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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
WKDNKNDAY, Jl I.Y 4.
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mere children are driven to breadwinning.
'DEATH AND MISERY IN PACKINGTOWN DISCLOSED BY “THE JUNGLE”
Toilers Doomed To Be
Demoralized by Rapacity
of Beef Trust Owners
CHAPTER XI (CONTINUED)
It would have been better If Jurgls
I kid been really IU; it ho had not been
Jble to think. For he had no resource!
I inch « moat invalids have: all he could
I do was to lie there and toss abo«t ((Mi
Lilde to side. Now and then he would
(break Into cursing, regardless of every
thin*; and now and then his Impa
tience would get the better of him, and
11,, wo uid try to get an and poor Tots
I Qsbleta would have to plead with him
I in freniy. Elxbleta was all alone with
him the greater part of the time. She
L v ould ait and smooth his forehead by
the hour, and talk to hint and try to
I make him forget.
Sometimes It would be too cold for
I the children to go to school, and they
I would have to play In the kitchen,
I where Jurgls was, because It was the
only room that was half warm. These
I were dreadful times, for Jurgls could
I get as cross as any bear: he
I scarcely to be blamed, for he had
enough to worry him, and It was hard
when he was trying to take a nap to
I be kept awake by qolsy and peevish
I children.
Elableta's only resource In those
I times was little Antanas; Indeed, It
would be hard to say how they could
j have gotten along at all If It had not
I been (or little Antanas. It was the one
consolation of Jurgls’ long imprison
ment that now he had time to look nt
his baby. Teta Elxbleta would put thfc
1 clothes basket In which the baby slept
I alongside of his mattress, and Jurgls
would lie upon one elbow and watch
him by the hour. Imagining things.
I Then little Antanas would open his
I eyes—he was beginning to tako notice
I of things now, and he would smile—
how he would smile! So Jurgls would
begin to forget and bo happy, because
he was In a world where there was a
I thing so beautiful,as the Bmlle of little
[ Antanas, and because such a world
could not but be good at the heart
of It.
He looked more like his father every
hour, Elxbleta would say, and said It
many times a day, because she saw
I that It pleased Jurgls; the poor, little
lerror-strlcken woman was planning all
day and all night to soothe the pris
oned giant who was Intrusted to her
care. Jurgls, who knew nothing about
the age-long and everlasting hypocrisy
of woman, would take the bait and grin
with delight: and then he would hold
his finger In front of little Antanas’
eyes, and prove, it this way v and that:
and laugh with glee to seo the baby
follow It. There is no pet quite so
I fascinating as a baby: he would look
| Into Jurgls' face with such uncanny se-
f rlousness, and Jurgls would start and
cry: 'Palukl Look, Muma. he knows
hli papa! He does, he does! Tu mano
nlrdele, the little rascal!"
quite certain that she would find her
place gone, and was all unnerved when
she finally got to Brown’s, and found
that the forelady herself had failed to
come, and was therefore compelled to
be lenient.
• One of the consequences of this epl-
CHAPTER XII.
For three weeks nfter his Injury
Jurgls never got up from bed. It was a
very obstinate sprain; the swelling
would not go down, and the pain still
continued. At the end of that time,
however, he could contain himself no
longer, and began trying to walk a
little every day, laboring to persuade
himself that he was better. No argu-
sode was that the first Joints of three
of the little boy’s fingers were iterma-
nently disabled, and another that there
after he always had to be beaten be
fore he set out to work, whenever there
was fresh snow on the ground. Jurgls
wns called upon to do the beating, and
ns It hurt his foot he did It with a
vengeance; but It did not tend to add
to the sweetness of his temper. They
say that the best dog will turn cross
If he be kept chained nil the time, and
It wns the same with the man; he had
not a thing to do nil day but lie and
curse his fate, and the time came when
he wanted to curse everything.
Tills was never for very long, how-
rer, for when Ona began to cry Jurgls
could not stay angry. The poor fellow
looked like n homeless ghost, with his
cheeks sunken In nnd Ills long black
hair straggling Into his eyes; he was
too discouraged to cut It, or to think
about his appearance. His muscles
were wnstlng away, and what were left
were soft and flabby. He had no ap
petite, and they could not afford to
tempt him with delicacies. It wns
better, he sold, that he should not cat.
It was a saving. .About the end of
March he had got hold of Ona's bonk
book, and learned that there was only
three dollars left to them In the world.
But perhaps the worst of the con
sequences of this long siege was that
they lost another member of their fam
ily; brother Jonas disappeared. One
Saturday night he did not come home,
nnd thereafter all their efforts to get
trace of him wore futile. It wns said
by the boss at Durham's that he bad
gotten his week's money nnd left there.
That might not be true, of cottfMk ttt
sometimes they would say that when n
man had been killed: it was the easiest
way out of It for all concerned. When,
for Instance, a man had fallen Into
one of the rendering tanks nnd had
been made Into pure leaf lard and
peerless fertilizer, there wns no use
letting the fact out and making his
family unhnppy. More probable, how
ever, was the theory that Jonas had
deserted them, nnd gone on the rood,
seeking happiness. He hod been dis
contented for a long time, and not
without some cause. He paid good
board, and was yet obliged to live In n
family where nobody got enough to
eat. And Mnrija would keep giving
them all her money, and of course ho
could not but feel that he Wfs called
upon to do the same.
Then there were crying brats and
all sorts of misery; a man would have
had to bo a good deal of a hero to
stand It nil without grumbling; nnd
Jonas was not In the IcnBt a hem—ho
was simply a weather-beaten old fellow
who liked to have a I supper and
Bit In the comer by the fire and smoko
Ills pipe In peace before he went to
bed. Hero there was not room by the
fire, and through the winter the kitchen
had seldom been warm enough for
comfort. So, with the springtime, what
was more likely than that the wild Idea
of escaping had come to him? Two
years he had been yoked like a horse
to a half-ton truck In Durham’s dark
eellors with never a rest, save on Sun
days and four holidays In ths year,
merits could stop him. and three or i and with never a word of thanks—
four days later he declared that he was only kicks nnd blows and curses, such
going back to work. He limped to the as no decent dog would have stood,
rxrti and got to Brown’s, where he j Anti now tho winter was over, and the
found that the boss had kept his place . spring winds were blowing—and with
-that is, was willing to turn out into I a day’s walk a man might put ths
the snow the poor devil he had hired 1 smoke of Parklngtown behind him for-
lA the meantime. Every now and then ever, and bo where the grass was
the pain would force Jurgls to stop j green and the flowers all the colors of
»wk, but he stuck It out till nearly ; the rainbow!
»n hour before closing. Then ho was But now the Income of the family
was cut down more than one-third, nnd
forred to acknowledge that ho could
not go on without fainting; It almost
ptoke his heart to do It, and he stood
caning against a pillar, and weeping
like a child. Two of the men had to
help him to the car, and when he got
out he had to sit down nnd wait In the
•now tm some one came along.
So they put him to lied ngaln. and
•ent for the doctor, ns they ought to
have done In the beginning. It trans
pired that he had twisted a tendon out
of place, and could never have gotten
Mil without attention. Then he gripped
the Sides of the bed, and shut his teeth
together, and turned whits with agony,
while the doctor pulled and wrenched
a*ay at |,|, awollen ankle. When final
ly the doctor left he told him that he
woo'd have to He quiet for two months,
**d that If he went to work before
Jjj* 1 l| me he might lame himself for
Three days later there came another
jeavy snowstorm, and Jonas and Marl-
» and ona and little Stanlslovas all
■‘‘reaming with pain. His Angers were
, 1 frosted, It seemed. They had had
to give up trying to get to the yards,
fJp. nearly perished In a drift. All
'»«y knew how to do was to hold
,1.0 - Angers near the Are, and so
“Wesianlslova. spent most of the day
“ht'lng about In horrible agony, till
Jurgls flew into a passion of nervous
..•'and «wor» like a madman, declnr-
i??- tha . t . h * w-ould kill him if he did not
Jr?**- .AH that day and night the family
”} ,? al ? cr ***d with fear that Ona
in.v ,ht hoy had lost their places: nnd
“ the morning they xet out earlier th.-rn
ever, after the little fellow ha.l been
S5{s n . k’lth a stick by Jurgls. There
oould be no trifling In a case like this;
2,*“ a matter of life and death: little
stanlslovas could not be expected to
realixs that he might a great deal bet-
£****• in the snowdrift than lose
Joh at the lard machine. Ona was
Reduced r. r. rates
p 0R FOURTH OF JULY.
I 4 A - R. R. and N. C. A St.
will sell cheap round trip
t0 al > points south of the Ohio
uFbtpmac and east of the Mlaala-
SffL .f v#r » Including 8t. Logit,
e # and Cincinnati, at one and
tickets to be told
anti! ii 3< i and 4th » fl 00d to return
-My 8th, 1906.
eti *«^ urt a her lnf wm«t*on and tick-
A. ftR t0 any aflcnt of the w - *
CHA8. E. HARMAN,
4. General Paaa. Agent
the food demand waa cut orily one-
eleventh, ao that they were worse off
than ever. Alto they were borrowing:
money from Marlja, and eatlnfr up her
rank account, and spoiling once again
her hopes of marriage and happiness.
And they were even going Into debt to
Tamoszlus Kuszletka and letting hltn
Impoverish himself. Poor Tamoszlus
was a man without any relatives, and
with a wonderful talent besides, and
he ought to have jnade money and
prospered; but he had fallen in love,
and so given hostages to fortune, ana
was doomed to be dragged down, too.
So It was Anally decided that two
more of the children would have to
leave school. Next to Stanlslovas, who
was now fifteen, there was a girl, little
Kotrina, who was two years younger,
and then two boys, Vlllmas, who was
eleven, and Nikalojus, who was ten.
Both of these last were blight boys,
and there was no reason, why their
family should starve when tens of
thousands of children no older were
mJng their own livings. So one
morning they were given a quarter
apiece and a roll with a sausage In It,
and. with their minds top-heavy with
good advice, were sent out to make
their way to the city and learn to sell
newspapers. They came back late at
night In tears, having walked the five
or six miles to report that a man had
offered to take them to a place where
they sold newspapers, and had taken
their money and gone Into a store to
get them, and nevermore been seen. So
they both received a whipping, and the
next morning set out again. This time
tber found the newspaper place, and
procured their stock; and after wan
dering about tm nearly noontime say
ing “Paper!" to every one they saw,
they had all their stock taken away
and received ir thrashing besides from
a big newsman upon whose territory
they had trespassed. Fortunately, how
ever, they had already sold some pa
pers, and came back with nearly as
much g* they started with.
After a week of mishaps such as
these the two little fellows bsgan-to
learn the ways of the trade-*the names
of the different papers, and how many
of each to get, and where to go and
where to stay away from. After this,
leaving home at 4 o'clock In the morn
ing and running about the streets, first
with morning papers and then with
evening, they might cofoe home late at
night with 20 or SO cents apiece—pos
sibly as much as 40 cento. From this
they had to deduct their car fare, since
the distance was so great; but after a
while they made friends and learned
still more, and then they would save
their car fare. They would get on a
car when tho conductor was not look
ing and hide In the crowd, and three
their fares, either not seeing them or
thinking they had already paid; or If
he did ask. they would hunt through
their pockets and then begin to cry,
and either have their fares paid by
some kind old lady or else try the trick
again on a new car. All this waa fair
play, they felt. Whose fault was It
that at the hours when workingmen
were going to their work and hack tho
cars were so crowded that tho con-
ductnr* . "Mid not i ollivt all the fares
And, besides, the companies were
thieves, people said—had stolen
their franchises with the help of scoun
dtally politicians.
that the winter was by nnd
there was no more danger of snow
and no more coal to buy, nnd anothe
room warm enough to put the children
Into when they cried, and enough
money to get along from week to week
" Ith, Jurats was loss terrible than la-
had been. A man can get used to
anything In the course of time, am
Jurgls had got used to lying about th
house. Ona saw this and was very
careful not to destroy his peace of
mind by letting him know how
much pain she was suffering. It
the time of the spring rains,
Ona had often to ride to her work In
spite of the expense; she wns getting
paler every day, and sometimes,
spite of her good resolutions, It pained
her that Jurgls did not nbtlce It. Sho
ondered If he cared for her os much
as ever. If all this misery was not
earing out his love. She had to be
away from him all the time and hear
her own troubles while he wns bearing
his; and then, when she came home
she was so worn out; nnd whenev
they talked they had only their wor
ries to talk of—truly It was hard. In
such a life, to keep any sentiment
alive. Tho woe of this jvould flame up
In Ona sometimes—at night she would
suddenly clasp her big husbnnd In her
arms and break Into passionate weep
ing, demanding to know If ho really
loved her. Poor Jurgls, who had In
truth grown more mntter-of-fact un
der the endless pressure o f penury,
would not know what to make of these
things, and could only try to recollect
whin lit* had last been emus; nnd so
Ona would have to forgive him and
sob herself to sleep.
The latter part of April Jurgls went
to see tho doctor, and was given a
bandage to lace about his ankle, and
told that he might go back to work.
It needed more than the permission of
tho doctor, however, for when ho
showed up on the killing floor of
Brown’s, ho was told by tho foreman
that It had not been possible to keep
his job for him. Jurgls knew that
this meant simply that tho foreman
had found some one else to do the
work as well and did not want to
bother to make a change. He stood In
the doorway, looking mournfully on,
seeing his friends and companions at
work, and feeling like an outcast.
Then he went out and took his place
with tho mob of ff"- uihmuj'I’in«-d.
This time, however, Jurgls did not
have the same flne confidence, nor the
same reason for It. He was bo kafir
the finest-looking man In tho throng,
and the bosses no longer made for
him; he was thin and haggard, and his
clothes were seedy, and he looked mis
erable. And there were hundreds who
hhd been wandering about Packing-
town for months begging for woik.
This was a critical time In Jurgls' life,
and if he had been a weaker man he
would have gone the way the rest d:d.
TkOM out-of-work wretches would
stand about tho packing houses every
morning till the police drove them
away, and then they would scatter
among the saloons. Very few of them
had the nerve to face the rebuffs that
they would encounter by trying to get
Into the buddings to Interview the
bosses; if they did not get a chance
In the morning, there would be noth
ing to do but hang' about the saloons
the rest of the day and night. Jurgls
was saved from all this—partly, to bo
sure, because It was pleasant weather,
and there was no need to be Indoors;
but mainly because he carried with
him always the pitiful little dot of Ml
w ife. Ho must get work, he told him
self, flglitlng tho battle with despair
every hour of tho day. He must get
work I He must have a place again
and some money saved upt before the
next winter came.
But there wns no work for him. He
sought all the members *-f his union—
Jurgls had stuck to the union through
all this—and begged them to speak a
word for him. He went to every one
he knew, asking for •* chance, there or
been able to
without drlnli
however, wer
parts "f tm*
machine; the
kept up with tho
for ten or twenty
the time had
Tin
rent
the awful grind
\.i-t majority,
y the worn-out
icrclless packing
oiled there, ana
o, Nome of fli.Mii
are, until Anally
' en they could
not keep up with It any more.
Somo had been frankly told that
lin*\ were ton nM, that a sprier man
was muled; others had given im-
ion. by some net of carelessness or In-
competency: with most, however, the
occasion had been the same as with
Jurgls. They had been overworked
nnd underfed so long, and finally
disease had laid them on their hacks;
or they had cut themselves, and hud
blood poisoning, or met with smut oth
er accident. When a man came back
nfter that, he would get his place back
only by the courtesy <>f the bon*,
this there was no exception, save when
the accident was one for which »in
firm was liable; in that case thoy
would send a slippery lawyer to see
him, first to try to get him to sign
away his claims, but If he was too
smart for that, to promise him that he
and his should always be provided with
work. This promise they would keep
strictly nnd to the letter—for
years. . Two years was the “statute of
limitations,” and after that tho victim
could not t*
What happened to a man nfter any
of these things, all depended upon th
circumstances. If he were of the
highly skilled workers, he would prob
ably have enough saved up fo tide him
o\cr. The best paid men, the “split
ters," made 60 cents an hour, which
would be $5 or $6 a day in the rush
seasons, and $1 or $2 In tho dullest,
man could live and save on that; but
then there were only half a doze
splitters In each place, and "tit- <•(
them that Jurgls knew had a family of
t w • nt j -two children, nil Imping
grow’ up and be splitters like their
father. For nn unskilled man, who
made 610 a week In the rush seasons
and $5 in the dull, It all depended upon
Ills ago and tho number he had de
pendent upon him. An unmarried man
could save, if ho did not drink, and if
he was absolutely selfish that Is, if he
paid no heed to the demands of his
old parent#, or of hts little brothers
nnd sisters, or of any other relatives
ho might have, ns well ns of the mem
bers of his union, nnd his chums, and
the people who might be starving to
death next door.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
| color of the
id fhe nrew fro
anywhere. He wandered all day
through the buildings; and in a week
or two, when he had been all over the
R and Into every room to which
d access, and learned that there
was not a job anywhere, he persuaded
himself that there might have been
a change In the places he hnd first
visited, and began the round alt over;
till finally the watchmen and the spot
ters of the companies came to know
him by sight nnd to order him out
with threats. Then there waa nothing
more for him to do but go with the
crowd In the morning,.and keep in the
front row and look eager, and when
he failed, go back home, «u»d play with
little Katrina and the baby.
The peculiar bitterness of all this
was that Jurgls saw so plainly the
meaning of It. In the beginning he
had been fresh and strong, end he had
gotten a job the first day; but now ho
was second-hand, a damaged article,
no to speak, nnd they did not want
him. Thiy had got the best out of
him—they bad worn him out, with
their speeding-up and their careless
ness, and now Uwy IbI tlRw Mm
away! And Jurgls wduld moke the
acquaintance *f others of these unem
ployed men, and find that they had all
had the same experience. There were
some, of course, who had wandered
In from other places, who had been
ground up In other mills; there were
others who were out from their own
fault—some, for instance, who had not
CHAPTER XIII.
During this time that Jurgls wns
looking for work occurred tho death of
little Kristoforas, one of the children
of Teta Klzblcta, Both Kristoforas and
his brother, Juosapas, were cripples,
the latter having lost ono leg by hav
ing it run over, nnd Kristoforas hav
ing congenital dislocation of the hip,
which made It impossible for him ever
to w’alk. He was the last of Teta
EHsbitta's children, and perhaps ho had
been intended by nature to let her
know that sho had had enough,
any rate ho was wretchedly sick nnd
under-sized; lio had the rlckpts. and
though he ’was over three years old,
he was no bigger than an ordinary
child of one. All day long he would
crawf around the floor in a filthy Mttle
dress, whining and fretting because tho
floor wns full of draughts; he was al
ways catching cold and snuffling be
cause his nose ran. Tills made him a
nuisance and a source of endless trou
ble In the. family. For his mother,
with unnatural perversity, loved him
best of all her children, and made
perpetual Cush over him would 1
him do anything undisturbed, and
would burst Into tears when his fret
ting drove Jurgls wild. And now he
died. Perhaps It was tho smoked sau
sage ho had eaten that morning—which
may have been made out of somo tu
1 m i . Mini- |mirk that w a* enrubouned a
unfit for export. At any rate, an hour
after entlng It tho child began to cry
with pain, and In another hour ho was
rolling around on floor In convul
sions. LItIo Kotrlna, who was all alone
with him, ran out screaming for help,
and after a while the doctor came, hut
not until Kristoforas had howled his
last howl. No one was really sorry
about this except poor Elzbleta, who
was Inconsolable. Jurgls announced
that so far as ho was concerned the
child would have to be burled by the
i■ 11v, siii< *• th. y had rm ln-uny fur a
funeral; and at this the poor woman
almost went out of her senses, wring
ing her hands and ecreamlng with
grief and despair. Her child to be
burled In a pauper's grave! And her
stepdaughter stand by and hear It said
without protesting! It was enough to
make Ona's father rise up out of his
grave to rebuke her! If It had come
to this they might as well give up at
once, and be burled all of them togeth-
wklefc reused the go
end ere conduct*! to Parktmrtowu by a friend. Jurgls. a idnut In strength, Is
betrothed tu Ona, sad tbs flret chapter tell* of the wedding In au Its grotesque
ness. After much tribulation the entire family obtains work In the stock
yards—all hot Oasv whom Jurgls said should never work.
rb# terrible tale of the slaughter bouses Is told with almost revolting detail—
the tilth, th* overworking of hand*, the struggle to keep up with the Mccnmki-rs.
is nil vividly depleted. The little family buys a house on the Installment plan,
only to find tlr ‘ — “ — — - —
actual living e
leorn too Hr.*.
Marlja disco*era that the forelady !• cheating her, by taking money wnl. li
should have gono to tho worker. She protests violently, atm Is discharged. Finally
she obtains a man's work at half the |»ay of a man. A Imhy comes to Ona nn.l
Jurgls, hut the little mother can take only n week off, fearing tho loss of her Job.
J pitsnlay’a Installment recounts bow the press of work aim diminution of pay
continue; how In the winter Jurgls carried Ona Mifd the hoy of the family
through snowdrifts, nnd how he had to take any Job that came to him In the yards,
.lust as Jurgls nnd Ona pay Marlja what they had borrowed from her, Jurgls
turns his ankle nnd la laid un in bed. The Instalment ends with s description
of the misery hts Idleness entails.
Copyright. 1306, by Cpton Sinclair. All right* reserved.
irage for a
would g-» on
er! ... In the end Marlja eald that
sho would help with $10; and Jurgls
being still obdurate, Elzbleta went In
team and .begged the money front the
neighbors and so little Kristoforas had
a mass and a hearse with white plumes
on It, and a tiny plot In a graveyard
u ith ;i u i" 'ii. n . i. •**.*( t" mm k th* pin* .
The poor mother was not the same for
months after that; the mere sight of
hr floor where little Kristoforas had
raw led about would make her
weep. Ho had never had a fair chance,
poor little fellow, she would say. He
had been hnndlcappod from his birth.
doctor (b cure him of hts lameness
Some time ago, Elzbleta was told,
Chicago billionaire hnd paid a fortune
to bring n grent European surgeon over
to euro his little daughter of the same
disease from which Ktistoforos had
suffered. And because this surgoon
had to have bodies to demonstrate
upon he announced that he would treat
the children of the poor, a piece of
magnanimity over which the papers
became eloquent. Elzbleta, alas, did
hot read tho papers, and no one had
told her; but perhaps It wns ns well,
for Just then they would not have had
the carfare to spare to go every day to
waft upon the surgeon, nor for that
matter anybody with tho time to tako
the child.
All this while that he was seeking
for work, there' was n dark shadow*
hanging over Jurgls; as If a savage
benst were lurking somowhero In the
pathway of his life, and he knew it, and
yet could not help approaching the
place. 'There are all stages of being
out of work in Packingtown, and ho
faced In dread the prospect of reaching
the lowest. There Is a place that waits
for the lowest man—the fertilizer
plantl
The men would talk about It In awe
stricken w’hlspers. Not moro than one
in ten had ever really tried It; the otb
visitors ever saw* them, and tho few
who did would come out looking like
Dnnte, of whom the peasants declared
that he had been Into hell. To this
part of the yards came all the “tank
age," and the waste products of all
sorts; here they dried out the bones—
and In suffocating cellars w*hero the
daylight never came you might seo men
and women nnd children bending over
whirling machines nnd sawing bits of
bone Into nil sorts of shapes, breathing J 10 ' 1 farmer and hi
their lungs full of tho fine dust, and
doomed to die, every one of them, with
in a certain definite time. _ - - — . - - — -
Here they made the blood Into al- flavoring, nnd Instead of a ton or so
imen. and made other foul-smelling epread out on several acres under tha
lch It
I ghostly charnel houses there may be
w *ifiIs in Lithuanian, hut there Is none
I In English. The person entering would
I have to summon
cold water piung<
like a man swimming under water; he
I would put his handkerchief over hie
| face, nnd begin to cough and choke;
nnd then. If he were still obstinate, he
would find his head beginning t" ring,
and tii*- \elni In Ids forehead t-> throb,
until lliiiill'. he would be availed bv nn
overpowering blast of ammonia fumes,
nnd would turn nnd run for his Mfe, and
come out half dazed.
On top of this were the rooms where
the\ «lil<’.| th*- “tankage,” the mas* of
brown, stringy stuff that was left after
I he u I t loll •* of t lie .-,.1 , had
In*.I the bird and mil *>wt of
them rills lit l*’d Iii.it*! Li I they Ollld
tli.’ii k i Ind I" .1 tin-’ P *u * I ** t, nnd after
they bad mixed It up well with a. mys
terious but Inoffensive brown rock,
H III.’ll t h- \ In ought III nnd ground up
by the hundreds of car loads for that
pm b" (! . .111.-'.ill. .• ns ie/id> to be
put Into bags and sent out to the world
ns any one of a hundred different
brands of standard bone phosphate.
And then the farmer In Maine or Cali
fornia or Texas would buy this, at nay
$2& a ton. and plant ft with his corn;
and for several days after the operation
fields would have a strong odor,
bumen, and made other foul-smelling
things Into things still more foul smell
ing. in the corridors nnd caverns
where It was done you might lost
yourself as In the great caves of Ken
tuclcy. In the dust and the steam the
electric lights would shine Ilk# far-off
twinkling stare—red nnd blue, green
and purple stars, according to the
very horses that had hauled It would
oil have It, too. in Packing!" ' n the
fertiliser Is pure. Instead of being
TO ADOPT PRIMARY
DOLES ONTHURSDAY
For the psrpess of adopting rules
tin* stnto primary In August, n meeting
of the Fulton County Democratic Execu
tive committee him been called to meet In
the hesemeut of the comity court house on
the evening of July 6. The official rail
Is as follows:
‘To the Members of the Democratic
Kxecutlvc Committee of Fulton County,
Georgia: You ore hereby notlflod Hint n
meeting of the Democratic Executive
committee of Fulton county, Oeorgla, Is
called fo assemble In ibe bnscVnejit **f the
comity court bouse Thursday. July 5,
nt 1-’ o'clock, noon, for the purpnne
PBB . of Adopting rules, regulation* aoE
er nine had contented themselves with requirements nn are necessary for the prop
hearsay evidence nnd a peep through
tho door. There wore some things worse
than even to starving to death. They
would ask JiirglH if h«- hnd worked
there yet, and If he meant to; and Jur.
gls would debato tho matter with him
self. Am poor ns thoy were, nnd making
nil the Hiicrlfires flint they were, would
he dare to refuse any sort of work
that was offered to him, bo It ns horri
ble ns ever It could? Would he daro to
go home and eat bread that had been
earned by Ona, weak and complaining
as she wns, knowing that he hnd been
given a chance, ana had not had the
none to take It?—And yet ho might
argue Chat, way wlfh himself all day,
and ono glimpse Into tho fertilizer
works would send him away again
Hhuddering. Ho was a man, nnd ho
would do hit duty; be went and made
application—but surely ho wag not also
required t" hope f*»r Min .’*’*m!
The fertilizer w*orks of Durham's lay
away from tho rest of tho plant. Few
er bobllug of tho state Democratic prhunry
for said rounlr, Augunt 22, IM6, and f*»r
such other business at may properly come
before said session.
•T. 0. PRLDBtl. Chairman,
"CIIAnr.Fsfi X. AtJ.CN, Bocrctory."
COL. E8TILL ADDRESSED
WAYNESBORO CITIZENS
Special to The Georgian.
Waynesboro, do., July 4.—Colonel J.
H. Katlll nnd Hon. Thomas 8. Morgan,
both of Hnvannah, spoko here yester-
dfi\ In th<’ Intel cut -.r the H.uith
gla candidate. The court house wa.
well filled with people, nnd many Indfen
" • te pi .—.11 r The 1 >d'.ii* I made a \ ci v
pleasant address, with no personal
abuse of any one.
Mr. Morgan's address favoring the
colonel w’an the feature of tho day.
IIH I '-mill l(M \\ . Tfull "f IiuiiimI I.f Him
political situation In the Oeorgla gu
bernatorial campaign.
open sky. there are hundreds and thou
sands or tons of It In ono bulbllnar,
heaped here' and there la hinttn
piles, covering the floor several Inches
deep, nnd filling the air with n choking
dust that becomes a blinding sond
storm when ths wind stirs.
(Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian.)
THURSDAY, JULY 5th.
FREE CONCERT
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
At thc Opening of Nathan *s Vienna Cafe
75 Peachtree Street.
Dainty 8ouv«nlr, given away. Ten per cent of th, groi, receipt*
will go to tho benefit of the Old Women’e Home.
POSTIL CLERKS MEET
IN AML CONVENTION
Hppelel to th« Gnorgtsn.
Macon, Ox, July 4.—Georgia postal
clerk, met In convention here to Jay anti
th, attendance Is very large. Presi
dent C. O. Hardeman, who resides In
Macon, had mada all arrangement* for
the entertainment of the visitors, ami
ths program contains many pleasant
features.
The session convened In the poat-
nfflee, nnd many matters of lmportnnc.
to the association wilt be disposed of.
EXCELLENT SERVICE TO
WRIQHTSVILLE BEACH,
NORTH CAROLINA.
During tho months of Juno, July
nnd AngUHt tho Soahonrd Air I,lno
Hallway will oporato on Its train Iohv-
Ing Atlanta at 9:35 p. jn., every HAT-
UHDAY, a through sleeping ear to
Wilmington, N'. C.; returning tho
through aidbper will leave Wll-
inliiKlnn TIiimhiIiiv nt .'1:00 p.
arriving In Atlanta nt
11:30 n in, Pi May. Arningemenla
haro been made with tho street rail-
(bay peoplo at Wilmington to hnvo
cars ready at tho depot to Iintnedfnte-
ly transport pasgengors to tho hotels
nt WrlghlHvllln lleneh. Baggage will
bo chocked to destination. VVKICK-
K.N'D rale, good for flro days, fS.2G;
■BASON tlckela. $18.55.
SEABOARD.
DeLOACH MILL SOLD
FOR SUM OF $38,000
. W. Conway nnd his aaodatre hav«
rrbaa*) th** hnd nnd hutldhiiM of th»
lAMsb MJJ1 Mdoufaciarli)| t'nmptmj, nt
IIlvliLiml arenas nn«l th* Hoathsrn rail
way, pitying ■omsthlog ovtr t'tvm. It Is
UMSmOM.
I Ik- I >«• I It • «.III I .MIIV will 11 - pin nr
Ii rill.’ plotpllng limit’ ftpllff |r U ■ l H f «-tl
that Mr. t'lumny >vlJ| i r»>i n \nrg>- rnunn-
frittering plant on th** Mt
Iilhi and that the* lavcHtinpnt
but no drflnlfff ftatrineut ii
been made.
'Ill lx- th'
to phiiN
To Build Car Shops.
Hprrlal to Tbs Georgian.
Chattanoogn, Tsnn^ July 4.- Tl
Chattanooga Railway Company hr
aakrd for n ffiadilM to bull*! rnr r»
pair ahopa here at a cost of $125,000.
Your Heart
I, s wonderful pomp that work, fare*
•antly. The power that keeps thl. won
derful pump In motion I. nerve force,
the energy feralahcd Ity the nerve.
DiMtse, over-exertion, fright, anxiety,
alcohol, tobacco sod other ithnutnntx
weaken theee nerve.
Then come* xbottnexs of hratb. heart
palpitation, illsxlueis. etc., beniuae the
nerve* arc too weak to furnish power.
Take tbs only aafs remedy.
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure
It feed*, strenetbe
as and
of ibe he
ullds
limes out of four he
ould i
can supply the ner
ffered terribly with heart trouble
__■* of breath, smothering up.-;iq
After taklaa Dr. Miles’ »l*-«irt Cur** n
short tune I fee I like a dJff*-ro;,t r,orson.
That i!’’pr**«— 4 smothering Wilng Irfi
ie. ami I have not since had the sUebt-
»t symptom «>f the *>M trouble."
MRS A b LA M ML. Dayton O
Th** fti-t l-.Mb- will h*-ii.*rtf. \{ not
mgglst will return jour tuouej.
SHAM
PIEDMONT
JULY FOURTH,
PARK
5:30 P. M.
ARTILLERY, CAVALRY, INFANTRY,
GATLING GUN.
Admission 25 Cents, Children Under 10 Years Old Admitted
Free When Accompanied By An Adult. Benefit 5 th Regiment,
National Guard of Georgia Encampment Fund. No Extra Charge
For Seats In Grandstand.