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VOL. XXII. NO 8
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1903
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
OBSERVATIONS.
Old age is a pleasant disease.
We rejoice that the law has moved
the loafers’s lounge.
People are hard to make agree on
any hind of a polioy.
A practical joke often turns a
friend into an enemy.
Good hunters are getting scarce,
for which we feel thankful.
Lots of people come to sorrow by
a too liberal use of the tongue.
.Every man of your acquaintance
requires that you pay him somo at
tention.
How glad an agent is to see you
When he drops in to sell you some
thing.
How many different “figures" the
Women can put themselves in on
Suncay!
How often have you felt, after
getting to yourself, that you said
too much?
Now and then you see a man who
tries to be a bundle of wit, and he is
Very tiresome. ’
How readily you are fooled by a
Slick stranger. But your neighbor,
yoh watch him.
A boy’s idea-of the importance of
a town is formed by the number of
Whistles that blow.
The people are awfully quiok to
detect an air of regiet on the faoe of
newly married folks.
We are not disposed to let the-
dogs fight it out unless our dog is
getting the better of it.
No helpful hints appear in any of
the papers to the man who is trying
to quiet a squalling baby.
Did a woman ever hand you a
photograph to look at without wip
ing the face of it with a cloth?
You can smile in the face of the
riohest man you meet if you have
pood health and a good appetite.
Don’t make up your mind that
everybody else is getting along
easier than you are.
A man’s jokes that will tickle a
girl in courtship will cease to be
funny after the marriage.
The industrious man has a higher
opinion of those with whom he
works than of those he meets in so
ciety.
The only man who is competent
to tell you how a band wagon ought
to be lun is the one watching it from
the sidewalk.
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
A Maud Muller lodge has been
organized.
The rarest beauty in the world is
a beautiful profile.
Enlarged pores can be contracted
by application of alcohol.
The craze for living jowelry has
been revived in smart sooiety.
It doesn’t pay, in the long run, to
pretend to be what you are not.
Don’t drink ioed water. It kills
more persons than strychnine does.
Five thousand women work in the
coal mines at Lancashire, England.
Women are not half as foolish as
they talk,'nor men as wise.
When “dead tired,” stop and
rest; you will accomplish more in
the end.
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Calico is named for Caliout, a
town in India, where it was first
printed.
Raffia has become such a fad that
any and all things are being created
from it.
It is better tq have joy in your
heart than a Persian lamb coat on
your back.
Don’t go to bed hungry. A glass
of milk or a cup of ohouolate will
refresh you.
There are people whose ideal of
happiness is the day they can “write
a pieoe for the paper.”
Most any woman ban win a man’s
love. She has got to be a good
cook if she wants to keep it.
Miss Alioe Roosevelt was the first
woman to go down to the bottom of
the ocean in a submarine boat.
Just look about you and see how
much beauty there iB. The trees,
grass and flowors are all beautiful.
Each nation, it would seem, has
its own ideal, and the poet asks de
spairingly: “What is beauty?”
Many women work for insurance
companies writing policies. They
have better sucoess than some men.
Its a fine thing to have a dear,
dean, brilliant complexion, especi
ally when there happens to be
smile on it.
Apply olive oil to your eye brows'
to make them grow; aud x put castor
oil on your warts to make them go
away.
The famous prison for women at
Clermont, France, is to be dosed
after being in uso for almost 100
years.
VARIOUS THINGS
Fifty kinds of degrees are given
by Amerioan colleges.
Time and the mule should be
taken by the forelock.
Mrs. Russell Sago is bitter toward
our Amerioan girls whose aim is to
wed foreigners. Our girls should
make a note of this.
They say the quality of oystors
this year is better than usual.
One person in every 675 in the
United StateB is a physician.
The lungs of a coal miner are
blaok as coal from breathing so muoh
coal dust.
The total area of Chioago parks
and the boulevards to-day is 2,963
acres.
A mahogahy tree reoently sold in
London for the immense sum of
$15,728.
The growing use of deotrio light
sighs has caused legislation on the
subject.
England has nine submarine war
vessels built or building, and Franco
has fifty.
The average railway journey in
the United States is twenty-eight
and a half miles. >
Great Britain maintains an army
ot from 60,000 to-80,000 whites in
India continually.
More than eight million of the
thirteen and a half million people of
Mexioo do not work.
Brazil’s prop” of ooffee this year
equals fifteen-sixteenths of the worldB
consumption.
St. Lonis street cars have killed
seven persons a month during eight
months of this year.
Every time a man. tries to get
something for u jlhing he acquires a
little more experience.
The Kansas definition of a gold
mine is a hole in the ground owned
by a man who is a liar.
The fellow who doesn't read his
home paper rarely ever does any
thing else worth mentioning.
Lou Dillon, hitched to t
whebl sulky went a mile in
Maud S’s record was 2:8 3-4.
John Mitchell is writing a book.
Just so he can keep the price of ooal
down we don’t care what the size of
the book will be.
The Bank of England has increas
ed its disoount rate from 3 to 4 per
cent. Now what will we do when
we go over for a little Bplurgo?
And now a movement is on foot
to ohange the name of “beer.” Call
it whatever you may, but we’re bet
ting there will be n change in the
If women only knew it, they
could control the men so much bet
ter with a sweet tongue than with a
rough temper.
A man who pronounces Revenge
like it had three or four r’s in the be
ginning, will not do to fool with in
a heated argument.
If the young ladies of our coun
try were to demand better morals of
our young men, how quick there
Would be a reform!
There is a task in every home that
will make a hero of every boy. The
cook, for instance, will always love
the boy who keeps the wood box
full.
' There never was a fa’rme'r so .big
•n» and fierce looking that he did hot
Wear a meek expression’ when he was
listening to his wife argue with the
grocer on the price and quality of
ber butter and eggs.
It strikes us that a woman who
sendp back gifts to a man is a good
deal of an idiot. A gift is a gitt,
not a loan.
High collars are destructive to
soft, pretty throats. Wear the lim-
py stoeksiand don’t fasten them too
tightly, either.
Have a place for everything
the house, and see that each mem
ber of the family puts the article
used in its proper place.
Mrs. W. W. King, of Los Angel
es, Cal., is a phenomenal fifteen-ball
pool player. She has defeated all
comers save her husband:
Liftins: oneself on the tips of the
toes very slowly will develop the
calves of.the legs and make the an
kles small. Easy .as pie.
To save your dresses provide
yourself with washing sleevelets to
slip over your dress sleeves when
you are dusting or doing other
household work.
high
2:05
IN THE BUSY WORLD.
Nature, they say, never makeB
mistakes, though none will dispute
that it would have been better had
the Creator oombined the luminous
end of the lightning hug with the
business end of the mosquito.
Krupp's great gun works at Essen,
Germany, whose naval ordnanoe haB
revolutionized the art of sea war
fare, has just finished a gun which
will throw a 98J lb projeotilo more
than 18 miles with a volooity of
3,083 feet per seoond.
Anthraoite coal to the amount of
5,160,400 tons was produced during
August, which iB about the same as
the previbus month, but as compared
with August, 1902, when the ooal
Btrlke was in progress, it is an in
crease of 4,838,626 tons.
all
AGRICULTURAL.
Use wide tires on the wagons.
The farmers of America feed
nations.
If you have brush land to olean
up gfet goats.
The ideal oow “Sadio Vale” gave
2764 pounds of milk in thirty days.
Fertilize the orchard now—be
cause maybo yon did not do it in the
spring.
Tho boys who are to be farmers
of to-morrow are busy as they oan be
to-day.
Already this year America has
shipped 80,000 tons of agricultural
implements into Russia.
If one desires eggs to keep well,
plaoe them upright; otherwise the
yolks will oling to the shell and
spoil.
Every farmor who writes to the
Department of Agriculture for liter
ature issued by this department oan
seoure same free.
The Illinois Central has in course
of construction at Grenada, Miss, an
immense plant for an experimental
station to treat various kinds of
hardwood timber with chemicals to
increase their durability and supply
a new tie to take the plaoe of the
almost extinot growth of white oak.
The mint at Philadelphia has
stopped coining pennies beoause of
tne<enormous output of recent years.
In the last five years 3,000,000,393
pennies have been shipped from the
city, an'd the coinage between July
X, 1902 and June 1, 1903 was 89,-
600,000. Why not fashion them on
“Who puts up the price of meat?” ' cartwheel model, oall them dol-
askp. an exohange. We must all do j * arB an< ^ m ake us all rioh?
so or go on the vegetable diet. I Talking abott; race suioide, -isn't
The boy who is on proper terms | ^ a little odd that all the advertise-
with his mother stands a pretty
good chance of -becoming a useful
man.
America is now exporting about
$7,000,000 worth of shoes a year, of
which Great.Britain gets one-third.
A drop of blood which might hang
from the point of a needle contains
about 1,600,000 red flattened cor
puscles.
Enter the oyster,
Juicy and fat,
Exit the shapeless
Panama hat.
In the arctic region a man who
wants a divorce leaves home in an
ger and does not leturn in several
days. The wife takes the hint and
departs.
The following truth was uttered
by a wise but unsophisticated phil
osopher: “The country papers have
many faults; they make many blun
ders and leave undone many good
works. Yet w;hen you follow them
month after month you 'are with
which they stand loyally by their
community, and the constancy with
which they preach the doctrine of
fair play in all things.
ments for household servants
wanted speoifv that the would-be
employers have small families, or
do they not dare to make it known
when a cook or housemaid is de
sired? Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt got
his notions about race suicide from
a study of the want columns.
There is one thing in this world
-that wholly depends upon ourselves,
and that is the determination to be
absolutely fair with all, and forever
doing that which is fair and right.
Popularity may not always follow,
but reasonable happiness and con
tentment will always be with the
man who is honest with himself,
and always does what he knows to
be fair and right.
Homer F. A. Warkenstem, a Chi
cago man, has opened an establish
ment near Milwaukee, where at a
cost of one-fouith the ordinary price.
He converts clay into a smokeless
coal. Chunks of clay were put in a
vessel, which was coverqjl after hav
ing been treated with a number of
chemicals. The mixture was per
mitted to lie awhile and then anoth
er chemical agent wus applied.
There was a flash, a puff of smoke,
and from the -retoit Mr. Warken-
stein drow a shiny, black substance
•which resembled anthracite coal and
which, according to,the inventor of
the process, can be made for $1.05
a ton.
Russia is the largest seller of eggs
in the world. She sells foreign
countries 1,500,000 dozen eggs near
ly every year.
Prairie farms are rapidly growing
more beautiful—trees, flowers and
gardens are beautifiers more com
mon than of old*
A farmer in Indiana raised five
tons of tomatoes from an acre of
land. They reooivod $7 a ton for
them. Not enough.
A Jersey calf at Pekin, Ind., was
born Fob. 4, 1902 and March 17,
1903 she had a calf. The mother
was thirteen months and thirteen
days old.
Should farmers continue the prac
tice of always thrashing from the
shook, stacking grain will become a
lost art. It is already lost to a great
many.
Lon Dillon is a five.year-old
mare, standing 15.2 hands high.
She is a rioh obestnut color. She is
of ideal conformation and as hand
some as she is fast. She trots a
mile in 2 minutes and 2 seconds.
A few extra good ohickens for the
foundation stook is far better than
twice the same number of ordinary
ones. A good beginning is the
short out to sucoess.
The wild razorbaok hog of the
South is the typical bacon hog; He
has the big slab side, the streak of
lean and streak of fat, and his diet
of roots and nuts adds a fine flavor
to his meat.
A Texas farmer who tried to re
cover damages from a railroad for
injuring his horses so that they died,
testified in court that the horses had
no further attention than Christian
science treatment.
There are 17,000 rural mail ear
ners in the United StateB. They
deliver mail to 12,000,000 country
residents and travel 500,000 'miles
each day, their routs covering two-
thirds of the best faming districts
of America. The carriers have now
formed an association known as tho
Rural Free Delivery Carriers’ Asso
ciation, and are publishing a paper.
Dan Patch is only seven years old,
but he has thousands of friends, no
will be rejoiced to hear that bv pac
ing a mile in 1:59 he has established
a new. world’s, reeprd, Also Dan
Patch has never lost a race in - the
four years hehas been on the track.