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The wedding bells have began ring
ing out their merry peals. There are
many of them this fall. A wave of
matrimony seems to be sweeping over
this section and as itsweeps on it grows.
Several have alren* :y occurred in Rome
and many more to come. These excite
great interest among the many friends
of the parties, and, indeed, all citizens
almost are included in those who pay
great attention to one or more of the wed
dings that have been or are to be.
Last Tuesday was a beautiful day.
The floating zephyrs breathing.gently
from the south softly touched the rosy
cheek of youth and beauty, while the
faintish echo of winter’s yet distant
voice drove back in fear the heat god of
summer and tempered the rays of the
noon day sun.
Joy and happiness shone in spark
ling eyes,red lips curled and coquetted
in merry laughter, fair cheeks
dimpled and youth and joy reigned
in fast beating hearts.
And if such signs foretell the coming
days, bright and joyous is the path
way entered then by Mr. and Mrs.
James Platt Moreland, a path
way they are to follow until death do
them part.
The wedding of Miss Viola Smith,
daughter of Capt. and Mrs. James A.
Smith and Mr. James Platt Moreland,
of Mobile, Ala., occurred Tuesday at
noon at the First Baptist church.
The church was filled with friends
who had gathered to witness the glad
nuptials. Promptly at 12 o’clock the
carriages containing the bridal party
drove up to the church, and a few
minutes thereafter Tanhauser’s wed.
ding march pealed from the organ
under the skillful touch of Mrs. Mc-
Henry. This was changed to Mendel
sohn’s as the ushers started down the
aisle. First came Mr. J. E. Dean and
Mr. Guy Cothran, followed by Mr.
Bernard Hale and Mr. Oscar McWil
liams. The attendants followed in
this order:
Miss Virgie Bixler, of Mobile, and
Mr. W. E. Gardner; Miss Emily Smith
and Mr. Louis Hart, of Cincinnati;
Miss Mamie Leonard, of Vienna, and
Mr. Hart Smith; Miss Sarah Simpson
and Mr. Albert Bush, of Mobile.
As Mr. Moreland and Mr. Landon
Hopkins, his best man, entered at a
side door, the bride and her sister,
Miss Edith Smith, maid of honor, en
tered the center aisle. The bride, al
ways beautiful, never appeared more
lovely than in the bridal gown of spot
less white. At the altar she met and
was joined by the bridegroom and
arm in arm they stood before Dr.
Headdeu. In his ever impressive
manner the minister began the cer
emony, using by request the Episcopal
service. It was an unusually beauti
ful service in every respect. The
bridesmaids were of marked loveli
ness, begowned in exquisite taste.
Many were the enthusiastic remarks
upon the beauty of the scene as, after
pronouncing the couple man and wife,
the party left the church.
They drove at once to the home of
the bride’s parents, where an elegant
luncheon was served, perfect in every
detail. z
That afternoon the happy couple
departed followed by the well
wishes and congratulations of innum
erable friends and admirers. Rome
has such few altogether lovable and
admirable daughters as the bride, and
her many charms will gather about
her a wide circle of earnest friends in
her hew home as she has here.
In the presence of a deeply interested
throng of friends, under soft lights that
shone upon a lovely bride in gleaming
white, and a groom justly proud, Miss
Annie Ewing and Mr. James Franklin
Lester were united in the holy bonds of
matrimony Wednesday night, at the
beautiful home of the bride a mile west
of the city.
It was a happy scene, one long to be
remembered and one that will remain
a long time as a bright spot in the minds
of all present.
The beautiful home was tastefully dec
orated and the rooms were filled with
lovely women in exquisite; gowns, and
their sparkling eyes vied with the scin
tillations from the lights, and scores of
gentlemen in evening dress. Just be
fore 9 o'clock. Miss Bessie Sproull, maid
of honor, entered the parlor on the arm
of Mr. Will Black, of Atlanta, and fol
lowing them came the bride and groom.
The bride’s gown was an exquisite crea
tion in gleaming white, with the regu
lation veil, and her many admirers who
were present, felt that never before hud
her deep eyes shone so splendidly or ht r
beauty been more marked. Dr. Headden*
in a few impressive words, pronounced
them man and wife, his solemn words
falling upon deeply interested ears. Im
mediately thereafter he handed them a
large package of congratulatory tele
grams that had been received, and then
the gathered relatives and friends came
and offered the heartiest well wishes to
this most charming bride and congrat
ulations to Mr. Lester.
In the dining room, beautifully deco
rated, elegant refreshments were served
very gracefully by a bevy of bright and
attractive young misses.
In one of the reception rooms Were
spread many elegant and beautiful
presents, cut glass scintillating in the
brilliant lights, and silver shinning in
their rays.
It was a dazzling array and seldom
have Romans seen as handsome a lot of
wedding gifts.
The evening was spent most delight
fully by the throng of happy friends, and
it was a late hour when they made their
departure.
Among those who attended from At
lanta, were Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich, Mr.
and Mrs. Stokes, Miss Edwards, Mr. Black
and Mr. Robertson.
Rome society regrets to lose their
charming young lady, but is glad of her
happiness and the most earnest well
wishes oi all follow her to her new home
in Atlanta of which city Mr. Lester is a
prominent and popular citizen.
A quiet but happy marriage occurred
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Barker.
The bride was their sister, Miss Willie
Reynolds, formerly, of Litbia Springs,
but has recently made her home with
Mr. and Mrs. Barker. She is very bright
and charming and has a great many
friends and admirers wherever known.
The bridegroom was Mr. L. A. Hawes,
a prominent and popular young gentle
man of Atlanta. The happy couple left
for Atlanta immediately after the cere
mony, followed by the well-wishes and
congratulations of their many friends.
Mr, Wm, Green Raowll entertained
a party of friends very delightfully
Tuesday evening at his Lindale home,
a pleasant feature being a very elegant
dinner. Those present were Misses Ce
leste Ayer, Carrie Clark and Annie
Beattie, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Nevin.
Messrs. Alex Bonnyman, Chas. Smith
and C. K. Ayer.
Neatly engraved invitations reading
as f jllows are beirg sent out:
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Lay,
would be pleased to have you present
at the marriage of their sister,
Margaret Nettie. King,
and
Mr. John Russell Cantrell,
Thursday, October the fifteenth,
at three o’clock P. M.,
Eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
312 Fifth Avenue,
Rome, Georgia.
Miss King is very bright and charm
ing and is popular with all. Mr. Can"
trell is one of Rome’s leading and
most successful business men and has
a great many friends.
Tneir many admiring friends are
looking forward with great interest
to the coming event.
Miss May Kincaid, one of Rome’s
most talented young ladies, left Fri
day for Atlanta where she has ac
cepted a position as art teacher in the
Washington seminary. She is exceed
ingly talented and highly educated
and her many Rome friends and ad
mirers predict for her a brilliant suc
cess in the field she has entered.
At the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Cheney a very elegant dinner
party was given Tuesday evening in
honor of Miss Louise Todd, of Atlanta,
the charming guest of M : ss Laura Berry.
Those present were Misses Todd, Laura
Berry,Maynor Holmes, Dr. and Mrs.
T. R. Garlington, Messrs. Hughes Rey
nolds, Beau McWilliams and W.J. Shaw.
All spent the time most delightfully,
and vuted it one of the most altogether
pleasing affairs of the season.
The Luiies Aid Society of the Rome
Christian church met at the home of its
president. Mrs. C. H Lavender. A lot
of business was gone through with and
the meeting was quite interesting. There
will be a calf meeting at the residence
of Mrs R G. Cross on East First street.
All members and ladies interested in the
church are urged to be present. The
ladies meet to discuss plans for a tea to
i be given some time this mouth.
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Xavier Chapter of the Daughters of
THE HOME TRIBUNE. SUJNDAY. OCTOBER 11. 18Hc.
the American Revolution will hold its
annual meeting for the election of offi
cers at the home of Mrs. Will Graves,
on Tuesday the 13th at 3:30 p. ni. It is
hoped that a full membership will be
present. The regular meetings are held
on the 11th of the month, except when
that day fails on Sunday, when they are
held on the following Tuesday.
Another marriage of interest to Romans
will occur at Reeves Station, Oct. 5 when
Miss Clara Bryant Weber, a popular and
charming young lady of Gordon county,
will wed Mr. T. Fall Foster, formerly of
Rome. The attendants will be Mr, Robert
Foster and M : ss Cullie Herington; Mr. J.
P. Glover and Miss Lillie Armstrong ;Mr.
C. H. Herington and Miss Sunie Wright;
Mr. J. C. Fain and Miss Kate Swain; Mr.
H. Pope Wooten and Miss Aurie Garliag
ton.
Still another marriage, as yet unan
nounced, will occur this month, the
bridegroom-to-be being a popular young
business man of Rome.
The german at the Armstrong Thurs
day night was a happy affair in every re
spect, and was attended by quite a large
crowd of young people. It was given by
the young gentlemen complimentary to
the visiting young ladies.
Among the fair visitors to Rome are
Miss Mamie Leonard, of Vilenua, Ga.,and
Miss Virgie Bixler, of Mobile. They
were bridesmaid’s at the Smith-Moreland
wedding, and many compliments were
were passed upon their peisona! beauty
and their exquisite and stylish costumes.
They have many admirers in Rome.
The Lanier Circle will hold its next
meeting at the residence of Mr. J. Lind -
say Johnson in East Rome on Monday
evening the 19th of October. The sub
jects discussed will be The Language cf
Greec by Dr. Battle, and The Influence
of Greece on the Woild by Mr. J. F.
Hillyer. Miss Zoe Eastman will give a
resume of current events. A full atten
dance is expected.
Last Friday afternoon the Senior Class
of Shorter college gave aa Al-fresco tea
on the terraces for the benefit of the col
lege library.
The hour was bright, and the grounds
never lovelier. The young girls were
happy and joyous in their beneficent task
of dispensing the harmless beverage to
the assembled guests. Btsides the regu
lation ‘‘Cup o’ tea,” a varied menu con
siting of salads, cake, coffee and coca had
beep prepared. The fair young pupils
were charmingly arrayed in long white
aprons and served their custcmers from
little tables prettily decorated in fancy
china and cat flowers.
A feature of the occasion was a “com -
plimentary” lunch given to Mesdames
John C. Printup, Rowell and Johnson by
the Senior Class in token of their grati
tude to these ladies for their generous
aid'and kindness towards their efforts for
getting a college library.
The “ladies elect” as the girls have
dubbed them all sat at the same table
and the honor was passed in congenial
converse.
Order your magazines through the
Library. That institution places all
magazines and papers to you at the stated
price, and they obtain on all a liberal
discount. The ladies are trying to put
the Standard Dictionary in the Library
for the benefit of the town.
At the Southern Conservatory of Mu
sic on Friday evening next, October 16,
a concert will be given by Mr. Fortin,
assisted by Misses Rica Cohen and Ella
Neel. These young ladies are Mrs. For
tin’s assistant teachers, filling- the posi
tions formerly occupied by Misses Snell
and Lester who are now studying with
Dr. Heinrich Barth in Berlin. The pro
gram will apper in the Tribune, and is
one to delight all who attend.
Indeed the young , girls are to be
congratulated for selecting these three.
Rome is proud of them and knows
full well the sweet influence of their
efficient labors in the past.
No gentlemen were allowed, but
now and then the stately form of Dr.
Battee passed to and fro while Miss
Gibbs like a guardian angel mingled
in the throng leaving good cheer and
hospitality in her wake.
From an alcove in a distant corridor
could be seen the sweet and gentle
face of the president’s |wife enjoying
from afar, the picture. More than one
heart in Rome will rejoice to know of
her presence and her entire recovery
from a recent and painful illness.
When the sun sank behind Mt. Alto
and the fair young crowd dispersed
how many wished for a repetition of
the entertainment at an early date.
The Kncxville Tribune tells of the
marriage of Miss Mamie Osborne, of
that city, and Mr. Al. Harper, of East
St. Louis. The similarity in names be
tween the groom’s and that of a youug
Roman, accounts for the Chattanooga
Times’ mistake in stating that the bride
groom was of this city, which of course,
he is net.
Miss Ethel Grey Turk will be pleas
antly remembered as visiting Mrs. J.
W. Ellison this summer. Her many
friends made here are the happy
recipients of invitations reading as
follows:
Mr. and Mrs. 8. B Turk
request your presence at the marriage
of their daughter
Ethel
to '
Mr. Thomas B. Weatherby,
at their home near Livingston, Ala.
Wednesday, October fourteen.
eighteen hundred and ninety-six
at eight o’clock a. m.
At home DeKalb, Mississippi.
Miss Turk is-a young lady of great
personal beauty and possesses many
loveable traits of character while the
young man She has chosen as life’s
companion is one of Mississippi’s
most promising professional men.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Some Who Come, Some Who "Go and Some
Who Stay at Hume.
Capt. J. N. Taliaferro, of Summer
ville, was in the city yesterday.
Judge and Mrs. Chas. G. Janes, of
Cedartown, are visiting Prof. J. C.
Harris.
Mrs. Lano Grahan nee Miss Lila
Berry is visiting her mother Mrs.
Thomas Beny.
Mrs. D. D. Plumb and her charming
daughter, Miss Rosa are with Mrs.
Florence Eastman.
Mrs. 8. L. Crook, of Anniston, Ala.,
has returned home after a pleasant
visit to Mrs. D. B. Hamilton, Jr.
Miss Virgie Bixler returned to her
home in Mobile yesterday. She was
an attendent at the Smith-Moreland
marriage.
Mr. C. Morgan Seay, one of Rome’s
most popular young men, left yester
day for New York where he will spend
the winter.
Misses Clara Johnson and Orie Best
two very charming and popular
young ladies, are spending a few days
in the city.
Miss Louise Todd who has been
visiting Miss Laura Berry for the past
two weeks returned yesterday to her
home in Atlanta.
Mrs. Ethel Hillyer Harris has re
turned to her home at Rome. She
was accompanied by Mrs. Bernard
Wolff and the pretty little Ellen Hill
yer Wolff —Atlanta Journal.
Bring your hands to Fahy’s and
see if he can’t fit them with an elegant
pair of Cluze Patent Thumb Kid
Gioves.
elegant carpets
At Wonderfully Cheap Piicea at McDonald-
Sparks-Stewart Co.’s.
One of the prettiest and most ele
gant lines of carpets ever seen in
Rome is at McDonald-Sparks-Stewart
Co.’s.
And the prices are so cheap as to
cause purchasers to open their eyes
in wonder and smile in pleasure.
Prices on carpets and rugs are cut
half in two, and you can not fail to
be pleased if you call on them to
morrow,
' They carry a tremendous stock, and
have plenty of patterns and grades to
chose from. Carpets all the way from
12| cents to $1.25 per yard.
Call and see these bargains. No
city in the south can beat them.
New, neat Parisian novelties in
Dress Goods just opened up at Thos.
Fahy’s.
Lindale JLiiißH.
Rev. Mr. Barnett, of Van’s VaHry,
preached two able sermons last Sun
day morning and evening.
Mr. Burgess is 48 years old and is
the happy daddy of a fine looking
baby. Mr. Burgess says we have the
finest water he ever drank and thinks
the medicinal qualities of the water
can’t be excelled.
Mr. Achord has changed from
Black’s to Alexander’s boarding
house. He is looking very thin and
if he can get about “a cord’’ every
week of good grub, he will get
through all right.
Mr. W.G. Raoul has resigned his
position as boss of the card rooms of
the M. M. Co. and will leave for home
this week.
The fencing around the mill yard
will present a very neat appearance
after tfee: painting is finished. The
color wilrbe a light red and will add
much to the looks of the mill.
The C. R. & C. officials ought to put
another coach 5 on the Lindale Satur
day evening train.
The Baptist will organize a church
here next Monday night and will ex
pect to build in a short time.
There will b? a series of sermons
preached at the Presbyterian, com
mencing Sunday and continuing
through the week, hv Rev. W. I. Wal
lace and Dr. Goetchius, of Rome.
Go to Fahy’s for hosiery. Misses’
ladies’ and children’s from 5 cents a
pair up.
Subscribe for New York'
World through Harry E. Pat
ton. _
Thos. Fahy has underwear to fit
anv shape, size or form. Excellent
values. Bee his line.
Every now and then with more or
less justice, usually more I think,
strong protests are entered against the
use of certain histories in our South
ern schools, on account of alleged
prejudice against the South and un
fair accounts of her soldiers, states
men and prominent sons and daugh
ters. These complaints seem usually
to be well-founded, and the result has
been the introduction of histories
giving more of the Southern side.
I have been exceedingly interested
in finding a case where the shoe is on
the other foot, and patrons of a New
York school are raising a great hue
and cry because of a history which,
they claim, glorifies the South and
sneers at the Northern cause. The
history is not by a Southerner but by
a New Englander—Julian Hawthorne.
The school is on Long Island, and the
New York Sun devotes considerable
space to the great commotion caused.
Some extracts from the history will
no doubt interest many readers as
they have me, and I suggest that any
schools in search of a history take a
look at this one.
Among the things noticed as illus
trating the alleged sectionalism, this
is the section given to William Lloyd
Garrison in the chapter headed
“Some Statesmen and Historians.”
Mr. Hawthorne says:
“But there was a violent party at
the North that insisted on the aboli
tion of slavery without regard to law
or Constitution,” and then going to
the discussion of Garrison he says:
“In common with others of his time
he had developed the doctrines of hu
man freedom contained in the Declara
tion of Independence and the Consti
tution until he found himself in an
attitude of criticism toward all forms
of government; and his religious con
victions were also peculiar. * * *
Country, patriotism, national power
were as nothing in his eyes if they ob
structed the discharge of a moral
duty.”
Speaking of Webster and his atti
tude toward the extremists of the
North preceding the passage of the
Mason Fugitive Slave law, Mr. Haw
thorne says:
“But with the growing acerbity of
sectional animosities, the extremists
began to murmur because Webster
refused to give their war dances and
echo their threats. * * * But
these persons were victims of the same
sort of optical illusion that leads the
uninstruCted to suppose that the sun
resolves around the earth.”
Speaking of Webster’s speech on the
measure, March 7, 1850, the book says:
“He rebuked the hair-brained and
premature zeal of the Abolitionists;
and the picture he drew of the conse
quences to the South of secession was
of such convincing force as to delay
for a decade their resort to that alter
native.”
Referring to others of the same
period, Mr. Hawthorne says of Wen
dell Phillips: "Patriot he cannot be
termed, and, ardently though he pro
fessed to love reform, he probably
loved speaking ou it even better.”
John C. Calhoun has a page to him
self, Henry Clay has nearly two, and
Garrison, Phillips, and Sumner have
to content themselves with a page and
a half all told. Jefferson Davis gets
two notices, one on page 78, where he
is called “a trenchant controversialist,
author of ‘The Rise and Fall of the
Confederate Government,’” and a
section on page 312, his “Short History
of the Confederate States of America,’’
gets a good .reading notice. Under
Davis’s first notice is the name of
Alexanper H. Stephens, “an eminently
temperate and luminous writer,” and
then follow William Henry Seward,
of whom it is considered sufficient to
announce that he was of Lincoln’s
Cabinet and was the author of a
“diplomatic history of the civil war,”
and lastly Abraham Lincoln, “who,
though anything but a literary man,
was among America's history mak
era,” and who was complimented on
his inaugural and farewell addresses
and commemorative speech at Gettys
burg, which "aie unsurpassed for dig-
I nity, simplicity, and lofty and manly
sentiment.” That is all Lincoln gets.
Under the second notice about Davis,
is a sentence that says that Sherman,
and McClellan “made valuable contri
butions to the history of the civil
war.” Grant, however, got a section
to himself. ’Wo oth« • histories of civil
war are mentioned.
Another point,made by the object
ors to the book is that Southern
writers of today get mnehjnore space
than they ere ent itl d to in compari
son with Northern writers. Sidney
Lanier gets a page, so does George W.
Cable. Louisa M. Alcott and Alice
and Phoebe Cary are merely men
tioned. Constance Fennimore Wool
son gets three lines, and Charles Eg
bert Craddock (Mary N. Murfree) gets
nearly a page. Julia Ward Howe is
forgotten entirely. William Tilmon
Simms. John Esten Cooke, John Pen
dleton Kennedy, and Paul Hazen, all
from the South and practically un
known, they charge, get a page and
three-quarters, Mr. Hawthorne saying:
“We have been bearing more from
the South of late and are likely to-hesr
more yet in the future; indeed, it is
more than possible that another gen
eration may find us receiving our best
literature from that part of the coun
try. ’ ’
In the article on Whittier Mr. Heb
bard and his friends find much they
condemn on the score of sectionalism'.
Mr. Hawthorne says, among other
things:
“The bitter sectional feelings which
prompted a part of Whittier’s verse
and the passionate conviction which
guided his pen, though they may
have helped the cause, injured the'
artist and hindered his artistic devel
opment. Uneducated, narrow,, preju
diced, his headlong zeal was in har
mony with those fiery times when
menwisheito aet, rather than re
flect. The epoch having passed, the
verse of which it was the occasion
must cease to be judged by other than
literary standards, and according to
these standards its value is, for the
most part, comparatively small. ”
But those are not all the things that
are to be defended from the attacks of
the opponents of the book. They
maintain that the function of the
writer of a text book on literature is
to suggest even that wholesale con
demnation of a writer whose works
are admired by a large element of the
people is out of place. They contend
that Mr Hawthorne’s remarks about
Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe
are absolutely out of place, and of
themselves unfit the book for school
use.
However, these things maybe this
deponent sayeth not, but it is surelv
of interest to read these extracts, and
few in this section will consider it as
prejudiced as many “Northern” his
tories they have seen in Southern
schools. Indeed, when time brings the
impartial history untinged by personal
feeling, will it not agree with Mr.
Hawthorne’s history in many more
particulars than with others of which
we know?
Don’t Kick
BROTHER, OR 100 MAY
KNOCK IT BELOW 17,.
You are told that we are losing
money on Arbuckle’s Coffee when
we sell it at 17c per package, but
that is our business and not the
other fellows, and we want to tell
you that we are making and not
losing at 17c a package for coffee,
hence that price stands and sugar
goes at 20 lbs. for sl. If you want
something nice in Jellies, Preserves
or Jams we tiave it, fresh and fine
and at a very low price.
Roasting ears are a thing of the
past but our Pure Gold Corn, new
crop, has arrived an! we will sell it
at 10c the can. You will remember
how sweet and tender this corn is as
we sold you the same stock last sea
son at 15c the can. You cannot get
Pure Gold Corn except from us.
Honey that is clear as a crystal
and pure as bee* can make, strained
and leady for use. No hing like it
in this market.
Proud we are of our Cheese; it is*
the best'New York cream, mild and*
just the thing for people who want .
the best for toe last money.
Every Drep a Drop oi Comfort.
If jou have more money then you
need then go ahead and pay 40c
pound for Micha and Java coffees
while we sell the best that money’
can buy at 35: the pound.
Watch our ads. for bargains, we
do not intend they shall give out.
Yours T uly,
Hand & Company.
Opposite Armstrong Hotel.