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'V POnS AND PARKS Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets. The Intent stylos are found at thin store in everything per taining to Indies’ apparel; hut we want your attention on line of dress goods, which is the largest and most our Htmug up-to-date within this market, and all fresh and bright. WE ARE SHOWING NOW HAPPINESS. THE CINNAMON TREE. Some special grades of all wool greens, reds, castors and blacks at unusuall trimmings to match each shade, whether it or velvets. Henriettas in ’ low figures,and be braids, silks Broadcloths. New lot just in—garnets and 81,25 per yard. See per yard. greens and grays—prices, 85c, *1 our black cloth at 81.75 and #2.00 Silks, Silks. f yard wide changeable and solid shades of taf- >er yard, #1.00; twelve shades of striped taffetas, chiffon finish, one yard wide at #1.25 ajyarcl. See the new Alice blue, Reseda and Myrtle greens and garnet just opened. Ten shad fetus at Velvets and Velveteens. All the popular shades of velvets at #1.00 a yard. Velveteen for suits or waists, 24 inches wide at 50c a yard. WE SELL Gold Medal black goods, Krippondorf-Dittman shoes, Amer ican Lady corsots, Butterick patterns. POTTS 6 PARKS Dry Goods. Dress Goods, Notions, Shoes The mm4 The Best of Everything to Eat Is always obtainable at this store. service is as high as the good tin The quality of quality of the goods we si The goods nod the service best. Tost, the truth of these statements by giving this store your orders for anything sold in a grocery store. J. F. REYNOLDS Greeneville St. Grocer To Publishers and Printers. Ambition of tfcf Seeker Where It I.ed Him. In the sunrise df life a youth said: “I will attain greutuess. I will mount to the high places, uhove (lie groveling throng, ami wealth, power and happi ness shall be added unlo me.” In the flush of the morning he strove for all those things. At ldgh noon lie had acquired wealth, and In the afler- - noon power and fame came to him. It wus as he had said, snve that lie, with all the generations of men, found not happiness. There had been friendships and smiles and hand clasps and em braces, hut none of these things secured for him the tiling he sought. In the evening he sat by an open grave and pondered. Wayfarers saw him there and wondered much. "He Is one of the mighty of earth,” they said. "He 1ms lands and tenements mid goods He has friends and servitors and fawn ing sycophants about him. Though we seek In vain, he must hare found hap piness.”* They could not know that his palaces sheltered blasted hopes, that tares grew In his gardens, that the acclaim of the mob jangled harshly In bis cars. They did not see Ills yearning, the dead dreams within him, the ashes in his heart. His search had ended at an open grave. He drew Ills mantle nliout him and descended Into It, while the pass- ' lug throng swirled by. I At last, and without, his knowledge, ho had found that happiness which he long had sought. -New York American. • A POPGUN PLANT. Away Wltoli llasel Shoots Its Seed Ten or Fifteen Feet. Do you know that the witch hazel shoots Its seeds ten or fifteen feet? If you want a brand new sensation, bring home some branches of witch hazel having both flowers and unopened seed pods on them and put them In vases of water. The pods hurst at the rnoBt unexpected times, wuklng you In the night and peppering you with their hard, shiny, black seeds. Brunches that urc to he used for a purty must be selected with cure to be sure of having perfectly fresh flowers and seed pods that have not opened If It Is possible to do ao, cut them the same day they are needed. If they must be cut the day before they are needed, put them in a cold pluce In wnter and wrap a damp cloth around the branches In oi-der to prevent the flowers from Haw the Bark I, Gathered and Fre- |* pared For I'.e, The cinnamon tree grows to a height I of from twenty to thirty feet nnd Is j sometimes eighteen Inches in thickness. The leaves are from four to six Inches ' in length, oval shaped and marked with three principal nerves. They taste very much like cloves. Clu.nan.ou flow ers are of a beautiful silky gray on the outside and a light yellow on the In side. The fruit is a small acorn shaped drupe, imd when ripe it Is quite brown. It Is, however, the hark of the cinna mon tree that makes It valuable. The Hnest conies from the Island of Ceylon, where they have two seasons of ciunu- tnon harvest. The first season begins In April nnd the last In November. The branches of three to live years' growth nre cut down, nnd the epidermis is carefully scraped away. Then the hark Is ripped tip lengthwise with n knife and gradually loosened until It may he easily removed. The slices of bark are then placed In the sun to dry, and as they dry they curl up Into quills, The next thing Is to examine and arrange the cinnamon according to Its quality. Tlio persons whose work it Is to examine the clunu- mon are obliged for this purpose to taste and chew it, although hi u short time It produces a very painful effect ou their mouths and tongues. As the cinnamon quills are examined the smaller ones are inserted iuto the larger, and the whole Is then tied up In bundles weighing about eighty-eight pounds each. Iu Ceylon the oil of cinnamon Is usu ally prepared by grinding the coarsest pieces of bark, soak'tug this powder In sea water for two or three days and Hieu distilling. Two oils puss over, one lighter the other heavier than wuter. THE CHRISTMAS RUSH DEPOT 8T. At the Big Furniture Store was terrific, but we were equal to the occasion and supplied all who cante with the right things in fur niture and house furnishings. Every" customer went away pleas ed with the goods and prices, and everyone will remain d satisfied patron,of this store, because the goods they bought will hrove em inently satisfactory in the home. The Christmas rush is over, but the tide of New Year’s business is beginning to flow in. Join the throng and come to the Big Fur niture Store. E. O. REESE, NEWNAN, 6A. Newnan Marble Works, J. E. ZACHARY, Proprietor. -Manufacturer and Dealer in- THE ANTELOPE. HIh Two White Fetches That Act as a Signal Code. Visitors to the circus and menagerie have noticed the two white patches on antelopes. Those spots are a siguul which cun he reud by the animals which have noses to smell. Even ani mals whose sense of smell lias been lost can reud the messuge which the antelope gives to warn his friends of danger. The hairs ou these patches are long, wliite and ordinurlly point downward. Among the roots of the hair Is a glund which secretes a strong musk. Uuder- t ueath the skin ut this point Is u broad withering nnd to keep the seedB from ' sheet of muscles which have the power being expelled too soon. There will he great excitement when the seed pods open with n snap nnd the seeds come pnttering down. It is well to rehearse this performance, for nat ural objects often refuse to "show off” when you want them to.—Country Life lu America. A11 Kinds Marble and Granite Georgia Marble a Specialty. All work guaranteed to be First Class in every particular.. Parties needing anything in our line are requested tp call, examine work, and get prices. OFFICE ANNWORKSINEAR'R. R. JUNCTN. NEWNAN, GA. DR.T. B. DAVIS, Residence 'Phone E-three calls. DR. W, A. TURNER, , Residutldd ’Pnoii ~ri Tlie Fir. The fly’s capacity for crime Is ex tended by Its strength, which Is rela tively nearly seven times that of a horse, for It can lift twenty times Its own weight. It can absorb enormous quantities of oxygen and Is, lu fact, a confirmed oxygen toper. The reprehensible lmhlt of walking upside down on the celling, to which the fly Is addicted, Is due to Its habit of exuding gum from each of the 1,200 hollow hairs Iti Its feet. The fly, too, has an evil eye, which Is divisible Into several other eyes. II has also 1,700 or 1,800 parts all connected with the olfactory nerves and therefore possesses complete equipment for de tecting unsound meat, such as Is given to no other living crenture.—Lecture of II. III11 In London. to raise these hairs so that they stand out at all angles like the petals of a huge white chrysanthemum. When an antelope sees danger this muscle acts and the patch flashes out like snow. In i the middle of each Is a dark brown , spot, the musk gland, which frees a j great quantity of the musk which can j he detected down the wind for a long i distance by another antelope. Even ! man can distinguish this danger siguul for some yards. The antelope has live different sets 1 of glands, each giving forth a different j kind of musk for use In Its dally life ns a menus of getting or giving intelll- | gence. The two In the middle of euch j rump patch has been explained, hut the purposes of the others have not yet been fully accounted for. DAVIS & TURNER SANATORIUM, Corner College and Hancock Sts., NEWNAN, - - - GEORGIA. High, central and quiet location. All surgical and medical cases taken, exce contagious diseases. Trained nurse constantly in attendance. Rates $5.00 per day. Private office in buiding. 'Phone 5 two calls. Davis & Turner Sanatorium. Merck & Dent/ Novel Desert Until. One of the wonders of the California desert Is the hot sand hath, famous from the times of the first Spanish pioneers. The surfaco water Is only a few Inches deep. Beneath Is black sund, constantly In gentle motion. The bather does not touch bottom. His body sinks to the shoulders nnd with the aid of a erossliur of timber Is then sustained In a position of perpendicu lar flotation. The temperature Is just as warm ns enu he comfortably borne, and the sensation, like that of soft mussugiug, is delightful. Involution of a Name.. An amusing account is given of the evolution of a name. A man named Halfpenny lived In Dublin nt the end of the eighteenth century. Having beeu very successful In business, his chil dren persuaded hint to change Ills name to a more dignified one, which he did by dropping the last letter. In thq course of time the orthography wus also changed, and when the mnn died he was burled ns Mr. Hnlpen. The fortunes of the family Increased still further, nnd the son soon dropped the j 1 “H.” The next transition was an equal- J Il ly easy one, and he who had run the ! streets ns little Kenny Halfpenny came out ns Kenneth MacAlpln, the descend ant of a hundred kings.—London Queen. A Regular Smash-up points a straight finger to this place, for the very / good reason that here un- ' wheeled, generally bat tered up vehicles can get ' back to business at small cost. One word and that is the end of it: We do carriage repairing and charge you only just what’s right. John Bton.’i Cottonwood. One day lu 1857 John Brown rode up to the Benton pluce near Effingham, Atchison county, Kan., nnd dismount ed. He carried In his hand a switch which he had cut from a cottonwood tree. This he tossed aside, and later Mrs. Benton stuck It In the ground at \ the back door of her little house. It took root and grew. It Is now a huge ] tree nud Is known In the neighborhood as “the John Brown cottonwood.”— 8 ^ ou * n Llf° guards, Atchison Globe. A Story of Thackeray. There Is n story of Thackeray shortly after the publication of “Vanity Fnir” dining with a friend nnd receiving an Introduction to his next neighbor, “Cap tain Crawley of the Life guards.” Thackerny looked greatly annoyed, scarcely opened his lips to this gentle man and afterward told his host In an aggrieved tone that “he liked a Joke as well ns any man, but there was a time and a place for all things.” No joking allusion to n character of his novel had. however, been designed or perpe trated. The fellow guest actually was a Captain Crawley and held a commls- BUGGY BUILDERS Onarht to Be Happy. Towue— I hoar Marryat and his bride are no longer living nt that boarding Legal Blanks be Wo h.« ... ent irely new proce.., on which patent, are pend- j £»« - ^ ing, whereby wo can reface old Brass Column and head Rules, 4 pt I their home life now will bring them and thicker and make them fully as good as new and without any unsightly knobs or feet on the bottom. much closer together, and— Browue— You bet It will! They’ve taken a flat- Boston Advertiser. PRICES. Evil Enough. ! There Is evil enough lu man, Ood knows. But it is not the mission of , . _ , , TT , ,, , ii.i .-in . . | every young man and woman to detail Lefaeing Column and Head holes, regulat lengths,— -*■ cts each, j aii( , report it all. Keep the atmosphere •• L. S. “ and “ Rules, lengths 2in. and over 40cts. per lb. i j»s pure as possible and fragrant with A sample of refaced Rule with full particulars, will he cheer- j gentleness and charity.—Dr. John Hall, fully sent on application. Where Gannete Swarm. One of the most remarkable sights In the world is Bird island, in South Africa, for the reason that during some months of the year it is literally cov ered with gannets. Not a foot of : ground is to be seen anywhere. Day | cfttOrnGyS. after day thousands of gannets strut around, and they are so close to each other that the whole island seems actu ally alive. Those who have seen this sight say that It is one which can nev er be forgotten. A stock of all kinds of Legal Blanks will found at the NEWS OFFICE. The stock cludesSNotes, Mortgages, Deeds, Bonds anc| all blanks used by business men, as well as' those used only by justices, constables and- in^ Philadelphia Printers’ Supply Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Type and High Grade Printing Material, 39 N. NINTH 8T. PHILADELPHIA, PA. His Place In Natural History. "Were you a bull or a bear?” asked an acquaintance of a speculator. “Neither,” he replied. “I was an ass.” A Joiner. nt seems to me,” said Mi's. Oldcas- t!«, “that iu these days there is no nope for the man who lacks initiative.” “I know it” replied her hostess. "That must be one reason why Joslnh has such wonderful success. He gets initiated in something new nearly ev ery week.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Sheik Saadi, the Persian philosopher and poet, said, “Ten dervishes can dwell in peace on one rug, but two princes cannot Uve In one empire." Alliof these blanks are regular in form, an thefpaper and printing are exceptionally good. v In fact, no blanks printed in the State look better or will give the users better satifactiop’ Prices are the same as other printers W charge for blanks. THE NEWS solicits business in this line; and guarantees that users of these blanks will Clashing Interest!. Agent—I’d like to sell you this bottle of mosquito exterminator. Mr. Jack- , eua—No, Blr-ee! I’m a manufacturer of j mosquito netting.—Pittsburg Dispatch. ; entirely pleased with them