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VOL. XX. NO 48
VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY JUNE 25, 1003
TERMS *1.00 PER YEAR
Every business man gets swindled
occasionally.
Very few people arc just what
they pretend to be. «
To a woman, a confession is the
most interesting topic.
I would love to live as easily as
other people seem to live.
It takes a fine brain to sift out the
hood advice from the bad.
To the heat of snromer is added
the heat of a baseball oraze.
Like other foolish fashions, we
rejoice at the going of the curling
iron.
Every man has his mind on a
woman uuless he has one of his
own.
Usually a man's children are all
grown before he learns how to raise
them.
Some people seem to be kept so
busy that they cannot take time for
a bath.
A needle-worked “It’s Paid For”
Would be a nice ornament for a sum
mer hat.
Girls on a long \ isit should do
enough of the house work to pay
their board.
Lots of men are poor because they
never learned how to take care of
-their money.
The peanut is getting so popular
that yon can now find him salted and
hi glass oases.
Same people would retain their
•complexion better is they would not
.get so blue with unvy.
This world is an easy place if you
"will keep yourself properly greased
tor slipping through it.
Every woman, whether she can
diuy a new dress or not. envoys look-
4ng at the fashion plates.
’ We have observed that country
. ; 1 people behave better in town than
town people do in the coutry.
The more we know of some peo
ple, the more we love them; with
others it is extremely to the contrary.
A woman will lift a little dog over
the fence with both hands under its
body, and lift her child over by one
arm.
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There is generally more concern
about how a man leaves his affairs
In this world than how he has arran
ged them for the next.
The different brotherhoods
throughout the countrr are kicking
up lots of trouble. But the sister-
nood, being unorganized, is behaving
• Itself.
Men are looking and wishing in
vain for the oreation of a woman’s
bat that will be worn season after
season and handed down to the next
.generation.
Just as we are carelessly reading
the inscriptions in cemeteries as we
pass through, others will be careless
ly reading inscriptions over us in
after years.
A young mother will give the
baby almost anything in the house
to play with except the love letters
Its father wrote her before they
were married.
Mrs. Thomas Allison, of Midland
Pa., is the mother of a son weighing
22 pounds at birth.
There is a large park in Alexan
dria, Egypt, which is open only to
women.
There is no such a thing as being
too refined. Good breeding is even
greater than beauty.
Three young ladies at Newport,
R. I., have started a new stylo of
wearing their hair in braids down
their back.
The daily output of a gingham
mill at Manchester, New Hampshire
is 850 miles of goods.
Don’t use cold water when giving
the face a oosmetio scrub. Warm
water, followed by a dash of cold
water, is better.
Athletic girls are beooming smal
ler in waist and broader in shoulders
The gynasium may drive the oorset
out of business.
A group of Chicago women are
fitting up a laundry to give work at
fair wages to wonien who have serv
ed a term in prison.
Don’t walk too far at first, when
taking up out door exercise for the
sake of your complexion. Stop just
short of being tired.
The eminent Austrian physiciau
who attributes consumption to the
weasing of corscsts fails to explain
the prevalence of the disease among
men.
In whatever you do, do it the
best you can. The girl or woman
who works in the shop or kitohen is
better prepared for the duties of a
wife than an idler.
A few days ago Florence Nightin
gale entered upon her eighty-third
year. Miss Nightingale has long
lived in Beclusion and in some suf
fering, so that the world hears little
of her now. ,
The Philadelphia woman who op
erated an unlicensed still in order to
make money to educato her two sons
had a commendable motive no doubt
but she didn’t go about it with the
right kind of a spirit.
After marriage a oouple should
love eaoh other just as much as be
fore and more. They should give
each other compliments. Don’t let
a day pass without saying something
nice to your wife.
The “Mothers’ Birthday Club of
Germany” has just been formed in
Berlin. Its object is to prevent
race suicide and each member on the
birth of a child will receive from
*200 to *000. There is an entry fee
of *5 and a quaterly subscription of
*1.
There arc three women station
agents in Indiana, all of them
sole telegraph operators, freight and
express agents and baggage masters
at their own stations.
To keep palms looking green and
fresh and remove the dusty and
faded appearance of the leaves, wipe
each leaf separate with a cloth dipped
in milk. This will at once give
back their natural gloss and ficsh
green appearance.
Talk about your home town, be a
booster.
Tapioca is extracted from a deadly
poisonous plant.
There are nearly 600 piccios in a
modern locomotive.
Teach boys to save. Not only to
save money but time.
Give the young man a chance;
this is the country of the young.
North Carolina’s crop of apples
is estimated at 7,000,000 bushels.
If kept going the wheels of a watch
travel 3,558 raileH in a year.
Seattlois 1,450 miles nearer China
and Japan than San Franoisoo.
No loss than twenty-two difforont
kinds of fiat irons are on the market.
The state of Minnesota has passed
a law to punish “mashers”.
There is nothing that lightens
life’s burden more than laughter,
unless it is song.
“The laborer is worthy of his
hire” the laborer is also worthy of
his higher education.
To livo happily you must magnify
the small pleasures and minimize
the small annoyances.
It is said that where one boy
smoked occasionally ten years ago
500 smoke regularly today.
The patont medioino advertise
ments oan tell us better how we feel
than we oan describe it (jthrselves.
Paris has one aore park for
every fifteen persons; Liverpool,
England, one for eyery one thous
and
It has been figured that 947,000
tons of steel fly away in dust from
the raailroads of the world yearly.
Be good and you will be happy,
but in these days of strenous com
petition you'll have to be mighty
good.
Warm weather and true love are
an impossible combination with mar
ried people, so says a Chicago ex
pert.
Great Britain spends *112,500,-
000 a year on the support of the poor.
This does not include private chari
ties.
Speak a word of encouragement
and sympathy to your neighbor who
has not been so fortunate as you
have.
Some people don’t worry because
they haven’t sense enough, and oth
ers don't worry because they have
too much sense'
The new nine story notel being
built in Johannesburg will be the
largest establishment of its kind m
South Africa.
There are thirty two miles of wire
in the renovated White House, but
the m anagement never is at a loss
for men to pull it.
Wireless telegraphy has already
been made the subject of a book of
525 pages, 259 woodouts, by two
Italiaus.
The shortest people in Europe are
the Laplanders. The height of the
men average 4 feet 11 inches and
the height of the women two inches
loss.
A Japanese boy carried off first
honors at the Kansas City high
school. Six years ago he could not
speak any English, and he has sup
ported himself at school.
Their are only 110 towns in Rus
sia in which Jews aro permitted to
settle and acquire real estato.
Strap offoots aro much in vogue
on high shoes and slippers. The
high shoes may bo fastened with
The Indians of Utah havo sold 1,-
260,000 acres of land to the govern
ment,which will be thrown opon to
settlement in 1004. -
Chicago had an attondanoo of
20,000,000 people at the World’s
Fair but St. LouiB counts confidently
on an attendance of 40,000,000.
The American bioyolo trust has
failed, but a combinations of dealers
in American wheels in France has
put the prioe of wheels which should
sell sor *50 up to *00.
Whut men like in wives depends
upon ^what they want them for,
whether for companions or servants.
A wife is a very comfortable thing,
she’s there if you want her, and
she’s thero if you don’t want her.
Miss Isador Duncan, the Califor
nia lady who is dancing to Paris
audienoes, seems to have shocked
the police in that fast country.
They have ordered her to wear moro
draperies. Well! Well!
Americans are diamond orazy.
There were *2,422,000 worthof dia
monds and other preoious stones im
ported in May, more than in any
previoue month.
President Roosevelt made 365
speeches during his trip, and if there
is anything in the theory that prac
tice makos perfect he should now be
a pretty good orator.
A good disinfectant is copperas.
Dissolve a couple of pounds of it in
a gallon of hot water and pour a
portion of it down all the drains.
It is easily bandied and has no odor.
The oane seats of ohairs can bo
tightened and made firm by turning
the chair upside down and washing
the cane well with soap and water.
Leave in the open air to dry.
Love may bo diagnosed as softening
of the brain, fatty dogeneratfou of
the heart, a disorder of the liver and
a growing appetite for something we
can’t get, and if we do, we often
wish we hadn’t.
Ninety per cent of the inhabitants
of western Africa are Mohamme
dans, and every man of note in cen
tral Africa owns slaves, his station
in life being rated by the nnmber of
slaves he owns and the wives he pos
sesses. When girls reach the age of
thirteen, they are as a rule, wedded.
Venezuelahas decided to call upon
the Philadelphia mint for the coin
age of 4,000 000 silver bolivars, and
has requested the United States to
facilitate the work of coinage,
Manohuria rivals Oregon in fertil
ity, timber and climate, and has
abundance ot gold, silver, iron and
coal. It has the area of Texas and
three times the population of the
state of New York.
The United Bureau of Forestry is
experimenting with various methods
of preserving and seasoning wood to
make it last longer. Cheap timbers
properly treated may take the plaoe
of high giade wood.
Praise is one of the most difficult
of things to deal out satisfactorily,
Cut down the weeds and thistles.
The farmer who always aims at
low things will hit the mark.
The soarcity of horses was shown
at the public sales during the past
three months.
A May snow storm in Montana
liaR killed 000,000 lambs. This
reads like tho record of a day in
Wall Street.
Any old nag would bring *50 and
his ago and soundness wore not ques
tioned. Eastern farmers will breed
more horses.
Kansas will need nearly 7,000
more harvest hands this year than
have ever been required since tho es
tablishment of the state free employ
ment bureau.
It is labor lost to plow, harrow
and seed poor land expeoting a orop.
Something does not come from noth
ing in agrioultnre any more than in
business.
Many farmers now know the value
of the tclaphone. Those who have
once had a ’phone in the houso are
loath to do without one.
More than 40,000 Amerioan farm
ers now have the benefit of the rural
free delivery, and tho amoutof mail
they reooive has beon moro than
doubled since tho system was adopt
ed.
When requesting the boys or girls
to assist with the farm ohores let
there be ho displeasure or irritation
in tho tones of your voioe, but muoh
of gentle firmness and encourage
ment.
A farmer was troubled with wood-
ohuoks in his fields. He took a trao-
tion engine into the plaoe and thrust
a hose into the hole and turned on
the steam. They oamo out in a
hurry and then were killed.
' Opportunity is a horse saddlod
and bridled which stops in front ot
every man’s gate. Leap him, for if
you hesitate you will hear nothing
but the sounds of his hoofs as he
gallops down the corridors of time.
The sweetest sight man overlooked
upon is a country home, where man
and wife, surrounded by a quive
full of boys and girls are working
away to make the world and those
about them happier.
The English gardners are import
ing lady bugs fr om California to ex
terminate insects which are destroy
ing the roses. Theyhave been us
ing a bug f rom II ~ which has
failed to protect the flowers and
they are tryi nga moie iflcctivenmo
dy. *
In the struggles of life expeot
knooks, setbacks. They will come
whether you expect them or not, but
braoe yourself for renewed effort.
After a a to rm repair the ship and
look for fair weather and a swift
passage to the desired haven.
A mysterious tribe of white men
and women are said to have been
discovered in the interior of the
Philippines. They are tall, light
of complexion and have blue eyes
and tako to the jungles in flight on
the approach of strangers. They
are supposed to be descendants of
the survivors of a shipwreck cento-
nes ago. The war department will
send an expedition to make investi
gation.
If you wish to purchase a cute
I little Chinese baby or even a large
We must have patience with those i boy or girl now is the time to^?,uy.
who giggle ou the back seats, and j They are being sold in China for *2
hope that in a few years they will be to *5 each. Cheap enough ; sure.
in front groaning over the sins of
hose in the rear.
Tnis is all on account of a famine
in that country.
says an exchange. If you do not
praise a man as he thinks he deserves
he hates you,,ijP ; .yOu overpraise him; There would not be grass or weed
he sets you down asa fool or sharper, j if they were not allowed to go to seed-