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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. tti n UT ITT AND.