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ROMAN'S TALK.
They nave Examined the books
and are Convinced
THAT THE BRITANNICA
Sold by the Constitution is
Pree From the Objection
able MatterlContained
in the Maxwell Sum
merville Edition-
John H. Reynolds President. The
First National Bank.
RomeGa*. Sept. 4th. 1894.
Constitution :
J am pleased to see that your
new Encyclopedia Britannica does
not co Uh) the very objectiona
ble rnf< lence- to the literature and
Ibeconduct of the people of the
South, that is contained on page
6301 t the Maxwell Summerville
Editor (Ot.nj American Reprint
-VOL. I. <>f the Encyclopaedia Bri
> ,'tannica which article 1 condemn’
John 11. Reynolds.
From Judge W. H. Dabney.
/Bouse, Ga., September, 3. 1894.- I
have examined the Atlanta Constitu
tion 'Edition of the Encyclopoedia
/Britannica and compared it with the
Hfaxwell Sommerville Edition of the
Britannica of 1891.
'The latter conta ns many unjust, and
untrue statements about, and reflec
’ tions upon, our Southern people
■which in my judgement should ex
clude it from southern libraries. The
formor mentioned is a good work,
aud well worth perusal and would be
«• useful addition to the library cf
-any southern gentleman.
W. H. Dabney.
From Col- 0. B. Hamilton.
Rome Ga.,Sept 3 —This writitmg
kA tofltate that 1 have examined the
Atlanta Constitution Edition of
Cthe Encyclopaedia Britannica and
compared it with the maxwell
Susnmervi Ile edition of 1891 pre
wanted to me and find that the
former named does not contain the
objectionable matter which is un
irue &ml irijust to the South, bit
'that the above named Summerville
edition does contain matter agains'l
lire South which is untrue tyffd
misleading. -
I). B . Irt pnill >n.
From Ralqti Cilie of Rome, Ga.
1 ..Iravt- examined the » Atlanta
-Constitution edition of Encyclo
paedia Britannica, carefully com
.paring.it with the Maxwell Sum
■ uerv ih edition of Britannica ami
■say 1 d not see how parents can
place confidence in the informa
tion given in the Summerville work
on “Am irican Literature.” Do you
wish vcur children to believe the
untruthful and unjust statements
sregar-ding the South contained in
/the last named edition. It is unfit
. to place in the hands of any child,
let alone the Southern youth.
Ralph Dille.
■ ——— "• ■” ——
Testimony of Prof. R. J. Gwalt
ney of Rome Ga.
1 have read c irefu ly the article o .
American lift r .tore in the Maxwell
Summerville Edition of the Britai
jnica which is defamitory of the south
and her authors which shot 1 I in
by every lover of the
south »ud should not find its way
uto any southern home, upon ex
Humiliation of tie same article m the
Constitution edition of Britannica,
I find nothing at ell objectionable, but
on the other han-’, one worthy of the
• south, which I can heartily endorse.
R J. Gwaltney.
From Col. J. G. Yeiser.
Rome, Ga. September 3, 1894,
—This is to certify that I have ex.
amißed the Atlanta Constitution’s
Edition of the Encyclopaedia
Britejiuica and have compared it
• carefully with the Maxwell Sum
rxnerviUe edition of 1891, and find
t that’the former mentioned does
mot ccntain the objectionable mat
ter, which I find in the Summer
wiUe edition in its article on Amer-
can Literature, and which niatti r
d« Saiee.ai d unjust to the South,
| and in my opinion should exclude
the Summerville work from the
libraries of the Southerners or any
one else who is a lover of justice.
It should not be put in the way of
the youth of the South. It is mis
leading. J. G. Yeiser.
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“Miss Innocence Abroad.”
It was stifling hot in the Bijou
Theatre last night, but the bouse
was crowded completely and when
' the audience was not perspiring it
was laughing. Fanny Rice who is
now called ’‘dainty,’' made her first
bow of the season in au adaption
I from the French.
It is named “Miss Innocence
Abroad,” and consists of Fanny
Rice doing some funny specialties
in the third act. Before this and
extremely clever acting of Charles
Cooke in the character of a swell
English guardsman, there is not
much fun in the piece.
It is in three acts, the first rath
er promising as to situation ano
liues, the second sephulchralh
dreary, and thud—dainty Fannj
Rice.
Her “dantyship” did an amus
ing little scene “a la Gulgnoie,’
and sang au Albert Chevalier ‘‘Cos
ter” song, did it comical baby act
and wound up with ta-rara Boom
de-aye. She was enjoyed hugely
As for Mr, Cooke, he can be con
gratulated on the ouly piece of le
gitimate work of (he evening. All
the rest was slang.
The story not well told in En
glish. lingers on the adventures o.
a lot of people in a matrimonial
bureau. Numerous were the com
plications, especially when “Char
ge’s aunt” rushes across the stagi
disguised as Fanny Rice’s grand
mother.
Rose Beaudet’s shapely shoul
ders were greatly admired in tin
last act, tmd Messrs. Jones anu
Stewart made a comely couple ai
• irnos. But —and this just eu pas
sent—Mr. Cooke did some tactfu
and finished work.
“Miss Innocence Abroad” is in
vertebrate, but it provokes the
populace to laughter, hence it can
not truthfully be called a failure
A farce it is nitst certainly not, —
New York Record.
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ake. C. Moore. Sheriff
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They were profuse in their thanks to
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H, A. Smith will sell
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cheapest.
HAD A POWER OF ETERNITY. I
Mike Wa* Wenk In Loro Hut Strang (
In Dog and Gun.
“Speaking of the term ‘power of at- I
torney,*" said a well-known lawyer
flie other day to a New York Evening
Sun man, “reminds me of a little inci
dent that occurred to Judge and
myself last spring up in Sullivan coun- ;
ty. We were out for a week's trout ing I
and determined to poach on the pre
serves of a Ashing club which had se
cured Control of the river for a distance
of several miles and where public Ash
ing was strictly forbidden. We knew
that part of the creek was guarded by
club, who patrolled the banks, uccom- 1
panied by a ferocious-looking bull dog
and a gun Identified with the revolu
tionary period, but we decided to take
chances rather than return with empty
creels. So on the following morning,
just at the peep of day, we sneaked up
the creek, through the woods, and
struck in nt a point just out of sight of
the clubhouse. We had a glorious
time until about nine o’clock and had
Ailed our creels to the crowding point
when suddenly old Mike, with his dog
and gun. appeared on the opposite
bank. ‘Hey, ye divils! Come out o'
thot!’ he shouted. We pretended not
to hear, meanwhile edging over toward
the opposite bank.
“‘Av yez don’t come out Oi'U sic-me
dog on yez!’ roared Mike. This time I
looked up, but pretended not to under
stand.
“ ‘Yes!’ I shouted back, it’s a fine
day!'
“‘A foine day is it?' bellowed the
irate Celt: ‘Shure ye’ll think it’s a
dommed bad day if yez don’t come over
here out o’ thot!’ And Mike began to
fljjgerthe antique musket ominously.
I began to think it was time to tempor
ize.
“By what authority do yoq order us
out of this stream?* I asked as severely
as I could.
“ 'Be what autoority is it!' screamed
Mike, ’be what autoority? Shure an’
I'd have yez know thot I’ve full power
av eternity over the creek, an’ ar yez
don’t come out PH blow the top o' yer
heads off!'
“This was too much. We didn’t mind
the dog or thy gun, but a ‘full power of
eternity’ was something we didn’t want
to contend with, so we yielded and left
the stream.”
WHY HE QUIT GAMBLING.
A Virginian Who Was Ashamed of fliin-
Mrif Tor Winning.
That a man should look after money
lost in gambling with penitent eyes
and vow never again to be tempted to
like sinful foolishness seems not so
strange. But Cr"n. Maury, in his “Ree
ollgetions of a’Virginian,” tells how
he was led to a similar decision by an
opposite experience. The occurrence
took place while ho was an instructor
at West Point.
We had a very jovial and humorous
set of young officers at the academy for
several years after the Mexican war,
and great kindness of feeling prevailed.
We played whist, dime points, faro and
brag at the same moderate rate. It was
noted that at faro we almost invaria
bly broke the bank.
One winter I was laid up for many
weeks by an injury to my leg, received
while riding, and my room, during all
that time, was the gathering place
after dinner. The card table was
drawn up to my bed, and I played mv
hand until tired and sleepy.
One night we were playing brag, and
as I became drowsy, little Frank Clarke
said he would play my hand for me
while I slept. When I awoke, the next
morning, I found under raj' pillow the
greatest amount I had ever won at
cards.
I refieeted that it was a demoralizing'
amusement; that avarice, the basest of
human passions, was its moving im
pulse; that <rtxen, at the card table, I
observed some show of feeling that
left an unpleasant remembrance against
a comrade, and that none of us could
afford to win or lose even a few dollars;
so I ceased all play formoney, and have
been glad of it ever since.
DO FISH FEEL PAIN?
Analogy Points to the Conclusion That
Hooklug Is Not Pleasant.
There is little doubt, remarks the
Pall Mall Gazette, that the talk .about
Ash feeling little pain when they are
hooked and killed, or hooked and lost,
is chiefly cant. All analogy points to
the conclusion tfiat it must be extreme
ly unpleasant for a Ash, however cold
blooded a creature he be, to be caught
on a hook and dragged out of his
element. At the same time it seems to
be an established fact that fish in many
cases soon forget the wounds inflicted
by a hook.
A pike struck hard by a many
hooked minnow has been known to
’come again at the bait in a few min
utes; and Mr. Halfcrfl, in one of his
books, tells us that he once left a
wickham in a grayling of about three
pounds, which about a quarter cf an
hour later he hooked and killed with
another fly. An autopsy having been
performed the wickham was discov
ered in the stomach of the grayling,
together with a great muss of partially
digested natural flies. A treacherous
hook broke in the mouth of a Wye l
trout the other day. Yet the Ash rose !
again in about an hour's time, and was
duly brought into the creel —a beauti
ful healthy pounder, with a wound in
the mouth, caused by the broken hook,
it hail managed to dislodge.
How Beetles Defend Themselves. •
Beetles have other defenses than
their cuirass, such as nauseous or caus
tic liquids which they expel on provo
cation, and an English scientist has
found that certain beetles actually
exude their blood, charged with nox
ious products. So far he finds the prac
tice conflned to the chrysomelidse, some
of the timarehiß, adamonia, t he ooccine
lidia and the meloidaj. The blood of
the coecfnelidte has astrong disagreea
ble odor like that of the whole insect;
that of the timarchae is odorless but
has an astringent flavor, and in the
C' se of the timarchae primeliodes h>
vunomous. The bloxl of the meloidas
contains much cantharidin*.
Iff Mil HL IltlOTI.
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Our Readers Likely to Be Cun
ningly Swindled.
INGENIOUS PLAN FOR DECEPTION.
Wiley Schemer* i rylng to Sell Inferior
Cyclopedia* Under i retensr* That Are
>'Hl*e ••There J* No Vice So Simple but
Aasiiine* Some Mark of Virtue iu Hi«
Outward Parte.”
We clip the following from the At
lanta Constitution in the hope that it
will protect our readers against the
misrepresentations of any unreliable
book agents who may approach them.
The Constitution is certainly doing au
excellent work in the way of encourag
ing methods of home education. And
it is to be deplored that there are per
sons so unscrupulous as to take advan
tage of the great interest which has
thus been aroused and attempt to turn
it to their own personal gain.
It would be bad enough if they simply
defrauded The Constitution of the right
ful reward for its liberal educational
enterprise, but what is worse, these
pretenders are palming off on an unsus
pecting public all sorts of inferior pub
lications, at a price nearly sufficient to
buy the genuine new edition of the En
cyclopaedia Britannica, now offered at
special introductiory rates by The Con
stitution. The Constitution says:
In Wednesday’s Constitution the lead
ing editorial was devoted to an expose of
the insidious attempt of the jute trust to
deceive cotton shippers. This brings us to
the consideration of another matter upon
which the public should be informed.
Believing that the wide dissemination
of the new edition of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica would be a lasting and decided
benefit to the people of this section, a
special introductory contract was secured
from the Britannica publishers wholly in
the interest of our readers. The Consti
tution is not in the book business for any
profit on the sales. It is not concerned, in
a pecuniary sense, further than the legiti
mate increase of the number of subscrib
ers to the daily and the weekly Constitu
tion. The knowledge of the educational
good it is accomplishing through this lib
eral offer would alone be sufficient recom
pense for the entire undertaking.
This liberal enterprise of The Constitu
tion has excited the cupidity of certain
persons who have other books to sell.
Taking advantage of our methods for in
troduction of Britannica into houses not
already provided, they seek to cunningly
impress prospective buyers that they can
offer something “practically the same” or
“just as good.” This is deceptive, and we
wish our readers to understand that the
new edition of the Encyclopedia,Britan
nica is just off the press; that it has never
been offered to the public before in any
section of the United States, and that it
can be had only from The Constitution or
its authorized representatives. All others
purporting to be the same are so present
ed for the purpose of deception.
This is a matter to which The Constitu
tion has been slow to make reference, be
cause we recognize the right of every man
to advance nis own pecuniary interests by
selling any books he niay have or may be
able to obtain. While no reference library
can be found equal to the new edition oi
the Encyclopedia Britannica, yet The Con
stitution recognizes the fact that this do u
not rentier other reference libraries value
less; and there may those who could
not afford to purchase the best even nt the
exceptionally low introductory price now
offered to The Constitution readers. It
would be an undoubted blessing to sucli
to obtain a reference library ol any sort
that would come within their means, for
all reference books are valuable aids to
ward self-education.
There can b ■ no objection, therefore, to
other persons offering their books for sab
anywhere and at any time they see fit, so
long as thev confine themselves to the
truth, and sell their books at proper prices,
not attempting by ueceptive methods, to
obtain for their inferior works a price
which would enable the purch;;- -r had
he not been deceived, to obtain the genu
ine new edition of the Encylopaedia Brit
tanica. It would be all well enough if
these inferior works were sold at a price
proportionate, but those who buy should
understand that they are not getting the
new edit it n, or anything like it. A refer
ence to any modern subject, such as Aus
tralian ballot, system, wel ling iron by elec
tricity, electrocution, etc., show how ut
terly .inadequate tlr-se out-of-date editions
are to fill the needs of a man who wants
up-to-date information.
Some of these itinerants have been so
bold as to use language intended to lead
buyers to believe that they were represen
tatives of The Constitution. A little care,
however, will uncover this mask, as every
person who is authorized to offer the new
edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is
provided with a letter of identification
from The Constitution. If not provided
with such a letter, which the buyer has a
right to see, purchasers may know he
is not a representative of The Constitu
tion, nor has he the genuine new edition
of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for sale.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Floyd county:
To ail whom ii may concern; Rachael Carrell,
having in proper form applied t > me for perma
nent adini listr ition on the estate of
Steve Carroll, late of said county. This is to
cite all and singular the creditors and next of
kin of Steve Carroll to be and appear at my of
Hee within the time allowed by law and show
< ause, il any they can, why permanent adminis
tration should not be granted to W. H, Ennis,
County Administrator on Steve Carroll’s estate.
Witness my hand and official signature this 3rd
Jaj of Sept, ISD4.
John P. Davis,
Ordinary Fjord County Georgia.
TOM WATSONS SPEECH.
Mas a sensible one, but tin
place to buy your groceries tht
cheapest will interest you inure.
\\ e have moved into the Kincaid
building next dcor to W. A. Rhu
dy’s furniiure store.
For the next sixty days we will
sell as cheap as the the cheapest.
Listen to this:
Flour 40 and 45 cents per 25
pound sack. Sugar, sc. Crackers,
5, 8 and 10c per pound.
We Keep the largest and fresh
est stock of country produce to
be found in Rome.
Call snd aet our prices.
Yours truly,
L. G. TODD.
335 Broad street.
SHOIITIJI COLIEgI
FOR YOUNG LADIES
ROME, GEORGIA.
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very material comfort and convenience.
A complete force of accompl ishml Teach-re.
6. A sp'emlid Conserv itor z of Music
7, A renown*d School of Art .
BAu unsurpai-aed D-paitm-nt of Fk>cutnn <! I’hvsici
Culture.
9. A strong and thorough currirn inn.
10. A superior Kmis-biug nchool
11. A d-i ighr liii n ui- lor in- pupil nw-iv from p iroijts.
12. Reasonable etiarg-s.
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Railroads .
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