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NUMBER Of KILLINGS SHOW A DECREASE Crime Statistics for Quarter Mort Encouraging. NOT MANY IN JAIL' Williams Says Reaction Fro War iE Spending Force-Talks f Pros perity and Poverty. The state board of public welfare, through its secretary, G. Groft Wil liams has completed its analyses of the crime statistics of South Carolina for the quarter ending March 31. Those statistics are only approximate as they are based upon the jail com mitments. However, in so large a ,number of commitmncts there is a clear indication as to the character and amount of crime in the state. The board has received to (late reports from all the counties with the ex ception of Anderson, Calhoun, Green ville, Marion, Oconee, Pickens and Richland, 84 per cent. 6f the counties therefore reported over against 81 per cent. of the preceding quarter. "The analyses of crime," says Mr. Willfams, gives kreassuring results. The repprt of the preceding guarter was extremely disheartening. There was no special reason ,apparent for the steady advance of crime, so it was feared that there were resident anti social forces that were here to oper ate with deadly vigor until Phey could he eliminated by the slow' processes of educating the coming generation. But the quarter ending March 31 showed a remarkab6l decrease in all crimes. "For the first time sfnce the board has kept statistics on the causes of commifment the nnumber hQmicides has gone down," says Mr. Williams. "During the quarter ending December 31, there were 94 homicides, in the last quarter there were only 51. It is still pathetic for us .tq use the word 'only' before the number of 51 per sons killed In three months in a peace ful state that boasts itself as free from other parts of the world. Larceny de preciated from 504 to 190, gurglary from 96 to 60, forgery from 32 to 19, assaults from 139 to 92, violation of the prohibition law from 245 to 137. p DUBBING at IXon a misera board is what n look old and h Itism. Why do you cain wash clothes cheaper and qi. easy Clean Eas; half a bar of soap-a tub an, all you need. I the washing's~ d haven't even d distasteful thing That's the women keep yot tiful and still do Folw iecin okisieo wrapo in all there were 1,097 commitments against 1,765 of the preceding quar ter." "Jail population at the nd of the quarter was the smallest that it has been'since March 31, 1915. Perhap it represents a smaller percentage o incarceration sto- the population since the Confederate war. If this kind of thidk keeps up long jailers Aiave to seek other fields of employmeit As they arcf a good set of men Soutl Carolina has many doors-of opportun ity swung wide open for them. ' "The diagnosis of causes of crime is difficult. Before prohibition came in every advance was attributed to in toxicants then the country went dry and South Carolina's crime statistics mounted up like a thermometer on a dry August day. Prohibition can not be charged with this disconcerting fact, for no one would be So bold as to claim that intoxicants are creators of virtue and that the bar room or dispensary were engines of uplift. Doubtless the real 'cause of the' ad vance of crime was the reaction from the war, which reaction is slowly spending its force. From other parts of tle country reports show that crime and poverty are rapidly diminishing. With the gencral prosperity of our country, with national and state afl fairs in a better condition than in any other part of the world, and with a bright outlook for further progress in both physical and spiritual achieve ments there is no reason why both ciime and poverty and all other at tending woes could not be banished from amongst us." 0 - HOW TO CARE FOR HEN THAT HAS BECOME BROODY When hens become broody, they should be "broken up" quickly as pos sible, for the sooner this is done the sooner they will resume laying. To break a hen of broodiness she should be confined to a small coop raised off the ground, preferably with a slat bottom. Givb her plenty of water to drink; she may be fed or not, as de sired. Not mugh difference will be found in the time required to break her of broodiness, whether she is fed or made to fast, United States De. partment of Agriculture poultry specialists say. Usually from 3 to 6 id scrubbing They simply*s< ble old wash over-night. C iakes women Cleain Easy ave rheuma- Wash Soap ii of water. Bec do it ? You dissolve; put irl much eaisier, stir for ten n ticker in )te blue and dry y Way "Just week's washir Clepiri Easy. ter than if yoi d stick are for hours. ni ten minutes Good heal one and you beauty come ne a single Clean Easy w~ Try it once an way other vinced. Askye mng and beau- Notice how the washing. Easy looks fr< Louisv.LLE FooD PRODUC'rS CO., Lonnisvill, Ky.. days' confinelnent wfljlf. h Ii q Ut some aez require 10'to 12 its. The roody hein -will be recognized by her lnclinatiori to -stay on the iiest at night, the ruffling of her feathers and her picking at iny.one who ap pyoaches her, and by the' clucking noise she makes. The' fact that her broodiness. hqs been ,broken up cin be recognizeA by the disappearance of these symptoms. .0 DEPTH OF CORN CULTIVATION Many comptirative experiments of deep 'and shallow cultivation have been made, and on the whole the re sults are in favor of shallow cultiva tion, say specialists of the .United States Department of Agriculture. -The occasions when deep cultivation is preferable are few. If. excessive rains have packed the soil and kept it water soaked, deep cultivation will help to dry and aerate it. -Breaking the roots of the plants must be avoid ed so far as possible. - If rqots are broken the plhnts will rapidly produce other roots, but it )will be at the ex pense of vitality and the food supply. After the plants have reached a height of 2 or 3 feet', the soil even in the mit'dle of the rows should not be cultivated deeper than 4 incies, and usually a shallower cultivation will prove better. A loose soil mulch 2 or 3 inches in thickness snould be main tained. It retains soil moisture and facilitates the penetration .of rainfall. TWELVE PERSONS WOUNDED Montevideo, Uruguay, May 1. Twelve persons were wounded by ie volver shots in a fight between the police and 500 workers d iring the May lay demonstrations. The shooting began when the police intervened to stop workers from attacking street cars. -0 SPANISH GENERAL DIES. Madrid, May 2.-Gen. Francisco de Asis Cirujeda, who attracted atten tion by killing the Cuban Gen. Maceo, during the Spanish-American, war is dead. Since the war in Cuba) Gen. Cirujeda has been aide to King Al fonso. le was sixty-seven years of age. Nathlen ol it % glln il;let1hIsop theclohesand 4 4iue. 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