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M’DON ALDSPARKS-STEWART CO
In casting about for HOLIDAY PRESENTS you can do no
better than to visit our beautiful
FURNITURE and CARPET WAREROOMS
They are Aglow with Exquisite Selections from the Best Factories in America.
Ladies’ Desks in great variety, $5.00 each and upward to $50.00 each. One hundred patterns to select from. We have worlds
of cabinets china cases, combination cases, music cabinets, &c., &c 500 elegant easels 50c each and upward. We show ten miles of
* rockers in ’hundreds of styles, finishes, etc. 50 superb couches, luxurious, upholstered in leather, broccatelles, corduroy, etc. $5.00
each and up to $50.00. Our sideboards are known all over the State. We sell them everywhere. $7 50 and upward to $75.00 each,
Could you give your wife a more acceptable Xrnas present than one of our Buck’s Stoves or Ranges? $16.50 to $65.00 each. A
full line in stock. We have the only full stock of
CATDPBTS, RUG-S, JVLATTUXTGS,
in Rome—clean, fresh goods—at low prices. Japanese rugs wear like iron. 4x7 feet for $2.75,6x9 feet for $6.00, 7xlo feet for
SB.OO, 9x12 feet for sl2 50 each. Smyrna rugs, all sizes, at Ipwest possible prices. We show the biggest line of china water sets jn
Rome. Prices cheaper than anywhere. Tin water sets in all colors, prices, etc. 1,000 children’s chairs, 25c each and upwards.
People who wish to save money always come to trade with us. We buy cheap and sell cheaper than the cheapest. How could
we do such an immense business if our prices were not lower than our Competitors? Our great trade speaks for itself.
DONALD-SPARKS-STEWART CO>
Coffins, Caskets, Undertakers, Embalmers, Etc.
I, 3 and 5 Third Avenue and 304 Broad Street, ... - ROME, GEORGIA.
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BOW IT’S WORKED OR
Systematic Attempt to Create a Popular
Mining Craze.
CRIPPLE CREEK FIELD OF OPERATION.
Gold Fever Growing—Cheap Certificates
Sold- A'lurlng Litera'ure Arousing
Visions of Barney Barnato.
Since blind pools became an unprof
itable, not to say hazardous, business
to follow, the men who “live by their
wits” have been figuring on some other
echeme by which they can humbug the
people and take their money without
running too much risk of lauding in the
penitentiary.
The indications are that gold mining
speculation has been selected as the
safest and most profitable of all the
schemes. The danger is not so immedi
ate as with blind pools.
Public memory is short. Several years
have passed since thousands of people
all over the country lost their money in
gold mining speculation. The schemers
evidently figure now that another crop
of lambs, another generation of gullible
suckers, has grown up to be fleeced, and
they are after the game. They are try
ing to make the gold craze as popular
now as it was in 1849.
This new scheme is no ordinary one.
It looks like a gigantic, well planned
concerted movement covering the whole
country. The. men behind it have ap
parently no lack of influence, and are
ready to risk their ca b for a g < J re
turn from the suckers. -Cripple Creek is
the scene of their exploits. New com
panies by the score have sprung up
whose alluring prospectuses hold out
great inducements to the man or wom
an who is gullible enough to invest.
Nothing catches the ordinary person
like gold. In a newspaper a story about
the finding of a miser’s pot of gold, the
uncovering cf a big nugget or the short
age of the yellow metal in the national
treasury will attract the reader’s eye
and attention as quickly as any class of
reading that can be secured.
This seems to be thoroughly under
stood by those behind this gigantic
movement to inflate gold stocks. It is
eaid they have seemed the co-operation
of one or more newspapers in all the
larger cities of the country, as well as
a number of news distributing agencies,
to aid them in ci eating public interest
in gold mining stocks in a general way,
and those of Cripple Creek in particu
lar.
The plan of working the newspaper
end of the scheme is to open up with an
interesting story of the gold mining
business jn Africa and q recital of the
recent enormous crash in tire Kaffir gold
stocks. Thun follows in a few’ days an
other story of the production and de
mand for t >UI on the American conti-
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nent. The) wonderful developments ii;
Cripple Creek begin. Each day adds to
the glowing character of the Cripple
Creek news, until the gullible ones are
likely to believe there isn’t much else
than gold in the Cripple Creek moon
tains.
Next comes the prospectus man. He
sends out prospectuses by the thousand
for this company or that, offering to
sell stock in companies owning .any
where from 10 to 1,000 acres of land
“right in the richest gold bearing sec
tions” at from 10 cents to $1 per share.
Generally the stock is only offered i’t
large blocks. It is announced in the
prospectuses that are mailed broadcast
that the first 100,000 or 200,000 share:
will be disposed of at much less than
par value. In some cases they offei
1,000 shares for sls, others S2O sot
1,000 shares, and so on up or down.
Prospective buyers of this stock are
given every assurance of the desirability
of, the mining property. They are in
formed that the company owns the
“Yellow Bird lode,” and the “Maud
S. ” mine, with teu acres of good prop
erty, full cf gold all around, but shortly
will have to put up a few thousands, a
mere bagatelle, to get possession of the
deeds. It is also announced that the
“Adonis,” the “Midsummer Night’s
Dieam” and other valuable lodes are
under patent, and the company expects
togetuthree-sixteeiilh interest in them.
Other valuable incidentals are thrown
in, in a careless way, to invite confi
dence and a disposition to subscribe.
The only thing tne prospectuses do
not do. as a rule, is to promise a return
ici the luemy cf the investors. A few
uro ri: rii-g cm .ugh to do this, hut mo::
of them retinin. There is another plan,
however, that rounds nearly as good. It
is adroitly announced by some that the
conspany is not doing the mining, but
is having it dene by another company
for a royalty of anywhere from 15 to 40
per cent. So the “investor ’ stands no
chance of becoming a loser. He may
lose what he invests, and what he is
subsequently “assessed for improve
ments and purchase cf mere propcity,”
but the pr- rpr-.-tus says nothing of that.
Os court c Tit so companies have of
fices in the various large cities. They
have men in charge of the offices who
know bow to tell fairy tales to their
victims while they extract their dollars.
They spend money freely for alluring
circulars and distribute them among
the farmers, mill workers, laborers, serv
ant and shopgirls and every class where
they expect to find victims. —Pjttsburg
Dispatch.
Musfc is the mediator between the
spiritual and the sensual life. Although
the spirit be not master of that which it
creates through music, yet it is blessed
in this creation, which, like every crea
tion of art, is mightier than the artist.
—Beethoven.
jrursiey eaten with vinegar will re
move the unpleasant effect that onions
have on the breath.
EOPHONE TRIALS.
An Invention to Concentrate Sound In *
For.
’ The recent delays in the arrival of
ocean steamers st the port of New York
and the detention cf vessels onthogrea+
lakes from fog will be obviated when
the eophone, as its discoverer names it,
has been brought into general use. The
discoverer, or inventor, is Frank De la
Torre <jt Baltimore.
Professor Henry of the Smithsonian
institution and Admiral Walker 20 years
ago investigated, on behalf of the Unit
ed States government, the nature and
cause of these curious areas, in which
fog signals cannot be heard. They agreed
that the distance of the signal bell or
whistle from the ship was not a factor.
The direction of the wind and the den
sity of the atmosphere, especially the
varying density of alternating strata of
air or fog, were found to exercise the
most positive influences. De la Torre
was already making his experiments at
that time.
I asked Admiral Walker about ths
eophone and its value to commerce.
“It is a device,” said he, “which con
centrates and intensifies sound so that
it can be heard at a greater distance
than with the naked ear and its source
located more quickly and exactly. It
gathers sounds into a sort of funnel and
brings it directly to the ears. If it i<
what the inventor claims it to be, it
will save not only a vast amount of val
uable time to steamers and sailing
skips, but much property and many
lives as well. ”
The United States lighthouse board is
makipg exbans-ive tu ts cf cophoie
Ono T'c la Torre’s : rd another designed
■by SLj.f L<.s»p, U. S. N., intended to
be an improvement < n the first.
Gaines Aiuocg Monks.
The recreations cf the piouk were few
and monotonous. The chief of them was
perhaps the pacing up and down the
little walks of the narrow limits of the
cloister and garden, or cemetery, during
certain hours of the day, Where even
such gossipy talk as Jocelyn de Brake
lunda tells us of in his quaint “Memoirs
of the House of 8. Edmund at Bury,”
fn the days of King John, was sternly
checked by that obedienciary, the Circa,
as he moved about among the brethren
at recreation. There was a bowling
green for the novices, which the pro
fessed monks seemed to have used at
times. These novices and the other
schoolboy pupils in the house have left
the traces of their games. On the stone
benches of the Gloucester cloisters, where
we know these boys were taught, and
where they spent a portion of their
lives, are playboards not obscurely
marked in the stones.
These gameboards for ‘‘fox and
geese,” “Niue men’s Morris,” “in and
out” and other games are found in oth
er conventional building at .Westmin
ster, Norwich, Salisbury, Durham,, etc.
Other vestiges of unlawful recreation cf
tne mor<: joutiitui dwellers In a monas
- 7. ’’ oe enttine and carving the
stones with letters and other devices,
are occasionally found—for instance,
half way up the winding stair of the
great tower at Gloucester there is a
rough little figure in the perfect dress
of a burgher of the time of the wars of
the roses, evidently the secret work of
a youthful amateur carver in stone.
In some monasteries the monk was al
lowed to possets and to amuse himself
with strange pet animals, such as apes,
peacocks, falcons and even tame bears.
—Quarterly Review. ,
Twelve Series of Perfumes.
A leading authority on perfumes di
vides the entire list into 12 series: 1.
Floral, as ot the rose, violet and the
like. 2. Herbal, as of bergamot, mint
and other aromatic plants. 3. The grass
series, comprising several fragrant
grasses which grow in Ceylon or India,
as the orange grass, which contains an
essential oil identical with that of the
orange, and ginger grass, which has the
perfume of the ginger root. 4. The cit
rine series, comprising the orange, lem
on and their combinations. 5. The spice
series, derived from the clove, cinna
mon, ail-pice and the like. 6. The wood
series, ai the sandal wood, sassafras,
rosewood, which derives its name not
from the fact that it has the color of roses,
but from the odor exhaled by it when
freshly cut. 7. The root series, as the
orris root and many others. 8. The seed
series as the caraway and vanilla. 9. The
balm and gum series, of which there are
many varieties. 10. All perfumes and
essences derived from fruits. The elev
enth series consists of combinations of
the foregoing varieties, and the twelfth
comprises all animal perfumes of what
ever nature. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Found Fault With Hamlet.
There is an old, a very old, tale told
of a venerable lady, who, after seeing
the playof “Hamlet” for the first time,
said, “It is a very good play, as plays
go, but it is made up of quotations.”
This good' dame, although she was
probably unaware of it, was acknowl
edging, in a roundabout way perhaps,
the indebtedness of our language to our
national bard; phrases, sentences and
sometimes whole lines from his writ
ings have been crystallized, as it were,
into colloquial English, and there are
probably more quotations drawn from
the works of Shakespeare than from
those of any other author, ancient or
modern.—Chambers’ Journal.
Must Have Fine Legs.
One of the greatest essentials with re
gard to the recommenllation of a Lon
don footman is not only his height, but
the size and form of his legs. To suit
the needs of those who have not been
gifted With a well formed leg livery
makers now supply artificial calves,
which pad out the leg to a respectable
size. A pair of these pads costs about 5
utviriG POSTERS.
Th. Newest of All New Things—ln Chi
cago.
The newest of all new things—newer
than the new woman even—is planned
for the annual promenade concert of the
Visiting Nurses’ association to be given
at the First Regiment armory in Chi
cago.
The living poster has never been seen
either in Chicago or anywhere else. The
originals to be reproduced are selections
from the works of Chenet, Grasset and
Lutree, Dudley Hardy and Beardsley
and Rbead. The living posters will be
advertised by a special poster which is
being designed for the committee by an
artist at the Art institute. Copies of
this poster will be on sale, and those
who have been favored with a view of
it say it is a charming creation and al
most a portrait of one of the women
who will take part in the representa
tion. This poster is under the super
vision of Mrs. C. P. Abbott.
The tableaus will be exact reproduc
tions of the original posters and will be
shown in frames after the fashion of
pictures. The background will be paint
ed in and the figures will be done by a
number of young women who are al
most daily rehearsing in their decidedly
difficult roles.
A Transformation Scene.
A fashionable audience in Paris re
cently listened td a lecture on chemistry
by a celebrated chemist. At the conclu
sion of the lecture a lady and gentle
man who were among the first to leave
the hall had reached the open air, when
the lady caught her escort staring at
her. “What is the matter?” asked the
madame in surprise. “Pardon me, but
you are quite blue!” ,The lady returned
to the hall and approached a mirror.
She started back in horror. The rouge
upon her cheeks had been converted in
to a beautiful bltfe by the chemical de
composition which had taken place un
der the influence of the gases which had
been generated during the lecture. The
majority of the women in the audience
had suffered in a similar manner. There
were all sorts of colors—blue, yellow,
violet and black. . Some whose vanity
had induced them to put ivory on the
skin, coral on the lips, rouge on the
cheeks and Alack on the eyebrows had
undergone a ludicrous transformation.
Bad Caw of Back Aga..
‘‘lf ever.a man had buck fever, Rea
gan had when he killed his first deer,”
said Duke.
“Several of us young fellows were out
in Potter county hunting, and some had
never seen a deer. I was walking
through the woods, when I heard ahead
of me the report of a rifle several times
in quick succession, and you bet I got
there mighty quick, for I thought some
of the hoys had run on a bear. Well,
wnen i gut in sight there stood Reagan
nnmninc his old winchester .44. ana
not a shell in it.' When 1 came up, ne
let a yell out of him and said, ‘l’ll wear
the feather now !’ We had an old feath
er, and whoever killed the last deer wore
it. There must have been a dozen bul
lets in that deer, and he couldn’t tell
anything about how it happened, only
that he tried to shoot as long as it
kicked.”—Forest and Stream.
Wales’ Cigars.
An American paper says that the
Prince of Wales spends over £3OO a year
on cigars alone. This is, of course, ab
surd, says London Tit-Bits. As a mat
ter of fact, his royal highness buys com
paratively few cigars himself. He has
no need to do so. Both the emperor of
Austria and the czar of Russ'n make it
a practice each Christmas to send cabi
nets of the very choicest Havanas te
Marlborough House, and the collection
of weeds maturing there is quite suffi
cient to stock any tobacconist’s shop.
One Way of Arousing Lodfeerg.
Umpire Bill Hays of the Windsor has
invented a new system of calling sleepy
guests. Its very simplicity is its supreme
attraction.
The other night a newspaper man
went to the Windsor, and being desirous
of being called at an early hour left in
structions with Umpire Hays to do the
work. Satisfied that everything would
be lovely, the scribe retired and slept.
Early the next morning the newspaper
man was disturbed by a lively tattoo
upon the door.
“Well?” he demanded sharply.
“I’ve got an important message for
you,” said the bellboy outside.
Yawning until he sprained his face,
the scribe jumped out of bed, toddled
across the floor and opened the door.
The bellboy handed him an envelope
and then went away. The newspaper
man opened the envelope and found
therein a slip of paper bearing the fol
lowing :
“Why don’t you get up?”—St. Paul
Dispatch.
A Remedy For a Cold.
At the beginning of a cold it is very
good to put the feet in a capsicum foot
bath, wetting the head and face well
with cold water. At the end of ten min
utes rub the knees down with cold wa
ter and dry thoroughly. A housekeeper
can easily prepare this tincture of cap
sicum herself. To one quart of vinegar
add one quarter of a pound of red pep
per, boil slowly for 15 minutes and bot
tle for use. Add two teaspoonfuls to one
bath.
When there is danger of a cold set
tling on the lungs, make a lotion of one
part peppermint oil and two parts of
kerosene oil. Paint the parts where the
pain is located with this lotion. Lay a
fold of flannel over and apply a hot wa
ter bag for 10 or 15 minutes. This rem
edy is especially good for pain in the
back of the bead and neck, soreness and
tightness of the chest Letwecq the shoul
ders.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.