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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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What poet will write the charge of
the pie brigade at Canton?
Weyler and Maceo are still chasing
each other and the island of Cuba.
—e ... , .
The progeny of the average Ameri
can duchess might be termed “Duke’s
Mixture.’’
A new cotton mill is soon to be
started in Tallapoosa. Let the good
work proceed.
The man who can make two offices
grow where but one grew before will
prove the greatest benefactor.
Congressman elect Fleming re
ceived a majority over West, popu
list, in Tom Watson’s district of 3,014.
A train of fifty cars, loaded with
cotton was started from Rome Friday,
over the Southern railway, consigned
directly to Liverpool.—Griffin Call.
The Savannah News is glad to see
the tramps because they are good
road builders. We have always heard
that they were adepts at packing
sand.
The plurality of the 12 of the 13
Kentucky electors, for McKinley, has
been fixed at 257, and notice of the
contest has been served by the demo
crats.
Millions of men in India live, marry
and rear apparently happy children
upon an income which, even when
the wife works is rarely above 50 cents
a week.
Rome is getting to be one of the
leading bicycling cities in the South.
Our many miles of good roads offer
every inducement for the wheeling
devotees.
A New York man is suing fordi
vorce on the ground that he was hyp
notized when he married his wife. If
you call that hypnotism it is as com
mon as peas.
The granddaughter of the late
Baron Hirsch is heir to $100,000,000,
which yields about SIO,OOO a day of
income. She would make a good
match for some Georgia dude.
In the recent presidential election
in Georgia, Bryan received 94,332
votes; McKinley, 60,191 Levering, 5,618;
Palmer, 2,708 Charlton county’s re
turns not in yet. This would give
Bryan a majority over McKinley of
84,041.
IMPROVED CONDI fIONS.
Lt is too soon after the contest of
ballots to safely make any definite
prophecies as to the nature or extent
of the long desired business boom.
The consensus of opinion at financial
centers would seem to indicate that it
would be widespread and eventful.
Already, indeed, many idle factories
have resumed work, and the stock
market has responded to the quick
ening touch of confidence, and an up
ward tendency prevails, says the
Budget. The tone of the leading press
in the larger cities throughout the
country is buoyant and reassuring,
and givi-s promise of the advent of the
“good times.’’so long and anxiously
looked for.
Seldom, in the history of the coun
try, has there been such exciting can
vass — the main issue being emphati
cally a business one —and now, hav
ing been decided, it will be the true
policy of the sagacious business man
to forgot the friction and excitement
of the campaign just ended, and bend
his energies to the building up of the
waste places, restore and breathe new
life into our lagging industries, and
by every means in his power start
trade and commerce, so long slum
bering under the nightmare of sus
pense, on a more prosperous career.
Our ears will now listen to the hum
and whiz of. the pulleys, belts and
wheels in moving machinery—a much
more agreeable music than the noise
and bluster of the pot house politician
or the campaign rooter. Waiting
capital will now seek avenues of use
fulness and profit, thereby giving em
ployment to idle labor, and again
will our beloved land enter a new era
of peace and prosperity.
A great revolution has been effected
this week in the conditions which con.
trol business. It could not be in any
fair degree reflected as yet in trans
actions or in records, but there is
ample evidence already that a crush
ing weight has been lifted and rolled
away, and the business world has be
gun to adjust itself to a state of free
dom and security which it has not
known for years. Dread of immeas
urable disaster no longer locks up re
sources an paralyzes enterprise, and
new contracts involving many mil
lions have become binding since the
election. The lifting of the load of
peril and of fear, nil men know, means
an incalculable relief for all industry
and trade.
THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has issued an interesting
report of the forestry and timber
interests of the United States. From
its data it is learned that the forest
area of the United States (exclusive
of Alaska) maybe placed at somewhat
less than 50,000,000 acres. This does
not include much brush and waste
land, which is, and will remain for a
time, without any economic value.
This area is very evenly distributed;
seven tenths are found on the Atlantic
side of the continent, only one tenth
on the the Pacific coast, another
tenth on the Rockv Mountains, ths
balance being scattered over the
interior of the Western States. Both
the New England States and the
Southern States have 50 per cent of
their area, more or less, under forest
cover; but in the former the mer
chantable timber has been largely
removed.
The character of the forest growth
varies in the different regions. On
the Pacific coast hard woods are rare,
the principal growth being coniferous,
and of extraordinary development.
Besides gigantic red woods, the soft
sugar pine and the hard bull pire,
various spruces and firs, cedars, hem
lock, and larch form the valuable
supplies.
In the Rocky Mountains no hard
woods bf commercial value occur,
the growth being mainly of spruces,
firs and bull pine, with other pines
and cedars of more or less value. The
Southern States contain in their more
southern section large areas occupied
almost exclusively by pine forest,
with the cypress in the bottom lands.
The more Northern portions are
covered with hard woods almost ex
clusively, and intervening is a region
of mixed hard wood and coniferous
growth. Spruces, firs and hemlocks
are found in small quantities confined
to the mountain regions. The North
ern States are mainly occupied by
hard wood growths, with coniferous
intermixed, sometimes the latter be
coming entirely dominant, as in the
spruce forests of Maine, New Hamp
shire, or the Adirondacks, and here
and there in the pineries of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota, or in the
hemlock regions of Pennyslvania and
New York.
The total annual cut, including all
material rtquiring bolt or log size,
is estimated at 40,000,000,000 feet,
board measure The lumber indus
tries employ capital to the extent of
over 11.000,000,000. They employ
nearly 1,000,000 men. pay out over
$400,000,000 in yearly wages, and pro
d uce over $3,000,000,000 of commercial
Material, all of which is an important
showing.—Journal.
THK HOME I’KIKUMK, FRIDA X. NOVEMBER 20. 1896.
SONGS AND SCENES.
T»» m iMura.
I Tbe beaut fill Datuda is a cultivated species
of the common jimson weed of tbe south.]
I saw thee iu the dawn's fresh glow*
Thy waxen petals white as snow,
The cup o'er flown with crystal dew,
Such nectar as the brownies brew.
My Lady touched her lips to thine
▲nd which truly was most divine
’Twere hard to tell, such graces rare
▲ nd each was sodivineiy fair!
Down where the outcast thistles grew
I marked a bloom of pallid b’ue.
Poor jimson, fearfal to proclaim
Its kin in thy high-sounding name!
Its noisome odor, ragged weed,
Its ugly form half gone to seed;
'Twould need a searching eye to trace
Thy lineage from such a race!
Strange contrast ’twixt that vagrant flower
Aud thou, the fairest in her bower;
Low jimson struggling with the clods
And thou fit chalice for the gods!
’Tis oft times thus while some reflect
The dull decline of cold neglect,
Their favored fellows live and move
In circles blessed with light and love.
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
A Grand Work.
The ladies of tbe Emergency hospi
tal are doing a grand and glorious work
in caring for the sick aud destitute out
there. Only a few days ago old man
Frank Thornton, the peripatetic tooth
extractor and wanderer on the face ot
the earth was found sick and friendless
in a boarding house in a very critical
condition every way.
Big hearted Dr. W. R. Fenner found
it out and interested himself in the case.
Dr. McCall offered his services and
when they came to me I applied to Mrs.
J. Lindsay Johnson and Mrs. John C.
Printup, of the governing board, and
they said for us to seud him along out
there and they would do all they could
for him.
The case was a sad one and poor old
Dr. Thornton would in all probability
have died but for tbe efforts of Dr. Fen
ner, Dr. McCall and those noble ladies.
As it is he is slowly recovering and has
been well cared for and his wants
looked after by the friends of the friend
less at Rome’s great charitable institu
tion.
A few days ago a little boy who had
runaway from his parents in Mem
phis was taken up and sent to the hos
pital by the kind hearted marshal Cap
tain Lindsay, of East Rome. He was
without money aud had not a friend
among all’the crowds that throng these
busy streets all day long and far into
the night.
Ha was taken sick in East Rome and
but for the kindness of Captain Lind
say might have suffered for food and at
tention. But he was sent to the hospi
tal and there he was cared for and is
now being rapidly restored to health.
How grateful his parents in Menphis
will feel for this attention to their wan
dering boy.
I tell you too much cannot be said in
favor of supporting and sustaining that
great charity. It is due to the good
women who are donating all their ener
gies to keeping it up that everybody in
the city contribute a mite to its support.
Their expenses are pretty heavy and
they have but slender appropriations
from the city and county.
The only way that they can keep it
going during the long dreary days that
are to come during the cold winter is by
the generous help of the public. Such a
charity is systematic in the good that it
accomplishes and should be fostered
end encouraged by those who can ap
preciate the good that is being done.
I have had occasion to call attention
to the work more than once. I have
been out there and have seen the neat,
works and the white sheets on the com
fortable beds and the wholesome food
furnished the invalids during their con
valescence. I tell you there is nothing
in Rome that is more deserving than t h 3
general hospital,
What shall it profit us if we rear the
costliest temples for Gods worship and
neglect His poor? What avail is all our
church going, prayer meeting, and
psalm singing if we forget the lesson of
the good Samaritan? Let us bear these
things in mind and hold up the hands
of those engaged in this great work.
M. M. F.
The marriage rate in Scotland is
66.92 in every 10,000 of the popula
tion. To every 100 marriages 456 chil
dren are born, as against 418 in Eng-
Os a total of 27,604 marriages which
took place during the year 1,166 were
irregular, having been performed
without proclamation of purpose and
without reference to the intervention
of religious ceremony.
“Before the St. Louis convention
met we warned our people of their
danger, and advised a straight popu
list ticket. Events have proved that
we were right. Our party, as a party,
does not exist any more. Fusion has
well nigh killed it,” wailsT. E. W. in
tbe peoples party paper.
It was urged that the farmers were
almost unanimous for free silver, but
the vote in ths late election does not
show that. Os the 1,000,000 plurality
which fell on the sound money side
400,000 comes from the towns and
cities and 600,000 from the country
precincts.
The best laid plans of even the best
politicians oft go wrong. Who would
have thought a month ago
that Steve Clay would land in the
United States Senate ahead of Gov.
Atkinson?—Columbus Enquirer.
Montgomery Folsom, though
perched on one of the seven hills of
Rome, hasn’t forgotten the music of
the pines down in South Georgia.—
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
High Tide At Geltyxbnrg.
A cloud possessed the hollow field,
The gathering battle's smoky shield;
Athwart the gloom the lightning flashed.
And through the cloud some horsemen
dashed.
And from the heights the thunder pealed.
Then at the brief command of Lee,
Moved out that matchless infantry.
With Pickett leading grandly down.
To rush against roaring crown
Os those dread heights of destiny.
Far above the angry guns,
A cry across the tumult runs.
The voice that rang through Shiloh’s woods
And Chickamaugauga's solitudes;
The fierce south cheering on her sons.
Ah, how the withering tempest blew
Against the front of Pettigru!
A khamsin wind tear scorched and singed,
Like that infernal flame that fringed
Tbe British squares at Waterloo!
A thousand fell where Kemper led;
A thousand fell where Garnett bled;
In blinding flame and strangling smoke,
The remnants through the batteries broke,
And crossed the works with Armistead.
“Once more in Glory’s van with me!”
Virginia cries to Tennessee,
“We two together, come what may.
Shall stand upon those works today!”
The reddest day in history.
Brave Tennessee! Reckless tbe way,
Virginia heard her comrades say; w
“Close round this rent and riddled rag!”
What time she set her battle flag
Amid the guns of Doub’eday.
But who shall break the guards that wait
Before tbe awful face of fate.
The tattered standards of the south
Were shivelled at the cannon’s mouth,
And all her hopes were desolate.
In vain the Tennesseean set
His breast against the bayonet;
In vain Virginia charged and raged
A tigress in her wrath nncaged,
I ill all the hill was rad and wet.
Above the bayonets mixed and crossed
Men saw a gray, gigantic ghost,
Receding throught the battle cloud.
And hear ajross the tempest loud
And death cry of a nation lost!
The brave went down without disgrace,
They leaped to ruin’s red embrace;
They only heard fame’s thunder wake
And saw the dazzling sunburst break
In smile’s on glory’s bloody face.
They fell who lifted up a hand,
And bade the sun in Heaven to stand,
They smote and fell who set the bars
Against the progress of the stars,
And stayed the march of Motherland.
They stood who saw the future come
On through the sight’s delirium;
They smote and stood »vho held the hope
Os nations on that slippery slope,
Amid the cheers of Christendom ’.
God lives! He forged the iron will
That clutched and held that trembling hill!
God lives and reigns l He built and lent
The heights for Freedom’s battlement.
Where floats her flag in triumph still!
Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns’
Love rules; her gentle purpose runs.
A mighty mother turns in tears
The pages of her battle years,
Lamenting all her fallen sons!
BOWMAN BROS?
Lilliputian Bazaar,
OF ATLANTA
78 WHITEHALL ST.
Baby’s Winter Clothes
Is a matter of no small impoi tarice, 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”
All Wool Shirts at 50c.
Are the latest; no buttons nor pine to
worry the baby with. To see them is to
want them for the little ones.
For 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 wbat
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
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black Bengaline Silk in" the Empire
Style with large collar trimmed in fur,
and is pronounced by all not only
fait
but something pretty enough for the
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Aqua Crystal Spectacles and Eye Glasses
to suit ail sights and all pocket books
to be obtained from
JERVIS& WRlGHT,Druggists
Cor. Broad St. & Sth Ave., Rome, Ga.
The eves carefully tested and correct lense,
adjusted. Articles of necessity at popular
prices. . sepl3-6m
Iff HARD MW -j
At the coat 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 Manufacluring Company
ROME, GEORGIA.
r Doors, Sash. Blinds, Turned Work.
Scroll Work, Lumber,
Shingles, Etc., Etc. z
JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President, B. I. HUGHES, Cashier
P. H. HARDIN Vice President.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
ROME, G-u£k.*
CAFITALi AND SURFIiUH, 8300,000
All Accommodations Consistent With Safe Banking Ex
tended to Our Customers
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IVriTiTjE AGENTS
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HENRY G. SMITH, Manager.
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Up Town Yard Cor. 6th Ave & Broad St. f 1101116, Lid.
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. Rome Coal Co.
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