The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, April 08, 1909, Image 1
Sl.GOPer Year
*THB WOMEN . . . STOOD AFAR OFF BEHOLDING THESE THINGS."
T
Ober-Asassergau of Aatriea, la the .
sacred city in Christendom, and 1
la a tkne hours' ride of Now I
... Jl Mat a poetic Umeftt this, hot
a tuiibto fact. Bethlehem, Pa., la
the only city la the world to-day
founded and named in eommemora
tioa of the Saviour of the world?the
Otly community consecrated entirely
absolutely to His plant and pur
Nowhere else In all Christendom
save la Bethlehem, Pa., are Easter
X}ay aad the other Christian festivals
airtebrated with the absolute solemni
ty, the sublime reality, that they are
?among the plons Moravians.' It Is one
o< the stern Ironies of fate that the
Baaar lection of the Redeemer should
to-day be scarcely more than a half
remembered tradition In the Bethle
hem of Judcia, the city of His nativity.
To sweeten this bitter irony was
the purpose of boont Zlnxendorf In
founding the town of Bethlehem In
1740. At the head of a-company of
devout followers he laid the founda
tion of a city which should forever,
by word and symbol, -commemorate
the acts of Jesus Christ and the Res
arrection.
Thus It L? that Blaster Day and
Passion Week ere something more
thaa sacred symbols to this pious
Community, assuming as they do
something of the nature of a holy
-'drama, a divine tragedy, to be lived
aad acted by them, not with the spirit
Cf the Oberammergau of the Old.
World, but with the sublime serlous
aeas of the Lord's Supper.
Wnck of the Passion is Holy.
The celebration of the Moravian
Passion Week begins the Saturday
evening preceding Palm Sunday. All
day long the town has worn an ex
pectant air, the air of a great house
from which Is soon to emerge a wed
ding party or a funeral. It |a di*i
? fult to deaoribe the peculiar atmos
phere that envelops Bethlehem on
thle final day of preparation. The
Whole city haa undergone a general
fcousecleanlng during the preceding
week. The windows of the quaint,
Old-fashioned hoqses glisten In the
Spring sunshine. The ancient bruss
knooksrs have been burnished to tho
brightness of molten gold. The red
brick pavements and the cobbled
gtraeta have also been scoured to the
atmoat cleanliness. The weather
vanes on the roofi of tho aharp ga
bled houses, Invigorated by recent
tombing done with polish, hurl de
fence to the very sun.
Inside the quaint, comfortable old
houses the Moravian mothers and
daughters have not been Idle. All
week long they have baked and pre
pared for the visitors of the coming
Week, for they are women who. tu
spite of all their deep religious feel
ings, nevertheless look well to the
Ways of their household.
On Baturady evening, however, all
the work Is done. Things temporal I
gre put aside for thoughts splrltusl.!
The long village atreets are quiet as
ft churchyard, save for the occaslot al
twitter 6t the early spring birds
feslMlaf their nests In the buddlog
pgple trees.
?uddenly, up the long, hilly streets
?oms* t harsh, sonorous note, and
gaothcr and another, and In a ffw
VUaatss the aurroundlng hills arc
aaholng with a strange, swsst, subtle
avsta. The atrangsr stops, thrilled
10 tho marrow. It might bs the
tramp of Oabrlol on the Resurrec*
tloa mora, so Impressive Is the street
harmonious sound.
It is the blare of the trombono
band, playing high up In the church
tower, and the mysterious strains are
the opening bara of one of thoso ma
jestic Oregortan chants which noth
ing save a trombone can Interpret.
With the first blare of tho trom
bones the well dressed Moravian*
tarn out of their street door? and
gMike their way, In family groups, to
the church.
It Is a handsome church, with seat
W?f tt CWrarj,
lUf capacity tor Its two thousand
members. It has long stained glass
windows and a splendid, golden tubed
pipe organ.
Service of Rare Majesty.
The congregation have gathered
for the reading of the events of the
day as set within the New Testsment.
They arrange and seat themselves In
"choirs," according to the age, sex
and matrimonial conditions. The
married men sit In onelmrtlon of the
church, the married women In anoth
er. the widows In another. A certain
quota of pews li reserved for the el
derly bachelors, still another for the
younger men snd the boys. The
young girls have their especial cor
ner, the elderly spinsters have thelra,
and the little boys and the little glrla
thelra.
The reading lesson which falls
from the pastor's lips Is the story of
Jesus raising Laxarua from the dead,
and the Incomparable story of Mary
and the alabaster box of precious
ointment. The choir sings fcoft, me
lodious music to the notes of trom
bone and organ, and the congrega
tion seek their bozqes to the stately,
Mf. Attot 4M _
il?i< M turasi oat
nil A wilt IN awful selemahy tk? Irat
tiMU 61 daylight. At the m4 etf
wkat toemi ttoritlt* ft Uttto ?Mk
?( ddyltoht flittts tbttngh (It ItliaM
glaas ffti* easier* frttAHNk fit
stillness to bow at the ttiittliij pMtoti
<to fntooa?a?t?nr oil.kB??i
toad, from AMr Mbaotlot of re
pniwd emotion.
The church and Um silent
gatlon are bathed In a low and pro
longed sound, aa of distant thunder.
Deeper and deeper grows the sonsr
ous thunder, and still deeper grows
the hush on those who hear It. It
seems that the pulses hare been tak
en from all life, except thst which
animates the great organ In the loft
above. In the shadows that lurk
about the great Instrument the chor
isters hate bees noiselessly arranging
thetntelvee In a compact body In the
centre of the gallery, and at the of*
gaolst'e signal burst forth Into the
grand anthem.
At the close of a brief service the
minister gives a signal, and, with per
fect order and despatch that comes
from practice of generations, the con
gregation flies out and forma In a
procession heading toward the ceme
tery.
Playing a dirge the trombonists
lesd the procession down the dawn
lighted street,- and sftsr a few mo
ments* walk conduct It toto the ne
cropolis.
The cemetery Is on a slightly rising
hill, and the tombe. all of the hori
zontal slab atyle, glimmer white In
the early half light.
The congregation, often numbering
as many as 2600, flies Into the ceme
tery by way of the broad, central ave
nue, which Is lined with anetont elm
trees. Upon reaching the middle of
the avenue they branch off Into four
divisions, each division filing off Into
the intersecting avenue, and forming
a compact hollow squsre about the
area of grates.
Then comes th^ Impressive crista.
All the solemnity of the first resur
rection morn Is here In the modern
/to&mtr aetmuhem m *
majestic measure* of the trombones
In tbt tower,
. Palm Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday. Thursday, Good Friday
and Saturday are similarly observed
by concourse to the ehurch, by the
blaring of the trombones from the
tower, by sobbing litanies and heart
stirring columns of musto from the
golden tubed organ and by the pas
tor's reading of the corresponding
events of that day-nearly nineteen
hundred years ago.
Thus tho week of the Passion
draws solemnly to a close. The lit
tie town lies under an Impenetrable
pall?the pall that might have huug
over Jerusalem tn the first Passion
Wee*.
Saturday night of Passion Week
finds the Moravians early to bed. Man,
woman and child all are under the
Influence of the hallowed reeolleo
tions whieh the many Impressive oer
emonles of the week have awakened
and revived. At midnight not .a sound
Is to be heard in the whole town, un
less it is the soreeohlng of an in*
coming train to the railroad station,
aeross the river. The religious con
templations of the week make the
sturdy, thrifty Moravians droam luoh
dreams as the patriarch* themselves
might have dreamed after long vigils
with the stars.
Sublime Raster Eltee.
At two o'clock In the morning to
the esrs of th*> sleeping town are
borne the strain* of h d.-er noted
chorale. It sounds to the drowsy
dreamers as if it catno from any
where, from nowhere. It is the trom
bone band, marching through the
darkened streets. Lights twinkle now
from shuttered windows, the shutters
are thrown open, the windows raised
and grave greetings given to the
torch lit proceeslon passing by.
The trombonists are performing
their ancient duties of awakening the
devotees In time to assemble for the
sunrise service. They pass on and on
through tho thoroughfares of the
town, stopping at various corners to
discourse the weird but solemn and
sweet Oregorlan hymns banded down
from the very dawn of Christianity.
They etop before the House of the
Widows, whero the bereft of the com
munity dwell together. They play
appropriate selections there. They
stop before the pastor's house and
the houses of tho sacristans and of
tho elders.
It Is all very solemn. Impressive,
beautiful. Even more than that?ft
la sublime.
That awakened by tb? early morn
8
city of Qethlebem, while these pious
people stand thus, with bared heads,
awaiting the sunrise. It la tenae. aw
ful In lta solemnity, this spectacle of
the living keeping vigil over the dead.
What Is really but a few minutes'
wait at the utmost?for everything
has been timed to a second?seems
an eternity to the watchers. The
stillness reaohes the almost unbear
able point when auddonly, without
warning, the eholr bunts forth into a
glorious awakening song, and Just
then-the rim of the rlaing aun leaps
UP from behind the town to the eaat.
The eholr carols and chante In a very
paaalon of Joyous triumph:
Death, where is thv sting?
Grave, thy victory?
The most unimaginative aqd une
motional among the spectators oanhot
resist the powerful effeete of the min
gled pathoe and triumph of the ecene.
The soft, velvety young graaa spring*
lng up everywhere between the flat,
white tpmbs; the bursting buds of the
leafless branohes overhesd, the breath
of the mild spring wind, the solitary
croous timidly peeping Its head
through the chilly sod?all are sym
bols to the Moravians of the day they
commemorate.
A short prayer ends ths service and
the assemblage dlaperses, the young*
er people to wander over the grounds,
admiring the beautiful floral offer*
lnga that have been placed on the re?
cumbent stones, and the eldera tc
hurry home to preparo breakfast and
make necessary preparations for th?
remainder of the day.
Columns of silvery smoke aro purl
lng forth from the snug looking kltch
en xjiimneys of every dwelling, and
from overy direction comes the savory
odor of such a breakfast as only
Moravian housewife knows how tc
cook.
But the feasting Is only temporary
After breakfast they will again don
their best apparel and go once more
to the graves on the bill.
Ren Fro It.
"Apropos of Easter," said a mod
ern farmer, "here are some hen
fruit statlatlce for you: A five
pound hen eata sixteen tlmee her
weight yearly?that Is to say, eighty
pounds of food, worth about seventy
five cents. Her eggs number 1(0 or
175. They weigh six times her
weight, or thirty pounds. Thejf are
worth about (4.60. Thus, for every
cent's worth of food you feed 1<?o a
good hen,, els cents' worth of eggs
?one forth."?New Tork Frets. -
IT WORTH
*S.#0.000 Worth
af:l
HXilYK W ; SACRIFICED
Cl
iii
tool Hit**
Bmal Om*
Ii Mmktd Ttom Neighboring
Ti
Fort Worth* tlx., Special.?Fan
ned bj a a! iff Wind, a fire in the
southern poriicn <? this eity Satur
day afternoon iweit over an area of
ten hloeka in length and seven in
width, destrc; ed -property roughly
estimated in ? ilue ^to bo in excess of
$5,000,000, a>.d caused the death of
aix persons.
The Are, w' 'ch bfpkc oat in a fash
ionablc rcsid ut diptriet, was beyoikl
all contrcl within 16 minutes after it
started, snd waa not checked until
dynamite was rCsoifed. to, four hours
later. *
The spread of the flames was not
cheeked until tbey had eaten their
way to the Tcxaa ? Pacific Railroad
rearvation on tho cist. Ou the south
the fire wss cheeked at the Texas Pa
cific passenger station, this steel and
stcne structure forcing a bulwark
that aaved the wholesale district of
the city, whk h at onetime was. in im
minent danger of ^it&ction.
A patient whoaa identity has nnf
been learned, periahqd in Walker'u
Sanitarium und thrfc men were elec
trocuted ami their bodies burned to
cinders in the Sawder electric plant.
Herbert Stacy irasyfitally b>med in
an endeavor to save' his dwelling, and.
a fireman fell from'a house top and'
was killed. *
It is estimated {fcrat -500 families
are homdrsa. llaqy off these have
Kne to Dallas, whftf-e shelter has
en offered. 5
A party, of small j boys carelessly
handling cigraaites I is believed to
have been the caus# of the fire.
GULLY'S PLAN.
Would Sara Great Sams to Cotton.
Farmers?The Warehouse Plan?
No Faith in tt Bay Augusta Cotton
Exchange -Hex
Atlanta* Ga., Special.?Daniel J.
Sullr, the one-time great eotton bull
manipulator of New York was here
Friday and set forth a scheme by
whieh ho claim* $150,000,000 to
$250,000,000 may be saved to the
raiaers of cotton in the Sonth.
lie said, "A minimum fund of
$10,000,000, subscribed by the most
conservative financiers of the United
8tates, is available to be invested in
?itch iron-cla.i securities as shall in
sure the ability and the responsibil
ity of the plan's promoters to redeem
their promises and obligations to tho
last detail.
"The people of the Sonth will b?
riven the first opportunity to invest
in this proiect, if. upon receiving it,
it commends itself to their judg
ment." ,
The plan contemplates a chain of
warehousos across the South. suffi
cient to hold one-third of the cotton
crop and tin reby enable farmers to
store their cotton and draw small
amounts upon it to enable them to
sell at will i istcad of by compulsion.
A Savannr.h special' of 8nnday
however, says the plan does not com
mend itself to the eotton factories
there. They claim that the seheme
ia not practieul or it would have been
adopted already through the Far
mers' Union without the aid of Sully.
They claim that no Improvement may
bo expected from this source,
Killed in Dncl Wtlk Oflotn.
Filxgerald, (la., Speoial.?Robert
Gresliam was killed early Sunday
morning iu r justo! duol with Chief
of Police B. ubakcr and Patrolman
Johnson. Tho man was hoinf hunt
ad by the offers and flred upon tbenf
from a hidiig idace In a dark alloy*
The officers Jointly opened flro and
Oreeham fell with four bullet
wounds.
Three-cornered Dncl In Stmt# of
Georgia Town.
Hazelhurst, Ga., Special.?Eugene
and J. L. Williams, brothers, wore
shot down on n street of this place
by V. T. Stowers, form oily of Con
vers, Ga.. J. T. Williams being proba
bly fatally hurt. Tho brothers are
members of the firm of Jarman 6
Williams. It was stated that Stow
ers had given this firm a check: the
bank would not honor; that Eugene
demanded the money and a fight re
sulted. J. L. Williams went to hit
brother's rescue, it is sllcgod, when
Stowors drew his pistol.
Whole Jury Panel Unlit For Service!
New Orleans, Special.?In the
criminal district coftrt Thursday
Judge F. D. Chretien dismissed th<
entire jury panel on motion of Dis
trict Attorney Adamd, who charged
| that the panel as a whole had shown
j itself unfit for service; that althotigl'
the Stato presented clear case*
against a nvnebor of accused person*
I it was unahlu lo secure any convic
| tions beforo tho jurora.
THE NEWS W BRIEF
?f Interest Gathered By
Wire and CM*
GLEANINGS flOM DfLY TO DAY
Uf INks 0#mU| Ere*ts af Mort
?r Last Uteres* at Hone ?i
v; .. . ?
The Chamber of Commerce of
Petersburg have seen red an option
ob the Index-Appeal of that eitj and
will boy the paper in order to boom
the city.
. The two and one-half passenger
rate on all railroads in Virginia exr
eept the Norfolk and Western goes
uito effect April 1st.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was electrocut
ed at Aubnrn, N. Y., Monday mom
>ng for the roost brutal murder of
Mrs. Sarah Brannon, last ApriL
William Brant Eyster, of McKee
Rocks, Pennsylvania, is now of the
opinion that he is the long lost
Charlie Rose. He discovered that his
foster parents, who are now dead,
were not his real parents. Charlie
Ross was kidnapped 35 years ago.
Four persons were killed and five
fatally wounded near Pittsburg, Pa.,
last Saturday by a head-on collision.
Gunjiro Aoki, a Japanese, and Miss
Helen Gladys Emery, the daughter
of Archdeacon Emery, of the Epis
copal Diocese of California. Were
married at the Trinity Church,
Seattle, last Saturday. They came
from California, where they could
not be legally married.
Three dry kilns just outside of
Norfolk burned Wednesday, consum
ing a fine lot of timhor, The loss
ia estimated at $20,000.
An offer for Willie Whit la to go on
the vaudeville stage at $1,000 a week
has been received by his father, who
merely remarked: "They will have to
go higher than that."
Lawrence R.. Boyle, who had been
for 20 j-ears'ftie staff of the Boston
Gllobe, in a'fit of despondency last
Saturday night, phot and killed hi*
wife and himself.
The State of Georgia has aban
donod the former mctliQd of leasing
convicts from the penitentiary and
an order h?? been against
putting chains on women convicted
of misdemeanors.
Dr. W. M. Adcr, a North Caro
linian was shot and mortally wound
ed in the late Indian uprising in
Oklahoma.
The Southern Life Insurance Com
pany of Fayettcville, N. C., which
came so near being wrecked by the
Seminole disaster, has been absorbed
by the Jeffernon Life Insurance Com
pany of Raleigh, and policyholders
are thereby secured and the stock
holders get about 00 per cent of orig
inal investments.
In Raleigh, N. C., the eitizens Dem
ocratic ticket wen Tuesday in a very
exoiting municipal primary, carrying
all before it but one alderman.
At Cumberland, Marvland, last
week, a woman dving of blood poison,
?n token of the intense love she bore
for her nurse, requested a kits. Ths
nurse complied, but caught the dis
ease and died a few days later.
The Confederate Veterans' Re.
nnion will be held this year at Mem
phis from June 8th to 10th.
# San Francisco is said to be pnt
ting $12,000,000 annually into slot
machines.
Tb? United States Commissioner at
New \ ork has decided that Jan Jan*
off Ponren was a revolutionist and Is
not to he extradited to Russia for
orimes committed.
^ A man *aid to have murdered a
gi'l in Indiana 32 years ago, waa
recently found living in Texts, mar
rie4 and weajtby.
Foreign Affain.
Six thousand persons were rend
ered homeless, and 30,000 domestic
animals were drowned by latt heavj
floods in Southern Russia.
The French bark. Jules Henry bleu
up at Marseilles Thursday and 1 i
men were killed. It was a petroleum
earrier and being inspeetod when it
1? believed the fumes of empty tanki
oaught from the inspectors light.
Tha last batch of U. 8. troops left
Cuba Wednesday nocn to return ti
America, leaving the islanders again
to govern themselves.
^Accused of cmberrling upwards of
$51,000 from tin Russian Govern
ment, a man believed to bo Isaac
Yakovlev Matsncnko was arrested in
Philadelphia Tuesday night.
Count Zeppelin and a small party
asccnded in his airship at Fricder
iokshsppn, Germany, last week, and
were caught in a hurricane. One
motor refused to work and he could
not safely land until he upent 11
hours in the air. He then landod in
a 35 mile gale.
PASTEUR TREATMENT PREE
But* Bout of Brtft to
U|wHi| aft Columbia.
Columbia, Special.?Colombia is to
have free Paeteor treatment for
thoee suffering from rabies or threat
ened with an attack of this fright
ful disease. 80 with the approach
of the good old summer time cease
to worry about getting "mad" dog
bit. The free treatment is sot to be
confined to patienta of this imme
diate vicinity, but will be open to
?II of the people of the State. It
will be provided for by the State
board of health at its meeting here
. Beit month. The board is to equip
a laboratory, one of the finest in tho
country, not only for the free treat
ment of rabies, but it will alro be
used to combat other infectious and
contagious diseases.
Caught With the Goods.
Spartanburg, Special. ? Roland
Parris, whom the city authorities and
revenue officers have been trying to
catch for some time, was Thursday
convicted in the Police Court on the
charge of transporting liquor and fast
driving. He was fined $100 or HO
days on the whiskey charge and $10
for fast driving. A case has also
beea made out against him on the
change of violating the Internal rev
enue law. Parris is a white man, ainl
has the reputation of being a general
trafficker in liquor. Several weeks
ago he and Special Constable John
Miller engaged in a street fight over
an old grudge about liquor and Mil
ler beat up Parris pretty badly.
Paroling of Prisoners.
An important act passed b>' the
last general assembly provides that
the governor may at any time sus
pend sentence or parole a prisoner
if in the judgment of his excellency
he may deom it just. The act reads
>s follows:
'Section 1. Be it enacted bv the
general assembly of the State of
South Carolina: That hereafter in
any case that may be deemed pro
per by the governor he may suspend
sentence or parcle any prisoner up
on such terms or conditions as he
may deem just in (he exorcise of ex
ecutive clemency." - ...
Arrested Por Cruelty to Birds.
Greenville, Special.?A warrant
was sworn out Saturday for the ar
of members of the firm 0/
Hobbs-Henderson Company, one of
the leading clothinar and dry Roods
Stores of the city. The firm is charg
ed with mutilating birds. At the
opening of a big sale on Saturday
chickens, around which were tied
tickets colling for suits of clothes,
were thrown from the top of the store
to the street, about forty feet below
Ip the scramble for the fowls thev
were horribly mutilated, it Is alleged.
The warrant was sworn out by thf
local Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. Th# cose was
compromised.
Smallpox in York.
Yorkville, Special?Since tho dcalli
of Kirby Pugh from smallpox in the
York Cotton Mill Village, just out
side the corporate limits of Yorkville,
about two weeks ago, six oilier cases
of the same disease have developed
among those who came immediately
in contact with the first case before
the disease had been diagnosed as
smallpox. All who have developed
cases, as well as all suspects, have
been segregated, and all others living
in the village have been vaccinated
and a quarantine is being maintained
against the village by the Yorkville
board of health,
Greenville Will Not Go Broke.
Greenville, Special.'?Late Saturday
afternoon the Hon. Jos. A. McCuJ
Ipugh, city attorney, handed down a
decision to the effeot that tbe Manl.
din bill wil| no apply to Greenville
this year, because of the fret that the
rykmMu BnAd? for th,i bG*?re
the bill become effective. City conn
dl will follow his decision and dlsre
prd the law. It \% not known that 1
test cass will be mfldo.
Department Offloltl Inspect Gaffnsy
Dairies.
Gaffney, Special.?Mr. R. II. Mason
of the Lnited States Department of
Agriculture, who is located ot Clem,
wn College, spent Saturday at the
Rtlleview Dairies with Mr. C. C.
Riggerstaff. Mr. Mason visits dairies
throughout th? Stnto and ndvincs how
to conduct them on the most scientific
and economical knes, makes sugges
ions as to proper food, erection of
buildings, etc. Mr. Rigg?is?afT savi
that he obtained a lot of valuable in
formation from the visit of this of.
fieial and would advise others in hit
line of business to confer with him.
STOP AT GIBRALTAR
Mr, Roosevelt Spends Several
Hours There
WOULD NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED.
The ex-President Steps Off For .a
Short Visit?I* Attended by the
American Oonsnl and Governor
General of Gibraltar?Steamer
Sails For Naples at 12:20 O'clock
? -Tells of the Alleged Awanlt.
Gibraltar, By Coble.?The steamer
Hamburg with Theodore Roosevelt
and the metnbers of his party on
board, came to Gibraltar a few minu
tes. before 9 Friday morning. Mr.
Roosevelt came ashore with Richard
L. Sprague, the American consul,
and nn aide-de-camp of General Sir
Frederick Forcsticr-Walker, Gover
nor of Gibraltar.
Accompanied by the Governor, an
aide, and Mr. Sprague. Mr. Roosevelt
drovo in the Governor's carriage out
along the North front and np to the
limit *>f British territory.
With Mr. Sprague Mr. Roosevelt
then visited the Mediterranean iMub,
where his name was entered on tho
visitors' book.
Mr. Sprague and Mr. Roosevelt
t.ien drove back to the pier, whence
Mr. Roosevelt went off to the Ham
burg shortly after half-past eleven.
The dock wns crowded with people,
who gave Mr. Roosevelt an enthu
siastic farewell. The Hamburg sailed
for Naples at 12:20 o'clock.
Mr. Rcrjevclt refucsd to be photo
graphed and declined every request
for anlnlervicw.
Wednesday night at a dance on the
I-tamburg. Mr. Roosevelt danced with
Miss Ruth Draper. Before withdraw*
?ng for the night Mr. RoosevoJt ap
peared in the smoking room and chat
ted with the passengers for twenty
minute#.
When asked direjtly concerning the
rumor that an attack had been made
upon him during the voyage, Mr.
Roosevelt said thai the only basis for
it was an "idiotic, excitable Italian"
used mgiy expressions to hiui whi'e
he was on the bridge of thr? vessel
talking to tho Captain. He said this
man made no attempt upon him what
ever and that ho wns promptly remov
ed and con lined below the remainder
of tho vojT.ge.
As to Child Labor.
New Orleans, Special.?The South
ern child labor conference at its ses
sion here adopted ro.?olu'ions cmtody
ing a number of important recommen
dations for legislation on the subject
of child labor in the South.
_ The following are the recommenda
tions in substance:
The errployu.ent in factories of no
ch.ld under the of 14 years.
The employment in a mine or quar
ry of no child uuder the aae of 10
years.
The employment of no child under
the ago of 10 years in any gainful
occupation except agricultural and
domestic eorvice unless such child
can read and write simple sentences
in the English language.
That no boy under the age of 10
nor gnl under the age of 13 y^rs,
except in agricultural or .Ijmestie
service, be employed between the
hours of 7 p. m. and 6 a. m.
An eight-hour day law for children
nnder 16 years of age and for all wo
men.
Employment under the certificate
plan.
The employment by the State of
proper officials for the inspection of
all mines and factories with the pow
er to prosecuto violations.
latTone?U'^ 8nnitary ond re*l>
Making the conference a pcrman
Wit organization.
f^nection with the reoommen.
elation for employment under the ceis
tineate system, the provisions pf tlm
Kontucky law aro indorsed.
At the morning session of tbo conj
ference Oliver R. Lovejoy of Ne\y
*oi It, general secretary of the Nat
ionel I abor committee, made nn ad?
i? tl'0 South won'?
fftpltal, but that oapital must conform
Lr!V?,nnbl? ,V',fufr* fo'' 1,10 Jfunrd.
tng of tho welfare of chillrcn.
Three Negroes Murdered.
Elizabeth City, Special.?One of
the bloodiest brawls that has ever
been known in this section occurred
Thursday night at Columbia, Tyrrell
county, in which three negroes were
killed and one terribly wounded.
Nothing was kj.own of the trouble
until Friday morning when a white
P"?sing heard someone say,
Don t cut me any more." Upon
investigation dead negroes with blood
still flowing, razors and guns wero
round on tho ground, presenting a
horrible spectacle.
SURE CURE
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