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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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THE ROME TRIBUNE CO,
W. <l. Cooper, Gen. Man’gr.
Office No. 327 Broad Street, Up Stairs.
Telephone 73.
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What Has Been Done.
What has the administration done? It
has done this:
Repealed the Sherman law.
Repealed the federal election laws.
Saved ••$46,000,000 of fraudulent pen
sions.
“ Practically passed a tariff bill that cuts
the duty 30 per cent, and saves the peo
ple directly $70,000,000, indirectly $140,•
000,000 more
Our New System.
The Tribune will hereafter be sold for
ten cents a week to those who pay weekly
Carriers will deliver it at that rate to any
address in the city and suburbs, and our
collector, Mr. Clarence Harper, will
visit every house once a week and re
ceive the money. This makes it cost
a mere trifle to get the news of the day,
and this plan has already brought us
fifty names in twenty -four hours.
Others will pour in for the next ten days.
Mr. B. E. Brown, who has had ex
perience with the city delivery of large
dailies in places of a hundred thousand
inhabitants,' will canvass the city, be
ginning with the suburbs. In the mean
time orders may be given to the carriers
or sent to the office. In sending your
name by mail, be sure to give your street
and number.
Parties indebted to us under the old
system are requested to pay up to date
and take a new start, paying ten cents
a week They will not feel this small
amount. The Tribune wishes to go into
every home in the city and suburbs,
and that done, it will look around for
more fields to conquer.
Advertisers will notice the increase
in our circulation, which was already
the largest in North Georgia, and will
govern themselves accordingly.
Japanese Study of Perfumes.
Among the ritual furniture of the
different sects of Buddhism in China
and Japan, vessels for incense of every
variety of shape are found, and in our
collection at the Burlington Fine Arts
Club the incense burners held among
the bronzes the the same place of im
portance that the boxes for holding the
incense took among the lacquer. The
temple censers are usually uncovered,
and stand in front of the altar. Into the
accumulated bed of fine white ash are
stuck what we irreverently call joss
sticks (manufactured, according to
'Rein, from the bark of a species of
illicium.)
It Is the smoke from these sticks as
they smolder away that gives the char
acteristic smell to Buddhist temples,
and, indeed, to Japanese interiors gen
erally, for they are daily burned before
the little house shrines. The covered
incense vases take every variety of form,
long-legged cranes and grotesque lion
like monsters being perhaps the com
monest, There are spherical censers—
these more for secular use—some sus
pended by silk cords, others containing
within a cup supported on a universal
joint, so that they may be rolled about
without upsetting the incense.
The Japanese had another means of
employing perfume in the Choji-buro, or
“cloves bath,” which must have been in
frequent use in old days, to judge by its
common occurrence in collection of
bronze and faience. Cloves or other
sources of of perfume are heated in wa
ter over a small braiser, and the scented
vapor escapes into the room. At the
same time the Japanese pay compara
ively little attention to the scent of
flowers."
They prefer the faint scent of the
blossom of the plum (prunus mume) to
judge at least from a little poem that
may b 3 rendered, “Seek excellence
among men in the Samurai, among flow
ers in the cherry blossom, among per
fumes in the plum blossom, among ob
jects of desire in the toshima.” The
last word, by the way, is interpreted in
the dictionaries as a woman of about
thirty Summers, more or less, a ripe age
in Japan.—The Nineteenth Century.
Effect of Cleveland’s Polley.
/ Mr. J. H. Hoskinson who has acted
for loan companies ten years says:
'’l am like Mr. Cleveland on bimetal
lism, and from a national point of view,
I think he is right. His course has made
money cheaper than it ever was since I
have had anything to do with the loan
business. In Scotland they are offering
our folks money at five per cent. Here
tofore they have charged 8 per cent and
all costs and commissions, which made
it cost the borrower 10 per cent or more.
Now they propose to lend the money at
8 per cent and pay all cost and commis
sion. That makes it net the lender sor
6 percent. The Twitty bill is now the
chief obstacle to cheap loans in Georgia.
The capitalist cannot afford to let his
money go for five or six per cent and
then pay the costs of attorneys fees.”
Mr. Junius Hillyer, who has been
lending money for Connecticut capital
ists for years, says that during the agi
tation pending the repeal of the Sher
man act, it was impossible to get money,
but since then it has been comparatively
easy to get it on first class papers.
The Alabama Election.
There is a curious state of affairs in
Alabama. Last Saturday sixty odd
counties held democratic primaries, for
the nomination of a governor, and both
candidates are claiming a large majority
of the delegates. In looking over the
reports, it appears to us that Mr. Oates’
friends have the best ground for their
claim, as they are more specific and ap
pear to be more solid in the bases of
their claims. For example the Mont
gomery Advertiser printed a tabulation,
showing 264 delegates for Oates and 166
for Johnston, with 80 yet to be placed.
A Montgomery dispatch says;
“Capt. Johnston’s friends are making
claims to various counties without any
basis of facts. For instance, they claim
Lee, where there was a vote direct for
delegates without meetings or county
convention. Every beat is heard from
and Oates has the county by 25 majority.
They also claim Lowndes county, and
y<t returns from every beat show
Oates has 54 delegates in the county
convention to Johnston’s 64. They
claim Wilcox, while full returns give
Oates a large majority. They claim
Marengo, while returns show Oates 47
delegates in a convention of 83. They
claim Hale, when the chairman of the
county Democratic convention wires
that Oates undoubtedly has a majority.
And so the list of unfounded claims by
Johnston men might be prolonged.
Capt. Johnston himself makes contra
dictory claims. Last night he wired
friends here he had 259 delegates in the
state convention. Today l\e wired Judge
Cambee of Tallapoosa that he had only
217 and to leave nothing undone to carry
that county, which has gone for Oates.
‘ ‘ The Oates leaders say that these wild
claims in Johnston’s interest are made
in pursuance of a bold scheme to hold
his forces in line until Wednesday’s
county conventions, in which it £is
hoped to change the verdict of the pri
maries by trades on county minor state
offices.”
The exports of the United States in
creased from 712 millions in the
10 months closing with April 1893 to 773
millions in the ten months, closing with
April 1894. This increase of 61 millions
amounts to 8 per cent., which is a large
gain for one year, especially a year like
that through which we have just passed.
The excess of exports over imports for
the past ten months was $228,000,000 on
merchandise, and $268,000,000 including
gold and silver. This enormous differ
ence was due partly to the enforced
economy of the people and the great de
crease in the amount of goods bought
abroad.
The great coal strike is rapidly com
ing to a close. It ends as it began,with
a reduction of wages. It would have
been wise for the operatives to accept
the situation at the start and do what
everybody else has to do—be satisfied
with less during a period of depression.
If they had to do so, several millions
would have been saved to their families.
A political sensation has been sprung
in New York by the announcement that
Ex Secretary of the Navy Wm. C. Whit
ney will be a candidate for Governor
and that Senator Hill will be put on the
shelf. The death knell of Tammany
seems to have been sounded, and the
real democracy of New York will be
heard from.
The Southern Exposition to be held at
Atlanta next year will be a benefit to
the entire South and it will be to the ad
vantage of every section to be well rep
resented there. It is time for the peo
ple of Floyd county to take up the mat
ter of an exhibit and take it up in earn
est.
The “American Protective Associa
tion,” is a secret political organization
whose object is to bar out of political
office the members of a certain sect. The
society is undemocratic and unamerican,
as the know nothings were years ago.
That kind of movement cannot last long.
Rev. Mr. Cranfill, the Texas Baptist
preacher who denounced Governor
Northen for appointing Hon. Patrick
Walsh Senator because Mr. Walsh is a
Catholic, is a disgrace to the denomina
tion.
The South Calolina railroad, 244 miles
long, has been bought by Charles Par
sons and associates for $1,000,000. This is
understood to mean that the Louisville
& Nashville system has got the South
Carolina railroad.
The Macon Telegraph has at last come
out for primaries. Better late than
never.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, THURSDAY MAY 17.
In Regard to Spelling-
Editor Tribune:
4 Your article on “The comencement
essay” in the Friday morning’s paper
reminds us that the title folk will, also,
soon appear in the carefully prepared
recitation, or dialogue. ; There is some
thing about the children that makes the
Primary Exhibitions very popular. But
it is queer to note the broad margins
given to pronunciation. Fortunately
the children don’t have to be chilled in
writing or reading, but it is the clear,
sweet speech and expressive gesture,
which, ■when well rendered, never fails
to win applause. But one little blue
eyed beauty, sweetly lisps in story about
“Pop’per and Mom’mer,” another more
asiprnig will say, “Pa-pa” and “mam
ma!” We can not find in any written
vocabulary, the words pop-per and mom
mer. There is such a word as ‘‘Mam’
my;” also “Dad’dy” can be found in
both Webster and Worcester. So the
little negro, who says “Mam’my” and
‘ Daddy, ”is nearer the accepted standard
words in pronunciation than the cul
tured lad and lassie, who speak of their
parental relations as “Pop’per and
Mom’mer.” Again, we hear such
words as half, calf, calm, laugh, when
the authority marks the Italian, or grave
sound of the vowel thus: half, calm,
laugh, like a in far.
The old Webster’s speller has all
these, and many other words which are
mispronounced, plainly marked, so
where these deviations found original is
a mystery. Webster’s dictionary has
been the national standard in the Unit
ed States and England, for more than
half a century. The last assertion may
be extravagant, but we quote the follow
ing: ‘‘A gentleman asked, some years
since, at one of the principal bookselling
establishments of London, for the best
English dictionary on their shelves, had
this work handed to him with the re
mark, ‘that, sir, is the only real diction
ary, which we have of our language,
thoughjit was prepared bv an Ameri
can.” The work was- mostly compiled
at the University of Cambridge, in Eng
land, where Webster had free access to
the public libraries. In this country,
he had the confidence and esteem of
such men as Washington, Alexander
Hamilton, Pickering, Wolcott and other
great men who supopretd Washington’s
administration. Twenty-four million of
the Webster spellingbooks, had been'pub
lished down to 1847, therefore his ver
sion of the vowel sounds would seem to
be woven into the very organization of
American literature. His biography
marks so pure and grand a character,
that one who reads it, could not find
fault, but must feel a holier inspiration
to industry and better scholarship.
The little folk who recite for an ad
miring audience would realize that, in
following his pronunciations, that they
are making no concessions too “Yankee
isms,” but perpetuating the work of a
great, good man, and a fine scholar in
the English language.
Worcester’s dictionary is the standard
in the Rome public schools. It is of
later date. Every shade of vowel sound
and consonant is carefully brought to
notice by his system o’ diacritics, show
ing what he thought of its importance.
The pronunciation is almost the same
as Webster’s in every instance. Wor
cester may become the favorite, and
higher standard in future years. Any
criticism from us of its merits, would be
like an infant wandering about ’mid the
heights of the Alps. We would surely
get ‘‘snowed under” or lost, or eaten
by critics. If.uniformity of pronudßi
ation is worth anything, the ‘'
of our band will give us spelling, read«|
and other text books, built uopnone
tern of sounds, and marks that distißl
guish those sounds, or diacritics. ThSH
our little folk will never be puzzled t«
know whether it is right and proper t<"
say“Mom’mer” and “Pop’per, or the
more euphonious, Mam-ma” and
“Pa-pa”, and many other words, drift
ing away from the moorings of Webster
and Worchester.
The Tribune has nothing against Mr.
Atkinson for opposing the Twitty bill,
which we believe to be a bad law, keep
ing capital out of the state and keeping
up the rate of interest on money loaned
here.
In Mr. John Black’s interview yester
day we wrote “Some people object” and
it came out “Rome people object.” Very
few Rome people object to General Ev
ans because he is a preacher.”
Mass meetings are getting to be very
unpopular. Even the Atkinson men are
ashamed of them.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Editor Tribune: Please announce my
name as a candidate for the next legisla
ture, subject to the action o the dem
ocratic party at the primary election to
be held on May 25th.
Very respectfully, R. T. Fouche.
I announce myse f a candidate for the
legislature, subject to the democratic pri
mary. John H. Reece.
I hereby annouce myself a candidate
for the legislature subject to the demo
cratic phrimary. C. W. Underwood.
We are authorized to announce that
Mr. Moses R Wright will be a candi
date for the legislature, subject to tha
democratic primary. May 26.
We are authorized to announce the
name of Rev. W. C. Bryan as a candi
date for the legislation, subject to the
democratic primary, May 26.
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Tax Receiver's Notice,
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“ Chattanoogall.ls am To A'lauta 11 15 am
“ Chattanooga 4 02 pm To Atlanta 4.02 pm
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“ Anniston... 110.3.) am To Anniston.... 4 loam
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NOTICE.
I take pleasure announcing to my
patrons and the public generally, that I
have associated with me, Dr. R. M.
Harbin, late of Calhoun, Ga., we have
secured the offices and residence formerly
occupied by Dr. J. B. S. Holmts, corner
Second Avenue and East Second street.
Respectfully,
T. R. GALINGTON.
Referring to the above card it gives
me great pleasure to commend Drs.Gar
lington and Harbin to any former pa
trons as being in every way worthy of
their confidence.
J. B. 8. HOLMES, M. D.
NEW ROADS-
Some Splendid Work Done by the Con
victs on Lavender Mountain.
The new road on Lavendar Mountain,
which is being graded by county conflict
labor, under the direction of Supt. Craws
Moore, is about finished.
The original grade of this. road was
fifteen feet for every hundred feet,
and this has been cut down for a dis
tance of two miles to seven feet the hun
dred feet. This road over Lavendar
Mountain, was originally very steep and
rough, but since this splendid work has
been done, it will be as good as any of
Floyd’s admirable roads. The public
highways of Floyd are not excelled by
those of any county in the state, and
they are constantly being made better
by convict labor.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHI AS
Classas Their Session—Mr. C, W. Umler
wooi Receives High Honors.
Columbus, Ga., May 16, (Special.)—
The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias,
closed its session this afternoon. There
were over two thousand Knights in at
tendance. The following are the
officers elected: Hamilton Douglass,
G. C.; C. W. Underwood, G. V. C.!
I. Sacharius, G. P. C.; A. Cox, G.
M. of E.; W. T. Leopold, G. K. of R. ;
H. H. Woodruff, M. of A.; J. M.
Saunder, G. I. G.; W. H. Sty weld, G.
O. G. The next session will be held in
Atlanta.
CITY TAX RETURNS.
All persons who have not given in
their tax returns of personal property
are now liable to double tax. Unless
delinquents make returns at once the
ordiance must be enforced.
HALSTED SMITH,
Clerk of Council.
wrr- I II mu J I I. T ,
JJHN H. REYNOLDS President. B I.'HUGHES, Cashier-
P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President.
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This is the opportunity of your life to get a home.
I will sell at ridiculously low prices 27 elegant lots in
North Rome. For a small cash payment and the balance
on easy terms, you can get one.
Call on W. W. Watters at his shop on 3d avenue for
maps and particulars.
wattehs,
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ATTOBNEYB-AT-LAW.
B. W. Wrenn, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Atlanta, Ga;
Commercial Law a Specialty.
Wright, Hamilton & Wright,
Attorneys-at-law.
Offce: Masonic Temple Annex. "Ji-Una
J. BRANHAM,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Rome, Georgia.
D. c. Richmond & Danville Railroad.
My employment by the above company will
interfere with my general practice, which
will be attended to as heretofore. mch4-dly