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VOL. XXII. NO 11
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 190*
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
Everybody dreads a grumbler.
Idleness hatches lots of mischief.
The idle men of a town are usually
the kickers.
Married people should never oease
to be lovers.
Say nothing that you will ever
have to take back.
Men will do a fool thing because
they think it is smart.
Debt has Mode many a man an*
broke as many more.
The fellow who never says any •
thing is the one to dread.
A fat horse seem always to be
associated with a good fanner.
Stay out of court: every session
brings grief to some poor soul.
Young man, get experience before
putting your money in a busnesa.
It is natural for women to boast
and men to deny their love affairs.
The more yon learn of life, the
less frequent you will be surprised.
The world is in need of groat re
form in the use of profane language.
The see-leSS >Yai»t will take the
place of the peck-ti'boo for the win
der.
Wouldn't you love to have a' df&Ve
■of fat possums to put on the market
mow?
People sometimes claim to bo sen-
sativo When thoy are really quarrel
some.
You will be more popular when
you become more loyal to your
friends.
To please a sick women, tell her
that her illness was brought on by
over-work.
If 1 am ever found dend, I hope
the Coroner will no*, find a bottle in
my pocket.
A cigar so bad that it would break
people from smoking would be a
great invention.
The average women loves to speak
of the mysterious things that have
come into her life.
.Ihe oyster is not a regular visitor
this season:: He is only now and
then in our midst.
Better mind what you say in love
letters; they may be brought up
against you some time.
For a new motto Ihow woulb it do
to have “God Bless Our Dad”
worked in red Jotters
You are just coming to your rea
son when you lose your disposition
to run around at night.
While making remarks about oth
ers, you may be sure that they are
making remarks aboHt you.
There is a loose serew in every
man who is always telling how much
more he can do than other people.
Lots of young people waste their
days at putting all kinds of stuff in
their stomach, and spend tbeir old
days at taking medicine for it.
WOMEN’S COLUMN.
Habit is something that wrogs.
Take exeroise. Get pleny of fresh
lr.
The woman who worries does not
sleep well.
Some women ate born great and
some marry money.
Moleskin is the fur novelty for hats
and wrays,
THINGS IN GENERAL.
Thus far eleotrioity has not been
allowed in Turkey.
About 85,000 Americans orosBthe
Atlantic every year.
Japanese and Germans have the
same average brain weight.
In Boston there are one aud a half
electric lights for eaoh person.
All the seven islands of Hawaii are
oonneoted by wireless toUspr»<^ hy>
During tbe raointt ws^on more
. i n During me raoinu m0 re
When brushing the hair lef- than $1,000,000 a &r y i 8 WBge red
nf Smi h/i 3 .1. * *
motion be light and gentle.
Have oharity for your neighbors
and patience with the hired help.
Fear of baing an old maid induces
many a girl to choose the wrong bus
band
A husband or wife develops either,
the best or worst qualities in the
other.
A bride is a bride no matter what
month she is married in she is just
as sweet
A Korean bfldo must not speak a
single word or make any sigmon her
It i.-. a gOoi thing to keep the floui*
barrel elevated at least two inches
from the floor on a rack.
Queen Wilhelmina and the Sul
tan of Turkey are the only reigning
monhrehs who are teetotalers.
borne*
o.
The . TT *M lighthouse
vioe costs 11 dollars a, year.
European RubsuJ £ lflM percen
tage of forest than the Um}«d States.-
Promises may get friends, but it
requires performances to keep them.
A man in Now York laughed him
self to death at a joke he heard at a
theater,
1 ; -
Ten thousand young men have
failed to leport for army duty in
Germany.
■K early one-third of tho 881.060
inhabitants of Cloveland were born
in Europe.
THE BUSY WORLD. |
The average cost of anthracite coal
at the msnes is $2,50 per long ton.
National bank notes are one-sixth
of the money in biroulatlou,
The Unir ej states Treasury holds
three a^d nine-tenths times as wuoh
go^i as the Bank of England.
Nine thousands immigrants land
ed in New York in three days last
week- Amillion a year! What will
the harvest be?
Fashion has decreed that it is alto
gether proper to wear last winter's
overcoat until arrangements oan be
' to get a new one
JUflov „
"•••n is advertising pa-
A (SSB h>- ments are not
per $$iW g» T - haven't
ree^me„ded’top^^ 0 .; rainB .
seirtc enough to go in w.
T 'lemftn
ltiaost tbe people of the G 'Nr-
Erapma $185,000,000 for liquorQu
mg the. year 1803. Gracious! Just
think, how many good things that
would buyl
The four corporations whioh lead
111 the number of stockholder are;
United States Steel oa’ooo Penn-
ON THE FARM.
Even though you are voung and
in good health, you should get your
affairs straightened out and quieted
down. You know not the day nor
the hour.
It isn t such a long, long time un
til ones ship will dip down beyond
\ A* sk y ‘me mto that other world.
Let’s be sweet and dainty, lovable
and chaining while we are here.
Try not t<5 be a fussy woman
Thoro is many a woman who says
“ain't” and “has wont” who has i
heart filled with life’s sweetest poo
try
Neighboring women in Concord
ia parish Louisiana gave birth the
sa me day ou» to three boys and the
other to five girls
Equal parts of iovabiiity ondsonsi-
bility, mixed all up with a little
ehaitability, makes tbe finest kind of
a beauty recipe.
Miss Carro M. Clark of Boston,
has tho distinction of being tho only
woman at thehea . ofabook-publish-
ing concern in Amorica.
It may bo that women should keep
silence in the churches, but :f they
neglect the contribution box what a
difference it would make.
The young womeu of Jackson,
Michigan, have a new craze. They
have formed a club and at each meet
ing don male attire and imitate the
men.
When a woman says She hates men
you can bo sure of. one of two things
-ci.her she has not i*ot any men at
all or else she has met the wrong
kind.
Corsets for men are- 'aid to be all
tho go up north. At first the aver
age man throws up his hands in hor
ror, but they say after they have tri
ed the fad it is catching.
Tbe table of measuresis as follows:
4 saltspoonfnls - J teaspoonful
8 teaspoontuls - I tablespoonful
4 tablespoonfuls - L-4. cupful
4 cupfuls - . 1 qyart
The first Union flag was untowjS™" ""‘T
on JWjrl,im, .mil. on n pl‘ urn
at Cambridge,
- . ! A man who has watebad tho trend
Coik, if sunk 200 feet in thoocean, j 0 f events says that it is not crime
li ltOf. I’lrtfi. ntl un/mnnt a# . • .
The credit season w closed,, but
the countenance of the average farm
er will spread out again as soon-as
hog-killing time comes-.
Miss Lucille Mulibnlly an 48- year
old girl of Mid-ball, I. T, won $1’,000
in a steer roping contest with cow
hoys. She-had to-rope- and- tie three
steers. The fastest time made was-
4o seconds, Ifow wouhh you. like-
ot bo her husband.
will not rise, on account of the pros
sure of the water.
A shell from a twelve-inoh gun
makes its flight of nine miles m
forty-two seconds.
The seven deadly or mortal sins
are: Pride, wraih, envy, lust, glut-
tony, avarice and sloth.
A man who rode on an eleotric oar
at 125 miles an hour states that all
objects were blurred.
The little that is done seems noth
ing when we look forward and see
how much we have yet to do.
Onehundred and fifty-threowhales
were blown ashore on Newfoundland
one night last week during a gale
Tbe peon child of Mexico may now
pass from his letrers to the highest
diploma entirely at government ex
pense.
Five hundred and sixty thousand
persons in the United States are de
pendent opon the street cars for
support.
A gentleman- by the name of Ken-
nedy introduced the shoe lace into
society and made two an a half-mil
lion dollars.
Charleston, Sy C'., with 31,000
negro and 24,000’white population,
is ruled absolutely by whites, a!
though- blacks arc treated fairly.
In sixty years annual per capital
consumption of whiskey has graiial-
ly decreased from two and a half, to-
one and one forth gallons.
In modern speculation
Yourln uguage you must choose,
It's an investment if you-win,
But gambling if you lose;
We have noticed- that tho friend
who tells us very loudly how much
she would do for U8 is always the one
who lets us do everything-for her.
There- is nothing in-the world so
satisfactory as plain, every day hon
esty and common-deoency. Might'
just as well live- up-iu the realms of
seven story thought, as- to grope,- *
!ai'ound.in--th«odlapof!dism?|*ihings.-.j,trainH.
that has inoroased but that tho sat-
tistio* of crime have inoroased. The
per cent of orime to the population
was greater fifty yeajs ago than it
is to-day.
An English scientist expresses the
belief that the tails of oomets are
composed ot radium. As this sub
stance is quoted at one million dol
lars a pound, the capture of a few
comets would be apretty good specu
lation.
Many of the greatest men the world
has ever possessed started life as
poor boys, and by their industry and
energy made for -thomaolves names
that the world oan never forget.
Their example sbonld enoourage
every young man. ,
Representative Tawney, ojf Min
nesota, has a remarkable reoord. He
is the son of a Waoksmith, tho
grandson of a -blaoksraitb, and is a
blaoksmith himself, having spent
seven years , aftor be was fifteen
years old, in his father’s shop-
The Govcrraent is compiling a
roster of all the soldiers who fought
in the federal and confederate arm
ies in the civil war. When oomplet
ed it will be a very valuable contri
bution to the history oftbis country.
It will be published in book form.
Do right farm right and you’ll
seldom {get left.
Cut nails are said to last longer in
a roof than wire nails.
Sunflower seed is good for fowls
and will pioduce rioh plumage.
South Dakota has one oounty that
is four times as big as Rhode island.
6nly about five per cents of the
land in Colorado is now oapablp o|
raising.
A gentle, kind horse will nearly
always be found to havo a wide
forehead.
Carolessness and laziness go hand
in band aud together ore a fruitful
source of failure.
A horse has no bad habits that oan
not he traoed \9 tfe<? vay in wMolt
he bus been handled.
One towns hoy* pyitlo pe^lp
-t Prince Alert couldn't pace$
thu *> a {05 if he were sober.
mUo iu jrfljitpp jit is ajbsoljut/)
If egg bee. 'vera fertilised that
ptoof that they . ’^d aud thenjdjcjel,
the germ of life start. *d a florae
It cost $10 a week to fe. for '
in Pretoria. There is plenty. ^
til land in the country but very litu.
water.
Farm machinery saved m tho
planting and gathering of last year’s
.orop in the United States seventy
million dollars.
The ohioken coop should have two
or three rooms one for them to roam
about in one for setting hons and the
other bedroom.
The average cost of raising a bus
hel of corn in Illinois as determined
by an exhaustive lino of experiments
was found to be ten sent*.
Nickel- 111-the-siot machines are in
use- in Dawson City, Alaska, for
selling water in the winter. One can
put a nickel in and get five gallons
of water, but no more. It is so cold
then* that the water supply in the
houses is shut off so that the pipes
will not freez every night. V
“Do not ask questions” is the
most foolish advice which age can
give to youth. The youth oreren the
m an who never asksquestions can be
set down as very dull. A little judg.
meat in selecting the proper time
and place for seeking information is
all that is needed, but the desire for
information should be carefully cul-
yeariy salary is $1,000. Much trou
ble is experienced by the superinten
dents of railway mail servioo in se
curing men for the fastest mail
You don't know it all-even Solo-
mon didn’t. The other fellows oan
tell you a few things that it will bo
money in your pooket to know.
A man acquainted with grief and
printing presses said it would cost
tho Progress $25 to move across the
street up stairs. He didn’t miss it
far.
N. W. Ayer, the Philadelphia mil
lionaire, owns largest dairy farms
in New York state It is boated
at Feridale Delewsre county, and
containt just 1,000 acres.
That the harvesting of the orop of
the world is a gigantic job beoomea
apparent from the estimate that it
takes ten million men and women
nine months to gather tfem in.
Progressive farmes throughout the
country are installing telephones in
their homes and in the rear future
every agriculturist will have a diret
means of communication with the
outside world.
Statistics shows that ten years ago
Oklahomia produced less than
5,000,000 bushels of wheat this
year the crop is over 30,000,000,
bushels and this is tho way the west
is developing.
Every fanner should grow his own
fuel. Those woods which are suit
able for the burposeand grows quick
ly and every fanner should therefore
havo his fuel patch as well as nis
produce garden
Any sober reliable farm laborer
Denmark who has saved one-tenth in
the mortgage value of tho little
farm *1,100-can buy the land by
borrowing the other nine-tenth from
a Government found. He gives a
mortgage on z-hioh he pay 8 percent.