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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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Thus spoke the man whose advert
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
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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,
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mates to
W. A, KNOWLES,
General Manager,
Such glorious weather I
Quarantine days are past. Let us turn
to business.
What has become' of Gov. Atkin
son’s thanksgiving proclamation?
Chattanooga is to have a zoo. Her
political striped zebras do not count.
The legislators left singing •‘Rome,
sweet Rome, there’s no place like
Rome.”
We hope the bunch of candidates at
the pole in Rome Bunday will be
winners.!
Postmaster General Gary is strongly
in favor of Postal Savings banks.
We should have them.
The Australian ballot system will
be a live topic in Georgia when the
eonvict problem is settled.
National currency reformp lans are
almost as plentiful as “best solutions”
of Georgia’s convict problem.
An Alabama exchange complains of
handling dirty money. Bet the editor
who wrote it is writing from theory.
Possibly, Gov Atkinson does not
feel very thankful about the passage
of bis pet schemes by the legislature
and will not issue any proclamation.
The Augusta Herald gained a great
victory in the building of the new
water works to be built. A good sup
ply of pure and wholesome water is a
great thing for any city. Says the
Herald: “It will be a great day for
Augusta when her citizens can see
the bottom of their bath tubs through
two feet of water.”
An almost daily hint: —
BECAME WEARY
OF LAW’S DELAY
LYNCHERS STRING VP THREE MEN IN
NORTH DAKOTA.
And yet Durrant, Flanagan, Mrs.
Nobles et al still live. Enforce the
law promptly, and it will stop lynch,
ing- -
The Valdosta Times says: “The
fact that the lunatic asylum has never
had a serious fire until this week and
the additional fact that seven hundred
patients' were removed from the burn
ing building without accident is a
tribute to the management of that in
stitution that should be indeed grati
fying to Georgians everywhere. ”
An exchange has found the meanest
man again. It says: “The meanest
man in an community is the stingy,
penurious pirate who gets the benefits
of the advertising and hard work of
others who assist in developing a city
that directly makes him money, and
who never assists in the work. They
are no better than the dog that tipi
over the table to get what’s on it.”
Duty of The Legislature,
Today the convict problem is the
special order in the house.
The legislature has consumed twenty
of the fifty days session to which it is
limited in accomplishing little in the
way of needful legislation. We do
not mean to say that it has wholly
wasted its time, but the leading ques
sion to be be disposed of this session
has been ignored.
It cannot be the policy of the legis
lature to fail to take any action on
the subject. It seems to be (be gen
eral opinion that a modified lease sys
tem will be adopted. If the legisla
ture should fail to pass any bill the
old lease sytem would have to continue.
This-would belittle less than allow
ing the state treasury to be plundered.
The present lessees sab-lease the con
victs for nearly as much per month as
they pay the state per annum. This
must certainly be changed.
With five cent cotton staring the
farmers of Georgia in the face the
members of the legislature say they
cannot vote for the large expenditure
necessary to build a main peniten
tiary. Therefore, the best thing to
be done is to prepare to lease the
convicts for five year contracts in the
most advantageous and at the same
time most humane way. At the end
of the five years the state should be
ready to build a penitentiary and
take charge of the convicts.
Let the house take up the question,
discuss it and allow no other matters
to interrupt until they have passed a
bill embodying the plan they think is
best. This is the greatest duty they
have to do at the present session.
Speed The Good Women,
The Brunswick Advertiser pub
lishes the following:
The Woman’s Club Confederation
meeting at Rome the past week,
was a disappointment to those who
have fancied that women is purely
sentimental. The questions discussed
were highly practical, involving some
of the nicest economic problems of
this age, and hallowed by an intensity
of earnestness that must make a last
ing impression upon the minds of men
whose thoughts are given to better
things. The bent of these women’s
minds is in an educational direction,
in all that goes to make our homes
nobler, purer and more beautiful
and whatever may be the popular
idea as to the theme of co-education,
one cannot measure the argument in
its favor as a mere idle dissipation,
tending to equality of rights for am
bition sake. A question touched by
the Confederation, that of female rep
resentation in the school boards of
the state, is one that The Advertiser
has long favored. Women have al
ways been the advance stewards in
educational propagation, and to their
aid and effort is due the* possibility
of educational extention. It is a
natural endowment, and the world’s
training is in their hands today, in so
far as the common schools are con
cerned. While man’s best capacity is
given to the 'affairs of politics, of
trade and commerce, the best intelli
gence and securest integrity for school
work, can only be secured, by placing
women in control of the means and
methods of popular education.
The All Cotton Folly,
The New Orleans Picayune says
that the present price of cotton, the
lowest with one exception in fifty
years, suggests some important con
siderations. The most important of
these is the necessity that the southern
farmers should raise their own sup
plies.
The immense cotton crop of 1894
drove the lowest point it has ever
touched and it seemed that this bitter
experience taught the farmers a val
uable lesson. The next year they re
duced their cotton acreage largely
and raised greater food crops. The
result was that cotton brought nearly
twice as much in 1895 as it brought
in 1894. Not only this but the farmers
bad less to buy than ever before. Thus
they found a double profit from the
wise policy they adopted in the spring
of 1895. The Picayune says:
“One would have imagined that the
southern farmers, profiting by expe
rience, would have continued the
policy of producing all supplies at
home and making cotton as much a
surplus crop as possible; but, with a
lack of prudence which is astonishing,
they promptly drifted back to the
old plan of putting as much ground
as possible in cotton, with the result
that the extra labor and expense will
be utterly lost, and the large yield
will net smaller returns than those of
the past two years.
“The Picayune does not believe that
the proper policy for the south to
pursue is to systematically limit the
cotton production. Such a policy
would be manifestly to the advantage
of our competitors, who would be
able to thrive and extend their cot
ton cultivation under the stimulating
effects of the .high prices our course
would produce. But a policy of grow
Ing all supplies at home, diversifying
crops, and making, and making cot-
THE BOMB TBIBUNE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1887.
ton as much as possible a surplus
crop, is a very different thing from a
mere restriction of acreage. The idea
is to make it possible to grow cheap
cottou at a profit, thereby forcing al)
competitors out of the market and re
taining for the south the control of
the cotton market.
“Did farmers make themselves self
euetaing by the production at home
of all supplies, they would be less
affected by the fluctuations in the
cotton market, and would be better
able to bold their cotton when spin
ners seemed disposed to force down
prices by holding off as they are do
ing at present. As long as the far
mers are compelled by their necessi
ties to force their cotton on the mar
ket, just so long will the control of
prices remain with the consumer,and
not with them. When, however, they
are in a position to market their pro
duct deliberately, and to hurry for
ward or withhold shipments at their
pleasure, they will be able to com*
mend satisfactory prices. A little
bolding back;of cotton at the present
juncture would have a very whole
some effect on prices, and it is pretty
safe to say that" all who can will
old, as fast experience has proven
that when the reaction comes from a
decline, such as has been experienced
this season, it is likly to be consider
able and prolonged. ’’
GOSSIP OF GEORGIA EDITORS,
Editor Stovall is invited to come to
Rome with his brass band and give
Rome a serenade.
A young Mississippian who wishes to
become a newspaper correspondent an
nounces that he writes “stories of all
kinds, poems, rhymes, letters on politics,
stories of courtships, "detective stories,
and comic pieces.” He has a drama of
18,000 words, in “fourteen acts and
twelve scenes. ” He is making a mistake
in hie vocation. A man who has 18,000
words in stock should go to the senate,
where that sort of thing is appreciated
* * *
If Editor Eldridge is so crazy about
playing football let him try center rush
on some scrub, or college team or against
the Carlisle Indians and then write m
his opinion, fifteen minutes after the
game has ended—if he isn’t dead.
Says the Dalton Citizen: “Mbs
Eugenia Bitting framed a petition yes
terday asking State Librarian Brown to
appoint Miss Edna Cain as his assistant.
The petition was universally signed in
Dalton and will be forwarded. Miss
Cain deserves the place and ought to
have it.”
Says the Dalton Argue: “Miss Eu
genia Bitting secured many Dalton
signers, this week, to a petition asking
for Miss Edna Cain's appointment as
assistant state librarian. Miss Cain is
popular in Dalton, and almost every
body signed it-”
* * *
The Waycross Journal got several
columns of deserved compliments on its
handsome fair editor. Editor Sweat has
one of the best weekly papers in Geor
gia. It ably represents its section,
Michigan Women Point The Way.
(Chicago Tim. I Herald)
Tne Federation of Women’s Clubs of
Michigan in session at Saginaw has lis
tened to papers upon two subjects of the
utmost importance to the entire sex.
They were respectively “How Shall a
Busy Housekeeper Find Time for the
Club?” and “How Shall a Busy Club
Woman Find Time for Housekeeping?”
The order in wbieh the subjects are
placed is significant as to their relative
importance.
Once upon a time the highest ambi
tion of women at large was to be con
sidered a good housekeeper. Millions of
women passed from the cradle to the
grave unoheered by the amenities of
club intercourse, unwitting of the dis
tinction bestowed by club offices. They
are now dead, They may .have had
souls above gravies, and aspirations be
yond soups, but there were no executive
committees or chairmanships for them.
All this is changed.
The women at large now is pre-emi
nently a club women. She breakfasts
in her bonnet, lunches at the club, sits
upon one or more boards thereafter, and
lending her inflttence to her suffering
sisters in other lands by sitting on a
platform later, takes off her bonnet 'to
retire with the proud consciousness that
she ‘ ‘hasn’t bad an unoccupied moment”
in her day. We all have our ideals of
distinction. The frontiersman] evidences
his bravery by dying in his boots, the
modern woman shows her bravery.by
Itviug in her bonnet.
Housekeeping, however, is still con
sidered a feminine vocation. So women
are compelled to correlate two all-com
prehensive industries regulating the
home and the public, as expressed by
the club, at one and the same time,
In view of the burning interest of the
subject we diffidently suggest that amal
gamation of the club and the home may
be the solution time will offer to the in
tricate situation. Naturally the club
room will ba the center of action. A
committee on domestic affairs can sit
perpetually upon affiliated homes. Chil
dren can be dressed, up or down, by a
committee on hygiene; diet for families
would fall to the same authority. A
finance committee can regulste the ex
penditure of households and the bureau
of service look after that branch of the
work.
There may be some difficulty at first
as to the classification aud control of
husbands, but that is a mere matter of
detail. All men should be clubable, and
if they are not may find
clubbed without their consent.
The federation of Women's Clubs
should hail with pleasure the Federa
tion of Club Women’s Homes as the
next step in the ultimate federation of
the world.
A Criticism of Brann
(Montgomery Advertiser)
The walloping which Brann of The
Iconoclast received from the justly en
raged citizens of Waco appears to have
made him a bigger fool than before—if
that were possibe, but nothing short of
the formative finger of the Almighty
can make him more thoroughly unscru
pulous, more damnaby infamous, or
more utterly slanderous than he already
is. A traducer of women, a reviler of
religion, a libeller of all who are higher,
better or purer than himself, the people
of Texas should not molest him Let
him perish from his own inconceivable
vileness, and disappear amid the exhala
tions of his own inherent rottenness.
An Autumn Day.
Oh! the glorious ti ts of autumn
Red and yellow, pink and gray;
Lervesof green where frost has caught them.
Changing color day by day.
In the cold October breezes.
Under skies of deepest blue.
In the change that never ceases,
The fields and forests through.
Flies the crow athwart the azure
Now with lazy flapping Ming;
Flits the thrush in quest of pleasure
Still regretful of the spring.
The stream that from the upland frets
Along its sandy shore—
Uoes murmuring its sad regrets
That summer is no more.
There’s a pathos in the singing
Os the blackbird in the lane,
And a melancholy ringing
In the Bob White’s plea for rain
There’s an odor, all-pervading, \
Os the season's swift decay,
There's an universal fading
This sombre autumn day.
—C. H. Doing.
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Have
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The Nice Things
AT
LESTER’S
Call and get waited on by polite
clerks and get prompt delivery.
Fresh fruits, domestic and im
ported; fresh cereals, new jams
and preserves, sweet pickled
peaches, home-made mince
meat, ginger preserves, boneless
sardines, boneless canned hams.
Teas and coffees in perfection,
LESTER’S
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga
I
If your Watch Don’t keep Time
carry it to
JOE VEAL,
205 BROAD ST,
W. M. GAMMON & SON.
Men’s Fine Cloves.
W. M. Gammon & Son
have for this season the hand
somest and most complete
line ot men’s fash’onable
gloves they have ever shown.
Silk Lined 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.
liw EJ Thanksgiving Visits,
SRr I when invited out to dinner, should be
made in the neatest and most fashion
l'tijyFwfeW"Qwi able attire, and your hat, you must
', ' CHvSisll ’ remember, hangs on the hat rac<£ at
wall I Vwi Wi I « -—.’w th 6 entrance door, so adorn it with
one of our ultra fashionable Derbys»
ffuAW ° r fedoras, of the latest 1897 Winter
Bt J le8 ’ in quality fine as silk, and at
prices abnormally low.
f J. A. GAMMON & CO.
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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.
JOHN H. REYNOLDS. President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier.
P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President.
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The handsomest
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ting shoe yet pro
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W'. M. Gammon & Son have
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.