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D L Hedderson |3
VOL. XX. NO 45
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY JUNE 4, 1003
TERMS $1.00 PER YEA.**
We will not continue the paper to those who do not pay for it. It is only a dollar.
Every loater gets lots of nbiioc.
No sane man will admit all he
thinks.
If a home is well regulated every
girl knows her duty.
Some days we feel almost com
pelled to believe in luck.
Happy should be the man who
can always meet his bills.
A cook apron on a woman gives
her an appearance of business.
There is a hope for a man until
hs becomes proud of his bad habits.
To get along with your neighbors,
keep your chickens on your own
side.
Lots of people call it visiting when
they are only sponging on their rel
atives.
The longer a woman’s skirts, the
more she has to gather up when she
secs a rat.
Whon you shake hands with some
people, you feel like you had han
dled a toad.
The girls are coming in from
school with new ideas aLon* how to
do up their hair.
Sometimes a girl graduate proves
to be the most worthless . piece of
property in the family.
Every woman has a horror to get
ting so large that a coat sleeve will
not reach around hey.
A man doesn’t know how many
people he knows until he walks up
the street with a black eye.
At this season of the year the cit
izens of the town will sit around and
tell what ought to be done.
Home people who pretend to be so
very nice should show some of it in
What they take in their mouth.
Some men seem never to want to
turn loose a law suit until the Su
preme Court takes a guess at it.
One of the surest signs of spring
is to sec a woman iu the back yard
pouring hot water on a bedstead.
Sometimes a man will sit still till
the procession passes and then say
that it is just his tuck to be behind
Some men don’t seem to think
they are looking wise unless they
are propping . their feet on the
table.
Vou may scold a woman’s dog
and say what you please about ner
preacher, but you must not abuse
her doctor.
Some women think they can show
true frisndship to those in trouble
by sitting beside them and holding
their hands.
Boys in search of a job seem not
to know that their sissy appearance
is against them. They should part
their hair on the side.
Unless a mother exaggerates the
income of her daughter’s intended,
it is a sign that she is not very well
pleased with the match.
It is quite the Btyle for a girl to
lake a year lor getting ready for her
marriage, but on a pinch she could
get ready in five minutes.
People slosh around and pretend
a great deal, but filially settle down
to their common level and . every
body knows what they'are.
A woman who is used to keeping
boarders is very valuable to society,
owing to her ability to tell how
muoh salad it will take to go around.
In northern Spain many women
work in the fields at 12 to 18 conts a
day.
Bottles should never be cleaned
with shot as there is a risk of lead
poisoning.
Cultivate a love for the beautiful
iu your children by teaching them
to cultivate fiowors.
Girls, bo scusiblc. Don’t giggle
at every little thing yon say. It
doesn't sound or look well.
Good exercise in any form will do
more for a woman’s complexion than
any lotion and it has an immediate
effect.
The shirt waist suit has become
quite the smart thing for almost any
occasion that does not call for even
ing suit.
Girls, don’t be ashamed of your
old father and mother. Take them
with you occasionally and treat
them to the dainties.
Most women are too easily slight
ed tnemselves and too onreless about
slighting others. It’s good to prac
tice a little serenity.
Do not sorape a fryi.ng pan, as it
is liable afterwards to burn. In
stead rub well with a hard crust of
bread and wash in hot water.
We beard a girl say the other day
she wanted her father to get a new
suit before sho got her new dross.
Don’t attempt to remove dust
with oold water. Give the face a
hot bath with soap, and then rinse
with thoroughly dear tepid or cold
water.
If yon do not have an appetite for
breakfast, get up early and walk a
few mileB and see what a ohange it
makes. Do this every morning.
A new lampwiek should be soaked
in vinegar. If this is done there
will be neither smell nor smoke and
a much brighter light will be given
Isn’t it the craziest thing how
some women put beladonna in their
eyes to make them bright and beau
tiful, when all in the world they
need is a sunny thought?
There are some places in the coun
try where the town girl could have
a good time and grow strong by
simply helping the mother about the
house for her boaid.
But one-eighth of a floating ice-!
berg is above water.
There are 4,500,000 miners and
quarry men iu the world.
An Angora goat packing house is
soon to ho started in Kansas City.
Ohio is tho fourth state in point
of population. It has 10? people to
each square mile.
A now hotel in Now York City
has a capacity for 1,200 guests and
employs 1,800 servants.
Tho Baldwin Locomotive Works
turned out 1,520 engines last year
valued at about $20,000,000.
If everything wore as easy to se
cure as signatures to a petition, what
a grand old world this would ho.
A movemont has been started in
Pniladelphia to bring 60,000 perse
cuted Jews to this country from
Russia.
Whitewash is a wood preservative
as well as a brightencr and beautifier.
Put a handful of salt in every buck
etful.
When you are ready to invest in
land don’t go way up to tho north
pole until you have investigated tho
southern lands.
A Chioago lawyer fell dead just
after taking a drink of water. Par
alysis of the stomach. Paralyzed
with astonishment.
Cod liver oil has., risen in price
from $3.50 a gallon to $5, and it is
feared that eventually it will not he
obtainable at any prioc.
A clever calculator estimates that
there are in use by telegraph, tele
phone and trolley companies in this
country 16,000,000 poles.
Tho appropriation for next year
is $12,021,700, and it is estimated
that by July 1005 there will ho 27,-
002 routes.
Ponies arc being bought in Utah
at $2.50 per head and the meat can
ned and shipped to Japan by an Or
egon firm. From 05 to 100 pounds
of saioahlo moat is dorivod from
each animal.
Be sure to get plenty of sleep.
You can sleep yourself into good
looks . A long nap and a hot bath
will make any woman more attract
ivc, and lift years from her shoul
ders.
Nothing produces sleep like ex
ercise. Insomnia quickly flees from
the one who takes daily exercises,
short of fatigue. A ten minutes
rub down with a coarse towel often
induces sleep.
A Macedonian bridegroom leads
home his bride by a halter. As she
enters the house he knocks her head
against the wall as a sign to her that
she must behave herself or it will be
the worse for her.
Too much stress cannot be placed
upon the importance of expanding
the luDgs. It does not take' much
time to acquire the art of proper or
scientific breathing; five or ten min
utes daily is all that is necessary.
It is not given to everyone to add
four inches to the cheat measure,
m eet within five months. But fhts'
Every year 500,000 umbrellas are
said to be lost in Paris. According
to these statistics one person in ev
ery four loses hiB umbrella.
Did you ever notice the man who
meets the high and lowly with a
“howdy" and a smile is the man
who is generally successful?
It is well every once in a while to
call the attention of the citizens of
this commonwealth to the fact that
this is a great country they live in
In some cities a person who spits
on the sidewalk if convicted must
pay a fine of $5.00 or go and wash it
o ff with soap and water. That’s
good.
More than 40 per cent of the peo
ple of Great Britian could not write
their names when Queen Victoria
ascended the throne. Now only 7
per cent are in that condition.
If you want to be successful, be
cheerful under all circumstances,
e ven if asked to work after hours,
and do not fall in the pernicious
habit of watching the clock.
A New York physician says that
the small pox germ just discovered
is valuable only as a curiosity. It
is not probable that any one will
want to make a pet of it.
The trolley car is not drawn or
pushed by the eleotric currentat all,
hut is lifted again and again by the
lifttraotion of magnets for the arraa-
turb'boih of the motor.. -
There ib one redeeming feature
^bbhUedtM Vlth the habit of gasoline;
A movemont has boon started by
tho National Association of Mnstcr
Horse Siioers to establish a oollego in
which n. eourso will bo given in tho
study of metals, votorinary lor.’ an-
ataiuy, oto.
It will cost tho government $11.00
per aero to irrigate westorn lands.
This is more than tho cost of pri
vate enterprises, but tho government
will not employ Chinese labor and
will oaservo tho eight hour rule.
The mails are full of invitations
to country people to invest in rubbor
companies in neutral and South A-
merioa, and in soourity companies
and m all kinds of got-rioh-quiok
schemes. Throw these circulars in
the fire.
An editor who runs a notes and
queries oolumn recoivcd tho follow
ing: “What ails my hens? Every
morning I fiud two or three lying on
their hacks, never to riso again."
The editor replied: “Your hens are
dead.”
Some folks imagine the farmer
does not need to read or think. His
business is just to plod through the
mud, keep his nose down to the
earth and never look up to see what
is going on in tho world. That was
the old idea of farming. It is pass
ing away, and ought to go with a
lot of other things that once were
looked oil as being all right.
The growth of rural seryiee has
been phenomenal. In 1003 the ap
propriation for thoserviee waB$450,
000, and 1,276 routes were establish
ed. The appropriations for the
the present fiscal year was $8,020,400
and 15,002 routes were in operation.
Agricultural experiment stations
are now in operation in every state
ana territory of the United States
including Alaska, Hawaii, and For
to Rico, and steps are being taken
under government auspices to estab
lish agenoies for agricultural inves
tigations in the Phillipine islands
There are sixty such stations, em
ploying nearly 1,000 trained scion
tifio and practical men in their work.
Sta: istics show that the cleotrio
railways kill an average of 100 per
sons a motnli. But let us not be
misled. Millions travel on them
and more are killed per mile by
wagons, or by falling down stairs.
As a result of wise pure food leg
islation, European manufacturers
are to be deprived of the privilege
of dumping on the American mar
ket the impuro and adulterated goods
which they cannot dispose of at
home.
Plan your work.
Ilavo you named your farm?
Protect the birds. Theyare your
friends.
Hard work with brains backed up
moans success.
Have something ahead to work for.
It will ho a pleasure then.
Whon the rainy days oomo have
something you can work at indoors.
String beans may bo had all sum
mer by planting onoe a month for
successive supplies.
A Scotoh export has invented a
process for tanning hog hides so as
to raako thorn a perfect substitute
for rubber in cushion tiros for vohi-
oles-
c an bo . done by practicing deep' drinking acquired by those’Philadel-
hreathing daily. Not now and then'phia hoys. They will not dare
let it he noted, but by persistent dai-1 smoke cigarettes while under the in
ly practice. (fluence of a gasoline jag.
That the low-lying territory of
Miesissidpl should at times be over
flowed is not surprising if one con
siders that the “father of waters”
draws supplies from tweuty-eight
states, draining one-third of the area
of the United States.
l.Reports from southern China
where a famine is raging, say the
men are selling their wires and chil
dren in orddr to obtain food. It
would be alfiiie'tkihg if the hungry
women could Sell their 'husbands,
but, perhaps nobody WOuld buy
them.
Do not allow your hoy to dopeud
upon quaok medical literature for his
knowledge of himsolf. There should
bo a law suppressing tho vile stuff
which is being sent through the
mails.
O.io of tho host habits^ young
man can form ib tiiat of getting so
interested in his work as to forget
that lie is at work at all.
Official figures show tho Presby
terians north gained a not inoreaso in
membership lust year of 14,000.
This is a smaller increase than has
been shown in ton years save during
1800.
Football, not the American col
lege game, hut the English game, is
to bo taught to the Fronoh soldiers.
Tho sport has proved popular in the
regiments in which it has been in
troduced,
Essen Germany has a population
of 100,000, 00 percent of whom are
supported by the Kiupps, tho great
German iron makers and gun mak
ers. The workmen number 50,000,
the greatest number employed by
any individual.
Au official report shows that at
the eud of last year there were in
Japau 07 agricultural schools, fifty
commercial schools, bo ven mercan
tile schools, tweuty-eight teohnioal
schools, and sixty-two industrial
schools.
The useful person isn’t the one
who bemoans his lot and complains
because of lack of opportunity. The
really successful individual is tho
oue who, wheu he undertakes to do
something, does it no matter what
obstacles arise.
It is estimated that the average
cost of building a railroad is$28,000
per mile. Seems high, doesn’t it?
It takes 400 ties to the mile and
they are worth 50 cents each; then
you must figure the cost of laud,
grading, building bridges, rails, tel
egraph lines, etc.
The German Dental Association
has issued a report advising patients
to avoid American dentists “because
many colleges in America sell their
degrees to iucompctent applicants
and hence every one holding an A-
merican degree is open to suspicion."
While our government strives to
protect our people from frauds and
fakes, Uncle Sam, by the aoiof Con
gress, continues to perpetrate tho
“free seed” fake upon the farmers.
It is announce! tha$ this ( year over
!$25O;OQ0will be expended ux the
free distribution of 40.000,000
packages of vegetable .. ». ff>wer
seeds.