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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.