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FOURTH year
■'ANOTHER CUT
I iMof a sls Cloak Going at only
I S3Jo-Wow!
I TOWELS at 2 1-2 CENTS
I unham & Sons are Keeping
I u pthe Sensation they Cre- '
■ ated a few Weeks ago
E by Putting the Khife
■ Into Values
I Just Think
I About
I SB,OO, SIO,OO, $12,00
| and SISOO Cloaks
I Nice, New
I And Stylishly Made.
I for $4.25
• Don’t you buy a
j Cloak until you see
I our Stock.
| We bought out a
i Cloak concern and are
■ selling CloaKs away
down underthe prices
other merchants pay
forthem, others ad
vertise Cloaks butthey
cant meet our prices.
A cheap and very
poure Cloak full size,
for 55c, a good nice
and stylish Cloak for
$1.50
A large lot of fine
Cloaks were SB, $lO
sl2 and $15,5 We
are selling at $3.75
Misses and Children
Black Hose sold by
oath’s for 10c our
pries long as they
last at 3c per pair,
Large lot of Towels
21-2 cents each
are worth more, out
we got teem cheap and
can sell them cheaper
than any bodv
We have bought a
big job in Gents Cloth
ing and Furnishing
goods, and now sell a
Pair of Fine Gloves
hat Cost at the Factory
50 to 75c for only 25c.
Clothingdown below
any body’s price.
If you
Haveany money
To spend
You had better
See us
Before you
Spend it
SHOES!
SHOES!
SHOES!
Raby shoes as low as
20 cts.
LANHAM &SONS
316. 318, 320, 322 324
x 326. STH AVENUE
FOURTH WARD
THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
WJLTJI.
For God and Home and Native
Land.
A BLACK BERRY WINE
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Tragedy Caused by the pure
Article being put on at a
family Thanksgiving din. j
nerthe poor thought
less wife was left
a Widow.
WAS IT HARMLESS.
BY ELLA J. STEWARD.
“Three, six, nine, twelve cans of
as nice blackberries as one ever saw,
and enough more in the kettle to
fill another and make an even ba
ker’s dozen; I call that a pretty
good morning's work,” said Mrs.
Henderson, a* she wiped the perspi
ration from her face and looked
with pardonable pride upon the
goodly array of fruit jars ranged
upon the table of her neat kitchen.
“I’ll be through and have every
thing cleared up in less than half
an hour more and then I’ll have
time to rest and read that article
on the evils of the social wine-glass
before I get dinner. Oh, dear,” as
a peal from the door-bell reached
her ears, “who is that, I wonder?
Hope it isn’t any one that will
hinder me very long, and quickly
removing her berry-stained apron
she hurried to the front door, to
find on the porch Mrs. Norris, a
lady she had long known by eight,
but whome she had never before
met.
“Mrs. Henderson, I believe?”
said Mrs. Norris. ■
Yes. ma'am; lome in ,Mrs Norris ’
When seated in the parlor Mrs
8. M. STARK
I desire to inform my
Friends and Patrons
and the gener
ly, that my elegant line
of new Fall and Winte
WOOLENS
Has been received,and
are now open for all
spection, And I willfur
ther state that I am
now better prepa ed
than ever Io turn out
FIRST CLASS WORK
FM CLASS GOODS,
At prices never before
heard of in Rome,
S. M. STARK,
MHUT TAILOR
16 ARMSTRONG HOTEL
ROME GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER. 2 1894.
Norns svid : “Pardon the liberty ]
tike in calling upon a stranger
for a favor, but I should very
much like to get your recipe for
making blacklerry wine. ”
Biackberry wine!'’ echoed Mrs
Henderson in astonishment.
‘ Why, I never made any in my
life ; I do not believe in wine drink
ing, and would not have any of it
io »iy house.”
“Oh,” replied Mrs. Norris, ‘‘of
course I do not believe in ih?
drinking of strong liquors, but I
never was fanatical enough to con
demn anything as harmless as pure
blackberry wine; indeed, I consid
er it very beneficial, and used al
ways to make and keep it in the
house; my w ine was highly praised
by good judges. But I have not
made any now for several years,
and have forgotten just the pro
portion of brandy I always put
with a given quantity of berry
juice, so I wanted to get a well
tested recipe from some one.”
“But why did you suppose 1
could give you one?” inquired Mrs.
Henderson, with a puzzled air.
“Because I heard that you were
buying quite a quantity of black
berries; pray, what use do you
make of them?”
“I can them for winter use; a
much better way, I think, than to
convert them into intoxicating li
quor, to help ruin some poor soul
perhaps.”
“Oh, lam not the l°ai-t afraid
that home-made wine will help
rum anybody. But as you bold the
singular views you do, I am sorry
I troubled you,” said Mrs. Norris
coldly , and with a stately bow she
bade Mrs. Henderson good-day»
leaving that g od woman to return
to her kitchen in a state of idigua
lion as may be seen from the re
marks she addressed to’no one in
particular, for she had fallen into
the habit of thinking aloud, espe
cially when deeply moved.
‘ Going to make wine, is she?
Well I should think she had had
evidence enough in her own home
of what drink will do fdr a man;
and I shou'd think she would be
the last woman in this town to al
low even a drop of anything con
taining alcohol to be in her
house.
Became offended because I ex
prrs«ed my opinions did she? Well
I cau’t help it, I could not keep
still ; of course I hope no evil re
sult will follow, but if she does
make that wine she may see the
day wh«n she will remember what
I said; for if—” and she shook
tier bead and sighed as though her
thoughts were too dreadful to ut
ter even to the kitchen walls.
The above scene took place in a
rapidly growing frontier town in
the early summer of 188 —. I hat the
reader may understand Mrs. Hen
derson’s soliloquy, we must go
hack some three years, when this
town was but a scattering villiage,
and Mr. and Mrs. Norris moved
there from a distant state.
Mr. Norris was a man of fine
appearance, and unexcelled busi
ness qualifications, being a highly
skilled accountant. But sometime
previous to this he had acquired
an appetite for liquor, or perhaps
we should say had roused a dor
mant hereditary appetite, and had
become so addicted to its use that
be lost bis situation at their old
home, and poverty stared them in
the face.
Having resolved to break, if pos
sible, the chains of habit and ap
petite that held him, and think
ing a severing of old associations
would make this easier to do, he,
with his wife, sought a new home
among strangers. There being a
deman 1 for accountants, he at once
secured a pc sition at a good salary >
and for a time all went well. But
alas, temptation offered and he
felL His employers listening to
his penitent plea and promises of
reformation, reinstated him.
Again and again he fell: until a
prolonged debauch of . nine weeks
left him and his wife in abject
poverty, he having even pawned
the only coat from his back for the
accursed stuff. When the saloons
had taken from him the last cent
possible, he was kicked out, and
all one night he lay in the gutter,
w’th scarcely clothing enough to
cover his person. When reason re
sumed her sway, his shame almost
crazed him, and he came near end
ing his miserable existence by his
own hand.
But better seen f< rmed
themselves m his naturall/ fine
mind, and once more he went to
bie former employers mid plead
ed for another trial, pledging him
self that if he did not. that time re
main faithful to bis duty, he
would asked 110 more of them. The
ma n who had been filling his place
3:4 having proyed satisfactorj, be
was given another trial.
'I bis time the memory of his
degradation, which on the occasion
of his last downfall had been great
er than ever before, seemed to
b'lVe Bume influence over him, so
that his will-power gmnjd stn ng’h
and at the opening of our storj ,
about two years had passed m
which Mr, Norris bad led a lober
industrious life He and his wif<
being of an economical nature
they bad saved money and iuves : -
' ed it n real estate by the advance
of which they had come to be in
will to-do ctrcumslauces.
Having known all these facts of
their previous history, no wonder
Mrs. Henderson was both surprised
and shocked at the thoug it of Mrs.
Norris making wine and keeping it
in the house.
Quickly fled the months, and
chilly November brought Thanks
giving Day, on which occasion Mrs.
Norris sent out invitations to a
number of friends for a dinner
party; Mrs. Henderson, of ceurss,
was not among the chosen num
ber
Ten days passed away, and on
Sunday morning Mr. and Mrs Hen
derson were walking to church. when
a neighbor overtook them and a<-
ked. “Ilare you h .. ibuut Mr
Norris?”
“ No,what?’’
“He roppad from his chair,dead
an hour ago. ”
“Dead!” echoed bot i Mr and
Mrs. Henderson. “What was the
cause?”
“Well,” slowly replied Mr. Jar
vis, “the doctor who was csl'ed in
after it was all over, pronounced it
apoplexy; but I call it blackberry
wine poisoning. It seems that on
Thanksgiving his wife gave a din
ner party, and one item on the
bill of fare was blackberry wine of
her own making. M". Norris had
no' tasted any kind of I’quor in
over two years, but of course to be
considered courteous he could not
refuse the wine that was offered to
their guests at their own table, se
he drank of it. He has not sinoe
that been to his office, nor has he
drawn a sober breath; he died
dra.ik' "’
Mrs. Henderson with tear dim
med wyes and trembling lipa said .
“I wonder whether Mrs. Norris
would now call pure blackberry
wine harmless?”
Walnut Grove, Ala.
LOST
In the new Court
House a gold Hunting
Case Watch .works
• loose incase. Liberal
reward will be paid for
its return to Sheriff
Highest Market price
J paid for Hides & Pelts,
f J. S. HFNDERSON.
TAMMANY'S DEBTS.
Ev2»y Dollar in its Strong Box ha?
Disappeared.
Xew York, Dec. Ist. —Tamma-
ny Hall is eaid to be bankrupt,
and that every dollar in the treasu
ry of the organization has disap
peared.
For years it has been understood
that there was in the Tammany
strong box, all the way from $50,-
000 td Si(X),OO r ifor use at the open
ing of a campaign.
Early in the campaign just cloe.
ed, it is said that the astounding
discovery was made that whatever
funds the organization had «n
hand had been withdrawn.
Tammany, so the story goes, has
not only sustained the loss of ev
ery dollar in its treasury, but is
heavily in debt as well. Where the
money to pay this indebtedness is
to come from, now that the organ
ization is to lose all the municipal
offices it has held for years, no one
can imagine.
—
Married on a Train.
Paducah, Ky., December 1. —
H G. Radford and Miss Debbie
Watts, well known young people
of MayfieM, were married on »
train tonight.
With a party of friends and a
nimster they boarded aChesapeake
limited and the ceremony was per
formed while the train was run.
oing 40 miles an hour. They reach
ed this city at midnight and will
return at o o’clock this morning
Novelty was their only motive.
JUST RECIVED
One of the most com
plete assortments of
TOILET SOAPS
AND
TOILET ARTICLES
Ever brought to the
city. See our line of
fine
I
IMPORTED TOOTH
BRUSHES
They have no superior
on this or any other
market
SOLE AGENTS
CANDIES
I. T CROUCH & CO.
i Medical Building.
IO CEMTS A WEEK
Come And
EXAMINE
I
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Our sl6 $18& S2O I
dollars suits,
Made to your order.
Trimmed and made"
elegantly,
Mi? j
If
4f you dont say they
are worth 50 per cent , j.
more than we ask for
hem, then we will
reat
I
I
Treat you to a show'
of the largest and best
selected Stock of pant
goods you ever saw
and at prices you nev
er dreamed of.
A. .
Prices that
ready made .dealer
ashamed of his busi
ness and wish that he
could buythem at the
prices we will give you*
Come and see us.
We will sell you if you
come and will give you
more than satisfaction
fl
. j
BURNEY i ‘
TAILORING GO. |
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220 BROAD STREET f*!
ROMEJGA. J