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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor.
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Every man woman and child should
participate in giving thanks tomor
row.
The Methodist ministers will enjoy
their Thanksgiving turkey in Dalton
tomorrow.
Bryan did a great deal of talking
for nothing, but he is going to re
ceive ample compensation now.
Atlanta Cbhncilmen voted them
selves a raise in salary to S6OO a year,
but Mayor King vetoed the action.
The days of the turkey have dwin
dled down to mere hours and the
end of his career approacheth rapidly.
The preachers in Washington have
started crusade against liquor drink
ing. What will the congressmen do?
The cotton receipts of Rome will
exceed those of last season. Rome is
growing bigger and bigger every
year.
Steve Clay’s portrait in the Louis,
ville Courier-Journal looks like a cross
between a football player and a mu
sical prodigy.
The press reports that Delaware has
suffered from an earthquake shock
It would take much of a rigor to
shake it out of shape.
Let the city and county authori
ties join in suppressing the lawless
element and in preserving the fair
name of our beautiful city.
Tom Watson is rapidly achieving
fame as a successful criminal lawyer.
The Savannah Press says that his
thrust is as keen as a rapier.
The auditorium at St. Louis where
the republican convention met, is to
be torn down. Billie McKinley re
tains the platform as a souvenir.
The Chicago Tribune says that if
there were no other adult males in
Florida that there would have been
some excuse for electing Wilkinson
Gall to the senate.
Gainesville, Fla., truckers made
$200,000 clear off their lettuce beds last
season. The motto of Alabama is
“Here we rest ” That of Florida should
be “Lettuce alone.’’
The anti-Semitic movement should
fall as flat as the American protec
tive Association. The constitution
of this country guarantees freedom
from religious persecution alike for
Jew and gentile, and all such move
ments are in direct opposition to that
freedom of conscience and liberty of
action which should be dear to the
heart of every true American.
ALIVE TO THS SITUATION.
The city council did well Monday
night by increasing the police force
and their action will be commended
by the citizens generally. The city
needed more protection. There are
some who have favored a reduction
of the police force when there are
not hardly enough men now to patrol
the blocks in the heart of the business
portion of the city.
As a matter of course when the city
grows all sorts of people are attracted
here. The per centage of good and
bad citizens is about the same every
where. In the best of communities
there will be found some evil-minded
persons who are a menace to the hap
piness and well being of the more
orderly element. That is exactly the
condition of affairs in Rome. While
the law-abiding population is increas
ing the disreputable and dangerous
element is increasing in the usual ratio"
The strong arm of the law, vigor
ously exerted, is the only thing that
will keep down that element.
If the worst comes to the worst
let some other department be short
ened, but not. the police department.
Had there been a man on duty in that
portion of the city where Gideon Pope
was murdered Saturday night, the
killing might have been prevented.
But even if it had occurred the mur
derer might have been apprehended
and brought to justice. As it is the
coroner’s jury must grope in the dark
for it is hard to establish the identity
of the culprit under such circum
stances as surround that killing.
Emboldened by their repeated suc
cesses the tough element will grow
more daring and unless vigorous steps
are taken to break it up we will
have a lot of trouble before the
winter is over. Let the people ot
the city rouse themselves to a true
appreciation of the exigencies of the
case. Not only the safety of life and
property, but the good name us the
city is at stake. We must put down
the lawless element and bring the
evil doers to justice.
SUGAR BEETS AND BEET SUGAR.
The Charleston News and Courier
learns that the company which has
been formed to develop the Calhoun
falls property, on the Savannah river,
contemplates the introduction of the
cultivation of beets, and the manu
facture of beet sugar. This should
prove of interest to the farmers of
Georgia generally, and to those of
South Georgia especially. We make
the distinction because the farmers of
South Georgia are probably a little in
advance of those in the Northern sec
tion of the State in the diversified
farming. They have found such farm
ing to be profitable, and are on the
look-out for other products to include
in their crops.
The wonderful growth of the melon,
fruit and truck outputs of South
Georgia is evidonce of the progres
siveness of the farmers of this section
in the diversification of crops. At the
same time, it is a fact that the farm
ers of the whole state yet give too
much attention to cotton planting,
which has ceased to be an entirely
satisfactory and profitable crop. Too
moch cotton is being raised, and in
self-defense the planters will be forced
to turn to other products. And noth
ing seems to offer better inducements
than the beet sugar industry.
The market for sugar is already
made. The demand is constant. It
would be years before the demand
for home consumption could be sup
plied by the home production even if
there should be a general movement
of planters into the sugar growing
business. The beet sugar industry
has always assumed considerable pro
portions in California, Nebraska and
Utah. In the first named state one
factory pays out annually for beet s
and labor not less than $750,000.
During the last eight years it has
paid out an average of SI,OOO a day.
In Utah,one factory paid out for beets
in a single week last month, $37,000
The price paid for beets in Utan by
the factories is $1 a ton, and an acre
properly cultivated will produce up
wards of fifteen tons. It costs to pro
duce, harvest and deliver an acre of
beets about S3O, so that the profit
from each acre of beets is about S3O
clear.
The American Agriculturist, which
gives these figures, says the industry,
paying these prices, “has protected
that whole section (of Utah) from dis
tress during the hard times. There
is not a doubt that Georgia can raise
sugar beets as abundantly and as
cheaply as California, Utah or any
other state. We have here, indeed,
a soil and a climate that will produce
almost anything that grows. We have
the best labor in the country, and it
is abundant and willing.
We have thousands of acres of land,
a few acres in each farm, that could
be devoted to beet culture until the
industry became firmly established.
An agreement by the farmers of a
community to plant a certain acreage
of beets would probably, be about all
th t capital would require as pre
limiuary to setting up a beet sugar
plant, or making a market for the
beets. Some progressive community
of South Georgia farmers ought to
start the beet sugar ball rolling.
THE ROME TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 25. 1596.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Bn* n- < l.rfstlue.
Bonnie Clvistire with thy wind blown hair.
Blush of youth's dawn and thy forehead fair,
Kuby led lips and thy sea blueeyes
Mocking* the lustre «>f April skies;
Dainty the fall • f thy tender feet
Rythmic as summer winds soft and sweet,
Wandering* sprite from afar I ween,
Truant of fairyland, bonnie Christine!
Memories dim of the fadeless flowers
Bloomihg in evergreen Eden bowers,
Haunting forever thy sinless heart
God given monitor true thou art!
Dreamer of dreams of a shining throng,
Measures seraphic of wondrous song,
Lingers the halo of heavenly sheen
Round thy bright being, my bonnie Christine !
Sweet is the strain that the skylark sings
Greeting the dawn with aspiring wings,
Sweet is the croon of the drowsy brook
Borne from some dreamful and fragrant nook,
Sweet the perfume of the pink wild rose
Soothing the soul when the south wind blows,
Sweet is the sunlight when fields are green;
Fat sweeter than all art thou, bonnie Chris
tine !
Angels be with thee when storms are wild,
Lead thee in pleasant paths, darling child,
Soften the sorrow and pain and strife.
Brighten the wearisome ways of life;
Bring thee at last to that Sunbright clime
Far from the dreary confines of time.
Beauties by earth bedimmed eyes unseen
Gladden thy vision, oh, bonnie Christine!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
For Self Defense.
The drinks are on Fire Chief Tom
Cornelius.
He is no longer passing as a bad,
bad man, like he formerly did.
His bravado is all gone and lie waits
on his customers at Terhune & Nix
on's with the utmost suavity of de
meanor.
The most of his patrons want pis
tols or shot guns or cartridges. He
has sold enough to stock an armory
in the last few days.
That is what took ths shine out of
the bold chieftain.
He was standing behind the coun
ter yesterday, musing on what he
would do if he should be held up by
a highwayman.
His first thought was that he would
step to the nearest box and ring in
the fire alarm.
Then he remembered that a man
would find some difficulty in ringing
in an alarm with both hands held up.
He was still cogitating and revolv.
ing the matter in his mind when the
door was suddenly darkened by an
eclipse.
A hundred and eighty pound moun
tain matron entered the door followed
by a little bit of a dinky husband,
who was trotting along at her heels
like he had been well trained.
The amazon ambled up to the coun
ter and asked.
“Do you sell any blue whistler ca’t
terges here?” “What number?”
asked Tom.
“W’y, seb’n. Hits hoots seb’n times
an’ never misses tier. I reckin I’ll git
a box, though.”
“I mean what caliber. What size
bore?”
“Oh, here it is, ye kin see fur yer
self,” and she began to unwrap some
thing from her apron which Tom had
taken all the time for a baby.
Finally she unwrapped it and pre
sented a pistol about three feet long,
the muzzle pointed directly at Tom,
who said it looked like a length of
stove pipe. He fell back and involun
tarily flung up his hands.
“Oh, hit’s empty. Haiut had no
c%’tterges in twenty year • come
Chris’mus. Ye see we'uns live up in
Pickens county an’ we hafter come
to town ’bout twicet a year. We
hearu ’bout the robbers an’ sich
gwine through the kentry an’ I tol’
me ol’ man that we’d jest hafter git
some ca’tterges. Hit was absolutelv
dangerous for us to be alone in them
mountings with all our cabbidge an’
pertater craps in the house an’ no
weepins.
“The law gives us the right of self
defense an’ I’m agwine to perpare
fur them ’ere thieves an’ when they
come they’ll git a taste o’ this,” and
she flourished the ugly old spitfire of
a pistol around her head in a most
alarming manner.
“B b-be c c-careful, Madam, the
thing might go off, stammered Tom
with his knees shaking and his teeth
chattering.
Nixon had hidden behind some
boxes in the rear of the store and Ter
hune was peeping over the big safe.
“Ob, hit aint loaded, I tell ye.
Haint be’n sence the night the revy
nue detectors come to our home an’
tried to ’rest me ol’ man. That was
Chris’mus times, in 1870, an I had ol’
Spitfire loaded to the muzzle. I tol’
them fellers to move on an’ when I
shoved that weepin in their faces
they got. As they turned the corner
of the mounting I turned loose an’
every single durned bar’l went off,
one a'ter another, an’ I could hear
them fellers breakiu’ bresh a mile
away. ”
By this time Tom had found ar/odd
box of cartridges big enough to fill the
cavilties in the mammoth cylinder of
the old pistol, and he wrapped them
I up careful and asked the amazon if
there was anything else he could
show her.
“Haint got no snuff, have ye? Rale
Mackyboy dip?”
“No, lam sorry. Captain Steele
sells snuff, there where yon see all
that crockery. Just drop in there.
Call again, please. ”
As the amazon left rhe building he
sank down on the nearest seat and
breathed a sigh of relief.
“Has she gone?” whispered Nixon,
from his place of concealment.
“Yes, she’s gone.”
“Thank the Lord!”
“Amen!” muttered Terhune. I
thought the big safe was gone sure.”
And then they all came out and
treated themselves to a happy, hys
terical laugh over their narrow
escape. M. M. F.
If General Miles really wants a
standing army, what is the matter
with pressing into service the Salva
tion army? It is ready made and is a
most formidable aggregation in this
country.
■—- - . .. -•
Die SI ep ng Baar.
Oh the coast of Leelenaw,
With his nose stretched on his paw,
And with eyes that tightly close
As if locked in calm repose,
In his bleak and storm-beat lair
Lies the sailor’s Sleeping Bear;
Vv bile the lake’s dec p rolling tide.
Stretching westward far and wide.
And the forests on the land.
And the dunes of drifting sand,
Round about their vigil keep
O’er his long, unbroken sleep.
With his head toward the strait,
As if set to guard its gate,
Truant to his trust he seems,
Given o'er to misty dreams;
Dreaming of the days gone by.
When no human foot was nigh,
When as yet no ship had traced
Pathway o'er the .watery waste,
But o'er lake and virgin wood
Reigned primeval solitude;
And so sound he sleeps it seems
Nothing can disturb his dreams.
Indian war-whoops loud have rung,
S ttlers’ echoing axes swung,
Busy mills hummed night ami day
As they stole his wealth away .
And ten thousand ships have crept
Slowly by him while he slept;
Like the sphinx in Egypt’s clime,
He heeds not the things of time.
Fighting winds that vex the air.
Foaming waves that storm his lair,
Only lull him to his rest,
Sleeping calm on nature’s breast
Sleep on ! sluggard of the lake!
Undisturbed thy slumbers take!
But, adown the coming years,
When the Son of Man appears,
When He speaks and bids our clay
Waken for the judgment day.
Nature, too, shall hear his call,
Skies shall rend and rocks shall fali,
Seas shall flee away in dread
From his stern and awful tread;
Thou wilt surely waken then
With the waking sons of men.
Vicksburg, Mich. W. W, Lamport.
Railroad Commission of Georgia
L. N. Trammell, Chairman, I
Alles Fort, - Commissioners.
TuOS. C. Crenshaw. ,ir. )
J. D. Masai V, Secretary.
Atlanta, Ga., November 19th, 1896.
CIRCULAR NO. 265.
CHANGE IN COMMISSIONERS’
CLASSIFICATION.
The following changes in CommiMlonere
Classification have been made: c R j o B
Cotton Seed Hulls. C. L. 25,000 lbs.. .. 1*
Cotton Seed Hulls. L. C. L., without |
percentage G
Salt in Sacks, L.C. L C
Eggs, Packed 1 2
Brick, Common and Fire, L. C. L G
Estimate “Slush, Soap Stock, oi simi
lar material for manufacturing Soap, in
barrels, 6,” C. R.
Barrels empty, except Ale and Beer,
C. L. and L. C. L. May be estimated
to weigh 100 pounds each.
This Circular effective on and after
December Ist, 1896, and repeals con
flicting circulars, etc.
By order of the Board.
L. N. Trammell,
Chairman.
J. D. Massey, Secretary.
bowman bros. '
Lilliputian Bazaar,
OF ATLANTA
78 WHITEHALL ST,
Baby’s Winter Clothes
Is a matter of no small impoitance, 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 pins to
worry ths 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 what
every mother, who is particular about
her child’s clotbiug, 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
black Bengaline Silk in the Empire
Style with large collar trimmed in fur,
and is pronounced by all not only
S’ AIT
but something pretty enough for the
prettiest child.
Our aim is to be exclusive in
styles, moderate in prices. 11 Utiljan
Bl 8188 BBW, -)
At the cost of production, We have been
enabled to reduce prices to a point Adhere
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
< f our goods, nor in the alert service
which we grant as an attractive feature
of our businps *.
O’Neill Manufacturing Company
HOME, GEORGIA.
t Doors, Sash. Blinds, Turned Work,
Scroll Work, Lumber,
Shingles, Etc., Etc.
A ’PHONE fit
s The Rome Drug Co. :
S With DR. FENNER as Manager, J
® Has opened up with a full stock in the old Norton building, re- J
® cently occupied by Lowry Bros., ®
g Cor. Broad St. and Fourth Ave., S
X Where you will find most anything usually kept in a first class V
M drug etore, and many notions suitable for Christmas Presents. £
A TOILET ARTlCLES—Perfumery, Hair Brushes and Combs, a A
nice line Toilet Soap, Tooth Brushes, Etc. Imperial Crown Hand-
■ kerchief Extracts in large variety, none better in the market. W
J Ladies invited. £
PRESCRIPTIONS will have the personal attention of Dr. W. X
• R. Fenner with a full line of Squibbs Chemicals and everything W
a of the best quality. A
HOWARD FENNER will be master of ceremonies at the Soda A
" Fount and will serve his friends with Coca Cola and other Hot
A Drinks during the winter. w
JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President, B. 1. HUGHES, Cashier
P. H. EARDIN Vice President.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
ROME, OAV
CA-RITAE HURFIjUB 3300,000
All Accommodations Consistent With Safe Banking Ex
tended to Our Customers
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REAL ESTATEAGENT
230 JBJRO-A.ID ST ! i
Renting a Specially and Prompt Settlement the Rule.
Whitfield Commission Co.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WHOLESALE DEALERS AND SHIPPERS OF —
Live and Dressed Poultry,
'.Butter, Eggs, Game, Fish, Oysters, Celery. &c.
Consignments solicited. Prompt and personal attention given al!
business/ Returns ard remittances made day of sale. n i • imgp-