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VOL. XXII. NO 9
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1,1003
TERMS #1.00 PER YJKAR
OBSERVATIONS.
Row many men do you know who
‘■are the moat worthless you ever saw?
Very few girls are pretty in their
brother’s eye.
As a rule, parents are t°° neglect
ful, in the training of their /children.
A very foolish style is to leave
half the food among the scraps.
Don’t look to the public for eir-
oouragcmont.
I do hate to see a man using a
borrowed horse roughly.
Did you ever observe how a frisky
girl is d : sliked by tho old folks?
People hate so bad to be told of
their imperfections. —.
Somehow, the people never act as
you think they should.
Isn’t it true that you dislike some
people because they mind their own
business?
Boys would probably be less lia
ble to beebrne dishoucst if they were
not allowed foj get so hungry.
’Thd trouble with most men, they
think they can win where others
have failed.
A j^reat accomplishment is to be
able to Jook up when you find you
hre wrong.
Vou should never dispute about
^lythin’g that y 0,1 cannot settle in
the dictionary.
Girls who are frequs ent ^ , ’ een
house
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
The lace blouse is “it.”
Blue in all its shades is tremen
dously popular.
One-sixth of the land owners in
Great Britain are women.
When tho finger nails are polished
too often they become thin and ten
der.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias IIowo, Jr., iu
lt?46.
wearing an apron about the
are justly popular.
Crossing religion in marriage is
not a good thing for domestic hap-
pincsB,
.. -Boys who act nioeiy and i.eiiuvC
thoDlsslves are never laoking for ap
preciation. _
Very few parents properly ward
their boys against swindling games
and slot machines.
Childietf soon learn that their
mothers will not tell the truth about
whipping them 1 .
When a man Jr guilty he is apt to
talk too much abmit his' innocence
and arouse suspicion!
In your opinion, what'/i’great mhn
you would have been if yotjd had
lived 50 years ago.
The wise man will make a ohaii^e
as soon as he finds out he i, making
a mistake.
There is so much competition in
the world that a man ought to feel
like a hero it he makes a living.
The proverbial slip twixt the cup
and the up is why girls desire to
keep their engeme.it a secret.
Men think they know all about
kissing,vbut they can’t kiss a woman
without disturbing her hat, while a
woman can.
How long would an hour seem if
you had to go that long with that
tickling sensation in the nose that
produces a sneeze?
In every crowd there is always
one who remains quiet long enough
to toll afterward how foolish the
others talked.
The fact that men buy whiskey is
evidence that they are soft on that
point. Did you ever see a man de
fend whiskey drinking?
It is not only polite to pick the
■ohicken bones with your teeth, but
it is economy to pick them very
-clean.
The latest fashion fad for the*
bathing girl is to wear boots like a
comic opera queen.
It is said that more than 15,000
women are employed bn the six
principal French railways.
Flour spread thickly oil a burn
will prevont blistering and the scars
that are likely to follow.
Mrs. Russell Sage-declares none
but the rich should, enter wedlock,
at least in large cities or towns.
If tv kettle or pot boil dry, pouy
boiling water into it at once, for this
will prevent its cracking.
Philadelphia female harbors are
shaving people nt 2 cents a shave.
Bad scrapes usually cost much more.
When a ruarrie.l woman elopes
with another woman’s husband it’s
hard to tell just who is entitled to
sympathy.
Bitter aloes rubbed on the finger
tips will generally break the habit
of biting the nails or sucking the
fingers.
Add
little turpentine to hot
VARIOUS THINGS i IN THE BUSY WORLD.
In Chioago thero are 20,000 IIoI-' The Mississippi river drains one-
landers. third of the area' of tho United
States.
An air brake for automobiles has
boen perfected.
There are nearly 90,000 known
medicinal remedies.
Diamonds are estimated to bo
worth $30,000,000 a ton.
In Victoria. Australia,’ there arij
coal veins 250 feet thick,
Tho price of steel Vails for 1904
is unohauge<i...$28 por von.
The average coffee tree in Hondu
ras produces half a pound of beans.
The five voloanACS a.ct£ve last year
destroyed! oaten OPyQOO lives.
It costs the avorago vessel $4,300
to pa.-s through tho Suez canal.
Every year Germany's population
increases at tho rate of 800,000.
A flock of ostriohes at Phoenix,
Arizona now numbers more than
hftOQ birds.
Don't spend your rtioncy foolish
ly. Save for a rainy day. It will
come.
-.iu will .not find your
fltaroh and yy „ *
Iron atiok wlion “ th '
ironing of tho linen.
French WTO men look as if thflj’ ifad
been made iw please man; English
Wtfirien as if Sian had been made to
pieaSe' them.-
The Grrirfd! 01 " a of Rus ‘
sia, the czar’s' eldest dW®, v" er ’ w ^°
is now iu her 8tb year, fa
the wealthiest little lady la . t ' 3e un *'
verse.
Never waste a tub of wushu, "
suds, the filthier it is, the more wel
come it will be to the peach n-ees,
the plum trees, the rose bushes or
the garden beds.
A photograph of Miss Maude
Fealy, the beautiful American ac
cess, taken by a New York photo-
g'ra>ihtev, has captured the 1,000
ff-anfc’ beauty prize in Paris.
Most of the ruinous extravagance
of women- is practiced by those who
arc not really in- society, but who
are trying to'buy their way there;
so says Mrs. Russell Sage,
Talcing tho world as a whole, 26
per cent, dio boforo they reach the
ago of 17.
The oity council of Kenosha,
Wis., will open a grooery store and
butcher shop. ,
Have you taken out an insurance
policy on your house and barn?
Better tend to it now,
The Kaiser has made on an aver
age two public speeches a week
during tbe last ten years.
Wine raanur.ioturers in Greece, it
is said, propose using barrels made
of paper for their wine.
German cities arc still growing so
fact that the saw mills can hardly
keep tip With their orders.
It is estimated that there arc 182,-
000,poo tons of anthracite Coal wait
ing to be worked in Ireland;
The Astor family in New Mexico
has bought land in New Mexico for
the largest cattle ranch in tho world.
There are 198 Baptist ^oburohesi
Russia, with 22,244 members,
'ast year 1,254 were added by
m.
apt 18 v
Vroo-y l V n preacher says that ptfo-
u „ **9,000 salary are sureto
pfewiit —
go- DO'lllh odev ' 11
Tho houso of representatives costs
$3,000,000 a year and tho senate
$1,400,000.
There are now 51,538 divorced
people in the United States, of
whom over two-thirds are women.
The United States has 78,000
posidfSoeB; Germany is next, with
45,023, and Groat Britain third with
22,400.
If Alaska could be lifted and su-
perinposed on the daistern part of
the United States’, it would cover up
20 states. /
Tbe standing timber of Canadn
equals that of the continent of
Europe, and is nearly double that of
the United States.
Tho executive office of the United
States oalls for only $112,000 a
year, while England givos tho royal
family $4,000,000.
Tho public printing at Washing
ton costs $6,000,000 a year. The
investment in tho government print
ing office is $2,429,000.
As a distributing agency of food,
shelter, clothing and medicine, in
time of calamity tho war depart
ment is worth the price.
The navy whioh givos England
the supremacy of tho seas cents
$165,000,000 a year, or a little tiidre
han the United States pair in pen-
ions.
On aocount of so many of the best
class of workmen leaving for the
United States, the Norwegian gov
ernment intends to take steps to
cheek emigration.
Tho internal commerce of the
United States last year has been es
timated by tbe government statisti
cian at $20,000,000,000. Fifty years
ago it was only $2,000,000,000.
A single American railroad, the
Great Northern, is now equipped to
cairy 6,000,000 tons of iron ore. Ill
all tho world only two nations be- j
sides our own produce so much.
I
zn
awud
Wo are not worry-
i there is one advantage
jr of Servia. He is not
bothered W insurance
AGRICULTURAL.
Do not ohange the feed suddenly.
Many tanners are purchasing cov
ers for their hay stacks.
A quart of feed for twelve hens ia
a good measurement.
Japan has sent representatives
over here to buy American horses.
Air-slacked limo dusted over tho
yards Is a good provontivo of gapos.
In' Hungary tho prices of veteri
nary modi(jilies an? fixed by the Min
istry of Agriculture).
Don’t forgot to chop up Dande
lions for tho little dnoks if kept
where they cannot get grass.
Spnuklo salt in tful cabbage just
ns they start to hoad. It will mako
them solid and head faster.
Aro the rats getting the chickens?
Bettor place some rough on rats
where the rats will get it.
The producers of agricultural ma
chinery claim they are boing ruined
by thirty-three trusts.
This is the fanners busy time.
Tho peddler or tho lightning rod
agent better keep away.
Farmers who have brush land
should employ a small herd of An
gora goats to clear it up; Thoy
never striko—for higher wages.
. T!.o !■ dgc fence'will, soon be a
curiosity. Its place is being taken
by good woven wiro fenco with a
string of barb wire on top.
Corn ted sows bring poor pigs. If
they eat the pigs the feeder is at
fault. Roots, bran, clover hay and
some corrector like charcoal saves
trouble..
Russia ha i more horses than any
other country in the world. All tne
horses on earth number aboont 65,-
000,000. Russia alone has 30,-
000,000.
Several orders for cavalry horses
aro being filled in Western markets
just at present. This is the season
of tho year when Uncle Sam replen
ishes stock.
The egg market is one tint is*
never overstocked. There are thous-
Nicaragpa is now making tremen-1 anc * 8 °f r ' ozcnB e SS a shipped to 1
dous efforts to get that canal and j market, but no mattei how many
Colombia will have to get a hustle I raa y arrive » there 18 a demand! -far
Unless she wants to got left. Your \
those that are choice.
“Good thimbles,said the jewel
er, “are rarely to be seen nowadays.
Time was when every young woman
had one. They were a regulation
birthday or Christmas present. ’
In Central N. J. is a large and
successful pigeon establishment,
owned and managed by a Mrs. El-
Kins. She has over 500 pairs and
they yied her more than $500 income
yearly.
Massa.-ing the scalp with the fin-
,.ger tips dipped in a little castov'oil,
olive oil or vaseline for five or ten
minutes every day will strengthen
the roots and cause the hair'to grow.
A cheap, conveniehi and sanitary
treatment of the ordinary wall papeif
is to give it a wash of thi-nvarnish:
This improves and preserves thd
colors and makes any number of
washings possible. .
mg' a* but
After’ nA
in being Ibit\
likely to-be-
solicitors.
*ans are refusing at
Flathead-BA , MjJ t0 pay taxes,
the muzzle of She , Indian 18 not I-
Wbo says that thy ti ze d?
pablc of being civi.
y perfect that
C alcohol it is
embarrassing
antitoxin
into ani-
baceilli
n liquid
Just as soon as thi
scheme for solidifying
going to save a lot of
leakage in traveling bag
The new typhoid tevei
is produced by injecting
mals the poison of typhoid
extracted by crushing them l
aj.r. *
The Pennsylvania railroad
been unable to place an order
engines'jn tie .United .States a
will probly place an order with fo.
eign shops.
Tbe^ Indian Baptist Association,
which is composed entirely of Kiowa
Indians, has adopted a resolution
excluding all whites from their
has
for
nd
v-
Uncle Teddy's patience is about
exhatisted.
The' United States is almost a
goatless country, compared with
others, and the importation of goat-
Hkins, young and old, aggregate
$3,500,000 a year, which represents
a slaughter of 17,000,000 goats and
kids.
Porto-Rico is furnishing a market
of a million dollars a month to pro
ducers and merchants of the United
States and is supplying nearly a mil
lion dollars worth each month of the
tropical products required by the
United States.
Chicago boasts to be the first city
in the United States whose phvsi
cians have succeeded in securing
from Denmark a perfected appara
tus for effecting the famous Fiuscn
light cure of cancer, lupus, and kin
dred hitherto incurable diseases.
The cure has obtained such a world
wide reputation that just now the
Finsen Institute of Copenhagen iB
vowded with patients from all over
c world, including pepple from
icago, Wisconsin, and indeed all
s of the United States
Are you a farmer? Then -tllinlk
of your business as tbe-most im por
ta nt one in tbe world. Study it,
lo ve it, concentrate your mind upon
it, and woik to make others realize
its worth.
It is estimated that there remains
standing in Minnesota 30,*300,000-
000 feet of merchantable pine tim
ber, valued as $120,000,COO. The
most of this is in the hands of pri
vate parties, and ia matures
Burn a pound of sulphur in the
roost every month. Drive ail the
fowls out, and after lighting the
s ulpbur, get out quickly and close
the doors, windows and cracks
tightly. Leave closed an hour or
two.
Lawn grass, when mewed, should
be cured and saved ior winter. 1-t
is one of the best foods that tan te
put. - way , as it is not only of eon-
venient length, requiring no iuviher
prep: ration, bulls usually ecu jorefi
of different grasses. >
Less corn and corn meal and 'more
bran ard green iced will give mere
e ggs and more heallhy poullij dur
ing tbe svirmei memhe. A free
r ange with an ou-haid at hji.il will
eolve the problem of green feed ande
cheap summer eggs.