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AWFUL RECORD. Rev. Mr. Bristow Writes of Mur ders in This State in. Since July Last There Has Been One Hundred and Fifty-Eight Murders in Socth Carolina, of Which Eigh ty-Two Were Committed in Pro hibition Counties and Seventy-Six In Dispensary Counties. Rev. Louis J. Brisxow, a young Baptist preacher and a strong pro hibitionist, has been keeping the re cord of the murders committed in this State in the lact six months, and gives out the following on the sub ject for publication: "The appalling frequency of homi cides in South Carolina is a matter which should give the officers of the law and al'! law-abiding people cause for serious consideration. Legisla tive, executive and judicial officers are confronted with a situation which, if tolerated much longer, will result in untold evil to the state. If necessary, drastic measures should be adopted to put a stop to the reign of riot that is rampant in South Carolina. "For a long time I have been giv ing attention to the matter, and I herewith append figures covering re ports in the daily papers for the past six months, from July 1 to December 31, inclusive. f "Homicides, 158; of the dead, whites 79; negroes, 79; of the slay ers, whites 70, negroes 85, unknown 3. It will thus be seen that the number of deaths is and the men who did the killings were almost equally divided also. I have often h6ard it said In answer to argument against killing that the large major ity of the homicides in Soutn Caro lina were ordinary 'nigger killings.' The reports in the daily papers for the last six months are a complete re futation of the claim. "As to the manner of death I find that 121 of the dead were killed by guns and pistol shots; 18 by blows from rocks, brick and pieces of wood; 1? by knife cuts, and two by blows from axes. * Here, too is a ter rible indictment against our people; the deadly weapon?the pistol?is carried by far too many men and boys. Pistols are made and carried for the purpose of shooting men, and that person who habitually carries a pistol is in his heart already a murderer, With the: possible excep tion of .certain officers of the law, ^who-aTe supposed to go armed. Ii believe it Is true that an Indictment for murder in this state carries with a charge of carrying concealed wea pons; but I have never heard of a case where the accused was convicted of the charge, or count, relating thereto. "Another matter, and one which I leave to others to account for: "Of the 158 killings since July 1, 82 were committed in prohibition counties and 76 in counties in which there are dispensaries. Since Octo ber 29, killings have been reported in phohibltion counties as follows: York, Saluda, Oconee, Union, Pick ens, Marlboro, Cherokee and Spar tanburg, one each; Greenville, New berry, Darlington, two each; Edge field and Marion, three each, Lan caster, four, and Anderson eleven, j "In prohibition counties. Hamp-j ton, Williamsburg, Georgetown and I Dorchester, one each; Charleston and. Columbia, two each; Bamberg, Alken, Orangeburg, Richland, Lau rens, three each, and Barnwell, four. "I recite this last paragraph for the information of those who have desired to compare the homicide re cords of prohibition and dispensary counties. "My remedy for the evil of homi cide Is for the legislature to make It a crime, per se, to be punished according to the degree of felony in each case. "To take a human life Is an of fense against God and human so ciety, except it be due process of law. When the Lord gave his laws to Isreal, he made provision for the manslayer who-killed by accident. But even he was not to go scott free. According to the Mosaic dispensa tion every person guilty of a homi cide suffered a penalty for his of-j fense against human life and society, whether the death blow was given ] premedltatedly and wantonly, in heat of passion, or in fear; or! whether by error or accident. This j was God's command; and every pro-' vision of the Mosaic economy en-1 shrined some enduring principle By I it some lasting moral lesson was In- j tended to be impressed upon the minds of the people. The Institution may be altered or entirely disappear amid changing social conditions; but the principle ever remains the same. "The Cities of Refuge provided for by the Mosaic laws were to give an esylum only to those who killed by accident or error, but even they had to suffer on indeterminate sentence of confinement in such city--until the death of the high priest. For all other manslayers the penalty was death. "It is my conviction, after long and serious study of the matter, that homicide should be a felony and that punishment should follow upon proof of homicide according to the degree of carelessness or wilful ness or felony in each case. Were I a legislature I would introduce into that body next week a bill declaring homicide to be a felony, and fixing the punishment for man killing at from two to fifty years imprisonment and for dastardly or wilful murder, death. ? "I .venture the ascertlon that had the 158 persons who killed their. feUowmen during the last half of last year know positively the penalty for homicide was certainly two, pos sibly fifty, years' imprisonment, not one-fourth of the number of homi cides would have occurred in this state. r "I know I will be met with the case* of person who kills unquestion ably Jn defense of himself, his home or hip family. My reply is. we us ually have a man of integrity and honor in the governor's chair, fh whose hands is the prerogative of pardon. "I stated at the outset that drastic measures should- be adopted, I re peat it. Louis J. Bristow. Wllliamston. Jan. 3, 1908. FIVE KILLED OUTRIGHT. In a Head On Collision Ont In Ala ' bama. A special from Vinegar Bend, Ala., tells of a disastrous wreck on the Alabama & Mississippi railroad Fri day, caused by a head on collision between a passenger train and a logging train. Five persons were killed outright and two were serious ly injured. ' The dead are: W. B. Paine, merchant, Vinegar Bend; Charles C. Busbee, a section fore man; three negroes, names unknown. The list of injured is as follows: Frank Marks, engineer of the pas senger train, will die; Henry Hall, fireman of the passenger train, ser iously injured; several negroes slight ly injured. Twelve miles west of Vinegar Bend, the road turns sharply and the greater portion of this curve is made up of trestling that spans a ravine and a small brook at the bot tom. Running at fair speed, the tres senger train took the curve and tres the trestle gave way and both en came on the opposite end. Before Engineer Marks could bring his train to a stop the trains met head on in the certre of the trestle. Simultaneously with the collision, the trestle gave way and both en gines and trains fell to the bottom. On the logging train were a number of convicts. According to Training. The traveler belonged to the "effete civilization of the east," and when the unmistakable odor of sauerkraut per meated the atmosphere of the little Pennsylvania inn where he had halted for his midday meal he was first per turbed and then irritated beyond meas ure by the smell, says the author of "Old Schuylkill Days." ?^Sauerkraut! Ugh!" he shuddered, with an indignant glance at the vener able Dutch landlord who was nodding over his pipe in a corner of the rocm. "How any one can eat sauerkraut I cannot see. I'd as lief eat dirt as to eat sauerkraut" The landlord stirred in his chair. "Well," he began, without opening his eyes, "that is just as yon were brought up. If you were brought up to eat sauerkraut, you eat sauerkraut. If you were brought up to eat dirt, yon eat dirt."?Youth's Companion. Her Wish. Wee Hostess?Mamma, shall I in* vite Lucy Littnay to my party? Mamma?Certainly. She is the min ister's daughter. "Do ministers' daughters get invited everywhere?" "Always." "They has lots of fun, I s*pose. I wish my papa was a minister 'stead of being a miserable shiner." ? London Tit-Bits. "I don't see how you can have any fault to find with him." "Why not?' "Because he appears to be a man who is absolutely without faults of any sort" "That's just it That's his worst fault"?Catholic Standard and TimeB. She had accepted his offer to escort her home In the rain. "I have been wondering," he remark ed on the way, "whether it is on ac count of my umbrella or my company that I am allowed to come with you." "It is neither," she replied. "It is on account of my new hat" The "Saybrook platform," which was adopted in the year 1708 at Saybrook, Conn., fixed upon Connecticut an es tablished church. Congregationalism became the religion of the state by legislative enactment and for seventy six years made "dissenters" of all not conforming to it SHOT THEM BOTH. The Murderous Act of a Jealous Young Man. As the result of a tragedy at Mar lon, N. C., which occurred In front of the First National Bank building, James Patterson was killed outright and Alfred Patterson, his brother, was picked up in the street in a dy ing condition. The shooting was done by Graham Finley, a well-known young , man of Marion, and was over Miss Patterson a sister of the two men shot. Fin ley met Miss Patterson in company with Henry Moore, his rival, as the two were returning from church. He demanded that Moore surrender the girl to him and was met with a prompt refusal. A personal encounted ensued, and the girl's brothers, who were also returning from church with a party of ladies, appeared on the scene and took their sister's escort's part, whereupon Finley drew his revolver and killed one of them outright and mortally wounded the other. He was arrested. $15 DOLLARS SAVED TO ORGAN CUSTOMERS Vor Next 40 Days. We will sell our excellent $80 Or gans at only $05. Our $90 Organs for only $75. Special Terms: One third now, one-third Nov. 1908, bal ance Nov. 1909. If interested, clip this ad, and enclose it with your let ter, asking for catalog and price list. If you want the best organ on earth, don't delay, but write ub at once and save $15 and make home harmoni ous. Address: MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. C. Pianos and i Organs. Santa Claus Abets Dan Cupid. North Carolina Girl Escapes From Connecticut Boarding School on Rope Sent Her In a Christmas Box and Marries h?r Youthful Sweetheart. Thirty feet of rope sent by a girl io a Christmas box to Miss Ruth Kendall at the Norwalk Finishing school, in Connecticut, was responsive for .a merry wedding party at the Holland House In New York city. The former Miss Kendall appeared as Mrs. Alfred Kent Mrs. Kent laughingly admitted that she-had reached her fiance's arms only after traversing the thirty feet of rope hanging from a window in the board lng school. Her chum, Miss Ethel Kel cey of 155 West Forty-sixth street, was present at the celebration and said that she was proud to state that she sent the rope which had brought about such a happy result. But the rope descent was not the only feature of this romance. It wa ?? founded strictly upou Romeo-Juliet lines, for the fathers of Miss Kendall and Mr. Kent have l>een bitter enemies for a generation. When Mr. Kendall In his borne In Raleigh. N. C. learned that a "Kent boy" from Asheville, N. C., had made the acquaintance of his daughter, strict orders were sent to the school that Miss Kendall's mail should be carefully watched and her excur sions from the school well chaperoned. Miss Kendall and Mr. Kent met last summer during their vacations nt the Thousand Islands. Miss Kendell told chance to rest if she trit? to escape by means of the bedclothes or a rope. "I had to use bedclothes, but I pre pared a box with thirty feet of rope and sent it to Miss Kendall, marked 'Merry Christmas From E. A. K.* Those are my Initials, but they also happen to be the initials of Miss Kendall's fa ther, so the box was given to her with out Inspection. I told her to try to get my old room and to throw out all her bedclothes so as to make a soft place to land upon when she reached the end of the rope." Miss Kendall, or, rather. Mrs. Kent, received the rope without any suspi cion being excited, and on Wednesday last was able to secure the room that had been suggested by her friend. Mr. Kent was already in Norwalk. and through friends the two planned to elope. Mrs. Kent said: "It was all so jolly and just as ro mantic as a girl could imagine in her dreams. "I was obliged to wait until about o'clock, as regular trips through the rooms are made by teachers up to that hour. I was afraid that I would slide too rapidly down the rope and not be able to check myself at the ledge mark ed out as a resting place." Before attempting her descent Miss SHE SLID DOWN A THIRTY FOOT ROPE INTO HER FIANCE'S ABMS. where she was to be sent to school, and Mr. Kent promised to call fre quently. His calls attracted the atten tion of the school authorities, and they communicated with the girl's parents, asking if it was with their consent that Alfred Kent so frequently met their daughter. The first answer to the Inquiry came by telegraph, followed by a long letter of instructions. These replies shut off all chance of the sweethearts meeting, although they were still able to keep up a more or less, infrequent corre spondence through friends. . Kent begged for an immediate mar riage, and while Miss Kendall was willing she could not find means to escape from the school, and she found that her letters were being inspect-, ed. In her despair she sent through a friend a letter to Miss Kelcey In New York city. She knew that Miss Kelcey had at one time attended the school and had on her own account made a famous escape from her room. The letter implored Miss Kelcey to send directions for an escape. "When I received the letter," said Miss Kelcey, "I -decided that there was no better way of getting out of the school than the one I had employed. The students all sleep upon the third floor, so the windows are regarded as safe. In the room I formerly occupied there Is a broad ledge about ten feet below the window that gives a girl a Kendall and a giW chum who was In tensely interested in the romance placed knots in the rope at regular in tervals. Miss Kendall is an athletic g!ii and led her gymnasium class, so she had no doubt of her ability to make the thirty foot journey through the air from her window to the ground below. Kent was waiting at the bottom of the rope, and just outside the school grounds he had a carriage In hiding. At 5 o'clock In the morning they called upon a minister and were married, leaving kter for New Haven and New York. Both young people have nu merous friends in New York city, and they kept the telephone wires hot spreading the news of their romantic elopement. Miss Kendall's father Is wealthy, as is the father of the young man. Mr. Kent's father is prominent in the pol itics of bis state, and the two fathers are said to have quarreled over civil war Issues. Mr. and Mrs. Kent left New York for a tour of the south. They notified their parents of their marriage, but did not know at the time they left New York whether they were forgiven or not "I guess everything will come out all right." said 7?rs. Kent. "It Ib foolish for our families to quarrel. "Wo are going to ma'ce it all up, and they will not have the heart to oppose us, I am quite sure." Hoi Battle With a Horned Owl. Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of III Omen in a Chicken Coop. Numerous raids have been made re cently on people's chicken houses ia the vicinity of Meyers Falls. Wash., by hoboes, who have always succeeded iu escaping unpunished with their boo ty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentle man sixty-five years old, who lives in the outskirts of the town, was awak ened by a wild commotion in his hen house. Having no firearms handy, he armed himself with a club and rushed to the rescue of his chickens, expecting to find a hobo in the act of climbing the fence with half a dozen spring pullets, but to bis surprise he found the Intruder to be a gigantic owl of the horned variety. He had caught and killed a large Plymouth Rock hen and was hastily making a meal of her when interrupted by a broadside frurn Buchanan. Instead of flying away the bird of 111 omen merely jumped aside and stood looking at his assailant. As the old man made ready for another onslaught his feet slipped and he fell flat upon hia back. The owl with several snaps of his monster beak and trembling with anxiety to begin the second round lit on his adversary's chest, all spread out and ready for business. For a time Mr. Buchanan thought he had met his Waterloo and called vociferously for his next door neighbor, who failed to respond. With a few right and left swings from Buchanan the bird of prey was finally stunned, and the vic tor, once more seizing his cudgel, dis patched him. Mr. Buchanan has had his late an tagonist stuffed and is ready to exhibit him to any one who doubts the truth of this story. The Times and Democrat IS NOW PUBLISHED Twice-a-Week AT $1.50 Per Annum. M. O. Dantzler Hardware and Furniture ORANGEBURG, S. C. Hardware, Guns, Sporting Goods, Tinware, Belting, Machine Fittings Piping Cut and Threded. AGBNT FOR THE FOLLOWING FIRST CLASS RELIABLE FARM MACHINERY: Johnston Mowers, Rakes and Disc Harrows. A full line of repairs for these machines always carried in stock. The Celebrated Farmers Favorite Grain Drills. Red Ripper Hay Presses. Oliver Chilled Walking Plows. Oliver Sulky Plows. American Field Fencing. Bradley Gin Saw Filers. I also sell the Great Majestic Range. Will not Crack, Rust of Crystalize. Entire body one Solid Piece of Charcoal Iron, Oiled Lined With Asbestos Board, not Paper. 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