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10 market. The last named is still in high favor and the indiscretions of the pair have furnished many a morsel of gossip. The husband raised a row about a year ago, but his near-sightedness since has been the subject of much comment. The affair has now reached a point, however, at which the storm is likely to burst at any moment. This reminds me of another case of a some what similar character, in which a certain gen tleman, formerly holding an official position, was notified by a couple of his friends that his wife was conducting herself indiscreetly and occa sioning gossip. I am told that the hubby got ind gnant and threatened to kick his kind friends down stairs. This occurred about two weeks ago, and as may be imagined created con siderable merriment. The local representative of a big northern concern is getting in frightfully bad odor on account of his looseness with his personal bills. He owes everybody, and I was told recently that $6,000 would not begin to cover his petty unpaid accounts. These include the bills of grocers, shoemakers, hatters, dry goods merch ants, tailors, doctors and everybody, in short, who could be induced to give him credit. There are at least a score of judgments outstanding against him, and he has been blacklisted by every business house in town. Yet he continues to hold his job with one of the biggest concerns in Gotham. + t + From Our Regular Correspondent. CARTERSVILLE. —This is distinctly sub rosa, but I have it on good authority that one of our most popular young fellows, who by the way, is a widower, is shortly to wed the belle of a neighboring town. Os course no open con firmation can be obtained, but experts in matri mony inform me that the symptoms justify such conclusion. The city fathers are preparing to vigorously enforce the law prohibiting the sale of cigar ettes to minors, and a local druggist and gro ceryman will plead to that charge before the city court next week. They have retained counsel to represent them and are going to fight it out. The Sunday School presided over by the gen ial J. W. Harris, Jr., is at present suffering from a dearth of male members. There are several hundred girls in regular attendance and possi bly a baker’s dozen of the other sex. Col. Harris is a married man and realizes that the world would be blank but for women, and, as yet, he has not threatened to resign. The recent escape of three convicts from the county camps was directly attributable to gross carelessness. The regular guard went away leaving a green man on duty, whose only weapon was a revolver of ineffective calibre. Three of the convicts tumbled to the situation and coolly walked out of camp, knowing that the guard would not pursue them for fear of the escape of the remaining prisoners. A pretty kettle of fish, this! t t t From Our Regular Correspondent. INDIAN SPRINGS.— The holiness meeting which has been in progress here for the past week closed Friday. One of the many sensa tional incidents of the meeting was in connection with the disastrous wreck on the Western Sys tem of the Southern last week. It will be re membered that the derailed train was bound for Indian Springs, loaded with members of the Knights of Pythias, who were to have a day’s outing at the resort and the festivities were to close with a big ball. The holiness people pro tested against the proposed dance as a device of the devil, and prayed for its prevention. On the day following the wreck the faithful claimed that the accident was a divine answer to their progress. As a matter of fact, the exact words of the preacher were these: “You all heard the prayers of the brothers last night for divine in tervention as to the dance to night over there MODISH HATS. The Looking Glass man seeing a crowd in Eiseman & Weil’s, dropped in. He found they were old customers buying fall hats. One said to The Looking Glass man, “you see we save one to two dollars a hat because we don’t pay for a name.” Genuine English hats, $3.00. Eiseman & Wiel’s Reliable, $2.00 Gentlemen needing hats had best call at 3 Whitehall. The celebrated Gato and Lozano. Pendas Havana Cigars—monthly ar rival at Durand’s. CALIFORNIA WINES AND BRANDIES A SPECIALTY. BAILEY & CARROLL, 43 PEACHTREE. ’PHONE 1039. (pointing towards the wigwam). God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. The dance was prevented. A few broken limbs are nothing to the many souls which would have been lost had the dance taken place.” This point of view ha'k been the subject of much bionical comment. At last Sunday’s meeting fully five thousand people were in attendance, and the vast audience was drawn from thirty counties. + + + From uur Regular Correspondent. ROME.— The olive branch of reconciliation has been extended to Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mar shal, nee Miss Julia Hill, who eloped recently and were married at Summerville. The objec tion to the union was on account of the tender years of “the bride, but once the deed was done parental forgiveness was promptly extend ed and as promptly accepted. The society event of the week has been the ex hibit of colonial relics which opened Monday, in the Armstrong building. The object was to raise funds to defray the expenses of the county exhibit in the woman’s building, and it was strictly a society affair. The attendance was fair and a neat sum was netted. The serious illness of Dr. Robert Battey, the famous gynecologist, has cast a gloom about the town for Dr. Battey’s fame and name are insep arably linked together. Years of close study and overwork have told on his nervous and his phy sical system is wrecked. Should he recover it is exceedingly doubtful that he will ever again resume his place at the head of his pro fession. As the originator of the Battey opera tion, the jiame of the doctor will live in medi cal circles forever. I was told on the quiet recently that one of our young professional men, while on a visit to Atlanta, encountered a poker sharp and be came acquainted with him to the extent of about SSOJ. which he dropped into the gamb er’s hand. According to the tale he subsequently discovered who his partner was and made a desperate effort to regain his roll. He found the sport but the bluff didn’t work, and even a threat of criminal prosecution did no good. The affair is not generally known, indeed I doubt if any one here knows it except your cor respondent’s informant and the man himself. t + t From Our Regular correspondent. ATHENS.— I dislike to give them away for they are jolly good fellows, but the strange ad ventures of two young Athenians during a re cent visit to Atlanta would make a capital story. One of them figured in a disgraceful street fight on Decatur street and was arrested and obliged to put up sls for his appearance next morning. The matter was mentioned in the Atlanta papers, but under a different name. The other, I hear, claims that lie was relieved of a considerable amount but don’t say how or where. One of the brightest young professional men of Athens was recently taken to a liquor cure in Illinois and is now undergoing treatment. It was given out that he went away to rest but the fact is as stated. At last reports he was said to be in a bad condition. It is generally understood that a “marriage of convenience” which was a society event several seasons back will soon result in a definite separ ation. It has been a sorry romance for the young wife, and if gossip is to be believed her experience has been sad indeed and well nigh tragic. Her husband is a worthless cad who stays in good society through family connec tions. A famous lovers’ trysting place on one of the principal street of the city is acquiring a painfully nasty reputation, owing to a suc cession of scandals which have had their origin on the spot. The last and liveliest came very near ruining the good name of a popular young society girl, and her parents are obliged to send her away to check talk. W. &. A. and N. C. & St. L. R. R. The reliability and dispatch of these lines are well known to the traveling public. The W. &A. will run four pas senger trains a day between Chattanooga and Atlanta, and will probably put on a 11 p. m. train to Rome and Dalton for the accommodation of people who desire to stay in town late. THE EXPOSITION Is incentive sufficient for people to buy jewelry and silverware and ornaments. We desire to say that we have everything in our line, at lowest prices. Stilson- Collins Jewelry Company. The Looking Glass 11 t From Our Regular Correspondent. GRIFFIN , — For some time past rumor has been ife concerning the ardent attachment of a handsome married lady to a young gentlemen much her junior and a prominent figure in local militia circles. Last week some of these stories reached the ears of the lady’s husband and he proceeded,gently but sternly, to trace the rumor down. He did not succeed in discovering the author'but was prepared to make things warm for the right man. Since then there has been much less talk. I hear a business man of this city made a most disgusting exhibition of himself a few even ings ago at a little gathering of a few of his neighbors. He was stupidly drunk, and some of his “bad breaks” can hardly be hinted at. This is, by the way, a common occurrence with the distinguished gentleman aforesaid. I hear that the Griffin Lodge of Red Men are thinking of introducing the famous 101st de gree on some of their recent novitiates. The JOlst is attended by ceremonies of a very exciting character, and those who have passed through it exhibit souvenirs in the shape of broken noses, scarred heads and barked shins. A visit ing red man put some of the local braves up to working the degree some weeks ago and they had a good deal of fun mapped out; indiscreet talk, however, gave the thing away prema turely. It is reported that a visiting belle, a beautiful demi blonde, who was admired by all the men and envied by all the ladies, was wooed and won by a young Griffin merchnat, and that the en gagement will be announced next week. + t + From Our Regular Correspondent. LAGRANGE. —The depths to which a man can descend when he deliberately starts in to take care of the output of a distillery or two has been aptly illustrated by the downfall of a resident of LaGr >nge, who was once on the top of the heap. A few years after his marriage— and, by the way, the wife is one of t e gentlest, most lovable women in the world—he started tippling and subsequently degenerated into a confirmed drunkard. His cruel treatment of his faithful wife has excited the indignation of the people and unless he'turns over a new leaf or makes foot-prints toward some other burg he may be taught a salutary lesson. A gay little butterfly, whose residence is un known, succeeded recently in ensnaring in the meshes of her silken net, a wealthy LaGrange capitalist, whose gray hairs refute the impres sion of youth which he affects in his clothing, and ways. It seems that he run afoul of his charmer on the train from Atlanta to LaGrange and so complete was his captivation that he did not know when he reached home, and re fused to be convinced that LaGrange was his stopping place. During his tete a tete the siren “borrowed” a good round sum, the amount of which has not yet leaked o t. She then bade him farewell. The subiect has been a very sore one ever since. + + + From Our Regular Correspondent. MADISON.-I hear it rumored that a popu lar young Madisonian, who is a conspicuous figure in all social gaieties and was a active mem ber of the late German club, is engaged to a faci nating widow who does not reside in this place, but who is well known through several visits. The engagement, which has been thus far kept a profound secret will thoroughly surprise Madi son society and furnish a topic for unlimited tea tattle discussion. A recent and thorough investigation has put an entirely new face on a matter that has ex cited a good deal of discussion in Madison and was casually mentioned in these columns on the 29th of March, last. I refer to the rumored shortage, in a small amount, of the treasurer of a social club. It now turns out that this im pression was entirely traceable to on error on the part of one of our local banks, which inadver tantly charged to the lady’s account, as treas urer. a check drawn by her husband. This made an apparent discrepancy which the bank subse quently discovered and rectified, completely exhonorating the lady, much to the gratification of her host of friends. I am somewhat surprised that a recent arti cle in one of the New Orleans papers relative to the somewhat sensational entanglement of a well known former resident of this place was totally overlooked by the gossips here. I don’t care to enter into any details, but the incident was a good illustration of the fact that one must go away from home to hear the news. Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy corrects indigestion in five minutes. Try it. LAKEWOOD STANDING ATTRACTIONS AT LAKEWOOD. 1. The finest flve-mile ride out of the city. 2. The finest lake in Georgia at the end of it. 3. Rowing, sailing, steamer. 4. Bathing. New bathhouse, new suits. All first-class. 5. Lawn tennis and croquet. 6. Fine woods and springs for picnic grounds. 7. Music and dancing afternoon and evening, from 4 to 10. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS. Daily, 4:30 o’clock, exhibition by life-saving crew. This is novel and exciting, i (Mb i II Z t II H r X B j H II A SURE CATCH II I Smith SBy Fly Pansrs ii 25c A DOZEN SHEETS. II H M || TIGER PASTE, 25 CENTS. || || BED BUG KILLER, 25 CENTS. || C “ s ii Jacobs’ Pharmacy ii i EVERYTHING RETAILED AT M WHOLESALE PRICES. H M || Cor. Peachtree & Decatur. •< Ifcxxxzzxzxxxxzxxxzzsxxxz An Eyesore of a House can be quickly and cheaply removed by Paint. Now is the time to put it on, so that the visitors will get a good impression of the town. The place to get it done best, quickest and cheapest is at The McNeal Paint & Glass Co.