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Christmas weather is with us.
The joy of the Christmastide is on.
Congress adjourned yesterday until
Jan. 4.
Remember the poor are always with
us on Christmas.
On with Christmas, let the good
wishes be unconflned.
A woman holding her skirts out of the
mud and carrying an open umbrella
hasn’t very much time for flirting.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun thinks
it was a oomj >,ent to the legislature
to say it was of the “do nothing” type.
Today’s Tribune with its many at
tractive features will be persued with
interest by our thousands of readers
who do their trading io Rome.
7 Proof readers oannot be too careful
when looking for errors in wedding in
vitations. The following was recently
sentout: “Your presents is desired at
the marriage, etc.”
“To insure consideration each
Christmas poem and story submitted
should be accompanied by a fat tur
key and stamps for return of manu
script,” says a Spokane paper.
Santa Claus, in arranging his selec
tion of Christmas gifts for good Rome
children will find some very reliable in
formation in the advertising columns
of The Tribune.
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The poetess of the Louisville Times
makes horse rhyme with loss, com
plains the critic of the Augusta Her
ald. “Well, what of it; this has been
our experience,” says the Macon
News.
A South Carolina paper, the Col
umbia Register, says: “The Georgia
papers announce that the gubernato
rial situation in that state has been
greatly simplified. Pope Brown, one
of the nineteen candidates for elec
tion next October, has withdrawn his
name.”
If you are worrying over the perplex
ing question of what to buy for Christ
mas presents, a perusal of The Tribune’s
advertising columns will aid you in a
prompt decision. There is no need to
send elsewhere for your Chrismas goods.
In Central France the farmers make
a special cake on Christmas eve, to
which amazing medicinal virtues are at
tributed. Like the Good Friday bread
of England folk lore, which' never
grows moldy, it will keep for a year,
and if anyone falls ill, a fragment is
given him. The French towns all have
their especial Christmas cakes, some ob
long, others round, or shaped like an
infant or man, women, oxen or horses.
The Christmas Reunions,
If good wishes could bring joy to
the readers of The Tribune we would
let an avalanche of klondiked happi
ness slide into their homes this Christ
mas season. Let all be happy and
glad.
One of the best customs of our Christ
mas observances is the reunions of
friends and’ families and loved ones
which it brings about. We all love to
grow reminiscent over the happy
times of these gatherings in our uni
versally festive season. The sweetest
thoughts of “Home, Sweet Home”
are those connecting it with the most
joyful “day of all days.” It is not
stated that John Howard Payne wrote
bis immortal verses while in a distant
land during Christmas, but it must
have been so, for at no time are the
longings for the most beloved spot in
all the world so great.
We hope that there will be many
family re-unions and that each and
all will spend the happiest Christmas
of their lives this present gladsome
season.
The Holiday Trade,
For the next five days the rush of
the holiday trade will be on. Within
a radius of thirty, or forty or more
miles of Rome there is scarcely a
person who will not have to buy
Christmas goods, and what and where
to get them is not an easy question
to decide. The Tribune this morn
ing presents announcements from
Rome’s representative business houses
about their well selected goods which
will be sold at prices corresponding
to low priced cotton.
Better prices are being paid in Rome
for cotton than in any city in Geor
gia and farmers will do well to note
this. v
The Tribune’s advertising columns
will be a reliable guide for holiday
shoppers, and the merchants of Rome
are prepared to please everybody.
The Evergreens and Christmas
Without the evergreens what would
Christmas be? The Augusta Herald
thus discourses on the subject: This is
the season of evergreens. The laws of
nature which denude the autumn gar
dens and scatter the leaves of the maple
and the oak, relentingly leaves us the
cedar and the holly, the bamboo and
the smilax to garnish the church and
cheer the Christmas home. Indeed, they
only reach the full measure of their
lusty vigor when fields are brown and
orchards bare and all the world looks
desolate.
The holiday season, which is now
here, will bring forth the evergreens in
abundance with no home so humble, but
a few sprays may find their way over
the mantel and mirror, no mansion so
fine, but the trailing greenery will em
bellish its costly walls.
And they give us a thought well
worthy of the closing year. We need
more evergreens in our daily life. The
statesman who stifles ambition rather
than purchase preferment and applause
at the price of his conscience may have
to go back to the scenes where adversity
has swept away the flowers, leaving his
surroundings as bare and brown as the
fields of December. But his self-respect
will flourish like an evergreen, and
shame the shifting foliage which yields
to the whims of successive seasons. He
himself is an evergreen among the frailer
growth of men and, like the sweet re
membrance of the just, shall flourish
when thev sleep in dust.
When feminine fingers are garlanding
the chandeliers and decorating the
chancel they might pause just long
enough to realize that those among them
who deal charitably, in word as well as
deed, with their neighbor are like the
cedars that are in Lebanon compared to
the hyssop that springeth out of the
well. There is pain in the scornful curl
of the lip and death in an idle slander.
Give us an evergreen town. Let’s
flourish winter and summer, morally
and industriously, like a green bay tree
and make Christmas all the year in the
hearts of those we encounter in daily
life.
Mistletoe in Mythology.
The holly and the mistletoe are in
digenous although not peculiar to
this country, and the latter, as every
one knows, was pre-eminently the
sacred plant of the Druids, that mys
terious. learned, and remarkable
caste whose history remains to be
written. In the Scandinavian my
thology, the mistletoe was consecrated
on a memorable occasion and for a
most beneficent purpose, to Friga,the
northern goddess of love. For the
protection of her son Balder, an oath
was imposed on all things of earth,
air, fire, and water, not to injure the
beautiful young god. The mistletoe
alone from its apparent harmlessness,
was excepted, and it was with an
arrow fashioned from its wood that
Loki, the evil one, slew him. All na
ture bitterly mourned his death until
Hela pitied and restored him to his
THE BOME TBIBIENT, SUNDAY, DECEMBER
mother, and from that time the fatal
plant was consearated to Frlga—our
native Venus, that it)might hence
forth become an instrument of love,
but never more of hatred. Thus at
Christmas, when the Druids were wont
to cut it with golden knives, we pass
under its branches with kisses, and
formerly, whenever it was scarce,
English maideus, not to be defrauded
of their customary rites, made “kissing
bunches” of evergreens ornamented
with oranges and ribbons, to do duty
instead.
Best Age of The World.
We thoroughly agree with the Savan
nah News in the following:
“It Christ came to New York, He
would find it to be better than He found
Jerusalem,” was the belief expressed in
a religious meeting in New York a day,
or two ago by a preacher. It is refresh
ing to find this evidence of optimism on
the part of a public speaker. The ma
jority of the speakers and leaders of the
day seem to deem it their duty to tell
us that the world and the country
are going to the dogs as fast as is pos
sible, and that the people are more
wicked and depraved now than ever
before. If the truth, and the whole
truth, were known it would probably
be found that we are living in the
best, cleanest, most religious, most
Christian age the world has ever seen.
Death's Victory, Not All A Victory,
Death stood silent.
His arms clasped about him, his head
bowed as if in deep thought. Suddenly
he aroused himself and the rattling of
dry bones was as a summons. Con
scious power sat in the sunken sockets!
set scorn replaced the grim grin of
ghostliness.
“What have ye, slaves?”
“Many have we cut down today,
master, ” sad Plague, an imp of hor
rible mien. “Look on these.”
“Bah, unknown beings for whom
none cares,” and Plague slunk away
to do more deadly work.
“I have brought hundreds,” said
Famine gaunt and gray.
- ‘ ’Aye, tut for them none cares. Hast
none a shining mark?”
“Master, here are distinguished
men and women, famous and much
thought of,” said Disease.
“Weak creatures full of sickness and
sorrow, whose time was come. Nor
were they beloved on earth. For the
riches of the rich there is great clam
oring, and for the fame of the famous
there are jealous rivals. Sore hearts
are but few, and tears that scald are
none.”
And there was sadness in the realm
of Death. Minions made report after
report, but their Master was never sat
isfied. ->
One whom they called Accident sat
gloomily for he had no report at all
worth the making, and his eyes wan
dered earthward. The saw a fair
haired youth, of magnificent physi
que, of perfect countenance, of beau
tiful character, of tender affections—a
perfect type of the noblest young man
hood, beloved by all, by those who
knew him little and those who knew
him much. Thousands of earthly eyes
were upon him, all full of excitement,
admiration and affection. In manly
sport he struggled as a hero of old,
while deafening applause met his
splendid efforts. Oh ! ’twas a goodly
sight, and hearts beat quick as eyes
watched this splendid youth.
And Accident’s eyes shone, and un
seen he stepped away to earth. Here
indeed, was a shining mark, and
with fierce hands Accident grasped
and held the youth.
Then he called upon his master, and
Death came.
And there was great rejoicing in
the realm of Death that night, and
Accident was it’s hero.
And on earth were eyes red with
weeping, and hearts sore with sor
rowing, but above all came a calm,
sweet whisper from the land of joy
and eternal happiness—a whisper of
divine comfort. For there the youth
knows no sorrow, no pain, and there,
too, be is a bright, particular star.
Death’s victory was not all a
victory.
A. S. H.
The Rome Tribune, Valdosta Times
and Rockmart Slate urge the hanging
of Mrs. Nobles.—Atlanta Constitution.
And the Brunswick Times, Dalton
Argus, Acworth Post, Savannah Press,
Adairsville Banner and other newspa
pers for the upholding of the law are for
hanging her.
Christmas
Fruits.
We have just received a car
load of fancy northern apples.
We are to have to arrive every few
days from now until the Christmas
holidays carloads of oranges, apples
and bananas We are recognized
as headquarters for everything in
the line of
Fancy Fruits,
and we are prepared to fill
all of your wants. Buying
in cat lots we can give you benefit
of the very closest prices and the
choicest fruits. Not only in the line
of truits, but every kin.l of Fancy
Groceries are we recognized as the
leaders, Come to see us.
S. S. KING & CO.
Roark, the Jeweler,
Has received
another line of
FINE CCT GLASS
and Silver Novelties.
Just the tning for
Bridal and
Christmas Piesent?.
317 Broad St, Rome, Ga.
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If your Watch Don’t keep Time
carry it to
JOE VEAL,
205 BROAD ST.
sc. COTTON
NOT IN IT
Compared With Our Extreme«<
ly Low Prices,
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 will pay you.
T.W. McCord
Under Beuna Vista Hotel.
536 Broad St,, - Rome, Ga.
Practical, Useful
and Economical
Almost everybody wishes to be
economical and practical in the
selection of their
CHRISTMAS+PRESENTS
Almost at your own prices is the
way you can buy them at
W. M. GAMMON & SON.
Just received fresh stock
Imported - Woolen - Underwear,
Nobby Neckwear,
In Puffs, Ties and Bows.
Silk Lined Kid Gloves.
Silk Mufflers.
New and Stylish Hats.
Best Line of Shoes in America,
Swell Suits and Overcoats.
More quality given you at our store
than anywhere in the city for the
price. We will sell you as cheap as
the cheapest. Come and see what
we are doing.
W. M. Gammon & Son,
Dealers in everything a man or boy wears.
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CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES
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If yon are contemplating; purchases for the
HOLIDAY SEASON
Charles W, Crankshaw, Jeweler,
88 WHITEHALL BT., ATLANTA'GA,
The Best Work.
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the shortest time of auy laundry in
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