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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. O STICK—NO. 3»7 BROAD STREET, OP STAIRB. TELEPHONE ,73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Daily. Except Monday.), One Year $6.00. One Month .» Six Months 3.00 One Week .U Three Months.... 1.50 | Weekly, per year.,l.oo Delivered by mail or by city carriers free of Charge. All subscription strictly in advance. Thm Tribune will appreciate news from any community. If ata small place where it han no regular correspondent, news re parts of neighborhood happenings from a ly friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc , made payable to THE BOMB TRIBUNE, Rom, Ga. Werld J Is 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 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, 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. EI.Y’B CREAM BALM la a poaltlvecure. Aft>ly Into the nostrils. It la quickly absorbed. 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; samples 10c. by mall. ELT BROTHERS. M Warren St. New York City. Have You Examined 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. i o’7 Your Physician Aims 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. FIRST NATIONAL BANE ROME, GEORGIA Capital and Surplus $300,000. All Accommodations Consistent With Sa's Banking Ex tended to Our Customers. Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures Indigestion, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn, laFGuaranteed. 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 hats. Edwin Clapp’s stands for the finest shoes in Amer ica. We are agents for both.