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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor.
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THE ROME TRIBUNE,
Bomb. Ga.
Rome Tribune
Is read by hundreds of fami
lies who receive no other
newspaper. The merchants
of Rome regard it as the
FAVORITE FAMILY PAPER
And the best advertising me
dium to reach the trade of
this section. If you want a
big Christmas trade use its
advertising columns. Sample
copies, advertising rates or
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request.
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
Let the capitalists come. We have
the resources.
The man who rails against money
is usually the man who laws but little.
Athens street cars have an auto
matic heating apparatus. Rome street
cars burn the wind.
Rome is advancing rapidly toward
the front as one of the foremost mar
kets for cotton and country produce
in the state.
It appears that General Weyler em
ploys an assistant butcher who is even
more gifted with blood tbirstiness
than himself.
Read the ad > ments in today’s
Tribune. The ays are at hand
and the merchan -■< -’-e laid in large
stocks of beautiful goods.
The annual trade review of the
Rome Tribune came out this morn
ing, and is a very hamdsome and credit
able edition.—Evening Commercial.
Don’t believe a word about the
Dauntless and the fruit trade. The
little fllibusterer is going to collect
tarantulas in Jamaica and turn them
loose in Cuba. —Brunswick Times Ad
vertiser.
Our Trade Review yesterday was
but an earnest of the improve
ments that we intend making in the
general appearance of The Tribune.
We fully appreciate the liberal sup
port extended to us by our patrons.
As between the rich and poor the
balances are about even. The rich
are tempted to be proud and scornful,
the poor to be envious and hateful.
These feelings are all of the same
moral quality, and will exclude both
rich and poor from the kingdom of
grace and glory.—Christian Advocate.
That the negro has a better chance
in the South than any other section
of the country, says the New Orleans
States, is shown by the fact that in
North and South Carolina, and other
Southern states, many of them are em
ployed as operatives in cotton mills.
Were a negro to seek employment in
a cotton mill in New England he
would be mobbed,—Augusta News.
North Carolina has been decidedly
eccentric in her majorities at the late
election. The Bryan electors have a
majority of nearly 1(1,000 in that state,
while Russell, republican, was elected
governor by a plurality of over 12,000
and the legislature is controlled by
populists holding the balance of power
between the republicans and demo
crats.
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Our handsome Trade Review was
the subject of much favorable com
ment yesterday. The people of Rome
appreciate a good thing and they
have shown how they value the work
that we are doing by their large and
liberal patronage. Yesterday’s paper
will carry to the outside world an ele
gant message of the prosperity of our
beautiful city and the enterprise of
our prosperous business men. We
feel heartily gratified over the cordial
reception given and the compliment
ary comments made on our Trade
Review.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING.
Christmas is but a little more than
two weeks off. People generally are
beginning to prepare for the great fes"
tival. The wise and far seeing busi
ness men began preparations some
time ago. Knowing that this would
be one of the liveliest holiday seasons
that has been experienced in many
years, they began early to lay in ex
tensive and beautiful stocks of holiday
goods, and the evidences of their fore
thought are apparent on every hand.
Crisp, cool weather is delightfully
suggestive of the holiday season and
it quickens the pulses and makes
everybody feel brighter and better.
At such times people are liable to feel
a glow about the heart and a viva
ciousness of spirits that is unlike the
ordinary, work day feeling. At any
rate there is a general disposition on
the part of every man, woman and
child tb contribute something toward
the pleasure of others for that is the
greatest enjoyment in life.
Trade is stimulated by the custom
of the season. In the holidays the
putting away the oares of business
and the eagerness for money getting,
if only for a short time, is helpful to
the finer instincts of our nature. If
Christmas should be obliterated from
the calendar the world would be the
worse off. The great Christmas festi
val is one of the chief factors in our
civilization.
People are made better and broader
minded by the influences of the season.
The giving of gifts is a gracious task
and nobody ever feels any the worse
by having added to the comfort and
happiness of a fellow creature. The
business houses of Rome are filled
with a vast variety of goods appro
priate to the season. The Tribune,
which goes into every house in Rome
and the surrounding county, carries
its message of good cheer and speaks
eloquently of the efforts make by our
merchants to please their patrons.
Read its bright and attractive pages
and see what they are offering and
how cheap they propose to sell their
beautiful goods. If you have money
to spend, and nearly everybody has
more or less during the holidays, you
can spend it to just as good advantage
here as you can in any city in the
country. Our merchants control such
an extensive territory that they are
enabled to purchase in large quanti
ties and thus put prices down as low
as they are anywhere.
During the next two weeks thou
sands of hearts will be made
happier by giving and receiving those
little reminders of friendship and
esteem that make people feel like life
is more worth living. Selfishness has
no place in the hearts of people dur
ing the Christmas holidays. And
when you go to buy anything tint
apply to your home merchants and
you will find that they can supply
you with as attractive goods at as low
prices as you will find anywhere. Give
them the preference and you will find
that every dollar spent at home will
bring you rich returns in the future.
You can get extra copie s of the
Tribune Trade Review for 5 cents
by calling at the office.
DOES IF PAY?
Does advertising pay? That is a ques
tion that is still, occasionally, heard
in these latter days of enlightenment
and progressive business methods. O
course the question has been answered
most emphatically by the best busi
ness men in the world. Everybody
who has made anything like a suc
cess in life, knows that it pays to ad
vertise liberally and judiciously. The
questions that are of most importance
to the business men are how and
where to advertise in order to insure
the best returns? Even these ques
tions are answerable. In “Profitable
Advertising” James Macmaban says:
To get results an ad must be con
structed with care and judgement,
born of experience; it should be so
worded that there be no mistaking its
invitation to examination and pur
chase; it should be displayed in well
chosen, that is to say, readable type
that will not tax the eyesight, and
above all it should be placed in jour
nals, the very best in the town or city,
for it is a case where the best will cer
tainly prove the cheapest, remember
ing that the quality of a paper’s read
era is fully as essential as the quantity.
“Advertising to be successful must
be persistent; occasional splashes of
printer’s ink on the pages of a news,
paper, no matter how good a medium
it may be, aie soon forgotten. It is
the continued intruding of your name
and business under the eye and nose
of your fellow men and women that
drive them through sheer curiosity to
seek jou out, that they may test the
truth of your statements, and that’s
where the business of the advertisers
begins. He must clinch his every
printed promise, or they should never
have been made; to do otherwise is to
undo the possible good results of a
worß well begun.”
This is good advice. The merchant
is Interested in knowing not only that
a newspaper in which he advertises is
read, but that it is read by.the people
THE HOME TdIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER », 1898.
to whom he expects to sell. His ad- ,
vertisements should clearly set forth
the bargains he offers and then when
the reader goes to inspect them they
should be “as advertised”
The merchant who keeps his wares
before the public in the best newspa
pers and fulfills in his store all the
promises he makes in print, will never
have reason to ask the question:
“Does advertising pay?” He will re- .
ceive his answer in the most substan
tial manner from the inci eased pat
ronaga that will develop in response
to every attractive advertisement in a,
thoroughly live newspaper such as
The Tribune.
You can get extra copies of the
Tribune Trade Review for 5 cents
by calling at the office,
SONGS AND SCENES.
The Old Battle Field.
In dreamful and romantic mood
I gazed upon the scene,
As on the lofty mount I stood
With browning field and flaming wood
And shining stream between.
In fancy then a mighty throng.
In warlike garb arrayed,
Like Some wild torrent swept along,
Awaking echoes deep and strong
Os crash of ball and blade.
And upward from the shadowy tl’e
The smoke of battle rose,
B ent by fierce drifts of leaden hail,
The battle song, the dying wall,
War's triumphs and its wot s.
The struggle ended, onward swept
The lurid tide of war,
And o’er the graves of they who slept
And darkened homes of those that wept
Arose a silver star—
A star whose luster cast a sheen
tJpon a peaceful land
Where sweet contentment dwells serene
’Mid harvest fields and valleys green,
By bows ot promise spanned.
Oh, such a dream and such a day,
Fair city, half divine,
With all thy charms in bright array,
And whether near or far away
Tbeir memories shall be mine!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
Unmarked Grava*.
Mr. R. B. Wright, who is one ot
Rome's staunchest citizens, is at home
on a visit from Yazoo City, Miss., Mr.
Wright is not only a traveling man and
a skilled brick maker, being engaged in
superintending an extensive brick man
ufactory there; but he is an enthusias
tic Confederate veteran. Next to his
family he holds a warmer place in his
heart for the heroes of the lost cam e
than for anything else on earth. He
never misses an opportunity to say a
good word for the veterans, the dead as
well as those who are still living as tes
timonials of Southern courage and valor
In the old country at Yazoo City
there are about 150 graves that con
tain all that is mortal of those who
fought and fell in the boody batttie
that occurred there during the war.
The graves are neglected and there is
nothing to indicate that beneath tl e
sod there sleep some of the heroes f
the Confederacy. Yazoo City is a place
of 5,000 inhabitants, and it would seem
that the people there would have taken
steps, long ere this, to have the graves
cared for and properly marked. This
has been done even in far away cities
in the heart of the North and W■ st
whence come the foes of Dixie.
If our enemies can thus pay respect
to departed valor it looks like we South
ern people should be up and doing in
this sacred cause which has been neg
lected too long, already. On the tallest
peak of Myrtle Hill stands a monument
dedicated to the heroes of the Lost
Cause by the devoted women of Rome.
On the Southern slope their graves are
marked by neat head stones and every
year the wealth and beauty of [Rome as
sembles there’to scatter flowers on those
lonely mounds and to pay tribute to the
memory of thosej who served their
country even unto death.
No doubt the people of Yazoo City
hold tbeir honored dead in high esteem,
but, so far, nobody has moved in the
matter of caring for the; graves of the
dead heroes. This should no longer be
so. The people should get together and
formulate some plan by which they
may be properly marked and cared for
so that their names and the cause for
which they died may be perpetuated
forever. People who visit a Southern
city from abroad are always struck
with tue manner in which they have
cared for those who are no more
It is a laudable mark and always
makes a good impression upon the visi
tors as it shows a patriotic spirit. To
see them covered with briars and bram
bles in some neglected corner of the
common burial ground does not speak
well for the public spirit that should
animate the people of every Southern
city. It is not only a mark of love but
it advances the city and community in
the estimation of all who chance to visit
a place where the dead soldiers are
properly remembered.
The work has been going on all over
Georgia for many years and even at
such out of the way places as Resaca
and Rooky Face, tender hands have
raised memorial stones above the lonely
mounds where onr heroes sleep. It is
a work of love with our Georgia women
and if those of Mississippi 1 will take the
matter in hand with the same spirit of
fervent devotion that ours have, there
will soon be no neglected graves at
Yazoo City.
Some of the fiercest fighting of the
entire war occurred along the banks of
the Yazoo river. The city is about 100
miles above the mouth of the river and
is located iu a rich and fertile region.
Mr. Wright says that the farming lands
are simply magnificent there and the
people raise enormous crops. It is a
rich and fruitful region and the strug
gle for supremacy between the Grey
and the Blue was terrrifio during the
war.
Besides the fights on land there was
a great deal of fighting done on the
river. Iwo gun boats were sunk in the
Yazoo river while trying to ascend the
gallant boys in Grey. As a consequence
the country is filled with the graves of
those whose blood was shed in defense
of the South. It is not right that they
should be neglected while the living a r e
enjoying such happiness and prosperity.
No doubt but thejpeople of the Yazoo
City will take the [matter in hand and
they will be surprised at the success
which will follow tbeir efforts in that
direction. People will contribute to a
cause like that when it would be bard
to get a dollar from them for any other
purpose. Mr. Wright toldj me about
it and it occurred to me that a word in
season might not be out of place to our
brethren on the Yazoo and I hope that
what I have written will not be with
out profit. M. M. F.
For the year ending June 30, 1894,
the United States government ran
$70,000,000 debt, for the year ending
June 30, 1895, $43,000,000, and for the
last fiscal year $26,000,000. It js run
ning behind still at a rate that prom
ises to make the deficit this year as
large as it was in 1894. By the close
Os June, 1897, the added debt wiJ
amount to $260,000,000, accumulated
since June 30, 1893.
Few Appreciate the Dangers
to which the expectant
.A mother is exposed ere
VaS she presses to her heart
AMWIi yy jvru her babe, and the dread
TvUJtow Sri, with which she looks
forward to the hour of
w®* approaching mother-
Fl hood. By the use of
“Mother's
Friend"
the body is made to yield
pleasantly and without internal protest to the
change it is undergoing. Headache and nausea
are dispelled, the depressed and nervous feeling
yields to oncof pleasurable expectation. Danger
to life of both mother and child is avoided, and
she passes through the ordeal quickly and her
recovery is rapid*
“I know one lady, the mother of three children,
who suffered greatly in the birth of each, who
obtained a bottle of “Mother’s Friend’ of me
before her fourth confinement, and was relieved
quickly. All agree that their labor was shorter
and less painful.” John G. Polhill, Macon, Ga.
Sent by Mail, on receipt of price, Ixjoo PER BOTTLE*
Book “TO EXPECTANT MOTHERS mailed free.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,ATLANTA, Ga.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
My Orison.
No sin is thine that I would dwell upon;
Nor yet one word of tbine would I forget,
Thy soul to me is as a lily spun
By holy hands in sordid sin-soil set.
What if a troubled wind fiercely .0 led
Across and scorched its p?tals white and
fine?
Doth not a patient God forever hold
Predestined in h»s hand the germ divine?
Whs*, if each fragrant leaf disclose a stain
Made by the kiiS of summer’s fevered breath
The dew of righteousness like gracious rain.
Wooß back the bloSßom from the blight of
death.
Thou art my prayer! Thou whom I may not
see, |
Nor yet may (touch with tenderest loving
care
8:i 11 be the Service of my life to thee,
A beauteous thought, a constant, clinging
prayer.
—Lollie Belle Wylie.
BOWMAN BROS.
Lilliputian Bazaar,
OF ATLANTA
78 WHITEHALL ST.
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”
All Wool Shirts at BOc.,
Are the latest; no buttons nor pins 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 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
black Bengaline Silk m the Empire
Style with large collar trimmed in fur,
and is pronounced by all not only
A.TT FAIT
but 1 something pretty enough for the
prettiest child.
tJjTOur aim is to be exclusive in
styles, moderate in prices. 11 14tiljan
Shoe Seitse.
When a manor woman
gets paiticular about
'the fit of their Shoes
i they try
J,/! Owens - Goods right,
prices right and styles
You don’t need a
* ladder to leach our
prices. All we ask is,
a^ter sou have
our Shoes show them
to y° ur friends and
tell the price,
CAJiTREUD OWENS,
240 BROAD STREET
CHRTSTMAS GOODS.
Don’t forget to give me a call before you buy jour J
Christmas Groceries. I can and will save you morey. \
Read the following prices: '
21 pounds Granulated Sugar $1 00 24 lbs Half Patent Flour : 60c
Arbuckle’s Coffee, : : : 20 Bulk Meat, per pound, - - 5 C
Hams, per pound, : : : 12| Sugar Cane Syrup, per gallon, 50e
3 cans 3lb Tomatoes, : : 25 3 pounds Best. Leaf Lard -25 c
Mixed Nuts, per pound : : 15 No. 3 Crown London Layer
Full line Fancy Candy, per lb. 10 Raisins, - - io c
Best line of Holiday Fruits and Candies in the city.
[ keep in stock a full line of Sweet Potatoes, Irish Pota
toes. Eggs, Chickens Cabbage, Beans, Peas and Apples. ,
A Complete Line of Fireworks.
R. L. MORRIS, 24 Broad Street.
AT ACTUAL COST
It is seldom you can get piece goods made up into
1 handsome, stylish suits for actual cost. I have SSOO
worth of piece goods of the latest fabrics, which I am
going to sell at actual cost for spot cash. These M
goods will be sold in suits and pants patterns, so iffl
you want to get a good suit of clothes or a pair of W
pants now is the time to call on
W. H. EBLING, The Tailor,
No. 311% Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
D ’PHONE A
: The Rome Drug Co. i
A s With DR. FENNER as Manager, J
5 Has opened up with a full stock in the old Norton building, re- W
0 cently occupied by Lowry Bros., 0
S Cor. road St. and Fourth Ave., 0
V Where you will find most anything usually kept in a first-class V
I drug store, 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- T ,
kerchief Extracts in large variety, none better in the market. 0
Ladies invited. £
PRESCRIPTIONS will have the personal attention of Dr. W.
R. Fenner with a full line of Squibbs Chemicils and everything W
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
Drinks during the winter. ‘ 0
Christmas Will Soon Be Here.
IMS—WM— ■
I am receiving daily ail the latest productions of the Jewelers’ and
Silversmith’s art. You will do well to inspect my
SUPERB LINE OF NOVELTIES
BEFORE MAKING YOUR PURCHASES. I
Children’s Toys in sterling silver, the latest New York fad. Prices suitul
suited to the times. Stock new and fresh. A pleasure to show it.
13. K,
TEWELEB
Out of Town Orders Wil) .Receive Prompt Attention.