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MIRRORED.
October will be a month of wed
dings. It is rumored that there will
be several in Rome.
Capt. and Mrs. A. W. Ledbetter an
nounce the marriage of their second
daughter. Miss Mamie Lee Ledbetter
to Mr. Albert Beda Arrington, of At
lanta, which will occur October 37 at
4:30 p. m.,at the First Baptist church.
The bride to be is one of Rome’s
prettiest and most amiable young
ladies. She was educated at Shorter
•college, and is a talented artist. Her
pa ntingsjadorn a number of homes in
this state and Alabama. She has a
large circle friends who will join The
Tribune in extending ante-nuptia l
congratulations.
Mr. Arrington is connected with
the Southern railway’s train dispatch
er’s office in Atlanta. He is a brother
of Mr. Homer Arrington of the Curry-
Arrington company,of this city. Mr.
Arrington has been a trusted and
valued employee of the great South
ern railway system for fourteen years.
Before his removal to Atlanta about
three months ago he wafe chief dis
patcher of the Rome office. He is a
young man of high character, and
promises to reach an exalted station
in the railroad world.
Miss Roberta Cross will leave Monday
to visit relatives in Chattanooga.
Miss Will Nell Lavender, the accom
plished daughter of Col. and Mrs. C. H.
Lavender, leaves today for Chicago to
visit friends for some time.
Society has been somewhat enlivened
the past week by two prominent visiting
girls. Miss Piercey, the charming guest
of Miss Mae Patton, hails from Nash
ville, and is, as has been said, very pop*
ular socially in the Centennial City. Her
father is United States Minister to Brazil,
and one of our leading diplomats. Miss
Katharine Girard, of Savannah, the guest
of Miss Julia Bayard, is another who has
been admired by society for her queenly
grace and charming manneis. She is a
grand niece of the immortal philanthro
pist, Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia,
and her father is prominent in Savannah
It is safe to say that the reign of these
belles in Rome will be one of continued
pleasure.
The Chafing Dish Club met with Miss
Julia Bayard on Thursday evening.
Pillow dex was played. About eight
couples were present and enjoyed the
evening greatly.
Miss Willie McWilliams entertained
with a Jenkins party last night compli
mentary to Mr. James Dunlap, of Gains
ville, who is the guest of Mr. Oscar Me '
Williams Only a select party was pres
ent but they spent a delightful evening.
The regular weekly german was danced
by Prof. Northcutt’s class Friday even
ing. Beside the dancers there wks a
large crowd of spectators who enjoyed
the many new and intricate figures.
Many outsiders take advantage of the
afternoon dances to watch the twenty
little gents and misses go through the
mazes of the minuet and grand march.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are the
regular afternoons. Regular drills are
given three times each week preparatory
for the fancy dress ball in October.
Miss Addie Wright has returned
from a delightful stay at the Ten
nessee resorts. Her many admiring
friends are pleased to see her home
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Mr. and Mrs. 8. L. Graham are
spending some'time at Pinewood,
Tenn.
On last Wednesday evening Misses
Fleming entertained a small party of
friends at their lovely home in East
Rome. They are very charming and
popular young ladies, and entertain
most delightfully. Those who partook of
their hospitality were: Misses Nannie
and Lou Fleming, Maynor Holmes,
Julia Dean and Daisy Talmadge, of
Athens. Messrs. R R. Harris, Ed Har
ris, Walter Cothran, Oscar McWilliams,
William McWilliams and Dr. Will
Shaw.
Thursday evening Misses Maynor
Holmes and Daisy Talmadge, of Athens,
were mbst charmingly entertained by
Miss Mamie Rounsaville at the lovely
country home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A
Rounsaville. There is no prettier or
more hospitable home than this, and
the evening passed very pleasantly in
deed for the party.
Miss Carrie Clark has returned home
after a delightful visit to New York.
Miss Daisy Talmadge, who has been
the charming guest of Miss Julia Dean
for some time, has returned to her home
in Athens. Miss Talmadge is a most fas
cinating young lady and made many
friends in this city.
Miss Ada Evans, a very accomplished
young lady from Canton, is the guest oi
Sheriff J. P. McConnell’s family.
Mrs Mitchell, and her accomplished
daughter, Miss Virginia of Mobile, who
have been guests of the Central hotel,
have made many friends since their
stay in the city. Miss Mitchell has an
exquisite voice, and has completely cap
tivated all who have heard her sing.
Col. Herman Goebler supervising
architict of the N. C, & St, L. Ry
who is here in charge of the construc
tion of their new passenger freight
depot, left yesterday for Nashville
to spend Sunday with his family. He
will return Monday.
Miss Virginia Lee Mitchell, who is
the charming guest of the Central ho
tel, will sing at the First Presbyterian
church this morning at 11 o’clock.
•She has a very sweet voice,of wonder
ful volume and purity.
Prof. Ivey Duggan, the business
manager of Shorter College left yester
day for bis old home in Washington
county, where he will take a much de'
served rest of several days.
Mr. Edgar A. Green, who now holds
the important post of stenographer for
Watkins & Dean of Atlanta, is in the
city to spend several days with his
parents.
Capt. R. G. Clark and family have
returned from a delightful visit to New
York and Sweet Springs, Va.
The meeting of the Women’s Federa
tion of Clubs which will convene here
Nov. 1-3, will bring a large number of
the most brilliant women in the state
to the city. The ladies here are making
great preparations for entertaining their
distinguished guests. During their stay
in the city Shorter College will give a
most delightful Entertainment in their
honor. The best talent of that noble
institution will contribute to make the
evening a notable one.
Summerville Society
Mr. John Cleghorn jr., left Thursday
for Oxford, where he entered Emory
College.
Misses Roxey Hanis and Bessie Knox
went to Milledgeville last week to enter
the G. N. &.l. college at that place.
Editor J. W. Cain spent Saturday in
Rome.
Mrs. W. Shropshire is visiting rela
tlves in Rome.
On last Monday evening Miss Mary
Hollie entertained a few of her friends
delightfully at a party. Those so fori a-
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nate as to receive invitations were:
Misses Venice Clemmons, Annie Long
Grace Hollis, Kate Branner, Anna Bry
an and Catherine Cain and Messrs.
Jno. Cleghorn, Jno. Cain, Rob and
L uncan Bryan, Arthur Jones.
C. C. Cleghorn will return Monday
from Nashville.
! Mr, J. R. Clemmons is quite sick.
Mrs. Ella Milner is visiting friends in
the country.
Mr. Henry Knox will leave Monday
for Atlanta where ha enters the business
college. '
Gordon Hiles, of Rome, spent a few
days of last week here
Must The Waltz Go,
The American Society of Professors
of Dancing has decided to abolish the
waltz. The waltz! Think of it ye summer
swallows and winter beau! Here’s a
combination of dancing masters who
dare to raise their piping voices against
the greatest of American institutions,
the waltz! We are to be restricted to the
sqnare dance, The rhymthmic air that
makes the oldest of us all feel young
again, that rouses memories of ■ moon
light nights and a maze of pretty girls
whose features, composite, resolve them
selves into one fair face—fafrer than
them all and perhaps dearer now than
ever and more beautiful than any of the
multitude whose memory makes man
rise in protest against the abolishment
of the waltz. The professors have de
cided that the waltz must go! And who
pray are the professors? Autocrats they
are and always will be. Carping critics
of the ball room before even the of
us have quailed, they have gone a step
too far and when they issued their de
cree agaiust the waltz they little knew
how weak and foolish they will feel
when the wave of sentiment rises from
"the palaces of crowned kings, the huts,
the habitation of all things that dwell”
—a wave that will sweep the dancing
master’s edict out into a rebellious
ocean of contempt and leave him shorn
of a goodly share of the very high'opin
ion he always has of himself.
la Love a Disease?
Now that some ingenious gentleman
is about to perfect a device by which
he can take photographs of the wind,
it is not suprisings that there should
be scientific inquiry into the great hu
man passion and after diagnosing it,
discover a cure, says the Augusta
Herald.
We are confronted with nothing less
than the assurance that love is as dis
tinctly a malady as the prurient fond
ness of the inebriate for the insidious
exhilaration of old John Bailey.
M. de Fleury,the French svant,
has written a work called ‘‘lntroduc
tion a la Medicine de I’Esprit,” which
is gravely and approvingly reviewed
in a recent number of the Lancet, the
chief medical journal of Great Britain.
In his chapter on‘‘La Medicine des
Passions,” he’says: ‘‘Love is a physi
ologic phenomenon, which enters the
domain of pathology the moment it
assumes the sentimental form. Do
we not habitually say, ‘So and so is
madly in love? This passion which is
beyond the control of sense, in face
of which reason loses her rights and
her powers, is incontestably a human
malady.” The symptoms of I’amour
maladie,M. de Fleury gravely reports
are similar to those of aicholism and
morphine maina. Every one will see,
upon examination of the facts he say,
that the pathological processes are ab
solutely identical in each case. And
how true it is. No lover will willing
ly take M. de Fleur., ’s cure for love,
which is identical with that proposed
for aicholism—separation. But the
savant, if he has his way, will not per
mit the lover to depart from the ques
tion. Send him, and establish courts
of love lunacy, de amatorie inquirendo,
and establish decrees of separation,
not of the married, but of the wish
ing to-be-married.
SILENT THOUGHTS
AND UNDERTONES.
Soft and sweet as the gentle breeze
from o’er Araby, the blest, sound the
church bells of Rome today. In many
cities the custom of ringing the bells for
church service has been abolished. It
seems like a sacrilege, so accustomed
have we grown to hearing the peals, and
it is hoped that the church people of
this city will allow them to ring on each
recurring Sabbath for time to come. The
music of the bells brings back a hood of
happy memories to the average man or
woman of days long gone by. Let them
continue to ring forth a quiet benedic
tion o’er the City of Hills.
* * *
No living being sees so much of the
sunshine and shadow of life as the aver
age newspaper man, and the transition
from one to the other is rapid. One mo
ment he is the favored guist at some gay
function; the next he is assisting per
haps, in the last obsequies of some poor
unfortunate, who tiring of this life, as
sumes the divine prerogative, and ends
the fitful fever.
* * #
And speaking of the latter brings us
to the theory of suicide, a point muqh
discussed, and yet without satisfactorily
solving thecause, with anvthing like
certainty. As others have assumed the
right to theorize upon the subject, I will
presu re to do the same.
* * *
It has been said that hope is the bul
wark upon which existence is builded,
and truly, too, that as long as life lasts
there is hope. Amid life’s disappoint
ments how often, and with what cer
tainty hope, the little white horseman,
appears in the distances and challenges
us to again enter the lists, and try
again. The victim of self destruction,
finally becomes tired of the contests and
hope fades from view like the setting
sun behind the western horizon, and
with him, as the very last ray of hope
disappears from sight there is nothing
left to the poor unfortunate one except
voluntary death-ignoble suicide!
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Poor old Bill Nye, America’s greatest
humorist, shuffled off the mortal coil
entirely too soon, as he would be per
fectly willing to testify, provided he is
now a competent witness. It was the
mistake of his life to die before he had
seen the way Atlanta quarantine officials
examine refugees from the yellow fever
districts. Bill could have made a very
funny chapter of it, but the old boy is
now in perpetual quarantine himself,
and less competent hands will have to
do the job. According to the Atlanta
morning paper, a competent physician
is sent down the Atlanta and West Point
road to meet incoming trains from the
infected localities. This M. D. closely
scrutinizes the passengers, for the pur
pose of ascertaining whether they look
sick, and if they do, then he gets in his
work, asking divers questions, the an
swers to which enable hi ” to determine
whether the said passengers have ‘ ‘yel
low jack” or not. It is alleged that
some one, when tfie train nears the sta
tion where the doctor gets aboard, pokes
his head in the door and advises all the
travelers to try and look pleasant as the
Atlanta health officer is going to go
through the train.” It might be sug
gested, as being in keeping with At
lanta's policy, that the city officials ap
point an officer to ascertain how much
wealth the refugee has concealed about
his person and if not well provided that
admission to the city be peremptorily
denied.
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Down at Meridian, Miss., several
weeks ago, a traveling man decided he
would have a little fun at the expense of
the citizens who were afraid of yellow
His home was in New Orleans,
but he has been up the country several
months and was working h|s way back
home. He finished his business in Merid
ian on Saturday night, and paid his bill,
expecting to leave town on the night
train. He afterward changed his mind,
and concluded to go home Sunday-morn
ing, and registered his name again,
writing Ocean Springs opposite, as bis
home. Then he sat down to wait. Sev
eral people lounged in and glanced over
the hotel register, and when they saw a
guest from Ocean Sj rings was in the
house, they quickly departed. The
drummer’s cup of mirth was running
over—he was having more fun than a
box of monkeys. He sat up late enjoying
himself, and then went to bis room,
leaving a call for 3 o'clock, as his train
left at 3:50 He was called promptly at
3 o’clock, but it was by the health officer
and two policemen. He begged to be
allowed to take the train, which left in
just fifty minutes, but the officers were
obdurate and he was ignominiously
hustled three miles out of town and told
to "git.” The railroad officials were
notified, and up to the following
Wednesday night he was still ‘‘getting, - ’
but on foot as none of the trains would
take him on board.
* * *
Here is rather a gruesome story, and
one never before in print. About twenty
years ago a train on the Columbus and
Rome railroad was wrecked at Nance’s,
a small station five or six miles north of
Columbus, and the engineer and fireman
were both killed and their bodies were
carried to Columbus for interment.
Having no relatives, and being intimate
friends, it was suggested that both be
interred in the same grave; Dr. J. S.
Key, now a bishop of Methodist church,
was pastor of one of the Columbus
churches at the time, and be was called
upon to officiate at the funeral. After
the services at the church the coffins
were placed in the hearses and the pro
cession started for the cemetery. The
weather had been very gloomy, and be-'
fore the oartege had proceeded very far,
1 ghtning began to flash, and the thun
der was deafening. The clouds were- so
low and thick that it was almost dark as
night. The horses drawing the hearse
became so frightened that they neighed
almost incessantly, and finally refused
to move. A halt was made and shelter
sought until the storm was over. After
the services at the double grave, and
while the first body was being lowered,
the straps slipped, and the coffin fell end
foremost, crashing the glass top of the
casket. The damage was repaired as
well as possible, and the second body
was placed over the grave. Justasitwas
raised clear of the earth, two of the
pall bearers slipped into the grave,
across the first coffin, while the second
fell on them, holding them down bard
and fast. Finally they were extricated,
and the earth was thrown over the cof
fins, closing a series incident never to
be forgotten by the spectators.
L. M. H.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Some Who go Some Who Come and Soma
Who Stay at Borne,
Mr. T. L, Cornelius spent yesterday
in Atlanta. *
Paul Hardin is able to be out after a
severe spell of illness.
Mr, L.'A. Dean came up last night to
spend today with his family.
Miss Lula Ross has gone to Atlanta
to visit her sister Msr. E. M. Durrant.
Editor John W. Cain, of the Sum
merville News, was in the city yester
day.
The condition of Mr. Junius A.
George was some better yesterday.
His friends have been rather solici
tous about him, but they feel more
hopeful now.
Miss Abbie Webb, one of the mesi
popular and experienced sales ladies
in tbe city, has charge of the dress
goods department at the big estab
lishment of Lanham & Sons 'in the
Fourth ward. This enterprising
house is to be congratulated upon se
curing her services.
TOMORROW NIuHT.
ThJ Woodward Warren Company Begin a
Week's Enjoyment.
Tomorrow night the Woodward
Warren Company will begin a one
week’s engagement at the opera hou?e>
presenting the mirth provo king com
edy "A Practical Joke.”
Mr. Woodward is an old favorite in
Rome and this year he has by for the
best company he has ever had.
They should and doubtless will play
to splendid business in Rome.
For Monday night only every lady
will be admitted free of charge when
accompanied by another person hold
ing one paid thirty cent ticket. Seats
are going rapidly and triose intend
ing to go will do well to get their
seats at once at Trevitt’s drug store.
College a. t Dal one g 9.
The twentieth session of U. G. A.
College at Dahlonega opened last
week with the largest attendance in
tbe history of the institution. Over
80 new students matriculated and the
old students are returning daily, in
dications pointing to 200 this fan.
President J. 8. Stewart has put new
life into every department of the or
ganization and all are pleased with
the improvements.
SHE IS NEEDING HELP
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Jppal for the Family of an Oficial
Killed While on Duty.
NECCESSARIES OF LIFE IS NEEDED
Statement From Mr, J DdUs Turner .0.1
the Subj jot- Description of the
Children and Family.
To the Good People of Rome: I feel
c impelled to make an appeal not only
to those who are confessed arrayed
u ider the banner of the Lord, but a
a'so to those, whom the goodness of
God has allowed is he able to provide
the necessities and some luxuries for
their little ones? It is for Mrs, Tid
well, whese husband was shot in
Seney, that I would enlist the sympa
thies of our people.
I have no word, or comment to
make, about the trial. What is done,
is done, and God has undoubtedly ,
allowed the result to be as it was, for
his and good purposes. But the part
that concerns you and me is that a
widow and five orphan children are
left here with no protector, no pro
vider; and thus necessities are even
such as yours and mine. A shelter
must be had, clothes must be worn,
feet must be shod to keep off the nip
ping of the approaching frosts, fuel
must be gotten to cook the scanty
meals and it is a fact that stomachs
will crave food, no matter how full
you or 1 filled them only yesterday.
And this ever reeeivihg demand for
the necessities is driving this poor
helpless woman to distraction. She
is in such a helpless predicament, no
one on whom she can legally or moral
ly call for aid, too refined to beg, and
her hands to full with the eare of tbe
little ones, to go out to work for their
support, But oh, so thankful for tbe
aid proffered her, or such work as
given her to do in her home. She
would work if she could,but precious
little time is left when she cares for
the five little tots, the eldest of whom /
is a girl of seven years, the next twins
of five, and the two youngest a boy
of three, and the baby a fine bounc
ing boy of four months, who has never
known a father’s love.
Would you suggest that the children
be taken from the mother and put in
the orphans’ home? First get your
own consent, fond mother to part
with her own little ones, and then ad
vise the tearing out of this ;'inother’s
heart. Some one says send her out to
Lindale to work in the factory. Well
then who will take charge of the
babies, no one of whom can comfort
the others.
Somebody says, send her to Atlanta
maybe she can work there. I tell you
she would work here were not her
hands tied. Show me any Roman
who would hint that our people will
not care for their favors.
Ours is the best city in the land, as
Capt. Clark says, and then our Chris
tian people, and charitable people and
feeling people here who will nobly re
spond if their attention be only deser
ted to the necessities of jthe case.
Our Bible says: ‘‘Blessed is he that
considereth the poor, the Lord will
deliver him in time of trouble.” And
you an.i I, are not assured there is no .
trouble in store for us, and we have
this encouragement, ‘‘As ye have
done it unto the least of one of them
my children, ye have done it unto
me.”
With two months rent already due
on the shelter, under which they are
now resting you may well see there is
urgent need of help. Will their neigh
bors not yet let them starve, but your
help must come too. Food, clothes,
coal, wood, money and a cheering
word also will be so gratefully and
joyously conveyed to to them by Mrs.
Harry Rawlins or myself all except
the last, which you should. take gen
eraly. I don’t care’throghwhat man
ner your aid goes, so it only reaches
this well deserving case.
Mrs. J. D. Turner.
A sumptuous feast spread for the
tasty ones who admire and like to
wear tasty Fahy's most
complete stock of the choicest dress
goods tc[be obtained. Just arranged,
in his shelves, Considering the qual- j
ity of these goods, they are the cheap/ "
est, ever brought to this market, At/
tend "his 'opening" which is every
day and examine closely his new
goods comprising Silks, Black and
Colored. Fancy Dress goods. Laces
most exquisite kid gloves, ribbons
trimmings, Linings and braids, dainty
linen handkerchiefs and all kinds of
white goods, hostery, under/wear
lace curtains, carpets, shades' and
blankets, etc,
Tomorrow i» The Day
The Western & Atlantic R. R. will
sell round trip tickets to Nashville
and return, including transportation
to the grounds and back, also ad
mission into the exposition at $3.75
tickets limited three (3) days, are you J
going? 1