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THE WEEKIN COTTON Komi Pays an Eighth of a Cent lore Than Other Places, OJIPETITIOIW WWEEK BUYERS 'The Receipt* To Date 30,80 S Bale*— The Receipt* Show a Falling off For the Fast Week. Futures went off only one point yes terday, but epot cotton declined one sixteenth of a cent It is a fact that Rome buyers are pay- < ■ing an eighth more for cotton than the market-quotations warrant. This is said to be due to the large -number of buyers in the field here this ' season and the sharp competition con* -sequent. / Friday the quotations at all other pointe foe middlings were 5%, but the same classification sold steadily here for 5%. This should silence towns that are claiming they pay more than • Rome. The receipts tor the past week were 4,404 bales, against 6,398 bales same week last year; 3,374 bales the year previous, 6,730 bales three years ago; and 5,546 bales the year before. Total to date, 36,295 bales, against -40,365 bales year ago; 28,883 bales two years ago; 50,236 bales the big crop year; -and 35,176 bales the year previous. The effect of the recent freeze is not yet seen in receipts, but it is expected next week’s marketing will show a fair sprinkling of frost tinges and stains It is not thought that the freeze, coming at so late a date, has resulted in any mate rial injury to the crop, What “top crop” remained was so far advanced that the bolls "were well grown,and the result of the frost -will mainly be in tinging and staining h the cotton in that stage of development. r The staple this year has been very -clean and white. This is not to be marvelled at, became very little rain has -fallen on the crop. Now that the pressure of£obliggtions ) falling due is about over the farmer is to await further developments before selling the balance of his crop. ‘The indications now are that will be done more leisurely than hereto' rfore, unless some sharp advance should )be experienced, in wbiehjevent no doubt free selling would follow. However, it is probable that trade with the merchants will be much better from 1 now until Christmas, because debts have been paid, and the farmer’s family will - come to town to buy winter clothing and • other things needed. "IDEAL CHRISTIAN.” - Rev. S, R. Belk Will Close Third Years’* Work Here at 11 a. m. Today. Rev. 8. R. Belk will preach at the First Methodist church this morning at 11 o’clock on the ‘’ldeal Christian.” This will complete his third year’s I work as pastor of the First Methodist I- church. The present year has been I a very prosperous one for Mr. Belk’s U charge, and his report to the confer | ence will be a magniflclent one. I During bis pastorate there has been LglO accessions to the church. Eighty I infants have been baptized, and he I hag made 3,000 postoral calls. All of ■ the collections are well up. There I will be no services tonight. I DECATUR WON ONCE MORE. ■ House Rernsed to K»c,,.,.lder Its Action K; on DeKalb County *ite. ft Atlanta, Nov. 20.—Immediately at ■ter the assembling of the house, Mr. ■ Henderson of DeKalb moved to recon ■ Sider the action of the house on the bill ■to remove the DeKalb county court ■house from Decatur to Stone Mountain. ■Mr. Jlorrison, the other member from ■DeKalb, opposed the motion. On the ■viva voce vote a division was called for. ■The result was another easy victory for ■Decatur. The motion to reconsider was ■defeated by a vote of 52 to 36. ■ Mr. Pace of Newnan offered a joint ■isolation reciting tiie fact that Hon. J. M. Curry, who had been invited to trie general assembly on Nov. ■6, had been unable to be present' at ■hat time, but would reacn Atauta on ■me twenty-ninth, in company with ■ion. James Wilson, secretary of agri culture. The resolution extended an to Dr. Curry and Secretary ■¥»lson to address the general assembly ■t 11:30 o’clock on that day. The reso ■iticni was adopted. following new bills were iutro gCßy Mr. Blalock of Fayette, to levy collect a tax for the support of the |Kato government and other public in »By Mr. Whipple of Dooly, a resolu- WOU to refund to the purchasers the less taxes and costs, received the state of Georgia, received from of wild lands under tax exe ■mous issued by the tax collector of HHy county in the state which by their Inrms were illegal and insufficient and |M declared by the courts. s®By Mr. Brinson of Burke, to repeal ;Hsd *ll obligations to pay attorneys* upon a note or other evidences of Wt. . SMThe senate was not in session, having ■iourned Friday until Monday. For Delicacy, and.for improvement of the com : Bftlon aothlng equal* Poasoiri's Pownaa. THE CZAR’S JULEPS. MINISTER CURTIN SHOWED THE EM PEROR HOW TO MIX THEM. A Reminiscence of Diplomacy Under Alex ander II of Russia—The Csar a Lover of Darky Anecdote and Dialect—Amer- ■ lean Whisky For HU Collar. “I was in Paris, ” said Colonel W. F. M- McCarthy of thia city, “that I be came acquainted with an aid of the Czar Alexander H. The Russians are greatly interested in applied chemistry and novel mechanical devices for war fare. 1 had some ideas on these subjects which an aid asked me to put before ! his superiors. The Grand Duke Constan tine was there, and I was presented to him. Our interviews finally led to my going to St Petersburg, where I was presented to the czar himself. “1 first met the emperor in the Win ter palace one morning at 9 o’clock He was an early riser, and the machinery of the court was all in operation by that hour His majesty received me kindly and at once put me at my ease. *1 love Americans, he said, with a smile, and I soon learned that this was true. An drew G Curtin of Pennsylvania was then minister from the United States at the imperial court, and there was no body in whose society the czar took more satisfaction “I’ll never forget the mysterious er rand upon which 1 was dispatched one cold and stormy night by, and 1 may say with. General Curtin, as he was universally called in St. Petersburg. My entry into the emperor’s secret serv ice had by that time become an accom plished fact I had become a Russian, had sworn allegianoe to the czar, spir itual and temporal, and had been en tered on the official list of the chancel lerie as Vasili Makroff William F. Mason McCarthy ceased to exist from that hour, at least in Russia. A mes senger had come asking me to the American legation at 8 o’clock that evening, ‘without uniform. ’ These words naturally excited my curiosity I wore the imperial crown on the col lar of my uniform coat, and in that dress passed at will through the streets of St. Petersburg by day or by night. For 1 was supposed to be all the while on my imperial master’s business. When 1 got to the embassy, 1 learned, to my surprise, that the - minister and I were to visit the czar incognito. “General Curtin had a parcel under his arm when we reached the palace, and to my amazement he was prompt ly admitted without question to the czar’s private apartments. 1 followed after him. The emperor at once dismiss ed his attendants, gave us hearty hand shakes and bade us be seated in front of a cheery coal fire in a large comforta ble looking sitting room General Cur tin was evidently very much at home there, and from the packet under his arm he now produced a large black bot tle. A servant brought lemons, crack ed ice, a silver bowl containing a mag nificent bunch of mint, loaf sugar, ver mouth and brandy. And thereupon in my presence the American minister gave the czar lessons in the art of mak ing mint juleps and whisky cocktail* “The whisky was old Monongahela rye, sent to General Curtin from the state of Pennsylvania, of which he had been governor. His majesty said he had never tasted anything so good in his life as the juleps, and he forthwith commis sioned General Curtin to order for the imperial cellars a large quantity of the rye whisky, which he had never heard of until after the arrival of Curtin in St Petersburg Ten barrels of Monon gahela rye were shipped from Pennsyl vania not long afterward to the czar You’d never guess my part in the fes tivities It was nothing more nor less J than telling nigger storiea Os course I knew plenty of them, having been brought up in the south in antebellum days, and the czar never tired of hear ing them. Folklore tales and the quaint conversation between Br’er Rabbit and Br’er B’ar delighted him. Afterward, at the czar’s request, I sent to New York for all the books of this descrip tion 1 could get “General Curtin won the affection of his majesty by his genial personality, his fund of anecdote and his unaffected sincerity He would tell story after story of American life and incident, at many of which Alexander laughed as ; merrily as a schoolboy ’I love to be with men, he would say 1 1 love Amer icans as 1 hate sycophants. He was ■ heard to say more than once that the happiest hours of his life were those passed in this way with General Curtin. “The peculiar affection for the Unit ed States cherished in Russia, in spite of the Russians dislike for foreigners in general, is a national, a religious sentiment. In every Russian church the visitor is impressed—if an American he is astounded —by the prominent posi tion in which he beholds three great portraits displayed with reverence and i deep significance. The first is that of Peter the Great, the father of Russia, as we know it. The second is that of Abraham Lincoln, the liberator The third is that of Alexander. That was an evening to be treasured up in mem ory ” —New York Sun. For a Christina* Present. A piece of satin 15 inches wide and 10 inches deep forms a charming sew ing bag. This is to be folded in half and sewed up the side and bottom. The por tion forming the top is cut to fashion four tabs 2 % inches in depth. The bag is lined throughout with silk or satin, forming a sort of binding at the top of the tabs, and is drawn up by ribbon run through a casing. The sides are trimmed by bows of ribbon and frills of lace, and on the front is embroidered the initial of the person for whom the is intended, surrounded by an em-1 pire wreath. This bag‘develops prettily in black and bljje satin, with lace. THE .St ki I. M>V •M K El/ 21. 1897. mGUHIWD CP Rumors of a Dictatorship For the Little Republic. BENOR OUESTAS’ RADIOAL STEPS I i The PreUd|ent Ad Interim Order* the <>■- eapatdoni'#f AU Strateffwtic Feint* by HU Traeps-Mlisnnon Placed In Position to Pre Tout Oatlierhtff of Crowds—Much Excitement at Montevideo. Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 20.—The greatest excitement prevails here, due to the report that Senor Cuestas, the president ad interim, has decided to de clare himself dictator aud dispense with the legislature. Senor Cuestas, who was formerly president of the senate and who assumed the presidency provi sionally after the assassination of Presi dent Borda on auk. 2’5. last, disclaims the purpose imputed to him. In spite of this-denial, however, it is believed the report of a dictatorship is true. Under the president’s order, troops have occupied all the strategetic pointe of the city aud the excitement is in tense. Cannon have been run into po sition overlooking the Plaza de Ainas to prevent the gathering of crowds there . and troops are now on guard all over the city. In the meantime President Cuestas has placed a strong guard around the Hock in which is situated the home of Senor Julio Merrera. Senor Merrera is a prisoner. He is Senor Cuestas’ prin cipal opponent in the race for president and it is believed he is at- the head of the movement which has for its pur pose the overthrow of Cuestas’ forces. It is to prevent such a movement that President Cuestas has taken radical steps. PINCUSHIONS. Pretty Christmas Presents That Are Rasy to Make. A Christmas gift that will be appre ciated by almost any of your friends is a doll pincushion. This is easily made by taking a doll’s heal and building about it a cushion of lamb’s wool. An smpty cotton spool is used as a pedestal for the head to rest upon, and the wool Is laid about it. Over this is drawn a covering of satin in any color, cut bias and pasted over the edge of a round bottom of cardboard. The seam in front is concealed by a strip of tinsel braid. The top of the satin is gathered in tightly about the neck of the head, which is ornamented with a fancy tur ban, having a soft crown of white satin, with a band of the color like the cush ion. The band is decorated with rows of pearl beads and has a gilt crescent at the front. The lower edge of the cush ion is finished with a fine silk cord, and over the cardboard bottom is pasted a piece of fancy paper, which is trimmed j off even with the card. | Other cushions have the heads orna ' mented with caps of different national | ities, such as the Russian, Swiss or Ital j ian peasant, or little monk’s hoods and I; toboggan caps. Hanging pin balls are , P , .\£®W most convenient for a bathroom, and bunches of vegetables, such as carrots, radishes, beets or the like, are quite ornamental to hang beside the dressing case. These are made of linen or satin, stuffed in the shape of the vegetable it imitates and then colored with water : color paint. Threads of coarse linen are I drawn through irregularly to imitate I the roots, and the bunch of six or seven I cushions is suspended by baby ribbons of uneven lengths. The large ornamental pincushions are made as elaborately as possible, and one of the handsomest examples is satin, covered with a top of embroidered tin sel net and a frill of tinsel lace put around to round off the corners. Bunch es of “taste” ribbon are placed hero and there. Another large cushion in yellow satin has a centerpiece of oriental embroidery, bordered with a ring tassel fringe in yellow, under which is placed a ruffle of fine oriental lace. This cen terpiece is put on reversely to the square of the cushion, and the corners are filled in with ribbon bows, which require three-quarters of a yard of ribbon for each bow. Venice and the Horse. It is said that some of the Venetians ' —those who have never been to the mainland—bave never seen a horse in all their lives. A showman once brought one to a fair and called it a monster, and the factory hands paid a shilling each to see the marvel. —Chicago Inter Ocean. The nest which is made into soup and eaten by the Chinese is that of a bird closely allied to the swift The nests are mqde of gelatinous secretion from the mouth of the bird. All lovers are alike, and that is why they correspond.—New Orleans Pica vune. JOILY LITTLE J M’S. THE DOLLS UTILIZED FOR HOME MADE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Ballet Danor Sharing Paper Case That Is Jost Too Cute For Anything—A Fan tastic Penwiper and Blotting Pad Makes an Acceptable Gift. As the holidays draw near there is a great demand for novelties, especially for those that can be made at home A “ P e w N 'Wf lp « n N.. » < pad - Two useful and dainty gifts which can be easily made by the average bright American girl are here described. At a Japanese store, that home of pretty things within the reach of the most slender purses, can be purchased for the sum of 10 cents a lifelike little head with a fringe of wiry black hair protruding from under a paper disk. In the center of this is a hole, through which a duster is intended to be slipped, but a very fantastic penwiper and blot ter combined may be readily made in stead. Cut two circular pieces of cha mois of two contrasting colors (every desirable shade can now be obtained in this leather; the model was made of yellow and royal purple), and, having pinked the edges, gather in a bunch from the center and fasten with a bit of wire to a burned match. Slip the match through the opening in the top of the head until it rests crosswise inside, thus fixing the penwiper firmly in place. Now cut six squares of blotting paper of the same color as the chamois and lay them alternately one on top of another; then ent a circle of chamois an inch and a half in diameter and lay in the center of the topmost piece of blotting paper. Take the head, make a hole in each side of the neck and, thread ing a large needle with baby ribbon, pass it from the chamois on top through the last sheet of blotting paper and then back again, this time passing through the hole in the side of the neck. Now take the two ends of the ribbon and tie first in a firm knot and then in a dainty little bow. Having made a similar bow on the other side, the novel little gift is finished. The ribbon used must of course be of the same color as the cha mois. Another pretty present is a Japanese ballet dancer shaving paper case. An ordinary Japanese doll about ten inches high is used for this novel little dancer. Having disrobed the victim of its native gown, proceed to array it in crape tis sue paper. The one in question was dressed in light blue, the ribbon used being black. The trousers, which reach just to the end of the unsightly brown muslin and the beginning of the pink knee, are cut from an oblong piece of tissue paper, sewed up the center and shirred at the bottom of each leg to form a ruffle. A waist is cut from a straight piece with two holes cut for the arms, into which is sewed a plain straight sleeve shirred at the end to form a ruffle. This is creased around the center to make the wheellike effect shown in the illustration. The waist is then shirred around the neck about half an inch from the top to form a ruffled collar. For the skirt cut 20 circles about 4% inches in diameter and notch their edges, fold in half and then again in quarters without creasing them. Thread these through the pointed end on a strong piece of linen cord and, tying the cord tightly round the waist of the doll, push the.frills until they stand ont evenly all around. A ribbon is then passed round the waist, crossed in front, V g X Y-T I J R . % then in the back and is tied in a bow in the center. A loop of the ribbon is then sewed to the crosspiece by which tc hang it pn. * A Homemade Tape Measure. An exceedingly pretty as well as use ful adjunct to one’s workbasket is a tape measure made from grosgrain rib bon to take the place of the usual ugly which does not seem suited to the pretty baskets which are now so generally used. The measure can be made as long as one chooses, bnt for the one most generally used a yard and one eighth of grosgrain ribbon three-quar ters of an inch wide are needed. The ribbon, if a pale violet, should be mark ed off into quarter inches with violet ink, and the ends are fastened over lit tle white sticks, which can be procured at any store where art notions are sold. The measure is made much prettier when tiny violets, outlined in ink, are scattered here and there on the ribbon -• - - ■ $10,000.00 FOR ANSWERS These ten Picture Puzzles represent the names of *O well-known men. We will pay 9100.00 for correct 13- kJ, - M answers. la orOa. to ta«Me Ue eir»l«u n air>ne Swy SMlh,* AS y llll **.!* »P«MI i> »Ul>( our public.don fis 9 r * t “ *>>- adTMMu. rntbennnr., a. kJ. Ir Iff th * l wbeD * P er ** a tar “ Smut South " . wwA. m JS w . „ •' to retain you as • friend, and aabseriber fcr - V? a dht backaliweapMMlfcrjirixetintkisosw. fl test A a good profit in addition. Here arc ■aearer*sacated by picture poa- L/ ,le, ■ To lhow y° a whal w ® mean wo state that the first ' w name is Henry Watterson. It may require a large • . ' Z) cha. i/ A »mount of study to ascertain aha correct answees, bat * .I «r ebcuk .h uJitaUkHkaX Baak »r ■ KxniHGi a-x- ~ a ln B . p P*"***. »™i all others wilt receive, each, a R 2-d?^“ B^. 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Prescriptions are compounded accurately and de'ivered to any part of the city. We are carrying the best line of fancy articles in Cut Glass. Our line of per fumes is the best tbe market affords. Ladies can find just what they want for bridal presents at prices which cannot be duplicated outside of New York city. A fresh supply of Huyler’r candy just received; also Huyler’s liquoric; drops for coughs, colds and sore throat. Call on us and you will find the best of everything Our line of Cigars and Tobacco has never been so full and with such brands that delight the taste. Try Our 5 cent cigar. J, T, GROUCH & Co. t 300 Broad St,, Rome, Ga. ■ A /jTJ 4t d A Thanksgiving Specialty, as well as all through the holiday season, we make of our choice brands of cigars and our rich and pure confections. If you try one of our Bouquet de Florida cigars you will never smoke any oth r. The flavor is exquisite, and it is a treat for a king. Our choice boxes of chocolates, bon-bons, marshmallows and tablets are just the thing for after dinner sweets on Thanksgiv ing. Curry-Arrington Company. —a I have used Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and can jx recommend it above all others t for Coughs and Colds. j It is selling like hot cakes. GUSTAV FALK, Druggist, ' Winton Place, Ohio, August 31, 1897. 7