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VOL. XX. NO 30
' VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY APRIL 23, 1903-
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
Some day every man will stop
grumbling.
Love uncovers inoro faults than
it covers.
Reckless while young; a wreck
■when old.
The public will uot give you a
chance to explain.
A cure for a lot of trouble is
bolding the tongue.
Iu art, the figure of a man is nev
er used to represent patience.
The older you get, the less pleas
ure you fin3 in amusoment.
People -who work without plan
ning never accomplished much.
Very few* men can successfully
combine business with pleasure.
The preacher does not demand a
marriage fee, but he expects it,
The pathway of love has more pit-
falls in it than any ooursc in life
The fewer words a man knows,
tho more profanity he is apt to use.
Those who will bear the most
watching aro tho ones unwilling to
bo watchsd.
The more you argue with a fool
ish man, the more determined he is
to have his way.
I he young man who stays too
late is not apt to be appreciated by
the old folks.
Did you ever see a student return
from college without being pom
pered up with style?
There seems to bo an ambition iu
some men to make those around
them uncomfortable.
Compliments, litce love letters,
sound very silly to those not ad
dressed.
Distinction, but not the right
kind, comes early to the young man
whq flies high,
' While you are fooling others,
others are fooling you. A straight
forward course is better.
v ou can snmetimes tell how long
a couple hus been married by the
distance apart they walk.
You cannot do anything with
stubborn man. The more you ar-
1 gue, the tougher ho gets.
Some parents are so orabid that
it is a wonder that they do not snap
up the Lord in their prayers
Some men are so cunons that it
would just kill them to die and uot
know what is on the other side.
The girl who never receives com,
pany alone may be the pink of per
fection, but she is not popular.
If you tell a girl she has bcauti
ful hair, she may watch it so close
that she will neglect her finger
nails.
The woman who makes her hus
band’s shirts ought to be regarded
as a heroine and have her picture in
the papers.
No matter bon- many fancy paper
cutters a woman has about the
house, she uses a hairpin to open
her letters.
|r Did you ever see a woman stand
up without putting her hand to the
back of her belt? Or a man sit
■ down without moving the chair?
With all the education and traiu-
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Man’s recreation is going homo,
woman's going away.
There are now over 700 lady uni
versity graduates in Ireland.
The Hangler- sisters, London
papers say, havo the most beautiful
hands in the world.
In South America chrysanthe
mums often measuro fifteen inches
in circumference.
Some Japaneso young girls, when
they desire to look extremely capti
vating, gild their lips.
Mys, Mary Ann Cooper, the orig
inal of Dieken’s Little Dornt, is
still living at tho age of niitety
years.
What is more repulsiye than a
man or woman with dirty teeth?
Clean them every day. You will
feel better.
The timid girl does not tremble
and get pale because she is afraid,
but is afraid because she trembles
and gets pale.
Uome of our sex whon seen walk
ing down tho "street have too much
of a mannish gait. Don’t swing
your arms or take such long strides,
A Philadelphia girl has sued a
hospital dootor at the rate of. $332
a square inch for skin be removed
from her to graft on another patient.
Girls from Germany are now on-
tieed to go to South Afrioa where
flattering tales aie told them con
cevning the grand opportunities.
Have you planted your flower
seeds? Make an extra effort this
year and plant something new.
Try and have a bed of flowers dif
ferent from the other folks.
Mrs. Jacob Vanderbilt, who ob
tained a divorce from ber husband
in 1800, has opened a store in Fifth
Avenue, New York.
The father of twins has arrived
at the conclusion, a looal paper says,
that the reason the doctor is called
a “stork” at certain, times is on ac
count of the size of his bill
The finest oomploxions in tho
world are said to be in the Bermu
das. This is accounted for by the
fact that the inhabitants live most
entirely on onions. So much for
onions.
Queen Alexandria has adopted
high neok gowns for theater wear,
and a cablegram from London say s
the smart set is muoh exercised.
Those people need exercise.
The men of Mercer county, Pa.,
are trying hard to be arrested by
the sheriff who is Miss Mary O.
Lytle, a beautiful young lady. She
is very successful in enforcing the
law.
Should Queen Wilhelmina remain
childless, there is no Hollander of
birth who is entitled to ascend the
throne. The people would be
ruled by a German Prince, who is
next m succession.
Quite the dressiest of the bats
which are to be worn so generally
for all save dress occasions are those
made of raffia, that grass fibre
which is constantly adapting itself to
some novel use.
Infanta Eulalie, the Princess
from Spain, who created such a lot
ing the girls get in college, when of excitement in America several
the mother gets sick they have to years ago, is trying to have the
send off lor a neighbor to come'pope annul her marriage. She
and make the mustard plaster. wants to marry a Frenchman.
EDITORIAL.
There are 3,630 persons living in
tho United States who are 100 years
old. .
Uncle Sam employs nearly 7,600
women in the various departments
at Washington.
One pound of washed wool pro
duces ou au average, a yard of
cloth thirty six inches wide.
Over 1,000,000 bibles are sold in
Chicago oveay year. The sale is
better than any ten of tho so-called
best selling books
The Mint at Philadelphia turned
out more than 70,000,000 bright
new oentB last yea. one a-piooo for
every man, woman and ohild in tho
United States.
Infant mortality is something
frightful. We oan hardly realize 1
that of all the children born in civ
ilized countries, nearly one-forth
die beforo thoy reaoh one year.
The late Mr. Swift, worth about
$12,000,000, says “that no young
man is rich enough to smoke 25
cent cigars. Also “you oan novor
make a big suoocss working for
somebody else."’
A biO sanitarium is being built at
Alamagordo, New Mexico, es
pecially for consumptives. This
place has been designed as the
best in the world for tho cure of tu
bercular diseases.
Starting in a small way fifteen
years ago, Chicago’s municipal
electric lighting plant, now the
largest in the word, has according
to its current report, paid for itself
and nas $136,000 to its eredit.
Tho Rev. Father Coffee, of St,
Louis, says that women should not
be relegated to the kitchen and nur
sery as their Bphere, bu. on the con
trary, they should take part in pub
lie affairs generally.
Sir Thomas Upton, like tho
sporty old boy that ho is, would
like to. see an old-time steamboat
raoe duiing tho world’s Fair at St.
Louis, but as mueb as all of us
would like to please our good-loser
friend, we fear it is impossible,
This country invented the parlor,
sleeping and dining cats, the
pressed steel freight oar, many of
the best features of the modern lo-
oomotivee the airbrake, the auto
matic coupler, and a host of related
devices, and it runs the fastest long
distance trains.
One factory in Ohio turns out a
hundred million finished matches
each ^twenty-four hours. Fifty
million feet of lumber is used an
nually in the United States in the
manufacture of matches, an indus-
tsy which gives employment to
some fifteen thousand people.
The bureau of soils of the agri
cultural department now has a force
of over 100 persons, seventy-five of
whom bad a scientific training. Its
object is to show the conditions and
resources of the soils of the country,
and to give tho people precise and
accurate knowledge regarding the
possibilities of each kind of soil.
Gut.avus W. Swift, president of
Swift & Co's packing firm, died
recently in Chicago. He was born
at Sandwich, Cape Cod, in Massa
chusetts, on June 24, 1839. Nine
children and his wife mourn his loss
He was the first to ship beef out of
Chicago in retrigerator care. He
was probably worth $20 000,000.
ALL SORTS.
Be a hustler.
Clean your cellars.
Germany has 32,000 miles of
Bteam railway.
Petroloum is tho fuel ol all the
locomotives in Asia.
Now York city now has twelve
regular schools for nurses.
Ohio collects over $4,000,000 in
licenses from 10,730 saloons.
Tho total population of Canada
equals that of the stale of Ohio.
India’s population is 3,000,000,
one-fifth of all the people in tho
world.
There aro 3,842 temperanco so-
c etics among boI.ooI children in
Belgium.
The best a man ever did should
not be his standard for tho rest of
life.
Au inoubator in ubo in Australia
has a oapaoity of 11,440 duok’s
eggs or 14,080 hen’s eggs.
Although the air iB free Maroont
has increased tho capitalization ot
his stock company from $1,000,000
to $1,600,000.
Tho man that doesn’t know his
business from tho top dear down to
the bottom isn’t any kind of a bus
iness man.
One hundred pressed steel oars
are to be delivered to tho Penney!
vania Railway Company evory day
during the current half year.
It is generally known that stones
possess a species of life in at least
that they grow from small begin
nings frequently to enormous size.
The Greoian government has or
dered its annual Bupply of refined
petroelum, 1,000',000 gallons in ten
gallon cans, from the United States.
The new solar plexus corset that
has been invented may ho hailed by
Coi. James Jawbaok Corbett as a
long-felt want filler in his ring bus
iness.
Machine oil may recover and re
move all trace of any scratches
you may get on oak or walnut fur
niture., Drop a little on and rub
with woolen cloth.
There is alwajs a place in town
and city for tho boy who is willing
to work. He is needed everywhere,
and he .need never be without
position.
Booker T. Washington says that
‘ ‘the negro must work out his own
political and social salvation- A
negroe’s greatest fault is lack of
progress,”
Canton, South Dakota, has gone
into the divorce business. They
want the wealthy to come and reside
there while procuring their desi
rab’e changes.
Editor Webb, of the Bosworth,
Mo.,) Weekly Star, puts this head
line over his announcements of
births, marriages and deaths:
“Yells, Bells and Knells.”
No matter at what you are work
ing do tho very best you can". The
boy or girl who starts out in life
with this thought foremost will
surely make a success.
Young man, when you walk along
the street, don’t mope along as if
you were halt dead. Throw hack
your shoulders and move along as
if you intended to be somebody.
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
Milk in any form is both meat
and drink to laying hens.
Observe wbioh lions are the best
layers and breed from them.
A cow’s hide produces 36 pounds
or leather, and that of a horse about
18 pounds.
It pays to feed in a trough or on
a floor. If fed on tho ground a hog
will get too much sand.
Rniso hogs for tho money they
will bring, not merely keep them to
drink your swill and eat refuse.
If horses have pin-worms try an
injection of soab suds and weak to-
haooo tea night and morning.
Temperament is one of the char
acteristics of an animal that is not
oheoked up on tho soore oard.
Black teeth in pigs do not indi
cate disease. Just what oausos
them has cover been satisfactorily
explained.
Thore are 140 members of tho
North Dakota legislature, and of
them 61 are funders and only 2 are
lawyers.
Judges say that hens lay better and
eggs keop longer if mules are not
allowed with them, but the eggs
will not bo fertile.
Many unoccupied feuoe corners
might bo growing a treo if set there.
In a few years it would he a source
of beauty and oomfort.
Minnessota is called the bread aud
butter state. Last-year hor mills
turned out 20,030,600 barrels of
flour and churned over 00,00Q
pounds of butter. -
For two years the slaughter of
cows, heifers and calves, for sale as
meat is prohibited iu the Transvaal,
under penalty of $260 tine or six
month’s imprisonment.
U When planting trees why not put
in something tdat will bring re
turns. Thin locality is favorable to-
pecan trees, they will yield about
$300 when bearing, think this over.
At the late poultry show at Kan
sas City a three-year-old hep sold
for $lol. This neats $4,000 for a
pig or $12,600 for a shorthorn and
beats Shamrock, who only brought
about $10 per pound, including all
the prizes he won.
An English writer bn the 'horse
says: The horse oan conveniently
eat for tw'eu.y hours out of the
twenty four. A horse in good
health has a good appetite at all
times, is able to stand plenty o
work and is rarely on the sick list.
it takes 200,000 cows to supply
Chicago with milk. These auimals
require 11)0 square miles of pasture.
The milk is delivered before break
fast, one hundred railroad oars are
required each day to carry the milk
into Chicago.
Wine lor horses: The recent
large vintages in France recall the
jears, 1874 aud 1875, 'when the
wine was so abundant that it wa H
given to the horses. It w as claimed
that il oats were soaked iu wine
the horses would not ntea hall the
usual q uantuy for the same amount
of work.
Scientists tell us that the grip
germ is ono-sixleeuth cl an lueft
long and one-eigh ty-ihousanth of
'an inch wide. Bui people who
| have had the grip think it is as big
f as a bat.