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HAVE YOU TRIED IT?
Looking for your money’s • worth
in ail you buy is an educational
problem which many lose sight of,
but the sensible buyer and custo
mer of today thoroughly under
stands it and knows that real value
comprises both quality and price,
hence when we have placed one sack
ot Hand’s Best Flour the buyer has
pronounced it the best, and the re
sult has been duplicate orders.
Never in the history of our,business
have we’had a flour that .equalled
Hand’s Best in nutritiousness and
leaven’ng power. It is the, zenith
of perfection and to the finder ot a
flour in Rome that will equal Hand’s
Best, we will give a barrel free. It
cost us more to get this grade ot
fliur than the goods we have sold
here from Southern mills, but you
can get it for same price you are
paying for inferior grades. Two
weeks ago we gave notice of the first
shipment of tjiis flour, and so great
has been its popularity, that we
* have a second car now in transit,
bought before the sharp advance in
wheat. Our miss on is to introduce
this perfection of flours, not to make
money, and the selling of a car in
three weeks tells how well we are
succeeding.
COFFEE.S AND TEAS.
The Kevstone of success in any
artic e ot merchandise is quality,
and our high grade coffees and teas
are no exceptions. We do not do
any • slim-slam” advertising, we back
up every assertion with our money,
and when we tell you that we will
sell you the very best Brown Mand
heling Java and Fancy Arabian
Mocha Coffees at 33| cents the
pound, you can depend on getting it.
A fancy Santos blended with Java
and Mocha at 25 cents the pound is
one of th; grades that brings us a
profit too small for any me chant
not selling large quantities of that
class of goods. Tetley’s India-
Ceylon Teas have no equal in this
market. Our purchases from Tetley
have been so large that they have
made us the r whosesale agents for
Rome.
HAND a CO,
Opposite Armstrong Hotel.
Rome, Ga., Aug. 15, 1897.
Kill to Live.
That living germs by millions infest
the human system and produce dis
eases of blood and nerves is no longer
a theory but a proven fact. That
King's Royal Germeteur
Cures these diseases in a speedy and
pleasant way, is equally proven. ~
SPRING
i
Is here. Look to your health at the
beginning of the hot season. Keep
Germeteur on hand. Use it as a tonic
preventive and cure. Sold every
where. SI.OO per bottle.
Atlanta Chemical Co., Atlanta, Ga.
MANUFACTURERS.
Two Saloons
- UNDER ONE CONTROL.
THE OAKS
Newly and Elegantly Fitted Up at 222
Broad St., (old stand 310 Broad St.)
This gives us unrivalled advantages in
serving customers across the counter and
in furnishing the jug trade.
We make a specialty of the following
well known brands: Old Cabinet, Murray
Hill Club, Canadian Club, XXXX Acme,
Yellow Label, Seven-Year-Old Lincoln,
Old Family Nectar. Pickens and Fannin
County Corn, North Carolina Corn.
AGENTS FOR
Chattanooga Brewing Co.,
KEG AND BOTTLE BEER.
Schlitz and Budweiser Beers always on
hand. All mailorders promptly filled.
Elegantly Fitted Up Billiard
Parlor Attached.
Telephone Nos. 167 and 87.
KAY & BRO.
223 and 310 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
The Jetton Park Hotel.
A Delightful Summer Resort
One Mile from University of Vir
ginia, Charlottesville, Va.
. The Ton clron Water of the Country,
fc Pure air, extensive lawns, abund
lant shade, beautiful mountain
■tocenery and cool breezes, delightful
Bbvalks and drives, excellent mineral
■raters, hot and cold baths, a ball
■bom, enlivened by University stu
■bets from all parts of country,
■pen to December Ist.
El. M. GATHRIGHT, Proprietor.
Alwaya prompt and tellable. Avoid Zmdctf'OM.
Get Caton's T-war Pill* and ravk kkgketh.
At drug •tores, or aent direct (aealcd), price *l.
Caton Bfbc. CUm Boeton. Maw. Pamphlet 4o-
MR WITHAM TONIGHT
Address by Prasi-ient of Georgia State
Sunday School Association,
hb is president of twenty banks
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Something About His Keinarkabla Career.
. Unique Subject Tonight-Public
Invited to Atten I.
Tonight at the First Baptist church
W. S. Witham, of Atlanta, president Os
the state Sunday school association will
speak on the “Freight train Sunday
school vs the vestibule train Sunday
school.”
He is a bright and very entertaining
talker. The public is cordially invited
to attend. All teachers and superintend
ents are requested to be present rain, or
shine. Mr. Witham i efused to go to
Detroit, Mich., and address 1,000 bankers
in order to keep his engagement at
Rome.
Mr. Witham is a financial genius
and is president of twenty different
banks. In an interesting sketch of him
in the Atlanta Journal Mr. Walter
Cooper writes as follows:
There is bnt one man in the United
States who is twenty time a bank presi
dent, and he lives in Atlanta. Few
men have tha ability to run one bank,
and fewer enjoy that priviledge. It is
commonly considered a hard place, with
heavy responsibility, and men with'
strong constitutions often break down
under the strain. This man rung
twenty banks easier than most men run
one, and bis institutions have been
phenomenally successful. They
paid as high as 40 per cent, cash divi
dends, and have averaged from Btn 15
per cent., besides setting apart an equal
or greater amount as surplus.
The man who did this is W. S. With
am. In nine years he has built up,
mainly in Georgia, which be calls the
Witham banking system. It is uni
que in its methods and shows that its
original author has the genius com
bination, which is preminently tbe
genius of the age.
This seriesof twenty country banks,
with only $25,000 to $50,000 capital
each, has in it the prophecy of a new
grouping of financial institutions ana
logous to that which has taken place
in the organization of such great con
cerns as the American Oil company,
the Pacific Tea company and the Park
& Tilford stores.
In reply, to my questions about his
methods, Mr. Witham quoted these
four bylaws which he said will keep
any bank from breaking:
First. The cashiers must be bond
ed for more money than, he has ac
cess to.
Second. Each bank must have a
chrome steel, triple lock, burglar
proof safe and the cashier must put
the time lock on at 5 o’clock in the
afternoon and take it off at 8 o’clock
in the morning.
Third. All loans exceeding SSO
must be made by the written consent
of the majority of the board of direc
tors after being passed on in open ses
sion.
Os the bylaws, Mr. Witham remarked:
“As bills receivable are always the key
to a bank's condition, I hold with Solo
mon that in the multitude of counsel
loss there is wisdom.”
Fourth. The cashier is responsible for j
overdrafts and for losses growing out of
dealing with strangers. No loan shall be
made to any one without security.
On this Mr. Witham remarked:
“A private bylaw unto myself is that I
borrow my money from other banks.”
Commenting on all four of the bylaws,
he said: “No city bank could confine it
self to these rules. We have the only
bank in a county, and as country people
are not quite so fast as city folks, they
can afford to wait a few days for the dis
count period to come round.”
Mr. Witham is a native of LaGrange
and he and Mr. Hunter McClure, of
Rome, were playmates continuing the
sketch Mr. Cooper says:-
The beginning of his interesting ca
reer was when as a country boy 14 years
old he went to New York to seek his
fortune. Hq found it in as 4a, week
job at a straw goods house.
He went to a night school, working
hard, and walking two miles and worked
hard at business. At the end ot 18 years
after drawing a $5,000 salary as the
largest straw goods salesman in New
York, he.went into business two years
for himself and made money rapidly.
When he came to Georgia in 1889 he
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THE ROME TRIBUNE. THURSDAY AUGUST 19. 1897.
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Fifty Years Ago.
Who could imagine that this should be
T he place where, in eighteen ninety-thret
That white world-wonder of arch
dome
Should shadow the nations, polychrome...
Here at the Fair was the prize conferred
On Ayer’s Pills, by the world preferred.
Chicagolik'e, they a record show,
Bince they started— 50 years ago.
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills
have, from the time of their
preparation, been a continuous
success with the public. And
that means that Ayer’s Pills
accomplish what is promised
for them; they cure where
others fail. It was fitting,
therefore, that the world-wide
popularity of these pills should
be recognized by the World’s
Fair medal of 1893—a fact
which emphasizes the record>
50 Years of Cures.
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brought a capital of $75,000. His
quick financial instinct told him
that that the power of combination
with thia sum was greater and its
operations safer among the small com
inanities of the south than in a great
city like New York, where congested
capital waits on all safe investments
at low rates, and the paying combina
tions are on a gigantic scale, requir
ing millions to make them With the
$75,000 he came scuth and began to
establish banks in country towns, tak
ing for himself and associates, a ma
jority of the stock in each.
The average man would have thought
he had the order of things reversed in
going into small banks to make mopey.
It would seem that the expense of
business would eat up profits and that
the small operations would get little
of the leverage of bnsiness that goes
to big things Witham made it econ
omical by having one president for 20
banks, and make it strong by combin
ing the business of as many towns. At
tbe same time his banks encountered
less competition than city banks do,
took their pick of loans, and got high
er rates of interest.
With low expenses, high rates of
interest and choice loans, the results
were necessarily good.
Mr. Witham says the only mistake
he made was in declaring a 40 per cent
dividend in one bank. He ought to
have paid 8 and put the rest aside for
surplus.
We know the great cures by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla are genuine be
cause the people themselves write
aboutthem.
When you need anything
in Crockery; Stoves or Tinware
save money by buying of J, R,
Cantrell & Co,
BEA.B WBIUHt’S REMARKS.
His Denunciation Os Lynching Being Pub
lished All Over the Coun try.
The remarks of Hon Seaborn Wright
in Echols’ case on the subject of lynching
are being widely commented upon. The
Chattanooga News says:
In a speech before a jury at Rome, Ga..
not long long ago, while prosecutingin
the lynching of a nego, Hon. Seab Wright
said;
“Os all the cowards God ever made,
the greatest coward unhung is the man
who will join a mob. If the newspapers
of this state had the manhood to speak
out and denounce these scoundrels they
could stop this lynching.”
In commenting on this speech, the
Philadelphia Inquirer remarks:
“These are brave words and true, and
it required considerable grit to utter
them in the teeth of sentiment as it ex
ists in that section.”
'• Both Mr. Wright and the Inquirer
misrepresent the southern people. The
newspapers with rare exception, always
denounce mob law, and it requires no
bravery on the part of Mr. Wright or
any other respectable man to anatbema
lize the perpetrators of tbe deeds of
diabolism he was describing. The body
of the quiet, law-abiding citizens never
engage in lynching Jiere any more than
elsewhere, and most of them hold it in
utter abhorrence.
Messrs. Broach & Trammel have the
contract to build the Chamblee bu’lding
running from Broad back to First street.
The brick, lime, lumber and material arc
made m Rome by Rome’s mecbdnics.
The building will be one of the hand
somest in Rome and up-to-date in every
detail.
YESTERDAY’S FIRE
Tbe Empire Block Was Enveloped in
♦ Smoke For a While.
THE FIRE ALAR 4 WOULD KOT 4 RING
C< in pan iAB Worn Colled Out Over the Tele
phone, bpd f'oon Extinguished
the Flames.
Fire broke out on the second floor
of the Empire block last evening
about 5:15 o’clock, .and for about an
hour the excitement ran high.
Great volumes of smoke came pour
ing from every window in the build
ing, and it looked as though the whole
interior was ablaze.
Tbe fire alarm was turned on. but
failed to work, and parties bad to
notify the companies by telephone
In a very few seconds all tbe wagons
and the Hooks were on hand and sev
eral streams of water were soon play
ing on .the blaze. After tbe firemen
had been working for half an hour or
more, the alarm began to ring vigor
ously, and without cessation.
It-was six thirty when the fire was
entirely extinguised. No one knows
the origin of the fire, but it is thought
that a defective flue was the cause.
The damage will amount to about
$250. Had it not been for the quick
and efficient work of the department,
this fire would doubtless have totally
destroyed one of the best and largest
blocks in Rome.
PAID IN CASH.
Dade Coal Company Paid the Miners In
Cash For the First Time in Three Years
Trenton, Aug. 18,—There was gen
eral rejoicing yesterday in Dade
county, Ga., says the Atlanta Journal
and the democrats, populist and what
few republicans there are of that sec
tion are convinced of the return of
prosperity.-
The Dade Coal company paid in
cash Monday for the first time in
nearly three y ears. During the past
three years this company has been in
steady operation, but barely making
expenses. Their laborers, the miners
and others were oblidged to take their
pay out in groceries and provisions
at the company’s store.
Os late, however, owing to the strike
and good business generally, the Dade
Coal company has been doing inuch
better, and Monday paid off in cash
all around. According 'to their em
ployes, the Dade Coal company will
hereafter payoff in cash altogether.
What the Shakers of Mount Lebanon
know more about than anybody else, is
the use of herbs and how to be healthy.
They have studied the power of
food. They nearly all live to a ripe old
age.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial is pre
pared by the Soakers from herbs and
plants with a special tonic power over
the stomach.
It helps the stomach digest its food,
and digested food is the strength
maker.
Strong muscles, strong body, strong
brain, all come from properly digested
food.
A sick stomach can be cured and
digestion made easy by Shaker Diges
tive Cordial.
It cures the nausea, loss of appetite,
pain in the stomach, headache, giddi
ness, weakness and all the other symp
toms of indigestion, certainly and per
manently.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottle 10
cents.
Go to see Terhtine-'Nixon
Company’s granite iron show
window with price of every
article marked in large, plain
figures.
At Police Court.
Only a fe w cases were tried at police
court yesterday. Robt Smith got
drunk, and his fun cost him three
dollars. Jeney Armstrong could not
agree with Nancy Ware on certain
points, so they arbitrated the matter
with brooms, pokers etc. Recorder
Eubanks placed the license on pugilis
tic exhibitions at $5.00 each—or ten
days. Will Bell resisted an officer
and was fined $5 00. A /few parties
were brought up for refusing to be
vaccinated, but were turned loose on
the promise that they would let the
doctors apply the knife.
Arnold’s-Bromo-Celery, Student’s
headaches cured without fail. Use it.
10 cents. For sale by Curry-Arring
ton company.
W A N T E D//Stenographer
besides typewriting to do gen/
eral office work. Address
Merchant,
Care Tribune,
NOTICE,
Commencing Monday Au/
gust 16th 1897 the Chattanooga,
Rome & Columbus Railroad will
receive and deliver freight at
its depot in rear of the Shorter
block, Passengers and baggage
at Rome Railroads depot until
further notice. C, S, Pruden,
1 Agent,
Up-To-Date Drug Store
UP-TO-DATE DHUGS.
Whatever you buy from the
ROME PHARMACY
\ou can rest assured that you 1 have received
your money’s worth In addition to the F. A. Johnson
drug stock, which we secured at a great sacrifice, we
have lain in a complete stock of new Drugs and Chemicals,
Patent Medicines, Cigars. &c.
The prescription books of F. A. Johnson are owned
by us. This department is in the hands of Dr. Davis, an
experienced and careful prescriptionist, who is prepared
to refill any prescription.
S. M Lowry is manager of the business, and will be
glad to serve his old friends and customers Everything
at reasonable prices.
• ROME PHARMACY,
F. A. Johnson’s stand, 206 Broad Street, Rome, G?
Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures indigestion, Bad
Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn.
Th* Shocked Samaritan.
The man who knew a little of every
thing looked at tbe passenger in the
seat ahead of him and finally leaned
forward.
“Excuse me,” he said, “but you
really ought to shake off the cares of
business and go somewhere for complete
rest and quiet.”
“You mind your own affairs,” said
the other nj.au gruffly.
The sympathetic passenger looked
hurt. .
“Os course,” he said, “your case is
nothing to me. I only proffered the ad
vice in a spirit of friendliness. At the
same time anybody can see at a glance
that you are suffering from too close
confinement. ”
“There, now, let up on that,” said
the gruff man. “I don’t want any more
of your chaff. ”
“What’s money to a man in your
condition?” said the sympathetic pas
senger without heeding tbe rebuke.
“Mighty little,” growled the gruff
passenger.
“You’ll never pardon yourself for
this neglect,” said the sympathetic
passenger.
“I wish Icould,”said the gruff man.
“What you need is to get out and
drink in the free air of nature,” said
the sympathetic passenger.
“You bet it is,” chuckled the gruff
man.
His chuckle turned to a laugh that
shook him so thoroughly that something
tinkled at his wrists. He held up his
arms, and lo! he yvas handcuffed. Turn
ing to the horrified passenger, hs
hoarsely whispered:
"Ten years in the pen, ha, ha, ha!”
And the sympathetic philanthropist
sank back in his seat dumb with horror.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Ignorance of the laws of health
has conscripted more people for the
grave than all the battle/fields of the
world/’ Don’t drink bad water, buy
a Pasteur Filter, and have pure water
’’The very best filter yet devised
can not rid the water of all micro/
organisms with the sole exception of
the Pasteur Filter," —The British Med/
ical Journal of July 6, 1895. For sale
by F, Hanson.
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o' vrajper.
Royal Arcanum. ,
Regular meeting of Hiill City Coun
cil No. 535, Royal Arcanum, at 8
o’clock tonight. Invitation of candi
date. Brethren fraternally invited.
Max Meyerhardt, Regent.
J. E Mullen, Sec’y.
FOR RENT,
A six/room cottage, convenient to
business, Reasonable rent, Apply
to Henry Hine, Rome, Ga, ts
The Morrison Trammell Brick Com
pany are furnishing the brick for the
Chamblee Building and have/ some
good orders booked, which will keep
them busy. They have every facility
for doing business and no enterprise
s more valuable to Rome.
A Remarkable Cure of Chronic Diarrhoea.
In 1862, when I served my country as
a private in Company A, 1 67th Penn
sylvania Volunteers, 1 contracted
chronic diarahoea. It has given me a
great deal of trouble ever since. I have
tried a dozen different medicines and
several prominent doctors without any
permanent relief. Not long ago a friend
sent me a sample bottle of Cnamber
lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and after that I bought and
took a 50 cent bottle; and now 1 can say
that I am entirely cured. 1 cannot be
thankful enough to you for this great
Remedy, and resommend if to all suf
sering veterans. If iu doubt write me.
Xours gratefully, Henry Steinberger,
Allentown, Pa. Mold by Curry-Arring
tou Co.
Everything you can call for
in Granite Ironware at about
half the price charged else/
where at Terhune/Nixon Co’s
Gold Medal. Highest Awards.
Diploma of Honor
AWARDED TO
A. K. HAWKES.
Cotton States and
International Exposition
For superior lens, grinding and excellency
in the manufacture of
Spectacles and
Eyeglasses-
Curry-Arrington Co.,
Has a full assortment of these famous
Glasses.
How is Your
Opportunity
To buy a PIANO, ORGAN, BICYCLE
or SEWING MACHINE at low prices
and on easy payments. I will posi
tively save you money. Write for
free catalogue. Largest stock of sheet
music in the state. Special discounts
to teachers. Pianos rented with pur
chase privileges.
200 second-hand Bicycles that must
be sold at slaughter prices. You will
do well to get my prices on these.
Latest model wheels on easy pay
mebts.
Sewing Machines on easy pay
ments and at low prices.
Special inducemen s on all goods
for the next thirty days. Now is the
time for you to save money by buying
close.
E. E. Forbes Music House,
S. F. DAVIS. Manager,
327 Broad St v Rome, Ga
Treasury Department, 5
OFFICE OF
Comptroller of Currency, ;
Washington, D. C., Aug. 15, 1897. J
Whereas, By satisfactory evidedence
presented to the undersigned it has been
made to appear that the First National
Bank of Rome, in the city of Rome, in
the county of Fioyd and state of Georgia,
has complied with all the provisions of
the act of congress to enable National
Banking associations to extend their cor
porate existence, and for other purposes,
approved July 12. 1882, now, there
fore, I, George M. Coffin, deputy and
acting comptroller of the currency, do
hereby certify that the First National
Bank of Rome, in the city of Rome, in
tha county of Floyd and state of Georgia,
is authorized to have succession for the
period specified in its amended articles of
association, namely, until close of business
on August 15, 1897.
In testimony whereof witness my hand
and seal of office, this 15th ’day of
August , 1897. ■
George M. Coffin,
Deputy an d Acting Comptroller of the
Currency. No. 2368. 30d
DELICIOUS ”
CASTOR OIL
STRANGE BUT TRUE.
“Castor ean Honey,”
Manufactured by the Atlanta Chemica
Co., Atlanta, Ga., is pure Caster Oil, with
all of its medicinal virtues, but actually
agreeable to the taste. Think of .it, a
child will drink a whole bottle if allowed
Sold only by agents and tbe Atlanta
Chemical Co.
Agents wanted. Address as above.