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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
Tnt'RSDAY, ji nk :s. i»m
SOME PERTINENT QUERIES
ASKED B Y JUDGE BA TEMAN
THE ANNUAL PROBLEM
The following card, nuking several
pertinent questions of candidates con
cerning city politics and affairs, has
been received by The Georgian:
Editor of The Georgian:
The city executive committee' has
called the primary for August 21 next,
and candidates have been making’ an
nouncements. Their friends and the
friends 'of good government have
brought them; out. Of course, they
are not self-constituted. Their valua
ble services are sought by others. But
upon what principles are these candi
dates running? Upon what platform
have their friends and these friends of
good government put them? Are we
still to have the old song. "We are for
Atlanta," and when they get tn turn
their backs on Atlanta, by attempting
to sell our water works and getting
them In tha hands of a private cor
poration, and do other like damage?
Are not tltero many Issues upon
which these candidates should be made
to declare themselves for or against?
If not, with what Intelligence can u
citizen cast hts vote?
1. Are these candidates In favor of our
present uniform and ad volorem system
of taxation, and do they favor and ad
vocate a strict. Just and equal assess
ment of property for satnrf? Are they
opposed to or are they In favor of any
Increase In the present rate of taxa
tion?
2. la not the license tax for the priv
ilege of carrying on business in our
city In many instances unequal, un
just and oppressive? Will they favoi
the regulation of such tax as shall bo
just and fair to all business enter
prises?
3. Do they recognise that monopolies
oppress and hinder others In the pur
suit of business enterprises, and that
they prevent competition and leave
the people at tlielr mercy? Are they
In favor of and will they contend for
equal justice to all, and special priv
ileges to none?
I. Do they favor municipal regula
tion by appropriate legislation of all
street railway and telephone systems,
end the electric and gas light plants
and all other public utilities, and ab
solute ownership when necessary for
the protection of the people?
5. Do they recognize that ward pri
maries Is “home rule." and will lessen
the expenses of holding elections? Are
they In favor of such primaries for al
dermen and councllmen, and through
out the city for mnyor and officers of
the heads of departments; or do they
favor changing the election of the last
named from-the people to the council,
and from the council to the people at
the will of the officeholder who la
scheming for reelectlon?
6. Do they recognize that there
ought to be a law enacted by which
shall be created for the city a railway
and civil service commission to be se
lected bV a majority vote of the peo
ple In the same manner as that of
mnyor and other heads of departments
with authority to regulate street rail
way and telephone systems and elec
tric and gas light plnnts and other pub
lic utilities, and with authority to se
lect the necessary number of subor
dinates for each department, and to
determine the fitness and qualification
is-. suc , subordinates and remove
onl ? for lu’ 1 cause by complaint
L,?“® * n d established, and with such
other authority for the protection of
ususlly delegated to such
commissions?
-SW "cognize that It would
7*, J“»t and fair to the people to en-
® *? v °rtng a four-year term of
” or I* 1 ® heads of deportments, and
*V? t ., non ® of them shall be eligible for
election to a third successive term, or
are they In favor of continuous suc-
cesslon and schemes to keep them In?
*• . Do they favor'or are they op-
posed to nepotism, that Is, the bestow-
al of patronage In consideration of re-
latlonshlps. rather than of merit or le
gal claim?
,-*• D° *hey recognize for the past
twenty years the whiskey traffic In
has been better regulated and
controlled than In any other city In
the United States; and are they op
posed to or do they favor a continuation
of euch regulation and control, and aro
they opposed to any agltatlbn that will
disturb the quiet and peace of our city
on this subject?
10. Do they recognise that recently a
scheme was on foot and an effort was
made to dispose of our water works to
a private corporation at the expense of
the people, and to further fasten cor
porate grip upon them by taking their
last and only public utility? Are they
ln^ favor of such, or are they against
11. Do they recognize that we are
In need of a city hall and auditorium
that will accommodate the present nnd
future growth of our city, and.do they
favor, as early as practicable, the pur
chase of a lot suitable and convenient
ly situated for such purpose?
12. Are they Ip favor of, or are they
against Judicial and legislative officers
accepting free passes, franks, etc., from
corporations?
1>. And last, but not least:
Are they In favor of reasonable sal
aries for the officers of the heads of
departments, that Is. such as will rea
sonably compensate them and subor
dinates for the services performed, and
such as are usually paid for such like
services by private Individuals, firms,
companies and private corporations; or
are they In favor or not of taxing the
I*ople to pay such high salaries as
they would not pay In their own pri
vate buslnea for such like service?
These are Issues, live Issues, that
the people are Interested In. Let the
candidates speak out, or let the people
get together In convention and make a
platform upon which their candidates
shall stand.
J. N. BATEMAN.
Juy 26, 1606.
[at'the"THEATis]
At the Casino.
Few better vaudeville.offerings have
come this way than the fine collection
of specialty acts which are holding the
boards of the Casino this week at
Ponce DeLeon. Mme. Rons, with her
beautiful, Intelligent horses; the Broth
ers Meers on the tight wire; Water-
burg Bros, and Tenny, In as clever a
THE HARDE8T CROP TO RAISE, B’aOSH.”
CRANK OFFERS TO TEACH
JOHN D. TO SPEAK FRENCH
By WILLIAM HOSTER.
facial (‘able—Copyright.
Compelgne, France, June 21.—John
D. Rockefeller had hie second experi
ence with a crank yesterday elnco he
| has been In France.
This time It yes an Englishman who
had read In Parle that the richest man
m I in- uni Id dlil not i «• •. i k Fi cm h. Ik*
came all the way to Rockefeller's cha
teau to try to persuade the billionaire
to- be taught French, assuring him that
It could be learned In two weeks.
The Englishman met Rockefeller as
the latter stopped at the gate of the
Chateau to talk with your correspond
cnt. Mr. Rockefeller was returning
from n visit to the market ami had a
number of brown paper parcels con
taining raspberries, peaches and flow-
ers. .
"Can I have a few mtnutee* talk with
you, please?" said the crank.
.Mr. Rock<
feller became alarmed, and
sea
aid he was here to rest and excui
himself, but the crank persisted.
‘I don't want you to give me any
thing," said the Englishman, "I want
to give you something; I want to teach
you French. I can do It so that you
111 he able to speak the language in
seemed to be very
] much relieved He thanked the En
glishman smilingly and said:
< "I'm very sorry, but I really haven’t
time. Resides I manage to get Along
very well with English. Everybody
I seems to speak It. Good day."
Then the crank Insisted that It was
Mr. Rockefeller’s duty to become ac
quainted with the beauties of the
French language and left In a huff.
Ah a matter of fact. Rockefeller hna
been making use of an easy method
of learning conversational French.
musical act as one would care to see;
LeRoy and Woodford, the Chadwick
trio, and the t'ainerugraph complete a
bill which has created more genulna
praise than any other vaudeville at
traction that has been brought to At
lanta in many seasons.
The matinee Thursday afternoon and
the remaining performances during the
week should draw splendid audiences
to the Casino.
Max Hoffman's own company of
high-class vaudeville carefully selected
from the leading musical comedy or
ganizations of America will appear at
the Casino all next week.
The company numbers over thirty
people, and Includes n number of
great feature acts, known In the ver
nacular df the vaudeville stago as
"head-liners." Possibly the most fa
mous artist on the program Is "Silv
ers" «>ukley, Hu* clown, who has Just
closed a remarkable engagement at the
New York Hippodrome. Ills long en
gagement In New Ymk has made him
a popular Idol at the Hippodrome, es
pecially with the children. He will
Introduce his laughable baseball trav
esty and his burlesque on "The Dip of
Death." the great sensational act of
the Rarnurn & Bailey rlrcus.
PRI80N FOR SHEPARD
FOR KILLING A CHILD
Special Cable.
London. June 28.—Elliott F. Shep
ard, of New York, will have to go to
prison for killing a child with his au
tomobile. His appeal to a higher court
has been decided unfavorable to him.
CHARGES OF GRAFT
AT SOLDIERS 1 HOME
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga* Tenn., June II.—The
arguments In the case of the National
Soldiers* Home of Johnson City vs.
J. E. Parrish were as sensational os
the briefs charge. Chnrges were made
In the Federal court that the 2104.000
which was spent on the construction of
the home by John O. L’nkefer was
much Inrger thAn was necessary and
insinuations were made openly that the
money was appropriated by aome one
rather than on the buildings. The opin
ion* of Chnrlea A. Foremen, C. P.
HoRsclaw an«l J. D. Weaver, leading
architects of the East, in which they
said that the work should not have
cost over 248,000, were cited In the
trial ns good reasons for the charge
of "grnft^ng. ,, The attorn eye for the
defendant R. B5- L. Mountcastle, of
Knoxville, nnd Harr A Rurrow, of
Johnson City, charged that the payroll
was extravagant nnd fraudulent and
240,000 In exceea of the real payroll,
and that many painters, carpenters,
etc- were employed who Idled away
their time, and that much of the work
done by these workmen had to be done
over again.
Appointed Pastor.
Special to The Georgian.
Newberry, S. C* June It.—Rev. John
H. Graves, for tho past few years pas
tor of the West End Methodist church,
this city, and student at Vanderbilt
University since January, has been ap
pointed pastor at Marlon, H. C„ ns
successor to Dr. J. A. Clifton, deceased.
Nsw Trial Denitd.
Hpeclol to Tbt Gsorglnu.
Chattanooga. Tenn., June 28.—Judge
i ' l).i In i k Inis «l* ill* «1 <' .1 .Mm tin a
new* trial In the O’flear small pox pest
Iimijhm suit, In which tho plaintiff want
ed 210,000 damages because the pelt
house was built near his property.
JUDSON CLEMENTS
Ily Private Leased Wire.
Washington. June 28—la administra
tion circles It was made known today
that tho president has practically de
cided on three members whom he will
appoint ns new* members of the Inter
state commerce commission when the
rnllrond rate bill, which provides that
the commission shall be composed of
seven members, shall have become a
law. They are:
James H. Harlan, of Illinois; E. E.
Clark, of Iowa; Franklin Lane, of Call-
forate.
The present commissioners, Martin
A. Knapp, Now York; Charles A. Prou-
ty, Vermont; Judson C. Clements,
Georgia, and Francis M. Cockrell, Mis
souri. will be renppolnted, it Is stated.
The now i oii11111hs11*n will be com
posed of four Republicans and three
Democrats, the political division being
Knapp. Prouty, Harlan nnd Clark. Re
publicans; Cockrell, Lane and elem
ental Democrats.
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O TERRE HAUTE MAYOR 0
0 REMOVED BY COUNCIL. O
By Private Leased Wire.
Terre Haute, Ind., June 28.—
Under Impeachment proceed
ings, tho city council has found
Mayor Bondman guilty and has
removed him from office. He
wan charged with having wil
fully neglected to enforce the
laws against saloons Hnd gam
bling.
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By UPTON SINCLAIR
“THE JII Nfl L E ” I REVELATIONS OF CRIMES OF BEEF PACKERS
CHAPTER VII (ContimiBd).
They carried him to a dry place and
laid him on the floor, and that night
two of the men helped him home. The
poor old man was put to bed, and,
though he tried It every morning until
<he end, he never could get up again,
lie would lle< there and cough and
tough, day and night, waiting away
to a mere elcetetqp- There came a time
when there was so little flesh on him
thut the bones began to poke through
—which was a horrible thing to see
or even to think of. And one night
he had' a choking fit. and a little river
of blood came out of hie mouth. The
family, wild with terror, sent for a
doctor, and paid a half dollar to be
told that there -wai nothing to be done.
Mercifully the doctor did not say this
•o that the old man could hear, for
be was still clinging to the faith that
tomorrow or next day he would be bet
ter, nnd could go back to hie Job.
The company had sent word to him
that they would keep It for him—or
rather Jurgls had bribed one of the
men to come one Sunday afternoon
and nay they hod. Dede Antanas con
tinued to believe It, while three more
hemorrhages came; and then at last
one morning they found him stiff and
cold. Things were not going well with
ihem then, and though It nearly broke
Teta Elibleta'a heart, they were forced
to dispense with nearly all the de-
cenciee of a funeral; they hod only
« hearse, and one hack for the wom
en and children; nnd Jurgls, who wee
learning fast, spent all day - Sunday
making a bargain for these, and he
made It In the presence of witnesses,
*o that when tha roan tried to charge
him for all eorta of incidentals, he did
hot have to pay. For twenty-flve
ream old Antanas Rudkus and his son
had dwelt In the forest together; and
It wan hard to part In this way; per
haps. It was Just as well that Jurgls
had to give oil hts attention to the
i«»k of having a funeral without ba
ns bankrupted, and oo had no time to
indulge in memories and grief.
Now the dreadful winter was come
Upon them. In the foreets, all summer
Jong, the branches of the trees do bat-
U* for light, and some of them lose
snd die; and then come the raging
"l»»t«. and the storms of enow end
hall, and strew the ground with theee
Jsaker branches. Just so It —as in
JVklngtown; the whole district
“raced Itself for the struggle that waa
* n agony, and those whose time was
“«me dlsd pff In hordes. All the year
round they had been serving as cogs
— , ( he great packing house machine,
and now was the time for the reno-
New Minton China.
We cordially invite those
interested in Artistic China
to fall to see our new im
portations of English makes.
'Tiie Minton is especially at
tractive with its odd designs
a 'id unusual coloring.
Maier & Berkele.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The story of VTbo Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's novel, which has earned the for-
erament Investigation Into tho mothods employed by the beef trust, baa Its orlglo
In an actual l'aeklngtown romance.
The flrst chapter shows n broad-shouldered hotelier being wedded to a young
girl who sees In him s hero. The wedding, In all Its grotewiueness, la ffaeanhod.
Practically icuiulleaa, Jurgls tells his bride she shsll not return to work In tho
parking house—he wtll work enrly and late.
On arrival In Chicago, J. Bzeilrllas, a Lithuanian, who ran a delicatessen
store In l'aeklngtown, guided Jurgls, i)nn, MarIJn and the remainder of the party
through the stock yards, after he hud given them bulging.
The tittle coterie decided to purchase n house. Tlioy were to pay 612 a month
.for It. Thev And they hnre been swindled—tbnt the company charges such In
terest that they wtll Ih- nnntde to pny.
Jurets refused to Join n labor union that would have promoted the Interests of
all. Ilo did not understand that the life wss bring worked out of him.
Yesterdiy's Instalment of the story recites In part the home tlfe of the little
family; tells how, after tho real estate agent had Informed Jurgls ho would have
to pay large Interest on the house; HtnnMorm., the little boy. was sent to work,
with s certIflcate which lied. In that It gave hts sge ns sixteen. It Is told how
Antsnes, working like e slave. Is Anally s victim of snltpetro poisoning, ban,
too, has to seek work, flhe pays ten dollars tribute to n fnrrlndy who engages
her—end she gets lint eight or ten dollars a week for agonizing labor. Por weeks
pains reek her—yet she mnst work. And Jurgls lolls on.
sapped from him by the horrible grind of the roerefless ?—■
11 Copyright, tone, by Upton Hlnclalr. All right-
lords ot l’aeklngtown.
Published by courtesy of Doubleday. Page A Co.’
voting of It, snd the replacing of dam
aged parts. There came pneumonia
and grippe, stalking among them, seek
ing for weakened constitutions; there
was the annual harvest of those whom
tuberculosis had been dragging down.
There came cruel, cold snd biting
winds, and blizzards of snow, nil test
ing relentlessly for falling muscles and
Impoverished blood. Sooner or later
came the day when the unlit one did
not report for work; and then, with
no time In waiting, and no Inquiries or
regrets, there wss a chance for a new
hand. . .
The new hands were here by the
thousands. All day long the gates of
the packing houses were besieged by
•tarving and penniless men; they
came literally by the thousands every
■Ingle morning, lighting with each
other for a chance for life. Bllx-
ssrds and cold made no difference to
them—they were always on hand; they
were on hand two hours before the
sun roes, an hour before the work be
gan. Sometimes their faces froze;
sometimes their feet and their bABd*.
sometimes they froze sil together-but
■till they came, for they had no other
P 'one da** Durham advertised In the
paper for 260 men to On Ice; and sff
that day the homeless snd »t»rv|ng
of the city cams trudging
enow from alt over its 200 Jiua"
miles. That night forty.scora of them
Crowded Into the station hoiue of the
stock ywds JWTfe^hey .MM the
rooms, sleeping In each otbir'sli
toboggan fashion, and they piled
top or each other In the COWM®**-—
the police shut the doors end left some
to freeze outside. On the ntorrow; »e
fore daybreak, there were *.000 »*
Durham’s, aqd the police i«o*fYSS_hog
to be sent for to quell the riot. Then
Durham’s bosses picked outtwentyaf
the biggest; the "two hundred T>roved
to have been a printer’s error
Four or live miles lo , * h ® .J^bitrer
lav the lake, and over this the hitter
winds came raging. Scrnetlmes the
thermometer would fall to 10 or I# de-
below zero at nl«M, *nd tn the
morning the streets would be Plied
with snowdrifts up to ths J™'*®??®
widows. The streets through which
rS«. had to go to their work
were all unpavsd and full of deep
5" and gullies; In summer, whan
U^raliid hSd. a‘man mlght have to
wade to his waist to ^‘““s house
and now In winter It WM no Joke get
ting through these places, before light
In the morning and after dark at
night. They would wrap up In all
they owned, but they could not wrap
up against exhaustion; and many a
man, gave out In theso battles with
the snowdrifts, and lay down and fell
asleep.
And If It was bad for the men, one
may Imagine how the women and chil
dren fared. Some would ride In the
cart. If the cars were running; but
when you are making only 8 cents an
hour, as was little Btanlslovas, you do
not like to spend that much to tide
2 miles. The children would come to
the yards with great shawls about
their ears, and so tied up that you
could hardly And them—and still there
would be accidents. One bitter morn
ing In February, the little boy who
worked ,a* the lard machine - with
Htanlslovns came about an hour late,
and screaming with pain. They Un
wrapped him, and a man began vig
orously rubbing his ears; and as they
were froxen stiff It took only two or
three rubs to break them short oft.
As a result of this, little Stanlalovas
conceived a terror of the cold that
was almost a mania.
Every morning when It came time
to start for the yards, he would begin
to cry and protest. Nobody knew
quite how to manage him. for threats
did no good—it seemed to be some
thing that he could not eo-.trol, and
they feared sometimes that he would
go Into convulsions. In the end. It
had to be arranged that he always
went with Jurgls. and came home with
him again; and often, when the snow
was deep, the man would carry him
the whole way on his shoulders.
Sometimes Jurgls would be working
until late at night, nnd then It was
pltlfui. for there was no place for the
little fellow to wait, save In the door
ways or In a corner of the killing beds,
and he would all but fall asleep there,
and freeze to death.
There was no heat upon the killing
beds; the men might exactly as well
have worked out of doors all win
ter. For that matter, there was very
little heat anywhere Ip the building,
except In the cooking rooms and such
places—and It was the jnen who work
ed In these p’aree who ran the most
risk of all, because whenever they
had to pas# to another room they had
to go through Ice cold corridors, and ,
sometimes with nothing on above the
waist except a sleeveless undershirt
On tho killing beds you were npt to bo
covered with blood, and It would freexo
solid; if you lamb'd against a pillar,
you Would furze* to that, and If you
put your band upon tin* blade of your
knife, you would run a chance of leav
ing your skin upon it.
Tho men would tie up their feet In
newspapers nnd old sacks, and these
would bo soaked In blood and frozon,
and then soaked again, and so on until
by night time a man would bo walk
ing on great lumps the slz»* of tho* feet
of an elephant. Now® nnd then, when
the bosses wero not looking, you would
see them plunging their feet and an
kles Into the steaming hot carcass of
the steer or darting across the room to
th»* hot Witter j**ts. The cniHest thing
of all was that nearly all of them-
those who used knives—were unable to
wear gloves, and their arms would be
white with frost nnd their hands would
grow numb, nnd th*n of «our.*.<* th**n*
would be accidents. Also the air would
be full of steam from the hot water
and the hot blood, so that you could
not see Are feet before you; and with
men rushing about nt tho speed they
k'*pt up on th<- killing beds, and all
with butcher knives, like razors. In
their hands—well. It was to be counted
as a wonder that there wero not more
men slaughtered than cattle.
And yet all this Inconvenience they
might have put up with. If ohly It had
cnt. Jurgls hi
ner amid the stench in which he had
wotk-d, or 6*1*0* ’ , rush, as did all Ills
companions, to any one of the hun
dreds of liquor stores which stretched
out their arms to him. To the west of
the yards ran Ashland avenue, and
here was an unbroken line of saloons—
\vhM<v Row,** they called It; to the
north wan Fbrty-seventh street, where
jthere were half a dozen to tho block,
and at the angle of tho two was
"Whisky Point," a space of Afteen or
twenty acres, and containing one glue
factory and about two hundred saloons.
One might walk among these and
tak<* his ih'jl'6-: "H<»t p»*ii Moijp and
boiled cabbage today;** "Sauerkraut
of frunkfur!* r*. walk In." "Jb-ari
and stewed lamb, welcome.** All
of these things were printed in many
languages, as were also the names of
the resorts, which were InAnlte In their
variety and appeal. There was the
’Home Circle" and the "Cosey Cor
ner;" there were "Firesides" and the
Hearthstones" and "Pleasure Pal
aces" and "Wonderlands” and "Dream
CostJes" and "Love’s Delights." What
ever else t^ey were cglled they were
sure to be called "Union Headquar
ters’* and to hold out a welcome to
wondngmen; end there was always a
warm stove and a chair near It, and
some friends to laugh and talk with.
There was only one condition attach
ed—you must drink. If you went In
not Intending to drink you would get
your head split open with a beer bot
tle In the bargain. Rut all of the men
underntiMid t. 6* - — riM-.n *n<! drank;
they believed that bv It they were get
ting something for nothing—for they
did not n*ed to take more than one
drink, and upon the strength of U they
might All themselves up with a- good
hot dinner.
This did not always work out in
practice, however, for there was pretty
sure to be a friend who would treat
you, and then you would have to treat
him. Then some one else would come
In—snd, anyhow, a few drinks were
good for a man who worked hard. An
UPTON 8INCLAIR.
Author of "Ths Jungls."
he went back he did not shiver so, he
had more courage for hie task; the
deadly brutalising monotony of It did
not afflict him so—hs had Ideas while
hs worked, snd took a more cheerful
view of his ttrcumntsncee. On ths
way home, however, the shivering was
apt to come on him again; and so hs
would have to stop once or twice to
warm up against ths cruel cold. As
there were hot tblngs to eat In this
saloon, too, he might get home late to
his supper, or he might not get home
at all* And then his wife might set
out te look for him, and she, too, .
would feel the cold; and perhaps she
would have some of the children with
her—snd so a whole family would drift
Into drinking as the current of a river
drifts down stream. And If to com
plete the chain, tha packers all paid
thslr men In checks, refusing all re
quests to pay In coin; and where in
Packtngtown could a man go to have
hts check cashed but to a saloon,
here he could pay for the favor by
*rt of the money?
these things Jurgls was
d because of Ona. He never
Id tak«* but the ©no drink at noon- 1
time; and so he got the reputation of
being a surly fellow, and was not quite
welcome at the saloons, and had to
drift shout from one to another. Then
at night he would go straight home,
helping Ona snd Btanlslovss. or often
putting the former on a car. And
when he got homo perhaps he would
havo to trudgo several blocks, and
come staggering back through the
snowdrifts with a bag of coal upon his
shoulder. Home was not n very at
tractive place—at least not this win
ter. They had only been able to buy
ono stove, and this was a small om*,
and pn.wd ri"f big enough f<» warm
even tho kitchen In the bitterest
weather. This made it hard for Teta
Bltbteta all day, und f«»r th«* children
when they could not get to school.
At .night they would sit huddled
around this stove, while they ate thslr
supper oft tholr laps; und then Jurgls
nnd Jonas would smoke a pipe, after
which they would crawl Into their
beds to get warm, after putting out the
lire t" hn \ !■ 11,6 * Ii.nl Then th«*\ would
have some frightful experiences with
the cold. They wnuld sleep with sll
their clothes on, !n< hiding their over
coats, nnd put over them all the bed
ding and spare clothing they owned;
the children would sleep all crowded
Into ..ot- Im iI. ;i ud \ t*t ‘even so they
• '"lid not keep Will-in 'Hie outside
ones would ho shivering and sobbing,
crawling over the others and trying to
get down Into the center, and causing
n fight. This old house with the leaky
weatherboards was n . very different
thing from their plastered cabins at
home, with great thick anal walls plas
tered Inside und outside with mud. and
tho cold which came upon them was a
living thing, a demon-presence in the
room. They would waken In the mid
night hours, when everything was
black; perhaps they would hear k
yelling outside, or perhaps there would
bo deathlike stlllncsN -and that would
would be worse yet.
They . ..lid f6*6*I 1116• cohl as It crept
In through the cracks, reaching out
for them with its Icy, death-deullng
Angers; and they would crouch and
cower nnd try to hide from U, all in
vain. It would come, and It would
come; n grisly thing, a spectre born
in the black caverns of terror; a power
primeval, cosmic, shadowing the tor
tures of the lost souls Aung out to
and destruction. It wus cruel.
Iron-hard; and hour after boor they
would cringe tn Us grasp, alone, alone.
rould be no one to bear them If
they cried out; there would he no help,
mercy. And so on until nmrnlng—
w'hen they would go out to another
lay <>f toll, n little weaker, a
little nearer to tho time when It
wouhl be their turn to be shaken from
the tree.
(Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian.)
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