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uraeagaH—wi** 111 1 mm VOL. XXII. NO 20. VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1903 TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR 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.