The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-21

chemist. who analyze and report. and |
n the boys are arrested. most OF them |
escape punishment IN some corrupt |
way. but none are discharged. They
20 back at once into the company's
service. But Paris Is aroused as y
never has been and declares the death.
dealing business shall be broken up II
4. takes two thousand detectives to
pursue eight hundred boys. "Our chill
dren are fed on microbes from the riv-
er Seine" Is now on every tongue.
Other cities have taken up the cry
and Bouen and Dunklrk show a larger
death rate OF infants than Paris, and
now they say no wonder the popula
ton OF France Is decreasing instead
OF increasing. We are poisoning three
fourths OF all the children before they
are a year old and half the remainder
die soon after. Seine water. microbes
and bicarbonate OF soda!
This exposure comes from late off,
cial sources and is no doubt the truth,
or very near It. Just think of 1t and
shudder-1s.OOO innocent, helpless
babes murdered in one year in one
city. Tom Hood wrote a song about
the poor sewing women that aroused
all London. II he were alive in Paris
now what a pitlful subject he would
have for another song. What a shame
upon our sex, for 1t is not women who
do these things, but men and boys.
The mothers su1er in giving them
birth. They nurse and cherish and
clasp the little things to their bosom
and love and hope and pray, but the
destroyer comes and then all she can
do is to grieve and weep. England
Strengthening the Beers and France her
innocent children. What next?
A graphic writer in The New York
Press describes a different kind Of hor-
ror that we know not of, but is a liy-
ing, breathing, seething thing that is
not new, but has come to stay and
grows bigger and more horrible as the
years move on. He says: 1t would
/ have been unnecessary for Gustav
Dore to follow Dante for text in or.
der to picture the horrors of hell" The
government has established free baths
at Hot Springs, where thousands of the
most miserable of all Gods creatures
congregate and battle for relief and a
cure from their loathsome diseases
These wreches leave their rags upon
the cemented floors which are an inch
deep in water then stagger or reel OF
crawl naked as the fiends in the cham
bers of hell. From thence they CROWD
into a third room, where the water anC
the air is up to 10, and the stencil o.
foul odors is horrible. In this room
are two large pools like watts in a tai
yard, and the victims tumble int
them like hogs into mud puddle. M
DOCTOR no soap no towels, no attend
ants. and they are soon hurried out tt
make room for more, for seven hun
dred a day is the maximum. Ten, fl
teen or twenty at a time soak thei
loathsome infrmities in the nasty
filthy, hot healing waters, and the
reclothe themselves with their wet rag
and go somewhere to dry. All are ber
Gifted and 10 per cent are cured. VIVA
a picture! Their lives, such as the
have made them, are not worth saving
but they cling to them and live in hop
and defy despair One hundred an
seventy-eight thousand @: these huma
beings passed through the free bath
last year. One bath room is for whit
men, one for white women, one fC
negro men and one for negro women.
Not far away is magnificent hote
and there Is a fashionable ball goin
on. The rich, the gay, the elite al
there. One moment a man is waltzin
with his wife, the next with.some otht
mans wife, the neTt with somebody
mistress, and the next with his oW
: mistress. Everything goes, and all
hell. A famous physician took h
! daughter there this season, but SCI
1 her home quickly to keep her from Il
> company of wealthy and diseased par
sites. Almost every one who go
3 there registers under an assume
name and plays incOgnito during h
/ stay A southern judge was recent
U called upon for a toast at hotel ba
quet and said: Here's to the nan
: we left behind u.s." But the half h
not been told--some of it is too bad
: tell. Every night the poker rooI
I are in blast and thousands won al
> lost. The reader ponders and wonde
l. can such things be in this Christi
y land, and in this Gods country. W
= ilv the humble and the poor who Il