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FOUR KILLED IN WRECK. Fast Passenger Train Crashes Into ^ Automobile. Pittsburg, July 27.?Four persons were killed and one seriously injured to-night when a fast train on the Pennsylvania Railroad struck an automobile at a grade crossing at Wilkingsburg, a suburb.^ The dead: Edward S. Batchelor, aged 52, Wilkingsburg, superintendent of the Union stock yards of this city; Mrs. Maria Batchelor, aged 70, his mother; Miss May Fernelly, aged 21, of Cincinnati, a niece of Mr. Batchelor; John Reed, aged 46, of Wilkingsburg, Miss Blanch Reed, aged 18, daughter ; of Mr. Reed, sustained ^serious injuries. , A freight train blocked the crossing when Batchelor, who was driving the machine, reached the tracks. He stopped the car and waited for the freight to move. As the. freight got away Batchelor started across the tracks, six in number. Many, scream' ed to him, but he could not hear on account of the noise and the fast express crashed into the automobile. | . The four victims were hurled a great distance and met instant death. At the Reed home, Mr. Reed is dying of heart failure and does not know of the accident. Rape as a Forage Plant. Dwarf Essex is the best variety of rape and is recognized as a staple grazing crop for hogs jand sheep. Nature. It is a plant close akin to turnips and collards. The top constitutes its valuable portion since it f- makes no great root development. Planting. The seed are largely imported and are generally very cheap > ?five to ten cents per pound. The^ f crop should, for best success, be planted in August or September on a very rich and thoroughly prepared soil. The land and its preparation are the same as for a good crop of turnips. The seed may be sown broad cast, five to seven pounds per acre, or in drills two to two and a half feet apart, four to five pounds per ^ acre. In the latter case one. or more shallow cultivations may be given to save moisture and destroy weeds and grass. The crop is also successfully grown by planting with oats, plant, ing the seed broad cast after the oats have been sown in the {all. Fertilizing. If the soil is not rich * and well supplied with vegetable matter, ten to fifteen tons of good . stable manure should be thoroughly worked into the surface. In addition to this 500 pounds acid phosphate and 500 pounds kainit should be applied per acre. A top dressing, of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda should be added in the spring. The fertilization will necessarily vary with the - mioH+w nf ortil r \|uaxib/ ux ovai< . Grazing. When planted early in the fall <ir with oats the crop should be be a foot or more in height and ready to graze by November. Pigs should be turned on and allowed to stay until everything is eaten except the stubs and then taken off. Another crop will be ready to graze > in the spring. After the last grazing the .land should be planted in soybeans or cowpeas for a summer crop. In case the weather in the fall is such as to prevent planting, and such is often the case, the seed may be sown in February or March with good results, though fall planting is ,? to be preferred. Pigs grazing on Iiiape or other similar crops should have a small amount of corn or other grain feed each day. For best results one per cent, of the weight of the animals should be fed each day. 5 .. This has been found the best way to secure maximum results from the rape crop. I PROF. W. R. PERKINS, Director, Agricultural Department. Charlotte Short of Water. I Charlotte, July 28.?The inhabi tants of Charlotte to-day are experi^ encing a water famine with its atftendant discomforts and dangers. The last drop was drained from the pond which has furnished the supply for years, and only 400,000 gallons, much less than a day's supply, remained in the reservoir. This has been cut off from users indefin(itely, and in the meantime the people are dependent upon the meagre supply of various mineral water agen; cies. I Arrangements have been made tp haul water from the Catawba river, 12 miles away, and by Tuesday, next, a regular system of water trains will be running. His Peculiarly Gifted Son. js "I don't know what I'm ever goB . ing to make of that son of mine," complained a prominent Cleveland business man the other day, says the Plain Dealer. The old chap is selfpiade, a graduate of the university of ? hard knocks and all that; and it naturally grieves him to have a son who is not aggressive. "Maybe your son hasn't found himtself yet," we consoled. "Isn't he gifted in any way?" "Gifted? I should say he is. He ain't got a darned thing that wasn't ml '* given to him." I BAILEY LEAVES COMMITTEE. Doesn't Like Senate's Method of Conducting Investigations. Washington, July 27.?Because he does not believe in the senate's method of taking testimony in investigations-, Senator Bailey to-day resigned from the committee of privileges and elections. He made no explanation to the senate and the resigna-j tion was accepted without comment. To his friends, Mr. Bailey said afterwards that he could not consent to enter upon work required in the investigation of the charges against Senator Stephenson. "I have been appointed on the subcommittee to conside the Stephenson case," he said. "My convictipn is that strict rules of evidence should control in all such inquiries. The Senate does not observe such rules, but admits all kinds of matter. I cannot see my way clear to decide a case of such magnitude on such' a basis and, therefore, have tendered my resignation as a member of the committee." Colonel or Reporter?Which? There will he some who will condemn the editor of the News and Courier for presenting to his Columbia representative the alternative of declining the position of colonel on the governor's staff or giving up his position on the paper; hut the editor is clearly within his rights, and when the matter is calmly considered no just blame can be attached to his course. He bases his action on the broad principle that a newspaper man should be independent of a public officer. That , is a correct principle, It is a pity that the News and Courier does not carry the principle farther and maintain the position that a newspaper man shall also be independent of a public service corporation. Maybe it will get there after a while. A newspaper reporter who becomes a member of a governor's staff is not in a position to do his full duty by the newspaper he represents; especially is this true of a reporter whose chief duty it is to report matters oc curing about tn? state nouse ana in public offices. That ought to have occurred to Mr. Green, but it seems it did not. The editor could do one of two things: Relieve the reporter of his job or?the more kindly course ?call his attention to the matter, and give him the opportunity of declining the invitation to join the governor's military family. He adopted | the latter course; and the managing I editor is charged with "an encroachj ment on personal rights." This is a mistake: it is nothing of the kind; no more so than the law is that says one must not hold two offices at the same time, or that a public officer should not accept free railroad passes; no more so than any other requirement that one shall not accept favors that would interfere with the ? 3 Ul. B 1 ^ ^ impartial ana iauniui yenui uiauu-c of his duty. Instead of blaming Mr. Lathan Mr. Green should recognize the fact that he has shown him special consideration in offering him, in, the kindest manner, the alternative of accepting the appointment on the governor's staff or remaining on the paper. He could have got rid of him without offering any alternative at all or any reason. Mr. Green's attempt to justify "himself at the expense of Mr. Lathan would indicate that Mr. Lathan's kindness was not duly appreci ated. Mr. Lathan is clearly in the right. Now, let him go a step further and make it a rule of his office that no one conected with his paper shall accept obligations from public corporations?railroads, for instance?and thus be free and uptrammeled and unbiased in serving the public.? Newberry Observer. The Corn Show. The directors of the national corn exposition have chosen Columbia as the place where the exposition would be held in 1913. The announcement means that the greatest annual agricultural exposition in the United States, if not in the world, will be held in the capital city of this State. The holding of the national corn show in South Carolina in 1913 offers to the people interested in the prosperity of the State an opportunity immeasurable in its promise. The opportunity is knocking at their doors. With concerted action, the raising of the fund on which the holding of the show is conditioned will be an easy task. Without concert of action, with an apathetic reception of the proposition, the task will be difficult. It is inconceivable that anv nrn^ressive town Or village in the State will fail to apprehend instantly its own great stake in this enterprise, and, in proportion to its present prosperity and hope of increase, it has as much to gain or lose as the largest cities have. Wherever there is a county having corn-growing soil is a county having rich and early profits to be repaid from the holding of the national corn show in Columbia. 4 f . 4 CASE NOT ENDED. Magistrate Dismisses Zeigler Case for Want of Jurisdiction. The celebrated Zeigler case in Colleton county is not ended, although Magistrate Chaplin has issued an or der dismissing the case. The order states that he did not have jurisdic- i tion to try the case, it having been i moved to his court from another i magistrate. Of this case the Walter- i boro Press and Standard says: ! "This leaves the matter just where i it was before any movement was .. made to take it away from Magis- < trate Bryan. The next move will be i watched with interest. It is thought i that Attorney Howell will contest the i decision of Magistrate Chaplin, but he is away from town and no state- < ment could be gotten from him. The 1 prosecution is more determined than 1 ever that the case shall be tried, and ] a new move is expected when Mr. Howell returns to town. "In the report given last week, the impression seems to have been created that the fight which occurred took place in the office of Magistrate Bryan where Magistrate Chaplin was holding court. This is an erroneous inmpression. The fight occurred in front of Bryan's store, after the arguments were in by the attorneys, and the crowd, having no further interest in the proceedings of the court had filed out of the room. No formal announcement was made that court was adjourned. "Magistrate Chaplin also desires that the statement be made that there was no disorder in his court, or at least not enough that he felt justified in fining anyone for contempt of court, though Zeigler did interrupt court several times and had to be called to order by Magistrate Chaplin and by his attorney, Mr. Moorer." Wanted to Kill Everybody. Chicago, July 26.?While the police were planning to send him to an asylum for criminal insane, N. Haus*** * /X# in, a iiinau ana iurmtir mexuuei ui the British army, who wounded five ] persons and caused a panic in Chi- i cago's crowded downtown streets ( yesterday by. discharging a rifle at j the passing throng, sat in a cell and \ jeered at his guards. "I bought the rifle to kill all the bad people in Chicago," he said. "I hate all of your white American faces. You have been cruel to me, i and I wanted to kill everybody." 1 Hausin came to this country from i India four years ago and worked in a 1 steel mill in Pittsburg before coming i to Chicago. Poverty and loneliness i are believed {o have affected his < mind, already possibly deficient from 1 a vfound he sustained while a soldier, i _ 1 A Matrimonial Mix-Up. < - t A telegram from Wilmington, Del- 1 aware, gives the latest scandal in < hieh life: in which Mrs. Bancroft, 1 daughter of Alfred I. DuPont, the multi-millionaire powder manufac- 1 turer, figures as defendant in a di- ^ vorce suit. Her husband charges her < with infidelity while in .Berlin. Her < father refused to have anything to 1 do with her after the suit was filed; < but her step-mother pleaded for her, 1 and now the DuPont country home 1 near Wilmington has been thrown t open to her, with a retinue of ser- 1 vants, while old man DuPont and his i wife, who have just returned from Europe, are cruising in their yacht, 1 before going to their summer home 1 at Islesboro, Maine. ( When her husband brought the di- 1 vorce suit against her, and her father irefused to help her, Mrs. Ban- ^ croft applied to her mother for help; 1 who also refused, and then she 1 brought suit against her mother to J compel her to assist her. Old man 1 DuPont and his first wife, the moth- ] er of Mrs. Bancroft, were divorced 1 some years ago, he settling $600,- 1 000 on the wife, who was to support their two daughters out of it, the old man starting off new with a bran new wife, who is now the stepmother upon whose pleadings Mrs. Bancroft ] gets a home. i The chronicles of the rich among ? the peopU of the North furnish the 1 newspapers with a lot of scandal in 1 high life. i m i Double Action Prescription. 1 * i On a wet and bitter night in win- j ter old Dr. B. was summoned from his snug home to attend a farmer < threatened with pneumonia. The ( farmer's wife, a little woman resem- ] bling a scared bird, reported that^the < patient called for hot punch, but she \ awaited the doctor's permission before giving it. "Make it," said Dr. B. "Make it as soon as you can, strong and hot, and let me see it." I The little woman soon fluttered in 1 with the smoking punch. The doctor took it from her hands, examined it, < smelled it, then drank it off and : smacked his lips in critical satisfaction. i "Exactly," he said. "Give your husband one just like it, only half as t much."?Lippincott's. c . . * > MM -M-kki i iiBM% A WOMAN IN OIL. Her Wells Produce 1,000 Barrels a Day and She Has Bored 155. The names of men who have made fortunes since a sea of oil was discovered under California's crust are perfectly widely known, says the Sunset Magazine, but only now and then does the public hear of Emma A. Summers, who for 20 years has been a power in the Los Angeles oil fields. She is. to-day perhaps the largest individual oil producer in the world. A.lone with her own money she produces a thousand barrels a day, and in addition she buys enough oil to supply contracts aggregating $2,500,000 a year. When oil was discovered in the vicinity of Los Angeles, Mrs. Summers had in the bank $700, earned by teaching music. She put this and a like amount furnished by another into an oil. well. And it went in so deep she doubted ever getting it out. With it went $1,800 more, for her credit was good. Bad luck was followed by more bad luck, and the climax came when casing and tools went crashing to the bottom of the well. Only the man drilling the hole was left on top. Day after day Mrs. Summers stood In the hot sun by that well. Night after night, by the light of a flaring torch, she hovered over it, as if it svere a sick babe's cradle. The prospect was dreary, but Mrs. Summers ti?d pluck and she knew there was >il in the well and more than $3,000 vorth of hardware. At last the hardware came out of the hole, then the oil, and Mrs. Summers, encouraged, yrent on boring svells, until she found herself $10,000 n debt, with only her music teachir's fees to pay the bills. "When I found myself $10,000 in lebt," says Mrs. Summers, "I thought f I ever got that paid and as much more in the bank I ^Tould be glad to juit. But when I got that much I 'ound that interest on it would not' pay the expenses of a family of seven, 50 I l^ad to keep on." All told she ha. bored 155 wells, 'n the old days she had a room in ler home set aside for business; tolay she has a suite of three offices n one of the biggest business blocks n los Angeles. _ N Right to Keep Documents. Washington, July 27.;?Governnent officials have the right to take vith them when they leave the service copies of letters and other data vhich might be used later in provng that there had been an unlawful ittempt made to put a lawful concern >ut of business, declared Edwin C. Madden, former third assistant postmaster general, to-day before the louse committee on expenditures in ;he postoffice department. He is at:orney for the Lewis Publishing company of St. Louis, which was depriv3d of the second-class mail privieges because of alleged fraud. '7 have called to the attention of :he- attorney general," said Representative Austin of Tennessee, "this icknowledgement made by Mr. Madien several days ago that he took vith him when he left the postoffice iepartment the original of a letter vritten to him in his official capacity 3y Former Postmaster General Cor;elyou. The attorney general informed me that he would give the natter proper attention.'' Mr. Madden said the letter atemDted to Dut on his shoulders all ;he faults the postmaster general had jommitted in connection with the Lewis case. E. G. Lewis, to-day declared that Former Postmaster General Cortelpou "absolutely broke his word" and :hat ".the second-class mail privilege is a sword which the postoffice department keeps hanging over the heads of publishers to keep them from opening theirs mouths against postoffice officials." Wanted a Raise. Boston, July 27.?The Rev. Paul Flarrls Drake,'who sprang into fame tvhen he declared that preachers should have a rais6 of salary from their congregation every time a new Paby arrived in the minister's family, is leaving his fashionable congregation in the rich town of Beverly all because he did not get Jthat raise vhen a second baby appeared at the iome a week ago. The high cost or living nas pruv?d too much for the fellow townsman if Mr. Taft, and he admits it. The Rev. Mr. Drake has been drawing ?1,000 a year, or about $19 a week, from his congregation. Reflections of a Bachelor. It's a holiday outing when a man ;oes off with his friends and hard abor with his family. It's a great extravagance to have iny money in your pocket, because fou can't help spending it. The bravest soldier is the man in i family squabble. 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