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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
Office—no. as 7 broad street, up
STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73.
Souvenir
, and .
Trade Edition
OF
The Rome Tribune
Will be issued in
OCTOBER.
This issue of The Tribune
I W will be one of the best yet
printed! will be handsomely
■ I// illustrated and will contain
CjKjta the choicest specially written
! / articles (in addition to all the
news) that can be 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 tabor 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-
16 PAGES,.
Will Be Issued This Week.
The Trade and Souvenir edition of
The Tribune will be issued this
week. All advertisers and others
having copy for this edition should
send it to this office tomorrow.
Let us pray today for frost.
Next Thursday, Oct, 28, is President
Thomas’ day.
Rome’s cotton receipts to date are
16,652 bales.
Everybody says cotton must go up.
but it does not.
Why has not Editor Bayne given
us one of his .prose-poems on the
chrysanthemum?
Rome should send a large delegation
to the Nashville exposition to cele
brate President Thomas’ day.
The pearls found in the Oostanaula
river as recorded in yesterday’s Trib
une are as beautiful gems as ever seen.
France, it appears is ready for an
international agreement in reference
to the free coinage of silver at a ratio
of 15% to 1, but England is stubborn.
While other communities are suffer
ing with fevers from impure drinking
water, Rome’s citizens scarcely appre
ciate the purity of our water supply.
Southern people can find comfort
in the yellow fever scourge from He
brews XII 6: “For whom the Lord
lov?th he chastenetb, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth.”
Senorita Cisneros is to be adopted
by the mother oi Mr. Hearst, owner
of the New York Journal-. And so
she will be a sister instead of a sweet
heart to the millionaire bachelor edi
tor.
Judging from the society columns of
the New Orleans papers and the
numerous “functions,” it would seem
that most of the people the are not in
a panic, but having “a gay old time,”
says the Augusta Chronicle.
Miss Edna Cain and Miss Mary
Shaw, two of North Georgia’s bright
est and most intellectual young ladies,
are opposed to co education. They
have written strongly and cleverly
from their point of view. We publish
Miss Cain’s article on another page.
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There are 30,000 colored voters in
Greater New York. They are dis
pleased with the republican bosses in
that city, and one of their leaders has
written to Tammany Hall to say that
at the forthcoming election the blacks
will be found voting the democratic
ticket.
Textile School in The South.
The Macon Telegrph credits The
Tribune with being the first newspa
per to suggest the establishment of a
textile department at the Georgia
School of Technology as being best
and cheapest instead of building at
large co«t a separate institution as ad
vocated by others. The Telegraph
says:
“We thank The Tribune for its
kindly acknowledgement as to the part
taken by the Telegraph in reinforc
ing its suggestion. Among the other
papers which endorsed the proposition
for a textile school in South was the
Dallas (Tex.)Times-Herald. It should
also be said that during the course of
the newspaper colloquy to which The
Telegraph gave much space at the
time theCbarleston News and Courier
admitted that in view of the existence
of the Georgia School of Technology
that institution probably afforded the
most advantageous place for the pro
posed school.
•‘ln connection with this matter The
Telegraph this morning prints inter
views with Col. N. E. Herris, the pres
ident of the board of trustees of the
Georgia School of Technology, and
with Maj. J. F. Hanson, who began
the work for the establishment of a
textile 'school in Georgia many years
ago. We see from these interviews
that the project is m the way of ful
filment, Col. Harris stating the situa
tion. We can have no doubt that the
Georgia will comply with
his request, which, we think, is really
too modest.
“There are two important reasons
why this school should be established
in Georgia. First, the state is in the
very heart of the cotton south, and
produces the second largest crop of
the cotton states; second, it has been
found tnat the southern people have
succeeded better in cotton spinning
and weaving than in any other line
of manufacture. Hence there is a
natural and legitimate demand for the
education of southern youth in the art
of cotton manufacture, so that we
may not bo dependent for higher
skill upon foreign artisans. With a
supply of skilled operatives from our
own people the advancement of the
business in the south will be very
rapid and it will not be many years
before fabrics shall be produced
which will compete with the most
artistic goods of the northern mills.
The more cotton we manufacture at
home, the greater the relief of the
farmers from the terrors of low prices.
If Georgia mills could use up the
whole of the Georgia crop the
ideal industrial condition would
be reached. The Georgia legislature
has|incumbent upon it no greater duty
to the state than to further, by com
plying with Col. Harris’ request, the
tendencies in that direction. ”
The Tribune hopes that the legis
lature will see its way clear to grant
the small request of President Harris.
All that he asks is SIO,OOO for the
school for which amount he thinks he
can equip the school in the best style.
The manufacture of cotton is bound
to be the greatest industry in the
south; the mills will come to the
fields and Georgia should prepare for
it by establishing a textile school
where the necessary instruction can be
obtained.
Anti-Prosperity Party,
Hurrah for the Dingley bill and the
republican party! Wheat has fallen
14 cents a bushel and cotton nearly
two cents a pound in the last two
weeks. Clothing and sugar, agri
cultural implements and all things
the farmer has to buy have advanced
in the meantime, with prospects of
still further advance. Where, oh
where, does the benefit to the far
mer come in? Cotton reached the low
est point in the New York market on
Monday on re Jord save once. Who in
the south wants to join the republi
can anti-prosperity party?
Strong Hand of Law,
The sentences in Dalton cases
of the car robbers and the receivers
or purchasers of stolen goods were
doubtless commensurate with justice.
The revelations have been truly start
ling as the case has progressed.
The jibes and jokes that some people
and newspapers have indulged in
about Dalton and its good people are
entirely uncalled for. A very few of
her merchants have been involved in
these cases, the Messrs. Peeples, Can
non and Bender being the only ones
of much prominence. The best citi
zens of Dalton have stood by the offi
cers of the law, and approved the
full and stern enforcement of the law.
In connection with the case we most
heartily approve the firmness and
fearlessness with which Judge Fite
has presided. He has enforced re
spect for the court, and has not hesi
tated to fine lawyers, witnesses and
jurors when he thought it was neces
sary. Addressing the lawyers in the
court- room the other day he said:
“I am going to confine the counsel
to the facts on trial in any case that
comes up, and I warn you all now. I
am not going to put up with any
, side issues or grand stand plays, for
THE ROME TBJBUKJ, BUNDAY, OC TOKER *4. IB9'.
the purpose of affecting the jury
either way by either. If I have to
fine any lawyer Mathis case it is not
going to be a fine of ten dollars. I
am going to run this court in decency
and in order if I have to put every
lawyer iu jail and try to run it by
myself and the I mean that.”
We need more judges like Hon. A.
W. Fite in dealing with impertinent
lawyers and with the wealthy crimi
nal class.
It Meets Wednesday,
The coming session of the Georgia
legislative which convenes Wednesday
will have a number of subjects of great
importance to the state to deal with.
First and foremost will be the disposi
tion of the convict question. We hope
to see the discussion of this vexed prob -
lem begun as soon as possible iu the ses
sion, and kept up without intermission
until a plan which in the concensus of
our legislators is deemed best, is agreed
upon. A multiplicity of suggestions will
doubtlss be made, but when the talk
has ended it will be found, we believe
that something of which the Atkinson-
Turner-Hall plan is the basis has been
adopted.
Let everything be side tracked until
the penitentiary problem is settled.
New Cure For Yellow Fever.
Dr. J. 8. Knott of Atlanta, has gone
to Montgomery to test his theory of yel
low fever when he can secure the con
sent and co operation of the authorities
there. The theory of Dr. Knott is that
yellow fever is due to phosphoric pois
oning and he proposes to apply the anti
dote in tne form of acid stations, sul
phur being largely used to impregnate
the atmosphere, and thus overcome the
phosphorus, poison.
Blundering Reporters,
It now seems that the story of the
terrible assault on the young Heath
cock woman in Cbickamauga National
park is untrue. According to the report
sent out from Chattanooga it was one
of the most diabolical crimes we ever
read of. The Chattanooga Times says
that the assault was due to a fight be
tween the mother, and daughter who
bad been disgraced. The Times ad
mits that it was rumored around at
the time that such might have been
the case. Why didn’t the Times pub
lish? Did it prefer to fake the public.
Was it afraid?
Some blundering reporters are to
blame, it seems to us. Why could
not they have investigated the case
fully? It shows up the reportorial
talent of Chattanooga which has al
ways been excellent in a bad light?
The Tribune was imposed upon and
we apologize to our readers for the
publication of the supposedly horrid
crime with which we besmirched this
paper.
The World Growing Better,
Never were there so many Christian
people in the world as there are today.
Never was the world brighter, better
or more civilized. Yet there are some
who like to prate about the world
going from bad to worse. One of our
Alabama exchanges is right when it
says that the world grows better as it
grows in progress. We cannot share the
idea that people become more immoral
as civilization advances. An enlight
ened civilization means an enlightened
morality. Every fundamental law of
God leads to progress and prosperity.
Non progress* semi civilization, poverty
and crime are of the same nest. The
preacher who preaches the world is
growing more corrupt, strikes a blow
at the wisdom of his God, the great
designer and architect of creation.
Evolution is progress,' we must all
evolute or be dead and useless creatures
of the past. There has been as much
intellectual and moral evolution in the
world as there has industrial progress.
This is an age of advance and morality,
not one of sin. With each step of moral
intellectual and mechanical evolution,
we get nearer to human perfection and
he who is nearest to human perfection is
nearest to his Maker. That a sporadic
case of vice may exist, does not mean
that the community is one of sin, it
means an exception to the rule which is
frowned down by a progressive civiliza
tion, No doubt can exist as to there
finement and temper of the march of
progress of civilization.
Woman Sued for Breach of Promise,
Louise Dingley, a cousin of the tariff
congressman, was the belle of the vil
lage of Auburn and had suitors in great
number, Among her friends were Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur “8. Melcher. A year
ago last May Mrs. Melcher died, where
upon Miss Dingley sent a touching let
ter of condolence to the bereaved, sign
ing herself * sincerely yours, Louise M.
Dingley,” Three days later, presuma
bly after the funeral, she wrote him
again to tell him that his “dear, sweet,
tear-stained face had been before her
eveiy minute,!’ and that * ‘all she asked
was to be of some comfort to him.”
This letter ended with the words,
“With much love believe me your
devoted Louise. ” Five days after that
she wrote that “she would do all she
could to fill an aching void.” She was
“rather blue,” which “she guessed
Overcoats, . Hats, Shirts,
Men’s Suits, raspOA Underwear,
Boys Suits, /Ay Hosiery,
Children's Suits Neckwear.
~*We Divide
Perhaps you think that’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
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 North 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.
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 4 SON,
Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
come from feeling lonesome,” from
* ‘thinking too much and longing for
someone to love.”
The widower was bo comforted by
these delicate attentions that he began
to call at Miss Dingley’s home. One
evening she asked him if there was any
one he loved better than she, and—the
answer may be surmised- she then and
there proposed marriage to him. He did
not like to talk about marriage so soon
after his wife’s death, but Louise was
pressing, said she loved him and was
determined to marry him. Finally the
man yielded and agreed to marry her if
she would wait until bis wife had been
dead six months. That did not suit her,
and they finally compromised on three
months. The engagement was approved
by Louise's parents, and Melcher began
to prepare for the marriage at considers
ble expense. The wedding was set for
the 29th of June, and everything appa
rently was lovely. But before the 29th
came Miss Dingley was married to a
man named not Melcher, but Hadley.
This did not seem quite according to
ethics in tbe jilted Melcher’s eyes, and
he instituted suit for breach of promise
against his former fiancee. The letters
and other evidence were produced, and
a fair-minded jury decreed that Mrs
Hadley, the inconstant, should pay to
her victim the sum of $1,789, thus fixing
the Dingley tariff on broken hearts at
about 25 per cent*ad valorem.
George M, Pullman’s career was
typically American, says a Chicago
critic. His opportunities were 10
greater than those granted to ninety
out of every one hundred young men.
He rose from poverty and incon
spicuous position to great wealth and
prominence by tbe effort of a strong
will and an unusually alert mind.
A Woman's Prayer.
O Lord, who knowest every Deed of mine.
Help me to bear each cross, and Dot repine;
Grant me fresh courage every day;
Help me do my work always
Without complaint!
O Lord, Thou knowest well how dark the
way.
Guide Thou my footsteps lest they stray;
Give me fresh faith for every hour,
Lest I should ever doubt thy power,
And make complaint!
Give me a heart, O Lord, strong to endure,
H»l r me to keep it simple, pure;
M k • me unselfish, helpful, true
In every act, whate'er I do,
And k- ep content!
Help me to do my woman's share
Make me courageous, strong to bear
Sunshine or shower in my life;
Sustain mein the daily strife
To keep content!
—Anna B. Baldwin.
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