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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. * * 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- TBADE EDITION-BOMB TBIBUBB. DECEMBER lOZ PAGES. 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.