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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1892. ESTABLISHED 1844. 1 ????????? ? ? . _ ... ] An Eia of Minder. The Chicago Tribune lias for several years kept a record of the murders, legal executions and lynching* reported jn the newspapers uf the United States, and its report for the past year lias exeited general attention and comment. ; The murders numbered 5,900, an increase of ],()!(? over 1S90, and of over 1SS9. f "The list of murders during the last ten "years," it is noted, "shows a steady increase." The cause of the murders of last year are not satisfactorily classified, 2.S20 being attributed to "quarrels." K77 to "liquor," 44!> to "jealousy," and 74% to ".-elf-defence," while it'is pretty certain that these ca-es, or one-seventh of the whole number, are reported as of unknown cause. Mignwaymen are credited wun having committed 241 murders during the year, while 74 highwaymen were killed, presumably in the puruuitol their vocation. Compared with this list of nearly C,000 murders the list of legal executions appears very small. The dumber for the whole country during the year was 123, as compared with 102 in 18!>0. and was larger than in auy of the previous years. Strange to say, 00 are credited to the South anil only 27 to the North. Of the total number 52 were whites, 0-3 negroes, 1 Mexican, 4 Indians and 1 Japunese. The distribution by States and Territories was as follows : Connecticut aim wesi \ u^niut i each California, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio and Arizona 2 each. Alnbmia, Arkansas, Colorado and Tennessee^ each. Deleware, Nebraska and >iew York 4 each. Jndian Territory, 5. Pennsylvania, 7. Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and Virginia S each. Louisiana. 5>. Texas 12. Georgia, 16. "Jersey justice," it is seen, did not reach the gallows last year; and it is noteworthy that only one criminal was executed in all the New England States, and not one in Indiana, Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, I Jowaorany of the new States. The lynchers, of course, made a j larger score, as they put to death I0o | people 289 men and (! women?an j increase of US over 1890, and the largest number ever lynched in one year I in this country, The South, unfor-j tunately, leads again wnn u reooru oi, 169, against 23 for the North. Of (he victims 121 were negroes. 09 whites, j 2 Indians, 2 Chinese and 1 Mexican.; The distribution l?y States and Territories was as follws: California, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Wyo-j ming 1 each. Colorado, Michigan, j Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina.) "West Virginia and Indian Territory 2 each. South Dakota and Washington 3| each. Montana and Virginia 5 each.) Florida It). Kentucky 11, Georgia and) Arkansas 12 each, Tennessee.23, Texas 10. Mississippi 23, Alabama 20, Louisiana 29. It is pleasant to hud South Carolina in good company last ytar, and it is noteworthy again that not a single case of the crime under consideration occurred in the section north of Maryland and east of Ohio. "The) ! ".South" makes a bad showing un-l . doubtedly, but it should be noted, per-' haps, that of the 1(59 lynch ings that occurred in that action 4"> were of negroes for assaults on women, and that i 100 of the whole number occured in i the five Uulf States. Taking the lesial executions and lynching together, about two hundred and iilty people were put lo death i I lor murder last year. There were I nearly six thousand murders dur-j ( ing the year. Manifestly, as the Lou- i ' isville Couriei-Journal forcibly re- i marks, after a study of the figures we have given, "it is "safer to commit j murder than any other "crime iu |* Atucriea." The new year i* barely; ! tniee weeks old, and uo one who has] i watched the newspapers can have i I failed to mark the large numuer 01 crimes repoi ted in that time. There have been, we believe, a dozen or < more homicides in South Carolina I alone since C'hristma?, and the lecord i f for some of the other States is as bad or worse. There is a fair prospect that the evil record of last year will be' equalled this year. The increase year) by year for ihe past tPii years, it isj! said, has been very steady. That is i the natural consequence of crime going unpunished. The number of vie- i timsin ISftl nearly doubled those in i 1889,and tne number in the pa-t three,' years alone equals one-fourth the pop- i i illation of a city of the size of Charles-! S ton. It is a horrible chapter in each I year's history that is recorded by (lie' \ Chicago paper, but it cannot be stud-! \ ied too carefully. The remedy for the! \ evil exists somewhere, and il can bej \found and applied when the public Wuscience is awakened in look for it. The time to begin to search in earn*' flimears to have fully arrived. \ ' News ami Courier. British theological eccentricities by no rpeans exhaust themselves in panMethod ibt conferences. The other clay l he fiev. Charles Dodson was discovered driviuir though a market town with : a showy carriage and u groom in front. The vehicle was inscribed with the text, "Thy grace is sullicient for me," and on the rear, "Behold the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." This is very nice, but observers thought that the pony drawing the scriptural equipage had his neck arched unnecessarily, and an in vest i gat ion showed that the poor . brute was in great agony, with his tongue hanging out black and his mouth covered with blood under i I lie infliction of a bearing rein loaded with two fortyouuce hags of shot. Mr. Dobson was prosecuted, and gave the impression ihut he was a Weslevan minister but two pafctors of that sect write to-day denying that they have] any such character in their fold.?I From an English Letter. There is a certian preacher of lliberuian antecedents in St. Paul who considers himself to be in direct com munieation with the well of English | undefined, and is generally credited with the nossession of as rich a brogue as can be found anywhere in Tipperary. Some mention was made of his peculiar pronunciation at a church meeting which greatly angered him. He immediately called upon one of his leading parishioners, anu, aiter com-; plaining of the injustice done him, a?ked him whether in his opinion a single trace of the brogue was to be observed in his speech. "Well," his friend answered, "if yot wish to deny it, I should advise jouto do so in writing."?St. Louis (ilobe-Deniocrat. Tlio Stork au<] its Early in the summer months of 1K7(?, while indulging in an aerial voyage, a young stork dropped into the garden beloiitrin^ to a house situated in the immediate vicinity or' Hamburg, at the back of whch stood some old trees where for a succession of years other storks hud built their nests. The [ house was then occupied by a widow I iaily named Harmann and ner two [children?Karlina, in her eleventh year, ami Fritz, two years younger. While playing in the garden the children observed and ran towards the little tiling, which they found seated in the midst of a flower bed. Lifting it carefully for fear of injuring it, they ran to their mother and made an earnest request that she would allow them to rear it. "Storks can be tamed, you know, mamma dear," Karlinasaid. "And you will find itsouseful in the garden," Fritz pleaded warmly. Mrs. Harmanu, smiling, took the quaint little stranger on her lap and runflv IV ik cd if. 6V,"V ' "And you will be kind to it, and attend to its wants if I give you permission 10 keep it?" "Yes. yes," they cried. ' Then it is youis." And the delighted children carried their new pet off in triumph. JJeing naturally fond of birds and animals the little Hurnianns had been carefully taught to show kindness to any helpless creature which chance or accident might happen to throw in their way, and it is hardly necessary to say that they faithfully kept their promise to be kind to their little captive, and throughout the golden summer months he was their chosen playfellow, entering into their sports and pastimes? with an intelligent interest which doubly endeared him to them. "Fritz and I never mean to part with Storky," Karlina said to her mother one lovely August day while caressing the bird then lying by her side with his long straight beak resting on her shoulder. 4,0, ihv dear, you will soon have to part with him," Mrs. Harmann said in regretful tones, for she too loved the gentle bird that had shown itself so affectionate and grateful for the care taken of it. "He vvniilfl nniv din if vou were to detain him. He will soon j>in his tribe, and fly away beyond tlie seas to warmer climes where he can spend the winter months." "lint we conlil keep him warm aud comfortable in our school room," Karlina said wistfully. "But what about his food, my dear? Your natural history book tells you. does it not, that storks by their annual migrations avoid the severe seasons in which the reptiles that form their food remain hid and torpid, ?wonderful provision ofau all-wise Creator." Both children grew pale at the thoughts of losing their favorite, and the ready tears sprang to their eyes. ' I know what I shall do when the time conies for Storky to leave us." Kurilnn noddin<r her wise little eleven year old head. "I shall wrile 011 a piece of paper: 'Be kind to Storky during the winter, and send him back to us in the spring;' and sign it with our names and address, and tie it round one of his lees," and she laughed and clapped her hands with childish glee, her mother and Fritz sharing in her merriment, and wondering with her as to what would be the result of the experiment. One bitter cold day in October Fritz and Karl inn can e running to their mother with faces of consternation, the former shouiing, "Oh ! mamma, mamma, Storky's gone: he is not in the garden, and the nest is deserted." Here he fairly broke down, his sister joining audibly in his grief. "Well, well, my dear children," Mrs. Harmann said, "I told you storks must fly away like other hi ids of pasture huton I v tn nnnifi hack to Ud with J * the gladsome spring, sweeping over desert and deep, 'through the wastes jf trackless air.'" "But has storky quite left us, mamma?" persisted Fritz. "I fear so." "Aud gone without my message," Karliua cried. But the attached and loving bird had not left his loving companions, as they sadly thought. Towards the close of a fine bright day, about a week after, he dropped down into the garden and greeted his delighted friends with lively demonstrations of affection. Fully persuaded that this was his farewell visit, Karlina ran into the house and speedily returned with her carefully written message and fastened it by a piece of colored ribbon to one of his legs. As the setting sun lit up the autumnal scene with a bright transient gleam, .. ..r ulnutliT nlimto tl iiuuft ui oiui An |iasocvi oiv u ij uuuiv them. These the young bird evidently recognized as his party, I'm , "With a loving farewell glance he took wing, And alter a few e\er-widening circles" . . . around his tearful friends, rose higher au<l higher, the little piece of papt-r bearing the loving message perfectly distinguishable in his upward lliglit. "CJood-by, Storky," cried the children kissing their hands to the bird and sobbing out "Come back with spring; come back with spring." All throughout the severe winter which followed, the lit tie Harmanns would talk often of their loving playmate of the bygone summer. But when they saw the garden hidden for days beneath a thick covering of snow, acid heard the plaintive cries of birds that were being fed by their little hands, they rejoiced to think that their dear storky was away Irom all starvation and cold, enjoying himself amidst sunshine and flowers; but oh how they Jonged to have him back! and could he only speak lhat he might tell them of what he had seen and been doing during all the weary months of absence. At length the long gloomy wiuter passed and gentle spring luude the earth glad with its presence. Would storky come to thetn? Karlina and Fritz asked each other as they gazed out of tiie windows which commanded a view of Hamburg, and saw the huge nests on bellry, tower, and housetop once more occupied by the birds, while the tr?e inhabited by Storky still remained untenanted. Would lie ever come back? .Storky. now a splendid full-grown bird, answered this question in person, ami appeared one morning on the terrace wall,'craning his neck in at the parlor window in the hope that his never forgotten and still fondly loved companions would see him and run out to welcome him; and oh what re juicing there was over the returned e> ile. Shouts of "mamma! mamma! brought Mrs. Harmann ou the seem and when the bird came forward t trreet iier, Karlina observed for thi tirst time that it still had a piece of pi per tied round its leg. ' Oh, Fritz," she cried, with teartu eyes; "no one has cared for Stork^ since he has brought back my mes sage " Amazed and hurt at this slight t< her feathered darling, she took the pa per off and unrolled it. No it was no her message, it was another writter in German and read as follows:? "K , AFRICA. "Your stork has spent the winte with me. J read you message, havi given him kind care through the win ter, and now send this in return. ] am a missionary living here." * * * An Indian on War.. At the Peace Conference of Crist ians held at Philadelphia, Pa., Tentt Month 17 and IS, 187(5, Thomas Dana an Oneida Indian, a minister in lh< ai. fj. unurcn, uiki ui present a miss iouary among the Indians in the Jn diati Territory, was introduced. Hi spoke as follows: The aborigines of this country .wel corned the Europeans to their'lands and extended to them a cordial hospi tality Instead of their kindness hav ing been reciprocated, they had beer persecuted and driven from thei homes, and now the cry is for exter initiation. The Indian has always kept lilt promises, but the white man has a! ways broken his. No instauce exists in which a peaceable Christian hai gone in simplicity among the Indians and sustained a peaceable demeanor and yet received harm from the Indi an. War not only destroys the Indi an, but it demoralizes him. Indeed, ] wonder sometimes that ttie contiuen contains oue decent Indian. O. it is t terrible thing to have the soldier; thrust among us. We should not think of revenge i they would not come among uh will powder and pistol and bowieknife, and most of them bring these. The sight of these stir up the "dirtj water," and wake up their "yello\\ jacket," and thus war follows. Th< white man introduces among tbe In dians every species of immorality ami vice. i I thank God that I am an Judian ? if I were born in a wigwam, in thi woods, God, he whom you talk s( much about, lift up so high?I fear lif too high?get him too far from you has condescended to visit even me anc dwell with me. We Indians who are partially civilized, before we were so, put on out feathers and trappings. These remind me of some of the signs in your city. When I see "Witioc linnnrs nncl nirraru " T knniv .MVM, ..^?W , what is inside. So we wore the out ward sign of what was within. As we become civilized we put ofl* these things, and, as we become converted, enlightened by God's Holy Spirit, it is certain that we cannot slay in the woods. Some of us have become quiet and peaceable, but when we see so many professing Christians engaged in war, we cannot understand what they mean. The Iudians do not want war; they will not tight against the white people if they will not provoke them by cruelty and injustice. If the people of the United States only knew the truth of the matter, they would be converted to a just and humane policy. But O, what a terrible curse you will bring on if you urge on extermination under the plea that you can not civilize the Indian. You can not civilize him through a jug of whisky. You can not civilize a white luau with whisky. May'God grant that success may attend your efforts to hasten the day of universal peace. Which Wins??Sneer at plodders il you will, but don't forget that brighl fellow s have to go to them for an increase in salary. The skin of a boiled egg when care fully peeled and applied when wet to a boil will draw out the matter and greatly relieve the soreuess. To stop the flow of blood: Bind tlx cut with cobwebs and brown sugar pressed on like lint; or?if you cannot procure these, with the dust of tea. To relieve asthma: Soak blotting 01 tissue paperiu strong saltpeter water Dry and bum at night in the bedroom. Ink.?Instead of putting more Ink in your inkstand, simply aclJ watei and stir it up well from the bottom with a match. Ink loses by evaporation far more thau by being spread ou the page. When at last it grows pale, wash out the inkstand, put in fresh ink and begin anew. A compound reccomended to keef borers outof fruit trees is made up at follows: iroft soap, 1 gallon; water,] gallon; coal tar, 1 quart. Mix thorough' lj; then add red clay till the mixture is of the consistency of thick cream apply with an old paint brusn. i nt first application should bo made in [April. Repeat the application in May, June and September. In answering the question whethei horses are better watered before than after meals, a writer in the London Live Stock Journal stoutly declares that "it is undoubtedly a serious mis' take to water horses soon alter they have been fed. If they cannot be watered before feeding, then this should only be allowed after the process ol digestion has been completed." A clean dooryard usually indicates a rich compost heap. Where housi waste and slops and heaps of ashes cumber the yard the manure is poorci fur lack of the fertility that is vvastec there, and a part of the richness is re turned to the house again through tlx open doors and windows bringing dis agreeable oders and disease germs witl it. Dissolve alum in hot wafer, making a very strung solution; appiy iu mrui tore or crevices in tiie wall with i paintbrush. This is sure destructini to all noxious vermin, and invaluahh because so easily obtained; it is perfect ly safe to use, and leaves no traces be hind. When you suspect moths havi lodged in the borders of the carpets wet the edges of the carpet with i strong solution. Whenever it reaclie them it is certain death. "LOST ! BBOBDBBBBBHBDnB '1 I Somewhere be i Sunset, two Goldt with Sixty Diam ? reward is offered, fi t n? 1 ever\ ? Had he carried 1 neman, the Jewele: proper repair he "w his precious hours. Engraving an; 8 cuted at short not! i None but first ; my place. Satisfai The largest i ! and Jewelry in the HE33XT1ST: I : ti ie Jeweler, % ! Great Slai I > L 1? ' IF YOU WAN1] UTERI IS \ i to buy. There you vs ; dreamed of. We ask our cardinal points. 3" a 1 " ?1 1) ^ t: a. T, ' g s i x " o I t tv t: rr r t k rwi r A\ i A '<A T. I>? We will have in a 1: ! ers soon, suitable for I J. R. 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