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' THE ROME TRIBUNE,
Rom, Ga.
The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ of
The Gaty «®f Rome,
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials,
.Cotton eaust go higher.
We have ealled Columbus. If clubs
(woman’s) are trumps we take the
trick.
These golden October days in
North Georgia are framed in silvery
haze. .
If Cleo de Merode was really a frost,
will she please come sooth, eaysa Mem
phis paper.
The Augusta Herald thinks that
The Tribune and Hall Caine are
“mutually pleased.”
The armor plate board is certainly
coming sooth. Every southern newspa-1
per should help Birmingham to get it.
An English scientist flies in the face
of the miorobists by announcing that
“kissing is a cure for dyspepsia.” Are
there any dyspeptic girls in Rome?
We hope the Dalton merchants who
have been indicted by the grand jury
will be able to prove themselves clear
of the charges made against them.
“John, if you don’t quit referring
to me as ‘the old woman’ I’ll make
you sorry for it.” "What will you
dq, dear?” “I’ll be a new woman.”
We have not yet received that in
vitation from Hall Caine to visit him
at Greeba Castle. Perhaps, the New
York Sun will receive a grape vine
cable before we do.
Miss Pearle Silvertooth, of Memphis,
is one of the autumn brides. We
have not heard whether Miss Jewel
Goldfllling will embark on the mat
rimonial sea this season, or next.
Claus Spreckels heads the list of sub
scriptions for the Salvationists, who are
to colonize lands in Salinas Valley, Cali
fornia, and to raise sugar beets there.
Mr. Spreckels’ contribution is SI,OOO.
The Atlanta Journal says: “Mrs.
Myriek, of the Americus Times-Re
corder, is the most widely qoted jour
nalist in Georgia. Her editorials
against co-education have made a hit.”
Col. Mergenthaler is now at work
s on the Savannah Press. He has not
made any lapsus liuguaes so far. and
we trust he will not worry Editor
Stovall by trying to speak any welsh
Words, or volapuk.
The yellow fever is proving very cost
ly to New Orleans. The city, it is said,
has been spending $50,000 per month
for sanitation since the outbreak occur
red, and is losing $1,000,000 per week
through injury to business.
A full page portrait of Hon. Wil
liam Jennings Bryan extending across
eight columnsappears in Thursday’s
Nashville American. Mr. Bryan has
been the popular idol of the Centen
nial exposition for two days pest.
The suggestion of Hon. R. W. Free
man, of Coweta, that the proposed peni
uojtiary commision.also, be charged with
the duties of a pardoning board was first
mentioned in The Tribune two weeks
ago by Mr. Hines M. Smith. The
article by mr. Smith was able aud com
prehensive.
A sentimental correspondent of the
New York Times suggests that we
should adopt “corn” as “our national
emblem.” Why we should discrimi
‘nate against "rye” is not explained.
The Charleston News and Courier says
it has probably more admirers on the
whole than its rival. A mixture of the
two would perhaps be the most appro
priate national emblem that we could
find.
The Price of Cotton,
If our farmers do not push their
cotton on the market there Will prob
ably be a marked advance. It
is in demand, and prices stiffened
up to yesterday. On this subject
the Savannah News says:
The impression has been, and still
is, quite general among cotton men
that the price is much below what it
ought to be, and it would not be sur
prising if middling cotton commanded,
seven cents before Dec. 1. The cotton
growers, however, must be their own
judges as to whether it is wiser to
bold cotton than to sell it at once. We
recall that at the beginning of the
beginning of the season the belief
was that the price of cotton would
rise. When it fell there was surprise,
because, as far as the most astute ob
servers could see, the prevailing con
ditions favored a rise.
It looks now as if the spinners have
begun to think they have delayed long
enough in getting their supply of cot
ton. They don’t regard it as probable
that the price will go any lower. We
may reasonably expect therefore to
see a considerable advance in it.
Opinions differ as to the size of the
erop. The reports, however, favor
those who predicted that the crop
would not be nearly so large as it was
thought, in the early part of the
season, it would be. The farmers
keep pretty well posted now-a-days,
and the fact that there* is a tendency
to hold back cotton for a better price
does not excite surprise.
"Tain't Goin' to Rain No More,"
Mention was made in The Tribune
a few days ago of the birth of a won
derful baby in Tennessee. It was re
lated that this child was born with a
full set of whiskers, a mouth full of
teeth and an air of gloom, and that
after looking upon the world with
evident disapproval, it rose up in its
cradie. and announced that it wasn’t
going to rain for seven years, and
dropped dead. The news has spread
among the colored people; and Beaver
Slide is wild with apprehension, while
Rawlsville imagines a vain thing. The
reporter from Hell’s Hollow are even
worse. The sojourners of Sable hue
in that far-famed locality declare that
the country is about to enter upon a
seven years famine.
The darkies of Rome are not alone
in their belief in this dire prediction.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
says in Tennessee the baby’s prophecy
is the only thing talked about in .col
ored society. The fever scare is no
longer a topic of conversation. The
election of McKinley is forgotten, and
the promise of endless hog and hom
iny without work has ceased to fire
the colored imagination. The famine
is the thing; and unless we get a good
drenching rain soon there’s no telling
what will happen to the children of
Ham.
A Free/FotzAU Race.
The political situation in Greater
New York is harder to solve than a
Chinese puzzle. All the greater po"
litical organizations are more or less
divided, and the minor bodies are by
no means harmonious.
Tammany is split’on the silver ques
tion. The great majority are in favor
of leaving national issues alone, but
the fervid silverites insist upon in
dorsement of the Chicago platform.
Inconsequence, the regular Tammany
convention has nominated a municipal
ticket and adopted a platform which
ignores Bryanism. while the silverites
have gone off and will nominate a*
ticket of their own, headed by Henry
George for mayor. George says he
doesn’t approve of all the things in
that platform. He doesn’t approve
of the chief thing, namely, the free
coinage of silver. He says he isn t a
silver man. And yet the platiorm
upon which he indorses the 16
to 1 idea. Mr. George and his plat
form are not in harmony.
The “regular” republicans, led by
Platt, have nominated a ticket headed
by Gen. Tracy, and including a gold
democrat. The reason undoubtedly
was that Platt knew he couldn’t dic
tate to Mr- Low if the latter should
become mayor. He therefore had
Gen. Tracy nominated, and there isn’t
mneb doubt that Tracy will be left far
behind in the con it-.. •
The anti-Platt republicans are ral
lying to the Citizens’ ticket, with
Seth Low up for mayor. He is a
very popular man and will undoubt
edly poll a large vote.
A majority, of the national (gold)
democratic organization have decided
to support the Tammany ticket, but
there is a bolt to Seth Low there also.
The Tammany candidate. Judge
Van Wyck. is the only one of the
candidates who hasn’t declared he is
not a silver man, and yet it is well
known that he is a gold democrat.
These are only a few of the queer
things in the Greater New York polit
ical situation. A large number of
prominent members of Tammany
have resigned from that organization
THE ROMfc TRIBUNK. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1897.
because it has not endorsed the demo
crat io platform, free silver and all.
It now looks like a great free-for-all
race with Tammany leading by a neck.
The following isa-sketeh of the can
didate who ie leading by the straw
ballots being taken by the New York
papers:
Robert A. Van Wyck, tfie Tammany
candidate for mayor of Greater New
York, is one. of the younger genera
tion of jurists who has won the res
pect of the public, both as man and
judge. There ie no better blood in all
New York than that of Justice Van
Wydk. He is the seventh generation
from the good old Knickerbocker,
Cornelius Barents Van Wyck, who
came to New Amsterdam in 1650 from
the town in Holland named for the
family. The great ancestor of the
present candidate was married by the
first Reformed Dutch minister in Hol
land. 'This pastor was bis father-in
law, and wife was Ann Polhemus.
From this couple all the Van Wyek*
in America [are descended. The fam
ily has been prolific of judges, con
gressman, senators and other promi
nent characters in the life of the re
public. The family is connected by
marriage with the foremost Dutch
families of New York. Judge Van
Wyck is an able lawyer, an excellent
Justice, and the best commendation
he has is that 90 per cent of his decis
ions have been published in the law
reports." The judge was elected to the
bench of the city court in 1889. His
career on the bench of New York has
been one of spotlessnese and efficiency,
and Tammany has shown a sign of
being up to date in selecting such a
good man for its candidate. Van
Wyck has been for many years one of
the most influential democrats in the
city of New York. He is the especial
candidate of Boss Croker, who forced
him down tbe.tbroatof Boss Sheehan,
who did not like Mr. Crocker’s no
tions of what was proper for a Tam
many candidate. Judge Van Wyck is
46 years old.
The Hula Hula Girls,
(Waehington Post)
The good deacon who takes advantage
of a trip away from home to investigate
tne mysteries of the Bowery, or the el
derly gentleman, who freed from mari
tal restraint, delights in the couchee
couchee and other inexpressibly naughty
things at Coney Island, are familiar
figures to us all. We always knew that
this thing of going away from home
was absolutely demoralizing, but never,
in the wildest flight of our imagination,
did we suppose that our venerable and
esteemed friend, Senator Morgan, would
get giddy in Honolulu.
The indictment is plain. According
to the New York Sun, a journal most
generally veracious, a native Hawaiian
woman invited Senator Morgan, Con
gressman Cannon and several others to
witness six handsome Hawaii?n girls
dance the hula-hula, aud the visitors,
we are told, were “mightily pleased,
greatly enjoying the performance.” This
we could have expected of “Uncle Joe”
Cannon. He is of the light and frisky
kind, given to scorching on the wheel,
wearing golf hose, smosing and telling
stories, and always allowing the natural
gayety of bis disposition to disport itself
in untrammeled fashion. Cannon we
can easily imagine, gazed with raptur
ous eyes upon the sinuous evolutions of
the Hawaiian dancers, his feet twitch
ing to join the lovely ladies in their se
ductive art. No blush would suffuse the
sun burned face of the altogether world
ly Caunon. In the presence of such a
tittillating-pectacle his cup of happi
ness would be full.
But Morgan! Senator Morgan. John
T. Morgan, of Alabama! The man whose
profundity of thought challenges the ad
miration of the senate of the United
States! The man who braved the allur
ing temptations of gay Paree and came
forth unscathed, has apparently been
captivated by the pagan wiles of half a
dozen coffee-colored girls. We are
shocked. And to think that a trip of
5,000 miles, begun with the expressea
intention of studying the important
question of Hawaiian annexation, should
end with an exhibition of the hula hula.
The very thought grieves our modest
souls.
It is said that when Senator Morgan
last returned from Paris he entertained
his colleagues for a couple of hours in
executive session relating his experience
in the French capital. Some of these
days, behind closed doors and in solemn
secrecy, Senator Morgan m »y be induced
to unburden his full mind of the impres
sions which the hula-hula girls made
upon his susceptible nature, A descrip
tion of the dance, given with the rich
vocibulary of which he is the fortu
nate possessor, would cause graver
questions to become of little moment. A
practical illustration of the feminine
contortions would add grace and beauty
to the lecture, but this we are afraid,
Senator Morgan will not dare to attempt.
He is neither sylph like in form nor
elastic in muscle; and though his spirit
may be willing, his feet are altogether
heavy‘and too large!
Confederate Veterans,
The Confederate Veterans in New
Orleans have recently taken certain ac
tion which may afford a suggestion of
duty to their comrades in other places
The Picayune explains: “In almost
every field of labor old men are gradual
ly being replaced by the voung, and
most of the brave and worthy Veterans
are too proud to make the claim that
they should be given work because for
four long years they risked their lives for
a common cause. Thus day byday, have
the Ex-Confederate Veterans been drop
ped from employment in offices, stores
and workshops, until their condition be
came absolutely painful to their com-
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' Cheaper than. it can be bought elsewhere. '
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Our Entire Stock Was Never in Better Shape.
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On one side of our store the shelving is filled with nothing but
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J. B, WATTERS <2 SON,
Leaders of Low Prices.
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rades in arms who were more fortunate
in life, but not always able to give them
employment. This state of affairs
/brought about the organization of the
Confederate Veteran’s Employment
Bureau, composed of a delegation of
each of the city camps, and their ap
peals in behalf of their former comrades
in arms have finally caught the public
ear and aroused some hearts to a sense
of duty. This committee, in conse
quence, has been able of late to secure
positions for the most worthy and needy
of the applicants ”
Let "Our Bob" Lecture,
(Memphis Commercial)
When McKinley was governor of Ohio
he spent nearly all his time in other
States campaigning for the presidency.
Gov. Pingree of Michigan has recently
packed up and gone to South America
without letting any one know of his
contemplated departure. The governors
of other states are frequently absent
from their capitals—off their bares, as it
were. Hence there is no reason why
Bob Taylor shouldn’t go a-lecturing if
be wants to, and if it pays.
Philosopher Jim Hall,
(Calhoun Times)
The present clamor among the state
papers about the co-education of tjhe
sexes is all moonshine. The girls can
get, and do get if they try, all the ad
vanatages at the- female colleges they
demand or can qse. The girls of Georgia
do’not need higher education but they
are sadly in need of more sensible train
ing and more thotough drilling in the
present female college cnrriculum.
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