The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-02-26

lawyers fees and fines and the wage
of those in Jail and to bribe the cit
detectives not to catch them whe
watering the milk. They water
while the wagons are on the go-jumr
ing in behind with cans Of water. Th
milk suspected is turned over to th
city chemists, who analyze and repo1
and il the boys are arrested most q
them escape punishment in some col
rupt way, but none are discharged
They go back at once into the com
pany's service.
But paris is aroused as it never ha
been and declares the death. dealin
business shall be broken up if
takes two thousand detectives t.
pursue the eight hundred boys
"Our children are fed on mcrobe
from the river Seine," is nov
on every tongue. Other cities hav
taken up the cry and Rouen and Dun
kirk show a larger death rate of infant
than Paris, and now they say no w onde
the population of France is decreaslns
instead of increasing. We are poison
ing three.fourths of all the children
before they are year old and half the
remainder sooa after. Seine water
microbes and blcarbonate of sodal
This exposure comes from late of.
| tclal sources and is no doubt the truth
or very near it. Just think of it and
shudder-1S,0 900 innocent, HELPLESS
babes murdered in one year in Que city.
Tom Hood wrote song about the poor
sewing women that aroused all Lon.
don. If he were alive in Paris now
what pltiful subject he would have
for another song. What 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 love and hope and pray, but the
destroyer comes and then all she can
40 ls to grieve and weep. England
slauShtering the }oers and France her
innocent children. What next?
A graphic writer in The New York
Press describes different kind of hor
ror that we know not of, but is a living,
breathing. seethlng thing that is not
new, but has come TO stay and grows
bigger and more horrible as the years
move on. He says: cit would have
been unnecessary for Gustav Dore to
follow Dante for text in order to pic
ture the horrors of hell" The govern
ment has established free baths at Hot
Springs, where thousands of the most
miserable of all Gods creatures con-
gregate and battle for relief and cure
from their loathsome diseases. These
wretches leave their rags upon the
cenented floors which are an inch deep
in water, then stagger or reel or crawl
naked as the fiends In the chambers of
hell. From thence they crowd into
third room where the water and the
air is up to ITO, and the stencil of foul
doors is horrible. In this room are
Iwo large pools like watts in tan yard,
and the victims tumble into them like
hogs into mud puddle.
No doctor, no soap, no towels, no
and they are soon hurried
out to make room more, for
seven hundred day is the maxi
mum. Ten, fifteen or twenty at
lime soak their loathsome in(irmities
in the nasty, filthy, hot healing waters,
and then recloth themselves with their
wet rags and go somewhere to dry. All
are benefited and 1Oper cent are cured.
What a picture! Their lives, such as
hey have made them, are not worth
saving, but they cling to them and live
in hope and defy despair. One hun
ired and seventy-eight thousand of
these human being passed through the
tree baths last year. One bath room
ls for white men, one for white women.
one for negro men and one for negro
Not far away is magnificent hotel,
and there is fashionable ball going
on. The rich, the gay, the elite are
there. One moment man is waltzing
with his wife, the next with some
other mans wife, the next with some
body's mistress, and the next with his
own mistress. Everything goes, and
all Is hell. A famous physician took
his daughter there this season, but sent
her home quickly to keep her from the
company of wealthy and diseased para
Sits. Almost every one who goes
there registers under an assumed name
and plays incognito during his stay. A
'oouthOih JuuSo WAS TcCcnIly Callou
upon for a toast at a hotel banquet and
said: Here's TO the names we left
behind us But the half has not been
told-some of it is too bad to tell.
Every night the poker rooms are in
blast and thousands won and lost. The
reader pOnders and wonders can such
things be in this Christian land, and in
this Gods country. Verify, the hum
BILE and the poor who live around us on
the hills and in the valleys or down in
the piney woods should be thankful
for the health and morality that comes
from poverty. Burns never wrote a
truer verse than that which says
And / know by the smoke that 80
gracefully curied
From among the dark elms that cot
tage was near,
And said to myself If there's peace in
this world,
The heart that is humble might hope
for it here"
BILL ARP.
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