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The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-05-05

The Port Gibson Camp of the
United Confederate Veterans have
made a mistake in changing the
Decoration Day from May Ist, the
anniversary of the Battle of Port
Gibson, to June 3rd, Jefferson Da-
Wis birthday. The new Decoration
Day chosen will do very we'll in
large cities where there are plenty
of. flowers, but will not do in the
small towns Of the Southland. We
have. to adapt ourselves to the con-
ditions of our surroundings. 1t is
doubtful if the floral decorations on
the graves of our gallant dead will
be equal on a June day as on May
day.
We have adopted a Yankee GUS
tom of one Memorial Day (like
theirs of May 3Ist) for the. South
ern Dead. 1t does away with re-
calling the great battles of the Civil
War in which the Confederate SOL
dier was a part, and substitute in
its place a patron saint for the Con-
federacy, Jefferson Davis, like the
Irishman with St. Patrick's Day,
the Frenchman with St. Denis S
Day, and the Englishman with St.
Georges Day.
The country towns of Dixie have
cemeteries with the known and un-
known defenders of home and fire.
sides unlike the Federal soldiers
whose graves are cared for by =
bountiful government in battle
parks of the United States. Our
fair daughters of the Confederacy
Will deck the resting place OF the
hallowed martyrs of the Lost Cause
with the recurring anniversaries of
some great battle more than that of
the President of the Confederate
States, Jefferson Davis, though he
represented the idea Of secession in
his person.
Let us hope the United Confed-
crate Veterans of Claiborne will
celebrate their Decoration Day on
May rst, 1905, instead of June 3rd,
4rd that each veteran when the
time comes will be
Carried to-.
The sacred store house Of his predecessors
And guardian Of their bones"
A VETERANS SON.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-05-05
Cotton Talk.

/ NO-Ol Ina LO@t @~f ~ N<A'
lSELLING. Cooperation is being
adopted in most business enter
prises and community of interest
has crushed competition. The pa
rent of all trusts is the Society Of
Jesus, better known as the Jesuits
their system is the factor in the in
dustrial evolution of the goth GEN.
tury-the corporation is everything
the Individual is nothing. Obedi-
ence to authority is the commercial
code. 1t is time for the cotton
planter to join such principles. The
best he can do with the cotton crop
of 1904 is to turn it over to Brown,
Majors and Hayne to sell for 1917
cents per pound. The unfortunate
part and the stumbling block in his
way is the negro. Union among
agriculturalists seems to be an inn
possibility-and the farmers trust
is an idle dream.
COTTON FACTORS AND
FUTURE BROKERS. In the
seventies the Cotton factors were
as plentiful as blackberries, now he
can be counted on the fingers of
ones hand in the cotton cities of
the cotton states. The factor was
the banker and the broker for the
planter. His place is supplied by
the cotton future broker. Future
brokers are more numerous than
the factors in their prosperous
days. In New Orleans, in Mem
phis, in Charleston and in Savan-
nah where the eyes used to see the
signs of cotton factors on the busi-
ness streets they behold cotton fu-
ture brokers in galore.
BULLING COTTON. All plant
ers are bulls. A planter to be con-
servative should sell future cotton
now against his spots deliverable in
December for 1850 as there seems
to be prospects for a monster yield.
Even if there is not amonster yield
1t will be so reported by the trade
interested in getting cotton cheaper
until cotton is out of the planters
hands. In the history of cotton
prices never has the planter gotten
the true market value for his crop.
1t is only after cotton gets out of
the planters possession that prices
advance on this and every other
commodity. Last year many of
them had marketed their crop be-
fore II cents had been reached and
next fall should the crop be small
the advance will not come until the
planter has practically marketed all
his cotton. People who are in the
spot business are not in it for their
health and every year the market
is broken by them, the bear crowd
and the spinners who purchase
spots wait until the commodity
leaves the farmers fields.
AVERAGE PRICES OF COT
TON. L. S..Drake says the aver
age price of cotton has been III
cents for twenty years, and we will
do we'll to obtain 9 cents for 1904.
The average price of cotton for
thirty-6ve years has been 9 cents.
SCRAPING COTTON. Scrap
ing cotton has begun, but the plant
as we'll as corn look mighty sick
from the frost of last Friday.
STALK.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-05-05
Why are We so Slow ?

How few people realize how much
fruit and vegetables are wasted ev-
cry year in Claiborne county. All
of this and much more could be
pro6tably utilized if we had a can
ming factory in each neighborhood.
A factory of this kind employs la
Dor and circulates money when all
other business is stagnant.
When we read the bank state
ments and learn that nearly half OF
a million dollars are deposited in
the three banks of Port Gibson, we
wonder why our people are hot suf-
fciently alive to their own interests,
as we'll as those of the county, to
invest a small per cent. of this capi-
tai in manufacturing enterprises.
Why are we slow9 Do we propose
to wait until northern capital, at
tracted south by the wave of pros
perity and the building of the Pan
anna canal, absolutely takes the op-
portunity out of our hands Five
years hence, probably, not one dol
lar can be loaned for ten per cent.
interest. Will you be satisfied with
six per cent. That's what we are
coming to, so you had better invest
In something that will pay better
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-05-05

lone of DR.. Kings New Life
Pills each night for two weeks has
put me in my teens again, I" writes
D. H. Turner of Dempseytown,
Pa. They're the best in the world
for Liver. Stomach and Bowels.
Purely vegetable. Never gripe.
Only 25c. at ]. A. Shreve's Drug
Store.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Oyerdone Gardening.

One of the misfortunes of garden
lovers is that they frequently plan TO
do more work than can be carried en-
successfully. Almost every one who
builds a house thinks he would like
TO have a nice garden, and the nice
garden is consequently arranged. But
when 1t is found. rs 1t too often is
found, that it requires an expensive
wages bill to keep the place in good
order, what was expected to be a
pleasure becomes an annoyance and
a bore. A small place, we'll cared for,
and everything kept mp nice and or
derby gives far more satisfaction
than an overgrown place that Is a drag
on the means of its owner. In all our
operations we are too apt to think we
can do more than we really can. In
gardening matters 1t is especially SO.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Irish Bards Of Yore,

Mrs. Milligan Fox delivered an en-
PERTAINING lecture on "The Evolution
of Irish Folk Song" at the Pioneer
Club, in London, the other night. In
the course of her paper Mrs. Fox
mentioned that there was evidence
that Irish music had it's origin in the
East. The bards of Ireland ranked
next to the King, and wore one color
less than that worn by royalty. Their
training lasted for ten years. The
pride of the bards rose at one period
to such an extent that they wished
to equal the King and to wear the
royal pin. King Hugh Of Ulster re-
fused this privilege, and resolved to
suppress the hards. st. Columl1ill,
however, came from Iona to obtain
their pardon, and they were only tenn
porarily banished. THE bards were
trained at the four great colleges
Lismore. Armagh, Ardagh and Coug-
her. The Irish Cruth harp had 2S
strings: Brian Boru's harp was stud
ded with precious stones. 1t was sent
with his crown as present to the
Pope, and it was in Rome until the
reign of Henry VIII, when it was sent
as a present to him by the Pope. Hen
ry VIII. did not value 1t, nevertheless
he put it in his coat-of-arms. Queen
Elizabeth suppressed the bards, but
employed an Irish harper named Don
aid John Dowlands. The court mrsi.
clan at the Danish court was Irish,
and 1t is said he supplied Shakes
peare with some of his songs. He
died in 1926. Both his parents were
Irish, and he was born in Kildare. AT
the plantation Of Ulster the Scottish
settlers set their psalms to old Irish
airs. The Cromwellian settlers sold
5000 Irish women and children to the
West Indian planters as slaves, and
Mrs. Fox has found that the old Irish
airs are still sung in the West In
dies. Miss Coleman sang the Illus
trative songs of Mrs. Fox's lecture
most charmingly, her contralto voice
being especially well suited to Irish
music.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

Indeed I would. Tomorrow. Here
In your own village, and among your
own friends" cried the artist. You
are the sweetest, loveliest, dearest"
'IIush"' she answered gravely. "I'n
tell you, sir. In week from now I'm
going among my friends, and if you
like to follow me there" She paus-
ed.
IN go to- the end of the world!
Where is it?" asked Mr.. Parry.
Only to Saratoga, sir"
Every we'll One week from to-day
will be there. You'll marry me,
them"
She laughed, showing her little
cleaning white teeth, made him rus
tic courtesy, and fairly ran away.
John Parry packed up his things,
went to the inn, paid his bill, and
started that very night for Saratoga.
He had nearly reached that place
when he remembered, in utter conster.
nation, that he did not even know his
leroine's name.
However, I'll soon find her. There
Is but one such face in the world" he
thought.
And after a week had passed, he
sought for the girl diligently, every
where through Saratoga, but in vain.
One night he looked in disconsolate-
" at the gayest ball Of the season, and
beheld her!
She sat the center of an obsequious
group, magnihcently dressed, and
beautiful as a dream.
Poor John stared at her open-mouth.
She saw him, smiled slightly, and she
beckoned him to her with a wave of
her jeweled fan.
give me your arm, my cousin" she
said, negligently, as she rose from her
chair.
And then John Parry saw it all. This
was his heiress cousin, Kate. whom he
tad never seen before since their child
hood This was the bride his mother
had begged him to seek, and from
which very thought he had turned dis
gusted. lest he should be reckoned by
the world an heiress hunter. And
there, among the group of matrons on
the sofa, was his mothers pleasant
face smiling after them rs they walk
ed away together He had met Kate
at the house Of one Of her country
friends and, without knowing it, had
given his mother the very desire Of
her heart.
Thus it was that the great heiress
was wooed and married for herself
alone, as every heiress truly desires to
be.
But John Parry persists in saying
that he married no one in the world
but Squire Howland's hired grill
New York Weekly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

have large loop at one end instead
OF buckle.
A back band for pillow harness may
be made from old leather or rubber
betting. The leather betting, If pretty
fair, will make good traces.
These hints are not for repairing
valuable new harness. One should be-
very careful about riveting on these.
The illustration shows how / made a
clamp for sewing harness from two
kerosene barrel slaves fitted in block
so the bolts will draw ut least IA inch.
This makes it clamp the work at top.
Use two as-inch bolts. This clamp, If
properly made, will hold any part Of
the harness awhile being sewed. w.
A. Clearwatefs, in Iowa Homestead.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Wood Ashes for House Plants.

1t is not generally known that wood
ashes, mixed with compost, are very
beneficial for most pot plants. Palms
are wonderfully benefited, and so TIRE
crotons, dracaenas, marantas, in fact,
all foliage plants I'm many instances,
when the plant has nearly exhausted
the soil, If the top be scraped off to a
little depth, and n sprinkling of wood
ashes and fresh soil be added, the
plant will be all right until time to re-
pot To many lover OF flowers this
hint, to add little wood ashes to COM
post will bring many Frightened
flower and much improved foliage.
The mixture should be worked into
the earth Immediately or some OF the
ammonia in The manure will escape
into the air and be wasted.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

box Tor Carrying Eggs.
Most poultrymen are familiar with
the egg carriers used on the market
and those who have considerable
quantity of eggs to handle use these
carriers; the farmer, however, Is IN
the habit of carrying eggs in basket
and often many Of them become bro
ken resulting in considerable loss. The
illustration shows one Of the boxes
which may be made from cheap mate
rial and which will answer as well as
the boxes sold for the purpose Any
grocer who handles quantities OF
shipped eggs will give customer
somo Of the cardboard filler such as
are up in the crates; then buy some
cracker boxes and fashion neat box
like the one shown, cutting the paste
board filters with q sharp knife so
that they will fit the wooden box.
Boxes made to hold one dozen eggs
and others to hold two dozen will be
large enough. These boxes ought to
have covers with hasp coming down
over staple SO that the box may be
locked If need be. These boxes will
cost'but little IL made at home as sug
gested, and If one has strictly fresh
eggs OF good size as well as uniform in
sfAe they can be marketed In these
goNcs at higher price than If market
ed in n basket; try 1t and see if 1t Is
not so. AS an extra inducement to the
consumer wrap each egg in white
tissue paper and twist the ends Of the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
No Breed of Black sheep.


A black sheep belongs to no particu-
lar breed, though at times he appears
In the tiocks Of nearly oil the pure
breeds In England he is more com
monty seen in the Suffolk tiocks, and
It is a noteworthy fact that the suffolk
breeders have all they can do to keep
the blackish and gray black tendency
from asserting itself both in the skin
and fleece. Black sheep frequently
appear in pure-bred Leicester fiocks,
md to some extent in Lincoln and
Devon Longwools, and the tendency
Is noted in the black spots on the skin;
more frequently seen on the ears of
even the best-bred sheep of these long
wool families, thus fortify ns the be-
lief. expressed by DR.. Henry Stewart
that the tendency to black in the Lei
cester owes It's origin to the black
ram known to have been used by
Blackwell in the perfection of the
breed $50 years ago. And it is not I'M
reasonable to suppose that the black
sheep which now and then appear in
the Down and long-wool breeds, near
" all of which have been more or less
improved through the use of Blackwell
blood, are traceable to that great
sheep builders handiwork.-Sheep
Breeder.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Words That Have Never Lost Caste.

Time was, for example, when the
words art and artist" stood for
something that was dignified and Of
good repute. Nowadays, art" seems
to center in the dry-goods stores,
where 1t is dealt in on art floors"
half mile square, and finds suitable
expression in red plush and nickel
plate. AS to the artists" they have
invaded almost every calling, however
prosaic and mental. There is, or re-
Gently was, boot-blacking stand in
New York bearing the legend: Drop
your nickel in the box, as the artist Is
not allowed to receive the coin" The
word professor" has had hard time
since it was torn down from It's high
scholastic estate, and compelled to
do duty for BARRIERS, dancing-masters,
roller-skaters and oyster-openers. To
day, anybody who can produce any
sort of sound from supposedly mu-
steal instrument acquires the title by
common consent. The word society
once meant the whole human family:
now it has come to signify merely
those whose receptions and dinners
are described in the daily papers. The
corruption of this once comprehensive
and dignified term is in q measure re-
sponsible for the degradation of other
words and phrases which were origin.
ally intended for the exclusive use OF
the polite world.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
MoHAMMEDANs AND DOGS.
They Take Particular Pains Not to
Come in Contact With Each Other.

They Take Particular Pains Not to
Come in Contact With Each Other.
In Egypt dogs are never permitted
to enter the dwelling of Moham-
medan, and If one is found in a
mosque, he is Immediately put to
death.
In consequence of this excommuni.
cation from the society which this ami
NAL seems. so instinctiyely disposed
to cultivate, Egyptian dogs live. for
the most part, in the open air, feeding
upon garbage and any other filth that
chance throws in their way. Yet they
are found to be faithful protectors OF
the property and even persons of the
very men by whom they are thus dis
pitefully treated; although, Sonini re-
marks, 1t is extremely curious to SEQ
the pains taken by a Musselman and
dog when they happen to meet to
avoid coming in contact with each
other. Notwithstanding this state OF
persecution, dogs are remarkably
numerous IN the towns of Egypt The
species Is a large one, about the size
and make of the greyhound. AS
proof of the Mohammedan prejudice
against this useful animal, 1t is sufti-
clent to state that they regard the
terms Christian and dog as synony-
mous-both, Of course, in the most
opprobrious sense.
AS a singular contrast for their dis
like for dog !, the Egyptians have ever
held cats in greatest veneration, and
in ancient time even worshipped them.
And historians tell us that Bubastis
and Atribes, two towns in Egypt, the
former a yotary of cats and the latter
OF mice, contracted on that account
so strong an antipathy to each other
that the inhabitants were never known
to intermarry, although only a few
miles asunder. In some parts Of India,
too, we are told, they have similar
reverence for Grimalkin. as the only
crimes punished capitally there are
the murder of man and a cat.-New
Orleans Times-Democrat
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
RAND sheen ss,carinu.

Some of the wandering sheep shear
ers of the Western sheep raising States
have acquired wonderful speed. There
is record of one man who sheared
$50 sheep in a single day. The aver
age for each man is about one hun
dred. The men never tie sheep.
They seize ii by the legs with the left
hand, throw it so that they can squeeze
it firmly between their legs, and al
most before the sheep has begun to,
bleat the fleece is falling In great
fluffy masses. As soon as the last
clip of the shears has been made the-
shearer kicks the fleece out of his
way, the struggling sheep Is released
and races off, and another one Is bun
died in
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
No Answer Given.

Here is a little story they are telling
on a Maine professional man who oc-
casionally delivers interesting lectures
at intitutes and grange meetings. One
day he came across a farmer feeding
his hogs, and he thus accosted him:
what are you feeding to those
hogs, my frlend?'
"Corn," replied the griszled farmer.
who knew the learned gentleman by
sight.
"Are you feeding it wet or dry"
DRY"
"Don't you know II you feed 1t wet
the hogs can digest it in one-haif the
timer"
The farmer gave him a quizzicai
look.
"Now. see here, DOCTOR" he said,
chow much do you calculate hogs
time is worth?"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
To Move Wire Fences.

1t often becomes necessary to move
fence from one part of the farm to"
another. 1t is simple matter to move
posts, but the wire presents more
difficult problem. The most common
method In to slowly and laboriously
roll it up on barrel, haul 1T to the
place where it is wanted and as slowly
unroll it again. A much better and
quicker way is to take couple OF old
wheels, the larger the better, and fas-
ten them together by mailing pieces OF
board to the spokes next the axle.
The wheels when fastened together
should be about two feet apart Now
take two planks and fasten firmly to.
the sides of the wagon box SO they
will extend backward about four feet
Mount the wheels on these plankB So
they will turn easily. Fasten one end
of the wire to one of the boards that
connect the wheels and drive astride
of the WIRE One man turns the wheel
while the other drives. and the wire
can be rolled up rs fast as the team
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
NE sources HIRED GIRL.
Observation-Disclosures
NN~NsN-N~N-NsN-~~~


10 WO O'clock p. nj. on a blazing
July day In the country. A row
Of stalwart mowers, each keep
fg time with sCythC and step across
~ tenacre lot ON tho Rowland farm.
line Of picbald cattle, black and
#n'te red and white, dun and gray,
Ecam color and dun, coming slowly
3oWn the slope of the woodland pas
Fe 10 drink from the brook beneath
" spring. 4 great, old-fashioned,
EeaurcoIorcd farm house, with green
loS and Il piazza, n side porch and
grapevine c0jonnndc, standing on n
E'ei lawn, beneath tall maple trees
la' were only tiny saplings in tho
rvs when Great grandfather How
I'D moved up into Vermont from
nnectcut TO SETTLE" some eighty
fears ago
1nc doors and windows of this fine
f. mansion were standing wide open,
~ Il Drown retriever stationed at tho
f'Va' gate amIably watched the de-
IN''u'e Of two double-seated carryalls
I~yu Drawn by pair of fine horses,
~ laden with merry cargo of laugh
S'Es, And from one of the upper
.ao0WS another girl, apparently some
I,ToV years Of age, looked out, dress
III" ploe striped calico, with q pima
I"e apron pinned to her sloping shout
IN ana cook book in her hand.
11s was the aspect of the old How
4 wv laFm and homestead when John
nE, artist, first bcheld them.
uu'Ng the three weeks of his stay
,Is mountain village of Bradley he
~ ueaFu much OF the Rowland place,
gss 1e Rowland girls" Being q shy
',suFihg student, he inwardly con-
h ,"'eu himself this afternoon on
Il ABSENCE Of those girls" as he. too.
Er' sa a''er the cloud Of dust that fol-
~ w u'e rereating carryall wheels.
Asr "" get my picture done before
Ar,,r > :" laughing and gahbling home
ii Ms uu''ered Mr.. Parry, as he fix
b. vSnp stool and umbrella near
bSetcS ~ gate, and prepared to
kisr :, ID ue groundwork Of the finest
II ~ :" Gaylord County, as his host
Rhpa s, mage tavern had called it,
qAa T nn,, him to it that day.
d he nna .SaI.oht artist painted as fast
ka wo rSsSIOIy could, in order to finish
Rocse rn,,' US'oIe the daughters of the
|osp bio lieu a"eu' But the sun poured
80 most scorching beams upon
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
The Prolific Scale.

The total number CT descendants
from one individual Of the San Jose
scale during the time between the mid
die of June and the last OF November
las been calculated ut 3,216,080, 400.
AS all these millions obtain their food
by sucking the sap FROM the plant they
are on, it is not to be wondered at that
4 tree which in the spring was appar-
emily in good condition may be nearly
or entirely dead by fail
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

In appraising the value of alienated
affections juries should be admonished
that odd dollars and cents throw a
picayune air on the whole business.
Why $12,500? What is that odd $500
doing there? 1t blurs the grace and
dignity of the adjudication. But per.
haps that is what the plaintiff really
gets, the rest going to the lawyers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Ann1e Trees 10 years ola.

On the farm of John Carson, near
Russellville, Howard county, Missouri.
is an apple orchard which was planted
seventy years ago. The land was pre-.
empted at that time, and the original
"sheepskin" deed was signed by An
drew Jackson. The orchard bore a
good crop this year. Many of its trees
are three feet in diameter.