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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06
PROSPEROUS
FARMERS WIFE
NEARLY STARVED

Declaring she was actually starving
to keep from suffering any misery,
Mrs. Amy Peterson, wife OF q pros
porous farmer Of Lakesville, Miss,
gave out remarkable statement, re-
Gently. in connection with her relief
through the use Of Tanlac.
"Solnet,mse / wonder how lived
through it ALL" she said. II would
have attacks Of acute indigestion near
" everytime l ate anything. Those
terrible cramping pains and the dis
tress from gas and bloating were al
most unbearable and ! just thought
there was no hope for me.
"But now I'm eating anything and
feel as strong and well as ever felt
in my life. I've gained back all the
weight / lost and six pounds besides
and I know from my experience what
Tanlac will do. It's the best medicine
in the world"
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
Observation-Disclosures
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06
PEOPLES FORUM
LEGGETT SPEAKS OUT.

| Mr.. T. Payer sees nothing good for
the farmers OF Lafayette county, all
because 500 good honest tax paying
farmers have agreed and banded them
selves for the expressed purpose OF
shortening the route between produc-
ers of the soil mad consumers. OF the
above.
doubt if T. Payer is any more than
| d theoi. st as to the needs of a farm
ing class of people. He refers to the
Fart Bureau as huge, gigantic, COM
bine seeking to destroy all business
interest of Lafayette county or its
colEretitors large or stall. I. Payer
lit sou we're Bureau member and
wish to buy an article with only 2 per
cent. added for profit you would go
| to the Bureau, but as you are nom
member you pay per cent. That is
I the only distinction between members
and non mefbers. You charged IN
one Of your previous Forums that
distinction is made between members
ard non-fembers in regards to ship
ping. give as reference Dr.. W. y.
Heddleston and the fine directors,
that you are not intelligently informed.
| You have an absurd idea if you think
we are seeking to DESTROY the auto
mobile and silk stocking trade that
you so gallantly referred to.
T. Payer Cor checker player) why
should the commercial interests that
Won refer to. / guess you mean the
bankers and merchants object to the
| farmers having a store in Oxford.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06
cNurch Notes and Comments
.Mrs. q. q. Cail0NAy.

We IKE 70 remember that Christ,
while upon earth, made no such dis
tinction between the rich and the poor
as is sometimes made by unthinking
ones. His friends were from AZ
classes, just as are his worshipers q
to-day. Not what q man may possess
in worldly goods, but what he Is in
character determines his standing be-
fore God.
Senior League and preaching serv-
ice was conducted at the Methodist
church Sunday night in spite Of the
Indictment weather.
Did YOU read the article in lasa
weeks Eagle by Rev. w. /. Hargis?
If not, it will be worth your while to
look it up. It is both timely and
logical Bro. Hargis has great life
ard experience back Of his writing and
preaching.
We again beg the churches to help
us make this column interesting and
ilelpfu,. This space so literally do
mated BIZ the Eagle offers a great OPP
portunity. Numbers Of people over
the county have sent messages Of APP
probation to me One little invalid
woman said: Its all the preaching
/ hear and keeps me in touch with
what the church folks are doing.
Please keep it up."
We desire also to call attention to
our Camp Ground friends that we
want to meet at the Camp Ground
about Friday, the 7til day Of October
to complete some unfinished work.
Take your tools and dinner. The out
ing after season Of farm work will
do us all good. Let everybody 60.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06
please read / John Chap. 2.
0ur Advocate.

\
Our Advocate.
IN law. no man under trial need
make his own defense. Il he cannot
nrovide q lawyer-advocate, the court
win assign one to his case. And it Is
such an advocates duty to bring to
the defense Of the man under trial all
that can properly be presented. It Is
interesting to bear this in mind as we
think of the Lord Jesus as the Advo-
cate of all sinners who, for their sal
walton, have entrusted themselves to
him. A missionary in China has said
that Psalm 109:31 has been . help
and blessing to her: For he 1.-THE
Lord) shall stand at the right hand
of the poor, to save him from those
that condemn his SOUL" Christ is our
Advocate. An advocate is Zone that
says everything in your favor and not
a word against YOU" We are prais-
ing God for such an advocate? For
If we have received the Lord Jesus
as our Saviour, then his advocacy in
our behalf means his pointing TO his
own character, his own record, his
own righteousness, as oursl He has
become our Substitute, having paid
the full death-penalty Of our sins; and
now he takes our place; and what q
plea his record an righteousness are
That is the Good News offered to all
condemned sinners who will receive
Him.-S. School Times.
The atonement and advocacy of our
Heavenly Father is the only perma-
nent comfort and cure for sin sick
humanity.
With the opening of the Univer-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

How times do change. William J.
Bryan was arrested In Illinois the
other day for speeding.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

Employers tell us, also. that man
does better work in cotton shirt than
in silk one.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

It is very clear that somebody will
have to eat crow before the dove Of
peace returns to ireland.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

No: we don't know what will Be the
price Of cotton next year. 4 We did
know We wouldn't be editing the Ok
ford Eagle.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

Future wars, says q military expert,
will be fought in the air. Well, peace
Is there now.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06
illinois Central System Holds Raihoading
AsAthactive Now AsEver

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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

The British empire has Ireland. and
the United States has West Virginia.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06
CLASSIFIED

u. S. L. BATTERY STATiON-Old
Batteries mace new. Dead cells over
hauled making your battery good.
Saves buying new battery. Batteries
recharged. Give US trial. Quick
service. Battery service Station.
Holly Springs, Miss. Nov. lS-tf.
HAVE YOUR WOOD SAWED am
saving in Oxford this week, Stove
wood $1.25, foot length $1.00 per
cord. See me at once. j. l. Vincen.
1t-p.
HIGH GRADE PLEATING.--Ac-
Gordon, box, knife or side pleating.
Skirts, any style, SIPS postpaid. In
formation on pleating free. Satis-
ton guaranteed. Mrs. Mel0an's
Pleating House, Murray, Kentucky.
Oct. els.
POSTED-All my land is posted and
bird hunting will not be allowed. j.
w. Fulmer. Oct. 6-1S-20-27. pd.
WANTED Teams to haul dry luin-
Der from Iron bridge to Abbeville, S.
per thousand. Also want ten or fif-
teen good laborers. w. p. Brown &
Sons Lumber Co, Oxford, Route s..
ct 671a-20 pd.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

The way 70 ct business Is e 8
busy.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

With the opening of the Univer-
sity and High School our churches
and Sunday Schools are taking on
new life and inspiration.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-10-06

Biloxi-The body Of Mrs. Edward
Ravens. an alive Of Harrison county
who died in Meridian. arrived here and
interment was made IN the Wells bury
ing ground, on the Tchoutocabouffa
river, across the Back Bay Of Biloxi
Mrs. Ravens was 60 years Of age and
IS survived by her husband and thrse
brothers, George, A v. and Joseph
Foretsch.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-01
MOTOR CAR

Under a new law which has recently gone Into
effect in Ohio, it will be necessary for
drivers to carry with them the bill of sale for
their cars. While this will be a nuisance some
times to the honest man, 1t will be still more OF
a protection. 1t will make 1t easier to check UP
on stolen machines, to detect persons suspected
Of theft and to put an end to the trafhc IN
stolen cars.
Just like all other laws, this one will be the
object of much evasion. Doubtless there will be
more or less traffic in spurious sales bills. But a
little Investigation should soon determine wheth-
CT a bill of sale is genuine or not, and the doc
ument offers more tangible evidence than almost
anything else. In spite Of a new coat OF paint
and a new number on the car the bill or sale
will prove to be the sleuth hound which sooner
or later will track the deceiver to his lair.
1t would be a good thing If this law were
universal. AS it stands, it will help somewhat
in the interstate thievery cases, but until all the
states adopt a common code there can be no
general security.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-01
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
My Map

My Map
My face is not SURPRISING 500 but
it's the only n l have, and l won't
try to make it shine with paints or
unguents or salve. A friend of mine
bad small repose, he worried much
by day and night, because he had a
crooked nose that tapered gently to
the right. He spent about a humid
red bones with beauty doctors and
their ilk, who told him in caressing
tones. they'd make his beak, as fine
as silk. And now his lonely watch
he keeps, a sou of peace and JOY,
bereft, and when he sees his nose
he weeps, for now it tapers TO the
left. My aunt once had a lovely hide
her face like lilies kissed by dew; but
paint and powder she applied. to be
in line with all the crew. She doped
her face with liquid wax and kalso-
mine and Magic Spray. and now she
Is a battie-ax who makes the horses
run away. My nose and chin are all
askew, my c~ountenance is harsh and
plain, but / just leave it where it
grew-it doesn't cause me any pain
My whiskers form a brindled hedge
and oftimes obstruct the view. my
moles and freck1es stand on edge,
one eye is green, the other blue. But
when the beauty doctors come, and
ask to reconstruct my map (for
which they'd charge a p~rincely sum-,
I tell them I'm not such a sap.
Copyright. George Matthew Adams.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-01
THE COPPER WORKS FIELD

While it seems to be the popular thing to
knock the industries here and do everything
possible to retard their progress. there is one
feature in connection with the city's activities
for which one of our local industries must be
given credit. 1t is the Raritan Copper Works
athletic field.
These grounds were built primarily for the
company's employees. They are used by the cop
per works men, too. who get great deal of en-
ioyment out of them. But, thanks to a very
liberal, policy on the part of the copper works,
the grounds are used for all kinds Of local
sports. True, a fee is charged for the use of the
grounds when they are to be used for money
making purposes, but even at that, the satisfac-
grounds, enclosed and with grandstand and
bleachers, is something well worth while.
The grounds are, 1t is true, under the juris-
diction of the Raritan Copper Works Athletic
Association and that organization Is directly re-
sponsible for renting the grounds and for the
use that they are put to, but 1t Is through the
liberality OF the Raritan Copper Works that the
grounds are possible and they afford the whole
city an excellent athletic field for all kinds OF
sports, equal to any to be found in any place OF
this size.
The people OF Perth Amboy have gotten a
great deal of enjoyment out of the copper works
field and the company as well as the athletic
association which controls the grounds, are en-
titled to the thanks Of the community for the
benefits derived. Were it not for the copper
works field 1t would be difficult to have real
games in the city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-01
POWER

Coal made Great Britain great industriany'
and the United States likewise. For hair a GEN.
tury it has been regarded as the key 10 manu-
featuring success in any land. The war maze
it's value even more apparent-in France ana
Relcium. where the Germans Systematically
wrecked the mines, and in italy and Scandinavia
where the undersea war made supplies hard TO
come by.
Az q result. hydro-electric development is re-
ceivinr attention on the continent as never De-
rora ard ENGLAND. despite the relative abun-
dance of coal. has been led by labor difficulties
~ consider similar precautions, although at the
same time contemplating the development oil
electric power at the mine mouth whenever
feasible.
In France, and particularly in italy, wheh
water mower is plentiful, there is to be extensive
identification of railways within the next ie"
wears, together with a general linking tose'nei
of hvdro-electric plants calculated 10 sinipAA'
The broad and economical dissemination OF pow
or to every district. At the same time NORWAY
Sweden and Denmark are talking OF a pooiins
20 natural resources, and the latter country Is
.,readv using current brought from beyond the
Kattegat by submarine cable.
Auerica,s hydro-electric possibilities are IN
keeping with her area and her other ha'ui"'
resources, but thus far, save in a Few sec'ions'
there has been no intensive development Vi
available power. Indeed, it seems sometimes as
though the very wealth Of the country prove"
a handicap. Necessity, ever the mother OF IN
vention, has not yet stimulated American indus
try as it does that of neighbors overseas. Few
nations. indeed, have progressed faster than they
4 mad TO. "a
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-01

interest of the taxpayers to see that the law is
changed. Senator Parry proposes to Introduce a
bill that will change 1t. 1t is up to Middlesex
county to send men to the legislature who will
vote for Senator Parry's bill.
AS a matter Of fact, the EVENING NEWS.
along with a great many others, believe that
for general traffic on country roads there is
nothing that will wear like concrete. 1t has
also been demonstrated that a concrete road is
less expensive to build. As to the wearing quail
tiles, We have a striking illustration as to the
merits of the two kinds of pavement right here
in our OWL county.
II concrete is cheaper and at the sam time
stands up under the traffic better. that is the
kind of pavement to build. The least that can
be expected is to permit direct competition be-
tween concrete and bitulithic. For every bid
received for a stretch of highway to be paved
we would like to see figures submitted for all
three kinds of pavement.
New Jersey. at the present time, is sewed up
to the patent pavement trust. There is good
reason to believe that excessive prices are being
paid for paving the highways of the state and
county because of this apparent monopoly.
To break up this combination and give the
people real value for their money and at the
same time secure the best pavement possible, it is
necessary to have men at Trenton this winter
who will stand by Senator Parry in his effort to
secure open specifications for the pavement Of
roads.
Every candidate for the legislature. either for
the senate or the assembly. ought to be made to
go on record on this issue. The voters are en-
titled to know how the candidates stand. If they
refuse to pledge themselves to vote for open
specifications in the matter Of road contracts
they ought to be defeated. The hold that the
patent pavement interests have on this state
must be broken.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-01
The VolgaB Basin: Russia F anime Region
Prepared BY
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

"Once more a solemn chant arises
from the great plains of Russia. Opce
more a deep melancholy SOUNDS
above the slowly flowing waters OF
Mother Volga," says a bulletin issued
by the National Geographic Society
in regard to the famine region OF
Russia. For years, the minor
| strains of the old time boatmen.
| tracking the monotorous shores OIL
| .Matushka Volga,' with crude tow
ropes brushed by unkempt boards
and cutting deep INTO bulky shout
ders, and with rude tanbark clogs
pressed deep in the soft clay, Great
ed a vivid impression of the clumsy,
melancholy soul of a mournful land,
above which the brilliant gaiety OF
the chosen few of the cities blazed
forth like a beacon CLEAN IN the Gull
watches of the night.
For years. the great masses of
Russia struggled toward n hSht'
Then came war. Skilled men were
snatched from their tools and has
tened to the Carpatbians and the
Mazurian Lakes. Highly specialized
machinery was switched from its &C
customed task to the making of mu-
nitions of war. Shops where Volga
barges were constructed began max
ing seventy-five centimeter guns.
Railway repair shops were neglected
while munitions pants worked at
fever heat, some of them
shells which would fit no Russian
gun but which fitted perfectly the
German guns. Rolling stock. deter
iorated, industry slowly strangfed the
manhood of Russia was moving
down by enemy guns. But the clumsy
4 49,. ,e IN. Nnlon npaSlnr
battling neroically against the Ids
was reflected in the Russian ranks
during three years of discouraglng
war.
The Iron Horse Dies
"Then freedoml Distant conflict
forgotten for the political change
which meant immediate liberty. at
first whole-souied and confident later
turned to license amid which con-
Istructive labor almost ceased to func-
ton. Forests projected for humid
reds of years by the rule of telling
only one thirtiesh of the stand in n
one year crashed low before the
workers who fought to protect the
CAPITAL and the metropolis from the
cold of the Russian winter. com
tiyes which had carried the surplus
Ecrops of a world sranary to the AL
lied Armies. began to Wheeze aco
weaken like spawned horses with the
heaves. Rusting engines hned up on
rusting tracks in dozens OF division
points, Baku, with it's oil stoves and
the Donetz basin with it's coal. passed
beyond Russian control.
mo longer did food trains from
Siberia roll across the Urals to the
more thickly settled parts of Euro
pean Russia. Nor could ~agricultur-
al machinery find its way to the ST.
berian fields where the old machin
ery had fallen into disrepair. The
huge crops which were usual In the
North Caucasus and the black earth
belt along the middle Volga were not
loaded on the ~low-lying barges which
formerly breasted the summer cur
rents of the great river. en- route to
the canals that lead to Petrograd.
rRsturning soldisrs forced thstr
"A Az -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-01

way into the immaculate decks of the
Volga passenger boats. where n
once sat behind wide bow windows
enclosing the whole front of the boat
and watched the low lying country
slide by while some artist played
away at the grand piano and the pas
sengers slowly slipped their kvass.
The most comfortable river steamers
in the world began to show the wear
and tear of the hobnailed boots of
Mars. The porcelain basins in the
individual cabins showed streaks Of
CRIME. Three years in the trenches
do not turn muzhiks into exquirites.
and the Volga steamers suffered. And
now for more than two years. the
Volga has been a sad, slow stream.
flowing silently on and mourning the
deepening misery which was to have
been new joy.
The City of the Fair
First, far up in Central Russia,
there was Mini Novgorod. perched
high IN a hill between the Okla and
the Volga, which there unite. From
the river one could see the ancient
( Kremlin with its weathered walls
made beautiful by the fingers of frost
and the beating of the summer rain.
And when one climbed the path and
looked off across the Okla there was
the cream and green Cathedral of
Saint Alexander Nevski, grand duke
of Vladimir. who repulsed the Swedes
when Russia still was young. And
further to the left one could see the
long lines of shops marking the site
of the famous Fair. which lasted
from July Is to September 10 of
every year and brought traders from
| ~ ,,oor NartS nf Asia that Htirin o.
the season the pontoon bridge
across the Okla became as cosmopoli-
tan in aspect as the Galata Bridge
that limits Constantinople's Golden
Horn.
"Then comes kaZan, a center OF
Turanian invasion in years long gone,
where Mahommedan still
vie with the Orthodox churches with
their dubious dornes, and where the
hamals who load the steamers at
the Volga docks three miles away
look like laborers picked up in the
coffeefouses that line the CONSTANT
nople water front. The women,
though stubby figured and clumsy,
fashioned the finest of lace when
winter hung like a pail above the
Russian countryside.
"A little farther down are the ruins
VI bulsdlld. a CITY tIlIOuSA WillSIt a
thousand influences poured when the
Monaghan hordes swept into Eu-
rope. Trinkets from all parts OF
Asia and the Mediterranean Islands
found there reveal the trade routes
that once passed that way. 1t is near
Bulgaria that the Kama branches off
from the larger river and carries
ests of the Urals at Perm.
estsof the UralS at Perm.
Russian Farming Lacks Science
"As n continues down the Volga
Samara is the next large city. There
the great government grain eleva-
tors have often been full to overflow
ing with food from the black earth
belt and in lear years have yawned
wide before a crop too small to feed
the farmers themselves.
1.-The Russian has always been a
careless farmer and the average
wheat yield before the MAx was less