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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
OFFICE-NO. 887 BBOAD STREET. VP
STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73.
Souvenir
, and *
Trade Edition
OF
The Rome Tribune
Will be issued in
OCTOBER.
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This issue of The Tribune
| will be one of the best yet
RjaQili printed! will be handsomely
! illustrated and will contain
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 labor 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-
Jack frost is welcome.
The legislature convenes today.
Rome had another frost yesterday
morning.
Yellow jack is stamped out in many
parts of the south.
Look out for Thb Tribune’s Trade
and Souvenir edition.
Editor Eldridge, of the Americus
Herald, is after the quail hunters.
The game laws of Sumter county are
being violated.
The Brunswick Times is advocating
capital punishment for burglarly
when committed at night. This is a
severe penalty.
The political situation is warming
up. Sunday’s Constitution names
five well known candidates for gov
ernor and there may be others.
The newspapers are talking about
Hanna’s forlorn hope. The 41,000
negroes in Ohio who voted for McKin
ley are revolting against the boss.
Tomorrow is the day set apart to
honor President Thomas at the Ten
nessee Centennial Exposition. Rome
should be represented by a large del
egation.
Editor J. J. Reese who recently took
charge of the Albany Penny Press,
the neat, nonpareil daily of Georgia,
expects to get out a Sunday issue and
otherwise improve the paper.
The Pike County Journal says:
“Hon. Robert L. Berner, of Forsyth,
president of the state senate, was
here this week and the rumor was
revived that his friends would urge
him for governor.
Lily Langtry who drove her hus
band to insanity and death, has
shown a touching regard for his
memory by withdrawing all her
horses from the race track—for a few
days.—Cincinnati Post.
A German undertook on a wager
to kiss his girl 10,000 times in ten
hours, but was paralyzed at 3,000. As
no mention is made of the young la
dy’s condition the inference seems to
be that the undertaking was in no
wise too great for her.
The railroads of Alabama are vir
tually tied up by the enforcement of
the rigid quarantine restrictions of
the state. The Kansas City, Memphis
and Birmingham has been the last to
withdraw trains. That road has taken
off all of its passenger trains into
and out of Birmingham.
Tammany’s lack of newspapers ad
vocacy has driven it to theatre pro
grammes, as well as to the advertising
spaces in the street cars, as means for
reaching the public eye with its “ar
guments.” It is noticeable that in all
their advertisements Croker and Shee
han avoid using the name of Tam
many, and call their organization the
democracy.
Armor and Dock in The South,
The New Orleans Picayune is not so
overwhelmed with the miseries of
temporary isolation that it cannot ap
preciate any movement of interest to
the south. After reviewing the work
up to this time of the naval board, it
says:
“The location of the armor plate
plant in the south would be of great
advantage to the government, as the
raw material can unquestionably be
produced at lower cost in the south
than in any other part of the country.
The south possesses none of the exist
ing government establishments for
supplying munitions of war. All the
arsenals,gun foundries and equipment
depots are located in the north, and
they distribute no small amount of
money among the people of that sec
tion. If an armor plate factory is es
tablished by the government the
south ought to have first lien upon it,
both because|its operation would prove
more economical to the government
in this section than elsewhere, as also
because the south is entitled to some
recognition from the federal adminis
tration.
“Should the government decide that
an armor plate factory Jmust be oper
ated by the navy department, the
people of New Orleans would make
every effort to assist Birmingham, or
any other southern city to secure the
prize, feeling confident that the in
land communities of the South will be
equally zealous in urging the building
of a large dock in this city for the use
of the very ships for which they are
anxious to supply the armor.’*
A Foe to Intemperance,
During the past year there has
been a decrease, according'to statistics,
of nearly 6,000,000 gallons in the con
sumption of whiskey and[otner spirits,
and of 1,403,004 barrels in the con
sumption of beer.
The Columbia, S. C., Register thinks
this is due to the bicycle and says:
It may be a coincidence only, but
the suggestion certainly forces itself
upon one’s attention, that the year in
which the use of the bicycle increased
in almost geometrical progression the
consumption of liquor in this country
decreased to the marked extent just
noted. At any rate it looks very
much as if there were some relation
between the two facts.
The bicycle is the enemy of the
liquor habit for two reasons. For its
purchase and use it appropriates the
spare money of the young man that
formerly went for beer and stronger
drinks; and, furthermore, it makes
impossible over-indulgence in intoxi
cants, because it can be operated only
to advantage by a strong limbed,
clear-headed rider.
The other reason why the bicycle is
cutting down the consumption of
liquor is more potent and lasting. In
all branches of sport nowadays the
athlete is eschewing the use of spirit,
uous beverages, and the wheelmen—
who form the largest band of ath
letes in this country—must, therefore,
be given credit for the greatest de
crease in the consumption of liquor.
If the bicycle has been condemned
for interferring with the sacredness
of the Sabbath, it should at least be
given full credit for its assults upon
the excessive use of liquor. We com
mend this thought to the attention
some of the worthy people who will
cherish a lingering belief that the
wheel is the particular invention of
the Prince of Darkness.
Depew on Modern Novels,
At the Lotus club’s banquet to An
thony Hope (Hawkins) in New York
last Saturday night, Chauncey Depew
said:
“We welcome Anthony Hope be
cause his writings have given us
pleasure and instruction. I em not
one of those who rejoice because the
ancient libraries were destroyed. The
author in the Old,Testament who com
plained that there was no end of the
making of books represented the tired
feeling of every age. But the writing
of books is not copying, bnt building
up. As we progress the newer centu
ries praise, but they do not and can
not read the pioduct of the preceding
ages. Os no department of literature
is this more true than of the novel-
For our time the novel must give us a
sensation or paint us a picture. The
sensation comes with stirring incident
of individuals, of families, of states.
The picture is a striking photograph
of society or of character, Confound
the novel which preaches. We are
preached to death. The doctor makes
life a horror with the microbe and
bacteria in everything we eat or drink
or wear; the preaching novelist, by
hanging yards of sermons on tacks of
stery, threatens to fill sanitariums for
the insane or drive men to drink. We
are recovering from the dialect novel.
The need of the glossary is not the
sign of genius. The author who can
command our attention and absorb us
in his pages because not only of the
brilliancy of his thought but his sin
ewy command of our glorious En
glish tongue, who is as lucid as he is
TELE SOME TBIBUNF, WEDNESDAY. OCrOBkE 27. 189 .
vivid and clear as he is wise, possesses I
the real elements of genius.
“I remember as a youth the eager
expectancy of all the young men and
women of America for a new novel by
Charles Dickens, He did the world an
incalculable service in showing us how
to get the best lessons of life and love
from the people about us, whether in
the city or country. I remember how.
when the university had educated our
tastes and matured our judgments, we
enjoyed with keenest satisfaction the
superb satire and wonderfully incisive
dissection of human nature in Penden
nis, Becky Sharp, Esmond, Amelia,
and glorious Col. Newcombe. Kings
ley did not preach, but ‘Hypatia’ and
* Westward, JHol’ are the most eloquent
of sermons. The two great novels of
the year are pictures, but they tell
the lesson of faith and heroism, they
teach the story of fidelity and patriot
ism , a thousand times better than any
of the romances which weary us of re
form. I refer to ‘Quo Vadis’ and Mark
Twain’s ‘Joan of Arc.’ Anthony Hope
deserves our gratitude and has won
our welcome for giving a fresh and
delightful impetus to our circulation
and vibration to our gray matter by
the ‘Prisoner of Zenda,’ and causing
us to see the foibles of society and the
holes in our own moral and mental
anatomy by the ‘Dolly Dialogues. ’ To
write a novel which can be read is an
achievement, but to write a novel so
vivid and natural that it can be
dramatized, and when acted draw
plaudits from an audience of up-to
date Philistines, is an event. This is
the quality of the genius of our guest. ”
The Tribune Commended,
(Albany Penny Press)
The Rome Tribune worked industri
ously to correct the false report recently
sent out by the Associated Press that
there had been a double lynching Chero
kee county. This was a commendable
act on the part of The Tribune’ and it
is a pity that they were not able to stop
it before it went as far as it did. Such
reports do the state and the south great
harm.
The Social Democracy,
It is announced by Col. Richard D.
Hinton, chairman of the colonization
committee of the Debs social democracy,
that 350,000 acres of land have been
purchased in Cumberland and Fentress
counties, in this state, on which to
make the experiment of collective own
ership of property. It is proposed to
establish other colonies later in Idaho
and Washington.
Col. Hinton has explained to the New
York Sun correspondent, in Washing
ton, that ‘ ‘ln establishing the Tennessee
colony we will make no effort to secure
political control of the state, but we
will make that effort through colonies
we [may establish in the Western
states.”
The effort will not not be made in
Tennessee because it would prove neces
sarily abortive. All the population the
social democracy can put on the lands
alleged to have been purchased could
not oontrol Tennessee politics, and this
is not a congenial climate for missionary
work among the natives. ;
It the Debs colony in Tennessee is to
be made a vantage ground for a socialist
propaganda, it may serve to inject some
spirited contention into the politics of
the state, but it is a stronger probability
that, if this colony be ever established,
its abiding qualities will not be equal
to the task of making it apolitical force.
Tennessee* is not ripe for the leveling
process, and will not readily take to the
radical innovations that the socialists
propose. There is in fact no more con
servative people to be found in the
country than those of Tennessee, and
if brought face to face with an element
that proposes the destruction of indi
vidual property rights, that conserva
tism would be likely to assert itself in a
manifest degree.—Nashville American,
One Cause of Hard Times,
The Baltimore Sun calls attention to
an unpromising state of affairs in the
following paragraph:
“Some things are imported into the
United States from foreign countries
whioh our own farmers should produce.
Hecker’sJMs.
I have a fine assortment of this old
reliable brand of farinacious
gt ods
Rolled Oats,
Rolled Wheat,
Cracked Wheat,
Wheaten Grits,
Wheat Granules,
Pearl Flakes,
Oatmeal,
Farina,
Flapjack Flour.
Fancy Celery, Cape Cod Cranberries.
B, S, LESTER,
Old Poatoffloe cor. ,'ROME, GA.
Overcoats, jk Hats, Shirts,'
Men’s Snits, aj’VWp' Underwear,
Boys Suits, WL/A) 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
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 Suits, 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. Gloves, 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 {SON,
Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
During eight months of the present
year we have bought from abroad over a
million and a half egg. During the same
months of 1896 we bought about four
and a half million. With corn so abun
dant that we have no market for it,
our farmers should have eggs to sell to
the rest of the. world after supplying
this country. During the same eight
months of 1897 we imported nearly a
hundred and fifty million pounds of rice
and rice meal, 7,300,00 pounds of cheese,
21,537 pounds of butter, These are a few
of the items. All of them might have
been raised at home.”
There is no excuse for this, the Birm
ingham Age-Herald says: Instead of
losing money, year after year, on cer
tain unprofitable crops like cotton, the
southern farmers should try other pro
ducts. The south should can millions
of dollars’ worth of fruit and vegeta
bles, Poultry and eggs need more at
tention. Cheese would pay in some
states. Tobacco could be made a good
money crop in many districts where it
is not now cultivated.
The neglect of these opportunities
is one cause of bard times, and there
should be a reaction in favor of diver
sified industry.
The correspondent in New York of
the Philadelphia Times says in his
letter “Low is licked. The first mayor
of Greater New York will be Robert
A. VanWyok.”
Advertise!
If you’ve something- good to sell,
Avertise It!
To the world its merits tell.
Advertise it!
If true worth it does possess,
And you’d make it a Success,
Boom it through the dally press—
Advertise it!
If for it you’d make a name.
Advertise it!
Win for it extensive fame.
Advertise it!
Make it known on every hand,
Popular throughout the land.
Let its praise wide expand—
Advertise it!
Day by day through all the year.
Advertise It!
Make its merits very clear—
Advertise it!
Do not throw a chance away,
Do not stop a single day;
If you’d make your business pay.
Advertise it!
Let your “biz” be loudly heard,
Advertise it!
Make of it a household word—
Advertise it!
Steadily your plan pursue,
Profits surely will accrue
If judiciously you do
Advertise it!
—Notional Advertiser.
O’Neill 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’ Pau er
and Material.
Contractors and Builders!
*
We take contracts for all’ kinds of build
ings, large or small.
O'Neill Manufacturing Company,
Rome, Gra
■ ' Telephone 76,