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VOL. XXII. NO 3
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1003
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OBSERVATIONS.
A very tiresome thing is a smart
alex knt.
A man has to know the people to
fool them.
Overwork is a very creditable
compliment’
Many a good house girl is spoiled
with the piano.
If you prosper, it must be under
you own efforts.
There is always something the
matter with sooiety.
The world respects every man
who behaves himself.
Summer girls are more popular
because we see more of them.
A man who works can be trusted;
but a loafer deserves nothing.
If there’s any joy in the family,
divide it, and let all fare alike.
We hate to see people idle, but
would love to do what they do.
It is such a pity that sweet youn<j
girlB should become old and sour.
When you are talking with peo
ple, try to divide the time evenly.
Your children will never honor
you forletting them do as they please.
Lotsof us face our troubles because
we are situated so wo oaunot get
away.
To command the respect of young
men, a girl should command their
distance.
You see the tiresome habits in
others. Do you try to get rid those
in yourself?
1 do hate to see two men lean over
to eachother and talk loud during a
public meeting.
Presuming that your boy will
never be president, you should train
him to be right.
The worst kind of home sickness
is that which conics on you while
vou are at home.
Girls who practice a slouchy walk
at home, have a bard time at getting
rid of it in company.
The world has so many nice men
that we should overlook those who
are unkind and unfair.
The rustle of the wind in a corn
field reminds us of women in silk
skirts coming this way.
Every man desires to see the day
when he can go back to his old home
wearing a stove pipe hat.
To guard against going to sleep
in a church, place your eyes on a
woman who is chewing gum.
You should stop telling your trou
bles to a man the moment be begins
to yawn aud shows a disposition to
ring off.
A wedding present from a married
person is all right; but from an un
married person it is like contracting
a debt.
You cannot judge a girl’s neat
ness by the appearance of the top
bureau drawer. It is the second and
third that tell the story.
Lots of town men complain of the
U*ed of exercise. There is plenty
of exercise about the house at keep
ing the weeds down, the garden cul
tivated aud so forth.
When a country woman comes to
town, she is entertained in the par
lor. But when a town woman goes
to the country, she is given the free;
dom of the house and drinks milk
and wine in the cellar.
WOMAN.’S COLUMN.
Amonia mixed with stove black,
ing will prevent it burning off.
Wear linens next to the skin, as
it most readily absorbs moisture,
nnd wear woolen for outer garraonts.
Fitzsimmons iB learning to trip
the light fantastic. Mrs. Fits III.
has taken him in hand and is teach
ing him to step around.
Mrs Martin Nelson, of Cumber
land, Md.„ at sixty-four, is the moth
er of 28 children, twenty-five boys
and tlirao girls.
One of the duties of life is to
make with whom you associate hap
py, in striving to do this you will
also make yourself happy.
The mother who has acquired the
habit of scolding her children there
by shows that she is not competent
to train them to obedience.
When you stop to think about all
the troubles you don't happen to
have you ought to be happy even
though you are quite miserable.
Scionoo says that peanuts will
oanso drowsiness. Yet there must
oinor causes. We havo never seen
a church floor littered up with pea
nut shells.
Considering the variegatod troub
les through which everybody has
lived at one timebranoter, it is sur
prising that anybody worries about
anything.
Marriages between white Amerioan
men and Phillipino women are re
garded with as much horror as mar
riages between whites and blaoks.
A Shawnee girl named Spink has
just married aa Oklahomaman named
Spunk. Well it does beat all how
some people do twist things any
how. Past tense spink; present
spunk; future spank.
Sleeplcncas is usually brought
about by mental excitement. Think
of yourself as being something in
animate, a paper weight or a log.
Relax your muscles aud then you
go to sleep and rest.
What we ordinary mortals need is
VARIOUS THINGS
Thoro arenearly 0,000,000 negroes
in the United States.
The price of lador in Alaska is
$4.50 to $6.50 per day, with board.
Hot weather is no more dangerous
to fat people than to lean.
Canada produoes $1,250,000 worth
ot asbestos a year
More than 160 books on tho war
in South Afrioa have been publihed.
One wishing to import a hippopo-
tamus must have a Government per
mit to buy and another to land him.
However numerous may tho op-
portunities of life be, they are never
discovered by those who keep thoir
eyes shut and permit their hands to
Lu idle.
Self-reliance is good capital in
any business, and the young man
who has this to start wish, together
with unlimited ouergy is bound to
snooccd.
A oy working in a clay pipe fac
tory at Mogadore, O., can make
16,000 pipes in a day. Where do
they all go?
Alaska natives have developed a
great fondness for bacon, hard bread
canned beef and other foods of like
nature. ,
Truth crushed to earth will rise again
How strange that people try
This little trick most all the time
But never orush a lie.
Nearly all the safety matches,
which are safe against friotion on
sandpaper, stone, wood, or brick ig-
nito readily from a quiok rub on glass
With 20,000 remedies known to
medical science, it docs seem mighty
queer how long it takes the dootor
to fix us up all right again when we
get to feeling tough.
The railroad oar will carry as
much as twenty teams of horses can
haul and the great ocean steamers
will transport as muoh as 400 rail
road cars can carry.
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
The unexplored anarotio rogion,
which equals Europe in size, is the
largest unexplored area in tho world.
The United States hrs 78,000 post-
officos. Germany is next with 45,-
623 and Great Britain third with
22,400.
The Congo Free State has an area
of 000,000 square miles and the
.population between 20,000,000 and
30,000,000.
The annual payment to pensioners
of tho war with Spain now approxi
mates $3,700,000, aud 45,000 appli
cations are pending.
The power plants now in opera
tion at Niagara FallB, and tho ones
expected to be built, will divert one-
seventeenth of the water from the
falls.
When it comes to ohoosing a pope
however, they don’t appear to think
a man has lost his usefulness simply
because he happens to bo more than
35 or 40 years old.
Aooordmg to estimates of the U.
S. department of agrioulturo, the
wheat crop of the world is placed at
over three billion bushels, whiob
would give about two bushels to
every man, woman and child in the
world.
Some asked us tho other day which
was the larger, theU. S., including
Alaska, or Canada? Gauada is. It
has 8,653,046 square miles and the
United States, including Alaska,
3,501 114. Moreover, the figures
for Alaska including water as well
as laud surface,
Foster’s statistics of mineral out
put, just published, shows that the
United States produoes more and the
British empire a little less than one-
third of tho coal, while Germany
furnishes one-fifth.
For tho first timo since 1808 tho
post office department, with the is-
suranoe of the new senes of stamps
in preparation will make use of the
Amerioan flag in one of the designs
This will be a part of the two-cent
i stamp, which will bear little resom
AGRICULTURAL.
Lard ib the most economical ani
mal fat.
A harness-broken zebra is worth
$10,000.
Worn out milk pans make nice
nests for henB.
Printing paper is now made out of
cornstalks.
Wherever or whatever you are,
keep a few hens.
There are 1,500 varieties of the
rioe grain known, of whioh fifty or
more are cultivated.
Some use baked oorn meal for the
young ohioks. Mixed with milk it
makes a good ration.
Do not refuse to mako an allow
ance for your wife, if you expeat
her mako allowances for you.
Feed your land well and it will
feed you well in return. Nature is
always ready to moot us half way.
Boys, don’t bo afraid of making
a friend of your father. He was
onoo a boy. Hb will understand.
Little trouble may be anticipated
from nntes if plenty of ashes are
furnished for them to dust them
selves.
A cement floor for tho cow stable
is a sanitary floor. It should be
more or less rough to prevent the
cows from slipping.
Manila has a total population of
something like 300,000 about 10,000!
bareheaded romp now and then, a I being American and European born. • ^^ auce t0 the one onw current.
Setting away from the cheek reigns " eSt,ma ' | A Toledo, Ohio, man is working
I on a scheme to send cold brine in
If people could turn X-rays on | Bur3mer through the pipes winch
their poor overworked stomachs and j through the winter 8team or hot
water to heat the buildings
and release from the machinery in
which we go the tread mill the rest
of the year.
Are many jobs waiting attention?
Do one at. .a time. Keep on doing
one at a time till all arc done. The
man who stops to congratulate him
self every time he does one job will
get no faster than the man Who tries
to do all at once.
All the angels are not in heaven.
Some are r'ght here among human
folk.' Sometimes it’s a woman with
scraggy haiv aud a heart that’s true
while again : t may bo a man whose
collars are out of style, but whose
soui is true. Cau’t ever tell.
We feel sorry for mau or woman
of tins great, busy, whirling life of
ours who floes not now and then
have a growing hungering hankering
for a wildish wilderness some place
where there is a little pool of land
a little patch of water and some trees
aud a:r aud other things.
By the time the lazy girl is thirty
years old she will look her age,
while the athletic girl at thirty looks
a mere slip of a girl. One is heavy
and awkward; the other is graceful
and light, while her figure retaius
its slenderness of’ youth and some
times the almost spindling qualities
of childhood.
see them laboring' to digest things
that should not have been eaten in
warm weather they would leave said
things alone.
An electric motor for unloading
bananas has been introduced in New
Orleans, whicn handles 15,000 bun
ches an hour, working at three
hatches, and the fruit is protected
from the slightest bridge.
Tho worst pauperism in the world
is the poverty of mind and sonl,
Pitv the man or woman whose mind
is barren of those high and noble
possesions which reveal the soul and
distinguish man from the brute-
Idleness is the father of crime.
Laziness is a disease that should re
ceive early treatment. Teachers and
preachers should make it their duty
to convince young men and women
of the wickedness of doing nothing.
To oleanaelock, lay in the bottom
a rag saturated . with .kerosene oil.
The fhmes will loosen the dirt and
He
hopes to perfect a system which
shall bo of sufficient practical utility
to do away with ice refrigerators
and which will enable people to cool
their houses in summer as easily as
they now heat them in winter.
The postofficc department estab
lished during the last month 2,455
rural routes. The total number of
routes established for the entire fis-
oal year ended June 30, 1903, was
5,004 Jt is announced at the de
partment that there is remaining un-
nlloted of the appropriation for the
present fiscal year a sufficient sum to
establish about 4,000 additional
routes.
Tbi! i$ a little matter we wi$h to
$peak to Some of our $ub$criber$
about. We really bate to do it,
but a $ it take# money to pay printer!
and buy printing material!, we feel
that we mu$t. Bill! $howing the
amount! due have been received by
it will drop out. In a few days ie- $ome of you and wc hope that thele
move and place another saturated few will give tne matter due oon$id-
rag in the clock, the fumes of which oration and effect a prompt $ettle-
will lnbricate the works. ! nieut.. Wc need the $■$■$'$$$$$
It is said that one pound of oyster '
shell will furnish limo for the shell*
o f about seven dozen eggs. It eost*
one oont por pound.
A good thing to ask yourself now
and then: “What kind of homo
would our home be, if every one in
it woro just like mo?”
Remember that fifty fowls good
breed well kept will produoe mors
eggs than one hundred negleoted, no
matter what the breed mvy be.
It is not known how long a sowing
of alfalfa will last. A patoh plan
ted in Texas in 1868 is still prod
ucing and is thirty-five years old.
It iB regarded by some aa an ex
pensive experiment to grow thorough
bred chickens from eggs. They ad
vise buying manufactured stock.
It is said that 10.500,000 people
are employed on the farms of Ameri
ca. Nobody appears to be able te
explain why they have not gone to
the charms of flat life in tho cities.
Here is the latest idea of real es
tate advertising: A man will take
pictures of farms, havo steropticaa
views made and then go from town
to town showing his cauntry. It i*
certainly a novel plan.
Quick returns is one of the advan
tages in handling poultry. For tike
beginner it is better than berries or
fruit. Not a season passes without
some return. A first-class hen will
furnish 100 eggs per year for use or
for sale.
In Germany the publio roads an*
1 ined with fruit and nut trees, tike
fruit may be freely pluokcd by the
wayfarer. Whon a *ree dies anoth
er is planted in its place. Wc should
like to see the same rule established
in this country.
The beds of peas in Colored*
sometimes include as many as 8,M*
acres, and there is one bed exceed
ing in size, 3,500 acres.