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ma Bargain Day Every Tuesday # f ' AT ' , H. T. Daniel’s PALMETTO, CA. On every Tuesday during* the fall and winter I place a stock of goods on my bargain counters that go at a sacrifice to you. I have just bought three large sam ple lines of dry goods, notions, etc., which I am |going to let my customers have at a reduction of 25 percent. This sale alone means dollars to you. A11 T ask is that you give me a trial, and I aui sure the low price you pay for these goods will make you a satisfied customer. VERY TUESDAY I have <'i well selected line of ladies’ cloaks, ski As, jackets and shirt waists, that I have marked clown 25 per cent, oil’the original price. Also have a large line lad ies’ and gent’s underwear that I have made the same cut on Now when I say 25 per cent. I don’t mean 10 per cent , but just exactly what 1 say, and that is 25 per cent. off. Now listen and take advantage of these low prices. The best three-yard sheeting at 6 l-4c. Good sheeting (by bolt) at 5 l-2c. The best plaids, 6c. A good plaid at 4 l-2c. CLOTHING J* < Q C/3 5 h s a C/3 < o < o & < PQ This is a line of goods that is complete in every way. I can fit the men and the boys and you can buy a ,$10 suit from me now for $7.50, and in fact my whole line of clothing, which is the well known Kantbe- beat and Shield brands, will be sold at a reduction of 25 to 35 per cent. ¥7.50 suits now ¥5.50 10.00 suits how ¥7.50 ¥«.00 suits now ¥6.00 12.50 suits now 10.00 ¥0.00 suits now ¥0.75 15.00 suits now 11.50 20 lbs. Sugar $1 on Bargain Day SHOES. I have for you to select from a $5,000 stock of shoes, and to make room I am going to sell this line at a great reduction. This line of shoes is composed of the famous Hamilton-Brown, Crossett’s and Kiser’s shoes, and always give satisfaction. No one can beat my prices on shoes. 40c Tobacco 25c lb. on Bargain Days Groceries. In this line I can give you the best of everything. By buying in large quantities I can sell ypu groceries so as to save you money on each purchase in that line. W > JS O > HH 2 a > < w js *5 cl w C/3 o > 15 per cent off Everything in Furniture, Coffins, Stoves and all hard ware to be sold at a big reduction. Remember, Tues day is always Bargain Day at this store. H. T. DANIEL ■A- A Story of Speculation. C. B Wray and C. K. Hixon, two young men, were in the em ploy of the Union Trust Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., on a salary of ¥6o per month.. They stole ><200,000 or more and have been sent to the penitentiary for tefi years. Every dollar of the pionev was lost in bucket shops, speculating on stocks. Read these extracts from the trial: “Their only explanation is: ‘We were playing the same game as the big millionaires—and we lost.’ "Wray told .ludge Voting that they, like every one else in the fi nancial world in Pittsburg, were money mad; that he and Hixon talked money all the time, and be fore they began stealing they saw .many opportunities in the stock market to become millionaires, too. " ‘After we had seen so many opportunities slip by ns,’ said Wray, ‘we began taking the money. We took ><500 the first dav, and lost it Then it was a regular thing everyday until the total amounted to at least ¥250,-1 000. "‘Instead of eating during out I lunch time of a half hour we went 1 to the bucket shops. We got tips! from the proprietors, hut theyj never won. \ I “ ‘On one transaction alone, with one broker, we lost <140,000. There was only one time that we ever won and that was ¥25 ’ "These bucket shop owners should he brought into court,” said Judge Young to District At torney Stewart, “if it is liue that they knew these two men were making only ¥60 a month wages.” "Throughout the entire proceed ings Wray had assumed an air of 1 braggadocio. Ilixson was repent ant, and before sentence was pass ed he broke down completely. His wife and infant were present in court. “Wray refused to ask for mercy, I contenting himself with saying: ‘We were playing for a high game, the same as the big millionaires— and we lost. We were never able to win as they do, and I suppose we will have to suffer the conse- cpiences.’ “When sentence the wife of Ilixson swoon- ed. . LEGAL BLANKS Of all kinds are on sale at The News office. The stock includes such blanks as are used by attorneys, justices of the peace and con stables, as well as all blanks in daily use by business men. All forms are those in gen eral use in Coweta and adjoining counties. All blanks are printed on first-class paper, and, from a typographical standpoint, they are not sur passed by the blanks furnished by any printer in the State. The News will be pleased to receive or ders for legal blanks and all orders will be promptly filled. Mail orders will receive prompt attention. This office is always pre pared to make special blanks to order on short notice. We Guarantee ’Em! \\ inter time will soon he here with its ruin mid sleet, mid traveling in an open htigg,\ will lie ver,\ disagreeable. Win not cull mins and get a eoiiilbrtuhle, light running top buggy J * MADE IN NEWNAN We put on ruhliev tires. MERCK & DENT Buggy Builders. us give up the idea of getting can solve every labor \ problem, cheap labor; at the present prices much better without degraded of produce ami cost of production, cheap labor than with it. This farmers cannot pay as much for systematic working and living will good labor as laborers got in other lie worth much to our souk and occupations and here is where the trouble lies. Laborers are justified in going where they can got the most for their work; to get satis Ijictory laborers we must he able to pay them as high wages as they Justice Young passed j,got elsewhere. To accomplish tliis result two th’iogs an* necessary: First, farms and methods must be "According to detectives who so improved that the amount of worked on the case, the losses of; produce for thu labor expended the Union Trust Company will will be much great.nr; second, our amount to ¥500,000.” produce must sell high enough to When did this happen? These pay as much profit on the cost of young men were sentenced T)cto- production as man 11 facto red pro ber 20, 1906. This is not ancient j ducts. To accomplish .the first we history, it is a thing of - today J must not attempt to cultivate more Bankers estimate that thcru arc hind than we can drain thoroughly 365 defaulters each year in our and free from stumps and roots, country among bank employes— If we have to reduce acreage to one every day, and it is true that such an extent in doing this us to 90 per cent of the defaulters are decrease production, prices will made rogues by the speculative increase proportionately. ^mania which I try. daughters, preparing our sons for useful citizens and our daughters for home makers. A hoy brought up in idleness with a servant to wait on him is, as a rule, worse than worthless, and girls brought up the same way do not always make the best wives and mothers. The second part, the marketing of our produce, has been discussed in these columns and consists in such co-operation of truckers, farmers, carriers and consumers as will en able the producer to sifpply all the consumers most, economically.—• < ’otto 11 .lou mill. Dr. T. B. Davis Injured. Dr. T. It. Davis was painfully injured Just Friday night and has been conlincd to his home part of i the time during the past week, possesses our coun 'L’lien we must, by a judicious The injury resulted from a broken I his is only an infinitely system of fertilizing and rotation | sewer pipe in the street, near thu 3mal! traction o( the evil results „(■ mops, with the best, culture, j < Vutral Railway depot, 'the softer ■flowing from gambling on margins build lip our farms to a high state 1 being near the top of the ground and gambling on futures and yet ,,f productiveness, and then with ! was criwheij in by the passing of there are intelligent men who argue that such iniquity is to the advantage of legitimate business. The Labor Problem. the best implements to be had re duce tin* amount of labor to a minimum. We must also eliminate waste as far as possible, allow nothing to be i wasted that can be utilized toad- One of the greatest questions for vantage. Where inferior servants truck growers and farmers to solve and laborers arc employed the is the question of farm labor: Home amount of waste is generally very arc advocating the immigration of cheap labor from the east, regard less of its effect 11 pun the future welfare of our country, and the happiness of our children. One of the greatest curses ever brought upon a people was the bringing to this country of the negro just to get his lal*or on the farms, and thr great. There is generally as much need of retrenchment in our homes as on our farms. Where our wives and daughters are to live and do their own work to a large extent the heavy wagons of John Robin - son’s circus. The result was a hole in t he middle of the street, eighteen inches deep and as large as a man’s hut. Into this hole Dr. Davis’ horse plunged Friday night. 'I’iie animal had a narrow escape from serious injury, and l)r.Davis’ back was so severely wrenched that he lias been suffering much pain since the accident. A Methodist Minister Recommends Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. We Imvo used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in our home for seven years, we should do eveiythlug possible; | ia „ a j wa y„ proved to beu reliable tor comfort and convenience; then j remedy. We have found time it would by the use only of plain, whole- do more than the manufacturers cluim probability is that we w ill never some food, with plenty of fruit and j ^ or it ' ^ '^Pecmlly good tor croup get rid of this curse, and instead the elimination ofjill unnecessary u,ltl wl,00 P i,,,< ‘-“at-' 11 ” - 0 J I Kev. .Tames A. Lewis, ot bringing in another race to curse ; cooking, and the use of oil stoves j p astor Mllaou, Minn., M. ifl. Church. us more, let us work to free our-j and steam cookers, our homes j Olmmberiain’s Cough Remedy is sold selves from the evil effects of the j would be muck more pleasant w ith one now among us. There are too ! less wear and tear on the nervous many of us who look upon manual • system of our wives than at pres- labor as degrading, and instead of working to free our Southern coun try from this false notion,we spend our time endeavoring to get our work done by those that we look upon as being our inferiors. Labor is honorable, idleness is not. Let ent with our unprofitable house- hold^wervants, and the cost of liv- ould lie reduced at least fifty out, and dyspepsia almost iiated. e will just work with our as well as our muscles, we by PeniHtou & Lee, Newnan, (fa. The Mercerian. The Mercerian, the monthly publication of Mercer University, will be issued next week. J. Bu ford Copelaud, of Newuau, is ex change editor of the publication and one of its leading contributors.