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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01
FARMERAND PLANTER
IMPROVEMENT OF SWINE.
Feeders Need to Be Educated In the
Handling of the Improved
Breeds of Swine.

In mixing with farmers at fairs this
quently heard: Il want to improve
my hogs" i think / will cross my
hogs with swine breeds of larger and
coarser bone" Our hogs have been
improved until there is no vitality
left in Them" and so on; 1t is always
the hog that is at fault and never the
feeder.
While there may be some reason for
the remarks quoted, yet it should not
be forgotten that the breeding and
feeding of the last half century have
developed a hog with a better form
for the block, greater digestive ca
pacity and quicker maturing powers.
The intestine of the wild hog is nine
times the length of his body, that of
the razor back is IS times, while in
the improved breeds the relation of
the two is about 81 to /. Virtually
equivalent to adding that many more
fues to the boiler, always a fuel saw
er.
1t is natural that the new hog re-
quires more skillful feeding and care
than the old one, as the new boiler
requires more skillful firing than the
old one, but we submit that there is
nothing in the situation to warrant
the going back to the old type of hog
than to the old type of boiler. 1t is
much more sensible, and will prove
vastly more profitable in the end to
educate feeders in the handling of
the new type than to teach that the
best method is to go back even a
step toward the old type.
There is nothing in the situation to
justify the demand for a reversion of
a type of hog that for than half
a century we have been industriously
striving to get away from. When
the new type is fed and handled as it
should be, and as it can be very east
ly, 1t is as prolific as was its progeni-
tor, has bone enough to carry its in
creased weight, and vitality enough
to stand the strain of quicker matur-
ing. Retrogression of the hog should
not be the demand; but progression
of the feeder! And to this end all in
structors should work.-Farm, Stock
and Home.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01
QUEEN OF FARM LANDS.
Grains, Then Oats Surely Should
be Queen.

If ORR is king of all farm products,
oats surely is queen. Yet how little
do we hear about this splendid crop.
Very rarely do we hear oats spoken
of in connection with the great spec
ulations "on change" Seldom. does
anyone refer to this grain in the en-
thusiastic terms with which he refers
to wheat or corn; and still oats forms
the staple of food on the farms of this
country more certainly than does any
be the king of crops itself. The latest
figures | have at command places the
crop at 500, 10000 bushels in the Unit
ed States for the year 1900. Much of
this goes for the sustenance of horses
and hens, but more and more every
year this grand grain is coming into
use as an article of diet for human
beings. 1t is now ground, and put up
most tastefully for the market, and is
used by thousands who a few years
ago knew nothing about its virtues
and this, too, not by invalids. but by
all who do not wish to become such.
This being true. why should we not
make the growing of oats more a spe-
cialty? 1t is now done very loosely.
The grain is worthy of the same care
in harvesting that is bestowed upon
corn or wheat, and yet how rarely
does it receive that attention. After
il has been ont and threshold II &c
often thrown into the meanest of
bins. where rats and mice and still
o filthy animals may u over it.
Nothing but oats" and yet it is one
of the finest grains hat can be raised
on our farms. 1 make a plea for oats.
Shall we not give it the very best care
we can from pringtime until harvest?
e. L. Vincent, in Farm and Fire
side.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01
MARKETING COTTON.
n Surplus Crop He'll Get a
Fair Price for 1t.

The trusts and spectators have
succeeded in holding down the price
of cotton. regardless of the short
crop and the government reports. It's
not the first time the cotton growers
have been beaten out of their hard
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01
ready for the Blow.

Mother-Johnny, your pop amt well
so you better run for the doctor.
Johnny-Yes'm.
San, Johnny, stop on your way al
the florists an ask him how nue. hel
charge fur a pillar y white flowers
with My Husband in red on it
Philadelphia Record.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01
oueetIoned Toe Closely.

Tess-You and Miss Sere don't seem Ia
be good friends. What's the matter?
Jess-Why, she remarked that she wat
"a years old, and
"And you doubted it,"
Not at all. | merely said: of course,
but when? "--Philadelphia Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01

so! she's so sweet, SO angelic and fair,
sighed Lovett Fursyte. But | know !
shall never succeed in winning her love"
'.Nopsensel" exclaimed May Sharpe. Lots
of other men have succeeded. Why
shouldn't you?"-Philadelphia Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01

William-Didn't that burglars chloro-
form make you i'll?
Richard-Well, / didn't like it; but it
cured my wife's neuralgia.-Detroit Free
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01

If you really think you are a guardian
of the future, don't be unnecessarily of.
fensive in the exercise of your high calling.
indianapolis News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01

Waitress lat quicklunch stand)-"Do you
want to eat this sandwich here or take it
with you?" Gentleman-"Both."- Harvard
I.ampoon.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-J.
f. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01
~ nRICKLY ASH BITTERV w
81 CURES CONSTIPATION. V@
An Irish Refrigerator.

An Irish woman was looking at refrigera-
tors in a housefurnishing store some weeks
ago. After examining into the merits and
qualities of a number of them, she pur-
chased the one that the salesman assured
her would keep food the best. Some days
afterward the woman called and requested
them to take that refrigerator back, as it
would not keep anything better than the
kitchen safe Of the cellar. The salesman
mildly suggested that possibly she had not
put enough ice in it to keep the things cold.
''Enough ice in it? Why, you are crazy,
mon. l don't put any ice in it. Anything
will keep cold if you put ice in it: | bought
the refrigerator so that wouldn't need the
ce."-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01

If you are coughing, take DR.. August Koe
nig's Hamburg Breast Tea.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-01
..Lt,x nm Ill Wind,

Stops the Cough
and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
.Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
First Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Here is the first proclamation copied from THE
New England Weekly Ourna October 81 l12S: by His Eceency
William Burnett ESQ., Captain General and Governor chief
His Majesty Province of Massachusetts Bay New England.
Proclamation
undeserved blessings which hath Almighty God His
confer
the Lord King
His
the of valuable pvegescv eg
ios granting health and giving such
plentiful making merchandise fishery
defending mercless fold
avors-Al Of which
obedience l5ouniml Benetactor
have therefore, thought fit with the advice of His Maeses
the the
Thursday day of November
public
Earnestly exhoing both ministers and their
assemblies
author blessings, their
His well Him.
nd all serve labor is forbidden the said
at council chamber Boston, fifteenth day o.
In sovereign Lord George the
grace Britain France and Ireland King
fender o the Earth. w. BURNETT
Exce!ency with advice
His Wlland O. Ning.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
Citizens Caucus.

Friday evening, pursuant 10 IA call,
quite number of citizens assembled
at the court house for the purpose of
nominating Il city ticket. G. II. Flum-
mcrfelt was made chairman and j. j.
Putnam secretary. After some DELHI
GRAFTON the following ticket was noni-
mated:
MayOr-M. Z. Flynn.
Treasurer-C II. Stewart.
Clerk-George SaNleS.
Attorney-Austin Mires.
Health ot1icpr-Dr. Mahan.
Councilmen lst Ward Andrew Olsen
and George W. Hornbeck.
Councilman I'd ward-R. Lee Purdin.
Councilman at large-A. NJ. Wright.
The real object of the caucus was to
put out "a ticket to be headed by DR..
Gray. but the caucus was completely
captured by the friends of NJ. +. Flynn,
and the organization took complete
control of the same and the result is
now known to all We presume the
ticket is satisfactory and that no other
in this campaign is, and the above
ticket stands pledged in the matter,
THAT the ordinance prohibiting sa-
looms on Pearl street, from Third to
Fifth street, shall be supported and
maintained.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19

- Is. Morgan, prominent local poll
ltlclan OF H)quiam, is dead.
South Bend citizens have arranged
for lecture course this winter.
cyrus Victor was found guilty of
murder in Davenport last week.
Inc snow storm last week was pref
ty general throughout the state.
James Candy, for 80 years resident
OF lhurston county, died Wednesday.
About $4,000 acres of timber land
was sold at Fairhaven this week.
Andrew Carnegie has been asked for
donation toward a library in Yakima.
Fort Townsend and Fort Casey are
now connected by wireless telegraph.
The city prison of Seattle is chock
full, 30 prisoners were thrown in last
week.
Charles Long of Colfax, had his hand
frightfully mangled in chop mill last
Monday.
Work has commenced on new five
stall round house for the Northern Pa
citic at Vancouver.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
School Report.

Report of Reecer Creek school, for
first two months, ending November 9th,
1909. Number enrolled, 3S: per cent
of attendance, lst month, 96, I'd month,
80.
The children are all over the chick
eHpoX and are back in school doing
good work again
Those not absent or tardv the first
month: Hattie and Lille Finn. Grace
ard Ella Cahoon, Pearl and Mabel Las
well. Fred and Arthur Thomas, Carl
and Lloyd Robbins and Earl and Nell
lie Mcdonald: second month, Amy and
Josie Ebert. Hattie Finn, Minnie Tay-
Tor, Mary Hanson and Roy Bowers.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
OF Interest TO EVERYONE
Gathered from all Parts of the
State in Which You Are
Interested

Everett had a $500 fire Friday.
Sprague had $1,000 fire Friday.
IlwacO is to have another cannery.
Tacoma plumbers are out on strike
Spokane has been made support of
entry.
Sunnyside has put up a citizens
ticket.
Senator Ruth of Olympia is still Sc
riously i'll.
Clark county has 100 carloads of
dried prunes.
Senator Ed S. Hamilton of Tacoma,
died last week.
Spokane is short $4,000 in meeting
current expense bills.
The prohibitionists of Everett have
nominated city ticket.
Spokane is having the telephone
wires put under ground.
Ritzville business men have organ
lied chamber of commerce.
L. w. Farmers died at his home in
Puyallup Thursday afternoon.
w. D. Mack, well known logging
man of Olympia died Monday.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19

p G o p III II & | II e
darkness w it h
pllantons, start
ing at the Creak-
ing of the bed or
the rustic of the
bedclotlles.
Such symptoms
i'll general port
to disease of tie
delicate woinan.y
rgans, and a
constant drain of
the vital al d
nervous forces.
T his condition
cannot be over
cor e by sleeping
pow d ers. Tie
diseased condi-
tion m u st be
cured before the
consequences of
disease are re-
moved.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19

The present term of superior court at
Vancouver has fourteen divorce cases
up for consideration.
Perry Bayne died in Ballard Friday
morning while sitting in chair wait
inc for his breakfast.
There we're "a applicants for the
state bar association at Olympia last
Thursday and Friday.
f. Westerberg of Port Townsend,
had his right arm crushed in the cog
wheels of mill Monday.
A steel wire and nail plant is to be
established near Seattle in the near
future by local capitalists.
Rev. H. Nj. Bartlett, pastor or the
Episcopal church at North Aaklma'
has RESIGNED on account of i'll health.
While tunnelipg on Pine street. be-
tween First and Second avenues. Seat
tle. Monday, the wOrkmen found "a log
45 feet below the street level.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
$500 coward for Women
EsZSsO Cannot be Ge5SsgDcs.

Proprietors and makers of DR.. Pierce's
Favorte Prescription now feel fully wat
rantcd in offering to pay $500 i'll leg Il
money of the United States for any case #
Leucorrhea, Female Weakness ProlapsuS,
or Falling of Womb, which they cannot
cure All they ask is a fair and reasonable
trial of their means of cure.
"Mv wife was sick for over eight years, writes
Albert II. Fulte Esq, of Altamont. Grundv Co.,
Tenn. "She ma uterine disease and was treat' d
by two physicians and got no relief AZ last
read about DR.. Pierce's medicines and de-
cided to try his Favorite Prescription -e'.t
to the drug store and got one bottle and he lr,t
dose gave and sleep. She had not slept
for three nights. Being sure that it would Gu
her sent for five more bottles and when She
had taken the siXth bottle she was sound and
we'll"
DR.. Pierces Pleasant Pellets should be
used with "I'lvorite Prescription" wiien-
ever a laxative is required.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19

Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
the womanly diseases which cause ncrv-
BUSINESS and sleeplessness. 1t is the best
OF tones and invigorants nourishing the
nerves, encouraging the appetite and in
ducing refreshing sleep.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19

Martin Holm has moved INTO his new
residence.
Superior court convenes Dec. l4th
with "a jury.
James GllmOur returned to his home
in Keller this week.
The freeze-up Saturday night was
generally welcomed.
Arthur HObson is considerably indis
posed again this week.
Mrs. Lee Hazel of North Yakima, is
visiting in the city this week.
Mrs. Martin Frederick will please
accept our thanks for jug Of apple cider
The quarterly apportionmen of state
school funds has been made and Kitti
tas county gets S2,543.
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Smithson re-
turned from six weeks visit in Cali
fOrnia last Friday night.
Mrs. KernOdle is on the Sound this
week looking after setting Out an or
chard on her ranch over there.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
teS2eeCEeSSneSS

Is al,, to insanity. Many woman re-
Allies this as size lies awake hour by hour,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
TOLD IN VERY BRIEF FORM
Just What You Want to Know
About Given Correctly
and ConciseIy.

Cold.
Froze up.
Still freezing.
Turn on the heat.
Twenty below freezing.
a whole caucus swiped.
1t was politics, "dontcher" know.
, 1903-01-16

can Review. Not only do they form at
least one-third of the tourists visiting
Egypt and number some Of the leadinS
Egptologists, but the beneficent effect
OF their missions and schools is every
where apparent throughout Egypt. The
magnitude of their Christian opera
tions may be gathered from the fact
that the Egyptian mission of the Amer
lean Presbyterians has 100 stations,
twenty churches and ninety-seven
schools. Ask a little Egyptian child
where 1t has learned its English, and Il
will very probably answer, "At the
American mission" The mission doc
tors, too, are of much service. An Eng
lish m might have die6 on board
our mail steamer had not a telegram
been sent to an American mission ply
stefan, who came on board, attended
her and removed her to the hospital at
Assiut. Egypt has, and will always
have, extraordinary attractions for the
Anglo-Saxon race, for it Is a race con-
versant with and believing In its Bible,
In which Egypt holds SO prominent a
place. And let me add that, after a visit
to Egypt, the ancient Jewish history,
with which we have been familiar from
childhood, acquires an interest and real
ity 1t never previously possessed.
, 1903-01-16
..Snob."

During a fierce battle before Sebas-
topol, in the Cr1mes: gar, a little Rus
sian terrier, all oblivious of shot and
shell, came trotting across the open
space between the two opposing ar
mics. and, quite %unscathed, reached the
quarters of the Royal Engineers. Why
he should have thus transferred his al
legiance Is not known, but from that
time he took up his abode with the
English soldiers. who dubbed him
"Snob"-not a pretty name, by the
way. The engineers, of course, have
to do with the throwing up Of breast
works, digging trenches, etc., and while
at work Snob vas always there to
bark encouragement. Although daily
under fire. he never showed fear. nor
was he ever hit, AS an important ally
of Great Britain, Snob, on his arrival
In England. was presented with the
English and Turkish medals, which
adorned his collar. Years after, when
an old and decrepit veteran. he was
robbed of these precious trophies, but
the engineers raised such a hue and
cry about it that the thief returned
them. When Snob died, some thirty
years ago, he was mounted and given
a place in the model room of the School
of Military Engineering, In England
where. he can be seen to-day.
, 1903-01-16

M@pENTE

Henry Fielding was once asked by
Lord Denbigh why he wrote his name
"Fielding" instead of Fielding" as
his lordship's family used. Il can not
tell, my lord" replied the novelist, Tex
cept it be that my branch of the fam
lily were the first that knew how to
spell"
Sir Robert Peel was once going
through a picture collection with a
friend where there was a portrait of a
prominent Englishman who was IA
nous for saying sharp things. How
wonderfully likev' said the friend;
you ear see the culver on his lips"
Yes" replied Sir Robert, land the ar
rows coming out of it,"
The president of a manufacturing
firm In Chicago has two letters from a
man In Michigan. The first set forth
that tSc writer raj a rpuna piece
of land that had rite smart pin TIM
bur on it, that his neighbors, with the
exception of sum french Canucks at
the mort end of the lak," had also rite
smart of timber, and would hail the
advent of a "ssormil' with delight.
"How mulch would a smol sormil cost?
N. B. If a Frenchman name Ike Lamor1
to rites you to ask about this hese no
gud and a ded beat OF the first water.
The firm wrote back to inform their
correspondent hat a sawmill such as
he seemed to want would cost about
three hundred dollars. A catalogue was
inclosed, which would give him an idea
of the plant, and the firm hoped to be
favored with his order. The firm had
no idea that it's letter would give seri-
Gus offense. There was no doubt, how
ever, that the Michigan man was quite
annoyed. He wrote: "You must take
me for a - fool. If i had three hun
dred dollars what in - wud | want a
sormil for?'
Many years ago, when President
Kruger was in England, he was APP
preached concerning some concession.
railway or otherwise, by a business
man in London. The negotiations last
ed for some time. One evening the
Londoner, who was staying at the
same uOIel, uhNluS spent many uOuTS
with Mr.. Kruger and his companion.
went to bed much exhausted, and feel
ing he had not got quite all he wanted.
Next morning he arose at nine o'clock,
and went along the corridor to Mr..
Kruger's bedroom. To his aston.sh-
ment it was empty, and all the luggage
was gone. "Oh. sir" said the cham
bermaid, "Mr. Kruger and his friend
left at six this morning" Then, with
a giggle of amused "Reminiscences, the
girl added: '"They was a queer couple,
sir, and no mistake. When e passed
your door, sir, Mr.. Kruger, e started
dancin' right outside your door, sir, q
and his friend. They didn't know as
any one saw them, sir, but Bessie and
l see them, unbeknown, from the top OF
the stairs. Then they went downstairs
sir, fairly splittin' their sides with
laughin', though they didn't say g
word,
, 1903-01-16
A Dream that Game TINE.

Talking about Dreams" said Mrs.
Smith, as we sat around the fire, says
the San Francisco Chronicle, II once
had a very strange experience.
dreamed that l was just stepping out
of my house for a walk, when a funeral
passed by. A man with a cap marked
nine and a red scar running across his
forehead jumped from the hearse, and,
approaching me, asked: Are you
readyY No. l replied, and with that
l awoke.
"A few months later l was stopping
In Chicago. l was in the top floor Of
one Of the big houses and just about
to step into the elevator, when l re-
membered another. thing 1 wanted to
buy. l stopped and looked through my
notebook. Down. exclaimed the, eTe-
vator boy, and then asked me: Are
you readyT No. 1 answered aui the
door closed.
"The next instant a great cras WAS
heard, and the occupants of tn ele-
vator were dashed to gan I'M mely
death.
THE cap Of the boy bore the kpm-
Der nine and he had a red scar run.
ming across his brow"
, 1903-01-16
south Africa. Winter.

The South African winter begins to-
ward the end Of April, and lasts until
September. 1t is a very common fall
acy to suppose hat 1t Is always warm,
If not hot, under the southern cross; it
can be cold enough to freeze the tail
or a brass monkey" as the miners
say. Here n there, but very rarely,
there will be snow. 1t may freeze ON
most nights, particularly on the up
lands, and at a 5000 foot or greater ele-
walton above the sea During the day
it is cold but clear, bright, dry and
e~ternally sunny, with a cloudless blue
sky and an exhilaration of atmosphere
anequaled in any other part of the
world.-Montreal Weekly Star.
, 1903-01-16

The soil Of the greater portion or the
grain region of Russia and Siberia Is
well Known In that country as the
"Chernozem" or "black earth" 1t is a
broad belt Of prairie, 600 to 700 miles
in average width, beginning in Hungary
and extending northeastward to the
Ural mountains, and then eastward into
Siberia to unknown boundaries. On the
north and the west are the gray forest
lands" and on the south and west are
salt and alkaline districts n sandy
wastes, and finally the Caucasus n
he Ural mountains. BY both chemical
and mechanical analysis the soil is
shown to be remarkably similar to that
of our own prairies, also commonly
known by the similar term of "black
loam." The depth is, on an average,
probably little greater than that of
our prairie soil. From a chemical
standpoint the soils of the two regions
are similarly characterized % by an ex-
c~eptionally large amount of thoroughly
humihed organic matter; (2) by the
presence Of an unusual proportion of
phosphoric acid; and 60 by a great
amount. comparatively, of lime, potash,
and other alkalies. These soils are,
therefore, alkaline. while many others,
especially Of forest regions, are acid. 1t
is well known that the substances thus
more abundant In these soils than in
others are just those needed by the
wheat plant.-Bradstreet's.
, 1903-01-16
Famous Newport Fete..

!! One Of the memories of Newport's
early gayeties goes back to the night
when. absolutely blazing with jewels,
Madame LIE Vert, a Southern belle, ap-
peared at the Ocean House as Nour
mahal, the Light of the Harem, wear
ing q bodice of silver lama, over which
fell q network of pearls; around her
waist a girdle of topazes, amethysts,
emeralds and diamonds; in her dark
hair a rare diamond crescent; her satin
dress embroidered with pearls; her
Turkish trousers fastened by silver an
klets; her feet encased in gold and
crimson slippers; her necklace and
bracelets rich with flashing gems.
Later a Brazilian dame appeared at a
ball with a headdress made up of
gauze baubles each containing a FREELY,
but she was soon left In the shade by a
New York woman who wore on her
head a wreath of flowers from out of
which rose a Tyre formed of tiny gas
jets fed from a small reservoir conceal
ed beneath her dress.-Ladies' Home
Journal.