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

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The men. In order to keep away
from the bcershop slept the whole
DAY. the women, locked in their RI
lions Ut cuficr. bc,rne lees gU@Tcc!
some more sensible and quiet and
even the children seemed to under
stand, for they ran about barcfoOted
and "hacked each other without
noise The password repeated from
mouth 10 mouth was Let us be rea-
sonable"
There was. nevertheless. constant
coming ana going at the Maheus
stephen. by virtue Of his secretary
ship, had distributed the 1000 francs
Of the provident found among the
most necessitous families; he had
also received a few hundred francs,
the proceeds of subscriptions and coll
| lections. But now all their resources
seemed exhausted; the miners had no
more money % keep on he strike, the
wolf was at their doors threateningly
! showing his teeth. Margrat, after
having promised credit for fort
! nigh, had suddenly changed his mind
| al the end OF a week, and stopped the
| supplies, refusing the men even bread.
! AS u rule, he took his instructions
from the company, perhaps the lat
| Ter wished 10 have done with the
! thing as quickly a possible BY starv-
| ing the villagers into submission. Be
sides he played the capriCious 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
| ont appeal, as If to punish them for
! not having sent Catherine to him.
For the last week. then. they had
Hprff IiEiup lHpYf bn fnnnptr liet,.it
uted. But now that the cash box of
the fund was empty. how were they
TO get bread To make things worse,
a severe frost had set in, the women
saw the stock of coal grow less. and
We're worried by the thought that il
would not be renewed at the pits
mouth while the men did not go down
Then they would not only he dying
with hunger, they would be frozen ia
death besides. At the Maheus they
were already short OF everything. The
hevRGues stiil managed 60 drag along.
thanks to a piece OF 20 francs lent by
Bouteloup As for the Pierrons they
, We're all right but in oTuer to appear
, as badly off as the rest. lest they
b should try 20 borrow. they went ON
trust at Margrats. who would have
given the whole Of his shop to La
3 PieiTonne. II she had only asked for
It. Since last Saturday MANY fami-
, lies had gone to bed supperless But
though confronted with the terrible
= days about to commence for them no
one complained, an oheyed the pass
word given 10 them with unobtrusiye
forttude
In spite of everything there reigned
an absolute confidence around Ste
, phen. a religious faith the blind sub
/ N lie & ipf If A Of laI
he had told them that an era OF JUS
, tice was at hand they were ready to
suffer in 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 h8rdships
When their eyes grew dim from
, Weakness they beheld the ideal city
! Of their dreams, but close at hand
and real this time, with its brother
hood of workers. It's golden age OF
/ labor, ard the daily repast partaker
of in common by all Nothing SHOOK
their conviction as to their entering
! upon this city at last, The fund was
, exhausted, the company would not
! give in, every day would aggraVatt
their situation, and still they did not
. give up hope They smiled contempt
T. uously at existing facts When IN,
very ground should open AT their feet
/, to swallow them up, even then some
/ miracle would hammer 10 save ther
: from destruction. This faitb rcrlara,
food and ken, them warm Nhe,
, the Maheus and others Mad ton o,,irl,.
IL digested their water, SOM tha,
fell as n were into semi trance /,
, was like the ,ertaipt, az hsttnr iit.
= which mndr mo mnrt,.rs ~ ,ld H.,
themselves into he lions. dan
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