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THE BRUNS WICK DAILY NEWS. VILUME 2, NUMBER 222. WHITE SLAVE IS OUR DISGRACE ■ ♦ —- 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 ♦>—■ 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,