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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
TIU'RRDAY, JI I.Y t, 1M
The Local Agent
is the man who han
dles life insurance as
a side line. He is an
enterprising hanker,
merchant or profes
sional man, who eni-
tjoys his leisure time
representing s o m e
good company, and
thereby doubles his
income.
The more popular
the company the more
policies lie writes
with least effort. No
company is more de
servedly popular than
the Mutual Benefit,
of Newark, N. J., on
account of its unblem
ished reputation, its
low premiums, i t s
Annual Divi
dends and its liberal
"contracts.
It is a conservative
company, paying rea
sonable commissions
to high class men.
If we are not repre
sented in your com
munity, drop us a ling.
Angler & Foreman,
Slate Agents, ATLANTA.
FOi RTFI OF JULY QUIETES1
\ CHIEFTURNERREMEMBERS
"The quietest Fourth I remember,’’
said Chief Turner, of the county police,
Thursday morning. "There were ne
groes everywhere in the county, bar
becues galore and ull kindn of picnics,
but little trouble.”
Hut the Fourth among the negroes
was not without incident. Members of
the county police reported a number of
occurrences which were not without an
element of humor.
A crowded electric car stopped at
College Park and an officer on the plat
form saw a big negro emerge from the
calaboose and start on a run for the
car. He climbed on board, his holiday
toilet rather the worse for a July sun
and the close air of the lock-up. He
j greeted a friend.
“Dey done had me locked up all de
mawnln',” he said. ’’Hit cost me two
dollahs an* er haaf.”
"Ain't dey try you?” asked his friend.
"No, dey Jes’ lock me up an’ git rnah
money,” said tho victim of Justice.
"Well, dnt ain’t law,* said the coun
sellor.
The car sped on, and at the next stop
a deputy sheriff reached into the crowd
and extracted a negro who wa* too
boisterous even for the Fourth. As he
departed to the calaboose the released
prisoner watched him with interest not
unmixed with sympathy.
"Dere now.” he said. “Dere’s another
pore nigger’s two-fifty gone.”
Out at River park a negro dance was.
In full blast. In the center of the fino
a troubled looking negro was swinging
a "bright yaller" girl, who was ob
livious of oil out the strains of "St.
Louis Tickle." Out trouble descended
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
COMMITTEE REORGANIZED
Special to The Georgian. .
Hartwell, Ga., July 5.—A mnss meet
ing of the Democrats of Hart county
was held here today. Colonel J. R.
Skelton was unanimously elected
chairman of the executive committee
ami Colonel Arthur S. Richardson sec
retary.
The following were elected as mem
bers of the executive committee: W.
I. Halley, J. R. Myers, Oscar,Herndon,
Frank Sadler. \\ f . R. McConnell, J. T.
Phillips, J. O. Richardson, T. B.
Thornton, L. L. McMullan, B. McMul-
lan, P. D. Isom, W. J. Obarr, F. M.
Johnson, J. A. Adams, John 8. Rowe,
j. F. Holbrooks, John C. Walters, Jack
rhappelear, T. E. V. White, J. H. H.
Newborn, M. M. Norman, L. Richard
son. T. L. McMullan, Harrison San
ders.
upon the pair. It took the form of a
little black woman, with burning eyes
and a big umbrella. When she reached
the pair the umbrella fell first across
the bend of the man and then wrecked
tho picnic hat «»f the yellow girl. The
other dancers took their corners.
"Here, stop that,” said a county po
lice officer who mud© Ills way into tho
hall.
"He's rnah husbnn* an* he shan't
dance wld dot gal,” said the injured
wife. It ended b.t tire younger woman
swearing out a warrant against the
wrecker <>f l|«-r headgear.
Out on the Lake view road were a
dozen barbecues. Roast pigs and sheep
were on every hillside, and the utinns-
phero was pungent with the fragrance
of the feast. Kegs of bey were flowing
freely Into tin cups and some of the
crowd had drunk not wisely, but too
well When f ?t*• time for returning came
they were oblivious of the world and
Its sorrow.
One wagon load of feast era started
cityward on the run. A fat negro, who
sat on the tailboard absorbing the last
bottle of beer, was jolted out when the
wagon struck a stone nnd the fall
broke his leg below* the tnee. He yelled
lustily, but the roisterers were too busy
to listen, and they left heir comrade
lying In the road without ever slack
the pace. The next vehicle raised 1
from the dust and t >ok him home.
But with all the crowds and the
picnic beer the Fourth was singularly
free from serious disorder. An affair at
River park. In which a negro woman
was sliced by a razor, whs reported
late at night, bilt the county police
were forced to make but few arrests.
"But I'm glad It’s over," said Chief
Turner.
BEAUTIFUL HORSEWOMAN
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
Affirmed.
Prather ». Pentnno, from city court
Hooper & Dykes, for plaintiff In error.
William. £ Harper, contra.
City of Atlanta v. Pate, from city
court of Atlanta. Judge Reid. J. L.
Mayson and W. P. Hill, for plaintiff In
error. Westmoreland Broa., contra.
Powell v. Wiley, from city court of
Atlanta. Judge Reid. Sims & Hewlett
and E. M. A O. F. Mitchell, for plaintiff ■P™. “■« “ V
In error. Walter T. Colquitt and lien- » or , p ?, J ‘ ** Kent QnJ
nett J. Conyers, contra.
ry. R. T. Fouche,, McHenry A Mad
dox and Seaborn A Barry Wright, for
plaintiff* In error. Halated Smith, con-
r.her v. Seaboard, Air I.lne Railway,
from Stewart superior court. Judge
I.ltt lejohn. (I. Y. Harrell and H. F.
Harrell, for plaintiff In err E.
Hawkins and K T. Hickey, contra.
Hardin, adm'r, v. Neal I.onn A Bank
ing Co., from Fulton auperl >i court.
Judge Pendleton. Thomas F. Corri
gan, for pill I in Iff In error. Westmore
land Hm»„ contra.
Smith et ul. v. Kennedy, from city
court of WnghtBVllle. A. S. Buaaey.
Judge pro hac vice. E. L. Stephens.
Phelan v. Vestner, from Fulton su
perior court. Judge Pendleton. Bur
ton Smith, for plaintiff in error. Rob*
ser & Brandon, contra.
King & Co. v. Georgia Railway and
Electric Company, from Fulton supe
rior court. Judge Pendleton. Lowndes
Calhoun, for plaintiff* In error. Rosser
A Brandon, W. T. Colquitt and B. J.
Conyers, contra. .
Wardlaw et at. V. Herrington et al.,
from Fulton superior court, Judgo Pen
dleton. Burton Smith and J. A.
Branch, for plaintiffs In error. Cut-
Person A Johnson, contra.
Rtvtritd.
Dethrage et al. v. City of Rome,
from Floyd superior court. Judge Hen-
A. L. Hatcher, contra.
Dismissed.
Carter et al. v. American Ginger Ale
and Carbonating Company, from Ful
ton auperlor court. Judge Pendleton.
Moore A Pomeroy, for plaintiffs In er-
r >r. Peeples A .Ionian and Payne,
Jones A Jones, contra.
Cade et al. v. DuUose, from Elbert
superior court. Judge Holden. Joseph
N. Worley, for plaintiffs In error. Wil
liam D. Tutt, Jr., contra.
Rehearing! - Denied.
Dolvln v. American Harrow Com
pany, from Greene superior court.
Wheatley, receiver, x. Glover et al..
from Slimier superior i om t.
Watson V. Barnes, r.instable, et al.
from Fulton superior court.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES-
Georgia School of Technology
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
A technical InutKnU of th* high** rank. whM» «m!u«U*. wlthoot«tee
•rd lucratir* position* in *n#in*«rifif and w*""*** 1 *} Hf*. I?}”*' -
th# South, with Um abonndme *»p*rtsnRfc* oftadik* sradoatra in*•*<?**
derrtepmant. Th* forty rntmten of tho rU-aof
tt'.vt graduation. Advanced oouroo* In Mvebinirsl. KlsalrtaU. To*tOo. Mfrliy rr-sr-
and Fnvinaanrw CWtotry. JUtonaWo and now *qutpm*nt of Shop. 1U1I. LalwmtorUa. oUj^Now
Library ar.d naw QtVmirsl laboratory. Coat rmaonaMa Earh ccuaty ta Gaorgia antltaoa to
fifteen frr* scholsrshlpa. Tha nail *«**k>n begin* Sept ». For iltoEiraUd ratalogn*, xMiarn
K. G. MATHESON, A. M„ LL D.« President. Atlanta, Georgia
FATALLY WOUNDED
RESISTING ARREST
LUCY COBB INSTITUTE,
Athens, Ga.
1906 1907
The FORTY-EIGHTH session of the
Lucy Cobb Institute, an institution for
the education of young woman of
Georgia, will reopen on WEDNE9DAY,
Ppeclnl to Tim Georgian.
ML Alry-Ga., July 6.—As the result ^ ^ ^ ... wt
of an accident while resisting arrest iSipfEMBRR"I"'For ’esUl'oguVend
,!o!s. n,Kht ’ Elro ^* * room reservations apply to
place, war fatally allot, tho ballot pen©-
tinting tho abdomen. Although yet
olive there is vary little hopes of his
recovery.
TWO CABMEN FINED
FOR BEATING HORSES
George Brown and Tom Clark, negro
cabmen for the Atlanta Baggage and
Cab Company, wore tried before Re
corder Rroyles Thursday morning on
tho charge at cruelly whipping their
boms.
Brown woe fined $15.76 and was
bound over to the state courts on th©
charge of carrying concealed weapons,
one witness testifying he saw the cab
man with a pistol In his pocket. Clark
was fined $10.75. Policemen Rowan.
Rosser, Starnes and Coogler. the or-
»■' • ; 11' K "i:i. . i ' tie I Unit both horse*
were terribly beaten.
MOULTRIE CELEBRATED
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
Bperlnl to The Georgian.
Moultrie, Oa., July 5,—The Fourth
of July was celebrated in Moultrie on
a larger scale than has been attempted
since tho civil war. Fully 12,000 people
were In the city from this and sur
rounding counties. The trades display
in the morning included floats from
half a hundred business houses. The
visitors were given a barbecue din
ner, which was supplemented by bas
kets furnished by txio ladles of Moul
trie.
There was an all-day singing In tha
court house, a fiddlers* convention, a
game of baseball In the afternoon and
horse racing. Every businn## house,
tho public building# and many resi
dences were decorated with flags and
bunting.
The day closed with a fireworks dis
lay on tho court house square, given
'• Savannah pm lies. Mu*|c win fur -
nlshed by tho Woodmen's band, of Sa
vannah.
MRS. M. A. LIPSCOMB,
Principal.
ALABAMA BRENAU
—i KUKAULA, ALABAMA. —
young
ranr. h|.«-
oratory.
Beautiful
mognidrai
mote, splendid health record, a in. u
nnu rhsutarupm taken bison of tisi
t'omuMrtiremrnt. Specially low prlc
Write for 111nstrnted catalogue.
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Irebetffa of 15 InHrument*
lew hulldhig* Icrsteil upon
files 1 winter ell
THREE TRAINS WRECKED
AT HICKORY DURING DAY
Special to The Georgian.
Hickory, N. C„ July 5.—Tuesday
morning two trains collided head-on.
about four miles east of this place, at
little station called Omnyolla. X)
one was hurt but the fireman, who was
badly bruised.
Tuesday evening os So. 22 from
Asheville to Bnllsbury w*ns passing the
wreckage by means of a siding It w »*
thrown off the track, thus barring both
tracks for an hour.
NOT ALLOWED TO LAND,
BOATMAN KILLS FARMER
Special to The Georgian.
Greensville, Miss., July 6.—Because
he had refused him permission to stop
at his private landing, an unknown
man, who was drifting down the river
in a barge, shot and killed William
Schlmmclphenlg, a farmer, residing
about one mile south of Greensville.
After killing Hchlinmelphenlg the man
escaped In his barge.
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CHAPTER XIII (Contlnutd.)
It wo, to title building that Jurgla
came dally, ae It dragged by an un-
«een hand. The mqnth of May was
an exceptionally cool on*, and his se
cret prayers war* granted; but early
In Juno there came a record-breaking
hot spell, and after that there were
men wanted In the fertilizer mill.
The bn*s of the grinding room had
come to know Jurgla by this time and
had marked him for a likely man; and
•o when he came to the door about 2
o'clock this breathless hot day he felt
» sudden spasm of pain shoot through
him—the bos, beckoned to him! In
ten minutes more Jurgls had pulled off
his coat and overshlrt, and set his
teeth together and gono to work. Here
was one' more difficulty for him to
meet and conquer!
His labor took him about one minute
to learn. Before him wns one of the
vents of the mill In which the fertilizer
Was being ground—rushing forth In a
frest brown riser, with n spray of the
nnest dust flung forth In clouds. Jur-
zls was given a shovel and along with
naif a dozen others It was his task to
•h»*el this fertiliser Into carts.
That others were at work he knew
»y the sound, and by the fact that ho
•ometlrnes collided with them: other
wise they might as well not have been
there, for in the blinding dust storm a
Sis'face 1 4 not *** * lx t ** t *** * ront 01
When he had filled one cart he had
to grope around him until another
came, and If there was none on hand
he continued to grope till on# arrived,
in nve minutes he was, of course, a
mass of fertiliser from head to feet:
they gave him a sponge to tic over Ills
mouth so that he could breathe, but
“W’hfe did not prevent his Ups and
eiellds from caking up with it and Ills
ears f ro m nillng solid.
looked like a brown ghost at twl-
ih. ha,r *° ,ho ®» h® became
H*. of the building and of every-
irl* n * n<1 - for ,h * 1 matter, a hun-
outside of It. The building
Jr. ’’Lhe. left open, and when the wind
d«T 5 u . rh * m * Company lost a great
«• "* f 'rtHlz*r.
"ortdh. In hts shirt sleeves, and
.inM .5* thermometer at over a hun-
•Mrv. phosphates soaked In through
ni-o..L 0r . e ot Jurgls’ skin, nnd In flvo
hs-had a headache, nnd In
een *»» almost dazed. The bloo.1
SILVER BASKETS.
J' e are showing some very
^tractive patterns in these
touch-sought pieces. The
Mtutlix who have wrought
t*® Lave so admirably car
ed out the ai’tistic ideals of
the designers that the result
s catirely pleasing,
brace, elegance aud supe-
«°r workmanship ai'e ehar-
• 1 eristic of all our silver
ware.
MAIER & BERKELE.
was pounding In his brain like an en
gine's throbbing; there waa a frightful
pain In the top of his akull, and hs
could hardly control his hands. Still,
with the momory of his fourth months’
slego behind him. hs fought on. In n
frenzy of determination, nnd hnlf nn
hour later ho began to vomit—he'vom-
Ited until It seemed as If his Inwards
must be tom to shreds. A man could
get used to the fertilizer mill, the boss
hud said, If lie would only make up
his mind to It; but Jurgls now began
to see that It was a question of making
up Ills stomach. *
At the end of that day of horror ha
could scarcely stand. He had to catch
himself now anil then, and lean against
a building nnd get his bearings.
Most of the mon, when they came
out, made straight for n saloon—they
seemed to place fertilizer and rattle
snake poison In one class. But Jurgls
was too III to think of drinking—he
could only make his way to the street
nnd stagger on to a ear. He had a
sense of humor, and later on, when
lie became an old hand, he used to
think It fun to board a street car and
see what happened. Now, however, he
was too 111 to notice It—how the people
In the car began to gasp nnd sputter,
to put their handkerchiefs to their
noses, and transfix him with furious
f dance*. Jurgls only knew that a man
n front of him Immediately got up
and gave Mm a neat; and that half
a minute later the two people on each
aide of him got up, and that In a full
minute the crowded ear waa nearly
empty—those passengers who could not
get room on the platform having got
ten nut to walk.
Of course Jurgls had made hit home
miniature fertilizer mill a minute
after entering. The stuff waa half an
Inch deep In his skin—hts whole sys
tem was full of It, and It would hnva
taken n week not merely of scrubbing,
but of vigorous exorrlse to get It out
of him. Ab It was. h, could be com
pared with nothing known to men.
euve that newest discovery of the sav
ants, a substance which emits energy
for an unlimited time, without being
Itself In the least diminished In pow
er. He smelt ao that he made alt tho
food at the table taste, and set the
whole family to vomiting; for himself
It wns threa doyB before he could keep
anything upon his stomach—he might
wash hts hands, and usa a knife and
fork, but were not hts mouth and
throat tilled with the poison?
And still Jurgls stuck It out! In
spite of splitting headaches he would
stngger down to the plant and take up
his stand once more, and begin to
shovel In the blinding clouds of dust.
And so at the end of the week Me waa
a fertilizer man for life—He was able
to eat again, and though hie head nev
er Stopped aching. It ceased to be ao
bad that he could not work.
So there pessed another euturner. It
was a summer of prosperity all over
the country, and the country ate gen
erously of packing house products, and
there was plenty of work for all the
family. In spite of the packers' effort*
to keep a superfluity of labor. They
were again able to pay their debt* and
to begin to save a little sura; but thsre
ware one or two sarrtflrea they con
sidered too heavy to be for long—It was
too bad that the lioys should havs to
sdl papers at thsir age. It was ut
terly useless to caution them and plead
with them; quite without knowing It.
they were taking on the tone of new
environment. They were learning to
SYNOP5IS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The slorr of "Tho JuriRlo," Upton Sinclair’* novel, which Mind the ifovorn*
incut In vestlun t Ion Into tho methods employed by tho beef trust, hoi Its origin
In :m n> ■ 'ml I’ncklngtiMvii romniicr.
A simple-minded eoterlo of I.lthunnlnns srrlve In Chicago, *<*okln*c employment,
nnd arc conducted to l'm’ktuxrmni by n friend, diirgls, « giant lu strength. Is
betrothed to Ono, and the llrst chapter tolls of the wedding In nil Its grotraque-
nc*<*. After much tribulation the otitlro family obtains work la ' the stock
yards—nil bat Ona. whom Jurgls mid' Should never work.
The terrlblo tale of the Nlnushter bouses N told with almost revolting detnll—
the tilth, the overworking of bauds, the xtruggle to keep up with the noeemnkrrs.
Is nil vividly depicted. The little fmnlly Imya n hoii»o on the liiNtaflineiit tdnu,
only to find they hnve l»©en swindled, nnd Onn la forced to seek Work to meet tho
nrtunl living expenso and the Interest on the purchtiso contract, of which they
leul n tin. Lite.
Mnrljn discovers that the forelady Is cheating her, liy taking money which—
should hare gone to tut worker. Uhe protests violently, ami Is discnnrgndj- Finally
she ohtnllis n man’s work nt half the pay of n man. A hahy comes to Ono nod
Jurgls. bat tho little mother ran take only n week off. fearing the loss of her Jolt,
Just ns Ona and Jurgls pay Mnrljn wool they owe her. Jurgls turn* his an
kle nnd Is laid up for month*. IBs nature lieglns to rhntige. lie become* rro«*
and tavago with pain. Starvation stares the family In tho race. The smaller chip
dren nr# oent out Into the snow to sell pnpers.
i:\riitinilly. In summer, Jurgls trie* to regain his position, lie has been
squeezed of bis strength by toll ana Illness, and at last Is form! to accept a
place In tha fertilizing plant—the deadliest kind of work. Ona'o Illness In
crease*. ret she work* no.
Wednesday’s Installment ended with a description of tha horrors In the fer
tiliser plant.
Copyright, woe, by Upton Hlnclafr. All ri|hti reserved.
swear In voluble English; they were
learning to pick up cigar stumps find
ntnoko them, to pass hours or their
time gambling with pennies nnd dice
and cigarette cards; they were learn
ing th© location of all th© disorderly
houses, on the "L©r©©,” and th© names
of the "madames" who kept them, and
th© days when they gave their state
banquet#, which the police captain*
ami the big politicians all Attended.
If a visiting "country cuatomer" were
to ask them they could show him which
was "Hfnkydlnk's" famous saloon, and
could ev©f> point out to him by name
the different gamblers and thugs and
"hold-up men 1 ' who made the place
their headquarters. And worse y©t,
the boys were getting out of the habit
of coming home at night. What wa«
the use, they would ask. of wasting
time and energy and a possible car fore
riding out to the stockyards every
night when the weather was pleasant
and they could crawl under a truck or
Into an empty doorway and sleep ex
actly as well? 8o long as they brought
Dome a half dollar for each day, what
mattered It when they brought It? But
Jurgls declared that from this to cean-
(ng to como at all would not be a very
long step, ami so It was decided that
Vlllmas and Nlkalojus should return to
school In the full, and Instead Elsblfta
should go out nnd get some work, her _
place at home being taken by her I room. The latter were tended by wo.
younger daughter. i men; there waa a sort of spout, like
Little Kotrlnn was like most children the nozie of a hose, and one of the
of the poor, prematurely made old; she j women would take a long string of
had to take care of her little brother., "casing" and put the end over the noz-
wbo was a cripple, and also the baby; zle and then work the whole thing on,
she had to cook the meals and wash as one works on the finger of a tight
Ing. Besides this, she was working In
"!»•• "f 'L.- dark li«.|#-s, l>. • •!*■• t ri- light,
and the dampness, too, was deadly—
there were always puddles of water on
the floor, and a sickening odor of moist
flesh in the room. The people who work
ed here followed the ancient custom of
ph : nr*', wherein U." j tai mlirn n I- t
. ol'ii .'f lien d It It V * s Id the fall III d .»f
show* In the winter, and the chameleon,
who in black when he 11cm upon a
stump and turns grtfen when he moves
to a Ie&f. The men and women who
worked In this department were pre
cisely the color of the "fresh country
nausngr/' they made.
The sauange room woa on Interest
ing place to visit, for two or three
minute#, and provided you did not
look nt the people; the machines were
the most wonderful things in tho en
tire plant. Presumably s&oaagM were
once chopped nnd stuffed by hand, and
If so it would be Interesting to know
how* many worker* had been displaced
by these Inventions. On one side of
the room were the hoppers, into which
men shovelled Piads of meat and wheel-
barrow* full "f *plc***; In Hiihp great
bowls w*r« whirling knlv*M that made
2.000 revolution* a minute. And when
the meat was ground fine and adulter
ated with potato flour, and well mlzed
with water. It wa* forced to the stuff
ing machines on the other side of the
the dlshe* and clean house, and have
supper ready when the workers came
home In the evening. 8he was only
13, and smell for her age, but she did
all this without a murmur; nnd her
mother went out. and after trudging a
couple of days about the yards, set
tled down as a servant of a "sausage
machine."
Elzbleta was used to working, but
she found this change a hard one, for
the reason that she had to stand mo
tionless upon her fe*t from 7 o'clock In
the morning till 12:30, and iigaln from
1 till 6:10. For the first few day* It
seemed l *> her that she could not stand
it—she suffered almost as Jurgls had
from the fertilizer, and would or.me out [had to give was a
at sundown with her head fairly reel- wrist; and In aomc
glove
This string would be twenty or thir
ty feet long, but the woman would
have It all on In a Jiffy, and when she
had several on she would press a lever
and a string nt sausage meat would be
shot out taking the rasing with It as It
came. Thu# one might stand and see
appigr. miraculously born from tho
machine, a wriggling snake of sau
sage of Incredible length. In front eras
a big pan which caught these crea
tures, and two more women who seized
them as fast as they appeared and
tvi iMted them Into link#. Thin wn« for
the uninitiated th»* most perplexing
II; for all that the
■he contrived
to give It so that Instead of an end
less chain of sausages, one after an-
otln-r, there giew under int IiiiihIm u
bunch nt strings all dnngllng from n
single ranter. It wan quite like the
feat of a prestidigitator—for the wo
man v.<>\ ke.l H.. f.INI 11,11 f tile eje rmi!.|
literally not follow her, and there was
only a mist of motion, and tangle af
ter tangle of sauHAges appearing. Ii
til*’ niblHf of (be mist, however, III" Vl“
Itor would suddenly notice the tense
set face, with tho two wrinkles graven
In tho forehead, and the ghastly pallor
• • r ttie cheek*; and then he would sud
denly recollect that It was tlma ho wan
going on. The woman did not go on;
she stayed right there—hour after
li .ni tiny after day, ynr alter >ern,
twisting saundgo-Jlnkn and racing with
de.lth. l! V\ ;t m pleee Uolk, Mid she H /I •
apt to have a family to keep alive; and
Htern and ruthless economic laws had
arranged it that she could only do thl
by working Just as she did, with all
her soul upon her work* nnd with nev
er an Instant for a glance at the well-
dressed ladles and gentlemen who came
to stare at her as at some wild beast
In a menagerie.
chapter’xiv.
With one member trimming beef In
a cannery, and another working In a
sausage factory, the family hod a first
hand Knowledge of the great majority
of Pecklngtown swindles. For It was
the custom ae they found, whenevsr
meat Was so spoiled that It could not
be used for anything else, either to can
ft or else to chop 1C up Into sausage.
With what had been told them by Jon
as, who had worked In the pickle
rooms, they could now study the whole
of the spoiled meat Industry on the
Inside, and read a new and grim mean
ing Jnto that old Parkfngtown Jest—-
that they used everything of the pig
except the squeal. •
Jonas had told them how the meat
that was taken out of pickle would
often be found sour, and how they
would rub It up with soda to take
away the smell, and sell It to be eaten
on free-lunch counters; also of nil the
miracles of chemistry which they per
formed, giving to any sort of meat,
fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any
color and any flavor and any odor
they chose. In the pickling of hams
they had an Ingenious apparatus, by
which they aavod time and Increased
the ‘capacity of the plant—a machine
consisting of a hollow needle attached
to a pump; by plunging this nesdle
into th# meat and working wlth^hls
foot, a man could fill a ham with pickle
In a few seconds. And yet. In spite
of this, there would be hams found
spoiled, some of them with sa odor
so bad that a rqan could hardly bear
to be In the room with them. To pump
Into these the packers had a second
end much stringer pickle which de
stroyed the odor—a process known to
the workers as "giving them $0 per
cent." Also, after the ham had.been
smoked, there would be found some
that had gone to the bad. Formerly
these had been sold as "Number Three
Grade,” but later on some Ingenious
person had hft upon a new device, and
now they would extract the bone, about
which the bad part generally lay, and
Insert In the hoi© a whlte-bot Iron.
After this Invention. there wa* no
longet Number one. Two or Three
Grade—there was only Number One
Grade. The pack*
Ingle turn of the originating such ochemes— they had
which were all tho odds ajid ends of
P'lik, Huffed Into riming*; und "C’all-
fmnla hams," which were the should
ers, with big knuckle Joints, nnd near
ly nil tho in* uf nit nut; nnd fum y
"skinned hams," which were mndc of
the oldest bogs, whose skins wero so
heavy and coarse that no one would
buy them—that is, until they had been
cooked and chopped fino and labelled
"head cheese"!
It was only when the whole hain
was spoiled that It camo Into tho de
partment of Elzbleta. Cut up by tho
two-thousand-revolutlons-a-mlnutp fly
ers, and mixed with half a ton of
other moat, no odor that ever wns In a
hum could make any difference. There
was never the least attention paid to
what\wns cut up for NHUsuge; there
would como nil the way back from
Europe old sausage that had been re
jected, and that was mouldy and white
—it would bo dosed with borax and
glycerine, and dumped Into the hop
pers and made over ngaln for homo
consumption. There would he meat
that had tumbled out on tho floor, In
(he dirt and sawdust, where tho work-
♦*i* Inn/ trumped nnd spit uncounted
billions of consumption germ". Them
would be meat stored In greut piles In
rooms; and the water from leaky roofs
would drip over It, gnd thouHsnds of
rats vMi$ mo# iMsl an It. K m
too dark In these storage plasso to
soo well, but a man could run his hand
over these piles of meat and sweep off
handfuls.
Rats were nuisances, nnd the pack
ers would put poisoned bread out for
them; they would die, and then rats,
bread and meat would go into the hop
pers togetner. This is no fairy story
and no Joke; tho moot would bo shov
eled Into carts, and the mnn who did
the shoveling would not troublo to lift
out a rat. even when he saw* one—
there wore things that went Into the
usage In comparison with which a
poisoned rat woa a tidbit. Thero wos
no place for the men to wash their
hands before they ate their dinner, and
so they made a practice of washing
them In the water that was to be
ladled Into the sausage.
Thero were butt-ends of smoked
meat and the scraps of corned beef.
nnd «H Hi nnd ends *-f t!»•* waste
•f ft:** plant# that would be (lump*-.I
Into old barrels In the cellar and left
there. Under the system of rigid econ
omy which the packers enforced there
were some Job# that It only |xild to do
once In a long time, nnd among these
wav the cleaning out of the waste bar
rels. Every spring they did it, and
In the barrel# would be dirt nnd rust
ni"' old iimIIh and stub? water -nnd
cart loud after curt Imul ..f it would
bo taken up nnd (IuiiiihmI Into the hop
pers with fresh mem, and sent out to
the public'# breakfast. Home of It they
would make Into "smoked” saunagt—
but a# the smoking took time, and was
therefore **xpenH\e, the> would call
upon their ( bemlhtry deput tment. and
preserve It with borax and color It with
gelatine to make it brown. All of their
sausage rume out of tho name bowl,
but when they came to wrap It they
would stamp some of It "spot lal," und
for thl* they would charge two cents
more a pound.
Such were the new surroundings In
which Flzhlsta was placed, ami *m li
wii« the v\..tk she whm compelled to do.
It wa# stupefying, brutalizing work; tt
l«ft her no time to think, no strength
for anything. She wa# part of th©
machine she tended, und every faeultv
that was not needed f* r the machine
wns doomed to !>.• crushed <ajt of e\-
Istence Then wa# only one mercy
about the cruel grind that It gave her
the gift of Insensibility. Little by lit
tle sho sank Into a torpor she fell
silent. Hhe would meet Jurgls and
Ona In the evening, and the three
would walk home together, often with
out saying a word. Ona, too, was full
ing Into the habit of silence—Ona. who
hart une# gone about singing like a
birth .-III" Miih sick und miserable, and
often Hie would handy have strength
enough to drag herself home And
there they would e;if whaf they had to
eat, and afterwards, because there was
only their misery to talk of, they
would crawl Into bed and full Into a
stupor and never stir until it whs
time to get up again, and dress by
candle light, and go back to the ma
chines. They were so numbed that
they did not oven suffer much from
hunger now; only th* children con
tinued to fret when th© food ran short.
Yet th" soul of Ona wns not dead -
th.- H'.iiis of non** "f th**m war© dead,
hut only sleeping; and now and then
they tvould waken, nnd theie wei©
. pi*! 11 mi"#. The gjit.-H ..f memory
would roll open—old Joys would stretch
out their arm# to them, and they
would stir beneath the burden that lay
them, nnd feel It# forever Im
measurable weight They could not
even cry out beneath It; but anguish
seize them, more dreadful tlisn
the agony of death. It wa# a thing
enreely to l»e spoken—a thing never
poken by all the world, that will not
know ith ...mi def* ,ii.
(Continued In Tomorrow’# Georgian.)
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WHERE WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO
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