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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
HERE N THERE.

You may think you know which
is the most profitable COW in the
dairy herd without testing the indi-
yiduals, but the chances are that a
thorough and systematic test will
greatly surprise you.
in some parts Of England where
the grass should be a foot high it is
reported to be scarcely four inches in
height. The English beef eater will
apparently have another chance to in
crease his obligations to the Ameri-
can farmer.
Instead of dosing sick fowls with
medicines, give them a. comfortable
coop and a light. wholesome diet,
and thus give them a chance to get
well. Medicines kill oftener than they
cure, whether the patient be a hen
or a human.
The Expectation of life" of the
horse, as we'll as that of the man,
is growing greater. Better, and es-
pecially more humane treatment of
horses is giving the noble beast a
t0DOeT least ol Ill., III a
road during the journey.
A good dairy COW is always a
hearty eater, and yet there are men
who prefer a COW that car subsist on
a small amount of food. 1t costs less
to keep them, you know; and another
thing you know, if you are not an
idiot. and that is, the fools are not
all dead.
One reason why the prices paid
farm laborers in the south is below
the general average of the entire
country, is because the efficiency of
the labor is below the average An
other eason is that the great south
ern staple, cotton, will not bear a
higher rate of compensation than
that now paid.
The land that has borne a crop
of grain may be utilized to grow a
valuable fall crop of feed. to be cut
and fed green,put upass ilage or cured
hay. Mexican June corr would an
swer this purpose, but sorghum and
cow-peas, separately or mixed, would
be a surer crop, and somewhat better
as cattle and horse feed.
Hogs require more shade than
any other kind of domestic animal.
| The thick coating of fat confines the
! natural heat of the body by its prop
| arty of non-conduction and proven
ion of perspiration. An OK or e
horse can stand. without injury, day
,fter day, a degree of exposure to
! leat that would kill a hog within ar
! Eoug-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

Queen Victoria. She is, therefore, a
niece Of King Edward and as much
English as German. But she loves
Greece, and in the palace of the king
of Greece, her father-in-law, sheisthor,
oughly at home. She likes the beau.
tiful Queen Olga, her mother-in-law,
and has shared with her many public
triumphs.
All the grandchildren of Queen Vic.
toria have literary aspirations, and
Crown Princess Sophia is no excep.
ton. She has written a little and
done it very well. And now she longs
to appear more extensively in public
literature. She has undertaken the
writing of a book. Just when it will
be done no one knows, not even the
crown princess herself. But the fact
that she is writing it makes her in.
teresting. "She longs to join the
ranks of studious queens and be
known as Sophia the literary" says a
court lady.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
STRING CURES HIccoUGHs.
Young Russian Girl After SUFFERING
for Three Years Is Relieved
In a Simple Way.

Hiccoughs of three years standing
were cured at Bellevue hospital, New
York city, the other day, with a bit
of string. Miss Sarah Blockson, a
young Russian girl, was subject to
spells of m~elancholia. and when once
she had acquired the notion that she
could not stop hiecoughing she had
been sitting in her home waiting for
the recurring spasms. The physicians
tied about her waist a cord so tight
that the spasmodic movements of the
diaphragm were controlled. She was
unable TO hiccough any more. After
ten minutes the cord was removed,
and the young woman was told she
was cured. The manner of the physi-
clans was either so convincing or the
cure was so effectual that from that
moment she ceased to be disturbed.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
MODERN cATEcHIsM.
Regarding the Purpose of the
Whtxx-Wagon.

"What was that just whizzed past u.s."
asked one pedestrian OF another, according
to the Ohio State Journal.
That was an automobile.
And what is an automobiles"
1T is something which has been invent
ID to increase the mortality rate.
Has it been successful in doing this!"
Yes. indeed; it has surpassed the fond
est expectations"
WHAT would have happened If we had
net got out Of the way Of the autcmohiles
Two funerals"
"Who is the man who is running the au-
~tomobile!N
He is called a chauffeur
is that the only name he has,"
"No; people often call him many other
names"
What would he do if he were to run over
some one?'
He would smile"
would he stop?".
81 should say not"
'sWhat would the police do?"
''They would arrest him."
"What them
Gle would be fined end discharged"
'That would reform him, would it nots'
"No; he doesn't mind being fined, be-
cause he has lots of money.
How fast is that automobile going?
"Aboat so miles an hour"
"Is not that very fast2'
Not for an automobile.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
LAUDS THE ATHLETIC GIRL.
Eastern Pastor Who Is Fond of Ath-
Ietics Urges Young Women to
Develop Muscle and Nerve. y

Rev. John L. Scudder, pastor of the
First Congregational church, Jersey
City, who is an ~all-around athlete, and
who won the first prize-a live duck
in a swimming match at the church ex-
cursion the other day on a recent Sun
day delivered a sermon advocating CO.
education with athletic institutions
fer girls. He said the association of
the exc in early life made boys
gentler, while it taught girls to be
more courageous and %self-reliant.
Give me the girl" he continued,
"who can climb a fence, row a boat,
and take a fish off a hook without
screaming TO every one in her party
to come to her aid. Give me the girl
who is not afraid of p~erspiration, and
who has more call for crash towels
than for cosmetics. Give me the girl
who has an honest longing for roast
beef, and who prefers corned beef to
angel cake"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
moral Enect of MIR.

An exclusively pork diet tends in
fallibly to pessimism. Beef, if perse-
vered in for months, makes a man
strong, energetic and audacious, says
Pesrson's Weekly. A mutton diet con-
tinued for any length of time tends to
melancholia, while veal eaters gradu-
ally lose energy and gayety. The free
use of eggs and milk tend to make
women healthy and vivacious. Butter
used in excess renders its users phleg-
matte and lazy. Apples are excellent
for brain workers. and everybody who
has much intellectual work to do
should eat them freely. Potatoes, on
the contrary, render one dull, invidious
and lazy. when eaten constantly and in
excess. To preserve the memory, even
TO an advanced age, nothing is better
thsI mustard.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
. REASONABLE. nr,c.. and carefully saw

. reasonable price, and carefully save
and spread the When wheat
Iran is cheap in price, it may almost
pay to buy and carefully spread it on
the land because 1t is 10 rich in the
three essential elements OF soil fer.
tility. But the farmer should feed it
His live stock should return him a
profit for it as feed and their manure
is a more valuable fertilizer than the
bran.
Do not burn or sell the wheat
straw. Some of the brightestand best
Of it may be fed to the live stock.
Some of it will be needed to mulch
the berries. Some will be needed for
bedding for the live stock and as an
absorbent for the animal droppings,
both solid and liquid. If it can not all
be used in these ways, spread the re-
mainder in the barnyard to be
tramped and become incorporated
with the manure.
In these ways, the wheat crop,
both grain and straw, may be made
the means of gaining soil fertility,
rather than of losing it. But if the
grain is sold and the straw sold or
burned without returning to the soil
as much fertility rs has been re-
moved, the soil has been robbed-a
"road to the poor house"
When wheat is grown its place in
the rotation is following oats. With
it should be established a good crop
of clover, which may be pastured or
cut for hay the first succeeding year
and which may be plowed nde for
corn the second succeeding one. Or
grass seeds may be sown with the
clover and the field kept in pasture
for a few years.
When harvested, the wheat stubble
should be cut high, if the straw is
long enough to permit it. This long
stubble will return all the soil fertili-
ty that it took and in addition pro-
vide the much needed humus.-L. IL.
Galloway, in Farmers Voice.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

William Pruette, the singer, was one
of a group of married men who were
discussing housekeeping and servants
the ether evening in a Philadelphia no.
tel corridor. He told of a girl who
served him and Mrs. Pruette well
enough while they were living in a
New York fat several years ago, and
who one day went to Mrs. Pruette in
tears and asked permission to go home
for a few days-she had a telegram
telling that her mother was i'll.
"of course, go" said Mrs. Pruette-
"only, Maggie, do not stay longer than
is necessary. We need you"
Maggie promised to return as soon
as possible, and hurried away. Aweek
passed without a word from her; then
came a note by mail. reading:
Deer Miss Pruete i viii be back mex
week an plese KEEP my place for me,
mother is dying as fast as she can. To
oblidge
Maggie"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
HOPE ON, ToIL ON.

oh. my brother. are you weary?
Does the way seem lorg and dreary
That leads up to the new era
You have pictured in your dreams?
Is your portion one of sorrow2
Yet be brave and try to borrow
From the glory Of the morrow
That beyond our vision CLEANS.
Never" Cease the wall of never"
For mankind moves on forever
Up the highway Of endeavor
To the heights that onward glow.
There is no room for despairing,
But for action and for daring.
And for helping and upbearing
OEe another as we go.
oh, my brother, cease complaining:
See. the night Of wrong is waning.
And the king of light is reigning,
And the flag Of hopes unfurled.
There are evils left for righting,
There are battles left for fighting,
There are beacons left for lighting,
To illuminate the world.
Better days are breaking DER us.
From the nearing goal before Us,
We can hear a joyous chorus
Waited DER the years to be.
Through the portals. open swinging.
Notes Of sweet and rapturous singing
Down the Futures aisles are ringing
From the anthems of the free.
j. A. Edgerton. in Denver News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
HAS LITERARY FEVER.
Sophia, Future Queen of the Hell
Ienes, Is Anxious to Maxi Her
Mark as an Author.

Kaiser Wilhelm has a younger sis.
ter, Sophia, who married Constantine,
crown prince of Greece. The two now
have an interesting family. There are
two sons and a daughter, and the
household is a happy one.
Sophia's mother was Empress Fred
erick and her grandmother was
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

Clara-Dear Isabel, you are at last
a successful artist.
Isabel-oh, Clara, / don't feel my.
self a success; I've just moved up a
little, because a lot of older strugglers
have got tired and quit.-Detroit Free
Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
f. suburban Gentleman.

This definition of a gentleman was
provided by a suburban butcher. He
was asked for sons details concerning
a man who had just left his shop.
sWhat. i'm, sir?- he replied. "Oh, 'e's
a thorough gentleman. e don't go
ED to London every day,"-London
Globe,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

The longest courtship on record was
that between Franz Rosner and Anna
Renner, of Oberpolitz, Bohemia. They
had been counting for rs years. but re-
peatedly deferred the bridal day. AT
last Franz became fatally i'll. and was
recently married on his deathbed, at
the age of 100, and died two days later.
The age of the widow is 90.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

It is told Of a learned professor who was
better at Greek than golf that after a round
on the links, in which he had fooled most
of his shots, he turned to his eddie for ad.
vice as to improving bis play. The reply of
the ruthless caddy was: "Ye see, sir, it's
easy to teach laddies Latin and Greek, but
it needs a head for gowtf. London News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
Another Good Hair wash,

To make a frst-rate hair wash,
shred al ounce of white soap. pour
ver it a quart of boiling water and
stir till dissolved. When cool, add
the whisk yolk of two eggs and a
tablespoonful of spirits of rose
mary. Cork tightly and shake well
before use.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
Lndte, Can Wear shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

"Folly," commented the large-waisted
philosopher, when p~ersonifed, is feminine;
not because of her possession of the attri-
hutes of femininity, but because she is so
persistently pursued by man."-lndianap-
oils News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

The letters n. >. D., elH1Osseu III guIul
appear on the stationery an Atchison wom-
an uses in writing to her friends. The wom-
en- all thought they must stand for some
wav-up Latin. hut a near friend has given
the secret away: IN. s. B." means mo
Snare Redroc~s H--Atcbison Globs
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

What the world needs just now is
a physical training curse that will
recognize the dish pan and tie wood
hox.-Atehisoa Globe,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli-
bic remedy for coughs and eolds--N: w,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

Teacher-You. Johnnie! What are you
laughing for?
johnnie didn't laugh, mum; me face
slipped.-Chicago Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

"That," remarked the professor, eyeing
with some distrust the ragged and dirty
Change, "is certainly a filthy looker."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10
Stous the Courh

and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price Is cents.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-07-10

THE GENERAL ARK

Disappointment and distress are often
blessings in disguise.-Havergal
The Chanute times., 1902-02-07
CORONATION FLOWER.
Lily of the Valley, Alexandra's Favorito
May Be Chosan.

Lily of the Valley, AIexandra's Favorito
May Be Chosan.
There seems good reason for sup
posing that the lily of the valley.
which has always been the favorite OF
Queen Alexandra. will take a very
prominent place in the coronation
decorations next June, says the Lon
don Telegraph. 1t is in that month,
as it happens, that the bloom is at Its
best out of doors. AS it happens, the
lily of the valley can, in these days
be had to almost any extent, and at
any time of year, owing to a system
Of forcing which, by curious coinci-
dence, was first practiced in this coun-
try on the kings estate at Sandr1ng-
ham. A Dutch cultivator Of consid-
erable repute set up the first factory"
at Dersingham, attracted thither by
the consideration that the soil closely
resembles that in which bulbs are so
successfully cultivated in Holland.
What he did was to import crowns
as they were termed, and then, by the
utilization of artificial heat, to bring
them to the Towering stage as and
when desired. So we'll understood is
the practice in this respect that the
lily Of the valley may be made to
bloom to order, and the initiated
know not only the day. but the hour
when the process will be completed.
On the other hand, by means of cold
storage, the stock of crowns can be
kept in an undeveloped state for a
long while, SO as to be always ready
for drawing upon as circumstances
arise.
June being the month Of roses, there
was some anticipation that these
would be regarded as the coronation
flowers; but the facts outlined above
make 1t plain that the very general
employment of the queens favorite
would be not only graceful compH-
ment to her majesty, but would have
the charm Of novelty, besides present.
ing no serious difficulty. Out Of season
the lily of the valley is still compare
lively expensive. but there can be lit
tie doubt that, with the long notice
which Is given, and with the induce
ment which Is held out to everybody
who has garden to add to the avail
able supply of these delicate flowers,
next June, the range of values at the
coronation ought to be anything but
exorbitant.
The Chanute times., 1902-02-07
NH a I'D W THE MAID MA OF
a Story of English
Life.
By JOSEPH HATTCN.

a letter to his mother, in which he was
allowed to state that he had taken
service under the king. and that he
was glad he had already made arrange
ments for long absence from klrK-
stall. He enjoined his mother to be
mother to Mary. He sent manly II
tender messages to all his friends; and
the farm, of which he had been so
proud and had hoped to have installed
Mary as his wife, knew him no more.
Sometimes Mrs. Meadows thought
Mary had a glimmering of reason, for
she would often say: Jack, Jack, dear
jack" but she only repeated the words
as the widow had taught her.
Old Morley would wander about with
the girl who had once been his chief
pride and delight; but the merest boy
in the village, or the smallest girl,
could have outstripped her in any sport
or exercise.
She had not only lost her gayety. but
her physical strength, as 1t seemed.
She would walk with her uncle over
the meadows by the abbey along the
banks of the Aire, but she would rest
oftener than the old man himself. He,
too, loved to hear her say Jack, dear
Jack!" though it had no more meaning
for her than the glbbet by the planta-
ton where the abbey murder was COM
mitted.
Mrs. Meadows would often say that 1t
was a mercy after all that Divine
Providence had taken away Mary's rea-
son. since the man who had worn her
ribbon in his hat was now shapeless,
awful thing, swinging in dreadful state,
with chains and iron collar, in the
wind, as it whistled down the valley.
There was break in the trees at the
point where the strangled man swung
to and fro--dead, yet living, as 1t were,
dead, yet alive in the autumn wind and
rain, rafting his chains signing in the
rain, white ghost in the winter when
the snow and ice clung to him and pro-
tected him from hawks and vultures,
and fixed him in bonds the wind could
not break.
The Chanute times., 1902-02-07
They VIII Step on tho Hose.

The man in the stable door gave
the hose a jerk, but before it cleared
the sidewalk the woman had landed
on 1t with both feet.
wouldn't that jar you?" grunted
he, with another tug, according to the
New York Times. II never could
understand what makes women SO
crazy about stepping on hose, any
way. I've been attending to lawns
and gardens and sidewalks for a good
many years and never yet have seen
a woman go past while the hose was
stretched across the pavement that
she didn't plant both feet on 1t and
teeter around for awhile just for ex-
ercise.
What pleasure the habit affords
them can't for the life of me see.
use to think that the practice indicat-
ed a remnant of childish playfulness
and that they were SO disportiRg
themselves Just to see the water play
out in an extra squirt, but I've noticed
lately that they never even look at the
fountain end Of the tube, so I've come
to the conclusion that they know all
that humping will injure the hose
and so perform their little stunts out
of sheer deviltry. But whatever the
cause Of the practice. it certainly is q
fact that nine-tenths of the women
passing along the street cannot resist
the temptation to step on the hose"
The Chanute times., 1902-02-07

her sons affections, and would ut Tor
hours and talk to Mary Of her love
and Of the time when he might re-
turn.
Old Morley went to the inn.
The talk was of the old days when
Morley was tho landlord.
Tom waited upon him hand and foot.
Mr.. Taylor proposed his health In
some touching words Of remembrance,
glancing only at the fatal shadow
which had fallen upon his old age. and
enforcing the moral that they must all
bend to the DEGREES of Providence.
Old Morley sat and smiled In a
mournful way at the kindly efforts OF
his neighbors and friends to comfort
him.
They had sent for him in chaise,
and promised Mrs. Meadows to see him
safely to the farm in time for her, and
him and Mary, to hear the Christmas
bells begin to ring; for, although the
bells were few and the ringers were
not experts, they did manage to salute
the holy morn" at Kirkstall, and 1t was
good, they thought, for the sorrowful.
as we'll as the gay, to hear the glad
tidings and to believe In them.
But the bells, If they rang for Mary.
rang in heaven.
She heard them no more on earth.
(To be continued.)
The Chanute times., 1902-02-07
CHAPTER Ky.

A terrible warning, unheeded OF
those whom it warned, only terrible to
those who need no such inhuman sign
of the rough vengeance of the outraged
law.
An awful warning if men who need it
had thought of what it meant; but
many a highway robber rode merrily
by the grim sign post, snapped his fin
gers at it and muttered to- himself,
Not for me; there is no tree so high,
no irons SO strong, that they shall ever
swing me to and fro in the wind
They would fall, some of these, to
the hangman's perquisites neverthe-
less; they were either too bold, too
reckless, or woman was in the case,
or what not. For all that, justice won
no victories by her scarecrow.
AS the birds of the field will feed be-
meath the empty coat, the straw man
of the farmer, SO were there highway
men who would sit beneath the gibbet
and divide their spoil, or pass around
the bottle.
human, awful thing, for nervous
women and girls, for old men and
young, obliged to traverse the kings
highway sometimes at night, always In
the day; this ghastly suggestion OF
human creature warning with the ele-
ments and the birds of prey, attacked
by the carrion crow, and worn at last
into exhibitions of its weather-beaten
nakedness.
Old Morley, and the men who saw
Mary come home that autumn night
from the abbey, had strange visions of
the bright, gay young traveller who
had tested with them, who had fished
in the river, who had played bowls on
the green; and it was like a nightmare
of an untlmely resurrection-the figure
in it's rough tarred swaddling clouts
hanging by its iron collar, wailing with
the wind and rafting its chains in the
tempest.
In the second winter, after the set
ting up of the inhuman sign on the
Kirkstall road, Mary Lockwood had,
SO old Morley and Mrs. Meadows
thought, given signs of awakening rea-
son: but the hope in which they fondly
INDUCED arose simply from the fact
that Marys constitution was utterly
breaking down.
She had grown quiet, and they in
their ignorance said thoughtful. She
walked less, and sat longer by the win
dow, looking at the sky.
When the snow came and silence
reigned over the land. she smiled at
the white flakes as they fell, and held
out her thin hand to catch them, and
would seem to wonder that they disap-
peared.
Then came Christmas Eve.
The new landlord of the Star and
Garter would insist that Joseph Nor
ley should come to the inn and sip one
glass from the wassail bowl in the old
inglenook. and meet the friends who
sorrowed with him and held him in
honor and respect.
Mrs. Meadows urged him to go. She
never kept these feasts, now that Jack
spend the evening With her brother
who was an invalid, and teach Mary
to call their beloved by his name
their dear Jsck-for the widow had
long since forgiven Mary the part she
had played in his voluntary exile. and
had come TO regard her as a poor for
lorn daughter. no sympathetic memory
lingering in her mind Of the rival who
had explated his crimes on the gal
lows.
She tried to forget this shadow upon