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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - - Editor.
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BOMB, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 8. 1895.
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SUPERSTITIOUS ?
( DO YOU
4 BELIEVE
( IN SIGNS?
If you do you are a judi
cious advertiser and a
good business man. Judi
cious advertising
ALWAYS PAYS
and especially when you
advertise in a paper that
is read by everybody iu
its territory.
THE ROME TRIBUNE
reaches the eye of every
body in North Georgia and
East Alabama.
Advertise your business in The
Tribune.
Send in your ads, at once jot they
wiil be left out.
Hurry in ycur advertising if you want
it in our great Trade Edition.
The Blackshear Times hopes that
Mr. Turner and Mr. Brantly will not
oppose each other.
Will the king of Colorado Waite long
before brushing up his bridle bits for !
a war with Britain?
Don’t delay but send in your ad at
once for the trade edition. Our time
is distressingly limiied.
Good Roads Reynolds, of the Dalton
Citizen, is still clamoring for the im
provement of the highways.
Czar Nicholas is trying to escape
bombs. St. Nicholas is busy making
them for Christmas stockings.
The Sound Currency Reform Club
of New York has tackled the Georgia
legislature with its literature.
A Northern agricultural exchange
says the potato crop must be reduced.
Is everything to be pulled down?
Plant your ad in The Daily Tri
bune Trade Edition if you want to
raise an early crop of customers.
People are scanning the columns of the
Thibune in quest of advertised Christmas
goods. Now is the time to advertise.
The democratic statesmen speak of
the clique that nominated Reed for
the speakership, as that demnition
corkus.
"Our trade edition comes out Tues
day morning. Send in your ad or
you will miss the opportunity of a
life time.
We are pushed for time. If you miss
the opportunity of putting your ad
vertisement in our big and beautiful
trade edition you will live to regret it.
Senator Peffer wants his party’s na
tional convention held at Dallas. Atlanta
won’t like that. Dallas, Ga., would
about fit the size of the party since it
‘•swunk up. ”
The editor of a Georgia monthly
paper has been arrested on a charge
of larceny after trust. It does look
like one issue a month sl.oild have
kept him out of a trouble like this.—
Brunswick Times-Advertiser. If not
he ought to have tried a quarter- -lie.
While Minister Terrell is keeping the
path hot between his quarters and the
Sultan’s palace, in his effort to secure
protection for American missionaries in
Turkey—efforts which have so far been
eminently successful—he is being de
nounced in this country as an apostate
and all round criminal, deserving of the
gallows. It is scarcely necessary to stsy
that his calumniators are republican edi
tors and republican preachers.—Mem
jjhis Scimitar.
NEARING THE END.
Tuesday morning there will be
issued from The Tribune press the
biggest, brightest and best edition of
any sort of a periodical' ever printed
in Rome, and never surpassed by any
paper in Georgia.
It will be our trade edition and will
be one of the most comprehensive
newspapers ever published in the
i state. It will not only give a grand
showing for Rome and Floyd county,
but of the most prosperous and enter
prising towns in this beautiful re
gion.
We are going to send it abroad
freigted with good things and its
mission of information concerning
this city and section is one in which
all are equally interested.
The people of Rome have shown a
very liberal spirit in the way of sub
stantial encouragement and patron
age, and we feel deeply grateful.
But it is to the interest of evey
business and professional man to have
his name appear in attractive shape
in this great publication. It will be ,
their lose more than ours if they fail i
to take advantage of such an oppor
tunity. Send in your advertisements
early Monday morning.
ONWARD AND UPWARD.
Never neglect an opportunity to
forward the interests of yoar town.
Stand ready to challenge the truth of
the assertion that insinuates that
your town is not, at least, the equal
of any place on earth. Push it as you
would your own business. It is your
business for all your interests are cen
tered therein. God help the man who
allows a little self interest to stand
bet ween him and the public weal.
Be consistent and persistent and in
sistent in the good work. Let people
abroadk now what sort of natural and
acquired attractions and advantages
your town possess Repeat every good
thing you hear said about your town
and your people. If you can think of
anything better to say about it, say
it yourself, publicly and above board.
The man who laughs at you for
I bragging on your town is the man
I who does not appreciate true patriot
ism. Let him laugh. He is doubtless
either envious of your prosperity or
lacks the common-sense to understand
your motives. Preach it, teach it
s tick to it. Never acknowledge that
yours is not the best of all towns, the
cleverest of all people and the happi
est of all homes.
Plant your ads. in the Trade Edition
of The Tribune if you would reap a
rich harvest of early customers.
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
That was a noble and generous deed
of Capt. A. M. Walton to take it upon
himself to do a little quiet missionary
work for St. Peters. But his friends
and those who know him are not sur
prised at any generous deed or action
on his part. It is in keeping with his
big, broad, generous and liberal
heart.
Nor is Capt. Walton alone, con
sider what Capt. M.A. NeAinhas done
hi the same line. Remember what the
golden-hearted women of Rome have
accomplished through their own dili
gence. It is enough to inspire the
hardest heart to a feeling of benevo
lence to contemplate what has been
done in that grand and glorious work-
It is a fine illustration of the charac
ter of the people of Rome.
Let the good work go on. It is now
about a year since the first editorial
t advocating the completing of that
[ building appeared in these columns,
t We have never doubted fora moment
that it would be done. Now let every-
T body turn in and lend a hand and the
j work will soon be done. Only a little
i more effort on the part of the people
3 and one of the noblest tasks ever be
’ gun in Rome will be accomplished.
It is passing strange that a man will
e pass by a platoons of hearty, healthy
e blooming maidens, such as throng
the streets of Rome, and loose his
0
head over some flashy actress, who,
II when divested of her fuss and feathers
11 compares rather unfavorably with a
faded moon flower in a rain storm.
e-
- We are pleased to note (applause)
y the reappearance (loud calls of “good”
i- ou the republican side) of that able
>- (laughter) and painsraking journal,
the Congressional Record.
; -RdM! THIBUNE. SUNDAY, DICIMBIB, 8. 1885.
NOW FOR THE MILL.
The efforts of the enterprising citi
zens of Rome to secure the big cotton
mill are about to prove successful.
Let tfce good work go on. .It would
never do towy that we had it in our
power to secure the frfcatiOu ofsuch
an enterprise and then let the oppor
tunity pass. Not much is required at
our hands and that should be speed
ily supplied. *
It would be a glorious thing for
Rome to secure two such enterprises,
in one year. It would illustrate what
sort of stuff Romans are made of, and
demonstrate to the outside world
that we are thoroughly alive to our
own interests. We sincerely trust that
the work will be finished in a few
days.
We have the most implicit confi
dence in the people of Rome to ac
complish whatever they set out to do.
We are thoroughly acquainted with
the spirit of emulation and progress
that animates them. Let the good
work go on. Never let up till we have
secured this crowning triumph for a
* year of splendid successes in so many
ways.
NEWS AND NEWS.
A semi-religious weekly, that also
pays some attention to current news,
was impressed with the great amount
of stuff printed by the great dailies
about the Marlborough-Vanderbilt
wedding, and concludes that “a more
imposing display of inconsistent snob
bishness has rarely been seen in the
historyof the world.” After deliver
ing this verdict the effect was neu
tralized by this remark: “Our own
conviction is that the newspapers
have enormously overdone the whole
business, and that, in the invasion of
privacy and the multiplication of
detailed reports of matters which con
cern nobody but the parties immedi
ately interested, they have missread
the tastes of their readers and cer
tainly have mistaken their own voca
tion.”
Probably most sensible people will
admit that the event referred to was
most unwarrantably “swelled” by a
great, many newspapers, but it was
probably not owing to snobbishnes ■
that it was done, at least only in a
small degree.
The fault should be charged to the
prevalence of a wrong idea of what
constitues news that seems to pre
vail among editors just now. They
seem to think that quantity is every-,
thing. It is considered that that
paper showing the greatest area of
white paper cohered by a subject has
treated it in a superior manner.
This vicious notion has not lodged 1
itself in editors’ brains of its own voli
tion, nor of the editors’ seeking. It
originated in the counting-rooms, and
has been drilled into the conscious
ness of managing and news editors by
the gentlemen who measure and com
pare news and advertising that ap
pears in rival papers with the same
rule. ________
A CRYING NECESSITY.
We must learn to bo.more provident
and to look ahead a little further and
prepare for emergencies. Our old fast
and loose, slipshod system, must give
place to more intelligent methods.
We have never learned the rudiments
of economy and until we do so, one of
the principal avenues of wealth _will
remain closed to our people.
Ample and commodious warehouses
constituted on modern methods pro
viding for all the necesities of grain
storage, .with plenty of ventilation;
could be erected at comparatively
small cost in every city the size of
Rome. Our people should lose no
time in carrying out these ideas for
delay means great loss to grain grow
ers.
This year has been one of remark
able abundance and the coming year
with years that will succeed, will
prove the necessity of providing for
the storage of grain, peas, peanuts,
hay and other commodities. Now is
the time to prepare for these things
before the rush of another harvest is
upon us.
The Rome Tribune grows bright
er and brighter as the weeks go by.—
Albertville (Ala.) News.
Hare Superstitions.
In most parts of Europe it is consid
ered unlucky for a hare to cross the
road in front of a traveler. Among the
Romans this omen was so unfortunate
that if a man starting upon a journey
espied a hare on the road before him he
would return and wait until the follow
ing day to begin his journey.
j Seasonable Suggest! n»
r Thera’s avert us balmy softnaas 1b the freshness
of the wind,
1 1 When the oom has all been gathered and the
cotton h»Ab*<-n<inined;
When tbe brinrtle bull is lunchingoS the fodder
t In the stack,
And the guinea chicken chatters that monoto
nous “pot-rack;”
When the hickory rtuts are droppingin a shower
. from the trees
And tbe fattening hogs are busy getting ready
< for the freeze;
t When th* turkey ben is yelping to the gobble
in the lane
1 And the yaller-headed youngster chaws the
1 j iicy sugar cane;
When the time of pinder boilings, 'tater d-g.
r elngs. is >t hand,
t And tbe old man stildks bis Addle to tbe tune
ol “S.ndy Land:”
J When the scum is on the water in ti e summer
washing pool,
And the chap who wants to marry acts the ir
idescent too';
When ths maiden takes a day eff to go through
the country store
Witb its candy and its crackers and its ( hrist
mas tricas galore—
Then it d es me g-od to sample in a careless
1 so;tot way,
[ Never stop to scratch my head or ask the time
o’ day;
! Bu'j Ist keep a call) hootin’ and pirootin' all
k ai-cund ,
Among the cleverest people that upon this earth
' abound
Down in tbe
Piney woods of
Southern Geor-gy
There's a sort of sleepy sweetness in the Jszy,
• hazy sun,
When the squirrels 2in the hammcck aie jit
' waitin’for a gun;
1 And the sucsers In the river have been bdt d
( till they’re fat,
And he partridges are sleekened on the peas
and lik) o’ that;
, When the nigger in the gloaming blows a un»
upon bis quil s
That would m k-you fo’.ks act curious up here
. among the hills;
When tbe Sundu school has entered into winter
q ar err. and
. The candy-pulling party wakes the spirit of tbe
- land;
1 When grandoa begins to listen for the wild
j geese iu the night,
While I t-k-s my girl to meetin—(she’s forever
! out o’ sight. )
■ When grandma sets out to saving all tue eggs
about the place,
When grandpa bus to smack his lips before he
can say grace
While the baiter cakee are waiting and the syr
up’s in th > pot,
[ And the coffee’s on the kitchen stove to keep it
nice and hot;
And the hominy and crackling bre d eay
‘•tout h me if you dars,”
And there’s ni e sweet mi k and butter, vis a
plenty, and to spare;
I When there's water in the kettle and brown
, sugar in the mug.
And—unlock the stairway closet and I think
. you’ll find the jug—
, Ob, I swear I love it better far than any spot on
earth,
’l'lsnivown old-fashioned stamping ground-
I tbe country of my birth,
• • Down in the
i'mey woods of
, I Southern Geor gyl
Montgomery M. Fol om. j
Poml Strange Stori's.
My dear mother used to have very
i strict notions about cleanliness.
I I remember how she always insisted
■ upon my washing and scrubbing my I
' hoofs every night of my vexed life.
She argued that it was not only un.
leanly but exceedingly deleterious to
the health of boys to go to beu witn un
washed feet.
But she did not know what I have
, since learned. I heard a story and a
true one at that, at the Hotel Ford at
Dalton, the other day, that convinced
me once and forever against over clean,
liness.
The man who told it was a poor little
orphan drummer who had never had
but oue ma and ,pa, and it was impossi
ble for him to tell a lief
I would like lor every boy ia the land
to read this story and profit by it in
teaching recalcitrant mammas that there
are some things that should be consid
ered logically.
A man was out traveling in the Eco
nias scrub, this side of Palatka, and he
came to a path that led through a very
dense thicket.
i _
Old Bigjawed John Langford used to
say that neither God nor man could g t
through that scrub unless he fol
-1 lowed a bear trail, but John was apt to
be very extravagant in his remarks un
der provocation. The man was awfully
i scared of wild beasts and especially
bears, and it was with much fear and
■ trembling that he picked his way
’ through the tangled undergrowth.
Suddenly, as be turned a bend in the
path he was confronted by the appalling
sight of two bears coming directly to
■ meet him. One was a half grown cub
in front and the full-grown mother was
close behind.
The man heard that a bear never eats
anything found dead unless killed by
itself, so he fell flat of his back, his feet
toward tbe bears, crossed his hands on
his bosom and held his breath.
The young bear came up and sniffed
at his feet, and then went away Sud
denly. The older one came and smelt of
his feet, nttered a groan of anguish and
departed in haste.
‘‘And did the man escape?’’ I asked.
• Oh, yes,” said the drummer.
) “Did they think he was dead because
i he lay so quiet and still!”
> ‘‘Oh, no, my Christian friend; because
’ they smelt of his sett. ”
)
I became an honorary member of the
society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
I DECEMBER BARGAINS
1 -A.T
PARKS, BRAffIN & CO.
Great Attractions This Week in
Fancy Dress Goods i Cloaks
Remember Our House is tbe only Rome Dry Goods House that ha 1
a buyer in New York at the Big Clearing Out Sales of
I- A
ami Tickets
Fancy and Novelty Dress Goods.
These goods are a.l in stock and are being sold at about
75 CENTS ON THE SI.OO
of the regular retail prices. This week we will sell a complete line of
new changeable and mixed Novelty Suitings at
25 Cents, 40 Cents and 50 Cents
These are all the latest and 30 days ago were worth 40 5,60 c and 75c
All arc from our recent purchases.
SPECIAL CLOAK SALE
I
Visit this depar ment this week. New Wraps, and new prices. \.i/.
thing you want in a Cape or Jacket from $1.25 to $25 each. Many
garments actually sold at 50c on the dollar.
Animals not long since, and I have had
some rather funny experiences.
Among my bosom friends I have a
j man after my own heart, Professor
Felix, who is possessed of rare ventril
qciical powers.
We were sitting on the piazza of the
hotel in Pindertown the other morning
1 when a spruce old darkey came prancing
I down the dusty street a-straddle of a
flea bitten charger, whose gaunt form
was suggestive of hard times in Dixie.
‘‘Now I’ll have some fun,” remarked
Professor Felix, as the negro slowed up
for the horse to drink at the public wa
tering trough, while the sun beat fiercely
down, in ten feet of where we sat. Pro
fessor . Felix began a chat with the
negro.
“Get off, you hurt my back," came a
”oice from the horse, and quick as
thought tbe rider dismounted.
“Don’t b’leeve yer, but I’ll see,” he
remarked in a business-like manner.
Whipping off the saddle he refolded
and redoubled his saddle cloths and ad
justing tbe saddle he mounted again,
digging his heels into the horse’s ribs.
‘ ‘You never half fixed it; oh, me, how
it pinches!” came from the horse.
Off bounced the rider, and most care
fully he undid everything and re-ar
ranged it, muttnring, “I des b’leeve
you is playin’ wid me, Sherman, but I
gwinter try you one mo’ time.”
Having fixed him up again, the ne
gro mounted a second time and gave
the horse a jerk.
“Oh, Lord, you hurt me worse than
ever!” groaned the horse.
* ‘You is a dam liar, Sherman. Git
out’n heah, you ole hypocrip. You mix
up wid white folks tell yo gittin’ mo’
’sateful den ole Bezebus, an’ es you say
ner wo’d I’ll swap you to er po’ w’te
man es sho’s you bo’n,’’
In a short while an ox team was seen
weeding its way down toward the
trougn, and soon pulled up in the shade
for a breath of fresh air.
The driver was a dish-faced darkey
who showed the whites of his eyes and
the team was made up of of a big old
red and white pied ox, and a very small
dun colored steer.
Professor Felix soon engaged the
driver in a chat, and and then suddenly
there came a sigh from the dun steer.
“Um—m Ah me!”
“W’at dat?” querried the started ne
gro, *‘Pat cow gwineter talk same
lack folks?”
“Oh, me! I’m to little to work by
old Pidyj” came from the steer.
‘‘God ermighty! Who ever heerd a
cow talk berfo’? ”
“Hub, huh, huh, hoo eel!” ( came a
deep laugh from the big ox.
“Tek keer,” yelled the frightened ne
gro as he bounded away, “cow done
guineter talk and laugh bofe!”
M. M. F.
Mt. Alto Lodge No 12 K of P.
Regular meeting tomorrow night,
(Monday) at Castle Hall jn Bosworth
building. Work.
J. E. Mullen, K. of R. & S.
J. B. King, C. C.
Overcoats
at Half Price.
k
Right in the midst of the
I
season. Now is your oppor
tunity to keep warm at a
very small price. We have
I
selected about one hundred
I
overcoats from our stock, all
fine, custom ■ made goods,
♦
carried over from last year
which we are going to close
out at half-price, fully 33
per cent, less than New York
cost. It only takes a glance
to prove these coats to be
great bargains.
Our half-price suit sale
has been a big success and
we have added about twen
ty-five more suits to that
counter. If you have not
yet bought, it will pay you
to see them. Our goods are
all priced in plain figures
and everything is just as rep
resented.
M, R Emmons & Co.