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VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 1003
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OBSERVATIONS., '
Bum your love letters; •
There is lots of disappointment,
in friendship.
• Lots of people ruse substitue words
for profanity/
We all ;ndake mistakes, but none
of ub ljKs to be reproved.
L*Jok out for the man who borrows
j*loney to spend for pleasure.
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Most of us have a gift of finding
fault and reudering excuses.
Nearly everybody makes the mis
take of keeping old love letters.
There is but little hope for sloth
ful people, in this world or the next.
Some people will never do any
thing without saying muoh about it.
We are about to conclude that
Women do more worrying than men.
One of the best ways to please a
neighbor is to let his business alone.
When a man wishes to avoid cry.
ing, he blows his nose. Ever notice
it?
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Beauty has ever been considered
woman’s gift.
Ill temper causes more ill health
than green apples.
Ill temper is to beauty what green
apples are to little boys.
Eat regularly, always at the same
ours, and chew carefully.
We admire the woman who is
great enough not to quarrel with
anybody.
Fashion writers declare that the
pompadore will remain in style for
the conuug season.
There are many women these days
in the hold-up business, that is we
mean highway robbers.
Careful eating, simple food, slow
eating, long mastication are good
things for bad digestion.
Some of the sweetest deeds of
kindness are looked upon as affeota-
lion, for that is the way of the world.
A liquid paste made of alcohol
and whiting is said to impart great
It tickles us to see a little scrawny I
r j great brilliancy to window glass also
man repTes'enting a'healih’fo'o'd’eon-1 romovln S s P eokH -
oern. j The present fad of high heeled
A saloon and a family cannot bo j « k <>es and slippers is making busi-
supported at one time by one man’, 1 neH9 tor corn doctor8 ’ Do,,,t wear
wages,
j ness tor corn doctors.
; them. Be sensible.
They are the unmarried women
who argue that two can live cheaper
than one.
There is something wrong with
the man who gives nobody credit
for being right.
You are not a good man if you
neglect to water your horse fre
quently this weather.
Lots of people satisfy themselves
today by telling what wonderful
things they expect to do tomorrow.
Be patient if you get tired of see
ing two lovers together; they will
get married soon and get out of the
public eye.
Not many old people are cared for
as tenderly as they once cared for
their children.
Before sealing a love letter, think
how it will sound to the children 15
years later.
Of the pictures in the album
where you are visiting* you must
hot speak your mind.
It is very tiresome to have to lis
ten to a man tell how well he unde. - j
Btands his business.
Just as you dislike some people
Without any particular reason, some
dislike you the same way.
Everybody knows that a child is a
child, yet people are continually
looking for and old head on young
shoulders.
Some people are so stylish that
they will not serve green peas on
blue dishes.
A girl will receive callers from
the time she does her hair up on lop
of her head.
If you nave the advantage of a
tnan today, don’t use it; he may
•Ahave it of you tomorrow.
When a school teacher begins to
neglect her grammar and use slang
it is an indication that she is getting
tired of teaching.
When we go to a neighbor to find
out what we can do for him, it is a
great relief for lilra to say there is
nothing.
The house should bo a placo of
happiness and quiet. Husband,
wife and children should strive for
this point.
Be sure water is at boiling point
before putting vegetables in to cook;
otherwise their freshness and flavor
will be loit.
Pennsylvania is going 1o give
medals to the mothers of largo fami
lies. The^fatliers will not even get
honorable mention.
The famous young Brazilian, San
tOBDumont, is afraid of only one
thing, the American girl. Why?
Because she is so pretty.
If everybody in this world had all
they wanted of everything it cer
tainly would be a terrible sad time
for chronic kickers I know.
It is now conceded by many shrewd
judges of the sex that womans beau
ty is most splendid and her intellect
is in full maturity at 28 years.
Why don't they see what the
X-ray will do for the gossip germ?
Seems to have tried on everything
else, and this certainly needs atten.
tion.
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
. The number of the employes of
the railways of the United States at
the olose of last year was 1,180,315
an increase fortho year of 118,140.
Unfortunately the people the
world would like most to be rid of
are never the ones who get mixed up
in the tunnel accidents.
The display on the of the rioh
beforo toe eyes of the poor is the
cause of much unhappiness and more
divorces and separations than one
can think of.
A ball of India rubber immersed
in liquid air. becomes brittle, and if
dropped to the floor will break like
glass. A lead ball acquires elastici
ty will rebound like the rubber in
its normal state.
The postal receipts at the fifty
leading offices during July show a
gain of almost 9 per cent Over the
corresponding month of 1902.
We have American locomotives
in Russia, American bridges in Afri
ca, American harvesting machinery
in Asia Minor, American built ships
crossing the Pacific ocean control
ling commercial enterprises in China
all this because of our inherited in
dependence of mind, our ambition
to get on.
Official statistics show that there
are 17,000,000 children in Russia
between the ages of It and 14 receiv-
ing absolutely no education.
“Good morning." Only two
words and so easy to sav. And yet,
cheerfully said, they brighten not
only your waking hours but those
of all with whom you come in con
tact. To-day is almoet gone and
you can’t well mend what has gone
amiss. Suppose you begin tomor
row with a cheery, magnetic good
morning to all whom yon meet.
Try it, and, my word for it, the
suu’s rays will fall with new gentle
ness and toil will not seem quite so
cheerless.
“Gassing" trees has become so
larsre a business in California that a
Los Angeles man has an outfit for it
which cost *10,000. Teuts are used
to confine the gas to the trees and to
protect the operators from the dead
ly prussio acid which is liberated
from a saucer at the tree's root.
Don’t fool away your money on
investment companies. When a
man represents that his compauy
will pay you thirty or fifty per cent
in 90 days or a year on some bond
scheme, don’t you believe him.
The country is full of men who can
make fortunes for other people, but
never make a cent for themselves.
You can differ with another per
son lmt because you differ is no rea
son for insinuating that your differ
ing partner belongs to a feeble miud- > Those concerns have no way of ma
t-inn* v.inr null',l'M lrnln two ijo'ln a
e<l concern.
A woman begins by sighing: “I
can’t go because I have nothing to
wear.” Then she gets clothes and
complains because she has no chance
to wear them.
If you can’t have everything you
want, stop wanting. This is the
first aid to the unhappv of heart.
Every happy wife knows that her
husband is best man, and every con
tented husband realizies that his
wife is inaid of honor.
We do hope that the women folks
will learn to stop worrying about
the little things and save their
strength for the large worries.
Brought up on grapes, their
warmth and bloom gets in the blood
of the Spamsh girl and gives her a
lovbness that is as intoxicating as
s wine, an exquisite type.
king your dollars ui|to two dolla s
by a series of loans. Some fellow
is going to get left in the deal.
California will spend *15,000 this
year on an examination of its forest
reserves, and the work will bo con
tinued from year to year until com
pleted. I he object is to ascertain
all those facts about forests that
will guide the state in passing wise
forest laws, to see what should be
done with state forest lands, what
should be done about the regulating
the cutting of timber, whether tree
planting in denuded aieas will pay,
how forest fires may be restricted,
eto.
Set the dogs on the persistent
agent who wants you to buy kitchen
cabinets or anything else, and insist
on you giving your note for the
goods in advance of tb.eir receipt,
lie may get the note discounted and
9 Vp the country.
VARIOUS THINGS
Thor o arc in Montana the finest
glaciers in the world.
Be a servant to but one business,
but make that business serve you.
The road to prosperity goes right
past the saloons without stopping.
A Hook of ostriches at Phoenix
Ai izona now number more than 1,000
birds.
Twelve thousand people were ar
rested in Glasgow last year for using
obscene language.
Nervous people should take light
Tliore were 175,000 pianos manu
factured in America last year. Ger
many made 80,000.
In southern India the school mas
ters have 42 different kinds of pun-
isment for naughty boys.
When all olse forsakes us we can
look to the morrow. Hope is some
thing the trusts oau’t corner.
The man who onn convince oth
ers that ho has a correct opinion of
himself has the battle half won.
Have a purposo in life, and hav
ing it throw such stronght of mind
and muscle into your work as God
has given you.
The machine for winnowing gold
by blowing away the gravel while
the heavier gold grains fall into a
receptacle is'to be used in Australia.
“By the powers above” said Pat,
“when I bought that mustard plaster
J thought I struck a bargain but now
begorrah I know I am skinned agin.
Crickets constitute an article of
commerce in some parts of Asia.
People rear them, feed them in con
finement and sell them. Tho na
tives are very fond of their music,
thinking that it propuoes sleep.
Many different cards of thanks
have appeared in newspapers but Os
wego, Kansas claims tho prize for
one from five prisoners of the La
bette county jail who begged to
thank the county for the good meals
kind treatment and compulsory
baths.
The New Jersey minister who has
consented to allow the pretty wom
en of his congregation to kiss men
for the purpose of raising money
for ohurch purposes should first sam
ple the goods to see if they are wor
thy of so sacred a cause.
Parents living in French and Ger
man Switzerland swap ubildrcn in
order that they may pick up the two
languages, and now there is an ex
change agency, by which a Swiss
child can be placed in Italy, so that
three languages may he learned
without expense.
In France, when a funeral passes,
every man raises his hat to salute it.
The deceased person may have been
a child, a pauper, or a beggar; it is
no matter, the cortege is saluted by
every man, whether he be prince,
millionaire or mcdicaut. It is a
good and lovely custom.
Some people have an idea, because
they have a little money, that they
are a little bettor than others who
arc net so fortunate. Any person
who is bone3t and respectable and
provides for his family}is just as
good or a little better than the Presi
dent of tho United States. It is
the common person who wins out iu
this w . Ui.
AGRICULTURAL.
Cut down the weeds.
Before putting the mower away
out the weeds along the road.
A sunflower sucks up 145 pounds
of water during its growth.
If mosquitoes were of any use just
think how many things would hap
pen to the orop.
Spray the chicken house with a
strong solution of alum and water
to kill lioe.
A hen belonging to a farmer near
Bernvillo, Pa., laid n double yolk
ogg each day for four weeks.
Open tho parlor windows and live
all over tho house. You will enjoy
the neigbor’s call better and ho will
think moro of you.
Dou’t bank too muoh on the work
you are going to do. Plungo ahead
right now, for it is the work you
havo done today that counts.
Don’t have your hen house venti
lated at the top. Hot air rises and
goes out here, while tho cold air
falls on the heads of the fowls and
oroup results.
Tho Mississppi river curries year
ly to the Gulf ofMoico thirteen mil
lion tons or more of refuse, and it
would take but a day’s portion of
this burden to oonvort on ordinary *.
lake into broad meadow lands.
Now the farmers of New York
are complaining that their orops are
going to waste because it is impossi
ble to hire help. Presently it will
bo necessary for the govorment to
offer a bounty for every farm hand
who can be captured.
It asserted in the Department of
Agriculture that cassava will make
the Southern States a great stock-
rasing country, slab sided cows from
the country which were fed cassava
more than doubled their weight in
seventy-five days.
As soon as the driver sees the dis
position to run in tho horse ho is
driving, let him begin the rapid
jerking first on one line and then on
the other, not gently, but with suoh
force as to bring the bridle-bit from
one side to the other through the
horse's mouth. The new motion so
confuse* tbe animal that all other
fear is taken away.
United States Consul Richard
Guenther, stationed at Frankport,
Germany, has notified tLe state de
partment that something has been
discovered to take the place of tbe
mule. If Mr. Guenther’s discovery
comes into popularity the soft-voiced
gentle creature, with beels as deli
cately padded as a quilt of swane-
down, will pass away from the
world, and tbe new animal will reign
supreme.
Just remember and bear in mind
that the man who cannot be beaten
is bo who holds up his head and
makes ready for another struggle
when he nas been beaten.
‘It an’t no use to grumple and
complain;
It's jest as cheap an’ easy to re
joice,
When the Good Man likes to send
Why, ram’s my choice.
In a recent test of bread making
made by the agricultural depart
ment of Washington 200 loaves
were made from macaroni flour.
There were also 200 loaves made
from patent hour A loaf of eadk
was sent to different judges, and out
of 182 replies to the inquiry of
which is the better bread 108 were
for the macaroni flour.
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