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/c?) IS? IF O / 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. *1 “ 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.