they thought she was crasy. In the end, however, she had reaped her re ward, In one of the smaller plants she had stumbled upon a room where scores of women and girls were sit ting st long tables preparing smoked beef In cans; and wandering through room after room, MarIJa came at last to the place where the sealed cans were being painted and labeled, and here she had tho good fortune to encounter the "forelady.” MarIJa did not understand then, as she was destined to under stand later, what there was attractive Ito a "forelady" about the combination of a face full of boundless good nature and the muscles of a dray horse; but ithe woman had told her to come the the i.mkIi anil white la«-c curtains In the windows. Underneath this. In one comer, was a picture of a husband and wife In loving embrace; In the oppo site comer was a cradle, with Huffy curtains drawn over It, nnd a smiling cherub hovering upon sliver-colored wings. For fear that the significance of all this should be lost, there was a label, in Polish, Lithuanian and tier- man—**Dom, N’amnl, Helm." “Why pay rent?" the linguistic circular went on to demand. "Why not own your own home? Do you know that you can buy one for less than your rent? We have built thousands of homes • • r*‘ r i < i u or-rupt*..! hv happy families.”—Bo It became eloquent, plr- • uilng »!.*• ».ll«-fulneHH of married life In a house with nothin* t.» pay u even quoted “Home, Bweet Horne," and made bold to translate it Into Polish—though for some reason It omitted tho Lithuanian of this. Per haps , the translator foun t it a diffi cult matter to he sentimental In a lan guage In which n sob Is known as a "gukcxiojlmaa," and a smile as a "nu- slsxypeojlmos." (Continued In Monday's Georgian.) ALL ABOARD FOR LAKES, MOUNTAINS AND THE SAD SEA WA VES; SWELTERING HUMANITY PREPARING FOR ITS ANNUAL OUTING ” MATURE HOLDS F0RTh”aN ALLUREMENT MORE POTENT ONLY THAN THE MAGNHTCENT SUMMER HOTELS OF DDUE IHatlMIMMHHI T HE time of the year has arrived when migratory, If not aulfering humanity, with an Inborn touch ri the gypsy In It* veins, begins to cast about for a suitable place In which to ■pend the vacation season of rest and re rt-atlon. To a lareg part of this population tb.ro it nothing so alluring and en- a ‘hinting aa tha ever-changing as*— "That glorious mirror whara tha Al- mighty's form Glasses Itself In tampaata"— **’> they reach the pinnacle of delight •hen they are able to alt down by the "tore or less sad sea waves and watch *h« whlta-wlngad ahlpa which call *b>ng In the ofllng like laay gulls. Tha ""'•’might lends a mallow beauty to the ■**■>». and the warmth of tho sun la tempered by the breezes that blow In- jjjj’t from the leaques of salty bll- Siill others there are who aay with •he fsalmlat, "I will flee unto the ■"'untalna. whence cometh my •■rength." To them the sequestered •had# of the mountain ash, the leafy J«*a beside the deep clear pool*. In *hlcb the trout delights to apart him- *elf, tha Mood verandas of the resort Hotel*, where cheerful Bonifaces make *"• forget that he Is a paying guest." and remember only that he I* tha re cipient of a delightful hospitality—to these, we aay, the mountains offer a charm and enchantment which “the multitudinous aeaa" cannot approxi mate, and U Is for these Inviting alti tudes that thax pack their trunk and leave dull care behind. \ Many to Salast From. It would ba difficult to say—Indeed, It would be Impossible to say—which la tha more delightful, and It la exceed- Ingly fortunate for tha people of At lanta and of Georgia aa a whole that there are a number of charming resorts of each kind among, which the proa- pectlva traveler may take hi* choice. As ona star dlffereth from another star In glory, w> do these various resorts each offer peculiar attraction* of tholr own. The Indications are that tha tide of travel for tha reaorta will be the largest In tha history of tha state, and tha various hotel manager* and railroad systems have taken this fact Into con sideration In the piwnratlon* which they have mad# for tbelr guests this season. Navar were the hotel* plac<*l In more attractive trim or the *chad- ulea of the rallroadi arranged with a higher regard for the comfort and con venience of traveler*. Indeed, the tar- ror of living In a trunk, aa thai phraaa once went, haa almost passed away under the skill and resource of the modern hotel manager and railroad representative, and one may In very truth take his ease In his Inn, or avan go so far os to say with Shenatone: "Whoe’er has traveled life’s dull round. Where’er his stage* may have been. May algh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an Inn." We have said that the mountains and tha aaaboard In and around Georgia and the Carolina* offer many attrac tions for the traveler, and this la true. Up in the Mountains. The resorts along tha line of tha Southern railroad are particularly nu merous and attractive. This road makes a special effort to afford travel- every convenience In reaching these delightful resorts. Tha "Beau tiful Sapphire Country" has become proverbial for Its charms and for tha health-gtving quality of Its ooone. Lake Toxaway and tha surrounding country look "something Ilka Switzerland, but more like Paradise.” Hunting, boat ing, swimming, fishing, and all tha other outdoor sports which .are inci dent to tha summer season are to ba found there In abundance, and attract thousands of p-opM avary year. Asheville, with majminr.ru Blltraore at It* very gates, haV long been a fa vorite with the people of Atlanta. The Kenilworth Inn Is an Ideal resort and has long enjoyed a deserved popular ity. The management haa always been particularly efficient, and the present season la far from being any exception to tho rule. The panorama of wood* and mountains and floating clouds, with the winding streams threading tha valleys below, la unsurpassed any’ where In tha country. Tha Kenll worth promises to have on* of Its most successful seasons this year, and by common consent It deserve* It. In Western North Carolina. Hendersonville haa always shared honors with Asheville, and there the charm of Ufa and the beauty of the environment la no whit Inferior to that of any other section of the Old North State. Thousands of people testify thalr preference for It every year by going there for months at a time. The Oates hotel, located at Hender sonville, "tha only hotel In Western North Carolina," Is a modal hostelry and has long enjoyed a deserved popu larity. Mr. Gatea hlmaelf I* ona of tha most genial of hosts and makaa tha comfort of hi* gnesta a special stndy. Tha rulalna and aervlc# ore excellent and tha larger port of bla guests are thoaa who have been tha re before and know what they will find. Flat Rock, Try on and Saluda, to gether with a host of other resorts In this neighborhood, reached by the Southern railroad, make this essential ly a land of summer reaorta— "Where every proapact p>and even "man" la not ao very “vile. 1 Niagara of tha 8outh. But no man needs to leave the state of Georgia, after all, to find a drllg.M ful summer resort. We have a little Switzerland of odr own up In north west Georgia, where tha Tallulah leaps and rolls down Its rocky banks and tha woods ora cool and tha skies are a rloudlaas dream of restfulnaaa and da- light. For more than half a century this haa been a favorite resort for all Georgian*, not to speak of tha abo rigine.) who pitched their wigwams than In search of health and happiness. Tha scan as from Bunset rock and thoaa on tha north and on tha south aid* of tha river are an Inspiration and a navar falling dallght. Thar* In tha haart of tha great Blue Ridge mountain* Is nestled Tallulah Lodge, of which Mr. J. 8. H. Tlmbar- lako la manager. Tha Lodge haa been well colled "nature’s own sanitarium." It Is In tha highest, of tha patliadea of tha river, nnd towers 2,500 feet above the see. Statistics show It U> be from 1 to IB d-greas cooler,JJ>an any other resort In tha South. Among tha amuse ments and dlverilons nre mountain climbing, driving, riding. Ashing, bowt- Ing. billiards, dancing and roller skat ing. Tha class of people who visit Tallu- • i’l • ’■ ll ” •”/! t.’.-li •• 1’ |’UI tJ’ Ul/II l>' attractive to people of retired tastes, i ah It Is only lour hours run from At- * lanta, It Is naturally one of tha moat popular resorts In the South. Georgia has every reason to be proud of Tallulah Valla and of the hotels and tb* patronage this year will ba vary targe. Some Prefer the Seashore. Still there are those who prefer the seashore, and for these there are nu merous attractive place*. Hundreds of paopla gd avary season to Atlantic Beach and the popularity of this resort la growing avary- year. But than are thoaa who prater to be patriotic; while they are raking thalr delight, and In truth It may be sold that there la no resort along the line of tb* south Atlantic coast more charming than Cumberland Island. It Is "swept by ocean breezes’’ from ev ery point of the compass. WMI* It Is situated on an Island and hence Is en tirely Isolated from nnythlng llko the contamination of commercial life six' the humdrum of every day. Its print Imlty to Brunswick nnd tha excellent means for reaching It tnaJta It a fav orite with a Inrgo class of tourists. It Is particularly iniputar with famUlaa, who go there In great numbers and nd the rates ren-onahlo with all tha attractions they can desire are to ba found. Fishing and Bathing. The bathing Ih superb, the flahlng— wall, you ran catch them as large as you want to tell about when you get home—whllo the fine old druid leal oaks give tha surroundings something of tho aspect of an lnian>l resort. Cumberland Is one of the historic sec tion) . r th* Mt.ite, and Ih Intimately connected with the early history of the colony of Georgln. The C’umbnrlstid hotel, under the management of L. A. Miller, l» an up to date hotel where the visitor Is made to feel at homo at once. In "hurt. It la one of the places worth while and make* ona particularly glad to be * Georgian. Then there Is Tybea Island—^"Tybe# by tha Baa"—for year* one of the most charming and popular lerorts In tha South. It Is IS Miles from Havannah •nd easily acce-xlble over the Central of Georgia Railway. There Ih music, dancing, bathing and tithing, an wall aa all tha other delight, of a well or dered sea shore resort. Some there are who long for Atlan tic City, old I’olnt Comfort and the dellghta of Manhattan and Brighton beaches, and the other renorts In prox imity to Net! York. The Adirondack* nnd the mountains of western New York supply attractions. None go there from thin section, however, ex cept f<T nomethlng new, for Georgia and th” South furnish the best com bination of mountain and seaside re sorts to be found In the world. 4 IH