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Shoes FOR The Million. \V« handle the finest We sell the best You come and see us W® do the rest. Our School Shoes for Boys and girls have n o superior. WEI Will STAND THE BACKET. Thousands of pairs of lasting beauties for the ladies, Our mens bargains.have no peers in this market. Ladies Spring Heels in oil eizesand styles. JEET DECORATORS ANDKORN KOMFORTERS Sc Owensiw* 240 BROAD STREET- t Rome Mutual Loan Association. HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA, 325, Broad Street A National Building and Loan Comp n Purely Mutual, safe Investment and Good Pro Made by small Monthl Payments, OFFICERS. A. GLOvER- President. J. D. MOORE, See’ty ft Treas. CHAS. I. GRAVES.iVice President. J. H. RHODES, Mgr’ Laud Dept. HAL3TED SMITH, General Council. 4DOALL ! COAL ! •ALL GRADES, ROME COAL CO. VA RD Qppnnd Avp Low,st l>riccß s Henry G - Sraith ’ Ma ’s r IntlU-oUbIHIU niU.j iu Koine ) J-H.King Weigher. ~~ (111 TI UN ’I (IT Fl 0U U 111ijII 11 11 11 Lh. CHATTANOOGA TENN. 'A Strictly First class Hotel. Right in the heart of the city Con venent to business, depots and electric car lines. The service is unsurpassed and the prices reasonable. AT. A.- Camp JVEanager. O’Neil (Wig Co. SELL ®COAL® TELEPHONE 76. 11 —1 A. 1 .J -4-IIIE wb m du wU- 530 Market St. Chattanooga W.C. SMITH Agt, Proprietor LADIES & GENTS CLOTHING CLEAN E. DYEDOR REPAIRED, AT LOWEST PRICES. PROMPT PROFESSIOANL WORK. 53.00 PER DOZ. FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS I WILL. MAKE CABINET PHOTOS at $3.00 Per Dozen. This is a SPECIAL OFFER for Cabinet Photos only. I guarantee good work. FOR $4.50 You can get one dozen Cabinet Photosand a. two-thirds life size, L W. LANCASTER, Photographer. i THE HUSTLER OF FOME. TUESDAY DECEMBER 11 1894 HAM AND EGGS I My friend was tellinS me about the time he left home with a few dollars and plenty of courage, to conquer all adversities in the wes tern country. Retried Arkansar, but could find nothing to do, and did not like the wild and deserted j stretches of country. All along she line of the railroad for many miles I 'a • devast* d acres of j i e and, and occasionlly a gloomy and deserted saw-mill village. Finally he decid ed to go into Texas, as his fend.- w re getting distfes^iil'dy low. “I got into "'exarknn.i one morn ing and I looked like sortie dusty and i : r'd “Wam’e ’in ■ Wii iI didn’t know what the d< uce I wa going to do for something to eat I and a place to sleep, for the sum ' total in my pocket was 10 cents, and besides 1 was some hundred miles from home. “While I was wandering around town, 1 ran across an old friend of mine. He was married and insisted on m« staying with him while in town . You can just bet I was more than willing. Just here a very grave problem presented itself. I needed a shave and a shine, and I didn't have but ten cents. If I got a shave I could not get a shine, and if I my pedal extremities illuminated I would have only five cents left, and that would’t get my counten ance scraped. “I at last settled it by tossing up the coin, and the shave won. I went there and stayed a week and when, I left I “touched” fora V. Shortly afterwards I went back home and ‘never cared to wander’ again. We were talking of ghosts and the wind soughed mourufu’ly through the bare trees aid ihe' wind pattered weirdly on the tin| roof. The city was sleeping, and only the occasional clatter of a passing vehicle, evidenced that there was still a few people awake. The moment and surroundings were propitious for relating spook stones. I never had hut me experience with a ghost’’ said Gus. “One night when I was a small boy, my folks all went off and left, me in the' house by myself. I read awhile a.d finally turned the lamp low and tried to sleep. All tt once II heard soft footsteps descending the staircase, gestly but it came down, and I lay there and shivered with fear and my hair had a grave tendenacy to co the porcupine act. Horrors, the thii g was approaching my room, the door which stood slightly ajar. It seemed as though I would die with pure fright, as that ghostly tread kept tipping, tipping towards ruy door. I covered my head up and moaned in mental agony, and the Ibing was now in my room. “At last I decided to Kok and see what it was, full expecting to see some ghostly visitant. And lolit was nothing but a big black rat rolling a potato I I almost laughed aud shouted in my glee.” “Well that’s pretty good,” said Tom. “I had an experience one that never scared . me un'ol it was all over. It hap p«ned in this way. I was in the habit of staying up to read until long after the others had retired. My two little brothers were tran quilly sleeping in a bed in the cor ner, the door was open and the night was clear and bright with many stars' About 11 o'clock I stepped out into an open hallway. The house was in the shape of an L, and there was a little flower yard cut off on the back and a gate opening into the rear was right against the side of the house. The light from my window left this gate iu the shadows, aud as I stood on the steps, it seemed as though I saw a huge, black, shapeless mass huddled against the gate. “I stood several seconds look ing at the thing, and at last I de cided to envestigate, aud the thing, (I know not what else to call it) slowly rose over the gate and com menced rolling in the direction of the well. I ran to the gate, threw it open and took out after the blame mystery. It jumped aud tumbled along, with me in close pursuit, When it got near the well it just disappeared—l stopped and looked around in blank amaze ment. but »he plagm d thing hail evaporated into nothingness. Co d chills chased each oth'-r down my spinal column in quick succession, and my hair stood up straight. I went to bed as soon as possible, and Ido not know to this day what the thing was. ‘ Sonm years ago [ was an op'-r ator at a i out of the way and b n some station on an Alabama mail." -pol ■ up Will. .“My . boarding house was about one and half mil f,">.ii Ihe depot, ail Iha j route was through the woods, and I 'i : 1 to y > right by an old grav- > 11 i ' I . “Now I always went to the depot after supper and read or wr >te un til 10 or 11 o’clock. I never thought ah< ut being afraid until and old negro, who lived near the depot said one day : “Marse Will dere’s er hunt up in dem woods, an’ some night hits er gwinter come out an’grab yer.’» “It didn’t make me think I would see anything supernat iral then, but I thought the fool negro would try to frighted me, and I told him I would shoot him if h e ever tried it.” “One bright moonlight night I started home abount 11 o’clock and was going through the woods, vi ia i ear the old ci neh jy. Su denly I saw a tall spectral lookidng figure some distance down among the trees. I stopped short and said. “Who’s that?” “The thing just noddl’d its head to me, and I began to feel squeanjy. It seemed to be a human being clothed from head to foot in white, and I sungout again: “ T am going to shoot if you don’t speak,’ and the darned thing nodded its head at me sauci ly. I pulled my pistol and fired two shots at it, but it just stood ns serenely as ever. Then that got my ire up, and I determined to see what it was. I start d towards it and fora moment took my eyes off of it. When I glanced up my ghost was gone. I went back to the path, and by jingoes! there it wa - as l>ig| as life again. “Again 1 started for it, and,this time kept my optics fixed firmly *on the object. When I got near it I saw it was a bush. The moon shone on it at such an angle that all the leaves were perfectly white, and the tree took on the semblance of a human form. That’s my only experience with a ghost/’ SWEPT BY THE STORM. Damage Done in Alabama and Florida Yesterday Block'ou Ala., Due. 11 —A storm struck West Blocton at 2:3ooclock this morning. The store of W. Is rael, was blown off the pillars aud badly damaged. The enitre front w s blown from the store of H. C. <fc w . B. Reynolds. A shop "ccupied by T. J. Vickery & Co., was completely demolished. Fences are blown down and the roads leading out of West Blocton are all blockaded with fallen tim ber. Fortunately, so far as can be learned, no one was hurt. The width of the storm was about half a mile. It lasted about half an hour. PASSED NEAR EUFAULA. Eufaula, Ala., December 11.— A terrific cyclone, traveling in a northwesterly direction, passed about two miles east of her this morning at 7 o’clock. Its path was about half a mile wide, and through the sections heard from great de struction was done. Eight farm houses on the plantation of F. M. Gay wen? blown down and four persons were buried under the debris, one probably fatally injur ed.' Pieces of furniture, bed cloth ing, etc., were found lodged in the tops of trees half a mile away. DAMAGE AT SELMA. Selma, Ala. December 11. —The storm which passed over Dallas county early this morning did con si derble damage to property, but no lives were lost. Several houses were unreofed and outhouses and trees blown down. CYCLONE IN FLORIDA. Westville, Fla., Dec. 11. —A ter rible cyclone passed four miles north of this place early this morn ing. It struck the farm of Mr. J. N. Skinne, the representative-elect from Holmes county, and demol ished every building on the place. Every member of Mr. Skinner’s family was injured and his wounds, it is thought, will prove fatal. It is impossible to obtain information as to the extent of the damage or how far the storm extended. JACK KING, President T , “ W- P- SIMPSON, Vice president mpNun > Acting Cashier Merchants National Bank OF ROME CA. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS All Accominndatioas Consistent with Safe Baukina- \ . en ded our Customers BRICK KILN S LIME KILNS HAIR AND SAND We can furnish fresh Lime in large quanities burned from our own Kilns on short notice. Brick. Lime, Hair and Sand always on hand Greorge AV. Trammell Fourth Ward Brick Yards, Mrs. J. F. Wardlaw, JXZETLLIISrERY, New stock, and a complete line of an the very latest Novelties. New goods arriving weekly. No. 208 Broadway, Rome Ca OPPOSITE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. /All kinds of Rough Lumber sawed to or der on short Notice, Call on orJLddress, JOHN O- FOSTER Foster’s Mills G-a. E.~C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANOOGA TENN, MANUFACTURERS OF CIRCITEAR, BAWBi GANG, CROSS (TT AND IJANI) SAWS, ETC. WHOLESALE Machinery Mill Supplies Repairing a Specla Ity THE LOME B A KEPA AND REBTUEANT. J, T. Wilkie, Proprietor. No. 228 Broad Street. ESH BREA. Danil CAKES MADE EVERY DAY Restaurant supplied with the best the market affords- Special attention to wedding orders and ornameuta ca » FRESH OYSTERS RECEIVED EVERY DAY. Polite waiters, Satisfaction guaranteed, give me a ca w. TdZ-A-ZFOT., Leather and Shoe Bindings, _ Hand made Shoes built to order, ReP a a spciality, Temple Stofg_ ’S HINCLE.S., We make them and sell them at bottom prices, HUME <Bt PERKINS