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/. Ef ci1'. Fewer Lynchings J I x_ una rveiauceiy ic Recent lynchings in the South There have once more attracted pub- sive e lie attention to a most deplora- howev< ble phase of Southern life, inodic There is probably no Southern lenee, problem more generally misun- numbe derstood in the North and more to pop unduly exaggerated than the This occasional outbreaks of mob pect o violence chiefly against suspect- cisely ed or confesed criminals of the which lowest possible type. No de- quinqu fense can be made of lynchings j to 190 in a civilized community, nor therea can this wrongful procedure be explan explained or * 'ional grounds, furthe It is, therefe f considerable The importance tl he facts of states lynchings slm not be mis- detail understod, if but in simple jus- but th tice to the overwhelming ma- compil jority of Southern people who curacy neither encourage nor condone For tl mob violence in any form. Un- ing pr< fnrtnnntplv fViprp ;ivr? nr? T'orl r?f lvn eral judicial statistics upon ble ha: which a thoroughly trustworthy i the ral conclusion could be based but iof pop THE DECLINE IN LY United States ?>f America Kate of KynchinK Per Millio 2.(1 KaBMHHHI 2.9 MMMMMBMM 2.0 I l.lHHBHHaMi 1905-09 .9 MS .SHMMMi .76 MBMM .67 Mi the statistics of lynchings an- which nually collected by The Chicago during Tribune arc generally accepted 1912. as approximately corect, and, the la since they are compiled by a lynchii Northern newspaper, they or 74, probobly err rather on the side of lync of an overstatement of the popula facts than to the contrary, of lyn< Mere numbers are, however, of 10.6 pt relatively small significance, of mol considering the large negro have r population, which, approxi- to the mately, amounts to about ten by the millions. The most important curred fact is not so much the actual linois, number of lynchings as the rel-, Mexico ative tendency of lynchings to Ohio, increase or decrease, in pro- oming: portion to population. LYN LYNCHING STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES. I 1885-1912 S Itato per 1 No. of 1 000 000 FI()rlda Year Lynch- Popula- G^or^ia iiiRS tion. Mississli 1885 184 3.25 ^ulsia, ?5J J3? 2.39 vSanu 1X87 122 2.06 .r,.. I11<a 18S* 14- -35 TOXVIK 1889 176 2 ST. < . ' 1 Dun . . I is'.i 192 z'i* r",,t" -V 1S?V> 23 5 8 K.lltlWk 3 2 0 :;S - :r; m ^ ??? JJ1 ?-8"? Monlan:i is;., 166 2.:;O w l Vj 181.8 127 1.72 virKlnia \*** JI 1'1:' Missouri 1*1 North li 1901 135 1.74 ()reKon 1902 96 1.2 1 N?rtll r '903 10 1 1.2 9 i Xehrask 1904 87 1 06 | Mnrvlan 1905 66 0.79 Illinois 1906 69 0.8 1 'alitOrn 1907 62 0.72 oi?lo 1908 loo 1.13 |v?nsvl 1909 8 7 0.96 1910 71 0.8O .\s s 15,11 71 " 7,: ing ad 1912 1 O 07 K 1885-188!. 762 2 58 Hardly 1890-1894 914 2.88 ! but as 1895-1899 7"2 1.95 j*tituti< 19..0-1904 537 1..6 L(|vjS(. 1905 .9'I9 ::8 5 0. s - . 1910 7i o.8o i porari. 1911 71 0.76 11 hey c 19 12 4 o 67 tions < 1885-1912 3.539 169 t|<(. t} The first table presented ore tin here with give* the act lal niim- 1 her of lynching in the I'nited ' hat t States for each \ ear, as return- iS not ed by The Chicago Tribune, for It is the p. riod 18K-7-1912, together that ti with the rate of lynching per lynchir mill >n of population, carefully I'nited estirr ited for intercensal years. South; According to this table, the lar- well b< gest actual number of lynch-(that. \ ing< oci in - i in 1SD2, when 23"> this \\ were reported, which, on the numbe basis of pop lation, would be last tv equivaiei ' to a rate >f 3.6 per withou million. The lowest actual nuin- lion t< her ot lynch ngs was reported rate ot for 1907, and tin; equivalent riod < rate w< 0.7 per million. I?ut r. >rd Uil ) U .< ,. 1 . .. ,.1 ?; , in iu ii .V/11 . t < 11111 t\-1 *'i lynching wa,j only 64, and, proflfr< since I he populdioi < much me t , ly 0.67 p'T million, or ti?? low- h >- st.< est rate on record .since 38hi>. time h v THE LA vnchings N? I II be practical! \ CtUGLLlJ past.?Frede in New York Population Get Rid Although can be no more conelu- merf' as a vidence that lynehings, avera?e? P er regrettable, as spas- Per acre tha outbreaks of mob vio- sec^lona? the are diminishing in actual Rer. ac!re , rs, as well as relatively then; land- . ulation. yearly earnn , most unfortunate as- cu'tiva1 f American life is pre- ,ll.^r expen shown in the diagram, chiefly c|ae. exhibits the rate by f?, use sujhci lennial periods from 1885 >01-saving 9, and by single years leasons tor fter. The diagram is self- m<)1 e hibor-jatory and requires 110 al e many? Jl r discussion. J-1 01 reports of lynehings by (,1tlon ?l,r are not available in full ,na f , ?l t < X'??ptioii, iii propor- "What is i . popul J ioi . i n< lowst "It'.- a nc : it _r n 11 ' he po- i : hi- waiti >r which rle- historical of her words h i>11'st*rvotI. "Vf i don't in matters of social ing to stay?1 tht tende cy is of "I gases s ortance, it may safely fully. "He'i i i that since the fate off." Weekl adilv gotif down the .t ar (i. tant when Lancaste " 'J1 in speuKin '.Kinia?. 0:49 [viveJ'T1 > j 0 the Anaersoi ; merce, the M akota .... 1 n.3r. wide ilWilkc, aroiiiiH :::: !S public-spirite it i H.I7 sacrifices for -I i h i:. They are th j ?-14 make such ; ia 1 a. US < ? nx power tor ro lania . . .1 0.09 ity. It WOllI( ... . find public-sf aid at the outset, lynch- j(. m(M; jM a mils of no defense and (|av ()f S(.| of a rational explanation without thei said m 'I lie Atlanta Con- mak(. ., (>nn in many years uro, "We tlliS (jav ,|1(1| our Northern contem- }?oadminded s to yt'iil as gently i num it v that an with the manilesta- niav it human lature which in the m-n-el le place in the South and win sour plicated at the North |)lljr|(. )u,rn the opportunity oilers. (load ,tM.n (ll hey an deplorable is not I neo() them j t0 be denied. them badly.no cause of satisfaction (and News, lere should have been (> I i Irs during 1912 in the| Goii States, chietlv in the! Meg (ti\< but the country may t overjoyed ovi satisfied with tie1 tact 'to the i ami 1 \ vith a single exception, j the house to as actually the lowest ; pas tnR neiR r ol lv nehiny- lining tlie j 'Oh, you enty-eighl \ ars, and, {we've Rot in for a long period of years, ; \ . e information has been . ed with reasonable ac- stumps! *u"' for the period 11)08-1912. ?, * n i lSl clClOl \ US( le purpose of emphasiz- bettG1. f b ecisely the local intensity h t k ti. chings, the following ta- to remove s been prepared, to show h ' cuitiv. :e of lynchings per million but'Ph u elation for the states in stumpg sh()u NCHING. f11 cultivate! less to remo 1885-1 o 12. low them to The crops t it Population. on the land t extra cost o HHHHHH u stump rarm where on the land enough stun purchase of if the farme able to buy ( set to work to join wit! purchase of Too often we are not lynchings have occurred certain piece the five years ended with that to serv According to the table, doing none o rgest actual number of be removed lgs occurred in Georgia, and a good with an equivalent rate great help ii rhing of 5.7 per million of of stumps w tion. But the highest rate ever ued. W . hing ocurred in Florida, your neighbc ;r million. That outbreaks puller or bin ) violence of this kind can, and clea lot been limited entirely this year? 11 South is made evident gressive Fan fact that lynehings oc in California, Idaho, II- The I Montana. Nebraska, New The And* , North Dakota, Oregon, commerce hi Pennsylvania and Wy- and has beg derson Mail CIIINGS BY STATES was a11 unsel 11)08-11)12. ism, all Andt Rate per onl>' ?Pirit ,tl N*o. of l.ooo.ooo ceed, especia tales Lynch- Popula- to doing ailV i.,'RS Aio"- eral welfare. 4 o 10.63 74 6.67 Writ Ot U! >pi 46 6.11' timism, or a ia 33 3.08 mind first tl 1 which you ai 4 6 ? i sort of spiri f e ...!!! 2 11 there is no us 'roiina ....i."? i.ox thing. VVond* y j ;!(- start about \ ' ' ' ' ' ' | j of unselfihne i 0.6) Will some on NCASTKR NEWS, MAKC orth or South will y a thin# of the AT GETT rick L. Hoffman, Ti,m's- Who are veterans th of the Stumps . presence of the Southern far- uniform at meral rule, or on an ebration ir duce smaller yields mark the fi n farmers in other the decisive y receive as much war? the products of They ma' Their profits or th are s: lgs are less because onrpIv nf ,e fewer acres at a . . se per acre. This is to their failure yu,",v* ",iy ent work-stock and desperate fi implements. The )v'uc'1 made this failure to use Peansylvani laving implements Poir*t ?f the it perhaps the most They can ie is that the con- Birney's di< fields is i,u"h as to ' trous secor use less profitable I street cru nore difficult. Small | corps and I jular shape, with nation hanj es and open ditches I They can ibstacles to the sat- | Warren am 2 of the larger and | that death saving implements. only wh< me and costs money j finally drive these obstacles to Top. It was ition of the land,'the pride o has come when the j Point, was 1 Id be removed from the One Hi 1 fields. Tt costs New York, ve them than to al- regiment wi remain on the land. test, hat may be grown They can hey occupy and the to the Kii> f cultivation which earned a pi ill pay for their re- (d?y in the ^ear or two. The or to the I should be on every shire, whirl there are stumps than in v . If there are not dead being ips to justify the used to 1 a stump puller, or1 iment da ret r is not financially ollt orders, me alone, he should They can to get his neighors Oeorge St i him in the joint brigade, or a machine. tally wounc when we feel that commanded able to do all of a buy. fire a of work, we allow tfnns as he e as a reason for general an f it. Stumps should eternal pea< as fast as posihle fhey can stump puller is a Hancock's J* i clearing the land beat back herever and when- charge in t! by not join with third day, ii* !nvi i,in- o< 11mn had nlanted ? one alone, if you fluffs in the r a few extra acres Runs on Co t will pay.?Pro- wen of tha mer. to see those ~ see the mei Ji.uht Spirit. rierl them n arson chamber of tcries. The is been organized how the un work. The An- Arniistead j says: "The spirit sPl,rs to tin fishness. all optim- f^i'wai rson." That is the 'n the Sout tat will or can sue- Hancock a lly when it conies tieen chums tiling for the j?en- war? the < There must be a ! van/ll,ished tsehishness. or op- se''desire to have in Perhaps I te community for the t'onfedo *e workiny. If that !'?t *lt (Jet t does not prevail 1,1 an*v even a* to try to do any- 1 ne jneaninj er how we wou'irl tennial celel vorkinjr up a spirit to ')e a tfat ss in Newbery? ers ?V ?l" ' e please tell. American < fT of the men who ,laPr> ?ne ";,t selected to manage am' (*ommo t chamlier of com- ,r,ost mom ail says: "They are!the annals < capable, patriotic. I 11 Meade d. willing to make 1 Reynolds at the city s jfood." i' were a e kind o 1 men to the first to m organization a veterans sir - 41 - I attain. They 'Ml III Liu* < ~f MIIIIIUII- . , : I I.,- rnfrnshmy lo "h: hriteil anil patrial- if''!i i community in this . lishnass. anil yd. i"1.'1 -"'ell . a il is (lilliciilt la "'I'dp'il I' nnunily urovv. In """hi "ant re is a demand far ' " ~ *'!' lias- anil II,a ramhas mil snali man to remain behind . . of progress . !n,':i'ls '? ,!l ( body sound the Is" V.:| and wake up the '1avinK~ v,.,. i > W'.. Lancast list now ;11hI need Newberry Herald $100 1 Tlif I i?l< r- "t lonrn C 't III*'!*** I ... tii it * hi"? l)T lO SltlV. H . iiml Oi't i . . |i tb ??nl> f - '"> years old) whs i, > rtx u or a recent addition Vi'iii < t'nil h . and rushed out of lell 1 lie new* to a k, . ? u Vn don't know what " iinnrtf i i |.? ?? fall* rt. H? o n* house t oday. A ,,lr, ss r j. < (, V" jj .l.l ?>y "II er w baViy brother," Tuk0 1" r*r 1 to ee the etl'ects i IHB <> "^ \cry thoughi- jjj t 1 l\! 1111,1913. The Small Fari YSBURG IN JULY Good F It is not nec ,, ~ , A farmer to ima these Grand Army that he must wo at object to the u ii r* r i j ui v/uiciuo iui 11 the Confederate ? u to do tha, the Gettysburg eel- m . , July which win man who wishe ftieth adversary of h ,d b ' ,>attle of the CIV|1 should read abo farm papers, in y be good men, but tion and nation idly misguided. bulletins, in be >ne of them could ture as he get; with Reynolds and them. Such r< Wadsworth in that with judgment rst day's lighting cash value. It \ ? this peaceful little dollars, ia town the turning For example, s war. has read Th not have fought in Farmer for a y vision on that disas {if is n?t a safe id day when Long- ?n one crop aloi nibled up Sickles' j not pay to plant left the fate of the lv prepared seei ring by a thread. ! nil get nitrogen not have been with ' cotton by the gi 1 with Vincent in nnd cowpeas, grapple which end- j than he can by E?n Hood's men were I fertilizer, n from Little Round j 1 he man wit there that O'Rorke, has these facts ; f his class at West |,Ie wants to app 11' >()( 1 and I'ickett | . a n the uniform that them, and they j * mmmm* to see the shatter-' Every step in ti (I liars at the head ! *:* >'114 P'a ... , I l>y tho originators o nents that carried ' ^al uiiiin rears ago. nuied by th#> shelter what (iet t ysbtirg "?'rs- enabi# us to *i ?i:h That is the only ^ ?"?"* . ; <11 KA I', quality co celeorat ion worth i $n.oo f,,r himim. no W N ork World. Nancy liall and li*?t wa iii<:ri or Lends. tew atd, stoo (mmniipf I ? will ! lil <t ti> .1 U U (1 II l(C I 1 a I ^ r^r ' Jj, <*"' * I ?r?. ?M hlrU.ln.W.l.n I ll, l r I -1 lji I I'rtl. L for Results p ? nveTCD'tr ^I^IE.IW a Kiiieu at tne nead 01 i|wa iwivi indred and Fortieth horses, or in No survivor of that i Irj?nts to enable r>uld make such pro- his crops. Thej for him, of cour not have belonged easier lor him 1 it Minnesota, which feed-bed or tend ace all its own that erly with t\v Valhalla of heroes, ments. Yet he Mfth New Hamp- one-horse tool? 1 lost more in killed work.?The Pr rounded, among its nier. Colonel Cros, who mast that his reg- "he Quick ai I not go back with- When the R went out of pov ot have been with had none of th( annard's Vermont whom it came have seen the mor- teen years ago. led Cushing, who McKinley is a batery of artil- dead. Hobart is last shot from his dead. Dingley is gayly saluted his and Allison and d then passed into Millan and Cus! e. are dead. Piatt not have been with |~ ? iecond Corps, which ,)r- King'? Nc Pickett's heroic Soothes irritated he afte. no.rn of the | ^ehtr,^Hn?" u,' in toie Ai mi stead Take no other; oi I his Confederate used. Buy it at midst of the Union I macj' nnd 8tandar< smetery Ridge. The = = I corps would want MBHPW9RnvK*nn flags again, and to i in gray who car-. pfc p to the IJnion bat- ' | y still remember < 1 \i n jr Confederate sent his watch and ny Hinnv 1 a wounded Hancock fa , rded to his relatives , of " ? c h. Ilefore the war i H sufferer, hat" nd Armistead had i H benefits of ( and, in spite of \ Cardui i >M friendship was ; (w It is a natnr only by death it- ji| ? has bcen those objectors to Egi has cured u 9 ^ hcinjf of Northern- H Southerners, but of 5^3 Mrs. M itizons, with one M fjlcre js no ion and one history. t| ;, , v? n memories ol the RJ entous struck' in evt'rylbing a ?f human liberty. 1 fly Now, I fee and Hancock and Bl always rec< id Howard and Slo- S3 can't praise Jive they would be SI worn-out wc insist that Lees m mild wear the gray OS Write to: l would want to see TC for Special Jnstntc 111bid'^Early^a m 1 Jeb w" mer Can be a Henry C. Payr armer. 1 is dying. A essary for the j Foraker and B gine, however, [ tirement. Gr rk nut. nil of his erotten.% limself. If he Of the men most of them spicuous in lved. The poor ranks when V s to be ahead was inaugur ading man. He Senator Lodg lit his work?in maining figure experiment sth- Cannon hikes ial department the country foi >oks on agricul- a member of s able to buy Guard under IV jading, if done he came into tl has a direct a reformer. Vill bring in the Nothing em] tical changes o every man who years more th e Progressive the Republics ear knows that have died or plan to depend York Weekly. tie; that it does crops in a poor- MOTHER! IS d-bed; that he STMAC for his corn and ? 'owing of clover If cross, fevei much cheaper give "Calif buying it in a Figs." Don't scold h little capital peevish child, it his command, coated; this ii ?ly them. A man little stomach, 2 to have two are clogged wi nproved imple- When listles ; him to rotate full of cold, b r make it easier!sore, doesn't c lousands. It should do the same "AKE TU RDUI Woman >ary Neely, of Denver, Tenn., tonic on earth, as good as Care :ry best results. I had backaeh , woman could suffer with, until 1 ! better than I have for two 3 )mmend Cardui to other siifferi it too highly. As a medicine fo men, Cardui is safe and reliable. adiea" Advisory Dept., Clvittanoojs Medicine Co., lions, and 64-paie book. "Home Treatment (or Wo 1TV1TV TVQ Field-Ciro r IKLl^U O ( Ahl>A( ie production f>f our plants (t'ahhauo, ! liiiumI in advance. Wo use l.on? Islam f the Karly Jersey. The ItteST of wood ' time in suitable soil scientifically pi iiiK IJIuo Itidjfe foothills that so did i nil rdw the BKST of plants that winter Onr prices are neither low nor liiyl nsiilercd. Smd 7-~>o fur .'i00. $i.?2"> foi for 10,000. Cultural suggestions and t.er Sweet I'otato I'lants. I I'AUMS. < Inn's Frost Frool Cabb; Are known as the best to he had ai of experienced buyers, and are otl fk.d lOMLKti. .in you pa\ for common, VTl UUIUIVAKll TILS. I'lants tier FlICESt , cents for r0() Ion.; $1.0 ij T* over N5 cents per 1000, I 0,1 J01 WNfXS IAKIY f.lWT ARf ) 8 001 s, \. r o year old, 1 rfc4. y Count and saosi actios '/ / * ? - . ... ?-.. o. .... ?-' For i - r< fitnlilc croj> < ml yoor ori ALFRED JOl INNET, f?x ise Est-18? ERTILIZE '< I ic are dead. Hale se, just as it is naturally, has to make a good digestion, diar his crops prop- spoonful of ro-horse imple- of Figs," and i can take his the foul waste, i and do good fermenting f< ogerssive Far- the bowels ant and playful cl dren love this id the Dead. laxative," and epublican party eas.v after giv ,rer yesterday it pcver tails to e leaders under "insides" clear into power six- Keep it ham Hp tn'von dead. Reed is chil<* tomorrow dead. Hanna is genuine. Ask j dead. Sherman a oO-cent botle Frye and Mc- Syrup oi I- igs hman K. Davis section for bal and Quay and a{' . ages and plainly on the Discovery. ber there are throat and lungs, here, so surely lacking cough, re- yours is made rc.at, tastes nice. nja j.-jg. Syrup ace used, always , , Lancaster Thar- back with com d Drug Co. fig: syrup. Be Happy! the girl, or woman, who has nevei liseases of womanhood! Or, if si >py is she if she has learned of "ardui, the woman's tonic! is a gentle, tonic remedy, for won al medicine?safe, harmless, pun in successful use for more than s ionic | ' says, "1 think I ,\ lui. I used it n| e and nearly |j| I took Cardui. I fears. 1 shall g ng women. I I r weak, tired, H Try it, today. I' Chattanooga. Ter.n. I ^ men." oent free. J M wn, Frost-Proof > iE PLANTS ittcel I'otato, Tomato I < 'Aliliago Nfeed grown 1 . placed tlifl I'KOPKR rcparcd and manured, ] tfully tempi r our winin tlm open and sliip 1 n, full our plants are I i(too, $:t.oo for ;u)<!(>, "jgi full price list free. I ??l i r, tge Plants i\ here l>y thou; and8 cicd to you at pi iocs inferior plants. WILL ( 1 in huiu lie;? o* 25. a) per 1000; 5000 and 1ENTEUII .si-\K \<.l S 1 per 1000,Si per 100. | 4 c.i /\ ?t am inn I ' witli <i Si r, please. a !n ; early to l \1T. PI FAS ANT, S. C. I >1 bies, children of for grown-ups ? bottle. Rememcounterfeits sold look and see that by the "CaliforCompany." Hand tempt any other suffered from H le has been a I I the wonderful I j icn's ailments. 9 x i 50 years. It I Jdricn, hpooner, ; urrows are in re- \ osvenor is fqri who were conthe Republican William McKinley ated President, e is the one re!. As Uncle Joe back to Danville rgets that he was the original Old [oKinley and that lie speakership as phasizes the poli- m f the last sixteen an the names of in leaders who* abdicated.?New ^ CHILD'S H SOI U, SICK? I rish, constipated, ornia Syrup of your fretful, See if tongue is * a sure sign its liver and bowels th sour waste. ;s, pale, feverish, reath bad, throat ?at. sleep or act stomach-ache, inrhoea, give a tea'Cal if ornia Syrup in a few hours all the sour bile and .)od passes out of 1 you have a well lild again. Chili harmless "fruit mothers can rest] ing it, because it make their little i and sweet, ly, Mother! A lit-' ay saves a sick ijfc v, but get the /our druggist for s of "California l." which hn? Hi