Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ml IUH.lt IN AMKRICA. McsnphL* Shows 8? Homicide* As . Mitch tUocord for Cities ?unit? mt .New York Tribune. The annual murder record for (he United Slates, while showing a alight improvement over previous reports, still suffers by comparison, accord? ing to statistics of homicides pub? lished today in the Spectator. Com? pilations made by Frederick L. Hoff? man show that there were 1,344 hour cldea In JO large cites of this country lu 1*13. a rate of 8.1 per 100,000 of population. Similar records for 1911 were 8.1 psr 100,000. There is a correspond? ing decrease in the relative number of. suicides, equivalent to 0.8 per 100, 000, or 4.1 per cent. The highest homlolde record report?*: occurred In 1X17, when the rate was 8.8 per 100, 000, and the lowest rates were In 1801 and 1897. when 4.2 per 100,000 was the record. Of the large American cities, Mem? phis, Tenn.. with 88 homicides, shows a rata of 44.3 per 100,000, an in? crease over 1011 of 11.6. It Is ei plalned that suburban murders are counted In with the city percentages The Manhattan and Bronx record doe* not show the same Improvement that the average suggests. Ther> were 108 homicides during the year, ?a rats of 0.8 per 100,000, or an In? crease of 1.4. For the 10 years ended in 1011 there were 1,364 deaths of a homicidal nature, with a rat* of 1.4 per 100.000. The high rate of homlcde shown by Memphis is carried out wheu the cltiea are tnken by geographical groups. Of the 30 cities cited those as* the Southern group reported 411 h>mtctdee. ait increase of 4.6 In its rate of 30.2 per 100,000. The Eastern cltiea had the lowest rate, 416, or 4.0 per 100,000, while the Western gioup showed 10.8 and the Central group 8.9 per 100.000. All these rates show? ed an increase over the average for 10 years. Of special Interest in the tabula? tion Is the inclusion of a record kept by the Chicago Tribune of the causes of homicides from 1908 to 1912. According to this, 48.9 per cent of the whole number was caused by quarrels, while unknown causes were responsi? ble for 14.1 per cent. Liquor la given as the cause of 9.6 per cent of the total, while murders by highwaymen caused 9.6 per cent of the deaths. Ineld ntally *"as responsi? ble f' i age. T . Reading :*? . is give* tits 4Ha tiacttOM of ha M g no homicides com a his * H i 1918, wwe In Philadelphia there were only 23 homicides, a rate of 1.4 per 100,000. For the 10 years ending in 1911. Har ford, Conn., had the lowest number of homicide deaths, 26, although Mil? waukee showed the lowest rate, 1.9 per 100,000. The largest number of deaths from homicide in 10 years is shown by Chicago, with a total of 1.T70. In support of Its comment on the unfavorable record of this country, comparisons are made with the oomi-1 ride records in foreign cities. lr? Italy, especially, where It is generally assumed that human Ufa is held cheaply, the rate for the latest years available. 1910. la 2.4 por 100.000. A flee-year average shows a rate of 3.9. In other words to every 100 homi? cides In the United States there are only 66 in Italy. Ixmdon. including only the city proper, shows a live-year average of i M per 100,000, aa compared with the same average for New York of 6.0. In Paris, in 1910. a rate of 3.6 was recorded Th?- city of Copenhagen, I?enmark, Is shown as the safest Eu? ropean city, with a record in 1910 if SOJjOj one houu< lit, and a live-year rat? of 0.46. The Monet bill || undergoing I l<?t </f small change.?Kansas City Times. Tale's oldest alumnus Is '-?6. Vi \ ?? rrtalns all his faculties, hi- otn t> i in'., r when Yale won ;i boat rSSSJ Hgainst Harvard.?New York cniug Post. What He Woj'd Do. A youofc lady flatting ber relation!) on a farm went out In ths yard to, match her young cousl:> play with1 a cbloken Watching him (or some' t mo she ssked him: Willie, If thai chicken were to lay sn egg whst would you do with It?" He looked up surprised then aald: Oh. I'd aell It to s museum That chirk, u'* a roost or ??' ' " ??- * -' - -li 1 JJ J l Geo.H. Hurst, U li AT is LAUGHTER? A Uouvulslve Action of The Diaph? ragm "laughter," says Prof. Sir Charles Hell, "in I convulsive action of the diaphragm. In this state the person i draws a full breath and throws it out j In interrupted, short and audible I cachinnitions. This convulsion of the diaphragm is the principal part of the physical manifestation of laughter; but theie are .several accessories, espe? cially the sharp vocal utterance aris? ing from the violent tension of tho larynx and the expression of the feat? ures, this being a more intense form of the smile. In extreme cases the e>es arc moistened by the effusion from the lachrymal glands." There you have a scientific defini? tion. Hut it is clear that mankind would hardly take the trouble to go through that experience if that is all that laughter consisted of. They would i not regard Dickens or Mark Twain aa a benefactor merely because a per? usal of heir writings produced that. No; even the philospohers know that i laughter Is something better than that ?something Internal?that there is , such a thing as silent laughter. Hob i bss calls laughter "a sudden ?glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by com? parison with the Infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' if a laugh is a benefaction and the provoker of a laugh a benefactor, why are then- more statues to dull people than to witty ones? Who was the greatest luagh-promoter In history? It was said of Sydney Smith that he was the father of ten million laugh? "Laughter," said Lord Itosebery, re? cently ."is a physical neecssity. We live under a sunless sky, surrounded by a melancholy ocean, and it la a physical necessity for the Eng? lish nation?even for the Scotch na? tion and the Welsh nation?to laugh. II exhilarates all social relations. Was , not." his lordship added, "the laugh of I Sir Frank Lockwood something that would make a stuffed bird rejoice'/ And those who listened to the splendor of merriment whioh he could Impart by that laugh realize the Intense val? ue of that emotional exercise." Amazing Statistics. Wagner and Sufan, the German statisticans, estimated in tin- year 1891 the population of the world at 1,480 million persons. More than one-half of this estimated number was based upon the results of actual censuses, and the remainder was carefully esti? mated. Wo shall probbaly not be far away from the truth If we say that there are now (In A. D. 1911), 1,800 million persons on the earth. If In Anno Domini 1 a man had then desired to be hailed in a later century Universal Benefactor of the World, he could have achieved his de? sire by then Investing the equivalent of a modern American Cent at b per centum compound Interest per an? num, the Interest to accumulate year by year for the benefit of future gen? erations. A the end of the first century of in? vestment?namely. In A. D. 100?the original Cent would have grown to 1 dollar 31 cents. At the end of lt? 910 years after Anno Domini 1? namely, at the end of the year 1910 the original Cent would have grown to the stupendous val? ue of $296.180,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000.000,000,000.000. (529.?18 fal? lowed by 34 0'a) This accumulation resulting in 4L] D. 1910 from the original investment' of one cent in Anno Domini 1 is so J vast that no brain can realize what is ; tho meaning of the enormous quun- ; tity of dollars just stated. We an- 1 wholly unable to realize the stupen? dous golden growth of this original Cent unles? we press into our service j various aids to imaginative concep- j tlon, such as those 1 havo dreamed , and here illustrated. Imagine the earth transformed into a huge flat slab one mile thick, Moat , lug in space. Let. every man, woman, I and child now living in the world?\ spproxlmately l.hUO million persons < ontinuoiiHly discharge a qulektlriim gun loaded with American Gold Kaubs in place of bulb ts for 0110 thousand vears. Each gun tires into aPSCi one thousand GoM Eagles per minute,) which drop over the edges of the, earth. The result is that at the end of oru thousand, ysvs' continuous discharge j of QoM Eaule.s Tom 1,100 millions' of quickhnnu (Ulli <?t the rate of one thousand q >m Kaslss per minute from eueh gun, onl) an Infinitesimal fraction Of the mono) would have thus been gut rul of. The amount t? be thus drawn upon being the $-!?. 618 followed by thirty-four O's. this amount being the accumulated result of One Cent invested in Anno Domini 1 at 6 per centum compound Intorssi until the end of the year 1910. All this lirin? swsy of Oold Kaglefi would have to continue for more than 31.000,000,000,000,000 years in place of for merely one thousand years. In order to exhaust the money accumu? lated In A D 1910. This Incredible result i? no freak uf fme v I of 4 solid fOOti REMINISCENCED OF SOL Til. Pictures of the old Regime by u (on* I remember well my mother's atti? tude toward our slaves. She hud W school where all the young ones were lAUffht (contrary to law.) She taught1 them herself, and her Sunday school Wai always full, writes Ma.1. A. K. H. i Hanson, In the Sew..nee Review. All our young slaves could read and j some of them could write. My old Mammy always wrote to my mother I when she was away from home. When j we (the children) gathered around the table to study our lessons at night, she always took her place at the table with pen, ink and paper. "Now, chil? dren, " she would say, "I am going to write to your ma, and I don't want to give a bad account of any of you." I can remember the times I laid my weary head in Mamm>'s lap and said my sleepy prayers anJ J remember her sitting nodding by my bsdside un? til I should fall asleep. And I re- i j member Mammy's funeral, for I wajj almost a man then. We were living in Charleston, and Mammy was old and lived in a cabin 'at the bottom of the garden walk and never came to the house. On good days she sat In her door in the sun with her Bible on her knees. My mother w as old and feeble, but on good days she would walk down to the cabin, while in bad weather she would go on the back pore l and look down the walk until the two saw each other, and then they would wave their nan Is at each other. When Mammy died, my father de? termined to bury her in the Episcopal graveyard at Zion church. Although a vestryman, he could not get permis? sion, but the procession moved up the back street, about half a mile in the August sun, the coffin, carried by eight strong men, my father, with hat off, walking immediately behind it. When we came to the gates they were locked, | but after a little delay they were j opened somehow, and Mi.mmy, the old negro, lies buried in Zion church? yard with the white folks, and some day she will rise as white us any there. The most remarkable feature of the situation in our section wa< that re? finement and even elegance could ex? ist on such very small meat s. A man with a small farm (say 300 acres), worth about $12,000. and a 'ew slaves was really a prince?a prlrce of the kind that no millionaire of the prr ? ent d.iy can emulate, H^d lr" are to think, to read, to cultivate nis mind and manners, and to indulge himself in social pleasure. Fie was a better educated man, a better rea3 .man in current and ancient literatures, and he was a better-mannered man than the man of the present ate; freed from little worries, his temper was better, his heart was softei, and his j disposition more sunny and f-enlal. So-j clal intercourse, therefore, was on u i plane which is now unknown. There i was little attempt at grandeur or ex-j travagant display; a beautiiul aim-1 plicity pervaded life and give it Its | greatest charm. And the women?the ma rons and! the maids of t hat time?their soft voices and their gentle ways! They j did not belong to women's clubs; they did not ride bicycles and horses, astride, and they did not drive auto-, mobiles or lecture on platfoims. They were brought up without coming in contact wit h the rude outer world, t They were generally educated a*, home) by governesses. Every girl had her j maid, who waited on her, and she! was i stranger to drudgery, one would suppose from this that they would be Useless toys as wives, and poor companions for educ ited and stirring men. but the suppositionI would be wrong. j NKW8PAPERH AND I-TSIox. Adunison Tells Advertising .Men of Victory Over Tamina iy. N6W York World. The part that the newspaper played In lha defeat of Tammany and Its candidates formed the chief topic! at last evening's meeting of the Ad-| vertlslng League, held In the Aldinej club. About 850 members were pres ant "If 1 were asked what the press bad to do with the defeat of the opposing organisation and the success of the fusion ticket," said Itobcrl Adamson,I wiu> managed the Fusion campaign, ' i would s;?> simply, it elected the ticket And I s;?\ that without any disparagement of the efforts of the Republicans, the Progressives, the Jefferson Alliance, the Direct Nomi? nations League and others. "The light that we made was not a .Nv. yuvj gentlemen arc engaged in a tight against fake advertising, ho we j were engaged in another of very much the same kind. We wanted to establish honesty in politics as you seek to establish honesty in adver? tising. Our problem was to show the peoplo what he opposing enndldates stood for. We believed that if this1 could b?> done the people would doj the rest." federate Veteran. CATTLE BREEDING IN sou ITH CAROLINA. s. i). < rohH. of Charter, Has One of the Best Herds. Describes Ills Suc? cess. Marked success In the breeding of cattle has been made by s. D. Cross, of Chester. S. C, and his famous herd of Hereford! is noted all over the Southeast. In speaking of the sec? tion as a cattle producing one, .Mr. Cross said: "For many years the beef cattle I producers thought that the Middle i and Western States were the only ones where beef cattle couJd be profitably produced. About ten years ago some ] of the Southern farmers imported some of the best beef cattle from the West and are now producing as gbod registered cattle us can be had in any part of the Union. This is being done in the South at much less cost than in the West. "The natural pasture of the South i furnishes grazing for cattle fron)! the middle of March to the middle of I November. By planting fields of win? ter glasses and clovers green pos? tures for cattle can be had all the year round. Bermuda grass, which is one of the finest pasture and hay grasses in the world, is native to the South. There are many large fields of It on which cattle graze almost nine months of the year. On a farm ad? joining min.?, a farmer had for a late winter pasture and early spring pasture three acres of crimson clover and one of vetch. On these four acres of pasture he grazed ten head of cattle and six head of stock for three months in the winter and spring. The cattle fattened In a short time and the work animals were kept In excel- ! lent condition. "The Hereford type of cattle is one' of the best for the South. They are great hustlers and will stay fat through the summer even though the pasture may become short during a protracted dr.v spell. They are the' most docile animals known to man. They make a quick growth and can j be marketed at an early age for beef, j This type Is as large as any beef cat- j tie in the Union. In fifteen months' j time the majority of them will weigh one thousand pounds. A young bull In my heard, six months old, weighs! five hundred pounds. One of the cows weighs sixteen hundred, and a bull formerb owned by me weighed twenty-five hundred and eighty pounds. Beef cattle are now bring? ing nine cents a pound on foot. The supply as shown by statistics is rapid? ly decreasing, while the demand forj that kind of beef cattle, especially the j best, is constantly increasing. "Both alfalfa and timothy are grown here and are used to feed the cattle during the winter months When there is sometimes a scarcity of green food. "The thirty cattle in rr?y nc~d ire now in splendid growin/, condition on a ten-acre pasture of Bern.vda grass. Such pasture and even better pastures may be found in all parts of Chester county. Story of a Blind Stenographer. "Twelve years ago. Miss Grace K. j Keator of Kingston. New York. Was preparing to become a teacher of kit* erature; then came illness and With IllnSSSi blindness. To most women j such a crushing calamity would have i destroyed all thought of an inde- j pendent career, but in Miss Keator's QMS it did nothing of the sort. Af? ter recovering from the Illness which had taken sight for toll, she went courageously to study at the Insti? tution for the Blind ??* Batavia, New York. lake Miss II- len Keller, she had tu learn to work as well as see' j with her hands. She learned to read . raised type and to operate a type Wliter?she bud never before used such Instrument?and then she studied Stenography. It w;ts serious work. ? she had determined, handicapped as| she was, (0 be sell-supporting and I independent. Her success was ex? traordinary and would have done credit to an expert. When the time came for her to look about for a posi? tion she turned tt on ?? to New Sfork City. Her excellent work In the in? stitution at Batavia had already at? tracted attention, and she soon became private secretary to Miss Winifred Holt, who Is secretary *>f the New York association for the Blind at 118 Bast 59th Street, "A visitor to 'The Light House,' as the association is called, sees the blind happily a* work weaving carpets, making baskets or brooms, caning < bairs. <>r doing housework; l?nt one ot the most interesting spectacles of all it to see Miss Holt and her aid at work in the background the 'boss dictating, hi the foreground Miss Keator at her shorthand machine, her lingers fairly Hying, while under her skillful manlpuatlon a ribbon-shaped manuscript unfolds, the characters ap? pearing like pln-prlcks In the paper. The manuscript reminds one of a stock broker's ticker tape. When dic? tation iR finished the blind stopograph er turns to her typewriter, and after passitig sensitive lingers along ihe ribbon' i<> read her notes, sin- rapidly transcribes them. The- finished work, and indeed all that she does, is a model or neatnei and accuracy. "Besides holding the secretaryship to Miss Holt, the blind stenographer is president of the Blind Women's Club of New York <"it>. In her official capacity she meets many notable per-J sons. The brilliant example she has Bet in making a career for herself, und her thorough knowledge of the conditions under which the blind must work if they are to be happy, productive members of society, have made it possible for her to Interest numbers of people in the work of in? stitutions for the blind. She U the first and, 1 believe, the only blind woman to earn her living as a sten? ographer. "Miss Xeator is at home in a modest apartment on East 6 5th Street, New York City. Here, in cooperation with a chum, she does light housekeeping. The two voting women take great pride in their home. They rind it fun to keep house, and they have develop* ed a highly efficient system of do? mestic 'team-worn.'; what one cannot accomplish the other can, and each stoutly maintains that she has most to be grateful for. They get al^ng together famously. ".Miss Keator is exceedingly 'femi? nine.' She takes great pains in the selection and style of her wardrobe and she iclights in 'seeing* things fresh from the shops. When women frie'.ds call on her she lawys ax amines their new gowns, lightly pass? ing her delicate hands over the lub* ric." Mexican refugees of prominence continue to take refuge under the Stars and Stripes, thus testifying to ths ex? cellent flavor of -our grape-juice dip? lomacy.?Chicago News. ? ???????????????????HHMMHIMMMMMMHMMHI Helpful t A bank account is helpful in a hundred different It I ways. You've found this out, if you have a bank ac- + I count. If you haven't one, ws want to see you. The Peoples' Bank. ^??????????HMMMMMMMM ???? HMtMIMHMMtt 44 4M4M44M444MM444M4 M4????????????????????????1 ? No Other Method fur systematic accumulation if so good, so business-like, so safe, as J sure in ultima to results as our Dank Account Plan, With this plan you do not have to make deposits st regular ?- J torvals or in stated amount!;. Just deposit your surplus earnings at any time?la even rtsKara ^ or o?ld sums as best suits your convenience. Let three various small sums accumulate until the total Is sufficient for yew par- J pose, then?let it work and earn money for yon. Fir^l National Bank + M4 + 44 444 4 4444444444 4 f ?44 ?????4 ?4444444444* MM M4? t 1905 1913 1 The Farmers' Bank and Trust Co? ? Our record speaks for itself. We are helping to J place the farming int ?rest of our country on a ? cash basis. We want one thousand additional, f good farm accounts. 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