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VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ll, 1004
TERMS $1 A YEAR
Busy people seldom argue.
The easier your moneyoomes,the
•quieke/you spend it.
Keep way from places, where you
.have no business.
Rise early and you will feel more
like going to sleep early.
Suppose evpry body was like you;
-wouldn't yon be ashamed?
Did you ever, see a church choir
bend the knee in prayer? Watch
them.
Some men seem to find pleasure
in being just as troublesome as they
can.
Stoves are like dootors: Thepoor-
est Mud have some one do. recom
mend them.
In approaching a crowd. goquiet;_
you may interrupt an interesting
■Conversation.
When a man does you at mean
trick, you need never expect his
friendship again.
You will be a failure in finance
as long as you listen to the tongue
of sharpers.
When a visitor of long standing
leaves a houfte*tho gossip begins as
soon as he shuts the gate.
The world is cold and cruel in
not having simpathy for every man
who marries a woman who cannot
cook. •
Every man’s , own consoienoe
should tell him Of the wrongs ofiu-
temporenoe, idleness, dishouety and
falsehood.
Every time the Lord sends a boy
into the world, He sprouts a tree
somewhere near the back yard for
awitohria.
Talkative pep,ought to have
an automatic check'vaivfis that would
turn off the ,,ohoversation when
enough has beeh skid?
The opld weather will soon be
ever, and then the cook pan get
around the stove without having
to shove the old man aside,
The weather is just right 1 ' for hot
tea and affections.' Unless you in
tend to marry the girl keep away
and give the other fellow a chance.
A family with a dozen ohildren
with chop hatchets can rent a
bonse here at the same p'ioe that a
couple without children would have
t o pay.
No man haB any respeot tor a min
ister of the gospel w.ho gets out on
the str eet corner and tells smutty
yarns. Are you any better, tha n
the minister? And are you allow ed
more priviledges than he? Better
keep your mouth clean of dirty
words if .you want the respect ol
decent people. .
The Pacolet yarn mill near Gains-
ville which consumes 30,000 bales
of 'cotton a year and employs 1000
bands,, will close down for an indef-
finate period on account of the high
price of cotton and the low price ot
cloth. By all means the operators
should go out ion a strike while the
mill is closed. No such an opportu-
nity snould bo allowed to slip. But
no! they will think it tough to lie
thrown 6'ut of work now, then'Strike
for higher wages, when the mill is
in the busiest season and needs this
work. Such is the way of the .labor
organization of today, and they are
trying to get into political power.
We shall expect the downfall of la
bor unions every year until it comes.
The game of divorce is not worth
the scandal. '
If ypii hiite,,another it is slow sui-
oide for yourself.
i Don’t dally with your purpose..
Go ahead and do or don’t.
Spying the wroug thing is misfbr
tune: but trying to exjdqin it is dis
aster. . -
‘‘Divorce cards/’ are now quite
.pqpiilav .in, society oirolies.iu the
large cities. . _
The passing qftho long coat by
spring is pqn.fido.itiy' prediote l bv
fashion wisacres.
Both in leap year and in every
other year the woman Yirtually ppo-i
poses in every happy marriage.
Nature teaoUps us to bo prompt
and ready. Haven’t, you noticed that
the stars are always lighted just on
time?
We have often noticed that talka
tive women always marry silent
men. Fate certainly manages some
tings well.
To wash anything that is greasy
use hot soda water. The alkali turns
the greaBO into soap, whieh will do
its own, oleaning.
Hplf the sting of , poverty is gone
when ouo keppa house for png's own
comfort and not for the comment of
one's neighbors.
Fussing and frettiug would not
matter so much were it not for the
faot that upon one's oWn happiness
depends the happiness of others.
She may have a pretty face, but
what is a pretty face when there is
no figure with it? The body must
be good or the face counts for very
"little.
It is very nice to remember one’s
friends at Christmas time, but it’s
better to remember them al,l the year
’round by being kind and deoeiit to
them.
The Arabs express mourning for
the dead relative by putting on all
the oldest, clothes cpntained in ward
robe. They then wear thenwusually
for six to eight weeks.
At a recent wedding a man was
“maid of honor,” but so long as
men do not impersonate brides pur
Old Maid Society^ will’not object.
It is the proper thing to have
faith in one’s husband. You can’t
live happj.ly without such faith. But
if you are preity sure that Mr. Hus
band is unworthy, don't ^let him
think you a simpleton.
The woman who wants to add to
her weight should never go to bed
hungry. She should take a little
something at bedtime, even if it be
no more than a handful of nuts, or a
slice of bread and butter.
..The less a man knows the harder
he is to shut off.
, Blessed is ho that may look for
ward with hope..
. There are at least 250 Fillipmo
students in Amciican colleges.
. The smallest bone in [the human
body is the denticular, seV.e 1 in the
ear. '
Sprout a few now year resolves'.
Nursery men were ’ the first
grafters.
Will 1904 be a better far me? 1
than 1903?
There are about fifty flour mills
in all Mexico-
Boys, who qxpeot tp r worlf fora
living should learn a trade while they
are yqj^iig.
The Oniliou, a sort of shellfish
holils thereoord of possessing 11,-
000 eyes. . :
, The value of the high school
properity in the United States is
Resolve to make things . more
pleasant and easier for t|ie women
folks next year. \
, The total area now in the national
forest preserves oomprisei over 63 •'
00p,000 aores. *
The average cost of labor iq, thp
production’ and preparation of coffee
is 4.7 cents per pound.
$125,000;000
In the matter of book publication
Russia is at the foot of other na
tions.
The forty-seven miles of tho Pan;
ama railroad earned $1,250,000 last
year.
Thera are six canals oonneoted
with the Thames,whioh extend alto-
gather 334 miles.
It has been decided that aliens in
British prisons are not to be taught
any trade in flitnre. •
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Remember that if you want to get
to heaven you must help others for
it is sure as shooting that only those
get there who help others find the
way, .
It is estimated that - the Phillip-
pines have cost the United States up
to January first about $27,000,000,
including.the bonds about to .bp is
sued for the frior lands, and taking
no account of the 10,000 deaths.
Eleotrioity scoured from th
mountain streams of Franoe is poet
ically referred to as “white ooal.’
If the inpubator men want to do
business let them put an egglaying
machine on tho market.
The dikes whioh pypteot Holland
from; the inroads of the sea are
from 10 to 40 foot in height.
1 ho Emperor of Sahara proposes
tocross horses with oamels in ordex
produce a new beast of burden;
In a breeding sow look for. rather
short, stocky animals, dose , jnatle,
with as little waste as possible.
Begin with good stock. You will
never regret the extra money it
will cost you to start right in tbot
respeot.
The money to be made by the
farmer in raising horses, is, to. ( brpe^l
heavy, horses. The chap jn the pity
is ,the fellow to breed the trotters,
A cablegram has been sent from
wes.t to cast round the world m 40
minutes by the all-British route.
Russia is very short of dootors
having only eight for every 100,000
mhabotants. Great Britain has 180
for the same number.
Doors made cntii-ley of paper are
now being used in Franoe. They arc
finished to resemble wood, and- nei
ther warp,nor or&ok.
Tho German war fuhd is six mil
lions iugold. It has been lying- un
touched since 1874. The periodical
inspection took place last year.
Sir Edward Fry, hpving made a
computation, puts the time which
has olspsed sinoe life first Jappcard
on the earth at 450,000.000 years.
Asmall piece of cheese and an
electric wire form one of lato’st rit
traps. The cheese is ifixed to the
wire and the instant tbo rat touobes
the oheese it completes an eleetrio
oircuit and is killed at onoa.
The Eskimo wastes nothing, says
tho World* Work. The dareless
white man drops a hail or throws
away a broken tool or empty tobaooo
pap. These are seized with avidity
by the Ekimos, who convert them
into artoiles more or less useful.
There are three kihds-the wills,
the can’t* and the wonts, The first
accomplish nearly every thing/ the
second rarely accomplish anything
and the latter class aooomplish nit
and sometimes appear to be glad of
it.
The lkhd used for coffee growing
exclusive of the area used for the pro-
d notion of other fruit in connection
with coffee, exceeds 3,600,090 acres.
A man who says he has practiced
it for several years says if you will
sprinkle sulphur on the floor and
and, through your oorn a? you gather
the*® will not be a rat or mouse
bother.
Never p ut untill tomorrow
what you can do today. Thousands
of business men have failed simply
because they have continuously put
off day after day the ad which would
have brought them the wished for
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To asoertain whether the aotion
is true and straight, stand behind the
hprqp as he walks or trots, , away
from. you. You can not asoertain
this important point by standing on Those who live
the side. . ! houses are most
It may bp interesting to some
who bavo slipped in “just a few
words“ o| writing ip a package of
paper or merchandise mailed., at, the
lower rates to their friends, that the
abuse has become so common that
the postmaators hare been instructed
to examine siioh packages and report
if writing is found, to the depart,
mentoffioils. The next the Bend
ers know will be a visit from a dep
uty, United States morshall with a
warrant of arrest, and the taken to
Maoon for .trial with the result of
having to pay a fine of $25 and oost
of the action.
Medioal men say that a cold is
tlpe result of - changing suddenly
from one temperature to another.
in overheated
susoeptible to
Baltimore had a fire that was a
sortoher. It started at IX o’clook
Sunday, and was chocked at five
o’clock Monday evening. It burnt
30 hours and.Consumed 2,500 houses
covering X40 acres of ground. The
loss is estimated at one hundred and
fifty million dollars.
In the island of Luzon there aro 1 colds, and have to bundle up with
nearly a million of rolling pine j the greatest of care when they go
laqd‘ with no under brush or tropr;! put m this kind of weather. It is
ical vegetation, where the ohmate'i claimed that no one over saw a tepee
is like that of the Upper Alleghany | Indian with a oold or a eaugh. In
mountain in June. j dmnB ne ve died with consumptio n
rrll . .. , . until they oomiqeneed to/live m
The automatic maohm.e for tak-; , ... • ... „
, , houses like the white men. Camp
.mg. continuous, photograph of grow-
In Cairo, Egypt, it is the men
who do the .kuitting. They belong
t,o the poorer olass and knit ai they
walk .ilhi ; the street. The man is
also the spinner. He uses a repro
duction of the distaff seen in the pie-
ures of “The Three Fate”
There was a wise sort of a guy
that held forth to a bunch of listen
ers tne other day with a theory that
coughing was just a habit and peo
ple who go' around with a distress
ing cough could cut it out if they on
ly would exert their will power. One
of his listeners remarked that il
would be a bad thing to live in a
town where no one would cough up
when presented with a bill.
: . It is the general impression that
General Washington died as a pri
vate q'ltizen. This is a mistake, for
the records show that at |tbe time of
his . death, Dec. 14, 1799, he was
“lieutenant general and commander
of the U. S. army, July 3, 1798, to
the day of his death,” and drew his
pay as such Heitman’s Historical
Register Continental Army. 1775-
1786.
A man whose time is valuable to
him in his business was compelled to
wait 30 minutes for dinner the oth
er day because a girl who was visit
ing there had not returned from a
gadding trip around town. He was
.needed at his work, but his wife
would not serve dinner, until the
gadding Miss returned, saying that
It Would Be Impolite. Have the
men no right in the world of style?
ing plants is used by the agnenl-
tureal department in Washington.'
Pictures are taken hourly, and an
electro light is used at night as ex
posure are made.
Well painted impliments are gen
erally accepted signs of thrifty
farming. A dollar’s worth of raw
lintseed oil and color will answer
to oover the running part of a wag-,
on. Have plenty of shed room,
with closed front and raise the
wheels away from the damp earth
when the wagons are stored for
any great I engih of lime.
He told his son to milk the oiws,
feed the horses/slop the pigs, hum
the eggs, catch the colt and put him
in the stable, split the kindling,
get in wood, stir the cream and put
some fresh water in the creamery
after sapper and be sure to study
his lesson before he went to bed;
then he went to the farmers’ club
to discuss the question “How to
kepe the boys on the farm.“
life is recommended for all people
who are afflicted with pulmonary
complaints’ and in such a life .colds
are rarely contracted.
Many old ex-soldiers are review
ing the past, as it was forty years
ago that many of them re-enlisted
and were given what was called a
‘-veteran furlough** of thirty days.
This opportunity to come ; home was
as great an incentive to see the war
through to the end as was the lib
eral bounties offered by the govern
ment. Many volunteers had seven
monthB to serve before the expira
tion of their original enlistment,and
had there not been a plan adopted
to retain their services the forces in
the field would have been reduced
to a dangerous degree, at a ti me
when active campaigns would have
been under full headway. The fur
loughs expired," the boys went baok
to duty,many lived through the bat
tles whieh followed, but thousands
never saw the face of kindred and
friend again.
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