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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - - Editor.
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EOME, GEORGIA. JUNE 13. 1895.
The toughest hide has some sore
spot.
The harvest time is on in the Ooth
caloga valley.
Macon’s Peach Carnival is assuming
large propotions.
Some people are only consistent in
their inconsistencies.
Rome’s amateur talent will compare
with that of any city in the country.
And after all it turns out that Edi
tor Triplett was only a watermil
lionaire.
The South Georgia folks are revel
ing in bream and berries. The coun
try is safe.
Jumbo Hunter has dropped out of
Atlanta local politics, but his memo
ry will linger long. . f
The Georgia Weekly Press Associa
tion will enjoy a clam bake at Cum
berland. Don’t be a clam.
The Tifton Gazette reports the
market crowded with blackberries.
A regular blackberry jam, as it were.
If the people of Rome would but
drop all petty differences how much
might be done for the growth of
Rome.
Maj. W. L. Glessner, of the Georgia
Southern railroad system, is doing a
splendid work for that section of
country.
For one time the newspapers are all
kind in their expressions about Gen.
Gordon. He is not antagonizing any
of their pet interests.
Editor E. B. Russell, of the Cedar
town Standard, furnished an inter
esting story of Cedartown and Polk
county for the last issue of the Trades
man.
Prof. J. C. Harris has been made
chairman of the board of visitors of
the State University. His friends in
Rome appreciate that recognition of
his ability.
The unanimous re-election of Prof.
J. C. Harris as superintendent of Rome
public schools was a deserved compli
ment to the merits and worth of that
faithful public servant.
Let the northern new woman crank
divide her skirt or discard it entirely
if she chooses. It will be a long time
before our southern girls will adopt
such hideous costumes.
Editor Jim Hall, of the Calhoun
Times, dropped in on The Tribune
yesterday, where he is always a wel
come guest. His countenance is as
genial as the June sunshine.
Why not the citizens of Rome come
together and form a business men’s
club? It would be of incalculable
benefit in furthering many a worthy
project for the wellfare of the city.
The Atlanta city council is the heir
of many vexations. Young Herman
Fleischman is now to make it warm
for Councilman Phillips, unless the
latter keeps hie promise made Jto
Fleischman before the election to as
sist him in securing an office.
This is a great country and one of
the strongest evidences of the sub
stantially of its institutions is the
smoothness with which the machin
ery movesjalong even when one of the
main cogs drops out, the only delay
being for the putting in of another
when it moves on without a jostle.
CLEAN UP THE LAWN.
The summer time is here with three
months of hot weather ahead of us.
It is high time that we were prepar
ing to meet it. Just at present Rome
is one of the healthiest towns in Geor
gia, but we cannot afford to take any
risks. We must clean up things, and
so ward off disease.
The very healthiest locations in the
country may easily be made the very
hot beds of disease by the neglect of
the people. It is absolutely essential
that we keep everything cleaned up,
leaving no stagnant pools or decaying
rubbish in places where is likely to
breed plague and pestilence.
It is reported that there is water
standing stagnant in basements along
beneath the big buildings on Broad
street. This is a menace to the health
and well being of the city. One such
puddle will breed enough mosquitos
to torture the citizens all the balance
of the year. Then they are liable to
produce malignant fevers, from which
our people may enjoy complete im
munity, with proper sanitary protec
tion. Let the work of cleaning up
basements and cellars, back yards
and mud holes begin at once. An
ounce of preventive is worth a pound
of cure.
Neglected these things may prove
very serious. It is too late to avert
the evil after it has begun. The time
is to begin action now when every
thing is all right, and so guard against
any fatal trouble. The city authori
ties as well as private individuals
should take a hand and have a gen
eral cleaning up.
SHIPPING FRUITS IN BORAX.
Mr. Frank M. Smith, who is refer
red to in the San Francisco Examiner
as “the borax king,” tells that paper
of an experiment he has just made
that may prove very valuable to the
fruit trade of the world. One day
while a friend was talking with 'Mr'.
Smith about his successful experi
ment in putting up fresh meats in
borax he asked Mr. Smith why he
had never tried preserving fruit in
the same way. The idea had never
before occurred to him, but he de
cided to give it a trial. His first ex
periment is thus described:
“Hq packed several pounds of cher
ries in a box of powdered borax. This'
box was placed in the cellar and
alongside of it he put a large glass
dish filled with the same kind of
fruit. Then he waited developments.
The next day he visited the cellar
and found the cherries in the dish
were beginning to turn. In three
days they were so decomposed that it
was necessary to throw them away.
In order to make a good test he de
termined not to disturb the packed
cherries for three weeks. At the ter
mination of that time the box was
opened and the fruit was found as
fresh and in as good condition. as
when first placed there.
“Mr. Smith was amazed and he was
delighted over the result and deter
mined to experiment on a larger
scale. He had a quantity of cherries
packed in a barrel of borax and sent
to Chicago by slow freight. Last
week he received a telegram saying
the fruit had arrived in perfect con
dition and was bringing surprisingly
high prices.” /
Other experiments are being made,
and Mr. Smith is delighted with the
success that has thus far attended
upon them. He says there is no pat
ent on the discovery, and as the ex
periment is yet in its infancy, he does
not wish to claim too much for it;
but he gives the world notice of the
result of experiments already made,
and growers elsewhere can experi
ment for themselves. He says the
same borax can be used over and
over again, and think of the amount
of unnecessary domestic waste that
will be avoided by preserving fruit
this way. Private families as well as
hotels and restaurants can have their
borax bins at small expense in which
they can constantly keep an assort
ment of fresh fruit.
The graduating days are about
over, and the young man with his
hair parted in the middle and a di
ploma in his inside pocket is now
busy looking for that SIOO a month
job that was created for his own dear
self. The first thing he ought to do
to inspire hope of a situation is to
start a reform movement in the man
ner of hair dressing, and then he
should give patent leather shoes and
the walking cane a rest.—Albany
Herald.
The plucky little Brunswick Call is
out as usual, despite the fact that
the office which had contracted to
issue the paper for fifteen months
was sold out and the contract an
dulled. Messrs. Deming & Leavy
will soon have a new press and gpt
the paper out in still larger form.
The temperance movement inau
gurated by Dr. Candler and others is
a systematic effort to establish pro
hibition all over Georgia. It is the
most formidable advance of the sort
that has ever been made on account
of the system with which it is being
run.
THE ROME TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 1895.
MOUNTAIN RAMBLES.
To a Cape Jessamine.
Terrestrial star of far off Orient,
Exotic rare of Afric’s sunny clime,
In thee perfume and beauty eoftly blent,
Perennial monitor of summer time.
On thee I csst a loving, lingering gaze,
What memories thy graces all suggest,
The gorgeous glamour of glad, golden days,
Rare reminiscences of youth possessed.
A cottage home far in a southern wild,
Os sunlit solitude and verdant vales
Where oft I wandered when a sinless child
And breathed the incense of its spicy gait s
And oft I’ve marked my brown-eyed moth
er there
Bewitching in her every youthful grace,
The starry jessamine in her sun brown
hair
The light of cloudless summer on her face.
Sweet monitor, right well dost thou recall
The lovliest legends of my childish lore,
The care-free life, the buoyant heart and all
The joys divine that come again no more!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
Rare Reminiscences.
“Come, 1 want you to admire my
cape jeesimine,” she said softly.
With reverent eyes I gezed upon the
velvety petals of its fairy chalice, form
ed to catch the crystal drops of the odor
ous dew. And a flood of mystic mem
ories swept over my wearied spirit and
evoked from the innermost depths of
my soul the wraiths withered hopes.
Like a flash of summer lightning my
thoughts over-leaped the barriers of the
.years and a vision of the sweet summer
land of my childhood came up before
me. Again I wandered through the
evergreen woods and watched the flight
of bright-eyed birds reveling in the
sweets of a h anquet of ripened wood
land harvests. I watched the chatter
ing squirrels lirhely leap from bough to
bough bringing down iridescent show
ers of the fragments of rainbows.
Once more my heart beat time to the
murmurs of the wine red waters over
their sunny sands and the drone of the
wild bees among the sweet bay blos
soms where the shadows fell in won
drous mosaics on the mossy carpet of
the fens. The tar away musio of the
cow bells with the cries of
young lambs straying from their new
ly sheared dams among the gaudy dev
il’s shoe string thickets.
All those scenes did I recall as I caught
the soft, seductive odor of that fragrant
flower. And like an angel of light I
beheld my brown-eyed mother whose
smiling face was framed in the aureole
of her sun brown hair, illumined with a
spray of the starry jessamine blossom
which she loved so well. And all my
withered hopes budded and leaved anew.
Then 1 recalled anotner tenderer aay,
when one I loved gently plucked from
her fair young brow a sprig that droop
ed in languor there, and with solicitous
care placed it in a vase in a shady place
to preserve the sweetness of its golden
heart. Often and again she fondled and
caressed it, till, behold it flung out filmy
rootlets from its stem and the blossom
became a thing of life.
Oh, the love-light in her beautiful
eyes when she called me to see the won
derful thing that had happened. It was
to her, as the budding of Aaron’s rod of
old was to the chosen people, an em
blem of promise of happy days to come.
Long she nurtured and cared for it as it
grew and developed into a sturdy shrub.
Ah, me, how much would I treasure a
blossom from its dark, green branch
es now.
Many anniversaries of that day of
bliss have come and gone, but in the
trea ul I have kept
every little incident of that season of
joy as a precious gem strung on the brit
tle and knotted thread of mortal exist
ence. I hope that ,my memory may
never grow so feeble that those tender
impressions shall be dimmed or effaced
by the rude touch of time.
Blessed little blossom 1 After looking
down into its dewy heart I feel as if my
soul had taken a sunbath. Its delicate
odors have permeated my heart and
driven out the disagreeable flavor of
disappointment and the worry and vex
ations of life. A benison on the beau
teous blossom and God’s blessing on the
sweet-voiced woman who turned my
thoughts into such an inspiring channel.
M. M. F.
New Monetary Conference.
Personal—An ugly man without
money wants to meet an ugly woman
without means. Object, to discuss the
financial question.—New Haven Palla
dium.
June A*otea ifrom Hi 11 vine.
We take watermelons on subscription
and also ou principle.
We recently asked a railroad manager
for a free pass, but instead he sent us a
pair of shoes. There is a good deal of
humor about these railroad managers.
Our farmers are giving considerable
attention to stockraising now. Let them
all bear in mind the fact that we are
still prepared to take a limited number
of cows on subscription.
We did not attend teie dedication cer
enionies in Chicago. We have not visit
ed the Windy City since we walked
home from the World’s fair.
’ We recently applied to the authorities
for a veteran’s pension, but it was dis
covered that we are only a colonel by
birth, and so we’re still needing grocer
, ies.—Atlanta Constitution.
MOSELEYS
DRUG STORE
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W. Riemer,Pharmacist
SODA WATER
Howard Fenner, Artist.
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Humphrey’s Homeopathic
Specifics and Simples.
International Stock Food—
the best in the world.
Ramon’s Remedies— none
better.
Thomas’ Inks—the world’s
prize winner.
Stationery—full stock.
Confectionary—choice line.
Coca Cola—the XXXX
brand.
Satisfaction guaranteed to
every customer.
A. B. S. MOSELEY,
Prescription Druggist,
Proprietor.
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THINK**
Because we are advertis
ing and selling the best
$lO suits in Rome that
we haven’t anything
cheaper. Our line of $5
suits will surprise you.
They look and wear like
the kind you formerly
paid $lO for.
Ask to See
our $5 suits. We now
have a large line of
Alpaca and Serge coats
and vests, so if you want
to keep cool we are pre
pared to help you for
less money than ever be
fore. We also have a
line of hot weather coats
for the office, store or
home. Looks well, costs
only a trifle, and you
feel as comfortable as if
you had no coat on.
Come in and see us—
we’ll save ycu money.
M. R. Emmons & Go.
242 Broad Street.
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HEADACHE?
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They Never Fail! No, Never!
Read what one of out of hundreds of persons who
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worth, says:
Newell, Ala., May 23, 1895.
Mr. D. W. Curry, Pone, Ga.
Dear Sir—Plear e send me by mail one dozen Curry’s
Headache Powders.
My wife is subject to nervous headache and has been
for years, and has tried all remedies that she has heard
of, but yours are the best she has ever tiled and says she
can’t afford to be without them. Yours truly,
THOS. J. LEVVORN.
A trial will convince anyone of the genuineness of
our claims for our Headache Powders. Don’t suffer with
headache when it is so easy to get relief.
NUNNALLY’S CANDIES!
Always Fresh. 60 cents per pound.
IF. ZETJLZLTSOIbT
Plumbing, Ventilation, Steam, Hot Water I Gas Fitting
TINNING AND COKNIOE WORK.
325 Broad Street, Rome, Georgia.
All work done under my personal supervision and guar
anteed. Telephone No. 32.
‘ Glad Tiding® of Great Joy.”
na Him nrniinro DDIOEO And Greatl y Improves the Finish
OLIVtn ntUUutd inlutd of the Plows and Repairs
Oliver Always Leads and reduces Prices when Cost of Material will Admit.
Thos. W. Fritts & Co.’s
general agents.
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BE WAE OF BODS GOODS S' 0 ”- The genuine Olker, Mould
bUjoULuSdeldi! and Pointe are now «■> P 1 ”" 1 * marked that the UMeru
pulous merchant who has been in the
habit of saying “O, yes, we have Oliver
Repairs.” when they knew it was abso
lutely false, can no longer deceive you
Take only GENUINE OLIVER RE- I ft ARK* W
PAIRS and see the name “Oliver” on the X '
back moulded in the parts, and on tbe
wearing or front side is the OLI\ ER
TRADE MARK, thus: fJT* ~ genuine olives.
These precautions have been taken to save the farmer from a man
who will hv .'or five cents. Don’t be deceived, but come to
WEST & GRIFFIN,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In Hardware and Agricultural Imple
ments, 217 Broad Street, ROME, GA,
OR, • ~
Thompson Hiles & Co., Summerville, Ga