Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? RAH C umber of Homicides in Soutl Records e Tho Columbia correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier sends his paper the following under date of April 29: \ * . , Columbia, April 29.--Some time ago when Bishop Capers took occa sion to comment on tho fearful num ber of murders committed in this State there wero some who protested OD the ground that whilo this may be BO. there was no special uso to talk about it. It is very well to remember that publicity is about the only thing that will arouse public sentiment in this respect. Conditions are no better now than they were some time ago, when the last pull shed statement was made in the News and Courier. A comparative statement, as gath ered from the records, has 'been pre pared by an observant student of such matters and this comparison has been given the press for such effect as it may have. ' The study of the records is as fol lows: The report from authenticated of ficial sources shows that in the oity of Chicago there were 143 murders "tiring the lass year (1905). This ateinent has reooived wide circula* tion and eiioited the gravest comment of the press as showing that in that great oity violence ia dominant'and human life is cheaper than in any other like center of population on the earth. Compaiieon is made between Chi cago, with its 143 murders, and New York; with its 72; Philadelphia, 13; London, 24; and Paris 15 murders for the carno period, and it would, seem to justify the conclusion that Chicago holds .the unenviable world's record for murders. But what must be said of the hor rifying fact that during the samo pe riod, aocordiog to the rep ort of tho attorney General, made tb the legis lare of South Carolina, 259 homicide eases were disposed of T&the criminal coarta- of the several "ob un ti ea, not ousting the estes of murder anet yn ah i n gs, which haye ?o t found their ray to the records of the courts; . The people of the State have be one to some estent aroused to the atenea of a spirit of crime which rampant, but v??y f*w have given sore than a passing tbocght to its esl estent, and the looa! public sen* bent has been satisfied by giving to the inmaDEtiou tsropo 'ly. ckcit?d by. the occurrence of me revolting murder committed in sir midst. Is it not time to face the . stern re* 'ties disclosed by tho. record and ve grave consideration to the caus?s f this appalling condition and the medjes.ior its correction. Now- as to these facts: Chicago,, ; 'iii a v population of 1;698,575, ba? d one murder to e?oh 11,961^.01 pulation, while in South Carolina, th 1,500,030, there was one' to each 769 of population, or more ; than 'ce the proportionate number of icago. ? . " The r?cotd as to other centers of pulati?ffstand^ New':HYntii>i':p??u?atiOn^ 3,437^202, murders-, 1 to each 47,739. - Philadelphia, population 1,293,697, murdejrs,^^ Wv'., > 1 London, y ^pu?ation ^,580,616, 24 arders, I to eaob 274,198. Paris, population 2,714,068, 1$ mur/ "9,1 to eabh 180,933. VV'r : :> Taking the.record of several of tba Wti^aj^ i h Carolina Compared with the ltewhere. Parie, with about tho same population as tho other oouoties. It is to be noted that all caeea whioh go to trial in the oourt House are olsased se homioides. The total of 259 includes ell oases of homicide for a year, whether justifiable homicide, accidental homicides or verdicts of acquittai. Tho numbor represocts tho cases actually brought to trial, where there has been a loss of life, and an indictment for murder has been given out. It docs not, of course, include the number of canea in which no arrests were mado and in which no trial ensued. , Roused tho Audience. , Joseph Jefferson aced to say that his career came very near being nipped in the budin a small western term. Be at that time was a member of a email pioneer company whioh pro gressed by means of three "ball teams" from one mining oamp to an other; They were always heartily re ceived hy the miners and cowboys, who readily paid $5 in gold required to witness their performances. Mr. Jefferson was the traditional melodra matic villein and in the third act was supposed to kidnap "the child." The supposed mother, hearing its cries, rushes upon the soene just as hela shout to escape and fires a fruitless shot from a revolver. Upon this particular oboaeion all had gone well until thin soene waa reaohed, and the audience, many of whom had never before seen any kind of .theatrical performance, Bat naif Bpallbound. At the crack of tho mother's revolver, however, the spell wes rudely broken. ' "By heaven, she missed him!" a red shirted miner in the front row shouted, drawing his own six shooter and leaping to his feet. "Round to the hank doer and head him ott Tore ho can gi*-a hose, boya!" he yelled, and following him, half'the audio nco stampeded'for the exit. The excitement was finally allayed by the "mother" and the villain ap pearing handln hand before tho oar tain and tho managers explanation of the situation. When the performance had been concluded the andiene^in sisted on paying SEOtiier. sdsissioD price and having an immediate repeti tion from beginning to ond.-Success Magasine.; '. ^ -, : Haw he Spoiled hit Caso. "It pays sometimes to have;the right kind of ? lawyer," remarked W. T. Purdy, a well-known mining man of tho northwest; "I was a witness I in a case a few days ago, in Seattle, ia j which a colored man was seeking j damages for: permanent inj arios aus- j fained in an acoident to, an elevator j whioh he was rann?sg. . plaSsiiS claimed that he had been maimed for life, by being permanently deprived of the free use, of. his right ?rmv ?'.Ai*: though the accident had happened months before hie-arm was still crip pled, and. he .was nuable to raise it above his waist. Ho explained all thia with much feeling and earnest ness during his direct examination, TJaen tho attorney, for the cyne* of building toot him In hand. ^ S ??fe8nOW ns high you can raiiio/y^sr arm,' said the attorney, -.v';. "And the, defendant feebly raised his; arm a few inches../ . !? *No jr shew us how high you could j raise your arm before you were injur ed,' pursued the attorney. ^ "And the defendant unhesitatingly and unthinkingly raised the crippled arm high above his head, thus knock ing his damage ol ai m ' skyward with one eloquent gesture."-San Franc'soo Chronicle. : ' . ; ;?" : ; i KO EXCUSE FOR CATARRH Worst Casca Quickly Cuiwdt by There is lea?iy not tho B??ghtoBt obtained. ; the worst ease. the remedy thirka the' skat Inhaler that comes wiW? every ^^^uple te out gt, con si a ti n g of a neat pocket inhaler, ia medicine drop ?, and a bottle of flyomei costa only dollar, ' while extra bottle? eau oWiue? for 60 cents, txxnki ng HyOK. the moat eocuctnioal, as .well' as tho ?t????sM* {method for curing ca Syani Phjai^a^cy posiavely guara :,o^??;'whe^ ?sed. in f'1*m:;r?ft^ they jyjOujfrv!"' / . :-> - ?A go^;^iaiS-jk?own; by the ae> " Milit?. "' Observance o7 Sflh?jt'j?. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain." 4'Re mo mb or that thou keep holy tho 8abbath day." "We take these two commandments for our study todsy. We take them both beoauao they blend into each other. Reverence for God's holy name and reverenoo for God'a holy day are complementary propositions. They fulfill eaoh other. In the first of these two commandments the nega tivo implies the positive. The com mand means more than to refrain from swearing r.nd profano oaths. "It means also, Thou shalt bold io i hjgheBt reverence the name of tho Lord thy Godl In Hebrew thought tho name stood for tho charaoter. And tho name of Jehovah, or Yawee, as later scholars havo rendered it, is a form of the verb 'LO be,' and moans thc self-existent one, he who has life in himself. "Reverence means tho highest ad miration of tho soul. We may ad mire without respecting, but rever ence means a blending of admiration with respect. This self-existent life who is the all in all, in whom wo all live and movo and have our being, who is our souroe and our goal, our sustaining strength in every present hour, ought to be the thought most constantly in all our minds. The highest reality is not houses or lands or bank accounts, but life, and all om lives are contained in the oneness of this supreme lifo we call God. These material rewards of endeavor that we prise so highly are but symbols of i reality who is not matter but life. "Surely, then, man's highest and most constant concern is with thc thought of God. These material things vanish in A moment of earth' quake, or fire, or oyslone, or tida! w.ve; or at the inevitable touoh ol death. Only God and his purpose! concerning us remain. Surely it ooo ceres us then not merely to avoi< profaning the name of God, but t< have it before our minds as that final ity to whioh all thoughts and experi oncea point and lead. "If reverence for God is the high est claim on all lives it is supreme!; important that this thought sb oui < reoeive an emphasis so marked tba the most careless should be impressei by it. This has been done through ai the civilized ages of mankind by th settiog aside of one day in eeve' as day of worship and rest. Tb^'sand of years before Moses mada t?is oom mend for the Hebrew people i bsd besn observed in Egypt an Chaldea. x I ' "Religion has given this anprem gift to a world bowed down wit grindng and ill-requited toil. Ma loves pleasure, but pleasure has neve been abls to win a day from toil an human greed. Where the religion ideal fades human greed onoo cloie this dsy as its own. .There is a quicker road back to animalism tba to abrogate this day of rest. 1 destroy its religious oharaoter an make it a day of pleasure ia only tl first step in banding , it baok to lano Religion ia recognised aa having ai thority over human life or, at less as having tho right to such au th or it; Pleanurn. on thn ni nay band, is co: sidered ats haying lesa authority thi labor. Religion is moro divine thi labor. Pleasure is less diviner thi tabor; . tts claims can never haye tl reverence that controls the oall labor. Thus/* around tho religio1 character' of the Sunday cen ter i the highest "'interests of human Iii We do not -need to keep this day the Puritans -kept it in order to ma it a religious day. ' "But we ought always to rsuemb thai GcoVi? tho supreme reality of t universo and- as,such 'claims our co st&nt asi * well:.as our ; highest re v? ence. ^his.. diyr? is His dsy. JB worship comes before rest or reen tlc?: When that duty is attended the remainder of the day can bo us in any way not inconsistent with th purpose. It ls certainly not the d for exciting and absorbing plessun such as - the theatre, for boistro amusements, for public receptions.1 Social funotions, but the visit to t park or the museum, tho rida lt the country, the visit tb a friend yi hcWk,:;- 'byan, of light literature, home, tho family-/ gathering. Th? '. .iL~i?c r .;. t'_i' -Ilia' ? set trs;?IMO ^uio* noa tao oui the pesos ?ind tranquillity of the d that should come into crur hear ts w an ?roma sud association ail Hts os ;"Poorj?de*d la tlie lire that has 4sgra4e^^nj?*jr as to bring lido to t?? UvelVof other doy?. To wit no whisper of a higher raining to ? *s te n oe, bf a vi ctory b ey o o d the fast, cf a dream life io which all g< influences triumph and blossom i all evil influences fade and disappe has not come. Like balms of spri Sunday should : bringt :m'sssss;c|';:; j^ftbgslbf^ a finer world than 41 bi?t? tho pis of peace, of the m ono ts of tf ensfi ration. Like ins quiet that come; eventide, it should bring beim < healing for>?e battle of the we tplfefeelioge, a largor cutlook, i rer?lut ijttis.^^^ 6th ?sdc*S??>ScU?B DuO'?l'i v?u?u Our souls with a consciousness of tho nearness of the Infinite. This is rast, rest of the spirit, not the rest of Usin?es and self-abandon, of drunken ness and debsuohery or of those spec tacular pleasures that leefe a sense of emptiness and wasted hours behind, but rest in its high, pure meaning, the rest of a being moro than animal, moro theu dust, ooosoious of an im mortal life, cf one who has but to listen to hear the beat of unseen wings, to feel t!*e rhythm of the music that flows forever round tho throne of God*"-St. Louis Repub lic. _ Couldn't Represent lt. A school teacher one day, duriog j tho hour for drawing, suggested to her ? pupils that each draw whit he or she | would like to bo when grown up. At tho end of tho lesean one little girl showed an empty slate. ?Vhy," said the teaoher, isn't there anything you would Uko to be when you grow up?" "Yes," said tho little girl, "I would like to bo married but I don't know how to draw it."-Life. Speeding the Farting Guest. "Is that dook right?" he asked after it had struck ll. "Why?" she answered. "Because, if it is, I shall have plenty of time to oatoh the 11.30 oar." "I remember now," she said, "that the olook is about 20 minutes slow. If you hurry, you will just oatoh the oar. Duriog the 20 minutes that he stood on the corner he arrived at the painful conclusion Chat she didn't really love him is he longed to be loved.-Chi osgo Times-Herald. - In a oonferenoe with President Roosevelt, at Washington, Dr. Seale Harris', of the University of Alabama, expressed the opinion that tho negro race is likely to beoome extinct in this country through the ravages of dis ease, especially consumption. - A Chicago married man dropped dead the other day while trying to lift a stove for his wife. It was the first time that he ever did anything for his wife, and the doctors say that his death was due to the sudden enlarge ment of tho heart. - Even the Presbyterians, the most conservative of all denomina tions, have caught the infeotion and revises the marriage ceremony by leav ing out the word "obey." They doubt lesa argue, "what's the use?" - Ooosaionslly you hear of a man having more than he knows what to do with, but no cae ever heard of a wo mun being ia shat ?sliglitful ecsdi tioa. - Some people are so lazy they yawa in their sleep. . - It's awful shortsighted to lie if the troth will fool people more. . .- There are thioga a maa oaa't af ford for himself because his wife caa afford things forheraelf. * - Money oan be lost in more ways than won. - The man who has a system for hosting the races seldom baa anything else. . "rv - If a man's credit isn't good he can easily cut down hi* ?xpsn?es. . THE ROYAL NUN. Should the queen mother of f pain carry out her rumored inten tion of entering a convent after her ron's marriage she would have a precedent in the step taken some years ago by the ex-qujen of a neighboring country. The widow of ex-King Miguel of Portugal, .Princess Adelaide of Loyenstein Werthcim-Rosenberg, who has been a widow for nearly forty years-her husband sat on tho Portuguese throno for barely six-became a Benedictine nun at Solcsmes, in France, in 1697. Tho community of which she is a member became tho tenant on the recent expulsion of thc order from France of North wood, Isle of Wight. Since her ad vent to England the royal nun has received visits from King Edward and several members of the royal family. Tho Grcon Flash of Sunset. One of the most rarely witnessed of natural phenomena, but one that lias often boon discussed in scientific journals and that always awakens wonder when seen, is the so called "green Hash" occasionally visible nt the moment of the disappearance of the sun behind a clear horizon. Tho observer's eyo must be fixed upon tho rim of the sun as it disappears in order to catch the phenomenon. An officer of the British navy says that ho has seen the green flash, al though rarely, at tho instant of tho setting of a bright ?tar. Among tho explanations offered is ono based upon tho optical principio of com plementary colors. If ono looks at the sun and then closes tho eyes a green disk will bo perceived. A sensitive eye might be similarly af fected by a brilliant star. ?i?'1' ; AsbostuB ?nd Its Uses. A?be8tu8 was first mined about a hundred years ago, chiefly as inter esting to tho geologist and mineral ogist, and of little or no commercial value. About 18G8 it was first used commercially in thc manufacture of roofing felt and cement. Early at tempts to spin this fiber were un successful, bab tho difficulties have now been overcome, so that a single asbestus thread weighing not moro than one ounce per 100 yards, which has a pretty fair strength, may be made. Asbestus ropes ,for fire depart ments aro made entirely of asbestus or asbestus with a core of steel. 1 With tho steel wire core a three quarter inch rope carries nearly j 2,000 pounds.-Chicago Journal. The Largest Picture. Roussel Geo has completed what is said to be the largest picture ever painted. The area of the canvas is 807 Square feet. The artist had to beg the loan of a studio of suitable size from the state, and he and his easels, some twenty feet high, were accommodated in tho Galleria des Mochines, tho largest ono spanned building in the world. The picture represents the Paris crowd in .1789 rushing to the Hotel de Ville, led by Lafayette, after the taking of the Bastille, and contains more than 1,000 life size figures. It will be hung in a suburban town hall, that of Ivry. - - Some times a tn an l^nes for to morrow beosuse he is ashamed of what bo didn't do today. - Most of the things that come to those who wait are a trifle stale by the time they arrive. _ ITHE COTTON JOURNAL HARVBE JORDAN. Editor-irv-CHief ! ^ i * FIRST ISSUE WILL APPEAR MAY 17th, 1906 i t?/tAL?E present crop Cotton, raw, $650,000,000. . Value present-crop pw5 of Cotton manufactured, $2^000,000,000. Estimated number of ?'" . - "Hi producers, 1,500,000. Estimated number actual consumers, g? is the greatest vegetable product .of the world. All ^ "hers & .'..*'>.. vot ton cannot. JacA ia tremendous factor , . :? *"> ?.?/".?. and our proMparlty demanda a groat 1 Liw^r^s^^ative Newspaper ! ? The Cotton Journal will meet that demand ! Broad enough in scope to interest every person in the Cotton belt, while ? ! it will-stand dtstir.ctivel vasa renresentatlve of the Cotton growing inter ? est, it will cover the whole field so thoroughly that it will be a necessity to K every CaUm f? wer. The statistical # department will ba in charge of eminent statisticians; and no expense will ' # be spared to make this department the roost perfect in the world. di w??/t? .Wrtftrs; Editor-in-Chief, and Richard Cheatham. Business Mer.. 1 have in their work as Pr?sident and Secretary, respectively of the Southern < ? 5 Cotton Association, won victories In the Interest of Cotton producers of ? > &W0t? value to the conn try than any great victories ever won by ??00000?- , > % um army on tho battlefield; and their work has added untold wealth to tho > 1 I Cotton States. The Cotton Journal will continue the battle for Southern , I *: sunremftcy and'fairplay. The public has for many years heard practi- 5 ( 1 cally only one aide of the Cotton story. It will be the mission of The Cotton < [ ( ? Journalto tell tba other side. We desire Several correspondents In every t [ \ beat, district dr township of the Cotton bett, and in addition to our present f i \ list, every subscriber whose subscription reaches us prior to May 17th, ? , i will be placed upon our list of regular correspondents for information con- ^ > ? 5 eerhihffoontf Commence your subscription ? j J v^^retMeuei , SVBStsVPTi?M PRiCB, St.OP PB* VB AR* ? ' ! Address THE COTTON JOURNAL PU3LI8H ?N6 COM PAN Y, Atlanta, Georgia ?? ii ?^?.^tbtiAw'ft c?K?*tt?m. M*n*e?T ',. ' sis-ato Paopien itida? ., .: j ^ '?' : 1 . ' ' .x ^ "*"-'-. ??af?s? w.! nfOLCBS. ' # S ? ?MeWPm Bata*.- wew-vaasrr : ?": -. .-'caaa, cava?, cssrnaa A I I THE FOjURT)? RATION AL BANK S 41 V v Atlanta, Go., April 6 th, 1906. i This is to certify ^cf T),o Cotton Journal Publishing Co. 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