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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15

all parts from the most distant
spots, their lamps bobbing up and
down. and but family lighting up the
mad gallop of the black figures across
these enormous holes. When the
foremost of them bumped up against
the rock, they shouted and called
their comrades.
A second gang, come from the fur
thermost cutting, was on the other
side OF the mass of rock that OBJ.
structed the gallery 1t was seen at
once that the roof had fallen in for
at least a dozen yards. The real
damage was by no means serious;
but their hearts stopped beating, as
it were, when a death rattle was
heard to issue from the ruin.
Bebert, leaving his train, ran to
the spot, repeating, Johnny is I'M
derneath! Johnny is underneath!
At the same moment Maheu tum-
bled out Of the chimney, with Ste
phen and Zachariah. His grief found
vent in string of oaths. The wo-
men, who had come up by this time
Catherine, Lydia, La Mouquette-
began to sob and to yell with fright
amidst the terrible confusion, still
further increased by the gloom. The
men tried to make them hold their
tongues; they only screamed the
louder at each groan coming from
the ruins
Viewer Richomme arrived also. He
felt put out at the absence of Negrel
and Dansaert from the pit. His ear
glued to the wall, as 1t were, he
listened, and ended by saying that
these groans were not the groans Of
a child A man was there for sure.
Then Maheu himself took to calling
Johnny. Not as much as a whisper
came in answer.
The boy must have been crushed
by the blow.
And the groans continued I'M
changed, only becoming more pro
longed. They spoke to the dying
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
al This Thrilling Story in The Georgian and
American, Then See 1t in the Moving Pictures
The Hearst Newspapers and Pathe Freres COL
laborate in Plan to Amuse, Entertain
and Educate Atlanta

By special arrangement Pathe Freres The Sunday
American and Atlanta Georgian collaborating the
production of motion picture dramas In The American
Georgian you will read the story in short complete novel
cite formand the next day the story may be the
moving picture theater transformed photoplays by
the famous Pathe players
Never before devised attractive arrangement
entertain and educate the pubc-two fAmerica
greatest newspapers and Pahe the greatest producer of
ton pictures collaboration make in fullest measure
of tremendous possibilities literature and the moving
film
Some of these Pahe photo dramas short are told
reel others ambitious and require four or
five reels more The full story of the longer Pahe plays
not be told in days instamen and in these
the story will be continued from day to day.
Zoa's powerful novel, "Germnal is about to be pre-
snted by Pathe in five reels and this great will be
printed in serial nstamens It is possible justice
this great photo drama within the space limits of
stamen The first instalments of Geminal printed
last Sunday and Monday
From day to day during the week each Pathe pic
drama will be told in the form of novel the day before
pictures placed exhibition in the heaters Every day
The Georgian will present short fiction story-romance
tragedy comedy adventure educational and inspiring
and the next day be enacted real life the
moving pictures.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15

o'clock, It was getting dark, they
had better take away the body also.
The engineer Immediately ordered
the horse to be put to the ambulance
van. and to bring a stretcher. The
child was laid on the latter, while
they put the dead man, on his mat
tress, into the former.
The women were still standing
outside talking to the men, who had
stayed behind to know all about the
accident When Gle door of the
viewers room was thrown open, a
sudden silence fell upon the groups.
And new procession was formed,
as it were, the van in front, the
stretcher behind, and the file of men
and women bringing up the rear. 1t
mournfully wound it's way up the
slope to the village. The first No
vember frosts had chilled the i'm
mense plain, a slowly gathering
gloom wrapped it round like a shroud
descending from the leaden and
lowering skies.
Stephen advised Maheu to send
Catherine on in front to prepare her
mother In order to soften the blow.
The father, who followed the stretch
er, dumb with grief, acquiesced ST.
lently, and the young girl started at
a trot, for they were getting very
near.
Catherine had found her mother
very agitated by some presentiment,
and at the first words Of the girl the
latter cried, "The father has been
killed."
The young girl protested in vain
and spoke of Johnny. Without at
tempting to listen, the woman
rushed out, and. perceiving the van
turning round by the church, she
had turned ashen white. her strength
failed her. On every doorstep the
women, dumbstricken, strained their
eyes, while others followed, excit-
eddy watching at whose door the
whole would stop.
The conveyance passed, and be-
hind 1t Mother Maheu perceived her
husband walking by the side of the
stretcher. And when the latter was
deposited at her door, when she
saw Johnny alive, thought with his
legs broken, she underwent so strong
and sudden a reaction that. choking
with anger, but not shedding tear,
she shrieked:
Nothing less; they MAIN our lit
tie ones now! Both legs. Good God!
What am | to do with him."
Hold your tongue said DR.. Van
derhagen, who had come up to dress
the boys legs. would you have had
him left below sooner than that"
But the mothers anger increased
amid the cries OF Alzira and the
other little ones. While helping to
get the boy upstairs and handing
the doctor everything he wanted,
she cursed her luck and kept asking
whittier she was TO get the money to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15

Pahe is the largest producer of moving pictures in the
world This great firm has twenty studios in Europe and
America and than three hundred constant
ly at work in all parts of the world
Pahe Freres have been leaders, and pioneers in perfect
ing motion picture productions and have been largely respon
ble for the improvements which have from time to
time been made Pathe the first to put titles the films
the first to make multiple reels the first produce motion
pictures natural colors and the first to show scientific and
educational subjects which have been of Importance
kind.
On this page to-day is presented another nstalment of
Pathe remarkable play reproduction Of Zoas famous
novel, 'Germna This is famous romance wonderful
masterpiece of vast power absorbing interest realism
and subtle analysis. The plot deals with strike coal
mine in Voreaux France The leader of the strike Stephen
Lanter of Gervaise and Lantier of LAssommo and
brother of Zoas famous character Mana Stephen Laner
is strong figure throughout the novel, and Catherine the
heroine is powerful character strong Gervaise
Mama but without their repeent features Souvarine Daddy
Jolycorpse Chava Johnny Mother Maheu, Pluchar Ras
and LaMoquee also graphically sketched The life
of the miners depicted with than Zoas usual
force and the flooding of the voreaux pit perfect triumph
of stirring effect.
The next instament of "Germinal' will appear in The
Georgian tomorrow, Monday evening Wait for this great
Pathe production and in the moving pictures when
it is or exhibition at the theaters.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15

in the dense gloom. They simply
piled their picks with renewed ardor,
drenched with perspiration, their
nerves and muscles strained to the
highest pitch. Suddenly foot be-
came visible; they threw down their
picks and took UP the boulders with
their hands. Little by little the man
was taken out. The head had not
been damaged. Lamps were lifted
UP, and the name of 'Stumpy" went
from mouth to mouth. He felt still
warm; his spinal column had been
broken by an enormous boulder
Wrap him in a blanket and put
him on a truck" ordered the viewer.
Now let's try to get at the little
one, and let's look sharp about it"
Maheu had never ceased working.
He aimed one terrible stroke with
his pick, and made an opening by
which they could communicate with
the gang carting away on the other
side. The latter cried out. They had
stumbled upon Johnny, in a dead
faint, his two legs broken, but still
breathing freely. 1t was the father
who took up the lad in his arms
With his jaw tightly set he could
only find an oath now and then to
vent his grief, while Catherine and
the other women burst out shrieklng
again.
The removal was quickly organ
lied. Bebert had brought back Ba-
taille; they put him to two trucks.
In the first was the body of Stumpy
supported by Stephen; in the second
Maheu with Johnny, still motionless,
lying across his knees, and covered
by a piece of wooden rag, torn down
from one of the ventilating doors.
They started very slowly On each
truck lamp shone in the gloom like
a red star. Behind came the miners,
all those that were not wanted to re-
pair the haulage road-half a hun
dred Of black shadows in a file. Now
that the work was over they were
dead with fatigue; they dragged them
selves. stumbled about In the slush,
sad and mournful, like a crowd
stricken with an epidemic. 1t took
them about half an hour to get to
the bottom Of the shaft. There
seemed to be no end to this flu
neral procession underground, wind
ing it's way along the galleries that
branched or turned abruptly, and
stretched away in weary length.
At the bottom of the shaft
Richomme, who had gone on in front.
had given orders for an empty cage
to be reserved. Pierron and two
other men started the two trucks at
once. In the one Maheu remained
with his child stretched across his
knees, while in the other Stephen
was obliged to keep Stumpy's body
in his arms, otherwise it would have
been too long. Then. when the men
had wedged themselves into the top
compartment, the cage went up. 1t
took two minutes. The water drip
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stretched forth his head, greeting his
fellow-worker with a cheerful neigh,
and moistening his neck with an en-
couraging oaress.
Curse the luck" growled Bebert,
there they are, at 1t again" Then,
when Trompette was gone, he re-
piled to Johnny's query respecting
Bataille.
Don't you make mistake; he is
sharp enough, that old one. Each
time he guesses that there's some
thing in his way, stone or a hole;
he takes great care of himself; he
doesn't want his bones broken. But
| don't know what he's up to to-day
to be shifting about that door yonder.
He pushes 1t open and then he re-
mains stock still. Did you notice
anything"
NO" said Johnny; "only some
water. I've got it up to my knees"
The train started again. And the
next journey, when he had opened
the ventilating door with a push Of
his head, Bataille again refused to
advance, shifting, putting and trem-
bling. But at last he made up his
mind, and went straight off without
stopping. Johnny, who had to shut
the door, remained behind and
stopped down to look at the pool in
which he was f1oundering. Then he
lifted his lamp, and noticed that the
propping had given with the con-
tinuous dropping of the water. Just
then a pitman, known in the village
by the nickname of Chacot (Stumpy)
came along, anxious to go up. his
wife being Ill. He also stopped to
examine the stays. And all at once,
as the little one was going to take a
run to catch his train. formid-
able creaking was heard; the slip
ping rock had swallowed up the man
and the boy.
There was great silence. Famed
by the sudden draught Of the falling
rock. dense clouds of dust obscured
the traction roads. Blinded, almost
choking, the miners rushed in from
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feed lot Of cripples? 1t was not
enough that the old man was losing
his legs. the young one was to be
served the same. And thus she went
on. while other cries, heartrending
sobs, came from a neighboring cot
tage. where the wife and children
of Stumpy wept on his body. Night
had gathered round, the worn-out
miners were eating their soup at
last in the village wrapped in dead
silence, only broken every now and
then by these bitter walls.
Three weeks went by, and the
danger Of amputation was ayerted.
Johnny's legs were saved, though he
would limp for life. After an in
quiry the company had granted him
the munificent gift OF ten dollars.
They had promised, besides. to find
a berth above ground for the little
cripple the moment he should be re.
covered. Meanwhile, all this aggra.
waited the misery of the Maheus, for
the father had received such a shock
as to have been obliged to take to
his bed with a violent fever.
Maheu had gone back to work
since the Thursday, and it was now
Friday night. On that evening
Stephen talked for a long while
about the approaching 1st of De.
cember, anxious to know whether
the company would execute it's
threat with regard to the propping
They sat up till ten O'Clock waiting
for Catherine, who was, no doubt,
with Chaval. But she did not come
in. Mother Maheu furiously bolted
the door without saying a word
Stephen was long while before he
could go to sleep.
The next day Catherine did not
come back, and 1t was only in the
afternoon on returning from the pit
that they learned that she would
henceforth keep house for Chaval.
He led her such a life with his
abominable suspicious that she made
up her mind 70 put a stop to them.
To avoid all reproachss, he had sud
denly left the Voreux pit and en-
gagged himself at the Bart, M.
Deneulin's property, whittier she
went with him as trammer. They
were to continue to live at Piquette's
boarding house at Montsou.
At first Maheu was|mad to go and
pull the mans nose and to kick the
girl all the way back from Montsou
to the village. Then, with shrug of
the shoulders, he resigned himself
to the inevitable. What was the
good? 1t seemed to be the common
lot, and all they might do or say
would not prevent their girls from
fault If they felt inclined It was
better for him to marry her, but
Mother Maheu would not take mat
ters so quietly.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
AS 1t Will Be Shown in
the Pathe Photo
Play.

When Stephen Ldntier, his friend
AGheu and the other coal miners OF
FOreduT 90 to the mine offices to
drG10 their fortnight t0dges then are
18tow,sded to find notice posted an
noilncin9 reduction in their scale
Of pay. This is O crushing bloto to the
miners, for by totItng long hours and
iakinQ their ,oiues and children into
the mines to t0orE 10Th them they are
able under the present scale to earn
barely enough to keep body and soul
together. Before they haze decided
what action to take a serious acct
don't occurs In the mine
Continued from Mondays GeoreIan.)
TOHNNY MAHEU, still sore all
over with the drubbing he had
~ received, had not absented
himself from the pit on that day. He
was trotting barefooted behind his
train, closing the ventilating doors.
AT times. when sure of not meeting
with a viewer, he got on the hind
most truck, a thing strictly forbidden
to him, lest he should fall asleep
there. His greatest delight, how
ever, each time the train was
shunted to allow of another passing
by, was hosting himself from prop
10 prop as far as Bebert, who had
charge of it. He crept up on the sly
without his lamp, pinched his play
fellow till he was black and blue. In
vented all kinds Of monkey tricks,
looking not unlike one with his shock
yellow hair, his large ears, his sharp
lace, lighted up by a pair OF small
greenish eyes shining in the dark
Viciously precocious, he seemed to
have the obscured intellect and the
lvey adroitness of a human abor-
ton retrograding to its primitive
animal condition.
In the afternoon old Mouque
brought the boys Bataille, whose turn
it was, and as the horse was standing
shifting in the shunting, Johnny, who
Ado Sllucu up W I, -~@'
What's the matter with the OLD
crock that he pulls up at every step?
He nearly made me break my legs"
Bebert had no time to answer; ne
bad to keep back Bataille, who
vas tossing his name at the approach
Of the other train. He had recog-
nized from the distance. by the mere
smell, his mate Trompette, for whom
ne had conceived a great friendship
}ince the day when he saw him come
lown the shaft. 1t seemed like the
yentle pity of an old philosopher,
anxious to tighten the trials OF a
young friend by endeavoring to give
MIN his own patience and resigna-
ion. 1t was very evident to him
hat because Trompette failed to ac-
climatize himself he dragged his
trucks along without any enthusi-
asm, his head almost between his
fore legs, blinded by the gloom, ever
regretting the sunshine. Each time,
therefore, that Bataille met him he
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To he Continued.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
"GO.TO.CHURCH'
Day To Be Held In Mt. Yer.
non On January "a
Pastors Of Churches Start
The Movement

At the last meeting of the Mt. ver-
non Ministerial association a move
ment was inaugurated to set aside
a "go-to-church day" On this date
Mt. Vernon citizens will be urged to
attend church. A committee was ap.
pointed by the chairman to look after
the details of the campaign.
The committee called together the
pastor and two laymen from each
church on Friday evening to further
the interest of the campaign. 1t was
the sense Of that body that the
churches not represented in either OF
the aforesaid meetings be invited to
join the campaign. All the people in
the vicinity of Mt. Vernon are invit.
ed to join the movement.
The date fixed for "go-to-church
day is Sunday, January "a.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
Departure
Of Patient From SanatOriuID
A Touching Incident

A touching incident occurred at the
State Sanatorium Friday evening dur
ing the supper hour in connection with
the departure from the institution Of
Mr.. James Bourne of Dayton, who has
been patient there for % months
and who has completely recovered his
health. A banner announcing his de-
parture was brought into the dining
room by one of the patients and i'm
mediately all Joined in singing Auld
Lang Syne. Mr.. Bourne made feel
ing address in which he extolled the
benefits to be obtained from the insti-
tuition, pointing to his own experience
as an Illustration. DR.. Anderson of
the medical staff, also spoke and re-
ferred to Mr.. Bourne as a model pa
tient.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
SENATE TURNS DOWN
ANOTHER NOMINATION N
Breach WIdanS Between Prasl-
dent Wilson and SO'Ons.

Washington, Dec. 10. = President
Wilson suffered another setback in
the senate in patronage matters, and
there Is no longer any attempt on the
part OF the presidents friends to
deny that he is facing a serious fight
The president sent to the senate
she nomination of w. N. Collins to be
postmaster at Kansas City. Within
an hour after the nomination arrived,
the senate had rejected it by unani-
nous vote without the formality of
referring 1t to the committee on post
Offices and postmasters for investiga-
ton and report.
Senator Reed objected to the ap-
pointment. There is tradition In
the senate that no person shall be
named as postmaster In the home
city of senator who Is personally
Objectionable to the senator, and this
rule mad been adhered to regardless
of partisan considerations. In the
case Of the Kansas City postof1ice
neither Reed nor Senator Stone were
consulted. Senator. Reeds home is in
Kansas City.
The Kansas City postmastership,
however, was not the only stirring
incident of the session. The president
sent to the senate the nomination Of
Marjorie d. Bloom as postmistress at
Devils Lake, N. d. Mrs. Blooms NOM
nation was rejected by the senate in
October The president gave her a
recess appointment following the, re-
lection by the senate, end she is now
in office. The sending of the nomina-
tion of Mrs Bloom again to the SEN
ate In the face of her rejection by
that body as recently as October sim.
ply stunned the senators.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
- r sts StS =
DEATHS J
MRS. Fannie A. Rodgers

Mrs. Fannie Rodgers, wife of G.
l. Rodgers, died at her home in the
Yauger flats Friday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, after a.six-days' illness of ap-
oplexy. The deceased was 61 years
OF age and leaves, in addition to her
husband, one son, James, of Buffalo.
The funeral Sunday afternoon at 2
o'clock in Miller Brothers chapel on
North Main street. Interment in
Green Lawn cemetery, Columbus.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
EVIDENCE ALL IN;
ARGUMENTS BEGIN
CIeary and wife and Daughter
Are Called TO Stand.

New City, N. Y, Dec. 19.--The ap-
rearance Of Anna Cleary Newman to
testify In behalf Of her father, Will
liam v. Cleary, on trial for the mur.
der Of eighteen-yearold Eugene New.
man, his son-in-law. was the occasion
OF a scene tense with the anguish of
paternity ringing through it. The
girls mother had just left the witness
stand after declaring that Cleary had
not seen his daughter since the night
Of July 20, wnen he learned that she
was approaching maternity. When
Anna approached the stand her faith.
er embraced her.
Cleary was in such q state Wien
the girl finished her testimony that
an adjournment had to be taken be-
fore he could testify in his own de-
fense. Testifying later, Cleary said
the shooting was, to hs memory, "an
apparition."
Anna Newman testified she knew
Gene Newman when they attended
the Haverstraw high school. She
knew ner parents disapproved Of
their "going together Though her
parents had moved from Haverstraw
to bring the acquaintance to an end,
she saw Eugene in Haverstraw on
TIE occasion Of her visits to her
grandmother She told of DR.. Schultz's
visits last July, and she said she knew
then that she was to be mother.
She admitted she did not tell her
father she was married.
Presentation Of evidence being COM
rleted, the attorneys today began the
slmming-up arguments.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
Mrs. Leonhart PahI

Mrs. Leonhart Pahl died at her
home, 705 East Chestnut street, at
o'clock Saturday morning, after an
extended illness Of dropsy. The de-
ceased was 62 years of age and leaves
husband and three children: Mrs.
Rose Woodward, Charles and Alfred.
The funeral Monday morning at $3.50
O'Clock at st. Vincent de Paul's
church, Rev, l.. w. Mulhane oiIlciat-
ing. Tnterment in Calvary cemetery.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
HELD ON $4,000 BAIL
Chief Of Chicken Handlers and His
Brother Under Arrest

New York, Dec. 19.-Joe Cohen, big
chief OF tho chicken handlers employ
ed by the poultry dealers In West
Washington market, Where Barnett
Baff was killed on Nov. "a, and Jake,
his younger brother, were indicted by
the grand jury on charge of assault
in the first degree. Each was held in
5000 bail. The complainant against
them is Arthur T. Pearson, repre-
sentative of western poultry shippers.
who was close private and business
friend Of Baf.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-22
Emden,s Crew cantured.

Paris. Dec. 10. = The ministry Of
marine announced that the British
auxiliary cruiser Empress of Japan
had captured the collier Exford, .lav.
ing on board three officers and forty
men from the German cruiser Emden,
sunk Nov. 10 by the Australian cruis-
er Sydney. These are the forty men
who escaped to Cocos island and sub
sequently sailed away in comman-
deered schooner