The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-10

loose the hogs upon the streets for
scavenger purposes. 1t fights the prop
osition and appears TO be successful.
Its contention is that there are already
an ~over-supply OF hogs running loose
in thai city. We cannot well give it's
lustrate the force and drift Of it's state
ment. You will readily catch the point
without enlargement: The hog thrusts
his knees into other passengers on the
street cars. The hog tramps across
other peoples feet in theatres and pub
lie halls. The hog, if at h end Of a
bench, will never move in, but makes
others mount over his limbs. The hog
puffs smoke into the faces Of non-smok-
ers. The hog thrusts other
people out of his way without regard
to their rights and sensibilities and
merely ecaus it is his hoggish way.
The hog stands in doorways and blocks
the passage. The hog carries his UNI
brella so as tt run it into others eyes
if they do not watch out.
The hog wallows in unfit stories in
public and dares emit them in compa-
ny unless root4d out in time. The hog
is profane, blasphemous and indecent
in public. It does not concern the pub
lie what he chooses to be when alone.
The hog will put his paws on the rungs
of chairs occupied by others and will
soil public benches with his dirty feet.
The hog is cruel to old age and to
childhood"
We notice that the Georgia cotton
mill owners are taking an advanced
and wise step relative to child labor.
All of the 100 Georgia mills have agreed
that henceforth no child under twelve
years of age, excepting the children of
widowed mothers OF physically disabled
parents without other means Of sup
port. shall be allowed to work in the
mills unless it can show a certificate
that it has attended school four months
in the year; and no child under twelve
shall be allowed to work at night I'M
der any circumstances. 1t is also
agreed hat no child under ten years
CT age shall be allowed to work in the
mills either day or night. This may
not be enough, but if not there will
come with them other and beneficent
changes. 1t is cruel to many children.
Educate children is far wiser and more
humane than stunning them by over
work while of tender years. There is
to be noted also decided Improvement
''in the social side of cotton mill life"
Schools in connection are starting up.
Illiterate labor even in cotton mills is
not desirable.
General DeWet is determined to show
no quarter to British soldiers captured
in Boer territory after the time men
toned in General Kitchener's procla-
nation banishing Beers. 1t is a saw
g policy of reprisal, and may not
meet expectations. The British policy
has been intensely exasperating, and
almost barbaric. The New York even
ing Post noting De Vets stern resolve
says: meanwhile, the chase goes on,
and as often on British as on Boer ter
ritory. Two commanders are reported
to have passed unmolested within $50
miles Of Cape Town, and generally
K~itchener's troops control little beyond
the range of their outposts. 1t is a
frightful enterprise which Kitchener
still has ahead, and, if it is too late to
make terms with the desperate men
who have elected to die in the land they
may not save then, for the honor Of
the British name, Kitchener must treat
them to the end like the worthy foes
they are, and not like outlaws. Brit
ish fair play is to be tested before the
world, and no one can believe that the
prescription which goes into effect on
September 18th will be enforced to the
letter."