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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
“THE JUNGLE” PICTURES HOW PACKINGTOWN
GRINDS ALL THE GOOD OUT OF ITS TOILERS
~ battle is iiiEGUty ^ the' wq&k" WILL
CHAPTER XIV.
(Continued.)
They were beaten; they had loat the
game, they were awept aalde. It was
not leaa tragic because It waa ao sor-
dld, becauae that 'It had to do with
wages and grocery bills and renta.
They had dreamed of freedom; of a
chance to look about them and learn
somethin*; to be decent and dean, to
see their children grow up to be strong.
And now It was all gone—It would
never be! They had played the came
and they had lost.' Six more years of
toll they hod to fare before they could
expect the least respite, the cessation
of the payments upon the house; and
how cruelly certain It waa that they
could never stand six years of such a
life as they were living! They were
lost, they were going down and there
.as no deliverance for them, no hope;
for all the help It gave them the vast
city In which they lived might have
been an ocean waste, a wilderness, a
desert, a tomb. So often this mood
came to One, in the night-time, when
something awakened her; she would He,
afraid of the beating of her own heart,
fronting the blue-red eyes of the old
primeval terror of life. Once she cried
aloud, and Woke Jurgls, who was tired
and cross. After that she learned to
weep silently—their moods ao seldom
came together now! It was as It their
hopes were burled in separate graves.
Jurgls, being a man, had troubles of
hla own. There was another spectra
following him. He bap n< ver spoken
of It, nor would ite allow any one else
to speak of It—he had never acknowl
edged Its existence even to himself.
Yet the battle with It took all the man
hood that he hod—and once or twice,
utas, a tittle more, Jurgls had discov
ered drink.
He was working In the steaming pit
of hell; day after day, week after week
—until now there was not an organ of
his body that worked without
pain, until the sound of ocean break
ers echoed In hts head day and night,
and the buildings swayed and danced
before him as he went down the street.
And from all the unending horror of
this there was a respite, a deliverance—
he could drink! He could forget the
pain, he could slip off the buraen; he
would see clearly again, ha would be
muster of his brain, of hla thoughts,
of his will. His dead self would stir
In him, and he would And himself
laughing and cracking Jokes with his
companions—he would be a man again,
and master of his life.
It was not an easy thing for Jurgls
to take more than two or three drinks.
With the flrst drink he could eat a
meal, and he could persuade himself
that that that was economy; with the
second he could eat another meal—but
thero would come a time when he could
eat no more, and then to pay for a
drink was an unthinkable extrava
gance, a defiance of the age-long in
stincts of hla hunger-haunted class.
One day, however, he took the plunge,
and drank up all that he had In his
pockets, and w*nt home half "piped,"
as the men phrase It. He wns happier
thun he had been In a year; nnd yet,
becouse he knew that the happiness
would not last, he wns' savage too—
with those who would wreck It, and
with the world, and with his wife:
nnd then, again, beneath this, he was
sick with the shame of himself. Af
terward, when he saw the despair
of his family, and reckoned up the
money he had spent the tears came Into
his eyes, and he began the long battle
with the spectre.
It was a battle that had no end, that
never could have one. But Jurgls did
not realise that very clearly; he was
not given much tlma for reflection. Ha
simply knew that he was always light
ing. Steeped In misery and despair as
he wns. merely to walk down tho street
was to be put upon the rack. There
was surely a saloon upon the corner—
perhaps on all four corners, and some
In the middle of the block as well; and
each stretched out a hnnd to him—
enrh had had a personality of Its own,
allurements unlike any other, doing
and coming—before sunrise and after
dnrk—there was warmth nnd n glow of
were too poor, and children did not die
of the measles—at least, not often,
how and than Kotrtna would And time
to sob over his woes, but for the
greater.part of the time he had to be
left alone, barricaded upon the bed.
The floor was full of draughts, and If
he caught cold he would die. At night
he was tied down, lest he should kick
the covers off him, while tbe family lay
In their stupor of exhaustion. He
would Ha and scream for hours, almost
In convulsions; and then, when he waa
» u «1 h ® would lle whimpering and
walling in his torment.
Yet all this was not really as cruel
“ " >un<, *. <or, sick as he waa, little
m2™??* ,h * 'rset unfortunate
member of that family. He waa quite
to bear hla sufferings—It waa aa
If he had all these complaints—to show
Protllffy of health he was. He
was tnt child of his parents’ youth and
Joy: he grew up like the conjurer's
rose bush, and all the world waa hla
Jn general, ha toddled around
the kitchen all day with a lean and
"“"•tr look—the portion of the fami
ly s allowance that fall to him waa not
enough, and he was unrestralnable In
£ . ,or more. Antanas was
but little over a year old, and already
h!m° n * bUt hl * rould manage
°ns waa visibly going to pieces.
the first place she was developing a
cough, like the one that had killed old
Bede Antanas. Hhe had had a trace of
It ever since that fatal morning when
the greedy street car corporation had
turned her out Into the rain; but now
It was beginning to grow serious, and
5? wa . k ® her “P night. Even worse
than that was the fearful nervousnesa
from which she suffered; she would
have frightful headaches and fits of
aimless weeping; and sometimes she
would come home at night-shuddering
and moaning, and would fling herself
down upon the bed and burst Into tears.
Several times she waa quite beslda
herself and hysterical; and then Jurgls
would go half mad with fright.
Elableta would explain to him
that It could not be helped, that
a woman waa subject to such things.
But he waa hardly to be per
suaded, and would beg and plead
to know what hod happened. She
had never been like this before,
he would argue—It was monstrous
and unthinkable. It was the life
she had to live, the accursed work she
had to do, and that was killing her
by Inches. She was not fitted for It—
no woman was fitted for It, no woman
ought to be allowed to do such work;
If the world could not keep them alive
any other way It ought to kill them at
once nnd be dono with It. They oilght
not to marry, to have children; no
workingman ought to marry—It he,
Jurgls, had known what a woman waa
like, he t^ould have had his eyes torn
out flrst. So he would carry on. be
coming half hysterical himself, which
was an unbearable thing to see In a
big man; Ona would pull herself to
gether and fling herself Into his arms,
begging him to stop, to be still, that
she would be better. It would be all
right. So she would lie and sob out
her grief upon hla shoulder, while he
gazed at her, as helpless aa a wounded
animal, the target of unseen enemies.
CHAPTE*R XV.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
Th* «torr of ‘Tin* Jontf*." ITpton Sinclair* nov*l, nhlob rnaa+il lb<* govern*
mint Inrrctigntlun lato the methods employed l»y the beef trust, him Its origin
In sn actual I'urkfngtawu roiuautt*.
A aliuple nilnibHl of Lithuanians arrive In t'htcngo. seeking employment,
sod are conducted to l'arUInfftown by n friend. Jurfts. « giant In atreiuth. fa
betrothed to tins, and the ftrat chapter fella of the ireddlsg In all Its grutcaqtt**
nras. After much tribulation the entire family obtains work lu the stock
yards—all lint tins, whom Jurgta said should never ,work.
The terrible title «if the ala tighter houeea In toltl with almost revolting detail—
the filth, the overworking of hands, the struggle to k*e|» up with the puermakor*
la gll vividly depleted. The little family btiya a bourn* on the litatiillincnt iilnu,
only to dud they have Itcen swindled, nnd otm la forcetrlo seek work to meet (be
actual living expense sud the Interest on the purchase
learn too tare.
Marlja discovers that the foretfldy ta chi
should have goue to the worker. MUe protests
she obtains s titan's work nt half the pay “
Jurgls. but ths little mother can take old
Just aa ona and Jurgta pay Marlja v»
kle and Is laid up for months. Ills nntnir begins to change,
nnd mirage with tamln. mnrvntlnti stores the family In the face,
dren are sent out Into the enow to sell papers.
Finally Jurgls lieglus work lu tits fertiliser plait-
Hlxhfeta slaves la the snasugs stuffing department.
Ily learn to iproar. drink anti smoko. Umditnlly the
coutract, of which they
cheating her, by taking money which
»ts violently. ftu.I Is dlseWged. Flnnliy
of n man. A baby comes to Ona nnd
of alt—and
of tho fata-
fn Hilly
can. and work, ft seems to fhein. always.
Thursday's Installment told of the itluinst Incredible conditions In the fertiliser
t ilanr. and goas deeper Into the rrliiilnnl treatment of employees, and the adullem*
Ion of tba ••meat.*' The future Ilea dnrk. hopeless, before them. Only death can
bs seen at the end of tho vista. And tbe strength of the whole family la Using
’ to the lied room door
surely sapped.
Copyright, 1906, by Upton Sinclair. All rlgbta rsaerrod.
•Iglit, nnd the steam of hot food, and
perhaps music, or n friendly face, and
a word of good cheer. Jurgi* develop
ed a fondness for having Ona on his
arm whenever he went out on the
street and he would hold her tightly,
and walk fast. It was pitiful to have
Ona know of thls~lt drove him wild
to think of It; the thing was not fair,
for ono had never tattled drink, anti
so could not understand. Sometimes.
In desperate hours, he would find him
self wishing that she might learn
what It was, so that he need not be
nshAmed In her presence. They might
drink together, and escape from the
horror—escape for a while, come what
would.
Ho there came a time when nearly all
the conscious life of Jurgls consisted of
a struggle with the craving for liquor.
He would have ugly moods, when he
hated OnA and the whole fomlly, be
cause they stood In his way. He was a
f»m| to have married; he had tied him
self down, had made himself a slave.
It was nil because he was a married
tnan that he was compelled to stay
In the yards; if it had not been for
that he might have gone off like Jonas,
and to the deuce with the packers.
There were few single men In the fer
tiliser mill—and those few were work
ing only for a chance to escape. Mean
time, too, they had something to think
about while they worked—they had the
memory of the last time they had been
drunk, and the hop© of the time when
they would be drunk again. As for
Jurgls, he was expected to bring home
every penny; he could not even go with
the men at noontime—he was supposed
to sit down and eat his dinner on a pile
of fertiliser du»t.
This was not always his mood, of
course; he still loved his family. But
Just now was a time of trial. Poor lit-
tie Antanas, for Instance—who had
never failed to win him with a smile—
little Antanas was not smiling Just
now, being a mass of flery red pimples.
He had all the diseases that babies
are heir to, In quick succession, scar
let fever, mumps and whooping cough
In the flrst year, and now he was down
with the measles. There was no one
to attend him but Kotrlna; there was
no doctor to help him, because they
e summer; and each
time Ona would promise him with ter
ror In her voice that It would not hap*
pen again—but In vain. Each crisis
would leave Jurgls more and more
frightened, more disposed to distrust
Elableta’* consolations, and to believe
that there was some terrible thing
about all this that hs was not allowed
to know. Once or twice In these out
breaks he caught Ona’* eye, and It
seemed to him like the eye of a hunted
animal; there were broken phrase* of
anguish and despair now and then,
amid her frantic weeping. It waa only
because he was so numb and .beaten
himself that Jurgls did not worry more
about this. But he never thought of It.
except when he waa dragged to It—he
Jived like a dumb beast of burden,
knowing only the moment In which he
was.
The winter was coming on again,
more menacing and cruel than ever. It
was October, and the holiday rush had
begun. It was necessary for the pack
ing machines to grind till late at night
to provide food that would be eaten at
Christmas breakfasts; and Marlja and
Elableta nnd ona, as part of the ma
chine, began working fifteen to sixteen
hours a day. There was no choice
about this—whatever work there was
to be done they had to do, If they
wished to keep their places; besides
that, It added another pittance to their
Incomes, so they staggered on with the
awful load. They would start work
every morning at seven, and eat thelf
dinners at noon, and then work until
ten or eleven at night, without another
mouthful of food. Jurgta wanted to
wait for them, to help them home at
night, but they would not think of this;
the fertilixer mill was not running
overtime, and there was no place for
him to wait save In a saloon. Each
would stagger out Into the darkness,
ami make her way to the corner, where
they met; or If the others had already
gone, would get Into a car, and begin a
painful struggle to keep awake. When
they got home they were always too
tired either to eat or t<5 undress; they
would crawl Into bed with their shoes
on. and lie like logi. If they should
fall, they would certainly be lost; If
they held out, they might have enough
coal for the winter.
A day or two before Thanksgiving
day there came a snow storm. It be
gan In the afternoon, and by evening
two Inches had fallen. Jurgls tried to
wait for the women, but went Into a
saloon to get warm, and took two
drinks, and came out and ran home to
escape from the demon; there he lay
down to wait for them, and Instantly
fell asleep. When he opened his eyes
again he was In the midst of a night
mare, and found Elableta shaking him
and crying out. At flrst he could not
realize what she waa saying—Ona hnd
not come home. What time waa St, hs
asked. It was morning—time to be up.
Ona had not been home that night!
And It was bitter cold, and a foot of
snow on the ground.
Jurgls sat up with a start. Marlja
was crying with frlffht and the chil
dren were walling In sympathy—little
fitanlslovas In addition, because the
terror of the snow was upon him. Jur*
gls had nothing to put on but his shoei
and his coat, and in half a minute he
was out of the door. Then, however,
he realised that there was no need of
haste, that he had no Idea where to
It was still dark os midnight, and
thick snowflakes were sifting down—
everything was so silent that he could
hear the rustle of them as they fell. In
ths few seconds that he stood there
hesitating he was covered white.
He set off at a run for the yards,
stopping by the way to Inquire In the
saloons that were open. Ona might
have been overcome on the way; or
else she might have met with an acci
dent In the machines. When he got to
the place where she worked he In
quired of one of the watchmen—there
had aot been any accident, so far os the
man had heard. At ths time office,
which he found already open, the clerk
told him that Ona’a check had been
turned In the night before, showing
that she had left her work.
After that there was nothing for him
to do but wait, packing back and forth
In the snow, meantime, to keep from
freexing. Already tho yards were full
of activity; cattle were being unloaded
from the cars In the distance, and
across the way the “beef-luggers”
were tolling In the darkness carrying
two-hundred-pound quarters of bul
locks In the refrigerator can. Before
the flrst streaks of daylight there came
the crowding throngs of workingmen,
shivering, and swinging their dinner
palls as they hurried by. Jurgls took
up his stand by the time office win
dow, where alone there was light
enough for him to see: the snow fell
so thick that it was only by peering
gosely that he could make sure that
Ona did not pass him.
Seven o’clock came, the hour when , -
the great packing machine began to ffj' ,n ff
move. Jurgls ought to have been at door. Jj 1 -
his place In the fertilizer mill; but In- more, etammerln* hla P«p >| a« | >y
stead he waa waiting, In an agony of through an
fear, for Ona. It waa fifteen minutes and then, aa there waa really nothin*
Instead, there waa one of Jadvyga'a
little alitrra. who gaaad nt him through
a crack In the door. "Where's Ona?"
ha demanded, and the child looked at
him In perplexity. "Ona?” she said.
"Yen," aald Jurgta, "len t she here?"
“So," eald the child, and Jurgls gave
a start. A moment later came Jad-
vyga. peering over the child's head.
When she saw who It was she slid
around nut of sight, for she was not
quite dressed. Jurgls must excuse her,
she began, her mother wa* very III—
"Ona. Isn't here?" Jurgls demanded,
too nlnrmed to wait tor her to finish.
"Why, no." said Jadvyga. "Whaf
made you think she would be here?
Had she said the was coming?”
"No,” ho answered, “nut she hasn't
come home—and 1 thought she would
he here the same as before."
“As before r echoed Jadvyga In per
plexity.
“The time she spent the night here,"
said Jurgls.
“There muzt be some mistake,” she
answered quickly. "Ona has never
rpent the night here."
He was only half able to realize her
words. "Why—why”— he exclaimed.
"Two weeka ago, Jadvyga! Hhe told
me so—the night It snowed and >/ia
could not get home."
"There must be some mistake," de
clared the girl again; "she didn't come
hero.”
Ho steadied himself by the doorsill,
and Jadvyga In her anxiety—for aho
was fond of Onar—opened tho door
wide, folding her Jacket ncrosa her
throat. "Are you sure you didn’t mis
understand her?" site cried. "She must
have meant somewhere else. Hhe''—
"Hhe said hefe,” Insisted Jurgls. "She
told me all about you, nnd how yuu
wore, and what you said. Are you
sure? You haven't forgotten? You
weren't away?"
"No, no!” she exclaimed—and then
came a peevish voice—"Jadvyga. you
ng the baby a cold. Shut the
Jurgls stood for half a minute
heads rleuebed lightly sad lilt Ups Ml. Ill,
nilml lu s turaiuil. Thru he went hums
uinl entered.
As hr opcurtl the iionr Its ssw ICIthlela,
who hsd slao Ihhmi looking fur tins, aua
hint conic hmm* egiilii. Him ivne jimr on
tlptin*, sml hsii s anger ou her linn. Jar-
glM will Ini unlit stir mis cloeo to lihn.
"Iloti't uisko say noise." shr wa , s-red.
hurriedly.
"W lull’s the uieltsr?" hs sskrd.
"Ons I, uslsrp.' shr punlril. "Hhr's h"oa
very 111. I'm urrstd her mliiil's Is-i-ii wtnr
ilsrlng, Jurgls. Hbr truu lust ou lbs elrrcl
ull lilgbi, uud I re ouly Just succeeded In
gelling her quiet."
"W'hru dhl sue I’ulne lilt" hs usked.
"Hoon ufler yuu left this uioiidug," until
Ktzliifta.
Ami hsu (lie bron out since!"
No, of course uot. Hho’s so trunk. Jut-
gls, shr
Aud hr ust hla teeth luirU together. "Yuu
re lying to uie," he sulil.
Klxldeiu uturlrd uud turned pair. "Why
is gunped. "W'hnt do yon '"—lit"
Hut /argil did m
her aside snd zlrudi
nnd opened ll. '
Una wns silling on Ihs bed. hhe turned
n nurtled look upon Idm ns lie entered,
tic closed the door 111 Ihnblota's face nnd
wont toward his wlie. "Where here you
lieeu?" In* ilciiinuilnl.
Mbs bad her hands rlosped tightly lu
her lap, and be saw Hint her tare was as
. - . - • • ,| tta —in, g|i-
i> tried to sit
snd swiftly :” "Jurgis, 7-T «l“P JSS
Ihi'ii oat of my wind. I started to eem*
I lift night, xml I could not And th* way
1 wit Iked—I walked alt nlsht. I think. aud
—aud I ouly fo( iioina—tlila uioruliqr.'
"*ou needed a roat.” no MM. In u liard
tow. "Whir did yon fo.out aipduV '
Ilf waa looking her fairly In Hit* fa.**,
aud Ito could rend tbe aiuldcii teiir um|
wild uncertainty that Imped lino her ©jr«*«.
“I—I had to go to—to the atoic." aim
played.' almoat lu a whisper; “1 Iwd to
**”You nro lying to me," aald Jurgls.
Then be clenched bin linuds nnd took H
step toward her. "Why do you He to me?'
lie crltNl. fiercely. ”Whnt are you doing
that you bare to lie to luoV"
••Jnrgla!" she exclaimed, starling up In
fright. "Oh. Jnrgla! how can you?"
"You hare lied to me, I aiy!" he. cried.
"You told me you had been to Jadvyipi/a
I toils* i bat other night, aud you hadn't.
ll«r '
MO|||l*Wh<
, MM _
had beet) where you were last night-
downtown, for I aaw you g**t
off the ear. Where were you?*'
It won tiu If tie hail stuck n knife Into
her. Mho seemed to go all to pteeee. For
m half aeeoinl ah* stuod. reeling anti sway-
lug. attiring til him nllh horror In her eyes:
then, with a cry of iingiila!i. she tottered
forward, atretehlii.t nut her nrnia to him.
aid* of the lied, ami then rnitk dawn, Imry
lug her face In her hands aud bursting luto
fruntle weeping.
There cam* on* of thoso hyaterb-al crises
Hint had an often dtaiunyed him. omi
Multlicd and wept, her fear ami migulab
building llicuiM'irea up Into HI mute* Fu
rlong guita of emotion would cornu sweep
ing wet* her. shaking her aa the tempest
within her and took possession of Iter, tor
turing Iter, tearing her. Tills llilug had
been wont to set Jurgls quite bealdo Idm
self; but now he stood with hls lips net
tightly aud ilia bauds ellnrhed. tftie might
weep till sb* killed nernelf. but she ikouhl
not more him this time- not an Inch, not
mi iueli. ItecHNN* tbe iouuds ab* utnde get
Ills blood to rnnnluf cold nnd Ida lips to
quivering In nptte or himself, he wns glad
of the ill version when Tats Klxlilctn. pule
with fright, opened the door nnd rushed
In; .vet be fumed upon her with an until.
"(Jo out!" lie erled. "go out!" And then,
iis she stood hesitating. glMMIt to siw.-lk, he
seised her by th* arm. nnd half thing her
from tho room, ataaiming the t|i»or nnd bar
ling It with a table. Then he turned again
ninl faced Ona, crying: "Now, iinawer
Yet the did not hear him—glut was mill
In til* grip of th* (tend. Jurgls could *eo
her oiitHt retched bunds, slinking nnd
iwltclilng. roaming here aud then* over th*
bed nt will, like living things; he
could see convulsive shuddering* atari III
her body and run through her limbs. Hhe
was sobbing nml chohiag— It was ns If Micro
were too many sounds for one throat,
they came t-buslng each other, like waves
upon the sea. Then her ovb-e would fiegln
to rise Into at-reaiiM] louder nnd Inmier
until It broke Into wild, horrible peala of
laughter. Jnrgla l>or* It
liear It no longer, and thet
seising her by the
ked up at him, out of her agony;
men *««* fell forward at Ida feet. She
enlight them In her bands. In spite of In
efforts to step ns We, and with her t* *»
upon th* floor Iny writhing. It madu m
choking In Jurgls' throat to henr her. m l
he cried ngnln, more savagely Hum before:
"Mlop If. I nay!'*
ug inlmife she lay there, pf
niiUlotil-s-i. iiattl n cold fear artxed her h *
1'iirul. thinking Hint she waa dying. .Sud
denly. however, he heard her volee, falntlyi
"Jnrgla! Jurgls!”
"What Is It?" bo aald.
He boil to I>end down to her. she waa so
wenk. - Hhe waa pleading with him. la hrok-
•dirnaes. pnlufolly uttered:
'Have fnlfti In me! Believe me!”
tn-ilevu what?” h* cried.
'Believe that I—that 1 know heat—that
I love you! And i|o not nsk me—what
you did. Oh. Jurgiu. please, please! it
fa for the l*eat-lt la -
lie atnr/Vd to apeak aarala. but she
rushed ou frantically; Lending him off.
"If you will only do It! If you will
only-only lieilcvu me! It wasn't my fault
-I couldn't help It -It will he all rlr&r-
It la uothltig—It la uo harm. Oh, Jnygis-
itlonie. iili'iino!"
io iook si nun: n* roam
shaking of her hands and
the heaving of the Ihmmmii she pr**«»l
Inat him. Mb# managed to catch om> m
hand* nnd gripped It convulsively, di-iw-
_ It to her face and bathing It la her
tear*. "Oh. believe me. bau*v* me!"
she walled ngnln; aud be ahouted In fury.
"I will not.
Hut Mill she clung to him. walllag n’-nd
In tier despair: "Ob. J
you are doing! **
min
n mm. waning abrad
Jnrgla, think wh-it
It will ruin us-~lt will
you meat not do It! It
Jurgls. I mu era ay—It is nothing. _ . ...
not really need to know. \V«* can tm happy
—w# ean love each other just be sum*
Oh, |deaae, nlcnac, luileve uif.
(continued In Mnturday's Georgian.)
LITTLE BOY DEAD •
AFTER TAKING DRINK
Hpretsl to tbs flsorglsn.
Now-nun, Oa„ July On Hnnilay
night Kugone frawfurd, the little six-
year-old son of C. E. Crawford, living
near Fayetteville, died In convulsions
resulting. It la stated, from a vet
small drink of whisky.
Mr. Crawford's wife has consump
tion nnd her physlctun prescribed raw
eggs and whisky. On Saturday Mr.
Cradtorw sent to Atlanta by u neigh
bor to get some corn whisky.
Mrs. Cretin-ford prepared some eggs
and whisky nnd took It. lamvlng the
bottle on a dresser early Sunday
morning. Shortly uflarwnrd her little
son passed through the roum. Seeing
the bottle, ho took a swqllow of the
whisky. Ills mother stopped him be
fore he rould take tiny large amount.
AT THE THEATERS
At the Ci.ino.
The week's engagement of the Max
Hoffman Company la approaching an
ond and every portion Who has visited
the fnslno tills week has had a good
word to say for the entertainment
SENSATIONAL SUIT
AGAINST CLAIM AGENT
Mpeclal to tbe fleorgtza.
Augusta, On., July gulte a sen
sational suit was tiled In the office ‘
Our Lamp Roo
m
is impressively attractive just at present by reason of the
artistic new specimens displayed. Such wealth of color
and sheer beauty of design and combination are rarely
seen.
We invite you to call and inspect these lamps. You
will be pleased, we are sure.
Maier & B erkele
after the hour when he aaw a form
emerge from the anow-mtst and sprang
toward It with a cry. It was she,
running swiftly; as aha saw him she
staggered forward and half fell Into hls
outstretched nrms. .
"What has been the matter?" he
cried, anxiously. "Where have you
been?"
It waa several seconds before she
could get breath to answer him. "I
couldn't get home,” aha exclaimed.
■The snow—the care had stopped."
"But where were you then?" he de-
manded. . . ...
‘1 had to go home with a friend,
•he panted—"with Jndvygn."
Jurgls drew a deep breath: but then
he noticed thnt she was sobbing and
trembling—ns If In on* of those ner
vous crlaa that ha dreaded so. "But
what's the matter?" he cried.. "What
has happened?"
"Oh, Jurgta, I waa ao frightened!"
she said, clinging to him wildly. "I
have been so worried!"
They were near the time elation
window, and people were alarlng at
them. Jurgls led her away. "How do
you mean?" he asked, In perplexity.
I was afraid—1 waa Just afraid!"
sobbed Ona. "I knew you wouldn’t
know where I was, and 1 didn't know
what you might do. I tried to get home,
but I wns ao tired. Oh, Jurgls, Jurgls!"
He was so glad to get her back that
he could not think dearly about any
thing rise. It did'not seem strange to
him that she should be so very much
upset; ull her fright und Incoherent
protestations did not matter since he
had her back. He let her cry away her
fears; and then, because It was nearly
S o'clock, and they would lose another
hour If they delayed, he left her at the
packing house door, with her ghastly
white face and her haunted eyes of
terror.
There wns another brief Interval.
Christmas was almost come, and be
cause th» snow still held, nnd the
searching cold, morning nfter morning
Jurgls half carried hls wife to her post,
staggering with her through the dark
ness, until at last, one night, came the
cud. '
It lacked but three days of the holi
days. About mld-nlght Marlja and
Elibtata came home, exclaiming In
alarm when they found that Ona had
not come. Tha two had agreed to meet
her; and. after waiting, had gone to
tl|e room where she worked, only to
find that the ham-wrapping girls hnd
quit work an hour before and left.
There was no snow that night, nor was
It especially cold, and still Ona had
not come! Something more serious
must be a-rong this time.
They sroused Jurgls, nnd he sat up
and listened rroaaly to the story. Hhe
must have gone home again with
Jadvyga, he aald; Jadvyga lived only
two blocks from the yards, and per
haps she had been tired. Nothing
could have happened to her—and even
If there had, there was nothing rould
be done about It until morning. Jurgis
turned over In hls bed. and was snor
ing again before the two hod cloeed the
door.
In the morning, however, he wa* up
and out nearly an hour before the
usual time. Jadvyga Marrlnkus lived
on the other side of the yards, beyoi^
Halsted street, with her mother and
sisters. In a single basement room—
for Mikolas had recently lost one hand
from blood poisoning, and their mar.-
Hare had been put off forever. Th*
door of the room waa in th* rear,
reached by a narrow court, and Jurgls
aaw a light in the window ond heard
something frying aa he passed; he
knocked, half expecting that Ona
would answer.
a be said, he excused himself
sat away.
more t
and w*l
He walked on half daxed. without
knowing where he went. Ona had de
ceived him! Hhe had Had to him! And
what could It mean—where had ah#
been? Where was ah* now? He could
hardly grasp the thing—much less try
to aolvt It; but a hundred wild sur
mises came to him, a sense of Im
pending calamity overwhelmed him.
Because there waa nothing else to
do he went bark to the time office lo
watch again. He waited until nearly
un hour after aaven, and then went to
the room where Ona worked to risk*
Inquiries of One's “forelady." Th#
"forelady," he found, had not yet
coma; all the Hues of cars that came
from down town were stalled—there
hnd been un accident In the power
house, and no curs had been running
since last night. Meantime, however,
tha ham-wrapper* were working away,
with some one else In charge of them.
The girl* who answered Jurgls waa
busy, and on she talked ah# looked to
aee If she were being watched. Then
a nmn came up, wheeling a truck; h#
knew Jurgls for One’s husband, and
wa* curious about Ihe mystery.
Maybe tbe core bad somflblng lo do
wltti It,” b« itiggeKted-''inaylie she bad
gene dowa-town."
•Nil," aald Jurgls, "sbe never went dowa-
town."
"I'crbap* uot." said tbe tusD.
Jurgls thought be ssw lilsi esebnuge a
swift glance with ths gfrl ss he spoke.
He went to the barn, and fall Into a (||n( „ nt . arMne Werner, In their
wa"taken ti/Thc house. A doctor was original creation, "ftabea In the Jun-
whlch Is holding the board* of the pop- the clerk of the superior court here
ular summer theater. It la to lie hoped ‘ ’
that tile local management will And It
advisable to play Ilia company a return
engagement In Atlanta this summer.
There will be three more perform
ances of this organisation, Including the
usual matlneo Haturday afternoon.
For next week a vaudevlll bill of
Itreat promise la announced. Thera
will be Apdale'a performing bears;
Lawrence Cmnc, tho magician: Gary
Owen, the youngest comedian on the
singe; Ham Elton, Juit from old Eng-
Innd with a lot of trick* In th* Jug<
aud he ilnio#luted quickly,
kuow nlsiut It!"
Hut the uinn bod
tVluii do you
that tbe hoot was
r eed
lbs
bis truck. "( duu* t know aa fthlhi O
It," In* Mild, mer III* *Iumi1iJ«t. "How
xb'MiItl l know wh*r* your wlf* *«km»?”
Theii Jnrglb went out ucalu. aid "j
up aad dowu tefaru the building,
morning he atarr-d there, with no thutirlit
of hla work. About noon be went to th*
nolli-u Nl.itIon to make Inquiries, and tin |
«-anio I nick ngnln for uiiotlicr ausloua vljr
Finally, toward the middle of th* aft*
uooii. be aet out tor limn* once more.
und several pnMud hliu., packed to the
Mena with people. Tie- Night of th*in aet
Jnrgla to thinking ngnln of the man's sar-
caatlr remnrk; nnd half InToInntarltf he
...... h* l»rok** lulo n ruu. For a whul*
block be tor* after the car. only n little
ways behind. That maty black bat with
drooping r-t! flower. It might not In*
'a. there waa '*ry littl* likelihood of
. . lie would know for certain very soon,
for she would get out two blocks ahead.
II* alowed down, nud let the ear go tin.
Hhe got out; and aa sum a a aha waa out
of sight on the able atrret Junrla hmka
luto u run. HmqdHon wax rife In him now.
att*| bt* waa uot ashamed to shadow her;
lie aaw her turn (lie corner near their
home, and the© he ran again, aud mw her
na alp* went up the porch Mena of Hi#
houa*. After that lie turned W*k.
for live mlnutea passed np nnd down. Lis
sent for, but be never milled.
EXCELLENT SERVICE TO
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH,
NORTH CAROLINA.
During tho mouths of June, July
•nt'. August tho Seaboard Air I.lns
Hallway will operate on its train leav
ing Atlanta nt 0:35 p. in., every BAT-
UKDAY, n through sleeping car lo
Wilmington. N. C.i returning the
through sleoper will loave Wil
mington Thursday at 3:00 p.
arriving in Atlanta at
6:30 •- in.. Friday. Arrangements
have been made with the atreet rail
way people at Wilmington to hava
cars ready at the depot to Immediate
ly transport passengers to the hotels
at Wrightsvlllo Beech. Baggage will
be chucked lo destination. WEEK
END rate, good for flvo days, 98.25;
SEASON tickets, 318.66.
SEABOARD.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
MAY YET BE REGULATED
A law long on th* statute books of
Oeorgtn, but largely Inoperative through
lack of funds to make It so, will bo re
vived nnd made of force through a bill
to be Introduced In this legislature to
provide the necessary money.
This state hue a statute requiring
county ordlnaurtes to have proper ap
paratus to trst the weights anti meas
ures of people doing business In nil of
the counties. Hume counties hava
made the law effective by furnishing
the necessary testing spparstus, but
since nu appropriation line ever been
mads by the stale for this purpose a
majority of Ihe eountlrs pay no atten
tion to the aet—If they happen to know
It exists.
The matter ram# up through Inquiry
from some of the new reunites, and
the bill to make an npporpriatton of
ti.OOfl for this purpose will be Intro
dured. Whenever any question arias*
In many of the counties as to the ac
curacy of the weight* or messures of
any Arm there Is no way of determln
Ing the farts.
If the law now on the book* Is made
effeitlve such thing as short weight*
and measures In Georgia will be un
known.
gle," and the camtragraph with new
pictures.
The bill Is mails up of novelties an-
feature acts and there I* abundant raw
eon to expect a splendid vaudeville or-
faring.
The sale of seats will lie found at
the Grand box office as usual.
FOR COUNCIL.
council from tha Second
Ward, subject to the whit* primary on
August 2B.
PRESS HUDDLESTON.
I re.peetfully announce myself a
candidate far council from the Third
ward, subject to the white primary an
August 22.
C. W. MANOUM.
$2.88
MACON AND RETURN.
Via
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY.
Account Orand Lodge K. of P. (Col
ored). Meeting, Macon, July 10-14,1K6.
The Central of Qaorgia Railway will
■all tlckcte to Macon and return, July
g and 10. at rata of ona tare plus
25 cento from all points In Georgia.
Tickets limited to July 15, 1806.
W. H. FOGG, D. P. A.,
Atlanta, Ga,
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
BY HIS COMPANION
Kpl-r'a! to The tlt-urglBti.
Newberry, H. July As the re
sult of the careless hnndllng or a pis
tol. Aaron Thomas was shot and In
stantly killed Wednesday night by
Aaron Wilson, Both men are colored.
N RIVER
BUI WAS RESCUED
flpeelnl to the flft>rxt*n.
Augusta, O*., July l.—J. L. Wilson,
a middle-aged man from Huuth Caro
lina, attempted suicide yesterday af
ternoon here by trying to Jump In the
Havannah river. He hail been taking
on too much whisky, It to thought, und
hla art followed a very bad drunk. He
was rescued all right and Is safe.
yeslerdty afternoon against Ihe street
railway, Ihe suit being filed by the at
torney* for Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Carl-
Ion, they alleging that they had been
duped into signing away their rlgh's
to it suit against Ihe mad, by fli>>.
Carlton being made drunk by G. 8.
Conklin and lator by Mrs. Carlton be
ing duped Into signing a paper th.it
she thought was for something else.
It appeurs that the son of the aged
rouple wus killed by romlng In contort
with u live wire, and the old man, when
he went to see tha claim agent, Mr.
Conklin, was mnde drunk, and ha ac
cepted a very small compromise nnl
signed up papers lo that effect. Tha
mother was visited by a person whom
shs alleges to have presented a paper
thet waa to set a monument for ths
dead son.
They hare brought suit for 115,Dm)
for the dead son, and have mado some
very startling allegations against Mr.
Conklin.
RESTAURANT PROPRIETOR
DROWNED IN THE LAKE
Hperlsl to Tbe Georgian.
Greenville, H. C.. July •.—Van Cure-
ton, a popular young restaurant
proprietor of thla city, was drowned In
the lake at Chick Hprlnga late yec' i’-
duy afternoon.
Vietima Burned Badly.
Special to Hie Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn.„ July I.—All of
the four victim* of the powder explo
sion of yesterday on the stevei - n
extension of Ihe Houthern railway nmc
Jasper reside at Jasper, exceptlux I t
Brownlee, who ram* here from CanmU
recently. All were badly burned nlmo-t
from head to foot. Mr. Allison will
probably lose hla eyesight.
' THREE GOVERNORS
and a host of depositors with Two Million, Three Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollar* to thalr credit, strongly endorsed
THE NEAL BANK.
Waa flrst appointed a Slat* Depository by the laid Oov. W. Y. Atkin
son, then by Ex-Governor Allen D. Candler, reappointed by blm, then
appointed by hla successor. Governor J. M. Terrell, also reappointed
by him. W* arc so near ihe ten thousand lino accounts on opr becks
that we are encouraged to reach out for
TWENTY THOUSAND DEPOSITORS.
If each one of our loyal patrons wilt sand ns one or more accounts
we will soon have the roll complote, thus enabling ns lo still farther
Increase our ability to aid Merchants, Manufacturer' and Home
Builders.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Due Dollar starts an account with a little Homo Bank and book
or with a book only. We allow Interest, compounded semi-annually, at
the rate of
THREE AND ONE-HALF PER CENT. PER ANNUM.
f. H. THORNTON. httlHH.
W. f. MANNY. Ctikitr. . H. C. CAlDWill, *$$l. Cii•> *
More Goods Than
Room.
We have bought more goods thin
we have space for, hence we are
TOO CROWDED.
In order to reduce our stock we will CUT our profits
ONE-HALF on all BAGS AND SUIT USES
for the next 10 days. If you arc Bargain Seeking get
our prices before buying.
PINNACLE TRUNK MFG. CO., 62 Peachtree St.