Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-02

The men, in order TO keep away
from the beershop. slept the whole
day, the women, locked in their RI =
tions Of coffee, became less quarrel
some. more sensible and quiet, and
even the children seemed 70 under
stand, for thoy ran about barcfooted
and whacked each other without
noise. The password repeated from
mouth to mouth was Let us be rea-
sonable"
There was, nevertheless a constant
coming and going at the Maheus.
stephen by virtue of his secretary
ship, had distributed the 5000 francs
Of the provident found among the
most necessitous families. he had
also received a few hundred francs.
the proceeds of subscriptions and col
lections. But now all their resources
seemed exhausted: the miners had no
more money o keep on the strike, the
wolf was at their doors, threateningly
showing his teeth. Margrat, after
having promised credit for a fort
night, had suddenly changed his mind
at the end OF a week and stopped the
supplies, refusing the men even bread.
As rule, he took his instructions
from the company. perhaps the lat
ter wished TO have done with the
thing as quickly as possible by starry
ing the villagers into submission. Be
sides he played the Capriclous tyrant.
giving or refusing food according to
the attraCtiveness of the ambassa-
dress sent. by her parents. To the
Maheus he had closed his door with
out appeal, as If to punish them for
not having sent Catherine to him.
For the last week, then they had
been living upon the money dlstrib-
uted. Bat now that The cash box Of
the fund was empty, how were they
to get bread2 To make things worse,
severe frost had set in, the women
saw the stock of coal grow less, and
were worried by the thought that it
would not be renewed at the pits
mouth while the men did not go down.
Then they would not only be dying
with hunger they would be frozen to
death besides. Al the Maheus they
were already short Of everything The
Levaques still managed to drag along,
thanks to piece Of 20 francs lent by
Bouteloup. As for the Pierrons they
were all right, but In order to appear
as badly off as the rest lest they
should try to borrow, they went on
trust at Margrats, who would have
given the whole OF his shop to La
Pierronne, il she had only asked for
it. Since last Saturday many fami-
lies had gone to bed suppeIless. But
though confronted with the terrible
days about to commence for them. no
one complained; all obeyed the pass
word given to them with unobtruslve
| fortitude.
In spite Of everything there reigned
, an absolute confidence around Ste
, phen; religious faith. the blind sub
| mission of "A people of believers. Since
| he had told them that an era OF ius-
| tice was at hand they were ready tC
, suffer I'm the struggle for universal
| happiness. Hunger turned their heads
as II were. Never had the hitherto
| closed horizon offered a more bound
less vision of happiness to these poor
| fanatics exalted by their hardships
| When their ewes grew dim from
| weakness, they beheld the ideal citS
! of their dreams but close at hanC
I and real this time, with its brother
! hood of workers, its golden age ol
! labor and the daily repast partaker
| of I'm common by all Nothing SHOOK
/ their conviction as to their entering
/ upon this city at last. The fund was
! exhausted. the company would moi
] give in. every day would aggravatt
/ their situation, and still they did NOT
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