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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 I heir 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.