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VOL. XX. NO 46
VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY JUNE l t) 1003
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
Now that four of the largest cotton mills in the south are out of busines, it would be a capital time for the operatives to strike.
Kindness wins many a fr.ond.
Too many girlB marry for spite.
None of us like to be told of our
faults.
A woman with a din y face is an
ugly thing.
The best jokes are the ones you
tell yourself.
Some seem to find pleasure in ap
pearing shabby.
The best time to say No is at the
first opportunity.
The poor boys of 20 years ago
are the men of today.
Lots of things are missed by ask
ing too much.
Without false pretenses, there
would be fewer marriages.
There are more pitfalls for your
character than for your feet.
Nearly every young man spends
more money than is necessary.
Many a man will practice a thing
that he would condemn in others.
Some people will smile at you
while their fist is doubled to hit you.
A great trouble with lots of young
men is then failure to stick to busi
ness.
Every man’s thoughts should be
skimmed occasionally to get off the
evils.
Sensitive people are generally sen
sitive to their own feelings and not
to others.
Feeling so sleepy in the morning
is enough to induce people to retire
earlier in night.
One of the most becoming things
a woman can wear around home is a
big gingham apron.
A girl who has long hair loves to
he caught by callers before she has
time to do it up.
You have noticed that your neigh
bor talks too much, and your neigh-
lor has noticed the same of you.
Prostrated With Grief iB an awk
ward expression. We do not like
this way ot lying down before trou
ble.
A man never knows bow little in
fluence he has with his women folks
until he tries to break his daughter
off from one of her callers.
There are some people so many
miles behind the times that they do
not consider it proper for a woman
to make her own living.
A man’s prospects begin to look
dim when his young wife tells him
it is cheaper to board than to keep
house.
Quarrels and snarls bring wrinkles
to women so fast that some of them
really look old when they should ap
pear young.
The world is very anxious for a
physical culture prescription that
•will add strength and beauty with
out burden.
Lots of men think slightly of
charactei within themselves, but
demand purity of woman today and
tomorrow’ and a clean slate for yes
terday.
Some girls consider themselves so
popular that when they go visiting
there ought to be somebody tomake
an address of welcome.
The girl w’ho changes the spelling
of her name is apt to be the one
•who considers herself Very Smart,
Uncle Sam emplovs nearly 7500
women in the various departments
at Washington.
Many a fellow who boasts of be
ing a self-made, man forgets to give
his wife any of the credit.
A woman wants her love measur
ed out to her just the way a man
wants his salary paid him---rogular-
ly and in full.
How much more is your farm
worth than 5 years ago? What ef
forts on your part have brought
about the increased worth?
Miss Alice Roosevelt has refused
to allow a Massachutetts je.vclcr to
name a bracelet after her.
There may be some advantages
about being a king. The boy king
of Spain could marry a grown up
woman if he wants to. What more
could auy boy desire?
Having expressed herself as being
tired of the joint smashing business,
Mrs. Nation might now secure the
position of fighting editor on Chi-
go’s new woman’s paper.
The women of England are mak
ing a long and loud wail on account
of the “child wives” of India.
They are dried up grandmothers at
thirty. Just think of it!
When a Japanese woman enters a
railway oar in her own land she slips
off her little wood or rioe shoes,
stands upon the seat and then sits
down with her feet under her.
The only woman in America who
is a professional driver of race
horses, is Mrs. Frank Hard. To
frivolous women, she says, buy a
good horse and see what a superior
it will make of you.
A hundred years ago $200, or at
most $250, was the allowance of. an
aotress for a season’s costumes.
These figures seem strange in these
days of elaborate and expensive
dressing on the stage.
Whenaman reokons up how much
it costs him to live he figures on
how muoh is left for clothes; when a
woman has figured np what her
clothes cost, she estimates what is
left to live on.
John Farson of Chicago, a multi
millionaire who recently offered $1,
000,000 tor a model servant girl is
now hounded to death with anxious
young, middle-aged, and elderly la
dies.
Mrs. Gladstone helped her hus
band more by keeping the house and
children quiet when he was writing
one of his great speeches than by
criticising or actively helping him.
Mr. Gladstone gave her praise for
his best work.
Blackheads are nothing in the
world but dust ground into the skin.
Usually the pores are large and suf
fused with sebaceous matter, which
attracts atmospheric dust. The
remedy is in bathing the face every
night.
To Rochester, Minn., has been
given the credit of opening the first
permant resting room m the United
States It is the outgrowth ot the
the women’s clubs aided by the bus
iness men and it is now a well or
ganized institution.
It is always best to wait for the
evidence before passing judgement.
When we hear reports detrimental
to young ladies and gentlemen, it is
best to be charitable. Today it is
somebody else's boy or girl. To
morrow it may be yours.
Ninety per oent of tLc wealth of
the United States is held by 10 per
cent of the people.
In the last decade the increase in
wealth was one seventh greater than
the increase in population.
More miles of railway were built
in the United States in 1002 than
during any years since 1888.
The faot that Andrew .Taokson’s
statue in Washington iB covered
with green mold is due to an acci
dent and was not a deliberate meth
od of keeping his memory greeu.
The immense mdiroot cost of war
fare as illustrated by the faot that
the Spanish-Amerioan war cost a
million dollars a day for over a year,
although hostilities occupied but
three months.
Eight times as many men and
boys are killed and injured annually
in the anthraoite coal mines of Penn
sylvania as were killed and wounded
in the Spanish-Amencan war.
The high price of coal has at last
been explained. The wicked rail
ways that haul the coal charge the
wicked railways that own the mines
a little more for hauling coal than
for hauling other things.
Artificial ice is sold by the Gov
ernment in Manila to all persons in
the military service at 50 cents a
hundred pounds. To all other per
sons the price fixed by the Goyern-
ment is $1 a hundred pounds.
A reader asks how many times on
gines are changed in running a pas
senger express train between Chica-
go and St. Paul. One of the lead,
ing roads makes the run with one
change of engines, and 22 tons of
coal and 41,000 gallons of water are
used in the trip, which is a trifle
over 400 miles.
The richest copper region is that
of Lake Superior, the copper being
all in the native state. In a Minne
sota mine one mass taken out was
45 feet in length, 22 feet at the
greatest width, and the thickest
part was more than eight feet. It
weighed over 420 tons and was over
90 per oent copper.
When you think you are fooling
people, and they let on like they are
being fooled, it may be for the pur
pose of seeing how big a tool you
are yourself. Sensible people are
not fooled, and only fools try to
fool them.
It will be a surprise to many to
know that the authoress of that well
known hymn -‘Safe in the Arms of
Jesus,” is still alive. Mrs. VanAl
styne, the lady in question, has just
entered upon her eighty-fifth year.
While the object ot obtaining
specimens of every dialect spoken
in the United States, Professor
Scripture, of Yale University, is
touring the country in a special rail
way carriage fitted with phonograph
ic apparatus. Ha will visit the In
dian tribes first, and afterward the
poorer white people of the south and
foreign born population.
The greatest dam ever built for
thq .production , of power is that
building at Spier Falls, on the Hud
son river. It is of granite, 1,800
feet long and 156 feet high. Ten
steel tubes having a diameter ot
12 feet will lead water to 54-inoh
turbines,
thousand
Tie fire volcanoes active last year
destroyed 00,000 lives.
Try a little more head work and
less reokless bone labor.
The world’s population is increas
ing about 500,000,000 a century.
Half the people living in Now
York move one or moro times a year.
The Czar of Russia commands
the greatest armed force in the
world.
There are 75,000 pot dogs m
greater New York. Their owners
spend over $1,800,000 on them.
Andrew Carnogio has givon $00,
000 dollars in aid of Booker T.
Washington’s normal school at Tus-
keegec, Ala.
Is your boy’8 room one ho takes
pride in? If not, no wonder he
longs for the time wheu he oanleave
home.
All the men of the German army
selectod to accompany the Kaisoron
his trip to Italy stand over six feet
ten inches.
The man who feels no thrill of joy
in his daily labor, who is only driv
en to it by the spur of necessity,
who goes trhough it conscieioutusly,
it may be but merely as the per
formance of a disagreeable duty, is
almost sure to fail in life. Whon
young men or young women work
in such a spirit thore is something
fatally wrong.
The largest bottle over made has
just been made at the Illinois glass
works at Alton. It is a wine bottle
7 feet high, and was madofor awine
exhibit.
The Mormons nave been requested
to leave Germany and if the Mor
mons are wise they will sprint for
the frontier before anything else
happens to them.
It may be true that Sir ThomaB
Lipton’s real motive in the yachting
contests is to advertise his tea, but
nobody oan say that he is not very
liberal with bis dough.
Armour & Co., expect to make an
annual saying of $100,000 by estab
lishing wireless telegraph communi
cations between their Chicago office
and Western branch houses.
The cattle king of the western
plains is passing away forever. A
few years ago thero were nearly 100
millionaire exclusive oattlemen in
the south-west. Now there are but
thirty.
How long do you suppose it will
take a telegram to encircle the globe
when the Pacific cable is completed ?
Just 40 seconds. What will this
now swift world be in 100 years?
In New York, no one dare sell
matches unless they have a license.
There must not be more than 1,000
in a box aud the retail dealer must
have his name and address on each
box.
Keep the hens scratching—for
eggs.
Axle grease is cheaper than horsa
flesh.
The farmer owns the earth. Taka
proper care of it.
Physical culture is as good for
oonfined fowls as for confined per«
sons.
The Chinese lantern plant, sent
out by sood men has become a nui
sance.
A horso is like an egg—it is hard,
to know the good thore is in him un
til you break him.
Don’t make a habit of borrowing
your neighbor’s tools. It iB only
seoond-olass way of begging.
Take a play spell occasionally.
You will find your work less irk
some afterward and accomplish all
the more.
If newly set posts bnoomo loose,
go along the line and tamp the earth
well again before it settles around a
leaning post.
It requires but little capital to
make a start in hog raising, and with
proper management the dividends
begin before the year is out.
It isn’t always getting up at four
o’olook in the morning that brings
a farmer success. It is what he does
and thinks and is, after he gets up,
that makes a man prosper.
Here’s a good ’un, but said to be
true. Last year a Santa Paula (Cal)
walnut [ rower sold his walnut orop
from 450 aores for $55,000.
A few quiok growing shade trees
on the snnny side of the farmhouse
pay good interest in comfort, bird
songs, and joy for the wifo and
ohildron.
On an average a hen’s egg is two
and ono-quarter inohes long and one
and three quarter inobes wide, at the
broadest point and weighs two ouno-
Have you an old dead tree stand
ing around? Trim off the branches
and plant velvet beans alongside to
cover the trunk, You will have an
objeot of beauty.
The recent difficulties in the Red
Cross Society have brought out the
fact that Miss Clara Barton, its
founder and up to a recent date, its
president, is eighty-two years old.
If rats trouble the poultry house
place paper bags, ever so small, fil
led with oayenne pepper in the holes
where they enter and cover lightly
with dirt. The rats will disappear.
If people would mind their own
business and keep their noses out of
family affairs, maybe there wouldn’t
be so much family affairs for them
to get their noses into. Truly two
tnirds of the trouble in the world is
caused by people minding some oth
er business than their own.
Food eaten without appetite a!
ways causes gastric disturbance, be
cause unless the secretory glands of
the stomach are stimulated by a de
sire for food no digestive juices are
extruded into the stomach.
Fresh air tablets are a preparation
discovered by a French scientist. It
was while -investigating acetylene
that he discoveicd that he could
combine certain chemicals into
eaoh coupled to a five i tablet which, on being dropped into
horse power generator, j water, dissolved and gave forth
The cost will be $2,000,000.
pure oxygen.
Our people take a good deal of
pride in having their yards clean
and well kept, and now that the sea
son of the year has arrived for 'put-
ing them in shape for the coming
summer we expect to see each one
vie with bis neighbor as to whioh
one can do the q uicker or the better
job.
I don’t know much about wireless
telegraphy, but I should think it
would puzzle Marconi himself to ex
plain how a bad story, false or part
ly false, oan travel so rapidly
around a neighborhood. It’s actual,
ly surprising,, an,d it nug' ' ' • •
folks c aref ul agpvt wl n • f