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Me M Sparks ■ Slewart Co. ON THE LOOKOUT Constantly on the watch over the best markets, nailing every opportunity that will prosper the interest s of our customers, is what keeps McDonalcLSparks-Stewart Co., sofar ahead of the others. For instance, we’ve just made a fortunate purchase in Carpets, Rugs and Mattings, and immediately share the profits with our cus‘omers as follows: Bsll >;i rpet, made, lined and laid 55c AA Genuine Smyrna Rugs, 4X7 feet $4.45 jl Brussels carpet, made, lined and laid 60c (J “ “ “ 3X6 feet 285 Jf Best drueselis carpet, made, lined and laid 65c “ 2 1-2Xsf?et Axminster, Wilton’s, Velvets and Saxony car- “ 26X52 inches 1.65 yP pets, we are offering at manufacturer’s prices. 4 > As we never indulge in “False Alarms” you will realize the wisdom cf coming promptly if you wish to enjoy these extraordinary offerings. They are too good to last long. Find them on the first floor. ? MCDONALD-SPARKS-STEWART Company 1 UNDERTAKERS, EMBALHERS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS WOMAN'S CORNER. The rag carpet, after many year», has returned. It is once again fairly popular, and the rags that for a quarter of a cen tury hare been yoing to the rag man are now being treasured up. since, if they are of woo), they are almost worth their weight in gold. Why the rag carpet ever did go out of style it is hard to determine, and its reappearance in society is not difficult to un derstand. Properly put together and mads of a good assortment of rags, it is exceedingly pretty, and withal easy to manufacture, all the knack needed being the •kill necessary to cut the rags into strips, sew them together in lengths and wind them into a ball. For a small sum the rag carpet weaver does the rest. Bath room and study rugs are the chief uses of the rag carpet of today. It is not so much rag carpets, in fact, as it is rag car pet rugs, The rag carpet rug is Uot large, as a rule. Six feet by three would be quite an extra ordinary size. The idea is to have quite a number of them, and these much smaller. 1 hey clean easily and wear like iron. These facts especially commend them. Then, too, there is much sociability in their mak ing. A rag carpet party is a jovial *vent. and a “function” that, Oll g neglected, is coming .n a gain once more. The girls meet a and sew rags last week of low pri ces. Icings, patent midicines, sta tionary , soaps, brushes, paints, everything at cost to quit •he business, at Frank Write’s ar «Bacy, Norton’s old corner opposit Masonic Temple. until sor 5 :30. Then the men, especially asked for this hour, begin to drift in, and there is afternoon tea. It is the modern izing of the old time “sewing bee,” and it works marvelously well as an amusement. PRETTY THINGS TO WEAR. Everything must be sacriticed to harmony. The yachting girl has her leather spyglass case to match the color of her gown. A dainty.dressing gown is of narrow striped washing silk with large collar of tucked muslin, edged with lace and a wide sash of same tied in front with long ends. A pretty ruching is made in two colors of narrow ribbon, whipped together, the thread joining drawn tight enough to give a full pucker to the ribbon. Young women with slim waists draw the wide black lib erty satin sashes twice around the body, knot the streamers once and pin with a jeweled brooch. The knot may be placed at any point on the waist line. “Have your skirts lined with the softest of silk ; the rustle is no more to be heard,” is consid ered good advice. In Paris the latest idol is the silken scarf, twisted in the coils of the hair ;it needs to be ad justed by the hands of an artist. Cherries on hats, on dresses, on parasols and in the hair are one ot the fashion’s latest whims. ONE WAY OF GETTING THIN. The glory of having discover ed away of getting thin and ol keeping in good condition when one is deprived of the usual means of exercise must rest with I the wife of an English officer in i India, so says Harper’s Baaaar. As sometimes happens after a long illness and its subsequent confinement, this lady found herself, when able to move about again, almost twice her normal size. She could not walk, nor was she able, through ner vousness, either to ride or to enter outdoor sports. One day she thought of the skipping rope of her childhood. After a few weeks’ practice she begin t gain in health and to decrease in size. She makes a daily record of 600 skips. As she exercises sev eral times a day, her record rep resents the sum total of her day’s work. Iler custom has been widely followed. Women accustomed to outdoor exercise, and made wretched by confine ment indoors, or to a limited area, use the skipping-rope Practiced with prudence, no other form of exercise, it is said, is equal to it in its beneficial re suits, or accomplishes greater wonders in reducing flesh SIMPLE CURE FOR NEURALGIA. A mustard plaster on the el bow will cure neuialgia in the face, and one ou the back of the neck will cure neuralgia in the head. The reason of this is that the mustard is said to touch the nerves directly it begins to bite, so that if placed upon a part where no nerve exists it will be of no use, BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE The best salve in the world for cuts, biusese sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fevei sores, tetter, chapped hands,Jchilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and pos itively cures piles, or no pay re quired. Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by all Druggists. SICK GOING HOME. Authorities of Maine Looking Out for Their Soldiers Chattanooga, Tenn., August 17. —A hospital train consisting of six Pullman sleepers and one baggage car left Chicamauga Park laot night and reached this city at 11 o’clock, contain ing 178 sick men and in charge ol Sergeant J. S. Wheeler, a p lysician and steward of a regi mental hospital, and five pri vate soldiers to assist in looking after the sick. Furlough and transportation for all were obtained after reach ing this city, and the train left *ol w If w If life were one long summer day and itg journey through a garden of flowers, it might be possible for people to be careless of their health without fearing evil results. Unfortunately, since Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden, life has not been a toilless journey through a garden of flowers. Man must earn bread by the sweat of his brow, and woman must bring forth children in pain and suffering. In both cases the curse is multiplied many times over because both men and women neglect their health Man's toil is rendered a thousand times harder by the added burden of ill-health. The woman is a still greater sufferer. She suffers in si lence untold agonies from weakness and disease in a womanly way. Motherhood becomes to her a menace of death, and her babes are born with the seeds of disease already implanted in their little bodies. There is but one unfailing remedy for wom en who suffer in this way. It is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It acts directly on the delicate and important organs that bear the brunt of maternity. It makes them strong, healthy, vigorous, virile and elastic. It allays inflammation, heals ulceration, soothes pain and tones and builds up the tortured nerves. It fits for wifehood and motherhood It does away with the trials of the period of apprehension and makes baby’s advent easy and almost painless. Thousands have testified to its marvelous merits I was afflicted for four vears with local weak ness, but would not confess it for a time." writes Mrs. Beulah Woodall of Bateman. Patrick Co.. Va . “then I took the ‘Favorite Prescription' and ‘Golden Medical Discovery.’ and they cured me. I cannot praise Dr. Pierce s medicines too much. ’ NE V MAN. “I wis ft sufferer from dys pepsia, gout and rheumatism, caused by impure blood. I tried various medicines, but obtained no relief until 1 began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. This med icine has made me a new man and is the best I ever took. It has beon a blessing to me.” William M, James. Brogdon, S. 0. Hood’s Pills are the only pills to ta><e with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. EC anffivec ' I• • I ” for Portland, Miss , a' 12 o’clock over the Cincinnati Southern, Big Four, Lake Shore and Mich igan Southern, New \ r ork Cen tral, Boston and Albany and Boston and Maine. This train was provided by the Maine state authorities to carry home the sick and conva lescent men of the First Maine regiment. The large majority of the men on the tram are con valescents, although there are several who are very sick, and tears are entertained that they may die on the road. LARLOS IS PATRIOTIC. Reported that he Whl Try to Quel Uprisings in Spain. I London, August 17 —A spe j cial dispatch from Lucerne, i Switzerland, says the following inspired statement has been made there: ‘‘Notwithstanding his disap provi l of the course the govern ment at Madrid is lading, Don Carb s maintains his firm inten tion to d* scourage any actual rising in Spain and is using al 1 his influence to quell insurrec tionary tendencies and attempt ed uprisings among and on the part of his too devoted follow ers. • > CHEAP RATES. The Southern R’y operates 3 daily trains belwivn R one and Chattanooga, by which parties can leave Rome in the morning, spend the day in Chattanooga, and return home same evening. I'he schedule between these points is as follows. Leave Rome 1 :00 a. m. arrive Caattanooga 4 :15 a. m. ; leave Rome 10 .35 arrive Chattanooga 1: 00 p. in. • leave Chattanooga 8 :50 p. in. There is also a local train leaving Rome 3:50 p. m. going by the way of Cohutta and Cleveland and ar rives Chattanooga 7:20 p. m. Returning, trains leave Chatta nooga 6 :30 a. m. arrive Rome 9: 00 a. m : leave Chattanooga 8 :10 p. m. arrive Rome 5 :35 p. m. ; leave Chattanooga 10 :10 p. arrive Rome 1 :44 a. m. Pull man sleeping cars on all traips-. For further information call on C. Harrison, C. T. A. The little brown j filter price $ 1 00. The Oostanaul a is in the jug. See how Dew ey. For sale by Miss Julia Stewart, also at Moore & Reese’s. Beware of Imitations / £ JMN MMS MM *