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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. O ’FICK—NO. 387 BROAD STREET, UP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, , (Daily, Except Monday.) One Year 56.00 : One Month „.5O Six Months . ... 3.00 One Week -.U Three Months.... 1.80 | Weekly, per year..l Oo Deavered by man or by citv carriers free oi Charge. All subscription strictly in advance. The Tribunk will appreciate news trom any community. If at a small place where it has no regular correspondent, news re ports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. Comm uni catipna should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc , made payable to. ROME TRIBUNE, 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.’' -— . 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. I Contractors and Builders I We take contracts for all kinds of build ings, large or small. I O'Neill Manufacturing Company, JFtOTXXe, Ga ~ Telephone 76.