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THE ROME BUNE
W, A. KNOWLES, - - Editor.
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THE ROME TRIBUNE,
Rome, Ga.
ROME, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 11, 1895
Peace, plenty and prosperity is the
motto of Floyd county.
England should make a Christmas
dish of turkey with Salisbury sauce.
Preserve a copy of yesterday's is
sue it will be useful to you in days to
come.
The well conducted newspaper is
the greatest civilizer and educator on
the face of the earth.
Wonder if the Venezuelans will
melt down Col. Lon Livingston’s statue
for cannon in ease of war?
The picture of Rome’s choicest pro
ductions in our trade edition in the
way of bright faced babies, ought to
induce a perfect inundation of immi
gration.
The process of making marble of any
kind by adopting the natural process
of it formation may cheapen it so
much that it may become as easy to
live in marble houses as brick ones.
North Georgia stock farms are
dressed in jersey’s. As a point for
shipping stock to the markets of the
North and West, Rome easily leads
the list among Georgia towns and
cities.
The Rome Tribune is becoming
one of the most remarkable newspa
per successes of Georgia. In faet, all
Rome is on a big hump about this
time.—Brunswick Times-Advertiser-
Will not somebody wakeup “Coin’
Harvey and say to him things are
getting very dull on his line just now
especially since the election in Ken
tucky and the 18th Illinois congres
sional district? —Waynesboro Citizen.
The Rome Tribune gives golden
advice in calling attention to the fact
that we must learn, as a people, to
economize and take care of the things
that are so abundantly grown in
Georgia' We have passed the crude
age of waste.—Brunswick Times-Ad
vertiser.
The democratic party is as pure
and clean today as a practical man
could ever hope to see, It is not free
from rascals, but they do not control
it. It has felt the blighting influence
of corporations and trusts, but it has
been quick to repudiate them, and to
punish its recreant servants who
yielded to the tempter’s power.
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is
a warm friend of President Cleveland.
He takes the sensible vie wof the third
term that any dispassionate Democrat
ought to take, that is, it is impossible
and that Grover Cleveland would not
have it if he could get it, that be cer
tainly will not try for it, or accept a
nomination.
The thanksgiving edition of the
Menlo Hatchet consisted of seven four
column pages, except the front page,
which was six columns, set digging.
The Hatchet is the most picturesque,
grotesque, arabesque sample of jour'
nalism that ever reaches this office. It
is indeed, fearfully and wonderfully
made, especially its special editions.
The Gate City Guard is once more
in the state service. Twenty-nine
members have enlisted. This is the
minimum number required under the
laws governing the state militia. The
rest of the command will enlist in a
few days, piobably at the next meet
ing. The Guard confidently expects
the governor to allow it to remain an
unattached command.
It will hereafter be the fault of any
head of a household in South Carolina
who shuffles off this mortal coil and
leaves behind him a family in desti
tute circumstances. All the pater fam
ilias will have to do will be to go out
and get himself lynched, and imme
diately will create an estate of
$2,000 for the benefit of the sorrowing
heirs at law. There are no premiums
to be paid in this death benefit
schemes; in which respect it beats life
insurance all hollow.
ROHE TRIUMPHANT.
Rome has broken the record. A
million and a quarter dollars in cot
ton factories in twelve months sur
passes all precedent. A year ago there
were those who doubted that we
would secure the Massachusetts mills,
but our people are not the sort to fail
at. trifles, and their perseverance has
been amply rewarded.
Now they have just secured the lo
cation of thejTrainer mills, which will
be equal in extent with the big East
ern concern, if the Massachusetts
mills were to - ] remain as projected in
the original plan,'butthey are going to
increase the capacity of the mills one
half, run the total invest
ment up to a million and a half.
There is a great and useful lesson
in those grand accomplishments.
They show what can be done when
men work withr'unanimity and stick
together. Therejs absolutely no limit
to the growth and prosperity of a
town with as are pos
sessed by Rome, if the people will but
stick together and work for the com
mon good.
The tide is setting our way and all
that is necessary for us to to do is to
pull together for.tbe common cause
and to never let up until we place our
city on the proudest pinnacle of suc
cess. There is room for plenty more
and material and all
the facilities for transportation are
here, withjplenty of fuel and cheap
labor.
advantages and in
ducement are there'will the manu
faeturi ng enterprises be located soonei
or later. What our people ought to
do is to keepjconstantly in mind the
vast advantages by Rome
and all competitors, and never let the
outside world lose sight of the fact
that ours is the best point in the state
for the location of such big enter
prises.
It is a good work and we are glad
to be able to congratulate our fellow
citizens on their great success. There
is no city in the whole South with
fairer prospects, and no people in the
South deserving a larger share of suc
cess than the people of Rome. Let
the good work go on to still grander
and nobler achievements.
THE SUPREME COURT.
The bill passed by the senate Mon
day, providing for an amendment to
the constitution, intended to give re
lief to the overworked supreme court,
is a movement in the right direction.
The court will be increased to six
judges, one chief and five associate
justices, to be elected by popular
vote. '
The unanimity with which the peo
ple look upon this measure is indi
cated by the vote, which stood thirty
three of forty-four senators, for with
only five voting against the measure.
It is to be hoped that the amendment
will be carried by the popular vote of
the people as nothing is more surely
needed in Georgia.
PEAR BLIGHT.
There has been some complaint of
“blight” in pear orchards in South
Carolina during the past year, and
any suggestion that promises relief
from the plague will doubtless inter
est many orchardists and farmers
generally who are experimenting in
fruit culture.
A correspondent of the Southern
Planter, of Richmond, writes to that
journal that seven years ago his dwarf
pear trees were dying from blight;
that he put six to eight inches of
“road sand” for several feet around
the roots of the trees, covering the
sand with quite rich earth to a depth
of three or four inches; that though a
rank growth of weeds came up around
the trees he refused to cultivate, even
with a hoe, near to the roots of the
trees, and that since then he “has had
but one limb “impaired by blight.”
The philosophy of his plan, he ex
plains, is that “san/i gives the rootlets
opportunity to feefl freely when stiff
soils are surcharged with water dur
ing rainy spells, aijJd sod or rank weeds
affords protection to the roots during
terms of excessive heat, as well as
minimize shocks Occasioned by sudden
changes to cold.”
The explanation of the success of
the plan is a reasonable one, but its
success as reported is enough to war
rant giving it a trial at need. Many
orchardists advise that the soil for
several feet about pear trees should
not be disturbed because of a certain
injury to the fine roots that approach
the surface, atpl experience is a safe
teacher until the scientific gents de
termine conclusively what the blight
is and how to avoid it.
After all there may be a “man in
the moon.” The last telescopic view
from the rarefield air of the Peruvian
Andes discloses atmosphere, water
and forests. This indicates a possibil
ity of animal life on what was so long
supposed to be a barren mass of vol
canic scoria, withoutair or water, and
withal the dreariest waste the mind
cpuld even imagine.
THE BOMB TBIBU3B, WJCCNt&IJAY. DECEMBER 18M.
SONGS AND SCENES.
To Artemiaia.
Among the Allatoona bills
The rarest autumn 11 >wer» ware blooming
And blight leaf laden mountain rills
With mystic melodies were flowing.
I know of all the days we spent,
In that delicions autumn weather.
Fullest of peace and soul content
That day we roamed the hills together.
Theie by the ruin ivy crowned
We sat beneath a drooping willow
In golden chains of fancy bound
We caught the rytbm of breeze and billow,
Our vision caught the brighter gleams
That»hone through that enchanted portal
And leveled in tbo«e golden dreams*
Os bliss and rapture more than mortal!
So soothingly the sunlight fell,
From sympathetic skies low bSEding
We caught the soft, seductive spelt
Os perfect pleasures never ending.
And then wen closed the ebon bars
Above the mountain grim and hoary,
We walked beneath the glittering stars,
Rehearsing o’er life's sad, sweet story I
Ah. beauteous Allatooni hills,
With many a wi d love legend haunted
A vain regret my memory Uns,
When 1 recall your scones enchanted.
When shall I tread those paths again
With one so tuned to ever measure
If nevermore, yet not in vain
The memory of that day I treasure!
Montgomery M Folsom.
Some Timely Reflec.lons.
A look at the big trade edition of the
Rome Tribune is calculated to awaken
in the heart of one who watched it and
worked at it as much as I have, a train
of reflections on the curious turns taken
in the affairs of life. Thirteen months
ago I cast my lot with the Tribune. It
was the realization of a pet dream of
mine. I had always had a fondness
for, and an abiding faith in Rome and
its people.
I believed, when I came here, that
I would be able to assist in getting
out a newspaper that would meet with
popular favor and would reflect credit
ou the town and its people. They told
me that the people of Rome were selfish
and slow-going. They told me that the
town was torn asunder by factions.
They told me that this was a grand jour
nalistic cemetery, filled with the bones
of newspapers that had failed.
But I felt, then, that the outside
world had a wrong idea about Rome and
Romans. A few people had failed and
they gave the town -and the people a
bad name. Therefore I left the most
progressive of all Southern cities and
severed the teuderest ties that bound
me to a progressive people, and came to
Rome determined to work out my own
destiny.
I knew the character of the men with
whom I was to be associated and I hau
implicit faith in them that they would
do their part. Still there were many
forebodings, many anxieties and work,
work, interminable work. Last Christ
mas we looked forward to the hardest
summer we had ever experienced, but
we i esolved to win or die in the attempt.
How well we have succeeded I leave
for others to say. We have, in the
course of the year, published a paper
that has increased in usefulness and pop
ularity and has and flourished
under the patronising influence of
friends who have appreciate, . >ur efforts
and rendered us substantial encourage
ment in everything that we have at
tempted.
We issued our souvenir edition right
in the midst of the dullest summer I
ever saw, and it was a success. We is
sued the woman’s edition, the hand
somest of the kind that was published
in Georgia during the past year Be
side these we have published an eight
page daily, a twelve page weekly and a
sixteen page Sunday paper continuously.
lam proud of our success. I feel that
I have a right to be as I contributed my
mite to its achievement. I have found
the people of Rome, a warm-hearted and
generous people. I have found them
ready to take hold of any enterprise
which promised good for the city and
people. lam in love with Rome, de
lighted with its people and proud of
The Tribune. M. M. F.
A ntici guru lic * <*7aae.
A most novel and unique parade took
'place at Logan, 0., recently. It was by
the Logan Anticigarette club, composed
as more than 200 boys from 6 to 15
years old, under command of C. A.
Monroe, the originator of the club. The
parade was witnessed by hundreds.
HIP-JOINT DISEASE.
Elizabeth, Harrison Co., Ind.
fAt the age of eight
years I became afflicted
with “ Hip - joint Dis
ease.” For a year I Buf
fered as much as it was
possible for a human be
ing to suffer. My phy
sicians told me I would
have to wait patiently,
but my father procured
me some of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discov-
< ery, and I found my fail
ing health restored.
I can cheerfully say
that I believe I owe my
life to the use of that
valuable medicine.
Tour true friend, EDWARD J. RUSH.
PIERCE ST CURE
OB MONEY IS REFUNDED,
A scrofulous state of the system is ths
primal cause of Hip-joint Disease. Dr.
Fierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has cured
thousands of cases of Scrofula. In Skin
Diseases, all Scrofulous Sores and Swelling*.,
it’s the only guaranteed blood-puriflor.
SLEEP
and
REST
for
Baby>X
Are out of the question when tor.
lured and disfigured with Eczema.
It is the cause of more intense
suffering than all other skin diseases
combined.
Tender babies are among its most
numerous victims.
They are often born with it.
Most remedies'aiid the best physi
cians generally fail even to relieve.
If CUTICURA did. no more the:
cure Eczema, it would be entitled t
the gratitude of mankind.
It not only cures but
A single application is often suff:
Cient to afford instai t reii.f, perm.,
rest and sleep, and point to a speech
permanent cure.
Cuticura works wonders be
cause it is the most wonderful skit:
cure of modern times.
Sold throughout the world. Price, Cuticura, 50c.,
Soap, «jc.; Resolvent, sl. Phtek Drug and
Chem. Corp , Sole Props. r Boston, Mass. “AU
about the Skin and Blood," 64 pages, 'nailed free.
FOR FUTURE DEBSES.
Bill to Be Presented to Congress by the
American Federation of Labor.
The American Federation of Labor
has made public the text of the bill to
restrict the jurisdiction of courts of the
United States in proceedings of con
tempt which it will present to congress.
The bill is the outgrowth of what or
ganized labor calls the “persecution” of
Eugene V. Debs and the other labor
leaders who were engaged in the great
railroad strike last year. The bill is:
“Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America, in congress assem
bled, That the courts of the United
States, sitting as courts of equity, shalf
not have jurisdiction to punish for con
tempt any person charged with the vio
lation of any order or decree of courts
whose acts in the premises constitute,
arise out of, or are connected with the
commission of any offense indictable
under the law of the United States or
of the state in which the offensive act
is committed, but in every such case the
offense against the court shall be deemed
merged in the greater offense against
the state or the United States, as the
case may be. ”
Cab Fares In Fur ope.
I found cab hire cheapest, by munic
ipal regulation, in Naples, where 70
centimes, or 14 cents, transports you be
tween two city points. Fourteen cents
acquits, but 14 cents doesnot satisfy. It
is not easy in Italy to give pecuniary
satisfaction to both parties toa bargain.
The Neapolitan cab, like the Parisian,
like others that I remember on the con
tinent, is four wheeled, and in the case
of Naples high and uncomfortable. In
Rome the tariff fo# a single run is 80
centimes, or 16 cents, none too high, it
seems to me. Berlin differentiates its
cash, assorting them in classes, first and
second, and distinguishing them by the
color of their drivers’ coats and collars
and also in the cabs’ outfits. So the
minimum charge in Berlin for a first
class cab is 1 mark, or 24 cents, and for
a second class 60 pfennigs, or about 15
cents.
In Germany only did I find a peram
bulating court of appeals as an organic
part of the public cab service To step
into some of the German cabs and be
hold a cyclometrical register ready to
record your distance as unerringly and
conclusively as the flight of time by a
S2OO watch is to know a sweet content
that the avaricious native rarely lets the
American tourist in the old world long
enjoy. What the register says goes. No
hold ups, no disputation, no incompre
hensible jargon, no American eagle, nc
black eyes. Great civilizer that.—Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
Has Blacklisted Insanity.
The following story is told of John
Brennan of Stevens Point as a criminal
lawyer. The story goes that a farmer
who had killed his wife in the northern
part of the stat® sent for Mr. Brennan
to defend him, offering to deed him his
farm if he would take the case. Bren
nan wanted his pay in advance, and so
the farmer made over the property to
him. The murder was a most brutal and
cold blooded one, and Brennan knew
that there was but one plea that might
save his client from a life sentence, and
that was insanity. The trial was one of
the fiercest ever fought in a Wisconsin
court. The attorney for the defense oc
cupied a whole day in his closing ad
dress to the jury, and the effort was a
masterly one. The jury found the man
insane, und he was sent to Oshkosh.
Once there he improved rapidly and in
a few weeks was discharged. His first
act was to sue Brennan tor the recovery
of his proprety, on the ground that he
was insane at the time he deeded it. In
the fact of his own argument that the
man was insane Brennan could do
nothing, and the farmer won his case.
Brennan has blacklisted insanity as a
defense for murderers. Milwaukee
Journal
DECEMBER BARGAINS
PARKS, BRANNON & CO.
Great Attractions This Week in
’ancy Dress Goods ? Cloaks
Remember Our House is the only Rome Dry Goods House that had'
a buyer in New York at the Big Clearing Out Sales of
c
Cases and Tickets
Fancy and Novelty Dress Goods.
These goods are a.l in stock and are being sold at about
75 CENTS ON THE SIOO
of the regular retail prices. This week we will sell at( rrplete line o
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 4060 c and 75c
All arc from our recent purchases.
SPECIA CLOAK SALE
Visit this department this week. New Wraps, and new pikes. An
ything you want in a Cape or Jacket from $1.25 to $25 each. Many
garments actually sold at 50c on the dollar.
Overcoats
as Half Price.
Lilt;
Right in the midst of the
season. Now is your oppor
tunity ;to keep warm at a
very small’ price. We have
selected about one hundred
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 ever} thirg is just as rep
resented.
M. R Emmons & Co.
Cheaper than You T
Can Make Them.
Pun’t trouble about fruit-cake
, ■
making. We will receive a stock of
as fine frnit cakes in a few days as
can be made. Nothing but the very
best of fruit, &c., used in the mak
ing. Clean and as free from grit as
the drifted snow. Our prices will
be below cost of material to you.
We have a stock of Florida
Oranges which are sweet and fine.*
You will have to pay higher for
oranges if you wait till Xmas to
buy ; besides you will have to tak»
Jamaica or Louisiana oranges, as
the'Florida crop is so short they
cannot be bought so they can be
sold in Rome at a profit. If you 1
want a box for your family we have
them that will keep till 1896,
Something Entirely New.
Cheese Crackers in boxes, at 20e
get something that will be sure to
please you.
shaving prices on every
thing. Yours truly,
HAND & CO. I