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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor.
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F The 'tribune is North
gia's leading newspaper and will
bring you business.
The Official Organ of
The City of Rome,
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials.
Here’s to the woman colqpels!
Gov. “Bob” and Gov. “Bill” are
regular lady killers.
So Georgia men are to be command
ed by female colonels.
The Georgia Press association might
be called the “ watermelon we. ’ ’
Gov. Atkinson got over the Haw
thorne hedge at Nashville very neatly.
There was one more drunk if there
is not one more fight in the once
mighty John L. Sullivan.
Ohio democrats will stand on a sil
ver platform, and none of their can
didates will have the least streak of
gold. f
Only one plank is in Ohio’s demo
cratic platform. All resolutions on
Cuba, tariff and everything else were
thrown away.
The governors of Georgia and Ten
nessee are not supposed to be cruel,
yet they seem best pleased when
toasting ladies. I .
The woman suffrage Millennium
has come, and the new Georgia colo
nels are in command Oi the shirt
waist brigade.
The melon crop in South Georgia is
said to be about 30 per cent short of
a full crop this year, and our jubilee
will be 70 per cent short.
A New York preacher delivered a
sermon last Sunday on the folly of
flirtation from the text: “He that
the eye causeth sorrow.”
man at Trion. Ga., gets drunk on
HHteriniik and sees ghosts. We don’t
||Mw what he mixes with the acetous
Eicteal fluid, but we can imagine.
M Texarkana, Tex., has a “sixteen to
Hue saloon.” Georgia can beat that,
Kt takes only three drinks of our
T meanest moonshine brand to make
' one drunk.
For patriotic pyrotechnical spout
ing on Uncle Sam’s birthday why
does not Tammany ball engage the
Hon. Terrell Speed, the Watter’s dis
trict statesman?
The Brunswick Times’ mid summer
edition was a handsome twenty page
paper profusely* Illustrated. It pictured
Brwftjwick as the center of paradise.
I We congratulate Editor Lambright
Lwbo la the youngest editor in the
Ktate on his splendid paper. He is
Making both Brunswick and himself
■mows.
Criminal Law Reform.
The Georgia Bar association which
meets today in annual session at
Warm Springs has a great duty *to
perform if it will continue the work
it has started for criminal law reform
in this state. Judge George Hiliyer,
of Atlanta, who we regard as one of
the ablest and most consciencious
lawyers in the state, has written a
card to the Atlanta Constitution ,in
which he says: “You charge fault on
the lawyers. It may be part of the
blame lies at the door of the legal pro
fession; but much also is chargeable
to the newspapers. It is hard that
when a has to die for his
crime, the law thereby intending a
warning to the weak, to the tempted
often that the cruel lesson of the gal
lows is lost by a newspaper giving des
cription of the poor creature's.“nerve”
and how * ‘game’’ he was, with his
picture; and the whole thing done up
as if to make a nero out of guilty.
The obvious tendency is to have the
thoughtless youth of the land think
the way to do is to kill somebody and
to be game, and be celebrated and get
his picture in the papers. It is almost
useless to hang people unless the
pulpit and the press and all good men
back up the lesson.”
We think the judge is mistaken in
attributing any of the trouble to the
newspapers. If hangings were more
frequent the newspapers would not
say so much about them. They are
such extraordinary 9ccurrences that
the public demand all details. The
delay in the execution of Tom Wool
folk, H. S, Perry, Flannigan and Mrs.
Nobles in this state and Theodore
Durrant, the San Francisco murderer,
and a host of others we might men
tion, by the quibbles and tricks of
lawyers, is where reform is badly
needed.
Public safety and good government
lie in the enforcement of the law.
When people see atrocious and brutal
murderers go unpunished it causes
them to lose faith in the law, and
mobs take the punishment in their
own hands.
Judge Hiliyer says the Georgia
Bar association has been devoting
some earnest attention and needed
reforms of the criminal law, and that
the minutes show this, and concludes
that “doubtless with the press the
legal profession may succeed in re
forming some of its own shortcomings,
whether small or great, and the legis
lature be enabled to reform and cure
defects in the law so as to make the
courts respected and effectual for
putting down crime.” We are sure
the press of Georgia will cheerfully
aid in this important matter in every
way possible. Let the public be as
sured that speedy justice will be dealt
out and crime will perceptibly de
crease.
Too Big to Advertise.
When a firm is in the heyday of its
prosperity, when business is good
and competition not felt, it is no unu
sual thing for an advertising solicitor
to be informed that the concern is so
well known and its business already
so extensive that advertising is a use
less expenditure of money. We have
known a number to argue in this way.
In almost every instance where this
has happened we have seen young
competitors, by judicious advertising
and push, pass them in the race for
business. Then these concerns that
were too well known to advertise
would awaken to the situation and
their advertisements would again ap
pear, but while they were sleeping
their wide awake competitors must
necessarily have made inroads into
their business, which, with fair treat
ment and business-like methods, they
will hold. Let the largest house in
any line stop advertising, and note in
what incredibly short space of time a
larger house will be built up by some
body who works while they sleep.
Cracker Pronunciation.
The New York Sun’s learned ety
mologist, who diverts himself by writ
ing editorials, is never so happy as
when perpetrating one like this:
Washington Times avers that
a senator from Georgia the other day
used the strong word ‘vehemence’
several times as to impress his pro
nunciation upon the galleries.’ Can
this be trt\e? Is it the Hon. Augus
tus Bacon or the Hon. Steve Clay
who thus seeks to make his vehe
mence more vehement? After all pe
culiarities of pronunciation are a good
deal like cravats, a matter of taste. It
used to be charged that Mr. Seward
was in the habit of pronouncing ‘Eu
ropean’ with the accent on the ante
penult, but the charge, whether true
or not, did not damage Mr. Seward;
and Mr. Sherman is not known to
have lost any friends because he was
accused of making ‘‘Samoa’ a dactyl.
A man who pronounced every word,
including Arkansas, right every time
might be considered a little too good
for common use. It is well to be cor
rect. but it is not absolutely necessary
to be an unabridged pronouncing
dictionary. Another Georgia charac
ter, Mr. Hocus Smith, Is said to say
octopus (accent on the last syllable,)
but Mr. Smith *s rank on the stage has
not been impaired by his little eccen
tr city.
THE ROME TftIBUNE. THURSDAY JULY I. <897.
Tennessee Centennial Finances,
Tbe.o Jieial figures for the total paid
attendance at the Nashville exposition
from the opening up to and includin
last Saturday night have been given
out, showing the attendance to have
been 468,264 The attendance nuring
last week was 105,778. The three
days of June in this will reach 15,000
or 20,000, making the total for two
months very near 500,000. These
figures only include paid admissions
and leave out of consideration all
passes, complimentary tickets or la
borers’ admissiens. Upon these fig
lures the management bases its caten
ations that the sum total of admis
sions will fully come up to their ex
pectations.
The annual report of Director-Gen
eral Lewis, of the Tennessee Centen
nial Exposition/ recently transmitted
to the stockholders, makes a very
satisfactory showing. The actual ex
penditure on account of the exposi
tion proper up to June 1, was $788,-
584.38, land the realization from all
quarters were $680,628 18, leaving a
net obligation of $159,986,20. The ex
penses for May averaged; $,518.12 a
day, and upon that basis it is esti
mated that the total expenditure
will be $1,039,614.38. Receipts have
averaged $2,480, which it is calculated
will reach a [total of $1,057,988.18.
There will, therefore, be at the close
of the exposition a credit balance of
$18,373,80. The attendance during
May was probably smaller than ij
will be during any other month of
the exposition. Since that time the
visit of the president, the Confederate
reunion and numerous large conven
tions have caused a very large at
tendance. There are yet upwards of
one hundred conventions to be held
in Nashville before the exposition
closes, so that it is safe to say that,
taking the attendance of May as a
basis. Major Lewis has made a low es
timate, The stream of visitors during
September and October will doubt
less be very large, says the Birming
ham News, which makes the prospect
even more encouraging. The expo,
sition has been Wisely managed, as is
attested by the healthy condition of
its finances and its bright prospects.
JOKES FROM ACROSS J
THE STYGIAN WAVES,
“Look here Eneas,” said Dr. Johnson,
meeting the hero of the lost city of
Troy, “what’s the use of keeping the
location of Troy a secret any longer?’’
‘‘No use,” saio Eneas.
‘ ‘Then where the deuce is the spot?”
“Twenty-eight miles east by south
from Schenectady,” said Eneas with a
wink at George Washington.
“I say, Jerrold,” cried Henry the
Eight, rushing up to the English wit,
“have you seen my wife anywhere
about?”
“Which one?” asked Jerrold.
“I say, Darwin,” said the author of
Audubon’s “Birds,” “let’s play golf.”
“Where shall we play?” asked Dar
win.
‘ ‘On the the missing links, of course, ”
said Audubon, “Where did you sup
pose?’ ’
‘‘l suppose you’d be more at home on
the bobolinks,” said Darwin.
“I hear you and Mrs. Socrates are
going to the seashore for the hot spell,”
said Alcibiades to the sage.
‘.Not we; we’re going to stay home, ”
replied Socrates. “There’s a dead-lock.
Xanthippe says we shan’t go to the
mountains, because I’ve had too much
hemlock already, and I won’t go to the
seashore, because she’s got more sand
than she needs as it is.”
“Your majesty,” said Sir Walter
Raleigh to Queen Elizabeth, '*l am
writing a sonnet to you. ”
“Indeed!” said the queen, pleased.
“Yes, ” said Raleigh; “but I’m very
much perplexed. For the sake of my
poem would you allow me to seem to be
disrespectful in just one line? I speak
of you as the finest queen there is, and
of how you do things with a whiz, and
haw your speech is full of fizz, and then
my rhyme gives out unless your royal
highness will let me allude to yon as
Liz? May I?”
“I have been told, Coke,” said Black
stone to the celebrated jurist, ‘‘that
you are of royal descent.”
“Bosh!” said Coke. ‘‘l? Pooh! From
what King, Judge?”
“Old King Cole,” replied Black
stone.
A Cool Seaside Lyric.
Ella Wheeler W ilcox has written a
poem about the new woman. Inci
dentally she says of her heroine:
‘•She looked on romance as a fairy story,
She flung off the garments that gave her
grace,”
She outstripped men on the road to glory.”
This causes Frank Stanton to ex
claim: What a cool, summer, seaside
lyric that is!
The Corpus Delicti,
‘ ‘Now, your honor, 1 ’ said a lawyer to
Judge Brown, in Santa Rosa, Cal., the
other day, according to an exchange, “I
move dismissal of this case on the
ground that the corpus delicti has not
been established. ”
Judge Brown rubbed hie chin in a per
plexed way, fixed his gaze on the ceiling
for a moment, and then, clearing his
throat eaid: “Os course, it is an old
principal of law that the probator must
correspond with the alligator, and in
this case I am of the belief that the cor-
pus is all right, but I don't know about
the delicti.”
“Your honor. I want that to go into
the record,” demanded opposing coun
sel. “I want the record to show that
your honor said the corpus is all right,
but you do not know about the delicti. ”
Judge Brown realized that he had
blundered, and sat staring at the attor
ney for a moment. Then, pulling him
self together, be said: “All right, let
that go into the record, but you fellows
knew danged well I was only joking
when I said it, and that will go into the
record, too.”
Our Trade With Cuba,
The effect of the war in Cuba on this
country’s trade with that island is
shown in a statiscal pamphlet issued by
the department of agriculture The
exports and imports for the past teu
years are given, with this statement:
During the last fiscal year (1896) the
total value of our Cuban trade amounted
to only $47,548,610 as compared with 1
$lO2 064.204 in 1893, the year preceding
the breaking out of the war. This was
a falling of mo-e than 50 per cent in
the short space of three years. Such
returns as are already available for the
current fiscal year indicate a stiil further
decline, the records for the nine
months ended March 31, 1897, placing
the total value of the trade for that
period as low as $14,026,917. At this
rate the figures for the entire fiscal year
1897 will hardly reach $20,000,000, or
less than one-fifth of the value recorded
for 1893. During the early years of the
decade covered by the above table our
trade with Cuba had received quite an
impetus,the years 1887 to 1893, inclusive,
with the single exception of 1888, show
ing uninterrupted gains, and had it not
been for the opening of the war, it is
not improbable that a still greater ex
pansion would have followed. As it is,
however, commercial interchange be
tween the United States and Cuba has
been very largely abridged.
The Ballade of the Citadel.
Her heart is a high citadel,
A bristling rampart, her disdain.
The imperial years alone may tell
The number of besiegers slain;
Who, braving all with might and main
Assaulted this acropolis.
But love alone Will entrance gain,
When he shall storm the fortalice.
From the thick lashes’ auburn shade,
Two brightest sentinels peep out,
Serene, content and undismayed,
O’er castle turret and redoubt,
And many these have put to rout
By their own might alone, I wis!
But they will raise a welcome shout
When love shall storm the fortalice,
Some day a gallant knight will ride,
True lord of this high citadel.
His glistening armor bj’ bis side.
And in a moment break the spell.
Yet not with cold steel will he quell
The garrison, but with a kiss;
For that sweet weapon answereth well, .
When love doth storm a fortalice.
ENVOYS
Oh, prince and pauper; man and maid!
If ye do leve. remember this:
Sound the assault, all undismayed.
If true love storms the fortalice.
—J. R. Taylor.
Guess i Again!
Our Soap guessing contest proved
such a success and created so much
interest that we have decided to try
it again for this week, closing Sat
urday night. So we have made a
new' stack of Soap, and the condi
tions are the same as regards vot
ing. Each 25 cent purchase enti
tles you to one guess.
100 Cakes of Clairette Soap
- FOR THE CORRECT GUESS.
Next Closest Guess 50 Cakes,
Next Closest Guess 25 Cakes,
Next Closest Guess 10 Cakes.
Three Next Closest 5 Cakes Each,
Come and try your hand.
Our new shipment of fine Ten
nessee Country Hams are just in.
They are the prettiest things out in
the way of Haws, and every one is
guaranteed to give the best satis
faction.
We have learned that it is im
possible for a grocery house to do a
successful business handling cheap
goods in connection with their bet
ter groceries. The reputation «e
have established is for the BEST
GOODS ONLY, and as a conse
quence, we have customers who
could not under any consideration
be induced to leave us, for they
know they get nothing but THE
BEST when they buy from us. We
do not buy a job lot of Matches,
Soap, Coffee, or anything of the
kind in order to make “a catch"
price. Our Coffees are the best in
this marker We know th>s, and
everyone knows it who has tried
them. We stand squarely on this
assertion, and have for authority
not only our own knowledge in
Coffees, but the testimony of most
of the best Coffte trade in Rome.
There are some people in Rome who
for personal reasons dotheir grocery
trailing with some of our competi
tors, jet buy all their Coffee from
us. They know a good thi* g.
We believe that there is not one
department in our business that
could be impioved upon. Our ad
vantages are the best; our goods
paid cash for; bought in quantities,
and the greatest care taken in the
selection.
We solicit your patronage.
S. S. King & Co.
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?A large line of Men’s and Boys’ Summei Shoes in Tans, Oxbloods
Blacks. Just the thing foi hot weather. r e are showing
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wear that cannot help but attract your attention. ■
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