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YOL. XXI. NO 52
VIENNA, QA. THURSDAY JULY 30, 1903
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR;
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OBSERVATIONS.
Watover you touch, try to improve
The tougheat thing is an aban
doned woman.
Did you ever see a ohureh choir
bow in pray or?
Don’t prediot for things to happen
unless you know.
We spend loto of money for things
that do us no good.
One of the quickest things mend
ed is a brokon heart.
A display of tempor is never a dis
play of good judgment.
Nobody seems to love the man
who dislikes to do a favor.
The deepest thoughts of man is
when his tongue is still.
We despise the man who will not
pay his debts when he can.
Uneasy lies the head that wants
to pay its debts and cannot.
Lots of people say Amen to things
they would not say themselves.
Don’t undertake to tell your trou
bles unless they resulted in good.
As the older ones remark at homo,
the ohildren will remark in company.
We are half disposed to envy the
life of frogs and lizards this weather
Some of the loveliest people of the
present day have no trait of beauty.
You will not lose the respect of
the world as long as you appear hon
est.
Have you obsorved how much
lovelier a quiet girl is than a flirty
one?
It is strange how much trouble
man will oarry around in his hip
pocket.
Squirm as you will, the people
will find out your conduot and talk
about it.
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Women and iibbons flutter in their
own atmosphere.
A reaotion from the extreme
blouse front has set in.
Every woman likes to be told that
she is beautiful and oharraing.
A woman who is fond of finery
seldom knows the beauty of nature.
Woman suffrage hold four states
in the far west, Wyoming, Idaho,
Colorado and Utah.
In the colony of Japanese in Now
York City threare about 1,000 men
and but thirty women.
In 1850 only one woman worked
for wages o every ten men; now
the ratio is one woman to four men.
Many a woman would gladly re
call her past, but the average man
is satisfied if he can get his presents
baok-
A woman need never fear that her
husband is drifting away as long as
she can get him to button her waist
down the back.
Seventy-seven per oent of the wo
men and but 02 per cent of the men
taking civil service examinations are
able to pass them.
Life is bitter if you say it is.
Smile a little and watoh the picture
change. It all remains with your
self and the thoughts that are not
misfits.
Practice saying the things that
aro worth saying. If yon have a
quick wit doii't employ it making
jokes at the expense of some one else,
Manila used to seem an awful
long way off, but with the new oa
ble in operation it will be just the
same as next door, with some tariff
restrictions.
There is not much hope for a
young man whose only ambition is
to be funny
When you kick, try to have
something thicker thau the open air
for your object.
VARIOUS THINGS
Compulsorv vaoomation is being
enforced in the Philippines.
The first cleotrto failway was that
of Siomes, in 1879.
Without labor there could be no
rest; that’s one compensation.
In New York City 100 now cases
of consumption develop each day.
The memory, it has been decided,
is stronger in summer than in winter.
Porto Rioo is prosperous. They
sell us a millon dollars’ worth of
tropioal fruit every month.
The Kaiser’s army is served regu
larly with broad and porridgo made
largely from the peanut.
Tho latest euro for internal cancer
reported in England is a tablespoon
ful of molasses four or five limoB a
day.
There are almost as many univer
sity teachers in the United StateB as
there are university students in the
United Kingdom.
Find a man who has accomplished
anything in life and you will havo
discovered one who attends strictly
to his own baldness.
The largest tree in tho world lies
broken and petrified at the end of a
defile in uorthwestoru Nevada. It is
said to be 066 feet long.
Anything the people do not know
is news. In that case, what’s the
matter with the Lord’s prayer?
Dumb animals arc skinned alive
in Russia because Ojc skin of a live
animal is considered superior for
manufacturing purposes.
When the white man first reached
the oity of Mexico it had 300.000 in
habitants, probably more than, the
entire population of the North Amer
ioan continent at that time.
Almost every kind of material
used this summer is being made up
in the new sun-plated effeots. The
suggestion of rays both in skirt and
blouse is brought out. It is fre
quently oarried over to the sleeves.
Love is delicate; love iB hurt with
jar and fret; and you might as well
When a girl learns a now game, I expect a violin to remain in tune if
she wants to give a party and show j roughly used as love to survive if
how it is played. j chilled or driven into itself.
I do hate to sit by people in I An excellent lotion for whitening
meting who are continually nagging ! the hands is made by eombining two
at me to talk.
People will laugh at things in
company that would not bring a
smile out of company.
It is strange how quick you will
be laughed at when it is found out
that you are in love.
A man thinks he knows all the
swear words until he hears two bad
women quarreling.
I would rather dress light and
look liko the old Harry than to die
of heat dressed like a prince.
If men were to appear in peck-a-
boo garments like the women wear,
they would not be respected.
When a woman with a siokly hus
band buys a dress, she is apt to se
lect one that will do for mourning.
We are glad to see that kind of
singing disappear that sounds like
drawing a tin pan over notches in a
stick.
In the good old days of our moth
ers, a germ was not recognized un
less it could crawl and be mashed
with the foot.
ounces lemon juice, two ounces of
bay rum and two onnees glycerine.
Apply after bathing the hands and
before wiping them on the towel.
Queen Helena of Italy is a royal
lady who has a very practical knwol-
elge of cooking. At her father’s
curiously homely and unpretentious
court Queen Helena learned many
useful tilings, and among them the
art of cooking.
Mis. Harriet Lane Johnson, niece
of President Buchanan, is dead
She was a very brilliant woman.
She was hostess at the White House
during Pnneo of Wales’, now King
of Engjand, visit to the United State
King Edward honored her as his
guest at the recent coronation.
Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workham of
Worcester, Mass., is generally con
ceded to be the world’s greatest tray-
eler and most daring mountaineer,
and explorer. She broke all climb
ing records in the Himalayas by ma-
king an assent of Loongma . glacier,
and the only white man who had
visited it was the great English
olimber, Sir W. Martin Conway
The fishhooks used today are of
precisely the same form as those of
2,000 years ago. The only differ
ence is in the material; then they
were made of bronze, now they are
made of steel.
At Pittsbmrg recently the Con-
gregrationlists, the United Brothern
and the Methodist Protestants effcot
ed a union which, though it is senti-
meutal rather than doctrinal and
federal rather than organic, is never
theless a union.
A Bohemian widow living at HaL-
da made up her mind to marry again
if she could get her departed hus
band’s consent with aid of a spirit
ual medium. The husband advised
her not to marry but to come to him
whereupon she went home, put arse
nic in her coffee, and died.
Here is a remedy by which the
woi’st tit of coughing can be checked
in church or theatre: Pour about a
half a teaspoonful of good, pure co
logne iuto your handkorchi'ef and
bold this before your open mouth.
Inhale a deep breath or two of the
perfume impregnated air, and th e
coughing attack will be neatly and
agreeably nipped in the bud.
An editor works 375-days per
year to get 52 issues of his paper,
that's labor. Once in a while some
body pays him year’s subscription,
that’s eapital; and once in a while
some sneak takes the paper a year or
two without paying forit, tbatVan
archy. But there is a place pre
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
The United Statos life saving ser
vice costs $1,700 000 por annum.
Mining, companies in the United
States last year paid 150 million in
dividends.
Figures recently published in
Christiana show that tho amount of
money sent home from the United
States by emigrants from Norway
last year was $3,880,000.
Sixty million barrels of kerosene
wero produced iu the United StateB.
Tho proceeds from the sale of this
and the byproducts obtainod from
petroleum are estimated at $600,000-
000.
The cost of hauling a ton of freight
a mile on tho London Northwestern
railyway, England’s most important
line, is 1.49 oents; on the Pennsyl
vania railway is .404 of a cent, and
on the New York Central .416 of a
oent.
The Porto Ricans are demonstra
ting thoir fitness for self-govern
ment. Their government is out of
debt, has a big surplus and proposes
icduoing taxation
There was quite a roar when this
government paid $7,200,000 for
Alaska. It was dirt cheap at that.
In less than one year $10,972,454 of
the products of Alaska found a mar
ket outside of that territory It iB
a rioh country with its productive
capaoity practically undeveloped.
British locomotive builders have
made a new record for tho Ameri
cans to beat, An English train ran
last week 299 railo3 m live hours and
forty-eight minutes without stopping
the most severe test a locomotive
can be put to. It means a speed of
over fifty miles an hour, nontinious'
ly for six hours.
This is a great country, but it al
most bewilders one to contemplate
the running expenses of the govern
ment. This year the actual govern
mental expenses will be abous six
hundred and fifty-one millions of
dollars, indunding one hundred and
th’rty-two millions of dollars for the
postal servioe whioh is well nigh
self-sustaining. Tho income, how
ever, is sufficient to meet thyj enor
mous expense and leave a surplus
of forty-three millions of dollars.
The surplus last year, being ninety-
one millions of dollars.
Want to be a man do you? Well
you may attain the ago of twenty-
one aod a stature of five and six
feet and not be a man. Age and
size don't make a real man. Some
people when grown are as worthless
as when they were boys, in faot, a
worthless boy is usually worthless
when he grows up to a man’s size.
The real man grows from a manly
boy. The habits he forms in youth
stay with him. Now is the time
to make yourself what you axpect to
be fin after life. It will be too late
when you are grown. The gods are
satisged when a man does his best,
but the neighbors may still find fault
with him,
No matter what you do, provided
you do it, better than somo one else
could do the same thing, there's a
welcome waiting you r. the world
It was Emerson, we believe, who
said: “If a man can write a better
book, preach a better sermon, or
make a better mousetrap, than his
neighbor, though he build his house
pared where the last.named creature in the woods, the world will make
will get his just deserts. (a beaten path to his door.
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm for the dollars.
Floods are fertilizers.
Even the good roads get bad.
A nail in time saves tho fenoe.
Keep your temper. You may
need it.
This was one yoar Kansas took
water.
The president wants a ranch?
Who doesn’t.
The ououmber was originally a
tropical plant.
Ono of tho onuses of poor orops is
poor seed.
It costs no more to keep a good
hog than a razorbnok.
Feed tho breeding stock so as to
keep in robust health.
Asparagus was originally a wild
sua coast plant of Great Britain.
The Czar of Russia is probably
the largest land owner in the world.
The banana and potato aro almost
the same in chemical composition.
The export of Canadian form prod
ucts is iucreasingat a very rapid rate,
Food is valuable only when di*
gested and assimilated, and the same
is true of roadiug.
Settlers in timbered regions are
glad they aro independent of coal
barons and miners.
Tho onion was almost an objeot
of worship with ihoEgyptians 2,00Q
years before the Christian era. It
first came from India.
The year’s business of American
hens will amount to $284,000,006.
Chilli sells Germany $18,000,000
worth of nitrate of soda annually,
for use in fertilizers.
The beds of peas in Colorado
sometimes inolude as many as 2,000
aores and there is one bed exceeding
in size 2,600 acres.
The average yield ot the wheat
harvest of tiouth Australia ib sin
bushels per acre.
The fellows who used to be writ-
lug much about tho world having
reached the limit of agricultural
production are evidently taking a
rest. Study inggeography and things
it is hoped.
What is said to be the largest and
oldest pear tree iu America is is
Michigan, near lake Erie. It is sup
posed io nave been planted by tho
Frenoh when they first settled in that
country. Five feet above the ground
this tree measures 13 feet in circum
ference, and is 65 feet high. It is
said also to be a prolifio bearer, that
rarely fails of a good crop.
Potash may be used in wood ashca
and muriate of potash. It is most
co inmonly used in the latter form.
An unusual application of potasfc
should be made upon bearing orch
ards, 500 pounds to theasre.
Many farmers are afraid of Its
word science, and think that scien
tific farming can only be followed
by the wealthy man. The meaning
of the term, science, is to know *
thing, to ascertain the facts,
if a farmer knows just how
.milk or butter a cow produces in »
month he is a scietific dairyman. If
he knows what it costs to produce a
bushel of corn or a pound of poA,
he is a scientific farmer. There ip
nothing about the word to scan jm