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marks and mall t« "Park Editor, Atlanta Georgian."
Do you favor the general propo
sition of thf desirability of acquir
ing small Facts of land In central
portion of the city for park and
public confort purposes, and per-
oftuallv imlntalned ns such?
Do yot,favor the calling of a
meeting if citizens and intsrested
persons Tlthin 30 days to form a
ternporay organization?
Do yri favor the chartering of a
permairnt "Civic Commission,"
under eglslatlve authority, to se
cure delations and maintain a per-
inanen. organization for the exten
sion o- the work as outlined in plan
suggeted by J. a. Rossman in
The Alanta Georgian, June 1ST
Do you favor the Iszuance of
$500,00 bonds by the city of At-
Inntufor the purpose of securing
at Inst two sites, one on the north
shlesnd one on the south side?
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NEW FACES WILL BE SEEN
WHENLEGISLATURE MEETS',
General Assembly of Georgia Will Be Called j
to Order on Next
Wednesday.
When Speaker John M. Slaton calls
the house of representatives to order
next Wednesday morning: at 10 o’clock
five members seen there last session
will be missing’s and live new faces
will appear In their places.
Representatives J. H. Lumpkin, of
Sumter, and D. C. McLennon. of Tel
fair. have died since the last legisla
ture. Representative Knox Ramsey,
of Murray, was shot and died of the
wound, and Representative J. M.
Spence. Jr., of Wore, resigned. James
Taylor comes to this session from Sum-
ter; T. P. Ramsey from Murray, and
W. H. Bradshaw from Ware. S. A.
Way has been elected to fill a vacancy
In Pulaski, while Telfair has not yet
named Representative McLennon's
successor.
No vacancies have occurred In the
senate either by death or resignation,
and President W. S. West will rap for
order with every sent probably occu
pied.
The five new members In the house
will appear before the speaker at the
opening of the session and be sworn in.
As the full machinery of both legisla
tive branches remains intact from last
session business will move right off
without any preliminaries.
Of the twenty-four members of the
next senate nominated to date, J. p.
Knight, of the Sixth; J. A. Bush, of
the Eighth; J. E. Hayes, of the Thir
teenth; H. K. Overstreet, of the Sev
enteenth; J. J. Flynt, of the Twenty-
sixth; E. T. Steed, of the Thirty-sev
enth, and John W. Akin, of the Forty-
second, are all in the present house.
A YCOQK NAMED PRESIDENT
BY COTTON SEED CRUSHERS
Speech of the German
Consul Important
Feature of Session.
PAiSEO AS PRISONER
GOT THE CASH
peclnl to The Georgian,
bivnnnnh, Ga., June 21.—By posing ns nn-
iher prisoner who lin'd money deposited in
te police safe, L. It. .Heed succeeded In
rowing the money of l). C. Fletcher, of
li'uiiiiHvlIle. who had been arrested on a
, hnrge of drunkenness, lie was Hashing
iltf money at the time nrtd the oftleers
locked him up for snfe keeping. Early this
, morning Reed prevailed on the turnkey to
I let the sergeant know tbnt he could give a
I rash bond, and was brought into the office,
F whore he signed Fletchers name and got a
* ifkngtf containing over 2150 and a ticket
. Thomasrllle. The trick'was discovered
this morning after Fletcher's release, wheu
he nuked for his money. Ilced Is still at
larpe.
Special to The Georgian.
Jasper, Ala., June 21.—Jim Sumner,
« white man, met a horrible death at
Cordova by being struck by a freight
[ train on the ’Frisco Railroad. The
I unfortunate man was sitting on the
platform when last seen alive, and it
[ 1* supposed that he fell asleep. He
was instantly killed.
PETITION FOR TRIAL
OF CHIPLEY CASES
Special to The Georgian.
Columbus, Gn., Juno 21.—A delegation of
prominent citizens of Harris county ap
peared before Judge Little, of tho superior
court, yesterday and petitioned him to hold
n special term In Harris county to try the
cases of the men hold under bond on n
charge of being Implicated in the Hasty-
Irrlu-Murrnh killing, which occurred at
Chlpley, In that county, recently. The pe
tition was vigorously opposed by counsel
for the accused, who contended that a
trial of the ease now would only engender
more feeling rind create more excitement
among the neonle. Judge Little reserved
his decision In the matter for consideration.
LIGHTNING KILL8 HORSE,
BUT OWNER IS UNHARMED.
Speclnlto The Georgian.
Waterloo, , S. C„ June 21,—Mose
Madden, of this place, had a valuable
horse killed by lightning Tuesday af
ternoon . Mr. Madden was ploughing
and during a thunder storm took shel
ter 1n an old barn. The barn was
struck by lightning, killing the horse
Instantly. Mr. Madden was not hurt.
Special to The Georgian.
Llthia Springs, Ga., June 21.—The
annual convention of the £otton Seed
Crushers’ Assosoclatton of Georgia
came to a closo yesterday afternoon
after.a two days’, most successful ses
sion.
The election of officers was the last
act of the conference.
The officers elected are .as follows:
President, J. A. Aycock, of, Carroll
ton; treasurer, Thomas Egleston, At
lanta; secretary, J. L. Benton, Monti-
cello; vice presidents, George F. Ten
nllle, Savannah; M. S. Harper, E. P.
BcBumey and L. A. Ransom, Atlanta;
H. E. Wells, Columbia; S. B. Yow,
Lavonla; J. L. Hand, Pelham; H. Bus
sey. Columbus; W. E. McCaw, Macon;
John Bostwlck and C. Douthlt.
The following were elected members
of the executive committee: W. M.
Hutchinson. Atlanta; Austell Thornton,
Atlanta: Fielding Wallace, Augusta;
L. G. Neal, Atlanta; R. G. Riley, Al
bany; W. M. Towers, Rome; A. E.
Thornton, Atlanta; W. W. Abbott,
Louisville: James R. Atwater. Thom-
aston, and J. H. Taylor, Cordele.
Both President Aycock and Secretary
Benton made responses.
The first address of yesterday's ses
sion was that of Dr. Zoepffel-Quellen-
steln, German consul at Atlanta, and
hls.address proved to be a finished pro
duction on the ‘tremendous prosperity
of the South at this present time, which
Is attracting tin* attention of the entire
world. U^pn . concluding his address
nr. Zo.'|,rrei-<vtieii,.|iMteln was given
one of the most enthusiastic ovations
of the convention, many ladies who are
now guests of Sweetwater Park hotel
adding their approval to this disser
tation on the prosperity, of • this sec
tion. •
J. A. Aycock, of Carrollton, talked
Informally on "What a Publicity Bu
reau Can Do for the Industry," and fa
vored such an Institution, nlthough It
necessitated considerable expense. H«
also urged general and diversified ad
vertising by tin* mills ami individuals,
as W’ell as by the association, to con
tend against certain prejudices against
the cotton seed products, due In part to
the novelty of this Industry.
A. Ransom, of Atlanta, one of
the organizers of the association, fol
lowed along the same line. Mr. Ran
som referred particularly to the work
accomplished Individually by W. M.
Towers, bf Rome, whose address on the
opening day, reviewing some of the ex
periments which he made when the
industry w as just developing, was i-
ognlzed on all sides as one of thp best
and moat practical features of the con-
VettUOKL
A letter read from Secretary Frank
Weldon, of the Georgia state fair, ask
ing tho association and members and
mills to ina Lf exhibits, tuim-d : m» ; ■
of discussion In this direction. Secre
tary Weldon was present and explained
the opportunities offered for such a dis
play. A number of tho members advo
cated such an exhibit as the most prac-
tb'ul and popular way of educating the
l"'"I'! 11 by displaying tin* finish.■•! pod
nets and by having a demonstrator
present to explain the many uses of .the
variety of articles.
A motion, placing the plans and ar
rangements for such an exhibit In Ihe
hands of the executive committee, was
passed unanimously, and It Is expected
that the cotton seed products will be
one of the features of the great fair
next October.
Fielding Wallace, of Augusta, read a
paper on "Tariff on Press Cloth," and
W. E. McCan, of Macon, made an ad
dress on "How to Avoid Reclamations.'
Both of these addresses, while technical
in nature, were replete with valuable
facts and practical suggestions and
were enthusiastically commended by
all of the delegates present.
J. A. Spurlln, of Little Rock, formerly
of Atlanta, spoke interestingly on the
Manufacture of denatured alcohol, in
the South and the tremendous future
which It made possible to Southern
Industries.
One of the most Interesting papers
of the session was that of C. M. King,
of Atlanta, on "Cotton Seed Meal as a
Human Food.’* Mr. King told of in
teresting experiments which he had
made and of the delicious and nutri
tious ingredients of these products.
The aftemobn and closing session
proved to be entirely an experience
meeting, excepting tho election of of-
Icrs. The best methods for getting
the public to accept, understand and
appreciate the cottop seed products,
and especially to substitute refined and
hygienic cotton seed cooking oils In
place of lard, were especially dwelt
upon.
CITY TAX NOTICE.
Books are no«? open for
payment of second install
ment of city tax. Will close
1st July.
E. T. PAYNE,
City Tax Collector.
CHILDREN GIVEN
PLAY
TEACHERS ESCAPE SUMMER
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
Board of Education Holds Inter
esting and Important
Meeting.
Several Important decisions and
vast amount of routine business mads
the session of tho board of education,
held Wednesday afternoon, both Inter
esting; and |r . ortant. It was decided
to set aside t< o of the school yards for
uso throughout the summer months si
piny grounds for tho children of At
lanta, and that teacher* would not be
required to attend normal achool dur
ing the aummer. The resignation of
Professor E. E. Dtterbach was ac
cepted.
Mr. Utterbach has been connected
with the public echools of Atlanta for
many years, and to his Individual ef
fort the gMMloacy °f the manual train
ing department Is due. The resigna
tion came ns an unpleasant surprise.
The determination to set aside two
of the achool yards as play grounds
was reached after a letter from the As
sociated Charities was presented to the
board by Secretary J. C. Logan, J. K.
Orr, Rev. C. B. Wllmer ond V. H.
Krelgshnber. It is the Idea of the
association to have the grounds under
the supervision of competent pereons,
so that children may gather and play,
thus keeping them oft the etreets, Tho
school yards to be given for the pur-
e lse mentioned will be decided upon
ter.
Teachers Are Glad.
The dispensing with <the rule requir
ing teachers to attend aummer school
In either this or other cities met with
general approval. On August 29 and
10 all the public school teachers will
most and discuss ths work of next ses
sion. On August 31 teachers will hold
entrance examinations at their regular
schools. The public schools will be
formally opened September 4.
At the request of Miss Christina Ro-
mare, of tho Girls' High uchool, she
was granted a year's leave of absence,
which will be spent In study abroad
Miss Sarah Converse was elected to
fill the vacancy. Miss Hattie Buch
anan. assistant principal of Formtvalt
Street achool. resigned. Mis* Ora
Stamps, of West End school, was ap
pointed to fill the vacancy.
A number of additions will he mnde
to schools If Ihe 'council provides for
extra appropriation. It was decided to
buy 800 now desks. The contract hns
been let to Clsnton A Webb, of this
city. Other repairs will be decided upon
after thorough Investigation of the enn-
Itary conditions. The committee on
boundaries will make a report at Mio
next session of the school board. The
matter of temporary quarter* for the
Rryor Street ■ school was left to Mr.
Winn, and the meeting ndjourned until
the next regular meeting, June 28.
EXCELLENT SERVICE TO
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH,
NORTH CAROLINA.
During tho months of Juno, July
am’ August the Scnhoard Air 1.1ns
Railway will oporato on Its train lcav-
lug Atlanta at !t:;if> p. in., every HAT
URDAY, a through sleeping car to
Wilmington, N. C.; returning tho
through sleeper will leave Wil
mington Thursday at 8:00 p.
arriving In Atlanta at
6:80 a. m., Friday. Arrangements
have been mado with the street* rail
way people at Wilmington to hnyo
cars ready at tho depot to Immediate
ly transport passongcre to the hotels
at Wrlghtsvlllo Ho»eh. Baggage will
be checked to destination. WEEK
END rale, good for live days, 88.25;
SEASON tickets, 918,05.
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Write for Catalogues.
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Writing In Sight Company,
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100 Smith Prinier No. 2 Models (or Sill, 050 Cash Each.
JAMES SMITH SPEAKS
TO LARGE AUDIENCE
JfpeclsJ to The Qeorgf*a
Cornelia, Ga., June 21.—lion. James M.
ftnilth, candidate for governor, arrived nt
Cornelia, Oa., yesterday and waa met nt
the depot by a lnrgo crowd, who escorted
him to the school auditorium# where he
delivered an address to a crowd of aovcral
hundred people.
The audience was nil attention from the
beginning to the eud of hie well delivered
■peecli and It Is certain that by hie pirns-
lag manner he mado a number of frlende
here.
BRIDGE CONTRACT LET
TO AN ATLANTA FIRM
Hpectat to T(i« Georgian.
Covington, Oa., Junff 21.—At a moot
ing of the county board of commission
ers the contract for building the new
bridge to be erected by tho county waa
let to Auatell Brothers, of Atlanta.
The tax for tho telling of domestic
wines was fixed at thla meeting at 1200
par unnurfl.
JUDGE RUSSELL SPEAKS
AT BLUE RIDGE, GA,
Spools I to Tho Georgian.
Illue Hldgc, Oa.. June 2L-Jndgo Russell,
candidate for governor. nddrrMed about
seventy-live rot ere at the court hnpse Jj|ere
yesterday. Owing to the busy noason of
the yenr very few people from the country
turned out. Ills speech apparently mini*
quite n favorable Impression npon those
who heard It.
lie also spoke at Mineral ffliiff In the nft-
ernoon and at Morgnnton at night.
REV. GORDON CALLED
TO COVINGTON CHURCH
Fpeclnl to The Georgian.
Covington, *Ga., Juno 21.—At a con
gregational meeting of the Presbyte
rian Church, Rev. John B. Gordon, of
Lewlsburg, Tenn., wmm elected pastor
by a unanimous vote. Tills election
,IH ful- the mil 1 Cl III
The Prasbyterlnn church hns pur
chased tho James O. Lester home os a
parsonage. This Is one of the most
desirable dwellings In tho city. It was
built by Colonel j. G. Lester, formerly
nf i Ills |>lm »•. n< .w of t In* Maddox-
Rucker Ranking Company, Atlanta.
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UPTON SINCLAIR’S NOVEL OF PACKINGTOWN-THE
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STORY THAT LAID BARE THE PACKERS' CRIME
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CHAPTER II.
Jurgla talked lightly about work, be
cause he waa, young. They told , him
stories about the breaking down of
men, there In the stock yards of Chi
cago, and of what had happened to
them afterwards—stories to make
your flesh creep, but Jurglft would only
laugh. He had only been there four
months, and he waa young, and a giant
besides. There waa too much health
in hltn. He could not even imagine
how it would feel to be beaten. "That
I» well enough for men like you," he
would say, "silpnax, puny fellowa—but
I my back Is broad." ,
Jurgis was like a boy, a boy from
the country. He waa the sort of man
the bosses like to get hold of, the sort
they make It a grievance they cannot
get hold of. When he was told to go
to a certain place, he would go there
•m the run. When he had, nothing to
^ for the moment, he would* stand
round fidgeting; dancing, with the over-
[low of energy that was In him. If
re were working In a line of men, the
iip* always moved too slowly for him,
ahu you could pick him out by hla Im
patience and restlessness. That waa
fhy he had been picked out on one
important occasion; for Jurgis had
*t‘.nd outside of Brown & Company’s
"Central Time Station" not more than
hair an hour, the second day of his
arrival in Chicago, before he had been
«**.'koned by one of the bosses. Of
[h‘.s he was very proud, and It made
him more disposed than ever to laugh
a! the pessimists. In vain would they
a!l tell him that there were men In that
<ro*d from which he had been chosen
> had stood there a month—yea.
Minton China.
Lovers, of artistic China
are invited to call and see
our uew importations of
Minton. Odd and very at-
ta'-tire are tho designs.
Other new China that will
iur-rest you.
Maier & Bertie
many months—arid not been chosen
yet. "Yes," he would say, "but what
sort of men? Broken-down tramps
nnd good-tor-nothings, fellows who
have spent all their money drinking,
and want to get mors for It. Do you
want ms to believe that with these
arms”—and he would clench Ms fists
ond hold them up In the air, so that
you might see the rolling muscles—
"that with these arms people will ever
let me etsrve?"
“It Is plain,” they would answer to
this, “that you have come from the
country, and from very far In the
country.” And this was the fact, for
Jurgle had never seen a city, and
scarcely even a fair-sized town, until
he had set out to mike his fortune In
the world and earn hie right to Ona.
HI* father, and‘hla father's father be
fore him, and a* many ancestors back
as legend could go, had lived In that
part of Lithuania known aa Brelovlcz,
the Imperial Forest. This la a great
tract of a hundred thousand acres,
which from time Immemorial has been
a hunting preserve of the nobility.
There are a very few peasants settled
In It, holding till* from ancient times;
and one of these was Antanas Rmlkus.
who had been reared himself, ond had
reared his children In turn, upon half
a dozen acres of cleared land in the
midst of a wilderness. There had been
one son besides Jurgis, and one sister.
The former had been drafted Into the
army; that had been over ten year*
ago, but since that day nothing had
evar been heard of him. The sister
was married, and her husband had
bought the place when old Antanas
had decided to go with his son.
It was nearly a year and a half ago
that Jurgis had met Ona, ht a horse
fair a hundred miles from home. Jur
gis had never expected to get married
—he had laughed at It as a foolish
trap for a man to walk Into: but here,
without ever having spoken a word to
her, with no more than the ezrbann
of half a doxen smiles, he found him-
selt purple In the face with embar
rassment and terror, asking her par
ents to sell her to him for hla wife—
and offering his father’s two horses
he had been sent to the fair to sell. But
Ona’* father proved aa a rock—the
girl was yet a child, and be was a rich
man. and his daughter was not to be
had In that wayT Bo Jurgis went
home with a heavy heart, and that
spring and summer tolled and tried
hard to forget. In the fall, after the
harvest waa over, b* saw that It would
not do, and trqmped tho full fort
night's Journey that lay between him
nnd Ops.
Ho found on unexpected state of af
fairs—for the girl's father had died,
nnd hla estate was tied up with cred
itors; Jurgis* heart leaped as ho real
ized that now the prize was within
his reach. Thera waa Elzbleta I.uko-
azaite, Teta or Aunt, az they called
her, Ons'e stepmother, and there were
her six children, of all ages. There
waa also her brother, Jonas, a dried-
up little man, Aho had worked upon
the farm. They were people of great
consequence, as It seemed to Jurgle,
fresh out of th* woods; Ona knew how
to retd, and knew many other things,
that he did not know; and now the
farm had been sold, and the triple
family was ndrlft—all they owned In
the world being about sevon hundred
roubles, which Is half a* many dollars.
They would have had thru, time* that,
but It had gone to court, and the Judge
hnd decided against them, and It had
cost the balance to get him to change
his decision.
Ona might have married nnd left
them, but she would not, for she loved
Teta Elzbtfita. It was Jonas who sug
gested that they all go to America,
where a friend of Ms hod gotten rich.
He would work, for his pan, and the
women would work, and some of the
children, doubtless—they would live
somehow. Jurgis. too. had heard of
America. That was a country where,
they said, a man might earn three
roubles a day; and Jurgis figured what
three roubles a day would mean, with
prices as they were where he lived,
and decided forthwith that he would
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set out for America. At the last mo
ment there Joined them Marlja Here-
zynskas, who was a cousin of Ona'M.
Marlja was an orphan, and had worked
since childhood for a rich farmer of
Vllna, who beat her regularly. It was
only at the age of twenty that It had
occurred to Marlja to try her strength,
when ehe had rleen up and nearly
murdered the man, and then come
away.
Thera were twelve In all In the party,
five adults jtnd six children—and Ona,
who waa a little of both. They had a
hard time on the passage; there was
an agent who helped them,' but he
proved a scoundrel, and got them Into
a trap with some officials, and cost
them a good deal of their precious
money, which they clung to with such
horribl* fear. This happened to them
ngaln In New York—for, of course,
they knew nothing about th» country,
nnd had no one to tell them, and It was
easy for a man In a blue uniform to
emony la typical of Packing- O i lead thsm away, and to take them to a
town. At midnight the formal
8YN0PSIS.
The story of "Tho Jungle, 1
Upton Sinclair’s novel which
has caused the government In
Investigation Into ths methods
employed by the beef trust, had
Its origin In an actual Packing-
town romance.
In Ashland avenue—"back of
the stork yards"—tha wedding
took place.
The first chapter merely
shows a broad-shouldered
butcher being wedded to a
young girl who sees In him a
hero. The wedding In all Its
grotesqueness Is described In
this chapter. The wedding cer-
lttes ended. O
The chapter closes with a ds- O
scriptlon of Packlngtown fee- O
tlvltlcs and tells how beer Is O
promiscuously passed around. O
Sinclair portrays In well-**- O
leeted words the dregs of the O
denizens of that section. . O
Nearly all of the characters 0
Introduced In the story are em- 0
ployed In the stock yards, and 0
the prelude, which tell* of their
social life. Is to be followed by
go to America and many*, and be a rich 10 a story of thtlr toll In the big
man In thsJwrgaln. In that country, I fj yards. I
rich or poor, a man was free. It was * ff’m.vrtvht 1908 bv Upton
said; he did not have to go Into the I)? ‘ ' lK ,
army, he did not have to pay out his j O Sinclair. All rights reservsd.)
money to rascally official*—h# might 1 0
wy to rascally — —_...,
do as he pleased, and count himself | OOOOOOO O O O O O 0OO0000
as good as any other man. 8o Amer
ica was a place of which lovers and
young people dreamed. If one could
only manage to get the price of a
passage, be could count his troubles
at an end.
It was arranged that they should
leave the following eptlng, and mean
time Jargi. *"10 himself to a run-
tractor tor a certain time, and tramped
nearly four hundred mile, from home
with a gang of men to work upon a
railroad In Bmolensk. This was a
fearful experience, with filth and bad
food nnd cruelty end overwork: but
Jurgfs stood It and came out In fine
trim, nnd with eighty roubles sewed
up In his coat. He did not drink or
fight, because he was thinking all tha
time of Ona; and for the rest, he was
n quiet, steady man, who did what
he was told to, did not lose his temper
often, and when be did lose It made
the offender anxious that he should
not lose It again. When they paid him
Off he dodged the company gamblers
nnd dramshops, and So they tried to
kill him: but he escaped, and tramped
It borne, working at odd Jobs, and
sleeping always with one eye open.
Bo in ihe dimmer time they had all
hotel and keep them there, and make
them pay enormous chargee to get
away. The law say* that the rate-
card shall be on the door of a hotel,
but It does not say that It shall be In
Lithuanian.
It waa In the stock yards that Jonas'
friend had gotten rich, and so to Chi
cago tha party waa bound. They knew
that one word, Chicago—and that was
all they needed to know, at least, until
they reached 'the city. Then, tumbled
out of the cars without ceremony, they
were no better off thkn before; they
stood staring down tha vista nf Dear
born street, with It* big black build
ings towering In the distance, unable
so realise that they had arrived, and
why, when they aald "Chicago," people
no longer pointed In some direction,
but Instead looked perplexed, or laugh
ed, or went on without paying any at
tention. They were pitiable In their
helplessness; above all things they
stood In deadly terror of any sort of
person In official uniform, and so
whenever they saw a policeman they
would cross the street and hurry by.
For the whole of the first day they
wandered about M the midst of deaf
ening confusion, utterly lost; and It were dlvld
waa only at night that, cowering In the It was an
doorway of a house, th^y were finally I crude; It was rh b,
discovered and taken by a pollit-mnn sual nnd ntrnng
to the station. In the morning nn In- who drank It In
terpreter was found, and they were toxicant; there \
taken and put upon a car. and taught their hnndkeiehle
a new word—"stockyardTheir de- nev emigrants w<
light at discovering that they were to In wooder, when i
get out of this adventure without los- Mo a hull, am 1 th
ing another share of their possessions,
It would not bn possible to describe.
They sat and stared out of the win
dow. They were on n street which
usem< 1 to run on forever, mile after
mile—thirty-four of them. If they had
known It—and each side of It one un
interrupted roWof wretched little two-
story frame buildings. Down every
side street they could see, It ws* the
same-^never a hill and never a hollow,
but always the same endless vista of
ugly and dirty llttl* wooden buildings,
litre and. there would be a bridge
crossing a filthy creek, with hard-
baked mud shores and dingy sheds and
docks along U; here and there would
be a railroad crossing, with a tangle
of switches, tnd locomotives pulling,
and rattling freight rar* filing by;
here and there would be n great fac
tory, a dingy building with Innumer
able windows In It, and Immense wot-
umes of smoke pouring from the chim
neys, darkening th* air above and
making filthy tne earth beneath. Rut
nftcr eaqh of these Interruptions tho
desolate procession would begin again
—th* procession of dreary little build-1
Ings.
A full hour before the party reached I
th* city they had begun to note Dm
perplexing changes In the atmosphere.
It grew darker all the time, nnd upon
the earth th* graze seemed to grow
green. Every minute, as-the train
sped on, th« colora of things became
dingier; the fields were grown parched
and yellow, the landscape hideous and
bare. And along with the thickening
smoke they began to notice anoth
circumstance, a mrange, pungent odor.
They were not sure that It was un
pleasant, thla odor; some might have
called It sickening, but their taste in
odore waa not developed, and they were
only eure that It was curious. Now,
sitting In the trolley car, they realized
that they were on thgir way to tho
home of It—that they had traveled
the way from Lithuania to It. It was
now no longer nomethlng far-off and
faint, that you caught In whiffe; you
could literally taste It, aii well bh smell
it—you could take hold of It, almost,
and examtno It at your leisure. They
their opinions about It.
ntnl odor, raw and
almost rnncld, sen-
There were some
is If It were an In-
ere others who put
» to their faces. The
e Mill tasting It, lost
tddenly the car came
Joor was flung open.
nnd a voice shouted—"Stockyards!"
Th. . l. ft m:.ihIIiik •upon the
corner, staring; down a sldo street
there w*ere two rown of brick houses,
nnd between them a vlstn: half a dozen
chimneys, tall ns the tallest of build
ings, touching the very, sky—and leap
ing from them half a damn columns of
smoke, thick, oily and l»la< k as night
It might have come from the center of
the world, thin smoke, where the flre«
of the ages still smouldor. It came as
If self-impelled, driving all h€
It
xhnn
stared, waiting to
but still the great streams rolled out.
They spread In vost clouds overhead,
writhing, curling; then, uniting In one
giant river, they streamed away down
the sky, stretching a black pall n» fur
ns the eye could reach. *
Then the party became nwqre of an
other strange thing. This, too, like the
odor, was a thing elemental; It was a
sound, a sound made up of ten thous
and llttl- .-"iiml- Y<in senrt i*ly noticed
It nt first—It sunk Into your con*< loud
ness, a vague disturbance, a trouble.
It was Ilk© tho murmuring of tho bee*
j In the spring, the whisperings of the
1 foreM; F Hiiggcxteil entlle-d activity,
the rumbling?* of a world In motion. It
wee only by nn effort that one could
teallze that It was mado by* animals,
that It wa** the dUtant lowing <»f ten
f thousand cattle, the distant grunting of
ten thousand swine.
Th-\ ’■ '»>iM have lik.-.l t<» f..!!.»w It
up. but. Minx’ tbev bail m > time f..r ad
venture* Ju*t then The p.>ll« eman "n
the i inner •.«.!* beginning '•> • u. b
them; and so. as usuut, they *tai***o up
the street. Scarcely had they gone a
block, however, before Jonas was heard
to give a cry, and began pointing ex
citedly acrosn the street. Hefoie they
could gather the meaning «*f his
breathless ejaculations he had bound
ed away, and they saw him enter a
shop, over which was a sign: "J. Hzed-
vlias. Delicatessen." When he came
out again it was.In company with a
very stout gentleman In shirt sleeves
and an apron, clasping Jona* by both
hands and laughing hilariously. Then
T* * . FI / r**ci»!!♦** ted suddenly that
Fie.Ivlin* had been the name of the
mythical friend who hnd made hla for
tune In America To tim) that he bad
been making It In the delicatessen
exfritnidlnary piece of
'his Juncture: though
In the morning they
«te<! and the children
’..m >ri ow's Georgian.}
r id fortu
was we
had not bi