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“Rome bonds are as good as gold. ”
—Augusta Herald.
Alabama populists have organized
for a state campaign.
A crowd of 400 negroes will start
from Dallas county, Ala., for Liberia,
The Delaware peach crop has just
had its usual failure, and still we live.
Hoke Smith will speak in Macon
Monday night. The combat deep
ens.
It is called anarchy in France. It
is populism in the senate of the United
States.
Ben is Russeling for Bower, but
the boys’are holding the Fort over in
the Third.
soon. Poor deluded creatures, their
anticipations are destined to meet
with a cruel disappointment.
H. W. J. Dam is reported as being
at work on a comic opera. Os course
it will be a Dam funny composition-
Clarke county has not yet arranged
to select delegates to the state con
vention and seems indifferent about
the matter.
The pension list shows no sign of
abatement despite the fact that we
are getting further away from the
war every year.
There will be provision enough to
supply the Cuban army for a long
campaign grown within ififty miles of
Rome this year.
The facility with which some of
our office holders draw their salaries
indicates that they have taken les
sons in drawing.
Why don’t the republicans nomi
nate a new woman for president? The
old men seem lacking in the neces
sary qualifications.
It seems a great pity that Senator
David Bennett Hill, who has so lively
a present from time to time, should
have neither past nor future.
A few days spent in the Chicago
parks would convince General Coxey
that the army of common wheelers is
growing to phenomenal proportions.
When Mr. Tillman walks out at the
Chicago convention care should be
taken to lock the doors and see that
the transoms are fastened on the in
side
• The English Royal Naval Architect
says that a “perfect” modern man
of-war should weigh not less than
25,000 tons and cost at least $lO,-
000,000.
NO DEMOCRATS WILL BOLT.
Just now there is a great deal of
talk about bolting the nomination in
state and national politics. Occasion
ally there is a whisper heard in county
politics, but we take it that such are
more of a joke than anything else.
One thing is sure and certain, the
man who bolts the nomination is no
democrat.
The democratic party is one that
depends for existence upon two things
its organization, first, and then the
yielding of all questions to the will of
the majority. Without organization
there can be no democratic party. Un
less every member of that party is
willing to submit to the will of the
majority there is nothing democratic
about it.
We hope that all this talk about
bolting is but idle bluster. It is inju
rious to the strength of the party,
even though the talk is meaningless.
It causes other weak kneed brothers
to falter in their duty and will, if per
sisted in, contribute to the lowering
of the majority. If the democrats
should be beaten this fall- this will be
the prime cause to which the defeat
was attributable.
These anarchistic and revolutionary
tendencies should be frowned down
upon. That is our only salvation at
this crisis. We must stick together
and submit to the will of the majority
for if there is a division we are lost.
The silliest thing in modern politics
is this war and wrangling inside the
democratic ranks and he who bolts is
no democrat.
NORTH GEORGIA TOBACCO.
Now that an embargo has been
placed on the exportation of tobacco
from Cuba, by the atrocious and ty
rannical Weyler, it is time for North
Georgia tobacco growers to look to
their interests. Tobacco of a splen
did quality can be grown in this re=
gion, and has been grown success
fully, for many years on the Salliquoy
mountain.
The quality of the leaf produced
there is exceptionally superior from
the fact that it is produced on the
tiigh plateau where it is free from the
attack of the dreaded tobacco worm.
It is cultivated at small expense as
the soil ie well adapted to the weed
and the “worming” and curing are
the two principal items of expense.
Mr. Robert Herron, of Dalton, has
been manufacturing and selling the
output at the Salliquoy farms for
many years, and he has found it prof
itable, even at the low prices which
have ruled for some time. It has no
superior as a chewing tobacco, deli
cate in flavor and texture, and with
the advance in prices it must com
mand a premium in the markets.
True, it is the cigar tobacco that
will be most materially effected by
the prohibitory measure, but al[
grades of tobacco will feel the effects
of it, more or less. We hope that as
long as Weyler is permitted to run
rough shod over that beautiful island
that our farmers will profit by the
emergency, as it is an ill will that
blows nobody any good.
—1 ■■
JIM CROW CAR CARE.
The supreme court of he United
State has decided the “Jim crow car”
law constitutional. The case was
taken up from Louisiana expressly
for the purpose of testing the cons i
tutionality of the state law requiring
the railroads to provide separate
coaches for whites and blacks. These
laws are in effect not only in Louisi
ana, but most of the other Southern
states, says the Chattanooga News.
The negroes have always been dis
satisfied with the regulation, and have
looked forward to the day when the
supreme court would abrogate it.
Man' of our lawyers have felt doubt-!
ful about the probable action of the
court on the question when it should
come up for final decision.
Os course, it is gratifying to th e
white people that the law has been
upheld, and it will really be better
for the negroes. None of them will
now attempt to ride in the coaches
for whites, and there will be an end
of the necessity for their forcible
ejectment from such coaches with the
consequent race hatreds which it ag
gravates,
It is, of bourse, a hardship for re
spectable, cleanly colored people to
be forced to ride with the filthy and
malodorous members of their race,
and we hope to see the law so admin
istered that there snail be first and
second-class accommodations pre
pared for negroes.
Even as it is, however, it is better
that the best of them should be put
in the “jim crow car” than that ne
groes of all sorts should be allowed to
crowd into al 1 the coaches and thereby
make traveling disagreeable to all the
passengers. This is the sensible' view
10 take of it, aside from the question
of rice prejudice. In the north there
are so few negroes that their presence
is hardly noticed, and the separate
coach law is not a • necessity. This
ruling of the supreme court will ena
ble each state to regulate this phase
of passenger service on- the railroads
to suit itself.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1896.
SONG AND SCENES.
A Future Retrospect.
I shall look back; when dawn breaks on the
mountains.
Illumining each dim distant height.
And day springs from the far cerulean foun
tains
In streaming cataracts of living light;
And almost hear your light step softly falling
In absence all the dearer, fonder grown,
And then recall your sweet voice gently call
ing
My name is love’s low, rythmic undertone.
I shall look back; when summer noon lies
brooding
On wood and wave in silent, slumbrous
swoon.
And showers of sunshine hill and dale are
flooding
And radiant rivers hum a sleepy tune;
And see again the loyal lovelight shining
In those dear eyes that I so oft have kissed,
Then will it add to my sad soui’s repining
To think of all the joys that I have missed!
I shall lookback; when sunset dyes in splen
dor
In golden glory paint the glowing west;
And think of all the trust so true and tender
That I reposed in one whom I loved best!
Then shall I feel the dearth and desolation
Os broken vows, false hopes and severed
ties,
And all the agony of separation
That Adam felt when driven from Paradise!
I shall look back with recollections thronging
Os how we watched such scenes in days
agone.
And all the wild, unutterable longing
Shall whelm me while I watch them there
alone!
Night shades shall mingle with the shadowy
sorrow
That hides from my sad heart the joys of
yore.
And I shall dread the coming of the morrow
That but brings to me my love no
more!
—Montgomery M, Folsom.
A Disappointed Man.
“I shall live out my days like a slave
chained to his bench in the galleys and
die a disappointed man. ’ ’
The speaker was a man of apparently
less than middle age, but whose iron
grey hair betoken a life of vicissitudes.
The fire still smouldered in his deep
set grey eyes, but a mist of melancholy
shadowed their youthful luster and I
could ses that he had suffered much.
The keenest of all anguish is to suffer
in silence.
“You have grown cynical,” said I,
trying to rally him.
“Nothing father from it. I have
really grown more sympathetic. Deep
disappoinment and much suffering have
softened rather than soured my naturfe. ”
“Then, what is your excuse for that
melancholy foreboding? You are gifted, l
popular, capable of earning a good liv
ing and no man has more true, warm
hearted friends than you. In the prime
of life and physical and mental vigor.
Your expressions are paradoxical. ”
"Listen, and I will tell you. It is not
the same old story of man’s devotion and
woman’s Jperfidy. Indeed, the woman
in this case is the soul of honor, loyalty
and fidelity.”
“You must have stolen a march on
your friends and married her. ’ ’
‘‘No, I have not married. I shall
never marry. But,” he added rever
ently, ‘‘l would give this world, if it
were mine to give, and all that is in it,
just to call her my own—all my own!”
A look of ineffable tenderness came
into his eyes as he continued.
‘ ‘From my youth up I have been an
idealist. I have been a mystic. Every
object in the range of my vision has '
possessed a double meaning for me. 1
have given the trees and flowers a
language and have invested the bees
and birds wiih sentiments that would
grace and adorn a human being.
“My highest standard of earthly excel
lence is woman. For years and years I
have been in love, not with women,
but with woman.
‘‘Dangerous doctrine, eh? Perhaps so,
but a most fascinating faith. I have
been eternally roaming up and down
the earth in search of an ideal—”
“And failed to find her, my Quixotic
friend?” 1 interrupted teasingly.
‘‘On the contrary, I found her. A
living, breathing, personification of all
that I most admired and longed for in
women. She was the crowning glory
of my ideality. Forsaking all others I
clave unto her, fulfilling the scriptural
admonition , for she was the wife of my
soul,
“Love her? No, I adored her. I adore
her still, though afar off. A little cloud
no bigger than a man's hand came be
tween us. She was true to me, but
truer to herself and her own high in
stincts. A shadow was oast upon my
life tbrouge the machinations of a busy
body, a slanderer. I was guiltless, but
the imputation of my guilt was un
changed. The deed was done. The
stigma fell like a blot upon my reputa
tion. I was compelled to suffer in si
lence. ”
“Why did you not disprove the
charge and establish your innocence?”
‘‘She never believed me guilty. I
had no need to disprove anvthing to her
mind. But can you not see that the
tongue of the cold, uncharitable, mali
cious and envious world was set wag
ging? She could never appear with me
in public again without resurrecting
that falsehood. It is not the guilty, but
the innocent who suffer most in this
world, ’ ’ and he sighed as he gazed out
of the window at the far off stars.
“The case was just this: Like two
wandering in yon resplendent, heaven,
our orbits crossed each other.
The attraction of affinity drew us
toward each other. Bnt to form a per
fect union each must become divested of
all stain or shadow. The luster of the
brighter orb could not bide the shadow of
the duller. Some of its brilliancy must
be sacrificed to compensate for
the dullnes of its companion.
This could not be and so, the same forces
that drew us together caused our separa
tion.
‘‘l was guiltless but the shadow had
fallen. Had it fallen upon her there
would have been the same result. We
are forever separated.* There is a gulf
between us that is as broad and deep
as the infinite chasms of the sky that
separate yonder stars. I love her still
and I know that she loves me. I honor
and respect her for the very act that tore
us asunder. But the deed is done and I
am alone, yes, worse than alone, for I
retain the sweets of memory embittered
by these vain regrets. And no matter
what I may accomplish I shall die a
disappointed manl” M. M. F.
The orthodox, most pious a.nd
Christ-loving, most autocrat, most
mighty sovereign, crowned by God,
exalted autocrat of all the Russias,
Moscow, Kieff, Vladimir and Nov
gorod, Czar of Kazan. Czar of Astra
khan, Czar of Poland, Czar of Si
beria, Czar of Kherson-Taurida, Czar
of Georgia, Lord of Psk off, and Grand
Prince Smolensk of Lithuania, of
Volhynia, of Podolla, and of Finland;
Prince of Estland, of Lifland, of
Co irian, of Lemigalia, of Samagithia,
of Koielia, at Foer, of Yougoria, of
Perin, of Viatks., of Bulgaria on the
V ulga and other places; Lord and
Grand Prince of the Lowlands of
Novgorod, of Tchernigoff, of Ryazan,
of Polotsk, of Rostoff, of Jarloslaffe,
of Byelozersk. of Oudork, of Obdorsk.
of Kondisk, of Vitelsk, of Mstislavsk,
and ruler of all countries of the
north; lord of the territories of
Iberia, Kartilinsk and Kanardinsk,
and the District of Armenia; heredi
tary Lord and Sovereign of Circas
sian and mountain princes and
others; Lord of Tuikestan, heir of
Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein,
of Storm irne, of Dithmarsen and of
Oldenburg; is called simply Nick, for
short, by his wife. In a few years
she will be calling him ‘‘Old Nick. ”
We received many compliments
yesterday from appreciative people
on the splendid appearance of our
handsome Educational and Industrial
Edition. These kindly expressions
are very gratifying to us, but they
are no more than we have been
taught to expect from our generous
and public spirited patrons.
The Louisville Post takes issue with
Miss Frances Willard who says it is no
longer a breach of courtesy to de
cline to drink in Kentucky. The Post
wants to know if she has trifed the ex
periment.
The Tribune gets out a very hand
some paper this morning. The sub
ject matter is handled in an excellent
manner and the paper is very neat in
appearance. —Rome Commercial.
Editor Murphy says, in the Savan
nah Press, that no matter who
threatens to bolt, whether silver men
or gold men, they should be barred
out of the Chicago convention.
The farmers of Floyd are making
nearly as much money fattening
stock with cotton seed meal and hulls
as they formerly realized from the
sale of the cotton crop.
The Brunswick Advertiser is guilty
of this: “The delegates to the con
gressional convention at • St. Simons
will probably Turner few somersaults
in the foaming surf.”
The board of trustees of Wesleyan
college have received a considerable
addition to the endowment-fund of
that time honored institution.
Ideals.
Define it who may, life is not what it seems,
Not a soul but that dwell in a palace of dreams!
Youder waif as she weeps in the rubbish and
dust
Wears a rcbeof gold lace in her sweet, childish
trust;
A youth reading on by his dim burning lamp
Is a hero at arms in some far away camp;
The maid at her wheel, where the trailing
< vines cover
Yon low cabin wall, hears the call of her
lover.
What drives the huge ship o’er the wide heav
ing main
But the power of thought from the cells of a
brain?
What harnesses lightning, and curbs the
swift steam »
But ideas that circle the world as a dream?
What fells the dark forest, what builds the
fair city?
’Lis the spirit that sings in a psalm or a ditty
Who has not, yet has; who now loses will
win;
Whoso liveth in faith, faith so liveth within.
—Charles W. Stevenson.
Mrs. Anna Gage, wife of Ex-
Deputy 11. S. Marshal,
Columbus, Kan., sayss
“I was delivered
of TWINS in
less than 20 min-
£ utes and with
Q scarcely any pain
17 after using only
Cf two bottles of
"MOTHERS’
FRIEND”
DID NOT SUFFER AFTERWARD.
WSent by Express or Mull, on receipt of price
HH.OO per bottle. Book TO MOTHERS’’
walled free.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA.
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