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ROME, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 13. 1805.
OFFICIAL
RGAN.
THE ROME TRIBUNE
IS THE
Official Advertising Medium
OF
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners, ’
The City Marshal,
The Marshal of North Rome,
The Marshal of East Rome,
nd publishes regularly all
Legal Advertisements ema
nating from these
officials.
It is about time that European
concertwas pitched in Asia Minor.
Indianola is a good name for Indian
tenitory. Highrolla would do for the
Cherokee strip.
TheCapitol building of New York
'has cost $30,000,000 and $10,000,000
more will be required to complete it
The legislature has adjourned and
Small bore Atkinson, of Camden, can
compromise by shooting the chutes.
Congressman Pickier feels that Sec
retary Morton is discouraging his vote'
crop by cutting off the seed supply.
If it comes to hardpan Said Pasha
might come to this country and revive
the comic opera that bears his afore
said name.
The new South must be here. A
telegram from Virginia recites a ter
rible row over the discovery of six
aces in a poker game.—Sioux Trib
une.
Rufus H. Peckham has been sworn
in as associate justice of the United.
Supreme Court. Wonder if it takes
the usual eight quarts to make a"
a Peckham?
Judge J. L. Hardeman honored
the bench of the Macon circuit and
resigns the ermine unstained by a
single act unbecoming his high and
honorable position.
“Good, hard, practical sense is what
is needed more than anything else in
populist circles for the next twelve
months,” says the Mitehell Gazette.
There are none so hostile as to contra
dict this. Make it twelve years,
brother.
Jew Baiter Ahlwardt found no one
to greet him when he landed in New
York. He claims to come here on in
vitation of a New York organization,
but doesn’t give its name. Ahlwardt’s
friends seem ashamed to come out in
the light.
The Tribune’s big trade edition is
out. It is a splendid paper, and re
flects a great deal of credit upon the
very able management. Such a mag
nificent enterprise as this should have
the hearty support of the entire pub
lic. —Rome Evening Commercial.
That great and enterprising news
paper, the Atlanta Constitution, has
this kindly notice of our trade edition:
“The Rome Tribune su-pasiedall
former achievements in its recent
trade edition, which consisted of forty
bright illustrated pages. It was the
largest newspaper ever published
in the Hill City, and speaks wonders
for the growth and enterprise of
Rome. The Tribune has a staff of
workers, and they know the need of
a community in the newspaper line.
The present management is doing
more for the growth of its city and
the development of North Georgia
than any other factor, and the people
will do well to endorse its work by
hearty appreciation and unstinted
patronage.”
GETTING TOP HEAVY.
With a rapidly increasing popula
tion and at the present rate of popu
lar representation it will be but a few
years before the House of Represen
tatives will become too unwieldy for
the expeditious transaction of busi
ness. After the next census the num
ber of members will approach very
close the five hundred mark. Then
the question will arise whether it is
advisable to increase the ratio of rep
resentation to 200,000 or even 250,000
and thus reduce the membership of
the House, or, so change the rules of
that body "as to limit debate still fur.
therand allow legislation to be shaped
by committees'even more than it is
now.
Some one has described the House
of Representatives as a -clubroom
where the members ‘‘lounge, smoke,
converse and sometimes fight, to the
confusion andjdelay of public busi
ness.” The description may.be some
what exaggerated, but it contains
more than one grain of truth. Any
one at all familiar with the proceed
ings of that branch of Congress can
testify to 1 he fact, that, as a rule, they
are anything but business-like.
Speaker Reed is credited with the in
tention to permit no more smoking on
the floor of the House, and to sup
press the anything but polite habit of
resting feet on [top of the desks while
the bodies of the honorable solons re
pose at anjangle of forty-five degrees.
Others advocate the abolition of desks
and the consequent transaction of
private business during office hours,
and some contend for the removal of
the cloak rooms and barber shops.
Some or all of these expedients may
contribute to a speedier and better
transaction of the people’s business,
but still the 'fact remains that the
constant and rapid additions to the
membership] of the House renders
that body top-heavy. It is a question
if some limit should not be placed
upon it and the ratio of representa
tion adjust itself to that. In any event
the subject is of sufficient importance
and general interest to invite discus
sion both in and out of Congress.—
Washington Times.
The great trouble is that out of that
vast multitude of representatives and
misrepresentatives, there are only a
few who have the courage and ability
to take hold of the affairs of their con
stituents and of the nation at large in
a thoughtful and vigorous manner.
They are too busy scheming to hold
their places, or too much afraid of
losing their seats to commit them
selves on questions of grave import.
It would be well to discuss the quality
as well as the quantity of the law
makers.
CONGRESSIONAL FUNERALS.
Senator Peffer evidently does not
want the populist party buried at the
public expense. We do not know
whether is the low state of his party’s
health, or the alleged death of the
democratic party and the free silver
craze that has given the funeral cast
to his thoughts, but his investigations
have brought to public attention
some facts that will prove interesting
to those who have any curiosity about
the cost of funerals, of public men.
Senator Peffer thinks the funeral bus
iness is steadily growing in extrava
gance, and purposes to pass a meas
ure that will either put an end to ap
propriations for this purpose alto
gether, or that will set a fixed stim
that is to be appropriated in all in
stances, says the Augusta Chronicle.
Mr. Peffer has found that seventy
three members of the senate have
been buried as public expense at an
aggregate cost of $100,264.80. The first
senator whose funeral expenses were
paid out of the contingent fund was
John Gaillard, of South Carolina,who
died in 1826, The first senator whose
interment cost the government as
much as SIOO,OOO was John Fairfield,
of Maine. The most expensive public
funeral was that of Senator Hearst,
of Caifornia, who died in 1891. The
cost was was $21,322.55 —all borne by
congress. Here is the record of some
congressional funerals of interest:
John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
$3,106.67; Henry Barclay, of Kentucky
$5,447.02; Charles Sumner, Massachu
setts, $4,687.69; George S. Houston,
Alabama, $1,064.67; John F. Miller,
California, $3,532.34; Preston B. Plumb
Kansas, 3.082; John E. Kenna, West
Virginia, $3,117.50; Alfred H Colquitt,
Georgia, $2,852.08; Zebulon B. Vance,
North Corolina, $4,438. The records
shpw that it costs something less to
bury a member of the lower House,
the average being about $1,300.
It is probable that there is nobody
who would object to a reasonable ap
propriation by congress for the pur
pose of sending the remains of any
member who dies in the harness to
his native state for proper interment;
but it is no secret that congressional
escorts are junketing tours of the
most pronounced type. Acongress
sional funeral means the chartering
of a speceial car to transport the con
gressional escort, and any members
of their families who desire to go
along. The buffet is stocked with all
the delicacies of the season, and an
expert mixer of drinks goes along.
Anything from Apollinaris water to
straight liquor, or from a cocktail to
champagne can be had ’at any time
any member of the party desires it,
and instead of being a respectful and
sympathetic escort for the remains of
a departed fellow-worker, it is a junk
eting party of the most pronounced
type, and sometimes a very hilarious
party. There are manv bills before
congress possessing less merit than
that of Senator Peffer’s.
* THE BOMB TBIBUBB. FBI DAY, DECEMBER 13. 1895.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Implora Pacem.
Amid life’s dull and dreary din
Tne question comes to me
Os what I am and what I’ve been
And all I longed to be.
The instances where I have
Life’s chances to improve,
The m any woes and
Upon the hearts I loved.
By sorrows of beset,
With tear dimmed e>es I turn
And gaze with vague and vain regret
Where others hopeless mourn,
And think if I could but have known
As much as now I know
I had not wandered thus alone
In faith’s faint afterglow.
Ah, what were every proud success
Each vacant victon won,
To those consoling thoughts that bless
The sense O* duty done;
And what were all the cold neglect
Os false, unit'atelul man,
Compared to that sweet retrcepect,
‘•l’ve done the best I can!”
Uufruitful each deceptive art
And action insincere,
But deep within the faithful heart
Hope blooms forever there.
And every constant soul and true
Shall find the gates ejar,
And in the bright eternal blue
Shall shine a fadeless star!
Could I through pain and peril ruth,
Redeem what I have lost,
The errors and mistakes of youth
And all those errors cost;
To that blest task would I devote
Whatever years remain.
On life’s last page append the note
“I have not lived in vain!”
’Tie not the pas-ing; hours of strife
That make the hair turn grey;
I’ve squandered years of useful life
In one short night and day.
Now, while the shadows eastward trend
Oh, God, I turn to Thee.
In Thy long-suffering extend
Thy mercy unto me!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
A Temperance Sermon.
I do wish that no friend of mine would
ever get drunk any more. It makes me
feel bad to see a nice fellow, that I like
so well, voluntarily submit to the mad,
diabolical and dangerous species of in
sanity that ever added a calamity to
this sin-cursed world. lam not setting
up as one of the sanctified ones, mind
you, for I have suffered from the effects
of the cursed stuff, and I speak as one
who has been through the fire and has
suffered all the pangs of purgatory.
I know of no worse fate for a man
than to become a common drunkard. I
don’t care what may be his station in so
ciety. He may be upheld by all the
supports of birth, breeding, wealth and
accomplishments, but he, if he be a man
of any sensibilities, must feel that he is
simply tolerated more than respected.
There are certain virtues that no disas
ter can dim, but their’ luster glows pa
thetically through the shadows of in
temperace. Os all the vices of poor,
weak mortality, nothing exceeds the
curse of drunkenness in its damnable in
fluences.
I believe that the world is growing
better in that particular. All good peo
ple, who love life for its real worth and
for the brightness and sweetness that
are to be found therein, have turned
their faces against drunkenness. It
has become disreputable. The man of
high degree who becomes intoxicated at
the banquet is no better than the clod
hopper who swills like a beast at the
lowest dive in the city. If anything he
is worse, for the world expects better of
him, while society does not expects any
thing else from the villainous brute
of the slums.
Self-respecting people don’t get drunk
like they used to, in the olden days of
smaller intelligence. The man who feels
like he has a mission in life, remains
sober. He knows that for every gleam
of joy in the wine cup there are a thous
and shadowy sorrows. He knows, even
while the exhilaration of the fumes of
the poison is coursing through his veins,
that remorse will follow, and that cha
grin, mortification and the hideous
deeps of despair will come with the
dawning of the day. There is a funeral
undertone in the clink of the glasses
that is the quintesence of anguish and
the wail of misery.
I wish that all the men whom I know
and have known and have loved so well
would forevermore eschew the use of
liquor in any form. It is so insidious,
so treacherous, so dangerous. A fellow
may think, “Well, I’ll take a glass of
beer, that won’t hurt me, and when I
take that I will not take any more. ’ ’
MINISTERS ENDORSE IT.
Donnoha, Forsyth Co., N. C.
Dr. R. V. Pierce : Dear Sir—For some six
tor seven years my wife
had been an invalid. Be
coming convinced that
it was her only hope,
we bought six bottles of
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription and “ Gold
en Medical Discovery.”
To the surprise of th#
community and the joy
of myself and family, in
one week my wife com
menced to improve, and
long before she had
taken the last bottle she
was able to do her own
work (she had not been
able to do it before for
Mna .tjrruMnv seven years), and when
MRS. OTIMPBON. ghe bad taken the
of the medicine she was soundlv cured.
Yours truly. Rev. T."H. feTIMPSON.
For women suffering from any chronic
“ female complaint ”or weakness; for women
who are run-down or overworked; at the
change from girlhood to womanhood; and,
later, at the critical ‘‘change of life”—
“ Favorite Prescription ” is a medicine that
safely and certainly builds up, strengthens
regulates, and cures.
I All over the house you
need Pearline. And more
than ever in house-clean
ing. Just look over the list
of things that you might
j use —soaps and powders and
I fluids and what not. Some of
them don’t pretend to help
you *as much as Pearline;
some will injure paint, or sur
faces, or fabrics; some are
only meant to wash or clean
certain things.
With Pearline, you’ll save
time and labor in cleaning
anything that water won’t
hurt. It can do no harm
—saves useless and harmful
rubbing. 463
Ah, often have I thought
the same thing. How often have I
sworn to myself, by all that I held dear,
that I would take one drink to brace me
up, and then quit. But that bracer al
ways did the business. In that red cur
rent I have seen the fairest flowers of
my dearest hopes crushed and broken
and drifting away!
The holiday season is at hand. The
season of mirth and joy and revelry.
'1 he time of trial to thousands of brave
spirits. It is one’of the treasured bar
barisms of our boasted civilization, to
indulge in all sorts’of excesses over the
anniversary 'of the advent of the Prince
of Peace. To observe the manner in
which we McCau
lay’s South Sea Islander would imagine
that He was the prince of devils. And
yet, there is moie pure joy in the con
templation of the pleasures of a bright
eyed child with a cheap toy, than in all
the rich vintage of the champagne val
leys of Auvergne.
Many a little stocking will be empty
because its father’s head is filled with
the maddening fires of hell. Many a
little foot will be stockingless because
is natural provider chooses to ‘spend
his money for the luxury of a season of
insanity. Oh, it is dampable! It hurts
me to contemplate the vast amount of
s idness and sorrow that are the results
of that accursed, unnatural vice. It is
no use to sneer at me and jeer at me and
call me names. You see I know what
it is. I have felt it. The iron bas en
tered my very soul. But God knows, if
it was in my power to prevent it, the
crime of drunkenness would cease at
once and forever.
It is tne one habit for which there is
absolutely no excuse. A man feels bet
ter, brighter, happier and more manly
without it. For a few brief hours he
may deceive himself with the idea that
he is having a big time and is carrying
all before him. But my God, what a
difference when he comes to his sober
senses. When the chill rain of regret
freezes his very heart strings and the
wailing winds of remorse are dinned into
his ears, when all the world is dark and
dreary and dismal, and death were bet
ter than life under such a burden.
There is no excuse for drunkenness.
If you are in trouble it only adds to its
intensity, If you are overjoyed it de
prives you of all the sweeter recollec
tions that come in calmer hours of retro
spection. I have tried it. There is no
pleasure in it. The longer you drink
the more you will suffer. Therefore I
wish that I could induce all who come
within the radius of my influence, to
abstain from it, avoid it, flee from it, as
tiiey would a wild animal that might
tear them limb from limb. I would like
to know that they would all enjoy a
happy holiday but there is no happi
ness in whiskey.
I want to see my wife with a smile on
the dear face that has been seamed with
care and suffering. I want to see the
afterglow of pure delight in the eyes of
those happy children who look to me, as
I look to my God, for their comfort and
happiness. I want them to sing aad
laugh and be very, very happy on that
day. I don’t want the trail of the ser
pent across the wheel tracks of Santa
Clas’ richly freighted sleigh. And
when, in their dreams, they hear the
patter of the reinrtetrs’ feet upon the
roof, I want no harsh note of insanity to
mar its melodies. I want Christmas to
be the realization of a cherished dream
to those childish hearts. M. M. F.
Editor Wheatley sententiously ob
serves: “If Mr. Cleveland doesn’t
hurry back from that hunting trip
some of the silver editors will go
crazy. They are itching to see what
he proposes to do about the comma
nication from Lord Salisbury. They
need not worry; he is going to do just
whatever is to the best interests of
this nation regardless of criticism or
abase. ”
We are not the Biggest
Thing in Rome,
Nor do we claim to buy goods cheaper than sup him in the Siut
but we will guarantee to sell you
As Cheap as Any House in the City.
FURNITURE
All fresh, new goods, bought from
best factories in the country.
Bedroom'Suits, solid oak, from $12.50 to $50.00.
Sideboards from $8.50 to $50.00.
Dining Chairs, nice high back, oak, $6.00 per set.
A nice Pillar Extension Table for $8.50
And an endless variety of all other grades of Furniture correspond ’
ingly low priees. Don’t fail to give us a call, as it gives us pleasure to fl
Show our goods, whether you wish to buy or not. *
WE SELL EITHER FOR CASH OR ON IN
TALLMENT PLAN.
♦
-*BAlso, City
Full line of Coffins and Caskets on hand. Calls promptly attend
to day or night.
Yours for business,
Rliucly Co
OPPOSITE MASONIC TEMPLE.
Overcoats
at Half Price.
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 rot
yet bought, it will pay you
to see them. Our goods are
all priced in plain figures
and every thing is just as rep
resented.
M. R Emmons & Co.
To the Ladies
X
of Rome!
LADIES:
Do You WantZGroceries?
The Freshest Groceries?
Best and Purest
The Lowest Prices?
—THEN GO TO
E.C Wood&cd
We are determined that the befl
Grocery trade in Rome shall M
ours, and shall spare no effort fl
reach that end. fl
We carry everything in the Fanß
Grocery line. Our canned goqfl
are the finest the market affoißi;
Water - ground and Bolted mH|
Headquarters for Flour, patent HH
half patent; sugar cured and e<fl||
try Hams, Breakfast Bacon. SB
Tenney’s Fine Candfl
Are' known all the world overß|
their purity and excellence. ||B
We can suit you in anytflja
Comeani see us. Hfl
E. C. WOOD & A