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Many things have happened
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secn the grand old party of
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rlieLp drop- its championing of
Luman rights and bite the dust
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cuccession the nation’s great and
lhonored omnes. It has passed
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une, at times its way scemed
dagk and cloudy but in the end
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Crime In 1892,
- The Philadelphia ZP’ress has
been publishing some very inter
esting collaborations -of crime in
1892. It shows that murder,
lynching and suicide are on the
increase the last named abnorm
ally, The ghastly record for the
year was 3,860 of these 8,655 were
men and 805 women. The causes
given for these self murders were :
Despondency, 1463; Unknown
684 ; Insanity, 520; Domestic In
felicity, 296; Liquor, 315 ; Disap
pointed Love, 249 ; 111-health, 278 ;
Business Losses 55. Of these poor
unfortunates the pistol ended the
life of 1,800, the largest number,
while the trip hammer and freez
ing came last with oneeach. The
other deaths were by means of
throat cutting 319; poison 1010,
hanging 608, drowning. 896;
throwing themselves before lo
comotives 91; from windows 56 ;
stabbing 50';', burning 13; starv
ing 6 ; dynamite 6, These figures
afford cause for alarm when we
remember that the number sui
cides exceeded those of 1891 by
029, | %
In murders the record is no
more encouraging. In 1892 6.-
792 murders were committed. In
1891 5906—an increase of 886 in
a single year. What a record!
It would be expected that such
an increase in the number of
murders would show a correspond
ing increase in the number of
judicial hangings, but the con
trary is the case, Statistics show
that there was an actual decrease
in the number of judicial hang
ings for 1892, being only 107, as
against 128 in ’92, and 102, in
’9O. Estimating upon this basis,
every man, woman, and child in
this country. had one chance in
every 9,700 of being murdered,and
a murderer one chance in 638} of
aquittal after committing a cap
ital crime. By States, Georgia
had fourteen judicial hangings;
Kentucky and Texas ten each;
Arkansas nine; New York five:
Pennsylvania four. Whole num
ber hanged in the North twenty
nine; in the South seventy-cight,
Of - the total number, fifty-seven
were white, forty-seven colored,
four women, two Indians and one
Chinaman. : S
Toevery lover of law and order
these figures. present a terrible
conclusion., It is evident that
there is necd of a_remedy some
where in order to secure a larger
pereentage of convictions in cap
ital cases. Human life is held
too cheaply and the murderer’s
‘chance of cseape should be ap
preciably uarrowed. The inerease
in murder_is totally out of pro
portion to {he increase in pop
ulation. In three years the num
ber of this erime has nearly
doubled. In this year’s classifi
cation of causcs of murder, Quar
rels lead the list 2937 ; liquor is
sceond with 748. Thon follows Un
known with 969; Jealousy 515 ;
By Highwaymen 876 ; Resisting
arrest 2103 Highwaymen killed
148; Self-defenee &1; Insanity
1117 Outrages 28; Sirikes 82
Riots 6. Such an array of crime
i 3 cnough to prompt th 2 quostion
“whither are we tending”
- The above are sufliciently a
larming, but it is in the record
for lvnchines {hat we reach the
crowning point of criminality.
The figures show that 2306 per
gons were ushored cut of the
world lact year, without trial or
convietion exeept that shert shift
meted gut hy irreeponsi l ole,
(JF the 236 rxictims of n;;‘ vios
gzce lastegr 231 \\@c nen and
fi\h}\'%‘;&? § uxigh‘(‘@;u’flcfit‘?
the South Lolds the place of
honor in these illegal und un
warranted performances with 200
to her credit, distribiited as fol
lows: Tennceseé and Louisihhg
with twenty-eight each, Krk:mgasfi
twenty-five ; Alabama twentyone
and . Georgia and M‘ississippi,'sixa
tcen each. In the North thirty
six lynchings occurred.”
The best authorities agree that
the Negro constitutes less than
one twelfth of the entire pop
ulation, yet he furnished over
65 per cent of lyncher’s victime,
The number of colored victims
being 155 ; white 803 females; 5;
Indians 1. The appalling feat
ure of this is the fact lynching
has increased over 80 per cent,
there being forty-one more in
02 than in "91. These fjcts show
plainly that there is crying need
of decisive action along this line,
Mob violence is largely usurp
ing the functions of law and
order in the South. 'ln view of
the alarming increase in this
species of crime, and its abvious
tendency ko promote lawlessness
it becomes imperative for the
constituted authorities to dosome
thing to break it up. If this
thing is allowed to continue un
restricted a condition {raught
with dapgér will result. The
courts of law will be powerless,
and red-handed crime interspers
ed with those quick short shifts of
justice, characteristic of lawless
communities. will prevail, unless
there is a check soon we shall
be called upon to decide the
question, whether the“constitut.
ed authorities shall:rule or the
mob. It is rapidly tending this
way now in some parts of our
land. )
~We are not- pessimists nor a
larmists when we say that when
236 persons can be hurled into
eternity in a single year with
out due process of law, it argues
ill for the permanence and sta
bility of law and ordery we but
state what must be a fact pat
ent to every impartial observer
of the times ; that something must
be done to restrain thistendency
tolawlessness or else mob-law will
usurp the functions of the com
mon and statute laws, Law and
order must be maintained at
any cost, |
Advertising Novelties.
i " Many advertising novelties have
come to our desk this year,
but candor compells us to say
that the dantiest and the most
happy combination of the print
er's art; beauty and utility is
the Household Calender: Al
manac for. 1893, publiched by
the world-famed house of C. L
Hoop & Co., proprietors of
Hoop’s -Sarsaparilla. This Calen
der is cminently appropriate for
the World Fair year, embody
ing as it does the best eflorts
of the designer, engraver and
painter. Its unique and tasteful
design beautiful alike in eolor
and expression at once attracts
the eye and pleases the senses.
The design is entitled the Young
Discoverers. It represents the
bright faces of two young child
ren locating Hoon’s Sarsaparilla on
the map of North America,. Their
intelligent faces are aglow with
intense interest, and so realistic
is the beautiful lithographic color
ing and design that one would
fain believe it nature instead
of art, It makesa bright picture
for home or office, while the
plain figures on the pad make
it useful as well as beautiful.
To be fully appreciated it must
be scen, Messrs Hoop & Co.cer
tainly descrve grent\v{edit for
their taste and enterprise. Copies
may \pe obtained of druggists
or by sending six cents in stampe
for one or ten vcents for two
to C. L. Hood & Co Lowell, Mass.
The friends of the white metal
won in the recent fight inthe house
So cilver is safe at least for this
scssion, Senator STEWART made
a great fight for his pet metal,
Designs Upon The Franchise.
{There is cumulative cvidence
ff 5 so;,(f purpose on lhne ]mlit
of the ex'nmjra 8, €B] -iall Et Q"
Southern wing, %fiffi%‘?;’lm party’
comes into power next month,
to perpetuate ite control of the
government, gained in the recent
'-':t’.l\CCfiz)\B Ly & jounte of misrep
sentation of issues and a jupgling
with facts that are simply u“n-;
paralelléd: ‘The bodsting toie of
};'its press and the significant utter
ances of many of its prominent
men go far- to'substantiate -this
Ihypollwsie.w&) far as indicated
their line of policy seems to be
such .a: ehange in the general e
l;lecti(m laws ag will do away withr
‘the least semblance of Federal
Egontrol. To this end they seek
to secure fthe enactmeut of a
statute that will absolutely pro
hibit in the future Federal inter
vention of any sort in general e
lections. In other words they pro
pose to secure the total abolition
0f the present Federal election
laws so far as they relate to Fed
eral Supervisors, etc. - =
~ In evidence of this may be
cited the resolution recently in.
troduced into' Congress to this
end and the open and declared
purpose of prominent Democrats
‘to secure the enaetment of such
a law as soon ‘as the next Con
gress meets, A few weeks af.
ter the last election the Rich
mond Zimes, a leading Demo
cratic newspaper, commenting
upon the article of a writer from
Charlotte county urging the res
triction of Negro suffrage so that
“the whites might be relieved
from the necessity of incessant
vigilance and exértion to overs
come black majorities and ad
vocating the adoption of the Mis
sissippi plan which the writer
characterized as a “reform of suf
frage wisely inaugurated,” quotes
approvingly his sentiments and
adds “that there is no reason
why something of the kind should
not be done in Virginia; that
the Legislature should not delay
giving this important subject its
most serious consideration.” It
concludes by advoeating adoption
of the Australian ballot law o
some other “legitimate means of
relief at the very earliest prac.
ticable moment,” Then again
the agitation on. the same line
in other Southern States, coupled
with the evident design of the
party in Congress, shown by the
acts and utterahces of its public
men and press go to verify the
correctness of our views, Sub
sequent events are daily prov.
ing the verity of the opinion ad
vanced by many sterling Repub
licans, that the party made a mis
take in dropping . the question
of fair elections and concentrat
ing its forces and energies upon
the tariff, .
By reason of the unfair elec
tions in the South and intimida
tion, fraud and force used to coerce
the Republican vote, white voters
South exercises double the power
that the white voter North does.
As long ago as 1878 this injustive
was recognized by Mr. Bramxk.
This eminent stateman said in
a public speech in the halls of Con
gress upon the elections question :
The eleven . Btates that formed
the Confederate government had
by the last census a population of
9,600,000, of which in round numbers
5,600,000 were white and 4,000,000
colored. On this aggregate popula
tion seventy-three representatives
in Congress were apportioned to
those States—forty-two or forty
three of which were by reason of
the white population, and thirty or
thirty-one by reason of the color
ed population. At the recent elec
tion the white Demoecracy of the
Bouth seized seventy of the seven
ty-three districts, and thus secured
a Democratic majority in the next
House of Representatives. Thus, it
appears that throughout the States
that formned the late Confed
erate government, 76,000 whites—the
very people that rebelled against
the Union—are enabled to elect a
representative in Congress, while in
the loyal States it requires 182,000
of the white people that fought for
the Union to elect a representative,
In levying every tax, therefore, in
making every appropriation of mon
ey, in fixing every line of public
policy, in deereeing what shall be
the fate and fortune of the repub
lie, the Confederate soidier Bouth
lq?‘jgisnb&grd to cast a vote that ls
t'«'z as powerful and twige o 8 ine
tluentinl as.the yote of the Union
umlgcr North#s«®l'Lc political pow
er g hus % | pfip}%ted by Southern
DéMmoerats” by. Feason of thgfi"fi‘éflb
population, amounts to ‘thirty-five
representatives in Ceéngress. It is
massed almost solidly, and offsets
the great Etate of New York; or
Pennsylvania and New Jersey to
gether; or the wholc of New England,
or Ohio and Indiana united; or the
combined strougth of Illivois, Min
nesota, Kansas, California, Nevada,
Nebraska, Colorade 'and Orogon, The
seizure .of this power is wanten
usurpation; it is flagrant outrage;
it is vielent perversion of the whole
theory of Republican government:
It inures solely to the present ad
vantage, and yet, I believe, to the
permanent dishonor of the Demeos
cratic party. = - .
This is the whole matter tersely
stated. What was true then is
no less true now. In nearly every
Southern state the anomaly is pre
sented of aState enjoying repre
sentation for citizens who are not
allowed to vote, and yet the Dem
ocratic party proposes to maixn
tain and solidify 4his anomalous
condition by repealing the only
Federal laws that we have which
give to us the least semblance
of fair and free elections, Still
‘the Democratic party has the au
dacity to prate about fair elec
tions and the purification of the
balldt,ee,s o= w
In view of its record upon this
question we fail to see how any
person can be influenced by its
pleas or protestations, Its idea of
fair and free elections is shown
by ‘the Mississippi ballot 1a w
which reduced tge ‘colored vote
from 160,000 to 8,000, the tax
legislation in South Carelina
which practienlly wipes out the
Negro vote, the Axpemrsox Mo-
Coryiox atrocity in this ~State,
which permits the machine to
manufacture any majority desir
ed from 1,000 to 50,000, and we
might go on and cite others, but
these are enough to show the
radical difference in Democratic
preaching and Democratic prac
tice, /; . y ; :
MAKING CAMPHOR.
The Product of a Resinous Gum which
Exudes from a tree in Japan.
Says an exchange, many of the
seceds of the ocamphor tree have
been sent to the Department of
State from Japan in the hope of
affording to the United BStates a
chance to add this valuable sub
stance to its vegetable produots, The
tree is a a specles of laurel, and
it grows in extensive forests in the
mountainous reglons of the south
Japan far trom the sen, Large groves
are owned by the Japanese Govern
ment, the wood being very desirable
for shipbuilding. Many of the trees
attain an enormous size, often meas
uring twelve feet in dlameter and
sometimes attaining twenty feet.
The seeds or berries grow in clusters,
resembling black currants in size
and appearance. The fine grain of
the wood renders it particularly
valuable for cabinet work. /
The cantphor is a resinous gum.
To get it the tree is necessarily de
stroyed; but by a stringent law of
the land, another is planted in its
stead. The simple method of man
ufacture employed mho_ natives
is as follows: The tree is felled to
‘the earth and cut into chips. A big
metal pot is partly filled with water
and placed over a slow fire. Then
a wooden tub is fitted to the top
of the pot and the chips of camphor
-wood are placed in this. The bot
tom of the tub is perforated so as
'to permit the steam to pass up a
‘mong the chips. s
A steam-tight cover is fitted on
the tub, from this tub a_bamboo
pipe leads to andther tub, through
which the enclosed steam, the gen
‘erated camphor, and old flower. This
second tub is connected in like
manner with the third. The third
tub hq_élvide“d into two compart
‘ments, one above the other, the
dividing floor being perforated with
small holes to allow the water and
oil to pass to the lower compart
‘ment. The upper compartmen is sup
plied with a layer of straw, which
‘which catches and hold the camphor
In ecrystals. The camphor is then
separated from the straw, packed
in wooden tubs of 188 pounds-each,
and is ready for market, .
After each boiling the water runs
oft through a faucet, leaving the oil,
which is utilized by the natives for
illuminating and other puposes. A
dulteration of camphor gum is prae
ticed mostly by adding water just
as far as the buyer will tolerate it.
Sometimes the purchaser will find
that twenty pounds of water have
ran out of a tub In twelve bhours.
Fhe l:l{agnlg’l'nl(}d article, knowa
a 8 "uhl;‘i da;fi“"_&tfi)‘fi&omethnu;fi bhe
bomght, but notioiten. In u l¢tier
ofi thie subject Bewly received bLy
tak Dfirtmfirot State, Consul
iithers” weitéSTrom Osaka, Jupan,
that it would bo very desiruble to
send a cowmpeteat agent frown this
couutry to Japan who should visit ™
the camprhor-producing districts und
study the processds of unlehufucts
ure, packing, cte, et L
STUPENLOUS PROJECT, !
The Asid Regions of Arizona to be Ro
. stored jo theirfuniiy, . ¢
The frrigation enterprires in Arise -
na are attrheting considernble at
tention. now, und of suels the drid
Rlegivn has the qu_,_t;\g‘lug; Ato:,ih_‘\_':‘fée
TWo Surve »ors ahd siififie:‘; mewave
gone to the Port Hules iu.d Cistle
Dome to begin the worl "of rumning
the sines for the projected canal
of the Colorado Canal Couupany,
This systemn of canyls will cost $lO,-
000,000, and the main ditch will Le
100 iniles long, 112 feet wide on the
bottom, ‘and will earry: 12 feet of
water. For the Qistunce given this
canal will be broader and decper -
thaih any 130 miles of the groat
Erie Canal in New York. This wiil
give Eastern pcople scme compre
henslon of the magnitude of tLis
immeunse irrigation projeet,
The engineers surveying the line
of the Colorade Canal are working
in the region traversed by the an
cient canal ‘system of prehistorio
times, of which there are wore thuin
800 aniles of the large eangls and
more than 8,000 miles of thy sinaller
lones, all of which ean be used in
the Colorado, covering au area of
-6,000,000 acres of the fluest faud v
the Pacifle Coast. By using tlie
larger eanal systein tho cost of cx
tending the Colorado Caual to the
westward so as o bring it buck fo",
Amorican soll iu San Liego ouunty,
Californin, west of the Algedonus
wand hills 90 as to irrigute the il
fons nores of good laud Letween the
boundary and Salton Luke, wil] be
greatly reduced, as overy as ovary
‘mile of this anclent onnal, whiclh
is from 60 to 800 feet wide and
from 8 to 15 feet doep, oan be utilized
and by doing so, the cost df“fiw
ing jhe former will be los:/ncd wore
thad one-half, Hoth New River, in
its meanderings from ludisn wells
to Balton basin, over 'a distance of
"oirhty‘ miles, and Cartér River, from
Alamo basin to that at Salten, more
‘than 20) miles as it comes, cau Le .
mdc s e e 2 ;
The anelent lakes, of which thore
are scores, can all be eeuverted jn
to stornge reservoirs ut a very sinull
outlay, This great wschcine, which
at first ontly had in view this hrign
tion of' the Beatty concession In
Sonora aud a few acres along tho
route, wow fudludes ‘the grandest
project on the const, thie Irrigation
of 8,000,000 acres of Yuina's bigst back
ooumr?‘ : e
. Bub-tontractors are pushing the
canal work at Gila Beud. Mr, (~
E. Crawley, who has a contract for
twenty-four miles of this work, has
20 teams employed and has finished
about half of his work, This capul
will be 25 feet wide at the bottom
and 41 feet on the water line, with
8 feet of water in depth.
A party of Englishmon I 3 investl
gating the waterstorage possibifitics
of the lower Chiricahua Mouutains
with the possihility of leeating an
immense irrigntion enterprise in the
Sulphur Spring Valley, :
A NIGHTLESS CITY.
Continuous Day ia Stockhiolm, Twilight
~ for Four Hours, then Day again.
To the summer visitor in Sweden
there is nothing more striking than
the almost total absence of night.
At Btockholm, the Bwedish capital,
the sun goes down a few minutes
before ten o’ clock, and rises aguin
four hours - latér, during a prenter
part .of the month of June. But the
four hours the Bun lies hidden in
the frozen north are not hours of
darkness—the refractlon of hLis rays
as he passcs arqund the North I'vle
makes miduight as light as a cloudy
midday, and enables one to read
the flnest print without artiflcinl
light at any time during the “night.”
At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia
there is a mountain, on the summit
of which the sun shines perpetually.
during the flve days of June 19th,
20th, 21st, 22d and 23d. Every six
hours during this season of contin.
ual sunshine a steamer leaves Rtocke
holm crowded with visitors anxious
to witneé#s the phenomena. At the
same place during winter the sun
disappears, and is not seen fogr weeks;
then it comes in sight again for
ten, fifteen or twenty minutes, grad
ually lengthening itsstay until final
ly it stays in sight continuously
for upwards of one hundred and
twenty hours. : 3
Mrs. John Hughes, the ' popular
presiding genius of the Culinary
Department of the Instituté “has
been quite ill recently. We are glad
to note her convaleseence, -