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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor.
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TWELVE PACES
Yesterday was a sample of perfect
Christmas weather.
There is a rich harvest in store for
those who advertise judiciously in
The Daily Tribune.
If you want to get rid of your
Christmas stock now is the time to
do the liveliest advertising.
The French people think that Cleve
land refused a third term. They are
mistaken. It was the people.
Congress is anxious to find out hew
Maceo died. The first thing in order
is to find out if he is really dead.
The Christmas number of Red and
Black is a very handsome issue and
the Athenians are to be congratulated.
The more business done the more
money in circulation, and the more
Money in circulation the easier the
times for all.
The old Markham bouse corner, in
Atlanta, is to be built up with a row
of elegant six story buildings devoted
to the wholesale trade.
The Americas Evening Herald issued
a twelve page morning edition Sun
day. The Herald is bright and newsy
and Editor Eldridge is to be congratu
lated on his success.
Our city is on a high plane with a
most hopeful future before it, and
now let us keep it there. We can do
it by standing shoulder to shoulder
and spending our money at home.
Hale, the bicycle champion, received
$1,200 as bis share of the winnings of
the six days’ race in New York. He
can rest on his record and write tom
myrot for theNewYork World during
the remainder of the season.
The Albany Herald announced that
it will use no more wood cuts a
second time in advertisements. Tb e
Herald is sufficiently prosperous to
establish its own rules and regulations
iu regard to advertising.
This year Georgia stands second
in the list of cotton production. She
is further ahead of Mississippi than
she is behind Texas. Heretofore she
has stood third, but this year the Em
pire State has forged to the front in
this as in many other particulars.
Our Christmas issue Sunday was the
subject of much pleasant comment
yesterday. As an up to date newspa
per it was pronounced the equal of
anything in the South. But we are
becoming accustomed to such kindly
expressions and they keep us stimu.
lated to higher resolves. This morn
ing we come out with a twelve page
paper as an evidence of the fact that
we are determined to keep The Trib
une up to the highest standard.
A SPLENDID RECORD,
The work of the city court during
the past two weeks is a magnificMiit
oae. Solicitor General Nuunallv has
seconded the efforts of Judge Harris
in clearing the docket and in ridding
the country of many offenders against,
the peace and good order of the com
munity. Last month there was a reg
ular tidal wave of petty thieving all
over the country and this community
came in for a share of the lawlessness,
although, as is usually the case, the
real condition of things was consider
ably exaggerated.
The city and county officers went
promptly to work and with the most
commendable vigilance and activity
set about the task of suppressing
whatever lawlessness really existed.
The result has been that those who
persisted in their evil 'practices have
been made to suffer the consequences
and have had meted out to them the
penalties that they have merited
through their disregard for law and
order. No community ever possessed
a set of public officials more devoted
to their duties and they have won for
themselves the commendation of the
public.
Every community has good people
and bad people and it is absolutely
essential to the well being of society
that we have wise laws and that their
provisions are enforced. Those who
will not respect the rights of others
and who do not consider the comfort
and happiness of their fellow beings,
must be brought into subjection by
the strong arm of the law. The good
people are overwhelmingly in the ma
jority in Rome and Floyd county and
as a consequence the lawless and pre
datory element stands a slim showing
among our peaceable citizens.
In the fidelity and fearlessness of
our public officials we have cause for
congratulation. So long as we can
feel assured that the cause of right
and justice will prevail, just so long
will we feel safe and happy. Each
and every citizen should feel it incum
bent upon himself to abide by the
laws, but there is always a small ele
ment of unruly spirits that must be
summarily dealt with so soon as they
break the laws made for the protec
tion of life and property.
Thera is no city in the country of
the same size that is freer from law
lessness than Rome. As a rule our
people are peaceable and law abiding.
So soon as the symptoms become dan
gerous to the peace of the community
the good people get together and join
in restoring order. For the amount
of business and the extent of indus
trial activity in and around Rome, the
harmoniousness of life in this section
is something remarkable, and is to be
attributed solely to the high moral
character of our people.
No person with a spark of sympathy
can rejoice in the sufferings of others,
and we sincerely hope that the prompt
arrest, conviction and punishment of
the law breakers will have a restrain
ing influence upon others and that
they will be deterred from falling into
the same errors that have brought
such penalties on those who have been
sentenced during the past week. The
aim of the law is to prevent lawless
ness as much as to punish those who
are guilty of crimes against society.
CHEAPER METHODS NEEDED-
In its weekly review of the mann
facturing situation in New England.
The Boston Globe disclosed, last week
a very discouraging state of things
among tbe cotton mills. It declared
there were nearly two million pieces
of goods Already in stock, and ‘-the
sales of tbe week were below the re'
corded production. ” It comments as
follows upon the situation:
“The question of the hour with the
treasurer is, “How much is the stock
of $1,833,000 pieces going to be re
dueed.” Until it is reduced it is folly
to expect higher prices for spot or
contracts, and while it is in sight here
the mills will have to run along with
ont profit,Jand straining everything in
an endeavor to make both ends meet.
Their money is tied up iu the goods
they are carrying, and they cannot
buy cotton freely nor can they meet
the weekly pay rolls except by selling
from hand to mouth at such prices as
are offered.
“There has been no time since last
March when the mills could sell their
productions for a month with con
tracts to keep them going a month
ahead. It is nonsense for buyers to
say so, for they know it is not true-
The fact is that the supply of goods
for a year has been iu excess of tbe
demand. If thia supply is to be re
duced by sales made at less than cost,
manufacturers are going to be direct
and indirect losers.
They will lose first, the cost of their
goods or such parts of it as they may
give away to buyers, aud again, they
will lose by the feeding of markets
with cheap goods which must follow a
quick distribution by printers. The
situation is an unsatisfactory one'aud
tbe mill men are doing what they can
to prevent tleing up the supply pro
dnotion beyond January.’’
That is tbe situation among the
THE ROME TulBbNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1896.
eastern mills m told by the Boston
Globe. They have stock of goods
already on han I. are making more
nor than th*v >ell. and the only pros
pect they have of r-ducing their stocks,
at once, is by selling goods below the
cost of prod notion. But unless there
is a demand for the goods from actual
consumers, to sell this accumulated
etock at forced sale would only trans
fer it from the warehouses of the
mills to the stores of the jobbers, and
thus glut tbe trade-demand with
goods sold below cost, leaving no
market for the goods being turned
out daily by the mills, and these
would in turn be piled up again.
All of which goes to show that tbe
sooner the cotton mill men move
Sou b the better will it be for them
because by so doing they will cut down
their expenses and be better able to
meet such emergencies. The day of
running costly mills fifteen hundred
miles away from the*co>ton fieldsis
past and tbe great manufacturers had
just as well recognize the fact.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Farewell, My Lady.
Oh, farewell. My Lady, it grieves me to tell,
dear,
That I am to leave you, I love you so well,
dear!
With sunshine around you and blue skies
above you
Naught in .this wide world 1 love like I love
you!
I’m dreaming in night time and dreaming* in
day time.
As sweet as the songs of the birds in the Maj
lime
The sound of your name, love, for when I re.-
ember
Your face it illumines my life's dull December.
Oh, farewell, my dear one, the sunlight is fall
ing
With wintry forebodings the wild winds are
wailing,
But though all the flowers of our summer have
perished
The mem’ry is green of the hope that I cher.
i 'bed.
Soon on budding* banks will the violets be
blooming
The breezes that sigh through the deep woods
perfuming.
And oft will their beauty and fragrance re
mind me
Ofcne that 1 love and have left far behind
me
No more with complaining dear heart will I
grieve you,
My idol I found you, *tis th is that I leave you,*
I’ve proved my devotion in each tender token,
The vows I have made shall be ever unbroken!
Adieu then. My Lady, a long, long, adieu, dear
My lone, longing spirit shall oft turn to you
dear,
to ay joy beam ar ?und you and hope shine
above you
There’s naught in this world|l love like I love
you!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Seme Seasonable Memories.
It is a blessed privilege to be able to
treasure up pleasant memories of happy
days to cheer the heart in its hours of
loneliness. Sunday afternoon I enjoyed
a little reminiscent ramble on tbe hill
and down by the river.
I trod again the old familiar ways
that my feet have not pressed since
sweet summer days that were so dear to
me when the maple leaves quivered in
the pulsing sunshine and the wild wis
teria waved its tendrils in the fragrant
air.
The delicate blue of the ivy blossoms
Seemed like fragments fallen from the
cerulean deeps of heaven and rock and
tree and flowing water were redolent
with tbe richness of rythm of hope and
happiness.
Ah, me! No matter whither my
wandering feet may lead me in days to
come I shall never forget those dear,
delightful summer dreams.
This has been to me a land of revela
tion. I have beheld visions undreamed
before among these inspiring scenes,
and tbe thought of some fond hearts
that were loyal and true to me has made
me brave and strong.
Two years and two months have I
spent amid these scenes with varying
vicisitudes. I have worked as I never
worked before and I have been reward
ed by the fidelity and constancy of a
few friends who will ever hold in my
heart the brightest place of gratitude
and esteem.
It seems like a long time ago since
first I walked these streets, homesick
and despondent, a stranger among
strange faces. I had been told that these
were of the selfish sort and that I would
find it hard to secure any measure of
recognition from them.
Taught to believe that they were cold
and distant aud exceedingly exclusive,
it was a pretty disheartening thing to
bring my burdens here with the hope
of getting rid of them.
But when I look back and think how
warm hearted and gentle and forgiving
they have been my heart swells with
thankfulness. My Christmas gift will
be one above price, the friendship and
fidelity of some of the best people that
God ever created.
True, I have been misunderstood,
misjudged and misrepresented by a few
whom I have endeavored to befriend
and whose cause 1 have publicly cham
pioned. But they will know better,
some day, if they have not already real
ized their mistakes, and then the re
grets will all be on their side.
I feel that I have endeavored to do
my duty. I have not been faultless in
my ways aud have no uoubt offended
some unintentionally, I have given way
to passionate impulses and spokenun
kindly, perhaps, but I have never borne
malice toward any of them.
I can truthfully say that I have never
wronged a mao, woman or child in
Rome without making every reparation
iu my power, and therefore this Christ
mas season is unusually joyous for me.
I have not paid all my debts. In fact,
there are some debts thut I never expect
to be able to pay. I don’t know that 1
want to pay them. In fact. lam sure
that I had rather not. They are above
any estimable money value. They are
debts of deepest gratitude to those on
whom 1 have leaned when my burdets
were heavier than I could bear alone.
I only hope that when the time comes
that 1 am culled upon to offer the same
solace and encouragement toothers who
are in the same sad plight that I found
myself, I shall not be wanting in sym
pathy and that 1 shall do unto others
as these have done to me in the days of
my trial.
I thank God that He has given me
strength to resist temptation, and no
matter how much others may indulge
themselves during tin's festive season, I
shall remember the days of old and con
duct myself, accordingly.
It is so good to think that you have
faithful friends who are watching over
yon like guardian spirits, and it acts as
a strong restraint upon a weak nature
to feel that the eyes of such are upon
him, not suspiciously nor with a criti
cising spirit, but with a loyal anxiety
for his welfare.
I can never do too much for those who
have dono so much for me and 1 hope
that my future life may be a partial
compensation for all of their solicitude
in my behalf.
Heaven knows wbat may bo my fu
ture lot. I have dreamed glorious dreams
of future accomplishments. Even if 1
never realize my ambitions expectations
I shall always feel that I "have been made
better by them.
There is one thing of which I am sure
and that is that no matter where my lot
may be cast nor with what circum
stances my life may be surrounded, I
shall ever feel that I hold a place in tb e
hearts of these people.
And they may rest assured that what
soever my hands may find to do in their
behalf shall be done with all the
strength and devotion of a loyal and ap
preciative heart.
As I stood on Myrtle Hill and watch>
ed the pallid sunlight fading along the
horizon of washed out w ntry sky, I
wondered if others who should come
after me would revel in the superbsplen
dors of summer sunsets as I have in
days gone by.
And I wondered if others would pry
among the dead leaves of winter for the
first April violet and feel the same ten
derness for the little waifling that has
stirred my bosom.
Few people, I opine, are so given over
to sentimentality as I am. Were I less
mpulsiveand wayward in my vagaries,
I Would be a more useful citizen. But
the world is so full of beautiful things
that lam like a child in a toy shop
gloating over things that I am unable
to buy just as if they were my own.
God bless the people of Rome, cue
aud all and give them a merry Christ
mas and a happy New Year! I hope
those who have criticised my actions so
harshly and unjustly may become con
vinced of their error and that those who
have spoken of me as so vain, self con
ceited and puffed up, may understand
me better in days to come.
When I think of how much I desire
to accomplish and bow little I have
done, I feel humbler by far than those
who have deplored my egatism can
ever tall.
May God broaden their idieas and en
lighten their minds and expand their
hearts till nrejudice can find no place
therein. And may I prove worthy dur
ing all the years to come, of the faith
and confidence reposed in me by those
whom my heart holds dear.
M M. F.
My Rovers.
OU. here are two revers» all ready to g*<> —
Hushabye Bessie, and Rockabje Joe
Over the mountains where merry-cups grow,
Rockabye, my little rovers.
Merry-cups grow ou the hills of the moou;
Joey lias found them aud Bessie will, Soon,
Rocking away to a hushabye tune—
Rockabye, my little rovers.
Then ’tls hushabye Bessie—
And Rockabye Joe-
Off for tUo mountains where merry-cups
grow,
They will be back in the morning, I know
Roakabye, my little rovers.
So we go sailing for Lullaby land,
Lilies ar® white on the luminous sand—
Moonlight is washing like waves on the strand
Rockabye, my little rovers.
Srown is my Bessie, while Joey is fair,
Lovingly lingers the light on their hair,
Bucking away in the hushabye chair—
Rockabye. my little rovers.
Then *tis berry-brown Bessie,
And sunny-haired Joe—
Off for tbe mountains where merry-cups
grow—
Over the shores where the moon ripples
flow—
Rockabye, my little rovers.
W, M. Gammon £. Son show some
beautiful goods for Christmas.
Christmas in the Air. |
HEADQUARTERS FOR •
CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY GOODS, |
GROCERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES. •
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ft . 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 J
. next question is, where can I get the lowest prices. F
In point of quality anyone who is at all posted F
will tell you that ft
? E. C. WOOD & COj
NO. 202 BROAD STREET. £
keep tbe best and freshest goods that it is possible
“ for you to get. ft
X Large stock of apples, cocoanuts, bananas, w
oranges, lemons nuts of all kinds, citron, new rais- ft
ft ins, dates, currants, figs, spices—all sorts, cut loaf ft
a and powdered sugar. Everything new in canned A
J goods, pickles, mince meat, maple syrup, etc , for ]
! the holiday trade. W
They made large purchases before the advance in W
X prices and are in a position to make close prices. ft
They mean business and are ready for it. Everything ft
ft good at lowest possible prices. Just give them a A
m chance before you buy for the holidays " They guar- Z
antee to please you. v
A large and magnificent line of Mer- ft
schaum Pipes on exhibition. See them. §
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PINAUDS EXTRACTS, I T PBfi ! !P0 c7t GLASS,,
THE FINEST MADE. J| |g UHUUUII Most Modern Designs .1
DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED for Bridal and
TOILET WATERS. COMPANY XMAS PRESENTS -
For Pure Drugs and Carefully Com
pounded Prescriptions Call on
J. T. CROUCH & CO.
Who keep a splendid stock of all things kept in the drug
line. Hot drinks of all kinds at our fountain, as well as
cold ones. Hot chocolate, hot coffe, hot beef broth sc.
All delightful drinks, and our place is popular because
they are.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO | T PORI IPU AGENTS FOR
BEST BRANDS ‘ UnUUUII HUYLERS
CANDY
ALWAYS ON HAND. IVI The Best Made.
to dec2s
Pointers lor Up-to-Date Shoppers
Presentation Goods, Diamonds at Popular Prices.
Opals, Emeralds, Rubies, Sapphires, and all other pre
cious stones set in tasteful and novel combinations.
DON’T FAIL TO EXAMINE OUR LINE/-
LARGE AND COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
BINGS, SCARF PINS, BROACHES, STUDS, ETC.
At prices to suit every one’s purse. Tbe latest Sterling Silver Novelties,
Pocket Books and Card Cases, with fine Sterling Silver Mountings.
Beautiful hand engraving on all goods bought of us free of charge.
Take a peep at our windows.
Wedding invitations and visiting cards handsomely engraved on
short notice.
Special attention paid to repairing Watches, Clocks, etc.
JL. CL STEPHENS
Popular Price Jeweler*
NO. 218 BROAD STREET, ROME, GEORGIA.
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