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A By JOHN C. BBICSE, Jr. 0
Darkness blotted out all the fair
■world Restless, with vain longing for
the star that twinkled like a tiny jet of
flame far up among countless thousands
of other stars. I had wandered forth
unseeing, uncaring into the black wall
of gloom.
Life’s vicissitudes—or was it the
fanciful weavings of a discontented
mind?—had made me its buffet. Sick in
heart and mind I had gone, seeking tee
soothing touch of night’s balm and all
the multitudinous spirit voices that
woo the unhappy through the shadows.
The little village slumbered in quiet
with the vast mountains hemming it in
like great sentinels. Suddenly a hush
falls upon the earth—a tyish so over
powering that the beats of my own
heart filled my ears with din. Then the |
shrill oall of a chanticleer heralds the
coming down, even before any severing
gray laced the east.
Far to the east unseen fingers pull softly
at the sable curtain—it trembles seem
ingly, and fain would not be parted.
Then a pearly shaft of light quivered
against the lip of the sky, is lost, ap
pears again struggling to penetrate the
darkness —success crowns it, and low
lying a bar of pallid color girts the
horizon.
Then a faint line of light came softly
against the rim of the heavens. The
silhouette of the grim mountains rose
gaunt and mysterious against the fore
ground of blank darkness.
Amber and rose tints streamed up from
the horizon, and waves of warm color
jushed across the infinite blue.
Who has beheld that wondrous miracle 1
—the birth of light—and has not felt the
soul uplift in silent adoration to the
Deity? A peace serene, mayhap un
bidden. stole into my heart, and that soul
elation possessed me, as it does all who
have been next to nature’s great throb
bing life. The shadows that had been
born in me with the night uplifted with
the dawn,
The crowning glory of all the '
wondrous picture came, A stronger,
brighter light shot above the east, and in (
an instant the orb of day swung clear of
entervening obstacles, and mounted ,
proudly the slanting cerulean. Then all
the world woke into joyous, expectant ,
life.
It was Christmas morning.
I stood and watched the exquisite un
folding of that Christmas morning—Saw i
the sun paint m glory the sleeping village
and rest like a halo about the little stone
church; saw the tiny stream winding like
molten silver across meadow lands, and
disappear far in the distance. Then I
thought of that first Christmas morn
nineteen long centuries agone—that
wondrous morn of the nativity.
Then my thoughts wandered back to
nearly nineteen hundred years ago, when
the world was plunged in fearful doubt,
and there were few good men to teach
the lesson of love and mercy.
Over the far east the illimitable dome
of ether stretched its infinite expanse,
and innumerable woilds glittered like
priceless gems in all the vaulted arch one
night.
Suddenly a new and brilliant constella
tion appeared in the heavens traveling
steadily onward, guiding three wise men.
Straight ahead that wondrous star con
tinued, until it rested quiescent over a
stable in Bethlehem.
There the grandest character in all the
chronicles of deathless ages was born. In
a cattle manger a virgin faced mother
bent tenderly over a sleeping babe.
Around her stood the wondering people,
and in the night that luminous, palpita
ting orb hung over the scene.
So came the lowly Nazarene.
Again the shuttle-cock of memory
weaves a woof of half sweet, half sad
recollections. Across that rippling
stream yonder stands the little school
room where the happy days of earlier
years were spent.
Ah! me the friends of those days!
Some have rendered unto Him an ac
count of their brief span of life, and
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against my heart lies a mellow pathos!
for departed companions.
The girl sweetheart for whom I spent
my last penny to satisfy her longing for
sweetmeats, and for whose smiles and
kindly words, I would defy even the
stern, spectacled pedagogue! Once, Ire
member, I challenged a boy to deadly
combat, because he said she was
freckled. There was no gainsaying the
truthfulness of his assertion, but with
the blind adoration of a youthful lover.
I felt he had maligned mv lady Jove.
The boys all made a ring about us down
behind the creek bank, and we went at
it hammer'and tongs. Later when I had
leisure to reflect and nurse my braised
anatomy back to its normal condition, I
] remembered that he was very much
larger than I. It is almost needless to
say that he gave me a severe drubbing.
But the consequences were more far
reaching than that. The teacher found
it out, and as soon as I was well enough
to come to school again, he dusted my
jacket good.
But the heartlessness and fickleness
of feminine kind was revealed to me
that early in life, The girl scorned me,
and my scars won in trying to protect
her freckles from the jokes of wicked
boys. She refused to be my sweetheart
any more, and accepted the candy and
affections of the very boy who had
licked me. I reflected that the combina
tion was a much happier one every way.
She was freckled and he was red-headed.
Then there were the days when I al
lowed myself to be persuaded away
from school to spend the day in the old
swimming bole. 1 was always of a con
fiding nature, and too often bad boys
would get me into trouble. When reck
oning time came (and it never failed)
those wicked fellows would lay all their
short-comings and long-goings to me. I
could only look at them in sadness at
such perversity. Then the teacher would
administer a lecture to them by word of
month and to me with a broad, flat
heavy ruler. Next day we would go
again. I did hate to say speeches Fri
day evenings, and generally got out of
it by falling in the creek at the last re
cess and go home. f
The regularity with which these dis
asters overtook me, and beoause they
never occurred on any day except Fri
day, awoke suspicion at last. One Fri
day I tried the same trick, but the
teacher made me stay and speak. Wet,
miserable, and altogether unhappy, I
stood before that crowd of tittering
schoolmates. Thereafter I just let him
baste me in lieu of the Friday oration.
Blessed days, my heart swelled, and
my eyes filled as I thought of them, and
the old friends. Where are all the old
playmates? Many sleep eternally, others
look into the eyes of hallowed mother
hood, while sunny-haired, star-eyed ba
bies prattle at their knees.
Dreams, dreams, all dreams! And I
am a man with all the sttirn, bitter pro
blems of life looming before me.
I glanced down into the valley, and
the blessed present with all the loved
onesto think of, sang into my heart
and the retrospective faded away.
Has Disappeared.
“I was troubled with rheumatism in
my back which was so severe that it was
painful for me to stoop over. I began
taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla and in a
short time the rheumatism disappeared.
I am now entirely free from it and in
good health.” H. Eugene Fant, Box
52, Anderson, South Carolina.
Hood’s PiUs are purely vegetable and
do not purge, pain, or gripe. AU drug
gets, 25c.
POOLS ON RACESj
Pools on the New Orleans
races sold every day at Bil/
hard Hall of Armstrong Hotel,
Rome Turf Exchange,
A MORNING GLORY CULT.
This flower Taking the Place of Chrys
anthemums In Japan.
Miss Eliza Buhamah Soidmore has an
article on “The Wonderful Morning
Glories of Japan” in The Century. Miss
Soidmore says:
As a floral sensation the chrysanthe
mum may be said to have had its day,
the carnation is going, going, and seek
ers after novelty among flower fanciers
are sighing for a new flower to conquer.
It is hardly known, even to foreign res
idents in Japan, that that land, which
has given us so much of art and beauty,
has lately revived the culture of its most
remarkable flower, the asagao, our
morning glory. For size, beauty, range
i of color and illimitable variety there
; attained this sunrise flower precedes all
' others until its cultivation has become
. a craze, which is likely to spread to
1 1 other countries, and—who knows—per
' 1 haps there introduce the current Jan-
THE BOMB TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1887.
anese custom of 5 <TLlock in'the morn
ing teas and garden parties.
Asagao, the morning flower, is more
especially Japan’s own blossom than
the chrysanthemum, which, like it,
came from China as a primitive sort of
weed, afterward to be evolved by Jap
anese art or magic into a floral wonder
of a hundred varying forms.
We who know and grow the corn
ing glory as a humble back yard vine on
a string—a vine with leaves like those
of the sweet potato and puny little pink
or purple flowers—are as far in the
floral darkness as the Chinese, who
know it chiefly as a wild thing of fields
and hedge rows, the vine of "the little
trumpets” or the “dawn flower,” that
is entangled with briers and bushes for
miles along the top of Peking’s walls.
The old poetry and the old art do not
seem to be permeated with it, as in
Japan, where the forms of vases, bowls
and cups, the designs and paintings of
the greatest masters, repeat the graceful
lines of vine and flower, and scores of
famous poems celebrate the asagao in
written characters as beautiful to the
eye as is their sound to the ear.
The asagao was brought to Japan
with the Buddhist religion, that partic
ular cult.of early rising. Scholars and
priests who went over to study the new
religion brought back the seeds of many
Chinese plants. The tea plant came
then, and Eisai brought the seeds of the
sacred bo tree, and Tai Kwan, the Chi
nese priest at the Obaku temple in Uji,
who may have introduced the flower to
Japan, was one of the first to sing of
the asagao in graceful outas, classic
poems which scholarly brushes repeat
today. “Asagaos bloom and fade so
quickly, only to prepare for the mor
row’sglory,” is Tai Kwan’s best known
verse.
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as easy to get rid of it if you com
mence early to use One Minutes Cough
Cure. It cures coughs, colds, bron
chitis, pneumonia and all throat and
lung troubles. It is pleasant to take
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MANY NEW ENTERPRISES
Southern States Cotiuue to Make an Kx
ceileut fehuwiug.
Baltimore, Dec. 18.—The past week
has been quite prolific in the announce
lient of new southern enterprises. The
Manufacturers’ Record of Baltimore
enumerates the most importrnt of them:
A $16,000 knitting mill, $20,000 grist
mill and grain elevator, and large pencil
wood mill in Alabama; $20,000 electric
light company. $5,000 transportation
company in Florida; $50,000. hosiery
mill and SIOO,OOO gold miuing company
in Georgia; $50,000 cottonseed oil mill
in Mississippi; SIO,OOO telephone com
pany, 5,000-spiudle mill and $50,000
knitting mill company in North "Caro
lina; SB,OOO grist mill, $20,000 gold min
ing company, 20-barrel pickle factory
and $25,000 real estate company in Vir
ginia; $50,000 handle company and
SIOO,OOO mercantile company in West
Virginia.
The new buildings announced include
a 2-story business block in Bessemer,
Ala.; SIO,OOO business block in Chatta
nooga, Tenn.; $21,000 courthouse in In
dianola, Miss.; $15,000 mercantile build
ing in Chattanooga, Tenn.; depot at
Fort Worth, Tex., and business Mock at
Sistersville, W. Va.
Miss Allie Hughes. Norfolk, Va - ,
was frightfully burned on the face and
neck. Pain was instantly relieved by
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel salve, which
healed the injury without leaving a
sear. It is the famous pile remedy.—
Curry-Arrington Co.
Convicts to Work on a Farm.
Raleigh, Deo. 18. —The penitentiary
makes a new departure. In acu'.iUou to
the purchase of 800 acres, embracing
the Castle Hayne farm and phosphate
mine, near Wilmington, it has leased
800 acres adjoining and also the fine
rice farm of the Navassa Guano com
pany. It is the intention to put all this
in rice and to make of the other a model
diversified farm. Two hundred convicts
will be employed there.
They Scuffled Over a Gan.
Anderson, S. O , Dec. 18.—A shoot
ing scrape occurred 5 miles south of
this city in which William Snipes,
about 18 years old, was shot and killed
by Feaster Harris. They had been
scuffling over a shotgun. Snipes re
treated ten paces when Harris fired, the
load entering the right side, and death
followed in a few hours. Harris is in
jaiL Both parties are negroes.
Notice.
I want every man and woman in the
United States Interested in the opium
end whisky habits to have one of my
books of these diseases. Address B. M
Woolly, Atlanta, Ga., Box 362, andone
will be sent you free.
Christmas Holiday Excursion Rates.
On December 22, 23, 24, 25; also
December 30 81.1897, and January 1,
1898, the Southern railway will sell
holiday excursion tickets at very low
rates, with extreme limit returning
January 4,1898.
For Students of Schools and Colleges.
Upon presentation of certificates
signed by the superintendents, prin
ci pals or presidents thereof, tickets
will be sold December 16 to 25, 1897*
with extreme limit returning January
4,1898. For tickets and full informa
tion, call on or write to J. N. Harrison
O. T. A. No. 14 Aimstrong building.
CA.STORIA.
The fM- _
of vrsjpsa
Smoke Warters' Extra Good
Cigars. If it isn't the best 5 cent
cigar you ever smoked, we’ll
treat It is made right here in
Rome and for sale by all enter/
prising dealer®
COLLEGE ATHLETES MEET.
Southern Aisnolatlon Hold. It. Auun.l
Bessloo at Hlrmlngliaiu.
Birmingham, Ala, Dec. 18. The
Southern Ihtercollegiate Athletic asso
ciation held its annual meeting here.
Delegates from all the colleges belong
ing to the association were present.
The various forms of sports were dis
cussed, especially the recent movement
against football.
Tne following colleges are member
of the association:
Alabama University of Alabama.
Tuscaloosa; Alabama Polytechnic insti
tute, Auburn.
Georgia—University of Georgia. Ath
ens; Georgia School of Technology, At
lanta; Mercer university, Macon.
Tennessee—University of the South.
Sewanee; Vanderbilt university. Nasu
ville; University of Nashville; Cumber
laud university, Lebanon; Southwesteri.
university, Clarksville.
Kentucky—Central university, Rich
mond; Kentucky State college, Les
in gton.
Louisiana—State university. Bate 1
Rouge; Tulane university, New <_>•
leans.
Mississippi—Agricultural and M
chanicai college, Agricultural co.iegc.
Texas—University of Texas, Austi
South Carolina—Clemson Agricu.
urai college, Clemson college.
The officers of the association are:
W. L. Dudley of Vanderbilt unive
sity, president; M. G. Johnston of t
wanee, vice president; O. H. Ro»s
Auburn, secretary and treasurer.
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being tortued by scald head, eczema
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Hazel Salve gives instant relief and
cures permanently. For sale by Cur
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NO ONE WANTS A LEPER.
The City of Baltimore Tries In Vain to
Get Rid of Mnry
Baltimore, Dec. 18.—Mary Sansone,
the leper, is an elephant on the hands
of the city and the Johns Hopkins hos
pital, where she is now quartered.
Judge Dennis, in the circuit court, has
made permanent the injunction he had
granted restraining the city from quar
tering her at the home they had built
especially for her at the old quarantine
grounds in Anne Arundel county.
The suit was brought by a laud com
pany owning property in that vicinity
and the county who
claimed that it would injure the value
of the propet ty to have a leper hospital
there.
The Johns Hopkins hospital asks that
she be taken away from there, and City
Health Commissioner McShane has
tried several leper colonies arid hospit
als, but all refuse to take her off his
hands.
Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
If you want, to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic,
full of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 400,000 cured. Buy No-To-Bac of your
druggist, under guarantee to cure, 50c or
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NEW REGISTRATION LAW.
General Harber Renders an Opinion In
Regard to Understandiug' Clau-e.
ColuM-Bia, S. C., Dec. 18 —Although
it was generally supposed that the last
chance for registration under the under
standing clause of the new constitution
expired with the days set apart in De
cember for the books to be open, it de
velops that there is yet one more day
upon which voters can secure registra
tion certificates under that clause.
Attorney General Barber has received
recently numerous inquiries as to
whether the time had expired. He ex
amined the law and stated that there
was yet one more day—the first Mon
day in January. Tire present boards
will conduct the registration on that
day; then they will close their books,
make up the lists and file them away.
The act says that voters may register
upon’the understanding provison “up
to and including" the first Monday in
January, 1898.
To Cure A Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The (genuine has L.
B. Q. on each tablet.
City Registration List For Elec
tion March ls f . 1898.
; Colored.
D.
Davis, Richard,
S.
Smith, Amos.
NOTICE
We haye ordered the secretary to
collect water bills past due and for
the present quarter and instructed
him to shut off all persons who fail
to pay when bills are presented.
E. L, Bosworth, chrm.
J, D- Moore,
I. F, Davis.
CITY TAX NOTICE,
Tax executions have been issued
and are in the hands of the city mar/
shal, All persons owing city taxes,
and desiring to save cost and ex/
penare notified to call at once at
the City Hall and pay the amounts
due by them. Otherwise the mar/
shal will be compelled to procede
with levies and sales. This Nov. 24.
1897,
Halstqd Smith, Clerk of Council,
ity of Rome.
READY FOR CHRISTMAS.
J. B. DUNCAN & CO.
New Meat Market.
Best of everything in our line.
Fish, Oysters and Game.
No. 8, Fifth Ave ’Phone 171 2 calls.
Beautiful Line
Bridal Presents and
Fine Cut Glass at
J.T. CROUCH & CO’S.
Finest toilet goods, Huyler’s candy, choicest
perfumeries. Our extracts are the best and
purest. Our stock of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
are strictly first class and up-to-date. In our prescription
department our Dr. Davis is ever ready to fill your wants,
night or day. Prescriptions are compounded accurately
and delivered 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 the 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 conghs, colds and soie throat. Call on us and you will
find the best of everything. Our line of Cigars and Tobacco
has never been so foil and with such brands that delight
the taste. Try our 5 cent cigar. >
J. T, CROUCH & CO., 300 Broad St,, Rome, 6a.
Economy Is The Road Io Wealth!
Another route to Klondike!
By having your
Buggies, Carriages and Wagons
BUILT BY
H. J. KLASING’S.
Repair work done promptly. If your horses don’t
travel right, give him a call. Corner South Broad and
Cemetery streets, Fifth ward.
JAS. DOUGLAS & ( 0
Rome, G-a.
Horses and Mules lot Sale lhe Mound
Livery, Sale and Feed Stables.
Finest Turnouts in the city furnished
at most reasonable prices. .
TELEPHONE No. 108.
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JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier.
P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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