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TflE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
mere children are driven to breadwinning.
DEATH AND MISERY IN PACKING!OWN DISCLOSED BY “THE JUNGLE”
Toilers Doomed To Be
Demoralized by Rapacity
of Beef Trust Owners
CHAPTER XI (CONTINUED)
It would have been better If Jurgla
Hd been really III: If he had not been
gbie to think. For he bail no resources
,uch as moat Invalid* have: all he could
do wa» to lie there and toss about from
Hde to aide. Now and then he would
break Into cursing. regardless of every
thing: and now and then his Impa
tience would get the better of him, and
he would try to get up, and poor Teta
Elibleta would have to plead with him
In frenay. Elibleta wns all alone with
him the greater part of the time. She
would *h and smooth his forehead by
the hour, and talk to him and try to
make him forget.
Sometime* It would be too cold for
the children to go to school, and they
would have to play In the kitchen,
where Jurgla was, because It was the
only room that was half warm. Theso
were dreadful times, for Jurgls could
get as cross as any bear; he was
scarcely to be blamed, for he had
enough to worry him, and It was hard
when he was trying to take a nap to
be kept awake by nolay and peevish
Children.
Elzbleta's only resource in those
times was little Antanas; Indeed, it
would be hard to say how they could
hare gotten along at all If It had not
been for little Antanas. It was the one
consolation of Jurgls’ long Imprison
ment that now he had time to look at
his baby. Teta Elibleta would put the
clothes basket In which the baby slept
alongside of his mattress, and Jurgls
would lie upon one elbow and watch
him by the hour. Imagining things.
Then little Antanas would open hi*
eves—he was beginning to take notice
of things now, and ha would smile—
how he would smllal So Jurgla would
begin to forget and be happy, because
he was In a world where there rvae a
thing ao beautiful as the smile of little
Antanaa, and because such a world
could not but be good at the heart
of It. .
He looked more like hie father every
hour, Elibleta would say, and laid It
many times a day, because she saw
that It pleased Jurgls; the poor, little
terror-stricken woman was planning nil
dav and all night to soothe the pris
oned giant who was Intrusted to her
care. Jurgls, who knew nothing about
the age-long and everlasting hypocrisy
o( woman, would take the bait and grin
with delight; and then he would hold
his finger In front of little Antanaa’
eyes, and move It this way and that;
and laugh with glee to saa the baby
follow It. There la no pet quite ao
fascinating as a baby; he would look
In to Jurgls' face with such uncanny se
riousness, and Jurgla would start and
cry: 'Taluk! Look, Muma, he knows
Ida papa! He does, he does) Tu mano
szlrdele, the little rascal!"
chaptFr XII.
For three weeks after his Injury
Jurgls never got up from bed. It waa a
very obstinate sprain; ths swelling
would not go down, and the pain still
continued. At the end of that time,
however, he could contain himself no
longer, and began trying to walk a
little every day, laboring to persuade
himself that h* waa better. No argu
ments could stop him, and three or
four days later he declared that he was
going hack to work. He limped to the
cars and got to Brown’s, where he
found that the boss had kept his place
—that la, was willing to turn out Into
the snow the poor devil he had hired
In the meantime. Every now and then
the pain would force Jurgls to stop
work, but he stuck It out till nearly
an hour before cloalng. Then he wns
forced to acknowledge that he could
not go on without fainting; It almost
broke his heart to do It, and he stood
leaning against a pillar, and weeping
like a child. Two of the men had to
help him to the car, and when he got
<mt he had to sit down and wait In the
•now till some one cam* along.
SO they put him to bed again, and
j»nt for the doctor, as they ought to
nave (lone In the beginning. It trana-
Plted that he had twristtd a tendon out
or place, and could never havo gotten
well without attention. Then ho gripped
the aides of the bed, and shut hla teeth
together, and turned white with agony,
while the doctor pulled and wrenched
»*ay at hla swollen ankle. Whan tlnal-
l». ' ln ctor left he told him that he
would have to lie quiet for two months,
and that if he went to work before
||«t time he might lame hlmaelt for
Three day* later than cams another
i.* ,v,, ." ,ow '* torm > * n(l Jonas and Marl-
» and ona and tittle Stanlalovaa all
•et out together, an hour before day-
I 0 try to get to the yard*. About
mwn the laat two cams back, the boy
•creaming with pain. Hla fingers were
quite certain that she would find' her
place gone, and was all unnerved when
she finally got to Brown's, and found
that the forelady herself had failed to
come, and waa therefor* compelled to
be lenient.
One of the consequences of this epl
sode was that the first joints of three
of the little boy's fingers were perma
nently disabled, And another that there
arter he always had to be beaten be.
fore he set out to work, whenever there
wns fresh snow on the ground. Jurgls
was called upon to do the beating, and
ns It hurt his foot he did It with a
vengeance: but It did not tond to add
to the sweetness of his temper. They
say that 'the best dog will turn cross
If he be kept chained all the time, and
It waa the same with the man; he had
not a thing to do all day but lie and
curse his fate, and thp time came when
he wanted to curse everythfng.
This was never for very long, how
ever, for when Ona began to cry Jurgls
could not stay angry. The poor fellow
looked like a homeless ghost, with his
cheeks sunken in and hla long black
hair straggling Into hla eyes; he waa
too discouraged to cut It, or to think
about hla appearance. Hla muscles
were wasting away, ana what were left
' ' bt -
&ti l**'**- lingers were
1 **cmed. They had had
us ( h?s IIp ,ryln * 1° **l to the yards,
Ih,, "•“» perished In a drift. All
th. #1— 1 kn * w how to do waa to hold
llni. ? n * er » n »ar the Are, and ao
dan-r. n v lov “ *P« nt moat of the day
Jureu*e abo . ut te horrible agony, till
Into a passion of nervous
Irw th!Y'(," wor ® '"t* a madman, declare
i?*'1„ h * wooM kin him If he did not
hill that d * y * nd n, * ht the family
half erwed with fear that Ona
•nthemnSJI had ,0 »‘ their places; and
ever Jr. ™ S? th * y *®t °“t earlier than
th * littl* fallow had been
could be nn by There
It. n° trifling In a case like this;
•t*aUlovslr ,t * r ?! ,lf * nn d d ««‘ h : "“•«
nails* iw v 0uld not tx expected to
t« freere he P’ , « ht » freal deal bet-
fcfcfab!?. 1 .? 'he snowdrift than lose
were soft and flabby. He had no ap
petite, and they could • not afford to
tempt him with delicacies. It was
better, he said, that he should not eat.
It waa a saving. About the end of
March he had got hold of Ona’a bank
book, and learned that there was only
three dollars left to them In the world.
•orst o:
f **«g<
they lost another member of.their fam
ily; brother Jonas disappeared. One
Saturday night h* did not coma home,
and thereafter Ml their efforts to get
trace of him were futile. It waa said
by the boss at Durham’s that he had
otten hi* week's money and left there.
hat might not be true, of course, for
sometimes they would say that when a
man had been killed; It was the easiest
way out of It for all concerned. When,
for Instance, a man had fallen Into
one of. the rendering tanka and had
been made Into pure leaf lard and
teorleas fertiliser, there was no use
ettlng ths fact out and making hla
family unhappy. More probable, how
ever, waa the theory that Jonas had
deserted them, and gone on the road,
seeking happiness. He had been dis
contented for a long lima, nnd not
without some cause. He paid good
board, and was yet obliged to live In n
family where nobody got enough to
eat. And Marija would keep giving
them all her money, and of course he
could not bm feel that he was called
upon. tq ; do.the same.
Then there were crying brats and
all sorts of misery: a man would have
had to be a good deM of a hero to
atand It all without grumbling; and.
Jonaa waa not In the least a hern—he
was simply a weather-beaten old fellow
who llkad to have a good supper nnd
alt In the corner by the Are and amok*
hla-pipe in peato before he went to
bod. Here there waa not* room by the
nre. and through the winter ths kitchen
had seldom been warm enough for
comfort. So, with the springtime, what
waa more likely than that the wild Idea
of escaping had come to him? Two
years he had been yoked like a hors*
to a half-ton truck In Durham’s dark
cellars with never a rest, save on Sun
days and four holidays In the year,
and with never a word of thanks—
only kldlcs and blows and curses, such
as no docent dog would hava stood.
And now th* winter was over, and th*
spring wind* were blowing—and with
a day’s walk a man might put the
emoke of Packlngtown behind him for
ever, and be where the grass was
green and tha flowers Ml the colors of
the rainbow!
But now tho Income of the family
woe cut down more than one-third, and
the food demand was cut only one-
eleventh, oo that they ware wore* off
than ever. Also they were borrowing
their fares, either not seeing them
thinking they had already paid; ot .J
he did ask, they would hunt through
their pockets and then begin to cry,
nnd either have their fares paid' by
some kind old lady or else try the trick
again on a new car. All this was fair
play, they felt. Whose fault waa It
that at the hours when workingmen
were going to their work and back the
cars were ho crowded that the con
ductor* could not collect all the fare*?
And, besides, th* companies were
thieves, people said—had stolen all
their franchises with the help of scoun
drelly politicians.
Now that the winter was by and
there was no more danger of snow,
nnd no more coM lo buy, nnd another
room warm enough to put the children
Into when they cried, and enough
money to get along from week lo week
i loss I. n il,lo ,h.ill ho
had been. A man can get used to
anything In the course of time, and
Jurgls had got used to iytng about the
house. Ona saw this and was very
careful not to destroy his peace of
mind by letting him know how very
much pnln she was suffering. It was
now the time of the spring rains, nnd
Ona had often to rid* to her work In
spite of the expensei the was getting
paler every day, nnd sometimes, In
spite of her good resolutions, It pained
her that Jurgla did not notice It. Hhe
wondered If he cared for her as much
as ever, It all this misery u ns not
wearing out hla love, she had to be
away from him Ml the time and bear
her own troubles while he waa bearing
hla; and then, when ahe. came homo
she was ao worn out; and whenever
they talked they had only their wor
ries to talk of—truly It was hard, In
such a life, to keep any sentiment
a|lve. The woe ot this would flame up
in Ona sometimes—at night sh* would
suddenly clasp her big husband In her
arms and break Into passionate weep
ing, demanding to know If ho really
loved her. Poor Jurgls, who had In
truth grown more matter-of-fact un
der th* endless pressure of penury,
would not know what to make ot these
things, and could only try to recollect
when he had last been croaa; and so
Ona would have to forgive him and
rob herself to sleep.
The latter part of April Jurgls went
to see the doctor, and was given a
bandage to lace about hla ankle, and
told that he might go back to work.
It needed more than the permission of
the doctor, however, for when he
showed up on the killing floor of
Brown’s, he was told by the foreman
that It had not been possible to keep
his job for him. Jurgls knew that
this meant simply that the foreman
had found some on* ela* to do the
work ns well and did not want to
bother to make a change. He stood In
the doorway, looking mournfully on,
seeing hts friends and companions at
work, and feeling like an outcast.
Then ha went out and took hi* place
with the mob of the unemployed.
This time, however, Jurgls did not
have the saino line confidence, nor the
same reason for It. Me wus no longer
the flneat-looktng man In the throng,
nnd the bosses no longer mndo for
him; he was thin anil haggard, and Ills
clothes were seedy, and he looked mis
erable And there were hundreds who
at the lard machine. Ona was
account, and spoiling ones again
her hopes of marriage and happiness.
And they ware avan going Into debt to
Tamosxlu* Kueslelks and letting him
Impoverlahx himself. Poor Tamosslus
was a man without any relatives, and
with a wonderful talent besides, and
he ought to have mad* money and
prospered; but he had fallen In love,
and so given hostages to fortune, and
was doomed to be dragged down, too.
So It was Anally decided that two
more of the children would .have to
leave school. Next to Stanlalovaa, who
wan now flfteen, there was a girl, littl*
Kotrlna. who was two years younger,
and then two boya, VlUmaa, who was
eleven, and NlkMojus, who waa ten.
Both of these last were bright boys,
and there waa no reason why their
family should starve when tena of
thousands of children no older were
earning their own living*. So one
morning they were given a quarter
apiece and a roll with a sausage In It,
And. with their minds top-heavy with
good advice, werd sent out to make
their way to the city and learn to a*U
newspapers. Th*y came hack late at
night In tears, having wMked th* live
or alx mile# to report that a man had
offered to take, them to a place where
they sold newspapers, and had taken
their money and gone Into a store to
gat them, and nevermore been seen. So
they both received a whipping, and the
next morning set out again. Tbli tlm#
they found the newspaper place, and
procured their stock; and after wan
dering about tIU nearly noontime say
ing "Paper!” to every one they saw,
they had all their stock taken away
and received a thrashing besidsafrom
a big newsman upon whoa# territory
they had trespassed. Fortunately, how-
aver, they had already aold soma pa
per*. and came back .with nearly as
much as they started with.
After a week of mishap* such as
tbeee the two little tallows began to
team tho way* of the trade—the name*
of the different papers, and how many
town for months begging for wvt
This wns a critical time In Jurgls’ life,
and If he had been a weaker man he
would have gone the way the rest did.
Those out-of-work wretches would
stand about the packing house* every
morning till the police drove them
away, and then they would scatter
among the saloons. Very few of them
had the nerve to face the rebuffs that
thty would encounter by trying to get
Into the but dings to Interview the
.bosses; If they did not get a chance
In the morning, there would be noth
ing to do but hang about the saloons
the rest of th* day and night. Jurgla
waa saved from all this—partly, to b*
sure, because It was pleasant weather,
and there waa Mo need to be Indoors;
but mainly because he carried with
him always tha pitiful little face ot hla
wife. He must get work, he told him
self, lighting tha battle with despair
avery hi - ~
REDUCED r. r. rates
V™ FOURTH OF JULY.
L, fl,*,*' 4 4 \ R -.?• »od H. C. A St. of each to get, and
cheap round trip • wher* to atay away
an* o * 1,1 POlnta touth of the Ohio leaving homa at 4
* nd Cl “ Of the Missis- Insr and running about ‘I 1 */VikJjJ’with
JW rlvar, Ineludlno at with morolbg papers and then with
l E »»"*vllit «n d cireirL. 9 ,! Jr. Loul *: evening, they might com* horn# latest
•"•■third fare#’ tirt" , * ’ . * t and night with Id or 10 cent* aptace-poa-
Jtfly Id to '' •.’?•*■ ,0 be "old «lbly a* much as 40 rents From this
until jui, flood to return “ - -*datf "* r ,mT * “ np *
, y «h, 1900.
of each to get. and where logo and
from. After thla,
’cloca In the morn-
Ot* appu rt to*l„ inf0rm,lion ,nd t,ek -
A. k 5,7 *° » ny Ofltnt of th* W. X
CHAS. E, HARMAN,
Gsnsral Pa*,. Agent.
they had to deduct their car fare, tinea
the dlatance waa ao great; but after a
while they made friend* and I«rn*d
still more, and then they would aare
their car fare. They would get on a
car when the conductorwaa not look
ing and hide In tha crowd, and three _
times out of four he would not ask for druggist
our of the day. He must get
work! He must have a place again
and some money saved up, before th*
next winter came.
But there was no work for him.
sought Ml the members of hla union—
Jurgls had stuck to the union through
all this—and begged them to speak a
word for him. He went to every one
he knew, asking for a chance, there or
anywhere. He wandered Ml day
through the buildings; and In a week
or two, when he had been all over the
ards, and Into every room to which
je had access, and learned that there
was not a job anywhere, ho persuaded
himself that there might havo been
a change In the places ha had Aral
visited, and began the round nil over;
till Anally the watchmen and the spot
with threats. Then there wiu nothing
more for him fo do but go with the
crowd In th* morning, and keep In the
front row and look eager, and whqn
he failed, go back home, ai d play with
little Katrina and the baby.
Tha peculiar bttternsm of Ml thla
was that Jurgla saw so pIMnly tha
meaning of It. In the beginning he
had been fresh and strong, end lie had
gotten a job the first dny; but now he
was accord-hand, a dai.mgel article,
to to speak, and they did not want
him. They had got tha beat out of
hint—they had worn hint out, with
their apeedtng-up and their careless
ness, and now they had thrown him
away! And Jurgla would make tha
acquaintance .if others of three unem-
P - red men, and find that they had all
the same experience Thera were
some, of course, who had wandered
In from other places, who had been
ground up In other mills; there were
others who were out from their own
fault—soma for Instance, who had not
been able lo atand the nwful grind
without drink. Tho vast majority
however, were simply the worn-out
IMIH III- Krc.'K nificllcss p.u King
• IKK him*; they had tolled tin re, and
kept up with tho pace, some of them
for ten or twenty years, until finally
the time had come when they could
n*it Keep no with IT .(nv m.o.y
Some had been frankly told that
they were I,,,, old, that a sprier man
was needed; others .had given occas
Ion. by some act of carelessness or In
competency; with most, however, th.
occasion had been the same ns with
Jurgls. They had been overworked
nnd underfed so long, nnd flnnlly some
disease had laid them on their backs
they had cut themselves, nnd had
blood poisoning, or met with some oth
er accident. When a mnn came hack
after Hint, he would get Ida place back
"hie by the courtesy ,,f the boss. To
this there was no exception, save when
the accident wns one for which tho
Arm was liable; In that cose they
would send a slippery lawyer to see
him, flrst to try to g*t him to sign
away his claims, but if he wan too
smart for that, to promise him that he
nnd his should always be provided with
work. Tills promise they would keep
strictly nnd to the letter—for two
years. Two years wus the "statute of
limitations,” and after that the victim
I >,uId not sue.
What happened to n man after any
of these things, nil depended upon ths
circumstances. If he were of the
ably have enough saved up to tldo him
over. The best paid men, the "split
ters,” made 60 rents un hour, wn
would bo IS or 16 u day In the rush
seasons, and II or 12 In the dullest,
•nan could llvo and save on that: but
then there were only half a dozen
dltters In each place, a
iem that Jurgls knew had a family of
twenty-two children. Ml hoping
row up and be splitters Ilk* their
nther. For nn unskilled man, who
made 110 a week In the rush seasons
ajtd IS In ths dull. It all depended upon
hla ago and the number he had de
pendent upon him. An unmarried man
' "Hid save. If be did pot dil«l;, nnd If
he was absolutely selfish—that Is, If he
paid no heed to the demands of his
"Id par-llts, (,r cf Ills little brothers
and sisters, or of any other relatives
ho might have, ns well as of tho mem
bers of his union, and his chums, and
the people who might be starving to
death next door.
CHAPTER XIII.
During this time that Jurgls was
looking for work occurred the death of
llttlo Krlstoforas, ono of tho children
"f Telu Klzbletu. Ilotb KrlM Puns uinl
hla brother, Juozapns, were cripples,
the latter having lost one leg by hav
ing It run over, and Krlstoforas har
ing congenital dislocation ot the hip,
i. h Hindi* It Impossible f"l* him ever
to walk. lie was the Inst of Tata
Klzblctu's children, and perhaps ha had
been Intended by nature to lot her
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under-sized; he had the rickets, and
though he wos over three years old.
he was no bigger than an ordinary
child of one. AIT day long he would
crawl around the floor In'a filthy little
dress, whining and fretting becauso the
floor was full of draughts; ho was al
ways catching cold nnd snuffling ho
ur Ills nose ran. This made him a
nuisance and a source of endless trou-
■o Hie fnoilly. Fur Ids mother,
with unnatural perversity, loved him
best of all her children, and tnado a
lerpetuat fuss over him—would let
tlm do anything undisturbed, and
Would burst Into terns when bis fret
ting drove Jurgls wild. And now be
died. Perhaps It was ths smoked sau
sage ho had eaten that morning—which
may have been made out of some tu
bercular pork that was condemned as
unlit for export. At any rate, an hour
after eating It the child began to cry
with pnln, nnd In another hour he was
rolling around on tha flour in convul
sions. I.llle Kotrlna, who was Ml alone
with him, ran out screaming for help,
and after a while the doctor came, but
not until Krlstoforas had howled his
last howl. No one was really sorry
this except poor Elxblsta, who
was Inconsolable. Jurgls announced
that ao tar as ha waa concerned ths
child would have to be buried by the
city, sine* they had no money for n
funeral; nnd at this tho poor woman
almost went out of her senses, wring
ing her hands and screaming with
grief and despair. Her child to be
mried In a pauperis gravel And her
stepdaughter stand by and hear It said
without protesting! It waa enough to
make One’s father rise up out or his
grave to rebuke her! If It had com*
this they ro:
one*,
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
Th« »tonr of "Tb« Jnpflo," Upton Sinclair’* nor#!, which ma«cil the govern*
ment lnre«Ufiitloa Into the method* employed hr the beef trust, tins its orlKlu
In an actunl l*arklngt»wn romance.
A aimplc-niltided coterie of Lithuanian* arrive In Chicago, seeking employment.
nn«l are conducted to l*ack!ngtown by a friend. Jnrgla, a glnut In strength. Ir
betrothed to Ona, and the flrat chapter .rella of the wedding In at* Ita
ould Here;
ST'
stock
ja^dw-aH hut Ona. whom Jurgla aold sbou.. Mil B
... IH terrlblo tale of tha daughter bouaea la told with almost revolting detail^
the fllth. the overworking of bnnda. the struggle to keep up with the pacemakers,
la all vividly depicted. Tha little family buya a house on tha Inatallment plan,
only to tlnd they have been awlndlad, and Ona la forced to aeek work to p»*ef
actual llrlng expense and the Interest on the purchase contract, of wh
learn too lale.
■noma hare gone to tha worker, fiha protest* TtdMPHpMMPMI
■he obtains u taan’a work at half the pay of a man. A baby cornea to Ona
1—u..a aw- ..sal at. ... off, faring the loan ( —
_waleb
M
Jurgla, but The llltle mother can take'Tinly a "week off,'fraring the ioaa of her "ok
\eMerdf\y'* tiiHtnlliiieut recounts bow the press of work anil diminution of pay
continue: how In the winter Jurgls carried Una *rfd the Iwy of the family
through snowdrifts, nnd how he had to take any job that came to |f~ *
Just am Jurgla nnd Orta par Marija whnt they had horrowci*
turn* hla ankle anil ta laid up In bed. The Instillment enda
of tha misery Ids Idleness entails.
Copyright, 1904, by Upton Sinclair. All right* reserved.
my ei iri(miiv
ta him In the ranis.
4 fniin her. Jurats
with a description
•rl . . , In the end Marija said that
ahe would help with 110; nnd Jurgls
being still obdurate. Klsbleta went In
laara Ml,MM tha money from tho* that h# M bare Mto hall. To this
neighbors and so little Krlstoforas had
a mass and a hearse with white plumes
on It, and a tiny plot In a graveyard
w ith a wooden cross to mark the place.
The poor mother was not the same for
months after that; the mere sight of
the floor where little Xrletotonu had
crawled about would make her
weep. He had never had a fair rhanea.
poor little fellow, she would say. lie
had born handicapped from Ills birth.
If only she had heard about It In lime,
ao that she might have had that gre
doctor to cure him of his lameness .
Some time ago, Elibleta was told, _
Chicago billionaire had paid a fortune
to bring a great European surgeon over
to cure hla little daughter of the same
disease from which Krlstoforas had
suffered. And because thla surgeon
had to have bodies lo demonstrate
upon he announced that he would treat
ths Children of the poor, n piece of
magnanimity over which tho papers
became eloquent! Elibleta, alas, did
not read the paper*, and no one had
told her; but perhaps It wns as well,
for Just then (hey would not havo had
■e to go every day to
*■■■ jrgaon, nor for that
matter anybody with the time to take
the child.
All .this while that he was seeking
for work, there was a dark ahadow
dinting over Jurgls; as If a savage
beast were lurking somewhere In the
pathway of his Ilf*, and he knew II, and
yet could not help approaching the
place. Thera nre all stages of being
out of work In Packlngtown, and he
faced Ih dread the pros poet of reaching
the lowest. There Is a place that waits
for tha lowest man—tha fertilizer
plant!
Tho men would tMk about It Ih awe
stricken whispers. Not more than one
In ten had ever really tried It; tho oth
visitors ever saw them, and the few
who did would come out looking like
Dante, of whom the peasants declared
part of tiv 'm"N ..line all the “tank
age,” and tho waste products of all
sorts; here they dried out the bones—
and In silffnrgtlng collars where the
daylight never came you might see men
nnd women nnd children bending over
whirling machines ami rawing bits of
bone Into all sorts of shapes, breathing
their lungs full ot tho line dust, and
doomed to die, every ono of them, with
in o certain deflnlte time.
Here they made the blood Into al
bumen, and made other foul-smelling
things Into things still more foul smell
ing. In the corridors nnd caverns
where It was don* you might lose
yourself a* In the great caves of Ken
tucky. In the dust and tha steam the
electric lights would shin* Ilka far-off
twinkling star*—rad and blue, green
nnd purple stars, according to the
I color of tho mist nnd the brew from
which It came. For tho odors In theso
Kh.istl) I houses there may ho
words In Lithuanian, hut there Is none
In English. The person entering would
have to summon his courage os for a
Cold u.lt.-l plunge. He would K" on
like a mnn swimming tinder wnter; he
would put hi* handkerchief over his
face, Hnd begin to cough nnd choke;
nnd then. If lie were still obstinate, he
would And his head beginning to ring,
nnd the veins in hi- forehead to throb.
Until finally he would be assailed by an
overpowering blast of nmmonla fumes,
and would turn nnd run for his life, and
come out half dnxed.
On top of this were the rooms where
they dried the "tankage,” the mass of
brown, stringy stair that wag n*rt after
the waste portions of the taNMMglV;
had the lard and (allow dried out of
them. This dried material they would
then grind to a line powder, nnd after
they hod mixed It up well with a mys
terious but Inoffensive brown rock,
which they brought In and ground up
by th* hundreds of car loads for that
purpose, the substance was rendy to ho
put Into bogs and sent out to the world
as any one of a hundred different
brands of standard bone phosphate.
And than the farmer In Maine or < '<iit-
fornln or Texas would buy this, nt say
126.a ton, and plant It with his corn;
and for several days after th" ..pc ration
the fields would have n strong odor.
mil I In- wjig.in nnd the
very horses that had hauled It would
all hava It, too. In PaiMegi .wn the
f. i till/, i IS pin", Inst. "I "f being a
flavoring, nnd Instead of a ton nr so
spread out on several acres under ths
open aky. there are hundreds and thou-
sands of tons of It In ona building,
heaped here and there In hareCMr
piles, covering th* floor several Inches
deep, and filling the air with a choking
dust that becomes a blinding »nnd
storm when the wind etlra.
(Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian.)
TO ADOPT PRIMARY
RULES ON THURSDAY
For (hr purpotn of adopting rule* far
the atata primary In August, a marling
ot tha Fulton County Democratic Kxccu
flte eotnmlttto lia* been called to meet In
the Uaement of the county conrt house on
the evening of July 6. The official call
la aa follows:
“To the Member* of the Democratic
RxecuUva Committee of Fultou County,
Georgia: You are hereby notified that a
meeting of the Democratic Kxeeutlvo
committee of Fulton county, Georgia, la
railed to assemble In 4he ttnsement of the
county court house Thursday, Ji '
1904, nt 11 o'clock, noon, for the
uly
. purpose
of Adopting torb rule*, rcgulalloua nutl
er nine hnd contented thcmnolve* with re«pilmin*nta os nre ucccsaary for tho prop-
hearaay evident o nnd a peep through* * ' * *
Ilf they might ae well give up at
, and be burled all of thorn togeth-
the door. There wore some thing* worse
than oven to starving to death. They
would ask Jurgla If he had worked
there yet, and If ho meant to: nnd Jur
gin would dchatu tho matter with him
self. Aa poor no they were, nnd making
nil the sacrifices that thoy were, would
ho dare to refuso any aort of work
that wna offered to him, bo It n» horri
ble as ever It could ? Would he daro to
K’» 1»• *fi)• ■ .m l cal brmi.l that lirnl Leon
earned by Ona, weak and complaining
as she was, knowing that he had been
given a chance, and had not had tho
nerve to take It?—And yet he might
argue that way with himself all day,
and one gllmpao Into tho fertiliser
work* would eond him away again
shuddering. lie wns n man, and ho
would d«» liH duty: he went and made
application—but surely ho was not also
required to hopo for success!
Tha fertiliser work* of Durham’s lay
away from the rest of tho plant. Few
er holdlag of tbo state Democratic primary
for snld county, August S2, 1904. ami for
such other business aa may properly come
before snld session.
**T. ll. FKLPER, Chairman,
"CUAltLEB fc. ALLEN, Secretary."
COL. ESTILL ADDRESSED
WAYNESBORO CITIZENS
•Special to Tbe Georgian.
Waynesboro, Qa., July 4.—Colonel J.
II. Estlll and Hon. Thomas S. Morgan,
both of Savannah, apoko hero yes ter
day In the Interest of tho south Oeor-
Ki i i nmJlibife The court bourn- win*
well filled wlthpeople. and many ladles
went present. Tho colonel made a very
pleasant address, with no personal
abuao of any ono.
Mr. Morgan’s address favoring the
colonel was tho feature of the day.
Ills remarks wern full of humor of tho
•olltlcal situation In the Georgia gu
bernatorial campaign.
THURSDAY, JULY 5th.
FREE CONCERT
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Af the Opening of Nathan’s Vienna Cafe
75 Peachtree Street.
Dainty Souvenirs given away. Tan par cant of the groaa receipt*
will go to the benefit of the Old Women’s Home.
POSTAL CLERKS MEET
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION
Hpeelal to the Georgina.
Mecon, On., July 4.—Georgia poatal
clerk* mat In convention here today n ml
the attendance I* vary large. Presi
dent C. O. Hardeman, who realdts In
Macon, -had mad* all arrangements for
the entertainment of tha visitors, and
the program contains many pleasant
feature*.
Tha aeaslon convened In the post-
office, and ninny mattera of Importance
to the oiaoclatlon will be dlipoied of.
EXCELLENT "SERVICE TO
WRIQHTSVILLE BEACH,
NORTH CAROLINA.
During tho months of June, July
and Auguat tho Seaboard Air Line
Hallway will operato on Ita train leav*
Ing Atlanta nt 0:35 p. til., every SAT
URDAY, a through alocplng car to
Wilmington, N. C.; returning tho
through sloopor will leave Wil
mington Thursday nt 3:00 |>.
tm, . arriving In ’ Atlanta at
8:30 n- m.. Friday. Arrangement!
havo boon made with tho atroot rail
way people at Wilmington to havo
rant ready at tho depot to Immediate
ly triraapoit pnaaengcra to the hotel*
at Wrigbtavillo Beach. Baggage will
be chocked to destination. WRKK-
END rate, good for llvo dnya, JS.2J;
REASON tickets, $18.66.
SEABOARD.
DeLOACH MILL SOLD
FOR SUM OF $38,000
J. W. Conway and Ills nasoefatrs bars
"Ir. Ii is.*.| th.. Inn.| ninl l.illMImt* th«4
Mill MauiifnriijrlDg Cvmpnttf, af
Ilffhland arena* and tba Southern ’ rail
way, pitvliiif anniPthlnic oror 138,000, It I*
nn.l.’rflt.rft.l,
Tbo Dolxmrb company will mors II* plant
to 1. *!»•• I • r« »\ 1 • 11II v; III.'If If I- *»t II t A.|
that 3Ir, Conway win arnrt n inrge manu
’fi-'tui tin? I'lnitt <>n Mi-’ »*lf.’ nr.|nlrt’.| l.y
ilm and Hint tbs tavsntapnc win !*• si
nut uo ibflnlto atatfineaC nn to pliiui bar
bffU mads.
To Bulftf Car 8hop».
Hprrtal to Tbs Georgiau.
Chattanooga, Tsnn., July 4.—Ths
Chattanooga Railway Company hua
aaksd for a fronchlan to build enr re
pair ahops hero at a coat of 1125,000.
Your Heart
a wonderful pomp that works Inces
santly. Th* power that keep* this won
derful pnmp In akflloo la nerve-force,
the energy fnrnlahed liy the nerve*.
Disease, over-exertion, fright, anxiety,
nlrobol. tobnreo nnd other stimulants
weaken these nerve*.
Then coma* ahurtnea* of breath, heart
palpitation, illailAesa. ate., Iieeana* the
nerve* are toe week to furnleh power.
Take tbe ooly safe remedy.
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure
It feed*, strengthen* and I,olid, np tk*
•tree nnd nitwrie* of th* hrert ** they
in repair the m I'rereiy energy.
"I etiffered terribly wftb fc-nrt trouble,
shnrieenn of l.rezth. smothering Inc!I,
After taking Itr Mil*’ Ilmrt ( are .
•bort tin..- I feel like a.different pereoo.
That .tepraaa.il ametbrrlag f.-cling left
me, and I have not all had it.e ,
SHAM BATTLE
PIEDMONT PARK
JULY FOURTH, 5:30 P. M.
ARTILLERY, CAVALRY, INFANTRY,
GATLING GUN.
Admission 25 Cents, Children Under 10 Years Old Admitted
Free When Accompanied By An Adult. Benefit 5 th Regiment,
National Guard of Georgia Encampment Fund. No Extra Charge
For Seats In Grandstand.
HMNlfittfiE
