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FAHY’S PLUSH CAPES.
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FftHY S SEAL CAPES.
FAHY’S CLOTH CAPES.
FAHY’S FINE CLOAKS,
FftHY’S STYLISH CLOAKS.
These goods are the
subject of conversation
among all the ladles
who have seen them.
They are handsome in
the extreme and the
prices are so low that
none need go away un
satisfied.
FAHY’S BIANKETS,
FAHY’S COOPS,
FAHY'S COUNTERED.
FAHY’S UNDERWEAR.
FAHY’S FLANNEL GOODS.
The greatest bar
gains ever offered the
public are in these
goods, and they are
most superior. No
shams, but genuine
qualities.
Mslms
Motions
In great profusion.
They are lovely in
deed. Something to
charm the fancy of all.
See our fancy Ward
rode, This is most uni
que.
LETALL THE
people COME.
IHOS FAHY
Tin: HUSTLER OF ROME,
W.CTU.
For God And Home and Native
Land.
REGULAR CONTRIBUTION
By the Lady Ed itor of the Rome
Woman's Christian Temper |
ance Union, and of
Course is Interest
ing
WRE< KS.
HT REV GEORGS C LuklMb'R, D »
They are •very where on ocean or
life. Diamae e 1, without spare and
rudder, unu-auageuble and unsight
ly, they drift on, with mind and
soul like the stricken crew describ
ed by Coleridge in the terrible
line«:—
“Th® u»»ny men bo beautiful!
And they ali dead did lie;
A»d a thousand, thousand slimy things
Lived on .ail s, did I.”
Euch diaablt-d veaeela. coffins
merely of what was occe life radi
ant with youthful hope and beau
ty, are all about. They are bo-ne
on the currents of evil, ‘driven by
the gusts of paision, a d cross our
path in the. c >ll ide with us in the
n ,ht, snd area constant to
me unsuspecting and ungarded.
Manifold an? the forces that are
multiplying them. Low theatres
and lowersaloons, gambling resorts
nnd race-courses, fashionable so
ciety with its gilded vices, and
teeming slums with their undis.
gui«ed dissipation, all take a hand
in disfiguring what God has made,
and in destroying what was design
ed originally to be a sublime car
toon of his nwral majesty. The
prophet Joel pronounces a curse on
those who have '‘cast lots for God ’s,
people, and have given a boy for a
harlot , and #a>ld a girl for wiine
that they might drink.”
This bartering of humanity., *of
human hope, human purity, iaad
human dignity, far lust, for the
gratification of appetite. —whether
engaged indirectly by those who
pander to vflliany for hire, or in
directly by those who would pro
tect the rascally dealers from the
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JUST RECIEVH)
One of the most com
plete assortments of
TOILET SOAPS
AND
TOILET ARTICLES
Ever brought to the
city. See our line of
fine
imdaptfd TOOTH
1 IVI 1 Wil * »-
BRUSH
They have no superior
on this or any other
market
SOLE AGENTS
CANDIES
J, T GROUCH & CO.
Medical Building
ROME GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER. 16 IBP4,
indignation of justice,—ui.ist in
the long run bring down neaven’s
vengeance. Wrecks, wrecks, wrecks,
ala»! everywhere,—in the straits,
in high places and low, in I usiuess,
profession, and toil, everywhere,
crowding our way, dashing even
against church and home; and
wreckers als« on every side, decoy
ing by false lights, deceiving, and
then falling on the helpless, like
voracious vultures, to dabble ip
their blood while they devour their
flesh I
Wrecks: how many of them I
have seen m a comparatively brief
life! Many went down at s a a,
w.ien scarcely out of sight of land,
though a few yet linger half-found
ered and making occasional frantic
efforts to get out of the trough of
the ccean, patch their sails, and
once more strive for the shore.
Alas! it is aot likely they will ever
succeed in bringing the battered
hull into a restful haven.
I remember a man who had one*
thus struggled. My acquaintance
with him was caused by my hear
ing that he had at one sitting
swallowed an entire bottle of bran
dy with suicidal intent, and was
near unto death. It was pitiable!
to see him, in ire to hear him. He
told n e that be ha I refoim ri more
than once, ha 1 even assisted in
meetings for the redemption of
I ruined men, and had derided the
pious gentlemen who, on the plat
form, talked so sagaciously about
overcoming bad habits, when they
had few, if any, susceptibilities to
temptations. Almost fiercely he
turned on me and said: “There
is my son, a mere child. Now is
the time to save him. I am too
vid.”
One dark night, or early in th*
merning, as I was returning from
a visitation of some London slums
i* the company oi superintendent
of police, a wretched, ragged wo
man suddenly rushed out of the
shadow of the narrow street into
the gaslight, and importuned us
for money to spend on gin. 1 gent
ly remonstrated with her as I gave
her a trifling silver coin, and she
replied :“Not drink gin !”Wby,
sirs, fair sirs, gin is *verything,—
carriages, horses, palaces, laces,
| diamonds, servants; when I am
very hungry, verycdd and deso
late, if I can *nly get gin, I am
soon housed, clothed, fed, arrayed
with the finest, and honored with
the best.
Tru», 1 wake and shiver in straw:
but I am flii’taiued be the expec
tation of more gin and of more
oblivion Gin, fair sirs,—l live iu
Be gravia and mingle with the aris
tocracy when I am in gin,”
Away she swept Has a c r az®
thins thmish th<> mists of eariy
dawning into the darkness ot strong
drina io fined her dreams once
more A wreck, a wreck, not drift
mg merely, bur madly driving on a
lee shore.
1 have #ueu many kindred
and s I more or less sulf ring from
illusions. 0 >e ami it crone, to-»<b
|ras and yellow, who k qit a L isc tr
lodging-house in Loudon, and who
shiv >d as the origin il of a cb tract
er drawn by Dickens in oia last
novel, 1 mfi* years ago, the victim
of opium . Sae had once been as
othv- gir s, t>ut weakness and dis
appoint meut had ed to the use of
tbedeadlv drni, and it htd obli
terated every trace .if lovely wo
manhood, and left only a ho-rible
living ►kel«ton. abhorred and fear
ed r>v all- . . ~ .
Victims of opium, victims oi,
gambling, victims of pride, p s-!
sion, lust, mostly ghosts now, I
have met in the days gone by,
swiftly fading into the unseen,
and leaving to posterity only the
moral of their blighted lives un-j
happily every day n>w enipha- .
sized by others soon to be ghosts
like themselves.
What is the moral? Read it in
the sly p just returned whole and
sound font, a prosperous voyage. |
Read it in the happy homes where
virtue reigns, and in the peace that
follows saintly toil. Read it in the
strength the fulness, and the depth
ofa life nobly spent, and in the
honor that attends those who hon
or themselves, And it you have ac
quired this lesson, then from your
own gratitude that it has not
s >uiided vainly in your soul, learn
the duty of trying to save the
young as they push out to sea, by
so ordering society that it shall be
increasingly easier to do right and
harder to do wrong, aud by lead -
ing them,to the loving and strong
arms of Jesus, who is able to keep
them from falling, and able to pre
serve both faith and lifefrom ship
wreck.
“Do you know,” said an old
bartender recently, “that every
time I sell a man a drink I feel
like a criminal? I have been doing
it for over twenty years, and I
have never known the tast of li
quor in my life . But I have s«en
men drink it to their ruin, and
never one to their good. It actual
ly makes me angry to see men
stand up at a bar and drink liquor.
I have oftea been thought surly,
j but it was not surliness, it was au-
ger that made me s*em so.
You cannot get brutes to touch
the stuff, and they show they are a
good deal smarter than men. I am
not a Prohibitionist, and would
not vote that ticket under any
circumstances, because I know
enough about the business to know
that an attempt to enforce such a
law simply means that you make
i liars and sneaks out of all drink
ing m?n.
Hut I know that drinking does
no man good, aud the mtn is a
tool who says that a drink, when
he is feeling badly, is ju»t what h«
wants, I’ve seen those reeu turn
drunkard*. Yeu may think that
mine are peculiar views for a bar
keeper. No doudt they are; I tell
you th* opium eater has batter
argument* in favor of hi* drug
than th* whuky-drinker has for
hi* whisky. Why don’t I get out
of the business? I got into it, and
I know it; I don’t know any other,
I am too old now to learn.”— Ex’
Moss it, the famoua Atric n
missionary and traveler, referring
t ' intoxicating drink®,wrate : “For
uiy own part, the severest portions
of my miss on try lab >ra were per
formed without anything of the
kind.’’ Livingstone, the interpid
missionary explorer, said : I have
acted on the principle of total
abstinence from all alcholic li
quors during more than tweriy
years. My opinion is that the
most severe labors or privations
may be undergone without alcohol
ic stimulus, because those of us
who have endured the «ost had
nothing else than water. ”
Sir Wilfred Lawson, in recalling
the hard names that have been,
aud still are, hurled at temperance
reformers, r ‘minds th ‘in, in his
usual happy style, that “fanatics
are earn l st m*n in a minority,
and a faddist is one who knows
something more than the rest of
people.” —Christian at Work.
The ancient Indians held it law
ful to kill a king when he was
drunk. The Athenians made it a
capital offense for a magistrate to
be* drunk, and Charlemagne caus*d
a law to be enacted that judges on
the bench and pleaders should do
their business fasting. The Cartha
ginians prohibited magistrates,
governors, soldiers, and servants
from any drinking.
COKE CHEAPER THAN COAL
We have a large supply of coke
on hand which we will sell very
cheap. H is better than coal for use
in stovws. Apply to Rome Gas
Li 'lit Co., near Post Office.
On STOLEN.
O.ie mouse colored horse mule
with crook'd tai', medium s ze, 15
years'JJ. Finder will be lib* rally
rew tided uy notifying the ui.der
r.ig>)n . R. S. H ichho'zer,
3t° 221 Broad St. R me Ga,
FREE HOME TREATMENT.
Catarrh Cured by Thousands by
Dr. Hartman.
The symptoms of chronic ca
tarrh vary according to the stag*
and exact location of the disease.
The first stage of catarrh of the
nose and head produces dischargt
from the nose, sneezing pain in
the eyes and forehead, weak, and
sometimes watery eyes, occasion
ally loss of memory. In tho lasi
stage the discharge ceases, and dry
offensive scabs form in the nose;
polyp growths sometimes form in
one or both nostrils, and the pain
in the head and eyes is much less.
Unless something is done to pre
vent, the catarrh will follow th<
mucous membrane into the lungs,
where it will be followed by cough
night sweats, rapid loss of flesh,
and the other dread symptoms of
consumption.
To all such people Dr. Hi rt,
man’s treatment comes as a great
boon. It is only necessary to send
name and address to Dr. Hartman
Columbus, Ohio, and complete di
rections for first month’s treatment
will be sent, free. Not only is it
more successful in curing catarrh
than the treatment of the catarrh
specialist, but it is in the reach of
every person in this land. A medi
cine which is the principal part of
Dr. Hartman’s treatment, as Pe
ru-na, can be bought at any drug
store, and is a remedy without
equal for catarrh in all forms,
coughs, colds, bronchitis,consump
tion, and all climatic disease of
winter. Each bottle is accompa
nied with complete directions for
use.
Address The Pe-rn-na Drug Man
ufacturing Company, Columbus,
Ohio, for a copy of jtheir latest
catarrh book. Se it free to any ad
dres .
BRIDGES GIVE WAY.
Pueblo, Mex., Dec. 15.—Par
ticulars have b«en received of an
accident near Orizaba, Tuesday.
The Rio Blanco stream was crowd
ed with people watching the rag
ing torrent. The bridge gave way
and the people were precipitated
into the river. Fifteen were killed
and drowned and fifty seriously
wounded.
S. M. STARK
I desire to inform my
Friends and Patrons
and the genar
ly, that my elegant line
of new Fall and Winte
WOOLENS
Has been received,and
I
are now open for all
spection, And 1 willfur
ther s ate that ! am
now better prepaid
than ever <o turn out
FIRST CLASS WORK
AMD
FIRST CLASS GOODS,
At prices never before
heard of in Rom ’,
S.M. STARK,
HIIBHIST TIM
16 ARMS? RC NG L OTKL
10 CENTS A WEEK
Come And
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dollars suits,
Made to your order/
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are worth 50 per cent
more than we ask for
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Treat you to
of the largest a»
selected Stock o .
goods you every
and at prices you fiev
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Prices that make a
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
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BURNEY
TAWING CO ?'
220 PROAD STREET
ROME, GA.