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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08

dropsy, rheumatism, Bright's disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kid
ney and bladder ills. Read the fol-
lowing case:
Veteran Joshua Heller, FOG South
Walnut street, Urbana, ILL.,, says: in
the fall of 1899 after getting Doan's
Kidney Pills at Cunningham Bros
drug store in Champaign and taking
a course of the treatment ] told the
readers of this paper that they had
relieved me of kidney trouble, dis
posed of a lame back with pain
across my loins and beneath the
shoulder blades. During the inter-
val which has elapsed ! have had oc-
casion to resort to Doan's Kidney
Pills when | noticed warnings of an
attack. On each and every occasion
the results obtained were just as sat
isfactory as when the pills were first
brought to my notice. | just as EN-
phatically indorse the preparation to-
day as I did over two years ago."
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
new medicine which cured Mr.. Heller
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Medical
advice free-strictly confidential.
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, 1903-10-08
DOG TRIES SUICIDE THRICE.
spauieI Owned by Cincinnati woman
Would Rather BE Dead Than
See an Automobile.

Mrs. George Hauck, of Cincinnati,
O., owns a spaniel which has taken a vio-
lent dislike to automobiles. Whenever
one passes the home of his mistress he
has spasms. Finally he seemed de-
termined to end it all and deliberately
leaped from a third-story window. He
was picked up by two men and carried
upstairs.
When placed upon the floor the dog
made a second dash for the open win
dow and again fell ~sprawling upon the
sidewalk. unconscious. Mrs. Hauch ran
downstairs and picked up the animal
after being carried to the third floor the
dog In a few minutes opened his eyes.
Looking about for a second. he darted
out of the window for the third time
The last fall came lear killing the des.
perate animal and after being tied Sc
curely he was put back TO his bed and
the window closed.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
EVEN THE BURGLAR DECLINED
Rejected Manuscripts of n struggling
Writer Were Safe from the
HouEebreaker.

"At the outset of my career as a
writer" said a now wealthy and respect
ed retired literary man, according to
the New York Sun, Il had one little ex-
p~erience that at the time chagrined me
deeply, though l have since then many
a time laughed over 1t heartily.
In those days my manuscript came
back to me with practically unfailing
regularity, as, l suppose, that of most
young writer's does; and, as | had the
eager industry of youth and worked
hard and fast and produced a good deal
of stuff, l very soon had a considerable
collection of rejected manuscripts,
which l kept neatly stacked up in piles
In a bookcase in my room, a rapidly in
creasing accumulation
"One day my room was visited by a
burglar, who stripped 1t of pretty nearly
everything portable, but never took one
of nv manuscripts, which / considered
to be the most valuable of all my pos
sessions. He had opened that book
case. turned one of those piles so that he
could inspect 1t and, when he had dis
covered what is was, turned it partly
back and so left it. My manuscript was
rejected by even the burglar!
II got some little satisfaction from the
thought that he might once have been a
literary man himself, who had been
driven to burglary, as a means of sup
port, by the rejection of his own manu-
scripts and who, prompted by a sympa-
thetic, brotherly feeling, had now left
behind what he knew | must regard as
nv dearest treasures. But that fancy
was short-lived and could only con-
clude that he had left them for the same
reason that the publishers had all re-
iected them-because he saw no value
in them; the burglar couldn't use them
even as junk.
And ridiculous as it may seem to you
vet in my sensitive frame of mind, at
the time, l felt this sweeping rejection
keenly, though. as said at the begin
ming, | came in time to laugh over the
experience, and ven to commend the
burglars judgment"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
FORMATION OF CORAL.
Summary of Recent d of Atoiis
by Prof. Asassiz in the vnri-
Gus Ocean

Prof. Alexander Agasslz has sum-
married. his results based upon obser-
vations of barrier reefs and atolls coral
islands) carried on during the last rs
years, for the proceedings of the Royal
society. He recognizes the fact that
Darwin's theory does not explain the
conditions now observed, but limits his
report to descriptions of the different
types of coral reefs and of their prob
able causes, without attempting to es-
tablish any Independent theory.
He has found that the barrier reefs
of Fiji, Hawaii and the West Indies are
underlaid by volcanic rocks and usually
flank volcanic islands. Those of New
Caledonia, Australia, Florida, Honduras
and the Bahamas are underlaid by out
Tiers of the adjoining land masses.
Some of the barrier reefs of the Society
islands, Fiji and the Carolines show
that the wide, deep lagoons separating
them from the land mass were formed
by erosion from a broad. fringing reef
fiat.
Encircling reefs, as in the Society
islands, hold to their central island, or
islands, the same relation which a bar
rier reef holds to the adjoining land
mass. Denudation and submarine ero-
sion accounts for the formation of plat
forms upon which coral and other lime
stone organisms may build either barri-
err or encircling reefs or even atolls
rising upon a volcanic base.
We may trace p~lateaus that have been
elevated, like Guam, partly volcanic and
partly limestone, to atolls where only a
small islet or q larger island of either
limestone or volcanic rock is left to in
dictate it's origin. Atolls may also be
formed upon the denuded rim of a vol
| canic crater, as at Totoya, in Fill.
Many of the atolls in the Pacific are
merely shallow sinks formed by high
sandbanks thrown up around a central
area. Throughout the Pacific, the In
dian ocean and the West Indies the most
positive evidence exists of a moderate
recent elevation of the coral reefs.
Closed atolls a scarcely be said to
exist; Niau, in the Paumotus, is the
nearest approach to one, yet its shallow
lagoon is fed by the sea through its
porous ring. The land area of an atoll
is relatively small compared with that
of the half-submerged reef flats. In the
Marshall islands and the Maldives,
for example. the land areas are reduced
to a minimum.
Atolls may arise from a platform OF
suitable depth wherever and however it
may have been formed and whatever
may be its geological structure. The
great coral reef regions are within the
limits of the trades and monsoons and
the areas of elevation, with the excep-
ton of the Ellice and Marshall islands
and some of the Line islands. Corals
have their fullest development on the
surface Of reefs; they grow sparingly in
lagoons where coraline algae grow
most luxuriously. American Geo
graphical Bulletin.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
AN ARMY OF E
Thousands of Rats Invade a County
in Michigan I'm One Solid
Pack.

From Calhoun county, Mich, there
comes II the Smithsonian institution a
sensational story of the invasion of that
county By an army of 5000 rats in one
pack, reports the Washington Star, of
recent date. A big gray rat is said to be
leading the vast array OF rodents.
Michigan papers devote considerable
space to the peculiar occurrence, and
some Battle Creek citizens who have be-
come interested in the migration have
written to the Smithsonian institution
for an explanation, If possible. The
story of the rat raid as told in Michigan
papers is that about IL days ago 100 large
rats were crossing a highway three miles
east of Tekansha village, Calhoun coun-
ty. They are said to have been under
the leadership of a large, gray rat OF
venerable and dignifed aspect, and this
leader seemed to have some definite OBJ
ject in view, for he marshaled his forces
in a most authoritative manner. A few
days afterward a farmer In Clarendon
township, in the same county, was
aroused about three o'clock in the morn
ing by a squealing noise OF great magnl-
tude, such as might be made by a score
of filters of young pigs. AS the sound
continued to grow in volume the farmer
arose, hastily put on his clothes and
went out doors. The air seemed filled
with the strange sounds and the man
climbed his windmill to see a dark wave
rolling across a field toward his barn, 1t
is said, and as it approached nearer he
could see it was composed OF hundreds
of rats, squealing loudly as they ran.
Into the barnyard they came, hating In
front of the barn. Then a large gray rat
seemed to select about 20 husky rats
from the bunch and led them into the
building. When they emerged ten min
utes later they were accompanied by
about 100 of the Clarendon mans rats.
They took their places in the ranks and
the procession moved on again across
the fields. When last seen the horde is
said to have been crossing the highway
east of the village of Tekonsha. 1t is
claimed a traveller had to wait nearly
five minutes for them to cross the road.
and he estimated their number to be
not less than 5000. They were still un-
der the leadership of a big gray fellow
who appeared to be walking delegate In
the most extensive strike in the history
Of R%odentdom.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
ShOrt-Sighted Farming.

Farmers spend too much time fight
ing weeds and not enought fighting
drought. If there are nc weeds in the
corr Or cotton, they conclude not to
put the pillow in, and let the crust
formed by the last rain remain. and If
the soil is clayey it soon cracks, and
some farmers imagine that a network
of cracks benefits the crop by letting
in the air, ignorant of the fact that in
dry weather the air is thirsty and will
penetrate the soil by way of these ifs
sures and drink all the moisture it
comes in contact with. Then the
drought cuts the crop short, while the
farmer who keeps the right sort of
plows going, prevents a crust from re-
naming, and kills the weeds before
they come up, didn't know there was
a drought. This indicates that there
is a lack of information in many places,
and that agricultural education is
needed, for farmers who pillow only to
kill weeds certainly do not read agri-
cultural papers, for if they did they
would know better, do better, and
make better crops, and be better salts
fed with their condition.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08

The theory of evolution is itself I'M
dergoing evolution. 1t was Darwin's
view that species result from slow
variation. through long periods of time.
hut Hugo de Vries, a Dutch naturalist,
has proven that new species may de-
yelop suddenly, almost explosively.
With many failures he has succeeded in
observing the phenomenon in the
nag biennial. This plant was stud
ied in the botanical garden of Amster-
dam from 1856 to 1900, and it yielded
one new species in 1887, two in 1888,
while in 1900 not less than 500 individ-
uals of seven new species were produced
in $4,000 plants from seeds We may
well suppose that variations in plants
and animals have been both sudden and
gradual, evolution being a very COM
pick process,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
Feeding the Hogs.

Pork is the condensation of the food
eaten by the hog. To be wholesome
food, the hog must have been fed on
sound food. In and around all our
cities there are hog breeders who haul
from hotels and restaurants Stops so
fearfully putrid that stringent ordi-
nances must be adopted to regulate its
handling lest c%ontagion be the result.
In some towns this stuff must be trans
planted at night. In others, alright
r~eceptacles must be provided. Free
quently hogs thus fed are declared
nuisances dangerous to public health
and are prohibited. The carcases OF
such hogs are only fit for buzzard food,
and yet butchers serve them out to in
nocent customers. The hogs may re-
main In apparent health, and may even
become fat, yet their flesh is danger
Gus food for man, for the flesh con-
tains the Impurities Of the putrid food
from which it was made.-Farm and
Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08

Au Unsettled Question.

The question whether two filters OF
pigs a year should be required of a
SOW has never been definitely settled.
Eminent breeders occupy both sides Of
the question. The discussions on this
subject has been voluminous in the
northern and western states, and the
parties seem to be nearly equally di-
vided. In the southwest, and especial
ly in Texas, expert opinion seems to
favor a spring and fall litter. 1t may
be, and probably is a fact that our
milder climate, and especially our
shorter winters favor the two-litter
side of the controversy. At any rate
many of our most successful pork rails
ers say that if they had to confine
themselves to one litter they would go
out of the hog business. They claim
that the more pigs they have the more
hogs they have to sell, and that fall
filters are almost as profitable as those
deposited in the spring.-Farm and
Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
Hor.emanship ON the Farm.

1t would seem that farmers sons.
who associate with horses from earli-
est boyhood, should be expert whips
and accomplished equestrians. In the
south, planters excel in Workmanship,
and the man that owns a horse is a
good rider. Not infrequently you will
see the majority of the horses hitched
on the village square equipped with
saddles. Many prefer the use of the
saddle to a carriage, even when at
tending church. 1t is the favorite
system of locomotion in the south. The
north has neglected this sanitary and
graceful accomplishment But few
pastimes are more in~vigorating than
horseback riding, as it exercises and
develops all the muscles of the body.
In the north it is now an exception
to find a saddle on the farm. The car
riage is the exclusive vehicle of rams
portation. 1t is more economical to
use a horse under saddle where only
light packages are to be handled. Ev-
cry farm should have a saddle, and the
boys taught equestrianism. There is no
excuse to use the carriage always be-
cause the roads are good, for in En-
gland. where the public thoroughfares
are macadamized, horseback riding is
popular with all classes. While an ex-
cellent mount is not always a good per-
former to harness, a good driver has
increased value if well broken to sad
die. Combination horses are in good
demand, and the farmers son who
breaks the horses on the farm to go
under the saddle will not only add a
great convenience to the farm, but al
SO increased value to n animal when
it is offered for sale.-Midland Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08

tress toward the latter are not properly discharged. Three OF my serv
ants. the coachman and two maids, have been with mi 80, 20 and 10
wears respectively. therefore l cannot say that the question has troubled
me personally. A common interest binds Il together. Feeling that
this is their home as well as mine, they do not refuse to do extra service
whenever it is needed.
Club life to some extent is responsible for the desire on the part of so
many women to get away from housekeeping and its attendant drudgery
The breakdown of many women is to-day due largely to too much
excitement and no rest on Sunday. Entertaining to excess is transplanted
from the city to the country. The children ire left more and more to the
care of servants. They receive no moral training. The child must have
guidance, and no training, however scientific, can compete with that given
by a loving and conscientious mother.
AS for manners! There are not enough to be mentioned to-day
and doubt if we will see the pretty courtesies of the young to the old
again. Neither does the school supply this moral training. The intel
lect is fed, and there is no time left for teaching manners. Colleges are
powerless to accomplish anything in this line. The girls go for brain
work and take with them a certain maturity and habits i'll manners ac
qured at home.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
D OF THE OCEAN.
Belgian Has Devised n Plan
of Utilizing Them for Com
mercini Purposes.

One of the latest attempts to utilize
the tides for generating power is that
proposed by Charles Eugene Ongley, of
Mons, Belgium. He aims to accomplish
his object by using the incoming flood
to compress air. The latter is then to
be stored. If it is not Immediately
available for operating an air motor,
further compression by other ma
chinery may be resorted to. The first
part of NJ. Ongley's equipment is a large,
shallow tunnel-like reservoir, whose
floor is at the level of low water and
whose roof is nearly at that of high
high tide. This is to be situated close
to the sea and to be open on the ocean
side, so that water can flow in freely.
1t should be added, however, that the
passage which admits the water will be
close to the floor. When the tide is out
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08

the chamber will contain only air,
which will gain access through an in
let valve above. AS the sea rises 1t
saueezes the air into a smaller compass.
As the roof is to slant gently toward the
end of the chamber furthest from shore,
the air ought to accumulate there.
Thence it may be transmitted to a spe-
cial tank mot shown in drawing) by a
pipe and valve which discharge out
wardly. The Illustration, copied from
Compressed Aair," gives such a good
idea of the general arrangement that
few details are needed.
The plan has not yet been tried, and
its author can only guess at its value oil
the cost. NJ. Ongley entertains great
hopes. but the wisdom of his scheme re-
mains to be discovered. The amount oil
power to be obtained in this way may be
too small to pay for the construction
of such a plant as he has in view.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08

around an overhead track while manip-
ulating the apparatus. The body is sus-
pended from the carriage by a large
spring, and the legs by two smaller
springs, while the hands grasp two grips
attached to cords wound on a drum con-
nected with the forward wheel OF tho
carriage. 1t is obvious that a downward
pull ON the cords will rotate the drum
and wheel and propel the carriage along
the track, while at the same time it sup
plies the muscular exertion in the partial
lifting of the weight of the body from
the supporting spring. When the cords
have been pulled down to their full
length the athlete has but to decrease
the weight supported by them and the
spring on the drum will wind them up
ready for use again.-Chicago Daily
News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
HERE AND THERE.

North Carolina and Mississippi
have state schools for the study of tex
tile fabrics.
A young horse must have a large
amount of exercise. An old horse, like
an old man, can get along with very
little.
The farmer who grows several
crops is pretty sure to make a success
every year of at least two or three
crops. He will not starve.
Scrub stock is good enough for a
lazy, careless farmer. Fine stock would
degenerate rapidly if associated with
some farmers we have known.
Guinea fowls are probably the most
efficient insect destroyers of all the
domestic fowls. They are quick to de-
tect, rapid in pursuit, and Unsuitable in
appetite, and, besides, they make fine
eating.
"A well-cared for hen is profitable
for three years. A turkey hen is good
for four or five years. and some hens
are never profitable, though they may
be used for many years.
The permanence of effect is one of
the most valuable characteristics of
farmyard manure as. if nee applied in
a rotation, it benefits all the crops in
the rotation
MANY of our best apples and
ly all our good peaches originated in
this country. We have also taken de-
sirafle varieties from other portions of
the earth, and improved them until
their own people would hardly know
them.
The prices prevailing in retail
butcher shops is doing wonders for the
! poultry business. The demand for
fowls was never so good nor prices
better. We can well afford to eat less
beef and more chicken, ducks and even
turkeys.
1t is important that every farmer
save as much hay. and other feed as
possible, for it is expensive to put live
| stock of any kind on short rations.
! The profit in handling stock is to keep
! them busy in accumulating flesh, Civ
ing milk or piling up strength and en-
: ergy.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08
AN RRIAL ExERcIsER.
Physical Culture Apparatus for Pre-.
pelling Ones Body ON an Over
head Railway.

There are some people so constituted
that If they see the necessity Of under
taking a course of physical training for
the benefit of their health they viii pro-
coed al once to carry out In a systematic
manner the prescribed directions. With
another class a constant change Of ap-
paratus and no inconsiderable amount
of persuasion are necessary to induce
them to stick to the training long enough
to receive any permanent beneftfrom it.
The former class will work faithfully
with apparatus or without, but the lat
ter must have all the latest devices with
which to exercise their muscles, and for
their special benefit the machine we IL
lustrate seems to have been devised. Its
principle is practically the same as that
utilized in the system of weights and
pulleys seen in every gymnasium, with
the added novelty of propelling oneself
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-10-08

@gS lNISw
NICOTINE AND WHISKY.
Taken Together, in Large Quantities
and Regularly, They Frequently
Cause Blindness.

1t is asserted by oculists that partial.
If not complete, blindness has resulted
from the excessive use of tobacco.
Cases of this sort are probably rare,
but the correctness of the statement
is hardly open to question. The dis
ease first affects the central part OF the
retina. and then gradually spreads
During the early stages the subject Is
warned by a dimness of vision, n the
progress of the malady is slow. Ii
taken in time, 1t can be checked, II not
cured.
Writing for the optical department
of the jewelers. Circular-Weekly. Gus
tavus Kahn explains that the trouble
arises only when a person both drinks
and smokes to an unwholesome extent
Both habits are necessary to produce
the result, as will presently appear.
First the blood becomes saturated with
alcohol. The vapor Of the latter is
given off al the smokers lungs, and
there It meets and absorbs the poison
GUS nicotine. The vapor is hen con-
densed and gets back into the blood, ac-
cording to Mr.. Kahn. That writer adds:
Nicotine poisoning leaves its dele
FERROUS effects on the whole system,
but particularly on the eyes, which are
the most sensitive organs, especially
the fine nerve ibers composing the lay
ers of the retina. The general effect
of nicotine poisoning is very similar
to ~quinine poisoning; In fact, should a
subject already suffering from the eff
fects of nicotine happen to take too
much quinine, total blindness might re-
suit. Nicotine, as well as q%uinine, low
ers the temperature of the body and re-
'~stricts the walls of the blood vessels.
thereby causing decreased circulation,
which may be plainly observed in the
veins and arteries of the retina.
THE main cure and remedy for nico-
tine poisoning is total abstinence from
tobacco and all kinds of alcoholic slim
ulants, until every vestige of the poison
has been eliminated from the system.
II has been observed that a moderate
use of tobacco and whisky will not cause
nicotine poisoning to any alarming ex-
tent, and, moreover. the use of either
tobacco or whisky alone has never pro-
duced any toxic eye symptoms. it being
only the immoderate use of the COM
bination which has the poisonous ef-
feet"