Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-02-19

cial sources and is no doubt the truth
or very near it. Just think of il and
shudder-1S.000 innocent. helpless ba.
bes murdered in one year in one city.
rom Hood wrote song about the poor
sewing women that aroused all Lon
don. II he were alive In Paris now
what pitiful subject he would have
for another song. What a shame upon
our sex. for it is not women who do
these things. but men and boys. The
mothers suffer IN giving them birth
They nurse and cherish and clasp the
little things to their bosoms and Iowa
and hope and pray, but the destroyer
comes and then all she can do ia to
grieve and weep. England slaughter
ing the Beers and France her innocent
children. What next7
graphic writer in The New York
Press describes different kind of hor-
ror that we know not of, but is a llv
ing, breathing. seething thing that is
not new but has come to stay and
grows bigger and more horrible as tho
years move on. He says: ut would
have been unnecessary for Gustav Dore
to follow Dante for a text in order to
picture the horrors OF hell" The gov
erDment has established free baths at
Hot Springs. where thousands Of tho
most miserable OF all Gods creatures
congregate and bathe for relief and
rnre from their loathsome diseases.
These wretches leave their rags upon
the cemented floors which are an inch
deep in water, then stagger or reel or
crawl naked as the fiends in the cham
bers Of hell. From thence they crowd
Into third room where the water and
the air is up to 10. and the stencil o.
foul odors is horrible. In this room are
two large pools like vats In q tan yard.
and the victims tumble into them like
hogs into mud puddle. No doctor. no
soap. no towels. no attendants and they
are soon hurried out to make room for
moCc, for seven hundred a day is the
maximum. Ten. fifteen or twenty ut a
time soak their loathsome infirmities
In the nasty. filthy, hot healing waters.
and then recloth themselves with their
wet rags and 80 somewhere to dry. All
are benefited and 10 per cent are cur
ed. What a picture! Their lives. such
as they have made them, are not worth
saving. but they cling TO them and live
In hope and defy despair. One hundred
and seventy-eight thousand of these
human beings passed through the free
baths last year. One bath room is for
white men, enc for white women. one
Tor negro men and one for negro wo-
men.
Not far away is magnificent hotel.
and there is fashionable ball going
on. The rich. the gay, the elite are
there. One moment a man is waltzinC
with his wife, the next with some 9th
er mans wife. the next with some
bodys mistress. Everything goes. and
all is hell. \ famous physician took
his daughter there this season. but sent
her home quickly 10 keep her from the
company Of wealthy and diseased para
sites Almost every one who goes there
registers under an assumed name and
plays incoSnito during his stay. A
southern judge was recently called M
On Tor toast at n hotel banquet and
SAID: Here's to the names we left be-.
mind us. But the half has not been
told-some OF it is too bad to tell. Ev~
cry night the poker rooms are in blast
and thousands won and lost The read
er ponderS and wonders can sucn
things be In this Christian land, and in
this Gods country. Verify. the hum
bic and the poor who live around us on
the hills and in the valleys or dow,
In the piney woods should be thankful
for the health and morality that comes
from poverty. Burns never wrote Il
truer verse than that which says:
And l know by the smoke that so
gracefully curled
From among the dark elms that a
cottage was near,
And said to myself If there's peace in
this world,
The heart that is humble might hope
for 1t there"
Bill Arp. in Atlanta Constitution.