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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor. VrriOß—NO. 387 BRjAD BTBKET, UP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Daily, Except Monday.) One Year J 6.00. One Mbnth ..50 Six Months 3.00 One Week .U Three Months.... 1.00 | Weekly, per year..! OU Delivered by mail or by city carriers free of Charge. All subscription strictly in advance. Thb Tribum ■ will appreciate news from any community. If at a small place where it has no regular correspondent, news re ports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc, made payable to ITHE BOMB TRIBUNE, Rom, Ga. W orld Is MM Thus spoke the man whose advert tisemcnt 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 advertises 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 estis mates to W, A. KNOWLES, General Manager, The legislators will adjourn about Dec. 18. Judge Joel Branham is the ‘‘sphinx of Georgia. ‘ Will the flirting girls and praying women prevail? “The Augusta Beer Campaign” is what the Macon News calls it. Evidently there was political trickery in the reporting of the Savannah poser players- Beoause Neal Dow left an estate worth $450,000 the Savannah Press thinks it pays to keep sober. Let Floyd county’s representatives in the legislature go on record as de manding the special order —the con vict bill—every day. The symposium of citizens of Car tersville on co-education prepared for the Courant-American by Miss Marian Smith was very readable. All the newspaper men of Georgia desire to know the full particulars of the new afternoon million dollar paper to be started in Atlanta, and Judge Branham will not say a word. “What is tile use of paying $1,500 a day for legislators if they can’t attend to the questions demanded by the people, who have to produce the said dollars?” asks the Americus Herald. “The convict lease proposition, and all other phases of,the convict question, seems to be the mountain that will not come to the Georgia legislature. Will they go to the mountain?” asks the Macon Telegraph. We suppose many of tbeyoung ladies now favoring co-education at the University of Georgia will not favor it so strongly if they get married be tween now and the time the legisla ture passes the bill. Judge Branham’s friends who have admired his eloqnence as an orator will regret to learn that he is dumb but only on the subject of the new afternoon paper for Atlanta. Two mogul locomotives cannot draw him out. The Savannah boys who were arrested in Atlanta for poker playing were un luckler than they were guilty. Forty other poker games were going on at the same time in the Kimball house and at other places. None of them were caught up with. One of the Shorter college girls in the debate on co education stated that it would prevail because certain women were praying for it. Have these women tired of bossing “poor, helpless men,’’ and do they seek, to in fluence a Greater Power? . Gov- Atkinson'* Position, The Tribune has held all along that the legislature should act on the disposition of the convicts —should adopt a modified lease system —and that Gov. Atkinson would not veto such a measure. We note that the last issue of the Newnan Herald and Advertiser, the home paper of Gov. Atkinson, which is edited by.Librarian Brown, and the utterances of which may be taken as official, says: .“It is rumored that if the peniten tiary bill is not disposed of at the pres ent sitting the governor will call the legislature together in extra session; We do not credit this rumor. Gov. Atkinson has made bis recommenda tions to the General Assembly, and pointed out need of some sort of legis lation on this question. If his recom mendations are ignored he will proba bly allow the question to go over until the next meeting of the legislature, and thus put the responsibility for in action where it belongs. ’’ This clearly intimates that Gov. At kinson 'will not veto any measure the legislature may enact. He considers that he has done his duty and will place the responsibility on the legis lature where it belongs. Only about seventeen working days remain, and the legislature unless it gets down to work quickly and steadily on this question will fail to dispose of it. Every member who fails to give his support to the settlement of the prob lem at this session should be consigned by bis constituents to his political grave. ■ Best and Cheapest in the World, The Mills hotel, No 1, in New York about which The Tribune has spoken before seems to be a great success. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger writes of it as follows: While the social, political and mer cantile elite were eating the S2O din ner prepared for them amid Delmon ico’s palatial environment by the chamber of commerce, your corres pondent called at the Mills hotel No. 1, in Bleecker street, to find out how that enterprise has fared during the two weeks it has been opened for pub lie patronage. Dinner here is served for 15 cents. Tonight it consisted ol soup, your choice of six meats, two vegetables, desert and tea or coffee Personal inspection showed the food to be of excellent quality, well cooked and served. The portions are gener ous! The legerdemain that evolves six ‘‘quarters’ ’ out of a pie does not obtain here You get a genuine quarter for your 5 cents The star guest of the house, “Citizen” George Francis, was "dining” on one of his 5-cent non animal food meals when I had finished my repast, and volunteered to escort your correspondent through the build ing, .recalling as he did so many pleasant personal memories of names revered in the Ledger office. As has already been stated in this corres pondence, rooms in the Mills hotel cost 20 cents each a night. There are 1500 hundred of them, and for the past week not only has every one been taken, but many applicants have been turned away. The rooms are small, but neat and inviting. As Mr. Train said, as be sat on his com fortable couch in the eighth story, "You get as good a bed as they have in the Waldorf, and you don’t have any charity or philanthropy stuffed down your throat with it.” Mr. Mills frankly said he expected to make 4 per cent on his investment and had gone into the scheme as a purely bus iness venture. The present outlook is that be will not be disappointed. The good-looking character of those to be seen about the hotel is excellent evi dence that such an abiding place must be a very godsend to the man of decent tastes, but narrow means. For New Industries, Mr. Felder of Fulton, introduced an important measure in the bouse recently. It was for the purpose of attracting industrial enterprise to Georgia andjprovides that all factories investing $50,000 shall be exempted from taxation for ten years. Speaking of the measure, Mr. Felder said: “Many large cotton factories at the north are removing root and branch to the south, The state of Alabama has exempted those coming that state from taxation while the state of North Carolina and other southern states have passed legisla tion favorable to them. The result is that the majority of these enterprise! are being planted in those states. We must take every step to induce them to come here or we will be left in the lurch in industrial development. I have;therefore introduced this con stitutional amendment so that all cot ton or other factories investing the sum of fifty thousand dollars in our state shall be exempt from taxation for ten years. This applies also to addi tions to factories already here costing fifty thousand dollars.” This measure is one that it seems should be adopted by Georgia if it is to keep up with North Carolina and i Alabama in industrial progress. i fHE BOMB t'KIBUNE. TOEsJDAY, NOVAMBER 30, 1897. Postal Savings Banks Needed. The following letter on the benefits of postal savings banksis from’Thom as Burke, a trade unionist in Belfast, Ireland: “Os all the reforms now needed in America, the postal savings bank should come first. Such an institution gives absolutely security to the masses in depositing their savings; it encour ages thrift; it also gives a permanent lesson in political- economy: further more, it creates that true'spirit of in‘ dependence and self respect which it is impossible to find among a people under the present system of savings banks and loan associations. In speak ing with some of the labor men here on the subject they have expressed surprise that you have no postal banks in America. The., wonder that such an energetic people should be without safe places to deposit their savings. They further said: “Give the American working people govern ment security for their deposits and they will outstrip the world as regards the amount of their savings.” In this country nearly every child has an ac count in the postal banks. This is taught them in the schools. They buy stamps with their pennies and place these stamps on a card. When they have twelve stamps—that is, 1 shilling —they open an account in the ‘bank’ and keep their money there until they are able to work, and it is surprising to note the amount of their accounts. For instance, I know of one young man about 24 years old who has been saving since childhood. His account amounts to £I,OOO or $5,000. He is a compositor. - I could fill a volume on the benefits of postal savings banks.” AFTER LEGISLATORS, ' What the State Papers are Saying About Our Solons, (Brunswick Advertiser) It is now manifest that the Georgia legislature of 1897 has ' found itself totally unable to deal with a great prob lem. influenced by political ambition and fear. The latest information is.’jo the effect that a temporary system will be adopted, leaving the final settlement ’to a more intelligent or less cowardly body, It is perhaps well that the matter is to take this course. There can be no proper reform of the system without a central penitentiary, established with a view to punishment and self sustenance, through its industrial features, and where crime, regardless of social and financial influence, shall be treated alike. In the meantime, a . penal farm, for youthful and decrepit convic*, will be some advancement. Settle it This Session, (Macon Telegraph) The Telegraph thinks that it is wise and proper for the members of. the leg islature to take their time about the con vict bill. Do not be in too great a hurry, gentlemen, but do not consider the propriety, for a moment, of shoving the matter over to the next legislature. It would be an unnecessary and disturbing factor in next year's campaign. Besides that, the new legislature would convene only a short time before the present lease expires, and that fact would bring, possibly, new complications. In addition to these considerations, we hear it hinted on all sides that the great question of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 lis t • be fought out, and probably settled in Georgia next year, in the state, leg islative and county primaries. It would be too bad to have an annoying state issue thus injected Into a local national fight which is to settle a cause so great. On account of these things, the mem bers of the general assembly should clear the decks so far as possible of all local issues. What time have we for Georgia affairs when nations wait upon the outcome in this state of the greater issue? But, seriously, the legislature should buckle to the question before it, and solve it. This is a Roast. (Lumpkind Advertiser) The present legislature, is something Georgia should certainly feel proud of, “When it adjourns.” They have done more talking and accomplished less than any session since 1890. The convict question, and the State Univer sity have claimed their attention for some time a~d no nearer a settlement’ “except in days” than when the house and senate convened. God hasten the day, when our leg islature and senate will be composed of business men, men who will go there to work for the best interest of the state at large, and not with the hope of get ting in touch with politicians from every county in the state, who would help them to become solicitors general, judges governors and congressmen. There are men there good and true, but not enough of them at this time. Official Law Breakers. (Macon New?) Yesterday’s Savannah Morning News published a decided sensation in the shape of an Atlanta special telling of the arrest of certain prominent Savan-‘ nah politicians and office-holders at the Kimball House, and their subsequent commitment on the charge of gambling. Curiously enough the first name given is that of Hon. W. W. Osborne, the present solicitor general of the Eastern circuit. The next name is that of Harry Willink, commissioner of public works of the city of Savannah. The third name is that of H. M. Loften, superin tendent of the water works. The fourth man is A. A. Lawrence, attorney for the Citizens Club. The fifth man is J. S. .Collin ß , clerk of the city court. As will be readily seen, it would have been bard for the Atlanta police, or even the sleuths of the Forest City, to have made a haul that would have contained so many big fish, from a political point of view. It is the star quintette of the Citizens Club, one of the leading political organizations of Savannah, and these, its representatives, were in Atlanta lobbying against cer tain legislation that seeks to protect the the city of Savannah against public leeches. The arrest of these Savannah politi cians and office-holders is a matter that deserves more than passing attention. At least one of their nnmber should be impeached, as an object lesson for others of bis kind who prosecute and even per secute others for the same violation of law that they are themselves almost nightly gnilty of. It is often the case that a solicitor general whose own morals are not above reproach becomes the most active in the prosecution of others no worse, nor even so guilty as himself. The pub lic has long winked at this sort of thing, and it has seldom been a matter for pub lic comment, but now that a case in point is up it may be just as well to warn others of the Bill Osborne type that the public eye is upon them and that they may yet be held accountable to the law and to public opinion. My Orison, Thank God for health, for work, for love! With these, through all the stress of life We win onr way to heights above, Serene, tho* knowing much of strife. Thank God for health, that day by day We rise lefreshed from slumber sweet, To strive anew ’till twilight gray Once more arrests our hurrying feet. Thank God for w ork ! for duties pressed Upon our hands by other lives, Though oft at times dismayed, distressed, We halt, when duty onward drives. Thank God for love! Ah! who can tell The sustenance that frum it flows, The tenderness we know so well, The countless blessings it bestows. Spirits of dawn, bear ye above My thanks for health, for work and love. —New Orleans States. Druggist CATARRH i for a generous 10 Cent BAtwV TridSize. tlj’s Cream Balm K. wo ' £ "feJ contains no cocaine, jjW ./ jSB mercury or any other injurious drug. HMB| It is quickly ab sorbed. Gives relief at once. ■■ \W^r d P c X a a^ 8 COLD 'N HEAD e Membrane. Restores the Sense, of T iste vnd Smell. Full size 50c ; Trial size 10c. at pruggi-ts or by mail • E LY BROTHERS. .56 Warren St.. New \oik NICE LADIES —SaY— LESTER’S borne made Mince Meat is a* good as they could fix up at their own homes. Call at the old post office corner and get some ot the good things offered. Cream and Pine Apple cheese Ferris Hams and breakfast bacon, Plum Pad ding fresh cakes and crackers, sweet Pickles, salad dressing, Cross & Blackwells’ Pickles, Jams and Pre serves Raisins, Currants, Citron, Lemon and Orange peel, fresh nuts at the old postoffice comer. LESTER’S Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga sc. COTTON NOT IN IT Compared With Our Extreme ly Low Price, T. W. McCORD, I am selling Staple and Fancy Groceries,.Country produce confec tionaries, Fruits Etc, at the lowest possible prices. When you need any goods in this line call and see me. It wi 1 pay you. T.W. McCord Under Beuna Vista Hotel. 536 Broad St,, - Rome, Ga. The Best Weik, We guarantee the best work in the shortest time of auy laundry in the city. Try us, ’Phone 158 MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY, No. 509 Broad St., Rome, Ga. 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 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 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. The Celebrated Jellico Coal. analysis is shown to be the highest in Carbon, lowest in Ash Lm h ar< t e t Bituminous Coal \\ known. It is as nearly smokeless as /-a possible to get free burning coal. It leaves no clinkers and a very small proportion of ashes. With this combination of characteristics it has been proven and is generally ’ recognized as the best coal in the. United States. ’.n-Y Robt. W. Graves & Co. Yard, Southern Railway. Beautiful Line Bridal Presents and I 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 are strictly first class and up-to-date. In oor prescn|)tion department our Dr. D<.vis is ever ready to fi l your wunta, ingot or day. Prescriptions are compounded accurately and de ivered 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 Hujler’r candy just received; also Huykr’s liquoric; drops for coughs, colds and sore throat. Call on us and you will * find tie l.esi of even thing Our line of Cigars and Tobacco has never been so full and with such brands that delight tne taste. Try our 5 cent cigar. J I, CHOUGH & CO., 300 Broad St., Rome, Ga. Tyner’s Dyspepsia. Remedy cures Indigestion, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn 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.