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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ of
The City of Rome,
The Sheriff.
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
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these officials.
Yellow jack is gaining ground.
Oh! for that cold wave and jack
frost. _ _
Thursday, Oct. 28, is “President
Thomas Day. ”
Atlanta is filling up with yellow
fever refugees from Montgomery.
It is °aid that Editor Dana was paid
$50,000 a year for his work. Is not
this a typographical error?
Let Rome honor “President Thomas'
Day” at Jthe Nashville Centennial
with an official delegation.
The Trade and Souvenir edition of
The Tribune will be a very hand
some paper. It will be issued shortly.
It does not appear on the diagram
whether Sir George Pullman took an
upper, or a lower berth on his last
journey. .
From the present outlook it is not
likely that the dog law will follow
the convict discussion unless the latter
is “treed” early.
The soldiers home in Atlanta which
the legislature refused to accept is to
be sold, and the purchase money re
funded to subscribers.
Now that a glass trust has been
formed people who live in glass
houses should be more careful than
eVer about throwing stones.
General Longstreet probably had
wedding cake, but he is beginning to
wonder over the absence of that pol
itical pie, says an exchange.
If a killing frost should come in a
few days the fever blighted section of
the south would celebrate Thanks
giving before the last Thursday in
November.
Says the Atlanta Constitution:
“Editor Knowles is going to getup
an indignation meeting. They only
choked the negroes a little to make
them squeal. ”
It may be safely stated that a good
portion of the term of the coming ses
eion’of the legislature will be consumed
in discussing the convict question,
says Editor Triplett.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
remarks that Henri Watterson is still
knocking swarms of yellow jackets
from the situation, and Josiah has
stirrred up a hornet’s nest in Ken
tucky.
Commodore Howell, of the govern
ment armor plate board, announces
that he is convinced that iron and
steel can be more cheaply produced
in Birmingham, Ala., than any other
place in the world.
Rome and Brunswick are growing
faster than any two cities in Georgia.
The imports and exports of Bruns
wick have doubled during October,
and Rome is pushing Macon and Au
gusta in its onward strides.
Chicago will probably erect a mon
ument to Adam; Pittsburg will raise
one to the memory of Tubal Cain, but
Editor Stovall, of Savannah, will out
do them all and is now collecting
funds to build a memorial to Eve.
There is a peculiar little newspaptr
tow away up in Buffalo, N. Y. The
police do not allow the newsboys to
cry any papers except those published
in Buffalo. This is kindness and pro
tection to home products, but-the
great papers from New York City do
not propose to submit to the discrimi
nation, Hence the row.
Closing Days of The Exposition.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposi
tion will positively close on the 30th
day of October. There are but few
more days to see the most beautiful
exposition which man has ever built.
Every day from this time to the end
will be a great day. Already the
crowds are daily increasing and the
prospect is that the attendance for the
last two weeks will be enormous.
The Tribune hopes to see a great
crowd attend on President Thomas’
day. The people of Romo are par
ticularly interested in this because he
is also president of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railway
which controls and operates the
Western ajid Atlantic and Rome rail
roads. He was Offered the presidency
of the exposition company and several
times declined it before being induced
to accept. When he did accept, it
was under the condition, made by
himself, that in no case should there
be any salary whatever attached to
the position.
And yet when it comes to the
amount of work done for the exposi
tion, no man could have done more
than President Thomas, whatever
salary might have been fixed. He has
looked to every, item of the expend!
ture just as he does in the manage
ment of his railroad, and has held
the firmest grip on <the affairs of the
exposition where the Constitution
gave him a voice. He has used busi
ness methods which are seldom found
in -the management of such great en
terprises where the money comes
largely from the public, and where
too often there is an indifference as
to the disposal of the funds. He
has scrutinized the expenditure of
every dollar, and has many times
been more particular in ascertaining
the correctness of a claim than he
would have been had it been a per
sonal account. When the finances of
the exposition have been strained, as
at times they have been. President
Thomas has pledged himself for the
amount needed at the bank, and has
given his individual check for what
was necessary to supply the deficiency
For all this, not a dollar was charged,
either as interest or in any- other
way, direct or indirect. And every
Saturday night, throughout the ex
position period, every workingman
has been paid in full.
The question of rates is the great
est question confronting the manage
ment of an exposition. Unless the
people can go cheaply they are liable
not to go at all. In the securing of
the lowest rates possible, no man has
had it in his power to do so much
as has President Thomas. Nashville
and Tennessee have ever gotten the
bestlrates ever granted to an exposition.
In a thousand ways the president of
the exposition has aided as no other
man in the position could have aided,
and it is fit that he be honored as he
deserves. The programme prepared
for the day will be the most stupen
dous aggregation of interesting fea
tures eVer seen here on a single day.
Military, fireworks, music, and every
thing of the most gorgeous character
will be a part of the day. The parade
and the fireworks will be without an
equal in the history of the exposition-
It is hoped that the on
President Thomas’ Day will be of a
size commensurate with the merits of
the gentlemen in whose honor the
day is celebrated.
Everybody from Rome and this sec
tion who have not visited the Nash
ville exposition should do so before it
closes. We would especially be pleased
to see to a large delegation of Romans
attend of President Thomas’ day. He
has proven his friendship to us by the
building of the new passenger depot
in the city, by the excellent schedules
and cheap rates of his railroad and in
many other ways. Let Rome honor
President Thomas by sending an offi
cial delegation to Nashville to repre
sent this city on the day set apart in
his honor.
The New York Bedlam.
We never recall in our recollection a
political contest in which there was
such a split up as in the municipal
election of Greater New York. The
ablest democratic papers of the south
are endorsing Van Wyck, the Tam
many candidate, but some are for
George.
The following summing up of the
contest by the Macon News is inter
esting if not entirely correct:
“The contest really is between
democracy and plutocracy in the very
citadel of the latter. Candidates
George and Low represent democracy;
Van Wyck and Tracy, plutocracy.
“Even between Candidates George
and Low there is a difference. Henry
George represents pure democracy.
Seth Low represents a modified and
aristocratic democracy, or perhaps,
better phrased, he represents a demc
cratically benevolent aristocracy.
“The candidate the plutocracy
would prefer is General Tracy, the
republican, gold standard nominee;
but inasmuch as his election appa
rently is impossible, it has turned to
Van Wyck, the Tammany candidate.
If, as the campaign shall continue to
THE KOMU TBJBUNI. FRIDAY. OCTOHHR 22, 1897.
progress, the election of Judge Van
Wyck shall urow more and more im
predicable, the plutocracy may be ex
pected to turn to its third choice, viz:
Seth Low, and, if possible, elect him.
At all costs, must Henry George ’e
defeated, save the p'utocracy of New
York; and tb»>eto the plutocracy of
the world shouts. Amen.” ,
Wallace Reed on Dana,
There was a brighter newspaper, and
there never was one more inconsistent,
unreliable and less trusted
Men have read The Sun for many
years because its editorial page is always
bright'aggressive and scholarly.
But the paper has never been influ
ential. It is not sincere, nor honest nor
in touch with humanity.
It has always been cynical and selfish,
and has been used as a vehicle for the
pei sonal malice of its editor.
The Sun has relentlessly pursued
many good men into their graves, and
slandered them there.
In the course of time it has come 'to
be generally distrusted, because it has
been on all sides of all questions and
has never with any party.
Culture was Dana’s god, if he bad
any. He mastered many languages, aud
at the age of seventy-six studied Rus
sian.
We are not likely in this generation
to see his equal as a scholarly journalist,
nor are we likely to see one of his abili
ties with fewer friends.
To Punish Northern Lynchers,
(Chicago TilLes-Herald)
No indictments were returned against
the lynchers in Urbana, Ohio or in Ver
sailles, Ind. Why not permit the Ur
bana grand jury to investigate the Ver
sailles affair and vice versa? This might
wrench the law severely, but it couldn’t
wrench it more severely than the lynch
ers did.
How to Kill Your Town,
Try talking it down. Say all manner
of evil against it. Abuse the people, the
business and the entire management
from the mayor clean down to the hum
ble nightwatch. Let nothing or no one
escape your holy wrath If this don’t
fetch it. then just spend all your money
with some other people. Don’t spend
any at hccue. Send off after everything
that you buy. Don’t patronize any
thing or any kind of business that is
carried on in your town, but be ever
las'ingly running around with a full
hand and a good word for some other
town. If you are a church member
have your membership somewhere else,
Don’t take any interest in the church at
home. Be at outs with everyone, espe
cially with those who would do right
and who are making an honest effort to
get along. Be selfish. Be envious at the
prosperity of others and hate them be
cause they have been moi e successful
than you. Do this and if you don’t kill
your town you will have the satisfaction
of knowing that you did your best. -Ex.
The Tribune’s Correspondent.
(Augusta Herald)
Mrs. Ethel Hillyer Harris, one of the
best known literpry women in the state,
writes in glowing terms in The Rome
Tribune of the recent convention of
the Daughters of the Confederacy.
A Blessing in Disguise.
Bob Ingersol said: “I am not sure
we ought to mourn for the dead. Ido
not know which is better—life or death.
It may be that death is the greatest gift
that ever came from nature’s open
hand. We do not know. There is one
thing of which I am certain, and that
is, if we could all live forever, we would
care nothing for each other. The fact
that we must die, that the feast must
end, brings our hearts together; and
treads on the weeds between the paths
And so it may be, after all, that love
is a little flower that grows on the crum
bling edge of the grave. So it may be
that, were it not for death, there would
be no love, and without love, all life
would be a curse. ”
All the French she Knew,
William—ls I should ask you in
French if I might kiss you, what, would
you answer?
Lillian (summoning up her scanty
knowledge)—l should say, "Billet
doux.”
The Newspaper an Educator.
A new brand of philanthropist has
appeard in Maine. He is a gentleman
who believes in the moral and educa
tional influence of the press and be has
ordered a newspaper sent at his ex
pense to each family in his town.
And why not? We endow chairs in
universities and provide funds for the
maintainence of educational facilities of
every kind, and it will genererally be
admitted that the press is a greater edu
cator than all of them.—Des Moines
Leader.
Tough on Dalton.
(Americus Tlmes-Recorder.
The Chattanooga News hits us hard
when it says:
"Why not build the new Georgia
penitentiary at Dalton and save trans
portation?”
No Cripe
When you take Hood’s Pills. The big, old-fash
ioned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you all to
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Hood’s
and easy to operate, Is true
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The only Fills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Overcoats, Hats, Shirts,
Men’s Suits, Underwear,
Boys Suits, feFyy U Hosiery,
Children’s Suits Neckwear,
We Divide Profits
Perhaps jou think that’s a flight of artistic imagination! It isn’t. The artist is rio-ht
as far as he goes, but he doesn’t go quite far enough. When you split a thino- *
in two it doesn t always happen that you cut it exactly in the center, and we
are not dividing our profits in the middle. On the contrary the division is
overwhelmingly in favor of the purchaser. Our entire stock of
Vlens, Boys and Childrens Suits, Overcoats,
Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery,
For the fall and winter was purchased before the advance in prices, and we are goinu
to sell it cheaper than it can be bought anywhere in Rome.
Hats. Hats
We own the biggest stock of Hats of any .retail store in North Georgia. This is a bier
assertion, nevertheless it is true. Full line of Knox stiff Hats and Stetson &
soft Hats. Our stock of
FURNISHING GOODS.
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Is the newest and best selected in the city. Every article new, fresh and up-to-date-
Big line of Shirts, Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery. Cloves, Suspenders. E. &
W. Collars and cuffs, Manhattan Shirts; Eclipse Shirts and Shaw knit hosiery.
Come to see us, your call will be appreciated and we will save you some money.
J. B, WATTERS i SON, ,
Leaders of Low Prices. I
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA-I
Poet as a Prophet,
(Macon Telegraph)
The only reference made to the death
of Mr. Dana by the paper of which be
was the life and soul, was this: "Charles
Anderson Dana, editor of the Sun, died
yesterday * afternoon.” This was in ac
cordance with his specific instructions.
Some years ago Eugene Field, the poet,
wrote these lines:
But bless ye, Mr Dana! may yon live a thou
san’ years.
To sort o’ keep thing's lively in this vale of hu
man tears;
An’ may I live a thousan’, too—a thousa nn’ less
a day,
For 1 shouldn’t like to be on earth to bear yon’d
passed away.
And when it comes your time to go vou’ll need
no Latin chaff
Nor biographic data put on your epitaph;
But ore straight line of English and of truth
will let folks know
The homage ’nd the gratitude ’nd reverence
they owe;
You’ll need no epitaph but this: “Here sleeps
the man who run
That best and brighest paper, the Now York
Sun ”
The poet seems to have had the gift
of prophecy.
Georgia's Sugar Season,
(Columbus Enquirer-Sum)
A new Orleans exchange says the
sugar has opened there. The matrimo
nial season has likewise opened in Geor
gia. Can’t keep Georgia down.
October Passes By,
The wood seems for a pageant dressed.
What mean-these banners’ gainst the sky,
In gold and red blown east and west?—
The world receives a royal guest;
Behold! October passes by !
The Splendid heathen princess, bold
In conscious beauty, through, the world
Makes gracious progress, be it told.
Fling for her feet a cloth of gold;
Be crimson banners wide unfurled.
Down with the churl whose graceless tongue
Is slow the royal guest to meet;
For sighing. Here green banners hung
When April passed, and upward sprung
Anemones beneath her feet!
What though the banners once were green,
That once another’s feet did press
With lighter step the meadow’s sheen?
Proclaim the glorious heathen queen.
Acknowledging her graciousness.
Huzza! Long live our roya( guest 1—
(Thou tongue-tied fool, repeat the cry!
I tell thee to hide on my breast
A pale anemone is pressed).-
Behold! October passes by!
—Harper’s Bazar.
I have just received a car
load of first-class Jellico coal
Order at once. E. E, Holder
Phone 169,
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