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V6£. Uf af$Hi. i> &o i7. i'i 3 1* »•( ’/• 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, ■ ' 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, ’ ■ ' ■ y 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. ♦ 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. * 4^’ 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.