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• —President T. J. SIMPSON, Acting cashier
1 P. SIMPSON, Vice president
Merchants National Bank
OF ROME GA.
interest allowed on time deposits.
aii accommodations Consistent with Safe Banking Ex
n j c d our Customers,
"RUBBER GOODS =
SYRINGES,
WATER BOTTLES,
BREAST PUMPS,
nipples,
BABY BOTTLES,
FLESH BRUSHES,
All styles of Rubber goods kept in a First
Class Drug stors. At
Trevitt & Johnsons,
prescription druggists,
206 BROAD STREET, ROME GA.
LUMBER,
All kinds of Rough
Lumber sawed to or
der on short IV otice,
Call on or .Address,
JOHN C- FOSTER
Foster’s Nlills Gra.
E. C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANOOGA TENN,
MANUFACTURERS OF
CIRCULAR, BAND, GANG.
CRDSM CUT AND HAND
SAW'S, ETC.
WHOLESALE
Mill Supplies and Machinery, Saw Repairing a Specialty
New Jewelry,
Beautiful line of new
Silver Novelties, and
Silver Goods,
J. K. Williamson
Broad Street
THE HUSTLER OF ROME. WEDNSDAY OCTOBER 3 1894
A DRUMMER S
WEIRD SAMPLE.
He Sold an Embalming Fluid and
Carried
THE CORPSE OF A GIRL
Asa Specimen of What his
Goods Would do. A Grew
som kit Handled Most
Carefully by the aged
Sinner.
“Drummers have all kinds of
paraphernalias,” remarked a trav
eling man as he lighted his cigar
and settled himself hack in the
easy chair contentedly. “’At Mem
phis on my last trip down there I
fell in with an old man whose white
hair and general patriarchial as
pect gave me the impression that
he was a minister or college pro
fissor,
He was sitting in the hotel, and
as I glanced at him I noticed that
he was smoking. This struck me
as surprising, and when later I saw
him in the dining room chatting
very familiarly with the waiting
girls he became a mystery. I got
curious.
“On the train next morning I
saw my venerable mystery in the
smoking car reading a novel and
determined to make his acquaint
ance. He was very affable and
rather brisque in his conversation.
He was going to St. Louis, then
to Kansas City, and from there to
Little Rock —my route exactly. I
inquired his business with an apol
ogy for my curiosity, and was sur
prised to learn that he was selling
an embalming fluid and was visit
j ing undertakers.
“Well, we reached St. Louis and
put up at the same hotel. As the
baggage man was bringing in the
trunks 1 noticed a long, peculiar
looking leather case, which the
old man was guarding very care
fully as he stood by while it was
being unloaded and gave orders
that it was to be handled very
carefully and to be taken direct to
his room.
“At Kansas City I noticed that
he disappeared as soon as the train
pulled in, and in a moment I saw
him over at the baggage car at
tending to the unloading of that
mysterious leather case.
The same care was observed
when we reached the hotel, and
when at Little Rock the same per
formance was gone through with I
could stand it no longer. Without
a word of preface I asked him that
evening at supper what he had in
that leather case.
“Wait until Igo up stairs, re
plied the old man with a smile,
and I will show you; but you
must promise me that you will
say nothing about it or they
wouldn’t let me have it in my room
“We went to his room, and af
ter he had carefully locked the
door he turned to the corner where
stood the long, narrow, leather
case.
Please help me lift it over a
little h« said pleasantly, f>r its
rather heavy ami I cant handle it
very well myself.
Slowly the straps were thrown [
back, and then the old man pulled .
back the lid aud I gav-a gasp ot
horror.
There before me lay the body ot
a beautiful girl, cold in death,
but with a calm and peaceful
smile parting her icy lips, ks
though she had but just passed
away while asleep.
The body was wrapped in a L,ok°
gown of white silk, which the oi l
man pulled away, leaving it per
fectly nude. With a muttered curse
he called me to come up close, and
pointed silently at the arms, which
were punctured with innumerable
small holes.
“Mvfluidis something new to
the trade,” said he without emo
tion, “and [carry this body around
with me to show to the undertak
ers how to use it. It’s a little idea
of my own and sells lots of fluid.”
“My tjeth chattered and it was
a minute at least before 1 could
AN EXPOSITION!
CHINA, GLASSWARE, LAMPS,
TIN WARE and HOUSEFURNISHINGS
WHERE YOU CAN BUY VERY MUCH UNDER
ANY PRICE YOU HAVE HAD HERETOFORE.
O | /|| Deeorat "d parlor lamp
Brass base, decorated
body and dome to match.
A splendid sewing lamp, and
would be cheap at $1.75.
Lamp. Has polished
brass base, bod}’ and dome beauti
fully decorated. Worth a great
deal more than we ask.
$ 1,49 Tin Water Sets, nev
er offered before for
less than $175.
98c. Per set. Beautiful Dec-
"orations, French China,
in Cups and Saucers, Plates or
Oyster Bowls. These goods are
worth 50 per. cent more money.
/IQ English Decorated
* Ware. Full Chamber
Sets. Would lx? considered a bar
gain at $4.50.
Plain White China, Open Stock..
French Chsna Plates
French China Cups and Saucers.
French China After Dinner Cups
and Saucers.
Onyx and Brass Piano Lamps.
Hall Lamps.
Library Lamps.
Banquet Lamps.
Come and you will find choicethings never shown
here before. Our Five and Ten Cent Counters are
loaded down with Bargains.
THE NOVELTY STORE.
speak. I asked him how long he i
had been carrying it.
“I have had this one about six
months,” he replied, “but it is
getting worn. I shall have to get i
another. This one I got in Evans-!
ville, Ind., and I shall have to
commence looking around for an
other. They cost a good deal, for I
have to have a good subject, and a
girl is so much lighter; and then”
he added, “They take with the j
Trade better than a man would.”
“That was a year ago,” contin
ued the traveling man, and I have
not seen the old man since. When
he got through with a body he
said he always had it buried, and
in some cases had it returned to
the same grave from which it had
been taken. It was certainly the
most grewsome traveling kit that
I ever ran across. —Indianapolis
Sentinel.
Everybody who is
somebody preaches
the doctrin:‘‘Patronize
home industry.” Lov
ers of a good cigar can
afford to oractice what
they preach for Wait
er’s Rome made cigars
are the best on the mar
ket.
rving W. Larimore, physical di
rector of Y . M. C A., Des Moine 8
lowa, says be can couscientiouely
recommend Chamberlain's Bain Balm ;
to athletics gymnasts, bicyclists, foot
ball players and the profession in
general for bruises, sprains and dis
locations; also for soreness and stiff
ness of the muscles when applied
before the parts become swollen it
will effect a cure in onehalf the time
usually required. For sale by Lowry
Bros Druggists
AT HALF PRICE.
We show bv far the
largest line of Chi 1-
dren’s Knee Pants
Suits. We have them
from -60 c up.
SHIH IE S, I
We make them and sell
them at bottom prices,
HUME &. PERKINS I
—
_A._ W. HART, i
Leather and Shoe Findings, |
Hand made Shoes built to order, Repairing
a speciality, at
Masonic Temple Store.
$25
FOR MERCANTILE
COURSE IN
BOOK-KEEPING
Including Hooks
Cal) at office for particulars
J G HARM ISON
TAKEe
M. A. THEDFORD'S
LIVER MEDICINE.
foR / 9I\CcSTIVENESS
DYSPEPSIA j ' ? ' Jffij S'CM OR
YhuZmk.
tjfL/OUSNESS y >. * J A UNO ICE
Sourness s-wEoss us
Stomach Appetite
Mcne Genuine Without The Likeness ..nd
Sisnature ofM A.Theoforo on FrontOf
Each Wrapper. M. A.Theoforo Med.©
Rome.C.a.
tl ...
Don’t Cost Much But fire Necces’
sary.
4-Quart Tin Buckets, 10c.
Large Dish Pans, 15c.
Large Tin Graters, sc.
Egg Whips, sc.
Patent Sifters, 10c.
Tooth Picks, sc,
Rolling Pins, 10c.
Salt Boxes, 10c.
Scrub Brushes, 10c.
Blown Tumblers, sc.
Glas£ Syrup Pitchers, 10c.
Glass Butter Dishes, 10c.
Glass Pitchers, 10c.
Kitchen Spoons, sc.
Good Dippers. 10c.
Perforated Chair Seats, 10c.
Graduated Measures, sc.
Augite Stove Mat, 10c.
Tea Bells,loc.
Household Ammonia, 10c.
Brass Hoop Buckets, 19c.
Half Gallon Glass Pitchers, 21c.
Wille Fams Mill or
sale
We have On hand a
number ot good farms
for rent or sale. These
farms have come into
our hands at very rea
sonable figures, and
we are in position to
offer them at low
prices and on most
favorable terms. Ten
ants and buyerswould
do well to consult us
before trading. We can
rent or sell. To good
parties, wishing time
on Farms we are pae
pared to offer bargains
Come and see us
Hoskinson & Harris,
Jelly Sets, at Morris’
Telephone 6.