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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-23
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B. y. p. V. SERVICE.

The First Baptist and Tabernacle
Unions will have a special service at the
Tabernacle this afternoon at four
o'clock. The meeting is in charge of Mr..
10 II. Weathers. president of the Taber
pacle Union Short addresses by Messrs.
J. W. Bailey and Charles NJ. Heck, Of the
First Baptist Union; Rev. w. d. Hubbard
and T. L. King, of the Tabernacle Union.
Other short talks are expected Special
music Solos by Miss Moring and Miss
Rosa c. Broughton. All of the young peo-
pie of the city are invited to attend.
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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
HOW TO FARM.
A Southern Farmer Tells How He
Made n. Improbable Bust
ness Profitable.

l find it profitable to plant the larg-
err portion of the farm in corn, to be
cut, shocked and shredded. Cultivate
corn fiat, with field and ground-peas
for hay for the hogs. Cut peavines
and grass after corn has been
shocked. Sow peas in all of the small
grain stubble land for hay and to inn
prove the land. Save all of the avail
able grasses about the farm for hay.
Raise and buy cattle to eat all of the
forage saved to make to go
back on the farm and for beef, in
which there is a good profit. I find,
also, that it pays to raise plenty OF
hogs for home use and for the mar
ket. An easy and cheap way to sup
ply them with food is to plant sew
eral acres, according to needs, in
early corn, peas and sorghum (sor-
ghum and peas can be sowr together
with good results) and arrange for
to Craze on it as needed. Plant plenty
of artichokes and potatoes for fall
and winter grazing. Plant some cot
ton, but not any on land that will
not produce 1,000pounds ofseed cotton
to the acre; it will pay better to SOW
poorer land in peas for hay and to
improve the land. In order to sue
cessfully follow this plan it will be
necessary to have improved machin-
cry. By following this plan for the
last three years l have brought the
farm up to avery good state of culti-
walton, taken the stumps out, put it
under a good wire fence and paid
for my improved machinery, which
consists of a mi spreader, NOW
err, rake and press, seed drill, weed
ers, sulky and two-hourse plows, pea
huller, shredder and power, wagons
and necessary light tools. Have 80
head of cattle, including n Polled-
Durham bull, 80 head of hogs, and
sufficient funds to run" me this
year. Before l adopted this plan !
farmed at a loss. I am confident that
uccess is easily within reach of ev-
cry farmer who will give this plan an
intelligent trial.-A. w. Anders, in
Southern Culticator.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
COURTESY.
The obliginE Young Man Had Hair
ON His Head and Could Spare
His Hat.

Excessive kindliness of heart, when al
he'd to a laundering courtesy, is occasionally
productive of an amusing incident. OF such
is the following: A president in recent
Zines of one OF our royal colleges was noted
for the possession OF a trim little Yacht,
which he was fond of sailing in one of the
reaches Of the River Thames, says the Can
did Friend. One Gay the president had the
misfortune to capsize his craft, with the
consequent result of complete immersion.
He was Immediately assisted ashore and
! change of clothing provided al an adjacent
boathouse. This. however, did not include
a hat of any description. The president,
who is an old man and c~orrespondingiy bald,
stood shivering. his seant hair unconforta-
bly, stirred by the breeze. His plight was
observed with respectful compassion by one
Of the students of the college who had wit
messed the catastrophe, and offered his own
headgear. The president, however, seemed
reluctant to accept it, saving: IF | take
yours, what will you dos" "oh, sir" said
the student, ut doesn' matter for me, I've
got hair on my head" This statement was
accepted as final by the president, together
with the cap, and he laughed heartily at
what, after all, was not wholly a one4ided
joke, for the CONSERVATION of the student
may be better imagined than described.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
FARMERAND PLANTER.
The MULE ON THE FARM.
Money, and this Farmer should
Raise His Own.

One great expense on the farm is
the -otive power. Good work can
not be done unless we have sufficient
power. Light horses or mules can
only do light work. To do good plow-
ing requires strong, heavy stock to
pull the plows. For this a we
are always glad to see good, strong
teams. But these cost good round
sums Of money. When bought for
cash, good mules r high, but when
bought on time they are much high
er. In almost every community there
are men who make large money every
year simply by the difference between
the cash and the time prices on mules.
They buy them and sell them to farm
ers on time, and then take the farm
ers' notes on the banks and place
them as collateral and get the money
and pay for the mules, and have a
handsome profit left.
All this comes directly out of the
farmers pocket, and often makes a
big hole in his yearly profits. This
is simply bad financiering. The farm
er's notes get the money. Why did
they not get it for themselves and
save heavy time per cent? This per
cent. is hardly eve less than twenty
FIVE and is often nearer fifty.
How can this be avoided? Very
easily. Our farmers should raise their
w mules. 1t will be some trouble
and some expense, but it will pay to
have a little trouble and expense
when we can ave so much by it. A
mule colt can be raised for about
twenty-five dollars at two years old.
This mule would cost on the market,
at time prices, from n hundred to
one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
From two to three years old he will
paw his expenses. At three he will
be worth one hundred and fifty dol
lars. 1t is a perfectly safe estimate
to say that they win then be worth
over one hundred dollars. Here is a
business that will pay n hundred
per cent.
This is worth going into as a sep
arate business. Mule farms would
pay. The mule finds his most con-
genial surroundings in the south. The
climate and the food suit him. Here
he would reach his highest Develop
ment. By getting good jocks aud jen-
nets, and good-blooded mares to breed
from, we can raise as fine mules in
the cotton-growing states as any
where in the world. There is no line
of business that offers larger and
surer profits.
The largest mule markets in the
world are in the south. st. Louis,
Mo-, is the largest, and Atlanta, Ga,
the second largest mule market in the
world. Over fifty thousand mules are
annually sold in Atlanta. About five
million dollars a year for mules that
we could just as easily grow for our
selves. This immense leak will not
De stopped by conventions and resolu-
tions. Each farmer must do his part
by beginning to raise his home supply
of mules.-Southern C%ultivator.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

the hog class at . younger age and
ut . less weight than eve before. In
many, perhaps the majority of cases,
has the time between the period of
narrowing Of the sow and that Of the
marketing of the young pigs been re-
duced. This has shortened the feed
ing and growing period, md by so do
ing has proved a benefit to our farm
ers who are il the habit of raising
pigs for market purposes. 1t not only
furnishes an earlier and in most cases
a better market, but admits Of Q less
ening in the cost of production.
1t is a well-known fact among
feeders that the first fifty or one
hundred pounds of flesh is much
easier to place upon the back of any
animal than the last fifty or one hun
dred pounds. This we have found TO
be the ease of the feeding of any and
all classes of live stock. The reason
for this may be clearly seen and un-
derstood when we consider that it is
one of natures laws that the young
animal converts nearly every ounce
of food directly into live weight. In
the mature animal this is not the
case. The animal has secured its
growth and nature, in that particu-
lar, has practically ceased to SO aid
the feeder in producing the additional
weight. The older animal can,through
use of a good forcing method, be
made to lay on fat quite rapidly, but
in any east 1t will require a greater
amount of both expense and time,
and will not be accomplished so east
ly. With the growing herd of pigs we
are unable to make from 176 to 200
pounds of prime pork that may BE-
placed in the market at the end of
five or six months. This with a little
more effort than the mere placing in
good condition for more extended
feeding. From the above conditions,
we as farmers, and hog feeders in par
t%icular, can not help but welcome the
seemingly changed situation; in re-
gard to our hog markets. We would
favor the growing and feeding of
young animals. in most cases, and the
marketing of the same when not old
er than six or seven months.'kla-
homa Farm Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

eight months from suppressed men.
situation, and it effected my entire
system until / became weak and debil-
itated, and at times felt that | had a
hundred aches in as many places. l
only used the Compound for a few
weeks, but it wrought q change in MT
which / felt from the very beginning.
l have been very regular since, have no
pains, ana hnd that my entire body is
as if it was renewed. | gladly recon-
mend Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound to everybody
Miss ELIZABETH GAME, 60 w. Division
St., Fond du Lac, Wis.-s5oo0 forfeit if
above testimonial is not genuine.
At such a time the greatest aid to
nature is Lydia f. Pinkham'S
Vegetable Compound. 1t prepares
the young system for the coming
change, and is the surest reliance for
woman's ills of every nature.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all
young women who are ill to
write her for free advice. ADJ
dress Lynn, Mass.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
HERE AND THERE.

A little salt sprinkled on the hay
in bulk will make it more palatable
to the stock, and palatability is next
in Importance to dig~estibility.
Good stock look better, do better,
and pay better than scrubs, and it is
the farmer that puts his money into
this class of stock that receives The
best returns.
Our farmers have had an idea, err
%roneous. however, that alfalfa was
only desirable in semi-arid regions,
but the fact is that everywhere where
the soil conditions favor it it is king
of hay plants.
If the hens seem out of condition,
don't begin dosing with fowl ~tonics;
the case is usually bad enough with
out medication. The proper thing to
do is to improve the sanitary condi-
tions and sanitary treatment.
Until the silo came into use soil
ing was the most economical method
of feeding succulent food to stock.
But the silo is better, because the ST.
lage is maintained indefinitely in the
best most profitable and digestible
form.
An Illinois nurseryman has been
selling Seeding peach trees to Arkan-
sas formers, and now the suckers are
calling on some one to kick the fool
ishness out of them. In buying nur-
sery stock 1t Is necessary to watch
as well as pay.
The fruit grower in the southwest
can begin eating and marketing fruit
in March. and if he has planted judi
ciously he can continue to eat and
| sell fresh fruit for seven long months.
| Here is where he has advantage of
fruit growers in regions further
north.
The oat crop is a good n to
keep on the farm-too good to sell.
The farmer and the farm are both
benefited by fleeing all the oats the
some conditions the from
oat-fed stock is worth as much as the
market price at harvest time.
The importance if an even distri-
button of fertilizer is not sufficiently
appreciated. When it is badly dis
tributed, some spots will have too
much, more than the plants can util-
ize. while others will have too little
or none. Scatter it evenly as posi-
BILE and then work the harrow for an
II is wo-$A
The magnitude of the value OF
the corn crop of the United States
is moi generally recognized. The val
ne of the corn crop for 9 0 is put by
the department of agriculture at
1926, 900. 900. The demand for corn
and corr products throughout the
world is steadily increasing. and the
capacity for production of this coun-
Try is equal to any present or pros
p~ectise demand
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
HOW ACETYLENE WAS FOUND.
Discovery of the Valuable Gas Was
Made by a Canadian Less Than
Ten Years Ago.

To the owner of an automobile
the acetylene lamp which adds so
much to his comfort and his safety
is SO old a story that it hardly seems
possible to him that it was a thing
impossible less than a decade ago.
The facts relating to the discovery
of a~cetylene gas are interesting,
writes Roscoe S. Denton, in the Au-
tomobile Magazine.
Some years ago a Canadian, Thorn
as P. Wilson, was smelling for metal
lurgical purposes. From time to
time he used a good deal of rock salt
in his furnace stock, and also lime
stone as a fux. Whenever these two
materials were fused together the
slug produced by the intense cleo
trical heat included a dirty grayish
substance wholly unlike anything
else he had ever seen.
For weeks he noticed this SUBJ
stance without giving more than a
passing attention to it, dumping it
into the stream upon the bank of
which he had built his furnace.
One day a curious thing occurred,
and at a time when the pile of Stag
had become so large that its top rose
above the surface of the water. A
minute or two after dumping the
Stag as usual into the stream, some
of it going under and part of it re-
manning above the water in a red
hot state, the sizzling and steaming
was followed by a bright burst of
flame.
The next time Mr.. Wilson used
rock salt and limestone the blaze
again appeared owe the Stag after
it had been cast into the river, and. It
being at night, he was much struck
by the brilliant white light pro-
duced.
On the first occasion thereafter
when ne had a batch of the queer
grayisa residue to dispose of he did
not waste it, but saved it and poured
over it some water for experiment.
To his surprise there was no flame.
but after pulling awhile over this
feature he held a lighted match over
the sle, when instantly there was a
white, glowing flame, and Wilson
knew that he had found something
worth while. His discovery was
a~cetylene gas, and the automobilist
is not the only man who is deeply in
debted to him for having made it.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

RENE, though the capital of Italy,
b not the largest city. 1t has only
49,. 900 people, while Milan has 400
600. aad Naples nearly 10000
According to the year book of the
Swiss Alpine club, 21s tourists, a
guides and II porters were killed by
accidents in the decade ending 1900
Great Britain now produces 500
pounds of grain for each head of hel
population. The North American
output is 22,22s pounds for each in
habitant.
Lake Baikal, in Siberia, seems te
be the deepest lake in the world II
is $500 feet deep. its surface being
1850 feet above the ~sea-leyel, ant
bottom some 1900 feet below.
Municipal electric tramway car
have no right to stand any longer IL
the streets than other conveyances
the Leeds %(England) magistrates de
cided recently.
A writer in the Revue de Pari:
declares that many Frenchmen hops
that some day Spain, the most fer
tile and most ~ill-governed of Euro
pean countries, will become French
soil.
With a view of facilitating the de
livery of mails, the Swedish postal au
thorities suggest that all the schoo
children in the country should be in
structed in the correct method of-ad
dressing letters.
The japanese eat more fish thar
any other people in the world. Witt
them m~eat-eating is a foreign limo
walton, confined to the rich, or, rath
er, to those rich people who prefer il
to the national diet.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11


Twas doctored by several good physi.
t%cians, but none did me any good. My
fmother was taking Peruna at the time
land gave some of it to me, and / soon
! began to improve, and am now well
and fat as a little pig. / am twelve
syears old. The doctors told mother l
.had the consumption, but it was only
icatarrh Miss Pearl Bousch.
Itisnolongeraquestion as to whether
yPeruna can be relied on to cure all such
cases. During the many yearsin which
J Pcruna has been put to test in all forms
and stages of acute and chronic catarrh
no one year has put this remedy to
greater test than the past year.
Peruna is the acknowledged catarrh
remedy of the age. DIR. Hartman, the
c~ompounder of Peruna, has written a
book on the phases of catarrh peculiar
to women, entitled, Health and
Beauty" 1t will be sent free to any
address by The Peruna Medicine Co.,
Columbus, o.
Ifyou do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
AN OLD RAILROAD TIE.
Did Service as a Grape Trellfs After
Thirty Years Usage on an
Illinois Road.

"I saw an old railroad relic the other
day that was quite a curiosity" said a
contractor, according to the Chicago
Inter Ocean. "It was in the posses
sion of a farmer neal Springfield. II
was one of the ties used in the con
struction of the first railroad built in
Illinois. The Northern Cross extend
ing from Springfield to Naples on the
Illinois river. 1t was built, or at least
begun, in 1886, and was of a construc-
ton now strange to railroad people.
.'The ties were of red cedar and were
laid farther apart than is. now the
custom. On the ties running length
wise were laid oak ~stringers, as they
were called, to support. the rails.
These %stringers were timbers about
six inches square and from 20 to &c
feet long. They were held in place by
ash pins about an inch in diameter.
which were driven through holes bored
in the stringers and ties. The rails
were mere straps of iron about 2H
inches wide and a half to three-quar-
ters of an inch thick. The strapswere
fastened to the stringers with spikes
driven through their center and the
heads of the spikes were countersnnk
so that the straps presented a smooth
surface upon which the wheels re.
volved.
"The tie of which speak had been
taken from the track in 1866. after 80
years of use. had passed into posses
sion of its present owner and been
used as a post to support a grape trel-
| lis, where it has stood for IS years. II
is still sound, except around the holes
near each end, around which are signs
of decay.
ST think if enough material of this
kind could be gathered it would be a
good idea to construct a track after
this old pattern as a part of the Illinois
exhibit at the st. Louis exposition"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

Why 1t Was All Right-"You needn't be
at ali afraid to speak to papa, George. |
an sure he will be all right" What makes
you think so9" "He asked me last night
what your business is, and when | said yea
were a retired coal-dealer he smiled and
said he guessed that settled it."-Cleveland
plain Dealer
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

Has the Making in Him.-"That boy of
mine" said the man with his family sorrow,
'is an incorrigible liar, and | can't reform
him." Don't try!" exclaimed the practical
man. Think what an acquisition he will
be later to the ranks of the worlds finan-
ciers."-Baltimore News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

Mrs. N. K. Bousch, Richmond, Va.
writes:
=" Thad cafarrh all through my sys-
fem for two years and could get no re-
lief Twas advised to try Peruna, and
I have taken five bottles of ii and am
well and better now than I have been
for years. lean advise any one who
has cafarrh of any part of the body to
take Peruna. My little girl, who is
eleven years old had catarrh, but was
cured by Peruna. Before I began to
take Peruna I vas sick all the time,
but now I am entirely cured and all
praise Is due Peruna. Mrs. M. X.
Bousch.
Miss Pearl Beusch, writes: when |
was a baby l contracted catarrh, and
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
Much of the Same Kind.

From a Connecticut Woman dairy, dhted
fT90: Eve had roast pork for dinner. and
DR.. s., who carved, held UP a rib on his
Mother Eve was made Of Yes said Sister
Patty, and it's muca the same kind of crit
ter N-LiYing Church.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
Word Painting In Missouri.

An editor of a southern Missouri paper
speaks thus feeGngly in a recent obituary
notice; Gust about daylight the Pale
Horse came to him with the saddle and
bride of righteousness, and he straddled
il and rode me."-Indianapolis Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
when the Day Went to sIeep.

Once upon a time. from behind the cur
tain of darkness, came smiling day, and,
wrapped in the gray dawn, took its bath
in the sparkling dew. Then its morning
garment was changed to a cloth Of gold, new
made by the sun.
The day wore on. Through the hours it
went wearing a smile of satisfaction, until
the DOMINIC of the more somber evening
dress, after which it was wrapped in the
mantle Of the nigAt.
Moral-Even tae day has its close.-N. Y.
Herald.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

The Cost of TT wonder if advertising
like this" said the unsophisticated youth,
after looking over the department store an
nouncement, SIS really expensive?" wait
till you get a wife WHO reads those ads. and
you'll find out" replied Phamliman.-Phl-
adelphia Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
TO YOUNG LADIES.
From the Treasurer of the
Young Peoples Christian Tenn
perance Association. Elizabeth
Caine, Fond du Lac, Wis.

"DEAR Mrs. PNKHAM:-I want to
tell you and all the young ladies of the
country, how grateful ] am to you for
all the benefits l have received from
using Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. l suffered for
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11
when To sell Hogs.

The increase of demand and the
comparatively high price of feed has,
during the past year, tended toward
placing upon the market animals of
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

~Bohblcts-"Nhy do they call that place
a clop house," Joblots-'Becau>e you need
an AK to cut the steak, | suppose Detroit
Free Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-09-11

"Some folks" said Uncle Eben, takes
credit fob bein' patient, when dey is simply
takin' hfe easy an shown sense enough
not to interfere wifi de folks dat does de
mork."-Washington Star.