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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,
Birmingham is making 2.380 tons of
pig iron daily.
Cotton picking in North Georgia
will begin in two weeks.
An Alabama paper thinks that
state’s motto should be changed to
‘ ‘Here We Hustle,”
Butt-on reflection the prince might
have killed the count had it not been
for a little round thing.
The Washington Post says: -Mr.
Tillman says he is fighting the devil.
If this is true, the old boy will find
that he is up against a scrapper of
his own class.
In, 1875 Italy abolished capital pun
ishment for murderers. That was
twenty-two years ago, and since then
there has been an increase of 42 per
cent of homicides.
‘‘How is North Georgia anyway?”
‘‘She is up-to-date. Fine crops, fine
fruit, fine minerals, fine water-power,
fine lands, fine folks? Yes, sir, she’s
fine.—Trion Factory Herald. .
The dozen, pr more Kentucky girls
who reached New York Monday with
the excursion of Southern merchants
seems to have upset that town judg
ing from the space given them in the
newspapers.
How does Atlanta’s city council
hope to keep up with other metropol
* itan cities? They are not going to
allow empty beer bottles to be thrown
out of second story windows into
* the streets.
We publish on this page an inter-
- esting article ?bout the cotton crop
of Texas. It is stated that it will only
be a half a crop. The Baltimore
Sun which makes the statement is
one of the most rejiable papers in the
country.
The statement that President Mo-
Kinley’s portrait will appear on some
of the new treasury notes is an ertor.
He may kill himself politically this
term, but he must according to
United States statutes be physically
dead before he cd.n be vignetted on
our money.
If the Italian count and the French
prince had have had Monsignior Ed
Bruffey, of the Atlanta Constitution,
to pull off their duel it might have
been as bloodless as the Calhoun-
Williamson fiasco near Rome. This
was the last Southern affair according
to the code daello, and only Mr.
Bruffey got a wound. He shot off the
end of a finger while loading one of
the pistols.
A Practical Man Wanted.
In the multitude of names men
tioned in connection with the guber
natorial contest which will occur in
Georgia next year we notice men of
different calibre and attainments.
Some of these will be candidates, and
have put themselves on record as
such. But the man the people of
, Georgia need for their Governor for
the next two terms at least, is a prac
practical man who is thoroughly
versed in business matters. He should
be a good manager and a good finan
cier. There have been times when we
needed orators, and statesmen, but
now we want a practical man. full of
energy, who can give us a business
administration. The Atlanta Journal
expresses our views in the following:
It is always important to have a
man of sound, practical views and
good business ability in the executive
office but it will be especially needful
for the welfare of the state to have
such a one for the next term. Many
questions will come up during hie ad
ministration and he should have the
capacity to deal with them in the
proper way.
The penitentiary system will have
to be reconstructed and it will tax the
statemanship of Georgia to do that
work as it should be done. The next
governor will have it in hie power, if
be ie the right sort of man, co aid
greatly in the proper eolution of this
problem.
There will be other important ques
tions that will demand his considera
tion, such as tax reform, road im
provement, and the educational policy
of the state.
Georgia is moving forward and
with wise legislation and administra
tion, her progress during the last
years Jof the century 'should be at a
greater rate than ever before.
The choice of a governor, is there
fore, a matter of deep concern to the
people of this state, and we trust that
they will attend to it deliberately and
carefully.
On Rising Ground,
The Textile World finds in the
shortage of raw cotton for tl]e South
ern mill supply the evidence of the
rapid growth of the cotton manufac
turing industry in the South and it
gives the following interesting statis
tics, showing the crop of 1895*’96 in
the states of Georgia, South Caroline,
and North Carolina and also the con
sumption of cotton by the mills of
those states:
Exports Consunip-
Crop Constrmp- 'from Percent
State. 1895-6 tion. Sea Ports, of Crop
Ga ...1,079,000 210,844 690,000 2>
8. U... 664,000 254,698 358,000 38
N.C.. 384.000 232 072 193 000 6J
Total. .2.127,00 697,614 1,241,000 33~
Thus do we perceive the gradual ap
proach of the South to that ideal in
dustrial condition wherein the raw
material is manufactured in the region
of its supply, says the Macon
Telegraph. North Carolina is not
one of the great cotton producing
states, but it manufactures GO per
cent of the staple it does raise, and
hence its 384.000 bales bring in a
revenue greater than obtained by
other states which produce more bales
and manufacture less. The figures
do great credit to North Carolina.
The future industrial might of the
South depends upon the degree to
which the consumption of our raw
materials by our own mills shall rise
—in other words, to the extent we
shall avail ourselves of our natural
economical advantages. It is to the
promotion of these industrial inter
ests that the thought of all, those
wishing to aid the South along the
line of commercial empire should be
turned. We must break all the fetters
that bind the energy and enterprise
of the people. We must so adopt and
adjust our laws that the business man
shall feel no crippling exactions and
shall find nothing in the way of his
legitimate aspirations.
Growth of The Tribune,
The Tribune continues to grow in fa
vor with the public. The people know
a good newspaper and they appreciate
the fact that Th« Tribune is the best
newspaper tnat home has ever had.
Its circulation is increasing every dav-,
and its field of usefulness grows every
day.
Tui: Tribune is delivered to sub
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With the coming of the busy season
we expect to increase our subscription
list still further. The Tribune has
climbed aboard the prosperity train,
and we intend to stay on it.
The Tribune proposes to set the
pace for the progress of Rome and if
the citizens will continue to give us
their liberal support we will publish
a paper they will be proud of.
Frequent Changes of School Books,
Gov. Atkinson has undertaken one
of the biggest jobs of hie life in his
fight on the school book trusts. He
desires to secure cheaper school books
for the school children of Georgia an I
the effort he is making in this direc
tion is most laudable.
We do not know just how the gov-
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ernor expects to proceed, nor what be
to accomplish. The book
trusts employ the best writers and
scholars to prepare the text books they
offer for sale, and they Pave millions
backing them. Their books can be
sold at comparatively lower prices
than small publishers can afford to
sell them. “If the State of Georgia
should fight the book trust and pub
lish its own school books there would
be a.very pretty rumpus in a short
time,” says the Birmingham Age-
Herald. “The agents of the trusts
would put in their work, and the
teachers, school authorities and peo
ple generally would complain that
their home books were vyortbless, and
demand the publications of the trust.
Then, there would always be danger
I that the politicians would control tfi e
publication of the state’s school books.
They would see that their friends were
employed to write the books, print,
circula.te and teach from them in the
schools.” There is a,, good deal of
common sense in what our contempo
rary states. Wfiile The Tribune
wishes to see the book trust throttled
yet we do not believe it is the evil
which needs reforming so much as
another. We agree with the Bir
mingham Age-Herald that the main
trouble is with the incompetent school
authorities who change books too
often, use too much money in the
schools, and needlessly increaseftbe ex
pense of educating the people’s chil
dren. Our experience has been that
every year or two our schools have a
change of text books necessitating a
considerable expenditure. While the
books put aside are sometimes
exchanged yet more often they
become worthless. We hope Gov.
Atkinson will, also, look into this
question of the frequent changing of
the text books.
Texas Cotton Crop,
A correspondent of the Sun, whofis
neither a farmer or a merchant, and so
is not interested to depress the price of
cotton while still in the planters’ bands,
writes from Anderson, Grimes county.
Texas, to assure us that the cotton crop
of Texas is really in a very bad condi
tion, and will not exceed 1,750,000 bales.
He has been traveling over a great part
of the state—in the area included with
in lines • connecting Beaumont, .Sher
man, Bowie and Gatesville—and finds
the crop prospects exceedingly poor on
account of dry weather. In central
Texas from five to ten acres will be re
quired to make a bale of cotton. The
parched leaves are falling from the
plants and no new fruit is forming.
Hence it is’ asserted with confidence
that the Texas crop will not be 3,000,-
000 bales, as some persons have said,
nor 2,750,000 as others have said, but
possibly not over 1,500,000 bales. This
fact; if correctly appreciated by plan
ters in other states, will lead them
probably to hold on for the higher
price that will prevail when buyers see
that the total crop will be far below the
figures now circulated, it is alleged, by
interested parties. The agricultural de
partment’s report of “condition” con
firms iu part our correspondent’s state
ment —Baltimore Sun.
Well Loaded,
Few people looking at an ordinary
ocean steamship, loaded or unloaded, as
it lies in a dock, have any conception
of its enormous carrying capacity. The
boat looks big, of course, but gives no
idea of the tremendous amount of
freight that can be stowed away in its
capacious hold without overloading it.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad loaded
a steamship the other day and this is
what it took to fill her: Sixty-six cars of
lumber; 4of starch, 19 of oilcake, 6 of
provisions, 1 of grain, lof flour, 22 of
tobacco, 2of wire, 3 of sugar, 13 of
fresh meat, 20 of sheep, or 1,699 head!
45 of cattle, or 888 held; 3of lard, lof
copper, 4of merchandise and 161 of.
grain’ making a total of 371 carloads,
This is equal to ten long freight trains, i
which, if placed in a row, would cover
a distance of about two miles. And all
their freight went into one tramp
steamship. —Philadelphia Record.
Longevity of Justices-
Associate Justice Bi&phen J. Field
yesterday broke the record for length
of service OU the Supreme bench of the
United. States, having served thirty
four years, five months and six days.
This recalls the fact that the Supreme
Court is remarkable for the length of
service of many of its justices. No fewer
than eleven men have sat upon the
bench more than a quarter of a century
each. The list is as -follows: Bushrod
Washington, of Virginia, from 1798 to
1820- John Marshall, of Virginia, £rom
1801 to 1835; William Johnson, of South'
Carolina, from 1804 to 1834; Joseph
Story, of Massachusetts, from 1811 to
1845; John McLean, of Ohio, from 1829
to 1861; James J\l. Wayne, of Georgia,
1835 to 1866; Roger B. Taney, of Mary
laud, 1836 to 1864; Samuel Nelson, of
New York, 1845 to 1892; Samuel T.
Miller, of lowa, 1862 to- 1890; Stephen
J. Field, of California, entered office
in 1863.
Os the fifty-eight men who have
served on the Supreme bench the terms
of nineteen have exceeded twenty y&rs
each, and thirty-two have gone past
the ten year mark. -Next to Justice
Field, Chief Justice Marshall ’ served
longest, the period of his service being
thirty-four years, five months and five
days. The honor in the matter of age
belongs to Chief Justice Taney, who
was 59 years old when.he went on the
bench, and remained there twenty
eight years and six months, making
him 87 years and 6 mouths' old when
death took him from his seat.
It would seem from these facts and
figures that membership of the highest
tribunal of the land is conducive to a
long life.—Birmingham News.
Tell/Tale Finger Tips.
[F rom the Westminster Gazette.]
The seat of that invaluable quality,
tact, is said to be in our fingers. Hence
physiologists as well as psychologists
are said to devote special attention to
the study of the human digit. Francis
Gal ton pointed out years ago that the
delicate lines in our finger-tips may be
come means of identifying persons,
since these lines vary with every in
dividual, and remain the name all
through life. M. Fere, the French
savant, has gone a step further, and,
after a number of experiments, has I
come to the conclusion that not only the
lines themselves, but the way in which
people touch and handle objects, re. I
veal their character and aptitudes,
Thus, by causing a number of persons
to take up a ball of soft putty he has at
once obtained the lines by wnich he
identifies, and the impression, more or
less strong, by- which he can tell whether
a person’s capabilities lean toward a
professional or an artistic career.
Asks For The Politician's Daughter,
‘ ‘Did you speak to the father of the
girl yon wish to marry?’’said one young
man.
“Yes,” replied the other.
“Did he give you any encourage
ment?”
“He seemed to think he did. He is a
politician, and has been haunted by
constituents ever since election. When
I told him the ambition of my life, he
said very gravely that it was seldom
anybody secured exactly what he de
sired; he couldn’t see his way clear to
making me the groom at his daughter’s
wedding, but he’d see what he could do
about getting me the place of best
man.”—Washington Star,
Gallantry Os Southern Governors.
Southern governors are carrying out
their traditional gallantry by appoint
ing ladies as colonels on their staffs. As
the principal duty of a staff officer in
these piping days of peace is to look
beautiful iu gorgeous costumes and
lend magnificence to official occasions,
there seems to be no reason whatever
for adverse comment on the action of
the gallant governors.—Baltirfiore
American.
Couldn’t Resist.
Poor Lot’s wife turned to salt, alas!
Her fate was most unkind;
No doubt she only wished to
How hung her skirt behind.
—Kansas City World .
To An Old Venetian Wine Glass.
(Rose-co’ored at the Brim.)
Daughter of Venice, fairer than the moon!
From thy dark casement leaning, half
divine,
And to the lutes of love that low repine
Across the midnight of the hushed la
goon
Listening with languor in a dreamful
Swoon-
On such a night as this thou didst en
twine
Thy lily fingers round this glass of wine,
And clasped the climbing lover—none
too soon!
Thy lover left, but ere heleft thy room
From this he drank, his warm lips at the
brim;
Thou kis«ed it as he vanished in the
gloom;
That kiss, because of thy true love for
him—
Long« long ago when thou wast in thy
bloom—
Hath left it ever rosy round the rim !
L n yd Mifflin.
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