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SP'OL. XXII. NO 5.
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VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER, 3, 1003
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WOMAN’S COLUMN.
The handkerchief waist is anoth
'er pleasing novelty.
A man is happy if he feeh young;
a woman if she looks young*
It is always the bargain you
missed by a minute that seems the
biggest.
A woman puts away love letters
with more care than a man does gov
ernment bonds.
A woman shows her love for a
man when she gives him all she pos
sesses; sometimes the man never
shows up again.
Don’t give way to nerves, emo
tions or tears; they ruin good looks.
Somewhere there will be a orown
for the farmer who never gets blue,
but keeps oheery no master wnioh
way the wind blows.
The helt with the extreme point
in front is missing in the s ummer
gowns. The tendenoy is toward the
return of the round belt.
Do not have too sharp a nose for
other people’s faults and bo contin
ually trying to pinch and prod them
into what you think is the only right
path
If with an all-white toilette you
wear a touch of color at tho throat,
let it lie a color that appears m the
h at. unless the chapeau be all white
or all black.
Mrs, Lelaud Stanford is said to
carry more insurance than any other
woman in the world.' Her policies
amount to more than a million dol
lars.
To save the heels of your s'ook.
ings sew a piece of velvet at the
back of the boot or shoe. This will
prevent its slipping and save much
wear and tear to the stocking.
If the handj are well powdered
with talcum powder before putting
on kid gloves in the. suffimer there
will be little danger of the glove be
ing ruined by perspiration.
Both in the sheer and heavier ma-
let her husband talk ,o company j terials the delicately tan shades will
without correcting him. j be extremely fashionable. Blue
A man does not enjey working | a ? d tan ecru- and white are good com-
around the yard after business hours I filiations.
unless he can be seen. J Cucumber juice makes a clean
The average boy never, sees any-1 n 8 and refreshing bath for the
thing in a parlor worth admiring
OBSERVATIONS.
Every successful man is talked
about.
Very bright people often do very
simple things.
The only real master of a man is
his small child.
Be your natural self and you, will
not go very far wrong.
The girls know how to fix every
thing but their mouth.
Lots of parents work hard to bring
their children up in idleness.
Did you ever observe how the
loafers despise industrious men?
Some men will go further to get
revenge than to do you a faver.
Poeple who talk about others to
you will talk abont you to others.
It is easy to forgivo when you
know you can get even another day
Getting mad seems to do a man as
muoh good as it does a woman to cry,
An over-worked mother is one
whose daughter has lots of company.
Nature has so arranged that every
one must have one’s share of misery,.
observing tho bad habits of
otfit<®, try to overcome some of
Tfour own.
Wo usually overlook the beauty
of a screen throuhg wordering what
is behind it.
When a man has a kiok, he gener
ally delivers it to every one but tho
right person.
There would be more happiness
in the homes if more congeniality
were practiced.
When men get to quarreling, they
can think of things away back yon
der to bring up.
We will never believe in hypno
tism until we see a moraan put a
cross baby to sleep.
Lots of men do things as foolish
as getting on a limb of- a tree and
sawing the limb off.
A real good wife is one who will
until the girl comes in.
Under the pressure of high rations
and the vagrancy law, tho negro has
about decided to go to work.
When a mother quiets the baby
with her watch, the watch goes to
the jeweler about once a month.
When a horse stops at the top of
a hill to get bis breath, it means that
lie has been driven by a woman.
One of the most tired looking
things on earth is a woman returning
from a picnic dragging two or three
children.
You never know how silly girls
and boys are until you see them
together trying to appear smart in
eachotber's sight.
The voung men are doing many
simple things, but in quite a while
/we have not seen one wearing his
hat on the side of hiB head.
Now that the shirt waist for men
face. Cut a large, spongy cucum
ber, past use for the table, intp
thick slices and thoroughly rub the
skin on the face, neck and hands,
Don’t think that women are less
beautiful than formerly. There is
greater beauty now, and more of it,
than at any time of the world's his
tory. We may congratulate our
selves that we live in the beautiful
age of the world.
Pipings will play an important
part in the summer gowns. They
will be introduced in the flounce of
the skirt. They Will give shape
and distinction to the new blouse,
and. they will accentuate the small
ness of the upper part of the sleeve
which becomes so generously fu 1
below the elbow.
But little, it appears, has been
seen of Mrs. Governor Bailey, of
Kansas, since her marriage. The
supposition is that she is busy read
ing the 1,500 proposals of marriage
is in use, the men can further imi j sent to ; the governor and oackling
tate the women by abandonin gpock I with joy over how she downed the
cts and carrying their small bundles. 1 whole bunch without a'scratch of I every inundation, frogs appear inr
in the shirt front. the pen. I devastating numbers.
VARIOUS THINGS
There are about 11,000,000 Cath
olics in the United States.
Germany has on an average 806
oroharcl trees to the square mile.
George Washington was the fath
er of his country, but Pennsylvania
is tho “Pa.,’’ of states. ,
Some men are like wheelbarrows;
they don’t accomplish muoh unless
they are pushed.
It is asserted that the longest-lived
people are those who make nreakfast
their chief meal.
It’s all right to earn our daily
bread by tho sweat of our brow, but
most of us kiok if it isn’t pio.
The world is to have a now-intoxi-
oant made from the ti root, which is
abundant in the Hawaiian islands.
If any thing oan reconcile a man
to tho end, it seems that tho record
Leo XIII can look back on would
do so.
An optimist is some one who for
gets that there are ping-pong games
in winter and pleasure trips in sum
mer.
King Edward is neglecting no op
portunity to let Us know) throug our
sailor boys thdt he is our friend for
keeps.
I wo hundred and sixty-four out
of every one thousand of the world's
population own King Edward VII
of their sovereign.
Considering that the Chinese in
vented firecrackers, we should throw
off the July payment of our share
of the indemnity.
Cdarleston S. C., with 31,000
negroes and 24,000 white popula
tion, is ruled entirely by whites al
though blacks are treated fairly.
Chicago is blessed with 4,’702 law
yers. And yet if tho lawyers had
struck instead of the waiters who
would have oared.
An English miller has success
fully tested tho vitality of some
wheat whioh was grown in 1839
and carefully preserved since.
They are a building a “dustless
road” in England. It wouldn’t do
in the hustling United States, where
everybody is out of the dust.
One Chicago preacher thinks the
Amerioan people laugh too much.
This is the worst case of trouble
seeking we have ever heard of.
Don’t blame the mosquito. The
necessities of existence are just as
great to him as thoy are to you; and
besides he has to work nights.
The report of the Auditor of the
state of Iowa shows that there are
1,200 telephone companies in the
state as compared with 700 last year.
An inscription on a stone tablet
found in the ruins of an old syna
gogue in Kaifeugfu shows that the
Jews first entered China during the
Han dynasty from B. C. 200 to A.
D. 226.'
The first newspaper ever printed
and published by an Indian has made
its appearance in Eufala, I. T.
The editor is Alexander Posep, a
Creek, and one of the most promi
nent men of the nation.
Were it not for the multitude of
storks tnat throng to Egypt every
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
The United States lighthouse ser
vice cOBts $4,600,000 a year.
North Carolina has discovered that
she lias immense resources in the
shape of a great tin doposit in her
mountains.
The number of ties on all tho rail
roads of the United States is 568,-
200,000
The more wo hear about the work
of the Shamrook III, tho more we
foel that we deserve honor, for hold
ing tho cup.
When we read that the Philadel
phia mint ooined 180,000,000 pieces
last year, it doos seem passing
strange how so many of them mana
ged to avoid us.
The annual loss from the burning
of buildings in the United States is i
about $135,000,000, not including
cost of insurance and tho fire pro
tection.
Klondike gold to the amount of
$568,000 arrived at Seattle last week
showing that while that region is
not occupying publio attention so
much as formorly, is still keeping
busy.
The executive office of tho United
States costs the people $112,000 a
year. The Royal family costs the
people of Great Britian, Ireland
and the dominions beyond the sea
$4,000,000 per annum.
New York has the largest apart-'
mont house in the world in the An-
onia. It is seventeen stories high,
and has sixteen elevators. 1,8000
people can live 111 it, and the build
ing alone cost $4,000,000.
Uncle Sam is the largest employer
of typists in the country. There
are 5.000 typewriter girls hammer
ing the machines and grinding out
tho letters for tho U. S. govern
ment. She names the machine and
it is purchased for her.
The lato floods have changed the
maps in the West. There are some
river towns now that were formorly
inland, and a few inland towns that
were formerly located on streams,
the western rivers pay no attention
to geographical lines.
The carpets of the adjusting room
of the United States mint were taken
up lately, after lying six years, and
a bar of gold valued at $9,000, was
the result. In theso rooms the coins
are filed down to proper weight and
the finer gold dust sinks into the car
pets.
The Germans are very jealous of
The United States and are passing
laws to keep out what they call the
“‘American peril.” They attempt
to exclude our meat by restrictive
measure, and in evfiry way snow
dread of our rivalry. Notwithstand
ing all this, the impertinent Yankee
keeps pushing in his goods.
Canada has just celebrated her
Dominion Day, three days earlier
than our Independence Day. Cana
da has a population of 5,500,000.
In thirty-six years Canada has
gained in population about half of
the total immigration into the Uni
ted Slates of the past ten years
Canada has a great future, and there
is a great rush to her unoccup’ed
lands.
winte. there would be no living in
some parts of .the country, for, after
The number of pieces of mail reg
istered'in the past fiscal year was
6,989,284, as against 5,917,510 for
the preceding year.
AGRICULTURAL.
How many hives of bee have you?
Tho Parsians ale 23,000 horses
last year.
There iB nothing of any more im
portance on the farm than a good
tool house.
Good 00111 Bilage.is highly relish*
ea by stock and is an economical
food for fattening steors,
The Astor family in Now York
has bought laud m Mexioo for the
the largest cattle ranch 111 the world.
Blaok teeth in pigs do not indi
cate direasc. J ust what oauses them
hasnovor been satifaotorily explained
Why not lot the young boys and
girls try squab raising? Very lit
tle capital is required and the re.
turns are quick,
Molasses is excellent to mix with
hog feed as near all molasses con
tains aoid. It is a great helper in
the fattening process. ,
When you crowd tho old barn eaves,
Think what countless harvest sheaves
Have passed within that door
To gladden eyes that are no more.
Iowa has twice as many hogs as
any other state in the Union.
Experiments in Colorado and Wy
oming po int to the development of a
species of hard wheat that will yield
bountiful ly in the and regions!
With Minnesota making straw
berry preserves out of timothy seed,
and maple sugar opt of corn cobs,
poor old Connecticut’s wooden nut
megs Bcem utterly outclassed.
It is estimated that the dipping
of sheep for tho eradicotion of tho
s'cab mite adds from $2,000,000 to
$5,000,000 to the annual profits of
the United Slates,
Kansas is not harvesting her great
est crop of wheat, but, beoause of
the scaroity of farm hands, some of
her best girls, properly attired, are
helping to gather it.
In buyiug a horse look out for
brains as well as fat, limbs and body.
An animal that is sound in every
member but has not a level head is
not a pleasant horse and seldom J a
a valuable horse.
The peculiarities of department
of agriculture Beed are now account
ed for. It appears that the contract*
or has wilfully cheated the depart
ment and will forfeit $18,000 of hi*
pay fs a result.
The average annual importation
of foreign corn into France for tho
past three years were 14,000,000
bushels.
If you want a tropical plant to
grack your window collection, cut
the top off a pice apple and put in a,
jar of water and place* in a sunny
window. In four weeks a mass of.
roots will start, thenput in rich san
dy soil, and give it an abundance of
sunshine and water, and it will grow
right along and form a pretty plant
as well as a novelty.
When metal plows first came into
use the farmers cursed them and
said they poisoned the land. These
old fellows soon found they were
mistaken, however, and then w«»
very glad to get hold of the cut
iron affairs whioh poisoned their
good morals, hut not the land.
Wouldn’t their eyes have bulged if
they could have seen one of the
symmetrical, Woft center, extra hMv-
deued, highly polished plows wp
use today?