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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor.
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The political grave yard Is rapidly
filling up in Georgia.
Ail over the state the |note of pros
perity is sounding.
Toni Watson has resumed his law
practice and the country is safe.
South Georgia saw mill men are
happy over the prospect of brisk
trade.
i The citizens of Marietta have laid
aside their Cobb pipes and are smok
ing Clay pipes now.
The Rome Tribune is right. Let
1900 take care of itself until we get
through with 1897. —Savannah Press.
The Carnesville Tribune wishes that
some power would “the giftiegie us to
see our creditors before they see us. ’
The football returns are coining in
slowly but the majority of casualties
will probably be as large as usual.
Altgeld is a gallant man. In his
Thanksgiving proclamation he spoke
of the Deity in the feminine gender.
The outlook for Rome’s favorite,
Judge Joel Branham, is good for the
nomination by the conyention.today.
Hon. Seaborn Wright has entered
into a law parttership with Albert O.
Ewing, of the Rome bar.—Cartersville
News. •
The Constitution assumed a liberal
position in commenting on the nomi
nation of Steve Clay. The Constitu
tion is great even in defeat.
The men who'fought against the
grinding oppressions of monopolies
and trusts have nothing to regret or
to be ashamed of ia their defeat.
President McKinley will have plenty
to occupy his mind in running the
government without wasting any
time on tariff and force bill measures
An Alabama man was fined $245 for
kissing a young lady. There are young
ladies in Rome from whom a kiss
would be cheap at double that
amount.
Every man who carries a corkscrew
Mn his pocket is not from Kentucky.
W The Georgia reporters sometimes find
F it necessary to use the spiral instru
ment to induce the keepers of news
items to unlimber their tongues.—
Macon Telegraph.
SPEED THE WORK.
In the face of the fact that the de
flolt in the government treasury is
larger than the amount appropriated
for the expenses of the government, it
seems foolish extravagance to talk
about an extra session. Let the pres
ent congress speed the work and pro
vide for the necessities of the adminis
trition and save the vast sum that
would be required to pay for an extra
session. Let economical measures in
stead of wasteful and obstinate ex
travagance prevail.
It is admitted the government must
have more revenue or that appro
priations must be reduced considera'
bly, but cannot the present congress
be depended upon to provide addi
tional revenue? There is a big repub
lican majority in the house, and it is
hardly reasonable to suppose that the
senate will continue its policy of try
ing to starve the government into
accepting its silver policy. If it should
insist upon that policy there would be
protest from the whole country.
For the silver men to block legisla.
tion in the face of such a tremendous
popular majority as was given against
free silver coinage would do the cause
of silver a vast amount of harm. They
had a fair ehanee before the people
and were beaten, and they should
acquiesce in the result of the appeal
to the ballot box, says the Savannah
News.
It is not by any means certain yet
that the sound money senators will
have a majority in the next congress.
If they should not have, and it should
be the declared policy of the silver
men to permit no revenue legislation
that did not recognize silver, it would
be useless to call an extra session of
congress. No revenue bill could be
passed that did not give to silver the
recognition which the silver men de
mftnd for it.
As the situation now presents itself
an extra session will not be necessary.
If the silver men change their policy
and permit legislation to raise addi
tional revenue, the necessary legisla
tion can be had at the approaching
session of congress. If they adhere
to the policy adopted at the last ses
sion it would be useless to call an
extra session because the desired leg
islation could not be obtained, if the
silver men should have the majority
in the senate.
It would not be surprising if the sil
ver men should decide to abandon their
obstruction tactics and let the repub
licans enact such a revenue measure
•as they may think necessary. That
would be a wise and patriotic course
to adopt,but are the silver men liberal
enough to adopt it? It will soon be
known whether or not they are.
A FAIR BEGINNING.
The remarkable growth of foreign
commerce through Southern ports is
emphasized by the arrangements that
have just been completed for the es
tablishment of direct steamship lines
from Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah
and Brunswick to European ports.
Five years ago only three Southern
ports had direct steamer lines to Eu
rope, the shipments from other ports
being made by tramp steamers.
Now eleven Southern ports havees
tablished regular lines to various Brit
ish and Continental ports. The magni
tude of this business is illustrated in
the fact that one company operating
a large number of steamers has en
gaged much of their cargoes through
the whole winter and up to March,
and another company operating from
Norfolk has about fifty or sixty
steamers engaged for carrying general
cargo business this winter, says the
Manufacturer’s Record.
This great increase in foreign ex
ports is building up Southern seaports,
and giving to them as much activity
and prosperity as has heretofore pre
vailed in the industrial centres of the
South. Following the general im
provement since the election a large
number of Southern enterprises have
resumed operations, and others are
preparing to do so.
Among the most important reported
in these two classes during the week
are the Ashland Steel Company and
the Norton Nail Works at Ashland,
Ky.; the Baltimore Tin Plate Com
pany, employing 200 hands; the
Wheeling Iron and Steel Company,
and the Whitaker Iron Company, of
Wheeling, and other enterprises have
increased the number of their bands
from 2,000 to 4,500; the Kannawha
Woolen Mills, of Charleston. W. Va.;
the Maryland Silk Mills 1 , of Hagers
town; the Cotton Duck Mills, near
Baltimore; the Galveston, Texas,
Rope and Twine Mill, employing one
hundred hands; the Fostoria Glass
Works, at Moundsville, W. Va., 300
men; Avery Plow Works, Louisville,
Ky, 150 additional men; the Louis
ville Woolen Mills, 300 operatives;
the Howard Hairison Iron Company,
of Bessemer, Ala., put on full force;
Birmingham Rolling Mill, 1,500 men;
the Gate City Rolling Mill, Gate City,
Ala., 900 men and a large number of
other industries throughout the
South.
Among the new enterprises looking
THE ROME TRIBUTE. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1896.
to the development of business inter
ests in the South reported for the
week are a number of railroad under
takings: A $1,000,000 company, or
ganized iu the West, which has pur
chased 6,000 acres of land in Texas for
improvement and colonization in con
nection with manufacturing enter
prise; a Chicago company organized
to purchase 200,000 acres of land in
Alabama for colonization,sales of sev
eral large tracts of timber lands for
development; a $150,000 celulose plant
Ownensboro, Ky; a $20,000 knitting
mill company at Union Point, Ga ; a
>IOO,OOO electric light and power com
pany at Fort Worth, Texas.
Many enterprises projected some
months ago and delayed by the po
litical excitement are being taken up
actively with a view to securing capi
tal for immediate construction. Some
of them have a capital already
pledged, contingent upon the elec
tion, and these will be carried for
ward promptly. Reports to-the Man
ufacturer’s Record from all parts of
the South show a very hopeful feel,
ing, and a determination to bend
every possible energy to the material
advancement of this section,the news
papers very generally urging the pec
pie to drop politics for the time and
give attention to the advancement of
material interests.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Midnight Memories.
I wonder if you think of me ever,
And dream when the day grows pale
And conies with a sob and a shiver
The gasp of the fitful gale;
When bright burns the fair star of even
At twilight and dreams are free,
’Twere sweeter than visions of heaven
To know that you think of me!
I wonder if you think of me ever.
And muse while the embers glow
And palpitant shadowings quiver,
As they did once, long ago;
Fond memories are constantly flooding
With the flash of the fitful light
As I sit in my loneliness brooding
Os days that are not, tonight!
I wonder if you think of me ever,
And pray that the strain and strife
May uphold me in every endeavor
Through the pain and the pathos of life,
M in adores but one woman in existence,
IJ umanity’s passions abv Ve;
So I worship thee still at a distance
With a love that is more than love!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
The Rome Pt St-office.
A recent local notice in The Tri
bune called attention to the fact that
there is more help needed at the Rome
postofflee. Possibly some people-might
have took the remark in the way of
captious criticism.
I wrote the notice and I wrote it for
the benefit of those in charge of the
work there. Rome never had a better
postmaster than my friend John M.
Vandiver whom I not only respect and
admire but to whom I am under per
sonal obligations for many favors.
The goad Lord ®never made a more
loyal, bigger hearted or generous man
than John Vandiver. He is not only a
faithful official bimself, but he has in
his employ a set of men who are always
at their posts, courteous, polite and at
tentive to their duties.
Mr. Vandiver would not permit a
man to remain in his employ who was
not of that character. Dr. Thomas,
John Hume, Elmo Ballew, Walter
Moore and Will Smith, and everybody
else including the carries and Custodian
Wyatt, are al) right.
Now to the point. What I meant to
say was that the e’erieal force is not
large enough to look after the business
with that celerity and despatch which
the increasing business of the city de
mands. Rome is growing.
As the city grows of course the busi
ness of the postoffice grows. It has got
ten to the pitch now that the postmas
ter is compelled to attend the delivery
window when the big Northern mails
come in.
He has enough to do witkout that but
rather than delay the work of distribut
ing the mails he stands at the window
himself and attends to the duty of serv
ing the public.
The government ought to give him
more help. The postoffice department
ought to increase the appropriation so
that he can employ sufficient help to
distribute and deliver the mails.
The Rome postoffice is one of the pay
ing offices of the state. Only about
sixty per cent of the receipts of this of
flee are required to pay its expenses
leaving forty per cent net revenue to
the government.
That is a splendid showing for the
city of Rome when the fact is takeu
into consideration that all the suburbs
for several miles around are supplied by
mounted carriers three or four times
a day.
In the face of these facts it is noth
ing but reasonable that enough men
should be allowed on the clerical force
to attend to the distribution of the
mails.
Now I hope that this explanation will
satisfy the most obtuse as to what I was
driving at when I wrote that little no
tice. How anybody could have thought
otherwise rather astonishes me for 1
have a great deal of business with the
postoffice.
I am it debted to them for many cour
tesies. I have even borrowed as much
as a dime at one time from Dr. Thomas
when laboring under the disadvantage
of the financial stringency.
Then I am indebted to John Vandi
ver for the latest information on cur
rent events. He keeps me posted on
many things and occasionally he brings
me a bunch of roses from his beautiful
home in the Fifth ward.
Wyatt tells me ghost stories and keeps
me posted as to the progress of the
growth of his grass and flowers. He is
an authority ou Brazilian baks and tells
me a great deal about them.
Dr Thomas keeps me in a good humor
with his pleasant jokes and genial
countenance and I have never been mis
treated or rudely served by a single
man about the Rome postoffice.
But I do hope that when Judge Mad
dox gets up to Washington be will use
his influence, as he always has done, to
have the appropriation increased so that
there can be less strain on the men em
ployed there.
There is too much work for the force,
I hope that this explanation of my posi
tion will relieve the minds of the em
ployes of the postoffice, or of any indi
viduals outside, who may have thought
that I was casting a slur on the men em
ployed in the Rome postoffice.
M. M. F.
One of.the novelties of the late cam
paign is found in Utah, where the
women not only vote-but hold any
office as well. A Mr. Angus Hughes
was nominated by the republicans for
the senate. His wife, Mattie Hughes,
was nominated by the opposition.
They stumped the district together,
each making red hot speeches in favor
of their own candidacy. They traveled
together, and it is hoped their per
sonal relations were not disturbed.
Mattie proved a better man of the
two and will occupy a seat in the
senate of Utah, while Angus will re
main at home and look after the chil
dren and domestic matters generally.
Congressman Maddox has received
from Secretary of State Candler the
official vote of the Seventh district for
congressman. Maddox received 10.719
votes; Massey, republican, 5,087; Mc-
Garity, populist, 4,256. This gives
Judge Maddox a plurality of 5,632 and
a clear majority of 1,376 over Massey
and McGarity combined.
Hon. Mose Wright, of Rome, —a
brother of our fellow-townsman, Col
Miller A. Wright,—is a bright and
active young democrat who has just
been honored by unanimous election
by the legislature as solicitor general
of the Romecircuit.—Cedartown Stan
dard.
Farth’A Rarest Viewer.
(To the Daughters of the Confederacy.)
All honor to the women who
Still keep alive the era gone,
Aud hold from dark oblivion
The deeds that came of manhood true.
The noblest as the fairest, they
Took on themselves with cheering smile
The fardels of disc< mferts, while
Their loved were falling day by day.
Looking beyond the cheerless hearth,
They proved themselves as worthy of
Their gallant heroes’ deathless love
As those staunch heroes proved their worth.
Would Falsehood hide the honors won
By the Confederates’ sacrifice?—
Their daughters stand with flashing eyes
And say the wrung shall not be done!
And though the Cause went down in bicod
lieneath Might's oft-triumphant power,
Still blooms therefrom earth’s rarest
flower —
Ojr matchless womanhood !
Will T. Hale.
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Lilliputian Bazaar,
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Baby’s Winter Clothes
Is a matter of no small impoi tance, as
the mother of these tiny cherubs will
tell you, and with the advent of the
Season of Damp Weather
BABY MUST HAVE
Warm Underwear
to protect it from the cold.
Those “REUBEN”
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Are the latest; no buttons nor pins to
worry the baby with. To see them is to
want them for the little ones.
EOT the little tot of a few years we
have the cutest little reefers imagina
ble, made either in basket or ladies’
cloth, with large sailor collar, trimmed
with small buttons; they’re just what
every mother, who is particular about
her child’s clothing, would be more
than satisfied with; and the prices are
right, too.
Or Do You Prefer a Cloak
for her Little Ladyship? The newest is
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RY HARD DRIVING i
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 before —
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
ROME, GEORGIA.
t Doors, Sash. Blinds, Turned Work,
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P. H. HARDIN Vice President.
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