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TOL. XXL NO 51
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY JULY 23, 1003
TERMS *1.00 PER YEAR
There was no paper issued from this office last week. Summer vacation at convention.
OBSERVATIONS.
Crazy folks do not know it.
Ever notice how many kind sf
dogs you see?
Some men will fall into the same
hole the fourth time.
The o dcr a girl gets, the more
style she tries to put on.
A woman must bo unhappy who
loves mcro than one man.
Some people find great difficulty
in trying to keep out of the way.
We have never known what is
meant by, It goes without saying.
More respect should be shown to
a girl who makes her own olothes.
Don't boast of having any self-
control, unless you can quit tobacco.
Horses are supposed to be tough.
Think of those you have worn out.
Some girls are like the road to
heaven: very straight and narrow.
A girl brought up tin idleness, so.
ciety and visiting, is ill fitted for a
wife.
It is not a good sign for t married
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
In 1840 there were only seven
occupations for women.
We hear muoh about borrowing
trouble, but who loans it?
Turpentine placed in tho scrub
water will give the houso a fresh
odor.
Don't tip the shoulders from side
to side when walking. It is an ex
ceedingly ungraceful habit.
Turpentine mixed with stove pol
ish prevents rust, and gives brighter
gloRs than water.
Miss Floy Gilmore of Indiana,
has been appointed assistant attor-
uoy-.general of tho Philippines.
The Ainu women in Japan tattoo
their faces to give them the appear
ance of men with whiskers
Don't let anyone convince you to
eat raw rice for. your complexion.
It is liable to cause your death.
Mrs. Emma A. Stuckman of Nap
panee, Ind., has taught school 52
years.
Miss Isador Duncan, an American
man to stay out late alter business j i$ creating excitement in View
hours. I na by her dancing and graceful
We do hate to see neighboring | poses.
towns fight like cats hung over a
olothes line.
A woman cannot put on much
life these days without stirring up
the gossipers.
In a fight between a oat and a dog
the sympathy of a boy is always
with the dog.
Wehavs often wondered how a
man feols who sells the liquor that
causes a death.
When m trouble, don’t you think
just a bit hard of your friends for
not helping you out.
As time passes on, more love af
fairs end in marriage without spend
ing a fortune on the girl.
Some of the ugliest women of to
day are those who were proud of
tjcir beauty when young.
The more shrieks a newspaper
man can put into an accidout, the
better it suits the average reader.
When a woman gets back from an
orchard, the contents of her stomach
is about like that of a boy's pocket.
Anything put into your stomach
that is not wholesome food, Is that
mu <h toward shortening your days
Lots of men would love lo be a
baby again so they could draw up
then 1 mouth and howl when things
don’t go right.
When a woman goes untidy to
breakfast, her husband compares her
unfavorbly all day to the better
dressed women he sees down town.
When a wedding trosseau is elab
orate, we preaume that it means a
lot of useless garments to be out up
and made into little garments.
Unless you can keep your mind
in one channel long enough to go
crazy, you deserve no credit for
„ being Bane.
. It doesn’t mean much to call your
girl honey unless honey is selling
at a high price. Fork or beef steak
would be about as flattering this
season.
A man who can go through two
or three love affairs without serious
results is apt to take a more conserva
tive view of matrimony and marry
a sensible woman for a good wife.
Jane Hyatt, an American girl in
Paris, has recently leoeived *4,000
in loyalties on a gas meter of her
own invention.
The parents of the boy taught to
bo civil of speech, skilled of hands
and clean of thought need have no
fear of his future.
A Pennsylvania legislator has in
troduced a bill to provide gold med
als for mothers of large families.
Sewing machines would be better.
Prosperity has struck the South
and the price of cotton has soared
until there is danger that American
women will all have to wear silk.
If you don’t know anything good
to say of yonr i.eighbor just keep
still about him. It is best not to
repeat uncomplimentary stories lest
they be false.
There are some women in Chicago
sorry to say, do not bathe only
once in two years. Their children
fare likewise. Excuse us from liv
ing in those wards.
To keep lemons place them in a
jar and cover them with cold water
change the water ouce each week and
they will keep ripe and juicy for one
or two months.
ron’tfail to remember this rule
that in walking you should carry
yourself so that a plumb line
dropped from your nose, would fall
just an inch in front of your great
toe.
A child should sleep out its night
uncuddled and uncoddled. Its par
ents bed is no place for a child of
any age. Loving caresses are yield-
to selfish instinct. The child needs
sleep and not to be petted.
One of the newest showings in belt
and wrist bags is the belts of bright
red leather with a gilt buckle. To
go with these are wrist bags of the
Bame red leather, with chain, clasp
and frame of the gilt.
The man or woman who ases any
intelligence when selecting a diet re
ally has no need of spring tonics.
Strawberries contain iron and are
nature’s tonic for viotims of that
tired feeling. Eat plenty of crisp,
green vegetables: they are good
for you. Drink water between
meals, at least six glasses a day.
VARIOUS THINGS
Steel rusts rusts seven times as
rapidly as iron.
Tho best laundered people are the
Americans.
The male ostrich, though long-
lived, mates but once.
Japan’s shipyard turned out forty-
one steamers last year.
The submarine cables, if jointed,
would reach to the moon
Nearly all tho royal families of
Europe employ American dentists
It has been stated that every
laugh makes a man a day younger.
There aro more Methodists in the
U. S. than any othet denomination.
All kinds of American farm and
garden tools are sold in stores in
Germany.
The Commonwealth, thenew Brit
ish vessel, is the largest battleship
afloat.
Last year 00 ocean-going steam
ers were engaged exclusively in tl:e
banana trade
A person can now go from Now
York City to Seattle, on Puget
Sound, in four days.
'fhe largest enclosure of deer is
said so be the royal park in Copen
hagen, 4,200.
Samson might have escaped with
his hair had not that female barber
talked him into sleep.
A Chicago cereal food company
recently ordered fifty tons of ink for
use in printing their packages.
The commissioner of patents will
not issue patents for so-oalled “per
petual motion” machines.
Bedsteads with alarm clocks as
part of the headrail are being made
for South London early risers.
The number of leaves on a large
60-foot high oak tree has been coun
ted and found to exceed six million.
Put away the little hammer, do
not use it any more; be a booster,
not a slammer, running up an anvil
score.
Fence posts are now made of grav
el and oement. What next? They
say a barrel of cement will make 50
posts.
An electrical typesetting machine
will, says its inventor, revolution
ize the mechanical work on a
paper.
Arkansas produced a million bales
of cotton last year, and built more
miles of traok .ban any other state
of the union,
The government redeems unused
postal cards that have been printed
on the back, giving 75 per cent of
the face value.
Because the premium had not
been paid, an Amsterdam company
has cancelled the King »f Servia’i
insurance policy.
Sweden haB declined outside aid
in relieving the famine in that coun
try, except *28,000 by the Swedes
ot America.
' There are three-storied streets
New York where the underground
surface and the elevated street rail
ways come together.
Eight million feet of timber has
been burned up in the Pennsylvania
forests fires. And the price of lum
ber so high, too!
It has been estimated that no les
,han 25,000,000 peoplo anniialy at
tend the oircuses of America.
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
Within ten years the produots of
Alaska will amount to 50 million
dollars per annum.
About 600 of tho 1,300 locomotive
engines used on the railroads of Ja
pan were manufactured in the United
States.
If Alaska could bo lifted and su
perimposed on the eastern part of
tho Uuitod Slatos, it would cover
up 20 states.
Nine thousand emigrants arrived
it Hamburg, Germany, recently on
route to tho United Slates.
Hawaii wants to enuourage immi
gration from tho United states to
develop small farms on a million
acres of public land in that far off
possession.
Thero aro graduated from oolleges
in tho United States from 10,000 to
12,500 physioians. The actual
needs ot tho country call for only
about 2,500 annualy.
Of tho 5,341 doaths in Chicago ip
tho last two mouths, ] ,186 have
been caused by pneumonia. The
dnotors aro unable to tell why thero
is so much pneumonia.
The death rate of tho globe is esti-
mated at 68 a minute.
Uncle Sam has shipped *2,600,
000 in silver to the Philipinos.
This money was shipped in beer
kegs and it took 260 of them.
Henry Wnterma , tho man who
issued tho first postage stamp, died
recently at Woonsocket R. 1., He
was postmaster in 1830 when no
stamps were used and invented one,
the die of whioh was made in Bos
ton. These stamps are now so rare
that collectors pay *1,000 oaoh for
them.
A Boston telegram says that Dr.
William 1. Councilman’s discovery
of the germ of smallpox continues
to evoke the greatest interest of
so entists. All the learned men
tigice that the road of preventing or
curing the disease will he much
easier now than before the causo of
smallpox was ascertained.
How vast are the waste plains of
the earth may be seen from the fact
that tho great desert of Gobi, in
China, would fill up the entire Mis
sissippi valley, from the Alleghenies
to the Rookies. Upward of 300,000
square miles of Arabia is an unin
habitable waste, while the terrible
Sahara is vast enough to cover tho
whole United States.
Coal has been discovered in vari
ous poitions of Alaska. Thcso fields
are of unique value because of their
location, these being the nearest of
all American coal mines to all of thp
isles and possessions of the United
States on the Pacific 1 the nearest
point, in fact, of the American
mainland to Hawaii, Samoa, Guam
and tho Philippines, and are nearly
2,000 miles nearer to Asia thau the
Puget Sound mines or San Franoisco.
AGRICULTURAL.
Keep the farm and it will keep
you.
Give aBafetida water as a proven*
tilive for many chioken diseases.
Aro you making money with your
pouliry? If not, where is the
trouble?
There is a gold fish farm at Wal*
drou, Ind., the only one in the world.
The born crop of Argentine Re
public this year amounts to 3,50Q
tons.
Andrew Carnegie has given away
nearly *100,000,000. Reducing
this enormous sum to dollar bills
and laying them end to end, they
would muke a ribbon reaching by
way of Suez from Chicago to Manila
A teller could not count it in less
than a year, using *5 bills and work
ing jcught hours a day. In /silver
In Maroh tho output of the oleo
margarine factories was 11.000,000
pounds.
Animals at pasture are effeotive
manure spreaders, and on them there
are no patents.
Timber is a crop most unlikely to
go down in price, honoeits planting
should be on a large soalo.
Boys be saving. A newsboy in
Indianapolis saved his pennies and
now owns a mall grocery store.
It is more important to take water
from under the roadway than to pnt
material of any kind on top of it.
A poor cow takes up as muoh
room, eats as muoh feed and requires
as muoh care as a good one.
One hundred dollars worth of but
ter bears off from the soil less of its
valuable elements than five cents*
worth of hay.
A steer utilizes only 8 per cent of
tho food eaten, while a hog utilizes
20 per cent. For this reason pork
is produoed more cheaply than beef.
As to k naming the farm, if there’s
nothing about the plaoe to suggest a
nice namo, the probability is it
doesn’t need one.
It is olaimcd no weed Beed will
germinate after being eaten by a
sheep, one other thing making sheep
a factor in successful farming.
When a woman figures up what
her new skirt will cost she wonders
where we aro going to stop. A few
years ago you could got a whole
nice dress for less money.
Four thousand dollars is a great,
big pnoe to pay for a calf only nine
weeks old. The mother of the calf
holds the world's butter record for
seven and thirty days.
Have the milking done at regular
hours each day, making the period
equal between milkings. Do not
loiter when milking; milk qniokty
but gently.
Mules can be raised much move
oheaply than horses. Frequently*
four-year-old horse will do a little
more work than a two-year-old mule.
Good common sense must be exercis
ed in all cases.
Australia and New Zealand have
ninety and one-half million sheep,
whioh is just one and a half tunes
as many as the whole ot the United
States possesses.
If you wish to teach the boy busi
ness habits aud economy and beget
with! n him a deeper insight and in-
tereset in farming, give him a direct
personal interest in some of the
products of the farm, cither crop or
stock.
Macadam, the great roadmaker,
when asked if he could make a per
manent stone roadway across a bog.
* .. . , , with its material only for a found-
doilars stacking tpn to the inch, an( , were d, “Yes, if it can be
these corns would pile in single col-1 drained dry.” Dry foundation^
umn 160 miles into the air. I the principle of roadmaking.