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THE BRUNS WICK DAILY NEWS.
VILUME 2, NUMBER 222.
WHITE SLAVE IS
OUR DISGRACE
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Dr. Rede Gives Some In
teresting Facts About
Child Labor.
By Wyllys Rede, D. D. ,
Negro slavery was abolished in Am
erica many years ago.
It has been succeeded by a form of
servitude inflnately more injurious
to society and vastly worse from ev
ery point of view. Its victims are
more helpless, capable of keener suf
fering ami more liable to permanent
injury that were the slaves of fifty
years ago. This form of slavery is
not limited to the south, though: it is
worse in some of our southern states
than anywhere else the world.
It is a gigantic evil which we can
not permit to continue without bring
ing dishonor upon ourselves and des
truction to some of the most import
ant elements of our population.
There are ini our southern states
more than 50,000 children who are
reduced to the most galling servitude.
The child c>£ the negro is today free.
The child of the wnite man is often
a slave, toiling under the keen eye of
cruel task masters in mills and manu
factories, wearing out his young life
to satisfy the gx - eed of unscrupulous
capitalists and heartless parents.
Fifty thousand children under the
age of fifteen who ought to be in
school and at healthful play, are con
fined in hot, dusty rooms, for long
hours, dwarfing their bodies, stuni
ing their minus and starving their
souls.
Why? That greedy mill owners may
get cheap labor and unnatural parents
may live in idleness and debauchery
upon the the slender earnings of these
little laborers. Thus the precious
young life upon which our future
greatness and prosperity so directly
depends Is being sacrificed before it
has time to come to maturity, t ins is
a shocking and shameful thing. Or
iental nations sometimes cast help
less children out to die. We do worse.
. VVe work them to death. The few
Who survive the oiueal hit our
-Jfospita's and insane asylums and yet
we call ourselves a civilized nation.
The most painful thought about the
Gaiuesv lie disaster is tnat 01 tuuoe
who 1 their lives in the cotton mill
all wo or three were little chil
dr ae of them hardly more than
infants, confined at hard labor on the
upper floors, at the mercy of the
storm, caught like iato in a trap and
hurled to destruction without possi-
bility to help. Their blood is upon
the state of Georgia. She ought not
to have permited them to be there.
She ought long ago, like her sister
states, to have made a law prohibit
ing the employment of little children
in her mills and manufactories. There
are hut one or two states which have
not done this. In South Carolina no
child under 11 years can work in the
mills, and none under 12 at night. In
Noith Carolina no child under 12 can
work in a factory,, and none under 18
can work more than 66 hours a week,
in Tennessee the age is fixed at 14
years. Georgia lias done nothing for
the protection of her children. Justice
and humanity demand that she shall
enact laws which will guard them
against the rapacity of greedy' em
ployers and iruel parents. The high
est duty of our lawmakers is to pro
tect the weak and defenseless, nun
they are not doing it.
The blood of the little martyrs at
Gainesville cries from the ground to
the legislature of Georgia to set free
the child slaves whose lives are being
worn out in grinding toil. It calls
to the people ot this splendid ism
pire state to arise in their might and
abolish this shocking evil by whch
her fair name is tarnished and from
which many of her innocent children
are suffering. She cannot afford to
he behind any state in the Union in
humane and tender care for the pre
cious little lives which are being sac
rificed by thousands upon the altar of
mammon. She ought to emancipate
them without delay.
CONTRACT IS SIGNED.
B. & B. is Now in Charge of the Ola
B. & W. Shops.
The contract transferring the old
B. &W. shops in this city to the Bruns
wick & Birmingham railroad was sign
ed in New York yesterday and the
deal is now closed.
The contract was signed on the pari
of the B. & B, by President Fairbairn
and on the pait of the Atlantic Coast
Bine by President K. G. Erwin.
possession i* gi'en at once
PBETTV BABIES
WEI DISPLAVED
Show in the Park Yester
day Afternoon was
a Great Success.
The baby show and lawn party given
in Hanover park yesterday eafternoon.
' under the auspices of the ladies of
, the First Methodist church, was a
magnificient success, and was witnes
sed by an unuasually large crowd of
people.
Many pretty little babies were en
tered, dressed in their prettiest lit
tle dresses, and it was a display of
babies that has never before been
witnessed anywhere.
The judges, Mayor Crovatt, Col. C.
P. Goodyear and Mrs. G. W. Coates,
as soon as they took the first view
of the little beauties, decided that it
would be somewhat of a difficult task
to decide which of the many should
be awarded the prizes.
There were two classes; one for
| babies one year and under and one
three years and under. After debat
ing the question for some time and
taking numerous looks at the children
the judges awarded the prize to lit
tle Margaret Martin as the prettiest
baby under three years of age and
to little Vernette Oppenheim in the
class for the one year and under.
The prize for the prettiest and fin
est baby was awarded to little May
Stiles.
While these two little beauties were
,?warded the prizes, the Judges hat a
hard time in reaching a decision, and
thought for awhile that they would
have to consider it a Lie be. vow. all
entered.
After the contest the little ones
participated in a lawn party and en
;ojed themselves thoroughly until late
in tne afternoon.
The affair was a great suce.s one.
those who managed It and arranged
it deserve great orcr.it.
A BIRMINGHAM VIEW.
A special telegram from Birming
ham published in the New York Com
mercial Thursday says:
“The control and future of the B.
& B. railroad has become something
of a mystery through the suspension
of work on the new' ten million dol
lar plant of the Mohawk Valley Steel
and Wire company at Burnswick.
The road was planned to carry coal
and iron ore from the Alabama miner
al field to the seacoast and when the
Mohawk company secured it, it was in
ferred that the road would be pushed
to completion and operated in connec
tion with the steel plant. Now work
on the plant has been suspended and
no one is able to say wnen it wfil be
r> sumed.
“Tile Brunswick & Birmingham, like
several other Georgia trade Is iha re
sults of the efforts of E. C. Maehen.
He is a man of exceptional ability as
as a promoter and in every other way.
He was at the head of the B. & B.
from the time it first started until
recently, when he suddenly disposed
of his entire interest to the Mohawk
company. It is said that he made an
excellent trade and got a good price.
There is much speculation here as
to whether or not the suspension of
the work on the steel plant at Bruns
swick would be permanent. The con
cern is seemingly backed by unlimited
capital, but some of the principal In
terest are said to have trouble with
each other and among these was Sen
ator Mcl.aurln.
"It is reported that the promoters
of the steel company will give up their
interest in the railroad and the road
will be completed and operated in
dependantly.
“The division already built has paid
and If it were brought on to Birming
ham it would be the virgin road
through some rich and prosperous
territory, which would make it, it cer
tainly seems, pay better at this end
of the line than the other.
REV. SPRATLIN IS HONORED.
Elected President of the Missionary
Baptist Convention.
Washington, June 13.—The second
days session of the Missionary Bap
tist convention was devoted largely
to the selection of officers for the com
ing year.
After the address of the president
the officers were selected and Rev. G.
M. Spratling of Brunswick was elec
ted president.
This is said to be one of the most
representative bodies of colored Bap
tist in the state. A large number ot
delegates are present, representing
280,000 members of that denomination,
CRAVE FOR POWER.
LOVE FOR DRAQA,
ALEXANDER’S RUIN
IJUST DUE FLUE
AT HALF MAST
The Servian Legation at
Berlin Mourns Mon
arch’s Death.
Berlin, June 13. —A flag was half
masted over the Servian legation to
day. B’oreign Minister von Rich.thohen
assured the ambassadors and minis-
ters who called at the foreign office
on various business that Germany did
not expect any complication as a re
sult of the changes in the Servain
government.
A dispatch to the J.okel Anzciger
from Belgrade says the provisional
government of Servia is bringing the
troops here from the country prepar
atory to resisting the Austrian inter
vention, if it comes.
The backbones of the king and
queen, it is announced, were broken
by the violence with which the mur
dered sovereigns were thrown from
the window's of the palace.
A Tagebiatt special from Vienna
say's:
“Russia, it is believed in high quar
ters here, will acknowledge Prince
Karageorgevitch as the king of Ser
via, after the necessary formalities are
complied with. 7.’he government is not
opposed to Karageorgevitch. It !s
stated Emperor Francis Joseph, will
doubtless reveive him if be applies
an audience.”
SECURITIES COMPANY QUITS.
Concern Will Dissolve and Give Back
Stock.
Washington .Tune.l3. —The uni-ersi
ty of Virginia after a distinguished
career of nearly a century has decid
ed that it can no longer get along
without a president. Thomas Jeffer
son, founder of the institution, was
of the opinion that the university
would be better off without a presi
dent than with one and consequently
he provided in its charter that its
affairs be managed by a board
trustees. The developments of recent
years, however, have given rise to an
almost universal sentiment among the
alumni and other friends of the insti
tution in favor of a president like
other colleges and universities
throughout the country.
The change could not be brought,
however, without a large amount of
red tape. It was first necessary to ob
tain the consent of the statellegisla
ture and then to amend the charter.
These formalities having been com
plied with the trustees met today
to make a selection for the first pres
ident of the institution. Four men
are prominently mentioned for the
honor—Henry S. Pritchett, president
of the Massachusetts institute of Tech
nology; Charles Venable, president of
the university of North Carolina, C.
W. Dabney of the university of Ten
nessee, and Profesor John Bassett
Moore, professor of the international
law at Columbia university. Dr. Ed
win A. Alderman, president of Tulane
university and one of the most dis
tinguished educators of the south, is
also mentioned tor the place but it is
regarded as doubtful if he would ac
cePf* jj.
The salary is to be but $5,009 and
this is regarded as entirely insufficient
for a position of such importance. In
fact, it would probably act as a bar
to the acceptance by any of those who
have been mentioned for the honor..
There is talk of opposition to the el
ection of Prof. Moore because his
views on the negro question are said
to be not those of the people of the
south.
The situation remains very compli
cated and the final outcome is being
waihched with interestfl
Fine Turnouts.
Those who are thinking of taking a
spin today should not forget to hire
their teams from H. S. McCrary anu
they will certainly enjoy their ride.
He has some of the handsomest turn
outs in the state.
Will Picnic Tuesday.
The Sunday school of the First Bap
tist church will picnic on St. Simon
Tuesday and it is to be hoped that
the weather will be good.* Most of the
Sunday schools have had bad weath
er on their picnic days,
BRUNSWICK, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1903.
King Alexander is a degenerate,
and his brief career is disgusting. He
looks as if he had escaped from an
asylum for the depraved, but is not
feeble of mind or body. On the con
trary, he has a vigorous constitution,
and on two of three occasions he has
shewn a nerve and a power of com
mand which would do credit to a
great general.
..Draga Maschin, the daughter of a
throne by a series of sacrififces and
•intrigues mor e sensational than have
ever occurred outside cf fictional lit
erature, and yet she is not because
for their sins both she and her
youthful husband are boycotted by
a!! the courts of Europe. Queen Vic
toria vva; so disgusted by the vulga
comedy enacted at Belgrade that she
’wanted to emphasize her disapproval
( by wi’hdrawing the British minister.
:There hav e been a good many scan
dals in royal families, and some ox
list at the present time, but there has
| been none for generations so nasty
as that of Servia.—From the Turk and
. his lost provinces, by William Elsroy
Curtis.
It was not wholly because of their
lack of morality, or what in other
civilized countries would call common
decency, that King Alexander a(nd
Queen Dragia, of Servia, earned the
[ hatred of their two and a half million
subjects.
Young King Alexander had a bril
liant opportunity to gain the respect
auu oppoitunity of his subjects, to
reign long and well. Instead he got
u:t eniuny :i ni lour, ii was not tnai
h@ was a tuong man as well as that
the Servians look upon the assassins-
non with complaisance. It is a coun
try that is only half modernized
at best. It is saturated with orient
alism—it was under the rule of the
Turks for five hundred years—and its
last rulers seemed to have united in
them the evils of the two civiliza
tions.
Father Was Most Dissolute.
There was some excuse for King
Alexander. His father was the most
dissolute king in Europe, possibly the
most dissolute man. His childhood
was passed amid the constant bick
erings, quarrels and recriminations
that marked the domestic life of King
Milan and the brilliant Queen Natal
ia, who insisted upon mixing in poli
tics and keeping things a l * a boiling
heat.
The wife of young Alexander’s tu
tor was his father’s mistress. The
palace was the scene of heavy gam
bling and debauchery and intrigue.
From his earliest childhood he was
trained with the sole idea of making
him a ruler, that is to say, a fighting
man and a master of diplomacy. He
was an apt pupil; he and lie sue
ceeded in deceiving even his teachers.
Once he was reproached for an act
of duplicity and he remarked: “I am
what you have made ine, 1 arn living
up to your teaching.”
The tutors tried to make his brain
strong, and they succeeded. As to
nis morals that was a matter that
received no particular attention, al
though they hoped that he would he
a gentleman as his father deem
edly was not.
When his father was forced to ab
dicate and Alexander was made King
of Servia, he was still under the care
of tutors, who decided even wbat he
should eat. He was a little over four
teen when he fell under the Influence
of Draga Maschin.
Not a Lovable Prince.
Asa child Alexander was not lova
ble. He was selfish and eager for
power. At fifteen he arrayed him
self in the most preposterous clothes,
effected a monocle and demanded in
attention due his rank. But even tiiei
he showed that he was a youth in
power.
Swiftly he showed that he was as
dissipated as his father, and that he
uad also great physiciai and morai
courage. King Milan was disolute be
cause of weakness; Alexander hau
not tnat excuse,
The only evidence of his weakness
if uch could be called, was tns in
latualion for Draga Maschin.
Wished He Was Czar
Alexander began to make enemies
almost from the start. He wanted to
be an autocrat, to have power as
absolute as the czar. He ruled with
an iron hand. He ordered his officers
to fight duels when disputs arose, lie
rode over the laws. The climax came
when he suspended the constitution
to carry out his arbitrary acts.
BELGRADE IS
NOW VERT QUIET
j
A New K ng Will Be Of
ficially Named Next
Tuesday,
Belgrade, June 13.—At midnight
tranquility prevailed. The streets
have practically been deserted since
9 o'clock with the exception of small
military patrols, which paraded the
thoroughfares.
The palace is guarded by a cordon
of infantry and the ministerial resi
dences in the vicinity of the palace
are closely guarded by troops.
A general feeling of cheerfulness
pervades the city and county.
Former Minister Tudorivies has
died.
The minister of commerce, General
Genshics, in an interview said he
i considered if there is anv publication
| tendency in the cabinet it is insigni
cant.
The electiu i of r tier, ne sari, will
occur Tuesday
It is almost certain that Prince Pe
ter Karageorgeoviteh will be elected,
i Prince Mirko, of Montenegro, has
no chance whatever,
M. Ginschics is reiicent. as to the
event in the palace early Thursday
morning.
PLAY BALL WITH WAYCROSS.
Local Team Will Cross Bats For First
Time This Week.
The baseball season will open in
Brunswick this week, when the locals
will play their first match game.
Manager Coleman has made dates
with Waycross and the team of that
city will be here for two games, Fri-
day and Saturday.
That the games will be witnessed by
a large crowd there is no doubt. Way
cross is said to have a very strong
team this year. The locals have
been practicing hard recently and are
in very good shape. They will lie out
every day this week prepared for t In
games.
The pretty new uniforms reached
the city yesterday and Manager Cole
man requests that all the members
meet him at the fair grounds tomor
mow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
Should be Stopped.
A number of conplaints have been
hoard concerning the reckless riding
of bicyclists particularly on the side
walks ot the residence portion of the
city. A numebr of serious accidents
have been nairowly averted during tre
past few days and the police si, i.tl .
put a stop to it.
To Get theßrunswick.
General Manager McDuffie, of the B.
& 8., left yesterday on a business
trip to Washington, Mr. McDuffie
will return in the handsome presi
dent’s car "Brunswick,” which will
be kept in this city in the future.
To Commence Drilling
The Riflemen will shortly commence
drilling every night, preparatory h
going into camp with the First Geor
giaregiment at Augusta the latter part
of the month.
Even more of the distaste of the
people of Servia was Alexander’s
treatment of his parents. When Quce:
Natalie deeply concerned over Dra
ga’s influence over the young king,
dismissed that woman from her
court the skillful Draga so worked
upon Alexander that he banished
his mother from Belgrade and she
has ever since made her home in
Biarritz.
Not Flattering Potriat.
“There is a vacious look about his
eyes which was not even conceal
ed by his blue eyeglasses, while the
left side of lace is not symmetri
cal with his right, which experts re
gard as a marked token of degeneracy.
He has a forced-out forehead, a Kal
muck nose, and eyes the whites of
which are reddened in the most an
pleasant manner, liis lips rattier short
and broad, with an inclination towards
stoutness. He stoops, is ill at ease
and effects scarlet or emerald green
cravats which cause the muddlness
of liis complexion.
TOUNG GIRL KILLS
HER STEPFATHER
1
Old Man was Chastising
Her Brother and
Lost His Life.
Sneadsville, Tenn., June 13.—-Lewis
I < li", aged 80, war- lmir'.md !•> tips
thirteen-year-old stepdaughter who
‘struck him in the back of thehead
with an ax, sinking the blade of the
weapon deep Into the skull
Bolin was chastising one of his step
sons, when the boy called to his sister
for help. The little girl responded
with the above result.
These two and another stepchild are
in jail at Sneadville.
TO GET A PRESIDENT.
Will Known Virginia. College De
cides to Have One.
New York, June 13. —It is stated
by the New York American that the
Northern Securities Company will be
voluntarily dissolved and the stocks
will be distributed among the share
holders. In this manner the prop
erties mentioned will be returned to
the former owners.
It is said, however, the appeal •now
pending in the United States supreme
court will he carried to its conclusion,
so as to establish the legal status of
such companies by the court of last
resorts.
St. Mark's Will Help.
St. Mark’s church is not unmindful
of her duty to those who arc in need
and her people, many of whom have
already given as individuals, will give
generously as a church to the suffer
ers of Gainesville. In his sermon this
morning it is understood that Dr. Rede
will touch upon the calamity at Gaines
ville, and at its close an offering will
be made for the relief of its victims,
INTESESTING LECTURE
The lecture ef W. E. Dempster at
the New 'I own Debating society will
be one of the most interesting yet
hea-d at the meetings of this society.
The lecture will embrace I tcts base t
upon propheslsed phophesies embod
ied in the bible of the Jew and the
Gentile, reaching back to one thous
and years before the Christian era.
These fact, Mr. Dempster proposes
to establish beyond controversy.
The truth of his position in regard
to the aboriginal settlement of the
(continent of America based upon the
ruins of the ancient cities of Central
America, Peru and Chili, establishing*
their corelations with the ruined cit
ies ot Palestine, Bablyon, Egypt and
the Chaldenas nations generally.
This is a subject that should not
only interest the Jews, the Gentiles
and (he Greeks, but all nations that
derive their spoken language from the
basic foundations upon which these
languages were first formed, but up
on which all governments ot all na
tions now professing to lie civilized
have their formic basic principles
placed.
This subject should not only affect
the Jews but all the people claiming
American citizenship. All are invi
ted to hear this student of the past
history and exponent of the present,
speak on this interesting Bubject.
To St. Simon Today.
The steamer Hessle will make the
usual Sunday trips today and as the
tides will suit exactly for suit bath
ing there is no doubt but that large
crowds will go on both trips.
A Sure Thing.
It is sain that nothing is sure ex
cept death and taxes, but that is not
altogether true. Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for consumption is a sure cure
for ail lung and throat troubles.
Thousands can testify to that. Mrs.
J. B. VanMetre of Shepherdtown, W.
Va., says: "l had a severe case of
Bronchitis, and for a year i tried ev
erything ! heard of, but got no re
lief. One bottle of Dr. King’s New
Discovery then cured me absolutely,
it’s infallible for croup, whooping
ough, grip pneumonia, and consump
ion. Try it. It’s guaranteed. Sold
iy ail druggists.. Trial bottles free,
.teg. sizes BCc. and SI.OO
Made Young Again.
“One of Dr. King’s New I.ife Pills
-ach night for two weeks has put me
my ’teens’ again,” writes Hr. D
I Turner of Dempseytown, Pa.
They re the best in the world for liver,
stomach and bowels. Purely vegeta
ble. Never gripe O-t- 25 cents at
all drugifNt*,
PRICE FIVE CENTB.
FAVORS SEATE
BOARD Of HEALTH
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Dr. Hugh Burford, of This
City, Teils of Its
Advantages,
There is a movement on foot now
to form a state board of health at the
next session ot the legislature. Dr.
Hugh Burford, of this city, who is a
member of the committee from this
district appointed to aid in getting the
bill passed, is hard at work far it.
in discussing it state board of health
with a News reporter yesterday Dr.
Burford said;;
At the fifty fourth annual convention
of the Georgia Medical Association,
at Columbus, on April 15, 10 and 17,
1303, a resolution was introduced ap
pointing a committee of one member
ot each senatorial msuicl to interest
the general public in establishing a
state board of health.
Georgia, the Empire state of the
south, being one of the few states
now without a health department.
Dm mg tii t . Spauish-American war,
smallpox was introduced into the
states through transpai tatiou of sui
liers and has habituated and has been
scattered over '.h-e country by me
different lines of transportation, while
our seacoast is effective** p.oteeten
by the public health and mar.,., u.r,-
pital service, our interior towns and
rural districts are without adequate
protection.
Local health authorities art help
less and without authority to cope
with the interstate spread ol‘ contug
ous and epidemic conditions. As an
illustration ol local inefficiency the re
cent epidemic of typhoid fever at Ith
iea, New York, with its panic, is cited.
the local authorities were helpless
until the state department and its rep
resentatives came to its aid and took
matters in hand. This is a vital ques
tion with our people.
Our population is increasing, our
industries multiplying and progress’-
veness is a spirit of the vacinity in
which we live and it is an absolute
duty for our legislators to frame such
health laws as are needed and neces-
sary to give our growing populace
health and sanitary protection.
Dr. Hicks, secretary of the commit
tee on health legislation, has attract
ed the interest and support of chief
executive and prominent members of
the safe officials as well as prominent
citizens in various sections of Geor
gia. it is earnestly hoped that the
general public may he impressed
with the importance and need of n
•state board of health, a bill for the
creation of which, will be presented
before the next session of the legis
lature which meets on the fourth
Wednesday of the present month.
GATHERED FOR HASTY READERS
l-ittle Local News Picked Up Daily
By News Reporters.
The many hacks which are goner
ally gathered- around the corner of
Newcastle and Gloucester streets were
gladly missed yesterday. The new or
ders issued by Chief Burney are now
in effect and the hackmen will not lie
allowed to loiter around the streets
any more.
Brunswiekians noticed a decided
change in the weather yesterday morn
ing, the thermometer having dropped
about fifteen or twenty degrees dur
ing the night, and in the early hours
of the morning it was really chilly.
Things were very quiet in police
circles last night and only one or two
arrests were made.
The Second team and the New Town
club have arranged a game at the fair
grounds to be played Wednesday.
The improvements in the store for
merly occupied by Airs. E. Earle are
about completed and Morgan’s drug
store will soon occupy the place. It
will be one of the prettiest drug stores
in this section.
A majority of the members of the
Tom Welsh Fishing club have return
ed from Atkinson, where they have
for the past week been enjoying the
great sport. They all report a great
time.
Among the guests of the Tom Welsh
Fishing club was Congressman R. E.
Lester, of Savannah.
Quite a large party will go to the
old village on St. Simon Tuesday to
spend several days fishing.
The steamer Emmeline will go to
Cumberland today and it Is safe to
say that a large crowd will make the
trip,