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No one else will get a pair of of these very fine pants. stand a shadow of a chance. DISTRICTS OF FLOYD PEACE AND PLENTY ABeund In These Pleasant and Pictur esque Country Places. OF PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY « A Happy and Contented People Inhabit These Valleys. * A NUMBER OF THEIR ATTRACTIONS Olimpses of Their Environment and Points About the People Who Make Their Homes In Floyd, On the Georgia Division of the South ern railroad. About twevle miles South of Rome is SeEey, one. of the most prosperous little villages of Floyd county. It has several stores that do a fine business, four churches that are well attended, a splendid school, two char-coal stations, two saw mills and several other important indus tries. Rev. G. B. Jenkins is principal of the r school and is giving the town a most ex cellent school. He is ably assisted by his accomplished daughter, Miss Hattie. The people of Seney are a steady and progressive people and take great interest in church and educational affairs. The churches are well supported and this ■5 «juiet little town is enjoying great busi ness and social prosperity. VANN’S VALLEY. r, A Fertile and Prosperous Community Near Rome. Vann’s Valley district lies in one of the most fertile and prosperous valleys in North Georgia and is the home of some of our most progressive citizens. This year its beautiful farms have yielded abundant harvests and the farmers are happy. \ Mr. William Montgomery is justice of / the peace of Vann’s Valley and there is not a better one in Georgia. He never allows a case to go to court if it can pos sibly be settled otherwise, and his rulings are always proper and just. W. J. Walker is his bailiff and is one of Floyd’s roost dutitul. Prof. Barnett has a good school at Six-mile. Mr. D. B. Sanders is the postmaster at Vann's Valley and also has an extinsive mercantile business. Mr. Sanders is a thoroughgoing citizen and performs his | responsible duties well. He carries a full line of merchandise and groceries. F r W. J. Cooper, a railroad man at Vann’s V Valley has been confined to his home for I sometime on account of sickness. He is ready for business again, however, and no one attends to it more faithfully than he. Mr. Packer, who lives near the M etho dist church is a splendid farmer. He has some of the finest cotton that I have seen. No farm in Georgia is more beautiful than the fruit and vegetable farm of Mr. W. 8. Gibbins. Mr. Gibbins and his sister own 1,100 acres of the finest land in the valley and they are converting them into a lovely garden of fruitful beauty. Miss Lillian Montgomery has a good school at Agate. School is not in session now. Miss Lillian is one of Floyd’s best teachers. Vann’s Valley has four churches, Rev. Mr. Moon, ot Cave Springs, is pastor of the Methodist church and Rev. Mr. Pullen of the Baptist. Hugh. Montgomery is Agate’s very ef ficient postmaster. JEVERETT .SPRINGS A Well Eqalpped Sem'nary 1b Located at That Place. Everett Springs is conspicuous for its first-class school No school in the country has held up better and promises more in the future than Everett Springe seminary. It sustains a full attendance the year round and is giving entire satis faction to all who patronize it. The great success of this school is due to the combined interest of all the peo ple concerned, and the most efficient faculty. Prof. J. W. Moore, principal, is one of the most able and conscientious instructors in the state. His brother, Prof. G. Moore, his assistant, is a young man of great ability for teaching, and has a promising future. Miss Gaines, the music teacher, is a brilliant young lady, and is conducting her department ment most successfully. Everett Springs is a pleasant locality and is the home of some of our most prominent and worthy citizens. NORTH CAROLINA. The Residence of Some of our Most Substan tial Citizens, w North Carolina includes Coosa, Ore burg, LaVender and several other pros perous towns as well as some of our most excellent country communities. This district is thp home of Capt. Dean, A. B. McArver, Dave Shelton and others of our most substantial citizens. Mr. McArver is postmaster and mer chant at Coosa and does a big business. J. L. Hardin is justice of peace and Will Van, bailiff. The Baptist church at Coosa is one of the most prosperous in the county. OLD LIVINGSTON. Altown With a Hjatory That Is Older Tian Rome. Livingston is a quiet little place where one could dream his life away amid broad TBADJE EDITION—HOMK THIBUNB, DECeMBEH. fields of plenty and in the golden sunshine of peace. N. C. Sanders is a leading merchant and post master and Tom Shipley has re cently opened up a very good mercantile business. The lands about Livingston lie as level and pretty as a garden and have yielded average goop crops this year. Livings on district is one of the largest and wealthiest in the county and has some of the cleverest people. Its churches and schools are all prospering and its farmers are hard working and honest. Mr. John Webb is justice of the peace and A. M. Shipley is notary public W. W. Huffman and J. M. Johnson are bailiffs. CHULIO DISTRICT. A Brautlfal Country In the Southeastern Portion of Floyd. Chulio includes that rich and prosper ous country lying in the Southeast por tion of Floyd county. In this district is found some of the best communities in the county such as Wax, Chulio, Silver Creek, others. Prof. A. H. Yarbrough has a splendid school at Wax. Mr. Butler is the justice of peace and makes a good and consciencious officer. This is one of the most prosperous dis tricts in Floyd. PLEASANT VJLLEY. The Sp’endid Regeon Known a« the Flat Woods of Floyd. Lying just West of Rome is the beau tiful country generally known'as the Flatwoods This is a valley district and has many pretty farms. It is rich in timber wealth. There are three churches in this dis trict, two Baptist and one Methodise They are well attended. Mr. Geo. D. Anderson, the justice of the peace, is an earnest and judicious officer and serves his people good and well. _ usraec sm t Mr. John Rice makes a most; efficient notary public. FLOYD SPRINGS. A Pleasant Place in Which to Locate a Beautiful Home. Another place that always makes one one feel at home while visiting there is Floyd Springs. Its people are hospitable and thrifty and take great interest in social, religious and educatifnal affairs. The Methodists and Baptists both have splendid churches here, and the Sunday schools and church services are well attended. FOSTER’S DISTRICT. The Home of Capt. John C. Foster, Com missioner. Foster’s district has some of the finest farms in the country and some of the most progressive people. John C. Foster is postmaster at Fos ter’s Mill and runs a large country mer- cantile business as well as millling and ginnery. He has one of the best milling establishments in the county. Mr. Tom Watsons is the miller and has one of the finest old, ante-bellum homes in the state. C. M. Williams is justice of peace of Foster’s district. The Baptists have a fine and prosperous church at Foster’s store Rev. W. M. Bridges is pastor and R. B. Simms is superintendent of the Sunday school which is in a very flour ishing condition. TEXAS VALLEY. And Crystal [Springs, its Thrifty and At trac ive Capitol. Texas Valley is one of the oldest settle ments in the county and has some of the finest farms. Crystal Spring’s a pretty little village with a number of pretty homes. Mr. Ben Wright is the coming mer chant of the place. This district has a number of good churches and schools. George Milun, post master at Fouche is a prosperous farmer. Mr. M. G. Selman makes a most effi cient justice of the peace and Bob Reeves a splendid notary public. GARLOCK PACKING COMPANY. Endorsement of the Firm by Their Exhibi tion at Atlanta. Included in the manufacturing inter ests of Rome is the Garlock Packing Company, who manufacture packing for machinery, including engines, pumps, etc. The Rome branch of this company has been established for eight years. Mr. A. D. Hull, the present efficient and genial manager, has been in charge four years, and has won many friends in business and social life. Sales are made by the company all over the southern states, and a force of salesmen are constantly canvassing the territory. They have greatly increased their sales in the past two years, notwith standing the general depression of all business. Two tons of Garlock packing wasjsold for the use of engines and pumps at the World’s Columbian exposition. All engines and pumps in the machin ery hall at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition are packed ex clusively with Garlock packing. Aside from the packing that they man ufacture, they carry a line of engine room supplies, such as sheet packing, gaskets, boiler compound, belt dressing, etc. They are now manuracturiug a new hydraulic, water-proof packing that is meeting with great success, and also a special “Garlock” brand of red sheet packing. The factories of the firm at Palmyra, N. Y., and Rome, Ga., are by far the largest of the kind in the country, sup plied with the very latest improved ma chinery. Their many years of practical experience in the manufacture and use of packings of every description, enables them to provide packings of standard quality for steam, gas, water and ammonia. They are the owners of numerous patents and secret processes which, together with the superior quality of the material used, enables them to maintain the high stand ard of excellence in their manufactures and most favorable reputation which their packings have established among engineers, consumers and dealers. They invite correspondence from all who are interested in the best quality of packings. All of their goods are guar anteed. THE SIN EATER. A Curious Funeral Rite Which Formerly Obtained In Wales. The principality of Wales has within living memory possessed an official known as the “sin eater," says a Lon don journal. It was the practice for a relative—usually a woman—to put on the breast of a deceased person a quan tity of bread and cheese and beer, and the sin eater was sent for to consume them and to pronounce the everlasting rest of tbs departed. It was believed that in do.ug this he absolutely ate and appropriated to himself the sins symbol ized by the viands, and thereby pre vented their disturbing the repose of the sinner who had committed them. Such an arrangement would obviously leave nothing to be desired on the one side, but bow it worked on the other we are not told. What was supposed to be the coudition of this spiritual under taker after the ceremony was concluded? Did his “appropriation” of the dead man’asins imply a sort of moral assimi lation of them, answering to his phys ical assimilation of the bread and cheese? Tbe question would obviously be one of some importance to a sin eat er in large practice If the responsibili ties of his profession were as great as they would appear to have been on this hypothesis, he would need to retire from it early and to devote a consider able portion of his closing years to re pentance and good works. Again, it is natural to ask what hap pened at the decease of a popular or “fashionable" siueater. Would anyone among hie professional brethren under take to eat his sins, even in the first flesh cf satisfaction produced by step ping into his shoes? If so, then, indeed, has the epithet of “gallant” been right ly bestowed upon little Wales. It is as though one doctor succeeding to anoth ei’s practice should consent to assume the moral responsibility for his late col league’s treatment of all his deceased patients in addition to his own similar burdens. We yield to none in admiration of the quiet and homely heroism of the med ical profession, but we doubt whether it would enable them to face such an or deal as this. As to the Welsh practition ers to whom we have compared them, we shrink from pursuing the analysis further. It is evident that, as in the scnooiboy game cf "conquerors,” where a stone which can smash the smasher, of, say, 43 other stones takes over all its conquests, and becomes itself a “forty-fourer, ” so the responsibilities of these unhappy men might accumulate at an alarming rate. ' «■ - - -t- J. SAM YEAL ISrEZXJXAB WALL PAPFR! AND MAKES PICTURE FRAMES ANY SIZE WANTED. For 25 Cents YOU CAN GET A Beautiful White Metallic Cabinet Frame. Call and see them at J. SAM VfiAL’S Book Store. Hotel Grant, 80 to 90 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Electric cars pass door every five min utes to Exposition Grounds and all parts of the city. Only three blocks from union depot. RATES—S2.OO, $2.50 and $3.00. W. H. DAVIS, Manager. J. W. LANCASTER, PHOTOCRAPHER, 328 Broad Street. Copying and Enlarging a Specially.