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VOL. X L I V. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1909 NO. 52 We’ve been planning for this sale for a month or more. Of course you attended our “Clover Day” sales last spring. If you didn’t you missed some rare bargains. We are going to make this a banner day for shrewd shoppers—but, remember,for one day only. We’ve chosen dress goods as special leaders for this occasion, and have named some prices that will make jmu take notice. Most every woman has to buy something in woolen goods for early fall wear, and we figured that some real low prices on dress goods would appeal to all. Now, this is not a dress goods sale pure and simple; you’ll find a lot of other goods scattered about through the store that are equally desirable. But the offerings in dress goods are by far the largest of any other class of merchandise, and, coming at a time like this, when everybody is buying dress goods, must appeal to you forcibly. We note only a few of the good things offered. DRESS GOODS The lot consists of a great variety of materials in all shades. The prices range from 29c. to 59c. for goods worth up to $2 per yard. A number of Priestly’s and Courtauld’s best black fabrics includ ed in the lot. SILKS The quantity is limited; they are not new; some are small remnants; you will" not find every color you are looking for; but SILKS at 29c. and 39c. a yard, that have sold as high as $1.50 per yard, must find some purchasers. Come early for these. NETS AND ALLOVER LACES A number of pieces in this lot; some very small, only enough for trimming a dress; others contain enough for a waist or dress. Some em broidered chiffons in the lot, and some very fine black allovers. We’ve sold them all the way up to $4 a yard. They should melt like snow at ONE DOLLAR A YARD. LINENS Just two items here, but thejr are hummers: 10-4 linen sheeting 75c. a yard; worth and sold at $1 everywhere. Yard-wide full bleached all-linen suiting, just the right weight. You’ve paid 50c. a yard for worse linen. “Clover Day” price is 25c. And don’t forget “Clover Day” damask, two yards wide, (all linen,) 59c. WHITE GOODS •lust one item in white goods, serving as an in troduction to the best line we ever carried. “Im perial” longcloth, full yard wide, $1 a bolt. Value at least $1.50. HANDKERCHIEFS Three items here, and not many in each lot, but you will get a bargain if you happen in early. A lot at 50c. a dozen that sold as high as 10c. each. Another lot at 10c., (all linen,) embroidered, worth up to 25c. RIBBONS Hair-bow ribbons for the girls’ hair—all one width, about five inches. They come in white, black, red, navy, pink and light blue. The> are all silk, and worth 35c. “Clover Day” price is 21c. SUITS IN ANNEX These are not new suits. Perish the thought! ^ <)U can tell it by the prices. There are not many of them, either; but we’ve put a price to move ’em —$5, $10, $15. That’s the story for suits we sold up to $50. • September Finds us with our preparations for the Fall trade complete and ready for business. Our Fall and Winter goods are now here, and we are showing the largest stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Dress Goods, Shoes, Hats, Etc., < That we have ever carried. Have just received a lot of Children’s Ready-made Dresses—sizes from 6 to 14. Make up your mind now to wear one of our suits * this season. We handle the celebrated “KAN’T- BE-BEAT” line. They have always been noted for their perfect-fitting and wearing qualities, and the moderate price. We are showing some pretty pat terns in this clothing, and our line for 1909 is big ger, better and brighter than ever. Our stock of odd Trousers is also complete—prices $2 to $5—and at every price named we offer the very best values. We have several misses’and ladies’ Coat Suits ( that we will sell^at lower prices than you will find elsewhere. We invite comparison, and ask for business only on the merits of our merchandise. i H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO. T H E G O L D E N K N I G I! T . A nlim young- knight in golden mail Came riding down tin? field; Of yellow metal wns hia lance His cuiraas arid his s!v*M; And yellow was tin waving plume That danced upon tin* breeze, And yellow, too, the silken curia That rippled to hia knees. He halted by a silver stream, And in the moonlight pale The chilly dewa like jewels ahono Upon his gleaming mail. A wind that told of coming frost Ilia saffron feather shook. And s’ >.t, the red October leaves In showers upon the brook. But all along the caste rn sky A blinoitifr glory came. Aa morning robed the hills with light. And crowned the woods with flarflo; Anl when I saw the golden knight In glittering armor pass, A slender spray of golden rod Was Lilting with the grass. —[Minna Irving. ❖ Why Living Costs More. Henry Dunkak is president of the New York Mercantile Exchange, the organization of produce commission merchants who handle New York’s fresh food supply. A Post-Dispatch reporter asked him why the cost of living was increasing so rapidly. This is his reply: “Natural causes—a complete change in the conditions governing our national food supply. Artificial changes here and there, extra profits in some lines, combinations in others; local conditions in cities have a tendency to increase certain prices, but those are the exceptions, not the ruling causes. Underneath them lies the basic reason; namely, a demand for food that is increasing faster than the supply. “We have reached a point where we are ceasing to be an exporting nation of food prodnets. Our population is increasing so rapidly that we are con- j suming at home nearly all products of | the American farm. A few years ago 1 we exported large quantities of food; | to-day we export little save in special 1 | lines; a few years hence we may be j | importing. I “It is a very simple rule in economics ■ | that when the demand proves greater j i than the supply prices rise. This is the J condition we are approaching in the food question. This i3 why prices are stead- j ily advancing. “Mr. James J. Hill, the railroad man, j is considered, I believe, an authority on the grain supply of the West. He has stated that we, as a nation, are rapidly approaching the time where we will ! cease to export wheat and flour and j consume at home every bushel we can raise. I am not familiar with the details of the wheat supply, but I accept that prophecy, because I know the same conditions are applying to the fresh produce of the farm-thc butter, eggs, cheese, milk, vegetables and poultry. “The last Government report on ex ports and imports gives some concrete examples. Government fiscal years end on June 30, and the figures for last year are available. Let us take potatoes as a specific instance. In the year 1907 the United States exported 1,030,461 bushels. In the year 1909 the exports were 763,651 bushels. In two years the exports fell olf one-half. “The same two years show a falling off in butter exports from 12,044,777 pounds to 0,981,260 pounds. In cheese the percentage of decrease is even greater-from 17,280,230 down to 6,822,- 842 pounds. “These Government statistics show that in the last two years the exports of meat and dairy products have decreased approximately $36,000,000 in value, or about 17 per cent. At such a rate it will be only a few years before the exports will cease entirely and the home demand exceed the supply. “Until recently New York was a great dairy State. It more than sup plied this city with butter, milk and cheese. Today v/e go far West for the greater part of our butter and eggs. The States of the Mississippi valleysup- ply the New York breakfast table. The commission merchant is driven to go further and further west and south for his consignments of farm produce. “The very rapid increase in popula tion has a double effect. First, there are a greater number of people to be fed, particularly in the large cities, who do not raise any of their food supply; secondly, there is a decrease in the available acreage in Eastern States, owing to the spreading out of com munities. Every new town that springs up or expands into a city draws firston its own vicinity for form products, and thereby decreases the supply that formerly was shipped to the metropolis. “Thus everywhere the general de mand for food products is increasing, while the available supply grows very little larger. The first effect of the de mand is to raise prices at initial points. The farmer can ask and receive higher prices for everything he raises than five and ten years ago. There is a steady upward movement in all market places. “The longer distance from which New York must bring its fresh food supply naturally leads to some increase in the cost of transportation. Only a very small part of the total comes from nearby regions. The truck gardens of Long Island have been turned into building lots. The milk train starts 200 miles or more away from the city. Iowa butter is sought after. The States of the South furnish us with vegetables. “But it is not merely these special conditions that is raising the cost of living. The real causes lie further back. The population is growing enormously. We are wanting and get ting better qualities of food. The de mand is going ahead at such rapid pace that it is overtaking the supply. The result is inevitable—highqr prices. "There is the answer to your ques tion.” g Sure to Win. Justice is, of course, loudly demand ed by every litigant in a court of law, hut it is a frequent infirmity of the human mind to confuse justice with one’s own cause, says Law Notes. The late Thomas B. Reed used to tell an amusing story to illustrate this ten dency. He was once retained by an enter prising client to prosecute an action. On talking with the plaintiff’s wit nesses Mr. Reed found that their stories were far from consistent, so he report ed the fact to the client and advised that the suit he dropped. The client was somewhat perturbed, hut told the attorney he would have a talk with the witnesses and let him know the next morning what he had decided. True to his word, he dropped in bright and early, wearing the cheerful look of one who has fought the good fight. “I’ve seen those witnesses,” he ex plained, “and they say that they must have been mistaken when they talked with you. They all see it alike now. I’ve also seen some of the jurymen and they think I’ll win. Now, if there’s such a thing as justice in law, we can’t lose. ” Every Woman Will Be Interested. If you have pains in the hack, Urina ry, Bladder or Kidney trouble, and want a certain, pleasant herb cure for woman’s ills, try Mother Gray’s Aus- tralian-Leaf. It is a safe and never- failing regulator. At druggists or by mail 60c. Sample package FREE. Ad dress. Thu Mother Gray Co., LuRoy N. Y. Parents without interest live with in corrigible children. Southern Cotton Mills. Baltimore American. There was once a theory up New England way, fifty or so years ago, that providence had so arranged the indus trial scheme in this country that the Southern States would continuously grow the raw matorials and that New England would turn these raw materia s into manufactured products and resell them to the South at a large profit. It was a reciprocal scheme, which was worked to the satisfaction of New England through more than three-quar ters of a century. The system of ship ping cotton northward to be turned into yarns and textiles is working yet, but with striking modifications. The annual reports showing the out put of American cotton mills have in dicated from year to year during the past decade that the South has been rapidly gaining upon the non-growing States in the manufacture of cotton, and last year and this the reports show that more raw cotton has been turned into fabrics in the South than in the North. According to the statistical in formation gathered by the secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange for the commercial year which ended Au gust 31, 1909, Southern mills consumed 2,660,000 bales of cotton, aa compared with 2,600,000 hales consumed by the Northern mills. But during the same period foreign mills used 8,066,000 hales of cotton, or about 3,000,000 bales more than all the mills in this country. It is therefore apparent that there is still abundant opportunity for the expansion of the cotton manufacturing industry in the United States. Baltimore has long fig ured as an important cotton manufac turing center, and there is no apparent reason why this city should not become the counterpart of British Manchester. Cheap power and nearness to the grow ing areas constitute the combined ad vantage for Baltimore as a cotton manufacturing center. “Have you confessed all your sins?” asked the preacher, solemnly. I guess I’ve about cleaned up,” was the feeble response of the sick parish ioner. How about those fish stories you are so noted for?” continued the pas tor. “Were they all true?” The sufferer's face took on a look of anguish and disgust. “Parson,” he muttered, “that’s a mighty mean ad vantage to take of a dying man !”