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JU'S KING, President T. J. BIMPBOS, Acting cashier V . P. biMi'SuX, \ ice president Merchant Mioual Bank Ct* I. b E GA- nteresT allowed on time deposits. All Accommodati i » Consistent* with Safe Banking Ilx ende 1 our Customers nBBODSI ■■rezara • Every one in the city of Rome knows that the P escription business is a vt ry delicate one and TREVITT&JOHNSON 203 BFOAD STREET, Are prepared to fill your Prescriptions r cat efully wi 4 h competent help and pure drugs. The; also have a beautiful line of Pei fumes & Toilet Articles. TREVITT& JOHNSON The Leading Prescription Druggists of the’eity Paul Reese has change of the Prescription Department. # o 4- 4- 4- 4- & 4- 0 4- Mrs. J F. Wardlaw, Nw stock, and a complete lino of all the very latest Nove tie s. New goods arriving weekly. No. 208 Broadway, Rome Ga. OPPOSITE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. 73SBBMW J«IIM HUB MIII 111 111« ■i«i r i«rS’.SKS- LLTLIBER;, All kinds of Rough Lumber sawed, to or der on short Txoti.ee, Call on or Address, JOIIA C KOSTER Foster's Mills Ga. h. C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANOOGA TENN, MANUFACTURERS OF t IRCITTjAK, BAND, GANG, CROSS CUT AM) BARB &AWS, ETC. WHOLESALE hinery, Mill Supplies andaw Repairing a Specialty A BRAN NEW ENTERPRISE Any up to date Enterprise should be encour aged. Great care will be taken to please my customers. Call at the Annex Bathing and Tonsorial Parlors, if you Want to be treated right. 312 Broad Street- Special attent'on given to Ladies and Children •HARRY CHAPMAN, Wh te Barber. ’ ROME BAKERY~ AND R ESTAURANT. J. I’. Wilkie, Proprietor. No. 228 Broad Street. FRESH BREAD am! CAKES MADE EVERY DAY estaurant supplied with the best the market affords "uecial attention to wedding orders and ornamental cakes* F JSH OYSTERS RECEIVED EVERY DAY. P »lite waiters, Satisfactio guaranteed, give me a call Leather and Shoe Findings. F< r d made Shoes built togorder, a speciality, at Temple Store. THE HUSTLE' OF ROME FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9 1894 SNAKES IN CAPTIVITY. Dow the Reptiles Are Taught, Tamed and Cared For In Circuit** and Museums. Nearly all the snakes you see in museums and circus exhibitions were I sent to this country from Africa or South America. The boa constrictor comes from Africa and some very large specimens from Brazil. It is seldom that we can secure an ana conda. In both Africa and South America the snakes are captured by the na tives, who very often, however, are afraid of them, and do not under take to secure them unless they are accompanied by an American or Eu ropean who will take the lead in the expedition. In Brazil the large snakes are some times captured with nets, which are thrown over them. The smaller ones are caught with a big stick, shaped at one end like a two pronged pitch fork. The man approaches the snake after the animal has partaken of a good meal and when he feels heavy and sleepy. The fork is placed over the snake’s head, and he is thus pinned to the ground. Then he coils himself around the stick, and in that manner is carried away and put in a strong box, ready to be shipped to some foreign country. Even large snakes are often captured in this way. Boa constrictors are obtained in the forests near the Amazon and Platte rivers. They are sometimes 20 feet in length and weigh from 50 to 100 pounds. Tree boas are cap tured from 12 to 14 feet long, but the majority of them are 7 or 8 feet long. The Indians of Brazil capture this variety of snake while they are en gaged in their vocation of gathering rubber. They put the rubber and a lot of snakes in canoes, take them about 4,000 miles up the Amazon river, where they sell them to the traders, ■who in turn ship them in steamers which take the raw rubber to the coast. Anacondas also come from Brazil. They are highly prized because they are so handsomely marked, but the specimens we are able to get here are smaller than the boas. Snakes will not eat dead food. We feed them on birds, chickens, pigeons and rabbits and white mice. But the large snakes will not be content with a meal of mice. The bait is en tirely too small for them, and the little creatures could run around their cage without being harmed. Large snakes demand a chicken, a rabbit or a large rat, and they take particular delight in killing the food they are to eat. They do not eat so much in captivity and consequently are not so long lived. Some of them will not live over a year, while a snake who is a good feeder will live 10 or 12 years. This question of food would be a very expensive item in keeping a snake if it were not for the fact that he only eats once a month, and some times not that often. It is rare to find one that will eat oftener than once a week. Snakes are very quiet and docile after they have been fed. The fat in a snake is in layers, and is found in greater quantities than in any other animal I know of. One reason, I suppose, why they can go without eating for such long periods is because they can live off their own fat. Some say that snake oil or fat is a cure for rheumatism. I know many people who have faith iu this remedy, but I do not believe iu its efficacy myself, and I cannot say that I have ever heard of a cure by its use.—Washington News. After the Wedding Wan Over. I could nut help overhearing them, because I was walking behind the in teresting young couple as they came down the gangplank. He said: “Odd, isn't it, my dear, that we should have seen Jack and Fanny off when they sailed before? You can’t forget it. You came in town for the day. Don’t you remember ? And aft er the ship sailed we went to Delino ico’s for luncheon.” “Why, so w’e did, Bob,” said the young wife, and then with appar ent innocence added, "That was be fore we were married. ” She seemed to be quite innocent of sarcasm, and so was Bob. . Evidently the little “luncheon at Delmonico’s” was a delightful reminiscence of courtship. Why do not more hus bands still play the role of lover? New York Press. Lincoln’. Irishman. Abraham Lincoln once remarked of the people who wanted emancipa tion, but w’ho did not like to lie called Abolitionists, that they reminded him of the Irishman who had signed a pledge and did not like to break it, yet who sadly wanted a “drink.” So, going to an apothecary, he asked for a glass of soda water, adding, “An, docther, dear, if yees could put a lit tle whisky into it unbeknownst to me, I'd be much obliged to yees.”— “Memoirs,” Charles Godfrey Leland. Georgia Counties. Nine counties of Georgia were given the names of distinguished South Carolinians. They are Brooks, after Preston S. Brooks; Calhoun, after John C. Calhoun; Jasper, after Sergeant William Jasper; Laurens, after Colonel John Laurens; Lown des, after William Lowndes; McDuf fie, afrer George McDuffie; Marion, after General Francis Marion; Pick ens, after General Andrew Pickens; Sumter, after General Thomas Sum ter.—Journal of Education. $18754.34.! Represent fc Oiginal Purchases FORTH? FALL SEASON SHOE TRADE QUR DUPLICATE ORDERS AMOUNTTO MORETHAN h)5,ooo, ,00'I. And the Shoe Trade Season, just Opened. e can Account for this very flat tering; TRjX_BE m no other way than for the reason that the people are out for the best values possible for the least outla vof CASH! WEARELEADRES IN LOW PRICES -+ U» DABB MAY F«II0« +- SISLi RSI Our Specialties includes the Entire l> ne -W LjSWename only a few, ■ Jal S'a Our Ladies Grain Button at 75c equals HighW $ 1 OO ® “Dongola ’’ Pat Tip, Opera Toe, All Solid j gpjforsl ,25. Same shoe in common sense is nc t|« ffijequaled in this market at $ 1,50 WL Li Our Ladies Fancy Dongola, $2,50 Shoe forßjj !$ 1,50 is creating Panic and Consternation a tOR “High Price’s” headquarters. sy Dont neglect 0ui53,50 and s4ooLadies Ex-BJn tra Fine Dongola Kids at $2,1 O t. - s>,6o. eu Our mens line represents everything from a»n Machine Pegged to a hand sewed-at 60c togy $5,00. . A full linechildrens, 40c to $2,00. Always giv-ia ing you big Valuable and receiving only smallg Profits. Our Dress Goods Dept is full of choice Patterns latest goods and lowest prices, Dont forget that we carry an immense stocK first Class Clothing, Childrens Boys and Mens suii& and Over Coats. A large Invoice of the latter boug 25c per cent under regular price. See them-at wmw 19 <Sr ‘2l Broad St. Rome Gra.