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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor. OFFICE —NO. 387 BROAD STREET, UP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, ; (Daily, Except Monday.) One Year $6.00 One Month 50 Six Months.-.. ... 3.00 One Wiek .12 Three Months.... l.M)| Weekly, per year..s 00 Delivered by mail or by city carriers free of charge. All subscription strictly in advance. The Tribune will appreciate news from any community, if ata email place where it has no regular correspondent, news re ports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc , made payadeto TnK ROMK TRIBU nB, Rohe. Ga. tlFdemocratic ticket. for president, WILLIAM J. BUY AN, of Nebraska. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ARTHUR SEWALL, of Maine. FOR CONGRESS, JOHN W. MADDOX, of Floyd. Right thinking people have always commen ded the course of . . THE TRipUHE But never in its histo ry has it met with such universal ap proval as at the pres ent time. A paper’s value is judged by the character of its read , ers. Nearly every . man in North Georgia possessed of intelli gence and means reads our paper. SUCCESSFUL MERCHANTS all use its columns. No advertiser who omits this paper in placing his business, can hope to reach the people. Advertising rates are very low. Address, THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA. CHAS. W. NICHOLS, EASTERN 23 PARK ROW, ADVERTISING NEW YORK. MANAGER. The Times-Recorder thinks that the fate of slanderer should be the same as that of the rapist. Fitzgerald has received and adopted its charter and begins its corporate existence as a dry town. If you fail to put in a bid for the public patronage you are in danger of losing your share of it. Patronize your home merchants and when you have a dollar to spend put it in circulation at home. The Jews of Badad have brought the site on. which stood Babylon, the exalted. They were not quite able to bag dad, but they bagged Babylon. The way to keep the supreme court up to the highest standard of dignity and ability is to elect men on their merits rather than on their popularity as political bosses. Mr. Seaborn Wright carried his home county by 268 majority. Mr. Wright is a good man, but he ran with the wrong crowd to be elected to the governorship of Georgia.—Albany Herald. Women are entering all lines of work these days. One has just been en gaged by an Augusta undertaker as an embalmer. She is the first woman toengage In that particular line of work in the South. Bowdre Phinizy, of the Augusta Herald, has been elected to a position on the board of education in Augusta. A gentleman of Mr. Phinizy’s learning and experience is a valuable accession to any educational body. These men are of undaunted cour. age, they are able lawyers and, above all, have not been standing candi dates for every office in their respec tive localities. We nominate Hon. Thomas M. Norwood of Chatham, Hon. Joel Branham of Floyd, and ! Hon. W. A. Little, of Mu<cogce. ' These gentlemen are well known t hroughout the State and will serve Georgia with distiction in her loftiest tribunal of justice.—Brunswick Cal . MONhY IS THEIR WEAPON. Whatever else may be said of the Cincinnati Enquirer, it is fearless and unequivocating when it comes to de fending the South and West against the tyranny of the gold barons of the East. The Enquirer has taken a firm and aggressive stand in the present campaign and its assaults upon the strongholds of the money power are well calculated to keep the democratic party in its contest for a more liberal distribution <.f the capital of the country. The great political battle of the year—and the controlling one —will be fought on the 3d day of November when the people vote. It is of the high est importance to our cause that the tactics of the enemy should be under stood, and that their resources not be underrated. The men who would profit by a gold standard are few in number compared with the whole. There are a few hundred men to whom it would be given advantage too great to be estimates. At the head of these few hundred'is J Pierrepont Morgan. The men he represents carry with them all who can be deceived, and all who can be coerced. Great corporations obey Mr. Mor gan, as European governments obey the Rothschilds, because they cannot borrow money if Mr. Morgan frowns. He is the gold king of this country. He has recently indulged in the luxury of keeping a political party for his own private use, and he has enlisted as his chief political swashbuckler, Mark Hanna, of Ohio. By the aid of the venal press and a number of cheap writers and orators, large masses of the republican party, just as they did before it became the mere instrument of Mr. Morgan. With Mr. Morgan as the boss political banker, and with Mark Hanna as the boss party man ager, it becomes a simple question of arithmetic with both of them as to how much money will.be needed to carry the election by the buying of votes in blocks. The boast that money will elect McKinley is being made as insolently and as openly as was the boast, just before the Chicago convention, that free coinage would be beaten by the use of money in that body. The En quirer then called attention to the desperate methods openly threatened by the gold power. The same was done throughout the West and South by the journals friendly to the cause. The result was that the people were put on their guard and made more careful in the selection of county de), egates. County conventions were made more careful in the selection of state delegates, and the State Conven' tions trusted only the truest and the staunchest of silver men to be sent as delegates to the Chicago Convention. It is now the duty of the friends of the people’s cause to warn them against the attempt that will be made to carry the election by the use of money.especially in the large cities. It is a state prison offense to offer a bribe to a voter. Every honest man can be a detective on his own account. Bryan clubs can organize committees of their best men to watch all bad characters in their several localities, and secure evidence of any attempts at bribery. Arrangements for the use of money have been made before elec tion day, and if the friends of an hon est ballot are as alert aijd watchful as the tools of corruptionists, some of these wretches can be brought to light and made a terror to evil doers. We must not wait until the horse is stolen before we close the barn door. Watch the door and watch the known thieves. FURNITURE MAKING IN THESOUTH. The Southern Field, a periodical devoted to Southern development and published by the Southern Railway Company, is doing a great deal of good for this section in the way of encouraging the location of manufac turing industries in this section and in pointing out the advantages of the South for such enterprises. Here is an editorial that recently appeared in the Field on the subject of furni ture making in the South: Go among the furniture-makers in the South and one will hear, “We are doing all the business our present cap ital will permit.” That speaks well for the industry in the South, and we might here note the fact that in gen eral the South is today in better con dition industrially than any portion of the country. We venture it is only a question of time wheh these South er j factories will compel the manu facturer of the North to abandon cer tain markets on account of the com petition, which is getting bigger and bigger daily. Our advice would be, come South, and either build a factory or take an interest will) some of these fellows just getting started South. A few years ago the cotton manu facturers of New England remarked, ‘They cannot affect us with mills in the South.’’ And today we find the mills on c. arse goods in the North must either close down or move South. By and by the finer grades of goods will be made South, and on that they THE BOMB TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 18H6. will have to follow in the same manner as they are now doing on coarse goods. So it is with the furniture manufac turer. We in the South are starting in on low priced goods. Our people are rapidly learning how to make and sell them. Later on the mills of the North will find our immense factories will tower up aud our stock go right into the North in effective competi tion. The Northern manufacturer will then say, “Oh, they can make cheap furniture, but we will make the high grade.” Just wait the turn of affairs; the South is filling up with the intel ligent, progressive, experienced arti sans of the North; it is only a question of a reasonable period when it will turn out the cheapest and best furni ture upon the markets. Why will this change be wrought? The plain, prac tical facts are: 1. The South affords an abundant supply and a great variety of the de sirable furniture woods, which are obtainable at far below prices paid by mills in the North. 2. Desirable mechanics. 3. A great and rapidly increasing local market. More people will find homes in the South during the next decade than elsewhere, which means an increased business. 4. Railway facilities are now a con dition to offer liberal rates to manu factures and shippers and the great lines furnish ample facilities for trans portation. On this line the editorial continues showing why this section should be the best adopted of any part of the union for manufacturing purposes. Right here in Rome we have resources in that line that will some day be de veloped and will place us in the front ranks as a manufacturing people. V A few individuals are taking advantage of this fact are investing now, but many will come later who will be com pelled to bid high for sites that they could now secure on moderate and easy terms. SONGS AND SCENES. Memories. I sit and watch the dying- day Lean shadows, one by one, Steal o’er the autumn wdodlands gay That clothe the mountains far away While cloud wracks gather cold and gray An und the setting sun. In quivering trillsand doubtful tropes The wild bird n-ails below, A ’mid the desolation gropes Along the drear, deserted slopes, And dark with summer’s withered hopes The winding rivers flow. And gazing where the waters meet My sad heart turns, to thee; The patter of thy dainty ieet Each witching wile each new conceit, To others but a trifle, sweet, But all the me! Recalling all the.hallowed past Those hours of joy divine! Ah, day too full of light to last, I bear the moaning of the blast The somber night is falling fast, Their memories are but mine! Montgomery M. Folsom. The Life of a Reporter I was impressed with an article that I read in the Augusta Herald, the other day, signed by “G. W. R.” in refer ence to the life of a reporter. There are few who understand how an act of a newspaper man may be unjustly criti cised. His many kindnesses are tasen as matters of course by the recipients who never take the trouble to evtn thank him for them, while some little error or act for which he is -not respon sible, is bitterly resented. The repor porter’s life is not an easy one but it is the most fascinating in this world. Here is the article that I speak of: Perhaps the many who spend at least fifteen or thirty minutes (it is hoped more) every morning and evening in persuing the columns of the daily press may like to take a peep behind the scenes and find out how the different items of news that claim their attention for the above mentioned time, are ob tained. The majority of them will, no doubt, say to this statement that they under stand that matter easily enough, repor ters get the news and write it up for their respective sheets. It is then setup in type and the almost human and gi gantic presses of today do the rest. All this is undoubtedly true, but this is not all. Did you ever think, gentle reader, what trouble and work it is to get those items that are so quickly read by you? It is dollars to doughnuts that the thought never entered your bead, and most likely, after reading the piece of news, yon wondered why the reporter had not given more of the facts of the uccorence which you have imagined should have appeared in the type. Few people have any idea what news gathering means. They little realize what even a three or four-line piece of information in a newspaper may repre sent. Let us read between the hues and sea what its real value is. It may be a most important matter that has been picked up just before going to press and had to he considered in as few words as possible, and yet that same item may have caused some reporter trouble to ob tain. It perhaps means that several miles have been walked in the hot sun or pelting rain by this knight of the pen cil and no end of disagreeable things gone through with before it could be authentically put down in the scribe’s note book to later be given to the pub lie through the paper’s columns. Perhaps it is a matter that some one may want suppressed and is not any too well pleased to find a reporter after him or her for the details, although it may be a most important bit of news matter, which the paper in justice to its readers must obtain and give to them for what it is worth—and give it to them before it is cold, so to speak. It must be ob tained in some way or other or the re porter is to blame, for it should be under stood that “in the reporter’s vocabulary there is no such word as fail, ” at least that is the way city e lltors look on the matterand “excuses” for reportersnot sitting on to any news of importance don’t go at the office. Varied indeed is tne daily life of one of those “pencil pushers.” Today he may be in the midst of some gay gath ering, note book in hand, while he laughs and listens to the jokes of some jolly good fellow who sees only ' the bright side of this cold old world. Tomorrow the scribe must drown nis laughter and put away his smile, for be is seeing the other side of life. No doubt he is obliged to enter the sacred portals of a bouse of mourning in quest of some data concerning a death—what a differ ence from yesterday! He must intrude himself upon the mourners and learn the particulars, un welcome as he knows he is at this time; still the news must be learned and an eager-reading public will look for a full account of the death in the paper, which to illustrate let us say was that of a prominent man. Perhaps an accident has occurred and some poor mangled creature is hovering between life and death, a ghastly sight. The manjot the note book and pencil must view the heart-rending scene and find out all he can as to how the catas trophe occurred, name of injured party, his history, and a hundred more little details that would take too long to men tion. Thus the bright and the dark sides of life are looked upon by these newspaper men daily and volumes could be written of what is witnessed. These men become naturally adopt students in human nature, being thrown so constantly with ah kinds of charac ters and dispositions. They must learn how to read a man’s thoughts, to a large extent, and know just how much to say and when to keep a silent tongue, for while reporters, as a rule, do most of the interrogating they must not overdo the matter. Character after character is met by them. Men who are most gratified to give a piece of news and others who look upon the newspaper man as a kind of snake and shut up like a clam when he heaves in sight. If the latter kind of man is to be interviewed, great tact must be employed, and the reporter, nine cases out of ten, gets the desired piece of information almost before the clam-like individual knows he has given it away, and before he has time to real ize his indiscretion, as he may call it, the interview is over and the hated newsgatherer gone. Happily these kind of persons are very few and far between and it gives the writer pleasure to state that ninety nine people out of every hundred are al ways glad to give to a reporter any piece of information desired and will put themselves out to do so if necessary. Were this not the rule the newspapers would have an uphill road to trav el and their news-gatherers would lead a life of anything bat pleasure. In almost every kind of business there is a time when the employee throw their work to the wind and think no more about it until next day. Not so with the reporter His work, like the woman’s, as an old saw has it, is nevtr done for even when his paper has gone to press and is being read by the publio he is by no means through for the day. for he must over be on the look-out for “sto ries,” to use a newspaper term for the next day and should anything turn up in the way of a sensation he is there, happen when or where it may, and at what remote spot. It fact, he must to a large extent be like a feline in respect to having nine lives, for very often he must be in as many places at once. Still taking it all in all, the life has its fascination, and as clever a set of good natured fellows as you can find in a day’s walking are to be found in the newspa per office. Somewhat Bohemian, and hardened to a certain extent by being thrown in contact with so many phases of this life, perhaps, but nevertheless as good-fellows as you would care to meet. As we said before, there is a certain fascination in the work, and there are advantages experienced by these “pen cil pushers” that one outside of the ‘ ‘profesh ’ ’ cannot realize. The public looks upon them as a some ■what inquisitive, prying set. which, perhaps, is but natural, but it should al ways be remembered that this is their business which they are paid to do and that did they not poke their inquisitive noses in all affairs as much as they do, the columns of news you, dear reader, look for every day would be conspicuous by their abscence. A reporter, like a lawyer or physician, does not inquire into people’s affairs for his own personal gratification but for the sheet he represents aud he no doubt forgets all about them after he has turn ed his “story” in at the office. Enough about this personage for the present. He will turn up again, no doubt, in these pages. M.’M. F. RY HARD DRIVING At the cost of production, we have been enabled to reduce prices to a point where the purchaser of lumber and general building woodwork has many advantages which he certainly never had advantages which he probably does not realize—special advantages which we are offering and would like to tell him about. The Prices Are Reduced But there is no reduction in the quality of our goods, nor in the alert service which we grant as an attractive feature of our business. O'Neill Manufacturing Company HOME, GEORGIA. t Doors, Sash. Blinds, Turned Work, Scroll Work, Lumber, Shingles, Etc., Etc. New Jewelry House, NO. 218 BROAD STREET. I have just opened up a New Jewelry Establishment atth& above location, and while making a specialty of ‘ Watches, Clocks and Diamonds, SILVERWARE AND JEWELRY. A Beautiful Line of Cut Glass. -*§Spectacles and Eye Classes fitted to the Eye.@<- I carry a large and well selected stock of all kinds of goods that are usually kept in an establishment of this kind. In fact, I carry a stock that will compaie favorably with the stocks usually kept in much lamer cities. WEDDING PREESNTS in Steiling Silver, and fancy goods of al kinds. I also make a specialty of Repairing Watches, Clocks and Jew elry of all kinds, and guarantee all work. I also do all kinds of Engrav ing on goods that I sell without fxtka chabge I invite you to call and examine my stock whether you buy or not. Politt attention. Very respectfully, O. STEFHEITS W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. I. D. FORD, Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashier EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME. JFLOTVrjn, GEORGIA. STOCK, SIOO,OOO Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special attention given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or other good securities. ✓ Prompt and courteous attention to customers. Board at Director*. A. B. SULLIVAN, J. A. GLOVER, C. A. HIGHT, I. D. FORD, W. P. SIMPSON. THE ROME COAL COMPANY mine agents DEALERS IN Best Steam § Domestic Coal HENRYG. SMITH, Manager. Down Town Yard Cor. 2d Ave & E. 2d St. 1 ~ Up Town Yard Cor. 6th Ave & Broad St. j nOITIv, Via. BUY YOUR COAL NOW I • WE can supply you with the BEST BRANDS WE can furnish you wi’h ANY QUANTITY. WE have TWO YABDB centrally located WE give you LOWEST PBICES. Now IS THE TIME to buy. Send in your orders at once to Rome Coa.l 00.. Oilice 11 3ro 11 Street. H. G. SMITH. Manage