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Thus spoke the man whose adrer/
tiscment 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 advertiser
ment in its columns every day
is sufficient to make business
good anywhere* 1
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
mates to
■W. A. KNOWLES,
General Manager,
Convicts are the things.
Cotton still rolls in rapidly.
s—a mark of respect in America.
Atlanta should stainp out the small
pox.
Legislators should be whipped—into
line.
The turkey question settled; let
peace reign.
Lost—A party. Return to Tom
Watson.
The Macon News editorials now
treat all subjects in a broader way
than ever before.
Hawaiian annexation is not a pop
ular proposition with the admirers of
G. Cleveland, of Princeton.
Free tuition will be continued at the
University of Georgia. This is one of
the greatest boons to our young men.
An exchange answers the oft asked
question, “What is the matter with
Hanna,” with a single word—Foreker.
Mexico has repudiated football. Bull
fighting is sufficiently brutal for the
average Mexican, says the Birming
-ham News.
5 e-
- is the legislature going to do
with convict question anyway?” asks
the Amerieus Herald. Nothing. Ask
ns something hard.
The Summerville News says the bill
<o appropriate SIO,OOO for the textile
.school in Georgia is on the right line
and ought to become a law.
n .)■ f
The Oglethorpe bi centennial to be
celebrated in Brunswick next year
will be a grand event. AU patriotic
Georgians should help it along.
“Dargai Gap,” the poem of “Beau
Brummel” Mansfield seems to be
doing its work as an advertising dodge
-for the most finished actor on our
stage.
The Australian ballot has driven
from the .polls, to a great extent, the
ward heeler, the bold intimidator. and
the corruptionist. Georgia needs such
a law and she needs it at once —Sa
vannah Press.
Rev. Sam Jones is against co-educa
tion. He writes over his signature in
the Cartersville Courant-American:
“If familiarity breeds contempt, and
the habits, plays and pastimes of the
two sexes differ so widely, then let’s
Mave colleges for young men and col
leges for young ladies, and not co
education.”
Are They AfcwW of It?
Nearly two weeks have passed
since tire eenvict bill was made a
special order for 11 o’clock every day
in the .boeee of representatives o. the
general assembly of Georgia, and yet
no action has been taken. Not even
the first section of tfce original, nor a
substitute bill, has been passed.
Almost thirty days of the fifty to
which session is limited have gone by,
and the most important subject is un
settled. Is -the legislature afraid to
tackle the convict (question? It would
seem as if they were. Many of them
are afraid to vote to build a peniten
tiary and increase tbe tax rate, and
are equally afraid to vote for a new
lease.
Not a few openly say that the legie
laXpre will do nothing; they will leave
the responsibility of making another
.lease to Gov. Atkinson, which they
say he can do coder the old act. In
such a mixed up condition it seems
that unless some pressure is brought
to bear on the legislature they will
adjourn without doing anything.
This would be doing a wrong and
injustice to the state. The most im
portant matter which the legislature
had to come before it at this session
is the disposition of the convicts. It
should supercede everything else. If
no action is taken and no great effort
is made to have the subject consider
ed we predict that the “dear people”
will make it warm for the humbug
legislators.
Gave The Tribune Credit
The bill to appropriate SIO,OOO for
the establishment of a textile school
as a department of the Georgia School
of Technology should pass both
houses of the legislature without hes
itation. The finance committee
after placing a provision in the bill
that if the state appropriated SIO,OOO
outside parties would contribute a
like amount, decided to make a unani
mous recommendation for the passage
of the bill.
Among those who appeared before
the committee on finance was Hon. G.
C, Matthews, of the Macon Telegraph,
who advocated the textile school so
strongly in that paper. He told how
his editorial endorsements of such a
school bad been copied from Virginia
to Texas. He mentioned the Charles
ton News and Courier, the Dallas
News, the Richmond Dispatch, the
Augusta Chronicle and other south
ern newspapers.
He said that The Rome Tribune de>
served the credit for being the first
newspaper to suggest that the textile
school be made a department of the
Georgia School of Technology. His
talk was very interesting to the legis
lators, and showed what a great thing
this-school would be for the state and
the south generally. To the advocacy
by Mr. Matthews through the columna
of the Macon Telegraph, aided by the
personal work of Hon. N. E. Harris
and others is due the good work which
is soon to bear fruit.
Reading $ Book,
The first thing to do in reading a
book or a story in a magazine or any
other thing worth reading is to ascer
tain who wrote it. An author talks
to us in his books, and just as we like
to know the name of the man or wo
man whose published thoughts are
entering into our daily lives. There
fore, make it a rule, girls, to read the
title page of the volume in your hand;
and if there be a preface, unless it
be. a very long one, read that, too.
You will in this way establish an ac
quaintance with your.author; you will
know him b, sight, and soon you will
know him more intimately. Every
author has little Ways and words of
his own, and, you wllLfiud yourself
recognizing these very swiftly and
lovingly. By-and *by, when you hap
pen in your story on some phrase, or
turn of a sentence, or little jesting
mannerism which belongs to the au
thor you are growing well acquainted
with, you will feel pleased, and the
story will mean a great deal more to
you than if it were simply the work of
an unknown person.—Harper’s Round
Table. •
Favor the South,
Southerners are not the only per
sons who favor building an armor
plate plant in the south, should con
gress authorize such an undertaking.
Many western congressman and news
papers look upon the project with
great favor, and even tn the East the
plan is not without its supporters.
For instance, the Stove and Hardware
Reporter of New York says:
“The location of a■ government
armor plate plant in the south would
only be a righteous recognition of the
southern states’ claim to somg of the
many favors that have heretofore
been so lavishly thrown around in
the north. The pronounced excellence
of Alabama iron has been proven over
and over again, and the government
armor plate board could hardly do
better than locate the projected plant
in the south.”
“This is good enough as far as it
THE BOMB TRIBUNE, FBI DAY. NOVEMBER 2s I«H7.
goee,”eorreetly.observeß the Baltimore
Manufacturers’ Record, “but the
south aud its northern friends must
not be content with wtth asserting
seif-evident facts They must unite in
favor of a particular of a particular
locality, sinking local pride in general
welfare, and then use every legitimate
effort to impress their views upon
congress.”
GEORGIA EDITORS,
"We feel quite confident that Haunts
Taylor is entirely sincere and not moved
by any such motives as the president is
alleged to fix upon him. The faot that
he is the one man who can speak w ith
superiority on the Cuban case consti
tutes him an exceptionally prominent
personage, and he is likely to be the
central figure in coming congresspnal
debates.—Angusta Chronicle,
A talented young lady is going to
start, a newspaper in Calhoun soon. As
genial Jim Hall, the carrot headed muse
of Oothoaloga, is running the Times
there, also, and is a bachelor of mature
years, it is safe to opine that another
newspaper consolidaton is on the pro
gram for Calhoun.—Cartersville News.
The secret ballot is what Georgia
needs. When, oh when will she get
it?—Amorous Herald.
Very few people value friendship as
they should. What a dreary exile this
life would be without friends! The
word, friendship, does not apply to that
silly sentimentality where .one cruel
word is sufficient to sever hearts for all
time. Our real friends are not those
who profess friendship for us because
we are prosperous and happy, but those
who, when adversity comes, and we
cease to be reflected in the mirror of
success, are drawn to us by a stronger
tie than ever. Friendship to be proven
must be tested..—Trion Factory Herald
How is it possible for the legislators
to go wrong when every country editor
in the state is offering valuable ad
vice.—Summerville News.
This' Thanksgiving JDay! Forget for
the day about five-cent cotton and “re
publican i prosperity,” and be thankful
that you’re living.—Cedartown Stan
dard.
The plan of currency reform proposed
by Secretary Gage will never become a
law. The people will have to- suffer the
ills from the present monetary system
until genuine , independent bimetallism
is adopted in 1901. They will never con
sent to anything less than that and will
certainly prevent the gold standard idea
from being strengthened and sustained
by retiring the greenbacks and permit
ting the banks to issue all the money.
The people are no longer blind on this
money question.—Griffin News.
It costs $1,500 per day to run the
Georgia legislature. No other state
spends so much for amusements.-Bruns
wick Time.
One of the great books of the year
is ‘ ‘Smetemg Flax, ’ * toy Hallie Erminie
Rives, a cousin of Amelie. It is publish
ed by that enterprising hustler, F. Ten
nyson Neely, of New York and has al
ready had an enormous sale. Mr- Neely
has a number of epochal books in
press,—Augusta<Herald.
Predicts an Advance,
(Macon Telegraph) •
A member of the firm of William
Simpson Sons & Co., manufacturers of
cotton goods is quoted by a New York
financial,publication as saying: “Cot
ton is now selling in the interior at less
than the cost of production. The rea
sons for the this state of affairs are
many and varied, but I can say with
confidence that the low price will con
tinue only a short while longer
and then the rise will begin, The pros
pects for the coming spring are excellent
especially in the West, where they have
raised such magnificent crops. Our
business there has been extremely sat
isfaotory, and such I believe has also
been the experience of most manufac
turers who sell goods in that territory. ”
What are these “many and varied”
reasons? If a very large crop is any one
of them, will “low prices continue only
a short while longer?” Evidently this
spinner does not believe a greater crop
has been made than the world can con
sume. and in this view the position
taken by The Telegraph is sustained. *
The Hawaiian Annexation,
(Athens Banner)
The annexation or control of Hawaii
by the U nited States is in our humble
judgment the most unwise and uncalled
for measure now presented for congres
sional consideration.
Wby should America want to extend
her possessions by the annexation of the
Hawaiian lepers and mongrels of the
remote sonth seas?
What possible good could come to our
country from such an annexation?
It is argfied that the control of Hawaii
will give the United control of
the North Pacific and thus advantage
our naval and commercial arrange
ments. This may be true to some ex
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tent and might'be so to a fat greater
extent if our naval affairs Were of such
magnitude as to place the United
States in need of enlarged facilities
for our marine service. But be ibis as
it may, there are other stronger rea
sons why the United States should not
be guilty of such a folly at this time.
These are forcibly and pointedly given
by Senator Jones of Arkansas in ex
pressing his opposition to Hawaii an
nexation :
’ ‘I am opposed to it- —
* ‘First, because I am unalterably op
posed to extending our territorial limits
beyond this continent.
“Second, because the Hawaiian
Islands are so remote from our coast
line. There defense in the event of
war would be enormously expensive
and trouble to us*
“Third, because they do not com
prise sufficient area to make a State
and their maintenance as a Territory
would violate the intent of the Consti
tution.
‘ ‘Fourth, because it- would be almost
impossible for Congress to devise a gov
ernment for them that wonld not result
io confftsiou and failure.
“Fifth, because of the unfit and un
desirable character of .the population.
No matter bow favorable surroundings
for improvement might be madd. the
large percentage of the population
would remain unfit for citizenship.
“These reasons seem to me to be self
evident and convincing.”
Lameness
of the back or limbs.
Stiffness
of the joints.
Congestion
in the chest,
are relieved and cured by
Allcock’s
Porous Plaster
Do Not Bo Deceived by any M Juat as
rood ” pleas; insist upon having the genuina.
Allcock’s Corn Shields,
Allcock’s Bunion Shields,
Hart a. equal as a relief and cure far cent
. and bunion*.
Brandreth’s Pills
are not merely purgative, but tonlo.
Tliey purify and tone up the system
Ah! Hal
I Told You So!
When you hear a man say his
goods are the best, “Watch him
Spot,” You can get some nice
things from the old postoffice cor
ner, so the ladies cay, and they
know what is good. Just try it,
those 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. <fc B. pickles, jams, jellies and
preserves, olives in glass and buik.
Cherries, peaches, apricots and
plums in glass; cream mufchatel,
pine apple and Edam cheese; all
nice and dean, at
LESTER’S-
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga.
Southern Pacific
and Sunset Limited
ABE INSEPARABLE
THE FIRST is that great steel highway
which links New Orleans to the Pacific
Coast, a road distinguished by its
superb physical condition, its sump
tuous equipment, its perfect system
its adaption of every modern improve
ment that contributes to safety, com
fort, convenience. A road that runs
through the Acadian Land of Louis
iana, the pine forest region and high
plains of Texas, the romance-fraught
plateaus of New Mexico and Arizona,
and into the orchard and garden dis
tricts of Southern California. A line
redolent with history and romance and
filled with wonderful charm.
THE SECOND is the great transconti
nental train of the Southern Pacific,
making direct connections at New Or
leans (which point it leaves every
Monday and Thursday .at 10 a. m.)
with all through trains from the North
and East, runping through solid to
San Francisco in 75 hours. The finest
train extant—vestibuled, steam heated
gas lighted. Has ladies’parlor, wait
ingmaid, drawing rooms; gentlemen*'
smoking room, barber shop, bath
room, buffet, dining car, library, etc.,
etc. A home on wheels.
DESCRIBING BOTH we have a gresf
deal of literature which the prosper*
tive tourist should read. Some beau,
tiful books. If going to California
Mexico or Arizona, write and enclose
10 cents in stamps and we will be glad
to send such as you reed, or any
Southern Pacific Agent wil/ cheerfully
give information.
S. F. B. MORSE,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
NEW ORLEANS
Tksho- - i. _
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W. M. GAMMON & SON.
Hen’s Fine Cloves.
W. M. Gammon & Son
have for this season the hand
somest and most complete
line ot 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 all
sizes. Buckskin driving
gloves. Buckskin gauntlets,
Dogskin driving gloves, Fur
Lined combination gloves for
cold weather. Fire proof
Ilogskin gloves for railroad
men; Boys’ gloves in al] 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,
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Beautiful Line
Bridal Presents and
Fine Cut Glass at
J. T. CROUCH & CO’S.
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 the 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
Huyler’r candy just received; also Huyler’s liquoric; drops
for coughs, 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.
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Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special attesttoa.
given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or other eood securities.
Prompt and courteous attention to onstomers.
Board oi Director*
A.R. SULLIVAN, J. A. GLOVEK
O. A, HIGHT, 1 D. FORD.
W. P. SIMPSON,
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P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President.
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Hen’s Fine Shoes.
The handsomest
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beautifully finished
and most durable
and elegantly fit
ting shoe yet pro
duced is
Edwin Clapp’s
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Shoes.
AS® m
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.