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VOL. XXII. NO 20.
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1903
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We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new >ear. P. S. This is not original.
OBSERVATIONS
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
FACTS IN GENERAL.
ON THE FARM.
EDITORIAL.
Somehow we don’t like the word
“Xmas.”
Lots of foolish purchases are
made for Christmas. -
A harsh word spoken may wound
the feelings for life.
Take time, always, to hear the
other side of the story.
Are you drunk? Is that the way
to celebrate Christmas?
Speaking slightingly of your
neighbor never appears’grand.
We da too many things today
that we will regret tomorrow.
Women pretend to be surprised
many a time when they are not.
Ever notice how people can look
wise who have never had trouble?
The world is full of frauds who.
are looked upon with great respect.
1 he natural inclination of a man
is to bo glad when something hap
pens.
Make a glutton of yourself today
and see bow you will feel about it
tomorrow.
Will sensible people never quit
buying little woolly dogs and such
vfor Christmas?
You may not allow a mail to oall
you a fool, but you ean look back
and see for yourself.
Count up the friends you have
lost sinoe last Christmas and pre
pare for the future.
If you get a Christmas present,
make the giver feel good by going
into raptures over it.
Do you tram your offspring to
.get mad aud luss because the pres
ents are not just right?
Never baokbite anything. If I
were going to pino i a mule I would
stand in front of him.
If a woman never put on mourn
ing she would never have the em
barrassment of taking it off.
Rise early, retire early and fill
your day with work.
Some folks have “all the discom
forts of home. ”
Hoops are again in style— T the
kind with 18k on the inside.
Flattery is the soft, pretty veil
that hides an ugly face.
Woman is the sweetest present
that Crod has over given to man.
T.utlon, Franco, sent to America
last year ((127,000 worth of dower
bulbs.
We attraot friends to us by what
we Beem to be, and we keep them by
what we are.
Water and bread maintain life;
pure air and sunshine are indispens
able to health.
In India girls marry when six
years of age and ohildren are horn
to them at the age of twelve.
New York banks pay out an in
terest and dividends every quarter
not far from one hundred and thirty
million dollars.
Minor officials and railway em
ployes iti Germany seek their wives
by preference among servant girls.
Some folks are so busy digging
up trouble that they oould not see a
blessing if it hit them on the nose.
Discontent is like a fast growing
vino. Cultivate ever so little and
you will soon be smothered with it
The homely girl seldom figures
in an elopement, but she is an im
portant faotor in most happy homes
just the same.
Low-prioed candies, jellies or pre
serves are almost invariably adulter
ated, and often unfit for food.
Women are a good deal as men
want them to bo. That is why
they watoh out lest they ever he-
oome very logical.
There is nothing so easy to find
as an excuse for our own mistakes,
unless it be condemnation for the
mistakes of others.
Try to leave off doing things dur
ing the holidays that you will re
gret after the new year comes in.
' At this season of the year we are
supposed to look back with regret
and forward with good intentions.
We cannot understand why a
man’s lace will not get bald the | ciuvagement hasten old ago.
•same as his head, so that he will
not have to shave.
In the United States there are
07,671 dry goods inerohauts.
One determined man can triumph
over dozens of hesitating ones.
Beer makes some men fat and
some men lean—against something.
The Mexican government has de-
oi led to permit Chinese imtiugra-
ti >n.
A sign on a building in Hazleton,
Pa., says: “Clothes repaired in
the rear.”
Manhattan island has an average
of 182 people to tho acre, while
London has 60.
People who go around with a
ohip on the shoulder ought always
to carry aooident insurance.
St. Louis has an Unemployed
Men’s Union. When it strikes
something is likely to break.
No matter how careful they may
be about oatohing cold, ohiokens
almost always die of throat trouble.
In Finland reindeer are worth
$7.20 a bead. One of these animals
recently covered 130 miles in a day.,
The average man will dio for
want ol air in five minutes, for
want of water in a week, for want
of sleep in ton days.
The Japanese house of represen
tatives has passed a bill to prohibit
people below the age of twenty
from smoking.
In Sonth Afrioa the while ants
have been found so destroying to
wooden ties that steel has neces
sarily been adopted.
Fighting in the Philippines is not
very dangerous. In a battle of five
days five Americans were wounded
and three hundred Moros killed.
The United States and Great
Britain together handle more let
ters and periodicals than all the rest
ot the world jiut together.
A mammoth log containing a
business offioe and a cage for wild
animals will be a feature of Wash-
Be moderate and reasonable in! jngton’s timber at the World’s Fair,
your beautifying. The best thing |
in the world, followed to excess be- j
comes a detriment or a bore. j
Cheerfulness makes love of life, |
and love of life is half of health, j
On the contrary, sadness and dis-
As a rule, men do not begin to
eave money until they have mar
ried, and women do not save it un
til they give up hope of marrying.
Love your neighbors. Don’t you
know that when you hate others you
make yourself feel ugly and every
thing goes wrong?
In the Arctic regions a man who
wnits a divorce leaves home in an-
Tho new warships that are under
contract to be built in private yards
are from twelve to fifty-three months
behind the contract date of comple
tion.
When a girl pitches a man overjger and does not return for several
in an engagemant the people laugh i days. The wife takes the hint and
sit him; but when he pitches bevideparts.
over they say £hat lie ought to be | Tf the cover of a fruit jar sticks
ashamed. i ( j 0 110 t attempt to wrench it off;
When I see a man going bomc 1 mvert the jar and placejbe
with a bunch of worthless toys, < r *■
see the toys going home with him, 1
I wonder why he did not spend his
t water for a minute. Then
and you will find it turns
money for a barrel of tar and slick
fire to it.
Buying a Christmas present fora
boy that he will consume in a day
is not wise. Buy a set of tools, tor
instance, that "will last him all the
year, and with which he can make
useful things about the home and be
1 eisily.
In order to gain strength, vigor,
grace, celerity and accuracy of
m (vcment a girl should take the
greatest possible variety of exercise.
This is the only way to develop the
body perfectly.
Sleeves are certainly growing
smaller, and the puff at the elbow
seems doomed to extinction. The
The Russian imperial family en
joys the distinction of being the
wealthiest family in Europe. The
civil list of the czar amounts to
$12,500,000 a year.
A word of encouragement goes a
long way. He who loses money
loses much, he who loses friends
loses more, but he who loses cour
age loses all.
learning a trade. A pig, a calf or a ’ ru fp e( j sleeve reaching to the elbow
she goat would he worth more to | w ! th a tight-fitting undersleeve is at
him than a carload of popguns. i once becoming aud satisfactory.
Near Malcolm, West Australia,
a gold mine is worked by a family
of father, mother and children, and
is giving out gold at the rate of
$75,000 per annum.
Uncle Sam is wearing this winter
a peculiar costume-furs made by
the Alaskan Boundary Commission,
tnmmad with linen pants and
Panama hat from tho Isthmus.
Consumption occurred rarely, if
at all, among the negroes in slavery;
but now, after a little more than a
quarter of a century of freedom, it
causes more deaths among them
than all the other contagious dis
eases combined.
Never let the pigs get poor,
The sheep has seen his day in
Georgia.
The hens lay more eggs when
separated from the rooster.
A hen on the farm makes a profit
of 7,400 per cent, on tho invest
ment.
Traveling men say that binder
twine will be 1 1-2 oents per ponnd
lowor next season.
In Spain a field laborer receives
on an average of 28 oents a day as
wages, and this is without board.
Capt. A. G. Lawson of Syca
more, Ga , this year gathered from
one aero of onions 400 orates, for
whioh ho received one dollar a
orate.
B. K. Harris of Champaign, Illi
nois, has the honor of railing the
heaviest one hundred oattle ever
marketed in the United States.
A box 15x15x10 inches inside will
hold a trifle over a bushel; inch-
wide pine for ends and one-half
inoh poplar for sides and bottom.
The growers oi sweet corn have
had a very profitable year. As
muoh as sixty dollars per acre has
been realized in some oases for the
produot.
In the vioinity of Santa Anna,
Cal., 2,200 aores of peat lands havo
been sot to celery this season. Tho
1903 orop is placed at over fifteen
hnndred carloads.
In promoting progress in agnoul
ture it is desirable that praotieal
farmers keep a oareful record of tho
facts whioh relate to the culture of
the soil on their farms.
Feed makes meat and manure
makes feed, so it goes in a continuni
round; and the man who sells hid
feed and thus deprives his soil of
its lawful right is unwise.
A windbreak of oornstalks will
help to keep Jack Frost out of the
ponltry house. With the addition
of a few posts and polls, a good sun
parlor and scratching shed may bo
made of stalks.
A foreigner cannot own land in
Japan, although a number of for
eigners may organize themselves in
to a company,'to he known and reg
isicred as a “juridical person," and
this company has ali the property
rights of a native citizen.
Aud now comes a man who says
there is as much feeding value in
the corn cob as there is in the grain
that grow on it. This fellow must
be in the employ of some breakfast
food company, and his duties are to
tell people what’s what without tell
ing them why.
The Minnesota legislature has en
acted a law relating to timber grow
ing in that slate, which provides
for a bounty of $2.50 an acre each
year for a period of six years for
each acre planted and kept in good
condition with any kind .pf forest
tree except black locust.
One or more good light ladders
should be found around every home,
and one should always be kept
where every member of the family
who has reached the age of climb
ing can get it without loss of
time. The ladder should be long
enough to reach the top of the tall
est building on the place.
While living on hope it is well to
hustle for a meal tioket.
Uncle Sam will only send seeds
which are adapted to tho soil this
year. About 45 million paokages
will be mailed free.
Illinois has better publio schools
than any other state in tho union,
and it oosts the taxpayers nearly 20
millions of dollars annually to main
tain the publio sohoola in old Illi
nois.
Up to date tho shrinkage in tho
market quotations for the securities
of the Unitod States Steel corpora
tion, reokoniug from highest to low
est, has been nearly $400,000,600.
And the shrinkage apparently con
tinues.
It would do moBt of us a good
deal of good to always keep in mind,
or to bo now and then reminded of
it, lest we should forgot it, that
when we are gone the earth will not
stop, but will continue her course
around the sun. No one is indis
pensable m this world.
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., says that
every man should work, that one
soon tires cf frivolity. Unless the
newspapers have badly belied them,
there are some young members of
the Vanderbilt family who ought to
road and , take to heart this ensp
Vanderbilt sermon.
It is a poor exouso of a man who
oannot stand a little honest criti
cism. Yet nine-tontbs of those we
assooiato with are up in arms on a
moment’s notice if called down for
some of their shortcoming*. A real
gentleman is not spoiled by praise,
neither is he roiled by ontioisra.
This is a hard world at best, and
it is the very hardness and laok of
oharity of the people in it that
makes life so tough. For havo you
not observod that there are ten peo-
pie who watoh for your failures,
lapses aud straying from the right
road, to one who glories in your
successes and righteous living?
The Germans are beginning to
grasp the idea of combinations and
trusts. Two of the big hanks havo
just combined, the united capital
aggregating $7l/'00,000, the sec
ond strongest aggregation of bank-
ing capital in the world, only ex
ceeded by the bank of England. The
union is for thirty years.
A remarkable undertaking is soon
to bo commenced in Galvcsron,
Texas. It is purposed to raise the
grade of tho city on a level with
the sea wall that protects the town
from inundation. To do this would
increase the average grade of the
city seven feet,' and to make tho fill
will require 17,000,000 eubio yards
of earth. The estimated cost of
this work is $2,000,000. Tho low
est bid far the work is eighteen and
one-half cents per cubic yard.
The cry of the silk hat makers is
that the market for their wares
grows more and more restricted,
and that a full half of the 8,000
men engaged in the trade in Lon
don only a few years ago are now
out of employment. The city clerk
no longer looks on the top hat, oft
cleaned bat shining still, as a badge
of the respectability ot his profes
sion. Heads of firms come to busi
ness in the common hat according
the season.
