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GENEROUSUNCLESAM Liberal Treatment of His Clerks In Washington. WELL PAID AND LIGHTLY WORKED Take Things Very Easy Daring Holiday St ason—Life Is One Long Sick Leave to Some Government Clerks. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. —[Special. ]—ln the several government departments here the clerks are treated with great generosi ty tn the holiday season. Not only arc the offices closed Christmas and New Year’s, of course, but a half holiday is given all hands the day before each of these anniversaries that they may have ample opportunity to buy their presents and do their marketing. Inasmuch as these poor clerks have to work such long hours —from 9 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, with half an hour for lunch —they appreciate this half day off very much. To still further lighten their bur dens and gladden their hearts during the holiday season the chiefs have a kind way of taking things easy and permitting their clerks to do the same “till after the holi days. ’’* The truth Is that Uncle Sam’s big army of clerks in the Washington departments are the best paid and most lightly worked clerical employees in the country. There are about 15,000 of them all told, and their pay runs as follows: Ten and one half per cent get SI,BOO a year eaoh, near ly 13 per cent get $1,600 a year each, near ly 20 per cent get $1,400 each, 33 per cent get $1,300 a year each, and 16 per cent SI,OOO eaoh. These are only the subordi nates, not including chieSof divisions, etc. Vacations and Sick Leaves. In matter of holidays and vacations and sick leaves our Washington clerks beat the world. First every one is entitled to 30 days’ leave of absence each year, with pay. This comes in very nicely about July or August for a trip to the mountains or the seashore. Then thero are all the legal holidays and the half days before Christ mas, Now Year’s and Thanksgiving. In hot weather the departments often close down at noon to give the poor, overwork ed clerks a chance to cool off. The “sick leaves” are the most aston ishing. Those ‘of us who have lived in • Washington for ten years and worked about *l2 hours a Bay for 365 days a year never knew it was such an unhealthful place as the records of tho departments show it to be. Os these 11,870 subordi nate employees—for the 3,000 employees of the government printing office are given no sick leaves —no fewer than 5,276 had sick leaves with pay last year, in addition to all the other vacations and holidays. Tho average number of days off on these leaves was 15. That meant 79,140 days' work lost to the government on account of illness among tho clerks. Inasmuch as 275 days constitute an average year’s work in the departments the total loss was 452 years’ work, and as an average year’s work costs about $1,500, the total loss to Uncle Sam was nearly $700,000. At this rate he could afford to hire a squad of doctors for each department to look out for the health of his employees. All Under the Civil Service. Now that the official figures are at hand it is easy for congressmen to show their clamorous constituents how impossible it is to procure appointments for them in the departments here. Tho country is full of good men and women who would be glad to serve Uncle Sam as SI,BOO clerks, witji 50 days off with pay each year. But, alas, all these places worth having are un der the protection of the civil service law. Os 15,000 subordinate places in the de partments and bureaus of Washington 13,- 734 are under the civil service. In those great departments they do things in a most leisurely fashion. Red tape is not run out at a speed which heats the bearings of the machinery. A friend of mine was appointed to an inspectorship under the treasury department. After the appointment had been made in due form by the secretary of the treasury in an offi cial letter how long do you suppose it took to make out the appointee’s creden tials and other papers before he could start off on his mission? Just eight days, and when he came to have his expense accounts adjusted five weeks elapsed between the submission of his bill and the issue of the warrant for payment. Joe Leiter’s Father. The prominence of the Leiters of Chicago in the famous wheat deal reminds me that Levi Z. Leiter, tho father of Joe, lives in this city. Levi Z. Leiter is now one of the richest men in America. His fortune is estimated at $20,000,000. Ho made his money first in dry goods along with Mar shall Field, who is now the greatest dry goods merchant on the American conti nent, and afterward in Chicago real estate. The elder Leiter lives in one of tho hand somest houses in Washington. It is a noted social center, for .whatever tho Leiters dr Sleep Induced by the use of coca, opiate or nar cotic compounds is bad, decidedly bad. They undermine health and shatter the constitution and the patient is steadily growing into a worse condition often resulting in the terrible slavery and misery of the cocaine and opium habit. Sleep induced by the use of Hood’s Sarsa parilla does not perhaps come as quickly, but it comes more surely and more per manently through nature’s great restor ing and rejuvenating channel —purified, vitalized and enriched blood. This feeds the nerves with life-giving energy and builds up the system and constitution from the very foundation of all health and life—the blood—pure, rich, red blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. JI. cure liver ills, easy to take, 1100(1 S HlllS easy to operate. 25cents. ARE YOU BANKRUPTinhealth. constitution undermined by ex travagance in eating, by disre garding the laws of nature, oi ohysical capital all gone, if so, NEVER DESPAIR Tutt’s Liver Pills will cure you. For sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, malaria, torpid liver, constipation, biliousness and all kindred diseases. Tutt’s Liver Pills an absolute cure. is sure to ne just rignt, ana an invitation to the Dupont circle mansion is highly prized. Both Mr. and Mrs. Leiter are very hospitable, and they are popular in the up per social circles of London and Washing ton. In London they have the entree to the best houses not only on account of their own standing, but through tho political and social prominence of their son-in-law, George Curzon, parliamentary secretary of state for foreign affairs, and one of the rising men of the British kingdom. Cur zon married Miss Mary Leiter, who was one of the most beautiful women ever seen in Washington, and who is now as much noted for her beauty on the other side of the Atlantic. Daisy Leiter, her sister, who is almost as handsome, has just made her debut in Washington society. Levi Z. Leiter is really a remarkable man. Not only has he made a vast for tune, but he is one of the best informed men in tho world. He knows every one worth knowing, reads everything worth reading, and is an original thinker and a most entertaining talker. He is compan ionable and democratic, notwithstanding the dignity which his wealth and soda! station give him. lie is extremely prom of his son Joe, and of the latter’s great, success as a wheat* merchant. WALTER WELLMAN. A Clever Trick. It certainly looks like it, but there is really no tr*ck about it. Anybody can try it who has Lame Back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervous troubles We mean he cun cure himself right away by taking Electric Bitters. This medicine tones up the whole system, acts as a stimulent to the Liver and Kidneys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic It cures Constipation, Headache, Fainting Spells, Sleeplessness and Mel ancholy. it i« purely vegetable, a mild laxative, and restores the system to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bitters and be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Everv bottle guaranteed, Only 500 a bottle at Curry-Arrington Com pany’s Drug Store. Be sure and attend the cost sale of the E, C, Wood & Co. stock today, T. x Notice. My office will remain open nntil the first Monday in January, excepting Christmas day. when I will accept payment of all taxes without cost, destroying the execution against the party paying. I hope everybody will take advantage of this opportunity that I will not be forced to post their names in front of the court house door, and place executions in the hands of officers. Come one come all, and take advantage of your last op portunity. V. T. Sanford Tax Collector. Miss Allie Hughes, Norfolk, Va 1 , 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 scar. It is the famous pile remedy.— Curry-Arrington Co. CA.STORIA.. The fi9- /? _ of TO PP W > Character Building In Schools. In an address before an educations! society Bev. Edward Everett Hale calls attention to a certain lack in the courses of instruction in schools generally. It is the lack of development of that robust moral nature without which the highest scholastic education is feeble and dwarfed. It is true that some schools Inculcate creeds and require pupils and students to be present during religious services and take part in them, but that is not sufficient for the building of a strong, true, clean character which draws from its own self thought out moral convictions a sense of power tc face the world that nothing else can give. Dr. Hale does well to call attention to the need of character building in schools. Ho says: There Is danger of the managers of a great machine taking more pride in the machine and its workings than in the results it turns out. Thia is the danger in our schools. When Harvard college was founded 250 years ago, the nine students of the first class nailed up a copy of 100 theses to which they subscribed. Since then every one of the 100 has been proved wrong, and yet no one will say the four years' work was thrown away. The college took those nine surly, ignorant brats and turned out nine Christian gentlemen. Who caret whether they were wrong in their facts? Thu work of character building was a success. fthen a boy comes out of college, who asks it he is honorable and true and would die for hit country? No one. There is only one excep tion in our schools, and that is West Point There they have two standards of merit—ona for studies and one for merit—and you WIJ find thut tho ctae tho boys care most for is th-j oharucter ranking To Cure A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.' 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on eaoh tablet. < 1 m ROM 4 TRIBUTE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1897. ENTERTAINED YOUNG MEN. Rev. Sam Jones* Hospitality Manifested in a Sumptuous Christmas Dinner. On Christmas day Rev. Sam P. Jones, the evangelist, gave a sumptu one dinner to the young men* at his home in Cartersville. A correspond ent in Cartersville in describing the affair, says: “The palatial home of Rev. Sam P. Jones was yesterday thrown open to the young men of this city. In at tempting to describe the scene we are confronted by difficulties more real than imaginary. We had known for some time that Mr. Jones contem plated having the young men in his home and showing them, in a practi cal way, the interest he felt in them, and the true depth of friendship he bore them. So when invitations were issued for Christmas dinner, only those who were the victims of cruel misfortune declined. At 12 o’clock the guests began ar riving, and by 1 the house was well filled with a happy crowd of hopeful youths. With her usual easy grace and dignity, Mrs. Jones received each guest, and he at once felt at home. The dinner was one of sumptuous de light and the artistic decorations of the table lent enchantment to the magnificent spread. Nor was this simply a feast for the body. The ho»t was in the jolliest humor, and his flow of wit, repartee and reason was the chief delight of a delight ful occasion. When the dinner was ended Mr. Jones arose to fulfil the anticipations of his ex pectant gu-sts It is needless to say the realization of this happy talk far exceed ed the anticipations of those so foitunat. as to hear him. It was no sermon, no temperance lecture, but a beautiful over v oi pathos, reason and humor. It touched uu the saddest and sweetest in life; it sparkled with the most pointeo and pungent witticisms. In clear ano concise English he described an ideal young mull; with foiceful beauty he paid a tribute to the uarue of mother; with the strength aud clearness characteristic of Mr. Jones he urged the boys to guard life’s actions by three essential “don’ts” —don't associate with anybody that is not better than ynursd ; don’t drink; d< u’t gamble. With still greater force he impressed upon them the necessity of three “dos”—be industrious; be studious; be honest. He closed his remarks with sentiments of love and devotion for the young men of Cartersville, and his emotion showed that he felt more than he said. The dinner finished the young men ad journed to the parlors, where they spent the afternoon in social enjoyment,unting ed by reserve or formality. The day was one of pure enjoyment and the only pang of regret was ex perienced when parting. The sentiments of enjoyment and devotion expressed were genuine. There is more Catarrh in ths sectio of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failng to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable, Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there fore, requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. OF* So Id by Druggists, 75. CA.STORIA. Christmas Holiday Excursion Rates. On December 22 , 28, 24, 25; also December 30 31,1897, 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 C. T. A No. 14 Armstrong building. SALT RHEUM Most torturing and disfiguring of itching, burning, scaly skin and scalp humors is in stantly relieved by a warm bath with Ctrri cuba Soap, a single application of Cuticuka (ointment), the great skin cure, and a full dose of CuTicuiiA Kesolvknt, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures, when all else fails, (yticura Ta aol<! throughout the world. Pottur Drug and Ch km. Corp., Props., Boston. “ How to Cure Salt Rheum,” free. Ell I IM ft 11 AID Pimply Raby Blemhhes, ■ ALLI Uli KB Alfa Cured by Cuticura Soap. A BIG BLA2E AT ALBANY. Twenty-Vive Thousand Dollars Worth oi Property Is Destroyed by Fire. Albany, Ga., Dec. 27.—About la. m. fire was discovered in the shoe shop of Muse & Cox. The alarm was given aud the fire deuartmeut prompty responded aud began to fight the rapidly advancing flames. The weather was very cbid, bur. after four hours of hard work the fire was quenched. Investigation showed that Muse & Cox had lost nearly everything in their shop. Next to their shop was the office <>f Grand Recorder Ehrlich of the A O U. W. Tne furniture and records were badly damaged by smoke aud water. Ehrlich’s shoe store, on the ground floor, was drenched with water. The stock was badly damaged. The in surance on it had lapsed only a few days ago. Dr. E. H. Dennisou’s dental office came uuder the play of the firemen’s nozzle and dense smoke aud suffered much damage. Mrs. J. T. Brooks’ stock of millinery was damaged. E. H. Asher sustained considerable loss by having his large stock of cloth ing flooded by water and thoroughly smoked. The loss sustained by the several vic tims of the fire is about $25, OuO, partly covered by insurance. h ||| a/Ja j;s iiMer’s Friend ' > is a liniment for expectant mothers i [ i' to use externally. It softens the muscles ' , 1 [ and causes them to expand without dis- J 1 / comfort. If used during most ofthe period / ? of pregnancy there will be no morning 1 ' sickness, no rising breasts, no headache. ]' ' i When baby is born there will be little i' < pain, no danger, and labor will be short J > and easy. $1 a bottle at druggists. ] 1 ’ i Send for a Free copy of our illustrated i, ■' book about Mother’s Friend. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.] VIM, VIGOR. VITALITY RESTORED JO DAYS. Good Effects at Once. CATON’S VITALIZER Cures general special debility, wakefulness, spermatorrhoea, emissions, impotenty, pare sis, etc. Coirects functional disorders, caused by errors or excesses, quickly restoring Lost Manhood in old or young, giving vigor and strength where former weakness prevailed Convenient package, simple, effectual, and legitimate. The Cure is Quick and Thorough. Don’t be deceived by imitations: insist on CATON’S Vitalizers. Sent sealed if your druggist does not have it. Price $1 per pkge, 6 for $5, with written guarantee of complete cure. Information, references, etc., free and confidential. Send us statement of case and 25 cts. for a week’s trial treatment. One only sent to each person. CATON MED. CO., Boston, Mass. Administrator’s Sale. GEORGIA-Floyd*County, Under and by virtue of an order of the court of Ordinary of Floyd county, will be sold before the court bouse door In the city of Rome in said county on the first Tuesday in January, 1898. vitbin the legal hours of sale, at public outcry the following property, to-wit: All that tract or body of land situated in the 22d district and 3d section of said county, consisting of eighty acres (S' 1 ) of the north half of lot number one hundred and twent' -eight (128) cut off by a straight east and west line,the whole of lots num hers, cue hundred and twenty-nine (129), one hundred and thirty (130) and one hundred and fifty-nine (• 59) containing each one hundred and sixty acres, more or lees, the south hair of lot number one hundred and thirt* one (131) cut off by a straight east and west line c mtatning eighty seres, more or less. B'Xty acres of the south part vt lot number one hundred and twen ty-two (122) cat off by a straight east and west lin , the north east corner of lot one hundred and twenty-three (128) as described in a deed from Pendleton I. bell io Geo. W, Tumlin dated Dec. 28,1854, recorded in the clerk’s < fflee, in book J of deeds, page 780. containing twenty seven and one half (27%) acres, more or less and the north east corner of lot number one hundred and twen ty-four (124), being twenty five acres in the shape of a square. All of said whole lots and parts of lots lying in one bodv aggregating 752% acres, more or less, and comprising that tx dyot land in said district sad section generally known as tie Bonsack or Tatnlln farm, in its entirety. All of said lands t elo aging to the estate of Jacob Bonsack, late of Roanoke conntv, Virgnia. but tow deceased, and to be sold for the pn pose of distribution. Subject to one year of unexpired lease T- rms—Cash. S. E. BUNSACK, Administrator of the Estate of Jacob Bonsack, decased, with will annexed, Chattanooga, Rome & Southern RAILROAD CO. Passenger Schedule in effect Nov. 22, 1817 SOUTHBOUND STATIONS No. 2 No. 4 No. 10 Lv Chattanooga 810 am 410 am 501 am Battlefield 8 37 4 36 5 40 Chickamauga 8 44 4 45 6 25 LaFajette 9 12 5 13 7 25 '1 rion 9 31 5 0 535 Summerville 9 45 t 49 8 55 Lyerly 10 C 6 607 740 Ronell 00 7 00 12 10 Cedartown 11 14 745 pm 1 5 Buchananl2 27 Bremen' 12 43 Ar Carrolltonl 110 pm NORTHBOUND. STATIONS No. 1 No. 3 No 9 Lv Carrollton 1 40 pm Btemen 2 07 Buchanan 2 24 Cedartown.» 307 615 a n 910 ar Rome 3 50 7 CO 1100 Lyerly...4 46 7 54 1 06 Summerville 5 03 8 12 155 Trion 5 12 8 21 2 30 LoFayette........ 539 848 335 Chickamauga 6 07 9 17 5 03 Balteflbld 6 14 9 24 5 20 Ar Chattanooga 640pm9 50 a ■ soo Nos. 9 and 10 daily except Sunday. Nos. 3 and 4 Sunday only. Nos. 1 and 2 daily. Trains Noe. 9 and 19 arrive and depart frou C. R. * S. shops near Montgomery avenue Connections made at Chattanooga, Tenn, with all roads for points North and West. For any information apply to C. B. WILBURN President and Traffic Manager. C. S. PRUDEN, T.ckst Agent, Rom'-, Ga. GOLD ZOTTST rT • ' ' -r 1 from morning till night—the woman who still »; < uses soap for cleaning. The ‘‘Gold Dust” woman », ' is through by noou —as fresh and bright as her ;‘ [ !; house is clean. |' GOLD DUST S makes one stroke serve for two in house clean- I j a ing—and the saving of money is equal to the J j 5 saving of labor. Sold everywhere. Made only by !; 3 THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, < 2 Chicago, St. Louis, New York,Boston, Philadelphia. J> J AT COST SALES Retiring from Business or another kind of sales are not in it when compared to the sale~ we will make in THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS! Suits, Overcoats and Trousers Choice of any suit in our house for sl2 50. They are worth from $16.00 to $20.00. 150 Good All-Woolen Suits, new and stylish patterns, for $6.50, worth $10,00! Our Entire Line of Trousers at prices that have never been matched in Borne, We don’t intend to carry over any winter clothing and are det’ rn in°d to make this the biggest sale of big bargains ever seen in Rome. Come and see us, J. A. GAMMON & CO., New Stock of Short Pant Suits just Received, . ... ■'"■ l 111 — - —j; 11 - J Economy Is The Road Io Will! Another route to Klondike! By having your Buggies, Carriages and Wagons BUILT BY H. J. KLASING. Repair work done promptly. If your horses don’t travel right, give him a call. Corner South Broad and Cemetery streets, Fifth ward. MANHOOD RESTORED ■ W of tlonof a famous French physician, will quickly cure you of all net ■ fix ‘ \T yous or diseases of the generative organs, such as Lost Manhood, ■xl /JZ/ .AU I Insomnia-Pains In the Back, Seminal Emissions, Nervous Debility. H 1 A wBB* Pimples, Unfitness to Marry, Exhausting Drains, Varicocele and n r V -7 Constipation. It slops all losses by day or night Prevents quick- M nessof discharge, which if not checked leads to Spermatorrhoea and Hnrmnr irrm all the horrors otlmpotency. CUPIDEME cleanses thellver, the n ES t r VKE. and Al-11K kidneys and the urinary organs of all Impurities. ™ CITPIDENE strengthens and restores small weak organs. The reason sufferers are not cured by Doctors Is because ninety per cent are troubled with Prostatitis. CUPIDEN Els the only known remedy to cure without an operation. 5000 testimoni als. A written guarantee given and money returned If six boxes does not effect a permanent cure, SI.OO a box, six for |5.00, by mall. Send for free circular and testimonials. Address DA VOX, MEDICINE CO.. P. O. FOR SALE BY TAYLOR & NORTON AND C. A. TREVITT. Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures Indigestion, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn.