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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor.
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ADVERTISERS!
ABSOLUTELY THE
BEST FACILITIES
TO BE HAD
FOR PROFITABLE
RETURNS.
IT REACHES THE
PEOPLE.
TWELVE PACES
Christmas has passed and now we
can begin to get ready to swear off.
The weather gods have been pro
pitious end have given us ideal holi
days.
Wonder how Spain feels when she
that she refused $100,000,-
000 for Cuba?
Poet. Laureate Austin is to embalm
Ambassador Bayard in verse. That
is the last straw.
The holiday season is at its height
and the shrewd merchant will keep
abreast of the times.
Now is the time to advertise if you
don’t want to carry over your old
stock to the new year.
The re union of Cherokee lodge
Monday night will bring to Rome
many eminent Masons.
Th* movement to secure free trade
between the United States and Can
ada is meeting with much favor.
The Paulding New Era is disap
pointed because Mr. Bryan failed to
visit Dallas, the real stronghold of free
silver in Georgia.
Our Western brethren, in Illinois
and Minnesota, cannot afford to trust
us any more about wild cat banks
after their recent experiences.
It seemc that everybody that flings
a brick these days in New York, man
ages to hit preacher Parkburst. He
must be a most valuable target.
It is sad to think of the amount of
crime that grows out of the festivities
incident to the celebration of the
birthday of the Prince of Peace.
There are 693,000 unmarried men
and 688.000 unmarried women in Mas
sachusetts. They should lower the
marriage license fees in yaukeedom.
Gold has been discovered in Okla
homa and the rush almost equals that
which followed the discovery of easy
divorce laws in that same detectable
country.
The revenue from the dox tax, in
Chicago, during the last five years,
foots up $370,000. Pretty snug sum
that. It beats the South Carolina
dispensary. , •
The son of a man who made his
fortune in America has juet paid
$500,000 for a British built yacht
That is a poor way of patronizing
home industries.
A German editor has been sen
tenced to six months* imprisonment
because he published a poem. While
our legislators are enjoying their
Christmas vacations they might read
up on German law with great profit
io their constituents.
SECRET OF SUCCESS.
The secret of the success achieved
by the people of Rome is in the fact
that they have been industrious and
self-reliant and have never lost cour
age during all the long period of pan
icky times. They have stood shoulder
io shoulder and have presented a bold
front at every point so that the dis
asters that threatened them were
averted and they came out of the
battle with flying colors Tney have
shown an abiding faith in their abil
ity to stem the tide and in the integ
rity of their own institutions.
N >w that the most of the trouble is
passed they stand ready to reap the
reward of their fuith and perseverance.
They have fought a good fight and
have c me out conquerors and are in
a position to enjoy the fruits of their
fidelity. Out of the depression of the
past lew years we are emerging into
the fairer light of renewed prosperity,
Having prevailed against all adverse
circumstances so far we have nothing
to fear for the future.
Let us only keep up our hearts and
spirits and go forward with renewed
vigor and with a set purpose to keep
our city fully abreast of the times.
We have everything to hope for and
nothing to fear. Our chances of suc
cess are enhanced by the vast variety
of our resources and advantages that
are rapidly attracting the attention
of the entire country and causing men
of means to come among us in search
of permanent investments.
With the revival of trade all our
natural resourceswill be brought into
play, and with the assistance of men
of means and energy for their devel
opment there is no reason why ours
should not take the front rank in the
race for supremacy. It all rests within
ourselves, and if we persevere In the
way that we have started out we shall
be able to make Rome the thriving
metropolis of the fluest -section in the
South. ____________
A GREAT FRATERNITY.
in today’s Tribune we devote a page
to Masonic affairs, giving a short
sketch of the history of Cherokee
lodge, one of the oldest in the state,
with something of the officers of the
lodge. Os all the benevolent and fra
ternal orders in the work of Masonry
it ranks first. It is hot only the oldest,
but the most powerful for good that
has ever been instituted. It is second
only to*the Church of Christ and ap
proaches that very closely, because it
is founded on the same great under
lying principles of the universal
brotherhood of man and the brother
hood of God.
To fully appreciate the beauty of its
teachings and the sublimity of its
faith a man must be fami'iar with
the inner work of Masonry. And yet
we are constantly reminded of the
beneQcient influences of Masonry
through its public charity, its care of
sick and destitute brethren and the
high moral rectitude of all good and
true members of the order. Were
every lodge ill the world suppressed
and every membership dispersed, still
would men treasure its tenets and
teachings in their hearts.
It teaches that supreme faith in
God, which is the comfort and stay of
mankind in every work and relation
of life. It teaches men to love one an
other and to consider all men as born
free and equal, claiming one Father
hand in the Supreme Architect of the
Universe. It is the most democratic
of all institutions, as all men meet on
equality within the hands of Free-
Masonry. It places even member un
der the solemn obligation to comfort
the distressed and to care for the
widows and orphans of such as have
passed beyond the sphere of mortal
helpfulness.
Go where you may, in every land
under the sun, and even among the
remote Islanders of the sea, you will
find the light of Masonry illumining
the lives of men with that sacred ra
diance which comes t hrough the love
of God and the observance of the re
quirements and obligations of the
ancient oruer. It has existed from
time immemorial in spite of ignur
ance, superstition, bigotry, oppression
and persecution, and it will live so
long as there remains a man on earth
who recognizes the brotherhood of
man and the fatherhood of God. .
THE CLOSING YEAR.
There remain but four more days,
after this, of the year 1896. When
bell strikes the midnight hour on
Thursday night, it will toll the requi
em of the departed year. With all its
hopes and fears, its aims and ambi
tions, its dreads and its dreams, real,
ized and unrealized: it will pass out,
taking its place in the long procession
of the years that have gone before
The closing vear awakens many re
collections, sad or hopeful, of our
trials and triumphs during the past
twehe mom lie. It has been a sorrow
ful year .for some and a successful
year for others.
But upon the whole, we all have
much to be thankful for in the fact
that we have been permitted to live
and to enjoy the many, blessings and
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privileges that have beeniextended to
Us by a wise Ai»l gracious Father,
,Onr contiii) na- blessed with
| peace and idee* v and we are in a con
dition toappr^mme (i,,d’s mercies and
to enjoy ad t hat He placed wit bin
our reach for «,ur comfort and sus
tenance We haveevery reason to be
grateful for all that we have received
at His bands during the year.
The business of the year has been
much better than we might have an
ticipatod at the begiuning of the year
when the country was |n such a con
dition of uurest and uncertainty. We
have no cause for complaint over the
results, and when we look ahead and
consider the condition of other less
favored communities we should be
thankful that we are as well off as we
arc, f
Let us all enter upon the new year
with brave and cheerful hearts aud
with the determination to make the
coming year brighter and happier
than the past by doing our full duty
in every relation of life. We are
largely the architects of our own
fortunes, and our unhappiness is, for
the most part, covered by our own
errors and mistakes. Let us bid
adieu to the old vear without a regret
and welcome the new year with th?
happiest anticipation
Trae Maaonry.
'Tis not by grip or word or •Ijfn.
But by ii« principles divine
That we proclaim the story
Os Masonry in every land
lhat all mankind may understand
Its grandeur and its g'ory.
To help the needy, soothe the sick,
Sustain the weakling- and be quick
To fly on every mission
Os love shou’d be the chosen pirt
Os every craftsman, true in Fe»art,
Os high or low condition.
’Vithin the sacred 1 »dtre room there '
We al! may meet upon the sqnare
Nor rioting, nor revel,
Ifur vain desire nor high conceit,* ,
Shonld e’er invade where brethren meet
On that exalted level.
The master wields a righteous rod
That teaches faith and trust m God,
With gentle admonitio i,
That p ints the way to higher life
Freed from all sordiduess and strife
And every mean ambition.
In all our daily works and ways
Our highest aim shonld be to raise
Our thoughts from pleasures lowly
To those diviner realms of light
To’ard which the spirit wings its flight
With impulse high and holy.
And when at last, in sweet content.
With memories of a life well spent,
Our souls to God are given,
Sustained by such inspiring themes
We may lie down to pleasant dreams
Os His eternal heaven!
Montgomery fl. Folsom.
“L t ’ here Be Light.”
To the miud of the thoughtful,man
there is no conflict between the Bibli
cal account and the conclusions drawn
from scientific research in regard t? the
creation of the world. Whether it be
days or ages the mind is impressed
with the grandeur aud glory of its mys
teries. How wondrous and sublime
must have been the spectacle pres&ited
to Moses, the inspired man of God,
when he was permitted, through reve
lation, to gaze backward on the splendid
panorama.
How appalled must ha have been
with the evidence of Divine wisdom
and power as he passed from scene to
sceneof the stupendous work which was
planned aud executed under the All See
ingEye and by the mighty band of the
Creator. He beheld the earth in its
formless and void condition and watch
ed its gradual development into,the
world of beauty which he found it, a
fit habitation for man and beast, from
the summit of hoary Sinai amid the
awful glory of the majestic presence of
God.
He saw a mass of matter whirling
through space, confused and chaotic,
apparently purposeless in its mysteri
ous mission. Enveloped in dense va
pors darkness reigned upon the desolate
beaches of waveless waters and there
was no land save the semi-liquid quag
mires. No songbirds enlivened the
twilight, for there was never a bush
nor twig to afford a resting place for
bird or beast or creeping thing. Na
ture was in the throes of travail that
was to result in the birth of a world.
Through the centuries he groped his
way and beheld the development of that
principle which men call life. In the
fragmentary remains of the Beginning
there is not a fossil to be found between
the scarcely decipherable pages of the
sealed book. Neither vegetable nor an
imal existed aud the only remains are
those of the old igneous rocks that speak
eloquently of a time when there was
intense heat without light, and what
we call minerals, only existed in the
crystalline condition.
By degrees the transformation went
on, and out of the elements were evolv
ed the lowest order of living things that
bad neither motion nor power of inde
pendent volition, such as the bloodless
mollusk, the boneless clam, snails and
oysters, while the sapless seaweed wav-
erslnggiahiy tn the stagnant waters.
B>rut> hither and thither as the change
til current listed, they are still to be
found imbedded in the old, red sand
stone and in the limestone formations
of that early period.
Slowly but surely the process of evo
lution went on. The earth was still
enveloped in misty exhalations that
shrouded it. and no hopeful star enliv
ened the gloom of that vast solitude.
The preponderance of the phosphoric
gases brought forth mighty fishes, mag
nificent corals, ruainm th oysters and
great seaweeds that filled the deeps,
and upon rh • gradually hardening crust
of the e irth appeared imeotsof gigantic
size and creeping things innumerable.
During the terrible cataclysms that
occurred during that period when con
' tinents were thrown up and the seas
and oceans began t» be divided by eer
tain bounds, hordes of those great creat
ures were entrapped in the narrow es
tuaries and perished, the evidence of
which stilt exist in the phosphate beds.
The c.n boniferous period followed aud
f< rests of mighty ferns sprang up and
dying, were buried in the awful up
heavals and so the coal beds were
formed.
The lowest order of reptiles followed,
awakening from their lethaigy the in
animate becoming animate and groping
with rudimentary but sightless eyes up
on the dry land. The separation of the
oxygen from the liquifying hydrogen
enabled warm-blooded beings to exist.
But how dreary must have been such
an existence, devoid of all that goes to
make lite so surpassingly beautiful.
The band of the Creator was still busy
and out of the darkness of that long
night came the world’s greatest boon.
He fashioned two great orbs and He
appointed one to rule the day and the
other.tbe night. On the plains of heaven
He sowed the seeds of a harvest of stars.
The pulse of Time was quickened and
the heart-throbs of the Universe were
filled with portentous anticipation. It
was like the sigh of suspense that
sweeps the forest just before the dawn.
The angels of heaven looked on in awe
and wonder aud suddenly the universe
resounded with the mandate—“ Lit
there be light!' ’
M. M. F. in Masonic Herald.
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Hearty Ov S
Laugh
and Scrofula are wj-yvvdpij
ne ve r synony- USjiS&zyjn OT
mous. You can’t
enjoy life with
this dread dis- M
ease in your v
system. It takes Ub
away the laugh Te
even to think W
what may follow
—consumption,
ulceration of the yesj gb
liver, Diabetes, isrwiK S
etc. In what- wgSfcFy OT
everformScrof-
ula may appear OT
Johnston’s «
Sarsaparilla «
QUART BOTTLE. Uh
ii its Inveterate foe and conquerer. We
will mail you, free, a book on this sub- SA
jecL
Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co., OT
Detroit, nick.
Price, $■ a Quart Bottle; all druggists, y
For sale by D. W. Curry ZRome. Ga
Home First
The World Afterwards.
A good motto this for every good
citizen Every dollar spent-in your
home makes it just that much happier.
A home without music is not what it
would be if there'was a piano or organ
in it. What would be more acceptable
for a Christmas present than one of our
pianos or organs for your wife or
daughter?
We Honestly Believe
you’ll agree with us that our prices on
pitons are not high but low—lower
than you have been in the habit of
paying. Low in price but high in
quality, is the impression you get when
t on come here and look.
If you think of brightening up your
home a bit with a new piano or organ
come here and see what we can do
for you.
E. E. FORBES,
S. F. DAVIS, Manager.
Music Dealer, 327 Broad Bt., Rome, Ga.
OH. I. W. MADDEN,
DENTIST.
No. 318 Broad St.. - - Rome, Ga.
Teeth Extracted by tae Painless Process.
ALJ. WOBK PROMPTLY BXECUTRD.
? Christmas in the Air. •
• HEADQUARTERS FOR ' £
| CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY GOODS, |
f GROCERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES. •
5T ~ 5
£ The first thing you should decide upon is where £
5 should I be the most apt to get the best quality of X
goods? When you have determined this point, the ’
next question is, where can I get the lowest prices. T
In point of quality anyone who is at all posted W
“ will tell you that £
iE. C. WOOD&CO •
NO. 202 BROAD STREET. £
X keep the best and freshest goods that it is possible J
x for you to get. w
Large stock of apples, cocoanuts, bananas, w
• oranges, lemons nuts of all kinds, citron, new rais- £
ins, dates, currants figs, spices—all sprts, cut loaf £
£ and powdered sugar. Everything new in canned X
A goods, pickles, mince meat, maple syrup, etc , for ]
A the holiday trade. OT
They made large purchases before the advance in J
“ prices and are in a position to make close prices. •
fb They mean business and are ready for it. Everything £
£ good at lowest possible prices. Just give them a £
chance before you buy for the holidays They guar- X
antee to please you.
• A large and magnificent line of Mer £
schaum Pipes on exhibition. See them. •
S TELEPHONE 44 ?
Pointers for Up-to-Date Shoppers
Presentation Good-, 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
PINGS, SCARF FINS, BROACHES, STUDS, ETC.
At prices to suit every one's purse. The latest Sterling Silver Noveltie, 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.
.A.. O. STEPHENS
• ,
Popular Price Jeweler*
NO. 218 BROAD STREET, ROME, GEORGIA.
£ ’PHONE 157
s The Rome Drug Co. |
? With DR. FENNER as Manager, £
X Has opened up with a full stock in the old Norton building, re- V
£ cently occupied by Lowry Bros., W
X Cor. Broad St. and Fourth Ave., X
™ Where you will find most anything usually kvjH in a first-class V
£ drug store, and many notions suitable for Christmas Presents. £
£ TOILET ARTICLES- Perfumery, Hair Brushes and Combs, a £
nice line Toilet Soap, Tooth Brushes, Etc. Imperial Crown Hand-
11 kerchief Extracts in large variety, none better in the market. £
A Ladies invited. £
PRESCRIPTIONS will have the personal attention of Dr. W.
R. Fenner with a full line of Squibbs Chemicals and everything W
5 of the best quality. OT
HOWARD FENNER will be master of ceremonies at the Soda m
Fount and will serve bis friends with Coca Cola and other Hot
Drinks during the winter.' £
Chattanooga Normal University
WILL SUSTAIN THX FOLLOWING DEPARTMENTS:
C Preparatory, Scientific,
General Teachers (Normal Course Proper), Special Mathematics.
■ Commercial, Special Language,
Courses, Shorthand and Typewriting, special Science,
. Elocution, Classic.
Tuition In the above department? will he gLOO per week, parable a term tn advance.
SPECIAL COURSES;
Telegraphy, Kindergarten, Art, Normal Kindergarten (for Training ot Teacher
A COMPLETE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
Tuition In the above Oepartmente wilt depend upon the amount of work taken.
Hoorn rent from hoc to 75c per week | Teim opena January sth. 1887.
Boarding, in Univeralty nail. Sl.se per week. I sturienw mar rvgieter after Decembe? Sth.
In private families, from'ga to |3 yer week. | car tare, on Northildc line, 1 l-2c. Sj
For aMKiraal iatormatton adtboMfe PIR H.-M. EVANS, Chattanooga, .Tettn