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VOL. XX. NO 40
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY APRIL 30, 1003-
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
Get through with your work and
thon play.
Most people boast of having good
neighbors.
No man is so mean that he has no
good qualities.
Women are not born to vote, but
to love those who do.
Lots ot good things cost more
than they are worth.
If you loaf, you are liable to
drift into bad habits.
Onoe in ten years is often enough
for a man to lose his temper.
Purer thoughts in private would
insure purer deeds in publio.
Some homes are so gloomy that
it makes us sad to pass by them.
Every one should remember that
there are two sides to every story
If you have a sick friend, send
some pudding instead of all flowers.
The liberty given to ohildren is
often very expeniive to the parents.
A Woman dreadB the wrinkles
about like a man dreads to be bald.
A shrewd • agent can disturb
every business man in town in a
day.
We should have too much respeot-
for the old to say that the good die
young.
To stop a woman from abusing
you, begin in an humble way to
abuse yourself.
Th^ta is very little ohanoe of
harp coming to you while you stay
in your plaoe.
When a man is sick, he gets so
oross that he does not know whether
he wants company or not.
An argument with a bias man is
never satisfactory; and it is safe to
say that 9 out of 10 are biased.
A man who does no more work
than is necessary to hold Lis job, is
not apt to get his wages raised.
Now and then we see. a man who
is willing to sit around the house
and let the women folks support
him.
When a boy refuses to scrub his
hands clean, send him to a oandy
piling and he will bring them back
all right.
A man finds it about as hard to
keep his expenses down as it does
for a small boy to keep his, stock
ings up.
The surest way to find out what a
failure your party was, is to slip
around and bear what your kin had
to say about it.
If a woman would grow delerious
of a dollar she has to spend,. what
will she do when she gets to draw
ing her husband's salary?
In a neighborhood the woman
who gets her men folks off to work
earliest, enjoys a distingtion not
obtained in social gatherings.
When married people see a bride,
they get so busy at wondering how
long her happiness will last that
they forget to look at her clothes.
A question that has kept kings
awake at night and puzzled parents
for two thousand years, is how to
keep real lovers separated from each
, other.
Occasionally you will find
a friend who will sit up with you
all night when you are sick; and if
you are delirious and tell things, he
will make it two.
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Booker. T Washington’s wifespoke
at a meeting ot the Federation of
Woman’s Clubs at Boston recently.
Mrs. Margaret E. Armour gives
$40,000 to Kansas City Woman’s
Christian association to establish a
home for worthy.
When baking potatoes stiok them
deeply with a fork before puting
them in the oven. They will cook
better and quicker.
It really doesn’t pay to elope.
Elnora Lookhart, of Pittpburg ran
away with a man and was married
and now she will only get a small
part of $40,000.
A fashion note says that bathing
suits will be considerably reduoed
this summer. And the attractive-
nesB of the seashore will be corres*'
podingly increased,
Misb Mary E. Priteyman is the
fastest typewriter heard of yet.
She recently wrote 17,600 words in
six and one-half hours in the United
States Patent Offioe.
To clean plaster of paris orna
ment , cover them with a thiok
coating of starch and allow it to bo-
oomo perfectly dry. Then it may
be brushed off and the dirt with it.
It has been said that women who
have been forced to go out into the
world and hustle for themselves, or
these who have had a few years of
business life, make the most con
tented housewives.
Miss Henrietta A. Kelly, special
agent m silk investigation, has pre
pared a bulletin in relation to the
cultivation of the silkworm, which
has been issued by the United States
Department of Agriculture.
English women of social distinc
tion run laundries, millinery shops
and lunohrooms, but they leavo the
work of the management of them to
paid employees. The American
woman as a rule, prefers to manage
her own business.
Thirty-yards of cotton cloth may
be bleached in fifteen minutes by
one large spoonful of salsoda and
one pound of chloride of lime dis
solved in hot water; after taking out
the cloth rinse it in soft cold water,
so that it may not rot.
There are men and women who
make it a business of going to Eu
rope or Asia and bringing to Amer
ica pretty girls, whom they sell to
others who farm them out for im
moral purposes. The governments
are looking into this business.
A woman in Seattle, after a child
less married life of several years,
presented her husband with four
girl babies, each of the ordinary
size and weight. With suoh a con
stituency President Roosevelt will
be satisfied that there is no danger
of the exhaustation of the race.
Te make a cheap floor' stain mix
one part of Brunswick blaok with
seven parts of turpentine. Apply
to the wood with a flat brush. Next
day polish with beeswax and tur
pentine. Use more or less turpen
tine to make lighter or darker stain.
The girls in China seldom go to
school unless they are ohildren of
very rioh people. School begins
before daylight and after studying
their lessons aloud for .two hours
they recite then go home to break
fast and return to sohool. How
would our girls like this.
EDITORIAL.
One death in every 112 in the
United States is a murder.
When the reoent act ot Congress
beoomes effective the nayy will
have almost 30,000 oflioers and men.
Illinois is said to have more miles
of railroads and more miles of bad
w agon roads than any other state in
the Union.
Tho total wealth of the world is
estimated at $400,000,000,000. Of
this amount the United Stats in 1909
had $94',300,000,000 or nearly one-
fourth.
'I he government now isbucs one,
two, four and five ceiit stamped en
velopes. Eaoh has a different de
sign and larger than the ordinary
stamp.
More men have died and are bur
ied in the Isthmus of Panama, along
the line of the proposed canal,
than any other equal amount of ter
ritory of the world.
The prospect of a parcel post
agreement between Great Britain
and tho United States, is now en
oouraging. Suoh a service would
undoubtedly be useful.
There are eight gold dollars in
the national treasury for every man,
woman and child in the United
States. The beautiful part of it is
we are not compelled to pay tax on
them.
It is said that our soldiers in tho
Philippines are very nearly all
baldheaded. It is said that the
warm weather causes the hair to be
almost continually wet, thus caus
ing baldness.
Thomas A. Edison in a reoent
interview said: “I believe that in
thirty years nearly all railways will
discard steam locomotives and adopt
eleotrio motors, and that the eleo
trio automobile will displace the
horses almost entirely.”
The postofiice of New York City
has thirty-two stations and 169 sub'
stations. In it is handled daily
460 tons of mail matter. N Fourteen
stamp cancelling machines eaoh
handle 28,000 letters an hour.
The U nited States has wealth of
$1,236 per person. Australia has
$1,229, Denmark $1,106, Canada
$980, and Holland $878 per person.
Among all the nations the percent
age of debt to wealth is lowest in
the United States.
The earth is about 92,000,000
miles from the sun, and Mars 139,-
000,000 miles; but the orbit of
Mars is not a oircle around the sun,
but is much elongated, so that its
distance from the sun varies 36,-
000,000 miles. The orbit of the
earth is also somewhat elongated,
the variation being less than 3,000,-
000 miles.
Congress appropriated $12,500,-
000 for tho rural delivery service
during the next fiscal year, begin
ning July 1, and the department
will establish 16,000 new routes on
the money. Thus it is-expected by
tfii -end of the nCxt fiscal year to
have 30,000 rural carriers, in motion
and 15,000,000 people living out-i
ALL SORTS.
Make “suooess” your watohword.
Marconi is only 28 years of age.
Better be rioh in a small place
than poor in a large one.
Eaoh year about one hundred sea
vessels are lost without record.
The mines of South Africa give
work to between 60,000 and 70,000
men.
A tod of ooal is equivalent to two
cords of wood for steam heating
purposes.
In the colony of Japanese in New
York City thero are about 1,000
men and but thirty women.
Greeoe has as many people as
Miohigan and as many aores us
West Virginia.
% .
In bulk the world’s produot of
potatoes equals that of wheat and
corn combined.
The best timber known for ship
building is Teak, a forest tree com
mon to India.
The largest church in tho world
is St. Peter's at Rome, accommo
dating 64,000 persons.
St. Louie vegetarians are plan
ning to establish in that oity a co
operative vegetarian restaurant.
Subscribe for your local paper
and let the whole family know
what is going on in your midst.
Chicago dealers say they have
sold more Easter hats and bonnets
than ever before, and all for looks
A Danish inventor has perfected
a machine which he has styled an
exoioiator for'making milk flour,
The boy’s fortune is half made
who is born with a smiling pres
ence, an affable tongue and an or
dinary brain.
An Indianopolis, Ind., firm will
pay for your marriage lioense if
you buy $35 worth of goods
of them. What next?
The average consumption of ooal
for steam boilers is 12 pounds per
hour for each square foot of grate
surface.
Too many easy chairs at the hot
tom of the ladder of activity may
aooount for the faot that there is
always room at the top.
Few men arrive suddenly at the
top of the hill of Suooess, and few
suddenly topple from Virtues path
to the slough of depravity.
A London scientist has discov
ered that germs can be shaken to
death. Keep this in mind—shake
your germs before taxing.
Next to Liverpool, Bremen is
the leading cotton market of Europe,
In the year 1900 Bremen bought
1,557,054 bales.
A German statistical shark has
figured out that an ordinary man
who lives seventy years eats about
$10,000 worth of food.
Iowa is going to have one of the
largest and most magnificent corn
palaces ever built at their exhibit at
the St Louis Fair.
Man is probably the only animal
that finds fun in killing—the only
animal that kills other animals' for
the fun ot killing them.
Don’t wear a worried look.
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
Tell your farmer triends about
this column of your paper.
Set out a strawberry patch this
spring if you have none.
It is said that gray horses 1 attain
a greater age than those of any
other oolor.
side of- cities *nd town will have jThink of the thousands of people
their letters and papers delivered at who are muoh worse off than you.
their doors.
That’s right, smile a little.
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If you want your farm to pay,
youv’e got to study it. Don’t be
blind and plant the wrong stuff on
the wrong ground.
Manure adds to the productive
ness of the land as soon as it is ap
plied, but all the substanoe is not
used up m one season.
The young man who is starting
out in life our advice is to be a
farmer. You will never have to
beg to sell your corn or eggs and
butter.
If you have an innubator on the
premises at work yy| had better Bee
your insurance oompany and thus
avoid possible trouble in case of a
fire.
Encourage the young folks to
excell in some speoial work on the
farm. Raise a certain breed of
hogs, oattle and ohiokens. The
young folks will be interested.
. See that the collars fit your horses
well. A man who never has a horse
with a sore neck or shoulder bathes
this part with a strong deootion of
white oak bark.
The matter of deep or shallow
cultivation is one that is frequently
disousBed, yet the question is un
settled so far as the cultivation of
shine orops is concerned.
With the rural deliyory of mail,
the telephones and hard roads, what
is the neoeBsity of the man and wife
moving to town. You will be more
contented in the oountry.
By grafting a tomato vine into;; a
potato plant the state experiment
station of Minqesspta now has a
plant on the roots are potatoes and
tomatoes qn the .same plant above
ground.
Why is it that some farmers make
money,and have a good time while
others: have nothing but drudgery
and nothing to. show for it? There
must be something in the business
management.
As to “corn wheat.” The De
partment of Agriculture in Wash
ington has of late received an im
mense number of inquiries relating
ting to a certain kind of grain
which has been advertised as “corn
wheat,” and is said to produce as
much as sixty bushels of grain to
the acre in regions where water is
very soarce and ordinary wheat and
Indian corn will not grow to ad
vantage. In reply to these inquir
ies the department has stated that
there is no such grain as “wheat
corn,” but • that the cereal in
question is properly named ‘ ’Polish
wheat, ’ though not a native of Ro
land. It is questioned, however, if
it will make any large yield, none
of this family of wheats producing
any very great quantity of grain.
As to its feeding qualities it isstatqd
that it will probably proye an ex
cellent feed for hogs -when ground
and it may be valuable for making
macaroni, but in the meantime the
department advocates its culture
only in an experimental way.