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MICK’S BILLIE GOATS. He Relates Ano her One Gt Tbo Vmixbt ** eous Yarns. 1 was glad brother Folsom wrote that goat story. I had intended- to ■write it up myself, but was afraid no one would believe it, since I have a man of such well known veracity as a witness. I make no bones of assisting its truth. 1 have no doubt he intends in his next to write up the prize fight at Coosa with a billie goat, but it runs in my mind to steal some of his thun der and placate him. That billie goat is named Seab, and he stands for honest government, “a free ballot and a fair count.” U Along in the summer, when Folsom rusticating down here, he made the acquaintance of Seab, but Seab didn’t take to him much and seemed to recognize him at once as a ballot chewing democrat. They continued for a time to pass and repass in an ostensibly friendly manner as only gentlemen can do, but I could see that Seab was laying for him One morn ing before the lark began to sing, Fol som’s poetic mind was leading over the hills where he could pluck the wild flowers and enjoy the bracing atmosphere, I saw him heading for the stamping grounds of Seab and his Companions. Something whispered to me that there was fun ahead, so I seized a field glass and sought an ele vated position. Foisom, with his feet on the earth and his mind among the Mars, walked right into the herd of goats be fore he knew it. Seab and his boon companions quickly formed a circle around him. Seab stepped three paces to the front and said ‘bab-ah-ah, what might be your pro fession?” Folsom said, “I am an editor and poet, enjoying the morning air. ” Seab replied, “Bah ah ah, you are a gold bug.” Folsom said, “Why, Seaborn, don’t you know I am a took ribbed demo crat, the same that saved the country?” Seab replied, “Bah-ah-ah, you lie, you lie, you are a ballot chewing demo crat ! I challenge you to open hand ed combat.’’ Folsom cast one political eye to the East, th» other to the West and his past life flashed across his mind like a panorama. An awkward silence prevailed. Finally a big bearded billie stepped up and said he had helped to work up the clay to make Mr. Folsom in the wiregrass country, and he intended to see that Folsom had a fair show. Thus encouraged to see that he had one friend in the crowd Folsom decid ed to fight it out on that line if it took .all summer. Then two billies locked scorns, while one held his left hind foot firtnty to the ground the other deserib • •ed a circle With his right as they swung round, thus making a ring. While they were doing this Folsom deftly slipped two smooth stones into his Then the combatants com menced walking the circle watching each other the while for the ’vantage.: Presently Folsom let fly a stone which | missed the mark, but Seab got in a left hander on the shin that made him go lame. After some circling Folsom let fly his last rock which landed square on Seab’s horn, but bounced off like a rubber ball, and Seab smugged him just above the belt which laid him on his back, Folsom came up with Seab’s hind leg in his hand and brought him a ring tailed side wipe with the inten tion of breaking Seab’s Leek, but Seab lit on all fours, “right side up and as well as usual.” Folsom made an effort ■to pick up another stone which lay just outside of the ring, but Seab land ed on his hip pocket which sent Fol som a somersault clear out of the ring. As Folsom was some time getting up his friend, with the long beard, raised the white flag and declared Seab the ■winner. Then Seab passed around his manufactured tobacco and such another bah-ah-ah, bah ah ah you never heard. Folsom limped over the hill followed closely by his wiregrass friend who endavored to console him by saying he fought against great odds, that Seab was a professional, that he could walk a three cornered fence r til and never blink an eye; that his horns were as hard as adamant; that he could get over a fence so quit k ASK the recovered jMw&KsaeaeaHA dyspeptics, bilious j?tH|l ,u^erers » victims of * "_2‘T«*^y ever a & ue > th ® mercurial diseased fl patient, how they re- 9 covered health, cneer- ful spirits and good JEfl appetite; they will tell vou by taking Sim fl "I >« 11 Will Al • W mons Liver Regu- VI ■» A LATOR. The Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medicine In the World I For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, laun 'dice. Bilious at tacks. 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Folsom went to his room, ' and after a liberal use of arnica, proceeded to write a poem on' the mule. I As it has not appeared in print, it I would not be fair to quote it aere, but the gist of it was that the mule was a terribly slandered creature which bad been held up, down through tl e blue vista of ages, as the personification of hard kicking when ' his kick v as not a circumstance to the butt of a goat. Mack. State of Ohio, Clty of Toledo, ) Lucas County. j ss Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business ia the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of De cember, A. D. 1886. t seal. I A. W. GLEASON, ( ) Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. C2F*Sold by Druggists, 75e. DECIDED TO HANDS OFF. Politicians Met and Talked Over the Contes’; for Supreme Court. The constitutional amendment making supreme court judges elective officers has already made an import ant change in t e methods of practi cal politics. This is seen in the result of a conference of leading men, whose ideas were shaped to suit the new sit uation, says the Atlanta Journal. Last Friday night in room 116 of the Kimball house, there was a meeting at which a number of prominent poli titians from different parts of the state were present. They were largely from that class which has been known as “the men who control.” Naturally the object of this conference is a mat ter of public interest. On good author ity it can be said that the subject un der discussion was the attitude which they should occupy toward the elec tion of supreme court judges. There can be no doubt about the fact that one or more of the most prominent took the position that it would be in judicious if not improper for anything like a concerted effortlo be made to select"three men for the democratic nomination. The gentlemen present were undoubt eßy men of great influence in their lo calities, and combined, they would prove a tower of strength for any three men upon whom they had agreed and concen trated. The result of their deliberations is said to have been a fixed purpose to practically hands off and without cooper ation to act independently «f each other, voting for their respctive favorites. It is said that this view was substan tially presented ; Elections before the leg islature, taking place as they do for judges of the superior court and solici tors general, force concert of action, but as these offices had been referred to the people of the state, it was wise and right for each man to stand entirely udon his own strength and no combination would or should be made back of candidates. NINE MONTHS IN BEQ, CURED 24 HOURS. T. J. Blackmore, of Haller & Blackmore Pittsburg, Pa., says: “A short time since I procured a bottle of “Mystic Cure.” It got me out of the house in twenty-four hours. I took to my bed with Rheumatism nine months ago and the “Mystic Cure” is the only medicine that did any good. I had five of the best physicians in the city, but received very little re lie,, irom them. I know that Mystic Cure to be what it is rep resented and take pleasure n racomending it to ether sufferers.” A Remarkable Tortress. In the northern part of Madagascar is the most remarkable natural fortress in the world. It is occupied by a wild tribe who call themselves the people of the rocks. The fortress is a lofty and precipitous rock of enormous size, 1,000 feet high and 8 square miles in area. Its sides are so steep that it can not be climbed without artificial means. Within it is hollow, and the only en trance is by a subterranean passage. Outclassed. Jayson—They say Dr. Brimstone either kills or cures. Bayson—My butcher goes him one better. Jayson—How’s that? Bayson—lie does both.—Washington Times. When the Teacher G ts Cross When the teacher gets cross and her brown eyes get black, And her pencil conies down on the desk with a whack, We chilluns in class sits up straight in a Hue, f s if wrfbad rulers, instead of a spine. l.’s scary to cough, and it’s dot safe to grin— When the teacher gets cross and the dimples goes in. When the teacher gets cross the tables all mix And the ones and the sevens begin playing tricks, The pluses and minns is just little smears, Where the cry-babies cry all their slatesup with tears. The figures won’t add, and they act up like sin When the teacher gets cross and the dimples goes in. When the teacher gets cross the renders gets bad r \ The lines jinple round till the chilluns is sad, And Billyboy puffs and gets red in the face, s if he and the lesson were running a race, Tilt she hollows cut “Next!” as sharp as s pin When the teacher gets cross and the dimples goes. When the teacher gets good, her smile is so bright, The tables get straight and the readers gets right, The pluses and minus come trooping along, And Aggers add up and stops being wrong, And we chilluns would like (but wedaasent) to shout. When the teacher gets good and the dimples come out. —The Rochester Expre a THE ROME TRIBUNE, THURSDAY OCroPEH 15, 1895. SNAP SHOTS. < Dew is a great respector of certain col ors. To prove this take a piece of glass or board and paint them red, yellcw, green and black. Expose them at night and you will find that the yellow will be covered with moisture and the green will be damp, but that*the red and black will be left perfectly dry. Telephone Superintendent (over the wire)-Hello the e, you! No swearing through the telephone. Irate Subscriber—l ain't swearing through the telephone; I’m swearing at it. •There is a syndicate up in New’ Hamp shire that is making a great deal of money by suing the selectmen of the country towns for not, complying with the status that requires guide boards at all road crossings. Although the syndi cate is in the business for the money it can make out of it, it will accomplish a good woik. She—Papa thought he was smart put ting a receipted gas bill among the pres ents. didn’t he? He—Yes; especially when you always turned the gas almost out when I called. There are 75,000 children attending private schools and 160,000 attending public schools in New York city. There will soon be room for 13,000 more m the public schools. This will make a total of 24 8,000 attending the schools, but there are 50,000 more who are of school age but not going to school. Hicks—l hear there is trouble between Bowser and his wife. Wicks— Yes; he brought home a tan aem and they have been fighting ever since about who shall ride in front. From official statistics water power would seem to have taken an extraor dinary development in France, as it ap pears that there are more factories using water than steam. Thus, out of a tctal of 118,655 separate workshops 59 per cent generate their power by water, though the hydraulic plants are, it is true, much smaller than those run by steam. “Ahy, there!” called the master of Hades. Charoff was palpably contused as he wraped his boat into the dock. “I beg your pardon,” he said, “but the fact is, I have felt the liberal movement in theology, and forget some of the land ing places now and then.” A Liverpool glass manufacturer has a chimney at his factory 150 feet high built entirely of glass bricks. She said she didn’t want him when The man his suit presented; That made the fellow look so cheap, She speedily relented, The elephant is the chief beast of burden in Siam and Afghanistan. An “elephant load” is estimated at two tons. Tutt’s Pills Cure All Liver Ills. Tried Friends Best. Forthirty yearsTutt’s Pills have proven a blessing - to the invalid. Are truly the sick man’s friend. A Known Fact Forbilious headache, dyspepsia sour stomach, malaria,constipa tion and all kindred diseases. TUTT’S Liver PILLS AN ABSOLUTE CURE. The New Southern Hotel, Rebuilt and Refurnished Throughout. RATES, $2., $2.50 and $3 PER DAY Now Open to the public W. O. PEEPLES, Manager. CHESTNUT STREET, Opposite Union Passenger Depot, Chattanooga. Tenn HOTEL E!u The Palace Hotel of the South European and American plans. Perfect cuisine and service. The Aragon is entirely new, and has every modern improvement known to science. It occupies the highest point in the city, and is delightfully cool, as well as away from ALL NOISE, DIRT AND SMOKE from trains. Only three blocks from Union Depot. FREE BUS meets all trains. RATES —From June Ist to October Ist American plan, $2.50 to $4.50 per day; European plan, $1 to $3 per day. OF INTEREST TO DRUMMERS —AND THE— TRAVELING PUBLIC. The Wilmer Hotel of Anniston, Ala., which acquired such fame in former years is again reopened to the public with a cuisine to tickle th palate of the most fastidious. Neat bed-rooms, and e large sample room free A. T. SLACK, Prop. Anniston, Ale. OUR CARPET COLUMN Why is it that we can sell Carpets and Smyrna Rugs at 50c. on the Dollar? Eight years ago the McKinley tariff on Carpets and Rugs gave a great stimulus to these industries in the United States. Scores of new mills were erected, thousands of new looms put in to manufacture Carpets and Rugs. The strong competition among these mills; their increased facilities; their improvements in machinery and manufac turing; then the Wilson bill, giving us free wool, have all combined to bring the price down to a little more than half the price of a few years ago. Few people realize how cheaply they can buy a floor covering—we want every one to know it. We Carry Better Grades of Carpets A2ST Os We Carry Three Times the Stock OF AST 1W BOTH. CARPETS FROM 12 1-2 c. TO $1.25 PER YARD. Half Wool Carpets Made and laid for 50c per yd. Wool Carpets Made and Laid for 60c per yd. * Wool Carpets, Extra Heavy Grade, None Like Them io Rome, for 75c per yd-Made and laid. (Our 75c. Wool Carpets are sold at retail in New York city for 85c. per yard ) Smyrna Rags Cheaper and Prettier Than Yon Will Find Anywhere-and Belter Grades iis * <rerr niip s , k 4x 7 feet, h 600 fVL UUR L “ Ce Curtai ” St ° ck 6x9 feet, l|/io 75 R- U 1 Chenille Curiain Stock If jou are priced Japanese Rugs at less figures, don’t buy them, , as they are of poor quality and worthless for wear. M’Donald-Sparks-Stewart Co. Furniture, Carnets, Rugs, Stoves and Undertakers. 1, 3 & 5 Third Avenue & 304 Broad St., ROME, GEORGIA Chattanooga Normal University will sustain the following departments: • ' Preparatory, Scientific, General Teachers (Normal Course Proper), Special Mathematics, ■ Commercial, Special Language, Courses. Shorthand and Typewriting, Special Science, . Elocution, Classic. Tuition in the above departments will be sl-00 per week, payable a term in advance. SPECIAL COURSES; Telegraphy, Kindergarten, Art, Normal Kindergarten (for Training of Teachers. A COMPLETE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Tuition in tbe above departments will depend upon the amount of work taken. Room rent from 50c to 75c per week | Tei m opens Jar nary sth. 1897. Boat ding, in University ball. JI. 50 per week. I students may register after December 25tb. In private families, from $2 to $3 per week. I Car fare, on Northside line, 2 1-2 c. For additional information address, DR. H. M. EVANS, Chattanooga, Tenn. H. E. KELLEY, M. B. Me WILLIAMS. Formerly with R. D. Van Dyke. kelley & McWilliams, No. 13 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. WKOLiESA-IjE Grocers § Commission Merchants. The Trade ot the Merchants Solicited. Our entire personal attention will be devoted to the business in all its details and to all who intrust us with consignments we guarantee prompt] and satisfac tory returns. Liberal advances made on consignments. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF CORN, OATS BRAN AND HAY. —-71 THE 1 TO 4 BAY <’VitK tor Gleet, beucorrnrea (White?>. Spermatorrhoea, and *VTHCT 1i f a '* unhealthy sexual ’discharged. I'ree Syringe. • ' w/sSBI S 80 PAIN. NO STAIN. PREVENTS STAICTUIiE. <O* PBEVHTS All PF.iYATE lIStASIS. ZJ 4! At D* writ, jsi.i -.o r IvrftJW. ;f Luectb-i. an ‘I bo •».’sati’fiw- It' ./’ < Uwu tpruwiribae • '■■■■■ 1 i! .ntnrt.racr.cn. I .jt ' '1 DR.HENUY liENY. Bi.ldnford.Me. ! «“• • I e-'* ’Jv tV’IW W,- J, • . ■>,. <1 S.Cta- ■ a Ek Bl XIST S XKT — Staple and Fancy Groceries No-10 Broad Street, Rome, G-a. Yon can find everything kept in a first-class gr eery store. Goods all fresh. I will not be undersold by anyone. Give me a chance at your hill before buying. NORTH GEORGIA iptal Colltje, DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, At Dahlonega, Georgia. Spring term begins first Monday In February. Fall term begins first Monday In September. FULL LITERARY COURSES. TUITION FREE With ample corps of teachers. TROUGH MILITARY TRAINING under a U. 8. Army Officer detailed by Secretary of war. Departments of Business, Short* hand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Music and Art. Under competent and thorough YOUNG LADIES have equal advantages. CHEAPEST COLLEGE in the SOUTH For catalogues and fall information ad dress Secretary or Treasurer of Board Trustees. Application for Letters of Dis mission. GEORGIA. Floyd County. Whe-eae Asa B.Camee, Administrator of Mrs. P. E Carnes, represents to the court in bis peti tion duly filed that he h»s admi' i.tered Mrs. p. E.Carnes’ estate This is to fire all persons con cerned, kindred and'erecitnrs. to show cause, if any they can. whv s»id administrator rbo'ild not be discharged I. run bis ad minis tra’ ion and re ceive letters of dl mission <>n the fi st Monday in Jan, 1897. 1 his Oct. lith 1898, JOHNP DAVIS. Ordinary Floyd County, Georgia Oct 113® Application for Letters of Dis mission. GEORGIA—FIoyd County. Whereas Asa B.Carnes administrator of Joseph P. arnes decsased, repre’tnte to tbe court in bis I et.tion duly fil.d, that be baa > diriniatered J. P. Carnes’e> tate. Tbir is to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, 'o show cause if they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administra tion and retire tette-. of dirmi.tten on he first Monday m Jan’/. 1-197. This Oct.’o. 1896. JOU' P. D 4 VIS, Ostl'-Sm Ord'ner/ Fl.-yd <■■ nnti , A pplicatton for Letters of Dis mission. GEORGIA, Floyd C. nnty. Wberea* ’»re. Judith E ShHlde”, 2 dmiute tratrix »»f I*. M. heihlev dec and, repreaents totbecnurrin.fr pn’itino du j tii<d Gutahe haa administered P M MwibiejS • Mate This la to cite ah t er»ons con erned. kindred and creditor#, to ahow <au e, if any they ran whv said administratrix should not lie discharged ftom her admin is l ra* Inn and n cel v** letter* of difunlaalon on tbe fir*t Monday In 1896. Thia August 3rd 1896. ~ JOHN P. DAVIS, Ordinary Floyd County,