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THE ROME TRIBUNE.-
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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Souvenir
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Trade Edition
<OF
The Rome Tribune
Will be issued in
OCTOBER.
This issue of The Tribune
Y will be one of the best yet
QjjCj ) printed! will be handsomely
” Lzt fl and W UI contain
(jjlCj) the choicest specially written
! . articles (in addition to all the
(Qro)) news i that can he prepared,
——
The superiority of Rome as
a trade center, its prosperity,
past history and the present
attractions and advantages
of Rome, Floyd County and
North Georgia will be set *
forth.
Descriptive, Statistical.
Industrial and Biographical.
Watch for it, No labor will
be spared, to .make the
Souvenir and Trade Edition
of The Tribune the finest
ever issued here and a credit
• to Rome and North Georgia,
Advertisers should endeavor to get
copy in as early as possible to get
their advertisements artistically set
and properly placed.
The Official Organ of
yThe City of Rome,
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials,
The Sunday Tribune will* be a
splendid issue.
Send in your advertisements for the
Sunday Tribune.
The Macon News spells “halloo”
thusly: “hollar.”
The cotton picker is the busiest per
son in North Georgia just now.
The “I-told-you so’s” will now
renew their attacks on Atlanta.
Rome’s mercnants are happy over
the prospects of a large fall trade.
The mayors of Savannah, Atlanta
and Rome are out for the gubernato
rial sweepstakes.
Gadsden is kept busy denying the
false reports sent out by an irrespon
sible correspondent.
Harry Edwards’ story, “The Mar
beau Cousins, ” will soon appear as a
serial in The Chicago Record.
Gov. .Bob Taylor is again telling his
inimitable stories in “The Fiddle and
the Bow” to the delight of thousands,
A yellow fever microbe unless envel
oped in overcoat and ear muffs could
not live these chilly nights in Rome.
Secretary Wilson is coming South
to look into agricultural conditions.
He will visit Tennessee and other
states. -
This cold snap will preclude the
possibility of fellow fever spreading
from the mild case which has devel
oped in Atlanta.
Yellow fever and cholera are un
know in Australia, and malaria is of
very infrequent occurrence. The very
dry air of that continent acts as a
remedy against lung trouble.
Our city sexton informs The Trib
fne that he has not buried a white
person during the month of Septem
ber, and only three negroes two of
which were children. Rome is the
healthiest city in the United States.
Should Cause no Alarm,
The fact that a mild case of yellow
fever has developed in a Mobile girl
refugee in ‘Atlanta should cause no
alarm in Rome, or in this section of
North Georgia.
The cold weather has killed all yel
low fever germs ‘which may have
been brought to that city so that
the disease cannot spread. The tem
perature should have to stay above
70 degrees for a period of ten days to
propagate fever germs there. This is
not probable at this season.
There may develop other cases in
Atlanta among the refugees, but this
should cause no alarm. The mild type
of the yellow fever prevailing is not
near as bad as tbe typhoid fever.
The Tribune has never favored the
idea of .opening our doors to yellow
fever refugees, and no one has been
authorized to invite refugees gen
erally here. We have held all along
that self preservation drew a line on
extending hospitality of a wholesale
natuie.
We have claimed that Rome has
had a virtual quarantine, but we now
believe that a strict quarantine should
be declared.
This official quarantine should be
declared because Rome has too much
at stake to allow a yellow fever case
to develope here as it might do unless
we enforce stricter rules to prohibit
refugees from coming here. Putting
it upon a business basis to say noth
ing of the safety of our people the
situation seems to demand it.
Let tbe city council meet today and
declare an official quarantine.
The Sunday Tribune,
Tomorrow’s issue of The Tribune
will be a specially interesting num
ber. It will contain several special
articles on topics of great interest to
the public. In addition there will be
a larger amount than usual of tele
graph, society and local news.
The fall trade has opened up, and
wise advertisers know that The Sun
day Tribune reaches the homes and
all classes in Rome and this section.
In Terrible Suspense.
The happy and healthy people of
this section breathing the crisp, in
vigorating air of tbe mountains of
North Georgia can little appreciate
tbe yellow fever situation in some of
the towns. This cool wave has killed
all tbe germs of fever that might have
been brought out of tbe infected dis
trict, and there is no further danger.
But in all the yellow fever news
nothing has seemed to us so pitiful as
an associated press dispatch from Ed
wards. Miss. It is as follows: “The
disease is rapidly spreadipg, and while
it is regarded as a mild type, yet it is
feared it will become more malignant
owing to the cool weather now pre
vailing. We have more than a bun*
dred families inside our lines un
affected, and a total of about five hun
dred souls, and anticipations are that
nothing but a killing frost can allay
the disease.”
What a {terrible suspense for these
five hundred souls?
Waiting with fear and trembling
for tbe dread disease to claim them as
victims!
The inhabitants of this mountain
ous section of Georgia free from all
such epidemics have much to be
thankful for, and will sympathize with
the inhabitants of tbe afflicted town.
The Foot Ball Season,
The foot ball season is again upon
us and the 'following from the Phila
delphia Times will be found interest
ing:
“With the closing days of Septem
ber another season of college foot
ball is ushered in, and unless signs fail
it promises to be one of the most in
teresting and successful in the history
of the game. Tbe colleges are closer
in.fellowshlp and friendly feeling than
they have been for years, and tbe
sport is day by day approaching
nearer and nearer that tiue sports
manship which should dominate all
contests between gentlemen. Tbe
questions of fixtures and rules have
been satisfactorily settled, and there
is not a cloud on the horizon that
threatens a disaffection of any kind.
Os the game itself, it may be satd that
the rules last year were found to be
quite capable of preventing any un
necessary roughness or risk of injury.
The oomplaints against the brutali
ties of the game have died a natural
death* Such practices must ot neces
sity wipe tnemselves out of ex'stenoe.
As for the decrease in the number of
injuries, this is due to the superior
physical fitness of the teams. Prelimi
nary training is largely responsible
for this. Pennsylvania has for four
years successfully operated the plan
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THE SOME TRIBLNK SATURDAY BEPTKMBER 25, 1897.
and Princeton and Yale have this year
followed the lead with satisfactory
results. The octeer colleges, in justice
to tnemselvee and their men, should
adopt this method, for it is their duty
to use every precaution to exempt the
men from any possibility of injury.
“It will be shown by investigation
that nine-tenths of the serious inju
ries occur in matches played by teams
of impromptu organization, on which
the men have no physical prepara
tion. Some means must be devised to
accomplish this if the game is to thrive
among these teams.
“Let some precautionary measure
be adopted by tbe athletic clubs and
other organizations that will be rep
resented by teams, and the season of
1807 will prove not only a successful
year iu college football, but mark an
epoch in the game in general. ”
.
Negro Postmasters,
Speaking of the shooting of a negro
postmaster in a Georgia village, the
New York Evening Post thinks the
moral of this Georgia incident, “is that
no man, white or black, should be ap
pointed as postmaster anywhere who is
obnoxious to most of the people that he
is to serve. The very first essential of a
postmaster is that he shall be satisfac
tory, and if any aspirant is not, that
fact should be a fatal bar to his appoint
ment, no matter whether the objection
is to his temper or his color.’’ This
is precisely the position of the Chatta
nooga Times. “We have always held
that, if the appointing power consulted
those directly interested in making
these local appointments, and took the
concensus of opinion of the more intelli
gent among them as his guide, hewonld
in this department, come as near sound
principle in the civil service, as it is pos
sible, in present conditions, to get says
the Times. First, inquire as to compe
tency; then ask, Will all the decent
people acquiesce quietly in the selection?
Satisfactory returns on these two points
should be had, _ before any appointment
of an official who comes jnto so close
personal contact with the people as does
the village postmaster, is made,
We can but repeat what we
have said before, that an appoint
ment, such as tbe one that caused tbe
crime of an attempted murder in tbe
Georgia village, is itself a crime
against society, as well as an outrage
on every principle of popular govern
ment and decent civil service practice.”
Nature to tbe Rescue,
The cool weather which has appeared
within the past three days precludes
any possibility of an epidemic of yellow
fever in the south this year. The tem
perature was as low as 62 degreees in
N«w Orleans yesterday and last night
there was frost as far south as the Ohio
valley, including Kentucky, and as far
south as Tennessee. Throughout tbe
infected districts it is extraordinarily
cool for this Beason of the year. The
effect is already to be seen in the de
crease in the spread of the disease, the
number of new cases both at Mobile and
New Orleans being less than usual,
while the fever has within the past two
days reached no point not already in
fected.
The yellow fever germ, in order to
spread and develop, requires a sustained
temperature of 70 degrees. The fact
that the thermometer has dropped con
siderably below that figure, even at the
southermost points of the infected re
gion, is serving very rapidly to check
Yellow Jack’s progress. The present
cool snap is ten days or more ahead of
time this year, and while there will be a
number of warm days before winter
sets in, still the change which has come
will so throttle the yellow fever as to
render all chances for an epidemic im
possible.
Jack Frost is coming to the aid of
the physicians. This time he is a wel
come visitor and the quicker he reaches
the Gulf coast the more highly will he
be appreciated by the people of the
stricken section. —Brunswick News.
Personal Interest in Lawmaking,
There can be no question that if men
possessing a tangible stake in the pros
perity of the country hoped for less from
legislation and look less pains to secure
it for their own special benefit, they
would find the activity of a legislature
less a subject of fear. The first step to
ward the elevation and purification of
legislative methods is to have it under
stood that the lawmaking body which
makes the least addition to the volume
of statutes deserves most of the people.
Let the element of personal interest be
eliminated from the making of our laws
and the character of tbe men who are
elected as legislators will undergo an
improvement us rapid and as radical as
the character of the product of their
labors.—New York Journal of Com
merce. *
Floral Parade at Centennial,
One of the most beautiful features of
the “Kate Kirkman” Day September
80 at the Centennial will be the battle
of flowers and the floral parade. Mrs.
M. B. Pilcher is obairmau of committee
of girls’ traps for the parade and has
enrolled nearly 100 of Nashville’s most
charming young girls. One of the pret
tiest features of tbe parade will be a
tally-ho filled with the buds of this sea
son. Many happy suggestions have
been made, and among tbe most popular
is one to have one equipage gotton np
in tbe shape of a sea shell and another
in Japanese effect. Each young lady's
trap will be attended by two outriders
and led by a groom. Miss Bass, cba r
man of the girle’ reception committee,
will lead the division, and Mrs. Pilcher
will chaperone the tally-ho, which will
be a beautiful climax to the attractive
feature of the great flower parade. One
section of the flower parade which will
attract great interest will be the
“Canary Division,” so "named by the
chairman in charge, Mrs Mary Paul
Maguire, and this feature will consist of
the children’s pony cart display. Mrs.
Maguire has chosen yellow chrysanthe
mums as her flower.
Two Wise Proverbs,
He that has lived long does not know
much: (but) he who has traveled much
knows much.
He who knows bis business, he who
knows his companion and he who
knows his food does not get poor.
A Poser,
Freddie—Ma, what is the baby’s
name?
Ma—The baby hasn’t any name.
Freddie—Then how did he know he
belonged here?—Tit Bits.
Patent 92,406 in the German Patent
Record is: “Fraulein Elfrida Latikie
witz, Berlin, apparatus for keeping
the cheeks full. This apparatus is
worn in tbe mouth and is fastened to
the jaw.” People in this country
keep their cheeks full with wind.
A newspaper of Sherman county,
Or., says that it does not know of-a
farmer in the county who will not be
able to discharge all his indebtedness
this fall. With eight cent cotton nearly
all Southern farmers would be in the
same condition.
The Macon Telegraph is right when
it says “the work of cleaning tbe
decks and getting down to work has
just begun” on the stupendous convict
problem.
Who can measure ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
the influence of a RH AJOft I* J
tit lasts through all
ages and enters the
confines of eternity.
With what care,
therefore, should she
be guarded and how
great tbe effort be to
make her lifer happy.,
Mother’s
Friend
makes child-birth
easy, assists nature
in its sublime effort, leaves the Mother
stronger after than before confinement,
and robs the trying hour of its terror.
No Mother can afford to neglect its use.
Os druggists at *I.OO, or sent by mail on receipt
of price. Write for book containing vain
able information for all Mothers, mailed free
The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, 6a.
For a Good A
Square Meal |
Go to
W. Chinnick’s.
Fresh Oysters, Fish anil Game
in season, nicely prepared.
Everything new and attrac
tive. Good cooks and at
tentive waiters. Tjie very
best the market affords at
Moderate Prices!
Mv experience in managing a first class, up-to
date restaurant warrants me in asking
for a generous batronage. Nicely ore
pared meals for businessmen and offices
sent at all hours. Families can arrange
for dinners
W. CHINNICK,
226 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
DYSPEPSIA
< Fever & sgue
AND
Liver Disease
C NoMemcrne
The Bitters
Ostrich Feathers-
Boos, Plumes and Tips
Cleaned, Curled
f and Dyed.
Kid Gloves cleaned, 15c to 50c. per
pair.
I. PHILLIPS
Whitehall Nt„ Ailanta.Ga-
O'Neill Manufacturing Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS.
‘ ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK.
LUMBER
,Lime and Cement,
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HAMMAR PAINTS
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we sell everything needdd in house-build
ing. Flooring, Ceiling, Moulding, Brackets.
Shingles and Laths, G-lass, Builders’
and Material.
Contractors and Builders !
We take contracts for all kinds of build-•
ings, large or small.
O'Neill Manufacturing Company,
Telephone 76.
ailor-made Suits Io Order..
The Chance of a Life-time.
Grand Opening Displayl;
of Fall and Winter Goods. The leading Amer
ican Tailor will show full suit lengths. . . .
Correct Prices. Correct Styles. Correct Fits.,
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 the greatest line of suitings and •
trouserihgs in America.
J. A. GAMMON & CO
Autumn Styles,
_. . . One Profit,
The best on qnf price <
QUALITY.
the Earth.
d/fLLW*? ffATo
Style the latest!
Quality the
best . '
J. A. SAMSON & CO.
Sole Agents for Rome.
** Clothiers and Furnishers.
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