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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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Romb. Ga.
The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ oi
The City of Rome.
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials.
No frost in sight.
Prosecute violators of the game law.
The Brunswick Times says to the
•‘Goo Goo”—go, go!
“Cotton is a fool.’’ In the two
weeks it has dropped 34 points.
Dana.began life a socialist, and died
a defender of trusts and plutocracy.
Bishop Nelson gives a graphic des
cription of the Prince of Wales as he
saw him.
The New York Journal might em
ploy Lord Beresford to go to Africa
and steal the Transvaal, says the Au
gusta Herald.
The youthful editor of the Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun writes about the
“devilish apple.” Has he been
tempted and had the colic?
The Iruh potato crop of this coun
try is said to be fully 30 per cent short
of that of last year. But southern
people ean manage to worry along on
yams.
In thirty four years Editor Dana
only discharged two editors and two
reporters on the New York Sun. To
get a position on the paper was equiv
alent to a life time job.
Says the Thomasville Times: “And
thanksgiving day will soon come
around. The'southern cotton planter
will not have much to ba thankful
for, in so far as a price for his cotton
is concerned.
Some of our exchanges are specula
tingjon the effect of President McKin
ley’s presence in Ohio during the elec
tion. We think Hanna’s barrel will
do the work. Ohio voters always
were mammon worshippers.
The Gadsden Times News repub
lishes that fake lynching story from
Summerville. Will the G. T.—N. in
its next issue please correct the |alse
hood and give the sensational corres
pondent a few sizzling lines?
“Pictures of Bryan on a silver dol
lar indicate that he is a smaller man
than even his enemies supposed.”
says the Augusta’ Herald. But the
Griffin News insists that he is as
big a man as the Goddess of Liberty.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, the woman
suffragist, has issued a statement op
posing Tammany’s ticket because
Judge Van Wyck, who is at its bead,
is a frivolous bachelor, who attends
balls and who is opposed to woman
suffrage.
We endorse this from the Dalton
Citizen: “The state momument is to
be unveiled at Chickamauga Park
next May. The state should make an
appropriation for the sta*e troops in
order that they may attend and
make glorious the occasion.’'
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An exchange says: “The editorial
page is the chief thing that keeps a
journal above the level of a purely
commercial enterprise. The mere sell
ing of potatoes. A newspaper with
out honest-opinions,’ably and frankly
expressed, is like a body without a
soul. ”
November elections are almost at
band. State elections will be held in
the eight states of Kentucky, Vir
ginia, Ohio, New York. Pennsylva
nia, lowa, Nebraska and Massachu
setts. Os these, four Massachusetts.
Ohio, lowa and Virginia will elect
governors, while the others will elect
various state hon-e and judiciary
officials. The selection of a United
States Senator to succeed Mark Hanna
is also involved in the. Ohio election.
The Other Atkinson, ,
' Gov. George W. Atkinson, of West
Virginia, accompanied by his hand
some wife who has gained so much
notoriety through her trial for forgery,
were in the Seventh congressional
district Thursday. They visited the
Chickamauga National Park. The
Chattanooga newspapers speak in
very complimentary terms of the gov
ernor and his wife.
“It is almost a pity,” says the New
York Advertiser, Atkinson
wasn’t convicted to give her husband
the chance to prove that he was man
enough to pardon her, innocent or
guilty, if it were the last act of his
public life. The man who wouldn’t
violate his official oath and close his
public career to save hie wife from
prison is fit to be neither governor
nor busband. Fancy a woman hesi
tating before such a choice!”
It is quite remarkable during the
trial how the governor of Georgia was
mixed up by the newspapers with the
West Viiginia executive.
Rome Located, by a French Paper,
The Birmingham Ledger has a new,
and as far as we know hitherto un
published story about the location of
Rome. It is as follows:
“A Paris paper stated on one occa
sion that the lamented Dr. Battey. of
Rome, Ga., who made a reputation
of a physician in France as well as in
America, lived in Rome, that
Rome was near Alabama and
Alabama was in
Whether the story as to the location
of Rome is true, or not, the compli?
merit to the late Dr. Battey is a high
one.
False News,
Chattanooga and Atlanta are both
afflicted with the sensational corres
pondent.
, Rome is free from offenders of this
class in comparison to those cities.
We notice in the Chicago Record the
following:
STEPPED OFF A HIGH BRIDGE.
FATAL MISTAKE OF UNITED STATES
MARSHAL TATUM OF GEORGIA.
Special to the Chicago Record.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 19.
United States Marshal Tatum was
killed by stepping from a moving
train this afternoon at his home near
Trenton, Ga. He was on the bottom
step of the platform of the north
bound train from Atlanta, ready to
alight, and thinking the train had
arrived at its destination, stepped off.
Instead of being on the platform, the
train was slowly crossing a high trestle
over a large creek. He was killed in
stantly. He was one of the best-known
men in in Georgia and speaker of the
house of representatives of the state.
Here are some of the errors of the
above.
1. Mr, Tatum was not United States
Marshal of Georgia, but a deputy
revenue collector.
2. He was not killed at Trenton, but
at Athens, Ga.
3 He was never speaker of the
house of representatives, but a mem
ber of that body.
The only item of truth in the above
dispatch is that Mr. Tatum was killed
by stepping off a high railroad bridge.
Questions About Co-education,
The Tribune has received the fol
lowing communication:
Editor of The Tribune:
1 want some information on the co
education of the sexes at the State
University. Will you kindly answer
the following questions.
1. Will it be necessary to construct
additional buildings to accommodate
the “new comers”?
2 If so will it increase our taxes
which are now almost unpayable?
3. Have the numerous female col
leges of the state proved failures in
educating Georgia girls?
4. Will this unrestricted comingling
of the sexes add to the beauty, man
ners and manners and present attrac
tiveness of the sweetest girls of all the
earth?
5. If so in what w,ay?
Do Georgia girls aspire to become
“up-ito-date,women” a la yankee?
If so Heaven forbid co education.
A. Georgian.
Value of Advertising,
All men strive for success in some
pursuit and the chief end of life is to
attain it. says the Nashville’American.
The way to succeed should be best
learned from those who have Suc
ceeded. Mr. John Wanamaker has
told the Pittsburg Dispatch in a
lengthy interview how he succeeded
as a merchant, and it may be of ad
vantage to those who aspire to success
in that line to note what he says.
Mr. Wanamaker stetes that to his
own experience he added a close study
of the methods employe 1 by great
merchants who preceded him. Toe
late Alexmder T Stewart, of New
York, whs one of his model-'. But Mr.
Wanamaker thinks the broad road io
success as a merchant lies in advertis
ing. He knows that it pays. In hard
THE BOMU TfiIBUNE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23. 189
times it is necessary to keep business
going; in good times it helps to move
it mrr» briskly. He prefers
newspapaper advertising to any
other kind, in fact, has «b)i;d med
ail other uicthods. The first requisite
in his businees’is to get goods that will
please people and the next is to let
them kixtw through the newspapers
that he has the goods. Beyond that
it is only a question of having proper
storeroom and'Competent salespeople
to wait unon customers.
Mr. Wanamaker is not the only
successful merchant who has given
testimony ae to advertising as an es
sential of business succe a ß. It is prac
tically the universal verdict. Mr
Wanamaker’s preference for newspa
per ’advertising is well founded, he
has been a liberal patron of every
method and description of making
known to the public what he has to
Sell. ,
Look For Two Cent Rise in Cotton.
In an editorial of more than a column
in length the New York Sun reviews
the cotton situation and makes this con
clusion:
It is conceded generally that the mini
mum amount of American cotton which
the world will consume in the coming
year is 9,300,000 bales. To meet this con
sumption and to make up the deficiency
in the world’s normal reserve stock of
cotton, will require, obviously, an
American crop this year of not less than
10,000.000 bales. Assuming that the ciop
reaches that figure, holders of cotton
ought to consider whether the price at
which cotton is now selling is not pret
ty low for a situation in which demand
and supply will be evenly balanced,
with the hazards of the new crop year
yet to encounter, and with the well
known law in oparation of the strong
influence of low prices toward an in
creased consumption of so commonly
used a staple. Indeed, the question may
be raised most seriously, whether the
prevailing price does not discount a
mucblarger crop than the figure named.
There is now no reason such as there
was in the panic of 1894, why growers
of cotton should rush their product to
market, selling it for whatever it would
bring and selling so much of it at so low
a figure that iu tjje latter part of the
cotton year the price increased more
than 2 cents a pound, even with the
largest crop on record and before the
prospects of another crop were know.
As the succeding crop neared its harvest
it was seen to be a short one; and an
other 2 cent rise occurred,
There is much matter here for cotton
planters’ thinking.
Newspaper in United States,
The New York Sun says: “There are
20,000 newspapers in the United States,
of which 2,250, or more than 10 per cent,
are published daily. These daily papers,
however, are not distributed uniformly
throughout the several states, and there
seems to be no clear rnle for the discre
pancies to be found in some states. New
York, for instance, the largest of the
states in respect to population, and the
one, too, having the largest number of
newspapers, has only 183 dailies where
as Pennsylvania, the population of
which is 1,250,000 less than New York’s
has 201. Missouri, with a population of
2.600,000, has on 87 daily papers, while
Indiana, with a population of 500,000
less, has 137, yet the Hoosier state with
Illinois on one side and Ohio on the
othor, has not usually been noted for its
public enligbtment. On the other hand,
Missouri has.7o9 weekly papers, whereas
Indiana has 557. The population of
Massachusetts by the census taken—the
state census of 1895 —was 2,500,000. The
population of California at the same
time was 1,250,000, or just one-half.
Massachusetts has long had a high rank
n all matters connected with education
and public enlightment. It is the state
of several universities, it is prominent
in all educational matters, and it is one
of the very oldest of the states of the
country In point of settlement. Yet
Massachusetts has only 88 daily papers,
whereas California, with one half the
population of the Bay state, has 113.
These are some of the discrepancies
which seem to require explanation. ’ ’
Strong
Nerves just as surely come from the use of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla as does the cure o'
scrofula, salt rheum, or other so-called
blood diseases. This is simply because
the blood affects the condition of all the
Nerves
bones, muscles and tissues. If it is im
pure it cannot properly sustain these
parts. If made pure, rich, red and vital
ized by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, it carries
health instead of disease, and repairs the
worn, nervous system as nothing else can
do. Thus nervous prostration, hysteria,
neuralgia, heart palpitation, are cured by
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Because it is the One True Blood Purifier.
are the best after-dinner
nOOU S rlllS pills, aid digestion. 25c.
Overcoats, • Hats, Shirts,
Men's Suits, asijp Underwear,
Boys Suits, pF ZAi Hosiery, ■
Children's Suits Neckwear.
"We Divide Profits
Perhaps you think chat’s a flight of artistic imagination! It isn’t. The artist is right
as far as he goes, but he doesn’t go quite far enough. When you split a thing
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
Mens, Boys and Childrens Soils, Overcoats'
Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery.
For the fall and winter was purchased before the advance in prices, and we are going
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 Noith-Georgia. This is a big
assertion, nevertheless it is true. Full line of Knox stiff Hats and Stetson
soft Hats. Our stock of
FURNISHING GOODS.
Is the newest and best selected in the city. Every article new, fresh and up-to-date.l
Big line of Shirts,. Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery. Gloves, Suspenders. E. & 1
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 4 SON,
Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
Georgia in the Lead,
The ninth statiscal report of the inter
state commerce commission for the year
ended June 30, 1897, gives interesting
information concerning the mileage,
equipment, number of employees, capi
talization, and valuation, accidents and
earnings and expenses of railways in
the United States for the year named.
One hundred and fifty one roads, rep
resenting 30,475 miles of operated
mileage, were in the hands of receivers
on June 30, 1896, a decrease of eighteen
from the previous year. The capital
stock represented by the railways con
trolled by receivers was $742,597,698
and the funded debt was $999,733,766.
The total railway mileage on June 30,
1896, was 182,776, an increase of 2,119
for the year. Georgia was in the lead
with 233 miles.
The number of locomotives in ser
vice was 35,950 and of cars of all class
es 1,597,649, an increase of 251 locomo
tives and 27,088 cars.
An interesting feature of the report
is a summary showing the amount of
compensation paid to the railway em
ployees of the United States, number
ing about 826,620. Their aggregate
compensation amounted to over 60
per cent of the total operatin' ex
penses of all railways, a slight decrease
from the proceeding year.
The amount of railway capital, it is
shown, was $10,566,865,771 which, as
signed in a mileage basis, shows a capital
of $59,610, per mile of line. And if cur
rent liabilities be included as part of the
cipita’, 68,068 per mile of line. A frac
tion over 70 per cent, of the capital stock
paid no dividends The total dividends
amounted to $87,603,371.
Passengers carried during the year
numbered 511,772.737, an increase of
over four million compared with the
previous year, which, however, showed
a decrease of 33,266,837 as compared
with 1894.
Via Sacra,
Slowly along- the crowded street I g-o,
Marking with reverent look each passer’s face;
Seeking, and notin vain, in each to trace
That primal soul whereof he is the show,
For here still move, by many even unseen.
The blessed g-ods that er»*l Olympus kept;
Through every guise these lofty forms serene
Declare the all-holding life hath never slfpl,
But known each thiil’ that iu man’s heart
hath been
And every tear that his sad eyes have wept,
Alas for us! the Heavenly visitants—
We greet them still as most unwelcome guests
Answering their smile with hateful looks
askance,
Their sicred Speech with foolish bitter jests;
But oh, what is it to Jove
That this poor world refuses all hislove!
—Charles A. Dana,
O’Neil] Manufacturing Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS.
ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK.
LUMBER
Lime and Cement,
HAMMAR PAINTS
we sell everything needed in house-build
ing. Flooring, Ceiling, Moulding, Brackets,
Shingles and Laths, G-lass, 'Builders’ Pauer
and Material.
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Contractors and Builders I
We take contracts for all kinds of build
ings, large or small.
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O'Neill Manufacturing Company,
JFtOTXXe, Ga
~ Telephone 76.