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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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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.
These are chilly September days.
Cotton is bringing gold to the
South.
Rome is the healthiest city in the
United States.
The armor plate board will certainly
come South. Invite them to Rome.
The search for pearls in the neigh
borhood of Calhoun, Ga., has been
very successful.
The mosquitoes and office seekers
are said to be very bad at the White
House just now.
There is a new gag. You ask:
‘ What kind of a noise annoys an
oyster?” After the victim has given it
up he is told: ‘‘A noisy noise annoys
an oyster.” It’s awful when you say
it quick.
The Washington Post says: ‘‘We
know of a number of politicians who
might be better off if they would but
adopt Cleo de Msrode'splan for hiding
their ears.” Some of the ball headed
fellows would have a hard time to beg
borrow or steal enough.
General Weyler, having failed in
.murdering and starving Cubans, now
asks for enough troops to crowd them
off the island. Unless this is done
soon the island wjll not be worth
much to Spain or anybody else.
Cuba is very nearly a morgue now
in the portions held by Spain.
Special inducements are offered by
the business men of our city to the
people of North Georgia and East
Alabama, to do their trading in Rome
this season. The farmers and planters
will be paid the highest market prices
for their cotton and produce, and will
be’ sold goods at remarkably low
figures.
•‘Have angels wings?” is a question
the supreme court will.be asked to de
cide. A woman artist made a memo
rial window for a church.in Syracuse,
N. Y. When the man who ordered it
saw that there was a wingless ange 1
in the window he refused to accept it,
and a suit followed. Presumably, the
verdict will have to be issued on cir
cumstantial evidence.
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Every enterprising and public spir
ited business man in North Georgia
stiould be represented in The Trib
une’s souvenir and trade edition. We
propose making it creditable exposi
tion of the commercial, manufactur.
ing and agricultural advantages and
possibilities of our great section, and
it will go into thousands of homes in
North Georgia and Alabama, attract
ing trade to those who speak for it.
Invite Them to Rome,
Among the many activities of the
South, none is attracting greater at
tention at present than the develop
ment of the steel maoufacturinp. in
terests. Because of that, news in
this week’s Manufacturers’ Record, of
Baltimore, is of much significance. It
has an interview with Hon. Theodore
Hfcosevelt, assistant secretary of the
navy, in which he says, regarding the
selection of a site for the government
armor plant: “I am in favor of lo
cating the plant in the South if any
point possesses superior advantages to
those in other states, and so far as I
am personally concerned will ask that
the committee make a thorough in
vestigation of all the sites offered in
the Southern States.” President Sam
uel Spencer, of the Southern Railway,
in answer to a question on the same,
says: “The Southern Railway is doing
all it can to encourage the develop-,
ment of Southern steel industries,and
will continue to do so, as we believe
that the South has a future in that
as well as jn many other lines. There
is substantial ground for believing
that the day is not far distant when
Southern steel will be an important
factor in the markets of the world.”
It is now officially announced from
Washington that the armor plate
board will come South in November.
They will visit all places suggested as
sites and make a report on them. If
these reports are elaborate they will
be a good advertisement for each
place they visit. Therefore we think
it would be a good thing to invite the
board to Rome.
No Excuse For a Scare,
We commend the following expres
sion from the Memphis Commercial
Appeal:
The fact that a few persons has
died of alleged yellow fever in New
Orleans and that perhaps a dozen per
sons all told have died of the disease
in places along the gulf seems to have
unduly excited some excitable people.
Yet more persons have died of sun
stroke in any one of a dozen Northern
cities this summer than have died of
yellow fever in the entire South.
There is bo reason why there should
be any more fear of this disease than
any other unless it should become
epidemic, and it can become epidemic
only where the surroundings are ex
tremly unsanitary. There was once
virulent epidemic of fever in Phila
delphia, caused by the fact that that
city was unclean and unhealthy. The
disease is not born on the soil of the
United States, and luMmw shows that
wherever it has been, wHfiue to filthy
conditions. In 1878 Memphis was one
of the dirtiest holes in the country.
In 1897 Memphis is as clean as any
place in the country, and her sewage
is disposed of in the most scientific
manner. Under the circumstances it
is almost criminal for any man to be
an alarmist. Every’ man who goes
about with a “scare face” on him is
contributing his share toward the dis
turbance of business.
A Costly War,
The agitation in reference to the
enormous amount now being paid to
pensioners is not one which is being
discussed in any one section. Fair
minded newspapers all over the
country are calling for a halt. Ac
cording to the figures available the
war will be the costliest in history.
The actual cost of the army snd
navy during the war was $3,027,793.-
391 and the total pensions paid reach
the sum of $2,004,172,841.
The annual pension appropriation 8
have already reached, in round num
bers, $150,000,000. The republicans
now in power will increase them be
yond this figure.. To be sure, they
will gradually decrease through the
death of pensioners, but it is safe to
say that for the next ten years they
will average at least $125,000,000 per
annum. Before they cease they will
go far beyond the five biHion-dollar
mark. Add to this the cost of war
to the North ($3,000,000,000,) and ar
least an equal direct cost to the South
in destroying crops and other prop
erty, and in rendering valueless Cot
federate money and bonds, and we
get the enormous sum of $11,000,000,-
000 as the cost of freeing the slaves
by force, when a little more than a
billion would have- freed them in
peace.
Mason And Dixon's Line,
Mason and Dixon’s line, so much
heard of during the exciting anti
slavery times prior to 1861, when the
great civil war broke out, passes along
the Southern boundary of Codorns.
Manheim and West Manheim town
ships, York county, and at the point
where it crosses the Baltimore and
Hanover turnpike, says the Hanover
(Pa.) Record.
This line was run by Charles Mason
and Jeremiah Dixon, two eminent
civil engineers, who were were brought
from England by the heirs of William
Penn and Lord Baltimore to establish
a true and correct boundary line
dividing their respective proprietary
THE HOME TRIBUNE. WuNN' 8 DAY SLPTkMBLR 2!?,
possessions—Pennsylvania and Mary
land-long in dispute, and was com
mended in 1763 and finished in 1767,
four years being occupied in the sur
vey. A mile {stone or marker was
placed at each and every mile along
the entire length of the line as sur
veyed, and at every ten miles a larger
and mure elaborate stone was erected,
with the Pennsylvania coat of arms
on one side and those of Maryland on
the other.
These stones were about three feet
high and many of them yet remain in
their original positions, marking the
famous boundary. line between the
Northern and Southern sections of
the country—a sectional line made fa
mous and historic by the anti-slavery
and pro-slavery press and advocates,
and proclaimed and recognized as
such in the national halls of legisla
tion by the statesmen of the North
and South in their heated discussions
of the slavery question in the ante
bellum days.
These stones are of a peculiar species
of granite, and were brought from
Scotland in vessels at the time the
survey was made and transported the
entire length of the boundary line by
pack mules, a slow and tedious job,
and it is to be regretted that any one
should have been so vandal-like as to
remove any of them even for relics or
to utilize them about their premises,
but unfortunately this has been done,
and quite a number of them are miss
ing. The county commissioners of
York and Adams counties a few years
ago made an effort looking to the pre
servation of these boundary stones,
and passed along the line of their res
pective counties to note their condi
tion as far as possible restore and re
place them in their original locations.
Some were found to be lying prostrate
on the ground, others mutilated, and
here and there others removed and
carried away, leaving a gap of several
miles in the line unmarked.
Oldest Pack of Cards,
The oldest pack of cards found in the
United States is a deck which was dis
covered in perfect’ condition in a closet
io an ancient house in New Jersey, says
the Collector. The date of the pack is of
the time of Charles 1., and the carls are
of English make. Some very old play
ing cards have been found in the board
bindings of early books. It looks as if
illustrative art was used in the making
of cards even before the pictures in
books of religion, which shows that man
thought more of his amusment than of
the saving of his soul. At a recent sale
in London some old playing orrds were
disposed of. A geographical pack, 1675,
with rhe rare explanatory card and card
describing other packs of the period,
brought £3; a pack of old proverb cards
not in the British Museum catalogue,
£4 11s; Dutch satirical cards, first quar
ter of the eighteenth century, with the
two supplemental cards. £3 18s- a pack
of grotesque cards, the suits cleverly de
signed and colored, £2 10s: a pack illus
trating the American Civil War, with
portraits of the generals engaged therein.
£2 25., and the tare Popish plot pack,
published in 1679’ one card missing, £2
18s. .
Rise in Southern Iron.
There is more liveliness ia the iron
and steel trade now than since 1896 and
prices keep increasing. Bessemer pig
iron .wen up to $lO during the middle
of the week, and it is rumored that
$10.25 was obtained in one quarter to
day. Mill iron went up to $9 recently
and is now $9.25, with southern iron at
$9.90. It is generally believed that
southern iron will now appear in the
market in increased quantities. Old
material has gone up with a jump, old
iron rails now being held at sls and
hard to obtain. There is a rumor that
$25 will at once be asked for wire rods.
gone up-from $1.15 to $1.25
and wire nails from $1.40 to $1.50. Bar
iron has advanced $1 per ton in the Last
few days. Two days ago 6,000 tons of
steel billets were sold in one order at
sl6 per ton, Cleveland delivery. These
are all manufacturers’ prices.
Quite a Compliment,
“I persume, ” said he in the manner
of a man who persumed nothing of 'the
kind; “I persume.l am the first man
that ever kissed you?”
The summer girl’s great luminous
eyes turned on him languorously.
‘•You,” said she “are at least the first
one who ever kissed me properly.”—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Is This the Oldest Tree?
The citizens of Dijon, France, recent
ly voted a tax for putting a railing
around a tree which stands within the
city limits. The |tree bears a label
which informs the sightseer that it is
tbe oldest poplar in France. The town
council has a record tracing the history
of tbe tree since the year 722 A. D It
is 122 feet in height and 45 feet in oir
cumference at the base.
Parentage of Great Men,
The London Echo has been tracing
back the parentage of some great men
with the following result;
The distmgnished astronomer Kepler
wag the son of an officer in the army;
the poet Wordsworth and Sir Walter
Scott of attorneys; Chatterton of a
schoolmaster; Handel of a surgeon;
Thomas Hood and Samuel Johnson of
booksellers; Mozart of a bookbinder;
Blackstone, the eminent lawyer, of a
silk mercer; the poet Pope of a linen
draper; Sir Laac Newton of a farmer;
Thomas Arnold of a tax collector; De
Foe and Akenside of butchers; Dr.
Jeremy Taylor of a hairdresser; the
artist Turner of a barber. Christopher
Columbus of a Wool oomber; the great
astronomer Halley of a soap boiler;
Haydn of a wheelwright; Luther of a
miner; Lord Eldon, Che famous lawyer,
of a collier; George Fox of a weaver;
Capt. Cook of an agricultural laborer,
and last, but not least, John Bunyan of
a, tinker.
Better Than Crow,
(tmericQs Herald)
The editor of the Americus Herald
has been eating English sparrows for
rice birds.— Rome Tribue. Granting
for the sake of tbe argument that your
assertion is a true one, it may be stated
that they are a great deal better than
the crow upon which some of us feasted
about a year ago.
Slow Dressing Girl a Heroine,
“She saved the whole family from
drowning once.”
“Indeedl She must be an Amazon!”
“Oh n ; she simply dressed so slowly
that they all missed the boat. ’ ’
Signs of Fall Time,
Gittin’ dost to fall time— it by the way
The wind comes crost tbe mountains at tbe
breakin* o’ the day;
An* the twitebin’ in my j’iats is a most un
f iiin* sign
Thatjthey’re tunin’ up the fiddle |f r tbe boys
ter fall in line!
Gittin* dost ter fall time—know it by the way
The smoke is curlin’ up’arda in tbe mornin’s
cool an’gray; •
Yu kin hear a whip a-crackin’ ’crost a clover
field or two.
Gittin’ dost ter fall time—let it come along!
Spring is rich an’ rosy an’ Buni mer’s sweet
with song;
Every season’s good enough—but jiive me
frost an’ fall.
An’ balance ter yer'pardners. an’kiss yer
sweethearts a’l!
—F. L. Stanton.
She Was Tender,
She was a tender-hearted maid ,
Wbuse ready wrath found fuel.
“The men were heartless/’ so she said,
“And msrcilessly cruel.”
She gave the bull fight many a slam,
Tbe prize fight and all that;
But she wore a coat ot Persian lamb
And a stuffed bird on her bat.
—Louisville Times.
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V a ear^ne woman. ‘‘There are
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