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TTIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
W*El»V|:si».\V. JI'I.V It. I'VH.
“THE JUNGLE” HERO, DESPERATEJURNS HOLD-UP MAN
CRIMINALS. TEACH JURGIS HOW TO GET MONEY BY THEFT—MAKES APT PUPIL
Stock Yards’ Victim Serves Second Term in
Jail and Then Seeks Help of an Acquain
tance, Who Turns Out To Be a Thief
and Helps Him to Become One.
CHAPTER XXIV (CONTINUED)
(Copyright. 1906, by Upton Sinclair.
All rights reserved.)
The man went out and closed the
door. Jurgis, who was as sharp as he,
observed that he took the key out of
the lock In order that he might peer
through the keyhole.
Master Frederick turned to the table
again. "Now” he said, "go for It.”
Jurgis gaxed at him doubtlngly.
-Eatl" cried the other. “Pile In, ole
chspple!”
“Don't you want anything?" Jurgis
aeked.
• Ain't hungry,” was the reply—"only
thirsty. Kitty and me had some candy
—you go on.”
So Jurgis began, without further
parley. He ate as with two shovels,
his fork in one hand and his knife In
the other; when he once got started
his wolf hunger got the better of him,
and he did not stop for breath until
he had cleared every plate. "Gee'
whiz!" said the other, who had been
watching him In wonder.
Then he • held Jurgis the bottle.
"Lessee you drink now,” he said; and
jurgis took the bottle and turned It up
to his mopth, and a wonderful un
earthly liquid eostacy poured down hid
throat, tickling every nerve of him,
thrilling him with J}oy. He drank the
very last drop of It, and then he gave
vent to a long-drawn “AhI"
•Good stuff, hey?” said Freddie,
sympathetically; he had leaned back
in the big chair, putting his arm be
hind his head, and gaxlng at Jurgis.
And Jurgis gazed back at him. He
was clad In spotless evening dress, was
Freddie, and looked very handsome—
he was a beautiful boy, with light
goldet/halr and the head of an Anti-
nnns. He smiled at Jurgis confidingly,
and then started talking again, with
his blissful insouciance. This time he
tallied tor ten minutes at a stretch,
and In the course of the speech he told
Jurgis all of Ills family history. His
big brother Charlie was In love with
the guileless maiden who played the
part of Little Brlght-Eyes in "The
Kallph of Kamtschhatka.” He had
been on the verge of marrying her
once, only the "guv-ner" had sworn to
disinherit him, and had presented him
with a sum that would stagger the
Imagination. Now Charlie had got
leave from college, and had gone away
In his automobile. The "guv'ner” had
made threats to disinherit another of
his children also. Sister Gwendolln, who
had married an Italian marquis with a
string of titles and a duelling record.
They lived In his chateau, or rather
had, until he had taken to flrlng the
breakfast dishes at h<r; then she had
cabled for help,.and the old gentleman
had gone over to find out what were
his grace's terms. So they had left
Freddie all alone, and he with less than
12,000 In his pocket! Freddie was up
In arms and meant aerlous business,
as they would find In the end—If there
was no other way of bringing them to
terms he would have his "Kittens” wire
that she was about to marry him and
see what happened then.
So tho cheerful youngster rattled on
until he was tired out. He smiled his
sweetest smile at Jurgis, and then he
closed his eyes, sleepily. Then he
opened them again and smiled once
more, and finally closed them and for
got to open them.
For several minutes Jurgis sat per
fectly motionless watching him, and
revelling In the strange sensations of
the champagne. Once he stirred and
the dog growled; after that he sat al-
most holding his breath—until after a
while the door opened softly and the
butler came In.
He walked toward Jurgis upon tiptoe,
scowling at him; and Jurgla rose up
and retreated, scowling back. So un
til he was against the wall, and then
the butler came close, and pointed to
ward the door. "Get out of here!” he
whispered.
Jurgis healtated, giving a glance at
Freddie, who warn snoring softly. "If
you do,” hissed the butler, ‘TU mash
your face for you before you get out of
here!”
And Jurgis wavered but an Instant
more. Ho saw “Admiral Dewey”
coming up behind the man and
growling softly, to back- up his threats.
Then he surrendered and started to
ward the door.
They went out without a sound, and
down the great echoing staircase, and
through the dark hall. At the front
door he paused and the butler strode
dose up to him.
“Hold up your hands,” he snarled.
Jurgis took a step back, clinching his
one well flst.
"What for?" hs cried; and then un
derstanding that the fellow proposed
to search him, he answered: "I’ll see
you In hell first.”
"Do you want to go to Jail?” de
manded the butler, menacingly. "I'll
have the police”—
Have »tf!" roared Jurgis, with
fierce passion. "But you won't put
your hands on me till you do! I
haven’t touched anything In your
damned house, and III not have you
touch me!”
So the butler, who was terrified lest
m” young master should waken,
•topped suddenly to the door, and
opened It. "Get out of here!" he said;
and then, as Jurgis passed through the
opening, he gave him a ferocious kick
'hat sent him down the great stone
, P” at a run. and landed him sprawl
wg In ihe snow at the bottom.
. CHAPTER XXV,
Jurgis got upt wild with rage; but
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the door was shut and the great castle
was dark and Impregnable. Then the.
Icy teeth of the blast bit Into him, and
he turned and went away at a run.
When he stopped again It was be
cause he was coming to frequented
streets and did not wish to attract at-
tentlon. In spite ,ff that lust humilia
tion, his heart was thumping fast with
triumph. He had come out ahead on
that deal! He put his hand Into his
trousers' pocket every now and then, to
make sure that the precious hundred-
dollar bill was still there.
Yet hs was In a plight—a curious
and even dreadful plight, when he
came to realize It. He had not a sin
gle cent but that one bill! And he
had to And some shelter that night—
he had to change It!
Jurgis spent half an hour walking
and debating the problem. There was
no one he could go to for help—he had
to manage It all alone. To get It
changed In a lodging house would be
to take his life In his hands—he would
almost certainly be robbed and per
haps murdered, before morning. He
might go to some hotel or railroad
depot and ask to have It changed, but
what would they think, seeing a "bum"
like him with a hundred dollars? He
would probably be arrested If he tried
It. and what story could he tell? On
the morrow Freddie Jones would dis
cover his loss, and there would be a
hunt for him, and he would lose tbe
money. The only other plan he could
think of was to try In a saloon. He
might pay- them to change It, If It
could nut be dons otherwise.
He began peering into places as he
walked; he passed several as being
too crowded; then finally chancing
upon one where the bartender was .all
alone, he gripped his hands In sudden
resolution and went In.
Can you change me a hundred-dol-
lar blit?” he demanded.
The bartender was a big, husky fel
low, with the Jaw of a prise fighter,
and a three weeks' stubble of hair upon
It. He stared at Jurgis. "What's that
youse say?” he demanded. .
”1 said, could you change me a hun-
dred-dollar bill?”
'Where'd youse get It?" he inquired
Incredulously.
"Never mind," said Jurgis, "I’ve got
It, and I want It changed. I’ll pay you
If you’ll do It.
The other stared at him hard. "Dem
me see It,” he said.
"Will you change It?" Jurgis de
manded, gripping It tightly In his
pocket.
"How the hell can I know If It's goad
or not?" retorted the bartender.
“Whatcher take me for, hey?"
Then Jurgis slowly and warily np-
proached him; he took out the bill, and
tumbled It for a moment, while the
man stared at him with hostile eyes
across the counter.' Then Anally he-
handed It over.
The other took It and began to ex
amine It; he smoothed It between his
fingers, and he held It up to the light;
he turned It over, and upside down and
edgeways. It'was new and rather stiff
and that made him dubious. Jurgis
was watching him like a cat all the
time. ...
"Humph,", he said, Anally, and gaxed
at the stranger, sizing him up—a rag
ged, Ill-smelling tramp, with no over
coat and one'arm In a sling—and a
hundred-dollar bill! "Want to buy
anything?” he demanded.
"Yes," said Jurgis, 'Til take a glaes
° f "Alright” paid the other, *T»
change it.” And he put the bill In hie
pocket and poured Jurgie out & glass
of beer and aet it on the counter. Then
he turned to the cash register and
punched up .five cents, and began to
pull money out of the drawer. 1-lnally.
he faced Jurgis, counting out—two
dimes, a quarter and Afty cents.
There," he said.
For a second Jurgis waited, expect
ing to see him turn egaln.’ "My ninety-
nine dollars," he said.
"What nlnety-rtlne dollars?’ de-
mandsd the bartender.
"My change!” he cried- 1 The rest of
my hundred!" . ,
"Go on," said the bartender, •you re
n< Aml Jurgie stared at him with wild
eyee. For an Instant horrtr reigned In
him—black, paralysing, awful horror,
clutching him at the heart; “VlS"
came rage, In surging, blinding flopd.
—he screamed aloud, and «el*«d the
glase and hurled It at the other's head.
The man ducked, and It missed him by
half an Inch; he rose again and faced
Jurgis. who was vaulting oyer the bar
with his well one arm. and dealt him
a smashing blow In the face, hurling
him backward on the Aoor. Then, ai
Jurgis scrambled to hie feet again
and started round the counter after
him, he shouted at the top of hie voice,
a bottle off the counter
os he ran: and us the bartender made
a leap he hurled the missile athim
with all his frree. It Just grazed his
head, and shivered Into a thousand
pieces against the post of the door.
Then Jurgis ztartedback, ™shlngat
the man again ln«he middle of the
room. This time. In his blind frenzy,
heohme without a bottle and that was
all the bartender wanted—he met him
halfway and Aoored him with a sledge
hammer drive between the eyee. An
Instant later the * cr «"
open, and two men rushed In—Just as
& was getting to «at*
foaming at the mouth with rage, and
trying to tear his broken srm out of Its
‘"Or-outr shouted the bartender.
"He's got a knife!" Then, feeing that
the two were disposed to Join In the
fray, he made another rush at Jurgis,
and knocked aside hie feeble defence
and sent him tumbling again, and the
three Aung themselves upon him, roll
ing and kicking him about the place
A second later a policeman daahed
In. and the bartender yelled once more
"Look out for his knife. Jurgla
had fought himself half to his knees,
when the policeman made a leap at
him, and cracked him sc roes the face
with hto club Tt.oughth.blow.tsg-
gered him. the wild beast frenzy still
blazed In him, and he got to hie feet,
lunging Into the air. Then again the
club descended, full upon hie head, and
he dropped like a log to the Aoor.
The barkeeper got up and pnt hie
hand* to hie head. „ '1 thought l wa.
done for that time,” he eeld. Did he
CU "Don’t see anything, Jake." eald the
dlceman. "What* the matter with
™u"st crazy drunk,” said the other.
A lame duck, too—but he most got
me under the bar. Youse had better
call the wagon, Billy."
"No." said the officer, "he’s got no
more light in him, I guess—And he's
only got a block to go." He' twisted
his hand In Jurgis’ collar and Jerked
at him. “Git up here, you!” he com
manded.
But Jurgis did not.move, and the
bartender went behind the bar, and.
after stowing tbs hundred-dollar bill
away In a safe hiding place, came and
poured a glass of water over Jurgis.
Then, as the letter began to moan
feebly, the policeman. got him to hl»
feet and dragged him out of the place.
The station house was Just around the
corner, and so In a few mlnutca Jurgla
was In a cell. •
He spent half the night lying un
conscious, and the balance moaning In
torment, with a blinding headache and
a racking thirst. Now and then he
cried aloud for a drink or water, but
there was no one to hear him. There
were others In that same station house
with spilt heads and a fever; there
were hundreds of them In the great
city, and tens of thousands of them In
the great land, and there was no one to
hear any of them.
In the morning Jurgis was given w
cup of water and a piece of bread,
and then hustled Into a patrol wagon
and driven to the nearest police court.
He sat In the pen with a scare of oth
ere until his turn came.
The bartender—who proved to be a
well-known bruiser—wss called- to the
stand. He took the oath and told hit
story. The prisoner had come Into his
saloon after midnight, fighting drunk,
and had ordered a glass of beer and
tendered a dollar bill In payment. He
had been given nlnety-Ave cents
change, and had demanded ninety-nine
dollars more, and before the plaintiff
could even answer had hurled the glass
at him and then attacked him with a
bottle of hitters and nearly wrecked
the place.
Then the prisoner was sworn—a for
lorn object, haggard and unshorn, with
an arm done up In a filthy bandage, a
cheek and head cut and bloody, and
one eye purplish black and entirely
closed. "What have you to say for
yourself?" queried the magistrate.
“Your Honor," said Jurgis, "1 went
Inte his place and aeked the man If he
could change me a hundred-dollar bill.
And he said he would If I bought a
drink. I gave him the bill and then
he wouldn't give me the change."
The magistrate was staring at him In
perplexity. “You gave him a hundred-
dollar bill?" he exclaimed.
"Yes, your Honor,” said Jurgis.
"Where did you get It?"
"A man gave It to me, ypur Honor."
“A man? What man, and what for?"
“A young man I met upon the street,
your Honor. I had been begging.”
There was a titter In the court room:
the ofAcer who was holding Jurgis put
up hla hand to hide,a smile, and the
magistrate smiled without trying to
hide It. "It’s true, your Honor!" cried
Jurgis, passionately.
"You had been drinking as well as
begging last night, had you not?” In
quired the magistrate, -
^“No, your Honor”—protested Jurgis,
“You had not had anything to
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and then the two dodged Into t
ter of an aren step nml hht In
Pretty soon it man t ame by,
lint man. and they let him g-
after a long Interval <;nine the heavy | And so Juigli
trend of u policeman, ami they- held high-class erhn
thrtr brenth till he waa gone. Though The city, which
half frozen, they waited a full quarter gnrchy of hu-ln'
of an hour after that—end then again
came footsteps, wnlklng briskly. Du
ane stole out us silently ns n shadow
and a second later Jurgis heard a
thud and a stilled cry. He w-ns only a
couple of feet behind, and he leaped to
stop the man's mouth, while Duane
held him fast by the arms, as they had
agreed. Hut the innn was limp and
showed a tendency to fall, and so Jur-
ople
ed by (i
being
III-
■ iiiinrw n iriiiifiiv/ »«r i.tii, Him n\r (IUI*
gts had only to hold him by the collar
while the other, with swift Angers,
went through hte pockets—ripping open
first his overcoat, end then his coat, and
then Ills vest, searching Inside and out
side, and transferring The contents Into
hla own pockets. At last, nfter feeling
of the men's lingers and In his neck
tie, Duane whispered, "That'S alll" and
they drugged him to the aren and drnp-
I Im In, Then Jurgis went one way
drink?"
"Why, yes, your Honor, I had”—
"What did you have?"
'I had a bottle of something—I don t
know what It was—something that
burned”— , , ..
Thera was again a laugh round the
court* room, stopping suddenly as the
magistrate looked up and frowned.
"Have you ever been arrested before?
he asked abruptly. .
The question took Jurgis aback. I
—I—" he Stammered.
•'Tell me the truth, now!” command
ed the other, sternly.
"Yes. your Honor," said Jurgis.
■‘How often?" •
"Only once, your Honor.
“What for?”
“For knocking down my boss, your
Honor. I was working In the stock
yards, and he"—
"I see," said his honor; "1 guess that
will do. You ought to stop drinking If
you can't control yourself. Ten days
and costs. Next case."
Jurgis gave vent to a cry of dismay.
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cut off suddenly by the policeman, who
seized him by the collar. He was
Jerked out of the way, Into a room
with the convicted prisoner*, where
he sat and wept like a child In hie Im
potent rage. It seemed monstrous to
him that policemen and Judges should
esteem hts word as nothing In com
parison with tho bartender*!; poor Jur
gie could not know that the owner of
the saloon paid Ave dollar* each week
to the policeman alone for Hunday
privilege* mid general favor*—nor that
the pugllUt bartender waa one of the
moat truated henchmen of the Demo
cratic leader of the dlatrlct, and had
helped only a few month* before tq
huetle out a record-breaking vote a*
a teatlmonlal to the maglatrate, who
had been made the target of odious
kid-gloved reformer*.
Jurgl* wa* driven out to the Bride
well for the second time. In-hte tum
bling around ho had hurt hi* arm
agatn, mid ao could not work, but had
to be attended by the phyaiclun. Also,
Mm heo.l and ,-vi- Innl to be Hid up—
and so ho wa* a pretty looking object
when, tho second day after hi* arrival,
ho went out Into tho exerolae court and
encountered—Jack Duanel
The young fellow waa ao glad to see
Jurgl* that he almost hugged him.
"And what I* It—have you been
through a aaueage njachlne?"
"No," ea!d Jurgis; "but I've been In
_ railroad wreck and a tight." And
then, while some of the other prisoners
gathered round, he told hie wild story;
inoat of them were Incredulous, but
Duane knew that Jurgl* could never
have made'up such a yarn a* that.
"Hard luck, old man," he said, when
they were atone; "but maybe It’*
taught you. a le**on.”
"I've learned some things since I saw
you lost,” said Jurgl*. mournfully.
Then he explained how he had spent
the last summer "hoboing,” as the
phrase wa». "And you?” he aeked,
ilnnlly. "Have you been here ever
»lnce?"
"Lord, no!” said the other. "I only
came In the day before yesterday. It'*
the second time they’ve sent me up on
a trumped-up charge—I’.ve bad hard
luck and can’t pay them what they
want. Why don’t you quit Chicago
with me, Jurgl*?”
"I've no place to go," said Jurgla,
‘•Neither have t" replied the other,
laughing lightly. "But we'll wait till
we get out and see.”
In the Bridewell Jurgie met few who
had been there the last time, but ho
met score* of others, old and young, of
exactly the same sort. It wa* Ilk*
breakers upon a beach. There wa* new
water, but the wave looked lust the
same. He strolled about and talked
with them, and the biggest of them
told tale* of their prowe**, while those
who were weaker, or younger and In
experienced gathered round and listen
ed In admiring silence. The Isst time
he was there Jurgis had thought of
little but his family; but now h# wa*
free to listen to these men and to
renllze that he was on# or t|)#m—that
their point of view wa* hi* point of
view, and that the way they kept them
selves alive In the world wa* the way
he meant to do It In future.
And so, when he was turned out of
prison again, without a penny In hi*
pocket, he went straight to Jack Du
ane. He went full of humility and
gratitude; for Duane waa a gentleman
and a man with a profession—and It
waa remarkable that he should be will
ing to throw In his lot with an humbl*
beggar and a tramp. Jurgis could
not see what help he could b* to him;
he did not understand that a man Ilk*
himself—who could he trusted to stand
by any one who wa* kind to him—was
as rare among criminals as among any
other class of men.
Duane was glad to see him; he was
without a cent of money, he said, and
had been waiting for Jurgis to help
him get some. He explained hi* plan—
In fhet he spent the day In laying bare
to his friend the criminal world of the
city, and In showing him how he
might earn himself A living In It. That
winter he would have a hard time, on
account of hts arm, and because of an
unwonted At of activity of the police;
hut so long as he was unknown to them
he would be safe If he were careful.
Here at - "Papa" Haneon's (so they
called the old man who kept the dive)
he might rest at ease, for "Papa" Han-
aon wa* "square”—would stand by him
so long as he paid, and glv* him sn
hour's notice If there were to be a po
lice raid. Also Rosen*teg, the pawn
broker, would buy anything he had for
third of Its value, and guarantee to
•p it hidden for a year.
There was an oil stove In the little
cupboard of a room, and they had some
supper; and then about 11 o'clock at
night they sallied forth together, by a
rear entrance to the place; Duane arm-
ed with a slungshot. They cam* to a
residence district, and he sprang up a
lamp post ana turned out tbe light.
pad him
nnd hie friend the other, walking
briskly.
The latter arrived Aral, and Jurgis
found him examining the “swag."
There was a gold watch, for nno thing,
with a chain and locket; there wa* a
sliver pencil, nml a match box, nnd a
handful of small change, and Anally a
card case. Thl* last Duane opened
feverishly—there were letters and
cherks, nnd two theater tIrlifts, and nt
last. In the hack part, a wad of bills.
He counted them—there was a twenty,
Ave tens, four lives nnd -thre* ones.
Dunne drew n long breath. "That lets
us out!" he said.
After further examination they burn
ed the rnrd esse nnd It* rontents, all
but the bills, and likewise the picture
of a little girl In the locket. Then Du
ane took the watch nnd trinkets down
stairs and mm* back with tie. “The
old scoundrel said ths ense waa Ailed,”
he said. "It's a He, but he knows I
want tho money."
They divided up the spoils and Jur
al* got ns his share |r>6 nnd some
change. He protested that It was too
much, but the other had agreed to di
vide even. That was a good haul, h*
said, better thnn the average.
When they got up In Ihe morning,
Jurg|s was sent out to buy a paper;
one of the pleasures of committing a
crime was the reading about It after
ward. "I had a pal that always dltl
IL” Dunn* remarked, laughing—“until
one day he read that he had left $1,000
In a lower Inalds pocket of hla party's
vest I"
There waa a half-column account of
the robbery—It was evident that a gang
wae operating In the nelghtmrlwod.
said the paper, for It was the third
within a week, snd the police were ap
parently powerless. The victim was an
insurance agent, and he had lost $110
that did not belong to him. He had
chanced to have his name marked on
hla shirt, otherwise he would not have
been Identlllrd yet., HI* assailant had
hit him too hard, am! h* was suffering
from concussion of th# brain; anil also
ho had been half-frozen when found,
nnd would lose three Angers of his
right hand. Th# enterprising newspa
per reporter had taken all this Inform
ation-to hts family, and told how they
had received It.
Hlnce It was Jurgis* flrzt ezperlenre
these doinllH naturally caused him
some wurrlinent; hut the other laughed
coolly—It was-the way of the game,
nnd there wan no helping It. Before
long Jurgis would think no more of It
than they did In th* yards of knock
ing out a bullock. “U's a can of us
or the other fellow, nnd ! say the other
fellow every time," he observed.
■•Hllll," said Jurgl*, reAeellvely, "h#
never did us any harm."
"He was doing It to somebody as
hard ns he could, you can be sure iff
that," said his friend. •
Duane had already explained to Jur-
E ls that If a inon of their trad* were
nown he would have to work all the
time to satisfy the demands of the po
ll. . Thi-i-ff"i" ii u -.nlil In- Ip'-iiii r..i
Jurgis to stay In hiding nnd never be
seen In public with his pal. Hut Jur-
>rl ii K"I veil lll'-d of -Having In
hiding. In a couple of weeks he was
feeling strong nnd beginning to use
his arm, nnd then he could not stand
It any longer. Duone had to give up
Daily ruled by i
of graft mis asressarjr for the purpose
of effecting the transfer of power.
Twice a year. In the spring and fall
elections, millions of dollars were fur
nished by fhe business men and ex
pended by this army; meeiing» were
held and clever speakers were hired,
bnnd* played and rockets shaded, tons
of document* and reservoirs of drinks
were distributed, and ten* of thous
ands of vote* were bought for cash.
And thl* army of graft had, of course,
to be maintained the year round. The
leaders and organizers were main
tained by the business men. dlreclly -
aldermen and legislators by means nf
bribes, party officials out of the cam
paign funds, lobbyists and corpora tin
lawyers In th# form of salaries, con
tractors by means of Jobs, anil news
paper proprietor* am! editor* by ad
vertisements. The rtink and Ale, how-
ever, were either foisted upon the city
or Sis* lived qff the populace directly.
There wa* the police department, and
the Are and water departments, end
the whole balance of the civil ll»t. from
the meanest office boy to the head of a
city department, and for th* horde
whq could And no room In these, them
was the world of vice and rrime; them
n-ns license to seduce, to swindle and
plunder ami prey.
Th# law forbade Hunday drinking,
and this had delivered the saloon
keeper* Into the hands of the pollc--.
and made an alliance between them
necessary. It wa* ths some with the
gambling house keeper and the pool-
room man, and the same with any
other man »r woman who had n menna
of getting "graft," nnd was willing lo
pay over a share of It; th* green-gt -I*
man and the highwayman, the pick
pocket and the sneak thief and th# re
ceiver of stolen goods, the seller of
adulterated milk, of stale fruit nnd
diseased meat, the proprietor -if un
sanitary tenements, th* fake do< tor
and the usurer, the beggar nnd th*
"push-cart man," ths prlss-Aghter nnd
th* professional slugger, the race track
“tout," and the white slave agent All
of these agencies of corruption - • m
banded together and leagued in blood
brotherhood with th* politician nnd tho
police; more often than nat they were
one and the same person—"Hlnkv-
dlnk" or "Bath-house John," or other,
of that Ilk, were proprietor* of tho
most notorious dives In Chicago, mi l
also th* “gray wolves" of the city
council, who gave away the sire- - of
the city to the business men: and
those who patronized their places were
Ihe gamblers and prtze-flghlers who
set th* law at deAance, and the burg
lar* end hold-up men who kept the
whole city In terror. On election day
all these powers of vice nnd crime were
one power; they could tell within l
per cent what the vote of their dlstriec
would he. anil they Could change It at
an hour'll notice.
A month ago Jurgis had all lmt
perished of starvation upon the sure-ti,
.10.1 mm suddenly, iih hy the gift of ,i
tough- key, he had entered Into n world
whore money nml all the good things
of life came freely. He was Intro
duced by his friend lo an Irlsh/nmi
named "Hunk" Hallornn, who »•« u
political "worker" and on the Inside
of things. Thl* man talked with Jnr-
8 1* for a while, and then t-dd him Hint
* had a little plan by which -
•ho looked Ilk* a working man might
make some easy money: but It was a
private affair, nnd had to be kept quiet.
Jurgis expressed himself an agreeable,
mid tli" "ilu i tool, him tluii ;>rt<■ i noon
(It was Saturday) to a place where city
laborer* were being paid off. The pny-
maater sat In a little booth, with n idle
of envelopes tiefore him. nnd two po
licemen ntntollng In- .I'll gin v .-nt, ac
cording to directions, snd gave tho
name of "Hlchssl O'Flsherty," and re
ceived nn envelope, which he took
around the corner and delivered to
Halloran, who was waiting for him In
a saloon.
(Continued in Tomorrow's Georgian.)
(T
THREE GOVERNORS
and a host of depositors -vylth Two Million, Threo Hundred and Fifty
Thousand, Dollars to their crodlL strongly rndorsod
THE NEAL BANK.
Was first appointed a State Depository by tho late Gov. W. Y. Atkin
son. then by Ex-Governor Allen D. Candler, reappointed by him, then
appointed hy hi* succeator. Governor J. M. Terrell, also reappointed
by him. Wa are so near the ten thousand line of accounts on our
book* that wa ara encouraged to reach out for
TWENTY THOUSAND DEPOSITORS.
If each one of our loyal patrons will send us one or more accounts
wo will soon have the roll complete, thus enabling us to still further
Incresse oar ability to aid Merchants, Manufacturers and Homs
Builders.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
One Dollar starts an account with a little Home Bank and book
or with a book only. We allow Interest, compounded nemlannually,
at tbe rate of
THREE AND ONE-HALF PER CENT. PER ANNUM.
L H. THORNTON. FratNaat. W. P. MANKY. Catklar.. M. C. CALDWELL. Ant. Cashier.
If You Will See
^ SCAl Of
that thl* m*J I* on every re
Hoofing you buy, WE wftt *«*••
you got value received for
monoy.
VULCANITE ROOFING Is a
manent rpoflng. and not a rr
»hlfL It la put up one square t
roll; easily applied, and I* re<
mended by the National Boar
Underwriters and Kouthea;
Tariff Association. Take heed,
need our roofing and we need
patronage. “You can put it on.’
11 of
that
your
ATLANTA SUPPLY CO., Sole State Agents,
29 snd 31 South Forsyth Street.
/. C GKEEhtiElD. President.
ATLANTA. GA.
C. A. PEEK. Se<ntar f .