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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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The City of Rome,
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
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mates to
W, A, KNOWLES,
General Manager*
The Waycross fair was a great sue
cess. It haff closed after a most suc
cessful run.
Hog killing time, with its joys of
jowl and spare-ribs and backbone, is
rapidly approaching.
Mrs. Myrick denies that she said
“Bob Berner’s only fault is ingrati
tude,” as stated in the Savannah
Press.
Lily Langtry is not a grass widow,
she’s a turf widow. A distinction
with a difference, says the Americus
Herald.
The pebple of Rome will extend a
warm welcome to the Presbyterian
Synod of Georgia which meets here
this week.
Wheat planting is going on rapidly
in the Seventh congressional district.
More is being planted than ever be
fore in the history of this section.
The Valdosta Times thinks that if
McKinley had waited until after be
heard from Ohio, his thanksgiving
proclamation it would have read differ
ently.
Now, just between us girls, why
wasn’t a copy of the Augusta Herald’s
Halloween edition sent to us?—Savan
nah Press. That is what we would
like to know. Was there no male
edition printed?
The Athens Banner has improved
wonderfully under Editor H. H. Carl
ton. His editorials are pointed and
powerful. He is making the Banner
a paper of which the people of Athens
should be proud.
Says the Washington, D. C., Post:
“Georgia escaped the yellow fever
without resorting to the violent meas
ures employed by other states, but it
looks as if the Georgia legislature
might quarantine against football.”
The hatchet is buried and we smoke
the harmonious Havanna weed as
Editor McWhorter says in the Trion
' Factory Herald: “Allright, Brer Har
per. We are glad you like Trion but
termilk. May you continue to write
■ those bright, sparkling editorials that
give The Rome Tribune such a de
licious flavor.”
’ The twenty-four page commercial
and industrial issue of the Anniston
Hot Blast is a very hkndsome issue.
The Hot Blast is modelled considera
bly after The Tribune, and we are
always proud of its journalistic feats.
This issue is the best we have ever
seen of the Hot Blast. Anniston is a
daughter of Rome, and the ruddy
cheeked lassie is olossoming into
beautiful young womanhood.
The Craze For Notoriety,
One of the greatest curses of this
age is the craze for notoriety.
It is not confined to any one class,
or sex. but seems to prevail every
where. Ingersoll, the noted infidel,
is said to have prostituted his brilliant
intellect for the advertisement he
would get out of it. He declares there
is no God simply, many people be
lieve, to get the notoriety it would
bring to him. Mauy people accuse
Talmage and other preachers of in
dulging in sensational sermons for the
purpose of advertising themselves*
Many newspaper men write in an ex
traordinary or sensational style in
order to gain notoriety. Witham,
the Atlanta banker, sent Evangelina
Cisneros a telegram offering her a
cashiership of one of his banks for the
notoriety he would get out of it. In
politics men do all kinds of things for
this purpose.
Not long ago a New York paper pub
lished a story of a twelve year old girl
of that city wrote a note and sent her
picture to the New York Journal say
ing that she had drowned herself. It
turned out that she had bidden in
the cellar and lived a day and nignt
on bread and water she had carried
there. It is needless to add that her
mother switched her, but she got no
toriety in the paper. Another story
on this line concerns Miss Jennie
Taylor, of Fon du Lac, Wis., a mem
ber of a society of that city, who
went to New Orleans. The object of
Miss Taylor in visiting that city is
alleged to be to nurse the sick. The
New Orleans States rather satirica’.ly
remarks:
“The fair visitor will please excuse
us if we remark that she has done a
very foolish thing. If her object in
visiting our city were to enjoy its sa
lubrious climate, its novel and inter
esting features, and its delightful
society we would esteem her a very
sensible girl. But, positively, we have
no ear. bly use for nurses from abroad.
There is no pestilence scourging our
people. We have in superabundance
all the nurses, doctors, and medicines
we can find any use for and there
was no earthly use in the young lady
putting herself to the expense and
trouble of coming here and perhaps
of contracting a headache and a back
ache with fever.
“Os course the object of Miss Tay
lor’s visit is notoriety. She imagines
she has done a very heroic act, while
in fact she has done a very foolish
act. We admire heroism; it always
always captivates our imagination
and commands our feelings. But we
have a supreme contempt for the
growing desire of modern*women for
notoriety. It is quite probable the
young lady imagined that she was
incurring great danger, while in fact
she is just as safe here as she would
be in Fon du Lac. However, she
will get notoriety; and notoriety is
what the new women wants and will
run the risk of death to secure. Os
course, the States welcomes Miss Tay
lor, but we cannot refrain from tell"
ing he that she made an entirely use
less trip; that her imagined escapade
os heroism was a very foolish adven
ture, and that, if she is disposed to be
sensible, she will repack her trunks
and scoot out tor Fon du Lac before
some fool shot-gun quarantine cuts
her off from home.”
He is a Southern Man-
It has been noticable that Mayor
elect Van Wyck has shown much of
the temperament of a southerner.
Hon. Fleming dußignon knows the
mayor-elect of New York quite well.
He says Van Wyck was really born in
South Carolina, in Pendleton county.
His father was a Hollander and em
igrated to South Carolina when quite
a youth. He married in South Caro
lina, and Robert Vin Wyck, the mayor
elect, was born in that state and was
partly educted at Wilson academy,
near the town of Hillsboro, in N. C.
His parents moved to New York city
and then young Robert completed
his education at Columbia University.
This seems to set at rest the place
of Van Wyck’s nativity, and dußig
non should know.
Those who know Judge Van Wyck
best predict that he will give New
York an excellent administration. It
is said that he has promised this, and
the Tammany organization will aid
him.
The Textile School,
The Tribune enderses the following
editorial from the Macon Telegraph
in reference to the textile school:
The Boifeuillet bill for an appro
priation of flo,ooo by the state for the
establishment of a textile department
in the State School of Technology in
which shall be taught the construction,
use and management of all machinery
and material employed in cotton and
other textile manufacturers, ought to
pass. A southern school of technolo
gy without a textile department is an
anomaly. Cotton growing is the chief
vocation of our people and cotton
manufacture should, therefore, be the
very first consideration in any curri
culum of technological training. It is
THE BOMB TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9,
strange that this view was not taken
originally. The Telegraph has said
hitherto that, ho far as manufactures
were concerned,the southern people
have done better in textiles than in
anything else We seem to show more
genius in that direction than in any
other branch. There is no climatic or
commercial reason why we should not
do most of the American spinning and
weaving. The cotton fields are close
to the Gulf ports, so that a cotton mill
in the south has special advantages in
connection with the foreign trade.
Cotton manufacturers everywhere are
admitting the advantages the 'south
enjoys for millsites. The only diffi
culty in the way of our development
is in the absence of a numerous skilled
artisan class, by the employment of
whom we may attain to the highest
artistic excellence in our mill products.
It is a long way from the cotton
fields to the Lowell school in Mas
sachusetts, and a similar school should
be provided here. The mere statement
of the case should need no reinforce
ment of argument to the minds of our
legislators. Can the state afford to
make the appropriation set out in the
bill? It is only SIO,OOO that is asked,
and if the state grants it there will
be considerable additions from pri
vate sources. The state is surely rich
enough to make this provision, for
from every dollar so invested many
huudreds of dollars will come into the
state. The question is made especially
vital at this time because of the low
price of cotton. Anything, therefore,
that the state can do to help the
bringing of the mills to the fields and
to pi ovide the cottoii-grower with a
market at his doors ought to be done.
The public welfare demands it.
MORE CONGRATULATIONS,
(Dalton Argus)
The Rome Tribune's big Edition of
last Sunday may be truly dubbed "a
North Georgia phenomenon.” The
Tribune has issued big special editions
before, but never anything that equaled
this last effort. Manager Knowles and
Editor Harper have covered themselves
with honor and given Rome an adver
tisement the benefit of which it will
reap for years to come. We congratu
late our brethren upon their success.
Honor to Georgia Journalism-
(Adairsvlle Banner)
The Souvenir and Trade Edition of
The Rome Tribune last Sunday with
its faultles forty pages was an honor to
North Georgia journalism.
Does Great Credit.
(Carrollton Free Frees)
The Rome Tribune of last Sunday
consisted of forty pages gotten up in
excellent style. It was a Trade and Sou
venir Edition of the city and surround
ing towns’and does great credit to Edi
tor Knowles and his assistants,
GEORGIA PRESS ON FOOTBALL.
The Georgia legislature should by all
means at its present session pass a bill to
prohibit football ’matches in.this state.
—Jackson Times.
Mrs. Gammon mother of the unfor
tunate football player of the university
who was killed on the gridiron at At
lanta the other day, bears no ill-will to
wards the game because of her son’s
death, and requests that his death “be
not used to defeat the most cherished
object of his life. ” She would have the
game go on. But the lives of other
worthy sons are to be considered. It
seems impossible to prevent brutality in
the game by revisions of and amend
ments to the rules, hence the only thing
to be done is to prohibit the game— Sa
vannah News.
Editor S1 ovall’s opinion of football
would be more expert and valuable, if
he bad been bunged up in a game. He
says:
•‘No, 1 never played a game ofjootball
in my life and have no special interest
in the matter. But if I had a son and he
were afraid to go into a team because of
the dangers of injury, I should be
ashamed of him. I am sure young
Americans are made of sterner stuff.
Are we ready to ordain tiddle de-winks
and lawn tennis as national games?”
If the son happ ned to be brought
home mutilated or dead, we suspect
that our friend would look at the mat
ter differently. There are plenty of
ways other than brutal sport, for a
young man to exhibit his courage, en
dmance and pluck—Augusta Chronicle,
Draw Your Own Conclusion,
(Mrs. Myrick in Americus Times Recorder)
The Cordele Sentinel says:
“The state university makes politi
cians out of its boys; we wonder now if
it will make female suffragists out of
the young women it is now trying to
induce to enter its gates. ”
The Times-Recorder cannot answer
this query, but it does know that the
officers of the Federation of Woman’s
Clubs who are the principal agitators of
this co education question in Georgia
invited Miss L. Graham Crozier, of
Knoxville, Tennessee, to make a public
address during the repent meeting of
the Federation in Rome. Miss Crozier
opened her argument by saying that she
had been a womon suffragist for sixteen
years, and that she had rather run for
congress and get beat than to teach
school and get paid for it. The distin
guished speaker also paid her respects
to the niggardly methods of Tennessee’s
statesmen, and urged the Georgia
women to fire hot shot into Georgia’s
public men until they were granted the
rights of ‘ co operation. ”
Miss Crozier took paricular care to
tell the audience that she had come
to Georgia bv invitation to say things
which the Georgia women did not
dare to express. It is not neccessary
to say that the speaker was loudly
applauded. The Cordele Sentinel can
draw its own conclusion.
Mrs, Myrick’s Explanation,
(Americns Time»-R ecorder)
Tbe Macon Evening News o No
vember 2nd claims to be very much sur
prised at what it is pleased to term *‘A
gentle reminder in Mrs. Myrick’s
Americus Times-Recorder.” The News
is again reminded that Mrs. Myrick has
a handsome young son and a gallant
bachelor city editor Who oft dream of
matrimonial bliss, and in rare intervals
when the editor is out of town on pro
fessional business these young mar
riageable aspirants leave the impress of
their fondest hopes in the editorial col
umns of The Times Recorder.
It Was; But What?
(Americus Herald)
The legislature is jagging along and
getting down to work in good shape.—
Rome Tribune. “Jagging” maybe a
typographical error, but—
Sleep.
W ben to the welcome of unthonghtless sleep
We give our hands, and like a tired guest
Enter the whispering galleries of rest,
Through whose unmeditative vistas sweep
The faint Fpice currents of imagined dreams.
The sound of palm trees waving in the wind
About the gardens of Damascus, streams
Os cavy ocean, and old voices thinned
To a mere fancy; when Fweet slumber fills
Thejcorridors where cold thought moves by day
With filmy faces that the night distils—
Deep in the temi les of our hearts we pray,
Oh, might some vision, o’er the barriers borne
Smile on our walking hours, of dreams forlorn
—Arthur W. Colton In Scribner’s Magazine.
Have You
Been to
Lester’s
and tried some of Heckei’s buck
wheat and flapjack cakes.
New Mackerel and codfish balls are
nice. Cranberries and home-made
mince meat are going off
nicely. Don’t forget to try
some of those peach and quince
preserves, aho sweet peach pickles.
Fresh crackers and cakes
just anived. Fresh Brazil
nuts, walnuts and almonds, Hecker
display today at
LESTER’S*
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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Dr. HENRY H. BATTEY
Surgeon and Physician,
Koxxx-o, -- - Georgia
Dr. D. T. McCALL
Office 401 Broad Street,
In Building Occupied by Rome Drug Co
TELEPHONE 167.
DR. JAMES E. IVEY,
Physician and Surgeon
ROME, GEORGIA.
Office over Rome Drug Company.’
Telephone 157.
ATTORNEYS.
Wm. J. Neel,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ROME, GEORGIA.
Office in New King Building.
Will practice In all the Courts. Spacial atten
tion given to Commercial Law and the exami
nation of Land Titles.
Halsted Smith,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office n City Hall. Rome, Oa.
Jellico coal has qo superior makes
a quicker and hotter fire; less ashes;
burns up cleaner and lasts longer
than any other. A trial order will
make you our customer. Office No.
5 Broad street. Telephone Nos. 182
i and 183. H. G. Smith.
W. M. GAMMON & SON.
Men’s Fine Cloves.
W. M. Gammon & Son
have for this season the hand
somest and most complete
line of men’s fashionable
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,
.j , DOES CLOTHING MAKE A
111 ft WM MAN -
ma y DOt - but there is no use in
■ Mi flMl creating a disturbance by going
TO :: /OVv yflWy around without any when we are
selling such exquisite styles and
.. b Z sl*' perfect fit in suits, overcoats, trous-
LF 1 M ers, e t c , f or men an d j,- y 9 j n BUC jj
HW a variety of fabrics and fashions, at
gt such low prices. Overcoats at $6-
and up. Suits at $5.5 1 and up.
copyright lewJ
J. A. GA.WMOX A CO.
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I have used
Piso’s Cure
for Consumption, and can
recommend it above all others
for Coughs and Colds.
It is selling like hot cakes.
> GUSTAV FALK, Druggist,
Winton Place, Ohio.
August 31, 1897.
Robt. W. Graves & Co.
230 Bload Rome ’ Ga ’
. Domestic, - SHm, - Bkcksmith,
I ANTHRACITE.
Telephones eo
Yard, Southern Railway
W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. ,I. D. FORD. Vice-l'res. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashie.
EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME,
home. oeotigia..
CAPITAL STOCK, SIOO,OOO
Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special at(entio>
given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or othev good eeonrities,.
Prompt and courteous attention to customers.
Board ot Directors.
A.R. SULLIVAN, J. A. GLOt fCKi
C. A. HIGHT, L D. FORD,
IW.J?. SIMPSON.
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 hav&-
them in all the new and
stylish shapes. As Stetson’s
name stands for the finest
hats. Edwin Clapp’s stands
for the finest shoes in Amer
ica. We are agents for both..