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YOL. XXII. NO 14.
VIENNA. GA. THURSI > AY ,’NO V E M BER 13, 1903
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
No man esoapes trouble.
Death often ends a long train of
troublos.
It is better to be bashful than in
expensive society.
Money flies faster from these who
have it without earning it. .
Yon should not wait till the tub
runs dry to stop the leaks.
Nover make slack remarks about
the missfortunes tif others.
The simplest thing connected with
a marriage is the bridal tiip. •
Not every man is a rascal who
fails to meet his obligations.
Lots of people discover too late
that they married too young.
You are just as mean at heart if
an opportunity is all you lack. ”
A pitiful tiling is a girl in love
before she puts on long skirts.
A love affair will touch a man’s
pooket when nothing else will.
Seme people are so foolish that an
agent oan sell them an almanac.
You never know when you are
doing a thing that will injure you
It is a notion with somo men to
destroy every bridge they pass over,
Many a woman’s faith in her hus
band is due to his powers to conceal.
Saying disagreeable things to a
man never increases his friendship
lor you.
When a woman is vexed and goes
to singing, then you may know she
is Real Mad.
A woman who is very fond of her
husband delights in giying him good
things to eat.
A comical sight is a woman in
short skirts catohing them up by
foroe of habit.
How soon a young man Will get
spoiled wheu he gets in a littlo
higher'lositiou!
A man is simple to think he can
fool bis wife as easily as he used to
fool his mother. i.
If you send a bov to d liver a pint
of berries to a neighbor, give him a
quart when he starts.
There would never be any trouble
about money matters if notes were
as easily paid as made.
A woman will wear colors' when
she is a bride that she will not wear
on any other oooasion.
The one thing that is not used
anough these days is tho strap that
hangs behind the kitchen door.
The careless manner in which
people Talk about eachother does
not escape you if you are absent.
When brothers and sisters are fond
of eaohothar, it is a sign that their
parents remained lovers a long time.
If you have a friend in trouble
don’t ask what you can do for him,
but find out what you can do, and
do it.
No amount of trouble that a lot of
children may bring to a mother wil’
induce a younger sister to beoome
-an old maid.
We h ave often wondered if the
Lord requires people to keep up
saying their prayers during the
honeymoon.
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
A beautiiul woman is a joy forov-
r. "
Autumn leaves are not pretty un
til kissed by the November frosts.
Don’t make narrow door narrow
er with a heavy drapery, we drape
too much.
Mary MoLane is writing a novel
on tho “Trials and Temptations of
a Shop Girl."
The schoolgirl should do two
things-take care of ber health and
make a chum of her mother.
Every man should strive to furn
ish bis wife with clothes wiiioh will
mane her lock handsome.
Beauty without brains is a plant
without flowers, a night withont
stars, a work of blank pages.
Life is brimfui of misery andhap-
piness. What you see you’ll bump
into. Which are you looking for?
Whenone arrives at a certain sum
mit of cheerful intelligence the tell
ing of one’s own troubles becomes
tiresome.
Cover a thick cushion with old
cloth to stand on while ironing, and
thus prevent the feet from beooming
tired.
Some of life’s realities, whioh
seem so commonplaec, are often
sweeter and better than one’e most
glorious dreams.
Living is an art. The grumpy,
growling ones are in the kindergar
ten class, and tho cheery ones are
the professors.
Pleasures reoeived are soon for
gotten. But pleasure given to oth
era remains with one until the end
of it all.
If a glass stopper refuse to come
out of a bottle, soak the neck of the
bottle in cold water—iced water is
quickest.
Carry brightness with you to the
home. Worry should have no place
under the roof tjp>,t shelters your
wife and children.
It there ia one thing more than
another that a woman loves to do it
is to make herself believe that she is
not appreciated.
A woman's smile aid a. sweet
word oan get for her the whole world
wrapped up in tissue paper and tied
with a blue ribbbn.
When a woman falls into disgrace
she is down, but a man can do even
worse things and still be respected.
Oh, this cruel world.
• To save labor and dust, wash stairs
instead of sweeping. Wring the
cloth drv and rub tbe carpet, then
wipe off the Wood work.
The average girl does not know
that she can make more working in
FACTS IN GENERAL.
Nothing was over accomplished
without work.
Ragtime is to music what stutter*
ing is to speeoh.
St. Petersburg's authorities now
disinfect small coins.
Holton, Mo., with n population of
4,500, has seventeen churches.
Sunflower seed makes good bait
for mouse traps, says an exohango.
More than 8,000,000 of tho 18,-
500,000 people of Mexico do not
work.
Tho average coffee tree in Hondu
ras produoes half a pound of beans.
France spends 85 per oont. of her
resources on millitary preparations.
But a little while, now, and the
Thanksgiving turkey will be in our
midst.
A single modern rail, sixty feet,
100 pounds to the yard, weighs just
one ton.
Five hundred and sixty thousand
persons in the United States are de
pendent upon the street cars for eup<
port.
Yellow dock root or leaves steep
ed in vinegar, will cure the worst
case of ring worm.
More than a million dollars’ worth
is taken out of the copper mines at
Butte, Mont, every week.
Thousands ot square miles of mul
berry trees are planted in Italy.
Trees live from 60 to 70 years-
Chicago will have the finest de
pot in the world, costing $12,000,
000 to take the place of the Union
depot
Foot ball has been, prohibited in
nine collegos and the reason given is
because it is such a dangerous game.
A camphor forest of 50,000 acres,
containing fully 120,000 trees, has
been foundon the island of Formosa.
A Missourian who sent an Eastern
advertiser $1 to be shown how to
save gas billa was told to paste them
in a scrap hook.
THE BUSY WORLD.
Tho Standard Oil Company has
begun to operate in Japan. This set
tles it. The Japanese needn’t he
afraid that Russia will get them.
Andrew Carnegio’R profits for the
past year exceed forty millions.
This divided equally amongthe men
in his employ, less than ten per oeut
wold have .netted them $800.
The smallest of all republics is
that of Tavoria, in the island of that
name, off the coast of Sardinia. It
has a population of fewer than six
ty, inoluding the president and his
congress of six.
Since the pure food act went into
effect, August 1st, over 000 ship
ments from foreign countries of
meats, wines, olive oil etc., have
been held up pending an examina.
tion as to their purity.
According to the annual report of
the pension commissioner, the num
ber of pensioners now on the rolls is
985,546. of whioh79,350 are soldiers
and 260,189 widows and dependents,
There are five still on tho roll on ac-
couut of the revolutionary war. The
average annnal value of oaoh pen
sion is uow $103.
It is reported that the forest sup
plv in the South may last but twen
ty-five years, in Michigan and Wis
oonsin after two or three years the
supply will be short, on the Pacific
coast the operators are wasting it,
so that the future supply of lumber
will have to come from Mexico.
In September 1900, a tidal washed
into Golveston Texas, and practical,
ly destroyed tho city and thousands
of lives wore lost. Abbut a yoar af
ter a solid concrete wall was started
which is about completed. It is 17
feet high, 10 feet wide at the bottom
and five feot at the top. It is over
three miles long. The wall will cost
abont $1,200,000.
The increased use of oil on loco-
tives on Southwestern railways is
due to the euormous production of
oil in tbe Texas and Louisana dist-
Time never drags, nor docs life - ^^6, °*1 boom has spread into
ever seem monotonous to those who ' Kentucky and Tennessee, and it
are always working, - learning and j looks as if the consumption of oil by
growing. I locomotives would be likely tomain-
_ , . , .. . , j tain the price of oil, as the Santa Fe
Spanking by machinery u no long- barrels of petroleum
er a joke. It has been introduced in , , ,, . ,
. m , . , 1 in September for the use of looorao-
the Minnesota State Training school'. .... ,
° I nvAD nn ihfl Unit dimaiAn
at Ked Wing.
“For men only, ten cents.*' He
paid the fee and went in, and found
on a table a pair of trousers and a
vest. This was at a street fair.
The ’mperial Board of Health in
Germany has issued a statement
that “total abstinence from strong
drink is not injurious to health.”
Over in Berlin they are now loop,
ing the lcop in automobiles. The
public generally can find some rea
son to be happy if it only looks
a kitchen than in a store, and tlm L ronn( j
work is not so hard.
tives on the Gulf division.
We often wonder why it is that
men have not Bensc enough to know
when they have got enough-enough
property and money. Hera are men
by the hundreds all overtho country
The divorce courts are doing a
howling business, mainly for, the
reason that women Ray, “yes” to a
man whom they scarcely know.
If the floor and shelves of a closet
arc rinsed with clean lime wa*er ai
der they have been washed, they will
be delightfully clean and pure.
To say a word against a woman’s
character is to touch a match to a
An old fashioned woman is one „ ,, , , . , , „
, , , , - field of dry timberjthe flames spread
who can make a chicken go as far as , ' , 1
three chickens by putting lots of and S 00<1
•dumplings in it.. - - . n * me 18 safll y B00rche<1 - II 18 a oruel
- thing.
Energy will do anything that can
be dona in this world; and no talents
no circumstances, no opportunites
will make a man without it.
Don’t go around trying to see
how much trouble you oan find to
make yon unhappy. Cheer up. Look
on the brig ti side. Search for hap
piness.
Young people will in due time
realize that their true friends are
those who wonhl guard them from
• ON THE FARM.
The cotton orop tins yearwns like
unto a log that did not reach across
the water.
When a man says he is not able to
tako any of the county papers, ask
him how many dogs he keeps,
Farm laborers iu Chile recoivo 15
to 25 cents a day.
The hand that is always wanting
to qu it is always ready with 9ome
exouse.
The latest tad iR woodchuck farm
ing. Once it was skunks, then Bel
gian hares, and now it iswoodchuoks
Oh my! Next.
There will always bo beginners
and quitters. Some will be quitting
while othors will be beginning. It is
bettor to “kcop sawing wood.”
With $031,000,000 of gold in his
vaults, Uncle Sam has the biggest
stook of tho yellow metalover gath
ered m one place in history.
Of the five million farms in the
United States, three millions pro
duce corn. Tho avorago cost of
growing an acre of corn in America
is $5.
I n scientific forestry tho young
treds are thinned out, the under
brush removed, and every means
possible taken to give air and sun
light to the growing tree.
A man in Dixon, 111., lays his
peach trees down in the winter and
covers them up end in tbe spring
sots them up again and raises a big
orop. A now idea.
A tight foundation to tho house is
a great fuel saver. ThiB Will be a
y ear when it will pay to save fuel.
Look up the cracks iu the founda
tion and remedy them.
Thero are still a few people inthe
world who do not know that thrpteh-
tlne pour cd on a out or soratoh the
very first thing will prevent sore
ness and insure quick healing.
i
De you know that common shoe
maker’s wax is the best thing you
can .put on cuts for man or best.
Put it on as hot as you can stand it
and note the resultay. It’s fine.
Over 0,500,000 farmers’ bulletins
were distributed by Department of.
Agriculture last year. The demand
for somo of these bulletins was so
great that the department found it
necessary to reprint a number of the
same. i
The silo is coming. The automo
bile is going’ The poor do neither,
for they are with us always. Keep
the errors of youth that cost them the most sacred riHesof the tribe,
dearly in the long run
at fifty or sixty years of age, worth one eye on the silo and both eyes on
tho automobile and do not forget the
poor if you havethem in your midst.
Tho automobile will not milk tho
cow nor tend the baby, according to
the managers of the St. Louis
World’s fair, but it will churn the
butter and grind the cornraeal and
pretty nearly every other kind of
work on the farm.
Somo Irish rainbow trout eggs
have been shipped to Tokio, Japan.
Twenty thousand eggs have been
paukedin mnslin, done up in wet
moss and hermetically sealed in cans
aud will be hatched when they reach
Japan.
Nosebleeds may be stopped by
snuffing lemon juice into the nostril
from whioh the blood issuess It has
long been known to physicians that
lemon juice is a most powerful styp
tic.
from $25,000 to $50,000, owners of
the best farms in the world working
and slaving years and years out to
make more money and buy more land
when the very best they can' make
of tho job is ten years or ho of frets
and worry, then a funeral and the
probating of a will and a scattering
of t heir hard earnings.
Glasgow began its municipal tele
phone system two years ago with
nineteen subscribers. Now there are
8,504, and these send 30,000,000
messages a years.
The Iowa Indians in Oklahoma
have a bed quilt that is novel in the
extreme, and not the sort of a thirg
a man would wish to sleep under.
It is five feet square and made en
tirely of human scalps. It is one of
and is supposed to cure any disease.