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The pagel^po journal Vol. 4 WO. 44 PAGELAND. S. C., WEDNB^tY MORNING, JULY 15, 1914 $1.00 per year Watermelon Train Wrecked Do Not Puil Fodder. | Shipped 'Er Back, e:-1*n "" * ' Pamrton T..1-- in * * j uiy iv?'1 COIilSIOQ between the Southern through freight and the Seaboard Air Line through freight occurred at Spalding Junction, on the outskirts of camden, this morning at 7 o'clock, which resulted in the in the injury of Conductor C. A. Fouts of the Southern railway and the overturning of two engines of the Seaboard, one box car of the Seaboard and two gondolas of the Southern. The morning northbound freight of the Southern railway had stopped at the crossing, as it customary for all trains to do at the crossing, and had started across the Seaboard tracks. The Seaboard track crosses the Southern tracks at right angles and the Seaboard freight running as a doubleheader, with 52 loaded cars and two huge freight engines, was approaching at an < J! *' * uirecuon. 1 ne engineers applied brakes, but, as the i train was on a slight incline, it j was impossible to stop at the 1 crossing and struck the Southern freight two cars from the ca- 1 boose, which was going in an < opposite direction. i The force of the compact was i so great that it carried two gon- j dolas loaded with cinders 40 feet < up the Seaboard tracks and the 1 first engine of the Seaboard ] freight was overturned and was parallel with the Southern tracks, t The other Seaboard engine, i which was attached to the first f engine, was partly overturned, t and the tender had "buckled" 1 the engine and was considerably t torn up. The second engine was c almost parallel with the South- c em tracks and the lower part of f _ - -the, ofttrine.Wfffr .nartlv^huried, in 14 the sand bank nearby. fie Thirty-nine of the Seaboard ve freight cars were loaded with su watermelons and the rest of the in cars were loaded with cotton re and lumber. The Southern's be freight train had mostly gon- cc dolas, coal cars and a few box te cars, most of which were empty. m< The track was badly torn up an and the two engines were badly battered and twisted. m< Superintendent Lake of the pe Seaboard, who happened to be fa on a passenger train shortly m behind the wrecked freight, lei went to the scene of the wreck of and took charge of the Seaboard wl forces. Two wrecking trains fo were ordered, one from Colum- yc bia and the other from Hamlet yc The Columbia wrecking crew or arrived about 11 o'clock. Mr. pi Lake said that he hoped to have the track cleared for traffic in six M hours and the wreck removed in nine hours. The passengers on the South era railway transferred at Spald- ^ ing Junction and the Seaboard ( Air Line trains were detoured by the way of Chester. After the news of the wreck ^ spread, quite a large crowd from ejj town went to the junction. A ^ similar wreck occurred at Cam- ar den Junction over a year ago when the Southern fr<?;orV?* flr ? ? > vi^ni iiam was cut in two by the Atlantic en Coast Line train. an The condition of Conductor op C. A. Founts is not though to be w serious. He received a scalp jQ, wound and cuts about the body. He was taken to a hospital in ra Camden shortly after the colli- ex sion. tei to fustic of Supreme Court Dead th< Atlantic City, N. J., July 12.? th< Associate Judge Horace Harmon Sti Lurton of the United States Supreme Court died suddenly at a thi hotel here today from heart fail- by pre superinduced by cardiac Ci psthpaft. He was 70 years old. W Mr. S. P. Coker, of Hartsville, writing in the Progressive Farmer, gives the following sensible advice about the time-honored custom of pulling fodder: The practice of fodder pulling which has been followed in the South so long, and which is still prevalent today on many farms is a practice destined to decrease the corn yields of any given year and to lower the vitality of the seed for the following year. It will not take jiiuch experimenting on the part of any farmer to prove to his entire satisfaction that fodder pulling does not pay. I know when you talk of not pulling fodder 3*011 touch a tender spot with the majority of farmers, for man>* of them believe it is the thing to do, but let me ur^e evprv fnrmor r~i _ j nivi %\J JLVJl' low out tlie advice of our agri cultural papers, "to think more for himself* and experiment to find out whether or not a thing pays, if he cannot be convinced by the experience of others. The results of our experiments for the past four years show con:lusively where fodder is pulled when the bottom leaves begin to urn, there is a loss of at least 24 )er cent in yield of corn. If pulljd when three-fourths of the eaves are dry, there is about 10 3er cent decrease in yield. At first thought one might hink this 24 per cent decrease n yield was the onl>' loss from odder pulling but, the fact is, his presents only a part of the oss since much of the loss comes hrough the effect on the yield >f the next year's crop. Seed :orn taken from a fodder pulled is much lower in vitality ;iu jjiuperiy maiurea ana ae- ^ sloped, and consequently when ch seed is planted a decrease crop yields must necessarily suit. Not only will the yield : lowered but the quality of the >rn also, for anything which w nds to lower the yield will, in ost cases, cause more inferior g id wasty corn. Let me insist that every farer grow more hay and stop ^ illing fodder, but to those g rmers who still feel that they p ust pull fodder, let me say this; ave at least two or three acres tj, vour crop unpulled from ^ hich to select your seed corn q r the following year, so that u may keep up the quality of p >ur seed and not suffer the secid loss which comes through e; anting inferior seed. ^ ale Stenographers And Type- n writers in Demand. l, The United States Civil Scree Commission announces vv at while it has no difficulty in m curing: sufficient female stenoaphers and typewriters to meet e needs of the departments at ashington, the supply of male igibles has not been equal to e demand. Young men who e at least 18 years of age who e willing to accept the usual di itrance salaries, which are 8840 tl id 5VUU a year, have excellent si portunities for appointment. n< hile the entrance salaries are n< w, advancement is reasonably aj pic! to those meriting it. The aminations, which any compe- ti< at stenographer should be able E pass, are held each month in 01 c year, except December, at w r. ?:?:?' ' -? ** ' c Hi""-!}"" cmes 01 me united w ates. al Full information in regard to e examination may be secured ai ' addressing the United States L vil Service Commission, at ashington, D. C. h< Wax-haw Enterprise. JiWsi A number of Waxhaw people, went to Lancaster ldst Wedn*i?* day. One Claud Chapman ed to go to. He saw Mr. W. 0^ Wilson of Davidson, who is hflil boring a well for Dr. W. Cain, and borrowed his cycle to ride out in the coum a few miles. When Claud ed out with the motor cycli^f moved so nicely that he could not check up till he landed in Lancaster. Well, when the other, people returned in the afternoon thev spoke of seeing Claud there.! After waiting some time some one phoned the police in Lancaster to take the cycle away from the boy. Chapman was arrested and consigned to the jug. Next morning the Lancaster force was notified to let him out and start him this way with the wheel. Then Claud started off up the National highway and instead of pulling in at Waxhaw he went right on to Charlotte. The owner of the cycle was very excited over the matter and had the poli 2emen in a number of towns notified to be on the lookout. When Claud reached Charlotte his gasoline was out and therefore the motor was of no further use to him. So he carried it to the express office and shipped it to Waxhaw, C O. D. Baptist S. S. Convention. The Chesterfield Baptist Su?? > day School Convention mee$ in annual session with Lower Macedonia Baptist Church 011 J Friday and Saturday before th&j fourth Sunda^in^uly. All Sun-jy ates and full report. \ Programme. 18 Friday 10 ? Devotional and or i^aaibailUU. *?' (1) Do the churches really ican to do a Sundaj- School 01 rork? If so we must recognize gI rst the importance of doing unday School work. Discus- P' on opened by O. D. Turnage. 31 (2) The Superintendent as a S( leans of success or failure in tc unday School work?C. H. tr ivers. se What constitutes a good Sunay School teacher and will not %v ich a teacher hold the class, by .M.Tucker. *c Saturday 10?Prayer and d; raise service?Kirby Rivers. C1 Do our pastors take the inter. >t in Sunday School work that ?( ley should? by H. A. Jackson. y< Are our Sunday Schools doing: m ?ai teaching work? A paper v Mrs. R. E. Rivers. e( Saturday Afternoon. What a ill help my Sunday School Vi lost? Open discussion. S( Miscellaneous. J. S. Sellers, r T. W. Eddins, B. S. Funderburg, ^ Committee. ai re Small Ann's mother had been n isturbed by hearing her using , le word "devil." "My dear," lid she, "that is a word we do p, ot use in polite society, and I li; ever want to hear you say it o sain." She noticed that her admoni- ,! ons was carefully heeded, says ^ vervbody's Magazine. Then a! ne Sunday evening about two re eeks later, the mother inquired hat the day's lesson had been 30llt. E "Why, mother," was Ann's CJ iswer, "it was about when our w ord was tempted by the?the? ^ v the gentleman that keeps \Y ell!" tj V i 1 i i : I uigni oy wireless. London Correspondence to New & -York Sun. |[.irhe annihilation of space by jethe wonders of modern science been carried a step forward ftty the latest scientific discovery. rWhat the telephone has done in Ithe transmission of sound is now recalled by an invention for the transmission of light by wire. |j The new invention enables the image of any object to be transmitted and reproduced before the eyes of a spectator miles away, just as the telephone transmits and reproduces the tones of the voice. I The inventor, Dr. M. A. Low, J a London consulting engineer, has given a short description of the apparatus and method of the new wonder. The transmitter is a screen composed of cells of selenium, the electrical resistance of which varies accord in or rt to the light that touches it. Over this screen there passes a synchronously running roller consisting of a number of pieces which are alternating conductors and insulators. The roller is driven by a motor of 3,000 revolutions a minute, and the resulting variataions of light are transmitted along an ordinary conducting wire. The receiver is made up of a series of cells operated by the passage of polarized light through thin slats of steel and at this receiver the object which is before the transmitter is reproduced as a flickering image. The process is described as a ' "kinematographic application of ( common electrical principles." . The system has been tested 1 thfoug^^resistance equivalent "feoSOTr. Low'there |i, no reason why it should not ^ e equally effective over far w reater distances. zc "The tones of the human voice f which there are hundreds of J radations," says Dr. Low, "can ^ e reproduced by wireless tele- u< bony. The gradations of light ^ re far simpler than those of >und, and it should be possible cj > devise a wireless means of ansmission. I will commit my- _ m ;lf to the prophecy that in 50 2ars people will look back with onder at the days when it was ecessary to be at a person's side i order to see him. When this w ay arrives consider how it will n< aange the conditions of war- I ire. Imagine the altered meth- b? ds of military operations when th 3U can see what is happening liles away." y< At nrpconf ll>n 1 - ~' ... ^.vuvu.iub linage lepiOUUC- M< 1 is of the size which the eye of camera would take. It shows hi ariations of light and shade >mewhat in the degree of a w alftone block, but it does not rc 'produce color. Dr. Low is well known in Lon- ls an as a consulting engineer I' ad has engaged in laboratory SE 'search for the government. A t>; umber of inventions stand to hi is credit, including the low P< igh pressure motor and a high k: ressure petrol engine. The ex- al eriments in connection with T Rht by wire have extended ver five years. In the transmitting screen sel- si aium may be replaced by any k iamagnetic material. The cost E f the apparatus is considerable, i the conductive sections of the S >ller are made of platinum. b h Where's The Money? te illon Herald %v "When it becomes possible to ai oss the Atlantic ocean in a day n e hard-working newspaper icn who have the desire but not le time will have an opportune w r to see the other side." d< Over 900 Miilon Bushels of Wheat Washington, July 8.?Thirty million bushels of wheat added to the prospects of the crop during June by the excellent weather conditions, making the forecast for production, as announced today by the department of agriculture, 930,000,000 bushels, a new rec ^rd. The acreage planted to corn this year was only slightly less than that of last year, while the j condition of that crop was one per cent better than the ten-year July 1 average, making the prospects good for a crop estimated by the department of agriculture at 2,868,000,000 bushels. That would be better than the average for the last five years. 1 A 200,000,000 pounds decrease | in the tobacco crop is indicated, < a total crop of 733,000,000 pounds < heincr pstimofnrl & 1 < Mr. Quick Endorsed. To the Editor of the Journal:? Kind Sir?will you give me ( this little space to mention our high and thoughtful apprecia- r tion of our postmaster, Rev. i John Weslev Quick, who has so f faithfully, and honestly served 1 us for the past seven years and i so far as the writer knows with- ? out a complaint from his patrons > or a complaint from Uncle Sam. t 1 have not even heard of anyone c applying or even considering 1 placing an application for post- c master in opposition to him, and t hope they will not; for several t reasons. First, he has served us c faithfully; in the second place he 1 [s deserving on account of his ii cripple (one hand gone) condi- a ionv and in the third place he \ sntleman and a self made min- Ye ter of the; Gospel and a man to ho deserves all that we as citi- hu ;ns of Pageland could bestow the pon him. I hope that there die ill be no opposition against da m and that he will still serve we > with his kind act, and pleasant the niles. Thnnkinor vnn e?r tVJo 7 vu IVl IAilO UC >ace and praying that all of our otl tizens will be of one accord I 1 n for ]no. Wesley for post ph aster. A. F. Funderburk. Sq I Gave it Verbatim. of T1 Counsel?I insist on an ans- . er to my question. You have m* 3t told me all the conversation. want to know all that passed an jtween you and Mr. Jones on e occasion to which you refer. Reluctant Witness?I've told Ma 3u everything of any conse- . jence. \n i uu nave lum iiic you said to im, 'Jones, this case will get in- m( > court some day.* Now I ant to know what he said in . iplv." inj "Well, he said, 'Brown, there n't anything in thisbusines that j m ashamed of, and if any moping, little, yee-hawing, four- w< y-six gimlet-eyed lawyer with ho alf an ounce of brains and 19 jn ;>unds ot jaw, ever wants to now what I've been talking wj bout, just tell him.'"?London gri it-Bits. "I hear you have a little new ster at your house," said the ov indly neighbor. Isn't that fine? ] >o you like her?" th< "Yes, I like her," answered thj ammy, "but I'd rather have a . Qfl rother so I could play ball with da im an' wrestle with him an* to :ach him how to swim." 1 "Well, if you aren't satisfied, thi hy don.t you take her back mi id exchange her?" asked the go eighbor. j "Oh, it's too late now," sta iswered Sammy, with rather a ho owncast face. "We got her a ? eek ago, and she's been laun- 1 ered a couple of times already." 1 Negress Lynched By South Carolina Mob Orangeburg. S. C. July 12.? Hesa Carson, a negress. today was taken from the jail at Elloree, near here, and lynched by a mob. She is said to have confessed to killing the 12-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Bell yesterday. The child W9C hpnton " ?-*1- - *' ' ?* MW K/VUIVU IV/ UCUlil Willi cl SUCK of wood. The negress was taken to the scene of the crime by ihe mob and hanged to a tree. Afterwards the body was riddled with bullets. The alleged confession was madejust previous to the hanging. Searching parties found the body of the murclered child early today after an all night hunt partlj hidden beneath a log and covered with wounds. The child disappeard late Saturday while she was going to a field to irive home a cow. Editor Will Kill No More Cats Charlotte Observer George Albert Jones, editor of The Snow Hill Square Deal, probably East Carolina's most reakish newspaper, will never till another cat, he avows. Jones' amily was several months ago idopted by a moth-eaten kitten vhich spoiled a week's work for he editor by leaping upon his lesk and over turning an oil amp and setting fire to a batch >f editorals he was preparing for he printer. Recently he took he feline, grown into an adult ai, 10 a poini iu miles down the 6-mile railroad of which Jones s the "traveling passenger gent," and turned it loose Jones vent back home several isterday the scribelook the cat the bank of Moccasin River, ing it in a bag to the branch of i tree and shot at the bag. He in't stop to investigate the mage done. When Jones jnt home last night the cat was 2re to greet him?and, Jones clares he counted them. 15 lers. 'That is certainly a catastroe," said the editor of the uare Deal. 'I must have left the cat out the bag when I shot at it." le cat, Jones says, was celebratX its escape and was at home all of the neighborhood cats d kittens. A Freak Melon. rion Star Mrs. W. J. Montgomery sent to the Star Office the other y, as a curiosity, a freak muskdon, the same being a double don, perfect in every detail. \vins" it is, our only regret be 1 mai 11 win not keep lor two tsons, the first and foremost ing the editor's appetite, and * second being the fact that 2 melon, or melons, was, or ire, too ripe to keep. We are >wever, preserving the seed, the hope that some intensified *mer will call for them and enavor to raised two melons tere really only one "oughter DW." Secret Of Failure. I've made un mv mind tr? tnrr? er a new leaf?tomorrow. I'm going to take the bull by e horns and get busy and do ings? tomorrow. I've fooled around all day, toy and yesterday, too, and the y before; but things are going hump?tomorrow. I've had an idea for some time it This or That would be a ghty good scheme and I'm ing to try it out?tomorrow. I've been losing business or inding still for I don't know w long?but watch my smoke tomorrow. But not today. Lord, no. Not today.