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DECLARATIONS” $ We are going out of the retail good 5 business, nr RO < Our present sale the end of this business. iiIHLI I IIL IfI } Our present prices will never again be Duplicated. i The opportunity to buy such trools at such pio 33 will s 3on b j forev h-s- goods worth ioo cents on the dollar are being offered at 30 cents on thedollar-quantiti’es of them. Ladies’ skirt and tailor madesuits-a big stock. Piques, all the family of them. Without question the best stock of goods in Rome and being j iven away to get out of the retail dry goods business in Rome. I.OOOYDS, DRESS CALICO 2jc " 1,000 EANS AT 1 CENT DOTTED LADIES’ 500 EVERY SHOE 300 , thQf rnQt Shirt waists—the dol- Yards of Dress Goods in our stock at what it Baby caps recently Mens faunaried chirk I a warr i lar gr ade at 39 cen ts. and waist silks, worth cost us, or less, to quit bought at factory pric- that cost where S cents P ‘ C 50c, at 25c. business. es. were made 75 cenft J I |. . on sale at 39c, ACTUAL COST 1 * For all millinery, with no chirges for Miss t n Ladies and gents si k and satin necties Snyder’s work. A positive saving of 75 per • v cost 25 cents to $ 1 .00, on center at IO cent. • : WWJI : cents each. ~ * • ' ’! 5£W YARDS of summer wash fabrics on center tables—much of it cost 15c, 20c and 25 cents-doveliest jVJVFVF conceptions for ladies and misses dresses. We are giving them away at bcentsa yard. Re.mmb’r when we quit business your opportunity for such bargains will begone and gone forever. Bay fro n us n w Not just a few things away below cost to make an impression, and then the balance at big profits to make money. We affirm, of all the goods in this house, no u a dollar’s worth is priced abo ve cost. “ ‘ z - B B Bl hB H H iB B ’f AZX\ OF ' Lyf ' t Gen. Barnum, of Abbeville, S. C., had a body servant before the war who aped him in every thing. Peter so loved his master that he grew to talk like him, act like him and ajmost look like him. He lives today, the heart of hospitality, the soul of honor. Sunday two white men drove up to the door of his cabin and asked if he had any liquor in the house. He raid he had about a quart. They offered to buy. He refused to sell, but, just as his old master would have done, invited them to have a drink. Having drunk they hand ed him a half dollar. Os course, like his master, he declined the coin. The scoundrels went to town swore out a complaint that be was violating the dispensary law. o O O I happened to be in Greenville the other day when the trial took place, and saw a revela tion. Peter’s counsel was Gener al Barnum*s son, adjutant gen eral of t he state under Gov. J no. Gary Evans, and the chief wit ness for the defense was the general himself, who had come over from Abbeville, distance about 100 miles, to say a word for his former slave. The gener al took the stand, and his son said: o o o “What is your name?” “I am Gen. Barnum, sir.” “Where do you reside?” “In Abbeville, sir.” . “How long have you known the defendant?” “Sixty-five years, sir.” “What is his reputation?” “As good as any man’s in this court room, sir.” “Would you trust him?” “Trust Peter? Why, I’d trust him my life, my honor !” o o o The jury didn't leave their seats. o o o The scene “sorter touched me up.” I met young Barnum and asked if he received anything for his services. “Accept a fee from Peter?” he said in amaze ment. “Why, sir, I’d as soon think of charging my father.” “You and your father came 100 miles to clear this old ne gro?” o o o “Yes, and we whould have come a thousand, or ten thou sand. Old Peter was a second I father to me. He raised me. When I was well he played with me ; when 1 was sick he nursed me. When I was a boy I’d rath er take a snack with Peter in those days than dine with the President.” I’m afraid we Yankees don’t understand the "nigger” ques tion yet. —New York Press. o o o The paper money which now circulates in Spain has so fallen in value that two pesetas in pa per will not buy one in gold. Thus the disasters of the Span ish arms are brought home to the. Spanish populace, who find that their current money has lost more than half of its pur chasing power. The cost of liv ing is doubled ; there is dimin iihing employment for labor and every day the cry for bread becomes louder and the danger of revolution more imminent. CfiSHS RAISZR. Watters & Son are Slaugh tering Prices TURNING STOCK TO CASH The Sacrifice Sale Will Last Only a Few More Days. • Watters & Son, the big Broad street clothiers, know exactly how to carry out any undertak ing or enterprise in which they engage. This wide awake hustling firm of up-to-date business men found, some ten days ago that, owing to a mild winter, business had | not been as good as it should have been—and in cons quence i they would soon be in need of unds. They had an enormous stock, but cash was needed worst and so the firm very promptly decid ed to lay the knife into prices and throw their stock on the market. Last Sunday morning they {innounced a "‘Money Raising I Sale” and to show that they ' meant business they specified goods and quoted prices.* Ihe result has been exactly what the firm anticipated. Their store has been crowded from morning to night for six days. The crowds have flocked in, have examined goods and eager ly purchased, for the people know bargains when they see them. “Our sale for the past week ’ has been all we anticipated,”! said Mr. J. B. Watters yeste r , day. “We are rapidly exchang ing bargains for cash and while we are raising the funds we needed in our business, we are at the same time clothing the multitudes.” “Our advertisement in The Hustler-C omme” ci a 1 has brought us rich returns, and you can leave it stand, unchanged, for another week. It states what we are doin and that is all that we want it to state.” “We will continue the sale for a few days longer and then will promptly shut off the slaugh ter.” A word to the wise is sufficient —so look over che Watters & Co., add and govern yourself by what you see. Now is the time to join the push. A NARROV ESCAPE. Thankful words written by Mrs Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. D., "Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs. cough set in ami finally terminated in Con* sumption. Four doctors gav.i m“ un, saying I could live but a snort time. I gave myself up to my Savior determined if I could not stay with my friends on earth. I wool i meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King’s New' Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds 1 gave it a trial, took io all eight bottles. It sured me, ami thank God lam saved and now a we I and healthv woman. ” Trial bot* ties free at Curry Arrington’s drug store. Regular size 50 and SI.OO Guaranteed or price retun Jed. Mr. W. T. Cox. of Gadsden, is in the city. ‘iWw IntS'io’ir Uoiwhoeii .. V" <ll»c«iai a ..Olli i hl-/ X Xbm(«) vittiuu. v X. __X - —g, ■ ** Tnsr THE ARHSTRONG HOTEL Rom?, Ga Regular special Boarders / ' ■ rm Il . ■■■ r Wanted- ;\| moiW The place to get a quick, good meal. McCALL & YOUNG, Proprietors. aßest White LEGDIh! I C- L- . M For h) /»*/ oj?': b’D 1 ill n) > -H mirkej fovs, Isiveorders J. f. J.oJ3i & Co., $3 por trio. g Splen lid cock irals o il/sl. u $£ I. D.GML'JAO. «* $&&&&& am p——-.r_-nT-_-Trjuri erwiirw—nMi o'o-00 0009 V& Q 0 o'oo 00 0 000 SO ** j Repairing I •Don’t Walk On • ® Your Uppers! ♦ W.A.MULLINIX , Masonic Tm J 0 -- A all 0000'0 00 0 & $ 0 0 0.00/0000000" THE HO DLL LAUNDRY Isdoinr bostot work tai g 1 less sathfbJtoi. t?ri3is ar3 i>> i t >.». r i - r• • " b :> t; D-y • - * *