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VOL. XXL NO 50
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY JULY 0, 1903
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OBSERVATIONS.
Wet or dry, people will grumble.
Every woman loves to bo called
Little Girl.
As a rule we give too much atten
tion to idle talk.
No man ever counts the cost of
falling in love.
We are all inclined to talk louder
when the home team wins.
You should not forget that it
.takes work to entertain a visitor.
A man gossipper is the one thing
that is worse than a woman gossip-
per.
It is sad to note how the cook pot
branch of education is being neg
looted.
While teaching industry to the
boys, you should not teach idleuess
to the girls.
The crying of a baby these hot
nights will not encourage n
mony verj much.
It would be interesting to know
the women who tan their husbands
these hot nights.
Some men impress us as not hav
ing taken enough of worm candy
when they were little.
A familiar sound about the house
is swish, swish, swish: A woman
chasing the flies away.
When a man knows enough to let
the affairs of other people alone, he
is getting along fairly well in life.
When a girl has faith in a young
man, she demands that the whole
family have the same faith in him
People are so hopeful that they
will stand around a dying horse and
want to try all the remedies offered
Some parents are so crooked that
they will give a child a calf and
then keep the money whon they sell
it.
Now and then we see a grown
man who never takes his hand to
open a door that can be kicked
"open.
The right kind of a man will not
look for a wife at a ball room or
gadding about on the streets at late
hours.
Pay a woman a compliment occa
sionally and she is not so apt to fly
to piecies every time something
happens.
A man gets mad if a young man
looks at his girl before she is 10.
About ten years later his mind
changes.
Whenever a woman becomes at
tached to a dog, she thinks there is a
burglar around every time it barks
at night.
We advise the girls, when they
get to doing their hair a little fur
ther over in front, to leave peek
holes for the eyes.
With visitors the conversation
generally drags about leaving time
.because the routine ot invitations
has got to be gone through.
For a week before a girl marries,
ther.e is indignation in the house
every time the door bell rings unless
the express wagon is stauding out
side:
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Silenoo is golden. There are few
women in the Klondike.
An attractive woman can outdis
tance a brainy ouo at every move.
It should bo the ambition of ovory
woman to live up to her best photo
graph.
The ladies now wear men’s fanoy
hosiery and regular man’s fauoy
garters. What next?.
In Boston elevator girls are giving
satisfaction in several buildings
where they have been installed.
She who marries for wealth sells
her liberty and she who marries for
love gives away her liborty
Money is not the root of all evil.
If you’ll hold your ear close to the
paper now we will tell you what it
it is laziness.
Whenever a woman makes an un
happy marriage she says that it was
because her family opposed the
match.
The new king of Servia is a widow-
. He is likely to have more or
less trouble in finding a lady who is
willing to share his glory and risks.
No sensible woman will declare
thai she is a man hater. Every
body will know then that she has
met no men at all, or not the right
kind, ,
VARIOUS THINGS
It’s all off. Lipton has a rabbit’s
foot this time.
As candy eaters and water drink
ers Americans rank first.
Never hurry. A leisurely gait
gives an air of prosperity. ,
There are nearly 270 different re
ligions in the United Kingdom.
Do unto others as you would have
your mother-in-law do unto you.
There is more ooal in Montana
and Wyoming than in Pennsylvania.
When ignorance keeps peace in
the family, it’s folly to tell all you
know.
In London each day 400 children
are born and 350 enter school for
the first time.
If men were lelativoly as strong
as beetles they could juggle with
weights of several tons.
Within eight months wo have re
ceived enough emigrants from Eu
rope to repeople Ireland.
For the past 100 years the royal
family of England has been identi
fied with Free Masonry.
not small things. A
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
If you have a hired man who can
and will mow out all the weeds and
briers in the fence corners while hay
ing is in progress, you have ajcwel.
Stick to him!
In the last dccado the incrcaso m
wealth was ono-sevonth greater tlinu
the incrcaso of population.
The government of Japan now
limits the number of emigrants to
Hawaii to 220 por steamer, of whioh
the number of men must not exceed
150, the rest being womon. This is
to encourage the emigration of the
married.
If the Mississippi valley were as
densely populated as Massachusetts,
it would havo 860,000,000 people.
The largest oil ship m the world,
the Narragansett, has just boen
launohed iu the Clyde. It will hold
10,000 tons of oil, which can be dis
charged at the rateol 000 tons per
hour.
AGRICULTURAL.
Savotho pigs withilong bodies for
breeders.
Young man, whatover you do,
skip the wild oats.
Germany has on an average 800
orchard trees to the square mile.
Don’t begrudgo the few cherries
the bitds get. Don’t kill the birds,
plant moro trees. ri
A dairyman who raises extra fine
pantuie
An enthusiastic on tho excellent
quality of tho United States paper
money says “A hundred dollar bill
I will sustain a weight of forty-seven
j pounds, lengthwise. ’’That’s nothing.
I We have known a hundred dollar
cheip firecracker oan drown the I bill to sustain a man and his family
voice of the most eloquent orator. | a month and got out four issues of
There are plenty of people of few ; the paper besides
Progressive suicides are getting
so numerous that whem your child
Half hose for women are among
the novelties in hosiery. They end
just below the knee and are confined
by a close ribbon, which keeps them
in place.
The girl who reads the declaration
of independence at the Fourth of
July celebration gets good training
for making the same declaration
later on in life to her husband.
Never set yourself up fora music
ian ju<t because you have a drum in
your ear; nor believe you are cut
out for a sohool teacher morely be
cause yon have a pupil in your eye.
A lover who had been discarded
by his lady for another sued the
faithless one for the money expended
on her during the courtship, where
upon she turned and married him.
It all depends on circumstances.
One girl can do things that are con
sidered chic and cunning and char-
aoterisitio. and if another girl does
them she is called crazy. Generally
both are.
In Denmark there are companies
which insure women who have a fear
of becoming old maids. They pay
stated sums every year, and should
they marry before they are forty
what they have paid in goes to the
leas fortunate. After they are for
ty they receive pensions for life
Openings for women m South
Africa appear to be mauy and varied
A woman writing on this subject says
the peculiarity of this country is its
unfamiliar conditions of life. Lux
uries are more in demand than nec
essities.
One hundred and sixty thousand
women in Chicago every morning
marching to work in shop, mill,
store and factory is the army of the
city’s employed in petticoats.
The Queen of England, with a
bonnet oil her head, looked over the
garden wall the other day, and it is
now reported that bonnets are corn-
words, but they make those few
words'work a whole lot
Those people who borrow their
neighbor’s paper certainly glory in
the freedom of the press..
Why are young,men like vinegar?
Bccanse the morp mother there is in
them the better’they are. ,
Beware of sitting in a draft when
your clothes are damp. Ke^p mov
ing about and they will soon dry.
Some people are not content to
tell the story of their life. | They
want to make an illustrated serial of
it.
One who knows law enough to
know when he needs an attorney
kuows enough to stay out of court.
Some very good men are so
t'Loughtloss about their wives, while
they take tho best care of the farm
team.
Americans drink more water, eat
moro candy and consume moro pep
sin than any other country in the
world.
, mg into fashion again. The king
is about to break up from a foolisn ma y ma k e U8 wear white vest slips,
love affair you better hide the gnu' but .only a. queen could possibly
andt iecb thas line. [turn the women baok.to bonnets.
You have no more disagreeable
things to put up with than have oth
er fplks, so don’t worry aloud.
The fear of failure hampers the
energies of many a young man and
woman in tie early days df their
battle with the world.
Seventy-nine per cent of the pop
ulation of the United States were
born within the state or territory of
their present residence.
If you should die tonight how
much would your wife have to live
on. Some men think that it is not
necessary to lay up something.
Put a few wire nails in your ink
well, the ink’s corrosive aoid will
play itself out on the nails, and in
consequence your pen will esoape.
Something like twelve million
bottles -of ohampagne were shipped
from France to this country last
year, and. ptill, we boast of ’
plain people! That’s about one
bottle to every seven pedple, but’ in
reokliing our luxuries for the last
. year it doesn’t seem as if it had been
divided up that way.
For a year the use of posphorus
matches has been prohibited in Swe
den. The new law has resulted
the invention of a match by the en
gineers, Landin and Jernander,
whioh has been named the. soratoh
match. It will light against a wet
surface. It is said to be less poison-
ous than the Bafety match.
Cracks in floors round the skirting
board or other parts of a room may
be neatly and permanently filled up
by thoroughly soaking newspapers
in paste made of one pound of flour,
three quarts of water and a table-
spoonful of alum, thoroughly boiled
and blendod. The mixture will be
as thiok as putty, and may be forced
.to the craoks with a knife. It
will harden like papier maohe.
The Human Body’’ was the sub
jeot set for an essay in a public
sohool in New Jorsy. A girl sent
in tho following: “The body is
divided into three parts, the head
the thorax and the abdomen. Tho
head contancs the eyes, ears, nose,
mouth and sometimes hair and
brains. The thorax oontanes the
hart, brest, lungs, stumaek and
and windpipe.; The abdomen con
tanes the livver, inestibles and vow
els of which there are five, a^e, i. o
u, and sometimes w and y.”'
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The forests of Florida are one of
the state’s greatest sources of reve
nue, a revenue that is beiiig consum
ed with great rapidity. Speculators
from regions^!ther north have late
ly been buy ipgj and cutting large
areas of forests in Florida, and the
timber supply is greatly diminished.
The wooded area of the stale is esti
mated at 37,700 square miles, or 70
per cent of the total area, much of
whioh is occupied by merchantable
timber.
The new army rifle will pierce six
human bodies or a foot and a half of
pine at 6,000 feet,, , The use of such
a cartridge in riots would - endanger
the Jives of every person within a
calves never turns them in
the first year.
Always water tho horse before
feediug. Most horses will dnnk"a i:
limited quantity after eating. ' ,J ‘ ,IS
Oh, dear! If wo wore ali as good j
as we think our neighbor ought to
be, this would be a great world to
livo in.
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For work horses taxod to thp limit,
of their endurance, all grain., should,,
be ground and fed with out hay
moistened. i <
Whonevor a dozen oggs sells for
the price of a pound butter, the man
with tho hons is ahead of the man
with the cow.
The stomach of a liorso is small,
henop he should not be required to
go all day without food. He should
have a small ration of grain at noon.
A little, salt and every day is the 1
best plan. How would you like to
eat unsalted food for a week or two
and then be given a handful with
every meal?
Dr, Ekonborg, a Swedish scientist
has invented a machines for oouvert-
ing skim milk into powder, which
when dissolved in water gives the
properties of ordinary milk.
It has taken m<ny years and many
generations of oows to produce the
special dairy cow. One oross oq
another breed may undo all the
work and care of years. Don’t work
backward.
Anything that strengthens the tie
between the young folks and the
farm by just so much helps to make
the world better. Love for the
country and its quiet ways tends
to lengthen life and make it happier,
Three bundled and fifty square
miles of territory devoted to the
culture of sisal and licnequin fiber
supplies the twine to bind the wheat
crops of the world. This twine is
used in the United States, Argenr
tine and Russia. The United States
furnishes the binders which use. this
twine.
A good deal of modern charity is
giving money that you grudge, to
j people in whom you have little faith
for purposes of whioh you do not at
all approve.
Apples without seed or cor01
That is what a miserable rouge out
west claims to have discovered, and
he is selling these wonderful trees
at six dollars each.
It will cost St. Louis more to cel*
abrate the Louisana purchase than
was paid toi the original territory it
embraces* i
The longest span in the world is
now in process of construction across
the St Lawerence river, about sev
en miles west ot Quebec, Canada.
The cement foundations of tele
graph poles aro called cement butts-
There is a company now engaged in
their exclusive manufacture. The
butts are. said to make the posts last
uiilh and a half^ .It oqntaLnSthirty- -three times as long, and in the mean-
four grrinH of powder and two round
ublls weighing forty-two grains.
time the liability from fire and storm
is greatly reduced. -