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THE ROME TRIBUNE. |l 1 ■"■■■* W. A. KNOWLES. - - Bdltor. ftWIOE—NO. S»7 BB,»AD STREET. OF • STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Dally, Except Monday.) Ono Year Sfc-00. Owe Month Bix Month! 3.00 One Week.. Three Months.... W»I Weekly,peryonj..l.oo DoUnered by mail or by city carrleeo free of Charge. All subscription strictly in advance. - r ' "' ’ ■ Thm Truktnb will appreaat® newa from any community. If at a avail ptaos wfcoce it has no regular coreeapoodeut, aewe re porta of neighborhood hanxmiMM t any friend will be gratefully received. Communications ataqrild be addressed ' gfai Ml ordere, ctectas. drafts, etc , wade THS BOMB TBIBtfKB, - - .J Boses, da. *■ . _____—•' rTbe W orld Is Mipe! 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 advertisements emanating from these officials. Write for esti mates to •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. c. ift ■ « h . ■ a* Send ns $1 for Tbs Weekly Trib une for oneyear. ”- ~ ; ■ ' .... - , 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. , J. . —— ■ ft ' ■ ■■. ■ ■!— , 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 Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges tion and permits food to ferment and putrify in the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache. Hood’s insomina, nervousness, and, ___ if not relieved, bilious fever -Bl or blood poisoning. Hood’s 111 PlDs stimulate the stomach, ■ ■■ ■ rouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, con stipation. etc. 25 cents. Sold by all druggists. The only Fills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Ah! Ha! I Told You So! When yoo hear a man say his goods are the best, **Wasch him Spot,” You can get some nice things from tbe old poetoffice cor ner, so the ladies cay, and they know what is good. Just try it, th< se who don’t know, and you will get polite attention. Thanksgiving mince meat, Plums puddings, Ferris hams, Franco American soups, shrimp, deviled crabs, lobsters, boneless sardines, C. <t B pickles, jams, jellies and preserves, olives in glass and bu k. Cherries, peaches, apricots and plums in glass; Cream mufehate), pine apple and Edam cheese; all nice and tlean. at LESTER’S Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga Help Wanted—Mala. Agents get fifty cents on each’ dollar £ no experience necessary. Write for NeW*, New York. W. M. GAMMON & SON. Men's Fine Cleves. 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 Lined -Paris made kids in all the new shades. Per rin’s French kids in latest styles. Mocha kids in ajl 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 wears. Beautiful Line Bridal Presents and Fine Cut Glass at J.T. CROUCH & CD’S. ■ 1 • • • ■ y Finest toilet goods, Huyler’s candy, choicest perfumeries. Our extracts are the best and purest. Our stock of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines arestrictlv first class and up-to-date. In our prescription department our Dr. Davis is ever ready to fill your wants, night or day. Prescriptions are compounded accurately and delivered to any part of the city. We are carrying the best line of fancy articles in Cut Glass Our line of per fumes is the best tbe market affords. Ladies can find just what they want for bridal presents at prices which cannot be duplicated outside of New York city. A fresh supply of Hujler’r candy just received: also Huyler’s liquoric; drops for conghs, colds and soie throat. Call on us and you will find the best of everything Our line of Cigars and Tobacco has never been so full and with such brands that delight the taste. Try our 5 cent cigar. J T, CROUCH & CO., 300 Broad St., Rome, Ga. W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. LD. FORD. Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashie. EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME. IRLOnOX!. CAPITAL STOCK, SIOO,OOO Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special ati;antio» given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or other oood securities. Prompt and courteous attention to onstomers. 33o*x*<l oi Directors. A.R. SULLIVAN. J. A. GLOVBK. C. A. HIGHT. I D. FORD. W. P. SIMPSON. . JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier. P. H. HARDIN. Vice-President. FIRST NATIONAL BANE ROME. GEORGIA. I Capital and Surplus $300,000. 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