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Rome Mutual Loan Association.
HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA,
325, Broaj Street.
A National Building and Loan Company,
Purely-Mutual, safe Investment and
Good Profit Made by small
Monthly Payments,
OFFICERS.
, A Gl.<>vl- R ’ President. J. D. MOORE, Sec’ty & Treas.
ril 1- OKAVES,(Vice President. .1. H. RHODES, Mgr’ laud Dent.
*- HAL.TED SMITH. General Council.
~40. 304 Broad Street*
fall millinery,
EMBROIDED SILKS,
and ZEPHYS,
At lowest cash prices, Cal! on us.
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day ano up. American Plan,
fireproof an j First- lass in every
7 a RT'CULAd-
Blocks ir<nt live i hird and >ixt'» Avenue Elevated
The Madison an i b’ou th A v<m->c and Bed Line Cars
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while attending court,
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Restaurant and Boaruing ; ouse,
11 r 'fil, Avenue opposite the New Cou t House
dales fieasaaabi
P> E. Williams, Proprietor.
THE HUSTLER OF ROME. SUNDAY OCTOBER, 7 1894
FAREWELL.
Farewell. We tiro sLu.il still meet day by
j day.
Live side by side.
But nevermore shall heart respond to heart.
Two stranger boats can drift adown one (ide.
Two branches on one stem grow green apart.
Farewell, I say.
Farewell. Chance travelers, ns the path they
tread.
I -Chiftige words and smile
And share their travelers’ fortunes friend with
friend.
1 And yet are foreign in their thoughts the
while,
I Several, alone, save that one way they wend.
Farewell. 'Tis said.
Farewell. Ever the bitter asphodel
j Outlives love's rose.
’he truit and blossom of the dead for us.
Ah, answer me, should this have been the
close—
To be together and to be sundered thus?
But yet farewell. ,
—Augusta Webster.
BESSEMER ON BESSEMER STEEL.
I
I Marvelous Quickness In Converting Cast
Iron Into the Hardened Metal.
In The Engineering Review Sir Hen
-1 ry Bessemer has an article on the steel
■ industry which bears his name. He re
I minds us that a third of a, century ago
Sheffield steel made from the costly bar
iron of Sweden realized from £SO to
£6O a ton. Now, by the Bessemer proc
ess, steel of excellent quality can be
made direct from crude pig iron at a
cost ridiculously small compared with
former prices and in quantities which
the old steel workers never dreamed of
dealing with at one operation.
In lieu of the slow and expensive
process of converting wrought iron bars
into crude or blister steel by 10 days’ I
exposure at a very high temperature to
the action of carbon, cast iron worth ,
only £3 a ton is, Sir Henry says, con
verted into Bessemer cast steel in 30
minutes wholly without skilled nianip- ‘
ulation or the employment of fuel, and
while still maintaining its initial heat
it can at once be rolled into railway
bars or other required forms.
The article gives a vivid picture of ,
all that has been brought about by this
revolution in a manufacture in which
up to our own time there had been no
change since blades of matchless temper
were wrought in the forges of Damas
cus and Toledo. Steel is now adapted
to a thousand purposes of which our
ancestors had no conception.
Byway of giving some idea of the
enormous production of Bessemer steel
now, Sir Henry asks us to imagine a
wall 5 feet in thr.ckness and 20 feet
high, like a gigantic armor plate form- >
ed into a circle and made to surround j
London. The inolosure so made would !
extend to Watford on the north side, to •
Croydon on the south, to Woolwich on t
the east and to Richmond on the west.
It would contain an area of 795 square
miles, and this great wall of London,
weighing 10,500,000 tons, would just
be equal to one year’s production of
Bessemer steel.
Oratory and Wit.
“A curious thing about political ora
tory and wit is the side light I got upon
one aspect of it years ago in Buffalo.”
Thus Mr. Cleveland is quoted by a lis
tener. ‘‘One morning a quaint looking
old chap came into my office and said
that he had read in the newspapers that
I was to speak at a mass meeting the
following night and wanted to know if
it were true. When I told him that
it was so, he revealed to me a new
method of gaining oratorical distinc
tion. He volunteered to interrupt my 1
speech at stated intervals with a remark ■
that should be agreed upon between us. ■
To this interjection 1 was to retort wit- i
tily, and thus, as the old fellow pointed
out, I would acquire a reputation as a
witty speaker.
“My first impression was that he was
amusing himself at my expense, but he
repeated to me several things I could
reply to wittily and wanted me to pay
him roundly for helping me to a reputa
tion. But I told him I was indifferent
to that kind of fame, and he went away
disappointed. Not very long after that ;
I was seated on a stage listening to a >
speaker, when who should arise in the I
audience but my quaint visitor and
bawl out one of the very things he ■
wanted me to pay him for interrupting
me with. The orator answered him with
the same retort that I was offered the
privilege of making, and the audience
exploded into laughter, and I heartily
joined in, but my amusement had not
the same foundation, I fancy, as that of I
the rest of the laughers. And during
the rest of the evening the old fellow
made an occasional interruption from
different parts of the house, and the re- j
torts were of the same manufactured
sort. lam a trifle skeptical now on the I
subject of witty retorts.” —Cincinnati,
Commercial.
Collecting Astor House Kents.
Possibly it is not generally known
that the Astor House block has two own
ers, whose relations are strained, to say }
the least —John Jacob Astor and Wil- j
liam Waldorf Astor. Although the rent
of the hotel itself is necessarily paid in
a single check, that of the stores and
offices at one end of the building is col
lected by the representative of one As
tor, while the revenue from the other
end is garnered by the representative of
the other. —National Hotel Reporter.
Unjust Discrimination.
Officer Phaneygan—lt’s thin you’re
lookin, Mike.
Officer O’Morphy—”Tis the fault of
the chief, be handed to ’im.
Officer Phoneygan—How’s that?
Officer O’Mjffphy—Shure, an ho put
me on a blffi with never a fruitsfand
on it, the discrimiaiating blaggardl
Chicago Record.
Knowledge will not be acquired with
out pains and application. R is trouble
some and deep digging for pute waters,
but when once you come to the spring
they rise up aad meet you.
Empress Josephine owned the finest .
opal of modern times. It was called I
“The Burning «f Troy. ” Its fate is uu- 1
known, as it' disappeared when the al
lies entered Paris.
CURIOSITIES OF PLANT LIFE.
'' i trees That Distill Water, Funiisi, Light.
Change Color, and Catch Fish.
I On the Canary Island grows a fouu
. tain tree, a tree most needed in some
j parts of the island, says the San Jose
j (Cal.) Mercury, It is said that the
’ leaves constantly distill enough water
to furnish drink to every living ereii
-1 j tore in lliero, nature having provided
, this remedy for the drought of the
) > island. Every morning, near this part
j of the island, a cloud or mist ari. es
from the sea. which the winds force
against the steep cliff on which the
tree grows, and it is from the mist that
the tree distil the water.
, China, 1 -o. claims her remarkable
j tree. Thi. .s known as the tallow tree.
so called from the fact of its producing
a substance like tallow, and win.4l
I serves the same purpose, is of the same
consistency, color and smell. On the
j island of Lewchew grows a tree about
the size of a common cherry tree, which
possesses the peculiarity of changing
the color of its blossoms. At one time
: the Hower assumes the tint of the lily,
' and again shortly takes the color of the
rose. In Thibet there is a curious tree
: known as the tree of the thousand im
ages; its leaves are covered with well
l defined characters of the Thibetan
I alphabet. It is of great age and the
only one of its kind known there.
The caobab tree is considered one of
I the most wonderful of the vegetable
kingdom. It appears that nothing can
kill this tree; hence it reaches an
astonishing age as well as enormous
j size. The natives make a strong cord
from the fibers of the bark; hence the
trees are continually barked, but
without damage, as they soon put forth
! a new bark. It seems impervious to
fire an 1 even the ax is resisted, as it
I continues to grow in length while it is
| lying on the ground.
In Mexico there is a plant known by
the name of Palo de Lechc. It be-
I longs to the family of euphorbia. The
Indians throw the leaves into the water
and the fish become stupefied and rise
to the surface and are then caught by
the natives. In this case the effect of
the narcoctic soon passes off. The
milk of this plant thrown upon the fire
gives out fumes that produce nausea
and headache. The milk taken inter
nally is a deadly poison: it will pro- I
j duce death or insanity according to the '
size of the doze. There is a popular j
! belief among the lower class in Mexico
! that the insanity of the ex-Empress ;
i Carlotta was caused by this poison.
AN ARTIFICIAL NIAGARA.
England’s Scheme to Utilize the Current.
of the Irish Channel.
■ England does not propose to be be- I
hind the United States in the utiliza- j
tion of natural waterpower for electric ,
lighting and machinery. Since she 1
has no Niagara, she proposes, it is said, I
to make one. The force to ba borrowed ,
is that of old ocean itself, says an '
article in the Boston Traveller.
The North sea flows through the |
Irish channel with a swift southward j
current. At the Mull of Cantire, ,
only fifteen miles from Scotland, the
average depth of the strait is not more
than three hundred feet. A dam built '
at this point would incidentally per- '
mit of railroad connection between the :
sister islands. But the main purpose ;
of its construction would be to Lank ,
up the waters and create an artificial
difference of levels.
The sea north of such a wall would I
at once rise higher than the Irish sea,
which would be turned into an inlet or
I bay. By tapping the dam an almost in- i
| exhaustible power could be drawn .
upon, since the greater width of the
wall would more than make up for the
steeper descent of the narrow Niagara '
river. Secondary advantages, such as I
increased navigability of the now
stormy Irish sea and improvement i:i
the ports of eastern Iceland are claimed
for the plan.
Sensitive About His Asre.
j When a distinguished man like M.
: Grevy refuses to tell his age, surely or-
■ dinary women may be excu.-?.l for so '
1 purely feminine weakness. By thi.-, sub- I
; terfuge the president misled his country- :
: men into believing him to be six years '
younger than he was, according to an
anecdote, as follows: “M. Grevy was al- j
ways very reluctant to tell his age and '
, openly admitted that reluctance. At a ■
dinner party given by one of his
' friends in 1872, the future president of
the republic said, with a smile: ‘Peo-
I pie may try as much as they like, they
will never know my real age.’ And,
in fact, when M. Herold, who was some
time a minister of the third republic,
endeavored to obtain definite particu
: lars of M. Grcvy’sage for a new edition
j of ‘Vapereau,’ M. Grevy persistently re
fused to supply them. The archives
I of Mountsous-Vaudrey were burnt in
! 1813,’ he said, ‘and you must do the
best you can. You'll get no informa
tion from me.’ As a consequence, all '
M, Grevy's biographers gave the year !
1813 as that of his birth, while in real-
; ity he was born in 1807.”
The Discovery of Glass.
There is little or nothing known ,
with certainty in regard to the inven- I
tion or discovery of glass. Some of the )
oldest specimens are Egyptian, mid the '
age of certain glass vessels made by
that people, which are now kept in the
British museum, is believed to be at
least 4,194 years, dating back to the
year 3300 B. C? Transparent glass was
first used about 750 B. credit of
this latter discovery being given to tebe
Plfaepicians. The old story of its occi
dental discovery ifl-familiar; Merchants
who were,resting their cooking ppjts on
blocks of subcarbonate of soda found
gfess produced by the union, under
heat, of the alkali and the sands of the
desert.
A Russian Charm.
The Russian method for young girls
to find out when’they will be married is
for a party ut them to assemble and
tak<v>ff their rings and drop them into
a basket of ccm, stirring the grain
I meantime till all the rings am hidden
' akid then a hA is brought in and in
vited to partake of the corn and the
owner of the first ring uncovered will
be the first to enter matrimony.
. ' PARALYSIS FOR SALE.
. Alcohol as a Destroyer of Health, Moral,
ity and Prosperity.
- | Paralysis has long been deemed one
i of the direst misfortunes that could as-
• Hict humanity—a death in life —the
• heart still beating, the form perhaps
• unwasted, but the hand powerless, the
- 1 foot bound more fast than by fetters of
I iron, the tongue refusing to speak the
> words of affection, counsel or com
; maud. To escape this the man of
> : wealth will spend money like water,
■ , and the physician will send him to
. j wander afar over land and sea to flee
, the withering touch of Palsy's grisly
hand.
Yet this dread plague is now on sale,
and daily pins based at fabulous prices
. by thousands of the American people. j
Whoever has seen a. drunken man or a ,
, ( dr: tkard has seen a ease of paralysis. |
There is paralysis of muscle. Itmani-I
fests itself early in thelips and tongue, |
so that, like the Ephraimites who could
not say ‘'shibboleth” at the fords of i
Jordan, the i victim can not say “een- ,
tenary celebration,” and soon the baby 1
words “good night” become too much !
for the stammering lips. The eyes I
grow heavy, the head droops, the hands I
lose their grip, the feet stumble, and I
soon, in one chaotic mass, what was a
man rolls under the table or into the
gutter.
There is paralysis of vital energy. 1
Never was there anything more deceps i
tive than the idea that alcohol is a sus- ■
taining power. It is from first to last |
a paralyzer. Its very stimulus is due I
to paralysis. Why does the blood fly j
to the faee and surface of the body till [
all tingles with the glow? Why is the I
brain stirred to momentary vigor and i
unwonted brilliancy? For the same i
reason that a railroad train dashes 1
down the grade when the brakes refuse |
to work. Every artery is provided witji
an elastic coat which acts as a brake, •
restraining the flow of blodd. Alcohol 1
paralyzes the delicate fibers, the re
straining agency lets go, and the blood ‘
rushes in full tide on its way. It is as J
if the throttle of a locomotive should ■
be set wide open and engineer be ,
powerless to close it. But what is the ;
result of throwing all the blood in the '
body swiftly to the surface and back :
again? The same as the result of pour- ■
t ing hot tea from the cup into the ’.
| saucer. The te.i or the blood is cooled, I
i and the infall: ole test of the chemical !
j thermometer shows that the tempera- •
| ture of the whole body will fall within ■
I a short time after the taking of aleo- |
i hoi. Hence it is that the drunken man :
j so readily freezes to death.
Pure health for every human organ
, ism depends on the constant and
I prompt removal of the waste matter
i of the system, every vein and cell send
: ing to the surface through some one of
; myriad outlets the rnat.wial that has
. done its work and become dead matter
’ foreign to the animal economy. If we
I check this process by closing the lungs
I or skin or any other channel, the
I naan speedily dies, poisoned by his own
| corruptions. Alcohol checks this re
i moval of waste matter. The man
i "bloats,” as we say, perhaps prides him
self on his fullness of flesh, and goes
, about an incarnate sepulcher, ready to
i die of lockjaw if he runs a splinter into
. Lis hand, or to become the ready prey
’ of any disease.
There is paralysis of intellect. The
man of intelligence, or even of high
ability, utters maudlin folly with the
, confidence that it is supreme wisdom,
i and takes the laughter that greets his
idiotic absurdities us a tribute to the
brilliancy of his wit. Poor mental
1 paralytic! In a fair, bright day, on a
i calm sea, a commander orders an im
possible maneuver, persists in it
against all remonstrance <-f his subor
i dinate officers, and sends a great
I battle-ship, with four hundred
men, to the depths of the Line Mediter
ranean to rest till the sea shall give up
its dead. The current explanation is
i that the commander's usually clear
; mind was cknided by alcoholic mists.
' Whether that was the fact may not be>
surely known. But this i.< sure; all the
i world instantly feels that, if true, this
was svflicient cause. All men know
! that a few glasses of liquor would be
j equal to producing just that result,
j There is no wisdom tnat may not lie
, turned to folly by the paralysis of drink.
I There is paralysis of affection. Alco
hol makes the man who comes home
I one dav with love and tenderness for
I ■
wifa and children to come home the
next night an incarnate fiend, more
dangerous to that family than a savage
from the jungle. It leads him to drag
them through years of poverty, hun
ger, cold and wretchedness, while he
squanders upon himself and his vile
comrades in the saloon the wages that
might support them in comfort.
There is paralysis of will. Who has
ever tried to help the drunkard who
has not found this failure of that god
like power? Here pledges fail. Here
resolutions die. The man who knows
! that every step to the saloon is a step
I to shame, woe, and death, goes, drawn
by an invisible but resistless power, as
if un 'er an enchanter's spell. He has
come to what Coleridge called “com
plete impotence of volition.”
There is one greater depth, and
i that is paralysis of conscience.
I While conscience lives, even with
i enfeebled will and mighty app -
I tite. there is hope. There is something
in the man to which we may appe. L
But alcohol deadens, and at last p. r
alyzes, the inoiad sensibilities, so t'lu.t
, eight-tenths of the world's crimes are
, committed and most of its vices per- (
petruted uqder its power. Either the
liquor instigates to the crime, ov it is
; taken expressly to deaden the eon
science so that the crime may be done.
Ina Word, the magic effect of alcohol
, Is to paralyze the nerve centews that are
■ the scat of all the finer, nobler powers,
while it stimulates to fierce activity |
these that are the seat of all the coarse, I
animal instincts. It paralyzes all t*ha<
is godlike in man, and maddens an<
lets loose all the wild-beast instincts o. ,
his nature.
Did space permit, it might be show »
how for the nation this results in 1 .-<•
paralysis of industry, as every shopa.i l
factory suffers ft'MU drunken worker. :
the paralysis of trade, as liquor de
strevs the buvir Duwwr till millions
nrc rngged and hungry and cold, whfli
the bread and clothing and fuel thej
need are left unsold on the dealer’i
hands; that it is the paralysis of goo<
government, as drunken citizens be
i come the dupes or the purchased took
of the corrupt politician; that it is th<
- paralysis of religion and the church
winning ten young men to the salooi
for one that is drawn to the sanctuary
But it is enough to say that this fel
plague of paralysis is in the market,
that half a million men are engaged in
its manufacture and sale: that it is
sold at a profit of four hundred pel
cent.; that the American people pay
one billion two hundred million dol
| lars every year in buying the palsy;
j and that the national government,
I most of the states, and a multitude of
| towns and cities look upon the spread*
I ing of this wasting paralysis among
1 the people as one of the choicest
! sources of revenue, and that any at*
I tempt to stay ths march of the disease
| is regarded as an infringement of per-
I sonal liberty.
Across our land strides the grisly
specter reaching out bis deadly hand*
for all our noble, beautiful boys, the
' hope of the future of America and of
i the world. More than against the
cholera that comes on the winds from
afar, let us quarantine against the
dread paralysis that is bred in the vat
and the still, and sold over the bar
| within our own fair land. Let us make
the quarantine wide as the nation sus
| tained by the true hearts and strong
i hands and pure ballots of all the good,
i That quarantine against alcoholic
; paralysis we call national prohibition.
I —Rev. .lames C. Ferna.ld, in Demorest’s
i Magazine.
; THE POWER OF EXAMPLE.
: Social CiiwtoniH Which I .cad the Voun< to
Drink.
A child’s character and beliefs are
' largely shaped by the daily unconscious
. teaching of his father’s example—far
more, too, by that example than by his
| precepts. The effect of the most elo
■ quent and oft-repeated warnings to
, shun even the taste of rum is entirely
- dissipated the moment that boy sees his
1 father drinking in a saloon, or notes its
: fumes upon- his breath. Children early
I learn that there is a wide difference
: between precept and example; and
where a father’s practice in the matter
! of rum-drinking differs from the pre
i cepts he lays dovzn from the guidance
' of his boy, we may be quite sure that
the father’s example will be followed
as to the practice, and the precepts be
ignored. Actions exert more inlluenoe
than words; example is far more potent
than precept; <
This principle of unconscious yet
potent teaching by example extends!
much further than over the period of '
childhood and youth. Many a youiig
man has been led into the habit of
drinking through the example of Li
employer, or of his fellow-workmen -
fellow-clerk. Thousands of rsen ha
wrecked their lives by assuming t
there was no harm in a habit in w’
they found their associates or their eg 4
ployers habitually indulged.
Another striking instance of the ev
of a bad example in the use of stror
drink is found in. the fashionable hab
ot having wines upon the table a
forma] dinners, receptions, e.tc. T1
harm that results from this perniciot
custom is Largely due to the examp'
of a comparatively very few of tl
ultra-fashionable set. They are tt
leaders of fashion—they set the exan
pie, and the others, desirous of beig
ultra-fashionable, too, follow blindly
What more striking instance can I>4
given of the power of example and on
the imitative instinct of humanity,!
prompting us to follow blindly the die-1
tates of others? We are Like sheep; we 1
follow a leader, even though that lead- '
er leaps a precipice, and we go to our
deaths upon the jagged rocks of ruin
below.
In view of all these facts, it is the
plain duty of every parent who wishes
his sons saved from the vice of intem
perance; of every employer who has
young clerks or workmen; of every
one who has the slightest influenca
over his fellows (and who has none?) to i
abstain utterly and entirely from in- i
diligence in liquor. It matters not
whether we believe indulgence on our .
part harmful to ourselves or not; each
of ns owes a duty to those under him,
or dependent upon, him, which we must
not shirk. No man desires to have the
ruin of a life placed to his responsibili
ty. We must set the example of absti
nence, if we wish to rear a generation
that shall be free from the drink curse;
and that generation will add its power
and its influence to the effort to pulver
ize the rum power.—Toledo Blade.
TEMPERANCE TIDINGS.
Drunkenness is said to be ver
in Rio Janeiro, coffee taking ■ i • .„. •
of alcoholic beverages.
T. V. Powderly, a 11. > -• .
to how far the nearest saloon / > 1 ‘
from a schoolhouse, said: ‘’About . •
hundred miles would be a reasonable
distance, according to my way of think
ing.'’
T;:'i 4-rand jury of Cometa county,
't. sometime since, made the fol
lowing-report: “We note with sorrow
lie marked increase of crime in this
eou'ity, and that the same is traceable
>-im >-t in' ariably to the influence of
whLky.”
"Earthquakes are supposed to have
bei n responsible since the beginning of
r rded history for the death of fully
thirreen mllUon pesple.” And
•..-ifsk hww many? We db m*
vat. undoubbei the eartdt<«*« is
the lesser curse. Still we are not tak
ing tickets for Constantinople ju»» yet.
—N. Y. Ob-erver.
Os the enormous national dri*h h®l
forthe!’’’” ’ "’ngdom last dd»<.-
• S). 'd_- was d
■ u tlm :r:’ ■■ - ' »>f
t Lt-I.ix. i ■: estiinaAss that
di .id I'.iq .
sons at about t i'.e a
week. But if the -. i- ic ol h»
were expended In t. ■ • ,11 an”.
articles nearly five t::;iesas vrork
people would I cm ycd. *-»t «R th
ing ami v ‘.3>-le mas dis
place lags vi b».'vAc4’.
