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VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1005
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OBSERVATIONS,
Nearly all men are lacking in will
power.' •••?•!. :i $!-••:• ;
t iMen of .brains are. not always men
of means. .. ! ‘- • .!,'•>•••!
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WOMAN’S COLUMN. .
Plain living onres many woes.
No man is in business for ipmself
if he is married.
i"In : .ilie oyes of 'the parents all
ohiidreniare Tery,smart.
■ .'Don’t, hqsitate after getting up
and- saying good-bye, but go.
} Sit w| whVittaaniif.
1 The state of matrimony, is not
always a paraditje here, below.
Tie length of a road is only
iknown by those who travel it.
Lots of men will condemn you
for things they do themselves.
A woman never sees a refrigera
tor without wondering what is in it
Of the half dozen ways of doing
a thing eaoh woman has a way ot
her own.
Business men are like a victor
ious rooster. When they orow they
mvite. trouble.
It is strange how a woman can
find a pot name for eaoh member of
a large family. ✓
Every time there is a burglnry
three or four honest men are sus
pected unjustly.
If the bisouits keep getting small,
or they will run entirely, out inside
of twenty'years. ■
No womah eyor passes another
woman’s washing on the lino with
out staring, at/W. . ,
° them- into the
When a man thinks he has .laid up
enough for a rainy day he only has
enough for a shower.
At every party there is. always a
few lively gossips that keep the
guests from going to sleep.
You need not be very uneasy
about turning up your toes until the
dpotor gets to calling twice a day.
Young men out calling should re
member why a buggy horse is valu
able—he travels at the proper time.
Men will yet be puzzled over such
things as the difference between a
half-dozen dozen and sin dozen
dozen.
One of the most discouraging
things is for a man to see his house-
hold goods piled on a wagon to be
moved
' About the most disagreeable
thing a man finds about a happy
home is getting out ot the way of
the broom.
Hatred is a more powerful beauty
destroyer than time, poetry or hard
toil.
Latest fashion decree o^tls for
rosy cheeks. Lips arid ohm must
also share in the flush.
It is nothing strange nowadays
for sOoiety ladies of fifty years to
re-mako their figures.
A woman will forgive a man any
thing except his failure to ask to bo
forgiven.
One might as well eat ordinary
ohips as Saratoga chips for all the
food value there is in potatoes done
this way.
The idle women always remind
me of the crowds that wait tor tho
trams at stations. It is killing time
by slow means.
The train is out; the round skirt
in—the kind just long enongh to
forbid walking without holding it
up all around.
A sooiety lady in New York gave
a “monkey tea.” A trained mon
key met the guests at the : door and
ate at the-table. Well, well.
A fortune big awaits the man
Who will invent this wonder-
To prevent shoe laces from com
ing untied wax them before putting
shoes. Tho. slight
trouble is well worth while.
The new women’s newspaper-
that is, the women's now newspaper
ih:>Lohdon is referred ,,tp. by its
contemporaries as “The .Daily Fe
male.”
Women are apt to use their indi
vidual taste about fullneBB about the
hips, but every skirt must flare at
the bottom to be striotly up-to-date.
Don’t be glum if you want to be
young. Sing and laugh and enjoy
the nice things. Keep your heart
young, and thus defy Father Time.
Mrs. Phoebe Gifford, the oldest
leader of the Society of Friends in
the world, is dead at Providence, R,
I., at the age ot one hundred yeari
and five months.
FACTS IN GENERAL.
A man often has to work booause
his schemes will not.
If some men were worms they
would be.too lazy-to turn.
Canada produced over $4,000,000
worth of pig iron last year.
A stiff upper l s p ha* enabled
many a man to support his family.
There were 9,700 American tour
ists in Switzerland last summer.
Cincinnati has the tallest con
crete building iu the world. It has
fifteen stories.
People who have plenty to eat
and wear and a place to sleep do a
Tot of grumbling when a pin
- scratches them.
A tiresome thing is a boy trying
to sing at an entertainment before
his voice makes up its mind whether
it will be a tenor or bass.
-Some of these days a wise man
will rise up and declare that love,
to be most .successful, must have
new material every few years.
When a woman’s former lover
comes home with her husband for
dinner she puts on her very best ef
forts to show the man how much he
missed.
You are told not 'to ink a gift
j horse in the mouth, but if you sus-
:: pect the friendship of the giver you
better examine the horse very closely
before you accept him.
Seven Kentnoky fonds have re
suited in 250 murders and but two
hangings.
Studying other people’s strong
and weak points is a good way to
find your own.
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It isn’t /how muoh a man reads
that makes him a scholar. It is
what ho reads.
The paper bills of the govern
ment printing offioo amount to $750,
000 a year.
Idleness and poverty always dwell
together, and misery and crime are
their natural offspring.
If water sold for fifteen oents a
glass there would probably be any
number of diseases that it would
- It makes an ordinary womah feel
sick at heart when she beholds such
lovely dresses in the newspapers-. It
costs lots of money and, they are no
happier than the plain folks.
Lamp wicks should be soaked in |
strong vinegar and then well dried 1
before being used; This precaution
will insure a better light and a free
dom from smoked lamp chimneys.
A woman must be something
more than merely beautiful. She
must have sweet, charming man
ners; an even, well-balaneed tem
perament; a low, sympathetic voice
and a conscience that- swings just
true.
Oh, this world is a, fine old place.
The Great Architect who planned it
knew what He was about. It isn’t
a place for lazy folks. Begin by
making yourself an honor and an or
nament to it.
The woman who retains her good
looks avoids bismuth, zinc and other
minerals which are often to be found
in fa.ee lotions and powders. These
literally turn a woman into a fright.
Whon you breathe, and of course
you dio, take a long, deep breath
and try and fill every oavity of the
lungs.
The European 1 country in whioh
there is the largest , number of mar
riages of men under the age of 21 is
Russia.
We all make mistakes; and if
we let these mistakes frighten us
frpm our work we shall show our
selves weaklings.
Don’t he afraid to soatter the
sunshine of laughter about you; it
often helps revive somebody!s faith
in the sweetness of things.
The hottest place on earth is Boh-
reim, on an island in the Persian
Gulf, which has a mean annual
temperature of 99 degrees.
During the year 1902 the eml
grants from Norway tp the United
States .numbered 27,000, and 1908
promises still larger figures.
The human race is divided in^o
two classes—those who go ahead
and do something apd those who S
and inquire, Why wasn’t it ^done
the other way'/
EDITORIAL.
Tho oapital of the railroads is
more than five times as great as that
of all the banks.
Success is nothing more than tho
result of doing whatever you dan do
not only well, but just a little bet
ter than anybody else.
Fifty thousand German toymak-
ors export $13,000,000 worth of
toys, of which the United* States
gets nearly $4,000,000 worth.
The Aitterioan investment in re
ligious and educational institutions
in Turkey is $6,500,000, and mote
than $20,000,000 has been spent in
mission work oovering nearly
century,
Is there, perohance, a discontent
ed trade union among tho hens
Prices of oggs have been soaring
like airships. What is the matter
with the matrons of the roosts? Arp
they on a strike?
America promises to protect'Pana
ma against internal and external at
tacks oil her sovereignty under tho
terms of tho new oahal treaty , whioh
is expeoted to be ratified finally be
fore the now year.
Gold is a preoious metal; at least
some folks think so. But radium is
( a substance a thousand times more
valuable, yet radium is dross plong
side of gumption. Nothing quit:
so source as gumption.
Senator Lodge |has introduced a
bill m congress amending the gen
eral immigration, law, enacted by
the last congress. The proposed
legislation forbids the entrance of
all aliens over fifteen years of age
who cannot read and write English
or some other language.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has Oeie
brated the second anniversary of his
firstborn liy the presentation to him
of $1,000,000, and it is now hoped
by his friends that the young man
with care and eoonomy, will bo able
to keep out of debt for another 12
months.
ON THE FARM.
Tho farmer,is king, is he only
knew it.
The clam, like the lobster, being
threatened with extinction, thbU/
S. Bureau of Fisheries is endeavor
ing to propagate it by artificial cul
ture, with good promise of success.
The largest single engine used at
the St. Louis exposition will be an
8,000,borsepower ' steam tujbine—
the largest yet in use. The largest
steam engine in the Paris exposition
was 4,000-horsepower.
Most ot the black hair used in
wigs and switches comes from the
convents of Italy and Spain, while
the fair and red hair comes mainly
from the heads of Russian, Swed
ish, German and Danish
girls.
A fearless man is not necessarily
one who fights—not a bully, nor a
braggart nor a fool. A fearless man
is one who, under all. circumstances,
will do right as he sees the right, lpt
-Most people are honest. Most
people keep their word. Don’t be |
distrustful of everyone. Few peo- '
pie betray a trust that is imposed
upon them. Men who are hujii&it
are honest all along the line. Politi
cal honesty is s iractimes put in a
class by itself. It should hot be.
Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston
millionaire, says: “The condition
promising the largest measi.ro of
success to a young man making his
start,in the world is poverty. It is
the greatest heritage a man can
have. ' I do not mean ignorant,
helpless poverty, that cares noth
ing for the fnture, but self-respect
ing poverty.”
Pnrents do not visit the public
schools near enough. Wc dare say
that you have never been inside the
school your child attends. Six hun
dred children given away every year
in Chicago. They are given away
by parents too poor to keep them—
given away that they may have the
care and comforts they could not
have at home.
The tallest man in the world is
Machnow, a Russian. He is at
present the most popular and well
known man in all the select socie
ties of Europe. Recently at a party
given in Berlin by the chancellor of
tbcempire, Count von Buelow, the
Keep your moWera, rakes and
other tools out of tho weathej.
The surplus horses on many farms
oat up 1 the profits.
Thoro aro noarly 6,000,000 farms
in tho United States, the average
size being 140 aores.
England is suffering from tho
most serious failure of tho potato
orop in twenty-five years.
In tho Santa Clara Valley, Cali
fornia, five square milos aro devoted
to tho raising of onion seeds.
Ono hour of today is worth two
of tomorrow, especially sinoo one
does not know whether he will have
tomorrow.
Farmers of the far west regard
Johnson grass as a highly valuable
grasB for hay, and say it lifts the
mortgages.
In these days when good bboks
aro so cheap, would it not be a good
idea for every fanner to invest a
part of his oarnmgs in books on tho
oare and treatment of eaoh farm
animal?
To ronow tho vitality of a Hook it
is not necessary to orols-breed and
itfake them mongrels. Better got
males ot a different strain or family ,
of the same variety. '
Have yon over gone through your
stable with a broom, sweeping tho
dust and cobwebs down that aoou-
mulato in the vaoant corners? It
looked muoh better after you did so.
It does not always follow that
when wo figure up our bank account
wo aro counting our blessings. It
takes something more than dollars
and oen ts to make a man happy/ !
At present essence of roses is al
most the only artiole exported to
the United States from Bulgaria,
and agricultural machines are al
most the only direot imports from
the United States.
An Amerioan told an Italian far
mer that the women do not work in
tho! fibldfl- in ’ this ^countryl “No,’ ’
replied the Italian, “but they w;ork
in f^aotones, whiCh is worsq.”
In answer to an advertisement,
‘ifiew'td get rich, a rWer-failing
scheme; price o.ie dollar,” a Now
Jersey man received this secret;
Save your money, .and do not an
swer advertisements like this one.”
Balt regularly. Many do not do
this, but wait a week or two and
then give the cattle all the salt they
will eat. Being hungry for it, they
are apt to overdo the matter. .Salt
possesses medicinal qualities. Use
it carefully for that reason.
In cases where horses have been
ted a long time on gram and begin
to run down without any apparent
cause, it is a good plan to give them
the run of a box stall and feed hay
cut finely and well mixed with mo
lasses. Give from one pint to one
quart of molasses on the hay three
times a day.
Now is a good time to plan that
farm garden. Map out just what
you will do when the tune comes.
Looking ahead is the way to meet
problems as they, present themselves.
Such a garden is a hank from which
the consequences be what they may. |He is 10 feet 6 inches tall,
.ladies went into raptures over him. the family can draw dividends from
January to December.