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YOL. XXII. NO 13.
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY .•NOVEMBERS, 1003
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
Everybody ilrearls a drunkard.
Enthusiasm is often ured useless
ly-
Swearing is the poorest kind of a
habit. '
Feeding a tramp is a waste of
eharity.
Being sour never obtains the
sweets of life.
Some people seem to make money
by spending it.
Nobody loves the workman who
has his woi-k to do over.
Energy without judgement has
lots of lost motion.
Lots of people dislike you and can
not tell the reason why.
Boys are boys, and you better
kiiow where they are.
No office or store floor is too clean
for some men to spit upon.
Nature makes nothing but water
for man and bean to drink
When you make a mistake, don't
make another to o;ei out of it.
You should t.urn away from a man
as soon as no. begins to use profanity.
Asking questlbjis that do u it con
cern you, will make sou mip-> ular.
In trying to pull down your n igh-
bor, you are pulling down yourself.
People will find it out as n...-»n as
you pretend to bo mire than sou are.
Married .women are no admirers
of girls who flirt with married men.
You ■ .tymnet make people believe
you are very tuck unless you quit
eating.
In a liiismii.uqs.landiiig, .do you
give the other side any credit for be
ing right?
Lots of men want to slip out after
the dance without paying anything
to the Adder.
Time seems to run faster to the
man who has notes and mortgages
coming due.
~It is surpr'suig how quickly some
men get rich, and how quickly they
can lose it all.
If yon want to be classed as a good
citizen, look after your own business
and pay your debts.
When a man leaves a town abus
ing it, you . may know that he was
not a desirable citizen.
ON THE FARM.
Don’t borrow, not even trouble.
Seed, weed; then harvest and feed.
Hard knocks strengthen your pow-
•s.
Breed, feed and care make the
stock.
Yes, plow the orchard but do not
go deep.
The best is good enough for royal
American farmers.
Don’t say you’re a farmer if you
buy all your fruit and vegetables.
.Germany sells the United States
nearly $3,000,000 worth of best su
gar a yeaa.
The agricultural department, na-
tio lal and slate, wore created lor
your benefit; use them.
In the orange fields cf New Zea
land the crop has been known to nst
as high as $,600 an acre.
Boiling the milk fed to poultry
will cheek looseness ottho bowels, a
common trouble in hot weather.
The man who does not make a
good husband and a good father is
neither a good citizen nor a good-
farmer.
When the boys become old enough
to earn money have them start a
bank account and then .encourage
them by paying them for little odd
jobs.
Only the rich mail can afford to
keep poor cows, and they do not;,
the' poorer a ..man i'-;„tho 1. .•tit-bis
few cows should be, if he ••.aleulftteh
to make anything from them.
The Osage Indians are the pluto
crats. There are only 1 ,’788 of them
and they have a trust fund of $510,.
203. Besides,.they have 1,570,858
acres of as productive land as the
sun ever shone upon.
Here is a good idea. Put bottles
of sweetened water in among your
plants and the worms will get in.
One lady hung such bottles on her
plum trees and it was surprising
bow many worms she got.
Box ear*tourists will do well to
avoid Kansas, where the agricultur
ist, frantic.for harvest hands, is hold
ing up freight trains and compelling
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Tan shoes arc rapidly gaining in
favor and arc seen in the various
There are now over 51,538 di
vorced people ; n the United States,
of whomovei two-thirds are women.
Cleopatra, who by her fascination
and beauty, charmed so many of the
menof hertime, was shoit and stout.
A pinch of ground cloves added
to warm up meat dishes is a pleasing
addition. If the dish is mafic of poul
try ,•nutmeg is the espicc that should
be used.
Don't think it enough to be. a
beauty, :u order to approoli perfec
tion a woman should try to improve
herself morally and intellectually as
well as physically.
Don,t have any loosn ends or star
ing pins. Lot your clothes be care
fully put on. Have an air of good
grooming. Look as though you had
used somebody’s soap.
Ilavo two beds, by all means, if
two persons are to ocuupy the room,
in order that the stranger mnynot
tiikctnc vital force of the weaker,
that is not superstition bill science.
Princess MathildC, the only daugh
ter of Prince Jerome, Bonaparte,
sliped and fell on the wax floor of
her boudoir, broking one of her
thigh holies. She in more than 80
years old and a fatal remit is feared.
ish m
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FACTS IN GENERAL.
So Cuba wants to borrow $35,000,-
000 of us? Well, there are lots of
us in that businoss nowadays.
In the United States nearly thir
teen of every 10,000 inhabitants are
studying at colleges of university
status. The number in Great Brit
ain is less than fivo.
The melting snows land glaciers
of tho Rockies and petroleum now
furnish such abundant power for
San Francisco that tlio cost of one
horse power one hour is just 2 cents.
An Oklahoma oyelouo destroyed a
post offio the other day. It probably
wanted to show the Washington
authorities that thoro are other ways
of dealing with this postal business.
In Uthn there are’^argo deposits
or radio-active uranium ores and
mmpomls that are about tu bo open
ed. Analysis shows that they will
yield fifteen grains of radium to tho
ton of oro.
Colorado’s ooal fields, nowly ex
plored, loom largo in possibilities.
It will bo an economic gain for her
self and lor furthest, West if tho Sil
ver State shall become a now State
of Anthracite.
Ah a result of the boom in the
price of cotton, 11,000 aerSs have
been planred this season in Porto
Rico. It will not, take Americans
long to got at notion possibilities in
the new possessions.
'i heG'flluOi'H of tUh Indian Office fit
THE BUSY WORLD.
Chicago's population based upon
compilation of the 1903 directory is
2,231,000.
The new Austrain tariff will bo so
high that it will be prohibitive to
many artioles exported from tho
United States.
R. M. Kollogg, of Three Rivers
Midi., ail extonsive strawberry
grower, has prepared adeseripton of
his methods of brooding vines and
says its is as much a sexual act as
breoding of animals.
A permit bas been granted to the
Philadelphia, Washington and Bal
timore Division of the Pennsylvania
Rairoad to build twin tunnolii
undor the United States eapitol.
Eleotnoity is to bo tho motive
power.
It has boon figured out by tho
pension department at Washington
that veterans of tho civil war are
dying at the rate of ninety per day
while soldiers’ widows aro being
gathered to tliero farthers twenty
each day.
Just previous to the civil war a
bushel of corn represented more than
four and one-half hours of hitman
labor, at a cost o$ 30 cents wliilo to
day fonrty-oue minutes of labor pro
duce the same amount for 10 1-2 cts
A now typo of car is now being
used by the Illinois Central railroad
which propiiso.-: to do much for the
till
babies will 1,6 luck; if they b'audFdVWr.sh'm >1 oil regard ;t'ueIiidiau Terri- j lion
life, rapid,'and ciUeiioiit tranaporta"
ion dt its passenger traffic. Con-
| occupants of the brake beams to de-
Men fight getting bald until the Lend and laborin the fields.
last, and then say they wouldnot .... , „ ..
....... .. . . lhree years aso a ke" of nails, a
mind it ii.it were not lor the Hies. ! . . . ‘ . , ,
hundred poutins of pork, a cord of
Every time you are caught at a I woo d alK l a ton of soft coni each
mean trick, you arc charged with brought about the same price, but
several you have not committed, about $4. Today the nail are worth
When men huddle together in a j $2.75 and the wood $5, the pork $7
groop, everybody in sight is curious ar M the coal $5.
to know what they are talking about.
What the neighbors think, is of
little concern to the man who is true
to himself and looks alter his own
business.
In the abuse of health
m your!
i .. , 500,000 tons,
young days, you have no idea now 1
The world’s sugar last year was
10,750,000 tons. If this was loaded
or. wagons, two tons each, tho line
would encircle the earth. The annual
consumption iu tho United Stales is
pounds per capita, a total of 2,-
thoir spoons with their left hands
and prosperity in later life is sup
posed to follow many tumbles in the
first year.
The attractive woman is she who
has the courage to bo herself. Orig
inals are far more worth having than
copies, and women shold develop
themselves as nature would have
them be.
In Paris the fancy for red shoes
and stockings seems just now to
show signs of becoming a voguo,
but what Paris may do in the natter
of footgear is by no means .uways
advisable fo’r us..
Miss Mary J. Piereey, said to
have been one if the smallest ladies
in the world, is dead at her home in
Bayonne, N. J. She was thirty-one
inches tall, weighed fifty pounds
and was 40 years of age.
Old-fashioned styles arc recalled
this season not only be tho return of
gown models to tbe early Victorian
period of drooping shoulders' and
tory as the richest undeveloped tract
of the earth's surface now known to
man. Has iron, has load, zinc, oil,
gys and manganese. Some of tho
ooal is of the coking variety.
Tho automobile industry has
grown to such porportions that a de.
parlment for tho study of automo
bile equipment is to lie established
at t.he Case school of Applied
Science in Cleveland. Gasoline
steam and electric automobiles will
bn studied.
The debts of most Southern States
diminish slowly, but debts of south
ern cities are generally considerable.
New Orleans owes $18,000,000,
Louisville $8,000,000, Kansas Oity
$,000,000, Memphis $3,300,000. At
lanta $3,30C,000 and Nashville $3,-
500,000.
During the most peaceful years
there are iu the world 3,700,000 men
who are withdrawn from productive
occupations to act as soldiers. The
pay, eqiiipm ’ills, food, and clothing
of these men cost the world’s taxpay-
jhueh misery you aro storini
for old age.
Those
-who
;L the
are 1 • »->Liriig fo
away i A number of farmers; are putting
1 in small elevators and (lumps. Shov
led - .'will soon be a thiiuif of the past;
, i lo ‘ iu ariiiC'' will on-
lus; :.n Un .-o , - -
. I • nave to pi uon ill a few
wh j m> not minu ihe hurd ones, soon i , ,,
’ i years and evervlhmg will co except
get the easy ones. : * ... . .. " „ . , . ,
b I milking tne cows. Well, tlie hired
' i
cake-like trimmings, hut by many j ers a sum amounting to yearly $8,-
900,000 a day.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island and Utah are tho only
Statejs in which there has not been a
lynching. The record from 1885 to
1900 allows that there wero 2,510
lynohings, 1,678 being negroes, 801
white, twenty one Indians, nine Chi-
years time in which to show its mer
its. At. the end of that time, having
tried both, we can take nr choice.
Scatter a few nichles among your
neighbor’s children and you create
more nippiness than if von were to
donate a thousand dollars to a col
lege or library.
of the materials themselves.
Ex-President and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland are the proud parents o!
mother baby boy. This makes their
fifth 'child. Ruth, tho oldest has
the distinction of being the first
child born in the White House.
Sir Thomas Lipton is reported to
have said that if he wins the cup he
will take an American wife to guard
it. A cup plenty of tea, and a title
of •‘loidy” be a combination hard
for tlie average woman to resist.
lookH better, is a re-
t uttered thaiiK fully
js r.ftc-ran ugly spot on the
been tackled and neatness
rovement . brought about.
A bran bath, e-q.eciiUy in the
.summer time, is delightful, soften
ing and cleaning to tlie skin. To pro
pare the bath stir the bran into a
tubful of water, or sew up a bag of
n find a place where a little j thin material, like cheese cloth, fill
appheal ion would make! with the bran and use the bag for
happily apply? {the wash cloth.
nose and seven Mexicans,
si .r acted as it is entirely of steel, the
car could probable not bo telscopcd
iu a head-on collison.
A thrifty farmer being asked
how he got sucoess on a small farm
he replid I make it a rule when I go
to market to bring home more money
than I carry away. In other words
1 endevor to sell in value more than
I buy. and to grow everything 1 on
tbe farm for my own use that the
land will produce.
More than 43,000,000 tons of
anthracite coal have been mined since
tho first of the year which is several
millions more than ever before dur
ing the same period. There is a glut
in the market and to prevent a
break in the price the mine owners
have concluded to curtail production
by working fewer hours a day.
Booker T. Washington is on his
way to Europe to seek recreation, and
help for his school at Tuskegeo Ala.
He say tho school need at once to
double its capacity; "Our fall term
began September 8th with tho
largest attendance in the history of
the school. So great is the desire to
outer the school that we havo been
compelled to refuse admittance to
1,048 young meu and women who
have ahllied within the last thirty
days. .
The famous Lincoln car which has
been in the possession of the Union
Pacific Raiiroa I for thurty-seven
But, few of the average run of peo y? al ' s was sold recently to persons
le are aware of the great difference I "’ho will exhibit it at the St. horns
in the wage scale of this country and
that of the old world. Taking 1902
asan example, the average wages paid
arc: Urest Britain! $ 1.45 per day;
Franco, $1.34; United States, $2.50,
and other countries in proportion to
England Jjttjd France. With this dif
ference, and an abundance of .work
and money, it is not to be wondered
at that immigrants are swarming in
from all over the world.
exposition. For many years the car
has stood on a siding in tho Union
Pacific, yards in Omaha with out
attraui ing more than passing atten
tion. It was part of the railroad
exhibit at the Chicago and Omaha
exposition. The car was built at the
military shop at Alexandria, Va.;
in 1864, and was ironclad armor
being Bet between the inner and
outer walls.