Some Interesting Statistics.
Interesting Statistics of the
year 1912 ere now available „
THE df BJ PER
SONAL VIOLENCE
During the year way
compared with 8,272 in 1»1»
and 8,975 in 1910. The various
causes are riven as follows:
Quart els, 4.380; Unn*m j d, 134 it
Liquor, 963. By highwaymen,
367; Jealousy, 903; Highwaymen
killed, 70; Infanticide, 168; Re
sisting arreet. 171; Insanity, 118;
Riots, 25, Selfdefense, 89, Strikes
43; Criminal outrages* 22.
THE RECORD OF SUICIDES
For this year also shows an
increase, the number for 1912
being 12,981, as compared wKh
12£42 in 1911. The proportion
of suicides as between men and
women remains about the samQt
being 7,632 males and 5,349 fe
males. The causes given »r* at
follows; Despondency, 6,321;
Unkown, 1,332; 1 1£ a ity, 1,0r2;
Domestic infelicity, 1,220; ll*
health, 1,962; Business losses.
92; Liquor. 111, Disappointmen
ts love, 821. Of the tota
4,148 shot themselves,
3,926 leok poison, 2,722 hanfced
themselves, 852 drowned them
selves 148 cut their throats, 890
asphyxiated themselves, 58 threw
themselves in front of railroad
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LEGAL EXECUTIONS
Also showed an increase, the
number for 1912 being 145, as
compared with 74 in 1911, 10* in
1910, and 107 in 1909
THE NUMBER OF LYNCHINGS
Showed a gratifying decrees*
during the year. Only 41 lynch-
recorded being the
smallest number since the records
were begun |n 1884. The Jar
gest number occuring in one year
was in 1892, when there were
235. The next largest was in
1893, wnen their were 200. Since
1908 tfiere haa been a steady
deciinte *of lycching. In that
ypJlhtfe were 100; in 1909, 87:
1910 74 in in 1911, 71: and asit,
year 41.
.. AVIATION
Proved more fatal than ever,
and is becoming a peril which
threat n? the exterminat on of
the bird men. In 1908, one man
killed; in 1909, fbur; in 1910,
thirty-two; in 1911, ninety-nine;
in 1912,152. mgkmga total of
288 in the tour years since ait
flying was attempted.
THE COST OF INSANITY.
It is commuted that it costs the
people of the United States more
to carelor the insane each Year
than the annual expense of the
executive, legislative and judicial
departments of the government.
Thirty-two millions of dollars is
the actual c*t of caring for the
insane in our various public in
stitutions in the United States.
It does not cost quite as much as
that each year to carry on the
construction of the Panama
yet this $32,000,000
is only a small part of the actua
cost of vur insane. The total
cost has been estimated at $164,-
000,000. The manner in which
tnis large amount is calculated
is on the worth of each adult be
tween the ages of eighteen and
forty-five. It is generally esti
mated that the average value to
the community of the norma)
adult between the age 3 eighteen
and forty-five was S7OO per year
Counting the number ot peoyl
who have been withdrawn from
the community because of in
sanity, people of the S7OO-per
annum VTUP, the loss is $132,-
000.000. Tnis with the actual
cost of caring for tha insane,
brings the total up to the $164,-
000,000 mark. The first cost
means a per capita cost of about
33 1-3 cents for us, or that every
one in-this country, if the cost
were ivenly divided, would have
to pay 33 1-3 cents eace year for
the care of the insane. The
total cost is more than the en
tire value of the wheat, corn,
tobacco and dairy and beef
producta exported each year from
this country.
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Miss Frank Cruse, of Knox
ville, who is visiting her cousin
Miss Harriet Riddle sang in tht
Presbyterian church Sunday
morning. She has a beautiful
control to voice of wide range.
Who Was Your Father? What
Sort OF Blood?
If your blood is thin, you are weak
and languid, not enough energy to do
your daily work, and feel entirely won
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PRESIDENT WILSON.
FOR JUSTICE ONLY
His Inaugural Address Calls on
All Honest Men to Aid in
His Task.
WILL RESTORE, NOT DESTROY
Nsw Chief Executive Says Change of
Government Means the Nation Is
Using Democratic Patry for
Large and Definite Purpose.
Washington, March 4. Looking
upon the victory of the Democratic
party as the mandate of the nation to
correct the evils that have been al
lowed to grow up in our national life.
President Wilson in his inaugural ad
dress today called on all honest men
to assist him in carryiug out the will
of the people. Following Is his ad
dress:
There has been a change of govern
ment. It began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
Dejnocratlo by a decisive majority.
It has now been completed. The sen
ate about to assemble will also be
Democratic. The offices of president
and vice-president have been pot into
the hands of Democrats. 'What does
the change mean? That Is ths ques
tion that is uppermost in our minds
today. That is the question I am go
ing to try to answer, in order, if I
may, to Interpret the occasion.
New Insight Into Our Llfs.
It means much more than the mere
success of a party. The success of a
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for a large
and definite porpose. No one caa
mistake the purpose for which the
nation now seeks to use the Demo
cratic party. It seeks to use it to In
terpret a change in its own plans and
point of view. Some eld things with
which we had grown familiar, and
which had begun to creep into the
very habit of our thought and of our
lives, have altered their aspect as we
have latterly looked critically upon
them, with fresh, awakened eyes;
have dropped their disguises and
shown themselves alien and sinister.
Some new things, as we look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
their real character, have come to as
sume the aspect of things long believ
ed in and familiar, stuff of our own
couvictions. We have been refreshed
by a new insight into our own life.
We eee that in many things that
life iB very great. It is Incomparably
great in Its material aspects, In its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of its energy, In the industries
which have been conceived and. built
up by the genius of individual men
end the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. It is great, also, very great,
in its moral force. Nowhere else In
the world have noble men and women
exhibited In more striking form the
beauty and energy of sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel in their efforts
to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set the weak in the way of
strength and hope. We have built up,
moreover, a great system of govern
ment, which has stood through a long
age as in many respects a model for
those who seek to set liberty upon
foundations that will endure against
fortuitous change, against storm and
accident. Our life contains every
great thing, and contains It In rich
abundance.
Human Cost Not Counted.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much flno gold has been
corroded. With riches has oome In
excusable waste. We have squan
dered a great part of what we might
have ueed, and have not stopped to
oonserve the exceeding bounty of na
ture, without which our genius for en
terprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as admir
ably efficient. We have been proud oC
our industrial achievements, but we
have not hitherto stopped thought
fully enough to count the human cost,
the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener
gies overtaxed and broken, the fear
ful physical and spiritual cost to the
men and women and children upon
whom the dead weight and burden of
it all has fallen pitilessly the years
through. The groans and agony of It
all had not yet reached our ears, the
solemn, moving undertone of our life,
coming ug.out of the mines and fac
tories and out of every home where
the struggle had its intimate and fa
miliar seat. With the great govern
ment went many deep secret things
Which we too long deleyed to look
into and scrutinize with candid, fear
less eyes. The great government we
loved has too often been made use of
for private and selfish purposes, and
those who used it had forgotten the
people.
At last a vision has been vouch
safed us of our life as a whole. We
see the bad with the good, the da
based and decadent with the sound
and vital. With this vision wa ap
proach new affairs. Our duty is to
cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to
correct the evil without impairing the
good, to purify and humanize every
process of our. common life without
weakening or sentimentalizing it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste to
succeed and be great Our thought has
been 'Let every man look out for him
self. let every generation look out for
The Political Situation.
A prominent North Carolinian has
this to say: I liave been a sufferer
from Rheumatism for fifteen years, a
portion of the time bedfast, and for the
last six months it has been seated in
my left side near my heart; could
scarcely rtst any at night. I finally
decided to try Dr. King's Nerve ani
Bone Liniment. Two or three appli
cations entirely relieved me of the
pain, r have used it in my fairilv
with gopd results. D. C. HOW ELI, '
Gold by tt-«»dicine dealers. «
J i, jfjjv
bar to witness tha oath-taking of the
vice-president was by ticket, and it
is needless to say every seat was
occupied. On the floor of the cham
ber were many former mefllibw* of
the senate who, because of the tact
that they once held* membership 1M
that body, were given the privileges
ef the floor. After the "hall was filled
and all the minor officials of govern
ment and those privileged to witress
the ceremonies were seated, William
H. Taft and Wood row Wilson, preced
ed by the sergeant-at-arms aid the
committee of arrangements, entered
the senate chamber. They wwe fol
lowed immediately by Vlce-Presld mt
elect Thomas R. Marshall, learJng
upon the arm of the president pro
tempore of the senate, ,
The president and the president
elect sat in the first row ef seats di
rectly in front and almost under the
desk of the presiding officer. In the
same row, but to their left, were the
vice-president-elect and two former
vice-presidents of the United States,
Levi P v Morton of New York and Ad
lai A. Stevenson of Illinois.
When the distinguished company en
tered the chamber the senate ' was
still under its old organization. * The
oath of office was immediately admin
istered to Vice-President-elect Mar
ahall, who thereupon became Yiee-
Presldent Marshall. The prayer of the
day was given by the chaplain of the
senate, Rev. Ulysses Q. B. Pierce, i>as
tor of All Bouls' Unitarian church, of
which President Taft has been a mem
ber. After the prayer the vice-presi
dent administered the oath of office
to all the newly chosen senators, and
therewith the senate of the United
States passed for the first time in
years into the control of the Demo
cratic party.
Proeeeelon to East Portlea.
Immediately after the senate cere
monies a procession was formed to
march to the platform of the east por
tico of the capitol, where Woodrow
Wilson was to take the oath. The pro
cession included the president and the
president-elect, members of the Su
preme court, both houses of congress,
all of the foreign ambassadors, all of
the heads of the executive depart
ments, many governors of states and
territories. Admiral Dewey of the navy
and several high officers of the sea
service, the chief of staff of the array
and many distinguished persons fron
civil life. They were followed by thf
members of the press and by those
persons who had succeeded in secur
ing seats in the senate galleries to
witness the day's proceedings.
When President Taft and the presi
dent-elect emerged from the capito*
on to the portico they saw In from
of them, reaching far back Jpto tbt -
park to the east, an immense cods
course of citizens. In the narrow linti
between the onlookers and the plat
form on which Mr. Wilson was to taki
the oath, were drawn up the cadet*
of the two greatest government
schools, West Point and Annapolis,
and flanking them were bodies of reg
ulars and of national guardsmen. Th
whole scene was charged with color
' and with life.
On reaching the platform the presi
dent and president-elect took the
seats reserved for them, seats whieh
were flanked by many rows of benches
rising tier on tier far the accommoda
tion of the friends and families of the
officers of the government and of the
press.
Mr. Wilson Takes the Oath.
The instant that Mr. Taft and Mr.
Wilson came within sight of the crowd
there was s great outburst of ap
plause, and the military bands struck
quickly into "The Star Spangled Ban
ner." Only a few bars of the music
were played and then soldiers and ci
vilians became silent to witnese re
spectfully the oath taking and to
listen to the address which followed.
The chief justice of the Supreme
court delivered the oath to the presi
dent-elect, who, uttering the words,
Chief Justice White.
*1 will," became president of tht
United States. As soon as this cere
mony was completed Wood row WHSOB
delivered his inaugural addrees, his
first speech to his fellow countrymen
in the capacity of their chief execu
tive.
At the conclusion of the speech the'
bands played once more, and William
Howard Taft, now ex-presldcat of the
United States, entered a carriage with
the new president and, reversing the
order of an hour before, sat on th«
left band side of the carriage, while
Mr. Wilson took "the seat of honor"
on the right. The crowds cheered aa
they drove away to the White House,
which Woodrow Wilson entered aa the
occupant and which William H. Taft
Immediately left as one whose Vts
had expired.
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Seaboard Air Line Railway.
Schedule Effective Jan. 1, 1912
Leave Lincolnton, N. C.
East Bound
Train No. 46, 8:52 a. m., daily
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West Bound
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Cl ariotte, NC, Raleigh
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THE SANITARY AGE
OUR GRAMDMOTHERS
%
made brushes of peacock feathers. Why? To keep
OFF the flies. How about the dust germs?
OUR MOTHERS
had wire screens put in doors and windows.
Why? To keep OUT the flies. What about the
dust germs?
OUR WIVES
use bread which has been wrapped in sanitary
waxed paper. Why? All the germs have been
kept out. \
The modern woman says it pays. Why?
First: It is absolutely clean.
Second: It is appetizing.
Third: It never becomes stale.
Fifth: It is due us in this sanitary age.
THE CITY BAKERY
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