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Gerald and fldt>erti<cr.
NEWNAN, FRIDAY, DEC. 10.
w E TWO.
You have always been mine. dear; while waiting
And yearning somehow I know
That the cry of my heart for the mating
Would bring me at last to you.
I have watched the eloudH in their drifting-
They always went two by two,
And I’ve seen how the mountains were lifting
Two summits towards heaven's own blue.
K’en the waves locked crests with each other,
And knew full well that He
Who had planned for each birdling another,
Had not failed to make you for me.
(Katrine M. Burton.
Mysterious Button Caused Trouble.
New York Press.
Mrs. Heppelweit, who lives on the
top floor, is not suspicious, but let her
catch her husband doing anything—and
let her husband do anything that she
will catch him in — and there’ll be
trouble. There was trouble the other
day, for while she was looking over the |
laundry she suddenly saw something |
that, made her sit up in surprise. She
grabbed a undershirt and started at it. |
"I never sewed on that button,” she
finally concluded. “I never had a but
ton like that in the house. I wouldn’t
sew a button like that on. Where did
it come from? Who sewed it on?”
When he came home she asked him
about it in that careless, easy, affable
way that fills a man with an uncon
trollable fear that something has hap
pened and that he is up against trouble.
So Heppelweit pulled himself together
and said in an olfhand manner that con
firmed her worst suspicions:
“Oh, i don’t know. I suppose you
did. You usually look after such things.
I am sure I didn’t do it myself. Why,
I couldn’t hold a needle—”
*'Oh, couldn’t you?” she said icily.
“Well, who held the needle that sewed
that button on? 1 didn’t; who did?”
"How should I know,” he demanded,
growing angry. “What harm is there
in that button? It looks all right to me.
Maybe you sewed it there and forgot.”
‘‘I don’t forget,” she said very, very
calm. “Hut you seem to have a happy
faculty of forgetting. Now, .Joshua
Heppelweit, I demand to know who
sewed that button on.”
He saw that he had but one recourse,
so he turned sharply on her and said :
”If you want to know, go and find
out.”
When she was crying he feebly tried
to find some way of accounting for that
mysterioui. button. But every possible
explanation he could think of seemed
to him, even in his present distracted
state, absurd and incirectivc.
“I suppose,” he thought reluctantly,
•'that I’ll simply have to grin and bear
it until the fit wears oil' or until she
finds out where the confounded thing
came from. ”
When supper was ready she called
him and ho was really worried at her
paleness and evidence of deep grief. •
“Now, Mary,” he expostulated, “Lie
reasonable. ”
“On, yes. I’ll be reasonable,” she
snapped, "if you’ll be honest. Who
sewed that button on?”
“Oh, hang it,” ho said in stronger
words than that.
So there was silence and suspicion
and mistrust and resentment and fruit
less conjecture between them. It con
tinued till the evening and it grew
stronger the next day, and it increased
strength from day to day until the
laundry wagon came around.
“What do you think, Mis’ Heppel-
weit,” he said to the fretful woman,
“of that new idea we’ve just intro
duced? We sew on all missing buttons
now. Noticed it last week, didn’t
you?”
She nodded affirmatively.
"Good idea, ain’t it?” he continued.
“It’s a little more work, but it saves
u lot of kicks from cranky customers.
Saves you lot of work and worry, don’t
it. Mis’ Heppelweit?”
“No, it don’t!’’ she yelled. “You
leave the buttons off if they are off. 1
like them that way. And 1 am going
to change my laundryman for meddling
with my wash. ”
lie backed in open-mouthed amaze
ment all the way down the stairs. "If
that ain’t the limit,” he groaned.
Rut did she receive her husband with
open arms and explain the mistake?
She didn’t. For a few days she soaked
him worse than ever beforo because
she had made a mistake. She was hurt
and grieved at having no grounds 'for
suspicion. So she kept it up awhile,
and even now she occasionally jolts him
with it when he deserves it.
Decreaso Shown in the Liquor Traffic.
Washington, Dec. 4.—The spread of
the temperance wave throughout the
country has had a serious effect upon
the revenues of the Government. Ac
cording to the annual report of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
made public to-day, the receipts from
taxes on whiskey were 165,509.831 less
during the fiscal year 1909 than in the ■
preceding year, and on ales and beer
$2,444,183 less.
Apparently, if the figures are any
indication, the drinkers turned to to-
baceo for solace in their deprivation,
for the revenues from this source in
creased during the same period $2,024,-
432. The largest increase was in chew
ing and pipe tobacco, $1,478,875, and
the revenues from cigarettes increased
$722,191.
The total revenues amounted to
$246,212,719, of which $128,315,181
came from spirits, $56,303,960 from
fermented liquors, and $51,887,178
from tobacco.
The cigarette habit is steadily grow
ing, despite the efforts of legislators in
some of the States. There were 6,086,-
291,908 “codin nails” smoked during
the last fiscal year, an incarese of 703,-
087,278 over the amount consumed in
1908. At the same time there was a
decrease of 151,185,830 in the number
of cigars smoked, and an increase of
24,647,925 pounds of-smoking and chew
ing tobacco consumed. The snuff habit
also seems to be growing, for there
were 27,019,028 pounds of this sneeze
mixture sold during the year, an in
crease of 4,417,668 pounds over the
preceding year.
The Commissioner estimates that the
receipts from the tax on corporations
will produce $15,000,000 in 1910 and
$25,000,000 in 1911.
The cost of collecting the internal
revenues for the past fiscal year was
2.02 per cent., compared with the aver
age cost of 2.69 per cent, since the
creation of the bureau.
The States producing the largest
quantities of spirits are Illinois, 73,-
793,376 gallons; Indiana, 21,916,486
gallons; Kentucky, 27,524,275 gallons;
nnd Ohio, 9,119,611 gallons. New
York leads in the production of ales
and beers, followed by Pennsylvania,
Illinois and Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania and New York pro
duced the greatest number of cigars,
Now York the largest number of ci
garettes, and North Carolina and Mis
souri ran close in the amount of smok
ing and chewing tobacco produced.
Because of the restrictive legislation
against the sale of liquors in the
Southern States there has been an in
crease in the number of seizures of
property for violation of the internal
revenue laws in that section. In Geor-
gi there were 688 such seizures; in Al
abama, 22S; North Carolina, 450: South
Carolina, 219: Virginia, 204, and Ten
nessee, 108. The total value of prop
erty seized during the year was $543,-
255.
Hexamethylenetetramine.
The above is the name of a German
chemical, which is one of the many
valuable ingredients of Foley’s Kidney
Remedy. Hexamethylenetetramine is
recognized by medical text books and
authorities as a uric acid solvent and
antiseptic for the urine. Take Foley’s
Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice
any irregularities and avoid a serious
malady. Sold by all druggists.
On a journey through the South not
long ago Wu-Ting-Fang was impressed
by the preponderance of nergo labor in
one of the cities he visited. Wherever
the entertainment committee led him,
whether to factory, store or suburban
plantation, all the hard work seemed to
be borne by the black man.
Minister Wu made no comment at the
time, but in the evening, when he was
a spectator at a ball given in his hon-
! or, after watching the waltzing and
two-stepping for half an hour, he re
marked to his host;
j “Why don’t you make the negroes
j do that for you, too?”
The only baking powder
from Royal Grape Cream of Tarf ar
—made from Grapes— ^
•) Makes Finest, Forest Food
Ro^aI
Absolutely Pure
Wooing Sleep.
Philadelphia Record.
A haggard-looking man strolled into
a down-town drug store the other day
and asked the druggist for help. He
said he had trouble in getting to sleep
when he retired. No matter how sleepy
he might be during the day, or how
much sleep he might have lost, the mo
ment his head touched the pillow he
was wide awake and lay thus for sever
al hours. Once asleep he was very
hard to waken, but he had to he up at
a certain hour, and in consequence of
his peculiar affliction he was losing
more sleep than he could stand. The
drug clerk regarded him quizzically a
few moments and then replied :
“My dear man, you don’t want med
icine. What you want is something to
change the trend of your thoughts. Do
as a friend of mine did. He was trou
bled the same way and found that the
old folks’ plan of imagining sheep
passing a barrier and counting them
was out of date. So he began trying to
name all the States in the Union. He
soon got them so he could classify them
alphabetically. Then, when they no
longer interested him, he started on
the counties of his State. He now has
them at his tongue’s end, classified up
to the fourth letter. Now he is start
ing on State capitals and their loca
tions; then he will take up county-
seats. A moment’s glance at an atlas
during tne day shows him when he is
wrong, and the beauty of the plan is
that he rarely has to think along these
lines longer than ten minutes before
he is sound asleep. To make it short,
the study of geography is a good nar
cotic.”
After exposure, and when you feel a
cold corning on, take Foley’s Honey and
Tar, the great throat and lung remedy.
It stops the cough, relieves the conges
tion, and expels the cold from your
system. Is mildly laxative. Sold by
all druggists.
Troubles of a Humorist.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Mark Twain once approached a
friend, a business man, and confided
the fact that gems of thought were
forming with such rapidity that they
were even beginning to sparkle in his
eyes, and that he needed the assistance
of a stehographer.
“I can send you one, a fine young fel
low, ” th’e friend said. “He came to
my office yesterday in search of a posi
tion, but I didn’t have an opening. I
am sure you will find him all right.”
“Has he a sense of humor?” Mark
asked cautiously.
“Oh, I am sure he has—in fact, he
got off one or two pretty witty things
himself yesterday,” the friend hastened
to assure him.
“Sorry, but he won’t do, then,” the
writer said, with a disappointed shake
of his head.
“Why, er, why not?” was the sur
prised question.
The would-be employer assumed a
confidential air.
“I’ll tell you,” he said. “You see,
1 had one once before with a sense of
humor, and it interfered too much with
his work. 1 can’t afford to pay a man
$2 a day for laughing.”
Many persons find themselves affect
ed with a persistent cough after an at
tack of influenza. As this cough can be
promptly cured by the use of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, it should not
be allowed to run on and become trou
blesome. Sold by all dealers.
His Coffin Was Out of Style.
Hatton Special to Philadelphia North American.
Isaac Coffman a few days ago sold a
coffin he had made many years ago.
He sold it, not because he felt he
would have no use for it. but because
his wife insisted that it was out of
date.
Mr. Coffman is nearing his eightieth
birthday. He explained to a friend
that he constructed the coffin twenty
years ago, at a time when plans for the
future had to be made. It was built of
chestnut because, as he put it, “Many’s
the time 1 have sat beside a cheery
blaze of chestnut logs and heard then!
crackle and burn merrily. It makes
such a home-like blaze that I picked it
in preference to other woods.
“It was my desire to make the cof
fin as cozy as possible, and I rejected
the frivolities which so many persons
affect in the matter of coffins. In or
der to have it handy I kept it in the
garret.
“But my wife tells me that styles
have changed, and, since I have accu
mulated a little fortune, she will not
permit me to die unless I consent to
get an up-to-date casket. To avoid
trouble 1 agreed to sell the old one.”
“Very frequently,” says a New
York lawyer, “there is no element of
unconscious humor in the findings of a
jury. To my mind, the best I ever
heard in this connection was the ver
dict brought in by a coroner’s jury in
Michigan, who were called upon to pass
upon the case of a sudden death of a
merchant in Lansing.
“The finding was as follows: ‘We,
the jury, find from the physician’s
statement that the deceased came to
his death from heart failure, superin
duced by business failure, which was
caused by speculation failure, which
was the result of failure to see far
enough ahead.’ ”
A man with a future and a woman
with a past supply a lot of food for
gossip.
BUGGIES AND HARNESS
THE BEST MONEY WILL BUY
The Whip deal is still on hand.
Middle Busters and One-horse Turners, (steel
beams,) two of the best plows ever put in a field.
Come to see me ; am always at home.
JACK POWELL.
FURNITURE
ONE MORE MONTH ONLY is left in which to
purchase the furniture you had intended to get this year.
Now, listen: I have decided, in view of the short crops in our
vicinity, and the large stock I have on hand, to make some
sacrifices during the m onth of December. POSITIVELY,
I am going to sell FURNITURE SURE ENOUGH
CHEAP. I propose to unload more real bargains in the
furniture line the next 30 days than has ever before been
known in this city. So, if you are going to need Bed-room
Furniture, Dining-room Furniture, Parlor Furniture, or any
other kind, your cash will talk loud at this store, and you
will save from 25 to 50 per cent, on your purchases. Now,
get right and get busy.
Yours for an honest and a square deal,
Marhury’s Furniture Store
19 Greenville street. Newnan, Ga.
PULS
for backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble, and urinary irregularities.
Foley’s Kidney Pills purify the blood, restore lost vitality and vigor. Refuse substitutes.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Too Muck of the Good Thing.
To the spiritual health and growth of |
the human soul it is necessary that
one should have some periods in which
one may be alone, in which one may
stand aside from the narrow circum
stances and conditions which hem in
every life, in which one may come face
to face, alone, with the great truths of
existence. And these periods of soli
tude are absolutely denied to some wo
men.
I know women, old, old women, who
have never been alone in all their lives,
who have grown up in the midst of
family life, perhaps even sharing a
bed-room with a sister; who have gone
from their father’s house to their hus
band’s, living always in the companion
ship of brothers and sisters, or hus-
hand and children, with no space allow
ed them for the separate life that be
longs to every human being.
The person who has not some tiny
spot to which he or she may retreat
when weary or disgusted, or even very
happy, is indeed to be pitied, and is al
most as much to be pitied as the lone
ly person.
The greatest danger from influenza
is of its resulting in pnuemonia. This
can be obviated by using Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy, as it not only cures in
fluenza, but counteracts any tendency
of the disease towards pneumonia.
Sold by all dealers.
“Speaking of joy rides, did you ever
have a real one?”
“No.”
“Never go out in a buggy along a
shady lan e, with a plug horse and the
only girl in the world? Say, you don’t
know what life is.”
He looked in a store window and saw
“Hats Reduced.” “Heavens,” said he
to himself. “What was their original
size?”
IistfsPills
stimulate the TORPID LIVER,
strengthen the digestive organs,
regulate the bowels, and are un
equaled as an
ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE,
In malarial districts their virtues
nre widely recognized, as they pos
sess peculiar properties in freeing
the system from that poison. Ele
gantly sugar coated.
Take No Substitute.
M FI» mSSEEH
IN FURNITURE.
Look these offerings over.
Call personally and inspect.
It’ll create no obligation to
buy. Dining tables, rocking
chairs, iron beds, art squares,
odd dressers, matting.
A “square deal is a fact
here, for everything w T e sell is guaranteed.
Call and see our line of furniture. It is up-to the-Q
in every respect, and a better line cannot be found.
Scroggin Furniture Company
WHEN IN NEED OF
LUMBER AND PLANING
MILL STUFF
Of all kinds—Brackets, Mouldings, Columns, etc.—you will
find it to your interest to give us a call.
HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY
Vulcanite Roofing
R. D.Cole ManufacturingCo
49-54 E. Broad St., NEWNAN, GA... ’Phone 14.
Notice of Dissolution.
The firm of Wrn. Byram & Co., composed of
Wm. Byram and G. W. Byram, has been this day
dissolved by mutual conBent. Wm. Byram succeed
ing to the business and assuming all of the in
debtedness of the old firm.
On the same date the firm of G. W. Byram &
Co., composed of G. W. Byram and Wm. Byram.
was also dissolved, G. W. Byram succeeding to
the business and assuming all of the indebtedness
of G. W. Byram & Co. This Feb. 7. 190S.
WM. BYRAM.
G. W. BYRAM.
Dissolution Notice,
irtnership heretofore existing between H
19 and E. P. Rutland, doing business un
arm name of H. M. Hughs & Co., at New
, has been this day dissolved by mama.
H. M. Hughs has acquired by purcha- i
rest of E. P. Rutland, and assumes ai
the old firm. All debts due the old firm
,bie to H. M. Hughs. This Nov 6. 190t.
H. M. HUGHS.
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