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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
Have You Tried Its

If wheat and oat stubble is turned
under and planted with cow-peas, and
a large lot of excellent pea vine hay
made and also a lot of the peas gath
cred for seed for next years planting,
or for sale at 81 per bushel to those
who did not plant cow-peas, or who
planted too late to make seed, and
thereby ten bushels of corn, or 20O
pounds of seed cotton be gained on
next years crops, would it not be prof
liable? We wonder how many farmers
have tried this experiment. All read
ing and observing farmers know that
this practice is an excellent one, for
it improves the soil while growing a
profitable crop. The mystery about
this practice is that any farmer should
refuse to adopt it as a regular system.
Farm and Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
Precedent for Government Aid.

A precedent for government aid in
making good country roads, is the aid
given the states in building and main
tanning levees on the Mississippi river
and its tributaries. The government
appropriation for levees amounts to
about 81, 900, 900 per annum. This
work directly benefits about 1900, 900
people while the construction, of good
country roads would benefit at least
60. 900. 600 people. Pennsylvania has ap-
p%ropriated S. $50, 600 to be expended
within five years under the direction
of a state board of highways. Thus
the state proposes to cooperate with
counties and townships in making and
maintaining good highways. The coun-
ties, or townships are required to pay
one-half the cost of such work, the
state paying the other half. Ten per
cent of the state appropriation is to be
set aside as a maintenance fund for
roads built under the provisions of the
law. This Pennsylvania plan, we think,
is worthy of imitation by other states.
Then If national aid can be secured, as
proposed in the Brownlow bill, still
good roads can be built.-Farm
and Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
MAKE FIGURES LOOK SMALL.
Mental Mathematfeians Get 10 Work
and Simmer Them Down to
Nearly Nothing.

Whitelaw Reid, of New York, in the
annual address before Phi Beta Kappa
society, of Vassar college, discussed d.
vorce and its attendant evils. He said:
six hundred and fifty-four thousand per-
cons divorced in this country during the
last % years"
This statement, says the narrator OF the
story. caused wrinkles and burrows to form
on the forehead of one prim maiden. A
fash of the eye, and then a whisper to
an attentive classmate: That's equal to
81, 700 persons a year"
The classmates brow now began to
denote activity: "Or ATS persons .
month"
Or ISL persons a week" said the
first mental arithmetician
"Ninety-seven persons each day sever
marital relations" was the next computa-
ton.
"Why. that's only four persons an hour
came as q cheerful rejoinder.
Pooh, only one couple every hall
hour"
And they say there are 10000, 900 peo-
pie in this country
What a narrow view some men take
of life" And the other nodded an agree.
ment
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The statement that synthetic alcohol
from acetylene can be produced cheaper
than that from grain is shown to be un-
true.
In two years there has been a loss OF
about a billion dollars in the current
value of the stocks of ten great corpora
lions.
Benzine locomotives of eight horse
power, drawing freight trucks of a ca
pacity of 25 tons on narrow-gauge tun-
mel roads. are changing the working Of
German, Belgian and Austrian mines.
THE continued drilling in Ohio for oil
and gas and the consequent raising of the
gas to the coal surface is, and will be, a
source of great danger in coal mining for
years to come" says State inspector Bid
Olson, of Ohio.
The electrolytic production of caustic
alkalies and chlorine has proved of great
importance to the world of trade. The
chlorine produced is used for making
bleaching powders. which in turn has
revolutionized the bleaching trade here
and abroad.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

"Tve worked at almost all those old gags"
complained the man with the night
marsh eye, "and you can take my woId for
it there's nothing to EN-.
"Ive tried blowing holes in Swiss cheese,
lowering highballs, Knitting pink tights for
sausage meat, tanning wild flowers, mend
ing bad breaks, making oyster beds, and q
hundred others.
What I'm looking for is something new;
connected with it..
Then why don't you put in an applica-
ton for the position Of United States treas
ury seamstress?" suggested his foolish
friend.
United States government seamstress"
Yes. Sewing silk threads in dollar blils,
you known. Y. Sun.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
SHoPLIFTERS ALWAYS ACTIVE.
Lght-Fingered Pilferers of h Big
Department stores Work
in All Seasons.

"Shopiifters never take a vacation,
said the superintendent OF a big de-
partment store up town, relates the New
York Times. Like the poor, they are
always with us. We are not Obliged to
employ as many detectives now as dur
ing the holiday season, of course, but
even in the hottest weather they cut
an important figure on our payroll.
.The adage about the playful mice
and the cat applies to this department
store during the hot weather as much
as it does to anything. The working
staff is reduced, girls have more coun-
ter room to cover, and there are just as
many small articles, though perhaps not
of so great a value, as during the holi-
day season. Shoplifters cannot have SO
many pockets in their light summer
gowns as they can in winter, and any
woman with a cloak would at once ex-
cite suspicion; but these wrist bags that
are so much in vogue and the baskets
made of grass that so many women
carry for light marketing gives the
woman thief all the opportunity she
wants.
I'm summer we generally give some of
the girls on the staff who have been with
us two or three years a chance to see
what they car do at detective work.
Many young women are convinced that
they are born detectives, just as others
believe they are born actresses. Wom-
en- are the best for this sort of work, be-
cause they can hang around the u
tiers watching suspects where a man
would arouse suspicion. Store detec-
tives get much more pay than salesgirls,
and we have more applications every
year than we are able to crafty. But
if a girl shows any adaptability at all
she is allowed to have a trial. If she
makes good she gets a chance In the
fall. If not, back to the mines, so to
speak.
I'm the rush aso we employ from
80 to 40 women detectives in the store.
Marriage, change of employers, and
other contingencies take away at least
one-third of this force every year.
Wherever it is possible we like to make
recruits from our own ranks. Three
experts keep close watch over the be-
ginners, to see that they don't make
blunders that will hurt the firm"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

Stanton, Ark, Aug. 3lst.-News comes
from Duff, Searey Co., this state, that MI.
T. L. Reeves, a Justice OF the Peace at that
place, has written a letter recommending
Dodd's Kidney Pills in which he says,
II think Dodd 5 Kidney Pills can't be beat
for Kidney Trouble, andI wish them every
success
The local j. p. Mr.. L. B. Cox agrees with
his brother Justice on this point for ne says;
Il had a bad case OF Kidney Trouble and
was not able 10 do a days work without
great distress. | bought six boxes of Dodds
Kidney Pills and after l had used three
boxes / was all right. | I'm as well as ever,
and | cannot praise Dodd's Kidney Pills too
highly.
Il have given the other three boxes to
some friends of mine who had found out
what it was that had cured me so satisiac-
torily and quickly and they all speak highly
of Dodd's Kidney Pills"
No one disputes this unanimous verdict.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

this product into something that can
be sold at a greater profit All kinds
Of low priced grain and forage "a be
converted into high priced meat OF
some sort, or into milk, butter, fowls
and eggs. Feeders generally find their
business profitable. even when hey
buy both the stock and the feed. Then,
if the farmer grows both the stock and
the feed, it is evident that he can do
the feeding far more probably than
any one else. In this case the farm Is
enriched, for after converting his feed
into meat at a fair profit, he has a
large per cen of it left in the form OF
a valuable fertilizer, which, if prop
crly handled will afford an additional
profit in better crops another year, and
permanent addition to the value of the
farm.-Farm and Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
MIGHTY MEAN TRICK.
One Way of Scoring "A Wife's Extrava-
gance without Raising a
Family Disturbance.

He drew a letter from his pocket, glanced
at it and hastily put it back; and there was
something in the way he did 1t that attracted
his wife's attention. He meant that 1t
should, says the Chicago Post.
II WONDER she said to herself, what's
in that letter? He certainly was nightly
disconnected when he took 1t from his
pocket"
Later he changed his coat for his smok-
ing jacket and left the coat conveniently
near her.
The temptation was too great TO be re-
sisted, and when he was out Of the room she
slyly distracted the letter from his pocket,
as he had meant that she should do.
Her curiosity was satisfied. 1t wasthe bill
for her latest gown, with comments on ex:
travagance written across it. She wanted
to answer them, but she could not without
betraying what she had done. She was angry,
but she dared not show it. When he re-
turned she had TO sit there and smile as
pleasantly as she had before he left the room.
Such a mean man.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
HERE AND THERE.

What good does it do for farmers
| to read or hear of new and better
| methods of farming if they do not
adopt them?
You can not afford to neglect
| your fowls at this season of the year.
| There is no time when they need more
| careful attention.
The following is suggested as the
| only possible remedy fGI the destruc-
| ton of the boil weevil in Texas" Plant
| cotton no more until tie pest disap-
| pears.
How about using 4 little paint our
ing this hot weather on buggy or farm
machinery? A brush and 4 quart of
| carriage paint work a world of i'm
| provement and cost but little.
Warm bran mashes and warm wa
ter to drink the first "a hours after
calving will often save a cow from
| trouble and start her safely on he1
| period of Observation-Disclosures Home
Journal.
Mother earth makes the best floor
for a coop for young chicks, provided
it is ditched around to prevent an in
flux of water, or what is better, have
the coop under a shed roof. Chicks
want a dry bed to sleep in.
Rape is valuable as a pasture
| plant, but not for making hay, or cur
ing by any process. Its chief value is
as pasture for hogs, sheep and poultry,
but some grain should be fed to ami
mails pastured on rape to balance the
ration.
On a farm it cost less to produce
a pound-or 100, or 900 pounds of
poultry flesh than the same amount of
beef or pork, and the former sells for
more and is much better eating than
the latter. Therefore the farmers ia
BILE should have chicken on it ofteher
than it does.
One of the objects of tillage is to
kill weeds and grass that are attempt
ing to rob the crop. Too many farm
ers imagine that this is the only OBJ
ject in cultivating crops. and act upon
this theory. Tillage should go on Just
the same whether there are weeds in
the crop or not.
The remedy for o~verstocked mar
kets and low prices for fruits is to Of
fer for sale only choice fruit. You
can't overstock a big market with
choice varieties carefully selected and
neatly packed. Then i the price de-
clines, Gull and pack st;i. more care
fully and the prices will go up again.
On small farms the growing OF
high priced products by intensive
methods, which means getting as much
as possible from every acre; and on
larger farms live stock and forage
crops should be the object of the labor.
Either of these systems can be made
profitable anywhere in the southwest.
Fat hogs in midsummer should not
be found on any farm. If they are fat
sell them to the packer. A fat hog
easily becomes over-heated, and often
dies from the effects, and if you try to
cool him OF by pouring cold water IN
his back he is doomed, for it will often
kill in ten minutes.
The government experiment Of
growing silk worms on bois d'ars fol;-
age has proved a failure. As the white
mulberry will grow luxuriantIy anv-
where, and is the natural food of sill,
worms it is difficult to see what would
be gained by changing their feed to
bcis dare, which is rarely eaten BY any
living creature.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
A Little on.

A local artist of note tells an amusing
story of his visit to an insane asylum in
this state. Spending as much time as he
could visiting an inmate, he started down
the stairs on his way to catch the train
back TO the city.
At the foot of the stairs stood a large
clock. Taking out his own watch to com
pare the time, he found there was a diff
ference of several minutes. Turning to the
doorkeeper. a young Irishman, he in
CURED If the clock was right.
Right" said the doorkeeper. DO You
think it would be here if it was right:"-
Philadelphia Ledger.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
There Are Crops and Crops.

Stranger-So you live down in Anne
Arundel county, Ell?
Native-Yes, sir.
Stranger-Great place for small
fruit crops don there, isn't it?
Native-Yes, sir.
Stranger suppose the drouth has
i~nterfered quite largely with your
crops. hasn't it?
Native-Not with mine.
Stranger-Noi Had plenty of wa
ter, have you?
Native-Crop's been under water all
season.
Stranger-What, Then it must be
ruined.
Native-No; doin' fine.
Stranger-Well, what sort of a crop
have you got?
Native-Seven acres of oysters
Baltimore American.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
The Bible and the Empire state
Express.

A Bible student has recently been tigur-
ing on how long it would have taken the
people to make the journey from Dan to
Beersheba If they could have had the
benefit in the olden times of the Empire
State Express. He figured that the train
would have made this journey in less than
three hours, although from a reading of the
account in the Bible one would thinkit was a
long journey, and it was for those days with
their limited Neans of transportation
Ezekiel, the Chaldean prophet, had in his
minds eye something like the Empire State
Express when he uttered the words recorded
this up and see if you do not agree with
the idea.-From the Troy Daily Times.
The New York Central is every day add
ing to the sum of human knowledge by ats
marvellous passenger train service.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
Good and sumcIent.

He-And so you refuse me?
She-l must.
1T is because | am poor. I~presume"
mo, that is not the reason
Because my family is LEES aristoeratic
than yours, perhaps!
No"
Il see. You want to marry a title"
mo, / have no such ambition"
Hum! Very strange! Then why is it
you refuse me?"
Its because l can't bear the sight of
you."-Stray Stories.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
Unavoidable Delay.

The irate heirs called at the general office
OF the life insurance company.
I'VE want to know" they said, why you
are so long in paying the $4,000 called for in
the policy our deceased relative carried in
this company. He died three months ago,
and we were promised We should have it in
less than so days
What was his name!' asked the presi-
dent.
Benjamin Franklin Louderschlagel."
"Ab, that is the reason, gentlemen" af-
fably explained the president of the concern.
"If it had been a short, easy name like David
Jones or Thomas johnson the matter would
have been settled and you would bave got
your money long ago.'-Chicago Tribune.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

Suitor-I want to marry your daugh-
ter, sir.
Father-Well, what are you coming tc
me for?
Il wished to ask your consent, sir"
Have you got the girls?"
ooh. no, sir; | thought l would get
yours before saying anything to her"
"Oh, did you? That shows where you
are short. The chap who got her asked
ner first. Then he came to me, and
hadn't a word to say against 1t. Seer
Comfort.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
Passed EN- Up.

ChoIly-I say. Fweddy. let's go and
consult a spwirit medium.
Fweddy-What fob, old chappie?
Cholly-Why to-aw-talk Will
ouah ancestahs. doncher know.
Fweddy-Couldn't think Of 1t, chap
py. My aneestahs were deucedly com
mon twade people, d'know, and WEAKLY
| don't care to ~wecognize them
Chicago News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

Gated. No other systemic catarrh rem
edy has as yet been devised. Insist
upon having Peruna. There are no
medicines that can be substituted.
If you do notderive prompt and salts
factory results from the use OF Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving q
full statement of your ease and he Will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O..
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
sulphur in CeIlulo.e,

Adding fine sulphur to the dissolved
material, then heating, preferably with
pressure, is found by Isidor Kitsee to
more than double the resistance of eel
lulose as an insulator for electric wires.
Flexibility varies with the percentage of
sulphur. and resistance to acids and
moisture is increased.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
The Better Policy.

Farmers are entitled / a reasonable
profit on the results of their labor; but
many OF them. as DON as they learn
that the price of a certain product is
unusually low make haste to get rid of
all they have of the Improbable stuff.
A better policy would be to convert
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
s1.oo Big 5oo-Pound Steel Range Offer

If you can use the best big 500-pound steel
range made in the world, and are willing to
have it placed in your own home on three
months free trial, just cut this notice out
and send to Sears, Roebuck & Co, Chicago,
and you will receive flee by return mail .
big picture of the steel range and many
also receive the most wonderful $l.00 steel
range offer, an offer that places the best
steel range or heating stove in the home OF
any family, an offer that no family in the
land, nomatter what their circumstance may
be, or how small their income, need be with
out the best cooking or heating stove made,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
S

Nervous Lady Passenger Ito deck
handl-Have you ever e en any worse
weather thar this, Mister Sailor?
Deck Mandrake a word from an
old salt. mum. The weather's never
very bad while there's any females
on deck Amazing inquiries about
it-London Tit-Bits.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

Finally, / saw Doan's Kidney Pills adj
vertised and got a box. After a few
doses / told my husband that l was
feeling much better and that the pills
were doing me good. When | finished
that box / felt like a different woman.
/ didn't stop at that, though. l con-
tinued the treatment until / had taken
Eve boxes. There was no recurrence
until a week ago, when l began to feel
miserable again. / bought another
| box and three days treatment restored
me to health. Doan's Kidney Pills act
very effectively, very promptly, relieve
the aching pains and all other annoy
ing difficulties. / have recommended
them to many people and will do SO
when opportunities present them
selves"
A Free Trial of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Brunei
will be mailed to any part of the United
States on application. Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all druggists, price so cents per box
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

Our esteemed contemporary, the Ashtabu-
la (O.) Record Herald, gives prominence on
its editorial page to this important item:
Miss Carrie George has had her limb am
putated for the third time. She is in the hos
pital and is getting along nicely" Growing
country. Ohio.-Rochester Post-Express.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
Marriage. in ENGLAND.

OF every 1000 marriages in England
672 take place in Anglican churches.
Us in nonconformist churches, 154
in registrars Offices, 40 in Catholic
churches and 6 in synagogues.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
In High SOCIETY.

Mrs. Pusher-I met Mr.. Bigish yesterday.
Mrs. Bigpile-Which one!
The one who divorced your husband d.
vorced sister"
20, yes, | know who you mean.'|Chelsea
Gazette.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

He says he's in business for himself now,
manufacturing automobiles" Yes And
he claims not one of his machines has ever
been known to break down on the road"
That's right; he hasn't sold any yet
Philadelphia Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
pope Leo. oldest Conversion.

One day, when papal nuncio in
Brussels, Leo was literally held up by
a workingman in the street who in
sisted that he must listen to what he
had to say about the Catholics. Very
WE'LL" replied his eminence, Il listen.
And when you get through, take these
100 francs, buy yourself a new suit of
clothes and come to my Office. There
YOU will listen to me even as | now
listen to you" The workman kept the
appointment and left the nuncio's Of
flee a true son of the church. AS a
young man and priest, and even as
bishop, Leo was very fond of hunting.
After becoming pope he hunted with
the net only, and always generously
released the birds he caught in the
Vatican gardens.-N. Y. World.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

The man who marries for money GER
tainly earns it.-Chicago journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

A word to the wise is sufficient, buy why
do agents call us smart men and then try
to sell US a whole dictionary:-Chicago Trib-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
Up-to-Date Ancestors.

Mrs. Upperten-I suppose you take great
pride in your ancestry!
Mrs. Newriche-Oh, yes; the genealogist
assured us that they were the very latest
thing in Observation-Disclosures Tit Bits.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

One consolation about a mean man is, that
assuredly he has no friends.-Washington
Ia.) Democrat
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken Of
Is a cough cure.-J. w. O'Brien, 800 Third
Ave, N, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.