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yol. yxn. no 12. VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2ft, 1003 TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR iMi THE BUSY WORLD. a. >— Alaska has only (ivo miles of stand ard-gauge railroad. A ton of sugar beets yield 210 pounds ol i(.'fined sugar. Mo;it all tho bakers of bread in America are of German births Out of the 13,500,000 people in Mexico less than 2,000,000 can read Twelve hotels in New York City have more than 300 telephones each. South Dakota has one county that is four times as big as Rhode island. Only about five per cents of the land in Colorado is now capable of raising. A gentle, land horse will nearly always bo found to have a wide forehead. The profit to the Government on pennies pays tho entire expense of the mint. Of 1,908 cases of typhoid fever in sixteen hospitals last year, one in eight died. There is at present an immense de mand for portable buildings all over South Africa. Between no mind and an unused mind there is not enough difference to Borap about. The ministry is the only one of tho learned professions that is not now over-crowed. Carelessness and laziness go hand in hand and together are a fruitful source of failure. A horse has no bad habits that can not be traced to tho way in which he has been handled. The first daily paper in America was printed in Williamsburg, Va., in 1780, at $50 per year. One harness horejk critio tells us that Prince Albert couldn’t pace a mile ill 2:05 if he were sober. t Wo show our character moro clear' iy in what we consider laughable or amusing than in any other way Tho Black Hills in So. Dakota, cover about 100 miles square, and it is said to be the riohest area in the wot Id. A large part of the tropi cal fruit used iu the United States is raised by the transportation compies whicn bring it. Standing, kneeling, sitting and ly ing down are the four positions pre scribed for firing by the army regu lations. Half a ton of sawdust contains 1(50 pounds of charcoal, 180 pounds of acids, 218 pounds of water and 182 pounds of tar. An automobile was driven from Chicago to New Stork, on the com mon roads, a distance of 1,177 miles in 70 hours. “We use 144,000,000 safety pins a year,” sayb a New York editor. The uufortunate brother has no wife to sew on buttons for him. Anybody can tear down; the diffi cult thing is to build up. Any one can find faults and defects; the hard thing is to do bettor yourself. Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business, may one find hisbusiness abovehim The Federal government is hol ing a well in the bottom of Lake Michigan to procure drinking water for its nine employes at the life sav ing station. WOMAN’S COLUMN. Give the slovenly girl a looking Scatter salt on a carpet when sweeping. It's the unexpected that happens, fton’t worry. Japanese servant, girls work for $3 to $5 per month. Slesves grow more voluminous from elbow to wrist. No need of any one being idle and miserable in this busy old world . The olosely knitted Jersey will be worm by many ladies this fall and winter. Don’t wear the hair always ill tho same style. A change of mode is hen efioiul. Acquire good sense and you will not need to worry about good and bad luck. R. S. V. P. is too old fashioned. They write it a. o. d., now: aceept or decline. Help somebody. Working for the happiness of others will beautify you speedily. There are 1 3-4 million more men and boys than women apd girls in tho United States. The merchant who advertises his goods to catch the woman’s eye succeeds iu business. A woman in Philadelphia has ae cured a phonograph and with it she is leaching parrots to talk A girl needn’t apologize in this town because she works;.’udeed she’d bettei apologize if sho doesn’t Tho large number of famalo farm hands in Scotland receive $2 to $2.50 a week without board or allowances. One secret of a sweet and happy life is learning to live dav by day People grow - old thinking tihem slaves old. Dr. Mary Chandler of Lowell Mass., is said to be the only woman in America who is entitled to practice law and medicine. A Kansas father has nicknamed his two grown daughters Reliance' ON THE FARM. Try to keep up with the times. Farm hands in Norway roeoive $40 to $80 a year. The surplus horses on many farms ate up the profits. Are there plenty of nut bearing trees on the farm? Cat nails are said to last longer in a roof than wire nails. Irapfoyed harvesting machinery is in demand the world over. Sun flower seed is good for fowls and will produce rich plumage. England makes but a third of the machinery used by its farmers, If your oow doesn't pay for her board, let someone else board her. The total income of all American farmers last year was about $5;500,- 000,000. How are your farm buildings? Ever been painted? This is a good time to oolor them up. An easy riding buggy has become a necessity on every farm to make the equipment complete. Don't lose courage; but living in hopes is sometimes a poor apology for an empty stomaoh. Free distribution of seeds is a bad thing, whether from roadsides and fence corners or Washington. The farms of the United States covers 841,000.000 acres and em ploy nearly 10,600,00o peoples Much of the best and best paying farming is done upon small or at least a moderately sized farm. If there is any space under the trough in which the horse can pos sibly get his head fast, better change things. A man doeH not know how little he knows or how poorly lie knows it until be has tried to tell it to others. Farm maohinory saved in tho planting and gathering of last year's crop in the linked States seventy million dollars. The ohioken coop should have two Shamrock because they are both J 0 j- three rooms ouefor them to roam stuck on a fellow named Cupp. | about in one for setting hens and the Wheii you aie feeling fagged and j other bedroom. your skin looks pasty, dip a sponge in very hot water and batho the base of be brain, also the faoe aud throat for five minute. A chair of matrimony has been added to the University of Chicago. How to catch and keep a husband is the lesson hewill attempt to teach the young women. The snheme to have English wo men with title come to America m seareh of millionaire husbands .which is now being perfected, is likely not to be entirely successful. Lace is so muoh worn this year that the plainest of blonses can be made dresay by means of a little cof fee coat or deep perlme collar of lace'or net or a combination of both. Mrs. Linda R. Wade, president of the Western Dressmarker’s Assn, said she had always noticed that wo men are one-sided; one armislonger shoulder more developed or some thing wrong. Nobody wantsblondeson the stage any more, they are not in it. It is the brunette chorus girls now in fashion. So now all those peroxide blondes will have to fall in line with the color scheme. \ The average cost of raising a bus hel of corn in Illinois as determined by an exhaustive line of experiments was found to be ten seats. You don’t know it all—even Solo mon didn’t. The other fellows can tell you a few things that it will be money in your pocket to know. At a big Poland China hog sale in Williamsfield recently, 03 head of hogs were sold for $1579, the aver age price being $25.08. Many a man robs his own hen roost by cutting down the feed ho gives to his chicks and the quality of the care he takes of them. The farmer who has a good wife ought to appreciate ber enough to furnish her the best possible equip ment for her part of tho work. If our farmers would give more attention to the winter housing and to the vitality of their stock returns would be larger aud more certain. Australia has the largest duck farm aud the largest incubator in FACTS IN GENERAL. Grit makes the man, tho want of it the chump, The men who win lay hold, hang on and hump. There are 25,000 people employed by Unole Sam at Washington. They reecive annually $25,000,000, iu salaries. Mutual good will and helpfulness accomplishes moro pi the active af- frirs of life than antagonisms aud contention. It seems to be a proposition as clear as day that the farmer, moro than any other man, ought to have the privilege of good roads tho year round. Thore aro good housekeepers and good barnkeopers, but we think the former are more numerous than tho latter. This sounds well for the la dies. An increase from 46,000 emigrants in August, 1002, to 64,000 in August 1903, shows that every year more peoploare willing to leave theirhap py homes for us. A farmer of the central West who uses a small traotion engino and a gang of fourteuu-inoh plows, says that it costs him 50 to 02 cents an acre to break his ground. The total government receipt for September woro $44,100,818 and tho expenditures $38,430,0(13 lovauig a surplus of $6,540,0o0. The receipts tell below thoos of 1002, Maximite, the composition of which is a Government f seoret, is abuot three time as powerful as ord inary gunpowder and is a • powdery substance melted bv heat and poured into a shell. The postotfioe officials have pro pared a ruling that cremated bodies may be sent though the mail classed as merchandise. Four bodies are already know to have boon bent, Bast Friday the editors of Georgia had a reunion and barbecue Atlanta, and W.R. Hoarst was he the guest of honor. Mr. Hearst owns the New York Journal, Chicago American and San Francisco call three of the largest daily papers in America. He is also a prospective candidate for president on the dem ocratic ticket. In Germany there are tile -oofs that have been on building for 600 years. Nearly‘all the buidiugs there are covered with tiling. It is claim ed by those who are in a position to know, that the cost is no greater than for slate or tin, and a roofing of this kind once on is thereto stay. So far this year more than forty railway postal clerks have peeen killed and over 500 injured, more or less seriously. In. consequence, the clerks are not attracted by fast trains. Many of them have asked to be transferred from tbe trunk lines, where thev get $1,500 a year, to the branch lineH, where the mixiinum $13.00. Alexander Dow-ie has marched his host in Madison Squaro (garden and says he will get New York city con verted and collect fifty million dol lars for llm purpose. Dowio calls himself The Second Prophet Elijah. He has about 5,000 people follow ing bun around. We have not heard CHICAGO. Chioago has 390 hotels. Chioago is just one hundred ye ars old. The total street milage is 2,798 miles. It mens tiros 30 miles from north to south. Thecity's population is 2,23J ,000. Tho area is 191 square miles. It has seventeen parks, whtoh are oolloctively the finest in the world. The longest thoroughfare is West ern avenue, which iB 22 milos in length. There are 780 onurehes, 29 con vents, 21 libraries, 58 hospitals, and 992 public schools,attended by 275, 000 children. There are six railroad stations, at whioh 29 different railroads enter. At these stations 1,410 trains arnvo and depart every twenty-four hours. A lady a good many years ago saw that there ought to bo an improve- mout in baby carriages. She invent ed the modern perambulator and took in over $50,000 in the way ot voyalitios. A telegram from Milwankoosays: That a process has been discovered whereby fint-elass while ey can inndo front sorghum for only 8ots a gallon tho firs cost of whiskey is very small. Before the war good corn whiskey retailed at sixteen con Is a gallon and there was a largo profit in it at that. It is the tax and lioenso that consti tute tho cost. formerly any little Jim Crow dealeroould put iu a still and make his own liquor from apple paring that contained sugar When the government stepped Into regu late the manufacturer it necessitated employirig larger capital, hence the enormous distilleries of the present day and the whiskoy trust. . The liquor dealers of the city have boon informed by the sotliern exspfss company that the Town Council of Moultrie has prohibited trans portation companies trom bringing into town any malt,spirituous or aby intoxioatingliquors notice is therofoe given that tho company will have to refuse shipment of this kind for Moultrie, tho action of the counoil of Moultrie while not of so muoh importance of itself is of considerable importance in that if it can prohibit the importation of liquors all the other towns of the state can follow sni; it is therefore certain that the p ir'tes most concerned will take steps to defeat this possibility just whar steps will be taken have not yet been decided on tho railroad commission may be appealed to the the matter may bo taken in the uity, -Savannah Press the world. The incubator has a ca-s 0 ^ feeding-that five thousand on pnoity of U,440duok eggs or 14,080 >ytbing like three loaves and two ;hen eggs- I fishes. Are you jealous of your neighbor’s prosperity? What has ho done t« you? Because he pushed aud pulled uml scratched aud sweat and toiled aud succeeded at last in reaching an easy road to life and you rested un der the shado and failed, does that make it your duty to rail at him and smirch him at every oppotunity? Does it? Say a good word for him No man is tho only pebble on the beach. Your time will come if you will use hands and held. Try to pluck some benefit out of every day. Don’t feel sore because some fellow lias more sense than you. Help the town along—help the coun ty push and pull and you will be surprised how muoh prosperity will come to you and how much smoother the road than when you wars talking mean about your neighbor. * 1 ’■ v