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VOL. XXII. NO 0
' VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER, 10, 1003
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observations.
We all have our peculiarities.
Love ia not blind, blit moon-eyed.
Too many people think they are
smart.
Pulling others down is a pooi way
of rising.
There is room everywhere for
honest men.
The comforts of others should not
be forgotten.
A beautiful character is not reflec
ted from a mirror.
Better not give the gossippers any
bones to carry back.
' The laugh should not be used for
a means ot impudence.
fuses to return a kindness,
Keeping up with the Btyle is not
laying up for a rainy day.
Gaining notoriety is easy, but
getting a living out of it ib not.
You may think the truth, but it
is not always safe to express it.
Don’t ask a woman her weight and
age unless you want her ill will.
It is hard to tell which attracts
the most kin: a wedding or a funeral.
^ Now that summer is about over,
the weather will soon be as cool as
charity;
It is strange that mothers are so
Slow at locating the steel traps of
society.
Ifi s easy enough to tel!the truth
when we know it will be found out
anyhow.
A young man*8 opinion of nimself
is about the only thing he can not
disguise.
Yon oannot make a success of a
thing on whioh you d<* not place
your mind.
No wonder some men are mean;
they got so many scolds when they
were little.
When a boy refuses to obey his
parents, he should refuse their food
and shelter also.
As a rule, not enough of compli
mentary things are said in the home
about each other.
It is nice for a woman to under
stand music; it is better for her to
understand cooking.
We dread to see the time when we
will feel like a grocer’s delivery
horse on Saturday night.
WOMAN’S, COLUMN.
A shade becoming to nobody, the
blues,
Everything to match the gown
will be demanded this fall. ;
If “the world is a mirror,” it is
better to look pleasant.
One sixth of the land owners in
Great Britain are women.
A cheerful disposition and an
honest spirit will go a long way.
Wheu women cease to be natural
they cease to be interesting.
There never lived a woman who
was not beautiful for some mail.
If the finger nails are too brittle
rub them w 5 th vaseline at night
If you would live long and be
happy get interested in something.
By keeping busy grown folks as
well as children may keep out of
mischief.
Praotibilly all the new walking
Suits are ankle length, cr at any
rate escape the ground.
Children engaged in labor in the
United States reach the enormous
figures of 1,850,000.
It is stated that more than 1600
women are employed on the six
principal French railways.
Europu has a population of ,334,-
000,000 More women than men.
It is little known that silk may
bo cleaned by sponging the soiled
parts in the water that potatoes
have been boiled in.
Some women just love to be neg
lected. For theu they have 1 some
thing abont which they can bo very
miserable.
” JH' JE f hi -
Nothing pleases a buoband so as
to have a oheory wife start him off
to his work with warm breakfast
and a happy good-bye.
A book with a glass over its face
is like a woman who perpetually
wears her vail. You long to brush
it aside and claim the reality.
Don’t waste pity on those who
arc disappointed in love. Think of
the poor creatures who were disap
pointed in marriage.
We ofteu wonder just how long
it would take us to got rich if we
didn’t buy things and did not
always have bills to pay.
There are probably 1,000 women
in the United States to-day who
make tbeir living as insurance so
licitors. The idea is becoming very
VARIOUS THINGS
The world is waiting anxiously
for the 1:59 trotter.
The man who cannot be beaten is
he who holds his head up wlion he
has been beaten.
It is always tho follow who has
no business of his own who makes
it a business of minding other peo
ple’s business.
When a man reads that cod liver
oil has rison from $32 to $100 a bar
rel he fools rather glad that honevor
got into the habit of driukiug it.
Under the new insurance at
Lloyd’s England, against appendici
tis, the first claim for $1,000 has
just been made.
A linen shirt is made in six a half
minutes, the working of tho button
holes occupying one-quarter of a
minute.
It sometimes happens tho poorest
stick of a man getB the finest kind
ol a wife. Of the two which had
you rather be?
a man quits, drinking, be
should have the respect of the peo
pie until be begins again.
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
Tho United States Postal Depart
ment handles 7,250,000,000 letters
and cards a year, a number about
equal to that of Groat Britain, Ger
many and Franco takon together.
A Chicago man has given his rel
atives $1,000,000 because bo wants
to seo what they will do with it.
Let us hopo the fun will bo worth
the price and that his form of
amuseiuont will bouomo popular.
From the professional sohools of
tho United Siates there were gradu
ated last year: In thoology, 1685;
in law, 3,330; in medioino, 5,478;
in dentistry, 3,211; in pharmacy,
1,373; in veterinary medicine, 100.
' Now after a century or two ot
reckless squandering ol' our forests,
wo aro waking up to tim fact that
our onoo boundless woods are fast
disappearing, and that wo are likely
to suffer no little loss therefrom
There is a moVo on foot, which
will he known as the “telephone
stamp,” the pu.poso of which is to
Sara Jones says: .“Every preach- K* vo tho postmaster tho privilege to
One drain of boric acid mixed
with four ounces mixed with four
When a woman enters a dry goods j ounces of distilled witch hazel makes
store, she grabs every piece-of goods
in reach to see if it is all wool. !
When yon hear a man abusing his
kin. you need not suspect that be
will allow you the same privilede.
Ever notice how long a sober man
will retain his youth? And how
quick a drinking man will get old?
A sickening thing is how a girl
Will disregard her parents after they
have spent a fortune on her educa
tion.
The time seems a heap longer to
the woman sitting in the buggy
waiting than to the one trading in
the store.
Men of experience and business are
J apt to he honeRt. Doing little mean
things will drag a man down to
where success 1b almost impossible.
a good lotion for a greasy skin.
Apply with a soft cloth or velvet
sponge.
Don’t sleep under too many bed
clothes, cautions a physician. It is
unhygienic to have too much cover
ing. as it keeps in the impurities of
the body.
When some people take a vaca
tion they think they must go far
away and travel ar.d thus wear
themselves out more than if they
had stayed right at home. It is a
had idea.
If you wish to improve the eye
brows brush them gently and rub
on a little vashlene at night. The
shape of the eyebrows may be
greatly changad and improved by
careful brushing and training.
i?r ought to be a mixture botwcon
a goat and a mule, so ho could kiuk
with one ond and butt with tho
other.”
There is a tree whioh grows in
Sumatra, Algeria and China whioh
is known as the vegetable tallow tree.
From its fruit large quantities of oil
and tallow are extracted.
A scientist asserts that when a
man gets to running an automobile
at a high rate of speed he becomes
as crazy a» a bedbug. Wo have
long suspected this.
The Wild Goose railway, seven
miles long, from Nome to Anvil
creek, earned, its total firrt cost
within thirty days of its opening,
and shows increased earnings each
year. '
A recent bcok is entitled, “The
Reflections of a Lonely Man.” It
was perhaps written by some mer
chant who did not advertise and
who had nothing else to do to pass
away tho time.
But few of the public school boys
who oan enjoy a long vaoation from
studying and reciting, intend to
spend the summer in idleness, but
have secured paying jobs' in town
and country leading to wealth.
The first year is the paper cele
bration; the fifth, wooden; tenth,
tin; twelfth, leather; fifteenth, chi
na; twenty-fifth, silver; .thirtieth,
ivory; fortieth, woolen; forty fifth;
silk; flijtietb, golden, and seventy-
fifth, diamond.
There is no duty we so much un
derrated as the duty of being happy.
By being happy we sow anonymous
benefits upon the world, which re
main unknown even to ourselves, or
when they are discovered, surprise
nobody so much as the benefactor.
A gasoline motor has been in
vented which only weighs' 24 1-2
pounds and yields 2 1-2 horse
power. It is to be used mainly in
airships.
Alaska needs 10,000 miles of rail
roads, 20,000 of wagon roads and
telephone lines, and can, as fast at
transportation is available, give era'
ployment to a population of 10,
000,000.
It is no eaBy matter for a bov to
settle on a vocation. Find it as
early as you oan, then throw your
whole soul into it; hut have an avo
cation as well, something to play
at-’-the former being your lifework,
the latter your hobby.
ojien letters hearing suuh a stamp
and read them over a telephone . to
parties whom they arc directed.
Pope Pius’s older brother is a let
tor carrier in a provincial town with
a salary of $80 a year. Another
brother sells pork anil tobacco. One
sistor is married to a man who keeps
a wine shop; another is a dress
maker. Still another married
p2ddler.
When tho groat Siber'al railroad
is completed and a Inio.if built from
the United States to' Alaska tho trip
can be bade to Europe by rail
Such a project is now being serious
ly discussed in European countries
and those who live for a decade will
probably seo the gigantio uudortak
ing completed.
In 1892 tho railroads carried
passenger *for eaoh ton of freight
In 1001 there wore nearly two tons
of freight for eaoh passenger and
the proportion of freight is increas
ing. This is quite as suggestive us
tho fact that both the passenger and j
AGRICULTURAL.
Plant nut trees.
It costs about a cent apiece to
produce eggs.
Don’t guess at things. Know,
every tlmo.
Ground or powdorod charcoal is
about the host condition powder that
oan be fed poultry.
In 1000 there were 5,321,087'
wago earners in tho United States;
1,522.100 wore farm hands.
Onion-eating peoplo aro believed
to bo immune from smallpox attacks.
Anothor credit-mark for tho onion;
if true,
The freer the persperatio'n, the
loss work thoro is for tho kidneys in
carrying off tho wasto matter of th o
system.
Financial reciprocity,
Is built upon this plan;
The man first makes the money, then
The money makes the man.
According to tho oxperts, it takes
ten pounds of milk to make a pound
of oliopse and twonty-threo pounds
of milk to lu^kc a pound of butter.
Domestic scicnoo is now being
taught m many agricultural Buhools
and tho girls will soon bo ooming
homo with a diploma. Tney will
make hotter wives.
Think about tho work in hand.
Many mon think they think whon in.
fact they never havo a real hard
spoil of it. At loast their farms do
not show that they do. ;
If all the farmers and stookmcn
would not soli aqy , proyisiijns, or
stock for 30 days what, do you sup-
pose tho result would he? Every,
thing would ho pretty high.
It is a pretty gdod day when we
can say at its olose that we have
done everything just the best wo
oan. That would.be a first-rate rplo
for every day-- < fl’ll do tho best I
I be farmer who has an agricultu
ral uollego education iB a hotter
farmer. Ho understands modern
farming. His biains are trained.
He will farm scientifically. ’
If you have a nice walk whioh is
freight business.are increasing jSK
marvelous rate. j in the sprinkling pot and sprinkle it
Modern harvesting maobineB are i we ^. at roots. After one or two
ent uationB of the earth. They are
mostly American typos or embody
American patents. They are esti
mated to represent in their ability to
harvest crops the labor of 20,000
men; and y£t the papers are full of
the difficulty tho farmers havo in
obtaining hands, ’
The owner of a property hardly
appreciates the view that a stranger
takes ot it as he passes by. His
eyes have become accustomed to the
unpainted building and delapidated
fences. Not so to the stranger. t>eo
to it that your property .is cared for
properly, for your own good, and
that the community where you re
side may have the appearance of
thrift and beauty. 1
The fertile brain of Thomas A.
Edison continues to be the source of
the greatest amazement to the clerks
and officials of the patent oflico who
have in oharge the work of looking
after the applications placed on file
hv this inverter* On the last day
of J,une Mr. Edison obtained 701
patents from the patent office on as
mary. inventions, a larger number
by several hundred than ; ahy other
individual has received ih v ; ,the his
tory of the office.
§
Many instances have been recorded
of alfalfa roots penetrating from 38
to 00 feet. A mining tunnel ,was
excavated in Nevada not long ago
120 feet below an alfalfa field and
the roots of the plant were found in
the roof of the opening. ■ /■
A smooth swindle game Is ,oyt in
Jb^ country, A firm with a big
namo and glowing lcilcr-hcads sends
blanks to farmers, requesting .them
to fill out the same for statistical
information and to sign their names
to verify their statements. The sig
natures are afterward found on notes
payable to an innooent holder.,
Anything that will glisten in the
sun as it swings about will frighten
hawks and crows. Suspend glass,
tin or mica on poles about the poul
try runs.
The use of the diso plow may
come more into use this fall, as sev
eral of the good farmers are consid
ering that method of breaking land.
Land turned over 8 or 10 inches
deep in the first part of winter will
produce better next year from sev
eral causes: It 4 puts the vegetable
matter into the soil for fertilizer; it
holds better for the plant roots, and
the land is more easily cultivated.
Another good thing is a subsoil
plow following in the furrow;of a %
horse turner, or even a Dixie.