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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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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,
Atlanta has backed down.'
Flush the sewers. Clean the city.
The cool wave is an appreciated
blessing.
The Longstreet affair seems to have
no turning.
“Indiana, a Northern state, dis
graces the entire nation.”
Birmingham is the best place in
America for the government armor
plate works.
The Summerville News sets forth
the penal island plan fully, and des
cribes its advantages.
The South has never lynched a
man for burglary, but it does lynch
men for crimes worse than murder.
Editor Triplett prints an article on
“A Woman’s Priceless Love.' 1 Is this
his recollections of love’s young
dream?
Pittsburg coal miners get 65 cents
per ton; Alabama, 45 cents and East,
Tennessee, less than this. God pity
them. No wonder they strike.
If the Masons attempt to give our
firemen a banquet each time their
temple catches on fire, we fear it will
be a powerful drain on their treasury.
Editor Triplett says the talk about
removing Chattanooga and Point
Lookout into Georgia reminds him of
Harry Edward’s "Dooly county safe
story.”
A Washington man has invented a
microscopic improvement which will
make a mosquito look twelve miles
long. May heaven protect us from
“sich critters”!
The New York Bun is still talking
about Southern accent and The Trib
UNH sticks to its statement about the
angelic voices of the women of .the
Georgia and Carolina coast.
It was so warm on the first Monday
in September in Boston that many of
the school children were sent home
sick. The sunny South has no tribu
lations, says the Savannah Press.
The Sunday Tribune will be a very
interesting paper. A number of special
articles will appear in it, one of them
being a clever argument against co
education,written by Miss Mary Shaw.
The reed bird season is on, and
thousands of New York’s sparrows
have disappeared.—Chicago Tunes-
Herald. Yes. down in Americus they
are eating sparrows for rice birds.
{Sectional Hatred.
A friend of The Tribune who was
born and reared in Cincinnati objects
to the line we published across the
top of the front page of Thursday’s
issue as follows:
“Indiana, a Northern state, dis
graces the entire nation.”
He further objects to our editorial
yesterday headed “Lawlessness in the
• North,’’ because he says publications
are calculated to stir up sectional
strife and feeling.
.We know our friend has a strong
belief in the future of the South. He
thinks it is the richest section of this
great country, and its possibilities are
almost limitless. The Southern people
be likes for their many fine qualities,
and be feels friendly to us.
But as we see it he has not been in
the South long enough to have a clear
idea of our conditions, and certainly
not to sympathize with us. He forgets
the venpmousness with which the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and
Chicago Inter Ocean and New York
Mail and Express and Boston Trans-
New York Tribune, and other
Northern papers have attacked the
South. Some of these Northern papers
have lied and misrepresented the
South in the most malicious and out
rageous manner. They have waved
the bloody shirt ad infinitum. Lan
guage has been too feeble to express
their hate and vituperation. They
have seized upon the slightest pretext
to denounce and malign this section.
We have borne it long and patiently.
The Tribune believes with many other
papers that the best way to answer
these traducers is to call attention to
their acts of lawlessness. No lynching
that ever occurred in the South equals
that in Indiana. It was worse than
five hundred lynchings in the South
in the last twenty years. The expo
sure and prominence given Northern
lawlessness by|the Southern press is al
ready bearing fruit. Here is w£at that
extraordinarily conservative, English
edited, New York Post saying:
“This is no sectional question. Most
of the lynching of black men for “the
usual crime” occur in the South, but
that is simply because most of the
black men live in the South. If negro
brutes were as numerous in the North,
the whites of this section would feel
as strongly and act as rashly a“ their
brethren in- the South—the Urbana
incident showed that. We are all in
the same boat, North and South,
East and West. If we lynch negroes
in Ohio without restraint, the next
thing we know the life of a white man
accused of crime in New York or New
England will not be safe.”
Our friend ’from Cincinnati is mis
taken when he ascribes to The Trib
une any desire to stir up sectional
strife. We wish to be on the best of
terms with the North. Our hand is
ever ready to help wipe away the al
leged bloody chasm. We are ready at
all times to defend and uphold “old
glory,” the most glorious and beauti
ful flag that now floats to the breezes.
But we love the South and its tradi
tions. If we did not defend our home
—our section—from the maligners of
the Northern press we would not de.
serve the respect of our people. We
shall continue to publish most con
spicuously all accounts of Northern
crime Until the wantonless and mali
cious attacks on the South are stopped.
The Waltz is Doomed,
Young persons in “our set” may
wail and weep and gnash their pearly
teeth all they please, says the Chicago
Times Herald. The waltz is doomed.
No more will this intoxicating revel
be the proper thing- No real lady or
gentleman will ever waltz again.
In rude “dances” held in ‘‘halls,”
where the “gent” may remove hie
coat if he pleases or talk to a friend
over his ‘lady’s” shoulder while
swishing her skirts around the pillars
and posts, waltzing may be continued,
but no well-conducted ballroom will
ever be waltzed in again.
The American Society of Professors
of Dancing has decreed. August per
sons who know all about the contor
tions and angles and see-sawing and
cries crossing of fantastic toe tripping
have spoken. Napoleon told his old
guard to die. It died. Richelieu
commended men ip lay down their
lives for a whim. They were laid down.
Czars and emperors havejmade worlds
tremble by. their crotchety, senseless
and vain edicts, but all these are
trifles light as air compared with the
majestic pronunciamento issued by
the American Society of Professors of
Dancing.
This organization has actually given
it out that the waltz is no longer a
waltz. It is a romp. Dancing is all
right and a benefit to humanity is the
way the decree goes forth, but romp
ing is not nice. It is undignified, not
any too proper and besides loosens
the coiffure and produces intense per
spiration. Therefore waltzing must
stop.
This came out in the convention of
the society, now in progress here. The
signing of Magna Charts was a farce
and a silly little bit of child’s play
alongside this convention. The Span-
THE ROUE TRIBUNE. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18. 1897,
I ish inquisition was a comic opera to
it. Dancing i« being discussed. New
gyrations are being tried out hnd
passed on, and what boots it to these
eminent ‘’professors” it empires fail,
republics totter, nr thrones crumble,
so long as ’‘our set” has the right
kind of a caper with which to while
away the weary hours of the coming
winter nights?
Coast Fevers.
As the yellow fever scare is an in
teresting topic just now we republish
from the Birmingham Age«-Herald the
following:
Until the bacteriologists have accur
ately described the microbe that is
constant and peculiar to dengue, and
also the one that goes with yellow
fever, it may not be possible to con
vince all that the two fevers have no
relation to each other. So far as we
know the microbe of dengue has not
been identified; Prof. Santanelli, t of
Montevideo, claims the discovery of
the yellow fever microbe. The out
ward and is however,
strong enough to prove dissimilarity.
It may be thus summed up:
1. Dengue came from East Africa or
India; yellow fever hasjneveroccurred
in either section.
2. An attack of either affords no
protection against the other.
3. Oue may have . dengue many
times; as a rule one oan have yellow
fever but once, however much he
may desire another round of it.
4. Dengue is rarely fatal; yellow
fever is highly fatal.
5. The catarrhal, rheumatic and
eruptive symptoms of dengue is often
called, on account of its peculiarities,
“breakbone fever,” and “eruptive
rheumatic fever.”
6. Yellow fever was brought to this
country, in 1668; dengue was first im
ported in 1828.
And malarial fever seems to be
equally distinct; for it has nothing in
common with yellow fever. We need
not go over the points of difference, it
being sufficient to state that quinine
utterly lacks power in yellow fever
cases, while it readily masters mala
rial fever. The books contain no evi
dence that either “breakbone” or
malarial fever leads on to yellow fever,
The last named is plainly a specific
disease, as cholera or the plague is;
and in the present visitation, when
the evidence is all in, it will doubtless
be seen that the peculiar microbe of
yellow fever was carried in some way
from Ship Island to Ocean Springs,
where it obtained a limited foothold,
while dengue was doing its best in
epidemic form.
Government Factory,
(Savannah Presip)
Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay
Evans of Tennessee, Representatives
Wheeler of Alabama, Livingston of
Georgia, and Gaines of Tennessee, and
a delegation of prominent men from
the large iron sections of the south
called yesterday on the naval board in
Washington. The board is now consid
ering the question of the establishment
of a government armor factory, and
these gentlemen urged that the south
offered greater advantages in the cost of
labor, transportation, etc., for the loca
tion of the proposed plant. The presi
dent of the board called the attention of
the delegation to the fact that the mem
bers could not go into the question of a
locality site and Representative Living
ston and ohters made the point that
such information was what congress
desired and that the scope of the board
should be enlarged. Accordingly, ac
companied by Commodore Howell, the
delegation went befcrj Assistant Secre
tary Roosevelt, who heard their views,
but told them it would be impossible to
consider the question of site until the
character of the plant and its cost may
be determined. The delegation will
Submit plans as soon as practicable and
there may be a chance tor Georgia,
Alabama, or Tennessee to secure the
government armor factory. The ad
vantages that the delegation urged im
pressed the board very favorablv and
possibly when the plans are submmitted
the south may be recognized by the
government as possessing the requisites
and facilities necessary for the manufac
ture of the plates desired in the construc
tion of war ships and for other purposes.
Yellow Journalism in Atlanta.
“There is no defense,” says the
Charleston News and Courier, ‘ of the
New York style of journalism against
which the Atlanta Journal protests—dt
is a disgrace to civilization; but the
Atlanta newspapers (should mend their
own ways before trying to reform the
yellow journals a thousand miles dis
tant, ” In point of fact the lurid lies,
about southern alleged happenings, that
appear in the yellow concerns, north and
east, are concocted by local correspon
u?rts. They are worked up on the
spot, by young men who reside at the
southern places, where the alleged oc
currences are located. When we reform
our own scribblers and inventors there
will be nothing further needed in that
matter.
Fun In Indiana,
(Chattanooga Tinies)
Ripley county, Indiana, where a mob
took from jail five alleged burglars and
thieves, and hanged them, night before
last, is in the southeastern part of the
state. It is almost evenly balanced,
Kolitioally, voted for Bryan 2,714' for
[oKinley 2,690, for Palmer 5, for Lev
ering (Pro.) 10.
The peucliarity of it up there, to em
ploy a Hibernian form of speech,
is not peculiar. Indiana is noted, all
over the country, has been ever since we
first knew the state, early in the fifties,
for “regulators,” in one shape and
another. Insolent, truculent bands, in
almost every county that took the laws
into their own hands. We have known
them to threaten, by anonymous letters
and by posters, an honest, industrious
citizen with chastisement, merely be
cause some loafer had complained about
the citizen’s business methods, *to a lea
der of the gang. Ripely county was one
of the whitecap infested counties, and
the successors of the whitecaps have
lynched five tough citizens, * ‘on general
principles.”
It will be perfectly safe to assume,
right now, that nor. one of the lynchers
will be seriously disturbed. Indianna
mobocrats never are punished. These
will not be.
And still, Indiana is not a southern
state!
Strange! Passing strange!
Six Costly Things.
The biggest price for a painting was
that paid for Meissoner’s "1814.” M.
Chanchard paid $170,000 for it. The
most costly building of mordern timesis
that of the New York State Capital at
Albany, N. Y. Nineteen milion sixhun
dred thousand dollars have been spent
on it. In 1892 Malcolm Forbes paid
$150,000 to Senator Stanford for the
horse Arion, making it the most valua
ble equine the world has ever known.
The most valuable book in the world is
a Hebrew Bible now In the Vatican. In
1512 Pope Julius 11. refused to sell it for
its weight in gold, which would amount
to about $103,000. The "ImperiaP'dia
mond is considered the finest stone of
its kind in the world The Nizam of
Hyderabad offered $2,150,000, the largest
price ever known, for this diamond. The
costilest meal ever served was a supper
given by Eelius Veras to a dozen guests.
It is said to have cost $242,500.
Jake Moore is The Man
(Athens Banner)
Judge Joe. Syd Turner principal keep
er of the penitentiary wants Judge
Hart’s seat on the bench, and then our
friend Jake C. Moore, his assistant,
wouldn’t mind humping right into
Judge Joe’s place.
Appreciated Compliment,
(Dalton Citizen)
Houstouu R. Harper, is putting
some real “hot stuff” in the editorial
columns of The Rome Tribune.
Houstoun can do it for be has the ablity.
Ad Poetas Minores.
Ye poets, who will ever sing
Os Love a‘nd all her stale conceits,
Desist, this humbler bard entreats,
And strike some newer, livelier string,
Th< J’-reateSt singers in the land
Have sung that tune, and sung it well;
They’ve told us all there was to tell,
Why should you try yonr 'prentice hand?
Why labor on in such a field,
Whose crop was reaped long years ago?
Attend to me, and I will show
Soil that shall give a goodlier yield.
Foredoomed to failure, you rbuse
A heartless world, and yet there lies
A mine of wealth before your eyes,
Could you but tame your fiery muse.
Come, sink your pride, and raise anew
A brighter song, a gayer strain;
Tell us of Drugs to cure our pain.
Deck them with praises, false or true. •
Hymn to us Pills and Soap and Scent!
Go, twang the harp, and the lyre,
And temper your poetic fire
To penning an Advertisement,
Tempt not the ancient hackneyed lays
Os gallant knight and loving maid;
Learn as the maxim of your trade
“That work is best which highest pays.”
—L. H. Lacon Watson in “Verses, Suggested
and Origina’-”
■ ■ The sweetest
1 Obhkk ! and the most
If 10 I ifiEltl a word r i e n S the
English language and the one about
which the most tender and holy recol
lections cluster is that of Mother—she
who watched our tender years; yet the
life of every Expectant Mother is beset
H Mother’s Friend
so assists Nature in the change taking
place that the Mother is enabled to
look forward without dread or gloomy
forebodings to the hour when she ex-
Feriences the the joy of Motherhood.
ts use insures safety to the lives of
both Mother and Child, and she is left
stronger after than before confinement.
Sent by Mail, on receipt of price, SI.OO per bot
tle. Book to “ Expectant Mothers ” will be mail
ed free on request, to any lady, containing val
uable information and voluntary testimonials
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Kid Gloves cleaned, 15c to 50c per
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MANUFACTURERS OF
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Lime and Cement,
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Shingles and Laths, G-lass, Builders’ Paner
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We take contracts for all kinds of build
ings, large or small.
O’Neill Manufacturing Company,
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Telephone 76.
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Telephone 173. 509 and 5 I I Broad Street, Rome, Ga
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