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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
UNWELCoME COMPANY.
wfdower Didn't Want the Pleasure
of His Funeral Ride Spoiled
by Sister-in-Law.

Ex-senator BILLY" Mason, according
to a Chicago paper, tells this one:
81 know a man on the North side who
lost his wife some time ago. The de-
parted had not enjoyed a reputation for
one of the sweetest tempers in the world.
And, l must add, the present widower is
not himself possessed of the gentlest dis
position one could imagine. So it is not
necessary to state that the couple had
not lived upon terms of great amity n
love. 1t further appears that the man
in question has always particularly dis
liked the sister of his wife.
ITO his amazement, therefore, when
arrangements were made by the under
taker for the disposal of places in the
carriages at the funeral the widower
found that he had drawn his sister-in-
law, whom he especially detested.
HE demonstrated with some one or
other with ill-concealed displeasure on
this point. and asked if she could not be
placed in some other carriage. "Isimply
cannot ride to the cemetery in a carriage
with hat woman!' he said.
why you must do so, for the ap-
pearance of the thing, if nothing else,'
was the reply. There being no other i'm
mediate relatives, you and she must ride
together
1.-The bereaved man was silent for a
moment, as if lost in reflection. Then he
said, with a sigh of resignation: oh,
If l must, | must. But let me tell you
that having that woman with me will
spoil all the pleasure of the rider"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22

captain stumbled to his death. Not
long ago a large new hotel, and OF
the best-made in New York, caught
fire in the basement. The smoke filled
the house, causing a panic in the upper
stories, and illustrating again that i'll
the best freproof material there is not
absolute safety; for the contents-the
furniture, getaways burn.
"And the higher the building the
greater the danger to its tenants.
There is as much peril in panics as
there is in the smoke and flames. When
people know that a building is On fire,
what are they going to do? Will they
sit quietly, as a rule, and let the fire
burn itself out? Not by any means.
What they want to do most is to get
out.
'In addition to the danger from fire
and panic" continued Chief Purroy,
there is the question of wind resist
ance of tall buildings. While a build
ing in which a fire has started may
not burn, it will be weakened by the
heat and it's power of resistance de-
creased"
These facts make the question of the
sky-scraper one of moment. Curiously
enough. while this agitation has been
started a new and enormous structure,
said by it's builders TO be the tallest
office building in the world. has just
been put under roof by the George A,
Fuller company, which built the ia
NOUS .Flatiron" and many other tow
ering business structures. This new
edifice is the Wall exchange, in the
center of the financial district. 1t
faces on Exchange place, a street that
is scarcely more than a creyice in a
wall of mighty sky-scrapers. Although
IT is built on low ground and stands
shoulder to shoulder with other giant
bindings. this tower-like structure ex-
tends several stories above its neigh
bors. Its summit can be seen rising
above them from the bay and from
points up town. The Wall exchange
is s44 feet high, including the orna-
mentation. From the roof of it to the
ground the distance is 1927 feet. This
is higher than the building proper Of
tbe Park Row structure.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
OUR GREATEST CORN RIVAL.
rgentin Seems Destined to Be-
come Our Rival In
the Raising of Corn.

Corn is king of American crops. Its
yearly value is much greater than that
of any other. 1t seems also o Sc
cure against rivalry than any other.
Canada, Russia and other lands
compete with us in wheat. Com
petitors in cotton are growing in many
places at an ominous rate. But the
United States has seemed to have pref
ty nearly a monopoly of corn grow
ing. In this industry, however, a rival
is also arising which may before long
be developed into great proportions.
That rival is Argentina, a country
which for more reasons than one might
well be regarded as the United States
of South America. it is only about
two-ffths as large rs the United States,
and has only one-fifteenth It's popu-
lation. But its soil is wondrously fer
tile and its climate genial, and 1t Is
growing in population and in the arts
of civilization at a gratifying pace. Its
production of cattle and sheep, OF
hides and wool, of linseed and various
other things is ~well-known to be great.
1t is to be remarked that it is also
becoming a great producer of corn, for
which crop its soil and climate seems
to be particularly well suited. The last
years crop of corn is reported to have
covered 1900, 900 acres, and to have
measured 100, 600, 900 bushels. That is,
of course, very much less than cur a.
000, 900 acres and 2,52S,000, 900 Bushels.
Yet approximately to the population
of the country, it is a creditable show
ing. Moreover, it is to be observed
that the Argentines get more than
thirty bushels from N acre, ano get
a dollar of their currency, or "A cents
gold, a bushel for it, making a yield
of $500 an acre, while we, with our
boosted higher civilization, are con-
tent with 81 bushels to the acre, which,
at 40 cents a bushel, laeans a yield of
only s10.S0 an acre.
There is no occasion to get scared
at the specter Of Argentine competi-
ton in the corn market. Yet it is evil
lent that Argentina is destined before
long to be so considerable a producer
of that crop as to cut a figure in the
markets of the world, and probably to
rank as a rival of the United States
HAY Trade Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
r,ah.inr the aoIl weexil.

The cotton plant has numerous IN
sect enemies, but it is safe to say that
the boil weevil is, from its very Lab
it's, one of the most difficult with which
economic entomologists have had to
deal. In the first place, its similarity
to other insects of the same class is
such that it is hard to distinguish the
species in question from numerous 9TH
ers which have been found 20 be OF
little economic Importance. Secondly,
that all known methods of applying
destructive chemicals to the plant,
such as paris green, are of no use In
it's case, from the fact that the larvo
of the insect feeds inside the Doll,
which is practically :mpervious to all
insecticides if, in their application by
spray or otherwise, any regard TO the
life of the plant is 10 be considered
N. o. Picayune.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
HERE AND THERE.

In scientific forestry the young
trees are thinned out, the underbrush
removed, and every means possible
taken to give air and sunlight to the
growing tree.
If you value the wool product an
even condition must be kept up. Sheep
starved in the winter will have weak
spots in their vol next spring.
-Sugar-cane grows nicely in Mis-
souri, lowlands. Some negro farmers
show fine experiment patches this sea-
son. Some day the juicy cane-stalk
may be offered as a market delicacy.
Handle the sheep reasonably often.
No one can tell by looking at a sheep
whether it is poor or fat, 1t may look
plump and seem fat and yet be little
more than a skeleton.
With better schools, telephone
connection and free rural mail delivery
the tide flowing into the cities from
the country ought to be reversed. Moth
ing can compare with country life if it
can be lived in comfort
One of the best rations to keep the
lambs growing when pastures get short,
is a mixture of equal parts of bran and
ground oats. to which is added one
tenth oilmeal.
Many midland farmers have MI
grated to the gulf coast to grow rice.
Success has lot been, o will be, in
variable. 1t is evident the majority
= 49, rrovrarc -,ncf oomhina 9TH
er agricultural pursuits in order to
thrive.
I'm Ecuador, South America. the
days and nights are of uniformity, II
hours. The temperature, the year
round, is about so degrees. This tenn
perature suits the potato, and, as a
result. the finest sweet potatoes of the
world are grown there.
Mr.. Jim bailey. a prominent farm
er in south Georgia, had great success
raising hogs and lost none by chol-
era He accounted for this freedom
from cholera by saying that he always
fed his hogs on top of a pile of saw
dust. and thought the turpen.ine pre-
vented the disease.
-Macaroni wheat. of the variety
known as the Wild Goose and import
ed varieties, has this year produced a
very fine crop III Texas and the Da-
kotas. This is well. since the Imports
OF macaroni, velmicelli. ETC., during
the Il months ending with June. 1898.
we're valued at the respectable figure
Of 3l,l7l,s22.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
CHAIN OF SUGGESTION.
One Barber After the Other Had an
Idea to Offer the Pertfnacfous
customer

"a man up in my country had a melan-
FRYE. of Maine. This man determined to
get a shave every other day and to let
every barber cut his hair who suggested
it. AT the end of a week three different
BARRIERS had intimated that the hair need.
ed trimming and were told to go ahead
and trim As the hair was now beyond
the trimming stage, the fourth BARRIERS
advice, that clipping would be beneficial
was accepted. Now thought the man,
the next barbar will be satisfied that
when / say shave | mean shave and
nothing more. Yet when the fifth barber
mentioned singing he permitted his close
ly-cropped hair to be singed. The sixth
night was on a Saturday. He went to still
another barber, now satisfied that when
he said shave no barber would have the
temerity to hint at an attempt to eduee
the length Of his hair.
did you ever try DIR. Comeup's hair
restorer?' questioned the barber as he took
up a bottle.
THE Indians had a quicker way of get.
ting at a mans scalp han these BARRIERS
commented Senator Chandler.
eyes" said the Maine statesman, but
we are living under modern, not ancient
barbarism."
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
RAMS HORN BLASTS.

Christ is the first man who dared
face the future.
The religion that is laid on the shelf
soon gets mouldy.
Spiritual visions are not given 70
slothful dreamers.
Complaisance with sin is not COM
passion for the sinner.
Better the water without the well
than the well without the water.
Submission is the secret of spirit
ual strength.
There are no necessary evils in a
righteous world.
A life line is better than a speak
ing trumpet any day.
You cannot give me your D until
you take of your glove.
Heart searching is a good cure for
the habit of censuring.
There is no dissatisfaction in sal
walton.
The INDECENT know nothing of rest.
You cannot eliminate lust by legis-
lation.
Innocence is negative; perfection
positive.
Principles mark the steps of mans
progress.
Old seeds must be broken before
new life can begin.
The commonplace is often the place
of communion.
The SANDER we cause is the only
kind that clings to us.
There is no opportunity to r-ad the
proofs of life.
The devils crown always slips down
around our necks.
The man who thinks he is smart
will surely smart for his thinking.
The only sermon the devil really
fears is the living one on two legs.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22

tries, and with actual facts which have
long been established by agricultural
chemists. The fertility of the soil is
thus shown to be due to physical
causes which control the supply OF
water and plant food which it con-
tains, as the soil moisture in all cases
appears to be about the same in COM
position and concentration. The fertili-
ty is therefore controlled by a physical
cause, and a chemical examination OF
a soil can not be expected to indicate
the yield of a crop. 1t is believed that
a simple physical method will be de-
vised for determining the relative fer
tility of soils.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
W WILL BE GAY.
ceIor and Brightness VIII RuIe in
the Costumes of the Com
ing Season.

The world of fashion is getting way
from the plain tones and the somber
blacks and whites into the realms OF
color and brightness. reports the brook-
lyn Eagle. All embroideries are done
In the natural hues and the little dots
which we're once in black and white are
now in bright blues and gaudy reds. II
is not that woman has grown loud In
her tastes, for many of her gowns are
made of black material, but only thatshe
is exhibiting her naturally artistic taste
in her W gowning.
The day of the baggy blouse front is
long since past, for, no matter now 1uii
the bust may be, the waist must not sag
over the belt. On the contrary. the belt
is a very neat article of dress, n holds
the waist snug and firm. The fullness is
all above the belt line, and the erect
must be that of a full figure, rather than
a baggy, slouchy one.
A feature to be brought prominently
forward for winter is the yoke collar,
which is a collar so deep as to form a
yoke. Thisis cut out of heavy material, so
as to keep its stiffness and shape, and 1t
is made with points that fall over the
shoulders; not f1appy points, but small,
neat ones that fit the shoulders well.
There are very pretty yoke collars,
which are cut with deep pieces at
and back, and shoulder projections. n
front extends down in a long piece. which
comes to the belt, making a sort OF plas-
tron front.
1t is very smart to trim the yoke col
lar with a few large pearl buttons and to
stitch it around the edge, but there should
be no other trimming. Others are en-
broidered in white around the shoulders
and down the front, with deep crus to
match.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
FARMERAND PLANTER
RAISE MORE HOGS.
The American Farmer should Raise
More, Hogs Than He Is Do
ing at Present.

American farmers should raise more
hogs than they are raising at present
The great deficiency in swine in the
United States is not a condition oalcu-
lated to be for the good of the people.
With ncreasedpopulation there should
be a marked increase in the number oil
swine raised. In the past the hog ma
been one of the great sources OF cheap
meat. This cheap meat has been
found in the homes of the poor as well
as the rich. Moreover it has been a
staple article of diet on the farm.
Much as it has been maligned, it has
been a healthful and nutritious food.
Instead OF hogs increasing with the
population there has been a decrease.
The result has been high prices, to the
detriment of the consumer and indi-
rectly to the producer. The consumer
is feeling the deficiency now and the
producer will feel it later, when we
have a financial depression, for the
reason that the farmer is dependent on
the prosperity of the cities for his own
prosperity, as well as vice versa. What
ever affects one class of citizens will
affect other classes. The limited sup
ply Of hogs has lessened the demand for
labor in handling them. This is not
felt at this time, for the reason that
commerce in using all the labor 1t can
get. But in the time to come 1t will
make a great difference to all of us
whether there is a large or small vol
- - - tanIl4 Tra-anon tho
supply of hogs so per cent. and we in
crease the labor demands for handling
them. In a time of depression this VIII
mean employment for thousands who
would otherwise be idle.
Let no man think that there is as
much profit to a community in supply
ing a small quantity of products at a
high price as in supplying a large
quantity of products at a comparative
ly low price. A large volume of all
things means prosperity. Money is not
wealth, but only a means of exchang-
ing wealth. Famine mean poverty
and distress. no matter how high the
prices may be. An agricultural COM
munity becomes rich by reason of the
very large volume of products it can
turn out. Many a money panic has
been stayed by bounteous crops, and
many a money panic has been aggre-
waited by poor crops.
1t is a patriotic duty farmers W he
nation to keep up the meat supply. 1t
will be a pity if the time comes when
the farmer and his family can not af-
ford to eat of the meats they produce,
as is said even now to be the case in
some parts of the world. The hog is
capable of a great rate of increase.
Two litters a year make it possible to
turn famine into abundance within a
| single season. The brood sows should
be given more prominence on the farm
than at the present time. We can not
do too much to increase the swine sup
ply. Instead of 46, 0 900 hogs in the
country, as shown by the January re-
port of the department of agriculture,
we should now have owe 10000, 900 to
keep up with the ever increasing popu-
lation.-Midland Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22

The practice of keeping animals well
bedded not only induces the larger
gains and economies on the moun
of food consumed, but the greater at
tractiveness of yards and barns when
well supplied with bedding more tnan
offsets the cost Of growing, handling,
etc. 1t should be remembered that the
vegetable matter furnished in the term
of straw to animals during the winter
is of the utmost value when returned
to the land in the form of manure It
adds to the bulk of the manure, so
that each year a larger area is COW
cred than would be the cast where lit
tie or no bedding is used.-Mldland
Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
MILLINERY NOTIONS.
A Few of the Novelties That Are Now
in Favor with Fashions
DevOtoess

Chinchilla is a favorite fur for hats.
Shaded gray plumes and pale pink vel
vet roses trim a large chinchilla hat.
Bunches of crimson flowers adorn sa-
BILE and mink hats.
The leader in winter hat ornaments is
a long arrow or buckle of cut steel.
Loops of gold ribbon brighten a brown
velvet hat effectively.
Shaded plumes have never been so
beautiful or fashionable.
A novel hat trimming is composed of
diamond shaped pieces of moleskin.
Handsome bonnets have crowns of gold
and silver embroidery.
A bonnet of silver tissue and light and
dark gray fur has an Impian aigrette and
touch of light blue for g%arniture.
Full spreading bows of turquoise blue
velvet form the brim of a silver embroid-
cred bonnet.
The fancy for aigrettes shows no signs
of decreasing.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
a Custard.

Pare ripe peaches and rub through a
colander. To two cupfuls of the pulp
add the yolks of three eggs beaten well
and one cupful of milk with one-half
cupful of sugar, more or less, according
to the quality of the peaches. Pour into
a buttered baking dish and cook in a
moderate oven. Cool and cover with a
meringue made from the whites of the
three eggs and six level tablespoonfuls
.of powdered sugar.-Detroit Free Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
YOUTH AND AGE.
There Is a Material Difference That
Is Not Always Ap-
parent.

Maitre Labor, the noted French advo-
cate who defended the Humberts, is not
remarkable in Paris so much for the elo-
quence as for the neatness and the polish
of his speeches. !.
in court one day. He says the advocates
address was full of grace, wit, tenderness.
He quotes a passage relating to old age
wherein Labor, with a smile, said:
"Old age-we shall none Of US quite UNI
derstand that until W have attained to 1t
for no one of us, here, is old. But the
other day | visited my uncle, a very aged
man.
"'What is it like, uncle / said, to be
old?'
And my uncle answered.:
"1t is like this: When one Is young,
ones polite attentions to women are taken
for declarations of love; but when one is
old, one's declarations of love are taken
for polite attentions
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22

In a. downtown church, as The story
goes. there was introduced a new hymn
last Sunday, and, after the disposal of the
services, the organ blower found his ray
to the players bench and asked in a meek
voice: How did the music for that new
hymn go this evening""
"Oh, very well, very well, indeed" re,
piled the organist; but why do you ask
We'll" said the blower, IN tell you
the truth. [ was a bit nervous and a bit
worried about it, for, you see,", he went
on explaining, Il never bowed for that
hymn before.s9Philadelphia Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
Deem Flowing.

There is very little danger of plow-
ing too deep, or turning up too much
subsoil in. the fall. The soil brought
to the surface will be mellowed by the
action of frost and snow, and in spring
will be ripe enough to contribute new
energy to the crops grown thereon.
Fall is the time to hitch strong teams
to the right sort of plows, and set them
into the ground. Even then the plow
will not go too deep.-Farm and Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
To ne,uvenate sheet Music.

Sheets of music which have become
ragged at the edges or soiled may be
rejuvenated by neatly trimming the
edges and cleaning the soiled places with
channels or india rubber. If the title
page has acquired an unsightly look re-
place by a cover of thin drawing D
neatly lettered with the name of the COM
position and the eomposer.-Brooklyn
Eagle,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
The Germ Theory.

The discovery of the germ theory is per-
haps the most important in the history
of medicine, the discovery OF the stomach
of course excepted.
Exhaustive experiments on guinea pigs
have made it clear that mankind cannot
be we'll without serums.
But such is the character of serums that
nobody will take them unless he is
frightened.
And the germ theory has thrown more
scares into more people than all other
theories put together. =,
Thus it is not easy to see how we should
manage to have any health to speak of,
without the germ theory.-Puck.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
A Homeless Case.

"A great big, able-bodied man like you
ought t be ashamed to ask a stranger
for money" said the well-to-do citizen.
81 know / ought" answered Meander-
ing Mike. But. mister. I'm jes' natural
" too kind-hearted to tap i'm OF de
head and take it away from him
washington Star.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
Hi. Opportunity.

We'll" said the boarder who was
fond of quoting things, Opportunity
knocks once at every mans door"
Huh" snorted Slopay, IAN oppor-
tunity to pay my board bill knocked at
my door -four times to-day.'-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
Why NOtf

"Here's an account of a big landslide
said the new reporter. Under what head
shall | put it,"
put it with the real estate transfers
said the city editor, as he wrote: Con
tinued on the forty-frst page" in the mid
die of a fourline paragraph.-f outh'i
Communion.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
Brisht Ltttle oman.

Cawker-When do babies begin to
think?
Walker-Well. mile began to think
that | ought to walk the floor with
him the second night he was in the
house.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
Home.

/ believe that the greatest menace
to our nation is the breaking up OF
homes. How often is this done by
loveless criticism or the simple lack
of affection that eventually kills love.
Rev. A. Mccall, Congregationalist,
Rriarcliffe N. Y.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22
works Rofh Wnys.

She-I wonder what makes a man
nervous when he proposes to a woman?
He-The same thing. nc doubt. that
makes a woman ervou when he
doesn't propcse.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22

A Catching Observation-Disclosures
trude inserted an advertisement that she
would like TO meet a gentleman who was
fond OF outdoor life" Belle-Who an
swered?" Ida-"Sixteen tramps.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-22

Mabel-"How well Miss Elderley carries
her age! doesn't she?" Daisy-'But she
must be so accustomed to it by now
Philadelphia Bulletin.