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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. FATT'RPAY, JTTLY n, in THE FOURTH NATIONAL BANK We have iust received our sixth shipment of the handsome Pocket Saving Banks—-they are free and will help you in your efforts to save—We allov 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, ItOt, by Upton Sinclair. All right, reserved. Published by courtesy of Doubleday, Page A Co.) CHAPTER XXVI (CONTINUED). Just at this time the mayor was boasting that be had put an end to gambling and prise lighting |n the city; but here a swarm of professional gamblers had leagued themselves with the police to fleece the strike break ers; and any night In the big open space In front of Brown's one might sea brawny negroes stripped to the waist and pounding each other for money, while a howling throng of three or tour 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 these black people had been savages In Africa; and since then they had been chattel slaves, or had been held down by a community ruled by the traditions of alavery. 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 masters would never see them again; and so whisky and women were brought In by the carload and sold to them, and hell was let loose In tha yards. Every night there were stabblngs 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 aame floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery —scenes such aa never before had been witnessed In America. And as the women were the dregs from the brothels of Chicago, and the men were, for the moat part. Ignorant country negroes, the nameless diseases of vice were soon rlfa; and this whers food was being handled which was sent out to every corner of the civilised world. ! . The “Union Stock Yards" were never a pleasant place; but now they were not only a collection of slaughter houses, but also the camping place of an army of fifteen or twenty thousand human beasts. All day long the biasing midsummer sun beat down upon that sqaure mile of abominations; upon tens of thousands of cattle crowded Into pens whose wooden floors stank and steamed contagion; upon bare, blistering, cinder-strewn railroad tracks and huge blocks of dingy meat factorlos, whose labyrinthine passages defied a breath of fresh air to penetrate them; and there were not merely rivers of hot blood and car loads of moist flesh and rendering vats and spap caldrons, glue factories and fertiliser tanks, that smalled like the cratera of hell—there were also tons of garbage teetering In the sun, and th* 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 to play —-fighting, gambling, drinking and carousing, cursing and screaming, laugh ing and singing, playing banjos and dancing! They were worked In tho yards all the seven days of the week, and they had their prjie fights and crap games on Hunday night aa well; but then around the corner one might see a bonfire blazing and an old, gray-headed negress, lean and witch-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. Buck were tho stockyards during the the police proceeded to administer It ■trike; while the unions watched •ullen despair, and th. country clam ored like a greedy child for Its food, and th. packers went grimly on their way. Each day they added new work ers, and could be more atom with the Old ones—could put them on piece work, and dismiss them It they did not keep up the pace. Jurgls was now one of their agents In this process; and he could feel the chunge day by day, like the elow starting up of a huge machine. He had gotten used to being a master of men; and because of the stifling heat and the stench, and the by leaping from the truck and cracking at every head they saw. There were yells of rage, and the terrified people lied Into houses and stores, or scattered helter-skelter down the street. Jurgls and his gang Joined singling out In the sport, every man his victim, und striving to bring him to bay and punch him. It he lied Into a house his pursuer would smash In the flimsy door and follow him up the stairs, hitting every one who came within reach, and Anally dragging his squealing quarry from under a bed or a pile of old clothes In a closet. Jurgls and two policemen chased f*ct that he was a "scab' 1 and knew It. some men Into a barroom. One of and despised himself, he was drinking, and developing a villainous temper. Wilts UCICIUJIlllg U •IIIUIIIUUS ll-ilipvi, and he stormed and cursed and ruged at his 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 Jurgie and hi* gang to drop their work and come. They followed him 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 his men sprang upon .one of the trucks, and the driver yelled to the crowd, and they went thundering away at a gallop. Some steers had Just escaped from the yards, and the strikers had got bold of them, and there would be the chance of a scrap! They went ont at the Ashland ave nue gats, and over In the direction of thw N 4nmi the “damp.” 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, and there was no disturbance until they came to a place where the street was blocked with a dense throng. Those on the flying truck yelled a warning and the crowd scattered pellmell, dis closing one of the steers lying In It* blood. Tbsre 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 or minutes, there were a good many etesks and roasts already aliasing. This called fur punishment of course; and them took shelter behind the bar, where a policeman cornered him and proceeded to whack him over the back and shodjdere, 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 was fat; and as he came back, furious and curs ing, n big Polish woman, 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, was helping hltnself at the bar; und the first policeman, who had laid out his man. Joined him, handing out several more bottles, and filling his pockets besides, and then, ns he started to leave, cleaning off all the balance with a sweep of hi* club. The din of the glass crashing to the floor brought the fat Polish woman to her feet again, hut another pollcemaji came up behind her and put his knee Into her back and his hands over her eye*—and then called to his companion, who went back and broke open the cash drawer and fllled his pockets with the contents. Then the three went outside, and the man who was holding the woman gave her a shove and dashed nut himself. The gang, having already got the car cass onto the truck, the party set out at a trot, followed by screams and 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 nut to n few thousand newspapers within an h6ur or two; but the epi sode of the cash drawer would never be mentioned again, save only In the heart-breaking legends of Packlngtown. It was 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 the way. Afterward they drifted Into a roulette parlor, and Jurgls, who was never lucky at gambling, dropped about 115. -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 tor Ills 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 hie'waist to steady him: they turned. Into a ^ark room they were passing—but scarcely had they taken two steps 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 Connorl Connor, the boss of the loading gang. The man who had ruined his wlfo—who had. sent him to prison, and' wrecked his noine, and ruined his life. He stood there, staring with the light shining full upon him. Jurgls had often thought of Connor since coming back to Packlngtown. but It had been as of something far off, that no longer concerned him. Now, mat nu lungrr uuunnivu uni*. 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 nt tfie man, and smote him be tween tho eyes—and then, ae he fell, seised him by the throat and began to pound his head upon the stones. The woman began screaming, and people enme rushing In. The lantern had been upset and extinguished, and It was so dark they could not see a thing: but they could hear Jurgls punting, and hear the thumping of his victim's skull, and they rushed there and tried to pull him off. Precisely as before, Jurgls came away with a piece of his enemy's flesh between his teeth; and, as before, he went on fight ing with those who had Interfered with him, until a policeman had come nnd 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, und also a. messenger to take word of his plight to “Bush’' Harper, llariier did not appear, however, until after the prisoner, feeling very weak and III, had been haled Into court and re- mnnded 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 had been down town, and had not got the message. “What’s happened to you?" he asked. “TYs been doing a fellow up,” said Jurgls, “and I’ve got to get 1500 ball.” “I can arrange that all right,” said the other, "though It may cost you a few dollars, of coorse. But what was the trouble?" “It was a man that did me a mean trick once," answered Jurgls. •Who Is he?” "He’s a foreman In Brown’s—or ujed to be. His name's Connor. And the other gave a start '’Con nor!'" he cried. “Not Phil Connor?" "Yes," said Jurgls, “that’s the fellow. WhjfO" "aood Ood!" exclaimed the other, then you’re Jn for It, old man! I can't help you!” •Not help me! Why not?” •Why, he’s on* 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!” Jurxls sat dumb with dismay. “Why, he can send you to Joliet If he wnnts to!” declared the other. “Can’t I have Scully get me oft be fore he find* out about ItT* asked Jur gls. 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.” Thnt we* a pretty mess. Indeed. Poor Jurgls sat half dated. His pull had run up against 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 oth- "I shouldn't even dare to get ball for you—why, I might ruin myself for life!" Again there wss 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 sat burled In thought tor 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 asked, 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 ISOO,” was the an swer. “Well," said Harper, ‘TiB not sure, but I'll try nnd get you oft 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 so finally Jurgls ripped out his bonk hook—which was sewed up In hts trousers—and signed nn order, which "Bush" Harper wrote, for all the money to Ue paid out Then the lat ter went and got It, and hurried to the court, and explained to the magis trate that Jurgls was a decent fellow and a friend of Scully's, who had been attacked by a strike-breaker. Bo the ball was reduced to ISOO, and Harper went on It himself; he did not tek this to Jurgls, however—nor did he tell him that when the time for trial came ft would be an easy matter for him to avoid the forfeiting of the ball and pocket the ISOO as his reward for the risk of ofTendlng Mike Scully! All that he told Jurgls was that ha was now free, and that the best thing he could do teas to clear out as quickly as pos sible; and so Jurgls, overwhelmed with gratitude and relief, took the dollar and fourteen cents that was left him out of all his bank account, and put It with the two dollars and a quarter that was left from his lost night's cele bration, and boarded a street car and got oft at the other end of Chicago. CLOSING 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 five chapters.) Poor Jurgls was now an outcast and a' tramp once more. Ho was crippled —as literally crippled as any wild ani mal which had lost Its claws. Ho could no longer command a Job when he wanted It; he could no longer steal with Impunity. And also 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 day for saloon lunches. But now he desired all sorts of other things, and suffered because he had to do without them. He must have a drink now and then, a drink for Its own sake and apart from the food that came with U. 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. (] Reasonable Rates. Call Contract Dept., M. 1300 BELL SERVICE 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 hac! not yet found a Job—not oven a chance to carry a satchel. Raw, naked terror posaesed him. He was going to die of ‘ ' " alk, begging for hunger! He would wi work, until he was exhausted. Every' where he went there were hundreds of othen like him; everywhere was the sight of plenty—and th* merciless hand of authority waving them away. There IS one kind of prison where the man Is behind bars, and everything that he desires Is outside; and there Is an other kind where the things are be hind bars and the man Is outside. Down to his last quarter, Jurgls took to living on stale bread, which tha bakers sold at a reduced price, and lived for two days upon & 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 stuffed his skin as tight as a football, afterward finding himself In a hall where Senator Spsreehanka was ex- f ilainlng the system of protection, an ngenlous device whereby the working man permitted the manufacturer to charge him high prices. In order that he might receive higher wages; thus taking his money out of his 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 verl ties of the universe. 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 hie neighbors called a policeman and he was thrown out. In the street, Jurgls caught sight of a well-dressed woman. It was Alena Jasaltyte, who had been the belle of his wedding feast! Alena gave Jurgls the address Marlja, a number on Clark street, and he set out to find her. While waiting In the hall, there was a cry of “Po lice!’’ and In the contusion Jurgls comes upon Marlja. Every one In the house was arrested, but the magistrate frees Jurgls next morning, and he wan ders post tha hall from which he had been ejected for snoring during Sena tor Spareahanks' speech. Another meeting was In progress, and Jurgls entered, to find that It was held by Socialists. After th* speaking he ventured to thank the lecturer for his address and waa Introduced t< Ostiinskl. a little tailor, who took Jur gls to his room nnd talked to him for hours of the Socialist movement To Jurgls the packers had been equivalent to fate: Ostrlnskl showed him that they were the beef trust. It waa a monster devouring with a thou sand mouths, trampling with a thou sand hoofs; It was the Great Butcher —It was the spirit of capitalism made flesh. Bribery and corruption were Its 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 Its product, and to falsify government reports; It vio lated the rebate laws, and when an In vestigation was threatened It burned Its books and sent Its 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 whola 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 cars, and levied an enormous tribute upon all poultry and eggs and fruit and vegeta bles. With the Billions of dollars a week that poured In upon It, It was reaching out for the control of other Interests, railroad and trolley lines, gas nnil nlsfitHd llspht frsnrhlsss—It and electric light franchises—It alrea?, owned the grain and leather business of the country. After breakfast with Ostrlnskl, Jur gls went home to Elsbleta and began the hunt for work, soon getting 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 eay In the midst of an argument, 'T’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 Jurgls would give the formula for "potted ham” or tell about the condemned hogs that were dropped Into th* "destructfcrs” at the top and taken out again at the bottom, to be shipped Info alibi _ _ ther state and made Into lard. Hinds would bang his knee and cry, "Do you think a man could make up a thing like that?” And when the victim would say that the whole country was getting stirred up. that tha newspapers were full of denunciations of the beef trust, and the f ovemment taking action against it, 'ommy Hinds had a knockout blow all, ready. "Yes,” he wosld say, "all that la true—but what do you suppose Is the reason for It. Are you foolish enoflgh to believe that It Is done for the public? There are other trusts In the country Just as Illegal and extor tionate as the beef trust; there Is th* .coal trust, that freeses the poor In • winter; there Is the steel trust, that doubles the pries of every nail In your 2 UP IN THE OZONE “In the Land of the Sky” KENILWORTH INN Situated in a Private Park of 160 Acres, Biltmorc, Near Ashe ville, N* C., 2,500 Pect Above the Sea Level. “»JUST THE PLACE TO SPEND THE SUMMgRgB— Recognised as the leading hotel In the mount ah,* of Weatern North Carolina. 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And when to this the victim would reply that there was clamor enough over the oil trust the other would con tinue; "Ten years ago Henry D. Lloyd told all the truth about the Standard Oil Company In his ‘Wealth Versus Commonwealth,' and the book was allowed to die, and you hardly w IMS Bliuniu IU UIC, UIIU J UU IIUIUIJ ever hear of It. And now, why Is It all so different with the beef trust?" Here the other would generally admit that he was stuck, and Tommy Hinds would explain to him. "It is the rail road trust that runs your state govern ment, wherever you live, and that runs' the United States senate. And all of the 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 tjirouch the private car; and so the publ)c Is roused to fury, and the gov ernment goes'on the warpath. “And you poor common people watch and applaud the job, and think it’s all done for you, and never dream that It la really the grand climax of the cen tury-long battle of commercial compe tition—the Anal death-grapple of th* chiefs of the beef trust and Standard Oil for the prise of the master}' and ownership of the United State, of America!” After an Ineffectual effort to Indues Marlja to abandon the life she was leading In the house on Clark street Jurgls settled down to work nnd the constant study of Socialism, so that 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 hts story ends, as an of the orators declaims, be ours!" (The End.) 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