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THE ROME TRIBUNE, -w. A. KNOWLES. - Miter. •FUCK—NO. 887 BR,,AD BTMWT, CP BTAIRS. TKUPHONK 78. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Daily, Except Meoiey.) One Year J 6.00. One Month Kir Months 3.«0j Oec Week ;•« Three Moathe---- 1.9*1 Weekly.pexye«c.A..9o Delivered bv mail or by dty carriers £rae ol Charge. All subscriptiee strictly is advance. Tax Tbibunm will appreciate mwb from any community. If at a mb*U piaoe where it has no regular correspondent, news re ports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed ani all orders, checks, drafts, etc, made' payable to; TH® BOMB TBIBUNBi ; EMM. Ga. W orld J Is i 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 . - • , ;;* .. . »; V • 1 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. _ .sail. STif seer'l j, M ** 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, • ———————————11^— 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. ROMJQ. CWDORGHJL. CLA.ZPIT-AJE. STOCK, SIOO,OOO 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, " ■■ ■" —■ ■■ ■ r -■* I «■■■■■ i , JOHN H. REYNOLDS. President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier. P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President. FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOME, GEORGIA. Capital and Surplus $300,000. All Accommodations Consistent With Ba.*» Banking Ex tended to Our Customers. Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures Indigestion, Ba# Kreath, Sour Stoasach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn. QV'Guaranteed. Hen’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. 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.