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THREE NEGROES ARE LYNCHED Two Charged With Assault ing White Girls. HUNDRED MEIN IN THE MOB Two oi the Negroes were Hanged to it Bridge Wliiie the' Other one Whs Shot wliile Fleeing from (he Mob. The .Mob Went about its Work Quiet ly and I'ew Knew of 1|. Shelbyvllle, Ky.. .Ian. 15.?Storming the Shelby county jail here early this morning, a mob composed of less than 100 men seized and lynched three negroes, two charged with as saulting white girls and a third sen tenced to be hanged for the murder of his wife and held in jail here un til the day for his execution could be set. The three were lynched in dif ferent places, and what first seemed to have been a single lynching was round to have been a triple one, only with the finding of the three bodies Hanged from Bridge. The body of Eugene Marshall, sen tenced to be hanged for the murder of his will-, whom lie had beheaded, was found hanging to a bridge over imminence pike only a short distance from the jail. ' Jim West, who had been employed as a chauffeur here for several months, was one of the victims. He was Charged with an assault on a white woman, the daughter of a Shel by county farmer, lie, too, was hang ed to the bridge. Shot While Fleeing. Wade Patterson. the third negro lynohed, was also charged with as saulting a white woman. Patterson attempted to escape from the mob and was shot and his body thrown into a creek. The mob which attacked the jail wont about its work quietly, and few persons knew of the triple lynching until the bodies were found several hour8 later. Few of the mob were masked. The jail lock was smashed with a sledg ? hammer, and there was little diffi culty in.getting to the prisoners. Hid .lull Keys. According to the deputy jailor, Bdwnid Thompson, the jailer, hid the jail keys when tl\e mob approached and later when the mob became more insistent Hornback let the men into Hie jail olllee. "They said there were three ne groes here they were going to get or else blow up the jail." said Ilornback. They kepi yelling for the dynamite while some of the mob started to boat tm the cell locks with a sledge hammer. About 12 men had their guns pointed at me demanding the keys, but 1 insisted I did not know where they were. Finally at '?'>". they broke open the cell do? r and look out West. Marshal land Patter son Miss I. a lira Mae Mnrff. The Christmas season was sadd sued by the death of .Miss l.aura Mac Murfl which occurred on the evening of December 27, at the homo of her fa ther. Mr. Green It. Murff, after an ill ness of two weeks. The passing of this young girl east a shadow of gloom over the entire community She was in her eighteenth year, and was a de voted daughter, loving friend, studious pupil and consecrated Christian Hav ing been in school with her for the past seven years I had learned to love her dearly, and she was a favorite with young and old She leaves father and mother, two sisters and two brothers who have the sympathy of all the people of this section in their great sorrow. On Sep tember 10, 1910, she united with Pop Jar Springs Baptist church, and on the day following her departure she was laid to rest in the cometery of 'his church, the funeral services be ing Conducted by her pastor, the Hev* II. Stone, with a largo concourse of sorrowing friends ami relatives in attendance, "A precious one from Uo is gone, A voice we loved Is stilled. A plnco Is vacant in our school Which can never he tilled." A School Male, i Broworton, s. v., Jan. 12, 1911. TDK CHAMPION CORN GROWERS* There Were 7.*? B0J>8 In South Carolina to Produce More Than too Bushels on One Acre of Land. "There were T."> boys in South Caro lina to produce more than 100 bush els of corn on one acre." This state j ment is made In the annual report of : Ira W. Williams. State agent of the I United states farm demonstration i work, which will be sent to the gen | eral assembly through the State de j parttnent of agriculture. Referring to the boys' corn clubs Mr. Williams says: "This boys' corn club has probably been more success ' fnl In the State .according to reports. , than elsewhere and tin- record break ers of the large number of boys who i produced over loo bushels are Jerry ; Moore, Who produced 228 bushels im<i ' :', peeks at a cost of 43 cents per bushel; and Archie O.aun. who pro duced 177 bushels and :'. pecks at a cost of -?'> cents per bushel. These records have been invaluable to the (State and have advertised the fertility of our soils as probably nothing else could." First Division I'nlon, Meeting. The Union Meeting of the Pirsl l>i vlslon of the I.aureus Association will be held on January 2Sth and 20th with the Watts Mill Baptist Church. The following will be the program: Saturday. Jauuur) 28. 2.30 P. M. Devotional Exercises, W. H. Drummond, Lanford Station. 3.00 P. M.?The Orphanage Work. O. L. Lanford, Lanford Station. L. B. Riddle, Cray Court. 7.:',0 I?. M.?Sermon. W. P. Smith. Sunday, January '20. IJ.00 a. M.?Devotional Exercises, S. M. Collier. 0.30 A. M.?Do we devote our time to the training of our children as we should, T. .1. Hughs. Fountain Inn. J. J. Riddle. Owings Station. 10.00 A. M. -Sunday School Mass. meeting. Opened by S. K. Brantlett, Owings St.ition. 11.00 A. M.- Missionary Sermon, .1. T. Taylor, Lanford station. 1J.0C M -Adjournment. The second and third sections of the Laurens Association will hold ? their union meeting with the Second Baptist church of Laurens on Satur day and Sunday, January 28th an;'. i 20th. Program. Saturday evening. t 7-7.".o- Devotional exercises, led by B. P. Mitchell. Query No. I - My personal obllga ' tlon as a soul winner i i) W hy should j I be a soul winner? lb) How should I do ii? T. It. Drown, 11. L Dnggott, F. L. Dramlott. Query Mo. 2. The Importance of proper reading. As Baptists, what should we read, and why II, II. Ma hon, w. 10. Thnyor. Sunday Morning, lu Regular Sunday School exer cises. II -Address by C. II. Roper, sub ject. Hhe Responsibility of the Teach er for the Success of the School. 11.30?Missionary sermon by II. L. Bnggott. Recess. Query No. -t. Missions, (ho busi ness of the church, it. P. Mitchell, c. it. Bono. Myrtle ( amp No. (I, \\ 0. W. Myrtle Cnmp No. (1, W. o \v at Its recent meeting elected (ho following officers: \V. M Madden. PnSl V. C. L, I). Elledgo, c. c. i .1. \V. Kellett, Advisory Lieutenant. ? C. C. Cnldwell, Banker. R. m. Wnsson, Clerk. .1. A. Coats. Escort. .1. I*. Madden. Watchman C. C. Madden. Sentry. Dr. I. L. Dannau, Camp Physician. W. A. Traynhnm, W. M. Caldwell, j T. T. Wood, Managers. These officers will be installed on j the 20th of January. R. M. Wnsson, Clerk. Death in Roaring Fire. may pot result from the work of tire bugs but often severe burns are caused that make a quick need for Mucklen's Arnica Salve, the quickest, surest cijre for burns, wounds, bruises, bolls, sores it subdues Inflammation, it kills pain It soothes and heals. Drives off skin eruptions, ulcers or piles. Only 2f>C at Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. See our ten cent counter for bit; vnl ucs In crockery, glass, tin ware, agate ware and fancy' china. S. M. & E. II. Wilkes & Co. BAPTISTS HOLD MEETING. Twenty-Six of Thirty Churches of County Represented ut Conference. In response to the invitation of the executive board of the Laurens Bap tist association, about forty laymen and ministers, representing twenty-six of the thirty churches embraced in this association, met Friday at the j First Bapth't church for the purpose I ol holding an assnciationai conference as was indicated in the notices sent out to all the churches of the county by the executive committee of which Mr. C. B. Bobo is chairman. The conference opened at 10:30 with devotional exercises conducted by the Rev. II. L. Baggott. Following these exercises stirring addresses, relating to the work, scope and opportunity of the Laurens Baptist asoelation, were delivered l>y Dev. J. A. Martin of Cross Hill. Itev. C. Lewis Fowler of Clinton, ami the Itev. \V. E. Thnyer of Laurens. At l o'clock adjournment : was taken for dinner which was serv - ed by a committee of ladies. Im the afternoon, with f'hrirmnn Bobo presiding, a business session : was held. Mi. Hobo and others address ; lug the conference upon vital sub 1 jects that affect the different depart ( ments of church worn its fostered by [the association. Tin? several objects missions, education, orphanage and other causes to which yearly contri I tuitions are made by the churches com I posing this association, were especial. ; ly emphasized as a great factor in : the work of the Baptists as a denom ination. The apportionments for the ; current year were carefully consid ered and each church is pledged to come up with a clean balance sheet next fall at the annual meeting of the association. The meeting Friday was most har , monious and the deb-gates, many of them, expressed hearty approval of ^ the committee's idea In bringing the I church representatives together at j this time for the consideration of the i subjec ts in which all the churches are interested. The executive board j feels that the conference will be pro ductive of great good und that a nw impetus has been given church nettvl ty in the l^aurens Baptist association Torrens Law in New York Slate. (From the New York Evening Post.? It is now a matter of common knowledge thai what is popularly known as tin- "Torrens system of land title registration" takes its name from Sir Itobert Richard Torrens, who Invented or devised ibis system in iS'iS. when he was collector of customs in Australia. Ii was Ural appli-d to crown lands and then to prlvte properties. So successful was i it in operation^ that the system vvna adopted in many European countries, in Canada, and in several of our own states, including Massachusetts. Illi nois, Minncsota.vCalifornln and Col 1 orndo. In New York state the agitation for ' this great reform in the method ol land transfers was instituted some 10 years ago. soon after its adoption in Massachusetts. The opositiou of the old title Insurance companies, how ever, was sufficiently strong to pre vent any action by the legislature un til the advent of flo.v. Hughes ami. al bis suggestion, decommission ol ex perts was appointed to thoroughly examine (lie system and report to the ?legislature. After months of careful Investigation, this commission report led the system employed by tin- old in. stimm ? companies as "antiquated, I cumbersome and expensive," and reo ommeuded the Torrens system as sin; pie. comprehensive and practical, and the only satisfactory solution of Mi , problem, Thereupon, the legislature, in 1008, enacted tie- Torrens "Land title regis tration law" which, however, con tained several features which were found to be impractical in operation, so that it was necessary to appeal again to the legislature, and an amend atory act (chapter 627, laws of 1010) was passed, an dsigncd by Gov, Hughes just before bis resignation to accept a position on the bench of the United states supreme court. By its terms it did not go into effect un til the fust day of September las;; so that the amended Torre.is law ban been in actual Operation less than four months. During that time a number of titles have been registered in lie ; counties of .New York. Kings. Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Richmond and West ehester, and more are coming in ev ery day. EGYPTIAN COTTON I BEING IMPORTED Government Taking Steps to Increase Production. GREAT INTEREST IN ITS CULTURE A Department oi' Agriculture lias boon Created whoso Principal Duties is thought will be the Sttitlj <>i' (lie Cotton Plant und (o Secure Hotter Methods of Production. Washington, Jan, 15.?Experiments In cotton culture me being made by the Rgyptian government with a view to Increasing the production of thai country, according to i> It, Birch, United States consul at Alexandria, Rgypt. The government is conduct ing these experiments on its Korashleh estates with a new cotton seed, styled "Assill," which has produced approx imately S00 pounds per acre, (?odd Qua lily. Ii is like A fill in color, but hotter i in quality and is expected to fetch $2 more per hundredweight than any other variety cultivated in Egypt, A reconl khedlcal decree has au thorized the creation of a department of agriculture and the appointment of a director general of that olllce. Although no definite plans have yet been formed as to the work of ihn i?d ministration, it is believed that it will have to do principally with the con trol of cotton culture, and by sys tematic surveillance to prevent over Irrigation of the cotton Heids by na tive growers, who in the past have re ! tnrded the maturity of the plai ts b> Hooding the fields too frequently. The II iah Record. The record for the arrival of raw cotton at the Alexandria market from the growing districts was made on November - last, when II. 0H8 bales, the largest number rvcr received in a single day, wore unloaded. The ministry ol agriculture at Con stantinoplc has asked the Ottoman ! high commissioner at Cairo to semi a quantity ol Egyptian cotton seed of the best vnilotics with a view to bo | iim tried in Turkey. Prosecuting Attorney?You are willing to '?wear that it was tlx- pris oner at the bar who lircd the fatal ; shot ? Witness-?Yes, your honor, ! could 1 not be mistaken! There was only six teen fellers shooting at the time, so I could ea-y keep track of them. BILLBOARDS TO TEACH TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION 20,ooo Colored Posters to be Dis played in Next Three Months - Value, $100,000. During the next three months, the billboards of the United States will j display 20,000 educational posters on tuberculosis, according to an an nouncement made today by the Na tional Association for the Study and Prevention Tuberculosis This will conclude tin- campaign begun a year ago, when the National Billposters Association donated free space t-> the 'tubcreulo.ssi cause, the Poster I'rintcrs Association offered free printing and nine paper manu facturer.; gave die paper for the pos ter-, 'flic combined value of these several donations :' ?r this three I month campaign i- nearly $100.000. The poster are in six different de signs and ate 1 printed in three col ors. They arc 7 feet wide and o feet high, Already nearly .',500 of these posters have been hung on the bill boards of 40 differc.n'c cities, ami it Iis planned t*. distribute 20,000 more 'before April 1 -t in over too towns and cities. Vny anti-tuberculosis so ciety in the United State- may receive free of charge, except for transpor atioh, as many of ihc<e posters as ? an lie hung ???! th-' boards in its ter j ritory. The National Association With the Tuberculosis Committee of the National llillpostcrs ami Di^trili utors are Conducting the campaign, The posters show in graphic form how fresh a|r. >?! food, and rcsl cute tuberculosis: how had air. over work, and do <??! windows lead to consumption; and how the careless consumptive menaces the health of his family by ipitling (in the door. ?J. .J. .J- ?J. .J. ??. .J* .J. ?J? ??? .J. .J? .J. 4? A DKTRONED KING. * ?1? Savoyard, in Houston Post. ?I* * i ?}??!? ?j? ?j? ?j? ?j? ?1??!??j? ?j? ?j??!??j? ?j? The "Reckoning Day" comes for all of us. Those who live and act strenuously as has the late Mr. Ross CVCit, have many things to answer for in that day. This seems to he the "Reckoning Day" for the strenu ous cx-prcsident. "Sayvoyard." one of fthc oldest and ablest correspondents from Washington City, thinks it is, and. prpocccds to even up <>hl score's in in-the following vigorous fashion: How the mighty has Inllcnl Alex ander had a had shoulder. Hanni bal was one eyed. Ceasar had fir and Kapolcan Bonaparte eczema. Charles the Bold died in a petty quarrel with the despised Swiss; Charles XII died playing the part of a rude gunner. Charles V saw fail ure before him, abdicated, retired to 1 the most delightful valley that even Spain could furnish, and there went inPi seclusion. The ridge roared by I a mole caused the death <d William of Orange, and thus I may qtlOlC that delightful and delicious pool of Wake county, North Carolina, even j Toni I 'ence: I )<? bigger dal you sec the smoke, I )e le-- dc lire will be: An' de leastcs' Kind 'o possum Climbs de biggest kind o' tree. The big (lungs can be grappled I with by your great character?it is the little things thai uptrip him. And by this time Mr. Roosevelt under stands that he was not only reduced speechless by a State election, but that in a political way he is undone. Let not Caesar's servile minions Mock the lion thus laid low; 'Twas no foeman's hand that slew him. Twas his own that dealt the blow. The cobmel opened the campaign in IQJO tor a third term in 1012 and he was disastrously beaten His defeat was dm- to his own van ity, his own egotism. In Xcw York he was with Root, the trust builder: in Kansas he was with Brostow, the trust buster. In Massachusetts he supported l odge, the high priest of tariff monopoly, and in Indiana lie was shoulder to shoulder with Bcvcr idgc, a new convert to the doctrine 1 of honest taxation F.verywhere he ? was all things to all men. For a sin so venal that a frank man can not discover i*. Roosevelt held P?cii Till mail hi- enemy, up to scorn, and for I viilation ?,f law sclf-sicknowlodjjcd and "hat all men can read, Mr. Rpos eveb held Paul Morton hi- friend, -cathle->. lioasting his Southern blood, this hroggart, as president the United : State- i"oi<cd on Charleston, S C, a negro collector <>f customs, ami soon : or than have done such viol, nee to the public sentiment of Rochester, X. Y., he would have pone abjectly to l.i- knee- In defiance of and in ; contempt of law Roosevelt abolished a postoffie.o in Mississippi because it Was Mississippi, and nine of t. n of the patrons of the office preferred a vyhte postnui.stcr to a Ida !. Would be j ,i\ r done that if '/u\w. \ illc. <).. Or Xattoon. 111., or Coda 1 R sip id s; Iowa, had be, 11 involved You know for him. S'ou know that i 1 ? \\H,< not the pr. -id. .il of the South. 1 Here i< .-i proclamation of this lioasting, who felt that h, was al 1 ready a- good as elected in 1912. "I will make the corporations come to time, and I will make the mob come to time, I shall insist upon honesty if it breaks up the liest bus im s in tiie land, and shall insist up on order under all circumstance*. "WhcrcVCI I have the power, f will keep ord.r on the one band, and I will in-isf upon justice from the rich man and from the corporation' on the other." Then why didn't he do that when he was in power? Wasn't he a- mute :i- a fish "U the question <>: the tar iff aii thr.se ninety month-'' 1 >i<I he not !(t from the "interest-" the big -t boodle fund of our history, nnd at which Ifana himself would have stood aghast? Did not life insur ance companies pay to Mr. Cortclyou tens of thousand* of dollar-, much of it trttslfunds belonging to the widow; ami orphans ol tlcmocrats? Did he not beseech llarriman to rai-e $i6o.ooo with which to cofrupl the electorate in !QO<| in Iiis inter est and did n ->t I larriman say tha t he raised the hoodie and that it bought 50,000 votes? The beef trust, the pa per trust, the oil trust, the coal trust, the steel trust, and many other "in terests" contributed t>> the siush fund that bought the presidency for Theodore Roosevelt in ino.j. And why? I'll tell you. In \<)oy came the Roosevelt panic, that Roosevelt met like a pigmy though he had the ex ample of Grovcr Cleveland, who had met as severe a panic under infinitely more adverse circumstances like a giant. Monopoly came down to t'iis town at the hour of midnight and got an interview with Roosevelt at the White House and rcprpesontcd to him that unless he would suspend the law and grant indulgence to the steel trust to absorb the Tennessee Coal and Inm company the panic would not he checked hut would run riot. What did he dot II? tore the law into shreds and scattered it !?> the wind-. And tin- 1-. the man who -ay- he is going lo play hell with the "interests!" Of course he will, as he di<l. but he won'i have a chance. \11 our statesmen combined have not put so many nun it* the pillory of mendacity as Roosevelt. He has thrown the lie in the t<<th of nearly every man who refused to, kiss his ioe. and ibis is the immaculate son of thunder who wrote the letter to Mrs, Storcr, a noblc.a v.. man a- ever trod American soil. We all know that Teddy is the dis coverer of original sin and that he i the inventor of original virtue with which to exercise it; but he is not the discoverer of "new nationalism." j They bad that in Rome twenty centu ries ago, and it was invent<d by a man named Julius Caesar. His j preachment was that the bucolic j commonwealth of Cincinnatus ami ('ainillh.H was out ol date and !a only for the Rome preserved to us by I.ivy ami Sallu -t. Rome had done splendidly uildcP the old nationalism?they called it commonwealth. It had waged three triumphant wars against CarthagCi which it ultimately lestroyed. Regu lins was a noble Roman, victorious) ( and finally Unfortunate, Marcellus Was splendid and Paulus F.minilliu 'was grand. Pabius Maximus pre served hi- country front cluthccs of ' Hannibal ami tint' (hanget] the civiJi nation of the world And Scipio Af I ricinus, the greatest < :' the virtuous Romans, overthrew Hannibal himself It i- true that Mariu came along ami --vi n?>t only a third term, but a seventh term, ami then that '.'teat scoundrel Scylla appeared and made 1 the word- Rome and turbulence sy nonymous, hut t!i< ? n.' :/< <! the commonwealth. I lie ?? : ..t< y< 1 ex isted ami < "ato w a - ' t ill . ? Hut lu re came Saewir, tin ereafc<,C n an of profane history, greater than Mexatiiler, or Hannibal, or Napoleon even, when we look ;.' material achievement, the fruit ol victorious arm- and the harvest of onsummato policy. t'ac-ar brought it nev : tionat~ , ism." It was grand, it v ? 1plendid; it was magnificent: but it v.a the Tii'Min < ? 1 lio'nii'r "it ion ? 0 1 ? cur that was Rome, 11,> ic??lly wi will not bo en-laved, m rally shal reu...in free; but ecoia mi ,.K> we ai< and :'..rty year- have been, slave* When coti^re-- Icgishdi that Olli intere.-t shall have ,1 :<.. on.'ibh pro lit, another, and an unprot? fed in terest, must be taxed t" supply ilia" profit. That is <';.( -.arii 1 and if w< are to take cxainplpc from the ninet' months of Roosevelt m ih? Whii, my o Surn enerott genial