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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. IMS.
MERE CHILDREN ARE DRIVEN TO BREADWINNING.
DEATH AND MISERY IN PACKINGTOWN DISCLOSED BY “THE JUNGLI
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Toilers Doomed To Be
Demoralized by Rapacity
of Beef Trust Owners
CHAPTER XI (CONTINUED)
Jt would have been better If Jurgis
lud been really 111; If he hod not been
,Me to think. For he had no resource*
such as most Invalids have; all he could
io was to lie there and toss about from
side to side. Now and then he would
break Into cursing, regardless of every
thing; and now and then his Impa
tience would get the better of him, and
he would try to get up, ami poor Torn
Elibleta'would have to plead with him
la frtnsy. Elibleta was all alone with
him the greater part of the time. She
would sit and smooth his forehead by
the hour, and talk to him and try to
make hint forget.
Sometimes It would be too cold for
the children to go to school, and they
would have to play In the kitchen,
where Jurgis was, because It was the
only room that was half warm. These
were dreadful tlmev for Jurgis could
get as cross as any bear; he was
scarcely to be blamed, for he had
enough to worry him. add It was hard
when he was trying to take a nap to
be kept awake by noisy and peevish
children.
Klshletn’s only resource In those
limes was little Antanae; Indeed, It
would be hard to aay how they could
have gotten along gt all If |t had not
been for little Antanae. It was the one
consolation of Jurgis’ long Imprison
ment that now he had time to look at
his h#by. Teta Elsbleta would put the
clothes basket In which tho baby elept
alongside of his mattress, and Jurglg
would lie upon one elbow sipl watch
him bv the hour. Imagining things.
Then little Antanas would open his
eves—he was beginning to take nottce
of things now. and he would smile—
hotv he would smile! So Jurgis would
begin to forget and bo happy, because
he was In a world whore there was a
thing so beautiful aa the sml|o of little
Antanae. and because such a world
tould not but be good at ilia heart
of It.
He looked more Ilka his father every
hour, Elsbleta would say, end said It
many times a day, because she saw
that It pleaaed Jurgis; the poor, little
terror-stricken woman was planning all
oned giant who was Intrusted to bar
care. Jurgis, who knew nothing about
the age-long and everlasting hypocrisy
of uomnn, would take tho bait and grin
with delight; and then ho would hold
Ms linger In front of little Antanas’
eyes, and move It this way and that:
and laugh with glee to see the baby
follow It. Thera Is no pet quite
fascinating as a baby; ho would lc
Into Jurgis* face with such uncanny i
rlousnesa, and Jurgis would start and
cry; "Paluk! Look; Minna, he knows
his papa! He dees, he does! Tu mano
nlrdele, the little rascal!"
chapter XII.
For three weeks after hie Injury
Jurgis never got up from bed. It was a
very obstinate sprain; the -awelllng
would not go down, and the pain 8(111
continued. At the- end of that time,
however, be could contain himself no
longer, and began trying to walk a
little every day, laboring to perauade
himself that he was bettar. No argu
ments could stop him, and threo or
four days later he declared that he wae
going back to work. He limped tq the
cars and got to Brown’s, where he
found that the boss had kept his place
—that Is. waa willing to turn out Into
the enow the poor devil he had hired
In the meantime. Every now and then
the pain would force Jurgis to stop
work, but he stuck It out till nearly
an hour before closing Then he was
forced to acknowledge that he could
hot go on without fainting: It almost
broke his heart to do It, and he stood
leaning agalnat a pillar, and weeping
like u child. Two of the men hatl to
help him to fhe car, and when ho got
out he had tq sit down and wait in the
•now till some one came along.
So they put him to bed again, and
•ent for the doctor, as they ought to
have (lone In the beginning. It trans
pired that he had twisted a tendon out
of place, and could never have gotten
well w ithout attention. Then he gripped
the lidee of the bed, and ahut his testh
together, and turned White with agony,
while the doctor pulled and wrenched
at his
doctor ...
would have to lie quiet for two months,
and that If he went to work before
{oat time he might lame himself for
Three day* later there came another
heavy snowstorm, and Jonaa and U#r|-
Ja and ona and little Stanlslovoa all
**t out together, an hour befora day
break. to try to get to the yards. About
"oon the last twq came back, the bqy
•creatnlng with pain. Hla fingers were
all frosted, It seemed. They had hag
«/tve up trying to get to the yard*,
and had nearly pertehed In a drift. All
that they knew how to da was to hold
B* ‘roua fingers nsar the Are, and so
tittle htunlalovaa spent most of the day
i,b °ut ]n horrible agony, till
Jhcgle flew into a passion of
quite certain that the would And her
Place gone, and waa all unnerved when
she finally got to Bruwn’e, and found
that the forelady .herself had failed to
come, and waa therefore compelled to
be lenient.
One of the consequences of this epl
sode was that the Aret Joints of. three
of the little boy s Angers were permn
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. Jurgis
was called upon to do the beating, and
ns It hurt his foot fie did It with
end
say. tbat the best dog will turn cross
If he be kept chained all the time, and
It wai the same with the man; he had
not a thing to do all day but lie an<
curse his fate, and the time came when
he wanted to curse everything.
This was never for very lor.,,
ever, for when Ona began to cry Jurgla
could not stay angry. The poor fellow
looked like a homeless ghosf, with Ills
checks sunken In and hla long black
hair straggling Jnto his eyes; he was
too discouraged to cut It, or to think
about hla appearance. Hla muscle
were wasting away, and what were jet
were soft and Aabby. He bad no ap
petite, and they pould not efTord to
tempt h|m with deltcaclea. It was
better, he said, that he should not eat,
It was * saving. About the end of
Idarch he had got hold of One’s bonk
book, and learned that there waa only
three dollars left to them In the world.
But perhaps the worst of the con
sequences of this long siege was that
nhsy last another membsr of their fam
ily; brother Jonaa disappeared. One
Saturday night he did not come horde,
and thereafter qll their effort* to get
trace of him were futile. It waa said
by the boas at Durham's that he had
gotten hla week's money and left there.
That might not be true, of Course, for
sometimes they would spy that when a
man had been killed; It waa the easiest
way out of It for all concerned. 'When,
for instance, a man had fallen Into
on* pf th* rendering tanks and had
been made Into pure leaf lard and
K orless fertiliser, there wes no use
ting the fact out an^ making his
family unhappy. More probable, how
e'er, was the theury that Jonas had
deserted them, and gone on the road,
seeking happiness. He had been dis
contented for a long time, am) not
without aom* cause. He paid rood
board, and waa yet obliged to live In a
family where nohody got enough to
cat. And tyarlja would ke«p giving
them all her money, and of course he
could not but feel tbat he waa called
upon to do the same.
Then there were crying brata and
all sorts pf tnlsery; a man would have
bad to be a good deal of a hero to
[?f* “ mI swore Ilka a roadman, dscl
'«« that he would kill him If he did not
i*Ji that and night the family
**? half erased with fear that' Ona
h, > ' h * boy had loat their places; and
■a the morning they set out earlier than
»'«. after the little fellow had been
"JR" "Uh a stick by Jurgis. There
MuM be no trlAIng In a case like this;
5 *“,•» matter of life and death; little
r«*n"!i aa c °uld not be expected to
*hat he might a great deal bet-
L,[ “T*** *n the snowdrift than lose
““ I 0 * 1 at th# lard machine. Ona waa
Jonaa waa not In
was simply a weather-beaten old fellqw
who liked to have a good supper and
sit In the corner by the Are and amoks
hla .pipe In peace hefore h® wsnt to
bed. Hero there was not room by ths
Are. arid through tho winter tho kitchen
had seldom been warm enough for
comfort. Bo, with tho springtime, what
was mors likely than that th* wild Idea
of escaping had come to him? Two
y®4rs he had been'yoked - Ilk* a hone
to a half-ton truck In Barham's dark
cellars with never a real, save on, Sun
days nnd four holidays In the year,
and with never a word of thanks—
only hicks and blows and curses, such
as no decent dog qrotjld h*v* stood.
And now the winter was ovsr, and the
spring wind* were blowing—and with
a day’s walk a man might put the
amok* of Pscklngtown behind Him for
ever, and b* where the grass was
green and ths Aowsrs gll ths colors pf
the rainbow!
But now the Income of the family
paa cut down more than one-third, and
the food demand was cut only ons-
elsventh, so that .they ware worse off
than ever. Also they were borrowing
money from UqriJ*, and sating up her
bank gccount, and spoiling once again
her hopes of marriage and happiness.
And they W’®re even going Into debt to
Tampsxlus Kusslelka and letting hint
Impoverish himself. Poor Tamosxlus
was a man without any relatives, and
with a wonderful talent besides, and
he ought tq have made money and
■ M ■* *nd fallen In love.
prospered; but he ha.. ....... ...
and so given hostage* to fortune, and
waa doomed to be dragged down, too.
So it waa Anally decided that two
more of the children would have to
leave achool. Next to Spuilslovaa, who
wax now Afteen, there was a girl, little
Kotrlna, who was two jrsar* younger,
and then two boys, Vlllniss, who was
eleven, and Nlkalojus, who was ten.
their fares, either not seeing them
thinking they had already paid; or ■
he did ask, they would hunt through
their pocket* nnd then bcRln to cry*,
and either have their farea paid b
kttl.l ..1,1 la.lv Ml- .-No t! , t I].. Fn
again on a new car. All tills was fair
play, they felt. Whose fnult was __
that at the hour* when workingmen
were going to their work and bock the
cars were to crowded that the con
ductora could not collect all the fares
And, besides, the companies were
thieves, people said—had stolen
their franchises with the help of scoun
ilrelly politicians.
Now that the winter was by and
there-was no more danger of snow,
nnd no more cool to buy, nnd another
room warm enough to put the children
Into when they cried, and enough
money to get along from wuek to neck
. ■■■ .1 in at.- « ii' lc" ten ll.li- Hi.in
had been. A man enn get used
anything in tho course of time, nnd
Jurgis had got used to lying about the
house. Onu saw this and was very
careful not to destroy Ills peace
mlml by letting hint know how very
much pain she was suffering. It was
now the time of th* spring rains, nnd
Ona had often to ride to her work '
spite of the expense; she was getting
paler every day, nnd sometimes, In
spite of her gqpd resolutions. It pained
her that Jurgis did not notice It. Sho
wondered if he cared for her as much
aa ever. If all this misery was not
wsaring out his lov*. |m bad la b#
away from him ell ths lime nn.i bt u
her own troubles while lie wus bearing
his; and then, when she came home
she was so worn out; and whenever
they talked they had only their wor
ries to talk of—truly It was hard. In
*uch a Ilf*, to kesp any sentiment
f .live. The woe of this would damo up
a Ong sometimes—at night ah* would
suddenly clasp her big husband In her
arms and break Into passionate weep
ing, demanding to know. If he really
lovsd her. Poor Jurgis, who had In
truth grown mors matter-of-fact un
der the endless pressure of penury,
woqld not know what to make of tb*es
things, and could only try to recollect
when n® had last been crass: and so
Ona would have to forgive hint and
rob herself to sleep.
The latter part of April Jurgla went
in see the doctor, and was given a
bandage to lace about his anltle. nnd
old that h® might go back to work.
It needed more than the permission of
tho doctor, however, for when he
S lowed up on the killing Poor of
rown’s, he was told by the foreman
that It had not been possible to keep
his Job for hlni. Jurgis knew that
this meant simply that the foreman
had found some ope else to do the
bather to make a change. Ha
tho doorway, looking mournfully on,
seeing his mends and companions at
work, and fee|lng like an outcast.
with th* inoh of the unemployed. ■
This time, however, Jurgis did not
have the oaths Ana confidence, nor th*
same reasop fur It. He was no longer
tho Anest-looklng man In tho throng,
tnd the bosses no longer tnado for
dm: he wpa thin anil haggard, nnd hla
clothes were acedy, and he looked nds-
irable And there were hundreds who
tad been wandering nliout Packing-
own for months pegging for wot k,
This was a critical tjmo In Jurgis’ lire,
and If he had been a weaker man he
would have gone the way the rest did.
Those out-of-work wrotahes would
Stand about the packing house* every
morning till the police drove them
away, and then they would scatter
among the saloons. Very few of them
tad the nerve to face the rebuffs that
hey would encounter by trying to get
nto the bu|dlngs to Interview the
losses; if they did not get a chanre
n the morning, there would be nothi
ng to do but nang about the saloons
he rest of the day and night. Jurgle
ras saved from al| this—partly, to be
i uf*. because It was pleasant weather,
end there was no head to bo Indoors;
mt mainly because lie carried with
REDUCED r. r. rates
for FOURTH OP JULY.
The W. A A. R. R. and M. C. A St.
nsllwajf wHI sell cheap round trip H*P*
sm n *° •" P° lnt * * ou,h »f the Ohio I l»»vlng home at
" p »t»m*» and east of th* Missis- "
ffj' ,J«r. Including St. Louis,
ens Cincinnati, at ons and
Jyl. au ,ickata <° «>* sold
2d ’ 3d a nd 4th,
Roth of tbps* last were bright boys,
and there whs no reason why their
family should starve when tens of
thousands of children no older were
earning th*|r own livings. Bo one
morning they ware 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 leqrq *o sell
newspapers. They Came back late at
night In tear*, having walked ths Ave
or six inlles to report that a man had
M-hsre
they sold newspapers, arid had taken
their motley and gone Into a store to
get them, and nevermore been seen. So
they both received a whipping, and the
R est morning set out again. ^hl* 11 “t*
ley found the newspaper place, and
procured their etock; abd after wan
dering about till nearly noontime say
ing "Pa per I" to every one they saw,
they had all their stock taken away
and pscslved a thrashing besides from
a big newsman upon whose territory
they had tre*i>a***d. Fortunately, how
ever, they had already sold some pa-
sre, and cant® back will
uch as they started kith.
After a week of mishaps such as
the** the two little fellows began to
learn the ways of the trade—the names
ilm always ths pitiful little fac* of his
wife. He must get work, he (old hltn-
self, fighting jho bnttlo w|th despair
—ry hour of the day. He must get
r .*l He must have a place again
and some money saved up, before the
pext winter came.
Rut there was no work for him. H*
sought all the members of his union—
.lurgls had stuck to th* union through
all this—Itnil lugged them to speak a
word for him. Ho went to every one
! 10 knew, asking for a chance, thsra or
anywhere. He wandered all day
through th* buildings; and In a weak
or two, when h* had been all over the
yards, and Into every room to which
le had access, and learned that there
was not a Job anywhere, he persuaded
ilmself tbat there might havs been
a change In the placte he had first
visited, and began the round nil over;
III Anally the watchmen and tt.e tpot-
*r* of th* companies came (a know
tint hy sight and to order him out
vlth threats Then there was nothing
more for him to do but go with the
crowd In th* morning, and keep In th*
f ront row and look eu« r - »hd ¥h*h
IS failed, go back hum*. «eil plgy wjth
Ittle Katrina and the haby.
Th* peculiar bitterns** of all this
waa that Jurgis saw an plainly the
meaning of It. In th* beginning he
(ted bc«n fresh nnd strong, and lie bail
gotten a Jqb the first dny; but now ho
was second-hand. a damage 1 nrtlcie,
so to spenk, and they did not wqnt
him. TTny had got the best out of
him-they had worn him irjt. with
their speeding-up and their careleea-
pess, and now they had thrown him
away! And J-rgls would make the
acquaintance if others of these uncm-
P -rd tnen. an 1 find that they li.nl ail
the same experience. There were
pome, of coup**, who had wandered
In from other places, who had been
groqnd up In other mllle; there were
other* who were out from their own
fault—eome, for Instance, who had not
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 atrests, Aret
with morning papers and »h*n with
evening, they might come home late at
night with J# or M cent* apiece—poe-
_ — , stbly ss much a* 4# cents. From this
Until I.— —good to return tln-v had to deduct their car fare. Hn-<•
J uly 8th, 19C6. the distance was so great: but after a
els* 0 .- V irth,r Information and tick.
A- R. P f| *° any asent ot tn * w ’ A
CHAS. E. HARMAN,
General Pas*. Agent.
while they mad* frtewl* snd learned
•till more, and then they would save
their car fare. They would get on a
car w hen the conductor was not look
ing and hide |n the crowd, and three
time* out ot four he
Your Heart
Is a wonderful pump Hist works larts-
ssatly. The power that Steps Hilt woe-
derfol pump In motion Is t.ervf force,
the energy furnished by lh# nerves.
INtcsse, oyer-essrtlon, fright, snslsty.
alcohol, toliecco and other •tlmhlants
weaken these aenre*.
Then comes shortness of breath, heart
palpltntlou, dlsstncss, etc- lieesus* th*
netye* sre too week to furnish power.
Take tbu only safe rewsedr.
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure
It feed*. itmiftkMu ami b«il*U ap Mm
irrrtii Mwl urn* |r« 4.f 11.*- hrart so tbrjr
n Wl?p!r tb* narrowry *n«rgj.
”1 MJtf-pHi t*rr!lily mitb bi-«rt troabli
!•■*« uf Iifvftb. m—
mklM Dr. UUrf
tlHMt I
boon nblo to stand the awful grind
without drink. The vast majority,
however, were simply the uorn-out
part* 4»f the great mercllea* packing
machine; they had tidied tin re, ;md
kept up with tho pada, some of them
for ten or twenty years, until Anally
tho time had come when they could
id*1 k« «*|> up v. Ith It am i i i •
Some had been frankly told that
they were Id, that .t s|il.r man
was needed; other* had given occaa-
I n. h> somo act "f carelenMie.ss «o In -
competency; with most, however, the
occasion had been the same un with
.1 til Kl s Tlie> had been «»\*’i u • u K<‘<1
and underfed so long, nnd finally some
disease had Inld them on their backs;
or the> had cut thoinaelves. nnd had
blood poisoning, or met with some oth
er accident. When a man came back
after that, he would get his place hack
only by the courtesy of tho bos*. To
thl8 there was no exception, save when
the accident u a* one f<’i u hh li lit
firm \\n* lluhh . In that > t*.- they
would send a slippery lawyer to see
him, flrNt to try tq get him to sign
away his claims, but If ho was too
smart for that, to promise him that he
and his should always bo provided with
work. This promise they would keep
strictly and to the letter—for two
years. Two years was the “statute of
llmii.ifI-'US," and after that tl.»- \ i< tim
i oul I not sue.
What happened to n man after any
of these things, all depended upon tho
circumstances. If he were of the
highly skilled worker*, he would prob
ably nave enough saved up to tide him
o\t r. Tho (h st puli! men, tin* ••split
ters,” made 50 cents nn hour, wh \
v. mild la* $:» or |ti a dav in the rush
seasons, and 11 or f2 In the dullest,
man could live and sqve on that; but
t^en there were only half g dozen
splitter* In each place, and one pf
cm that Jurgis knew hod a family of
iv> • nii -tw.. . hlldi4*n. nil ), .ping
troiv up and be splitters like their
athor. Fur an unskilled man, who
made $10 a week In tho rush seasons
and $5 In the dull, it oil depended upon
his ago and the number he had de
pendent uppn him. An unmarried man
• mild a\ «\ if ht> uhl nm «h Isk, and if
as absolutely selfish—that is. If he
paid no heed tu the demands pf his
old parents, or of his little brothers
and sisters, nr of tiny other relatives
lie might have, ps woll as of tho mem
bers of his union, and his chums, nnd
the people who might be starving to
death noxt door.
SYNOPSIS .OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
origlD
The story of “The Jungle/' Upton Sinclair’* novel, which caused tho gov
•non! Investigation lutu the.methods employed hy the beef trust, li.i« Its or
In on actual Pjicklngtowu romance.
A simple-mlml*4l coterie of Uthuaipans arrive in rhtcago. seeking employment,
nnd are conducted to Uacklngtown hr a friend. Jurgis. n giant tu Niivugih. u
betrothed to Ona, and the first 4 hspter tells of the* ws^MIng lu n«. Its Krotc«<|iie
net*. After much tribulation the rutin* family obtains work In the stock
who
yards—all but thin, whom Jurgis
terrible tale of the tiliun
said should never work.
CHAPTER XIII.
During this lltuo that Jlirffts Wgg
looking for work occurred tho d*ath of
littlo Krlstofiirus, one of thp children
<<f Ti’i.i F.lxbhia. Both KrJstofiini* and
his bi'ithor, JimzupMK, uert nipples,
the latter having lout ono lag by hav-
ng It ruq «>ver, and Krlstqfoyus hav-
ng congenital dislocation of the hip,
which made it Impossible for him ever
to walk. He was' tho last of Tota
Elsbleta’* children, and p« rhnps ho hud
been Intended by nut m o V> let her
Umov that she had hud enough. At
any rate ho was wretchedly sick nnd
undpr-slzed; ho lmd the rfekote. ami
though ho was over throe year* old.
lie wa* no bigger thun an ordtnury
child of ’one. All day long ho would
crawl around (ho fb>or in a filthy lfttb*
drpsii, whihlng and fretting beenuso the
floor was fun of draughts; he wu* ul-
ways catching cold nnd snuffling be
cause his nose ran. Tills mnrin him a
nuisance and n nourco of cndle** trou-
>!e In the family. For his mother*
With unnatural perversity, loved him
best of all her children, and mado
>erpetual fuss over hlmr^WOtild 1
lint do anything undisturbed, nnc|
would burst Into tears when his fret*
ting drove Jurgis wild. And now ho
died. Perhaps it was the smoked sau
sage ho had eaten that morning—which
may ha\«* been math* «»ut <-f some tu
bercular pork that waa condemned as
unfit for export. At any rule, an hour
after eating It tho child began to cry
With pnln, and In another hour ho was
rolling around on the floor In convul
sions. tdtle Kotrlna, who was all ftlono
with him, ran out screaming for help,
and after a while the doctor came, but
lot until Krlstofora* had howled his
ast howl. No one was really sorry
this except poor Elzbleta, who
was inconsolable Jurgle announced
(hat so far as he was concerned the
c did would hayp to he burled by the
c ty, elnce they had no money for a
funeral; and at this the poor woman
almoHt went out of her senses, wring-
; her hand* and screaming with
ef onjl despair. If*r child Iq be
urlcd In a pauper’s grave! And her
ter stand by and h
-H itftfbi* tale of tli.* sllUfhter homes la tnbl with slmiut revolting detnll—
tbe tilth, the overworking of let ltd*, th* utruggle to keep up with the bacenisken.
Is *11 vividly depleted. The little family buy* * boon* on fhe Initnltnicnt ptun.
only to find they have been Dwindled, and Ona Is famed to «ei*k work to meet tbs
actual living expense and the lutereet ou tho purchaio contract, of wlih'h they
learn too late.
ktarljn dlacoters that the forela*ly Is cheating her. by t
should have gone to the worker. Hite proteau vbdently. nml l«
•he ohbdng a man's work at half fhe futy of n man. * *
JurclD, bat the Ifttle tu«dr * — ~
,. - I A baby rotnea to Ona
w -PWl-.JPRH her can take only a week off. fearing the loos of her Job.
Ycstrrdaj’s Installment recounts how the t»re*S of work apd .11 mli.utl *n of pay
Anier Jims carried D— J “
rontlnue; how iu the
turiiN hit nnklo and It Ini
ef the misery Ida Idleuras
I'tipMlullt.
Juuls «.1 r11. .I Ona rtu.l the hov
* bad |o p*-- — *
Jarija wh. .... , T
it* In bod. Tim luatalment ends with
.•nfnlla. ^
os, by Upton Blue lair. All rights reserved.
rrjp’/ou
III tin- . ml M.ll hn . 1 M III.Il
she would help with 110: and Jural*
being .till . mim.ii.-. RfiljlR went In
tears and besged the money from the
neighbors and so little Krlatoruras had
a mass and a hearse with white plumes
nn It, nnd a tiny plot In a graveyard
with a wooden cross to mark the place.
The poor mother was not the same for
month, after that: the mere sight of
the Aoor where little Krlstoforas lmd
ern wied about would malt* her
weep. He had never lmd n fair chance.
oor little fellow, sh* would say. He
ad been hagdjMMM tram his birth.
If only ,ht had henrd about II In time,
so that she might have had that treat
doctor to cure film of hi, lameness . .
Borne time ago, Elsbleta was told, a
i I'li': n ' I • 111 * • * n tiro I ... I I ill - I
tq bring a great Euru|>tan surgaon over
to cure his tittle daughter of the same
I I - u.,c floill V. III. Il K !l ol
suffered. And because this surgeon
lmd to have bodies tn demonstrate
upon hs nnnounced that he would treat
toe | hli.lren of the poor, a piece of
magnanimity ov*r which tho paper,
became eloquent. Elabletn. alas, did
not read th* paper,, and no one had
to],) tier; but perhaps It wn, os well,
'of Jq*t Hun they woqld not have had
he carfare to spare to go every day to
wall upon the surgeon, nor for that
matter anybody with the time to take
|be child.
All this while that he was seeking
or work, thefotwa* a dark shadow
stepdaughter i
Without protesting! It was enough to
nake Ona’a father rise up out of his
rrave to
to Ibis t
ones, and
[> rebuke her! If It hod com*
they’might os Well give up at
id ba burled all of them togeth-1
least were lurking somewhere
pathway of hi* life. «nd hs know It, and
■et could not help approaching tho
dace. Thorp an. all stages ql being
>ut of work In Pscklngtown, and he
need Jn dreed th* prosRect of re«o|ilng
ha lowost. There Is a place that waits
for tho lowest man—ths fertiliser
plant!
The men Would talk about It In awe*
stricken whispers. Not more than one
In ten lied over really tried It; tho otli
er iilno had contented themselves will
Ilf.11 ...IV •■■■ r .-I d .1 poop llir.'iiuli
hn door. Thera were som* things worts
him even to starving to death. They
Would nsk Jural, lr ho lmd worked
there yet. snd If bn meant to; nnd Jtir-
gin would debits the matter with him-
self. An poor os they were, nnd making
iU th, WSfllW ,,lat ,,M > "fie, woul.l
le dare to refuse any aort of work
that was offered to him. be It a* horri
ble as ever |t <mild? Would ho dare to
go homo and eat bread that had been
Canted by Ona, weak lid coinpInlnliiK
an nhe was, knowing that he had been
given a chance, and had pot had the
peeve to take it?—And yet he might
argue Him way with hlm.-elt all .lay,
and one gllmp'o lntn the forllllzor
works would send him away again
sdmd.lei Ilia. lie twin .1 until, and he
would do Ills dull . lie went and made
application—but surely hs waa net also
pequlred to hops for succssal
The fertiliser work* ot Durham's lay
away from ths rest of the plant. Few
visitors ever *dw them, and th* few
whp old would come out looking like
Dante, of whom thp peasants declared
that he hml been Into Ml To thl*
port uf the yards esm® all th® “tank-
*g«,” and the woat* products of al|
sorts; here they dried out the bones—
sqd In suffocating cellars where the
daylight never canto you might see men
and and . oll.li. n bending in . i
whirling machines nnd sawing bits of
bone Into all sorts of shape,, breattil^t
their lungs full of th* tine dust, and
doomed to die. .o, n . .ne oft hem. Willi
in a certain definite time.
Hera they made th* blood Into al
bumen, sml made other 'foul-smelling
things Into thing, *tfil more foul smell
ing. In tho corridors and caverns
where It tvas dpn* you might lose
yourself At In th* great coves of (£sn-
lucky. In the dust and the steam th*
f leet rlc lights would shine Ilk* far-off
winkling stars—red and blue, green
and Rurplo star*: according to the
| color of tho mist nnd th<* brow* from
which it came. For the odor* In these
ghastly charnel houses there may be
words In Lithuanian, but there Is none
In Rngllsh. Tho person entering would
have to summon hi* courage .id for a
cold water plunge. He would go on
like a mail swimming under water; tie
would put his handkerchief over Ids
face, nnd begin to cough and choke;
and then. If he were still obstinate, h*
woultl And his head beginning to ring,
and the veins In his forehead to throb,
until tln.ilij he would assailed by an
iiverpoui ilng blast of ammonia fumes,
an I would turn ami run foi hi* life, and
come out half dazed.
On top ot thl* were the room* where
they dried th# “tankage/’ the mass of
brown, ntrlngy *tufT that was left after
the waste portion* of the carcasses had
h "I th.* lmd mifl t.ill.fA d i let I out «>f
them. Thl* dried material they would
then grind to * fine powder, nnd after
they had mixed It up well with a my«-
terioii* but Inoffensive brown rock,
which they brought In nnd ground up
by the hundreds of car londH for that
purpose, the substance was ready to ba
put Into bags and sent out to the world
as any pne of a hundred different
brands ot standard bone phosphate.
And then thfe farmer In Maine or Cali
fornia or Texas would buy this, at say
III a ton, and plant It with hi* corn;
tun) for several days after the operation
the fields would hav* a strong odor,
and the fanner and his wagon and th*
very horse* that had hauled it would
all have It, too. In Packlngtown th*
f»’l Ilil/..’| I, pme. Hint end .if being a
flavoring* ana inatead of a ton •> mo
spread out on *«v*ral acre* under th*
open sky, there are hundred* anti thoij-
saqds of tons of it In one building,
limped here and ther* In haystack
pllt*. covering the floor several inches
deep, and fllllfig th* air with a choking
dust that becomes a blinding sand
storm when the wind stirs.
(Continued In Tomorrow’* Georgian.)
TO ADOPT PRIMARY
RULES ON THURSDAY
For the nurposa ot Stlpptlnf rule* for
lb* state primary la August, a mretlug
of flit! Fulton County Democratic Execu
tive committee 1ms bceu raltal to meet In
ihe tmsemfnt of the county court fiuuso on
the evening of July 5. TUe official cul|
Is as follow*:
“To the Memliers of the Democratic
Committee of Fulton Cooaty,
K s>. sou are hereby notified that a
it Qt the Democratic Kiemtlv*
eonimlttoa of l'ulbm • minty, Georgia, Is
fslad to astemble lu the basastSBt *-f th*
Thursilar. f
er boldine of tne state Be
let SOM coifu t t , Align*!
mi- li other l.imlii
erstte primary
amr *
rly i
n hi.i y properly come
•*T. D. PKf.DBU. Chainnan.
“CUAUr.KS g. AM.LIN. Bocretory.” •
COL. ESTILL ADDRESSED
WAYNESBORO CITIZENS
Hpei’lnl to Th* Georgian-
Waynesboro, Go., July 4.~>Coion*| J.
II. I-'htill and Hon. Thomas 6. Morgan,
both of Huvatinuh, apoko biro ycator-
day In th* lnt*r«st of tho south Geor
gia candldsto. The court house was
Well filled With people, II lid Ill.illV ladle*
woro present. Tho colonel made a very
plcnsant addrtM* With no joimmuI
Jibll.Mo nf liny one.
Mf- Morgan's address favoring the
poton*l we* tho feature of tho day.
HI* remarks were full of humor of tho
political situation In (he Georgia gu
bermitorlnl campaign.
POSTAL CLERKS MEET
THURSDAY, JULY 5th.
FREE CONCERT
AFTERNOON AND EVENING,
At th« Opining of Nathan's Vienna Cafe
76 Peachtree Street.
D*lnty Souvenir* given *w*y. Ten per cant of the groi* receipt,
will go to th* benefit of the Old yVomen'a Horn*.
Hperlsl to the OeorgUo.
Macon. Oa., July 4.—Georgia postal
Clerks mat In convention here today nnd
the attendance I* very large. Presi
dent C. Cl. Hardeman, who reside, In
Mai-nn, hsd mad* *11 arrangement* for
Iho entertainment of the visitor*, nnd
tho program contains many pleasant
feature*.
The session convened In the post-
office. and many matter* <>f Importance
to th* association will be disposed of.
EXCELLENT SERVICE TO
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH,
NORTH CAROLINA.
During tho month* of June, July
nnd AugUHt the Houbourd Air Line
Hallway will operate on its train leav
ing Atlanta at 9:35 p. m, every HAT-
UHDAY, a through slurping car to
Wilmington, N. G\; returning tho
through Bloepor will Icavo Wil
mington Thursday at 2:00 p.
m.. arriving In Atlanta at
6:30 a- in., Friday. Arrangement*
have burn made? with the street rail
way pooplo at Wilmington to have
car* ruuly ut the depot to immediate
ly transport passengers to the hotels
Ot WrigblsviJJo Jieach. Baggage will
he checked to dchtluatlou. WEEK
END rato. goo‘<I for flvo days, $8.25;
HE A HON ticket*, $18.55.
SEABOARD. ,
DeLOAOH MILL SOLD
FOR SUM OF >38,000
J. \V. runway and ill* o>«<Klatrs hn\4*
mrelussd tlnj laml nml bolUIlngs of Him
* -• rapapy. at
I mu It Mill Mniiiifiii tiirliig
11 IkIiI'i i"l nvcniii* mul Hi** ’
wai. pfiyiiii; itoiji'.-Utlng ev
pBUtrsfooa.
Ths D*Loach company will moro II*
to n filler prorMlug Oiorc spnra. It N **tmt«*«|
flint Mr. t’onwoy will rrvet u Urg- iiiunu
fat turliig a plant on tho »lto .J»Ci|UlU”l by
$3f*.0<)u, It la
plant
in . i
Hie.
fur
To Build Car Shops.
Bp" lal to Tbt Gt-orgiau.
Cliottanoogn. Tenn, July i.—Th*
Chattanooga Hallway Company hu*
n.-ked for * franchise to build cur iu-
|..,n shop* hero at a cost of $1I(,000.
...- ...u l
P*ik
lfTMr*-nt r<«*r«oc
In* te*“
1 have not alar# tad I
it symptom ef the obi th* *
UKK A. D. LAMMF
, Th#* flmt bottle wit
would not ask for drnsglst will return
SHAM BATTLE
PIEDMONT 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. Benefit 5 th Regiment,
National Guard of Georgia Encampment Fund. No Extra Charge
For Seats In Grandstand.