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pulsing in his wrist, was just about to capture and appropriate 

 to the State capital one of the best names of the mountain 

 metropolis, when the owner of it rose up and invited the obdur- 

 ate census man to go out and get a breath of fresh air. 



Our citizens of Rome generally — and this one in particular — 

 are good enough generally to divide in half and make two 

 good citizens to the growth of other towns, and there is no 

 place we had rather share with than Atlanta, but somehow the 

 pride of locality is so great with Romans that none of our peo- 

 ple care to be counted away from home this summer. 



We regret now that this disposition was not published earlier 

 for the benefit of Atlanta enumerators. 



Editors CoNSTiTUTioisr : I read in the Constitution this 

 morning the article from the Rome, Ga., Tribune, a thrilling 

 episode, of how " one of Rome's most distinguished citizens, 

 by strenuous exhibition of nerve and obstinacy, escaped forci- 

 ble enumeration by one of Atlanta's census takers." 



That ferocious enumerator must have been me, as the Mark- 

 ham House w^as a part of my work. The list of names and 

 rooms were given me by the clerk, and I called to see the 

 parties. 



This particular case is adorned with so many embellishments 

 that I fail to remember it, and must say that it savors to me 

 much of romance. I take the occasion to beg the gentleman's 

 pardon, if I seated myself in his room without invitation. 



I beg his pardon again if I failed to distinguish him as one 

 of Rome's most distinguished citizens. It did not occur to my 

 obtuse mind that he was a mogul, nor the disproportion 

 betw|!en his size and make up, and that of my humble self. I 



