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8 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. sati rpav, xri.y si. jy*. THE FOURTH NATIONAL BANK We have just received our sixth shipment of the handsome Pocket Saving Banks—they are free and will help you in your efforts.to save—We allow three per cent interest, compounded quarterly, on savings accounts. Learn to take care of your pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves. Saving, like spending, is a habit. Get the SAVING HABIT! We wish to announce that we have no connection whatever with any premium offers or gift distribution, and that the pocket banks can only be obtained from our Savings Department, which is run in connection with The Fourth National Bank, or from our authorized solicitors, each of whom has the proper credentials. ^ / THE FOURTH NATIONAL BANK. END OF THE JUNGLE'--JURGIS A SOCIALIST DRIVEN TO STRAITS OF UNEXAMPLED MISERY, , STARVATION BECOMES ALMOST A REALITY Upton Sinclair’s Story in the Ending 'Rouses Thoughts of the Future. (Copyright IMS, by Upton Sinclair. All right* reserved. Published by ■ courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co.> CHAPTER XXVI (CONTINUED). Just at this time the mayor waa boasting that he had put an end to gambling and prise lighting In the city; but here a swarm of professional gamblers had leagued themselves with the police to lleece the strike break* ere; and any night In the big open space In front of Brown's one might see brawny negroes stripped to the waist and pounding each other for money, while a howling throng of three or four thousand surged about, men and women, young white girls from the country rubbing elbows with big buck negroes with daggers In their boots, while rows of woolly heads peered down from every window of the surrounding factories. The ancestors of thesa black people had been savages In Africa; and since then they had been chattel slaves, or had bepn held down by a community ruled by the traditions of slavery. Now for the first time they were free—free to gratify every passion, free to wreck themselves. They were wanted to break a strike, and when It was broken they would be shipped away and their present mss tors would never see thorn again; and so whisky and women were brought In by the carload and sold to them, and hell waa let loose In tbs yards. Every night there were atabblngs and shootings; It was said that the packers had blank permits, which enabled them to ship dead bodies from the city without troubling the authorities! They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery —scenes such as never before had been witnessed In America. And aa the women were the dregs from the brothels of Chicago, and the men were, for the most part, Ignorant country negroes, the nameless diseases of vice were soon rite; and this where food waa being handled which was sent out to every corner of the civilised world. ; Thu UuioA mock Yards" were never a pleasant place; but now they were not only a collection of (laughter houses, but also the camping placa of an army of fifteen or twenty thousand human beasts. All day long the biasing midsummer sun beat down upofi that sqaare mile of abominations; upon tens of thousands of rattle crowded Into pens whose wooden floors stank and steamed contagion; upon bare, blistering, cinder-strewn railroad tracks and huge blocks of dingy meut factorlts, whose labyrinthine passages defied a Wrath of fresh air to penetrate them; and there werf not merely rivers of hot blood and car loads of moist flesh and rendering vats and soap caldrons, glue factories and fertiliser tanka, that, emailed like the craters of hell—there were also tone of garbage festering In the sun, and tha greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered With food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers. And then at night, when this throng poured out Into the streets tb play ^-lighting, gambling, drinking and carousing, cursing and screaming, laugh ing and singing, playing banjos ana danclngl They were worked In' the yards all the seven days of the week, and they had their prise fights and crap games on Sunday night aa well; but then around the corner one might see a bonfire biasing and an old, gray-headed negress, lean and wltch-llke, her hair flying wild and her eyes biasing, yelling and chanting of the fires of perdition and the blood of the "Lamb," while men and women lay down upon the ground and moaned and screamed In convulsions of terror and remorse. Such were the stockyards during the the police proceeded to administer It •trike; while the unions watched In by leaping from the truck and cracking aullen despair, and the country clam- a t_«very head they saw. ored like a greedy child for Its food, and the packers went grimly on their way. Each day they added new work ers, and could be more stern with the' old ones—could put them on piece work, and dismiss them If they did not keep up the pace. Jurgls was now- one of their agents In this process: and he could feel the chunge duy by day, like the slow starting up of a huge machine. He had gotten used to being a master of men; and because of the atlfling heat and the stench, and the by at every There were yells of rage, and the terrified people lied Into houses und stores, or scattered he'.ter-akelter down the street. Jurgls and his gang joined In the sport, every man singling out his victim, und striving to bring him to bay and punch lilin. If he lied Into a house hie pursuer would smash In the flimsy door and follow him up the stairs, hitting every one who came within reach, and Anally dragging h|s squealing quarry from under u bed or a pile of old clothes In a closet. Jurgls and two policemen chased fact that he was a "scab" and knew It, some men Into a barroom. One of and despised himself, he wo,s drinking, and developing a villainous temper, and he stormed and cursed and raged at hie men, and drove them until they were ready to drop with exhaustion. Then one day late In August, a su perintendent ran Into the place and shouted to Jurgls and hie gang to drop their work and come. They followed Mm outside, to where. In the midst of a dense throng, they saw several two- horse trucks waiting, and three patrol wagon loads of police. Jurgls and hts men sprang upon one of the trucks, and the driver yelled to the crowd, and they went thundering away at a gallop. Borne steers had just escaped from the yards, and the strikers had got hold of them, and there would be the chance of a scrap! They went out at tha Ashland ave nue gate, and over in the direction of the "dump." There was a yell aa soon as they were sighted, men and women rushing out of houses and saloons as they galloped by. There were eight or ten policemen on the trucks, however, atvl there waa no disturbance until they came to a place where the street was hjocked with a dense throng. Those on the flying track yelled a warning and the crowd scattered pellmelL dis closing one of the steers lying In Its blood. There were a good many cat tle butchers about Just then, with noth ing much to do, and hungry children at home; and to some one had knock ed out the steer—and as a first-class man can kill and dress one in a couple of minutes, there were a good many steaks and roosts already missing. This ceiled for punishment of course; and them took shelter behind the bar, where a policeman cornered him and proceeded to whack him over the back and shoulders, until he lay down and gave a chance at his head. The oth ers leaped a fence In the rear, balking the second policeman, who waa fat; and as he came back, furious and curs ing, a big Polish wom'an, the owner of the saloon, rushed In screaming, and received a poke In the stomach that doubled her up on the floor. Mean time Jurgls, who was of a practical temper, waa helping himself at the bar; and the first policeman, who had laid out his. man. Joined him, handing out several more boltles, and filling his pockets besides, and then, as he started to leave, cleaning off all the balance with a sweep of hts club. The din of the glass crashing to the floor brought the fat Polish woman to her feet again, but another policeman came up behind her and put hie knee Into her back and his hands over her eyes—end then called to hla companion, who went back and broke open the cash drawer and tilled his pocket* with the contents. Then the three went outside, and the man who was holding the woman gave her a shove and dashed out himself. The gang, having already got the car cass onto the truck, the party set out at a trot, followed by screams nnd curses and a shower of bricks and stones from unseen, enemies. These bricks and stones would figure In the accounts of the "riot" which would be sent out to a few thousand newspaper* within an hour or two; but the epi sode of the cash drawer would never be mentioned again, save only In the hoart-breaklng legends of Packlngtown. It waa late In the afternoon when they got back, and they dressed out the remainder of the steer, and a couple of others that had been killed, and then knocked off for the day. Jurgls went downtown to supper, with three friends who had been on the other trucks, and they exchanged reminiscences on tha way. Afterward they drifted Into a roulette parlor, and Jurgls, who was never lucky at gambling, dropped about •IS. To console himself, he had to drink a good deal, and he went back to Packlngtown about 2 o'clock In the morning, very much the worse for his excursion, and. It must be confessed, entirely deserving the calamity that was In store for him. As he was going to the place where he slept he met a painted-cheeked woman In a greasy "kimono," and she put her arm about hla waist to steady him; they turned Into a dark room they were passing—but scarcely had they taken two step* before suddenly a door swung open, and a man enter ed, carrying a lantern. "Who's there?" he called sharply. And Jurgls started to mutter some reply; but at the same Instant the man raised his light, which flashed In his face, so that It was pos sible to recognise him. Jurgls stood stricken dumb, and his heart gave a leap like a mad thing. The man was Connor! ^ Connor, the boss of the loading gang. The man who had ruined hts wife—who had sent him to prison, and wrecked his home, and ruined hie life. He stood there, staring with the light shining full upon him. Jurgls had often thought of Connor since coming hack to Packlngtown. hut It had been as of something far off, that no longer concerned him. Now, however, when he saw him, alive and In the flesh, the same thing happened to him that had happened before—a flood of rage boiled up In him, a blind frensy seised him. And he flung him self at the man, and smote him be tween the eyes—and then, as he fell, seised him by tho throat and began to pound Ms head upon the stones. The wdman began screaming, and people came rushing In. Tho lantern had been upset and- extlngullhed, and It was so dark they could not see a thing; hut they could hear Jurgls panting, nnd hear the thumping of his victim's skull, and they rushed there and tried to pull him off. Precisely UK before. Jurgls came away with a piece of hla enemy's flesh between his teeth: nnd, as before, he went on fight ing with those who hnd Interfered with him, until a policeman had come and beaten him Into Insensibility. And so Jurgls spent tho balance of the night In the stock yards station house. This time, however, he had money In his pocket, and when he came to his senses he could get something to drink, hnd also a messenger to take word of his plight to “Bush" Harper. Harper did not appear, however, until after the prisoner, feeling very weak and III, had been haled Into court and re- manded at 1500 ball to await the result of his victim's Injuries. Jurgls was wild about this, because a different magistrate had chanced to be on the bench, nnd he had stated that he had never been arrested before, and also that he had been attacked first—and If only some one had been there to speak a good word for him he could have been let off at once. But Harper explained that he hnd been down town, and had not got the message. "What's happened to you?" he asked. "I've been doing a fellow up," said Jurgls, "and I've got to get $500 hall." "I can arrange thnt all right," said the other, "though It may eost you a few dollnrs, of course. But what was the trouble?" it was n man that did me a mean trick once," answered Jurgls. "Who Is her "He’s a foreman in Brown'a—or used to be. His name’s Connor. And the other gave a start. "Con nor!"' ho cried. "Not Phil Connorr "Yes," said Jurgls, "that's the fellow. Why?" "flood Clod!" exclaimed the other, then you're In for It, old man! I can’t help you!" "Not help me! Why not?" "Why. he's one of Scully's biggest men—he’s a member of the War- Whoop League, and they talked - of sending him to the legislature! Phil Connor! Great heavens!” Jurgls sat dumb with dismay. "Why, he ran send you to Joliet. If he wants to!” declared the other. "Can't I have Scully get me off be fore he flnds out about It?" asked Jur ats, at length. "But Scully's out of town,” the other answered. "I don't even know where he Is—he's run away to dodge the strike." That was a pretty mess, Indeed. Poor Jurgls sat half dated. His pull hod run up agajnst a bigger pull, and he was down and out! "But what am I going to do?" he asked, weakly. How should I know?" said the otb- “I shouldn't even dare to get ball for you—why, I might ruin myself for life!” Again there was silence. "Can't you do It for me?” Jurgls asked. "And pre tend that you didn't know who I'd hit?" “But what good would that do when you came to stand trial?” asked Harp er. Then he eat burled In thought for a minute or two. "There’s nothing— unless It's this." he said. "I could have your ball reduced; and then If you had the money you could pay It and skip." "How much will It be?” Jurgls aske<_. after he had had this explained more In detail. "I don't know,” said the other. "How much do you own?" "I've got about |JOO," was- the an swer. "Well," said Harper, 'Tm not sure, but I'll try and get you off for that. I'll take the risk for friendship's sake—for I'd hate to see you sent to state prison for a year or two." And ao finally Jurgls ripped out hie bank book—which was sewed up In his trousers—and signed an order, which “Buell" Harper wrote, for all the money to be paid out Then the lat ter went and got It, and hurried t< the court, and explained to the magta. trate that Jurgls was a decent fellow and a friend of Scully's, who had been attacked by a strike-breaker. So the ball was reduced to 1300, and Harper went on it himself; ho did not tell this to Jtirgls, however—nor did he tell him that when the time for trial came It would be^nn easy matter for him to avoid tho forfeiting of the ball and pocket the-4100 as his reward for the risk of offending Mike Scully! All that he told Jurgls was that he waa now free, and that the best thing he could do was to clear out as quickly aa pos sible; and so Jurgls, overwhelmed with gratitude and Tellef, took the dollar and fourteen cents that woe left him out of all his bank account, and put It with the two dollars and a quarter that was left from his last night's cele bration, and boarded a street car and got off at the other end of Chicago, CL08ING CHAPTERS OF “THE JUNGLE.” After Chapter XXVI "The Jungle" drops completely the narrative of life In the stockyards and plunges Into the story of how Jurgls Is led Into a coterie of Socialists; how he Imbibed their principles, and how they promulgated these principles. (This Is a brief synopsis of the last live chapters.) Poor Jurgls was now an outcast and a tramp once more. He was crippled —as literally crippled as any wild ani mal which hnd lost Its claws. He could no longer command a Job when he wanted it; he could no longer steal with Impunity. And aleo he labored under another handicap now. When he had been out of work before he had been content If he could sleep In a doorway or un der a truck out of the rain, and If. he could get 15 cents a aay for saloon lunches. But now he desired all sorts of other things, and suffered because he had to do without them. He tqust have a drink now and then, a drink for Ita own sake and apart from the food that came with It. Jurgls became once more a besieger of factory gates. But never since he You Are Accessible To the world if you are a Bell Telephone subscriber. Listings for next Directory Close JULY 25. If you wish to become a subscriber or .change your listing or take a different class of ser vice now is the time to act. q Reasonable Rates. Call Contract Dept., M. 1300 BELL SERVICE IS SATIS FACTORY had been In Chicago had he stood less chance of getting a job than Just then. At the end of about ten days he had only a. few pennies left; and he had not yet found a Job—not even a chance to carry a satchel. Raw, naked terror posaesed him. lie was guing to die o' hunger! He would walk, begging to: work, until he was exhausted. Every where he went there were hundreds of others like him; everywhere was the sight of plenty—and the merciless hand of authority waving them away. There Is one kind of prison Where the man la behind bars, and everything that he desires Is outside; and there Is an other kind where the thlhgs are be hind bars and the man is outside. Down to hie last quarter, Jurgls took to living on stale bread, which .the bakers sold at a reduced price, and lived for two days upon a cabbage which he snatched from a stall. One night he was given a quarter by an old lady for carrying her bun dles and he obtained a meal which stufKd hie akin as tight as a football, afterward finding himself In a hall where Senator Spareshonks was ex plaining the system of protection, an Ingenious device whereby the working man permitted the manufacturer t< charge him high prices, In order that he might receive higher wages; thus taking his money out of hie pocket with one hand and putting a part of It back with the other. To the senator this unique arrangement had somehow become Identified with the higher veri ties of the universe. -v Singular as It may seem, Jurgls was making a desperate effort to compre hend the extent of American prosper ity. The reason was that he wanted to keep awake. But he had eaten such a big dinner, and the room was so warm, Jurgls began to snore; one of his neighbors called a policeman and he was thrown out. In the street, Jurgls caught elgHt of a well-dressed woman. It waa Alena Jasaltyte, who bad been the belle of hla wedding feastl Alena gave Jurgls the address of MarIJa, a number on Clark street, and he set out to And her. While waiting In the hall, there was a cry of "Po- llcel ” nnd In the confusion Jurgls comas upon MarIJa. Every one In the house was arrested, hut the magistrate frees Jurgls next morning, and he wan ders past the hall from which ha had been ejected for snoring during Sena tor Spareehanks' speech. Another meeting was In progress, and Jurgls entered, to And that It was held by Socialists. After the speaking he ventured to thank the lecturer for hla address and waa Introducsd to Ostrinakl, a little tailor, who took Jur gls to his room and talked to him for hours of the Socialist movement. To Jurgls the packers had been equivalent to fate; Ostrinakl showed him that they were the beef trust It was a monster devouring with a thou sand mouths, trampling with a thou sand hoofs; It waa the Great Butcher —It waa tha spirit of capitalism made flesh. Bribery and corruptlqn were Ita everyday methods. In Chicago the city government was simply one of Its branch offices; It stole billions of gal lons of city water openly; It dictated to the courts the sentences of disor derly strikers; It forbade the mayor to enforce the building laws against It. In the national capital It had power to prevent Inspection of It* product, and to falsify government report*; It vio lated the rebate laws, and when an In vestigation was threatened It burned Its books and sent Ita criminal agents out of the country. It had forced the price of cattle so low as to destroy the stock raising in- dustry, an occupation upon which whole states existed! It had ruined thou sands of butchers who had refused to handle Its products. It divided the country Into districts, and fixed the price of meat In all of them; and It owned all the refrigerator can, and levied on enormous tribute upon all raultry and eggs and fruit and vegeta- >les. With the millions of dollars a week that pouredln upon It, It was reaching out for the control of other Interests, railroad and trolley lines, gas and electric light franchises—It alrea"?.- owned the groin and leather business of the country. After breakfast with OstrtnskL Jur gls »V nt home to Elsbleta and began i:he hunt for work, soon getttng a Job as porter in a small hotel kept by ‘Tommy" Hinds, a leader In the So cialist party. Here many Western cat tlemen were accustomed to stay, and Hinds would get them around him In the lobby and paint little pictures of •The System." •See here," he would say In the midst of an argument, "I’ve got a fellow right here who’s worked there and seen ev ery bit of It.” Gradually Jurgls found out what was wanted, and he would stand up and speak his piece with en thusiasm, and when Jurgta would give the formula for “potted ham” or tell about the condemned hogs that were dropped Into the "destructor*" at the top and taken out again at the bottom, to be shipped Into another state and made iato lard. Hinds would bang hla knee and cry. “Do you think a man could make up a thing like that?" And ‘when the victim would aay that the whole country waa getting stirred up, that the newspapers were full of denunciations of the beef trash and the government taking action a gains' It. Tommy Hinds had a knockout blow all ready. "Yes," he would say, "all that la true—but what do you suppose is the reason for It Are you foolish enough to believe that It la done for the public? There are other trusts In the country Just as Illegal and actor- tlonate as the beef trust; there Is the coal trust that freeses the poor In winter; there t* the steel trust that doubles the pries of every nail In your UP IN THE OZONE “In the Land of the Sky ** KENILWORTH INN Situated In a Private Park of 160 Acres, Blltmoro, Near Ashe ville, N. C„ 2,500 Feet Above the Sea Level. “SBJUST THE PLACE TO SPEND THE aUMMEnSBwn Rseognlted as the leading hotel In the mountains of Western North Carolina. No scenery In the world will compare with tbs view from this hotel. Mount Mitchell and Ptageb In foil view. Adjoins sna orcrlooks the Btltmore estate. Cool. Invigorating climate, mag nificently furnished, cuisine unsurpassed. Pure water. Alt vegetables from »ur private garden gathered fresh every morning. 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And now, why Is It all ao different with the beef trust?” Here the other would generally admit that he waa stuck, and Tommy Hinds would explain to him. “It la the rail road trust that runs your state govern ment wherever you live, and that runs the United States senate. And all of ths trusts that I have named are rail-* road trusts—save only the beef trust. The beef trust has defied the railroads —It Is plundering them day by day through the private car; and so the public is routed to fury, and the gov ernment goes on the warpath. “And you poor common people watch and applaud ths job, and think It's all done for you, and never dream that It Is really the grand climax of the cen tury-long battle of commercial compe tition—the final death-grapple of ths chiefs of the beef trust and Standard Oil for the prise of the mastery and ownership of the United States of America!" After an Ineffectual effort to Indues MarIJa to abandon the life she waa leading In the house on Clark street, Jurgls settled down to work and tha constant study of Socialism, so thnt when the night of the election came around he was one of the most excited In the group receiving the returns of the party, and his story ends, ns ons of the orators declaims, "'Chicago will be ours!" (The End.) land WHISKEY HABITS I cured it home wtt» I out pels. Book of I tlculsra sent FHf-v- I B.M. WOOLLEY. Office lMN.mor Street. By Telephoning Your Want Ads to The Georgian You Can Reach Over 23,ooo HOMES 25 Words for 25 Cents. The Cost—1 Cent a Word—is a trifle when compared to the benefits. BELL PHONE; ATLANTA; 4927, MAIN. of PHONE 4401. They are Small Workers but They Work Wonders. 1