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THE TRIBCNE-OF-KOME
ROME, GA., MARCH 15, 1891.
NOTICE.
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reduced rates: One year, $6 00; six
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month, 60 c ts. The cash will be required
invariably in advance.
Parnell’s campaign seems to be di
zacted principally in ths direction of his
awn profit.
That stranger, the sun, visited Rome
yesterday. If he had announced his com
ing a brass band would have met him.
After all, it seems that .Statesman
Livingston’s voice is not for peace. One
of these days be will wish that he had
been born dumb.
Im the abstract, the president of the
United States is a mighty big man. In
•the concrete, as at present, he is some
times a m ghty little man.
Wht does Editor Gann, of the Cuth
bert Liberal-Enterprise, refuse to go ofl?
Rru'AUt happenings in Atlanta suggest that
ft oa„ .to unload himself.
I A contemporary in another state
cumbers Georgia among the “Hill
veisa forßiair, Japan for Ingalls.
Unless he should transport them to
another world, the president could not
send those two distinguished tongue
stere fu’therinto exile.
A female crank who claims Atlanta
as her home, is sending circulars to the
women of Georgia advising them to dis
card the present mode of garbing them
selves and wear trousers. The crank in
f uestion should have been born a man.
Statesman Livingston insists upon
being investigated, but how? With
open doors or closed doors? Everybody
in Georgia is interested in the proposed
investigation; let it be held openly, so
thtt there may be no opportunity to ap
ply whitewash to the investigated.
The “Georgia Cracker’’ is an idea of
ti>e brilliant mind that created the “New
South.”—Dalton Argus.] Correctly ex
pressed; and it may be observed that the
«ame “brilliant mind” made as great a
mistake when it suggested that many of
the great Georgians of the past were
•trackers as it made when it suggested
that the “New South” owed the late W.
T. Sherman, of the United States army, a
4ebt of giatitude. The “brilliant mind”
:• sometimes sadly erratic.
Elsewhere in this issue The Tribune
'publishes an interesting communication
<jb the subject of marriage from “Jay
Bee Pea.” “Jay Bee Pea” does not un
derstand The Tribune’s position. In
advising against marriage on less than
SIOO a month, The Tribune has had
reference to but one class of young men
and but one class of young women. “Jay
Bee Pea” deals with totally different
classes. The Tribune is free to admit,
however, that more simplicity in the
anode of life would permit the classes to
which it has had reference to marry and
five comfortably on less than SIOO a
month. But—
It M possible to idealize even a mud
cat. Hence The Tribune is not sur
prised because Editor Pleasant Alliance
Stovall, of the Augusta Chronicle, has
'temporarily forgotten the traditions of
his youth and has idealized the Georgia
cracker. But Editor Pleasant Alliance
Stovall ought not to fling in among the
crackers certain Georgians who have
heretofore been considered a little above
that lank and cadaverous and mentally
invalid creature whose name is the same
os the stinging end of a whip. But per
haps Editor Pleasant Alliance Stovall is a
member of the Augusta Y. M. C. A., and
cannot help flinging up and down every
ody within reach.
EARLY TO BED.
Tradition is not always trustworthy,
but, despite the fact that it is the habit
of Young America to lauch at "the g »od
old times,” there is a tradition concern
ing “the good old times” whicli, if not
trustworthy, certainly ought to be.
It is alleged by elderly persons who
vividly rememb-r “(he good old times”
that evening entertainments, wtieu they
were young, b gau at an early hour, and
ended, as a rule, at least by midnight
Tnere was no lack of jollity at th«se en
tertainments of the bygone. On thecou
trery, all accounts of them agree that
they were delightfully full of that inno
cent fun which gives zest to the associa
tion of young people with each other.
Those who attended theseen’ertainments
did not find it necessary to recuperate
exhausted nature by lying in bed until
noon of the next day. They wont to bed
before the cock finished his midnight
serenade, and they got up in timo t > par
take of breakfast with father and mother
and the other members of the famdy
Health reigned in “the good old times,”
and rosy cheeks among young women
and muscular limbs among young mon
prevailed.
Alas!
Tempora mutantur, et nos mutimur in
illis!
Now-adays, it is the rule for evening
entertainments to begin at 10 o’clock
and to end at 2 or 3 o’clock next morning
Nothing has been gained by the change,
but much has been lost.
11l health has resulted, and often pre
mature death has followed. Serious in
convenience, the least of the evils, has
been caused to father and mother, and
oftener than otherwise much valuable
time has been wasted.
Reform is needed.
The young people and their parents
should unite to bring about a return to
the sensible and healthful methods of the
“good old times.” Evening entertain
ments ought to begin early and end early.
The Tribune is not giving advice to
the people of the antipodes; it is advising
those who live here in Rome.
What do those fellows think who sup
ported General Gordon because they
thought ho was“agiu” the alliauc> ? The
Chronicle, Telegraph, A’bany News,
Savannah News, Tbibune-of-Rome, and
other papers are now as dumb as four
schooner loads of oysters. The general
is now an allianceman and that accounts
for it.—Montezuma Record.] Surely,
Editor Christopher is not the author of
this paragraph. He is too well informed
to believe that the journals named sup
ported General G irdon because he was
“agin” the alliance. As far as Ths
Tribune is concerned, it thinks that
General Gordon took the last step to
make himself absolutely perfect when
he joined the alliance—and The Tri
bune hopes that he will yet get to be
president of the alliance.
SHORTER COLLEGE.
It goes without saying that the people
of Rome will regret to lose Rev. Dr. L.
R. Gwaltney from the midst of them.
They will regret to lose him, not only
because of his long and valuable connec
tion with Shorter College as its president,
but also because his removal to another
city will necessitate the sundering of
many delightful ties of a social nature.
But while the people of Rome will re
gret to lose Dr. Gwaltney, they will re
joice to gain the Rev. Dr. A. J. Battle,
who will be Shorter’s new president.
Few men in this country have had as
long and as successful a career in educa
tional circles as Dr. Battle. Born to the
purple, so to speak, in matters of educa
tion, Dr. Battle was for seven years pres
ident of that famous school for
young women, Judson Female In
stitute, of Marion, Ala., president
of the Alabama Central Female
College, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., pro
fessor in the University of Alabama for a
term of six years, and president of Met"
cer University, Macon, Ga., for a term of
seventeen years. His renown as a scholar
and an educator is not confined to the
South, for in all sections of the United
States where letters are held in high re
gard he is known and appreciated. Under
his able management Shorter will achieve
results heretofore not thought possible.
Prof. I. W. Duggan, who will conduct
tue business affairs of Shorter, is well and
favorably known throughout the state.
He has never met with anything but suc
cess in bis long career as the manager of
educational institutions, and it is safe to
assert that his influence will greatly in
crease the number of pupils in attend
ance at Rome’s chief educational estab
lishment.
Altogether, Shorter’s prospects are
very flattering. The college should have
the hearty support of the people of Rome,
as it will undoubtedly have of the people
of the State who live outside of Rome.
Thk power of the press increases every
day. For lack of better employment, a
number of Georgia newspapers have glo
rified the cracker by classing Alexander
H. Stephens and B. H. Hill among them.
In consequenca, more than one budding
statesman is ready to take oath that he is
a cracker, always was a cracker, and
never will be anything but a cracker. If
the same newspapers should class Steph
ens and Hill among the idiots, the same
budding statesmen would swear that
they have been idiots from birth. Never
say there is “nothing in the papers.”
(There’s power in ’em, even though they
be nothing but a conglomeration of pot
metal.
THE TRIBUNE-OF-ROME, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 15.1891.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Bkhant.—Mrs. Anni Bdaant can still attract
trvnendotis audience- tn London whenever
she consents to lecture. I.at’eily she has been
attract'd by the new theosophy cult, and is
diving pretty deeply into the occult mysteries
of th l * new “religion.” She will visit this
country next month.
Smith -W. H. Smith is a level-beaded news
paper man, even if he is a member »f parlia
ment and a rabinsc minister, and has promptly
sat down up »u a proposal to compel writers of
arcic ee ap earing iu the papers to attach their
name *to meh articles. He said it would be
as absmd as io compel every man to sign the
ballot which he cast iu an electijt.
Roumania —The Queen of Rouinania has
writ eua melodrama which should have been
produced at the Burg tbe*tre at Vicuna, but it
turned out to be so wildly and weirdly absurd
iu plot and so bombastic iu language tba 1 . the
manager in-isted that it it was produced there
would not only be a i iot ir the audit nee but a
strike among the employes, and so it was with
drawn. Even a queen is not free from dra
matic falurts.
Peffer—Judge Peffer, the new Kansas sena
tor, tuinks all young persons t>hou d be taught
substant al handicrafts. He has eight chil
dren, of 4boiu three are daughters. The boys
have all learned the printers’ trade, and the
eldest daughter aas been taught to set t»pe.
One sou is a locomotive engineer. One daugh
ter does amanuensis work and reporting, but
also sets type The second daughter has been
trained to keep accounts, and the youngest
didghter is stenographer in the Kansas
Farmer office, us which paper the father is
editor.
MY FRIEND AND RIVAL.
i"“om the New York Herald.
Our tastes are very much the same,
In styles of beauty we agree;
And, alth mgh he was not to blame,
I th ughc it very hard on me,
For did I chance a maid to woo
Or love witn serious intent,
My irieud and rival was there, too,
Whenever to her house 1 went.
Today our tastes h tve altered not;
Alike in thought do we agree,
Tuough varn-i is our worldly lot.
I an: a bachelor, and he
Is married—married to the girl I loved.
I thought it once an awful shame,
Ami, as the passing years have proved,
He juit at present thinks the same.
GEORGIANS.
—Ex-Congressman Tom Grimes will practice
law in Columbus.
—Mr. R. J. Moses, jr., of New York, is one of
the Georgians who has found life in the me
tropolis profitable. He is practicing law there,
and is making a great deal of money.
—Mr. E. B. Hook, city editor of the Augusta
< h r onicle, made a very fine report of the sad
drowning of .» r Lamar and Miss Connelly, ne±r
Augusta, last week. Mr. Hook has few equals
as the teller of a story.
—Senator Colquitt, it is said, will deliver tem
perance lectures in the west during the ap
proaching summer. He will be under the mat -
agement of Mr. Marcellus Thornton, once well
known in newspaper circles in Atlanta.
Editor F. H. Richardson is demonstrating
that he kn »ws how to make a live newspaper.
The Atlanta Journal under his management
grows brighter and better every day. His corps
of assistants, too, is one of the ablest in the
south.
—Governor Northen did not make a mistake
when he appointed Mr Virgil
a member the zzwsrL aa. J
rowers is thorougu.-y acquainted witn railroad
affairs, and he is one of the purest and
ablest men in the state.
—Capt. Robert E. Park, the well known stock
raiser, of Macon, is g >ing to Europe in June.
He will see the old world with a large party
piloted by Rev. 8. S. Sweet, who is also a
resident of Macon. The party will be abroad
about two months.
—Mr Smith Clayton, the “Idler,” of the At
lanta Journal, has undertaken to correct anum
ber of abuses in the management of municipal
affairs in the Gate City He is not afraid, and
he spares neither high nor low in his denuncia
tions of jobs and unrighteous deals.
—Senator John B. Gordon will doubtless be
the next president of the Georgia Farmers' Al
liance. It is understood that many alliancemen
are urging him to be a candidate for the office,
but he refuses to seek the place. It is g ven
out. however, that he will accept it if it be
offered to him.
—Mr. F. L. rtanton, of the Atanta Constitu
tion, seems to be unable to write bad poetry.
His n ost unambitious rhymes are always apt
and pleasing, and his sentimental efforts are in
variably of the highest order. Mr. Stanton and
Mr. Eugene Field are the poets of all others in
the United Stages who kn w how to sing so as
to reach the heart.
SMILES.
“I’ll see you later,” as the boxer said when his
opponent had closed both his peepers.—Texas
Siftings.
The treasury will bear the marks of the legis
lative jimmy for some time to come.—Washing
ton Poet.
Buffalo Bill will visit Germany this spring.
He will soon be able to shoot glass balls in tho
German language.— Washington Star.
When the average woman hasn’t anything else
to do, she always feels as if *he would like to go
out and buy sou etliing.—Somerville Journal.
“Yes, but how do you know that Bluffkins is
a married man?” “Oh, I am sure of ic. Just
tee how happy he is when awaj from home.”—
Boston Transcript.
“This is a bad sign,” said Hicks, as the shin
gle of Bludooory, Blithers & Co. was blown from
its place and landed on his high hat.—Harper’s
Bazar.
“I can’t change my mind,” said Chappie, “I
might have known that,” retorted his exasper
ated partner. “There is no lower denomination
in minds than yours.”—Exchange.
OPINIONS IN ALABAMA.
Sad, Very Sad.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
It is possible that the country has been prema
ture in felicitating over Senator Blair's appoint
ment to the Chinese mission. He has not yet
accepted it and may decide to remain in Amer
ica.
Undoubtedly.
From the Anniston Hot Blast.
In the Tennessee legislature a b ll has been in
troduced making any judge, using or having la
his possession the free pass of any railroad, in
competent to preside in any lawsuit in which
scch railroad i ♦ interested. The bill is full of
con mon sense and legal propriety and a similar
law should be adopted everywhere.
ABOUT ROME.
—AugustaChronicle: “Col J. Colton Lynes
has written a letter to The Tkibune to show
that Rome is the place for the encampment. If
poetry cou d settle the .question Colonel Lynes
would carry his point.
OPINIONS IN GEORGIA.
It Should be Changed.
From the Chattooga News.
The old saying ‘’wheie there’s a will, there’s a
waj.’’ fhouid be changed. Now where there is
a will there in usually a conte-tint—especially
if there is any of this world’s goods involved.
A Monkey Shine Age.
From the Calhoun Times.
Bam Jones was not v.-iy wrong when he said
that, this was a moukey shine age In society, in
politics and even in the church we see every day
stilted * fforts st display, a lavish bolstering up
of emptiness and wind and shadow.
' They Have Done Little for Him.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
The demand made by negroes that the Pres
ident shall “recognize” their race by appoint
ing a negro commissioner to see to the due exhi
bition o negro achievements at the World’s fair
i-just. ihe president and the g. o. p. have
dcue but little for the negro.
The President is Discomfited.
From the Macon telegraph.
’’.j'he news from Washington would lead one to
infer that the president is much discomfited by
thJ breaking up of his duck-hunting expedi
tion. There were enough “dead ducks” around
him ten days ago, a body woula think, to have
made su -h a hunt unnecessary. But a good,well
conditioned, Maryland canvas-back is a pret
tier corpse, everybody will agree, than the de
funct biped of the genus homo, and family re
publicans.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
From the Washington Chronicle.
One of our exchanges called attention to the
nao-e of Editor Branham, of Tub Tbibune-of-
Roms, saying that it is Alfred Irerson Bran
ham. Editor Branham has a good right to the
name as he is Judge Alfred Iverson's grandson
His mother was Julia Iverson, Judge Iverson’s
daughter by his first wile, through whom he is
also connected with another of the best stocks
in Georgia for wit and srnse. Judge Iverson
married first into the family of Mr. Joseph
Bryan who once lived at Mt. Zion, Ga., and who
was the father of Mrs. Henry Cumming, of
Augusta, and her sister, Mrs. Harvard, two
ladies of the antebellum time, noted for good
looks, wit and culture Maj. J. B. Cumming ii the
son of one of them. Exactly what was the relation
of Mis Branham's moth-r to these ladies, we
cannot sav, but we know they were near kins
women. Ir would be surprising indeed if Mr.
Branham were not a success, for he comes all
round from several or the best Georgia stocks
Hr. Joseph Bryan, of Mt. Zi >n, who gave name
toMij J. B. I umining, was a noble specimen of
an early worthy.
THE INDIAN GIRL’S LAMENT.
From the French of Victor Hugo.
Forget? Can I so-git the languid breath
Os breezes, whispering of thee in mine ear;
The strange awaking from a dream of death,
The eu iden thrill o find thee coming near?
Our homss were desolate, b it far away
I beard thee calling me all thro’ that day;
No one had seen thee .ass,
Trembling I came, alas 1
Can I forget!
1 once was beautiful—my girlish charms
Died with the grief th at from my bosom fell I
Ah I [weary traveler! rest tn my arms,
be no regret and no farewe'l I
mother sweet, where waters flow,
Hej ; y fatherland, who whispered low,
’S'^SMfeeWffpfSisySn^pfsyjr-'-- ———-
FFiLed the clear summer air-
Can I forget?
Forget? My dear old boms must I forget?
And wander forth, and hear my people weep?
Far from these woods, where, when the sun has
set,
Fearless, but weary, to thy arms I creep;
Far from bright flowerets and the palm trees'
moan.
I could not live—here letme rest alone—
Got I must follow nigh!
With thee I’m doomed ,o die.
Never forget!
OPINIONS IN TENNESSEE.
Take a Rest, Sam.
From the Chattanooga Times.
Sam Jones “stamped the devil’s tail
feathers,” welted mayors with sticks and
wrestled with sinners and a sinful generation,
until he is tired out, on the verge of collapse.
Take a res: Bam.
The Same in Georgia.
From the Chattanooga Evening News.
It is the honest belief of the Knoxvi le Tri
bune that when the present legislature enacts a
dog law, peaches will grow on pine trees. Tray,
Blafiihe and Sweetheart are not voters, but they
have a powerful influence with the sylvan sov
ereigns who cast the ballots which make or un
make legislators. The poor sheep is not in it.
SENATOR WILSON’S ROMANCE.
Senator Wilson, of Maryland, who died the
other day, was very kind to a poor widow. She
nad a pretty daughter, about whose education
and other affairs she often consulted Judge
Wilson, and left them in bis hands when she
died, just as her daughter was grown un. He
ettledupthe small estate, and advised the
daughter as to ber plans. These plans were
very judicious, but were all broken up by the
judge himself, who fell in love with the pretty
daughter and married her—a regular Maud
Muller case.
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.
From the New York H erald.
Most men take life as they And it, doctors in
particular.
It is strange, but the dregs of a pot of “red
paint” are always blue.
It isn't safe t■> judge a man by the clothes he
wears—they may b long to his roommate.
As a rule the less folly a man is cursed with
the more he dreads his own foolishness.
Probably troubles never come singly because
misery loves company.
He who d >es right from principle is just
ninety-four per cent ahead es him who does
right from interest.
The man who stands ready to break a lance
with all self-opinionated opponents will fight
more windmills than ever did Dan Quixote.
LADY STANLEY.
Lady Stanley, wife of the governor general of
Canada, is an affectionate and motherly woman.
Conspicuous in her private sitting room are
photographs of her nine children, most of whom
are de id. Often, as she walks on Parliament
hill, Iu Oi tawa, in summer, they say, she stops
the nursery maids, kisses the babies in baby
carriages, a> d ta ka to the youngsters in the pe
culiar oialect whi h they are confidently be
lieved to understand so much better than
straight Addisonian English.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Facts and Fancies Gathered in Mo
ments of Leisure.
Miss Clare de Graffenri o, who is a Geor
gia woman of superior information and attaln
im nts, has brought upon benelf much adverse
eiiticiim on account of an article on the Geor
gia cracker which she contributed to the Century
M..g,zini not longag t. From my standpoint,
it is suggestive that the most vehement objec
tion to Miss de Gtaffenrled’s description of the
cracker was written by an Ohioan who became a
citizen of Georgia about ten years ago. By this
1 mean that I don't think those who object to
Mi.«s de Gruffenried’s picture of the cracker ar
very well acquainted «ith that individual. Os
course if John C. Forsyth or H. V. John,
son or Alexander H. Stephens or H.
H. Hill were ci ackers, then both Miss de Graf
fenried and I are mistaken. But, while more
than one < istiuguished Georgian may have had
his origin in poverty, it doesn't necessarily fol
uw that he was a cracker. My understanding of
the word is that it applies to a class of uneducated
and uuambltious persons who are found in inoie
than one section of Georgia. It I am right, I
have seen all tin types Miss de Graffenried de
scribes, and, if time aud means would permit, I
could pilot the defenders of the cracker to his
haunts and show them specimens which would
causa them to admit that Miss de Graffenried
has not exaggerated.
I don’t think there is any hope for the
cracker. For at least a thousand years he has
lived and had his being as a sort of dependent
upon the Euglish-spiaking race. He never did
take kindly to that sort of education which ele
vates, and I am of the opinion that he never will.
He is sui generis. He does not want to be inter
fered with; and, if he were given a five years'
course in the leading university of the country
and compelled to spend twenty years In “the
best society,” he would still be a cracker and
glory in the fact. It isn’t possible to make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear.
I am afraid that most Southerners are a
ifti le too sensitive. Peculiarities which are held
up to view in stories and sketches must always
be more or less exaggerated, for in no other way
cau peculiarities be presented so that they will
make a picture realistic enough to propeily im
press the reader. Macadav declares that it
isn’t possible to write an effective biography
without caricaturing the subject. When pecul
iarities of any class of Southerners arc described
in newspapers or magazines, there is always a
storm of protest. This is a mis take. The pro
per thing to do, unless a gross and malicious
misrepresentation is made, is to grin and bear
it, just as the people of other sections do when
their peculiarities are outlined in the periodic
als of the day. In any ev> nt, it is labor wasted
to howl in defense of the cracker. He is too
iuertto care for anybody’s opinions, be they
good or bad.
An Atlanta man informed me, yesterday,
that Mr. Josiah Carter, late of the Atlanta
Journal, was negotiating for a controlling inter
est in the Augusta Evening Herald. I doubt it.
I don't think Mr. Carter will leave Atlanta per
manently until he dies.
The Rev. Chick Niles, of the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun, is a bachelor as well as a poet. In
the latter character he thus explains why he
continues in the former:
I ne’er adored a lovely maid,
And swore to love through thick or thin,
But I rej liced as days went on
To see a rival suitor win.
The Rev. Mr. Niles’ “poem” suggests
this Inquiry: What's the matter with the
Columbus girls?
A negro preacher who bad been accused
of appropriating chickens from another man's
roost, kept quiet under the charge brought
against him until he coaid induce the deacons
of his church to gather in a few pullets from
the same peich. Then he demanded an investi
gation. At hli suggest! >n, the matter was re
ferred to the deacons, and they acquitted him,
of course. The story suggests that the Northen
faction of the Farmers'Alliance would do well
to appeal unto somebody else than Caesar.
It is openly asserted in Atlanta that cer
tain officials who are drawing salaries from the
Farmers’ Alliance will soon have to go to work
for a living or take up their abode in tho poor
house.
“I dropped on to a curious scheme in At
lanta, the other day,” he said, as he took a seat
on the left hind side of the top of my desk
“Whatwasit?" I asked. “Why, the hotel men
and boarding house-keepers down there have
formed a combination to get the general assem
bly t > call another constitutional convention.”
‘ Why?” “So's an article may be incorporated
in the constitution requiring the general assem
bly to remain in session from year’s begiuning
to year’s end. You see, ti e hotel men and board
ing house-keepers feel tha the state owes 'em
something, and they know they can’t get what’s
due ’em except through members of ths general
assembly. The average member of the general
assembly pays liberally for biard. Just you
watch; you’re going to see a lig effort mide to
call a constitutional convention when the gen
eral assembly re convenes next summer.”
I hare come to the conclusion that the
most interesting news is the news that is sup
pressed—that is, the news which is not permit
ted to find its way into the newspapers when it
is fresh. This sort of news usually involves
prominent p-rsonages or great “deals.” It is
known to but few, aud, as a rule, its publication
wben it is fresh would work injury to those con
cerned. I have in mind a piece of such news
which one of these days is going to make a sen
sation in Georgia. It is being very carefully
kept from tbe public, but its very nature will
eventually cause it to be published. Atlanta,
Macon, Savannah, Rome, Columbus and Bruns
wick are all intere-ted in it. In imagination I
can see now the astonishment which the people
of those cities will exhibit when the story is
told to them. But they will have to be patient
for some months yet. K. C. I.
A PROTOTYPE.
From the New York Herald.
The church was still as the parson read
That dear old tale of the Prodigal Son,
And many a worshipper’s eyes were dim
When the cracked voice ceased and the lesson
was done.
Bat I caught a glimpse through the open door
Os a figure, ragged, slouching, cold.
I knew not why, but my thoughts recurred
To the eon of :he story—that story old.
As later I passed the vestry door
I heard re-echood that joyful cry;
The parson had clasped the wanderer
As he cried aloud, “Safe home, my boy I”
THE TRIBUNE-OF-ROME.
—Augusta Chronicle: ••ThkiTbibuse-of-Rome
is happy to announce that increa-ing patronage
forces it to enlarge. The extra pages are as
bright as the others.”
FAHY'S
We wish io call your atten
tion to some of our induce
ments to be offered this week!
We mention first our beautiful line of
Figured India Silks,
which
are taking
the day, because
of their beauty and
and cheapness. Here
is an excellent opportunity
To Secure Bargains.
We also have something lovely in
French Suitings
You will be benefitted Jby inspecting
our stock.
Our Line of
lace Mils
is exceedingly attractive. It surpasses
anything ever exhibited in Rome.
Many different styles varying
largely in quality aud price.
These goods are useful all
seasons of the year,
but for bar
gains
Call to See Us Now.
We are just in receipt of a car load of
Mugs,
which are being sold at remarkably low
figures. It will pay you to examine our
stock early.
Big bargains being offered, we
desire to say a word to the
trade in regard to our
handsome and
complete
Carpet Department
it
is al
ready a well
established fact
that FAHY is the
most extensive carpet
dealer in Rome, as well as
the leader in low prices, so only
a word or so regarding our
present stock. We just
want to say that
we can fur
nish you
with
Anything in This Line
Either Foreign or Domestic.
We are prepared to fill all
orders, and guarantee satisfac
tion in qualities and prices.
Bargains!
Bargains!
Bargains!
All.-’Departments.-'Complete.
We boast of nothing hat we can
not substantiate by the sweet assnr
ance of facts!
COIMIE
FA If US