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VOL. XX. NO 47
VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY JUNE 18, 1003
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
The alternative road law in Dooly is winding itself into a grind stone for the whetting of a potitical sctyhe for the next campaign.
All slang gets tiresome.
I love my sleep too well to want
to be a doctor.
Some people would be ashamed to
do anything extra.
Most people arc respected to the
degree they deserve.
We need anoter commandment:
Thou shalt not gossip.
In every newly married couple,
one has the other bluffed.
Wo cannot understand why a
woman is shy of a restaurant.
Nearly every family has an “aw
ful time’’ about something.
Many a man fell by the wayside
from over estimating his ability.
We love to do a tramp dog a
favor just to see him wag his tail.
A good way to po reform work is
to lead the life yon wisn to teach
It would seem from the failures
that there are more early birds than
worms.
Most of the business failures are
due to a refusal to let well enough
alone.
A frog has the advantage of a
man in that knows how far he can
jump.
It seems to bo natural for a boy
to hate his teacher as much as a girl
loves hers.
A song, “You Promised Me”
should be composed for noarly all
married people.
People who drag their feet wear
out more shoe leather than those who
get around lively.
Let a young man call on a girl
twice and she wants to go off and
have her fortune told.
, If you are a lover of chidren, you
can get your clothes daubed with
dirty hands any day
A good sign of a happy home is to
see the family gather around the
organ and sing sacred Bongs
It would surprise you to know
how many people of your acquaint
ance are slaves to medicine.
While you are wondering what
your ne ; ghbor does with his money,
he is wondering the same about you.
If a woman can make a good pie
crust, it doesn’t make much differ
ence what she puts between the cov
ers.
Groceries are so high that young
people expecting to get married
•don’t know whether to boardor keep
.bouse.
When you go visiting, they will be
more jubilant over your ariival if
you carry each member of the family
a present.
To break up a foolish love affair,
send the daughter to visit a relative
who married young and is raising a
arge family.
1 A newly married woman is very
careful about her husband visiting
his folks, for fear they will Poison
his Mind.
Very few mothers arc polite
Spain controls the Cuban shoe
market.
The Mexican of average size wears
a No. (i boot.
Minneapolis is the second largest
Scandinavian city.
One bioyclo iiriu manufactures
300,000 wheels a year.
Basket making employs half a
million persons in Germany
King Alfonso has inherited 87,-
000,000 from his grandfather, King
Francis.
Cool down the fiery furnaces of
the body by avoiding foods that gen
erate heat.
Canada’s export trade per oapita
is just twice as much as ours.
California bad the best season for
tourist last winter the state has ever
known.
The opportunity of a lifetime
must bo seized during the lifetime
of the opportunity.
Tho veil dance has taken the place
of the cake walk in Parts. It must
be a fino show.
There are abot 350 volcanoes that
have perfoimed in modern times.
Leather waste is now being used
in a compressed form for cogwheels
iu place of cast iron.
Thore are said to be quite 200,000-
000 copies of the Bible scattered
throughout the countjy.
There are 17.000 ohildren in Rus
sia between the age of six and four
teen receiving absolutely no educa
tion.
As between luck and pluok, give
us pluck every time. Luck may
help some, but pluok does the busi
ness.
The world uses $500,000,000
worth of cotton goods every year.
Of this Groat Britain manufactures
00 per cent.
Cultivate a noble ideal of oharao-
ter, then your reputation will take
care of itself. Character is every-
thing. 1
Since it has been ascertained that
the average life of a millionaire is 78
years, we wouldn’t mind boing one.
There are not more than 4,000 In
dians in Mexico out of the total of
14,000,000 the present population
of the republic.
Don’t be afraid of work; it never
hurt anybod. What hurts is fool
ish eating, foolish drinking, insuffi
cient hours of sleep.
It is asserted that the reason the
American nose is becoming more
and more narrow is owing to the rep-
rehensive habit of breathing through
There are nearly 050,000 women
dressmakers in the United Kingdom.
Tho more children a woman has
the fewer fads she is likely to culti
vate.
Arc there any more rich American
girls lor sale to European curs with
titles?
A woman invented tho tack puller
which is now so widely used in this
country. *
Worry shortens life; hence, if
you wish to “live long and prosper”
do not worry.
Plenty of sleep is conducive to
beauty. Even a garment looks
worn when it loses its nap.
It is considered unladylike to load
one’s . fingers with elaborate rings,
particularly for daylight wear.
Ordinary headaches will yield to
applications of hot water to the feet
and back of neck.
Snubomiots will again bo wore this
Bummar, not only by tho every day
woman but also by the wealthy
Don’t be afraid of sunshine.
Curative powers are in tho chemical
rays of the sun, and they rejuvenate,
Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter of
Senator Mark Hanna, was married on
Juno 10 to J. M. MoCormiek of Chi
cago,
What is more pleasant to see than
an industrious girl who is always do
ing something to improve her time
The woman who is fatigued most
of the time seldom has sufficient
nourishment to keep herself well
and strong.
There is no easier way of winning
a ohild than to take an interest in
his intererts. It is time well spent
by parents
When you have party nothing is
daintier than paper doilies to deuor
ate the tables. Several firms adverl
tise them.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs- J. O,
Armour and other society women
of Chicago belong to a new religious
cult called the Sun Worshipers.
Millionaire John Farson, who of
fered $1,000,000 for a model servant
girl has selected Miss Kato Barry,
yonng girl whom he saw in a play
Medicine as a profession for wo
men is growing in popularity in
London. Women now holding med
ical dergrecs in Great Britain num
ber more than 500.
When ladies walk along the street
what is more disgusting than to seo
spit on the sidewals. There ought
to be a law against this filty habit.
It is almost as easy to step to the
side and expectorate in the gutter.
A New York man has been order
California’s orange crop brought
$18,000,000 last year. Her gold
brought $17,000,000.
Tho net earnings of tho United
States Steel corporation for May is
estimated at $13,000,000.
pro-
It has been estimated that th o bad
roads of tho United States cost every
man, woman and child $8 annually.
In Germauy the annual consump
tion of iron per oapita is 108 pounds
and the production just doubles that
amount.
There are four prohibition states,
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Kansas, and in Iowa there is a
modified form of legislation on tho
same lino.
The census of 1800 gavotlic num
ber of Indians in tho United States
as 240,000, while that of 1000 gave
the total as 270,000.
The modern harvesting maohines
are now in use by 20 different
nations on tho earth and represent
in their ability to harvest the crops
qf the world tho labor of 20,000,000
men.
the mouth rather than following the e( j p a y a young woman $3,000 for
intention of nature.
Swiss ingenuity has produced at
Geneva a phonograph alarm clock.
It can be set to “go off” at any mo
ment, and call out iu a loud voice
any reminder needed.
Work will do you no harm unless
■enough to their guests to call oh j you try to combine it with too mary
when they lather things. Nothing can make
you successful except work and ener
getic use of your hours in hot weath
er and cold.
their smart children
^become anuoying.
You may de pend on finding hap
piness in every borne where the
family gathers aroud the organ and
sings sacred songs.
Having disposed of all the worry
a man
A proposition to tax trousers for
the purpose of raising the revenue
which is necessary to run the gov
* is at peace for about two eminent has been made nE "S la "^
minutes; then he finds something How ca« a woman hope to gam her
else to worry about. \to woh a coutnry as that?
kissiDg her 1,236 t ; mes. The gir
should eq uip herself with a cash
register.
No woman should wear white or
delicate colored frooks who cannot
give regular donations to the clean
er. Anything is preferable to soiled
finery.
For the dainty woman a handker
chief can never be quite dainty
enough. She loves to expend work
upon it to enhance the exquisiteness
of its beauty.
Mrs. Careless uses words tba t she
does not like to hear her ohildren
use, but she can’t help herself unless
she reformsi which she will not do
because she is Mrs. Careless.
Bogur mine produoors and othors
who float companies with immonse
capital stock on the basis of some
worthless prospeot aro being looked
after by Undo Sam. They have
been refused the use of tho mails.
Tho town of White Pigeon, Mich,
claims to be run as cheaply as any
town in this country. Last year it
cost tho 800 inhabitants $1,325 for
expenses, The health department
spent $2.25 in addition to the health
officer's salary of $20. The police
department appropriation was 50
cents the fire department $60.
Companies operating vast salmon
fisheries in Washington, on tho Pa
cific coast, have hit upon a method
by which the salmon, as'soon caught
are frozen solid in ice and then
shipped to tho cast where, on being
carefully thawed out, the fish are
brought back to life. Experiment
ing for years has fully demonstrated
tho feasibility of the plan. Live
fish are worth double as much as
dead fish in the Now York market,
no matter how well tho latter aro
preserved.
The twelve greatest battles fought
during the civil war were: Gettys
burg, Spotsylvania, Wilderness,
Antictam, Chacdlorsville, Chicka-
mauga, Fredericksburg, Maunassas,
Shiloh, Stone River, Petersburg,
The total killed in the twelve battles
were 23,478 and 120,850 wounded.
Nicholas II, czar of all the Rus
sian, works about six hours a day in
connection with the affatrs of the
state, his salary being in the neigh
borhood of $80 a minute for that
time, just twice the sum Kaiser
Wilhelm draws for a stunt of similar
duration. On the basis of a six-
hour day King Fdward must get
along on about $15 per minute.
American pork is no longer
hibiled in Turkey.
Eggs Constitute the most univer
sal human food of imitnal origin.
Trotters and pacers to tho number
of 28,261 are included in tjic stand
ard lists.
There is no process by which it is
possible to make really bad butter
good.
Com and clover hay, or coin and
clover pasture, is the feed to put fat
on rapidly.
Prevent scratching by taking
good onro of tho foot and ankles.
This beats euro every timo.
Tho cow with tho best appetite,
tho one that eats and drinkH the most
is usually the best produoor.
Thore will always be a good mar
ket for a young horse, well broken,
honest and ready for business.
A hen man has figured out that
tho hens of America. lay 203 eggs
each one of our population each
year.,
Almost of our great presidents
havo been brought up in the Country
and most of thorn worked hard on
the farms.
A mother seldom calls her boy
the full name that is written in the
Bible except when she wants to take
hm to a back roomf or correction.
The Georgia Weekly Press associ
ation will meot in Cedartown on the
15th of July.
The farmers are not dreading the
1 ow price of cotton near like they
are cholera in hogs.
There is a big demand for mules
for draft and heavy farm work,
The late wars have created a short
age in tho mulo-brocding states.
Within the last three years th®
value of agricultural land in Arkan
sas ban increased 100 per oeat.
Timber lands hayo risen in valuo,
but not so much.
Tho work horse should receive as
muoh care as tho road horse and
should never be allowed to get m
the oraaoiated condition we see on so
many farms. It doesn’t pay.
No man in the world should be
more free from worry than tie far
mer. Why? Beoause worrying is
selfishness, and the farmer takes his
lessons from Nature and Nature is
never selfish.
On 75 per cent of the farms the
old hen is very much abused and
negleoted. While all tho rest of
the stock is well housed, fed and at
tended to with great oare, poor old
biddy is left to shift for herself.
Occasionally a young horse will
acquire the bad habit of chewing at
his halter rope till it is worn off.
Rub a little mutton tallow on the
halter rope occasionaly and it will
soon break him of this disagreeable
habit.
The agricultural building at the
St. Louis World’s Fair will be the
largest structure on the grounds and
will be the mort ample building for
the reception of a single department.
It will cost $529,540; it will cover
a ground are of 500x1,600 feet, or
nearly twenty acres.
The division of publications of
the department of agriculture gets
out over 6,000,000 copies of the
Farmers* Bulletin annualy. The
department is allowed but one-fifth
of the total number printed, whlob
is not at all adequate to meet the re
quests directly to the department.
The tremendoos development of
steam and eleotric railway building
keeps the steel rail mills busy. It
is said that orders are booked that
cannot be filled before the middle of
1004.