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And now for the holidays.
The dismemberment of Turkey
will begin on Friday next.
Hard times are forgotten when
Santa Claus comes to town.
The Three Friends circumvented
the three hundred thousand enemies
of Cuba.
Cuba Libre is the popular cry, and
it has usurped the place of the col
lege yell.
If Maceo is dead he ought to say
so and relieve the suspense of the
Spaniards.
Now is the time when the small girl
would like to exchange hosiery with
her big sister.
During the coming week follow the
injunction to look not upon the jug
when it is jagged.
Many of the Shorter girls will hang
up their stockings in the old familiar
chimney corner at home.
The people of North Georgia are in
fine shape to enjoy the holidays. They
have good reason for rejoicing.
Santa Claus is on the way, and the
patter of the feet of his reindeer team
enlivens the dreams of the young
sters.
Purchase your holiday goods from
your home merchants. You can find
all that you want among their elegant
stocks.
The sympathetic expressions of the
people of Rome in regard to Cuban
freedom created a stir in the United
States senate yesterday.
President Cleveland can go home
and put up his gun. Captain Clark’s
forty-two pound gobbler will last his
family through the week.
Rev. H. L. Edmonson has been ac
corded a cordial welcome by the con.
gregatton of the Second Methodist
church. He will find them a whole
souled people.
Ten thousand dollars paid into the
tax collector's office Friday was a big
item. Half of it came from the Mass
achusetts Cotton Mills, established
during the present year.
The Tribute sends a warm greet
ing to its readers today. By the way,
a year’s subscription to The Weekly
Tribune would be a nice thing to
send to your out of town friends for a
Christmas present.
Hew much better some would get
along by using the latest and best
methods instead of going along the
same old way. old style farming, keep
ing the same old horses, the old way
of feeding, putting up with the same
old leaks, waste of labor, and a great
many other ways of old style wasting.
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THE CHRISTMAS TRIBUNE.
The Tribune today extends Christ
mas greeting to its many friends and
patrons throughout this city and sec
tion. We are able to present to our
readers, through the courtesy of our
lady contributors as symposium of
contributions on timely topics by
some of the best talent in Rome, in
cluding Mrs. Charles D. Wood, Mrs.
Christopher Rowell, Mrs. W. A.
Knowles, Mrs. H. C. Norton,
Mrs. Bruce Harris, Miss Eleanor
Churchill Gibbs, Miss Mamie Leona
Folsom, Mrs. John C. Printup,
Miss Mary Frances Lindsay, Mrs J.
Lindsay Johnson.and Miss Linnie Har
grove, all recognized as being among
the leaders of Rome society and active
workers in various worthy causes.
This is one of the most attractive
featuies of our handsome Christmas
edition, and in addition to these we
have a number of Interesting sketches
and stories, filled with holiday sug
gestions, from the pens of the leading
writers of the day. In short, there is
a holiday flavor throughout its spark
ling columns from beginning to end.
Then our society page contains the
doings of the social set during the past
week and will be found as readable
and entertaining as usual.
We give the news of the day from
all over the world and local happen
ings dished up in a most appetizing
style for our Christmas readers. Our
editorial page speaks for itself. The
matters discussed in our editoria*
columns are of general interest to
everybody and we have endeavored
to n ake them entertaining as well a«
instructive. Our advertising pages
are enlivened by the most attractive
advertisements of the leading business
houses in Rome.
We feel especially proud of the last
feature of our Christmas Tribune.
Our advertising columns look as if
the interior of the treasure house of
Santa Claus had been revealed to the
admiring gaze of holiday shoppers-
The merchants'! of Rome have taken
pains to secure all that is most desira
ble in the market and they set forth
their attractions and inducements in
splendid style in these columns today-
We feel profoundly grateful to our
readers and patrons for the favors of
the past year and extend to one and
all our best wishes for a Merry Christ
mas and a Happy New Year.
WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS.
A feeling of gratitude and a senti
ment of thanksgiving should pene
trate every heart in Rome during this
blessed holiday season. When we
look back over the past year with al)
its trials and tribulations and realize
how we have triumphed over all ob
stacles and have sustained ourselves,
through the grace of Divine Provi
dence, against the assaults of every
foe; it is enough to inspire us with
emotions of the deepest devotion and
thankfulness to the Giver of all these
gracious gifts.
Our city has grown and prospered
commercially, financially, socially and
spiritually and we find ourselves to
day far in advance of the position that
we occupied last year. All of our
public and private institutions have
grown and prospered. There has not
been a single failure in Rome, to
amount to anything, during the entire
year, despite the fact that it has been
the hardest year that we have ever
experienced.
During the fall season business has
been good and the farmers having
made plenty to do them during the
coming year and something to spare,
they have’spent their money liberally
so that the merchants have done a
very profitable business. Through
the increase in our manufacturing in
dustries the wage earning population
has been largely increased and that
has added much to the volume of
business in Rome.
ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS.
Let everybody enjoy the holidays.
The teachers in the schools, who have
worked so asidiously during the past
months have released their youthful
charges and they and their pupils will
be able to share in the delights of
the Christinas festivities. The rest
and relaxation will be good for them
and it will cheer the hearts of the
older people to see the streets and
the public places illuminated by the
bright and happy faces of the children.
The world would be a very cheer
less place and the monotony of exist
ence would be unbearable without
the little ones. They are the har
bingers of joy and in their well being
rests the hope of humanity here and
hereafter. We Rome people are very
happily situated in the way of educa
tional institutions and our young peo
ple have advantages far superior to
those who are now bearing the bur
dens of life for their sakes.
Their progress in the acquirement
of useful knowledge is something re
markable and we all take a pride in
helping them over the rough and
rugged places. Let us determine to
make them as happy as we possibly
can during the holiday sea-on. They
will go back to their tasks with re
newed vigor and zeal after having
refreshed their minds and bodies dur
ing the intermission.
THE HOME TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20; 189 i.
SPEND YOUR MONEY HERE.
In the next- four days there will be
thous-tmis of dollars spent by the
people of R one in rhe purchase of hol
iday goods. It is the time of all times
for spending tuouey freely. Those who
toil and labor ail rhe year are entitled
to enjoy a little relaxation from their
labors during the holiday season. It
is but just and right that they should
buy beautiful things that arc offered
by the deniers, and it mikes peo
ple better to spend their money liber
ally on such occasions.
But every one should bear in mind
that money spent at home increases
the wealth of our own city and the
opportunities for making more money
for ourselves. The business men of
Rome have worked hard to bring the
city up to a metropolitan standpoint,
and that they have Succeeded in doing
so is amply demonstrated by the large
and varied stocks of goods which they
have to offer to their customers.
By establishing a reputation for
thrift and industry they have en
hanced the commercial credit of the
city to the extent that they are en
abled to purchase goods in such large
quantities that they can afford to sell
them as cheaply as they can be pur
chased in any of the larger and moie
pretentious cities. Therefore there is
no inducement to the shopper to go
away from Rome to buy holiday
goods.
By patronizing our own merchants
we encourage them and help them to
realize on their investments so that
they may begin the new year thor
oughly equipped fora successful busi
ness year. Let us all join together in
building up our home institutions.
REMEMBERGOD'S POOR.
In the midst of our festivities let us
not forget the poor and the afflicted»
God’s poor, whom it is our duty to
cheer and to comfort at all times, and
especially during the season when all
the world is rejoicing over the birth
day of the Redeemer of mankind.
We cannot expect to stand before Him
guiltless if we neglect to administer
to the wants of those who are unable
to help themselves.
Besides, there is so much joy and
comfort to the generous heart in assist
ing those on whom the hand of ad
verse fate has fallen. The grandest
principle known to humanity is that
of the universal brotherhood of man
and fatherhoad of God. We are all
creatures of the same great Being and
as one common family He expects us
to look to the welfare of one another.
Let us therefore give and give freely
of the good things that he Has given
us.
Blessed is the band that carries
light into a darkened household and
thrice blessed are the lips that utter
words of hope and good cheer in the
ears of the despairing ones. It is hard
for us, who are endowed with gifts
that enable us to meet all the buffet
ing billows of life and to surmount al)
the obstacles that are met with on the
highway leading toward successful
accomplishment, to trulv appreciate
the condition of those who are not so
fortunate.
Yet they have the same desires and
longings that we possess without the
ability to gratify them. It is our duty
to share with them the bounties of a
beneficent Providence. During the
week we will have apportunities of
fered for adding to the comfort of the
poor and needy and if we would se
cure the largest share of enjoyment
during the season of festivity we must
not neglect a single opportunity of
contributing to their relief.
TRUEENJOYMENT.
There is one deplorable feature con
nected with the observance of the
holidays that should be
There is no need of our adopting the
old sour faced, melancholy, puritani
cal idea of observing Christmas. The
days of absurd asceticism have passed.
The rays of a higher and nobler en
lightenment have penetrated the souls
of men and they have realized that
God intended that we should be happy
and that we should not needlessly
afflict ourselves either in body or
spirit.
But, sad to say, there has been a
custom preva'ent of turning this holy
festival into * season of rioting and
dissipation that is deplorable land
that tends to drag us down below the
level of the brute creation. It is a sol
emn and sacred duty that we owe to
our Maker that we do not go beyond
the line of rational enjoyments and
that we avoid drunkenness, gluttony
and debauchery.
It is very wrong to debase Jourselves
in drunken riotousness at any time,
and is especially reprehensible during
the celebration of the birth of One
who preached purity and paaca while
on earth. We hope that there will be
no such evil doings in Rome during
the coming week. Some of the darkest
tragedies grow out of Christmas dissi
pation. Hearts are broken and lives
are clouded and all because men suf
fer themselves to be tempted to in
dulge in dissipation during the Christ
mas holidays.
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A Christmas Prayer.
I thank Thee, Father in the Jove
And kindness Thon hast shown.
Though all the skies be dark above.
I am not left a!on»».
Thou hast implanted in my heart
Such aspirations hijrh
That I will strive, no halt or rest.
To reach them ere I die.
I have not served I heo as I c tight.
Nor kept thy holy word,
My hear with sin and evil fraught,
My clearest vision blurred
By S' fish passion, seared with sin,
end many a vain d sire
I f el 1 have not hat within
To which my hop’s aspire.
Now. n hishulyCh istmas morn,
M homage I renew;
Do Thou with gracious gifts sd A rn
My Hf- and maVe me true
To every trust reposed in me
Throughout this niortsl span
3 bat I may nearer live to I'hee,
▲ just and upright man
1 only ash that in my sphere
Thy faith my soul shaltkeep.
Ere this frail body slumbers here,
• In death's eternal sleep;
So thtt my soul shalt m unt beyond
Time’s dark and troub ed sea
Where in anticipations food
I oft have lons> d »o be.
Conld I by any sacrifice
Os self and selfish themes
My grand ideals realize
And all their glorious dreams;
Then would the perfect loveliness.
The life that I would give,
The presence of my b ing ble*s
Ihe world in which I live.
My conscience would not then reprove
My soul for actions wrong,
With rythmic measure might I m »ve
To hope’s inspiring song
Would that when earthly tasks were done
Thy voice shouldst welcome me,
That J might dwell above the sun
Forevermore with TheH
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Now For Ssnta Clans.
All during the past week there Jias
been an unwonted luster in the blight
eyes of the little ones. Curly heads have
been laid together and long discussions
have taken place as to the whys and
wherefores ofj mysterious old Santa
Claus.
1 have seen several letters written in
the language of Babylaud and intended
for the eye of the jolly old rogue.
There has been much distress over the
question of bow to reach him as his
name is not in the directory.
Sweet Jessie has importuned me to
tell her how to send her letter and I
have found myself placed in an awk
ward predicament.
She wanted me to telephone him but
I told her that the long distance wires
were down between here ana Green
land and it would be impossible to reach
him.
At last she and her sister conceived
the idea of sticking their letters up the
chimney and forthwith proceeded to
put the idea into practice in their own
way.
The result was that this morning I
picked up a crumpled scrap of paper, all
grimy w.th soot, after its passage
through the flue. It read thus:
‘‘Dear Santa Claus: Please send us a
doll apeace and a doll carge and a piano
and a horn and a set of doll furnity.
P. S. don’t forget to put in plenty of
candy and a lot of nice things. v
Julia and Jessie. ’ ’
The missive had evidently been start
ed on its way to the aead letter office.
I dont think Santa Claus calls for his
mail regularly.
God bless the little ones! I wish it
was in my power to add to the happi
ness of every childish heart in Rome
during this sacred season.
There is nothing on this earth equal
to the compensation of the grateful smile
of a child. Grown people are more or
less hypocritical and selfish so that the
artless gratitude of the little ones is all
the more delightful by contrast.
We ought to learn some useful lessons
from the children. In them is illustra
ted the idea that there is plenty of hap*
piness for those who seek it.
But won’t they have a big time next
week? This is their own particular
season. It is the birthday of the Child
whose after life has been a light to guide
cne feet of erring men for all time.
The little prattlers have a right to
frolic and to enjoy themselves and none
has a right to say them nay. Torn
them loose and let them drink their fill
from the well springs of joy.
I know that they will split my head
open with their tintintabulations, but
let them alone.
My childhood was not spent among
such auspicious surroundings. A single
package of fire crackers and a ten cent
horn were about the extent of my ex
travagauce.
But I managed to get a great deal of
fun out of the scanty material. It al
ways seemed to me that there was
something in the very air that
made me feel jubilant. ,
I guess it was the faint and far away
echoes of that grand sweet song that the
angels sang in the long ago. “On earth
peace and good will toward men.”
I have been compensating myeelf
jl'liristmas in thfi Air.
• HEADQUARTERS FOR
| CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY GOODS,
f GROCERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES.
A The first thing you should decide upon is where
£ should I be the most apt to get the best quality of
a goods? When y u have determined this point, the
. next question is, where can I get the lowest prices.
In point of qualify anyone who is at all posted
will tell you that
?E.C.WOODiCO
NO. 202 BROAD STREET.
x keep the best and freshest goods that it is possible
X for you to get.
Large stock of apples, cocoanuts, bananas,
• oranges, lemons nuts of all kinds, citron, new rais
-0 ins, dates, currants, figs, spices—all sorts, cut loaf
Z and powdered sugar. Everything new in canned
i goods, pickles, mince meat, maple syrup, etc , for
X the holiday trade.
They made large purchases before the advance in
prices and are in a position to make close prices.
• They mean business and are ready for it. Everything
0 good at lowest possible prices. Just give them a
i chance before you buy for the holidays They guar»
T antee to please you.
Z A largg and magnificent line of Mer
schaum Pipes on exhibition. See them.
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for my lack lustre youth through all
these years in buying pretty things
for the little ones dependent upon
me.
I believe in making them have a
good time. The prattle of their merry
voices and the tramp of their dancing
feet awaken the echoes in the deso
late chambers of my heart.
I feel the thrill of immortal youth
in my being as I look into their un
clouded eyes and behold the wonder
and glory that lie therein.
Hurrah for Santa Claus! May he
live long to gladden the hearts of his
parishioners.
His devotees are many, and no other
saint in all the calendar has so many
offerings at his shrine. He rules over
a kingdom of untroubled spirits and
he imposes no penances upon the
members of his innumerable congre
gation. Toot the horn, beat the
drum, pop the cannon cracker and
laugh and shout and rejoice, O, ye
little ones, the chosen of of earth and
the hope of futurity! M. M. F.
The melancholy days are here, the
saddest of our time; the chilly blasts
begin to blow from afar off northern
clime. The wood saw sings, the coal
bin groans, the tree doth moan with
sorrow; the sun shines bright and
warm today—might snow like
tomorrow. Subscribers who are two
years “back” should to this office stroll,
and soften times which sorely try the
editorial soul. Trade is fair most every
where, if merchants do not fail to ad
vertise judiciously the goods they have
for sale.—Jackson Times.
More hogs and fewer dogs is a re
formation sadly needed in many farm
communities. There recently passed
through the streets of Dallas a family
ot agricultural immigrants from south
ern Arkansas. They bad two dilapi
dated wagons,four skeletons ot ponies,
a large number of sallow-hued chil
dren. Altogether they were gn indi
cation of property and discontent.
There were three hungry looking dogs
tied under tach wagon. We forbear
useless comment.—Paulding New Era.
The more joy that we can crowd
into this mortal existence, the better
for us. Pure and rational pleasures
are elevating and inspiring and it
should be the aim of every parent to
encourage the children in reaching
out after the bright and the beauti
ful. Examples of this sort, accom
panied by laudable precepts tend to
dispel the clouds and gloom that over
shadow so many sorrowful lives.
There has been an influx of home
seekers and those looking for proflta
ble investments in this section during
the past few mouths, and thentdof
another year will find us still further
advanced oil the hish road to pros
perit}. All these things appeal to our
hearts and should render this holiday
season one of the cheeriest and most
hopeful that we have known in many
years.
Ex-Representative Sharpe, of Car
roll, and a writer in the Carrollton
Times, are waging a wordy warfare
over the uae of free passes. We see
no evil in a man accepting a free ride
when it is offered him. Vive la paste
board!
The Christmases Gone By.
Pit ful are our excuses when our steps from
old paths stray—
“lt was best,” “soled ambition,” we are ever
prone to say,
But at last, when worn and weary and we
slacken up our pace,
We begin to turn us backward, each with wist
ful, yearning face;
For a nameless pathos hovers o’er the region
of No More,
As the mist of Indian summer hangs about a
lonely shore
No exception to the yearning, to the past my
fancies fly,
When Elaine and I wdre sweethearts in the
Christmases gone by.
I can see the little village with its simple folk
again,
And the narrow street that vanished in the
frozen country lane;
One small store upon the corner, and the
blacksmith saop anear.
And the old mill’s dingy windows gazing with
a steady blear;
Children's noisy shoutings reach me, and the
evening’s mnrmurous swell
Is confined within my ears yet as .he sea with
in the shell;
While the light from her small cottage seem
ed to beckon me anigh,
When Elaine and I were sweethearts in the
Christmases gone by.
In the Itttle homely parlor, w ith its carpetlefis
ash floor.
Where the mistltoe swung greenly just above
the open door—
Why. compressed there with her beauty and
the glory of her face.
Was the essence of earth’s pleasures and a
lifetime’s sweetest grace!
As we went to country parties through the
matchless moonlit nights.
Parents’ eyes and ears not near us to embar
rass love’s delights,
I hen some vows were softly whispered of a
love that would not die, —
When Elaine and I were sweethearts in the
Christmases gone by.
Courting by the great log fire, what to us was
cause for fears.
Since we lived each for the other—as we
thought in those dear years?
All the world to us was bounded by the wooded
hills that far
Reached their pompadoured heads upward at
to kiss some tender star;
Then no serpent came to tempt ul. and ns
thought of flaming eword
That would guard us from our garden and the
ways that we adored;
And a constant joy was with us in the hopes
that flashed up high.
When Elaine and *1 were sweethearts in the
Christmases gone by.
Vain ambition, seeing treasures where some
mystic rainbow bends,
Tramples roses as the grasses growing where
his pathway tends!
When we’d jonrney back we notice years that,
standing grim and gray.
Keep a guard for aye and ever on the gates of
yesterday;
But in thought at lea twe pass them—and I
wrong no heart, I know.
If but now and then I think of one I knew So
long ago,—
Trusting that today her is as free from
eob and sigh
As when she and I were Sweethearts in the
Christmases gone by.
Weak old man, forever dreaming here among
the City scenes—
Looking wistfully to youth’s days, o’er the
time that intervenes
Seeing naught as Yuletide nearcth fairer than
old Southern hills,
And the pure, sweet face that maybe now is
sad with worrying ills!
SUly! But I sometimes fancy, whatsoever
death may bring—
Life within Bom} lilied region with its green
perennial spring—
The hereafter will be sweeter, as I think with
moistened eye
When Elaine and I were sweethearts in the
Christmaees gone by ! Will T. Hale,