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COST NOT CONSIDERED THIS WEEK
Neckwear.
Great Bargains.
720 4-ply Linen Col
lars, in all the best
styles, only
sc. Each
35 dozen Gents’ Mid-
Summer Scarfs, Bows
and Ties just received.
5, 10, 15 and
25 cts. Each.
350 Linen Collars for
ladies and misses, in
all the new shapes,
just in for July trade,
Choice for only
15 cts.
Cuffs to match at 20c.
Men’s end Boys’ Fine Shoes.
These goods will be found on the
Bargain Shoe Counter. They are the
E. B. Warren custom-made Shoes,
in all the new shapes and toes of the
season. All 25 per cent, less than
shoe store prices.
$1.98, $2.49 and $2.98
HELP TBEJARMERS
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Has a
Hobby
BETTER CROPS AND HIGHER PRICES
Inquiries Made About Raising
Sea Island Cotton,
SOME EXPERIMENT IN BUTTER
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A Hobby Which Seeks to Apply Science
to Agriculture—Postmaster General Gary
as an Employer of Men—lmplicit Faith
In an Employer.
Washington, D C.. July s.—Sec
retary Wilson of the agricultural depart
ment has a hobby and that hobby is “do
ing something for the farmer.” The hard
headed Scotchman is always on the look
out for some means of helping the farmer
tc better crops, higher prices or new and
'-lore profitable products for his farm. As
.an instance of his alertness in this direc
tion I am able to tell the story of how the
secretary conceived the idea of sending
American butter to the English market.
It will be remembered that the govern
ment started in the butter business some
months ago as an experiment, buying
quantities of butter and sending it at
different times to London to be sold in the
open market for what it would fetch. By
getting carefully detailed reports as to the
objections to our butter or the method of
packing it the secretary is now confident
he will in a short time be able to tell
American butter makers just how to go
about it to capture their full share of the
British market.
Butter anil Cotton.
The idea camo to the secretary while he
was seated at tho wedding 'breakfast of
Miss Gary, daughter of the postmaster
genera], in Baltimore, Beside him was a
Baltimore gentleman who is engaged in
the export grain trade. This gentleman
told the secretary of tho large quantities
of corn he was shipping to Denmark. Mr.
Wilson at once wanted to know what the
Danes did with American corn. He was
informed that it was fed to tho cows which
produce tho rrime butter with which the
[ktaMTilo
Regulates disordered stomachs, starts In
active livers, removes Constipation. It cures
Sick Headache, aids Digestion, keeps the body
in health and is the best and most pleasant
remedy for all disordets of the digestive tract.
Sold by Druggists for ;o years.
tnrltty Danes have captured the rich Eng
lish market and held it against all rivals.
Secretary Wilson pricked up his ears. “If
American corn will make butter good
enough for English tables in Denmark,
why should it not make such butter in the
United States?” he said to himself. “Why
should our corn be exported raw when if
we go at it right wo can sell it in the form
of butter and make the double profit?”
Immediately on returning to Washington
he gave orders to buy butter for the ac
count of the agricultural department and
to ship it to England. This experiment is
working out very well, and promises to be
a great help to the American farmer in
time.
When some of the southern senators suc
ceeded in getting an amendment to the
tariff bill putting a duty on cotton, Secre
tary Wilson pricked up his ears again. He
wanted to know why cotton needed protec
tion. Postmaster General Gary, who is
thoroughly familiar with the agriculture
as well as the business of the south, in
formed him that the protection was needed
for the sea island cotton, a superior article,
which comes into competition with Egyp
tian long fiber cottons for threads and cer
tain other special manufactures. Inciden
tally Mr. Wilson learned that the sea is
land cotton, grown upon a small strip of
sand islands stretching along the coast for
about 100 miles in Florida and South Caro
lina, is worth fully twice as much in the
market as ordinary cotton.
’ This was quite enough. At once Mr.
Wilson started an inquiry as to why this
sea island cotton cannot be grown in other
parts of the United States. If thereare the
same soil, climate and humidity elsewhere,
why can’t tho same crop be grown? That
is what he wants to find out. And in
order to find out he has set the machinery
of the department, with its scores of scien
tific men and experimenters, to work.
Practical Agriculture*
Secretary Wilson’s hobby is the practical
application of science to agriculture. He
likes the scientific men who throng the de
partment. He approves of their employ
ment at good salaries, but he does object
to their working for the sake of science.
He cares nothing for their beautiful re
ports, for their elaborate theories. “The
trouble with most scientific men,” says the
secretary, “is that they work for other
scientific men. They want the approval
land applause of their contemporaries. The
man I want them to work for is the farmer.
If they can’t show me what they are doing
for practical agriculture, I will take their
cases in hand.” He has gent letters to tho
heads of all the scientific bureaus of the de
partment requiring them to demonstrate
what they are there for and what they are
doing.
Postmaster General Gary has already be
come one of the most popular men in the
new administration. He is plain, old
fashioned, accessible. He looks and acts
like a gentleman of the old school, and
has not the slightest affectation. Now
and then some fresh young congressman
imagines the postmaster general is a ver
dant in politics and that he may be easily
Imposed upon, but one or two attempts
in that direction satisfy him that ho is
barking up the wrong tree. Mr. Gary
looks son ov. hat like an innocent Quaker,
but ho cut liis eye teeth in politics many
years ago. In fact, he has spent a fortune
in the game of politics simply because he
loves it and likes to help his friends.
You’ll
Find
It
Good.
INVENTORY SALE
COME will say what do you mean by Inventory Sale ? We answer
we have just finished our Annual Inventory, and in handling
every article in our house we find many articles, remnants, odds and
ends in Dress Goods, Silks, White Goods, Organdies, Wash Goods,
Shoes, Slippers, Etc., that specially belong to the Mid-summer sea
son. These’goods will be sold now at the prices taken at in our stock
inventory. This means some goods will go at
20,25 and 35 Per Cent. Less Than Cost I
5 Gents
For
40-inch
fine white
Lawn
this week.
sc, 10c and I2ic Organdie and Dimitie Counters.
These are all great Bargains. Can’t be had at any other house in Rome. They
. • are all new and fresh, up-to-date styles and colorings. Were made
to sell at more than double the prices we ask.
PARKS, BRANNON & CO.
Tn? BOME TRIBUNE TCESDAY JULY 6. 1897.
: BIG LfiCE SALE THIS WEEK I j
0 No one who is posted on Laces will for a J
T moment deny the fact that we have the larg- 6
? est, best and finest lace stock ever displayed •
S in Rome. Our entire stock will go this week ?
:AT ACTUAL COST!*
Mr. Gary is best known as a business
man, and if all the employers in the coun
try were like him there would be no strikes
or lockouts. Mr. Gary has 60 men in his
employ who have been there more than 35
years. One man has been in hiS employ
and his father’s before him for 57 years,
and is still carried on the pay roll, though
he doesn’t do any work. He is an over
seer in the cotton mills, and puts in an
appearance once in awhile just because he
likes to and not because it is expected. In
the 65 or 67 years of operation of their cot
ton mills the Garys have never had a strike.
It has occasionally been necessary to re
duce the wages of the men. When con
fronted with a necessity of this sort, Mr.
Gary calls all his overseers into the office.
He tells them that what he has to do is
more painful to him than it is to them or
to the men. He explains the business
conditions which make the step impera
tive, and then the overseers and the men
tinder them understand quite as well as
the proprietors. The reduction is put in
force, the overseers explain everything to
the hands and there is no grumbling.
Some day things brighten up, markets
are better and prices higher. Without a
word of notice the men find their old
wages, or, perchance, still higher ones, in
their envelopes Saturday night. This has
occurred time and again, and all the em
ployees have most implicit faith in the
owner. Waltee Wellman.
Some for ten, some for twenty and
some for thirty years have suffered
from piles and then have been quickly
and permanently cured by using De-
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, the great
remedy for piles and all forms of skin
diseases. Sold by Curry-Arrington Co.
Arnold’s Bromo-elery. Beats al,
other Bromos for headaches, neuralgia
sleeplessness. lOcts. For sale by Curry
& Arrington, wholesale druggists, Rome,
Georgia.
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Sale of Unclaimed Express Freight.
Unless previously called for and
charges paid, or otherwise disposed of,
the Southern Express Company, will sell
at public auction to the highest bidder,
for cash, at their office in Rome, Ga.,
Thursday July 15th, 1897, all matter on
hand which has been received six months
prior to date of sale.
D. E. Lowry, Agent.
C.T. Campbell, Supt.
dt.
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Hit fao-
■lailt
The Southern Railway has on sale
from all of its principal stations tickets
to Nashville and return at very low
iates on account of the Tennessee Cen
tennial. Call on any Southern Railway
agent for particulars regarding sched
ules and detail information about rates
and tickets. 5-5 to 10-15.
ACCIDENT NEAR COLUMBIA.
Boy I* Killed by a Train Under Bather
Peculiar Circumstance*.
Columbia, S. 0., Juty s.—An 8-year
old boy was killed four miles from Co
lumbia by a train on the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens road under
somewhat singular circumstances.
Engineer W. D. Grauatn was in
charge of the train. He was running*
at about 35 miles an hour, having
stopped a half mile back to take water.
He was coming round a long curve in a
blinding rainstorm when he saw ahead
two men and two boys on the track.
He had the bell rung, but the four
who were coming toward the train
seemed to take no notice. He thought
they would step from the track every
moment Soon he saw they would have
a close call, having come on a 3-foot
trestle. Then he reversed his engine
and applied the airbrakes. Three of
the parties jumped, one being the father
of the dead boy, named Frank Wash
ington.
William did not move as fast as the
others and the engine, which had all
but stopped, hit him in the back, knock
ing him off.
The boy’s father says the-rain was
falling so hard at the time that none of
them heard the train till it was almost
upon theta.
When bilious or costive, eat’a Cascare
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10c,
25c.
On to Toronto Canada.
The popular Western & Atlantic R. R.,
will sell round trip tickets from Rome
to Toronto, Canada and return via Ni
agra Falls at the exceedingly low rate of
$26.10, Tickets on sale July 12 13 and
14, limited July 26, with privelege on
extension until August 12th.
There will be quite a nice party leave
Rome Monday morning July 12th via the
Western & Atlantic R, R. Anyone de
siring to join this party will please call
on Mr. C. K. Ayer, P. & T, A., Rome,
and secure information, liteiature etc.,
concerning trip. d u 6-15.
PAY YOUR WATER TAX
The Board of Water Com* l
missioners have ordered me to
shut off all persons who fail to
pay water tax and to issue fi
fas for same, Save cost and
trouble by paying when bills
are presented.
J. T. MOORE,
Secty and Tresr,
$5.50 pair, express paid. Best ’97‘s,
full warranty bicycle tires. Mineralized
Rubber Co., New York. Agents
wanted. 6-26 lw.
Gents
For
Fine
Colored
Lawns
this week.
S GA DIES WHEN IJY TROIBLE £
fl USE DR. DAVID NICHOLS T
| Female* Periodical* Pills. $
fl LADIES, by special request from patients who cannot personally con-
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fl tion as used by me during a practice of twenty-five years, have consented
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fl suppressions. These Pills are guaranteed six degrees stronger than any
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fl «nondence Private. Not Sold tn Drug Store*.
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The Unspeakable Turk
As Gladstone calls him, would find no difficulty in
talking over the Toll Lines of
The Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Our lines are Copper Metallic Circuits, equipped
with Long Distance Transmitters, which give per
fect service. Connections affording all the advantages
of Personal Interviews can be had with
Rome, Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, Amer
icus, Albany, Athens, Opelika
and Fifty Other Places.
A Night Rate is in effect between 6 p. m. and 8 a. m.,
and is One Half of the Day Rate.
i Kentucky Dew Whisky i
ii/ STANDARD OF PUBITY.
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At Distilled of carefully selected grain and pure limestone spring flh
water; matured in wood and bottled under our own supervision, jgi
W Kentucky Dew is the leader of fine old fashion sour mash whiskies, 'T?
ji- and for mellowness and richness of flavor has no superior. Buy /H
*?? Kentucky Dew bootled by the distiller if you want an absolutely Pure
W Whisky for the club or sick room. Ask your deal*? for Kentucky
Dew, bottled by ourselves. If he hasn’t it write us.
(1/ OLD KENTUCKY DISTILLERY, W
0/ D. MesCHENDoRF, Proprietor. LOUISVILLE, KY
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* tar For sale, by A. R. Hudgins. Agent.
fOfl fir
Negligee
Shirts.
If you wish to buy
anything in a Negligee
or Colored Shirt of any
kind, style or coloring,
call on us this week.
We sell the best shirts
in Georgia. Perfect
fitting. Large assort
ment and the lowest
prices.
White
Dress Shirts
a Specialty.
Ladies’ and Misses' Slippers.
One counter to be devoted to Slip
pers this week. Talk of Real Bar
gains—Rome never saw such bar
gains as we will offer this week in
fine custom-made Slippers.
85c, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50 & $1.75
Bc. and 10c. ORGANDIES FOR sc. THIS WEEK