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THE ROME TRIBUNE,
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W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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Thus spoke the man whose advetv
tisement was being regularly
read in thousands of households
where THE ROME TRIBUNE
is considered to be the authority
for their purchases as well as
their news. For the field cov/
ered by
The Rome Tribune
is a wide one, and an advertise'
ment in its columns every day
is sufficient to make business
good anywhere,
The Official Organ of
The City of Rome,
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials. Write for esti'
mates to
W, A, KNOWLES,
General Manager,
Now to business.
Let everybody continue to pull for
Rome.
Alabama’s quarantine has been
raised.
The football fatality of Rome is be
coming a national issue for prohibit
ing the game.
Just as the wedding cake gave out
General Longstreet got a big slice of
Washington pie.
A newspaper has this advertisement:
“Found, a kid glove. If the owner
will leave the other at this office he
will gready oblige the finder.
Van Wyck’s power will be stupen
dous. He refused to see any newspa
per reporter on election day, or night.
Every newspaper in the city fought
him bitterly. He can tell them to go
to a warmer climate.
The Savannah News said the other
day that it thought the elections in
the north and west will have a good
deal to do with determining the issues
of the next national campaign. Well,
the result is known and it would seem
that the people are against the gold
standard and desire currency reform*
One hundred thousand tons of Ala
bwna coal have been sold for delivery
at Vera Cruz, Mexico, for the use of
the Mexican railways which have
heretofore obtained their supplies
from England. And 700 carloads of
Georgia marble are being stripped to
Minnesota. Great is the south I
The Summetville News comes out
this week with twelve pages. It is
bright and sparkling and every page
shows the genius of Miss Edna Cain’s
brilliant intellect. It is the best and
most carefully pdited edition of the
News we have ever seen. Great are
North Georgia’s women!
The estimated cost of the New York
mayorality election is placed at 1497,-
000. This is what it cost the new city,
but when we add the cost to political
clubs and organizations, and to the
candidates, it is found that the ex
pense of that city’s first election will
foot up a grand total of $2,374,000. It
comes high, but they must have it.
Judge Robert Van Wyck (pro
nounced Van Wike) is a native of the
south. . He was born in Anderson
county, South Carolina. His father
was a New Yorker, of old Knicker
bocker stock, who settled in South
Carolina when a young man. He wa*
married there and Robert Van Wyck
was born there, as were also three
brothers, two of whom were Confed
erate soldiers, one of whom was killed
while arresting a deserter. A young, r
brother is a police judge in Brooklyn.
Call That Convention.
A few days ago we followed up
our views on thegreat importance of a
national quarantine system with an
editorial favoring a yellow fever con
vention on Thanksgiving Day, or a®
sojn thereafter as deemed advisable.
The delegates were to be appointed by
the governors of the southern states,
and the convention is to be held in
Atlanta.
A resolution has been introduced
in the Georgia legislature to memo
rialize congress to have nation*l quar
antine regulations passed. The Trib
une heartily favors this. We feel that
all the people of Georgia do, too.
We believe that this matter can be
greatly aided by holding the conven
tion we speak of. and we hope to see
this done. _________
A Brutal Game
The Charleston News and Courier,
one of the most conservative and most
widely quoted newspapers in the
south, in the course of a lengthy edi
torial says:
The deplorable death of young
Von Gammon, of Rome, Georgia, one
of the University of Georgia foot ball
team, which played against the Uni
versity of Virginia team in the contest
in Atlanta a few days ago, has doubt
less put a final end to that form of
“sport” in college circles in our neigh
bor state.
The. Athens Banner, published at
the seat of the U Q >veisity, condemns
the game in the strongest language.
Dishing, as it says, to say ‘‘a few
plain woTds’’ on the subject, It des
cribes the game played between the
two college teams as “a display of
savagery which tarnishes the fair
names of both the great universities
represented in the contest.” It is not
in favor of a game “where brutality
steps in and usurps the place of ath
letic development.”
In any view of it, it appears to be
out ot place among the sports and ex
ercises of our educational institu
tions. It is certainly worse than
"hazing,” and worse than ‘‘prize
fighting,” both of which prohibited
in all well regulated colleges, at_d
should be prohibited with them.
Youug men go to college to make
useful citizens of themselves, not
cripples. There are numerous “ipanly”
sports and athletic exercises which do
not involve risk of lifelong injury or
early dea f h as the price of indulging
in them. If we must havejfoot ball
riots for the popular entertainment
—pugilistic mills and bull fights and
bear baitings being forbidden—let
them be committed to professionals.
They are not adapted to the proper
character and ends of college training.
They should be prohibited to their
students by every college faculty in
South Carolina, without waiting for
an untimely funeral to make the nec
essity of such action more obvious
than it is already.
What is Frost ?
The far-south is longing for frost.
North Georgia has had several, and
thick ice. In view of the interest in
the subject we publish an interesting
and scientific description of the for
mation of frost. At New Orleans a
killing frost may not fall before the
middle of December. The Mobile
Register says:
Frost is frozen dew. We say con
ventionally that the dew falls. This
is an error. Dew merely forms. A part
of it comes from the air, but much of
it comes from the ground or- from
plants, the moisture of which is de
rived from the subsoil.
Dew itself is an interesting study.
In ancient times its formation was a
mystery, and accordingly mysterious
properties were attributed to dew.
Roman ladies used it as a cosmetic,
thinking it was a superior article for
the improvement of the complexion.
It is only in this century that the
method of the formation of dew was
first explained.
About sunset in well-watered re
gions the air close to the ground is
nearly saturated, and from this time
on the further cooling of the ground
during the night and the consequent
cooling of the air next to it by radia
tion and conduction, causes the con
tinuous deposition in the form of dew.
The deposit of dew is caused by the
cooling of the bodies bedewed, and
this takes place in consequence of the
radiation of heat into open space,
without and equivalent return.
Some bodies are bedewed very soon,
others more tardily and some occa
sionally escape altogether. Grass
which radiates well and conducts ill.
is in the first class; wool, cotton, silk,
wood, stone and metals contract dew
with less and less facility, nearly in
this order. Polisbed'metallic surfaces
often remain untarnished by mois
ture throughout the night. In clear
nights their difference ot temperature
as shown by two thermometers, one
lying on the grass and the other
suspended In the open air, a few feet
above, is often 8 to 10 degrees, and i 8
sometimes much greater. In one in
stance a difference as great as 28 de
grees has been noted. One has some-
til® BOMB TBIBUNB. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER e, 18H7.
times had a chilly sensation from
lying on the grass at night even in
midsummer. The explanation is here-
Clouds check the formation of dew
by obstructing the radiation of.heat
or by restoring by counter radiation
some of >he heat lost. When Itbe sky
is overcast no dew is formed. Neither
ie any dew formed beneath an open
shelter or shed, though, the earth
around it may be so distinctly wet as
to leave the form of the roof of the
shed distinctly marked on the ground.
Facts of this kind were long sup
posed to prove that the dew descends
like rain—a belief of which the trees
is still preservedjin the expression “the
falling of the dew.” Even a very
slight screen, spread out above an ob
ject exposed in the open air, will pro
tect it perfectly against moisture from
dew.
Wind also prevents the formation
of dew, by continually changing .the
strata of air in contact with the colder
solids.
In proper season comes the cold
aio from the northwest, and if the
conditions are favorable to the forma
tion of dew, then we have frozen dew
or a white frost. A covering of min
ute ice needles formed from the at
mosphere at night upon the ground
and on exposed objects when they
have cooled- by radiation below the
dew point and the dew point is below
the freezing point.
The conditions for the formation of
white frost are precisely those requi
site for the formation of dew except
that those conditions act at lower
temperatures.
Good Every Day, Too,
(Trion Factory Herald)
The big Souvenir and Trade Edition
of the Rome Tribune was the finest
paper ever issued in the state. It
magnificently sets forth the advantages
of North Georgia as an ideal place for
home seekers and manufacturing plants.
We congratulate Messrs Knowles and
Harper on this edtion, and afiso on the
admirable paper they are getting out
eveiy.
Splendid Feat of Journalism-
(Rome Ar, us)
The Rome Tribune issued a forty
page Trade and Souvenir Edition on
Sunday morning, which was a credit to
Editor Knowles and his assistants, and
was a splendid feat of journalism. We
congratulate our contemporary, and feel
sure that Sunday’s Tribune will be
cf material value to Rome, and will
aid in calling attention to the unsur
passed advantages of this city and sec
tion.
All Should be Proud of It,
(Americus Herald)
The Rome Tribune has issued a
Souvenir and Trade Edition, consisting
of 40 pages. It is a beautiful piece of
newspaper work and Editor Knowles
and the whole Tribune force should be
proud of it.
Brave Mary Force,
( a elma Times)
Mrs. Mary M. Force, the postmistress
of Selma, has stood gallantly and heroi
cally to her post. Notwithstanding the
fact that most all of her neighbors have
gone away, frightened and panic
stricken at the*prospect of Selma having
a regular epidemic, she knew her duty
and stood to her poet. She recognized
the fact that she was a servant of the
people and rather than desert her posi
tion she was willing to face the issue,
no matter what it might have been.
This paper cordially endorses her course,
expecting to stand by her, no matter
when, why and where. Mrs. Force is a
southern born lady, our traditions are
her traditions, our God is her God, our
state is her state, the county of Dallas
ie her county, and when the Almighty
summon her to her final resting place,
the people will say—“ Well done, thou
good and faithful servant.”
Rose'Like The Morn Opes,
Bose-like the morn opes,
And the day-star Is kissing earth’s beauties;
While men
Inspired with new hopes.
Fare forth to take hold ot life’s Unties
Again.
The bluebells and daises.
That render the hillsides and meadows
So bright,
Uplift their glad faces.
And wave a farewell to the shadows
Os night.
Birds, butterflies, bees,
Now hither and thither are winging
Their way
< Amid flowers and trees;
And fluttering, buzzing and singing
Are they.
A man! how canst thou.
In a world of such rapture and glory,
Complain?
Unwrinkle thy brow—
Nor look on the wonders before them
' In vain.
von white cloud that clings
To the firmament high, and each flower
Os the sod.
And each warbler that sing.
Proclaims the deep love and the power
•... M>. Os God.
—Henry Reed Conant, in The Independent.
Are Women Displacing Men?
(Baltimore Sun)
In the Chautanquan for October there
is an interesting discussion by Mr. Car
roll D. Wright of the questiiou whether
women are depriving men of employ-'
ment by their competition. It is shown
from the census that to 1870 the percen
tage of womtn engaged in agriculture,
fisheries and mining was 6.47 and in
1890 7.54 per cent., a small increase. In
professional service the percentage in
creased fr0m'24.86 to 33.01, while in
domestic and personal service the per
esntage fell from 42 9 to 38 24 per cent.
In trade and transp >i tatiou the increase
was from 1,61 per cent, to 6.87 per cent,
while in manufacturing and mechanical
iudostrees the increase was from 14.44
to 1 20 18 per cent- Taking the whole
number of employed persons there was
a small increase of females nd a corres
ponding decrease of males. In the de
partment of art and music and in the
number of bookkeepers, saleswomen
and clerks there has been a very large
increase of the proportion of women.
The telegraph and teleophone have
given work to a largely increased, num
ber. Upon a survey of the whole field
it is clear that women are steadily in
vading the employments of men. The
increase of women, approximately equal
decrease of the number of children
working in competion with men, so that
the situation is after all, not very mate
rially altered, In the last half centuiy
many new occupations for men have
been created, and not a few occupations
in which women are now numerous
were unknown to* our grandmothers.
Where women have displaced men a
good reason is usually given, it is
found that, other things being equal,
women are more reliable than men,
more temperate, easier to find and con
trol and cheaper. As a rule they are
neater, more polite, quicker, more care
ful, more industrious, easier to teach
and less given to strikes. The greater
competition among women for such em
ployments as they like accounts, per
haps, for the fact that they receive
lower wages than men engaged in rhe
same occupation. The sense of justice
ot employers is inadequate, it seems, to
secure faithful observance of the doc
trine of “equal work, equal pay.” The
natural law of supply and demand over
rides in this as in other fields the ethical
consideration. There are cited 781 in
stances of women and men engaged in
the same occupation and performing
their duties with equal efficiency. In
only 57 of these cases did the women re
ceive equal pay with the men while in
595 cases their pay was les’. Practical
chivalry is put to the blush by such
statistics. It is predicted, however, by
Mr. Wright that after a time this in
equality will disappear, especially in
those lines of work in which women ex
cel.
Something New!
Home-made Mince Meat.
Imported Raisins and New Prunes.
New Almonc’s, Currants and Figs,
Elam Cream Chees?, •
Pine Apple Ch< e-.e,
Fresh Mess Mackerel and Codfish
Fine Teas and Coffees.
Cross & Blackwell's Pickles,
Monday and Tuesday
Hecker will make an exhibit of bis
cereals by dispensing buckwheat
and flapjack cakes to all the ladies
who may please to call at
LESTER’S
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga
Do You
Enjoy
Sweet aed Tender Meats!
If so, visit
CARNOCfIAN i MK
Market.
If you leaqe your order it will be
filled and the choicest meals will
supplied at moderate prices.
Fish, Game and Oysters
supplied. Free delivery.
Telephone No. 171.
316 Broad St, Rome, Ga.
CHILDRESS & DOOLEY,
The Photographers,
Will make the following prices:
Cabinets, per dozen - - $2/0
Fancy Cards - - - - $1.50
Platino Cabinet at prices that will
suit.*
Work Strictly First-Class.
CHILDRESS & Hale art, agents
for the Atlanta Journal, corner
Broad street and Fourth avenue,
Rome, Ga. Call to see us.
W. M. GAMMON & SON.
Meo’s Fine Cloves.
W. M. Gammon & Son
have for this season the hand
somest andj most complete
line of men’s fash’onablfe
gloves they have ever shown.
Silk Line! Paris made kids
in all the new shades. Per
rin’s French kids in latest
styles. Mocha kids in all
sizes. Buckskin driving
gloves. Buckskin gauntlets,
Dogskin driving gloves, Fur
Lined combination gloves for
cold weather. Fire proof
Hogskin gloves for railroad
men; Boys’ gloves in all styles
—in fact we have everything
in gloves that is new and de
sirable; prices reasonable.
We have what you want in
everything that a man. boy
or child can wear. No old
goods. If you want a glove,
hat, suit, shoe, tie, under
wear or neckwear, recollect
we have the thing you
want —standard goods, latest
stlye, of best quality, at a
price you can afford.
Good goods at reasonable
prices are - what you need,
and we have them.
W. M. Gammon & Son,
Dealers in everything a man or boy wears.
Robt. W. Graves & Co.
230 Broad R° m8 ’ 6a ‘
Domestic, - Strain, - Blacksmith,.
1 Cll ANTHRACITE.
Telephones »o
Yard, Southern Railway
Your Physician Alms
.To put all his knowledge, experience and skill into
the prescription he writes. It is an order for the
combination of remedies ycur case demands.
Pure and Reliable.
He cannot rely on results unless the ingredients are
pure and reliable and are properly compounded.
Bring your prescriptions to the
ROME PHARMACY,
Where is carried one of the best stocks of drugs in
town, and a complete line of Squibbs’ Shemicais for
prescription use. Everything of the purest quality
that money can buy or experience select.
Prescriptions compounded
By a careful and experienced prescriptionist
Everything at reasonable prices.
ROME PHARMACY,
309 Clark Building, Broad Street. Rome, Ga.
W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. I. D. FORD. Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashie.
EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME,
.ROME. CIEORGIA-
CAPITAL STOCK, SIOO,OOO
Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special at WitiM
given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or other «rood seoui ities
Prompt and courteous attention to customers.
BoMrd ot Director*.
A.R. SULLIVAN, J A. GLOVER
C. A. HIGaT. ' ' ID. FORD.
W. P. SIMPSON.
—I f ' ' " ■»
Tyner’s Dyspepsia'Remedy cures Indigestion, Bad
Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn.
Guaranteed.
Men’s Fine Shoes.
The handsomest
styles* the most
beautifully finished
and most durable
and elegantly fit
ting shoe yet pro
duced is
Edwin Clapp’s
Fine Hand Sewed
Shoes.
, W.M. Gammon•& Son have .
them in all the new and
stylish shapes. As Stetson’s
name stands for the finest
1 hats. Edwin Clapp’s stands
for the finest shoes in Amer
ica. We are.agents for both.