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Is hell or Heaven the Klondike of
Christianity?
Let the North Georgia farmers plant
a larger acreage of wheat.
A few who were fortunate think
that speculating in wheat beats going
to Klondike.
The Dalton Argus says: ‘ 'John W.
Maddox made a speech that caught
the old vets last Saturday.’ 1
The Tattnall Journal is sure ‘ ‘that
there is more money in Georgia’s pine
forests than in the Klondike gold
fields.” _
Mr. 41fred Harper who is in Sante
Fe, N. M., contributes an interesting
letter to this issue of The Sunday
Tribune.
Rome needs a canning factory. Pears,
grapes, peaches and other fruits and
vegetables are here in greaser quantity
than can be used.
- There will be no uniform textbooks
in Georgia. The teachers do pot want
it and even the publishers are afraid
of it,says the Savannah Press.
Cotton declined an eighth of a cent
the past week because of an estimate
promising thejlargest crop ever grown*
This estimate is apt to be wrong.
The remarkable advance in wheat
has created a remarkable sensation
in the markets of the United States.
Speculators made and lost fortunes.
Ail of Rome’s pastors have returned
from their summer vacations with
one, or two exceptions. They return
to their work with renewed zeal and
energy.
Says the Buena Vista Patriot:
• ‘Floyd county has a right to ba proud
of leading the state in increased tax
returns, and The Rome Tbibune
takes a pride in letting the people
know it.” ■
Dunn and Bradstreet’s oommercia
agencies report the volume of buslmss
the largest in five years. Bank clear
Ings in 86 large cities the past week
week were 17 per cent larger than the
same week last year and 56 per cent
larger in New York. Exports of wheat
and flour from the United States the
past week were larger than anyiweek
•Ince September, 1898.
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......... Soow'q Busy Season.
It will be short time now
before the busy season in Rome will
open in earnest Cotton will be roll
ing in by the wagon load and train
load ;and‘ Rome will assume her posi
tion of supremacy as a eotton market,
where the farmer can, at all times,
seeure the top of the market for his
cotton. This distinction has been
held by Rome for nearly a quarter of
a century.
The Tribune expects to see the
coming fall and winter the busiest
season Rome has known in several
years. There should be a united effort
on the part ’of those interested to
make it so. The cotton recipts this
season should be the. largest in Rome’s
history if the orop is as large as it now
appears It will be. This can be done
if we publish to the world that we are
going to pay the very highest market
prioe for every oale broagbt hate. We
have only co re-lterate that what we
haVedonefta the past, we will continue
to do in the future.
There is every indication that the
era of expected prosperity is upon us.
The hard times are past. We can
look forwardjwith confidence to better
times. As The Tribune has repeatedly
stated Rome has suffered less from
the depression than any other city in
the South, qnd is In better condition
than any city in the whole country.
Let us all pull together and see that
Rome makes great strides forward
during the coming era of prosperity.
Is Family Prayer DecEn : nj?
An English magazine has inter
viewed a number of chnrch dignita
ries on the question: “Is Family
Prayer Declining?” Eleven respond
in the affirmative, bix are neutral and
two give it as their opinion that the
practice is not declining. Some of the
replies are interesting:
Dr. Joseph Parker says: “There
can be but one answer to the question
whether family worship is declining,
in my opinion it is almost extinct. ”
Dr. John Watson (lan Maclaren)
writes, “ Within the sphere personally
known to me, the custom is on the
declinb.”,
Dr. A. K. H. Boyd 'says: ‘ 'My im
pression is that in lay dwellings family
prayer is not maintained as it used to
be in Scotland in my boyhood.”
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the su
perintendent of the West London
Wesleyan Mission, gives the opinion
that “family worship is declining, in
consequence of the terrible hurry and
competition of modern life, especially
in the great cities. I realize the diffi
culty most painfully in my own house
hold. Men are iu far too great a hnt.y
to make money. The all-pervading
mammonism is injuring everything,
Mud few things more than the quiet
and reverent family prayer which was
so great a blessing in the past.”
Dr. • Robertson Nicoll states; "So
far my experience goes, the practice
is very decidedly declining./’
Mark Gay Pearse believes that at
any rate there is no declension in the
morning observance of family prayer.
There are different explanations
given by the leading religious newer
papers, among them the Cleveland
Evangelical Messenger, which says
that ‘ ‘the sum of it all is, that modern
business, that Juggernaut of nine
teenth century life, is destroying in
many homes that most sacred institu
tion, the family altar. The sacrifice
of thanksgiving and prayer at the
family altar is neglected, that we may
sacrifice at the altar of Mammon the
more assiduously. This is not only
true in the cities. It is true in the
country, among the farmers, especially
during the busy harvest season, when
hired help is employed. Then it is
that no time is taken for family
prayer. But what manner of men
and women will they be who in child
hood and youth not hear the voice of
their parents daily in prayer and in
Bible-reading? Need we wonder if in
fidelity spreads, and secularism gnaws
the very |het»rt out of society? Need
we wonder if Sabbath desecration and
divorces increase, when family altar g
crumble? Need we- wonder if the
church becomes cold and formal,
when family prayers are hushed, and
the fires of devotion on the home altar
are buried under the white ashes of
neglect?” The old world clings more
tenaciously to its customs and prac.
tices than the new, says the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, but even there it
seems that the beautiful castdm of
holding family prayers is falling into
lamentable disuse. When Burns wrote
his "Cotter’s Saturday Night” he
merely pictured what was in evidence'
in every cotter’s but. And in those
remote regions no doubt the custom
will linger for many years to come,
although elsewhere and in more “ad
vanced” countries the old time family
prayer is fast becoming the exception
rather than the rule;
The Barnesville Gazette declares
that Mrs. Felton “is a smart woman,
in fact, too smart in some respects to
be a woman.” The Savannah Press
tifinKS the Barnesville editor will have
a lively time answering for this para
graph. *
THE HOME TKIBUNE. SUNDAY. AUGUST a*. 1897.
Ptant a Larger Wheat Acreage.
The farmers of North Georgia and
North Alabama should turn their at
tention wore to piloting a larger
acreage of wheat. We are not led to
make these remarks entirely because
of the present booming wheat market,
but because of conditions which
exist. Statistics show that the wheat
yield in the United States averages
less than nine (9) bushels per acre. In
Tennessee,Ohio, Kentucky,lllinois and
the middle states fifteen or twenty
bushels is considered a good yield.
North Georgia land will when prop
erly prepared yield an average of
twenty to thirty bushels* Messrs. J.
A. and J. W. RounsaviU raised 1,200
bushels of wheat tbis>year their aver
age beiqg about thirty bushels to the
acre. Mr. R. D. VanDyde raised a
crop of 2.000 bushels. The success of
and many other far
mers who might be mentioned, show
with what success wheat can be grown
in this section.
Inthe case of wheat vs. cotton it is
apparent to all that the saving in cul
tivation and harvesting is tremen
dously in favor of the former. The
farmers of North Georgia would be
far better off if they would plant more
wbeat'and less cotton. There is more
money in wheat. * •
Gen, Gordon's Lectures in the North,
The Chicago Tribune says; “General
and ex Governor John B. Gordon of
Georgia, has been arousing much en
thusiasm among old soldiers and others
in the central part of the state by his
lectures on the civil war and hip elo
quent appeals for fraternity and fidelity
to the flag and our common country,
There are three men whose example,
acts and utterances in the last few years
have done more to obliterate the hatred
and jealousies engendered between the
north and the south during the late war
than all others in the south, and these
are General James Longstreet, ex-Gover
nor Gordon and Henry Watterson.
Their patriotic utterances and examples
are worthy of all praise, and nowhere
meet a more cordial or enthusiastic
response than among the old soldiers
who met them on southern battlefields a
generation ago. May their number in
crease. ”
Observing The Sabbath.
The Interior of Chicago, Presbyte
rian, thus presents the strictly reli
gious view of the Sabbath, and the
keeping of the day: * “The Sabbath is
for man, and it is for the best part of
him, the only part that will endure.
It is most reasonable, therefore, to
ask him to observe it. It is intended
wholly for his happiness. In wasting
it he is wasting himself. We invite
him to church because there he can
get the most out of the Sabbath (or
himself. Whatever tends to the vir
tues of the home, of the family, of
the community, to the rest of the
body and refreshment .pt the soul,
that is lawful for the Sabbath, The
Sabbath takes account in time of the
verities of eternity. It is the sign and
signal of immortality, the promise of
God of' immortal life, and the accep
tance of that promise on the part of
man. The Christian should be
thoughtful and circumspect in regard
to the Sabbath. It is not to be cari
catured as it was by the Puritans into
a prison-day, a day of punishment—,
‘which things indeed have a show of
wisdom in will worship and humility
and severity of the body, but are not
of any vrflue as against the indulgence
of the flesh.” This is only to create
disrespect for the Sabbath, and to
provoke defiance of the most reason
able and most beneficent lAw itself.
But on the other band the Christian
may not do what to him would be
blameless if by doing it he may seem
to, encourage the general spirit of
Sabbath broking.”
Peculiarities of Speech,
Brother Hoss of the Nasliville Chris
tian Advocate thus takes note of a critic
who is not pleased with the pronuncia
tion of southerners:
“A pleasant correspondent of the
Western Christian Advocate has been
to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition,
and found many thing to delight him;
bat he is in grief over the way in which
the southern people deal with the letter
“r.” In some company he actually
heard the expression “Foah dooahs to
the right. ’ But we venture the judg
ment that he did not hear anything
about “noospapers” and “institootions’’
and "cricks.” Nor were,his ears greet
ed with the glad, familiar sound of
‘‘hadn’t orter.” Every section of the
United States has its peculiarities of
speech. The ‘ ‘dialect’ ’ot New England
sounds strange in our ears, though not
quite as muoh so as the broad, rough
speech of the far'horthwest. ”
As a matter of fact, few southerners
say “foah” or *‘doah. ” They do not
roll their “r’s” nor give them that
Harsh, metallic sound the average north
erner or easterner does, but they do not
omit them. The illiterate southerner is
more apt to say Hanner than Hannah.
The letter “r” is perhaps less used in
South Carolina than in any other south
ern state. For instance Maj. Huger,
a gallant son of the Palmetto state, uses
an “r” in writing or spelling hie name,
but he would odun'tit» serious offense
if anybody should pvon'muce it. Even a
northerner should Itave off the r !n th&
major’s name. The eduoated southerner
may be inclined to use the toft pedal on
his r’s, so to speak, but the educated
northerner is inclined to give the ktter
a whirring sound. The educated north,
eroer, however, does not say ‘*noos
paper” or “institootion” or “Toosday”
or *‘crick.” These are the words of the
cheap, uneducated critic who tortures
north into narrth, and who criticises the
southerner for not drawing out the let
ter r until it quivers.—Knoxville
Tribune,
Why Not State Banks. Mr. Jordan?
Banker Gunby Jordon of Columbus
will find that the national bank system
probably needs more radical amendment
than that allowing small baikks to be
established and the issue of notes up to
per value of the government deposit.
* The currency system of the United
States,” according to Comptroller Eckels,
“is one in name only. It lacks every
element of what rightfully can be called
a system. It violates in.every essential
feature what in all other departments
of governmental affairs we dominate a
system. It is not an orderly combina
tion of parts into a whole, according to
some rational principle or organic idea.
Everywhere there is want of unity, and
instead of presenting to the world finan
cial completeness it exhibits itself as a
work qf ‘shreds and patches. * ’’
The Savannah Press which is well
known as a gold advocate in comment
ing on this comes out in favor of state
banks. The Press says: ‘‘Furthermore,
if small national banks are to be multi
plied and allowed to issue notes, why
cannot state banks be increased and be
allowed to issue bills? The notes can be
hedged about with proper restrictions
and in a state like Georgia, the financial
system may be greatly improved by a
wise and benifleent system of state
banks. ”
The Advance in Wheat.
Wheat advanced yesterday 6 cents on
the bushel over the price offered on the
day previous. It is roughly estimated
that the American crop will reach 600,-
000,000 bushels, and while these figures
may not be accurate, they are suffi
ciently co to form the basis of a calcula
tion. What does the advance of 6 cents
a bushel mean to the wheat raisers of
America? It means in round numbers
s36' 000,000. Rather a neat sum to make
in one day. And the end may not be
yet. The wheat orop of Argentina,
Russia and other wheat producing
countries is said to be short and the
prediction is made is that Ameri
can wheat will go to $1.25 per bushel.
Great is the producing power of Uncle
Srm’s children. On Friday the ad
vance was, also, about six cents. In
six weeks wheat has advanced 35 cents
per bushel whicji means to the wheat
raisers a profit of $210,000,000.
The Tribune's Klondike Find
(Dalton Argus)
The Rome Tribune made a regular
Klondike find wl ei it secured the ser
vices of Houstoun R. Harper. There is
not a nicer man, better journalist nor
more perfect gentleman anywhere than
Brother Harper, and Rome is to be con
gratulated.
Mere Sparks.
The professed Christians who
squander their energies in idle pur
suits, and yet have no time for reli
gious duties, will meet with a dread
ful reckoning.
To treat your friend with kindness
while he lives is vastly better than to
make a great ado over him when he
is dead.
Some people really seem to think
that it 4s possible for them by the use
of adroit contrivances to deceive
God.
To withhold appreciation from one
to whom it is due is to be guilty of a
very serious form of dishonesty.
A little of the courtesy that you
waste on the world might very well be
spent in your own home.
AU the coarseness of a man or
woman’s soul often comes out in a sin
gle unreflecting word.
Seaweed.
Alas poor wee<V The care'es* tide
Has left the with hi* lightest foam;
And now a de»ert,drear and wide
Divdes thee from thy whl»hed-for home,
His flow may bear thee back once more,
But canst thou live thy life of yore?
Alas, I, too. am loft awhile
By her I love, in lighten play!
On distant loves I see her »mile,
I hear her laughter far away.
Her heart may turn to me again,
But can my heart forget the pain?
—ft. I. O. in the Spectator
Lines.
(Found in his Bible in the Gate-house at West
minister.)
E’en such is Unie; that takes in trust
Our youth our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with eePlb and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When ws have wandered all our ways,
Shut up the story of our days;
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.
—Sir Walter Raleigh,
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