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VOL XXII NO. 27.
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1004
TERMS $1 A YEAR
CASES AFFIRMED.
The superme court has affirmed
the judgement of Dooly superior
court in two cases, that involved
two cases of oonvioliou last fall.
Joe Quattlbaum, a young white man
from Lnadilla, was sentenced to
ten years for the killing of Walter
Brannon, another white man about
the same ago. [ Yonng Quattlebaum
was not considered very bright at
times, was a habitual cigarette smok
er and once spent a time in the asy
lum. On theso grounds there was
an attempt to get him- back into the
asylum instead of the ohaiugansr.
Now that there is no escape from the
gang, he has been returned to jail,
having beeii out undor bond, and’
his parents arc lingering around him
with'an effort to get him on the
Stale farm instead of a sawmill
camp, thinking the farm will be a
softer plaoe.
Another ca3o of intcrost is that
Seymore Williams, convicted of the
murder of Doo Edmonson at Coney
last summer. This is the case where
Mr. Edmonson .went to the quarter
late on Saturday night, supposed to
be drinking, and a racket was raised.
Sunday morning Mr. Edmonson was
found dead in his buggy two miles
away where the horse was tangled
in some bushes. .According to the
evidence, Edmonson was murder at
the quarter and placed in the buggy
and the horse started homo. Sey
mour Williams, colored, was trcid
j \for the murder, convioted and sen
tenced to hang. His case went to
the supreme court as usual and the
hanging was postponed pending a
decision. Now the case is affirmed,
it will be the du,y of Judge Little
john to sentence the negro again,
and the sheriff .to hang him. His
only escape is in the pardon board.
A petition with a bug list of names
is before the prison commission, ask
ing that he be commuted to life im
prisonment.
Eternal hustle is the price of suc
cess.
The farm is nearest to heaven of
any spot on earth.
It costs moro to satisfy a* vice
than to feed a family.
Edison says: •‘Genius is 2 per
cent inspiration and 08 per cent per-
spiration. ”
The men who work and gamble
support those who garcblc a ft I do
not werk.
Do not think an impi-ossim is be-
ing made by toiling of tho smart
things yoy do.
Blessed are those who have noth
ing for they aro not tempted to go
to law about it.
Thirty-seven thousand Germans
arrived in America the past year,
and 250,000 aro expected in 1004.
Fires that will furnish tho power
for tho Machinery building at tho
world’s fair have been started.
The lightest purnishment for a
mail box mutilator ia Missouri is
$100 for first offense. There is not
apt to bo a second.
A cubic foot of new fallen snow
weighs five ana one-half pounds on
the average, and has twelve times
the bulk of an equal weight of wa
ter.
JAPAN AND RUSSIA AT WAB
Japan and RuBsiaarc at war, have
been lighting a week, mostly on
water.- Japans has captured and de
stroyed 20 or more of Russia’s war
vessels, and lost only three or four.
Japan is a nation of 44 million. Rus
sia hai 130 million, but Japan has
the better of the battles so far. The
dispute is over the island of Korea.
Korea is about 300 miles square, and
has about 18 millions of people, its
a result of the war between Japan
and China several years ago, Korea
tecamea subject of Japan, and Rus
sia has been trying to take it away
from her. The entire world seems to
be in sympathy with Japan.
Baths have heon installed upon
sotno of the Tegular rmlway trains in
Ruisia. It will not bo hard to keep
tramps from riding on such trains.
American typwriters, sewing ma-
chinces and oash registers have par
alyzed similar industries in Germa
ny; and American shoes arc rapidly
doing the same.
How it warms yoa to boar some
one likes you well enough to speak
well of you to another. Never sup
press an inclination to speak a good
word of auyune.
“Gold is exceedingly pop aim- for
interior decorations” says a fashion
paper. Glad to hear it. In fact we
have always had a fancy for that
shade in pocket linings.
The door of success never stands
open, and no invitations are extend
ed. Those who enter must have the
ehcek to demand admission and the
energy to enforuee the demand.
Shorthand was used in Egypt
three certuries before our era. A re
ceully discovered papyrus contains
a contract between a shorthand teach
er and a man who wished it taught
one of his slaves.
It reqniras a whole lot of sound
sense and good wit to knowhow and
The best is the dearest in the ease
of girls.
Do not stand brooms on their
broom end, but upside down.
l)o not jump into your clothes and
expect to look dreused.
A woman without jealousy is like
a kite without a string.
Why uot-Jie beautiful? Or anyway
as lieautmul as yon can? Might as
well.
Salt is most excellent lor cleans-
tlie teeth. It hardens tho gums
and sweetens thq breath.
-Licking a boy to make lnm go to
Sunday school is a first class way of
loading him to the devil.
A young woman who pays proper
attention to exercises and diet need
not worry about her complexion
What does it matter if we do not
reach our high ambitions-the work
ing.for them is so mighty pleasant.
Less to eat and more sleep will
euro many minor diseases, including
nervous prostration in its incipient
stages.
The hair for evening is still
dressed low, or else flat, and on the
top of tho head ornaments arc worn
very close to the hair.
Long engagements are rather ex
pensive in Russia, An engaged man
is expeoted to send a present to his
intended every day.
To have a custard pie of an oven
nice brown when baked sprinkle a
little sugar over the top just before
putting into the oven.
Cake is softer made with water in •
stead of milk, as the milk when ex
posed to heat in combination with
the egg hardens the latter.
Love is not so bad a thing after
all. It will often make a stuck-up
young man think almost as much of
a sweet girl as he does of himself.
By those who in this month are
born, gems save garnets should bo
worn. They will insure you oansta-
cy, true friendship and fidelity.
One of the prettiest and daintest
Tho Government Fish Commis
sion will raise green turtlos.
Wars of tho last 8,000 yaors aro
suppposed to have cost $000,000,-
COO,000. Eaeh man who falls on
tho battlefield oostsC$2,740 to kill,
and tho countries of Europo to-day
arc paying to maintain an “armod
neutrality” the small sum of $50 a
scoond.
The weather bureau in Washing
ton modestly asks for one and a half
million dollars to continuo its weath
er guessing for another year. It
olaims that only seventeen per cent
of its forecasts are pure blunders.
And it adds that there can be an im
provement in forecasting.
The way to have a friend is to be
one; tho way to havo Happiness is to
give happiness. Take such gifts as
tho gods provide and strive over ito
enjoy what you havo, liopo for what
yqu have not, remembering that hop
ing is also enjoying. Then it has
been truly said that if wo hope
strong enough, and long enough and
cheerily enough we are on tho high
and certain road to the ohonshod
things hoped for.
It is gratifying to American pride
to learn from Eliza B. Soidmoro,
who is writing for tho Chicago Tri
buno, from China, that tho natives
fool especially kindly toward tho Un-
lted States beoauso of tho soldiorly
and gentlemanly way in whioh Amor-
jean troops deported themselves du
ring tho Boxer troubles. To be a
soldics and a gentleman is all that
is possiblo, and surely it is the su-
premo test.
An uneducated child has one
chance in 150,000 of attaining dis
tinction as a factor in the progress
of the age. A common sohool edu
cation increases his chances nearly
four times. A high sohool education
increases the ohancc to tho common
school child 83 times, giving him 87
times the chances of the uneducated.
A college education increases the
ohancc of tho high sohool boy nine
FROM NIGHT TO LIGHT
Is Frank L. Stanton forgiven and
on the road to hoavon? It sounds
that way. See what ho says in Sun
day’s Constitution:
Tho night was dosolato; tho wind
wailed at my easement and stormed
tho stars from Heaven. Human
Love had left \no in tho Valley of
Dospair, and no Ravens in Life’s
wilderness fiookod to food my fam
ished soul. I stretched forth omtpy
hands to tho upbraiding Dark, and
bowed my head and wept. There -
was no balm in Gilead—no physi-
oiati there. But out of the Night,
and storm, and darkness I heard, as
in a dream, the Footsteps of God,
and Heaven came nearer Earth, and
Peace fell, like a benediction, on
my soul. An all-pervading Presence
filled all space, and deep, and sweet
beyond expresssion was the holy
calm. Thon oamo a vison of tho
Hill called Calvary, and from tho
Shadow of the Cross there streamed
a Light that lit the way boforo mo
and made tbo darkness beautiful.
I feared to spoak, less tho Light
should eludo me; I feared to turn
rayoyes, lest tho spell should be
broken, with all its great, nuutter-
able sweetness. But soft streamed
the Light still, and the Valley of the
Shadow of Death was not, and all
tho waves and tho billows of Life
sang Peace—oven tho Peaoe of God
whioh passoth understanding! And
in that Light, far-shining from the
CroBB, I walk and wplk forevor.
Thoro is no Darkness now—there
is no desolation; and surely Heaven
shall not seem strange when at its
gates 1 knock, lor tho glory of it is
\4rith mo hero, and Earth is beauti
ful and Life is Life, indeed!
. , „ . i times, giving him 219 time the
shirt waiste shown for the coming: , . .. , . .
. . j "| chance of the common school boy
summer’s wear is made of dotted
I and moro than 800 times of the un-
when and where lo speak. It also J needy college studenis in Russia.
Au imploye too honest to lake a
postage stamp will steal hU employ
er’s time.
It generally takes a girl about
two years to come link to the earth
/after she graduates.
People who move about cannot af
ford to keep wagon loads of worth
less plunder.
Be sensible and positive with
your children, never putting off a
punishment but once.
A widow was, heard to remark,
“Well, Fused to-say I would.never
marry again, but I don’t know.”
Committeemen M E Rushin and
ASumerford are examning the book
of the county officers for a report to,
^e grand jury next week.
requires the same gifts combined
with good judgment to know enough
to keep silent at the right time.
Along next spring there will be
exciting times over m Jerusalem.
I’he world's fourth Sunday sehool
convent io-i will be held there then.
As pla me ! the American delegates
to the convention will leave New
York on a steamer March 8th, and
will return on the steamer May 8th.
Not more than 400 of the “cedars
of Lebanon” are standing today.
L'hey do gnot, though their age is
measured in years by thousands,
rival in dimensions the cedars of the
western world, being but twelve
feet in diameter. No tree Ogives-so
great an expanse of shade as the ee
lar, and it never t^jes, exept from
lightning stroke or the woodman’s
mull combined with lacc and rows I ^ ^
of pale pink wash ribbon. j
Fray the oil end of a lamp wick j Grover Cleveland has lived in the
about an inch and it will give a'time of more administrations than
brighter, stronger light. Liny other citizen who has ever been
A looking glass is sime’tHing like! president, beginning with that of
this world, if you smile and look I Martin Van Buren and coming down
to that of Theodore Roosevelt, in
all eighteen, exclusive of his own
two. He has also lived to see six
vice presidents succeed to the presi
dency, three of them, Johnson, Ar
thin-and Roosevolt, coming to the
white house through the assassina
tion of their predecessors. The oth
ers were VanBuien, Tyler and Fill
more
sunny it smiles in response; if you
laugh, it laughs back: if you shako
your fist in it, a fist is shaken at you,
A new custon has arisen among
According to a report the young
men soil themselves to rich wives
and they then complete their educa
tion.
Mrs. Thompson B. Ferguson,
wife of Oklahoma's governor, is
dean of newspaper women in that
territory, having been actively en
gaged in journalism for a number of
years.
Australia wants 300.000 British
wives, Canada wants 90,000 and
Cape Colony wold like 30,000. It
is stated that there are nearly 1,000-
000 more women than men in the
British Isles.
The new summer materials Ehown
It will he well for driver oi wag
ons to remember that all U. S. mail
carriers have the right-of-way in pub
lic highways when on duty. They
cannot be driven into the ditches by
heavy loaded wagons without viola,
tion of the U. S. mail law, and if a
collision is made by so doing and
the mail delayed, it will not be
long thereafter until a deputy Unit
ed States marshal will be looking for
the offender. The law not only ap-
Ono-fourth of an inch is the cor-
reot width for the hem on a table
cloth unless the cloth is woven with
a border on four sides, when tho
hem should then bo turned to make
the distance between tho border and
edge * the same as on the selvago
are very quainty and exceedingly j plies when meeting a vehicle, but
dainty. One, a striped white mull, applies to those in fornt of the mail
shows small figures in pale blue silk as well as when mail carrier makes
and is certain to make up very girl- e ffort to pass,
ish and pretty.
You can engage a servant in India
for $8 a month who will furnish his
own home and food, but even at
that the expense of moving your
household goods to India would bo
so high that is is doubtful whether
tho change would be advisable, jde-
spite its attractiveness.
A remarkable case is that of a wo
man known asj) Joe Monoghan, mas
querading as a man and leading the
life of a cowboy for over twenty-five
years. Her sex was only discover
ed after death. She was 54 years
of age had voted at all elections and
served on juries.
The seaon of Lent will begin ear
lier than usual this year. February
17th, will be Ash Wednesday,which
marks the hcgnniug of Lent, and
Easter Sunday comes on April 3d.
The , early date of Easter will no
doubt in a measure detract from the
popularity of the Easter bonnet, as
the season will not be sufficiently ad
vanced to warrant the wearing ,of
summer headgear.
Chairman J O Hamilton has called
the Democratic Committee to meet
in Vienna on Wednesday, March 2,
to name a date and arrange detail
for the primary. This is five days
later than the state committee will
meet, and the date for the county
primary will probably be on*that of
state primary, letting us get through
with it at one swipe.