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The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

for evenin' meetin', and he tined in
too and sung the hull him through.
We sung it to the time Of Balermy.
Well, If you'1l believe it, John Wads
die Allen come back that Sunday
afternoon a changed man, stfuca to
his soul Jest as sure as Paul wuz on
the q to Jerusalem. He come back
a different Jack, jest as different as
day is from night. He driv over to
Lucy's and apologized to her, and told
her his idees had changed entirely on
the Christian Sabbath. He wuz al
ways enthusiastick and energetic. He
took her to r.eetin' that night, and
told the minister he wanted to jine
his Bible class; Lucy was a member
of it.
But how can you?" SEE the astound-
ed pasture; you so far away?'
I'm comm home to live" SEE Jack.
i've had enough of city life"
He had to go back to the city to set
tie his affairs, SO he went the next day,
and he told me before he went how
his idees had changed about Sunday
amusements, and for pretty nigh a
month I went round with my inward
head held high, my inward neck
that it wuz my eloquent talk that had
converted Jack, and | spoze now that
it may have helped.
But | guess the main thing that
converted him wuz what took place
at that ball game. | knew they'd had
a big row. and more'n a dozen had
been dragged off to Jail, and n man
shot in a drunken quarrel and disabled
for life, leavin' his big helpless family
to struggle on in poverty, and three
boys mangled and broke up in the
ball game, and two or three run over
by the trottin' horses, and a general
Pandemonium let loose SIS it usually
is when the personal liberty of roughs
git their full recognition. | knowed
that, but that wuz so common at such
public Sunday games where the evil
element from all the towns about con-
gregate, and liquor runs free, l. didn't
pay much attention to it.
But after Jack and Lucy was mar
ried, which took place the third week
after. Jacks pa and ma comm home
joyful to the weddin', Lucy told me
that Jack had met that New York girl
that day. She had come with a big ex-
cursion party, and she, havin' cut
loose from all Puritan restraint, was
staggerin' round with a cigarette in
her mouth. Maudlin and silly, h &C
costed him. and he turned his back
on her, turned the grays round and
driv back. He see what fashionable
beliefs and freedom from restraint
might lead to. His early trainin', his
loves, his thoughts and early aspira-
tons come rushin' back On his heart
as the waters of a mountain spring
that have been damned up by dirt and
gravel will when sot free gush along
and clear the path before it of mud
and weeds.
He took Lucy to meetiE' that night
with the results as stated. They
moved into their new house last week.
I'm goin' there to-morry to a quiltia'.
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sound its nustere signel in Jul ears II
the soul-suicide of the race is to be
averted.
In every land and age vast resources,
and large material wealth have been
stepping stones to corruption. Too
much luxury paralyzes endeavor. From
time to time somebody's shipwreck
startles US; some one in whom the pub
lie have had confidence suddenly is dis
covered to have abused that trust. OF in
some way to have gone wrong.
We need an overwhelming sentiment
against graft, and in favor of purity and
honesty. Only in the home can this be
nurtured. Only there by those who love
their country and fear God can race sui
eide be averted. Let us learn from the
memories of glorious past, from the
Spartan traditions Of those who have
gone.
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FLUFFY WHITE WAISTS.
The Lingerie Blouse Continues to
Reign Supreme and Will Be
Worn the Coming Season.

Lovely materials are used in the
white blouses in the shops. There is a
new and extremely lacy looking pom
gee which is glistening white. 1t is
shot through with shiny little dots and
derives it's lacy effect from an open
work pattern which runs all through
it in a kind of a grenadine weave.
Made up, this material was seen
trimmed with elaborate rows of Val
enciennes edging sewed on SO as to
overlap. Dotted swiss, with exceeding
ly fine dots, is also popular, and hand
kerchief lawn of an extremely fine
quality is a new fabric which will take
washing, and also a little tiny bit of
starch, which is now used in these ex-
tremely thin waists. Silk batiste is
another fabric used in making up the
elaborate blouses in the shops which
is warranted to wash and is also de-
cidedly pretty.
This washing question is one to con-
slider well before indulging in the
china silk and lace-trimmed waists.
which look 81 attractive and which
can be bought cheaper in the same de-
gree of el~aborateness than when they
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Alfalfa Soil.

Alfalfa is to be a winner in our east
ern states partly for the reason that
we have been taught that it is diff
cult to grow and must have a first
class chance. Otherwise, like many
new crops, it would lave been tried
widely and carlessly, and then aban-
doned as hopeless. Thorough prepara-
ton has given results. and this crop
has come to stay. But the rather rapid
increase in area is due to care in Sc
lecting land for seeding, and especially
to thorough fitting. If the idea is gotten
that alfalfa is the right crop for thin
lands that lack fertility for other
crops, or for heavy, wet land, the fail
ures will bring the crop into disrepute.
| have seen fine alfalfa on heavy clay
land, but the fertility must be present
to start it, and there must be fair
drainage to hold it a profitable length
of time.-Cor. National Stockman.
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HERE N THERE.

One COW we'll kept is worth a half
dozen poorly fed. Plenty to eat is the
secret of plenty of milk and plenty of
cream.
The situation of the horse indus
tr.y is in the control of farmers, and if
intelligently managed will pay larger
profits than any other branch of live
stock ~husbandry.
Housewives in Florida scrub their
floors with oranges. In almost any
town in the orange-growing districts
women may be seen using the fruit ex-
actly as we use soap.
The farmer should grade his
horses and sell only his inferior mares
until he becomes fully stocked, when
the progeny from his best mares will
all be of excellent quality.
The dairyman who permits his
corr fodder to get partly ripe or FROST
bitten before he cuts it up, is the same
man who never gets around to do his
haying until the grass is mature.
The reports received by the North
Carolina department of agriculture
from more than seventy counties in
dictate a scarcity of labor, and a de-
sire to secure both tenant and share
settlers.
1t is hardly an overstatement to
assert that on not a few farms there Is
a fertility wastage from sta~ble-yards,
driveways and night-runs fully equal
in value to many loads of expensive
commercial fertilizers.
1t is not necessary to tell any
good poultryman that he must keep
his hens free from lice or as nearly
free as possible. Lice reduce the vi
tality and consequently the egg-yield of
the fowls and the fertility of the eggs.
Many otherwise beautiful farm
homes are made sources of annoyance
to the travelling public and an actual
menace to the health of the occupants
by reason Of too close and long con-
tinued yarding of stock near the home
buildings.
III there is no silo on your farm,
would advise a good big turnip patch.
Go at it right away. Sow in July, Au-
gust and September. If you raise a
big crop, the cattle, sheep, and hogs
will fare better next winter. And boil
a pot full for the chickens; you will
hear them cackle.
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IN GEORGIA.
While There Are Some Good FARM
ers, There is Too Much Idle
Land in Some Sections.

One can not help being struck with
wide difference in the thrifty appear
ance of many sections in Georgia, often
not very far apart. On the twentieth
of June, we went down to Thomaston,
and while we know there are many
good farmers in Epson county; yet for
several miles out from ThomastOn, SO
much land is lying out for want OF
hands. and so much is allowed to wash
into wide and deep red gullies, and the
dry weather together with the poorly
cultivated crops was simply depress-
ing to us. They need a thousand
good. Industrious white farmers to
move into this section, to take tie
place of the negroes who have gone to
the "cities and public works" as they
call it; and to reclaim this naturally
fertile land. Men who will pillow deep,
terrace well, and SOW grain. 1t would
make a fine stock section. Bermuda
and other grasses would do their very
best. In the evening we spent two
hours in GAINESVILLE, and went out to
see the fine peach orchard of Messrs.
Stafford and Howard. They have five
hundred acres in peaches and they are
we'll cultivated and certainly present a
fine appearance. The orchard, the fine
bottom in corn, the elegant country
home, the large barn. the Jersey cows
and Berkshire hogs, all made such an
interesting scene. that my spirits rose
to the point of enthusiasm, and I re-
turned home thinking old Georgia was
q grand old state. and her agricultural
in safe hands. Mr.. S. w.
Howard is a model farmer, he carried
us to see new kind Of corn in
Georgia" as he termed it, the kind that
lasts all the year, and you feed it on the
ear, not shelled like our imported va
rieties. He had a large crib packed
full that on opening the door two fine
ears rolled out, which we put in u
pocket and brought home with is. A
farmer that can sell peaches by the car
load, and have plenty Of corn in the
ear he is mot only rich but well to
do" as our friend used to say. The
peach industry is doing much for the
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are made of lingerie. They positively
will tuKn yellow il washed often in
water, no matter how carefully it is
done. The only way to keep them in
their first loneliness is to have them
dry cleaned, and on this account it is
better to indulge in crepe de chine if
one wants silk OF some kind. That al
together satisfactory fabric can be
washed in cold water with soap and
can be shaken dry and is positively
successful without ironing Except a
little pressing of the lace when it is
almost dry SO great is its elasticity.
This applies equally well to both black
and white.
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when and How to PRIME.

The pruning of a young apple tree
should be largely in the nature of
pinching back and training. The first
five or six years of its growth in the
orchard is essentially the formative
period of the tree and there will be but
little pruning required later 1t the work
is properly attended to during this
period. "As the twig is bent, SO the
tree is inclined" In pruning a young
tree one should select certain branches
which are to remain as a sort OF plat
form or skeleton-work upon which the
future top Is to be built. Three OF foul
such branches are ample to reserve
when the tree is set out and they
should be as well distributed around
the stem as possible in order to prop
erly distribute the future load OF fruit.
Crotches in the main stem should be
avoided by not permitting secondary
shoots to get the lead. All branches
should radiate from the center, out
ward. A branch which is growing in
ward is sure to give trouble later. All
branches which chafe Or interfere by
rubbing should be cut out. Briefly, this
comprises u idea as to the essential
requirements in the pruning of a young
apple tree. 1t is not necessary to cut
the growing branches back annually,
nor can all of the work be done at any
one time. 1t is best done by a care
full trip through the orchard two or
three times during the active growing
season. 1t is a question of watching
the growth with certain ideals in mind
and the correction of a young shoot
here and there to make it conform to
the future plan of top.-Arkansas
Homestead.
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section around GAINESVILLE and will do
much more. But to show how deeply
ingrained into our farmers 1t Is to give
cotton the preference over everything
else. we have but to cite an instance
we saw, where a farmer was blowing
around his young peach trees which
were yellow and stunted for want OF
work, while the cotton in between the
trees showed conclusively it had re-
ceived first attention.-Southern Culti-
vqt0r
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COLLECTING TURPENTiNE.
Substitution CT "Cupping" in Place
of Boxing" Brings Better
Results.

The department of agriculture has
just received returns from the tur-
pentine region of the United States,
showing that one Of the comparative
~ small devices fcr helping the farmer
that the department is always work
ing on has borne fruit. 1t is the mat
ter of substituting "cupping" for
boxing" in gathering turpentine from
the pine forests. This difference in
treatment is simply what the name in
dicates, that the %turpentine is col
leGted in small e~arthenware cups in
stead OF by cutting boxes in the trees.
This looks like a small thing in it
self, but the department had to work
against a great deal Of prejudice to
get it introduced. The departments
agents went to a number of turpen-
tine plantations ard cupped half the
trees at it's own expense in face OF the
incredulity and scofing OF most tur-
pentine producers, who had been years
in the business and who thought they
knew oil about it.
The returns that have just been pub
lished from one Of the large planta-
tons where half of the trees were
cupped according to the departments
directions and half were boxed after
the old method, showed that the
cupped trees yielded s1,284 per crop,
or over 80 per cent more than the
boxed tree. The experiment was con-
tinued for three seasons, showing that
there was no error in the apparent re-
suits.
Another result from the cupping
was that only foyty-fOur trees were
blown down in the cupped half Of the
plantation against sev~enty-eight in the
boxed section, anG of these only eight
of the cupper trees fell because they
had been weakened by turpentine,
while of the other half ffty-nine fell
because of cutting boxes into them.
The turpentine area, it is said, is
being reduced each year and leases
are costing more, and a great many
pine owners will allow cnpping by
lessees on their trees, while they will
not rent their forests at all for box
ing. The department has made a
thorough study of the industry and
has introduced several Improvements
in the work of cupping while the ex-
pertinent was being carried on. There
has been a great deal of prejudice to
contend against on the part of the
negro workmen, but the changes have
made the work quicker and easier, so
that the workmen who are on piece
work rapidly fell in with the depart
ment's ideas when they found that
they were making greater speed with
the new methods.
The ~turpentine industry is almost
unknown to the people of the north,
hut it means a great deal to the south
ern states, so that while the demon
stration in question seems like an
obscure corner for a great govern
ment department to be working in, it
is one of those points that the many
people benefited greatly appreciate.
and makes the departments work
easier when they break in" with new
and scientific methods to some other
field of agricultural endeavor.
M
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I~nculcate Politeness.

In social education make your child
quite letter perfect and give SO much
care to her drilling that without sug
gestion or prompting from you she will
at once advance and smile and listen
and answer. What pleases a growpup
most in a child is that it seems glad
to come forward. willing to leave its
game a moment, and be interested in
what is said.
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Premonitions of Great Men.

Commodore Perry was opening UP
Japan.
ut isn't so hard to do" he said. But
some day it will take all the rest of the
world to shut the lid down on it
Instructing the first mate to see if
there wasn't a Jap somewhere about the
ship surreptitiously learning the Nse-
crets of the art of navigation, he picked
up the morning paper and read with
deep interest the latest news OF the in
surrection in Russia.-Chicago Tribune.
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ABOUT RACE SUICIDE
ITORE WHOLESOME SENTIMENT
REGARDING DIGNITY OF
MOTHERHOOD.

President Roosevelt's Attitude -
Wholesome Sentiment Concerning
Motherhood, Now in Vogue -
Where the Real Danger Lies
Children Spend Money with Undue
F-reedom-Middle-C Glass Folk Too
Snobbish-"One Million Is Gen.
teel Poverty"-Women of Standing
Drink and Gamble.
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lieved it wuz better from a worldly
point of view to keep the Lords day
as He had commanded.
But he stood firm in his idees, or
as firm as he could on such a tottlin'
foundation, and that wuz where he had
his trouble with Lucy. Shed KEEP on
straight as a string, pious, believin'
Jest as she used to, in God the Father
Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth,
and in Jesus Christ His Son. She wuz
q sweet girl materially, full Of sperit
and intelligence and fun, but doin' her
duty everywhere, week day and Sun
day, and she follered the Beatitudes
and Commandments Jest as nigh as
she could. And the conlnand, Six
days shalt thou labor and do thy work,
and the seventh shalt thou rest wuz
engraved on her heart. And she felt
Jest as | did that to say nothin' OF
religious principle folks needed the
rest and Quiet Of one day in seven. to
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b
BY
JOSIAH ALIENS
WIFE
THE FASHIONABLE SABBATH.

Marietta Holley CtJosiah Aliens Wife,.
Author of MY Maynard Partner" MY
Opinions and Betsy. Bobbett's.' "Sa-
mantha at Saratoga" Samantha at
the st, Louis Exposition Etc, Tells the
Story CT a Prodigal Nephew Who Re-
turned to the Fold.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-02

Oscar Svordstrom, a Swede laborer,
was struck by the morning train from
Walla Walla yesterday just north of
Milton, and died at l o'clock from his
injuries.
According to the testimony given
by the trainmen and by Svordstrom
himself, who was conscious until II
O'Clock, he was sitting half asleep on
the side of the track, when the train
came along. It was at curve and
the man was evidently not seen until
the train was near him and II was too
late to stop. Svordstrom was i'm the
act of rising wher the pilot struck
him and hurled him distance of 20
feet
The train was at once stopped and
the injured man was placed aboard
and taken to Milton, where he was
given medical care. However, he was
so badly hurt that there was no hope
for him. His right hip was dislocat-
ed, four ribs were fractured near the
spinal column, and his lower law was
broken.
However, in spite of his injuries.
Svordstrom could talk, and he gave
his age as 40 years. and said he had
been in this country for % years,
having come here from Sweden. He
said his parents We're dead and he
had no relatives he cared to have no.
titled of his death. From his cloth
ing and articles found on his person
II is thought that the man was lum-
ber camp laborer A watch and s2.25
in money was all of any value found
on his person.
No blame was attached by Svord-
strom to the trainmen for his injury,
and 1t was not considered necessary
by Coroner Henderson to hold an in
quest. This afternoon the body of the
dead man was buried by the county at
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-02
INDIAN LANDS SOLD.
Over 1900 Acres Changed Hands
During the Past Year.

A special report just prepared by
the Indian commission, shows the fol.
lowing transactions in Indian lands IN
the past year:
Coded Indian lands were sold dur.
ing the past year as follows: Total
1886 acres. representing $791,SO7;
Colville agency Washington, 60S3;
Umatilla, Oregon. 2255; klamath river
agency, oregon. 375.
The following inherited Indian
lands were also sold last year: Idaho
Nez Perce, 2S2 acres, representing
$3.50; Washington, Colville and Yak.
ina agencies, S6S acres representing
$2S,769 Altogether 20,214 acres were
sold. The amount realized from their
sale, namely, $1,393,13l, has been de-
posted In banks and is protected by
bond. These moneys are drawing in
terest ranging from 2 to per cent
and are turned over to the Indians In
monthly instalments of $40 or more.
Instructions have also been issued
for the sale of Al 900 acres of ceded
Indian land in the Fort Hall reserya-
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-02
PORTLAND PROPERTY VALUES.
Total Assessed value for 1905 Will
Reach S2s,OOO, 900.

Portland, oct. 2.-The assessed
valuation of personal property in the
city is $2S,326,644 net against approx
imately $13,000,000 for last year ac-
cording to County Assessor B. d. Sig
Ter. He practically finished the work
of assessing the property in Multno-
nah county Saturday but no footings
were made OF any except the personal
property.
Estimating that the total valuation
of property in the city will be approx
imately $150,000,0OO according to the
assessor, the valuation of realty will
amount to approximately 1921, ,000,-
600.
Under the present assessment the
assessed valuations of property will
be treble what it was last year, fact
that is causing considerable uneasi-
ness among heavy taxpayers.
In making the assessment the as
SCISSOR has instructed his men TO as
sess all property at its actual value,
according to law. The Portland Con-
soidated Railway company's proper
ty, of which the rolling stock was as
sessed for SS48,795 last year, has a
valuation of s2.2Ol,42O placed on it
this year. other large corporations
have had their assessed valuations
raised accordingly.
on valuation of $150.0O0,0OO AS
SCISSOR Sigler has estimated roughly
that the tax levy on city property for
all purposes would be approximately
Is mills. If the footings are more or
less the rate will vary accordingly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-02
APPEAL TO HUNGARIANs.
Radical Leader Trying to Build for a
Hungarian Nation.

Buda Pest, Oct. deputy Seoltan
Lengyal, leader of the radical wing OF
coalitionists. today issued an open let
ter calling on all Hungarians in the
Austro- Hungarian army to aid the ma
tion in its distress.
He contends the Hungarian officers
should resign and soldiers ought to re-
fuse to obey orders issued in the Ger
man tongue. He also proposes a So
cial boycott against German and Aus
trian officers by the Hungarian popu-
lace. He points out there would not
be enough men left in the army to
punish the professors.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-02

San Francisco. oct. 2.-+Still held
immovable in a vioe-like grip on the
treacherous Fort Point rocks, and
settling farther astern with each new
wash of the sea, the liner Alameda
lies today almost a hopeless wreck.
About the vessel is a great fleet OF
tugs and small craft aiding to trans
fer the cargo. while insurance officials,
members of the Oceanic Steamship
company and divers busy themselves
about the steamers decks. Through
"A great hole in the bow the water is
fast filling the ship.
1t is reported that the vessel will be
abandoned, together with 60 per cent
of the cargo, valued at nearly $780,
eOQ.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-02

Changes at the Umatilla agency are
coming thick and fast since the trans
fer of Superintendent ]. j. McKDln
and Chief Clerk Robinson.
Last Saturday evening l. l.. Bam-
ber, who has been industrial teacher
at the Umatilla agency schooi for the
past 33 months. resigned his position,
and Miss Olive $. Rising, mat IN of
the school has resigned. as has also
Harry F. Markstrum, primary teacher.
The only appointments made to fiji
these vacancies so far are the tempo
rary appointment of Miss Purdy to
be assistant matron, i'm place Of Mrs
Swain who left for southern Califor-
mia several weeks ago. and of Miss
Blanch Adamson of Wisconsin. 10 be
primary teacher in place of Mr.. Mark
strum. The positions nf metron and
Industrial teacher are both vacant set.
Mr.. Bamber has been in the indian
school service for the past 10 years, a
portion of this time as superintendent,
and is an experienced aa1 capable
man in this line of work. lie VIII per
haps engage in bookkee ping or ether
clerical work in this city, as he Is an
experienced bookkeeper.
Appointments to these vacant posi-
tions will perhaps be delayed until
the arrival of Orville c. Edwards, the
newly appointed superintendent, who
is expected every day.