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The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
Variety For Young Poultry.

There is scarcely a vegetable that
goes upon the farmers table that
may not be used to advantage in
feeding chicks, both young and all.
Thick sour milk may be used for
adults. while curds of milk make an
excellent food for young poultry, but
can not be used too often. Green on.
ion-tops and garlic r much relished
by both chickens and turkeys, and
will be found conducive to the health
and growth of all kinds of young
poultry. A variety of food is quite
essential to the growth and highest
state of health. Fowls are feeding
from morning to night when provided
with a good range, and this is a very
essential feature. A constant addi-
ton to the supply of food in the crop
appears to be one of the laws of
good digestion.-Farm and Fireside.
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CHARMS AGAINST WOUNDS.
Survival of the Ancient Belief in tn,
Potency of Spells and the Vir-
tues of AmuIets.

During the South African war a
number of instances nave cropped up
showing that the idea still prevails
that there are such things as charms
and spells against wounds and death,
says the New York Post. Notlong age
a paragraph appeared in some of the
papers to the effect that a soldiers
watch, with a charm attached to it
had been found on one of the battle.
fields, and was being held for a right.
full claimant. Earlier in the war a
private's letter told how a comrads
had come in safety through a hot e
gagement by virtue, as he thought, OF
an amulet he wore, to be mortally
wounded in a subsequent skirmish,
when, by the merest chance, he was
not wearing his charm. A relatives
letter from the front tells the writer
of a young fellow who wore a charmed
ring suspended from his neck. The
wearer had it from his Sweetheart;
he placed the most perfect faith in
it, and, though he had been in several
hot corners, he had hitherto always
come out scatheless.
Although this kind of belief is of
very ancient date, it is curious as well
as interesting to find it still in ex.
istence in the British army. Perhaps
we ought to say "traces of It," for il
is hard to believe that it is widely
prevalent. And yet it would not be
very surprising if it were so, seeing
that a certain proportion of the rank
and file are illiterate, and come from
a stratum of society which is largely
superstitious. 1t is curious to COM
pare u army in this respect with the
German.
Those who happened to be in the
fatherland during and Immediately
after the war of 1S70-71 must have
been struck by the amount of super.
stition that, hidden under ordinary cir.
cumstances, in the then excited state
of the public mind, made it's way to
the surface, much as the mud of a
stagnant pool floats to the top when
the water is agitated. Nothing
seemed too absurd to be believed.
Portents and warnings were seen
everywhere. Black crosses, observed
for the first time in window-panes of
the houses of the peasantry through
out Baden and the south generally,
were held to be signs of Divine wrath
against the turn things in general had
taken in the fatherland, especially in
regard to the church. The excitement
touching this phenomenon became in
tense, and was only allayed when a
Baden glass manufacturer came for
ward and demonstrated hat the warn
ing crosses were marks imprinted on
the glass in the process of making.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
Four miles down the river, on ou,

Four miles down the river, on oui
right, is Alexandria, and looking up
King street we can see the Marshall
house, where the gallant young Col.
Ellsworth was killed. the splitting of
whose blood thrilled millions of hearts
and filed the armies of the union with
young men anxious to avenge that
death. Back of Alexandria, rising
above the dense foliage which crowns
the hills, we see the cupola of Fairfax
seminary. where hundreds of devoted
young men have been prepared for the
ministry Of the Episcopal church,;
and where upwards of 10000 sick and
wounded union soldiers were treated
during the civil war, for the seminary
was used as a general hospital for the
army of the Potomac for almost four
years.
On the left bank Of the river is the
site of Camp ~Stoneman, which was
known as the cavalry dismount camp
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
AN INDIAN TRAGEDY.
Havasupai Youth Falls a Victim to
His Emotion.
Takes His Life because forced to
leave the Place Where He Conn
munea with His Brothers
Spirit.
Especial Arizona letter.

EEW people imagine the Indian to
IL be as full of sentiment as he real
ly is. Fewer still, looking at the
apparently dull, stolid, heavy faced
youths of the H~avasupai tribe would
deem one of them capable of commit
ting suicide, purely for grief at the
death of his brother and his inability
to remain and weep for his loss.
Here is the true story as told to me
by the Havasupais whom l visited but
two days ago, down in the heart of
their glorious Havasu (Cataract) can
yon home in northern Arizona. The
boy was known to the whites as Patsy.
His Indian name-not now to be
breathed to anyone-was Ja-a-demi-
va. His father was Rock Jones, the
leading medicine man of the tribe.
Patsy vas about 20 years of age. A
few months ago he and IA other boys
were taken from their canyon home
and removed to the Indian school on
the Wallapai reservation at Truxton.
A little over a month ago Patsy's
young brother, down in Havasu can
yon, was taken sick. He and Patsy
had been excellent friends and COM
rades, despite the disparity of their
ages, and both keenly felt the parting
when Patsy vas sent to school. Hence
it was natural that the sick boy should
crave the presence of his brother. He
asked that he be sent for. His father
did not accede to his request at first,
but, as the days went by and the sick
boy rapidly grew worse, he went to
the industrial teacher who was acting
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
FARMERAND PLANTER.
SHREDDING VS.. PULLING.
Fodder Than to Pull IL, and
IL Better For the Corn.

It is now clearly settled that there
will be a shortage in food stuff in
very many parts Of the south. This
will cause high prices for everything
that nan and beast consumes, SO it
is plainly the duty and to the inter;
est of every southern farmer to save
all that he has made.
That the cornstalk is a valuable
hay plant has been settled. It is no
longer a matter Of controversy.
Shredded corn hay is about as good
as any other hay. This crop does
not have to be planted and made, but
is already made. 1t is simply a ques-
ton of taking care Of what you have
on hand. There are millions Of dol
lars worth of cornstalks standing in
the fields Of the south, ready to be
mad" into first-class food. There is
from M to two tons per acre of this
hay standing in every corn field in
the south. 1t is plainly your duty to
cut and save it. To those of you who
have not yet pulled fodder, we wish
to say that it is cheaper to cut and
shred, than it is to pull fodder. 1t
does not injure the corn to cut the
cornstalks, but actually helps it.
Numerous experiments carefully
made, prove conclusively that the
corr fills out better and weighs more
when cured this way than when per-
mitted to stand in the field. The
stalks made into hay are worth near-
ly as much as the grain, SO that you
about double the value of your corn
crop by shredding the stalks. If you
have two dollars lying before you,
taking one and leaving the other.
To those of you who have already
pulled your fodder, we wish to say
that the stalks r yet worth saving
and shredding. While it is true that
you have lost something and spent
something in pulling the fodder, you
can yet save your stalks. Prompt at
tention to this matter will go a long
way toward supplying roughage for
the cattle through the coming winter.
So we again say with all the en-
phasis that we know how, cut your
and shred it into hay instead
of pulling fodder. Learn a new and
better way instead of following in the
old one.
We are not able to go On with
old-fashioned, wasteful ways of farm
ing. We must learn to practice more
By this we do no NEAR TO
learn to spend less, but learn
to make more that we may
have more to spend. We mean
to learn to save what you have al
ready made, and spend what you
made to better purpose. He that
makes two blades of grass grow
where one grew before, is said to be
a ~benefactor to the race. He that
to save two blades that he has
already grown, where he has been
one before, Is equally a bene-
to the race.-Southern Guilt
vator.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
Il O N CHURCH.

The average salary of clergymen
in the United States is 5000 a year.
1t is proposed at Duluth, Mimi,
that the local branch of the Saliva
ton Army shall add street cleaning
to it's many other activities.
A. w. Ranger, leading solicitor for
the Salvation Army in Great Britain,
able work for Gen. Booths great or
~ganization.
Leipsic university has had the good
fortune, unusual for German uni
versities, of receiving a $250,0OO be-
quest from a private individual. it
was obtained after a complicated
lawsuit with the University of VII
emma.
Megiddo, the curious mission ship.
has arrived at st. Paul. 1t is the
first "battleship" of the Salvation
Army, and has comfortable quarters
for several families who inhabit it.
and who helped to build it with their
own hands.
The University Of London talks of
the establishment of a new universe
ty degree-that of bachelor of COM
merce. Such a degree has, it is said,
already been established at Leipzig,
Germany, in the technical schools
there, but in England the PROPOSE
ton has only been discussed by vari-
GUS educational bodies.
President Tucker, of Dartmouth,
in his recent address at Newton
theological seminary, after dwelling
on the principle of authority as
found in the Roman Catholic church
and in the Salvation Army, asserted
that no church is equipped for its
ministry that cannot bring on occa-
sion authority of a moral kind to
bear.
The American Tract society is do.
ing a helpful work among the thou
sands of immigrants who yearly
come to this country. AT Ellis Is
land they are met by a colporter
from the society, and Christian read
ing matter in their own languages Is
given them. Particular efforts are
being made to reach the Mormonsi
Poles and Bohemians of the western
states. Four million pages of Chris-
tian literature have been distribut'
ed among Spanish-speaking people
alone, and several millions set to u
army and navy.
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bitter grief. he had looked forward
with such keen delight to the time
when he should be emancipated from
school and allowed once o to ram
BILE in freedom with his young brother
that his death came as an awful
shock which hurt him too deep for any
outward sorrow. He incurred in Sc
cret and when his brothers body was
taken away he hid himself and was
not seen for some time.
Poor Patsy! Day after day he
grieved. Then he was rudely awakened
from his sorrow. His 80 days leave Of
absence had nearly expired and he
must go back at once to school.
But how could he go? His heart vas
yet full of sorrow. His days of weep
ing and wailing were not expired. He
must stay and lament until his heart
was empty of grief. 1t was sad enough
to have a heart broken, but to have it
grief laden with unexpressed sorrow,
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as agent and asked hat Patsy be sent
for. The request was forwarded to
the agent at Truxton, and Patsy was
granted 80 days leave of absence to
visit his sick brother. Their meeting
was joyous and yet exceedingly sad,
for Patsy could see, more than those
who had watched the sick boy day by
day, how much he had faded. In less
than two weeks ne had passed away
and the rocky walls of the Havasu
canyon echoed and reechoed with the
sad walls and loud laments of the ia
Their, mother, brothers, sisters, rela-
tives and friends of the dead boy.
Several times have | heard these sad
and doleful wailings. They sink deep
into ones heart. However perfume
tory civilized mourning may have be-
come, there is no mere outward show
in the wailing of an Indian family
when one of it's number is carried away
by death. But in all this wailing and
loudly expressed sorrow poor Patsy
was almost silent. His was a deep and
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
HERE AND THERE.

-When sheep, or hogs, or cattle,
are low in price, then is the time to
buy. Then when prices are up you
will have some to sell. Many people
| reverse this process and become dis
couraged.
Hogs are adapted to every farm,
for the simple reason that they will
eat almost anything. Even that
which other animals have eaten, but
failed to digest, they will also con-
vert into pork.
The average cost of keeping a
dairy cow is placed by Dairy and
Creamery at $32 per year. But to
feed a cow properly on $32 worth one
must know something of digestible
nutrients and balanced rations.
AS like has a tendency to produce
like, it is good policy, when a sow is
found to be a profitable breeder,
bringing large filters and afording
them an abundance Of nutriment, to
save brood sows from such mothers.
There is no worse animal to put
intoan orchard than the goat, because
he is a browser of the trusst type,
but for preparing brush or timbered
land that is to be put into orchard
or any kind Of fruit, he has no equal.
Every farm product should be
marketed in as attrctive form as
possible. Eggs that are soiled are not
attractive and if sold at all only bring
a reduced price. Nice, clean, fresh
looking eggs never beg for custom
ers.
Woo ashes should never be com.
posted, or mixed with an nitrogen
Gus fertilizer, but should be applied
separately and only On the surface.
Rains will do the rest. There is nc
better fertilizer for orchards than
wood ashes.
ANY farmer whose land will grow
good alfalfa can make money
raising hogs than by selling hay, even
at the highest price hay ever brought.
The best results are secured when
small rations Of grain are fed with
the green alfalfa.
Hogs are raised for q single pur.
pose, namely, to produce meat. there
fore we never hear Of the dual-pur-
pose pig. It follows, also, that the
hog is in duty bound to make the
| popular market weight in as short q
time as possible.
Men who cultivate land worth
only $3.50 per ere ought not to ex-
pect more than IS per acre profit.
That would be 200 per cent. OIL the
value of the land. and even 100 per
cent is considered . good profit on
invested capital.
The treasury department is kept
busy answering the queries of the
| cleo manufacturers regarding their
many proposed methods of evading
| the oleomargarinn law. So far the de-
| sicns of the department have been
| against the manufacturers.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05


came nearly opposite to what is now
the foot of Twenty:fifth street. Here
a big bowlder reaching out of water IL
or IA deep deep stood forth like a great
buttress. The barges touched at this
rock and upon it all of the troops were
landed. Thus it became known as
Braddock rock"
Sailing between the piers of long
bridge myriad memories of the civil
war were recalled. Across this bridge
tramped hundreds of thousands of
men who have faded from the earth,
and become members of hat "cloud of
witnesses" referred to by the author
of the epistle to the Hebrews. Over
on the Virginia hills were seen the re-
mains of the earthworks wherein
other thousands were located to de-
fend the capital city. Inside of 20 min
utes we were sailing past the arsenal
grounds. Standing forth above the
trees is the tall mast from which the
fagfoats. Right onthat spot stood the
gallows on which Mrs. Surratt and the
other c~onspiratorw were hanged for
completely in the crimes of Lincoln's
assassination and the attempts on the
lives of members of his cabinet.
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state of preservation is a foregone
conclusion, and this elegant receptacle
is admirably suited to the purpose for
which it was designed. 1t is made OF
light wood enameled white and having
the brides initials in silver letters OF
the outside. A lining of tufted white
satin is revealed on opening the box.
and locks of silver and white leather
straps fasten it. photograph of the
wedding gown is often taken by the
modiste before sending it home and
making a collection of the photo.
graphs of wedding gowns or any other
distinctive costumes is one of the pres.
emit fads, the idea being to preserve the
pictures as mementoes for future gen
erations and also as illustrations o.
present-day fashions.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
FEEDING d PIGS.
An Expert Gives Some Pointers as
to How to Obtain the Best
Results with Swine.

Having bought or bred our ideal
foundation stock, we have only solved
half the problem.
The highest skill in breeding must
be supplemented by some system of
feeding which will perpetuate the
quality already secured and dupli-
cate it many times at a minimum
cost.
In feeding we have a double
problem.
Our first and greatest considera-
ton is economy.
We must not sell for six cents,
pork which cost us six and one-fourth
in the home pens.
We must further consider the effect
of the various foods upon the quality
of the finished meats.
In this respect III home markets
are not so critical as those of Great
Britain or Canada.
Fortunately in dealing with the hog
we are not limited to any narrow bill
Of fare; he is an animal of healthy
appetite and wide range of taste.
1t seems to us that many feeders
make a most serious mistake in serv-
ing like ~rations to hogs of all ages.
1t pays to baby" your hogs while
they are still babies.
The first three months Of a pigs
life are the critical ones.
A right start means everything.
Without any question orn is and
must continue to be the staple food
of the corn-belt states.
Any system of feeding which at
tempts to ignore this fact is not ap-
plicable to this wide territory.
But feeders make a mistake when
they make a hog out Of a baby shoat.
Every tendency Of corn feed is to
develop fat.
What the youngster needs is mus
cle-making food, something to make
him grow and build up bone, sinew
and lean meat.
Nothing has yet been found which
fills the bill so well as a ration of
which the basis is skim-milk in con
junction with shorts, middlings and
Underground oats or barley.
All these are f1esh-formers.
We know a skim-milk diet is not
possible upon a majority of farms in
a corn country, 80 we must find a
substitute.
We have found that for the first
eight weeks of a young pigs life it is
both Safer and cheaner tn feod him
through the medium Of his dam.
The youngster weaned at six weeks
is likely to carry q harsh coat and to
have serious trouble with his diges-
ton.
We provide creeps, or private runs.
for the young pigs, permitting then
to reach shallow pans or troughs in
which we place q little skim-milk or
butter milk.
We have had most excellent results
from the addition Of oil meal to the
young pigs ration.
By this method the young pigs are
early encouraged to eat, SO that when
weaving time there is no check
to their growth.
We feed no corn until the pigs are
three months old.
By this treatment, coupled with
plenty Of yard exercise, they develop
good healthy frames.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05

The amount Of exercise required
varies with different breeds.
Tamworths and Yorkshires would
pine away where Poland-C hinas would
lie still and grow fat.
Breeding stock especially should
have abundant yard room at all
times.
We believe in the separate lot and
yard system, allowing the breeding
stock to have unlimited exercise.
Thousands Of pigs are lost every
year, being born with weak, labby
development, owing to their dams be-
ing confined for weeks to small, fl
thy, poorly-lighted and poorly-bedded
pens.-J. j. Ferguson, Agricultural
College, Michigan, in American Swine
herd.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05
PRESERVE WEDDING GOWN.
Kept by Many WOmen as q Memento
Of the Most Important of
All vents.

A woman's wedding gown is seldom
worn except on anniversary occasions
after the day upon which the nuptials
are celebrated. Most woman regard
this garment as especially sacred and
tako extraordinary means to preserve
it in all it's pristine purity. The we'd
ding gown box is a recent fad for the
w~ell-to-do bride to adopt, and it bids
fair to have quite a vogue. That every
bride possessed of any sentiment
wishes to keep her wedding gown in a
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-05

SOOQ-Dy TO MS parents anu 1rlenQS
and started on his journey. He took
with him a shotgun for securing food
on the way. His companion, Ma
tue, went on ahead, as Patsy clearly
wished to be alone. Every now and
then Mature would look back, to see
tears rolling down Patsy's cheek.
For an hour and more they rode
up the wash of Wallapai canyon, the
red walls towering up into the pure
blue of the sky, but neither walls
nor sky had any attraction for either
of them.
Mature was distressed at Patsy's
sorrow, and Patsy's thoughts were
all! who could tell? Slowly they
rode on Mature every now and then
looking back to see that Patsy fol-
lowed. They reached the hilltop and
now Patsy seemed to lag behind more
than before. Mature went over a
ridge down into a small canyon, up
and out on the other side and there
waited for Patsy. Half an hour, an
hour, an hour and a half passed and
he did not come. So, feeling some
thing akin to fear, Mature went
back to see what was the matter.
Half a mile or so back he came upon
Patsys horse, shot through the head.
Thoroughly alarmed he called aloud
for Patsy, but nothing save the echo
from the walls of the canyon be-
meath gave him answer. He walked
back d little further and there under
a chimiwoia (mountain rush) bush
he saw Patsy, his gun in his hand,
dead. He had sat down and DELHI
erately placed the shotgun under his
face and fired.
When Mature returned with the
news to the village the excitement
was intense. Few would have re-
garded the H%avasupai Indian as
stolid had they seen the wonder and
awe and distress depicted on every
face. Suicides among Indians are
comparatively rare-far more SO
than among the higher civilized peo-
pies. At first the Indians could not
believe it.. Then a number of them
went up to the hilltop to see the
body. They could find no traces.
either Of horses or men, except those
made by Patsy and Mature, so they
were compelled to the conclusion
that it was a case of deliberate sui
eide.
Suicide for grief; suicide because
passed away from the scene of it's
origin: suicide because his brothers
spirit would hover around his for
mer home and never hear the wall
of Patsy's voice. The white man
may and does laugh at such explana-
tions. They are absurd and ridic-
ulous. Indeed, when talking with
the acting agent the other day I
never ever suggested such ideas be-
cause I knew they would sink into
stony ground, yet I know, and SO
do all who intimately know the In
dian heart, that these are the only
real causes for poor Patsy's tragic
and awful act.
The agent came from Truxton, the
deputy United States marshal, the
Wallapai policeman and others came
to investigate. The body was cre-
mated, but nothing else was done.
And now Patsy's spirit has joined the
spirit of his brother and together
they have gone to explore the mys-
FERROUS regions Of the beyond. Tho
Havasupais seem to have settled
down to the even tenor of their way,
and only the flowing waters of the
creek where Patsy used to sport and
swim and play sing a SAD and mourn
full requiem for a young life ruthless
" slain because the white man did
not, could not, would not understand.
q. WHARTON JAMES.