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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 —— ■ 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 « a 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. | ■ I '*< ■ I 220 BROAD STREET f*! ROMEJGA. J