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D L Hedddr«on jg 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.