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The City of Rome,
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary.
The County Commissioners.
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials.
The cool wave is a great relief and
blessing.
The doors of Rome are shut to yel
low fever refugees.
Yellow 'fever germs cannot propa
gate in this cool weather.
Good rains fell Friday in East Ten
nessee and in Birmingham.
The New York banks hold more
gold now than ever known before.
Cotton continues to roll in. Rome
received nearly a thousand bales last
week.
The New York Sun now openly en
dorses the republican party. It has
been doing that stealthily for years.
New Brunswick. N. J., compels all
tramps to work. Weary Waggles will
walk a huriflred miles out of his way
to avoid that town.
Harry Stillwell Edwards in a two
column article to the Macon Telegraph
declares the twenty million starving
paople of India is the tragedy of this
century.
The Meridian Herald thinks that
the yellow fever excitement has de
monssrated that all of the crazy people
are not inside the walls of the insane
asylums.
Many critics seem to think that
Cleo de Merode, the famous French
beauty and dancer, has only attained
her reputation from brushing her
hair over her ears.
A man in New Hampshire died
from the bursting of his heart, and
just think,' Charlotte Smith says
there are 29.000 girls in Boston waiting
for some one to love them, says an
.exchange.
The penitentiary committees of
both branches of the legislature will
meet in Atlanta today. . They may be
in session for a week, or two. They
will thoroughly investigate all plans
presented and endorse the best one.
What on earth is coming over the
spirit of the dreams of The Rome*
• Tribune man? He has descanted upon
the demerits of nails in lieu of but
tons, be has written a panegyric upon
the voices of Southern maidens, and
now he comes out with a lengthy
editorial upon the manufacture of
hairpins—Americus Herald. We
strive to publish something every day
lo entertain and interest the fair sex
Stop The Rumor Fiend.
We notice that a number of South
ern cities are passing ordinances to
stop the rumor fiend. This person
belongs to a class who circulate false
reports of a nature calculated to barm
and alarm unnecessaily the inhabi
tants of any community.
In Rome we recently had some ex
amples of this in the small pox scare.
Unthougbtedly a rumor is repeated
until people begin to believe it. It
spreads to other places, and people
are afraid to come here. There is not
and has not been any contagious dis
ease In Rome, and we hope there will
never be a case, but to stop the rumor
fiend The Tribune would favor the
passage of the following ordinance:
“Be it ordained by the mayor and
aidermen of the city of Rome that it
is hereby declared a misdemeanor to
maliciously circulate false or ground
less rumors of the existence of aty
contagious or infectious disease in the
city of Rome or to originate any such
rumors'that are false or groundless,
and upon conviction before the re
corder shall be punishable by a fine
of not less than $2 or more than SSO
for each offense.
“Be it further ordained that this or
dinance take effect from and after its
passage.”
Some people think it a joke to go
about circulating rumors about small
pox, yellow fever, etc., and these sto
ries grow larger from being repeated.
But if these rumor fiends knew they
were liable to arrest, and to be fl ,ed
for their foolishness they would stop it.
Outlook For Cotton,
The cotton crop is short. It will be
several hundred thousand bales less
than the August and early September
estimates.
The price of cotton is too low at
present. Many good judges of the
cotton condition and prospects say
that the Southern cotton farmers are
in the same position of the Western
growers of wheat—they can get what
their crop is worth if they insist on it.
In the New Orleans Times Democrat
we notice the following: We pub
lished yesterday the weekly crop re
port of the department of agriculture
The last monthly bulletin of the de
partment, published September 10,
and giving the condition of the crop
on September 1, estimated the deter
ioration in condition during August
at 8.6 points. The weekly report
covers the period ending September
13, a very interesting time in the con
dition of cotton, for it is the time
when the staple is maturing and we
can definitely determine whether it is
going to be a failure or a success.
The report is not an encouraging
one; it declares that the weather has
been toohot and rains almost unknown
except on tne Texas coast and in east
ern Florida—and in the latter section
they have been too abundant. Given
in the most condensed form and com
pared with last year and September
1. the several report as follows:
Alabama—crop below average.
Arkansas—steady deterioration ;crop
very poor and no better than last
year, when it was a failure.
Florida—Yield in lint deceptive.
Georgia -Three- fourths of an average
crop.
Louisiana—Crop as good as last'
year.
Mississippi—Deterioration since Sep
tember 1, but crop a good average
one.
North Carolina—Great deterioration
since Setember 1.
South Carolina —Considerable dete
rioration since September 1.
Tennessee—Crop shortened by
drouth.
Texas—Crop considerably below the
average.
If the report given by the depart
ment of agriculture of the condition
of the crop is correct, the farmers
know it as well as the agents and rep
resentatives of the secretary of agri
culture. They see the cotton every
day and know exactly how it is doing;
they know whether it is deteriora
ting or improving; they have a good
idea of whether it is going to be a big
crop or not, and knowing this can de
termine, whether they ought to ship
their cotton to market or hold it back
and force a rise. The Southern cotton
farmers today are in the same position
as the Western growers of wheat; they
can get what their crop is worth if
they insist on it. •
Nervous Exhaustion,
In a discussion of the influences
that often control the formation of
character, in The Popular Science
Monthly for September, Prof, M. V.
Shea examines the physical effects of
fatigue on that part of the animal or
ganization known as the nerve cell.
This cell is a reservoir of energy. It
is a sort of storage battery of vitality.
A trifling stimulus comes to it from
without, along one of the nerve fibers,
exciting thought, feeling or move
ment. Any experience of this sort in
volves a diseberge, as of electricity,
along another set of filaments, and
uses up some of the reserve. Under
the microscope a nerve cell is found
THE ROME TRIBUNE. TUtSDAY
to consist of an outer, pulpy shell and
a central nucleus. It is impracticable
to examine human nerve cells; but
elaborate experiments on frogs show
that the nucleus of their nerve cells
shink to one-half their natural size
after prolonged stimulation. It is a
fair inference that a similar change
results from prolonged mental effort
or excessive emotion in man. Here,
then, is the material or phyical side
of what we sometimes call nervous
exhaustion.
Professor Shea points out some of
the agencies in the home and school
which promote brain fatigue, intelleo
tual sluggishness and emotional es
trangement. Lack of nutrition is one
of these. The celebral cells, in order
to remain in a healthy and normal
state, must absorb from the blood a
certain atfiount of nutriment daily.
But they require a particular kind of
material—not that which is most
favorable to the production of bone,
or of fat. but albumen, also known
as protein. One quarter of the white
matter of the brain and one-half of
the gray matter consists of the sub
stance. Os the various foods most
commonly eaten in this country,
beef is especially rich in it. Not less
than 29.7 per cent of a beefsteak is
protein; salt codfish contains 27.6 per
cent, beans 22.2 chicken 19.3, rolled
oats and fresh fisn each 16, graham
flour 14. wheat flour 12. most pies and
puddings about 6 or 7. and vegetables
(on an average) not over 1%.
In several cases which have been
noted an analysis of a child’s blood
has shown a deficiency of nerve
building elements. A change of diet
has been prescribed, and has been
followed by marked improvement in
mental activity, keenness and endu
rance (as {well as by amiability.
Stunted intellects and lack of self
control may thus be traced, in in
st inces, to lack of proper food.
Intense excitement of any kind also
taxes the nervous energy. Teasing or
anything which provokes antagon
ism is exhausting, and should be scru
pulously avoided in dealing with del
icate childreu-Over-stimulaiion to
effort in study, speaking pieces or
other activities that demand either
thought or feeling, are objected, to by
Professor Shea.
Georgia Still Open,
The outside traveling pubilc should
he made to understand that persons
may come into Georgia, go from place
to place and depart without any hind
rance, A health certificate showing
that the bearer has been in no infected
places will enable hina or her to proceed
is ordinarily. A misapprehension as to
the scope and purpose of the exist
ing quarantine regulations in Georgia
seems to exist to the detriment of busi
ness, There is nothing to deter any
traveler in the state, provided, as we
have said, he has not placed himself un
der suspicion by sojourning in southern
Louisiana or Mississippi and even then
he will not be put to much inconven
ience unless he shows symptoms of the
sickness. This is the existing condition.
Interior hotels in Georgia are showing
somqloss of business because of the be
lief that many places in the state have
been closed to all comers. This is not
true, for nothing has yet occurred to
justify any such regulations and those
which have been instituted merely have
as their object the keeping of the state
entirely free from the pestilence, so
that extremes may not have to be re
sorted to by the authorities.—Macon
Telegraph.
Answered by Four Words,
A writar says he was once in a Metho
dist love feast. A brother was talking
about perfection.
“Perfection!” said the minister. “I
don’t believe in it. Show me one per
fect man or woman. Did you ever see
one? Did you ever know one?” Dead
silence, broken at last by the minister
declaiming against perfection, saying:
“Once more I ask, does any one of you
know a perfect man or woman?”
An old woman stood up. She had a
queer bonnet, a little shawl was on her
shoulders.
“Perhaps you don’t understand the
question, madam? Do you know a per
fect being?” asked the minister.
“I understand the question, Mr.
Minister.”
“And did you ever know a perfect
man or woman?”
“Oh, yes.”
“And, pray, who was it!”
“My husband's first wife.”
Sensational News,
(Savannah News.)
The Atlanta Journal says it is opposed
to sensationalism and fake news dis
patches. We respectfully invite its at
tention to the account of the shooting
of the republican postmaster at Hogans
ville, which appears in its own coin’- ,
and to the card of the mayor of the
town with regard to the matter. From
the Journal’s story' it would appear
that tbe shooting was a coldblooded
political murder, and had been perpe
trated by a gang of white democrats.
According to the mayor, the only fact
in the account was that the postmaster
had been shot. The shooting, accord
ing, to the mayor, was the work of one ’
person, who inflicted a slight flesh
wound upon the postmaster. We ob
serve, by the way, that northern news-
papers printed the story with all of the
sensational details as given by the
Journal, and we confidently expect to
see a great deal of waving of bloody
shirts by northern republican newspa
pars in the next few days.
Dishwater Comments,
It is almost amusing to note the tame,
dish-water comments of some of the
northern republican papers on tbe
Indiana lynching. When there is a
lynching in the south the Philadelphia
Press becomes frenzied with righteous
indignation, and fairly blisters the sec
tion and the people for their unap
proachable perversity; but when there
is a “job lot” lynching of five suspected
robbers in Indiana, the Press blames it
upon “the culpable insecurity in which
our states leave thdr rural districts.”
The Press * ‘hopes the -lynchers will be
punished, ” to be sure, but it does not
excoriate the whole state, as would
have been the case had the lynching oc
curred in Mississippi instead of Tn
diana. Bavannrh News.
Northern Appreciation of Lee,
(Springfield Mass., Republican)
The country will feel easier with Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee back at the consulate in
Havana than with some successor who
would have all of his experience yet to
gain. There should be no change i i
that office until circumstances compel it
or render it absolutely safe.
Written by a Woman Under 30,
(From a Society Pape’)
When a woman over 30 falls in love
she acts a million times more silly than
a 16-year-old debutante.
He’s About to be Pickled,
(Summerville News)
Vat seems to'be de matter wid Leut
gert. Eb?
September,
September; oh, September,
Your days are far from nice; .
They’ mind m« o’ tbat< pudding
Composed of glue aud rice—
The middle may be scorching
While the rinds are cold as ice.
At midnight you are winter,
In the morning y< u are spring.
At midday finest summer,
As the wild moiquitoes sing,
And you wish you were a Zulu,
And could pull off everything.
September, I’m but mortal,
With non-elastic bones.
And think it hard to have them stretched
Through all the varying tones
Os eighty-sevea latitudes
And half a dozen zon r s.
YOUNG LADIES
who suffer from Profuse,
EvJfe—. Painful, Suppressed or Ir
regular Menstruation are
/ 7 A soon restored to health by
Bradfield’s
Female Regulator.
/ ' V as >een use d with
/ Ak' BTea “ success .for more
w ij// J V han 30 years and known
will' / l\ fco on organs of
'/ IlMenstruation. It never
to give relief and
V/ rostore health to the suf
' sering woman. It should
yr be taken by the girl just
buddinginto womanhood, when Menstru
ation is Scant, Suppressed, Irregular or
Painful, and all delicate women should
use it, as it has a wonderful influence in
toning up and strengthening her system
jy driving through the proper channels
di impurities.
fHC BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, Ga.
•OLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AT SI PER BOTTLE.
Hand & Co.
Leaders and
Headquarters on
Tooth Pick Tobacco,
The best on the market for
the money. Call and get a
sample. They are also
headquarters for all things in
The Grocery Line.
Ostrich Feathers.
Baas, Plumes and Tips
Cleaned, Curled
and Dyed.
Kid Gloves cleaned, 15c to 50c per
pair.
I. PHILLIPS
Whitehall st,, AilanthGn.
’DELICIOUS
CASTOR OIL
STRANGE BUT TRUE.
I ‘Castor ean Honey,”
Manufactured by the Atlanta Chemica
Co., Atlanta, Ga., is pure Castor Oil, with
all of its medicinal virtues, but actually
agreeable to the taste. Think of it, a
child will drink a whole battle if allowed
Sold only by agents and the Atlanta
Chemical Co.
Agents wanted. Address as »bove,
O’Neill Manufacturing Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
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ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK.
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we sell everything needed in house-build
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We take contracts for all kinds of build
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O’Neill Manufacturing Company,
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Telephone 76.
Tailor-made Sails to Order.
The Chance of a Life-time.
Grand Opening Display I
of Fall and Winter Goods. The leading Amer
ican Tailor will show full suit lengths. . . .
Correct Prices. Correct Styles. Correct Fils,
A special representative, who is an expert,
will be on hand to take measures on October
12th and 13th only, at the store of J. A.
Gammon & Co. Don’t miss this opportunity
to see tbe greatest line of suitings and
trouserings in America
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