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VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER, 17,1903
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
, OBSERVATIONS.
Don’t go to sleep in church.
No talker talks all he knows.
all
Women like compliments at
ages.
• We pay too much for too many
trips. ■
Old stomach and sweet things sel
dom agree.
Very few men oan ohew tobaoco
decently.
If yon want to be popular, don’t
be an editor,
Opportunities are rubbing up
against you every day.
Some women will never get rid of
that woe-bogone expression.
No‘business man makes as good
collections as lie cxpeots.
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An important point in business is
keeping down the expenses.
Boys brought up in ldlenes sol
dom make good citizens.
If all the people would werk, life
would be easier lor us all.
It takes a woman twice as long to
buy a pair of shoes as it docs a man.
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It is not at all becoming to make
alight remarks about your friepds
Don’t presume that a business
man has nothing to do but entertain
WOMAN’S'column;
NUt brown will be a favorite fall
color.
England has nearly 4,000 female
butchers.
A smile is the bud and a laugh is
the full bloom.
One-t^ird of the college graduates
now ’re women.
Only people who don’t know gag
at omen and garlic.
Gentle manners oan cover a mul
titude of beauty ills.
A contented, pleasant woman is
wirth more than money.
The peek-a-boo waist is doomed
ia Wisconsin, but that will have np
effeot.
Do yon clean your teeth every
diy? Don’t let the dentist have all
your money.
&
nnoy-
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Business men do hate to be
edwith idle people who have no
gives his neigh;
,n one who is'a
A suooc
bors less trouble vl
failure/
, We need a,physical couraejfor the
girls that will recognize the dish pan
and cook stove,
t Lotting your boy go around with*
pistol in his pooket is almost sure
ito bring you trouble.
It is surprising how due a boy
if eels when he is smoking and hoW
‘little it becomes him.
We all oan think of bright things
to say after the opportunity for say-
>mg them has passed.
Cheap people engage in lots of
’cheap talk, and they are apt to in
dulgo in utjjusf; ontioism,
It is a great pity that we all oau
not start right and not , have to
>ohange our opinion so often.
Did you ever notice that a man
never reads the Bible in the same
‘tone that he would read a news,
ipaper?
Young girls often speak of “that
feeling of unrest,” but they never
‘know the real meaning ot it until
they start out to raise, a family.
A woman looks with about the
same breathless interest at a fine dry
.goods display that a man does at a
pretty woman.
Now and then you see a woman
vt^l^^lidtCa&a bbildrbU ‘ are so
•easily ruffled that her mission in life
isaboUl like that of a bottle of
•soothing syrup,
A woman will love a man devot
edly until be goes back on her, then
.a^ter a brief period of w6t handker
chiefs, she wijl lpve anotberas dear
ly as she did the first.
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Your bank aooount of happiness
increases aB yon draw from it and
give to others.
The simplest way to-increase the
growth of the eyelashisB is to trim
them regularly.
Coats are all out m three lengths,
hip, three-quarter, and just to the
top of the fiounoe.
Don’t whino. Be happy. Look
pleasant. The world will not ohange
one iota by fretting,
To keep milk
days ai
each q
eet for se
of fine salt to*
W
A marriage announcement calls
for a letter of congratulations sent
to the newly wedded couple.
When the nose is oily or, shiny
bathe with borax water and- wash
with almond, meal instead of soap.
A work has appeared entitled
Advice to Plain. Girls. 4*7 yet
there us nogpeat rush for it-at the
VARIOUS THINGS
Scarlet fever is , unknown to the
trqpios.
The average depth of the ooean is
about two miles.
Truth is’mighty, but a good deal
of’it is suppressed.
lr( Pans 256,000 families occupy
but one room each,
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The worst fault of some people is
telling other people theirs.
Nothing is easier to bear than the
troubles of your neighbors.
Kansas is well supplied \yith ex
governors. She boasts of seven.
In 1800,nearly one hundred years
ago, Yankee trotted a mile in 2:50.
Competition is the life of trade
and the death of the nonadvertiser
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The safest time to monkey with
the stock market is on Sunday and
holidays.
The gold mined in Mexico is.now
iproximately $25,000,000 an
nually. ' ' •"'■‘l’’ ’
For a summer oold in the head
take five drops ot oamphor on a
lump of sugar.
Rome recently passed its 2650th
birthday. Such a reoord has; its
advantages. ,, ;
Canada now has 19,000 miles of
railway. Uncle Sam’s annual in
come is $558,887,14$.
book’counter.
It is a duty to keep healthy, a
pleasure to keep pretty, and a law
of common decenoy to be kind to
your neighbor,
atelegr AJ phpole 8 ^eono of
the,development of the art of raak*
iog paper usuful.
j There were oremated last yeai in
the United States 8,158 bodies; in
England, 452; Germany 866,
A mnn by the name, of P4impton
invented the roller skate and;made.a
million dollars out of it,
The tennis championship of the
U. S. has gone to H. -L. Doherty,
the ohampion of Great Britian.
Thb mian who thought bf putting
a rubber tip on the lead pencil made
$100,000 a year out of his idea.
Lumbermen and railroad owners
j begin to .realize: that they have over-;
If you want to know the miseries ! Wf ino y *** ove * ;
of a long .skirt just wear a short one j ^ fore8t ^atruction businesa.
for a weak, then pvt on one with a ! The fall is a good ’time to paiiif,’
A *—*- —i and when you paint use some color
ain and try to walk.
Women work in factories in dUferwit tro m what is now
many for 47 cents a day and men I ° n
Th,
prettii
doubt there are prettier horses than
Lou Dillon.
Like Christian in Pi
gress, every man has hi
each day sees him farther on his pil
grimage.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
What an ideal world this would be
if cleanljness were the rule every
where ’ and- in everything—cleau
houses, clean streets, clean bodies,
ple*£ .hearts, clean accounts, and
dean characters.
TheYellowstone park proper is
one-third larger than Delaware and
the adjoining government forest re
serves make an .area nearly equal to
that of New 1 Jersey.
get
iaal
nts. In Russia the price
utfLalf of thb above.
my say that Shamrock III. is a
ier boat than the Relianoe. No
Try putting a little.-borax in the
water in which the clothes are boiled
and notice how.it whitens them and
you will not be willing to do with-
Out it.
Miss Blauohe Dunbar works on a
ranch with the cowboys, near Hol
brook, Ariz., and says she would
rather be a cowgirl than live in a
palace.
Do no wbjar shoes too small for
the feet. It will oatise them to
grow large and unsightly and will
make graceful walking an impossi
bility.
Have every thing as hsmdy-in the
kitchen as possihle. Doh’t be com
pelled to walk here and ithbre* for
spoons and dishes you should have
right near you.
If your husbaqd comes home,and
is. discouraged and down hearted,'
bheerjhim up., Ehcoufige him. No
hi*, tyoutjle Is"Jfflpre are,
others who
“"r 1 ! J uavuiAO OUUUl
And always wear shem inside out,
To; see, their silver lining.
IN THE v BUSY WORLD.
England has just launched a bat
tleship whioh, when fully equipped,
will haye cost the British treasury
ai amount equivalent to six millions
and a half of Amerioan dollars.
The Erie. Railroad will hire no
more men who are oyer 35 years of
age. .It will not, for the present,
however, prohibit stockholders who
are over 50 from receiving divi
dends.
.Only seven states in the Union
are still without an aot designating
Labor day as a legal holiday, name
ly: Idaho, South Dakota, Mary,
‘land, Wyoming, North Dakota,
Mississippi, Nevada.
Our trade with Cuba has been
dwindling rapidly. In 1899 $37,-
<|60,000 worth of Amerioan goods
Were imported into Cuba and in
1902 but $25,000,000. The United
States now 1 supplies little more than
40 per cent, of Cuba’s imports.
As an, ill nitration of how little
:irc more noticeable in smalt
ljiqW} than in a large metropolis,
the Inter Ocean .oites the fuss’ made
ffl Mineapolis over a njan in that
village losing a pocket book oon-
tiinjiig the trifling sum of $1,600,-
000.
By tho new eduoation law m the
Philippines 1Q0 of the best f ilipino
students arp t to be segt to the JJnltjed
States every year # to complete their,
oduoation hire. It is estimated that
eaoh student will cost the Govern
ment ,$500 a year, exclusive of trans
portation.
Moro than 6,000;000;000 pounds
of sugar, valued,at over $100,000,-
000, was brougt into the United
States in the fiscal year just ended.
There were 600,000,000 poundB pro
duced in the United States. The
tpjtal amount was enough to furnish
an average of ’72, .pounds for each
individual in tne U. S.
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The best calculation that oan be
made shows that the average num
ber of .children to the white ualivo
family a century ago in thi United
States was more than six; in 1830 it
had fallen to lesB thaq .fire; in 1860
to less than four; in 1872 to less
than three; in 1000, among the
•'upper diasses” m Boston to less
two.
There are now 700,000,000 acres
6f productive forest land in the
United States. The annual cutting
of lumber amounts to 35.000,000,-
feet a year; of timber, 8;000,000j-
000feet; : for railrdad ties, 22,000,-
000, andifor fenoo posts ’ 3,‘000,o6o.
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President Baer and the other ooaji
officials think it .is npne of the gov
ernment’s business how they are
conducting operations. , Mr. Baer
takes the high ground that being in
the service and Under the special
direction of Divine Providenoe it is
preposterous for the government to
doubt that he may be doing right,
Argentina, in South America, is
not only the only country in tbe
world that is growing in population
faster than the United States, but is
hot after us also in the production
of corn and wheat. So far this crop
year, or since Jan. 1, Argentina has
exported 35,484,P00 bushels of corn,
aside from- 55,600,000i bushels of
wheat. For the whole calendar
year these shipments of corn Will
• wish : to wiingiweess in jjfl$
serseveranCe your bosom
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and hope your guai
AGRICULTURAL.
Use grit for tho ohiokenH. Have
a good supply of grit for yourself.
The only medicine many a flock
needs is a fresh supply of gravel.
In the great drama of trade and
bommeree the farmer is now playing
a star part.
: The average fame* 1 oannot afford
to sell his best mares. Keep them
for breeding.
way to auooeed is to know
things apd then do pne’a boat; not
half way, but all.
HcW d° you expect to clean fields
if tko roads are allowed to bo cov
ered with weeds?
Tho average amount expended by
farmers for help last year was $75 a. i
farm—an inorease of $11 over three
years ago; .
The SeorCtary of Agriculture says'
this country will m a few years pro
duce all -the: sugar required for home .
consumption.
The dairy barns at the St. Louis
woi Id’s fair will be ootagonal, an
important recognition of the advan
tages of the oiroular barn.
Oue.half of the world doeB not
know how the other half lives, and
it is a very good thing this is so, or 1
there wotlld be untold sympathy
and regret. ‘
» Sorghum is one of the.mbst profit
able orops a farmer oan plant, and
alsc onc of the. surest orops..: Wot
or dry, sorghum Will maturo a trop.
' il* < ;■ r, ii,u i-'j bo*l j,
4 few yeors ago danymon wem :
asking;, “How.pan we make good
butter?” Now the question is:
“How oan we make cheap milk?*'
And so the World wags on!
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The farmer is tho greatest of
miners; what he digs from the carth
has a value and importance that
make the produots of other mincm
innlr ...linan
posibly exceed 50,p0a,000 v bushels,
which Is close to the 'everage of our
own bxports of corn up to within
less .than ten years, and which'may
exceed our shipments- this jculendat
year.
look cheap.
Did you ever try this? When
your horse gets scared at an auto
mobile or anything else, if you can,
get to his head, cover, his eyes, wilfc
a coat or lap robe and he wili be
perfeotiy quiet.
Wherever you go you will «ee
oattle without horns, No one can
who. objeots .to de-
hcruipg eftttie.;Neayly,every , pro
minent breed of cattle now has ite
polled variety. , . t
Milk is soldi from 12,000 stones
in New York City, or an averages*
one stope to.every 286 ipersons, and
it is delivered from 4,000 wagon*;
on an an average of one wagon to
every 869 persons.
Last year Siberia’s butter produe-
tion, amounted to over 100,000,000
pounds. . Siberian butter is now-
being sold in the London .makerb
There are now over 2,500 butter
making dairies in Siberia.
Oliver, Wendell Holmes says^
“When we plant'a tree we are doing
what we oan to make our planet a
more wholesome and happier dwell-
ing place for those who oome after
us, if not for ourselves. ”
Gu June 1 the pDce of hard coal
was advanced 10. cents a ton,' 'just
as monopoly declared two months
before that it would be. Suppose
farmers could and would do tha,t by
wheat, how coal burners wo aid
howl! '