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VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER «, 1908
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
The farm we have for $500 is yet unsold. Unless it is taken in a week it will be for rent,
PACTS IN GENERAL.
EDITORIAL.
OBSERVATIONS
Vulgarity becomes no one.
"We all love a forgiving porsou.
Love at first sight is the blind
love,
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It iB a dull orowd when everyone
behaves.
It is never our own love affairs
that look /illy.
, You will not succeed unless you
lovo your work.
An old habit is as hard to destroy
as a'den of rats, ’
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A man is not always a fool when
he tdald like one.
Young people think they can see
lots of fun in being married.
The use of aa oath adds nothing
to the strength of an argument.
A college education tob often
lifts the mind above the ability.
Every time a man uatobes cold ho
Bays it is the wom he ever bad.
Men can loaf until they are
actually ashamed to go to work.
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The more happiness you - make for
others the more will be your share.
Have you noticed how girls on fi
visit will stay, and stay, and stay?
To'piov.e aiinau a liar you only
have to keep a record of what be
Bays,
Hav^ no thoughts of the people
who dislike you. Every body loves'
somebody, aud iiobody loves every
body.
Be jfiiroful how you speak of a
stranger, lie may have close friends
or relatives listening to your re
marks.
About.tho biggest fool I over
made of myself was at trying to
dancb.
No maf er what ails you, lots ot
peopijb: think they know what will
Pttf? /.W,
A good deed from a nieilll man is
noticed much quicker than one from
ago*# man.
If the n, u j e could talk he would
be telling the W r “ how large the
horse’s ears are.
Por,’absolute safety , vou ' ielt<r '
keep up the bars between y 011 alK *
your best lriends.
Somo people think they have not
half visited the sick unless they of.
fer new remedies.
people never go into a store
witL< ul a lot of complaints to de
liver to the clerk.
'When a baby gets its hands
,greasy it just wants to go to some
bodv in ch ati clothes.
Some girls who cannot make a do-
oent 1, c lit aro too proud to carry
a chicken home from, the store,
. Some men will come out of a
joint wiping their mouths and
then swear they arc not guilLy.
' When a man throws kisses back
to bis wife.when he is leaving home
hchf.s not beeu mail .cl w\. 1 eg.
It is remarkable how much cold
and hardships young people can cn-
’ dure for tl.e. sake of a little court-
v «g-
D-i they , ( keep female servants
altogether in' heiven? We have
never seen me picture of
angel.
White globes aro , geuerrl , for
dress wear, . i; .
Miss AIHjo Roosevelt rides astride
her horse in divided skirts,
\ <r'r v . v ; * *- *“▼
Take as much exoroiso aB possi
ble; a daily walk is a great tonic.
Lo '0 e-iu neither be bought nor
sold, but it may be oxobiuged. -
The art of kcepiug the month
shut should be taught in every
sohool.
SleCp as long as yon can, bnt
employ your time judipiously wlien
you are awake.
It she has a low, smooth, white
brow she should crush her hair well
off the forehead.
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The little Armour girl whom Dr.
Lorenz treated for hip disease is
able to dance.' ' ‘
Wo are always delighted to soea
couple who seems glad that tney
married each ether.,
If we look closely within our own
four walls wo may find a greater
need than khy" which lies beyond.
lliipjjihosB for many a woman de
pends upon her ability to stir .up
trouble auionjg her neighbors!
Because women' arCuiot angels is
no reason \, jy tLoy don’t like to
iieav people eay they are,
Beauty without brains is a plant
without liowei'S, & bight without
slurs, a work ol blank pages.
For burns or scalds notning is
more soothing than Luo white of an
egg, which may be poured over the
wound. »
For dress wear gowns of all black
as well as gowns of blaok aud white
are very much in favor in the mod
ish world.
Obcrliu was the first college in
the world to admit women. One
woman was graduated there iu 1838
,aud six iu 1839.
The average man thinks he has
doue nis duly by hiR wile when ho
puts her name in big letters on a
monument.
Collars are higher than over. In
fact, it is said ihai tiio smart Paris
ians can turn uc.ther Lo the right
nor to the left.
Why should we seek to reform
the world to the neglect of our own
os and the simple duties which
at baud?
man and his wife noth-
le but love. Au
eu aud servants,
Fully 50 per cent, of the 500,.
000,000 American dollars invested
in Mexico are in its railroads.
The cost of the’pemdon roll is
$1.75 a year for every man, wo
man and ohild in the United States
The pope is the head of over
350,000,000 human beings, or
nearly one-seventh of the popula
tion of the globe.
Don’t worry. A oareful perusal
of a patent medicinealmannb shotld
convince anyone’ that there is a
remedy for everything.
Now that the Western million
aire has his new $5,00C car tho
question is, will it burn when tho
original owner of it wishes he had it
back?
The new repnbHo of Panama has
an area of 33,380 square railoi, and
is therefore nearly as large as tho
state of Maine. Its population is
about 385,000.
In New Zealand, whioh is the
nearest approach to a socialist state
in the world, one man in every six
is in government employ oi; -re
ceives a pension from tho govern
ment.
The census of thb Philippine Ia-
Cold oash has burned many a
man’s fingers.
The sea covers three-fourths of
the earth’s surfaoo.
There is nothing better in this
world than usefulness.
Petroleum is tho fuel of all the
locomotives in Asia.
Holton, Mo., with a population
of 4,600, has seventeen ohurohei.
Success oomes when a man has
something to do and then does it.
A wise man will not propose to a
>irl unless he means it.
Three times evory minuto the
blood makes a oomplote circuit
through tho system.*
Liston to wbnt your friends say
of others if you would know what
they say of you.
Twelvo thousand men are laid off
m Chicago because of abnormal
wages demanded by unions.
The average ago at whioh a man
marries in the United State* is
twenty-six and a half.
Alaska is boooihing more valu
able every year. She now supplies
I half the salmon of the world.
ON THE FARM.
. The potato orop of Germany is
nearly ten times as great as that of
the United States.
Farmers are playing a new game
in their corn fields. It is oalled
ping pong. Every time an ear of
oorn hits tho throw-boards a play is
made.
At an experiment station it was
demonstrated that it requires 40 por
osnt. more power to draw a load on
a wigon with one and ono-half-inoh
tires thin on one with a threo-inoh
tire.
Tho harvest of wheat alone on-
gages about 1,000,000 man and 50,-
000 teams three months of tho sum
mer', whi'e at least’ 10,000 women
aro needed to prepare food for the
workers.
Eight months ago Lou Dillon was
an unknown quantity, plaoidly
chewing alfalfa in California. To
day she holds world’s reoords, sho
ranks with the highest of the equine
anstooraoy and money cannot bay
her. Sho trots a mile in two min*
utes.
Men 1 who have invested their
money in tho stooks of tho great
trusts, expecting enormous divi-
lanih. no* c ii : ! The avorago Italian immigrant donds anid not getting any, may
lands, os’efully mpde by govern-. J • f • , lhe fftrm0r wll0
bo,,
lie olok.
uuierial
me,
Between >.
ing ought liy tu
thority is for obilfh,
• . '. 'IS.
yet not without, sweet Hi.
Grass stains on white
should bo dipped in spirits of v
after wJi 'oh they may be washed om,
\. an ..oap ami water.
Pure while is not so smart among
fashionaii e materials as llieoff-color
whiles, the so-called mushroom and,
oyster shades being especially popu
lar.
This is the season when the wise
you.Ionian loavelh off his summer
frivolity aiid looketh about fora
comfortable parlor wherein to camp
the long winter evenings.
How often do you visit your dear
old mother? 'If you are still privi
lege! to have one, visit her as otten
a« pi-siblo and show her that you
lUttu love her. You'll miss her when
she’s gone.
meat enumerators, shows the aggre
gate population to be about 70,000.
This is *a surprise,as the popula’-
Mo» was roughly estimated at 8,-
000,000.
The happiest people in thfl World
are those wlio keep out of debt, out
of polities, out of offioe, shim nil
notoriety, make an honest living by
•honest means, follow tho golden
rule, humbly serve the living God,
pnrsue the even tenor of their way
and neglect no opportunity ot do*
ing good.
Mr. Elliott, the i.ew president of
the Northern Pacific, came up from
the ranks c n merit, He pursued
the pOlicy Of always doing just a
little muroUhan' he actually was re-
quired to do, and of doing it well;
A boy who adapts that polioy will
not hfWe td hunt for a job: the jobs
will always be hunting for him.
The United Stales furnished $80,
000,000 of the $296,000,000 worth
of gold which the world produced iii
1902. Colorado produced $28,00;,
000, California $18,000,000 and
Alaska $8,000,000.
When you see a boy win utilize i
most of his time for self-iinprove-
raent, grasping every bit of knowl
edge that is calculated to hoof bene
fit to him, and a desire to do every
thing he undertakes to a finish, you
can put it down that be is trying to
be somebody in life. He has aspir
ins to rise above the common
j* tl ' j a id with this determination
’ ’ish something and a linn
toaccomp. , ako
a success he will
resolution to fc. „ . , ....
, , , , moh word as.fail,
be haunted by no *
_ , . , hold prop.
From birth a boy can
. ■ ■c -'itei.'" ent i
erty; at seven he is, it t,.
answerable for a crime; at fo.’ ntcen ’
if necessary, be could choose n
guardian; at fourteen he is punish
able for a misdemeanor: at eighteen
he is qualified for military service;
at twouty-one he may declare him
self independent of his father and is
old enough to vote. At twenty-
five be is eligible to ’con/ress; rt
thirty to the U. S. senate, and at
fifty he is exempt from road duty.
brings $11 into the country and the
average German brings $34,
It is a curious fact that rainy
days seldom ootne l:■ the man who
is constantly preparing for them.
Getting into dobt is like drop
ping from a balloon. Getting out
is like climbing a greased pole.
The birth rate among tie foreign-
born in Massachusetts is 22 per
1,000. Among the native-born it
is 17.
It is said that within one year
there will be a telephone convention
between Now York ami London.
Napoleon is said to have re
marked that ho feared throe news
papers more than one hundred thou
sand bayonets.
Lots of men have so much ge
nius that too oft^on they are unable
to do anything' but sit around and
meditate dyer U.
.Just think .ofit! Senator Chaun-
ocy M. DopoW is oither director,
manager or trustee in more than
seventy oorporat-iens.
Never, if yon have a story to tell,
(ell it in the shortest possible time
and way if you would be consid
cred a master of detail.
A play so naughty that it shocks
Now York has been produced there
It must be the quintessence of re
fined vulgarity.
American newspapers every year
pay mi wages $80,000,000 and re
ceive $80,500,000 for subscriptions
a id $95,000,000 for advertisements,
Tho White Star line steamer Bal
tic, the largest in the world, was
successfully laujiohed at Belfast,
Her displi ’o.ncrit is 39,800 tons,
Fashion has decreed that it is
'gather proper to; wear last win
ter’s ’’vercoat untfl arrangements
can lie ma vie 10 S et a ” ew one -
Chicago and Liston are the hot
bg Is Ilf Iso; ’.iaksin ‘-his country.
In each city about oj.’ , 8-t«toth of the
voters belong to the socialist party.
worry about it; but the farmer who
is not a trust stock speculator and
has a oorn orib full of corn need,
•ot.worry at all. It is now esti
mated that the com crop this year
will bo 2,466,666,000 bushel*. Do
not worry about the trusts.
An exchange says that every
paper in the sthte should publish
the fact that burnt oorn it a sure
onro for bog cholera, and adds: It
was first discovered' by a distiller in
Peoria, 111. It was thrown to the
hogs and eaten by them. Bofore
that time a number had been dying
eaob day ikith cholera, but tbo dis
ease immediately disappeared, i It
is so simple a 1 remedy'that it can be
easily tried.
A southern .veal estate agent, wli$n
confronted! .with the- statement 'that
southern lands do not nearly meas
ure up to Central Illinois lauds in
productiveness and -v-tlue; replied
that the southern lands are as’ valu
able as the Central Illinois lands
bcoause while tho lands are $6 an
acre tho climate is worth $95 au
acre, making tho southern lands
worth $100 por acre,
The corn belt includes a little of
northwestern Ohio, a considerable
strip across north central Indians,
all of northern and central Illinois,
the whole state of Iowa, north
western Missouri, northeastern Kan
sas and southeastern Nebraska- On
tho map It roughly resembles* an
elongitv^d kite, with the little end
in northwestern Ohio and the .wid
est part on the Missouri rivrr.
The Ben Davis is ono of the very
poorest in quality of any apple
grown in America, yet there are
more of these trees planted and
mora money made out of it than
can lx! dnfnfc with any other apple.
This is bee,'Iliad Boh is a handsome
fellow, and good looks go a long
way. Then it is large and is a first-
ola81 keeper amt shipp-r; besides it
is a prolific produoor. The better
types of apploi are in variably clefi-
oient in ono or more of these quali
ties.