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Newspaper Page TextTHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TIU'RRDAY, JI I.Y t, 1M The Local Agent is the man who han dles life insurance as a side line. He is an enterprising hanker, merchant or profes sional man, who eni- tjoys his leisure time representing s o m e good company, and thereby doubles his income. The more popular the company the more policies lie writes with least effort. No company is more de servedly popular than the Mutual Benefit, of Newark, N. J., on account of its unblem ished reputation, its low premiums, i t s Annual Divi dends and its liberal "contracts. It is a conservative company, paying rea sonable commissions to high class men. If we are not repre sented in your com munity, drop us a ling. Angler & Foreman, Slate Agents, ATLANTA. FOi RTFI OF JULY QUIETES1 \ CHIEFTURNERREMEMBERS "The quietest Fourth I remember,’’ said Chief Turner, of the county police, Thursday morning. "There were ne groes everywhere in the county, bar becues galore and ull kindn of picnics, but little trouble.” Hut the Fourth among the negroes was not without incident. Members of the county police reported a number of occurrences which were not without an element of humor. A crowded electric car stopped at College Park and an officer on the plat form saw a big negro emerge from the calaboose and start on a run for the car. He climbed on board, his holiday toilet rather the worse for a July sun and the close air of the lock-up. He j greeted a friend. “Dey done had me locked up all de mawnln',” he said. ’’Hit cost me two dollahs an* er haaf.” "Ain't dey try you?” asked his friend. "No, dey Jes’ lock me up an’ git rnah money,” said tho victim of Justice. "Well, dnt ain’t law,* said the coun sellor. The car sped on, and at the next stop a deputy sheriff reached into the crowd and extracted a negro who wa* too boisterous even for the Fourth. As he departed to the calaboose the released prisoner watched him with interest not unmixed with sympathy. "Dere now.” he said. “Dere’s another pore nigger’s two-fifty gone.” Out at River park a negro dance was. In full blast. In the center of the fino a troubled looking negro was swinging a "bright yaller" girl, who was ob livious of oil out the strains of "St. Louis Tickle." Out trouble descended COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE REORGANIZED Special to The Georgian. . Hartwell, Ga., July 5.—A mnss meet ing of the Democrats of Hart county was held here today. Colonel J. R. Skelton was unanimously elected chairman of the executive committee ami Colonel Arthur S. Richardson sec retary. The following were elected as mem bers of the executive committee: W. I. Halley, J. R. Myers, Oscar,Herndon, Frank Sadler. \\ f . R. McConnell, J. T. Phillips, J. O. Richardson, T. B. Thornton, L. L. McMullan, B. McMul- lan, P. D. Isom, W. J. Obarr, F. M. Johnson, J. A. Adams, John 8. Rowe, j. F. Holbrooks, John C. Walters, Jack rhappelear, T. E. V. White, J. H. H. Newborn, M. M. Norman, L. Richard son. T. L. McMullan, Harrison San ders. upon the pair. It took the form of a little black woman, with burning eyes and a big umbrella. When she reached the pair the umbrella fell first across the bend of the man and then wrecked tho picnic hat «»f the yellow girl. The other dancers took their corners. "Here, stop that,” said a county po lice officer who mud© Ills way into tho hall. "He's rnah husbnn* an* he shan't dance wld dot gal,” said the injured wife. It ended b.t tire younger woman swearing out a warrant against the wrecker <>f l|«-r headgear. Out on the Lake view road were a dozen barbecues. Roast pigs and sheep were on every hillside, and the utinns- phero was pungent with the fragrance of the feast. Kegs of bey were flowing freely Into tin cups and some of the crowd had drunk not wisely, but too well When f ?t*• time for returning came they were oblivious of the world and Its sorrow. One wagon load of feast era started cityward on the run. A fat negro, who sat on the tailboard absorbing the last bottle of beer, was jolted out when the wagon struck a stone nnd the fall broke his leg below* the tnee. He yelled lustily, but the roisterers were too busy to listen, and they left heir comrade lying In the road without ever slack the pace. The next vehicle raised 1 from the dust and t >ok him home. But with all the crowds and the picnic beer the Fourth was singularly free from serious disorder. An affair at River park. In which a negro woman was sliced by a razor, whs reported late at night, bilt the county police were forced to make but few arrests. "But I'm glad It’s over," said Chief Turner. BEAUTIFUL HORSEWOMAN SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. Affirmed. Prather ». Pentnno, from city court Hooper & Dykes, for plaintiff In error. William. £ Harper, contra. City of Atlanta v. Pate, from city court of Atlanta. Judge Reid. J. L. Mayson and W. P. Hill, for plaintiff In error. Westmoreland Broa., contra. Powell v. Wiley, from city court of Atlanta. Judge Reid. Sims & Hewlett and E. M. A O. F. Mitchell, for plaintiff ■P™. “■« “ V In error. Walter T. Colquitt and lien- » or , p ?, J ‘ ** Kent QnJ nett J. Conyers, contra. ry. R. T. Fouche,, McHenry A Mad dox and Seaborn A Barry Wright, for plaintiff* In error. Halated Smith, con- r.her v. Seaboard, Air I.lne Railway, from Stewart superior court. Judge I.ltt lejohn. (I. Y. Harrell and H. F. Harrell, for plaintiff In err E. Hawkins and K T. Hickey, contra. Hardin, adm'r, v. Neal I.onn A Bank ing Co., from Fulton auperl >i court. Judge Pendleton. Thomas F. Corri gan, for pill I in Iff In error. Westmore land Hm»„ contra. Smith et ul. v. Kennedy, from city court of WnghtBVllle. A. S. Buaaey. Judge pro hac vice. E. L. Stephens. Phelan v. Vestner, from Fulton su perior court. Judge Pendleton. Bur ton Smith, for plaintiff in error. Rob* ser & Brandon, contra. King & Co. v. Georgia Railway and Electric Company, from Fulton supe rior court. Judge Pendleton. Lowndes Calhoun, for plaintiff* In error. Rosser A Brandon, W. T. Colquitt and B. J. Conyers, contra. . Wardlaw et at. V. Herrington et al., from Fulton superior court, Judgo Pen dleton. Burton Smith and J. A. Branch, for plaintiffs In error. Cut- Person A Johnson, contra. Rtvtritd. Dethrage et al. v. City of Rome, from Floyd superior court. Judge Hen- A. L. Hatcher, contra. Dismissed. Carter et al. v. American Ginger Ale and Carbonating Company, from Ful ton auperlor court. Judge Pendleton. Moore A Pomeroy, for plaintiffs In er- r >r. Peeples A .Ionian and Payne, Jones A Jones, contra. Cade et al. v. DuUose, from Elbert superior court. Judge Holden. Joseph N. Worley, for plaintiffs In error. Wil liam D. Tutt, Jr., contra. Rehearing! - Denied. Dolvln v. American Harrow Com pany, from Greene superior court. Wheatley, receiver, x. Glover et al.. from Slimier superior i om t. Watson V. Barnes, r.instable, et al. from Fulton superior court. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES- Georgia School of Technology ATLANTA, GEORGIA A technical InutKnU of th* high** rank. whM» «m!u«U*. wlthoot«tee •rd lucratir* position* in *n#in*«rifif and w*""*** 1 *} Hf*. I?}”*' - th# South, with Um abonndme *»p*rtsnRfc* oftadik* sradoatra in*•*<?** derrtepmant. Th* forty rntmten of tho rU-aof tt'.vt graduation. Advanced oouroo* In Mvebinirsl. KlsalrtaU. To*tOo. Mfrliy rr-sr- and Fnvinaanrw CWtotry. JUtonaWo and now *qutpm*nt of Shop. 1U1I. LalwmtorUa. oUj^Now Library ar.d naw QtVmirsl laboratory. Coat rmaonaMa Earh ccuaty ta Gaorgia antltaoa to fifteen frr* scholsrshlpa. Tha nail *«**k>n begin* Sept ». For iltoEiraUd ratalogn*, xMiarn K. G. MATHESON, A. M„ LL D.« President. Atlanta, Georgia FATALLY WOUNDED RESISTING ARREST LUCY COBB INSTITUTE, Athens, Ga. 1906 1907 The FORTY-EIGHTH session of the Lucy Cobb Institute, an institution for the education of young woman of Georgia, will reopen on WEDNE9DAY, Ppeclnl to Tim Georgian. ML Alry-Ga., July 6.—As the result ^ ^ ^ ... wt of an accident while resisting arrest iSipfEMBRR"I"'For ’esUl'oguVend ,!o!s. n,Kht ’ Elro ^* * room reservations apply to place, war fatally allot, tho ballot pen©- tinting tho abdomen. Although yet olive there is vary little hopes of his recovery. TWO CABMEN FINED FOR BEATING HORSES George Brown and Tom Clark, negro cabmen for the Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company, wore tried before Re corder Rroyles Thursday morning on tho charge at cruelly whipping their boms. Brown woe fined $15.76 and was bound over to the state courts on th© charge of carrying concealed weapons, one witness testifying he saw the cab man with a pistol In his pocket. Clark was fined $10.75. Policemen Rowan. Rosser, Starnes and Coogler. the or- »■' • ; 11' K "i:i. . i ' tie I Unit both horse* were terribly beaten. MOULTRIE CELEBRATED THE GLORIOUS FOURTH Bperlnl to The Georgian. Moultrie, Oa., July 5,—The Fourth of July was celebrated in Moultrie on a larger scale than has been attempted since tho civil war. Fully 12,000 people were In the city from this and sur rounding counties. The trades display in the morning included floats from half a hundred business houses. The visitors were given a barbecue din ner, which was supplemented by bas kets furnished by txio ladles of Moul trie. There was an all-day singing In tha court house, a fiddlers* convention, a game of baseball In the afternoon and horse racing. Every businn## house, tho public building# and many resi dences were decorated with flags and bunting. The day closed with a fireworks dis lay on tho court house square, given '• Savannah pm lies. Mu*|c win fur - nlshed by tho Woodmen's band, of Sa vannah. MRS. M. A. LIPSCOMB, Principal. ALABAMA BRENAU —i KUKAULA, ALABAMA. — young ranr. h|.«- oratory. Beautiful mognidrai mote, splendid health record, a in. u nnu rhsutarupm taken bison of tisi t'omuMrtiremrnt. Specially low prlc Write for 111nstrnted catalogue. i«l nd vnntnitea In music, nr Irebetffa of 15 InHrument* lew hulldhig* Icrsteil upon files 1 winter ell THREE TRAINS WRECKED AT HICKORY DURING DAY Special to The Georgian. Hickory, N. C„ July 5.—Tuesday morning two trains collided head-on. about four miles east of this place, at little station called Omnyolla. X) one was hurt but the fireman, who was badly bruised. Tuesday evening os So. 22 from Asheville to Bnllsbury w*ns passing the wreckage by means of a siding It w »* thrown off the track, thus barring both tracks for an hour. NOT ALLOWED TO LAND, BOATMAN KILLS FARMER Special to The Georgian. Greensville, Miss., July 6.—Because he had refused him permission to stop at his private landing, an unknown man, who was drifting down the river in a barge, shot and killed William Schlmmclphenlg, a farmer, residing about one mile south of Greensville. After killing Hchlinmelphenlg the man escaped In his barge. !••••••••••••< •eeeeeeeeeeeee,. iHIMMIMIMttl PACKINGTOWN TOILERS MUST BREATHE THROUGH SOAKED SPONGES GIRLS COMPELLED TO WORK IN DEADLY DAMP HOLES-ODOR OF MOIST FLESH SICKENING itMMMMMMMMMI iiimmiihHnhhii CHAPTER XIII (Contlnutd.) It wo, to title building that Jurgla came dally, ae It dragged by an un- «een hand. The mqnth of May was an exceptionally cool on*, and his se cret prayers war* granted; but early In Juno there came a record-breaking hot spell, and after that there were men wanted In the fertilizer mill. The bn*s of the grinding room had come to know Jurgla by this time and had marked him for a likely man; and •o when he came to the door about 2 o'clock this breathless hot day he felt » sudden spasm of pain shoot through him—the bos, beckoned to him! In ten minutes more Jurgls had pulled off his coat and overshlrt, and set his teeth together and gono to work. Here was one' more difficulty for him to meet and conquer! His labor took him about one minute to learn. Before him wns one of the vents of the mill In which the fertilizer Was being ground—rushing forth In a frest brown riser, with n spray of the nnest dust flung forth In clouds. Jur- zls was given a shovel and along with naif a dozen others It was his task to •h»*el this fertiliser Into carts. That others were at work he knew »y the sound, and by the fact that ho •ometlrnes collided with them: other wise they might as well not have been there, for in the blinding dust storm a Sis'face 1 4 not *** * lx t ** t *** * ront 01 When he had filled one cart he had to grope around him until another came, and If there was none on hand he continued to grope till on# arrived, in nve minutes he was, of course, a mass of fertiliser from head to feet: they gave him a sponge to tic over Ills mouth so that he could breathe, but “W’hfe did not prevent his Ups and eiellds from caking up with it and Ills ears f ro m nillng solid. looked like a brown ghost at twl- ih. ha,r *° ,ho ®» h® became H*. of the building and of every- irl* n * n<1 - for ,h * 1 matter, a hun- outside of It. The building Jr. ’’Lhe. left open, and when the wind d«T 5 u . rh * m * Company lost a great «• "* f 'rtHlz*r. "ortdh. In hts shirt sleeves, and .inM .5* thermometer at over a hun- •Mrv. phosphates soaked In through ni-o..L 0r . e ot Jurgls’ skin, nnd In flvo hs-had a headache, nnd In een *»» almost dazed. The bloo.1 SILVER BASKETS. J' e are showing some very ^tractive patterns in these touch-sought pieces. The Mtutlix who have wrought t*® Lave so admirably car ed out the ai’tistic ideals of the designers that the result s catirely pleasing, brace, elegance aud supe- «°r workmanship ai'e ehar- • 1 eristic of all our silver ware. MAIER & BERKELE. was pounding In his brain like an en gine's throbbing; there waa a frightful pain In the top of his akull, and hs could hardly control his hands. Still, with the momory of his fourth months’ slego behind him. hs fought on. In n frenzy of determination, nnd hnlf nn hour later ho began to vomit—he'vom- Ited until It seemed as If his Inwards must be tom to shreds. A man could get used to the fertilizer mill, the boss hud said, If lie would only make up his mind to It; but Jurgls now began to see that It was a question of making up Ills stomach. * At the end of that day of horror ha could scarcely stand. He had to catch himself now anil then, and lean against a building nnd get his bearings. Most of the mon, when they came out, made straight for n saloon—they seemed to place fertilizer and rattle snake poison In one class. But Jurgls was too III to think of drinking—he could only make his way to the street nnd stagger on to a ear. He had a sense of humor, and later on, when lie became an old hand, he used to think It fun to board a street car and see what happened. Now, however, he was too 111 to notice It—how the people In the car began to gasp nnd sputter, to put their handkerchiefs to their noses, and transfix him with furious f dance*. Jurgls only knew that a man n front of him Immediately got up and gave Mm a neat; and that half a minute later the two people on each aide of him got up, and that In a full minute the crowded ear waa nearly empty—those passengers who could not get room on the platform having got ten nut to walk. Of course Jurgls had made hit home miniature fertilizer mill a minute after entering. The stuff waa half an Inch deep In his skin—hts whole sys tem was full of It, and It would hnva taken n week not merely of scrubbing, but of vigorous exorrlse to get It out of him. Ab It was. h, could be com pared with nothing known to men. euve that newest discovery of the sav ants, a substance which emits energy for an unlimited time, without being Itself In the least diminished In pow er. He smelt ao that he made alt tho food at the table taste, and set the whole family to vomiting; for himself It wns threa doyB before he could keep anything upon his stomach—he might wash hts hands, and usa a knife and fork, but were not hts mouth and throat tilled with the poison? And still Jurgls stuck It out! In spite of splitting headaches he would stngger down to the plant and take up his stand once more, and begin to shovel In the blinding clouds of dust. And so at the end of the week Me waa a fertilizer man for life—He was able to eat again, and though hie head nev er Stopped aching. It ceased to be ao bad that he could not work. So there pessed another euturner. It was a summer of prosperity all over the country, and the country ate gen erously of packing house products, and there was plenty of work for all the family. In spite of the packers' effort* to keep a superfluity of labor. They were again able to pay their debt* and to begin to save a little sura; but thsre ware one or two sarrtflrea they con sidered too heavy to be for long—It was too bad that the lioys should havs to sdl papers at thsir age. It was ut terly useless to caution them and plead with them; quite without knowing It. they were taking on the tone of new environment. They were learning to SYNOP5IS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS The slorr of "Tho JuriRlo," Upton Sinclair’* novel, which Mind the ifovorn* incut In vestlun t Ion Into tho methods employed by tho beef trust, hoi Its origin In :m n> ■ 'ml I’ncklngtiMvii romniicr. A simple-minded eoterlo of I.lthunnlnns srrlve In Chicago, *<*okln*c employment, nnd arc conducted to l'm’ktuxrmni by n friend, diirgls, « giant lu strength. Is betrothed to Ono, and the llrst chapter tolls of the wedding In nil Its grotraque- nc*<*. After much tribulation the otitlro family obtains work la ' the stock yards—nil bat Ona. whom Jurgls mid' Should never work. The terrlblo tale of the Nlnushter bouses N told with almost revolting detnll— the tilth, the overworking of bauds, the xtruggle to keep up with the noeemnkrrs. Is nil vividly depicted. The little fmnlly Imya n hoii»o on the liiNtaflineiit tdnu, only to find they hnve l»©en swindled, nnd Onn la forced to seek Work to meet tho nrtunl living expenso and the Interest on the purchtiso contract, of which they leul n tin. Lite. Mnrljn discovers that the forelady Is cheating her, liy taking money which— should hare gone to tut worker. Uhe protests violently, ami Is discnnrgndj- Finally she ohtnllis n man’s work nt half the pay of n man. A hahy comes to Ono nod Jurgls. bat tho little mother ran take only n week off. fearing the loss of her Jolt, Just ns Ona and Jurgls pay Mnrljn wool they owe her. Jurgls turn* his an kle nnd Is laid up for month*. IBs nature lieglns to rhntige. lie become* rro«* and tavago with pain. Starvation stares the family In tho race. The smaller chip dren nr# oent out Into the snow to sell pnpers. i:\riitinilly. In summer, Jurgls trie* to regain his position, lie has been squeezed of bis strength by toll ana Illness, and at last Is form! to accept a place In tha fertilizing plant—the deadliest kind of work. Ona'o Illness In crease*. ret she work* no. Wednesday’s Installment ended with a description of tha horrors In the fer tiliser plant. Copyright, woe, by Upton Hlnclafr. All ri|hti reserved. swear In voluble English; they were learning to pick up cigar stumps find ntnoko them, to pass hours or their time gambling with pennies nnd dice and cigarette cards; they were learn ing th© location of all th© disorderly houses, on the "L©r©©,” and th© names of the "madames" who kept them, and th© days when they gave their state banquet#, which the police captain* ami the big politicians all Attended. If a visiting "country cuatomer" were to ask them they could show him which was "Hfnkydlnk's" famous saloon, and could ev©f> point out to him by name the different gamblers and thugs and "hold-up men 1 ' who made the place their headquarters. And worse y©t, the boys were getting out of the habit of coming home at night. What wa« the use, they would ask. of wasting time and energy and a possible car fore riding out to the stockyards every night when the weather was pleasant and they could crawl under a truck or Into an empty doorway and sleep ex actly as well? 8o long as they brought Dome a half dollar for each day, what mattered It when they brought It? But Jurgls declared that from this to cean- (ng to como at all would not be a very long step, ami so It was decided that Vlllmas and Nlkalojus should return to school In the full, and Instead Elsblfta should go out nnd get some work, her _ place at home being taken by her I room. The latter were tended by wo. younger daughter. i men; there waa a sort of spout, like Little Kotrlnn was like most children the nozie of a hose, and one of the of the poor, prematurely made old; she j women would take a long string of had to take care of her little brother., "casing" and put the end over the noz- wbo was a cripple, and also the baby; zle and then work the whole thing on, she had to cook the meals and wash as one works on the finger of a tight Ing. Besides this, she was working In "!»•• "f 'L.- dark li«.|#-s, l>. • •!*■• t ri- light, and the dampness, too, was deadly— there were always puddles of water on the floor, and a sickening odor of moist flesh in the room. The people who work ed here followed the ancient custom of ph : nr*', wherein U." j tai mlirn n I- t . ol'ii .'f lien d It It V * s Id the fall III d .»f show* In the winter, and the chameleon, who in black when he 11cm upon a stump and turns grtfen when he moves to a Ie&f. The men and women who worked In this department were pre cisely the color of the "fresh country nausngr/' they made. The sauange room woa on Interest ing place to visit, for two or three minute#, and provided you did not look nt the people; the machines were the most wonderful things in tho en tire plant. Presumably s&oaagM were once chopped nnd stuffed by hand, and If so it would be Interesting to know how* many worker* had been displaced by these Inventions. On one side of the room were the hoppers, into which men shovelled Piads of meat and wheel- barrow* full "f *plc***; In Hiihp great bowls w*r« whirling knlv*M that made 2.000 revolution* a minute. And when the meat was ground fine and adulter ated with potato flour, and well mlzed with water. It wa* forced to the stuff ing machines on the other side of the the dlshe* and clean house, and have supper ready when the workers came home In the evening. 8he was only 13, and smell for her age, but she did all this without a murmur; nnd her mother went out. and after trudging a couple of days about the yards, set tled down as a servant of a "sausage machine." Elzbleta was used to working, but she found this change a hard one, for the reason that she had to stand mo tionless upon her fe*t from 7 o'clock In the morning till 12:30, and iigaln from 1 till 6:10. For the first few day* It seemed l *> her that she could not stand it—she suffered almost as Jurgls had from the fertilizer, and would or.me out [had to give was a at sundown with her head fairly reel- wrist; and In aomc glove This string would be twenty or thir ty feet long, but the woman would have It all on In a Jiffy, and when she had several on she would press a lever and a string nt sausage meat would be shot out taking the rasing with It as It came. Thu# one might stand and see appigr. miraculously born from tho machine, a wriggling snake of sau sage of Incredible length. In front eras a big pan which caught these crea tures, and two more women who seized them as fast as they appeared and tvi iMted them Into link#. Thin wn« for the uninitiated th»* most perplexing II; for all that the ■he contrived to give It so that Instead of an end less chain of sausages, one after an- otln-r, there giew under int IiiiihIm u bunch nt strings all dnngllng from n single ranter. It wan quite like the feat of a prestidigitator—for the wo man v.<>\ ke.l H.. f.INI 11,11 f tile eje rmi!.| literally not follow her, and there was only a mist of motion, and tangle af ter tangle of sauHAges appearing. Ii til*’ niblHf of (be mist, however, III" Vl“ Itor would suddenly notice the tense set face, with tho two wrinkles graven In tho forehead, and the ghastly pallor • • r ttie cheek*; and then he would sud denly recollect that It was tlma ho wan going on. The woman did not go on; she stayed right there—hour after li .ni tiny after day, ynr alter >ern, twisting saundgo-Jlnkn and racing with de.lth. l! V\ ;t m pleee Uolk, Mid she H /I • apt to have a family to keep alive; and Htern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that she could only do thl by working Just as she did, with all her soul upon her work* nnd with nev er an Instant for a glance at the well- dressed ladles and gentlemen who came to stare at her as at some wild beast In a menagerie. chapter’xiv. With one member trimming beef In a cannery, and another working In a sausage factory, the family hod a first hand Knowledge of the great majority of Pecklngtown swindles. For It was the custom ae they found, whenevsr meat Was so spoiled that It could not be used for anything else, either to can ft or else to chop 1C up Into sausage. With what had been told them by Jon as, who had worked In the pickle rooms, they could now study the whole of the spoiled meat Industry on the Inside, and read a new and grim mean ing Jnto that old Parkfngtown Jest—- that they used everything of the pig except the squeal. • Jonas had told them how the meat that was taken out of pickle would often be found sour, and how they would rub It up with soda to take away the smell, and sell It to be eaten on free-lunch counters; also of nil the miracles of chemistry which they per formed, giving to any sort of meat, fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any color and any flavor and any odor they chose. In the pickling of hams they had an Ingenious apparatus, by which they aavod time and Increased the ‘capacity of the plant—a machine consisting of a hollow needle attached to a pump; by plunging this nesdle into th# meat and working wlth^hls foot, a man could fill a ham with pickle In a few seconds. And yet. In spite of this, there would be hams found spoiled, some of them with sa odor so bad that a rqan could hardly bear to be In the room with them. To pump Into these the packers had a second end much stringer pickle which de stroyed the odor—a process known to the workers as "giving them $0 per cent." Also, after the ham had.been smoked, there would be found some that had gone to the bad. Formerly these had been sold as "Number Three Grade,” but later on some Ingenious person had hft upon a new device, and now they would extract the bone, about which the bad part generally lay, and Insert In the hoi© a whlte-bot Iron. After this Invention. there wa* no longet Number one. Two or Three Grade—there was only Number One Grade. The pack* Ingle turn of the originating such ochemes— they had which were all tho odds ajid ends of P'lik, Huffed Into riming*; und "C’all- fmnla hams," which were the should ers, with big knuckle Joints, nnd near ly nil tho in* uf nit nut; nnd fum y "skinned hams," which were mndc of the oldest bogs, whose skins wero so heavy and coarse that no one would buy them—that is, until they had been cooked and chopped fino and labelled "head cheese"! It was only when the whole hain was spoiled that It camo Into tho de partment of Elzbleta. Cut up by tho two-thousand-revolutlons-a-mlnutp fly ers, and mixed with half a ton of other moat, no odor that ever wns In a hum could make any difference. There was never the least attention paid to what\wns cut up for NHUsuge; there would como nil the way back from Europe old sausage that had been re jected, and that was mouldy and white —it would bo dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped Into the hop pers and made over ngaln for homo consumption. There would he meat that had tumbled out on tho floor, In (he dirt and sawdust, where tho work- ♦*i* Inn/ trumped nnd spit uncounted billions of consumption germ". Them would be meat stored In greut piles In rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over It, gnd thouHsnds of rats vMi$ mo# iMsl an It. K m too dark In these storage plasso to soo well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls. Rats were nuisances, nnd the pack ers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread and meat would go into the hop pers togetner. This is no fairy story and no Joke; tho moot would bo shov eled Into carts, and the mnn who did the shoveling would not troublo to lift out a rat. even when he saw* one— there wore things that went Into the usage In comparison with which a poisoned rat woa a tidbit. Thero wos no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them In the water that was to be ladled Into the sausage. Thero were butt-ends of smoked meat and the scraps of corned beef. nnd «H Hi nnd ends *-f t!»•* waste •f ft:** plant# that would be (lump*-.I Into old barrels In the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid econ omy which the packers enforced there were some Job# that It only |xild to do once In a long time, nnd among these wav the cleaning out of the waste bar rels. Every spring they did it, and In the barrel# would be dirt nnd rust ni"' old iimIIh and stub? water -nnd cart loud after curt Imul ..f it would bo taken up nnd (IuiiiihmI Into the hop pers with fresh mem, and sent out to the public'# breakfast. Home of It they would make Into "smoked” saunagt— but a# the smoking took time, and was therefore **xpenH\e, the> would call upon their ( bemlhtry deput tment. and preserve It with borax and color It with gelatine to make it brown. All of their sausage rume out of tho name bowl, but when they came to wrap It they would stamp some of It "spot lal," und for thl* they would charge two cents more a pound. Such were the new surroundings In which Flzhlsta was placed, ami *m li wii« the v\..tk she whm compelled to do. It wa# stupefying, brutalizing work; tt l«ft her no time to think, no strength for anything. She wa# part of th© machine she tended, und every faeultv that was not needed f* r the machine wns doomed to !>.• crushed <ajt of e\- Istence Then wa# only one mercy about the cruel grind that It gave her the gift of Insensibility. Little by lit tle sho sank Into a torpor she fell silent. Hhe would meet Jurgls and Ona In the evening, and the three would walk home together, often with out saying a word. Ona, too, was full ing Into the habit of silence—Ona. who hart une# gone about singing like a birth .-III" Miih sick und miserable, and often Hie would handy have strength enough to drag herself home And there they would e;if whaf they had to eat, and afterwards, because there was only their misery to talk of, they would crawl Into bed and full Into a stupor and never stir until it whs time to get up again, and dress by candle light, and go back to the ma chines. They were so numbed that they did not oven suffer much from hunger now; only th* children con tinued to fret when th© food ran short. Yet th" soul of Ona wns not dead - th.- H'.iiis of non** "f th**m war© dead, hut only sleeping; and now and then they tvould waken, nnd theie wei© . pi*! 11 mi"#. The gjit.-H ..f memory would roll open—old Joys would stretch out their arm# to them, and they would stir beneath the burden that lay them, nnd feel It# forever Im measurable weight They could not even cry out beneath It; but anguish seize them, more dreadful tlisn the agony of death. It wa# a thing enreely to l»e spoken—a thing never poken by all the world, that will not know ith ...mi def* ,ii. (Continued In Tomorrow’# Georgian.) Removed to Larger Quarters WHERE WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO DO THE HIGHEST CLASS OF Commercial Printing at Reasonable Prices. Gate City Printing Company Boll Phone 292k. 23 B. Mitchell Street, Near Pryor. hat they called "boncle ham#

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, July 05, 1906, Image 7