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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
».U. JI.'I.Y 7. l&n».
“JUNGLE” EXPOSES HOW WORKERS ARE OPPRESSED BY THEIR EMPLOYERS
UPTON SINCLAIR’S GREAT NOVEL REVEALS MANY HIDDEN CRIMES
GIRL’S STORY DROVE
FATHER TO FRENZY
CHAPTER XV.—CONTINUED.
Her word* fairly drove him wild.
He tore hie hand* loose and (tuna her
off. "Answer me,” lie cried. "I eay—
anawer me!”
She eanjc down upon the floor, be
ginning to cry again. It waa like list
ening to the moan of a damned aoul.
and Jurgla could flbt aland It. He
emote hla flat upon the table by bla
aide and ahouted again at her, “An
awer me!”
She began to acream aloud, her voice
like the voice of aome wild beast. "Ah!
eh! I can't! I can't do It!”
"Why can’t you do It?” he ahouted.
"I. don't know howl”
He aprang and her by the
arm. lifting her up and glaring Into her
face. "Tell me where you were laat
night!” he panted. "Quick, out with
It I”
Then ahe began to whlaper, one word
at a time: "I—waa In—a houee—down
town.”
"What houee? What do you mean?"
She tried to hide her eyee away, but
he held her. "Mlaa Henderaon'e house,"
ahe gaaped.
He did not underetand at first. "Mlaa
Henderaon'e houee?” ha echoed. And
then auddenly, aa In an explosion, the
horrible truth buret over htih, and he
reeled and ataggered back with
An Inatant later he loaped at her, aa
aha lay grovelling at hla feet. H
seized her by the throat. "Tell me!
he gaaped, hoaraely. "Quick! Who
took you to that place?”
She tried to get away, making him
furious; he thought It waa fear, or
the pain of hla clutch—be did not un-
' demand that It waa the agony of her
,shame. Still ahe anawered him: “Con-
fnor.”
"Connor!” he gaaped, "who la Con-
) nor7"
i “The bora,” ahe anawered. "The
: man"—
’ Ho tightened hla grip. In .hla frenxy,
and only when he aaw her eyee cloalng
I did he reallaa that he waa choking her.
'Then he relaxed hla Angara and
crouched, waiting until ahe opened her
lids ngnln. Hla breath beat hot Into
' her face.
"Toll me,” he whlapered, at laat;
. "tell mo about It."
She lay perfectly motlonleaa, and
ho had to hold hla breath to catch her
' words. "I did not want—to do It,” ahe
eald; "I tried—I tried not to do It. I
only did It—to save us. It was our
only chance."
Again for a apace there waa no
sound but hla panting. Ona'a eyda
closed, and when ahe spoke again she
did not' open them. “He told me—he
would have me turned off. He told me
—we would—we would all of us lose
our places. We could never get any
thing to do—here—again. He—he
meant It—he would have ruined us.”
Jurgla* arms were shaking do that
he could scarcely hold himself up, and
lurched forward now and then aa he
listened. "When—when did this be
gin?" he gasped.
"At the very flrat,” she said. She
spoke as If In a trance. "It was all—
It waa their plot—Miss' Henderson's
plot. She haled me. And he—he want
ed me. He used to speak to me—out
on the platform. Then he began to—
to make love to me. He offered me
money. He begged me—he said he
loved me. Then he threatened me. He
knew nil about us, he knew we would
starve. He knew your boss—he knew
Martla’e. He would hound us to death,
he said—then he said If I would—If I—
we would all of us be sure of work—
always.”
A moment ago her face had been
ashen gray, now It waa scarlet. She
waa beginning to breathe hard again.
Jurgla made not a sound.
‘That was two months ago. Then
he wanted me to come—to that house.
He wanted me to stay there. He said
all of u*—that we would not have to
work. He made me come there—In the
evenings. I told you—you thought I
jwaa at the factory. Then—one night
ilt snowed, and I couldn't get back.
I And last night—the cars were stopped,
'it was Xhch a little thing—to ruin us
all."
All this ahe had eald without a
quiver; she lay still as death, not an
.eyelid moving. And Jurgla, tod, said
• not a word. He lifted himself by the
bed, and stood up. He did not atop for
another glance at her, but went to the
door and opened It. He did not see
Elsbleta, crouching terrified In the cor
ner. He went out, hat less, leaving the
street door open behind him. The In.
slant his feet were on the sidewalk he
broke Into a run.
He ran like one possessed, blindly,
furiously, looking neither to the right
nor left. He was on Ashland avenue
before exhaustion compelled him to
alow down, and then, noticing a car,
he made a dart for It and drew him
self aboard. His eyes were wild and
hla hair flying, and he waa breathing
hoarsely, like a wounded bull; but the
people on the car did not notice this
particularly—per lisps It seemed natural
to them that a man who smelt aa Jur-
gls smelt should exhibit an aspect to
correspond. They began to give way
before him as usual. The conductoe
took his nickel gingerly, with the tl|
of his fingers, and then left him wli
the platform to himself. Jurgls did
not even notice It—his thoughts were
far away. Within hla soul It was like
a roaring furnace; he stood waiting,
waiting, crouching aa If for a'aprlng.
11a had some of his breath back
when the car came to the entrance of
the yards, and so he leaped off and
started again, racing at full speed. Peo
ple turned and stared at him, but he
saw no oSs There was the factory,
and ha bounded through the doorway
and down the corridor. He knew the
room where Ona worked, and he knew
Connor, the boas of the loading gang
outside. He looked for the man as he
sprang Into the room.
The truckmen were hard at w<
loading the freshly packed boxes
barrels upon the cars. Jurgls shot
awlft glance up and down the platfo
The man waa not on It. But then,
suddenly, he heard a voice In the cor.
ridor, and started for It with a bound,
In an Instant more he fronted the boss.
He waa a big, red-faced Irishman,
isrse featured and smelling of liquor,
e saw Jurgls aa he crossed the
threshold, and turned white. He hesi
tated one second, as It meaning to run,
and In the next his assailant waa upon
him. He put up hla hands to protect
his face, but Jurgls, lunging with all
the power of hla arm arid body, struck
him fairly between the eyes and
knocked him backward. The next mo
ment he was on top of him, burying
his fingers In hla throat.
Jurgls this man's whole presence
reeked of the crime he had committed;
the touch of hla body was madness to
him. It set every nerve of him a-tremb-
llng; It aroused all the demon In hla
aoul. It had worked Its will upon Onn,
this great beast—and now ho had It.
he had It! It waa his turn now!
Things swam blood before him, and he
screamed aloud In his fury, lifting
victim and smashing his head upon
the floor.
The place, of course, was In an up-
ronr, women fainting and shrieking,
ami men rushing In. Jurgla was so
bent upon his task that he knew
nothing of this, and scarcely realised
thnt people were trying to Interfere
with him; It was only when half a
dozen men liad seised him by the legs
nnd shoulders and were pulling at him
thnt he understood that he was losing
hla prey. In a flash he had bent down
and sunk ' his teeth Into the man's
cheek.
They got him down upon the floor,
dinging to hltn by his arms and legs,
and still they could hardly hold him.
He fought like a tiger, writhing and
twisting, half flinging them off, nnd
starting toward his unconscious enemy.
But yet others rushed In, until there
Was a little mountain of twisted limbs
and bodies, heaving nnd tossing, anil
working Its way about the room. In
the end by their sheer weight they
choked the breath out of him, nnd
then they carried hint lo the company
police station, where he lay still until
they had summoned a patrol wagon
to take him away.
. CHAPTER XVI.
* When Jurgls got up again he went
quietly enough. He 'was exhausted
and half dazed, and besides ho saw the
blue uniforms of the policemen. He
drove In a patrol wagon with half a
dozen of them watching him; keeping
aa far away as possible, however, on
account of the fertiliser. Then he
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
Upton Sinclair** novel, which mused tho go'rora.
Itboaloro arrive to Chicago, seeking employment.
■H by k friend. Jtirgli. a giant In strength, If
irst chapter tells of tha wadding In ill tho gruieoqoo-
•ntlre family obtaloa work In tha atoekyarua—
betrothed to Ona, and IL
neon. After mock tribulation tha i _
all but Ona, whom Jurgla eald should never work.
The tarrtWa tala of the alauzhtar bouaea la told with almoat recoiling detall-
the flltb, the overworking of bands, the atragRle to keep up with fne pace
makers, la all vividly depicted. Tha little family bora a P hi.ure oo^the Install
ment plan, only to rind they bare been swindled, and Ona la forcad lo aeek work
to moat tho aetoal living espanao and tha Interest on tha purchase contract, of
Lett they
fho^TKro'gSw'to'the wuian^Ie'pretreta’vlolre'iflyl'iD^tadfrehanrel. flat*
fy the obtains a maa’a work at half Hie pay of a man. A baby cornea to Ooa
hut tho lltlle motber coo tako only a treok off, fearing tha Iota of
savage with pain,
art sent out Into tbs
illy Jurgls begli
ataro begins to change.
papers.
j-,--—, work la the fertilizer plant-tbe deadliest
Elzhleta slaves In tbs sauaaiw stuffing —
learn to swear, drtak at '
■aueeiw stuffing department. Tb* litUa bays of the family
™. *“d “Poke. Gradually the grind throws the family Into
-J- ipor- They talk little-only eat what I her ran. sleep when they can. .
f ad work. ft seeme to them, always. Yeitrrday'o Installment told of lire almoat
Incredible conditions In the fertilizer plant, and goes deeper Into the criminal
treatment of employees, and the adulteration of tho "meat. ,n The future Ilea dark,
hopeless, before them. Only .death can be seen at the and of tha vista. And
th. strength
All rights referred.
stood before the sergeant's desk and
gars hla name and address, and aaw
a charge of aeeault and battery en
tered against him. On hla way to hla
cell a burly policeman cursed him be
cause he started down the wrong cor
ridor, and then added a kick whan he
waa not quick enough: nevertheless,
Jurgla did not even lift hla ayes—ha
had ' lived two years and a half In
Packlngtown, and he knew what the
police Were. It was as much as a
man's very life was worth to anger
them, here In their Inmost lair: like
aa not a doyen would pile on to him at
once,'and pound hla face Into a pulp.
It would be nothing unueual If he got
bla ahull cracked In the melee—In
which caee they would report that he
had been drunk and had fallen down,
and there would be no one lo know
the difference or to care.
Bo a barred door clanged upon Jur
is and he aat-down upon a bench and
urled hla face In hla hands. He waa
alone; he had the afternoon and all
of the night to himself.
At flrat he was Ilka a wild beast
that has glutted Itself: he was In a
dull stupor of satisfaction. Ha had
done up the scoundrel pretty well—not
as well as he would have It they had
given him a minute more, but pretty
well, all the same; the ends of-hla An
gara were etlll tingling from their con
tact with the fellow'e throat. But then,
little by lltlle, as his strength came
back and hla eenees cleared, he began
to see beyond hie momentary gratltlca-
tlon; that he hod nearly killed the
boas would not help Ona—not the hor
rors that she had borne, nor the mem
ory that would haunt her all her days.
It would not help to feed her and her
child; ahe would certainly lose her
place, while he—what was to happen
to him God only knew.
Half the night he paced the floor,
wrestling with this nightmare: end
when he was exhausted he lay down,
brain was too'much for him. In the
cell next to him was a drunken wife-
beater and in the one beyond a yelling
maniac. At midnight they opened the
station house lo the homeless wsn-
tlerers who were crowded about the
door, shivering In the winter blast, and 1
they thronged Into the corridor outside
of the cells. .Some of them etretched
themselves out An the bare atone floor
and fell lo snoring; others sat up,
laughing and talking, cursing and
quarrelling. The air was fetid with
their breath, yet In spile of this some
of them smelt Jurgls and culled down
the torments of hell upon him, whlls
■ In u far corner of hla
counting the throbblngs of the I
in his forehead.
They had brought him hla supper,
.. hlch was. "duffers and dope”—I
hunks of dry bread on a tin plate,
coffee, called “dope" because It was
drugged to keep the prisoners quiet.
Jurgla had not known this, or he would
have awallowed the stuff In despern
tlon; as It was, every nerve of him wai
a-qulver with shame and rage. To-
wnrd morning the place fell silent, and
he got tp and began to puce his cell;
and then within the soul of him there
rose up a flend, red-eyed and cruel,
and tore out the strings of his heart
It was not for himself that he suf
fered—what did a man who worked
In Durham's fertiliser mill care about
anything that the world might do to
him! What waa any tyranny of prison
compared with the tyranny of the
of the thing that had happened
rould not he recalled, of the memory
that could never be effaced! The hor
ror of It drove him mad: he stretched
out hie arms to heaven, rrying nut for
deliverance from It—and there waa no
deliverance, there waa no power even
In heaven that rould undo the past. It
was a ghost that would not down; II
followed him. It seised upon him ami
beat him lo the ground. Ah, If only
he could have foreseen It—but then he
would have foreseen It. If he had not
been a fool! He smote his hands upon
him forehead, cursing himself because
he had not stood between her nnd a
fate every one knew to be so rommon.
He should hove taken her away, even
It were to lie down and die of starv
ation In the gutters of Chicago's
streets! And now—oh, It could not be
true; It was too 'monstrous, too hor-
rlble!
It was a thing that could not be
faced; a new shuddering seised him
every time he tried to think 'of It. No,
there was no bearing the load of It,
there was no living under It. There
would be none for her—he knew that
he might pardon her. might plead with
her on his knees, but she would never
look him In the face again, she would
never be his wife again. The shame
It would kill her—there could be
other deliverance, and It was best
that she should die.
That was simple and clear, and yet,
■ ith cruel Inconsistency, whenever he
escaped from thls'nlghtmure It was to
suffer and cry out at til# vision of Ona
starving. They had put hint In Jail,
nnd they would keep him here it long
time, years maybe. And Ona would
surely not go to work again, broken
nnd crushed ns she wns. And Elsbleta
and Martin, too. might lose their places
If that hell-flend Connor chose to set
to work to ruin them, they would all
be turned out. And even If he did not,
they could not live—even If the boys
left school ngaln, they could surely not
nuy all the bills without him and Cna.
They had only a few dollars now—
they had Just paid the rent of the
house a week ago, nnd that after It
wns two weeks overdue. So It would
be due again In u week! They would
have no money to pay It then—and
thev would lose the house, after all
their long, henrt-breaklng struggle.
Three times now the agent had warned
him that he would not tolerate another
delay.
Perhaps It was very base of Jurgls
to be thinking about the house when
he had the other unspeakable thing to
Oil his mind; yet, how much he had
suffered for this house, how much they
hsd all of them suffered! It was their
one hope of respite, as long as they
lived; they hsd put all Ihelr money
Into It—and they were working people,
poor people, whose money was their
strength, the very substance of them,
body and soul, the thing by which '
lived and for lock of which they
And they would lose It all; they
would be turned out Into tha streets,
and have to hide In some Icy garret,
nnd lire nr die as best they could!
Jurgla had all the night—and many
more nights—to think about this, and
he saw the thing In Its details;
lived It all. aa If he were there. They
would sell their furniture, and then run
Into debt at the stores, and then be re
fused credit; they would borrow a lit
tle from Sxedvllases, whose delicates
sen store was tottering on the brink of
ruin; the neighbors would help them a
little—poor, sick Jsdvygs would bring
a few spare pennies, as she always did
when the people were starving, and
Tamosslus Kualelka would bring
them the proceeds of a night's
Addling. So they would struggle
to hang on until he got out of
Jail—or would they know that he waa
In Jail, would they be able to And out
anything about him? Would they be
allowed to see him—or would It be a
a rt of hla punishment to be kept in
torance about their fate?
His mind would hang up.in the worst
possibilities; he saw Una III and tor
tured, Marlja out of her place, little
Stanlslovas unable to get to work for
the snow, the whole family turned out
on the street. God Almighty! would
they actually let them lie down In the
street and die? Would there be no
nelp even then—would they wander
about In the enow Mil they froze?
Jurgls hod never seen any dead bodies
In the streets, but he had seen people
evicted and disappear, no one, knew
where; and though the city had a re
lief bureau, though there was a char.
of them.
not advertise their activities,
having more rails then they could at
tend to without that.
So on until morning. Then he had
another ride In the patrol wagon, along
with the drunken wlfebeater and the
maniac, several "plain drunks” and
“saloon fighters," a burglar and two
men who had been arrested for steal
ing meat from the packing house*.
Along with them he was driven Into a
large, while-welled room, stale-smell-
Ing and crowded. In front, upon a
raised platform behind a rail, sat a
stout, flortd-fneed personage, with" a
nose broken out In purple blotches.
Our friend realised vaguely that he
was about to be tried. He wondered
what for—whether or not his victim
might be dead, and If so, what thty
would do with him. Hang him, per
haps, or beat him to death— | othlng
would have surprised Jurgls, who knew
little of the laws. Yet he bad picked
up gossip enough to have It occur >"
him that the loud-voiced man upon the
bench might be the notorious Justice
Callahan, about whom the people of
Packlngtown spoke with bated breath.
"Pat" Callahan—"Growler" Pat, aa
b* had been known before he ascend
ed the bench—had begun life as a
butcher boy and a bruiser of local rep
utation; he had gone Into politics al
moat aa soon as h* bad learned to talk,
and had held two offices at once before
he waa old enough to vote. If 8cully
waa the thumb, Pat Callahan was th*
flrat finger of the unseen hand where-
i pad
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ked h" ' ‘
he had been „ _
been the buelneee agent In the city
council of old Durham, the self-made
merchant, away back In the early
days when the whole city of Chicago
had been up at auction. "Growler"
Pet had given up holding city offices
very early In hie career—caring only
for party power, and giving the rest of
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Of late years, however, since his
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hla contempt for "foreigners.'’
Jurgls sat gazing about tha room for
an hour or two; he waa In hopes that
soma one of the family would come,
but In this he was disappointed. Fin
ally, he waa led before the bar, and a
lawyer for the company appeared
against him. Conner wss under the
doctor’s care, the lawyer explained
briefly, and If Hla Honor would Jiold
the prisoner for a -week "Three
hundred dollars,” -said -HI* Honor
promptly. .
Jurgla was staring from th* Judge
to the lawyer In perplexity. "Have
you any one to go on your bond?” de
manded the Judge and then a clerk
who stood at Jurgla' elbow explained
lo him what this meant The latter
shook hla head, and before he real
ized what had happened the police
men were leading him away again.
They took him to a room where other
piizoner* were waiting, and here he
stayed until court adjourned, when he
had another long and bitterly cold ride
In a patrol wagon to the county Jail,
which Is on the north side of the city,
and nine or ten miles frojn the stock
yards.
Here they searched Jurgls, leavlhf
him only his money, which consists!
of 16 cents. Then they led him to a
room and told him to strip for a bath,
after which he had to walk down a
long gallery, past the grated cell doors
of the Inmates of the Jail. This wa
a great event to the latter—the dally
review of the new arrivals, all stark
naked, and many and diverting were
the comments. Jurgls was required
stay In the bath longer than any one.
In the vain hope of getting out of him
elds. The
prisoners roomed two In a cell, but
that day there was one left over, and
he was the one.
The cells were In tiers, opening upon
galleries. Ills cell was about 5 feet
By 7 In size, tvlth a stone door and a
heavy wooden bench built Into It.
There was no window—the only light
came from windows near the roof at
one end of the court oulzlde. There
were two bunkx, one above the other,
each with a straw mattress'and a pair
of gray blankets—the latter stiff os
boards with filth, and alive with fleas,
bedbugs and lice. When Jurgls lifted
up the mattress he discovered beneath
It a layer of scurrying roaches, al
most os badly frightened as himself.
Hera they brought him more "duff
ers and dope,” with the addition of a
bowl of soup. Many of the -prisoners
had their meals brought In from a res
taurant, but Jurgls had no money for
that. Some had books to read and
cards to play, with candlea to burn by
night, but Jurgls waa all alone In the
darkness and alienee. He could not
sleep again; there waa the same mad
dening procession of thoughts that
lashed him like whips upon his naked
back. When night fell he waa pacing
up and down hla cell like a wild beaat
that breaks Its teeth upon the bars of
Its cage. Now and then In his frensy
he would fling himself against the
walls of the place, beating his hands
upon them. They cut him and bruised
him—they were cold and merciless as
the men who built them.
In the distance there was a church
tower bell that tolled the hours one by
one. When It came to midnight Jurgls
was lying upon the floor with his head
In hla arms, listening. Instead of fall
ing silent at the end, the bell broke
Into a sudden clangor. Jurgls raised
his head; what could that mean—a
Are In this Jail! But then he Inode out
a melody in the ringing; there were
chlmeo. And they teemed to waken
the city—all around,. far and near,
there were hells, ringing wild music.
For fully a minute Jurgls lay 1
wonder, before, all at once, the i
Ing of It broke over him—that
was Christmas Eve!
Christmas Eve—he had forgotten It
entirely I There was a breaking of
floodgates, a whirl, of new memories
and new griefs rushing Into his mind.
In fur Lithuania they had celebrated
Christmas; and It came to him a* If
It had been yeeterday—himself a littla
child, with hla lost brother and hla
dead father In the cabin In the .deep
black forest, where the snow fell all day
and all night and burled them from the
world. It was Ido far off for Santa
Claus In Lithuania, but It waa not too
far for peace and good will to men, for
the wonder-bearing vision of the Christ
child. And even In Packlngtown they
hr d not forgotten It—some gleam of It
had never failed to break their dark
ness. Last Christmas eve and all
Christmas day Jurgla bad tolled on the
killing beds, and Ona at wrapping
hams, and still they had found
strength enough lo take the children
for a walk upon the avenue, to see the
store windows all decorated with
Christmas trees and ablaze with elec
tric lights. In one window there would
be live geese. In another marvel* In
sugar—pink and white canes big
enough for ogres, and cakes with cher
ubs upon them; In a third there would
be rows of fat yellow turkeys, deco
rated with rosettes, and rablbts and
squirrels hanging; In a fourth would
be a fairy land of toys—lovely dolls
with pink dresses, and woolly sheep
and drama and soldier hats.
Nor did they have to go without
their share of all thl% either. The last
tung r ' “
them i
Ing to do—a roast of pork and a cab
bage for Ona and a rubber doll that
squeaked and a little green cornucopia
full of candy to be hung from the gas
Jet and gated at by half a doben pairs
of longing eyes.
Even halt a year of tha sausage ma
chines and the fertiliser mill had not
been able to kill the thought of Christ
mas In them. There was a choking In
Jurgla' throat as he recalled that th*
very night On* had not come home
Teta Elsbleta had token him aside and
WHOLE FAMILY RUINED
BY BRUTALITY OF BOSS
shown him an old valentine that ahe
had, picked up In a paper store for
three cents—dingy and shop-worn, but
with bright colors, and figures of an
gel* and doves. She had wiped all the
specks off this and v wa* going to set It
on Che mantel, whore the children could
see It. Great sobs shook Jurgl
this memory. They would spend
Christmas In misery and despair, with
him In prison and On* III and their
home In desolation. Ah, it was too
cruel! Why at least had thfy not left
him alone! Why. after they had shut
him In Jail, must they be ringing
Christmas chimes In hla cars!
But no, their bells were not ringing
for him—their Christmas was not
meant for him; they were simply not
counting him at all. He waa of no
consequence—he was flung aside, like
a bit of trash, the carcass of some
animal. ■ It was horrible, horrible! His
wife might be dying, his baby mlgl
starving, hla whole family mlgh
perishing In the cold—and all the while
they were ringing Ihelr Christmas
chimes! And the bitter mockery of
It—all thla was punishment for him!
They put him In a place where the
•now could not beat In, where the cold
could not eat through hls bones; they
brought him food and drink—why, In
the name of heaven, If they must pun
ish him, did they not put hls family
In Jail and leave him outside—wh;
could they And no better way to punlsl
him than to leave three weak women
and six helpless children to starve and
frees*? .
That waa their law; that waa their
lustlce! Jurgls stood upright, trem-
illng with passion, hls hands clenched
and hla arms upraised, hls whole soul
ablaze with hatred and deflance.-Then
thousand curies upon them and their
law! Their Justice—It was a lie, It
was a lie, a hideous, brutal He, a thlnj
too black and hateful for any worli
but a world of nightmares. It was a
•ham and a loathsome mockery.
There was no justice, there was no
right, anywhere In It—It was only
force, It was tyranny, the will and the
power, reckless and unrestrained!
They had ground him beneath their
heel, they had devoured all hls sub-
N0TES FROM THE LABOR
WORLD.
this
The Ginas Bottle Blowers' Association of
the United States and Canada will meet In
annual convention In Atlantic City next
week. >
An zxreement has been reached whereby
Sacramento, Csl„ becomes a "closed ehap"
town, so far ss building trades are con
cerned.
8lxteen subordinate unions' In New York
city, Chicago, Seattle and elsewhere moke
up the Actors' National Protective Union,
with a membership of about 1,000.
Tho blacksmiths, wheelwrights and an-
rhlnlata of North Dakota have organised
a state aoeoclatlon.
The annual convention of the Plano, Or-
gnn ami Mnslcal Instrument Workers' In
ternational Union will be held In Chicago
next week.
i -
„ a movement la on foot to organise an
Industrial league for the purpoee of fighting
the Socialist movement among trades unions
sod promoting the Interests of the trades
nnlons. Headquarters will be established
for Ihe league In New York. Boston, Chi.
cogo end other cities, and a\t active anti-
Soflallsllc campaign wilt be started: .
Bootmakers' Union In New South Walee,
Australia, sends the sheriff out after mem-
bars who get behlod In their duet and fall
to pay up.
After dlteueelng for three days the nrono-
tlelon to amalgamate with the pulp makers
and sulphite workers of America, the In
ternational Brotherhood of Paper Makers
decided to leare the matter with tho
American Federation of Labor.
The government of New Zealand la con-
sidering a .plan to establish government
meat and Hah shtma In order to squelch
tho^combines which keep up the prices of
The Brooklyn Central labor Union has
pnrebnaed a plot of land on Long laland
for the erection of a home for consumptive
wnrkluEBsen, and the mlnlstera of the city
have pledged themselves to raise J50.000
for tho erection of a modern aanltarinm.
to go Into politic).
S tance; they had murdered hls 0 m
ather; they had broken and wrecked
hla wife; they had crushed and cowed
hie whole family; and now they
through with him; they had no further
uae for him—and because he had in
terfered with them, had gotten In the r
JW ‘tt W *u T" 1 * 1 *»ed done to
Mm! They had put him behind bars
ae If ha had been a wild beast, a thing
without sens* or reason, without rights
without affections, without feelings'
Nay. they would not even have treated
a beaat aa they had treated him'
Would any man In hla senses have
trapped a wild Uiiug In lie lair, and
left Its young behind to die?
These midnight houre were fateful
ones to Jurgls: In them was the be
ginning of hls rebellion, of hla out
lawry and hls unbelief. He had no wit
to trace back the social crime to ita
far sources—he could not say that It
waa the thing men have called "tha
system" that was craehlng him to the
earth; that It was the packers, hla
masters, who had bought up the law- of
the land, and had dealt out their brutal
will to him from the eeat of justice
He only knew that he waa wronged
and that the world had wronged him
that, the law, that adclety, with all Its
powers, had declared Itself hls foe
And every hour hls sobl grew blacker,
every hour he dreamed new dreams of
vengeance, of defiance, of raging, fren
zied hate.
"The vilest deeds, Uke poison weeds,
Bloom well In prison air;
It Is only what la good In Alan
That wastes and withers there;
the heavy
i Despair."
So wrote a poet, to whom the world
had dealt Its Justice—
•1 know not whether Laws be right.
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie In goal
la that tha wall la strong.
And they do well to hide their hell.
For In It things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look uponl”
(Continued In Monday’s Georgian.)
Railway trackmen to the, number ef
S bont Cj’.OOO. on all railroads In the United,
tales, hare begun a campaign fqr better
ATLANTA'S OLDEST SAVINGS
BANK PAYING JULY
INTEREST. I
All depositors jot the Georgia Savlnga
Bank nnd Trust Company are request
ed to bring their pnaB books to tha
bank and have tho July Interest added.
Amounts deposited. before July 10th I
win draw Interest from July 1st. It Is 1
a very notlceablo fact with this bank
that with each Interest period tha same
books are presented for a larger in
terest, together with many others that
have joined the ranks. It only goes to
show that when a man once gets tha
taete of Interest from a bank he la.
never satisfied without It It le alio
noticeably true that when a man ones
forms the habit of saving ha never
tires of It. A great many firms, manu
facturers and corporations hre building
up a surplus fund with this solid In-!
dilution. Let every Atlantan make a
firm resolve that at the end of the
present year he will be worth more
than at the present time and resolve
further that he will not allow hie money
to remain Idle. Both of these reaolvea
can best be carried out by depositing
with the Georgia Savlnga Bank and
Trust Company. They accept deposit) J
as small aa (1 and pay Interest on
every dollar In the bank. Don't forget -
it your money In before July 10th
your Interest will be dated from
July 1st. Out of town depositors can
remit by mall. Bank open every Sat
urday afternoon from 4 to 8, In addition
to regular morning hours.
JNO. L. MOORE & B0NS
Have the only practicable solid double
vision glasses on the market. They
are the Integral Kryptok Invisible bi
focal! and are Infinitely superior to the
cement kinds falsely advertised ss In
visible. John L. Moore £ Sons are
sole manufacturers of the Kryptoka le
Georgia. Headquarters for everythin*
optical, 42 N. Broad Street, Prudential
Building. **•
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QUEEN of the. MOUNTAINS
BELL
No city's smoke to mar the sky.
DAILY
No sound of traffic strikes the ear.
PHONE
The huah of nature gives the lie
To every thought of turmoil near.
MAIL
OPENED JUNE IS.
Address Henry P. Farrow,
PCRUR SPRINGS, GA.
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