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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TTERDAY, JT'I.Y *. 190v. ' WAGE EARNERS OF PACKINGTOWN OPPRESSED; FRIGHTFUL DISTRESS REVEALED IN “THE JUNGLE” Runs on the Bank, Election Bribery and Perils of Storm Endured by Those Losing Places by Illness Graphically Described. fCooyrifht, 1906, by Upton Sinclair. All ' Rights Reserved.) CHAPTER XI. During the lummer the packing bouses were In full activity again, and jurgif made more money. Ho did not make *o much, however, as he had the previous summer, for the packers took on more hands. There were new men every week, it seemed—It was a regu lar system—and this number they would keep over to the next slack sea- eon, so that ©Very one would have less than ever. Sooner or later, by this plan, they would have all the floating labor of Chicago trained to do their work. And how very cunning a trkk that was! The men were to teach new hands, who would come some day and break their strike, and meantime they were kept so poor that they could not prepare for the trial! But let no one suppose that this superfluity of employees meant easier work for any one! On the contrary, the speeding-up seemed to be growing more savage all tho s tlme; they were continually inventing new devices to crowd the work on—It was for all the world like the thumb screw of the mediaeval torture chamber. They would fet new pacemakers and pay them more; they would drive the men on with new machinery—it was said that in the hog-killing rooms the speed at which the hogs moved was determined by clockwork, and that it was In creased a little every day. In piece work they would reduce the time, re quiring the same work In a shorter time, and paying the same wages; and then, after the workers had accustomed themselves to this new speed, they would reduce the rate of payment to correspond with the reduction in time! They had done this so often In the canning establishments that the girls were fairly desperate; their wages had tone down by a full third in the past two years, and a storm of discontent was brewing that was likely to break out any day. Only a month after Marija had become a beef-trimmer the canning factory that she had left post ed a cut that would divide the girls* earnings almost squarely In half, and so great was the indignation at this that they marched out without even a parley and organised in the street out side. One of the girls had read some where that a red flag was tho proper symbol for oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and paraded all about the yards, yelling with rage. A new union was the result of this out burst, but the Impromptu strike went to pieces In three days, owing to the rush of new labor. At tho end of it the girl who had carried the red flag went downtown and got a position In a great department store at a salary of two dollars and a half a week. Jurgls and Ona heard these stories with dismay, for there was no telling when their own time might come. Once or twice there had been rumors that one of the big houses was going to cut Its unskilled men to fifteen cents an hour, and Jurgis knew that if this was done his turn would come soon. He had learned by this time that Pack- lngtown # wns really not d number of Arms at all, but one great Arm, the beef trust. And every week the man agers of it got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency. Jurgis was told that they also fixed the price they would pay for beef on the hoof and the price of all dressed meat in the coun try; but that was something he did not understand or care about. The only one who was not afraid of a cut was Marija, who congratulated her self, somewhat naively, that there had been one In her place only a short time before she came. Marija was getting to be a skilled beef-trimmer, and was mounting to the heights again. During the summer and fall Jurgis and Ona managed to pay her back the last pen ny they owed her, and so she began to have a bank account. Tamoszlus had a bpnk account also, and they ran a race and began to figure upon house hold expenses once more. The possession of vast wealth entails cares and responsibilities, however, as poor Marija found out. Sho had taken the advice of a friend and Invested her savings in a bank on Ashland avenuo. <>f runs.- She knew nothing about it, except that it was big and imposing— what possible chance had a poor for eign working girl to understand tho banking business as ft Is conducted in this land of frenzied finance? So Marija lived In continual dread lest something should happen to her bank, and would go out of her way mornings to make sure that It was still there. Her principal thought was of Are, for she had deposited her money In bills, and was afraid that If they woro burned up the bank would not give her any others. Jurgis made fun of her for this, for he was a man and was proud of his superior knowledge, telling her that the bank had flre-proof vaults, and all Its millions of dollars hidden safely away in them. However, one morning Marija took her detour, and, to her horror and dismay, saw a crowd of people in front of the bank, Ailing the avenue solid for half a block. All the blood went out of her face for terror. She broke Into a run, shouting to the people to ask what was the matter, but not stop ping to hear what they answered till sho had come to where the throng was so dense that she could no longer ad. vance. There was a “run on the bank," they told her then, but she did not know what that was, and turned from one person to another, trying In an agony <*f fear t" make *ut ul. it they meant. Had something g-m*- wr**r.»: with the bank? Nobody was sure, but IMT thought so. Couldn't she get her money? There was no telling; the peo ple were afraid not, and they were all trying to get it It was too early yet to tell anything—the bank would not open for nearly three hours. So In a frenzy* of despair Marija began to claw her way toward the doors of this build ing. througtr a throng of men, women and children all excited as herself. It was a scent of wild confusion, wo. men shrieking and wringing their hands and fainting, and men flghting and trampling down everything In their way. In the midst of the melee Marija recollected that she did not have her bank book and could not get her money anyway*, so she fought. her way out and started on a run for home. This iih fortunate for her, for a f*u min utes later tho police reserves arrived. In half an hour Marija was back. Teta Elzblota with her, both of them breathless with running ami with fear. The crowd was now formed ill a line extending for several blocks, with half hundred |mlh*«*m**u k*-**plm: .:mh.i and so there wns nothing for them to do but to take their places at the end of it. At 9 o'clock the bank opened and began to pay the waiting throng; but then, what good djd it do Marija, who saw 3,000 people before her— enough toi take out the last penny of a dozen banks? To make matters worse, a drizzling rain came up and soaked them to the skin; yet all the morning they stood there, creeping slowly toward the goal; all the afternoon they stood there, heart sick, seeing that the hour of closing was coming and that they were going to be left out. Marija made up her mind that, come what might, she would stay there and keep her place; but as nearly all did the same, ail through the long, cold night, sho got very little closer to the bank for that. Toward evening Jurgis came; he had heard the story from the chil dren, and he brought some food and dry wraps, which made it a little eaa ler. The next morning, before drybreak, camo a bigger crowd than ever, and more policemen from down-town. Marija held on Uko gftm death, and toward afternoon she got into the EVERETT ESTATE IS Robert Hugh White wo» apoplnted edmlnliter (or the estate of the late Edward Quincy Everett Monday morn- In, by Ordinary John R. Wilkinson. Mr. Everett left an estate estimated at ISO.OOO. Mr. Everett wan a member of the Ererett-Rldley Company, wholesale dry good, dealers. He died suddenly on May 2d and left no will. Mr. White has qualified os administrator of tho estate. A number of wills were admitted to probate by Ordinary Wilkin- n Monday morning, and administrators were ap pointed for several smnll ostates. FIREWORKS. Fourth of July Fireworks —will open stock at junction Peachtree and Ivy streets, and corner Spring and Alex ander streets July 3. A .W. Farlinger. three members retired PROM ACADEMY FACULTY. ®l*cial to Tho Georgian. Charleston. 8. C., July the faculty of ' Hil lary arailemr this year .... ft; «>°ard. of visitors, of wblrh Governor j r W t a . n an «**o®clo member. Colonel J n ICE TRUST LAWYERS HELD FOB CONTEMPT Dy Private Leased Wire. Toledo, Ohio, July J.—Judge R. R. Klnkalde of the common pleas court sentenced Thomas T. Tracey and Clarence Brown, the Ice trust lawyers, to ten days In the county jail on Monday for contempt of court. On Saturday In a motion to suspend sentenco in the case of R. A. Beard and C. Lemmon, convicted and sen tenced ice men, they intimated that the court was in collusion with them in a promise to extend leniency pro- vMed their clients pleaded guilty. Judge Klnkalde struck tho motions from the record and declared them i "false as hell." Alexander Smith filed a motion sim ilar to those of Brown and Tracey and the court fined him $250i AU sen tences were suspended, giving the lawyers a chance to take their troubles to the circuit court FOURTH OF JULY RATES. On account of tha above occaalon the Southern Railway will aall round MINISTERS WILL MEET AT WESLEY MEMORIAL After a brief session In the 7. M. C. A. hall on Monday morning at 11:16 o'clock, at which time resolutions on the death of the wife of Rev. T. P. Cleveland were drawn up and passed, tho Evangelical Ministers* Association of Atlanta adjourned to meet agfeln on the first Monday in October at the Wesley Memorial church. The meeting was called to order by President Charles O. Jones, of St. Marks Methodist church, and in the absence of Secretary T. P. Cleveland, Rev. J. K. Briggs was appointed act ing secretary. E. O. Smith, pastor of tho East Point Bgptllst church, and Rev. Samuel Wiles DuBose, pastor of the Jonesboro Presbyterian church, w«.-r»* admitted t <. iiu-mlfi sltij. n, n association. The report of the auditing commit tee was read by Dr. White, who also asked for a new vote on the meeting place for next year. At ft..- 1;. • i.,* . * Ing it was voted to meet in the Wesley Memorial church, but it wag the senti ment of many that the association should select a more central location. The motion for the Wesley Memorial church prevailed. A committee of three was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of the wife of the secretary, and this bank and gut her money—all in big silver dollars, a handkerchief full. When she had once got her hand them her fear vanished and she want ed to put them back again; but th mm at tin* window was savage and said that the bank would receiv moro deposits from those who had ta- kes part Jn the run. So Marija forced to take her dollars home with her. watching to right and left, ex pecting every* instant that some one would try to rob her; and when she got home she was not much bettet off. Until she could find another bank there was nothing to do but sew them up In her clothes, and so Marija went about tor n week or more, loaded down with bullion, and afraid to cross the street in front of the house, because Jurgis told her she would sink out of sight In the mud. Weighted this way she made her way to the yards, again In fear, thla time to see If sho had loat*her place; but fortunately about 10 per cent of Hi*- working people of IMckingtow n had been depositors In that bank nnd it was not convenient to discharge that many at once. The cause of the panlo had been tho attempt of a po liceman to arrest a drunken man In a saloon next door, which h:ul drawn a • •! :it the limit- the pe..p> \< «• r<* on their way to work, and so started the *Jrun." About this time Jurgis nnd Ona also began a bank account. Besides hav ing paid Jonas and Marija, thoy had utmost paid for their furniture, and oyl'l have that little mini t" emmt mi So long ns each of them could bring home nine or ten dollars a week, they were able to get along finely. Also election day came round again, nnd Jurglv made half n week's wages out of that, all net proflt. It was a very close election that year, nnd the echoes of the battle reached even to Packing- town. The two rival sets of grafters hired halls and set off fireworks nnd made spoechos, to try to get the per** pie interested in the matter. Although Jurgis did not understand It all, ho knew enough by thla time to realize that It was not supposed to bo right to sell your vote. However, as every one did it, nnd his refusal to Join would not have made the slightest dif ference in the results, the idea of re fusing would have seemed absurd, had it ever come into his head. Now chill winds nnd shortening days began to warn them that the winter was coming again. It seemed as if the respite had been too short—they had not had time enough to get ready for it; but still It came. Inexorably, and the hunted look came back into the eyes of llttlo Stanlalovaa. The prospect struck fear to the heart of Jurgis also, for he knew that Ona was not fit to face the cold and tho snow drifts this year. And supposo .that some day when a blizzard strueje thorn and the cars were not running, Ona should Imvo to give it up, and should come the liext day to find thnt her place had been given to some one who lived nearer and could be depended upon? was a song, for he hod met the enemy and conquered, nnd felt himself the master of his fate. So it might be with some monarch of the forest that has vanquished his foes In fair fight, and then falls Into some cowardly trap in the night time. A time of peril on the killing beds was w'hen a steer broke loose. Some times, in tho haste of speeding up, they would dump one of the animals out on the floor before It was fully stunned, and U would get upon its feet and run amuck. Then there w*ould he a yell of warning—the men would drop every thing nnd dash for the nearest pillar, slipping here nnd there on the floor, nnd tumbling over each other. This wm* bad t-nniKh In f la* suimn.T, wli. n a man could see; in winter time it was enough to make your hair stand up, for the room would be so full of steam that you could not make anything out 6 feet in front of you. To be sure, the 1 Iv blind and frantic, and not especially bent on hurting any one. but think of tho chances of run ning upon a knife, while nearly overy man had one in his hand! And then, to rap the climax, tho floor boss would come rushing up with n rifle and be gin blazing away! It was in one of these melees that Jurgis fell into his trap. That is the only word to describe it; it was so flluM, and sit uttmly not to be foreseen. At first he hardly noticed it, It was such a slight accident—simply that in nnnusl meeting of P. P. Usxyek and " ?• Ct> ro*a will not track the next year. (»oIoih>i Lvuet Is well known In Georgia, pmmfaent as s Confederate Veteran, !Sn. T,D * . be ? 1 J 1 - •>“*> «t tbe o*onri» ii' L T, " n<1 AfrtcalttnU college at on. !;?£■ was s lieutenant colonel on the 821 " f General John It. Gordon and Northen. end adjutant and later JMi-rm.M.r .corral on th. .US of Ora- J ' W " t ’ ,l# t0 u “ ^M**** 1 r. p.Uiirek ha. been at th. .cad- 82, sn<l Major Coleman began ® isk. and >gk “• career there In lggg. JOHN D. BUYS FOSSILS FOR CHICAGO COLLEGE ^ Private LHRd Wire. Uilcago, July 1.—John D. Rockefeller PurchaMd for the University of '•niugo the moot extensive collection Ui.» “5“* mln *raU probably In ex- btence In the country. whlch «u (fathered fcTm by * h * Jamea Hall, who « h «* a,tir year, was auto PratSLnru York - ™ valued by rrofesaor Halt at 1110,000. inv WU« WIU leviciar j, utm bin* ... .. , . .committee later preeented the follow- trip ticket* to and from all points | | n(t resolution, which was unanimously south of tha Ohio and Potomac and east of Mississippi at on* and one- third fares for round trip, Including 8t. Louis, Louisville. Cincinnati, Washington, etc. Tickets will be sold July 2d, 3d and 4th, limited to July 8th. Call on agents Southern Railway. J. C. BEAM, Jr., Dlatrlct Passenger Agent., THREAT TO RESIGN to regard to the report that the ntints of the (Indy Hospital had threatened to resign In a body, official, of the hnapltal declare the report 1. entirely erroneous, i Dr- Wh Mb' wrim a hndlnff member of the medics! board, stated Won day thnt ho ha. be.n Informed by lha nurie. that they hare never made litre »neh threat. After th» report bcesmo cur rent, Dr. Nlcoi.cn and other, made an In Testlfstloit. As tha result of this Inreittga tlon. Dr. Nleotsoo declare, that "tber. t* nothing 1. the report whatever. •Tha norm have never complained to me,” a.Id Dr. Mculaoo, “and I hire not beard of them making . threat to any tma else. They Inform ms ttty bar. Deter made tha reported threat" lire. Tbeodoal WeerdrU, sspertnteodeot of i threat to resign to her. SILVER BASKETS. W o are showing some very attractive patterns in these »uch-sought pieces. The Ninths who have wrought rieTnSt S ° ^mirabiy car- ^ of £ [ out the artistic ideals of “SA? JMpS S -nude- urn * e'; PSIf P er r that the result \ f?I irCl - V ,P IeaSin £- ttf Vt^U room'!!.' '-'race, eletrancc and riitw t* imposed, td. mm umbo u. 1 M'pt o( (flr tx(n „„J tl.ii gttre rite r« nor workmanshin arc clinr- report they bad threatened to resign In Oetoristic of all Olir silver " Mi-Wire, one of the graduating nnree. Olir SIlv Cr W J, 0 tho krapitsl « trw tl*j« Ogn. atk^l "aro. f,.r her <!iplans. l»»t It wnn not graatrii MAIER & BERKELE. " — "• t Is underetuod there Is asm* dusaUs- fsettos among the hureea over the proiubll. tty that they may ba asked to serve as |H the extra ta_ tha ^ " — BoniP :t go. of tb** tzira dot/. r*l vtt relieve tbt adopted. Dr. Landrum being chairman of the committee: "Whereas, It hath pleasad our Heav enly Father to romove from this earth to her honvenly home tha wife of our venerable «n<l beloved eecrstary. Rev. T. P. Clveland, D. D., who.* Oodly life and convocation adomad the doctrine of God, her Savior, In all thin*.. "Resolved, That we hereby tender to our brother our moat affectionate and sincere sympathy tn this, hla greatest bereavement, and command him the comfort and sustaining frees of that Savior In whom both he and hla wife hove so long trusted. "Resolved further. That a copy of this resolution be Inscribed on our minutes, a cony sent to the family of Otn 01 itus Adoo v pun poanssop am dally papers for publication. SAVS PRESIDENT WABBLED OK RATE QUESTION Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn, July S.—Benator J. R. Frasier and Congressman John A. Moon have returned from congress. In an Interview Benator Frasier aald that members of President Roose velt's own party defeated him in many of hla pat measures. "The Democrats supported hla original railroad rata bill,” aald he, "and that blit would have gone through lust like the presld.nt .wanted It If he had stuck to tha minor ity, but ha went oraf to the majority and tha result Is that tha bill will be a disappointment to tbs people In Its ap plication. REDUCED~R. r7 RATES FOR FOURTH OF JULY. The W. A A. R. R. and H. C. A St. L. Railway will tell cheap round trip tickets to all points south of the Oh*o and Potomac and ea»t of the Miss's* • ippi river, including St. Loui*. Evansville end Cincinnati, at one and one-third fares; tickets to be sold July 2d, 3d and 4th, good to' return until July 8th, 1906. For further information and tick* ets apply to any agent of the W. A A. R. R. CHA8. E. HARMAN, General Pass. Agent. It was tho week before Christmas that tho first Kreat storm came, and then the soul of Junris rose up within him like a sleeping lion. There were four days thnt tho Ashland avenuo cars were stalled, nnd In those days, for tho first time In Yds life, Jurgis knew what It was to bo really op posed. He had faced difficulties be fore, but they had been child’s play; now there was a death struggle, and all the furies were unchained within him. The first morning thoy set out two hours before dawn, Ona wrapped all In blankots and tossed upon his shoulder llko a sack of meal, and tho llttlo boy, bundled nearly out of sight, hanging by his coat-tails. There was a raging blast beating in his face, and the thermometer stood below zero; the snow was never short of his knees, and In some of the drifts It was nearly up to his armpits. It would catch his feet and try to trip him: It would build Itself Into a wall before him to beat him back; and he would fling himself Into It, plunging Uko a wound ed bufTaio, puffing nnd snorting in r To foot by foot he drove his way, and when at last h® came to Dur ham's he was staggering and almost blind, and leaned against a pillar, gasplngnnd thanking God that tho cat- tlo came late to the killing beds that I „ til.- Itvi-ulng the .-HMD* thill* hud to be done again; and because Jurgis could not tell what hour of tho night he would get off, he got a saloon-keep er to let Ona alt and wait for him In a corner. Once it was 11 o'clock at night, and black as the pit, but still they got home. That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outside begging for work was never greater, and tho pack ers would not wait long for any one. When it was over, the soul of Jurgis ankle. Thero was a twinge of pain, but Jurgis was used to pain, and did not coddle himself. When he came to walk home, however, ho realized that It was hurting him a gnat ii«*.ii. inn! in the* morning Ida ankle w as swollen to near ly doiihlM Its hIzi*. and In* . ..iiM n<>t gt*t his foot Into his shoe. Still, oven then, ho did nothing more than swear a lit tle; and wrapped Ills foot In old rags, and hobbled out to taito the car. It chanced to be a rush day at Durham's, and all tho morning he limped about with his aching foot; by noontime tho pnln wiiH s<» great thnt It mini.* him faint, and after a couple of hours in the afternoon he w.m fn|rl\ he.iten, .'Mid had to tell the h«t-*4. Tin \ nt for the company doctor, and he exam ined tho foot and told Jurgis to go homo to bed, adding that he had prob ably laid himself up for months by Ills fnlh . Tho I it j 11 r \ \\ .is 11 ,t ..no that IMirhnni A* ' '•*. i *-nilI he held r. j.omd blo for, and so that was all there wat to It, so far as the doctor was con cerned. Jurgis got home somehow, scarcely able to see for the pain, nnd with an awful terror In hid soul. Elzbletn helped him Into bed and bandaged his injured foot with cold water, and tried hard not lo let him see her dismay; when the rest came home at night she mot them outside and told them, and they, too, put on a cheerful face, say ing it would only bo for n week or two, and that they would pull him through. When they had gotten him to sleep, however, they sat by the kitchen Are and talked It oVer In frightened whis pers. They were In for a siege, that was plainly to be seen. Jurgis had only about $60 in the bank, and tho slack season was upon them. Both Jonas and Marija might soon be earn ing no mop* thnn enough to puy their board, and besides that thero wore only tho wages of Ona and tho pittance of the lltth* bow Thin* huh ttn* rent to pay, nnd still tomo on tho furniture; O00000O0000O 0 0OO000 O O 0 MEN ARMED FOR 0 8LAUGHTER IMPER ILLED BY STEER8. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS T fl : GIB story of “Tlio Jniirl**." Upton Hlnelnlr’s novel, which meut luvcftlgniloQ into the methods employed by tho Itr origin in an actual l'aeklngtown romance. A slmple-mludwl coterie of Litbunulnns arrive in Chicago, meat, and ore conducted to l’aeklngtown by a friend. Ju strength. Is betrothed to Onn, nnd the flrst chapter tells of the grotcsijuenoss. After much tribulation, the entire family ohtnl stockyards—all but Onn, whom Jurgis Raid sbnold locking employ* Is, n giant In • •ddlng In all Its work In the terrltde tale «»/ the almigntc hou* la told which they lea Monday's instalim her department kIvIiij little fa rind led, il the I , his. ’• instalment of the story tells how Marija finds the forewoman of nent giving her short pay, ami has the temerity to complain, finally troubles to the superintendent. A few days Inter she la discharged f oil her rights, discovering too late that the forewoman demnn.la he labor of the hands from those under her. For six weeks she seeks kswy . ana Ona la _ Interest on the pi P «P With the p.1 taking her for Insisting more than The labor of the a new place, and at last Is put to work doing a man's work nt half pay. * Ooa labors op to tlio da/ her bnl»y Is born, and then tnkea hut n week away from her labors, in deadly fenr thnt sh® will lo«e her position. From the day she returns to her bench. Ona Is never a well person. The chapter concludes: ‘ si Igli t ofTen-.e iiml I In* | •> 1111 - li i u " u t ,x.. gi.-jit fti.it neither she 0 0 A tlmo of peril on tho killing 0 beds VM when a steer broko 0 loose. Sometimes, In the haste 0 of speeding up, they would 0 dump one of the animals out O O on tho floor before It was fully O 0 stunned, and it would get upon 0 0 Its feet and run amuck. Then b 0 the men would drop everything O 0 and dash for the nearest pillar, O 0 slipping hero and there on the O 0 floor, and tumbling over each O O other. The room would be so 0 0 full of steam that you could not 0 0 make anything out five feet in 0 0 front of you. The steer was gen- O 0 orally blind and frantic, and not O I 0 especially bent on hurting any *0 O one, but think of the chances of O 0 running upon a knife, whtlo 0 O nearly every man had one In his O 0 hand!—From Upton Sinclair's O j 0 story, "The Jungle.** O | O Ol 00000O0000O0000000OI there was the Insurance Just due, and every* month there was sack after sack of coal. It was January, midwinter, mu awful Mine (.» have to fn.-i* julvn- tlon. Deep snows would come again, and who would carry Una to her wmk now? Fhe might lose her place—she uns almost certain »•• I -m* it. And tlion little Stantslovae began to whim per—who would take care of'him? It hum dreadful that .in accident "f this sort, that no men can help, should have meant such suffering. The bit terness of It was the dally food and drink of Jurgis. It was of no use for them t<» try to.dt*<*<d\c him. In* knew as much anout the situation ns they did, and he knew that th** family might literally starved to deAth. The worry of it fairly ato him up—fie began to took haggard tho flrst two or three days of It. In truth. It was almost maddening r..! a Mining man like him, a lighter, to havo to He thero helpless on his back. It was for all the world the old story of Prometheus bound. As Jurgis lay on hls bed. hour after hour, there came to him emotion** that In* hud m \ m* known before. Before this he had met life with a welcome—It had Ite trials, but none that a man could not face. But now, In tho nighttime, when ho lay tossing about, there would come stalking Into hls chamber a grisly phantom, the sight of which made hls flesh to curl nnd hls hair to bristle up. It win Ilk** seeing the world fall nwuy from underneath his feet; like [dung ing down Into ,i bottnml* h*< nI*\ •*.*. Into /awning caverns of despair. It might be true, then, after all, what -othere had told him about lit.* thnt tin* hot I jo w r i s of II man mjglit not be e*|ii.il to It! It might be true that, strive oa ho would, toll as ho would, ho ndght fall, and go down and be destroyed! The thought of thlB was Uke an Icy hand at hi# heart; tho thought that here. In this ghastly hum* of all horror, he 4ind all those who were dear to him might lie and perish of starvation and cold, and there would bo no ear to It was true, that hole in ge cli up wealth, human creatures might bo hunted down and destroyed by the wild beast powers of nature Just as truly as ••ici Ihm V civ in tin* (lays of the cava men. Ona was now making about thirty dollars a month, and Stanlslovas about thirteen. To odd to thin, then* was the board of Jonas and Marija, about forty-five dollars. Deducting from this the rent, interest and installments ••n II." fin ril'u:they had l**ft sixty d"ll.ii «. .in<l deducting the cmiI, they had left fifty. They did without every thing that human beings could do " It li* nit. i Jn*\ u * nt In old and ragged clothing, that loft them nt the mercy of the cold, and when tho children s shoes wore out, they tied them up with strings. * Half Invalid as sho was, Ona would do herself harm by u*alklng in the rain nnd cold w # hen she ought to havo rid den: they bought literally nothing but food—and still they could not k**ep alive on fifty dollars a month. They might have done It If only thoy could have gotten pure-food, nnd at fair price#; or If only they had known what to get—If they had not boon so pitiful ly Ignorant. But they had come to a country, where everything was different, including the food. They had alw’aya beon accus tomed to eat a great deal of smoked sausage, nnd how could they knotv thnt what they bought in America was not the same—that its color was made by chemicals, nnd its smoky flavor by more chemicals, nnd that it was full of "potato*flour" besides? Potato-flour is th*» waste of potato after the starch and alcohol have l***«*n extracted; It hns no more food vuluo than so much wood, nnd aa its use n« a food adulterant Is a penal offem*** in Europo. thousands of tons of it atm shipjHl to America every year. It was amazing what quantities of food such ns this were needed every day by elev en hungry persons. A dollar sixty-five a day was simply not enough to feed them. <Cont!nucd in Tomorrow's Georgian.) Our "Beat" Bolster Spring; $4.50 and up according to size. Indispensable for the load. Prolongs life of your wagon. Relieves strain on team. Desi rable for driver. Economical in cost. Universally uscfi*’. “EVERYBODY KNOWS.” Special Discounts 00 Qlllltitlos. 61(0 Widti of Slabs. E. D. CRANE & CO. Front New Depot. All Sins, Bit Sink, Quick Sklpioit SHAM BATTLE PEDMONT PARK JULY FOURTH, 5:30 P. M. ARTILLERY, CAVALRY, INFANTRY, GATLING GUN. Admission 25 Cents, Children Under 10 Years Old Admitted Free When Accompanied By An Adult. 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