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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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Thus spoke the man whose adver
tisement was being regularly
read in fhoi wands 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
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•W, A, KNOWLES.
General Manager,
Plant more wheat
▲re you truly thankful? -
John Kendriek Bangs eallsit Tam
many town.
Hawaii is to be annexed. We must
h»X e Cuba, too.
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The Weekly Tribune is one of.tbe
best and cheapest papers published in
the south.
The First Presbyterian church
should be crowded at the thanksgiv
ing services tomorrow.
The Albany Herald takes consolation
in the fact that all of the legislation bills
introduced cannot pass.
The composer of “The Geisha”has
launched a new musical comedy in
London called “The Blue Monkey. ”
A moral crusade has started in In
diana Some prominent society people
were indicted last week for playing
progressive euchre.
Plant corn, wheat and okts, and let
cotton be your last and smallest crop
for next year rightfully advises the
Gadsden Times-News.
It is said that no dog will follow
an onion trail. Brer Possum and Brer
Rabbit ought to catch on to this and
rub a little on their feet.
Says the Augusta Herald: “The
legislative approaches big questions
f alteringly—as if it were not sure of its
capability of wrestling with them.”
The Brunswick Advertiser is not
oply in favor of Georgia printing her
own school books, hut is also in favor
of them being edited by Georgia’s
educated educators. ,
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Spain’s losses in Cuba have been ter
rific. General Blanco reports to the
Madrid government that the losses oi
Spanish troops in Cuba have been 10? ,-
‘OOO men from beginning of the wa<*.
“The power of the press” in Geor
gia will will be tested in Miss Edna
-Cain’s race for the place of assistant
librarian as she is being endorsed from
the mountains to the seaboard by the
newspapers.
Tbeflpaneial question, like the poor,
we have with us always, but it is
hard to see how anything can be bc-I
complisbed ip either direction by the'
coming session of congress. Interna
tional bimetallism is a thing of air.
-Secretary Gage’s plan of currency re
form will probably be submitted, but
it can not pass the senate. On the
d(her, hand, no silver legislation Is
.possible, because it coulfl not pass the.
Not Too Late to Sow .Wheat
Thk Tribune baa repeatedly told toe
farmers of this fertile agricultural see
tion that the road to prosperity for
them lay io raising a euttciency of
supplies for home eonausuption, and
then planting the remaining land in
cotton.
We have urged the planting of moos
wheat and corn. When we have; to
buy so much flour and corn from the
west we can never hope to be as pros
perous as we should toe.
It is very certain that with the
average crape of wheat which can be
raised in North Georgia and East Ala-;
toaana it would pay much better than
five cent edtton. The farmers through
out this section should plant more
wheat.
It is not too late now to sow wheat,
and the farmers should plant all they
possibly can.
Endorsed By Savannah News,
The arguments of The Tribune for
a change in the basis of representa
tion in the state is creating much fa
vorable comment. The Savannah
News, one ct the most ably edited and
conservative papers in the south, says
on this subject:
Tas Rome Tribune is of the opinion
that the democratic machinery in this
state for choosing delegates for nomi
nating conventions needs ebanging so
that it will produce results which will
be more nearly fair. There is consid
erable foundation for The Tribune’s
contention.
At present the party in each county
is permitted to send to the nominating
convention twice as many oelegates
as the county has representatives in
the legislature. It is apparent that
under this system it is not certain that
the nominees will be the choice of a
majority of the democrats of the state.
For instance, a county which has
three representatives in the legisla
ture has six delegates in a nominating
convention, and yet .that county may
not have more than a thousand demo
cratic voters, while a county which
has one representative in the legisla
ture has two delegates in the nomina
ting convention, though it may have
five hundred or more democratic
voters. In the first case the thousand
voters have six delegates—three dele
gates to each five hundred, while in
the second case five hundred voters
have only two delegates. It might
happen therefore that a majority of
the nominating convention would not
represent a majority of the party.
The remedy which The Tribune
suggests is that representation in a
nominating convention shall be baaed
on the party’s strength in each county
as shown at the last election. The
suggestion is a good one arid if enforced
would have a tendency to bring out a
larger vote. The local leaders would
make an effort to get out a big vote
if a county’s representation in a state
nominating convention depended on
the number of votes cast by the county,
and, besides, it is but fair that a ma
jority of the party in the state should
name a majority of the delegates in a
nominating convention.
Mr- Todd's Newspaper Fund,
“I regard newspapers as the great
educators of the present day. Their
influence is constantly growing, and I
think the time will soon come when
no public library will be complete
without its newspaper reading room.”
This is what William 0. Todd of
Atkinson, N. H., who his just given
$50,000 in a lump to the Boston Public
Library, the interest of which is to be
applied to the purchase of newspapers
for that institution, said when asked
his reason for establishing such a fund.
Mr. Todd is nearly 80 years of age,
hale, and active. He is a man of me
dium height, rrectand compact, his
kindly face set off with silvery
and a short cropped mustache of the
same color as his hair. He is a bach
elor. He was born and raised in thia
quiet New Hampshire village of less
than 1,000 population, and with the
exception of a few years, when he lived
at Newburyport. Mass., has always
had his home here.
* I have always noticed, ” continued
Mr. Todd, in speaking of his gift to
the Boston Library, “that it is im
possible to find papers from different
cities and towns, unless it be a very
few of great prominence, when out
s’de the territory in which they cir
culate, and strangers are always aux
ious to get hold of news from home.
I used to go to New York aud call
at the Coopor Institute. There is a
newspaper room there,and I wanted to
get a look at papers from this way. I
found a crowd was always present,
sometimes standing three or four
deep, waiting to get a look at one
particular paper. It set me to think
ing. in 1870 I started a reading room
lat Newburyport, with newspapers a
' prominent feature. It was a great
success, and 1 arranged for its con
tinuance.
“Then I thought of Boston's need
of something of the Kind in a news
paper. Boston is a big City.- It has
visitors from all oyer the world. The
.old.Pnblto (Library. building had nd
| room for' a depart alent
KOVEMBEH
pert, but when the new building
was opened there was, and I started
in to give $2 000 a year to carry out
my idea. After Cour years* trial it
was found so acceptable that two
weeks ago I gave $50,000 to the city,
with the provision that interest at 4
per cent be guaranteed. 1 did not
put it into a bank, -m banks may fail,
but the city of Boston never will, and
the $2,000 a year will be continued
safely after I am forgotten.
“The amount mentioned as availa
ble gives the reading room 300 papers.
They are there from every part of Che
world. AU the leading dailies of this
country, in every language, and many
weeklies are kept on file, and the same
applies to foreign publications. There
is many a good citizen in Boston, who
came from a Car away place, who can
go to the library and see his borne
paper when he would not otherwise.
Nbt many men feel as though they
could afford to take more than the
local papers. But if they live in Bos
ton or visit there they can find almost
any one they wish.”
We Must Have Cuba.
The press of the south is becoming
roused on the question of the annexa
tion of Cuba for the purpose of pre
venting another plague of yellow
fever.
Just as The Tribune has argued
the other papers are now taking up
the matter. On this subject the Mem
phis Commercial-Appeal says: “Those
who scoff at the annexation of Cuba
to this country, or at least its mod
ernization and immunity from Span
ish misrule, are not expert at reading
the signs of the times. When James
G. Blaine some years ago declared
that the yellow fever was the creature
of unsanitary conditions existing in
Savanna and that it was the duty of
this country to reform those conditions
as a matter of self-defense, at any
cost, whether by peaceful annexation,
conquest or purchase, he shocked the
sentiment of the United States that
was firmly wedded to the theory that
territorial extension and entangling
alliances with foreign nations should
be avoided at all hazards. Blaine was
severely censured by the democratic
press and by a large portion
of the republican press. At this
day no one will deny Mr. Blaine’s
statesmanlike perspicacity. He was a
few years ahead of bis time, as were
all great men since the foundations of
the world were laid.’’
After stating the names of a num
ber of prominent medical authorities
who believe that all the yellow fever
is brought to our shores from Cuba,
the Commercial-Appeal continues:
* ’Several days Ago the Commercial.
Appeal stated that ten thousand men
oould be raised in the south and sug
gested that if “the vacillating policy
of the administration” continued
under the domination of the eastern
shopkeepers who are “outside of the
fever belt,” the southern states would
demand the right to protect them
selves in the only manner practica
ble. Senator Caffery is one Os the
leaders in congress, and his company
is not undesirable.”
The Tribune has favored the hold
ing of a convention of delegates ap
pointed by the governors of southern
states interested to consider this mat
ter. The present republican admin
istration will do nothing about Cuba.
Favors Penitentiary Commission,
(Brunswick Advertiser)
As a reality the penitentiary scheme
seems to have entirely drifted from the
focus of its many yean of public discus
sion, and the legislature has been per
suaded that any material change from
the present, will by its suddenness,
cause a hurtful jar to the public policy.
It occurs to The Advertiser that a prop
er conception of the issues involved in
the penitentiary system are not difficult
to fathom, if publio interest instead of
private desire, is made the basis of rea
son. There are questions of morality, of
humanity, of proper penal subservance
and punishment of vicious criminals,
that have already been discussed almost
to ajhousshold canvass, by j edges, juries,
lawyen, preachen. papen, all to one
common demand The legislature knows
what is wanted, wbat by a common
civilization is demanded. It is only the
plans of perfect state control, under a
system of self-sustenance that it has to
do. A reformatory, a close prison, a
farm, may all be necessary, should be
provided. Why should there be irreso
lution? If the legislature 1s afraid to do
right as a political danger, it can do
right by throwing the responsibility
upon a non-political commission of good
men.
Poor Mark's ArCold.
(Memobis Commercial Appeal)
Perhaps the saddest event in recent
politics is the tumble of the eminent
philanthropist, the Hon. Mark Banna
of Ohio. When we recall the salient
events of his short political career, we
can hardly refrain from denouncing the
ingratitude of this wicked world. About
two years ago Mr. Hanna undertook to
make him a president. The Hon. Will
iam McKinley owed him over SIOO,OOO
and thns proved himself«heman for the
places Mark fftohk af‘
\ once initiated hie programme of loving
his filtow me*. He sent jmiMionaries
into the various states to convert needy*
republicans to the true faith. He de
tached Tom Reed's chief fugleman. Joe
Manly, from the Maine Statesman and
induced him to give up the fight. He
organized rhe immaculate order of seal
brawn delegates from the south and
staffed their pockets with wealth and
their stomaohes with the fire-water that
made them solid for McKinley. * ‘My
niggers” constituted an invincible pha
lanx for McKinley and “sound money”
at St, Louie. Then he constructed bis
palatial Hell-on-Wheele, an itinerant
thirst-cure and barkeeper’s dream, which
gave a renewed impetus to the brother
hood of man. He has, since the election
of McKinley, been lining the republican
politician of Ohio with silver and gold
and greenbacks. He has been a liberal
purchaser Os legislative influence. Yet
now, inspiteaf bis pbilanthropic career,'
he is sitting on the shores of Soup river
wondering what will happen to him
next. The republicans have a majority
of about five in the Ohio legislature, and
some half a dozen of them declare that
they are opposed to Hanna. What is
the poor man to do? He doesn’t know
whether they are in earnest or whether
they are simply waiting for him to say
“how much?" So there he sits all by
his lonesome, and there ain’t no good
time nowhere nohow. Alack and alas!
but let that pass.
Biography of an Autumn Leaf,
Born in the pink of a balmy spring
morning and nursed by a genial sun, it
grew with surprising rapidity Its life
was short, yet it lived to rustle its con
gratulations to the youth and maiden
who plighted their troth beneath its
home, and when old age sat upon the
mossy bank o’er which it drooped it
joined in the soporific chorus of its com
panions. It sheltered the robin aud its
young from the blast which made the I
old oak creek, and shielded their eyes
from the vivid thunderbolts darting
o’erhead. It had beard the merry laugh
ter of the children at play, and had
been sung to sleep by the night bird in
the gloomy choir loft of the stately oak.
When the days began to shorten the
imp with frosty beard squeezed it until
it was black and blue and the sun tinted
its skirts with a fiery red. Thus it lived,
until one night it rustled and shivered a
feeble song to the moon and stars and
then fell to the earth with a dewy tear
stealing down its breast. It was the
death of an autumn leaf,—Monroe Ad
verser.
f Lotsol Talent
j (Dooglus Breese)
The Rome Tribune is tbe most re
markable newspaper in * Georgia. It is
published in a town of 15,000 inhabi
tants, but is more enterprising and has
more talent on its editorial force than
any paper in the south published in a
town of double tbe size.
The Spotted Stockings,
(Editor Bayne)
It may have been golf or it may have
been one of the unaccountable freaks of
fashion, but to whatever it is due, stock
ings were never more ring-streaked and
spotted than now. To say they were
elegant or delicate would hardly be true,
but toadmit that they are pretty and
coquettish is easy enough.
Biliousness
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I Told You So!
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Cherries, peaches, apricots and
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We have what you want in
everything that a man, boy
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night or day. Prescriptions are compounded accurately
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