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CO c 1 € T Y 'HI H L ms** I ' /WiW ———BSMML— a— _J I THE WORLD W|B 0F FASHION 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 again. » v 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- THE HOME TBIBUNE SUNDAY. SEPI'EMBEB 26 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! » <r * 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. * * » 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 » 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