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Upton Sinclair s
Novel of
Packingtown
“The Jungle”
BY UPTON SINCLAIR.
The Story That
Laid Bare The
Packers' Crime
CHAPTER XX (Continued.)
So (or two weeks more Jurgls (ought
with the demon ol despair. Once he
Jgot a chance to load a truck (or hal( a
Elay, and again he carried an old worn-
an'e valise and was given a quarter.
This let him Into a lodging House on
Iffvrrnl nights when he might other-
|nise have (rosen to death; and It also
Jgave him a chance now and then to
■buy a newspaper In The morning and
■hunt up jobs while his rivals were
■watching and waiting (or a paper to be
■thrown away.
I In the end Jurgls got a chance
■through an accidental meeting with an
■old-time acquaintance o( his union
■days. He met this man on his way to
■work In the giant (actorles o( the Har-
Iveater Trust; and his (riend told him
■to come along, and he would speak a
■good word (or him to his boas, whom
■he knew well. So Jurgls trudged (our
lor five miles, and passed through a
■waiting throng o( unemployed at the
“gate under the escort o( his (riend. His
Jtnees nearly gave way benhath him
■when the foreman, after looking him
lover and questioning him, told him
hat he could find an opening (or him.
How much this accident meant to
Jurgls he realised only by stages; tor
|he (ound that the harvester works were
■the sort o( place to. Which phllanthro-
Ijilets and reformers pointed with pride.
Tit had some thought (or Its employees;
lits workshops were big and roomy, It
[provided a restaurant where Hie work
men could buy good (ood at cost; It
Jhad even a reading room, and decent
[places where Its girl hands could rest:
•Iso the work was free (rom many o(
[the elements of filth and repulsiveness
[that prevailed at the stock yards. Day
■(ter day Jurgls discovered these
[things—things never expected nor
[dreamed of by him—until this new
[place came to seem a kind'of a heaven
[to him.
It was an enormous establishment,
covering a hundred and sixty acres o(
■round, employing 5,000 people,
fcaw very little ot It, ‘
Jurgls
. ... o( course—it was
>11 specialised work, the same as at
■he stock yards; each one ol the hun
dreds ot parts ot a mowing machine
**» made separately, and sometimes
psndled by hundreds ot men. Where
Purgls worked there was a machine
which cut and stamped a certain piece
SYNOPSIS OF PREyiOUS CHAPTERS
The story ot "The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's novel, which caused
the government Investigation Into the methods employed by /\he beef
trust, has Its origin In an actual Packingtown romance.
A simple-minded coterie ot Lithuanians arrive In Chlcagd, seeking
employment, and are conducted to Packingtown by a (riend. Jurgls, a
giant In strength, Is betrothed to Ona, odd the first chapter tells of the
wedding in all its grotesqueness. After much tribulation the entire fam
ily obtalns^work In the stockyards—all but Ona, who, Jurgls said, should
The terrible tale ot the slaughter houses is told with almost revolt
ing detail—the (11th, the overworking of hands, the struggle to keep up
with the pacemakers, is all vividly doplcted. The little family buys a
house on the Instalment plan, only to find they have been swindled, and
Ona Is forced to seek work to meet the actual living expenses and the
Interest on the purchase contract, of which they learn too late.
Just as Ona and Jurgls pay Marlja what they owe her, Jurgls turns
his ankle and Is laid up tor months. His nature begins to change. He
becomes cross and savage with pain. Starvation stares the family In
the (ace.
Finally Jurgls begins work in the fertilizer plant—the deadliest of
til—and Elzbleta slaves In the sausago stufllng department. The'llttle
boys of the family learn to swear, drink and smoke. Gradually the grind
throws the family Into constant stupor. They talk little—only eat what
they can. sleep when they can, and work, It seems to them, qlwaya
Then Opa.confesses, under compulsion, that In order to save the
entire family from financial destruction and loss of lobs. Connor, foreman
of her department In the yards, had forced her to receive attentions
from him. Jurgls almost kills her. Then he rusHes blindly to the yards
and tries to kill Connor, sinking his teeth Into him, and Anally being
dragged off by a dozen men. Jurgls is then arrested and spends Christ
mas Eve In prison, awaiting trial.
. Jurgls, In Jail, meets a cracksman and Is initiated Into the mysteries
of crime. Later he Is sentenced to thirty days In. prison for assaulting
Connor. He learns from a messenger that his family Is starving. Finally
he Is released and returns to what once was his home. Another family
has it. Jurgls is unable to discover where Ona and the rest of the little
coterie reside. He is told they are starving and freezing to death In some
bleak garret.
Jurgls traces his family to a shanty to And his wife dying. He seeks *
a midwife, who laughs In nls face when he tells her he has only a dollar
and a quarter, but she Anally relents and goes with him. At the door of
the shanty Marlin meets and entreats him to go away until the morning.
He walks the streets all night, and reaches home In the morning' In time
to close his wife's eyes In death.- Then he takes to drink In earnest
(Copyright, 190*, by Upton Sinclair. All rights reserved.)
harden; then It would be taken
out. and molten Iron poured Into it.
This man. too, was paid by the mould—
or rather for perfect castings, nearly
half of his work going for naught. You
, —, might see him, along with dozens of
f steel about two square Inches In j others, tolling like one possessed by a
the pieces came tumbling out
a tray, and all that human hands
ad to do was to pile them in regular
Otvs, and change the trays at Inter-
rial*. This was done by a single boy
stood with eves and thought cen-
__ . . Aylng so
past that the sounds of the bits of steel
plrlklng upon each other was like the
' - of an express train os one hears
i sleeping car at night. This was
a piecework,” of course; and besides it
|«'as made certain that the boy did not
Pdle, by setting the machine to match
■the highest possible speed of human
■hands. Thirty thousand of these pieces
■he handled every day, nine or ten mII-
■llons every year—how many In a ltfe-
■tlme it rested with thv gods to say.
■ Near by him men sat bending over
■whirling grindstones, putting the fln-
■lahlng touches to the steel knives of the
■reaper; picking them out of a basket
■vith the right hand, pressing Arst one
|>[de and then the ,other against the
■•tone, and Anally dropping them with
■the left hand Into another basket. One
|0( these men told Jurgls that he had
■jharponed 2,000 pieces of steel a day
|tor thirteen years. In the next room
■sere wonderful machines that ata up
■long steel rods by slow stages, cutting
■them off, seizing the pieces, stamping
■heads upon them, grinding them and
■polishing them, threading them and
■nnaliy dropping them Into a basket, all
■ready to bolt the harvesters together.
yet another machine came tens
|or thousands of steel burs to At upon
■these bolts. In other places all these
us parts were dipped Into troughs
ot paint and'hung up to dry, and then
.*oo along on trolleys to a room where
■men streaked them with red and yel-
lu “o that they might look cheerful
|!h the harvest Aelda
Jurgls- friend worked up stairs In the
'•ting rooms, and hla task was to
I Lace and Pearl Fans
Exquisitely fashioned are these .blta
l of feminine adornment. Frenchy and
jelegant in their designing, they add a
coquettish grace and charm to the
[■tioduh toilette of mlladl.
" e ■’kve a very beautiful collection
|°f these fans.
key are very pleasing as gift*.
Maier & Berkele.
whole community of demons, his arms
working like the driving rods of an
engine, his long, black hair Aylng wild,
hla eyes starting out, tha sweat rolling
in rivers down hla face. When he had
shoveled the mould full of eand and
reached for the pounder to pound it
with. It was after the manner of a
canoeist, running rapids and seising
a pols at sight of a submerged rock.
Ail day long thii man would toll thus,
hla whole being centered upon the pur
pose of making twanty-three instead of
twenty-two and a half cents an hour;
and then hla product would be reck
oned by the census-taker. and Jubilant
captains of Industry would boast of It
In their banquet halls, telling how our
workers are nearly twice as efficient as
those of any other country. If we are
the greatest nation the sun ever shone
upon. It would seem to be mainly be
cause we have been able to goad our
wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy;
though there are a few other things
that are great among us. Including our
drink bill, which la a billion and a
quarter of dollars a year, and doubling
Itself every decade.
There was a machine which stamped
out the- Iron plates, and then another
which, with a mighty thud, mashed
them to the shape of the sitting-down
portion of the American farmer. Then
they were piled upon a truck, and It
was Jurgls’ task to wheel them to the
room where the machines were “asaem-
bled.” This was child's play for him,
and he got a dollar and twenty-Ave
cents a day for It; on Saturday he
paid- Anlele the seventy-Ave cents a
week he owed her for (he use of her
garret, and aleo redeemed hts overcoat,
which Elsbieta bad put In pawn when
he was in Jail. ,
This last was a great blessing. A
man cannot go about In midwinter Jn
Chicago with po overcoat and not pay
for It, and Jurgls had to walk or ride
Ave or six miles back and forth to hla
work. It »o happened that half of this
was In one direction and half In anoth
er, necessitating a change of cars. The
taw required that transfers- be given
at all intersecting points, but the rail
way corporation had gotten around this
by arranging a pretense at separate
^S&^henever he.wished to ride, he
had to pay ten cents each way, or over
10 pet- cent of hla Income to this pow-
er, which had gotten Its franchise long
•go by buylpg up the city council In
the (ace of popular clamor amounting
almost to a rebellion. Tired as he felt
at night, and dark and bitter cold as it
was In the morning. Jnrgta generally
chose to walk. At the hours other
workmen were traveling the street car
monopoly saw At to put on so few cars
ha man hanslnw
every foot ot the backs of them and
often crouching upon the anow-covered
roof. Of course, the doors could never
be closed; and so (he car* were as cold
as outdoors. Jurgls, like many others,
found It better to spend hla fare for a
drink and a free lunch, to give him
strength to walk.
These; however, were alt alight mat
ters to a man who had escaped from
Durham's fertiliser mill. Jurgls began
to pick up heart again and to make
plan*. He had lost hla houaa, but then
the awful load of the rent and Interest
was off his shoulders, and when Marlja
was well again they could start over
and save. In the shop where he worked
was a man, a Lithuanian like himself,
whom the others spoke of In admiring
whlspera, because of tho mighty feats
* ‘ ” he sat
he was performing. Al
machine turning bolts;
All day
and
to study English and learn to rend. In
addition, because he had a family of
children to support and his earn-.
vero not chough, on Saturdays
and Sundays he served os a watchman;
he was required to press two buttons
at opposite enda of a building ever
Ave minutes, and aa „the walk only tool
him two minutes, he had three min
utes to study between each trip. Jur
gls felt Jealous of this fellow; for that
was the sort of thing he himself had
dreamed of, two or three years
He might do It even yet. If h
fair chance—he might attract attention
and become a skilled man or a boss, os
some had done In this place. Suppose
that .Marlja could get a Job In the big
mill where they made binder twine-
then they would move Into this neigh
borhood, end he would really have a
chance. With a hope like that, there
was some usa In living; to And a place
where you were treated Ilka a. human
being—by Ood! he would show them
■how he could appreciate IL He laughed
to himself as he thought he ‘
ow he would
hang on to this Job!
And then one afternoon, the ninth
of his work in the place, when he
went to get his overcoat he saw
f men crowded before a place. _
door, and when he went over
and asked what it was, they told him
that beginning with the morrow hla
department pt the harvester works
would be closed until further notice!
chaptIr XXI.
That was the way they did it! There
was not half an' hour’s warning—the
works wer* closed! It happened that
way before, aakNthe men, and It would
happen that way forever. They had
mad* all the harvesting machines that
the world needed, and now they had to
wait till some wore out! It waa no
body’s fault—that was the way of It;
and thousands of men and women were
turned out In the dead of winter, to
live upon their savings If they had any,
and otherwise to die. So many tens
of thousands already in the city, home
less and begging for work, and •tow-
several thousand more added to them!
Jurgls walked home with hts pittance
that there would be men banging to of pay In bto pocket, heart-broken.
overwhelmed. One more bandage had
been torn from hla eyes, one more pit-
fall was revealed to him I Of what
help was kindness and decency on tho
part of employers—when they could
not keep a job for him, when there
were more harvesting machines mad*
than the world was able to buy! What
a hellish mockery It was. anyway, that
a man should slave to make harvesting
machines for the country-, only to be
turned out to starve for doing hla duty
too well I
It took hint two days to get over this
heart-sickening disappointment. Ho
did not sirlnk anything, because Els
bieta got Ills money for safe-keeping,
and knew him too well to be In the
least frightened by hie angry demands.
He stayed up In the garret, however,
and sulked—what was the uso of
man's hunting a Job when It waa taken
from him beforo he had time to learn
the work? But then their money was
;olng again, nnd little Antanas was
mngry and crying with ths bitter cold
t the garret. Also Madame Haupt,
the midwife, was after him for soino
money. So ho went out once more,
For anothor fen days he roamed the
streets and alleys of tho huge city, alck
and hungry, begging for any kind of
work. He tried In stores'and offices,
In restaurants mill hotels, along the
docks and In tho railroad yards, In
warehouses and mills and went to
every corner of the world. There were
often one or two chances—but there
win- always a hundred m.-n f-,r every
chance, and hts turn would not come.
At night ho crept Into sheds and col
lies anil doorways -until there i-iinu- u
spell of helatuil winter weather, with a
; lying gale, and the thermometer live
degrees below zero at supdown and
falling all night. Then Jtirgln fought
like a wild beast to gat Into the big
Harrison street polite station, and alopt
down In a corridor, crowded with two
other men upon a single step.
■ He had to Aght often In these days—
to Agbt for n.plnco near tho factory
I now nnd again with gam.
on tho street. Ho found, for Instance,
that the buslhoss of carrying satchels
for railroad passengers was a pre
empted on*—whenever h* essayed It,
eight nr ten men and boys would fall
upon him and force him to run for hla
life. They always hod. the policeman
“squared,' and so there was no usa In
r, protsctlon.
urgis did not starve to death
was due solely to the plttnnce the
children brought hlpi- And even this
was never certain. For one thing, tho
cold waa almost more than ths children
could bear, and then they, too. Ware m
perpetual peril from rivals who plund
ered and beat them. The law waa
against them, too—little Vlllmas, who
waa really eloven, but did not look to bo
eight, waa stopped on the streets by a
severe old lady In spectacles, who told
him that he waa too young to be work
ing and that If he did not atop selling
papers aha would send a truant officer
after him. Also one night a strange
man caught little Kotrlnn by the arm
and tried to persuade her Into a dark
cellarway, an experience which Ailed
her with such terror that ah* was hard
ly able to be kept at work.
At last, on a Sunday, as there was
no uao looking for work, Jurgls went
home by stealing ride* on the cars. He
found that they had been waiting for
him for three days—there was a chance
of a Job for him
It waa quite a story. Little Juozapaa,
who waa nearly craxy • with hunger
these days, had gone out on the street
to beg for himself. Juozdpas had only
know the place, over a feed store:
somebody had wanted her to go there,
but she had not eared to, for she
thought that It must have somethlns
t - -I" with i ,'llgpui I tip- pi I--I did
not like her to have anything to do
with strange religions. They w-oro
rich people who came to live there to
And out about the poor peoplo; but
what good thoy expected It would do
them to know ono could not Imaglno,
So ' ~ ‘ ' -
young lady Inughei
a loss for nn nnawei
gazed about hor, and thought of
cynical remnrk that hod been made to
her, that she was standing upon the
brink of the pit of hell nnd throwing
In snowball* to lower the temperature
Elzbleta waz' glad to have somebody
to listen, and sh* told all their wots—
what had happened to Ona, and the
Jail, and the loss of their home, nnd
MnrIJa's accident, and how Ona had
died, and how Jurgls could get no
work. As she listened the pretty
young lady'a eyes Ailed with tears and
In the midst or It she burst Into weep
ing and hid her face on Elzbleta'a
shoulder, quite regardless of the fact
that the woman had nn a dirty old
wrapper and that the garret was full
of fltaa. Poor Elzbleta.- was ashamed
of herself (or having told ao woeful a
tale, and the other had to beg and plead
with her to get her to go on. The end
of It waa that the young lady sent them
a basket of things to snt, and left a let
ter that Jurgls was to take -to a gentle
man who wns superintendent In one of
the mills of tho great steel work* In
South f'hlcngo. "He will get Jurgls
something to do,” tho yoi
said, and added, smiling
tears, ”lf he doesn’t he will never mar
ry me.”
Tho steel work# were tltteen mile*
nway, nnd, as usual, It waa so con
trived that one had to pay two fare* to
get there. Far and wide the sky was
itarlng with the red glare that leaped
from rowa of towering chimneys—for It
waa pitch dark when Jurgls arrived,
The vast works, a city In themselves.
wagon when a little child, hut ho
got himself a broomstick, which he put
under his arm for a crutch. He had
fallen In with some other children and
found the way to Mike Beully's dump,
which lay three or four blocks away.
To this place there cam* every day
many hundreds ol wagon loads ot
garbage and trash from the lake
meat-bones, alt of It half frozen and
quite uhkpolled. Little Juozapaa
gorged himself, and came home with a
newspaper full, which he was feeding
to Antanas when hla mother cam* In.
Elzbleta was horrided, for ahe did not
believe that the food out of the dump*
waa At to eat. The next day, howevar,
when no harm cam* of It and Juox-
apas began to cry with hunger, sh*
gave In and said that ha might go
again. And thit afternoon he cam*
home with a story of how.whlla he
had been digging away with a stick a
lady upon the street had called him.
A real Ane lady, th* little boy ex
plained, a beautiful lady; and ahe
wanted to know alt about him, and
whether he got the garbage for chick
ens. and why he walked with a broom
stick, and why Ona had died, and how
Jurgls had come to go to Jail, and
waa the matter with Marlja, and
everything. In the end ahe had asked
where he lived, and said that ahe waa
coming to see him, and bring him a
new crutch to walk with. Hhe had on
a hat with a bird upon It, Juozapaa
added, and a loeg fur snake around
her neck.
She really came, the very next
morning, and climbed the ladder to the
garret, and stood and stared about her,
urnlng pale at the sight of the blood
stains on the Aoor where Ona had
died. She was a "settlement worker,”
she explained to Elzbleta—eh* lived
around on Ashland avenue. Elxbleta
ago vault wmjt no, aa aitj ill iiiLineui van,
were surrounded by a stockade; and
already a full hundred men were wait
ing nt the gate where new hands were
Into n Nil. .iff. r il.ivl'i ' nU V. Ill',-
ties began to blow, and then suddenly
thousands of mon appeared, streaming
from saloon* nnd boarding houses
across the way, leaping from trolley
car* that paazed—It seemed as If they
rose out of tho ground, In the dim gray
light. A river of them poured In
through the gate—and then gradually
ebbed nway again, until there ware
only a few late ones running, and the
watchman poring up and down, and
the hungry stranger* stamping and
shivering.
Jurgls presented his precious letter.
The gatekeeper waa surly, and put hltn
through a catechism, but he Instated
that he knew nothing, and aa he had
taken she precaution to seal hla letter,
there waa nothing for the gatekeeper
to do but send It to the person to whom
It was addressed. A messenger came
back to aay that Jurgls should wait,
and so he came Inside of the gate, per
haps not aorry enough that there were
others less fortunate watching him
with greedy eyes.
The great mills were getting under
way—one could hoar a vast stirring, a
rolling and rumbling and hammering.
Little by little the scene grew plain:
towering, black buildings here and
there, long rows of shops and sheds,
little railways branching everywhere,
'ot, and
TLL GIVE ANYONE $5,000,000
TO CURE ME OF LEPROSY'
By l’rlvnte Leased Wire.
anlveston. T«xas\ July 11.—James M.
Brlngas, of Guaymaa, Mexico, one ot
the wealthiest mine and ranch owners
of the alster republic, who Is a native
ot Kentucky, la offering (5,000,000 to
any ono who will euro him of leprosy.
He la the owner ot the Las Vegas
mine In Sonora, alto tho principal own
er of the Wlnton Mining and Smelting
Company, and sole owner of 150,000
acres of land 10 miles (rom the
City ot Mexico. II* Is on hla way to
Europe for the third time In hopes of
checking the dreaded disease, which
has eaten hla Anger nalle.
Then a whistle would tool and across
the curtain ot the theater would come
little engine with a carload of some-
la be
thing
dumped Into one of the
bare
cinders under foot,
mowing black smoke above.
On one side of the grounds ran a
railroad with a dozen tracks, and on
the other side lay the lake, where
steamej-a cams to load.
Jurgls had time nough to atare and
speculate, for It was two hours before
he was summoned. He went Into the
ofdce building, where a company time
keeper Interviewed him. The superin
tendent was busy, he said, but hb (the
timekeeper) would try to And Jurgls
a Job. 11 had never worked In a ateel
mill before? But he was ready for
anything? Well, then, they would go
and
So they began a tour, among alghta
that made Jurgls stare amazed. He
wondered if over he could get used to
ace like this, where the
_ _ deafening thunder, and
whistles shrieked warnings on all sides
of him at once; where miniature steam
engines came rushing upon him, and
slxxllng, quivering, white-hot masses of
metal sped past him, and explosions of
Are and Aamlng sparks dszsled him
and scorched hi* face. The men In
these mill* were all black with soot,
snd hollow-eyed and gAunt; they
worked with Aerce Intensity, rushing
here and there, and never lifting their
eyes from their task*- Jurgls clung to
hi* guide like a scared child to Its
nurse, and white the latter hailed on*
foreman after another to ask If they
could us* another unskilled man, he
stared about him and marveled.
He was taken to the Bessemer fur
nace, where they mad* billets of steel—
a dome-like building the else of a big
theater. Jurgls stood where the bal
cony of the theater would have been,
and opposite, by the stage, be saw
three giant caldrons, big enough foe
all the devil* of hell to brew their
broth Jn, full of something whit* and
bilndlpg, bubbling and splashing, roar-
aa If volcanoes were blowing
□ugh It—one had to about to be
ip In the place. Liquid Are would
leap from the** caldrons and scatter
Ilka bomb* below—and men were work
ing there, seemingly careless, so that
Jurgls caught hla breath with fright.
another train would back up-and aud
dimly, without an Instant's warning,
one of tlin giant kettles began to tilt
and topple, flinging out a Jet of hissing,
roaring flame. Jurgls shrank back ap
palled, for he thought It was an acci
dent; there fell a pTflar of white flame,
dazzling as the sun, sw-lshtnR like I
huge treo falling In the forest. A tor
rent of spnrks swept all tho way across
tli" ImlMlin-, n\ i t u h.'lmlm; - v- i y thing,
hiding It from sight; nnd then Jurgls
looked through the Angers of lilt hands
nnd saw pouring out of the caldron n
cascade of living, leaping Are, scorching
the eyeballs. Incandescent rainbows
shone above It; but the stream Itself
wae white, Ineffable. Out of the re
gion* of wonder It streamed, the very
river of life; and the soul leaped up
at thb sight of It, fled back uinn It,
d resistless, pack Into far-off
lands, where beauty and terror dwell.
Then tho great caldron tilted bock
again, empty, und Jurgls saw, to Ills
relief, that no pno was hurt, nnd turned
nnd (allowed hla guide out Into; the
sunlight. ,
They .went through tho l<ln»t-fur-
nacet, through rolling mills where loir*
of steel were toeaaa about sad chopped
like bits of cheese. All around nnd
nbova giant machine arms were flying,
giant wheels wore turning, giant ham
iners crashing; traveling cranes creak
t-il and groaned overhead, reaching
down Iron hands nnd seizing Iron prey
—It was like standing In the center of
the earth, whan the machinery of time
wan revolving,
By snd by they cams to the place
where steel rails were made; and Jur
tie heard a toot behind him, and Jump-
ed edit of tho way of a car with i
white-hot Ingot upon It the size of a
man's body. There wee a sudden crash
and the car cam* to a halt, and the
Ingot toppled out upon a moving plat
form, where steel Angers anti arms
seized hold of It, punching It and prod
ding It Into place, and hurrying It Into
the grip of hug* rollers. Then It cam*
out upon the other aide, and there were
more crashing* and clattering*, and
over It was Aopped, Ilk* a pancake on a
rushed
HHaMwf,
Ho amid deafening uproar It clattered
to and fro, growing thinner and flat-
ter and longer. The Ingot seemed al
most a living thing; It did not want
to run this mail course, but it was In
the grip of fate, It was tumbled on,
screeching snd clanking and ahlvering
In protest. By and by tt was long and
thin, a great red snake escaped from
purgatory; and then, aa It slid through
the roller*, you would have sworn that
It was alive—It writhed and squirmed,
and wriggle* and shudder* passed out
through Ita tall, all but Atnglng It off
by their violence. There waa no rest
for It until tt was cold and black—and
then It needed only to be cut and
straightened to be ready for a railroad.
It was at the end of this rail’s
progress that Jurgls got hla chance.
They had to be moved by men with
crowbars, and the boa* her* could use
another man. Ho he took off hla coat
and set to work on the spot.
It took him two hours to get to this
place every day and cost him a dollar
and twenty cents a week. Ae this was
out of the. question, he wrapped hla
bedding In a bundle and took It with
hltn, and one of hfs fellow-workingmen
Introduced him to a Polish lodging
II* la 65 yearn of age, and contracted
th* disease flvo years ago In Australia.
Be has spent more than ll.OOO.Ouq
lighting leprosy, and has a standing
offer or a million In gold for a euro.
Now he aaya he will make It r-.OOn.-
000 and even more, aa he Is willing to
■aeriAce hts entire eatat* to be cleansed
of the loathsome affliction.
Mr. Brlngas has a wife, seven
daughters and a son, and he made hts
money In mining In Mexico, where n,.
has lived for twenty years. He buys
every medicine offered and suggested
and has bean under the treatment of
Afteen specialist* In this country and
Europe und Is willing to make any
sacrifice to be freed from the disease.
RAILROAD CHARTER
WILL BE ASKED FOR
■pedal to The Georgian.
Dublin, Oa.. July 11 .-—Information
Han reached here from Lumber City
that Dublin will Boon have another
railroad. It la to be Known an tho
Lumber City and Dublin Railroad, and
will run from Lumber City to Dublin
via Alamo or Qlenwood. Both of tfeeau
towns, which aro situated on the sea
board, are pulling for Hie road.
In a few dnytt nn application for the
charter will be made.
YOUNG BRIDE ARRESTED
AND HUSBAND INDICTED
Special to The Georgian.
Spartanburg. S. C, July 12.—Pearl
J, jik.'.I ];i yn/tr*. n j>rrtiy Kiri
of Asheville, who ran away from her
homo last Haturday with George Sha
ver aqd came to thle city, and were
married, waa taken Into cuetody early
Wednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff
White under an order laaued by Judge
D. JO. Ilydrlck. Sho waa found at tho
home of Mr«. Miniver. Tho young rimti
who married tho girl has been Indicted
on tho charge of Abduction and
i\. 'I'ii*-*-* I it \ him min f th#* young man
waa summoned beforo Judge Hjrdrlck
Ita habeas corpus proceedings. When
questioned roncsrnlr.g tt&graabnut*
of tho girl, lie a wort* that he hid nut
seen h*r slnco last Friday, when he
iiicd bi'Tip* it iiinglNtrato on the
i l..iig»* <»f iibdm tli.n, that la- hurl not
communicated with her dlroctly or In-
• Hit- 11 v 'I'li*' f.ithor of tho girl swore
out a warrant against Hhaver charging
him with perjury. When the girl was
taken Into custody Wednesday morn
ing she stated that Shaver visited her
last Monday night.
QUEEN CITY GUARDS'
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT
cent* a night.
iT.
got hi* meal* at
tree-lunch counters, end every Satur
day night he went hoi
Hpeelai to The QeorglaQ
Gadsden,-Ala., July 12.—The Qu..n
City Guards and the Albertville R1-,
left tills morning on a special train
over th* Louisville and Nashville rail
road by way of Anniston and Cnlern,
far their annual encampment with the
Third regiment, Alabama national,
guard, at Mobile. The quean city
Guard* carried twenty-seven men and
the Albertville Rifle* Ilfty-flvo men. In
cluding commissioned offlenrs. The
Anniston and Oxford companies Joined
them at Anniston, and the Birmingham
and Ensley companies will Join them
also.
ELIHU ROOT'S BOAT
TAKES ON PROVISIONS
By Prints Leaeed wire.
Ht. Thomas, Danish West Indies, July
12.—Th* United Scales cruiser Charles-
ton, with Secretary Root'* party, took
on provision* here and proceeded on us
trip southward.
MURDER CASE CALLED:
PLEA OF 8ELF DEFENSE
Special to The Georglaa.
Spartanburg, 8. C, July 12.—In it
court of general session* tVcdn ada
afternoon, Solicitor Sense railed th
case of the state ve. C. E. Tongue,
young white man, charged with kUBn
• negro named Brown several week
ago, A plea of self defense was on
tered, the defendant claiming that h
Brown and u a
....... ... ..nme—bedding and - - ^
all—end took the greater part ot hla J »»* *' tacl L* d , by
money to the family. Elzbleta was forced to *hoot.
sorry for tht* arrangement, for ah* I, Young Teague u engaged In
feared that It would get him Into the .*-,* ‘5? * or
habit of living without them, and once
a week waa not very often for him to
see hla •baby; but there waa no other
way oat of It. There we* no chance
for a woman at the steel works, and
'or work again,
and lured on from day Co day by the’
hope of flndlng l| at th# yard*. ~
(Continued In Tomorrow’s Georgian.)
GRESHAM ASHFORD
SHOE co:
93 PEACHTREE ST.
least Spartanburg, and Brown was em
ployed aa a laborer.
GOVERNOR AND SENATOR
TO ADDRESS QUILL PUSHERS
Special to The Georgian.
Gadsden, Ala, July 12.—Governor
WllUam D. Jelka hts tempted an In
vitation to address the Mata Preaa
Association at their annual meeting In
this city on July Smi.un j .hn
T. Morgan ha* also ac. an In
vitation to address the editors on thlg
