The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, October 25, 1916, Image 9
VOLUME XXXII. LAURBNS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1916.NUBR1
NEGRO LYNCHED
Mob Takes Negro from Jail
Riddles His Body
Abbevlle, Oct. 21.-Taking the au- t
thorttles by surprise a mob, com
Posed of 200 to 300 persons, entered
the Abbeville jail this afternoon and
overpowering the jailer, took An
thony Crawford, a negro, from a cell
to lynch hit near the fair grounds. f
Beath for t'ie negro was made dou- I
bly sure, the snob banging him to a '
tree and then riddling his body with F
bullets.
The dead negro owned considerable c
property in Abbeville county, where
he was engaged in farming. He was I
said to have amassed a fortune of e
$20,00o,
The negro curred and otherwise I
abused an Abbeville merohant this t
morning and a crowd gathered to in
flict a beating. As this attempt was
being made the negro struck M. B.
'ann, one of the crowd, on the head t
'with a hammer, inflicting a serious t
wound. The crowd gave Crawford
a severe thrashing and would doubt
3ess have killed him but for the in- i
tereference - Sheriff Burts who
* Aunt Kate Remembers her *
* Promise. * 1
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Bear Advertiser Readers:
As I sat on the porch this beautiful
autumn afternoon sewing buttons on
the little boy's pants (it seens to me
that most of my time these late years
is spent in sewing on buttons), I
watched the lad build. his frog house.
Suddenly he stopped and with his lit
tie dirty hands upheld revently said,
"Oh, God take keer of Dick."
"Where did you hear that Lynt " I
asked, started for a moment. "Why
mamma", he replied in amazement,
"don't you 'member the man who said
that piece at the Chautauqua," and in
a flash it all came back to me and al
so the promise, almost forgotten, to
tell you readers of that same "piece".
The interpretation of the book "The
Printer of Uudell",
Perhaps it will be well to say here
that there is a decidedly wrong lm
prossion held by some folks in re
gard to a chautauqua.
"Aunt Kate", said one to me who
has never attended such a one as the
Redpath, "I thought more of you than
to think you would attend a carnival"
-inreference to my going to the chau
tauqua. I have never attended a carn
ical in my life but I believe I stay on
the side of truth when 1 say there is
absolutely no similarity in the charac
ter of the entertainment--not! ng in
common except both words begin with
the letter "C".
"What is an Interpretive Reading?" +
inquired the curious one at our house
as we prepared to go hear the lecture.
"We'll tell you when we get back" said
the lad, happy in the thought it was
kid time to go!
-Well, the definition given when home
was reached that afternoon will hold
good now. "It is just a book, taken
and boiled down till you get all the
best that's in it and tihe man acted the
people0 that's in tihe book, and he shore
knowed his business, too," and here
the boy cut a hand-spring or two to
limber up, after sitting for two hours
in a tent, getting ready to do the
night jobs--the first of which was to
feed Joe-his prize winner in the pig
club.
Tihe lectruor, as he faced his, audi--I
ence for the afternoon, made a good
imipresr'lon. ie was a man of leas
ing personality, a goodi Voice and well
versed int the arts of oratory and im
personation. So vivid was thelatter
that it wasf several different c'haract
e andl petrsons that was before ius
that afternoon. 'The two deacons,
prdeperous and hard hearted, Mr.
Gloodrichm and dlear' 01(1 'lovable Uncle I
Bobby, all will remember. ils sub
ject in conjunction with the interpure--I
tation of the book was "Applied
Christianity'-theo nied tofev
church today. Hie gave a brief synop
ala of each chapter. The firt was the
scene of a dying mother in a poverty
stricken drunktard'' ihonme or cabin In
Arkansas. The flu's sentoee uzrA wats
the * ray(:r of that dying mother,' .30
vibrant with passion anad longing~ that
so wonder the lad of Mive years ro
AT ABBEVILLE.
Hangs Him to a Tree and
With Bullets. gg
nanaged to place the negro in jail
about 11 o'clock. The sheriff called
L physician to dress Crawford's
vounds and no further trouble was
anticipated unless Mr. Cann's injuries
roved fatal.
At 3:30 o'clock the crowd quickly
ormed and moved to the jail, enter
ng the building fro mthe rear street.
Phe surprise attack was completely
uccessful as a summary attack be
ore nightfall had not been remotely
onsidered.
The jailer was quickly and effec
ively overpowered and the negro
ecured and hurried to a point near
he fair grounds where he was
fanged to a pine tree and the body
iddled with bullets.
Coroner Nance held an inquest
wer the negro's body late this af
ernoon, the verdict being that An
hony Crawford came to his death at
he hands of parties unknown to the
ury.
Cann, suffering from the injury in
licted by the hammer in the hands of
he negro, is expected to recover.
nembered it, "Oh! Gaud take keer uv
)ick". The boy was followed then all
hrough the years-his battle with life
-the attitude of the church and Chris
lanity (so called) he meets with
low they in reality treat "the least of
here my brethren." The realization
)f what that Scripture means where
hrist says to those who Implore
'Have we not prophesied in thy
lame?"-"Depart, I never knew you",
ame to me as I listened to that ser
ion-for it was one of the best ser
nons (and one that will linger always
iko a strain of music) I ever heard.
Christianity does not mean in going
tbout with long faces and singing
)salms (or ay other doleful tune for
bat matter), and passing the hungry
ad needy by. Young peoples work
111(1 part In the church was stressed
nd it was only where the young peo
ule, aided by Uncle Bobby, lent a
telping hand, was the irayer of that
lying mother in the Arkansas back
woods answered-God took care o'
)ick.
Shortlyafter, when the pastor, full
>f love for Christ and humanity,
preached .a sermon heart-searching
romn the text "Take your cross and
ollow me" 1)ick and his infidel friend,
rho was the first friend the homeless
ad had In the city found a personal
saviour.
The lecture was ill1ed with lessons
or us all and when in the hushed still
ler of that vast audience, with the
ory of a sweet spring sunsel. about
is, I)r. Kemp painted by words of
youth, how beautiful a life filled with
leeds for humanity could be, we
-ould believe it was the voice of God
pjeaking to us andi the thought left in
he heart of all that to obtain this, "'as
o "Follow Thou Me!"
"Aunt Kate."
IN FIVE MINUTESl.,NO
INDIGESTION, GA S OR
SOUR, ACID STOMACH
r'he Momen'it "Pape's Dliapopsin"
reaches the stomach .al .distress
goes.
"Really dhoes" put bad stomach in
>rd(er--"really dices" overcome indi
:estioni, dyspepsa, gas, heartburn and
ourness in five miutes-that--just
hat--mnakes Pap~ 's l3iapepsin the
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nember the moment ''Pape's lI iapep
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ich all suchi distress vanishes, it's
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ad the Joy is its hiarmiessne.~
A large fifty-cent case of Pape's
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W itit tc Get What You Want ?
TfRi Y WANT AD.
WAGNER'S TWO WIVES.
One Helped Him to Attain Success, the
Other-to Retain It.
In the case of Wagner we fnd fe.
male influence exerting strong power
in some of his compositions.
The uncomplaining devotion of his
first wife can scarcely be exaggerated..
During the ParIs days of poverty she4
trudged about seeking and obtaining
loans for her husband (a Wagnerian
loan was practically a gift), the took in
lodgers in their humble apartments,
she blacked the boots of husband and
lodger.
She sewed and washed and drudged.
only to beset aside when the days of
prosperity came and when she object.
ed to her husband seeking inspiration
from the wives of other men. Such
inspiration lie found in Mathilde We
sendonck, who was the chief factor in
bringing forth "Tristan und Isolde."
But the reader should imagine two
distinct Wagners, almost a real Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Iyde-Wagner the Lit.
tle and Wagner the Great.
The latter It was who never forsook
his highest Ideal in art, who worked a
quarter of a century upon a great
music drama. "The Ring of the Nibe
lungs," without the hope of ever see
ing it given, and wrote to a friend, "If
I live to complete It I shall have lived
gloriously, and if I die before it is fin
ished I shall have died for something
beautiful."
The second wife of Wagner was Cos
ima, the daughter of Liszt. Cosima
Wagner was a helpmate indeed for her
imperative and very erratic husband.
She was his secretary. She stood as
the buffer between him and trouble
some visitors. She was the diplomat
who smoothed out many a trouble that
was caused by Wagner's Impolitic and
irritating ways, and, next to himself.
Wagner loved her as well as anything
on earth.--Louls C. Elson In Mother's
Magazine.
TORRICELLI'S VACUUM.
Experiment That Led to the Invention
of the Barometer.
The barometer was invented by Tor
ricelli. a pupil of Gallej, in 10-13. In
attempting to pumrp water from a very
deep well near Il"lorence he fun d that
in spite of all his efforts Ilhe (liqu1i
would not rlse higher in the pump
stock than thirty-t wo feet.
This set the young scientist to think
ing, and as lie could not a' cul lit for the
phenonenon in any other way he was
not slow in attributing it to at is
pherile pressure. IIe argued Ihat water
would rise in a vacuum only to suth i
height as wonhal render tle downward
pressure or weighrt of the colunti of
water Just equal to the tttnilspheile
pressure nitd, further, that should a
heavier linid he used the helebt of the
column conl be much reduced.
To prove I his he selected i gin-s tiube
four feet long and after seatiing one
end filled it with iereury and then in
verted It in a basin containing a qunan
tity of the sane lecuiar liluid. The
column in the tube quickly fell to a
height of neatrly thirty inches above
the mercury In the basin, leaving in
the top of tie tube a vacuum which is
the most perfect that has ever been
obtained and which Is to this day call
ed the Torricelll vacuum in honor of
its discoverer.
The name of the instrument means
"welght r' pressure measure." andl~ Its
fundamental ptrinciplles ('anntot be bet
ter illustrated thtani lby the above dhe
scribed expecrimnent.
Jeems Henry Was Conjured.
"Mars .. ohn." ex'lte'd ly ex(h'imlied
Aunt Tildy as she jaantIigly rushed'(
Into a fire engIne house. "lekae, siuh.
iphOnograph to do car clea eres' sempo
niumt an' notify Ih)mi'I to emaergrate
home diurgently. kaze .Jeemns llenry
shoe' ,dlone bIln 'onijured! Dr. C'uttet'
done already dlIstraited two blood0( vuil
tunes froma his 'peanerettIs. an' I hef'
hIm n)ow pr'ezainiatiln' de clil's ante
bellumi rfr d~e gertuauns oh de nteuro
plumontia, whic'h ef lhe's disinfected
wid dey gotter' i'nubite hInm widt tihe
lee cold1hi edl( <waniu ties. Bitt
b'lleves It 's cnjattiiltion."'-Itlehmtond
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boy to sell our several
high-grade-lines to mer
chants' after s ch oo l
hours. Good references
as to (bility and charac
ter, but no capital re
quiydd.
Address
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