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VOL. XXII. X>° ): '.
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1903
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
*phe fifst good thing to purchase for Christmas is a pair of roomy stockings to hang up.
.OBSERVATIONS
No man who tolls his secrets is
successful.
You siluil a dog when ynit lot him
in the hou-'o
All of us think at times that wo
are miserable.
No man siu.ie* naturally when he
has at,mimic 0.
Some women will a<h! a 'ittle to
everything they toll.
When a man is driven to do a
thing ho is no hero for doing it.
Before marriage he obeys her,
but after marriage she must obey
him.
If you don t want a man to fib to
you don’t ask him too many vttes-
tions.
Some men would quit work en
tirely if they could always get
credit.
A man always looks out of piece
in a dry goods store buying ribbons
and laces.
A good Cbr'stmas present for a
tnan would be a framed copy of the
goldeu rule.
Every boy thinks at one ttiiie in
Lis life that he would like to belong
to a circus.
Pitt 3 b4W{fj Iwo dimes
and a nickel and lie wilt flare a good
time all day.
Lots of people would leave off
dancing if they had to pay the (id*
dler in advance.
It is grrlil'jing to know that
every old, homely woman was once
a beautiful' gi.l.
Let us bo thankful that otir south
ern women do not scream at every
thing and nulli ng.
If you mil,it interrupt business
jj men mak 8 it short. Don't lose time
at trying to he funny.
Every tinid ft K an dairies soma
•woman exclaim.#* , *<J»Ou'"iK d knows,
she ir welcome to
Let us Lone for Ciiriai’.'ttM weath^ r
in which wo can keep baVfe end
front, warm at one time.
The owners of property at a bij£ !
fire cannot uu way other
: people can be so indifferent.
If you know a no nan real well
you will not distrust her while siie
is putting dinner on the table.
The old-fashiouc I woman wants
to carry something good to eat when
she goes to see a sick neighbor.
We’ve done lots of silly things,
but we never went to a church at
midnight lo tie anew y ear come in.
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
Vaseline id good lot the hair and
scalp.
White promises to odfltlwiid a
winter fad.
A woman never knows what she
can do until she tries.
Culture and refinement go hand
in band with intelligence.
Wives cif't lie cheap in Califor
nia. One man sold his for $100.
Laugh and von will bo pretty;
weep and you vitl lia' o a rod nose.
You have only one life to livq.
Enjoy yourself. You can’t take any
money with you.
Make home a place of oorafort.
No matter bow humble, make it
pleasant.
When Cupid knocks let him in,
unless your parents or your oon-
soienoe say no,
A woman’s paper in London is
called the Mirror. Now, if you see
it in the Mirror it’s so.
Every mother should teaoh her
daughter to 000k savingly. It will
be useful in years tp come,
Start out with 50 cents to buy a
Christmas present, and everything
that catches your eye is marked $1.
There is iots of things id think
about in this world—lots of thing!
besides one’s pwn troubles.
It is said that Mrs. Roosevelt
dresses on $300 a year. We know
of many women who dress on less.
Tne first woman olergyman ever
formally ordained to preaoh in this
country was Mrs. A. L. Brown.
Every young lady looks forward
to the time when she will have a
husband and a home of her own.
With some, life is one continuous
flat hunt for happiness, whioh is
never found. The wise stay at homo
in qHiet content, and happiness
comes to them.
Now, sit right down and think
how happy you should be. Think
of all the good things you have.
A family of moderate or no
means with lot! of love ahd health
far better than riohSS,
FACTS IN GENERAL.
Man is subject to 1,212 diseases.
Only 9 people in 10,000 die of
old age.
Only ono than in 208 is over six
feet in height.
There aro no poorhousos in Ser-
yla. Even the puoreat people own
property.
It takes the constant labor of 80-,
000 people to make the matohes
used by mankind.
The rural mail delivery is injur
ious to the merchant who docs not
advertise.
Even wheu the worst happens, it
is not so bad that you oannot get
ever it some aay.
Cigars are given to soldiers in the
Italian army as part of their daily
rations.
Mekico now has sixty thousand
Amerioan residents and $823,000,-
000 Amerioan money.
Opportunities are a good deal like
street oars; turn your hack to them
and they will go flying,
Experienoo is the beat teacher in
the world, but sometimes her rates
of tuition arc pretty high.
liOUdttlioid Ooolioiiiy demands that
every uteiiSil be used fie long as it
can be made to do service.
The fond father sometimes spoils
a good farmer in making a poor
dootor, lawyer or olork out of his
son.
Have compassion on the man who
makes a fool of himself. Tho poor
fellow docs not know any better.,
Exoessive tea drinking induces,
according to various oooulistio au
thorities, certain maladies of the eye.
The first legitimate game of foot
ball between Amerioan colleges was
that between Yale and Columbia in
1872. ■.>
r Thera Uf
treasury
Thfl who spends hid fllottSy' amount, in rouij4
with ‘'the fcoys” down town 1 iW
c'ketr kicks at,'out the expense of ShW
fatally is cruel. ,
EvfifijY mother should teao.h het r ^
laugh tHWsr tb 1 darn. Do the WiPrh
neatly. TLa'matter is quite a sim
ple one ahffWljr needs praotice,
Hope is go'bWmt We' never lose it.
We hope, and bbpe and h jpe, and
sometimes wc re£3h onr'deSirb;: and
still we aro not s
Tho one who keeps pace with his
good inteiitiohB milst he quite fi
sprinter, btit the effort is well worth
while*
ON THE FARM.
If at first you don’t succeed don’t
think it oannot be done.
A pieoe of work well planned and
prepared for is half done.
Be not so particular about the
breed as about the kind and feed.
Germany has on an average 800
orchard trees to the square mile.
More than ten thousand farmers
in Iowa reoeivo by telephono tho
weather rorooast every morning.
As soon as tho trees in an or-
ohard come into bearing all other
crops oxoept grass should be discon
tinued.
Josh Billings Baid: “I have seen
many good things on milk, but tho
best thing I ever saw on milk was
cream. ”
Line the corn onb with wire net
ting and save onough oorn from rats
and mioo to pay for this papor for
ten years.
Muoh of the best and best-paying
j farming is done upon farms of mod
erate b'e6 whioh a*6 well worked and
attended to.
Prince Albert is now king of pa-
oers, having gone a mileia l}67i
Major Delmar is now on equal foot
ing with Lou Dillon.
Tbero is room for expansion in
the poultry industry of tho United
States. Look at the market prioe
of poultry products for the last
year.
When the government established
the postal tree delivery system it
did not think the thing was going
to be so oomprehonsive.
Good livery men say that the
best oil for barrws is made of equal
parts of raw castor oil and neatfif°0t
oil, with a little lampblaok added.
An Iowa man has developed a
new breed of cattle in Western Kan
sas. They aro doop red in oolor,
stooky in build, hornless and excel
lent beef cattle, while they rival the
Jfirsey in quality of milk.
$30,000,000. ,
■ .. where and rest until the crOw’s-feet
a< bum, when brought, , ®. ,f fide out' and the eyes get bright
diamond in the dark, will i£wBe : rt Lw Tintj i-.-; *"■'**"'
spwrkle. Paste diamonds are I ■ "!1 , ' .
affected. I Do not send the boys away off in
baok lot alone to do all-day jobs.
Til§j get lonely and feed like say-
Somc folks tell aboutVbitfdn' gos
siping. Some men stafid^ on the
street corners and make" remarks'
about every woman who passes;’
This is the time of the year'wbbn
ft must be awi'ullj discouragin'.’ Cupid >s busy. Maybe his dart will'
to a wirkiugn.au to know that, toe! - rik. -our heart and then—well;'
fruits of his labor must be divide,., t^eu will be married.
with a loa er.
If a girl has as much as $2 a week
to spend alia complains that the
stores do not efitryu sutlioio.it as
sortment of goods.
Girls who allow boys to handle
them like a sack of Hour, if they
rise in the world, may see the day
when they will lie esliiimeii to pass
the loafing place of men, for fear
gome of them will remember things.
Girls cauuut uu too carufui.
The women of Wallington, N. J.,
had a row with the painters’ union
and have started to paint their
houses. Now, we will venture to
say there are some pretty colors in
tliat town.
The man or woman who cannot
love and reverence something with
his or her whole heart is the only
iudivtdual who is hopeless. Life is
beautiful or not, according to the
way you train your brain.
Each year about ten thousand
pounds are expended in sprinkling
tbe streets of London with sand, to
prevent horses from‘slipping.
So difficult is tbe art of cutting
gloves that most of the prinolpal
cutters are known m the trade by
fiameand by fame. 1 ’
Probably largest child for
hdf'age in the world is ten-year-old
Meda Milmoite of Lebanon, Ky.,
who weighs 200 pounds.
_ The inventor of the wooden re
turn ball, a ball fastened to a rub-
bei s ''string, whioh returns to the one
who-throtVJ it, made $100,000.
Good manners are about the only
thing yon- can steal from your
neighbor.*' ahd he be none the more
sad or noncr-the poorer by reason of
the theft.
At the St. Louis exposition there
will be a map of the U. S. laid out
covering three acres. The boundat-
; u , y sod thinking harsh things about
BUO jj treatment. If suclvwork is to
be dot, ’ c « #° witb tbe bo ^ Yourself.
^ j RicC, the wheat king of
Graham o ' unt I' Kansas > has j«st
threshed six 1. hoTOiWld acres of wheat.
He got twenty- t ' ro ' bu8hcls t0 the
acre, or 132,000 b ,,sb *^ 8 * n He
is the owner of sixty v ' 8<,T «n sections,
10,720 acres in all.
It would take the entin'* pophla
tion of the United States o.* 16 ^un-
dred days to shell, the corn cro 4 °
hand. A steamuhcller will she.^ a
bushel of corn a minute, while th e
most practiced hand would occupy
an hour and a half to the bushel.
The farmer is nearer out of the
reach of trusts than any other man
in the world. Ho can burn his own
wood, eat his own meat, eggs, mut
ton and johnny-cake, and sleep un
der a roof that is not mortgaged to
rics of the states will be. gravel any corporation. The farmer is tho
aVlts three feet wide.
, happiest man in the universe.
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EDITORIAL.
If you would exoel in your par
ticular line of work you must love
it; if you oauuot do this, it is bet
ter that you change your oooupa-
tion. . Life is always worth living
to the man who loves his work.
As showing the growing inlerost
in the subject of forestry in the
United States, it is stated that there
are now three national forestry as
sociations, with state organizations
in eighteen states atid one territory.
By order of the postmaster gen
eral baggagemen on trains without
postal olorks are roquired to deliver
newspaper mail. This order praoti-
oally puts ovory . railroad in the
United States under government
protection.
Some idea of the world’s progress
in oheapening the oost of produc
tion in certain important activities
is shown by tho faot that tho aver
age oost of tho sugar brought into
the United State! in 1870 was five
cents a pound. Last year it was
two cents.
Probably the largest can faotory
in the world is that of tho Standard
Oii Company at Long Island City,
at which 70,000 five-gallon cans aro
made from Welsh tin eaoh day for
the export kerosene trade. Three
men have made 24,Q00 oans in one
day
Economy in the nse of lumber is
being preaohed up and down the
width and breadth of the land.
Among others who are affeoted by
tho growing shortago are the rail
roads, which use 110,000,000 tieB
every year merely to renew thos»
worn out and dooayed.
A sohool of journalism is to be
founded in New York, tho publisher
of the World baying snbsqriljad a
ifitfge siiin for, this purposd. Tho
motive^ bf. ’l^r. Pulitzer pay bdf 1 ,
oommondablo, but there Appears to 1
06 P0 special need 6t suoh a sohool,
when we take into consideration the ,
faot that every community now.has
Bcpresjof peopleiwho know just how
to-riim a newspaper.
(^largest tree in Oregon was
felled redfintly to be sent to the fair
at St. Louis as a curiosity. It is
the Aberdeen spruce, and stood 800
feet high, 40 feet, around and 118
feet from the ground to the first
limb. Its age is calculated at 440
years, being a good sized tree when
Columbus discovered the land that,
was afterward called Amerioa.
Forty years ago buffalo robes
were shipped in large quantities.
Porhaps a million of these robes m
tho aggregate were shipped east an
nually. Army officers relate that
in 1882 a herd that 0QYe r Q ( i an aroa
of seventy by thirty miles movrf-
north from tho Arkansas to the Yel
lowstone. Now there is not a thou
sand head of the American buffalo
In the United States,
Tho telephone has made the word
“hello” a *^1 g , eetiDg W ^
every place on thfiglpbo Where lan
guage is spoken by Wire. All Ian-
guagetf, English, German,- I’rehch'-
Spanish and the thotf 8an d find odtf
others* fire' transmitted ffiitb'fally by
tho telephone; so'that the'interpreta
tion of the> ttolephbtte might bd said
to be universal. No matter, how
ever, what the nationality of the
speaker may be, or what vernacular
ho may employ, every telephone
message in all languages is preceded
by the great Aaericsa 1 ‘hello.”