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Newspaper Page TextTHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SOME OF THE PROMINENT PERSONS WHO WILE TESTIFY AT THE THAW TRIAL * (Copyright. 1906, by W. R. Heart.) ..FROM LEFT TO RIGHT THEY ARE: MEDILL M’CORMICK, A FRIEND OF WHITE: MRS. WILLIAM THAW. MOTHER OF HARRY K. THAW: EVELYN NESBIT THAW. WHO WILL TELL THE STORY OF HER FORMER RELATIONS WITH ING WTH TH^ T THAW8 ON Th'^NIGH^Of'tHE TRAGEDY’™ A ^' ™ E EARL ° F YARM0UTH, WH0 IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THE OCEAN TO TESTIFY IN THAW’8 BEHALF, AND TRUXTON BEALE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, WHO WA8 DIN- Upton Sinclair's Novel of Packlngtown “The Jungle” The Story That Laid Bare The Packers' Crime BY UPTON SINCLAIR. HE CHAPTER XX (Continusd.) So for two weak, more Jurgl* fought with the demon of d.apelr. Once he .ot a chance to load a truck for half a day, and again he carried ah old wom an's vallae and waa glren a quarter. This let him into a lodging house on several night, when he might other wise have frosen to death; and It also .sve him a chance now and then to buy a newspaper In the morning and hunt up fobs while bis rivals were watching and waiting for a paper to be thrown away. In the end Jurgl. got a chance through an accidental meeting with an old-time acquaintance of his union days. He met this man on his way to work In the giant factories of the Har vester Trust; and his friend told him to come along, and he would speak a good word for him to bis boss, whom he knew well. So Jurgts trudged four or nve miles, and passed through a waiting throng ot unemployed at the gate under the escort of his friend. His knees nearly gave way beneath him when the foreman, after looking him over and questioning him, told him that he could flndTin opening .for him. How much this accident meant to Jurats he realised only by stages; for he round that the harvester works were the sort of place to which philanthro pists and reformers pointed with pride. It had some thought for its employees; Its workshops were big and roomy, It provided a restaurant where the work men could buy good food at cobt; It had even a reading room, and decent plares where Its girl hands could rest; also the work was free from many of the elements of filth and repulslvenaas that prevailed at the stock yards. Day after 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 of ground, employing 1,000 people. Jurgls i of It. of SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS which caused by the beef The story of “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's novel, thp government Investigation Into the methods employed trust, has Its origin In an actual Packlngtown romance. A .simple-minded coterie of Lithuanians arrive In Chicago, seeking employment, and ore conducted to Packlngtown by a friend. Jurgls, n giant |n strength, Is betrothed to Ono. and the first chapter tells of the wedding In all Its grotesqueness. After much tribulation the entire fam ily obtains work In the stockyards—all but Ona, who, Jurgls said, should never work. The terrible tale of the slaughter houses Is told with almost revolt ing detail—the filth, tho overworking of hands, the struggle to keep up with the pacemakers, Is all vividly depleted. 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 tho purchase contract, of which they learn teo late. Just as Ona and Jurgls pay Marlja what they owe her. Jurgls turns his ankle and Is laid up for months. His nature begins to change. He :■ . .1 -* and savage with pain. .Stan atbui ■ i the family In the face. Finally Jurgls begins work In tho fertilizer plaht—the deadliest of all—and Elzbieta slaves In tho sausage stuffing department. The little hoys of tha family learn to swear, drink and smoke. Gradunlly tho grintl throws tho family Into constant stupor. They talk little—only Oat whst they can, sleep when they can, and work. It seems to thorn, always. Then (mn t'linfoKana, under cnmputalun. that In order t., „nve the « n11r■ • family from ilnmudul destruction and lore ,,f Job-, Connor, f. ■•: n ef her department In tho yardB, had forced her to receive attentions from him. Jurgls almost kills her. Then he rushes blindly to the yards and tries to kill Connor, .-Inking Ills teeth Into him, mid llnally being dragged off by a dozen mon. Jurgls Is then arrested and spends Christ mas Eve In prison, awaiting trial. Jurgls, In Jail, meets a cracksman and la Initiated Into the myftcrlc* of crime. Later he Is sentenced to thirty days In prison for assaulting Connor. He learns frbm a messenger that his family Is starving. Finally he Is released and returns to what one* waa Ids home. Another family has It. Jurgls la unable to discover where Ona and the rest of the little coterie reside. He Is told they are starving and freesIng to death In soma bleak garret. ( Jurgls traces his family to a shanty to find his wife dying. He seeks a midwife, who laughs In his face when he tells her he has only a dollar and,a quarter, but sho finally relents and goes with him. At the door of the shanty Marlja meets and entreata him to go away until the morning. He .walks tha 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 1906, by Upton Sinclair. All rights reserved.) ww very little i course—It, waa *n specialized 'work, the same as at the stock yards; each one of the hun dreds of parts of a mowing machine was made separately, and sometimes lundled by hundreds of men. Where Jurgls worked there was a machine which cut and stamped a certain piece ot steel about two square Inches In site; ths pieces came tumbllii upon a tray, and all that human had to do was to pile them In regular rows, and change the trays at Inter vals. This waa done by a single boy, Who Stood with eyee and thought cen tered upon It, and Angers flying so last that the sounds of the bits of steel nuking upon each other waa like the music <>f an express train as one hears It In n sleeping car at night. This waa "piecework," of counts; and besides It was mads certain that the boy did not Idle, hy setting the machine to match ■he highest possible speed of human hands. Thirty thousand of these pieces he handled every day, nine or ten mil lions every year—how many In a life, time It rested with the gods to say. ■Near by him men aat bending over whirling grindstones, putting the fin ishing touches to the steel knives of the ■veper; picking them out of a basket *>•■> the right band, pressing first ona side and then the other against tha stone, and finally dropping them with ■he left hand Into another basket. One of these men told Jurgle that he had Jharpened 9,000 pieces of steel a day for thirteen years. In the next room Wrre wonderful machines that ate up long steel rods by alow stages, cutting ■hem off, seising the pieces, stamping heads upon them, grinding them and Polishing them, threading them and Anally dropping them Into a basket, all 5“dy to bolt the harveetera together. »rom yet another machine came tens "t thousands of steel bun to flt upon ■hese holts. In other places all these vsrloiti parts wen dipped Into troughs "'Mint and hung up to dry, and then •ud along on trolleys to a room where m*n streaked them with red and yel- !?*• *° ,h * t ,h *>' might look cheerful In tho harvest flelds. Jurgt,’ friend worked up stain tn the cssting rooms, and hfa task was to Lace and Pearl Fans Eiqulsltely fashioned are these bits cf feminine adornment. Frenchy and *l*gtnt In their designing, they add a *°wettfah grace and charm to tha a ° dl »h toilette of mlladl. h,T * » very beautiful collection °f these fana. They are very pleasing as gift*. Maier & Berkele. le to harden; then It would be taken out. and molten Iron poured Into IL This man, too, was paid by the mould— lerfsct castings, nearly : going for naught. You might see mm, along with dozens ot others, tolling like one possessed by a whole community ot demons, his arms working like the driving rode ot an engine, hie long, black hair flying wild, his eyes starting out, tl In rivers down nto face, shoveled the mould full of tend and reached for the pounder to pound It with, It waa after the manner ot a canoeist, running rapids and seising a pole at sight of a submerged rock. All day long this man would toll thus, hla whole being centered upon the pur pose of making twenty-three Instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reck oned by the census-taker, and jubilant captains of Industry would boast ot It In their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient ae 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 Iqur wage-earners to this pitch of frenxy; though there are a few other things that are great among us. Including our drink bill, which Is 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, maahad them to the ahape of the sitting-down portion of the American farmer. Then they were plied upon a truck, and It waa Jurgls' task to wheel them to the room where the machines were "assem bled." This was child's play for him, and he got a dollar and twenty-five cents a day for It; on Saturday he paid Anlele the seventy-live cent* a week he owed her for the use of her garret, and also redeemed hla overcoat, which Elsblgta bad put In pawn when he was Hi Jail. This last was a great blessing. A man cannot go about In midwinter In Chicago with no ovarcoat and not pay for IL and Jurgls had to walk or ride live or elx miles back and forth to hla work. It so happened that half of this direction and half In anotb- every foot of the backe of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof. Of course, the doors could never be closed, and so the cars were as cold as outdoors. Jurgls, like many others, found It bolter to spend his Taro for a drink and a free lunch, to give him strength to walk. These, however, were all alight mat ters to a man who had escaped from Durham's fertilizer mill. Jurgls began to pick up heart again and to make plans. He had lost nls housa, but then the awful-load of the rent and Interest was olt Mi shoulders, and when Marlja waa well again thay could start over and save. In (he shop where he worked waa a man. a Lithuanian like himself, WMsa ths others spoke of In admiring whispers, because of tho might) he was performing. All day he a machine turning bolts; and then In-tha evening he went to the public school to study English and learn to read. In addition, because he had a family of eight children to support and his earn ings were not enough, on Saturdays and Sundays ha aervsd aa a watchman; he waa required to pres* two b at oppoalla ends of a building every live minutes, and as tha walk only took hlnvtwo minutes, he had three min utes lo study between each trip. Jur- gls felt Jealous ot this fallow; for that was the sort of thing he himself had dreamed of, two or three years ago. He might do It even yet, It he had Ir chanca—ha might attract attfntli and become a'skilled man or a boas, i_ some had dona In this place. Buppoae that Marlja could get a Job In tha big mill where they made binder twine— then they would move Into tnu neigh borhood, and he would really have a chance. With a hope like that, there waa some use In living; to And a place where you were treated like a human being—by God! he would show them how he could appreciate It. He laughed to himself as he thought bow be would hang on to this job! And then one afternoon, the ninth of his work In the place, when he went to get hie overcoat he saw a group of men crowded before a placard on the door, and when ha went over and asked what It was, they told him that beginning with the morrow his department of the harvester works would be dosed until further notice! In one dir—— -—- — - — —^ er. necessitating a change of can. The law required that transfers be given at all Intersecting points, but the rail way corporation had gotten around this by arranging a pretense at separate "'Sl'w&ew he wjsbsd fo ride, he had to pay ten cents each way, or over IS per cent of his Income to this pow er, which had gotten Its franchise long ago by buying up ths city council. In the face of popular clamor amounting almostto a rebellion. Tired as he felt at night, and dark and biller cold as It was In the morning. Jurgls generally chose to walk. At the hours other workmen were traveling the street car monopoly saw flt to put on so few cars Jurgls walked bom# with his pittance t K.» there would be men banging to of pay In Ms pocket, heart-broken. CHAPTER XXI. * That was ths way they did It! There waa not half an hour's warning—the wofks wars closed! It happened that way before, said the men, and It would happen that way forever. They had made all tha harvesting machines that ths world needed, and now they had to wait till some wore out I It was noJ body's fault—that was ths 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- leas and begging.for work, and now several thousand more added to them! overwhelmed. One more bandage had been torn from his eyes, one mors pit fall was revealed to him! Of what help was kindness and decency on thd part of etnploMre—when they could set heap a Job for him, when there were more harvesting machines made than the world was able to buy! What a hellish mockery it waa, anyway, that a man should slave to make harvesting Starllfsis for the OMhtry, only to be turned out to starve for doing hla duty too well! It took him two days to get over thl> heart-slrkcnlng disappointment. He did not drink anything, because Eli' bleta got his money for safe-keeping, and knew Ha tea .well to be In the least frightened by Ms angry demands. Ho stayed up In the garret, however, and sulked—what was the use of man's hunting a Job when It was taken from him before he had time to learn the work? Dut then their money wae g oing again, and llttlo Antanaa waa ungry and crying with the bitter cold the garret. Also Madame Hsupt, the midwife, was after him for some money. So he went out once more. ■ For another ten days ho roamed the streets nnd alleys of the hugo city, sick and hungry, begging for any .kind of work. He tried In stores and offices, In restaurants and hotels, along tho docks and In the railroad yards. In warehouses and mills and wont to overy corner of the world. There were often ono or two chances—but there wen- always a liamlrid in.ti fur every chance, and Ms tarn would not come. At night'ha crept Into I li.'.lH anil cel lar* and doorwnys—until thoro came a spell of belntod winter wqgthor, with a raging gale, and the therm,.meter live below sero at .Minrtnnui nnd U II night Then Jurgls fought like a wild beast to get Into the big Harrison street police station, and slept down In a corridor, crowded with two other men upon a single stop. He had to fight often In these days— fo fight for a pin, .• near the factory gates, and now and agnln with gangs on tha street. Ho found, for Instance, that the business at carrying satchels for railroad pnssengera was a pre empted ones-whenover he essayed It, eight or ten men and boys would fall upon him and forca him to run for his life. They alwaya had the policeman ■red,'* and so there wae. no uie In "squared.' expecting protection. That Jurgls did not starve to death wss due solely to tho plttnnco the children brought him. And even this was never certain. For one thing, the cold was almost more than Ihe children could bear, and then they, too, were in perpetual peril from rivals whs plund ered nnd beat them. The law waa against them, too—little Vlllmar, who was really eleven, but did not look to be eight, waa stopped on tbs streets by a severe old lady In spectacles, who told him that he was too young to be work ing and that If he did not atop selling papers she would send a truant officer after him. Also one night a strange _ht little Katrina by the arm and tried to persuade her Into a dark cellarway, an experience which filled her with such terror that ahe was hard ly able to be kept at work. At Iasi, on a Sunday, aa there wee no use looking for work, Jurgls went home by stealing rides on tha cars. I Io found that they had been waiting for him for three days—there waa a chance of a Job tor him. It was quits a story. Little Junes pas, who was nearly erasy with hunger these days, bad gone out on the street to beg for himself. Juoxapas had oMy one leg, having been run over b wagon when a little child, but be got himself a broomstick, which he put under Ms arm for a crutch. He had fallen In with some other children and found the way to Mika Scully's dump, which lay three or four blocks away. To this place there came every day many hundreds of wagon loads of garble and trash from ths lake fronL where the rich people lived, and In the heap# the children raked for food—there were hunks of bread and potato peelings and apple-cores i meat-bones, all of It half frosen i quite unspoiled. Little Juosapas gorged himself, and came home with a newspaper full, which he was feeding to Antanaa when Ms mother came In. Elsbleta was horriflsd, for sha did not bellare that the food out of the dumpe was flt to eat Ths next day, however, when no harm cams of it and Juos- apaa began to cry with hunger, the gave In and said that ha might go again. And that afternoon he came borne with a story of how whlls ha had been digging away with a stick a lady upon the street had called hire. A real line lady, the little boy ex plained, a beautiful lady; and sha wanted to know all about him, ‘and whether he got the garbage for chick ens. and why he walked with a broom stick. and why Ona had dlsd, and how Jnrgts had come to go to Jail, and what was ths mattsr with Marlja, and sverythlng. In ths end she had asked where he lived, and said that she was coming to see him, and bring him a new crutch to walk with. She bad on a hat with a bird upon It, Juoxapas long fur snake around her neck. She really ram*, Ihe very next morning, and climbed Ihe ladder to tha knew the place, over a feed store somebody hod wanted her to go there, but she Imd not cared fo. for sho thought that It must liavo somethin lo da with religion and the priest dl< not like her to have anything to do with strange religions. They were rich people who mine to live there And out about the poor people; but " hat I they i v p.-. t,.,| It m .mbl ,1.. them tn know one could not Imagine. N.I :i|nrttn Kl/titeln, nnllt-lv, an.I III" young lady laughed anil was rather at a loss for nn answer—she stood and gaseil about her, and km r cynical remark that had been made her, that ahe waa standing nan the brink ot tha, pit of hell and throwing In snowballs to lower the temperature. Elsbleta wi - - • - to listen, and what had happened to Onn, nnd the Jail, nnd the loss of their home, and Sr— ■ --- - - - TLL GIVE ANYONE $5,000,000 TO CURE ME OF LEPROSY’ arlja’s accident, nnd how Ona had died, and how Jurgls could get no fork. As she listened the pretty young Indy’s eyes tilled with tears and In the midst of It sho buret Into weep ing and hid her fare on Klxbleta'a shoulder, quits regardless of the far! that the woman had on a dirty old wrapper and that Ihe garret wan full of fleas. Poor Elsbleta was ashamed of herself for having told so woeful a ■ ■<!•'. iiii-i .' and plead with her to get her to go on. The end of It was that the young lady sent them n basket of things to eat, and left n let ter that Jurgls was to take to a gentle man who w .!■< tmp.'i IIIt• II.I.-IIt III »in,* Ur the mills ot the great steel works In South ('Mongo. "He will get Jurgls himicthing to do,” the young Indy hail Kil'l, ami inlileii, ’Hilling till..Hall liar tears, "It he doesn't he wl ry ms." Ths steel works were fifteen miles away, nnd, as usual. It was so con trived that one had to pay two fares to t there. Far and wide the sky was Dy Private Leased Wire. aalvsaton, Texas, July it.—James M. Brings*, of Ouaymas, Maxlco, one of the wealthiest mine and ranch owners of ths sister republic, who Is a native of Kentucky, Is ofTtring 15,000,000 lo any one who will cure him of leprosy. Ha. Is the owner at the Lee Vegiis mine In Sonora, also tho principal own er of the Wlnton Mining nnd Smelting Company, and sole owner of 150,000 acres of land 10 miles from Ihe City of Mexico, lie Is on his way lo Europe for the third time In hopea of checking Ihe dreaded disease, which has eaten his Anger nails. ha( leaped from rows of towering chlmneya—for It wds pitch dark when Jurgls arrived. The vast works, a city In themselves, were surrounded by a stockade; and already a full hundred men were wott ing ill IhS gal" linn.lH WOT taken on. Soon after daybreak whta- began to blow, and then suddenly thousands ot men appeared, streaming from saloons and boarding houses across the way, leaplitg from trolley garret, and stood and stared about her, turning pale at the sight of tha blaod stains on the floor where Ona had died. She waa a "settlement worker,” she explained lo Elsbleta—she lived around on Ashland avenue. Elsbleta care that passed—It seemed as It they rose out of the ground. In the dim gray light. A river of them poured In through tho gate—and then gradually ebbed away again, until there were only a few late ones running, and the .watchman pacing up and down, and the hungry strangers stamping und shivering. Jurgls presented hla precious letter. The gatekeeper waa surly, and put him through a catechism, but he Insisted that hs knew nothing, and aa he had taken the precaution lo aeal hie letter, there was nothing for ths gatekeeper to do but send It to the person to whom It wae addressed. A messenger came back to say that Jurgls should wall, and ao he came Inside of the gale, per haps not sorry enough that there were others leas fortunate watching him with greedy eyas. The great mills were getting under way—one could hear a vast stirring, a .rolling and rumbling and hammering. Little by little Ihe scene grew plain: lowering. Mack buildings hers and these, long rows of ahopa and sheds, little railways branching everyv ”— ban grey cinders under foot, oceans of billowing 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 steamer* came to toad. bad time nough to stare and , for It waa two hours before be wss summoned. He went Into tbs steamers i Jurgls I speculate, he waa at office building, where a company Urns' keeper Interviewed him. The superin' lendent was busy, he said, but he (the timekeeper) would try to find Jurgls a Job. II had never worked In a steel mill before? But ha was ready for anything? A and saa. So they began a tour, among sights that mads Jurgls stare amazed. He wondered If ever he could get used to working In a place like this, where tha air shook with deafening thunder, and whistles shrieked warnings on all aldta of him at once; where miniature steam engines cams rushing upon him, and sizzling, quivering, white-hot masses of metal aped past Mm, and explosions of fire and flaming sparks daasled him and scorched Ms face. The men In these mills were all black with soot) and hollow-eyed and gaunt; they worked with fierce Intenalty, rushing here and then, and never lifting their eyes from their task*. Jurgls clung to Ms guide like a scared child to Its nurse, and while the latter hailed one foremen after another to ask If they could use another unskilled man, ha stared about blra and marveled. If* was taken to the Bessemer fur- nar*, where the/made billets of steel— ‘ ne-llka building the alee of a Mg rr. Jurgts stood where the bal- of the theater would nave been, and opposite, by tha stage, be saw three giant caldrons. Mg enough for all the devils of hell to brew their bniih In, full of something white and blinding, bubbling and splashing, roar ing as If volcanoes war* Mowing through It—one hod to shout to be heard In the place. Liquid flr* would leep from these caldrons and scatter like bombs below—and men were work- Ing there, seemingly careless, so that Jurgls caught hla breath with fright. Then's whistle would toot, and across Ihe curtain of the Cheater would come a llllle engine with a carload of some- be dumped Into ono of Ihe e. and then another whistle would toot, down by tho stage, nnd another train would bark up—and sud- one of the giant kettles began lo tilt Hid '' I I I". nillltlNK '"It H |i ' "f hi III", roaring flame. Jurgls shrank beck ap palled, for he thought It wua all acci dent; there fell a pillar of white flame, dazzling as tlm *un, swishing Ilk* a hugo tree falling In tho forest. A tor- i’ lit ..f ■.i...iu- -v "|it nil Hie « i" a r.m* the building, overwhelming everytMpg, hiding It from atgbt; nnd tlnn .tno;!- 'I llll'.Ill'll III" tlllgiTH "f III" ll.llllll and saw pouring out of the caldron a c iimi'.’iiI" at lh Inn, I* .11'iak Hi ", i "in ■ Inna Urn eyeballs. Incandescent rslnbmva shone above tl; but the stream Itself wnx white. Ineffable. Out of lb* re gions of wonder It streamed, the very river of life; and the soul leaped up at Ihe sight Of IL fled bark upon It. swift nnd resistless, back Into far-off lands, whore beauty nnd terror dwell. Then the great caldron lilted bark II",llll, "||||.I v. and .IuikIi Sim. Ill hli i' 11 •• r. Ill'll mi was hull, and I urii.'l and followed his guide out Into tho aunllghL They went through fhs blast-fur nnron, through rolling mills whore bars '•(•I'll .Ml' t" I .ll.Mllt lltl.l . Il’ ■) I| I like bile of cheese. All around nnd nhnvn giant machine arms were flying, gl llll v.li""N mi" turning, Klimt Ii.iiii- mers crashing; traveling crane* creak ed and groaned overhead, reaching down Iron'hands and seizing Iron prey —It waa Ilk* standing In the canter of tlje earth, where tha machinery of time was revolving. By and by they came to the place where steel rails were made; and Jur- gle hoerA • f-'t behind him, and Jump ed out ... the way of a car with a white-hot M man's body, and .the car cam* to a halt, and tha Ingot loppj*d.out upon a moving plat form, where ataal Angara sod arms set sad hold of IL punchlng.lt and prod ding It Into place, and hurrying It Into the grip of huge rollers. Then It came out upon Ihe other side, and there were more crashing* and cluttering*. nnd over It waa flopped, Ilk* a pancake on a rrtdlron, and seised again and rushed tack at you through another squeezer. Bo amid deafening uproar It clattered lo and fro,.growing thinner and flat ter and longer. The Ingot see mad al most a living thing; It did not went to run this mad course, but It waa lit tha grip of fata, It waa tumbled on, railing and clunking and shivering In protest. By and by It was long and thin, a great red snake escaped from purgatory; and then, as It el id through he rollers, you would have sworn that “ waa allva—It writhed and squirmed. H* la 55 years of age, and contract (ha disease five years ago In Australia, If* has apant more than 11,000,000 standing on In gold for a sore. Now h* says he will make It 15,000,- 000 and even more, as he la willing in sacrifice hla entire relate lo bo cleansed of the loathsome affliction. Mr. Brlngaa has a wife, seven daughters and a son, and. ha made hli money In mining In Mexico, where ha has lived for twenty year*. Ho buys every medicine offered and euggont"'l and ha* been under the treatment nf fifteen specialists In IMs country and Europe and la willing to mako any sacrifice to bo freed from the disease. RAILROAD CHARTER WILL BE ASKED FOR Bpwlol to Tho Georgian. Dublin* Qa, July If.—Information hu ranched hero from Lumber City that Dublin will noon barn anotlx r railroad. It la to be known na th<? Lumber City and Dublin Railroad, ntxl will run from Lumber City to Dublin via Alamo or Qlenwood. Roth of tln -n touna, which nro situated on tho Kon board, are pulling for the road. In a few days an application for the charter win be made. YOUNO BRIDE ARRESTED AND HUSBAND INDICTED It . , and wriggles and shudders passed out through Its tall, all but flinging It off by their violence. There waa no rest for It until It 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 ot this rail’s progress that Jurgle got his chance. 1 ’hey had to be moved by men with crowbars, and the bows here could us* another man. Ho ha took off hla coat get to this place every day and cost him a dollar and twenty cents a week. As this was out of the question, he wrapped hla bedding In a bundle and took It with him, fcnd ona of hla fellow-workingmen Special to The Oeorglsn. Spartanburg, R C, July IL—Peart Moeseller, aged II years, a pretty girl of Asheville, who ran away from bar home lost Saturday with George .Sha ver and camo to this city, and ware monied, was taken Into custody early Wednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff White under an ord^r Issued by Judge D. E. Ilydrlck. She was found at tha horns of Mrs. 8haver. The young innii who married Ihe girl has been Indicted nn Ihe charge of abduction nnd perju ry. Tuesday morning tho young man wss summoned before Judge Ilydrlck III llll |.l ]l|i«i When questioned concerning the whercnlmuti of the girl, he swore that he hnd not seen her elnca last Friday, when lie appeared before a magistrate an tha charge of abduction: that ha hart not communicated with her directly m- in- ■ Ml"' 111 The f ,n her nf III" Kiri iwiire ..m a u nr re nt i y ilner Shaver "hnrglng him with perjury. When Ilia girl was taken Into custody Wednesday morn ing sha slated that Shaver visited her last Monday night. QUEEN CITY GUARDS' ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT Special to The Georgian llartailelt, Ain, .III!. ]' Th" yueerj City Guards and tbs Albertville Ri fles left this morning on a special train over tb* Louisville and Nashville rail road by way of Anniston and Calsra, for their annual encampment with the Third regiment, Alabama national K il in tl. II'. M llll" Th" yii""M city Guards rnrrled twenty-acv»n men mnl the Albertville Hines llfty-llve men. In - eluding commlaatoaad attMa fjM Anniston and Oxford companies Joined them at Anniston, and tb* Birmingham and Knslty companies will j Cn them also. ELIHU ROOT’S BOAT TAKES ON PROVISIONS Indies, Ju 'er Cbarle ; .i 11 y, (■., Introduced him to a Polish li housa, where h* might have th* f sleeping upon tHa floor rents a night. It* got Ms maala at privi lege of sleeping upon Ilia floor for Id cenla a night. It* g frae-lunch counters, and every Matur day night he want bom*—beddf By Private Leased Wire. flt. Thomas, Danish Wee 12.—'Th* United States cni ton. with Secretary Root' . on provision* here and proceeded trip southward. MURDER CASE CALLED! , PLEA OF SELF DEFENSE Special to Tb* OeorgUe. Spartanburg, 8. C, July li.—In th* court of general sessions Wednesday afternoon. Solicitor Seas* called ih* case of ths state vs. C. E. Teague, a young while man, charged with killing a negro named Brown several week, ago. A pits of salt defense was en tered, th* defendant claiming that h« all—and took thiscreator 'part °ot bl* jy— attacked by Brown money to ih* family. Rlsbleta was | forced lo shoot. sorry for this arrangement, for »h* I Young Teague la engaged In build- feared lhat it would get him Into the JgfM*"jJj 9* *JJ Smithem habit of living without them, and once a week waa not very often for him to aee hla baby; but there was no other way oat of IL There was no chance Tor a woman at th* steal work*, and Marita waa now ready for work again, and lured on from day to day by tba bop* of finding It at th* yards. (Continued In Tomorrow** Georgian.) GRESHAM ASHFORD SHOE CO. 93 PEACHTREE ST. East Spartanburg, and Bro ployed as a laborer. GOVERNOR AND SENATOR TO ADDRESS QUILL PUSHERS Specie 1 to The Georgias. Gadsden, Ala., July IL— William D. Jelks has tie. . pti vltallon to address th* Sti Association at their annual u this city on July 2i-S*. s. m T. Morgan has also accepte vltallon lo addroaa the editut casloa.