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With the Wheelmen.
Interesting News and Gossip.
BICYCLE EDITOR.
‘ BY F. A. W.
The bicycle editor sat in his sanc
tum, surrounded by that deep aud
feeling silence that is so conducive to
thought and brain work.
The noise and bustle of the world
sounded but indistinctly in this holy
of holies wherein dwelt the mind
that shaped the thoughts and foretold
events for the whole cycling world.
The look of conscious power that
had, during long years left its imprint
on his features was unmistakable as
he opened letter after letter and filed
them away for reference, consigned
them to the capacious waste basket,or
made notes on the backs for answer.
The floor was strewn with unopened
cycling journals, pieces of scratch
paper, etc., indicative of the busy
man’s unusually large exchange list,
and the fact that he entirely ignored
it and depended on his own huge
brain for material with which to
govern the cycling public; hanging
their hopes on his every word.
The walls of this great man’s office
were literally covered with record
tables, cuts of wheels and numerous
engravings of men in racing suits and
every sort of a wheel from the twelve
pound racer to the giant sex and sep
tuplet.
The busy compositors entered and
stole out again on tiptoe, in their-in
satiable quest for copy, dreading to
interrupt the thoughts of this the
acknowledged monitor of the world
awheel.
The great man, bowed over his
desk and disposed of letter after
letter, wrote page after page of copy,
until, the pile of copy had grown
large and the mornings mail had
worked down to one or two official
looking letters and two or three sweet
scented feminine like envelopes.
Stopping every few moments to jot
down on a convenient pad some of
the thoughts, running through his
mind; he, at last, grasps a dainty
pink envelope giving forth a delight
ful odor of crushed violets and sug
gesting to his mind every thing good,
pretty, dainty, sweet, etc ; and shoves
it under the letter opener, and with
unexpressible feelings of delightful
anticipation, draws forth an equally
suggestive double fold piece of note
paper, with a beautiful monogram at
the top, and glances at its contents.
Just one glance and a long shudder
ing maniacal cry breaks the stillness
and silence of this great palace of
thought, and the great man sinks
back in his chair with distended eyes
and rigid limbs, unconscious. Almost
instantly the overworked office clerk
breaks in from the next room and
tries to rouse up the seemingly dead
man; after some moments a low moan
issues from between his drawn lips
and in answer to anxious enquiries
from his faithful clerk the great man
moans “ send for the ambulance, I am
ill—ill unto death.”
The frightened clerk does as he is
ordered, and tries to arouse his em
ploj er into some sort of conciousness
so as to ascertain the cause of this
great affliction brought on the wheel
ing world.
The great mind finally gropes back
into the light enough to indicate with
a faint gesture the dainty affair on
desk, that is the cause of this calamity
to all the human race.
Faint as the gesture is the faithful
clerk understands and picks up this
“lightning stroke” gingerly, one look
and he gives the stricken m&n a pity
ing look, grasps his relaxed and
clammy hand and manners “I under
stand.” Turning he handed the note
to the ambulance surgeon and with
bowed head and staring eyes with
draws.
The surgeon glanced at the paper
in his hand and read as follows:
Hon. , Cycling Editor.
Dear Sir: —Which is the best wheel
made and why ? Signed.
Dated. Gustave Bloomergirl.
Sept. 12, 1942. No. 172,146,379.
Philadelphia-New York, Cycle Path.
No King.
F.r the first time in many years the
curtain is about to be rung down on '
••racing” without a king—a man who
Call Up Telephone
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For anything you may need in the drug
line. Prescriptions promptly and care
fully filled and sent out any hour, day
OR night. lam here to please my cus
tomers. A full line of Toilet Articles
and Best Makes of Perfume.
THE PLACE,
331 BROAD.STREET,:
C. A. TREVITT,
Prescription Druggist,
NIGHT BELL ON DOOR.
m im J-g-Clerk over the store
is head and shoulders above his fel -
lows.
Starting in the early days of the
game, Geo. Hendel proved that he
was superior to all others. Then
came W. A. Rowe who reigned su
preme until Wendle forged to the
front, holding the kingship until the
real king, Arthur Zimmerman, was
crowned. Zim held undisputed sway
until his retirement from the path.
In ’95, Eddie Bald, after a hard cam
paign slipped into Zims shoes, al
though his claim to the “skeeters”
foot-gear was disputed by the phe
nomenon of ’95, Tom Copper.
This season opened with Bald,
Cooper and Sanger fighting for the
crown.
Gradually the field increased, new
men came to the front, until there are
six or seven men claiming the crown,
Springfield is supposed to settle the
championship each year, but no one
man has shown that he is entitled to
the championship.
Butler has done some remarkable
riding the past two months, but
neither Bald nor Cooper have been
riding in their usual form.
So that the curtain will roll down
this year with’Bqtler,Cooper,Bald and
Sanger all claiming the crown won in
years past by Hendel, Rowe, Windle,
Zim and Bald.
John S. Johnson gets above the 500
mark this week and wins 4th place.
Gardner goes up two places, from 7th
to sth, Hiser takes Buss’ place at the
tail end of the dozen.
Four Records.
The American records for 12 and 24
hours and 50 and 100 miles were brok
en at Chicago last week. Louis
Gimm captured the 12 hour record,
riding 265 miles. Gimm also got the
24 hour race and record with 486
miles to his credit.
C. W. Mills fractured the 50 and 100
mile records, riding the respectively
in 1 hr, 54 min, 25 see., and 4 hrs, 7
min., 1 see.
INTERESTING LECTURES
The Woman’s Club Arranging an Excellent •
Programs.
The ladles are getting on very satis
factorily with their university extension
idea, and urge all who intend participat
ing to send in their fees et once.
A course in ethnology as follows has
been decided upon:
Arthur W. Dunn, A. M., lecturer in
ethnology. (B)
I. The Peoples of Europe. Six lec
tures.
(1.) The First Appearancs of Man on
Earth. When did he appear? Where
did he appear? The Peopling of the
Earth.
(2.) Races of Men. What is race?
Classification, distribution and charac
terization of the human races.
(3.) The “Old-Stone Period” Men of
Europe. The Men of the ice age. The
cave men. Environment. Culture,
Types. Whence did they come and
where did they go?
(4.) The “New-Stone Period” Men of
Europe. Kitchen-middens. Lake dwell
ings. Great stone monuments. Intro
duction of agriculture and the demon
stration of animals. Race types.
(5.) Modern races of Europe. Bronze
and iron ages. Ibarians. Celts. Scan
dinavians.
(6.) Modern races of Europe (contin
ued.) Our ancestors:—The primitive
Aryans. Their origin and culture. The
yellow people of Europe. Semitic and
influence. The peoples of the Caucasus.
Influence of race upon history and social
development.
This course is designed, in part, as an
introduction to the study of European
history.
All those who intend to take the above
course will please send $2.50 at once to
Mrs. C. S. Spaiks, secretary of Woman’s
Club, in order that the lecturer may be
ng aged and dates fixed.
Ad English Hoad.
Take the road that leads from Strat
ford to Coventry, and you will have
taken the loveliest road in all England
So say the travelers, and here is a story
that looks as if there might be a gram
of truth in the statement An Ameri
can woman who crossed the Atlantic
i announced her intention of driving
; rather than “railroading” through
| Great Britain. “Well,” observed a
i neighboring English woman, "you won’t
1 find a lovelier drive throughout, the
land's length and breadth than that
from ——. ” "Yes. she will, too,” in
terrupt.ed another Englishman. "Os
■course 1 don’t know the road you’re
j thinking of, but whatever it is it can’t
compare with the one I have in mind. "
The argument upon the subject at length
waxed so warm between the two that
I t'. e Amerie.au suggested that each write
his “drive” upon a slip of paper, the
slips to be handed to her and not open
ed until she had set foot on British soil.
This was agreed upon. And when the
American woman opened the slips she
read upon the first, “From Stratford to
Coveutry, ” and upon the second,
“From Coventry to Stratford.”—New
York Sun.
Bns*’ pricFs are n«tra a ting the
crowds to his store.
HE ROUE TKIBUJNE. bUNuAI. OCIOBfcR 11. 1896.
| THE SARATOGA HOP.
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS DESCRIBES THE
GAY FUNCTION.
It Was Pleasant Enough For the Young
Dancers, but the Chaperon Withered
Away Among Moldering Mothers—Emo
tions of the Young and the Not Voting.
Mr. W. D. Howells’ novelette “An
• Open Eyed Conspiracy,” in The Cen
tury, contains the following description
of that important social function, a
Saratoga hop:
She and the evening were equally fit
ted for the event to which they seemed
equally dedicated. The dancing was to
be out of doors on a vast planking, or
platform, set up in the heart of that
bosky court which the hotel'incloses.
• Around this platform drooped the slim,
tall Saratogan trees, and over it hung
’ the Saratogan sky, of a nocturnal blue
’ very rare in our latitude, with the stars
faint in its depths, and by aud by a
( white moon that permitted itself a
i modest competition with the electric
i lights effulgent everywhere. There was
a great crowd of people in the portico,
the vestibule and the inner piazzas and
on the lawn around the platform, where
“the trodden weed” sent up the sweet
scent of bruised grass in the cool night
air. My foolish old heart bounded with
a pulse of youth at the thought of all
the gay and tender possibilities of such
a scene.
But the young people under my care
seemed in no haste to mingle in it. We
oldsters are always fancying youth im
patient, but there is no time of life
which has so much patience. It behaves
as if it had eternity before it—an eter
nity of youth—instead of a few days
and years and then the frosty pow. e
who are young no longer think we
would do so and so if we were young,
as women think they would do so and
so if they were men, but if we were
really young again we should not do at
all what we th ink.
We should not hurry to experience
our emotions; we should not press for
ward to discharge our duties or repair
our mistakes; we should not seize the
occasion to make a friend or reconcile
an enemy; we should let weeks aud
months go by in the realization of a
passion and trust all sorts of contingen
cies and accidents to help us cut with
its confession. The thoughts of youth
are very long, and its conclusions are
deliberate and delayed and often with
held altogether. It is age which is trem
ulously eager in these matters and can
not wait with the fine patience of na
ture in her growing moods.
As soon even as I was in the hotel I
was impatient to press through to the
place where the dancing was, and
where I already heard the band play
ing. I knew very well that when we
got there I should have to sit down
somewhere on the edge of the platform
with the other frumps and fogies and
begin taking cold in my dress coat and
want to doze off without being able to,
while my young people were waltzing
together or else promenading up and
down, ignoring me or recognizing me by
the offer of a fan and the question
whether I was not simply melting. I
have seen how the poor chaperon fares
at such times. But they, secure of their
fun, were by no means desirous to have
it over or even to have it begin. They
dawdled through the thronged hotel
office, where other irresponsible pairs
were coming and going under the ad
miring eyes of the hotel loungers, and
they wandered up and down the waste
parlors and sat on tete-a-tetes just to
try them apparently, and Miss Gage
verified in the mirrors the beauty which
was reflected in all eyes. They amused
themselves with the extent of the richly
carpeted and upholstered desolation
around them, where only a few lonely
and aging women lurked about on sofas
and ottomans, and they fell to playing
with.their compassion for the plebeian
spectators at the long veranda windows
trying to penetrate with their forbidden
eyes to the hop going on in the court
far beyond the intermediary desert of
the parlors.
When they signified at last that they
were ready for me to lead them on to
the dance, I would so much rather have
gone to bed that there are no words for
the comparison. Then, when we got to
the place, which I should never have
been able to reach in the world if it had
not been for the young energy and in
spiration of Kendricks, and they had
put me in a certain seat with Miss
Gage’s wraps beside me where they
could find me, they went off and danced
for hours and hours. For hours aud
hours? For ages and ages, while I with
ered away amid moldering mothers aud
saw my charges through the dreadful
half dreams of such a state whirling in
the waltz, h< pping in the polka, sliding
in the galop and then endlessly walk
ing up and down between the dancer
free_ t^ Ctt
If sou send your name and address, mention
•ng this paper, to Dr. Hathaway & Co., 22% So.
4road St, Atlanta, <3a.. you will receive their
va.naoi* tM-page Reference Book for ken and
W omen.
This book has just been issued and Is full ot
valuable information to those afflicted with any
of those delicate diseases peculiar to men and
women, it tells how to cute diseases. Dr.
Hathaway St, Co. are considered to be expert in
the treatment of such diseases, and are without
doubt the leading specialists in the line of dis
eases which they make a specialty of.
SPECIALTIES.
Specific blood poi- if ™
sonlng, nervous de 7
bility, kidney and ffßh
urinary difficulties,
strictures. vailco- I / v
cele, hydrocel-, pim- 4't./
pies, piles, rheuma- JjaMßty
tism, skin and blood
diseases ot all forms, gSS&vS'-
catarrh and diseases
of women. Address .
or call on Dr. Hath
away Si Co., 21% So. nroau st., Atlanta. iva
Mail treatment giv. n by sending for symptom
iolnnk No. 1 for rren. No. 2 f r women, No. 1
for akin diseases, b o. 4 for catarrh.
and eating and drinking rime cin 11 re
freshments that it made/thy teeth chat
ter to think of. /
I suppose they decently came to me
from time to time, though they seemed
to be always dancing, for I could after
ward remember Miss Gage taking a
wrap from me now and then, and quick
ly coming back to shed it upon my lap
again. 1 got so chilled that if they had
not been unmistakably women's wraps
I should have bundled them all about
my shoulders, which 1 could almost
hear creak with rheumatism. I must
have fallen into a sort of drowse at last,
tor 1 was having a dispute with some
sort of authority, which turned out to
be Mrs. March, and upbraiding her with
the fact that there were no women’s
wraps which would also do for a man,
when the young people stood arm in
arm before me, and Miss Gage said that
she was tired to death now, aud they
were going.
Heird For the lleirless.
This curious advertisement, addressed
to lonely old Indies or gentlemen with
an assured income, appears in a London
newspaper:
A couple of highest position
and old family, x.’sbJ::” to edi:'x,t-?
their children well and having a ki-gc.
comfortable country house one hour
a half frorr town, are anxious to meet
with a lor-'ly old lady cr gentleman
with a good income, who, in return for
every care and pleasant society, would
make a home with them and contribute
toward expenses, and possibly make
them or their children their heirs. No
one with less than £1,500 a year need
reply. Highest references woulrl be
given and required and a month’s trial
allowed. Carriages and horses kept.
Best society in moderation and most
comfortable and'happy home guaran
teed. Seasons in London or winters
abroad if desired. Personal interview
desired. No objection to invalid or to
any creed.
Childrens reefers and Misses
jackets the very latest just ar
rived J. Knttner.
Burney’s midnight hack is just
as prompt as his Noonday baggage
wagon—Never stops.
JERVIB&WRIGHT
DRUGGISTS
Corner Broad Street and Fifth Avenue,
ROME, GA
Drugs and Druggists’ Sundries,
Our line of Drugs and Patent Medicines
is complete. Our stock of Combs, Brushes,
Toilet Articies, Extracts, Purses, Card
Cases, etc., is as complete as you will find
anywhere. See our goods and prices.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded
DAY OR NIGHT.
no vi Telephone 131.
Millinery and
Dressmaking. !
i
Thanking you for past patronage, I
beg a continuance of the same. Mv
stock will be more complete than ever
before. I have bought largely and at
hard-time prices, and will sell cheap. I
have a beautiful store, convenient to all
No trouble to find me. Competent
ladies to wait on you. Besides being,
able to give you the most stylish hat for
less money than any other house in the
city, you have access to my Dressmak
ing Parlors, under the management of
Miss Gramling, an artist in her profes
sion. All WQKK GUARANTEED STRICTLY
UP-TO-DATE.
Bridal Trouseaus made on short
notice. My prices will be in reach of
everybody. Call and see me before
placing your orders.
MRS. J. F. WARDLAW,
9-10 dwlm 246 Broad Street.
ESSEirai
New Goods
Jew Store
Jew Prices
0
We have just opened up a
mammoth stock of
Dry Goods,
NOTIONS, CLOTHING, SHOES,
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Etc.
At Nos. 423 and 425 Broad St., (Abrom
son’s old stand), where we are better
prepared than ever to supply the wants
of our customers.
Our stock is new and complete in
every department, and is unsurpassed
in beauty and cheapness No end to the
variety—no limit to the assortment
We are prepared to offer to the trade
many inducements, and our low prices
cannot fail to attract buyers.
HldSs, Wool, Furs, Beeswax and
Tallow bought at the highest
market price.
Call and examine our stock and you
are sure to go away satisfied.
Esserman Bros.
423 and 425 Broad St. - Rome, Ga.
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Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants
and Children. It contain! neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substituto
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It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years* use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Casr
to ria is the Children’s Panacea —tli© Mother’s Friend.
Castoria.
■•Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chib
Iren. Mothers hare repeatedly told me of its
good effect apon their chii Iren.”
Da. G. C. Osgood,
Lowell, Mass.
“ Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which lam acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant when mothers wi 11 consider the real
interest of their children, ami use Castoria in
stead of the various o.uack nostrums which are
destroying their 'oved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves.”'
Da. J. F. Kinchklob,
Conway, Ark.
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Manufacturers « and » General » Contractors.
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF
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, will sustain the following departments;
' Preparatory, Scientific,
General Teachers (Normal Course Proper), Special Mathematics,
■ Commercial, Special Language,
Courses, siioituand and Typewriting. Special Science, .
. Elocution, Classic.
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Tuitioa in the ab >ve deparn eute will depend up >n the amount of work taken.
Room rent from 50c to 75c prr w«ek | Term open. January sth, 1897.
Boarding, in University ball. $1.50 per week. | Siu irnts may register after December 35th.
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C. A. HIGHT, I. D. FORD,
W P. SIMPSON.
Castoria.
“ Castorb; is so well adnnted to children ths?
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me.”
H. A. Abchbr, M. D..
11l So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. S’.
“ Our physicians in the children's depart
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ence in their outside practice with Castor*
aud although we only have among on,
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products, yet we are free to confess that th<
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it.”
United Hospital and Dispensary,
Boston. Mas*
Allen C. Surra, Pres.,