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4 THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. OrrlCS-NO. 887 BBjAD STREET, UP KT A TRW- TELEPHONE 73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Dally, Except Monday.) One YearJ6,oo’One Month„•» Six Month!3.o° One Week -U Three Months.... 1.60 | Weekly.per year..l.ao Delivered by mail or by city carriers free of charge. All subscription strictly In advance. Tee Tbibunn 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 THE BOMB TBIBUNE, Bomb. Ga. WAR§*~ * Business is war. Advertis- Mr mg is the outwa.d indication of the conflict. * * Adver tising is the army and navy; * the battle ships and the bri- ■ gades; the shells and the bul lets. In advertising, business broadsides are fired and sharp-shoot ers are employed. The boom of big guns and the continuous rattle of musketry is apparent in our every column-competitors are fighting every day. * * Success perches oo the banners of the skillful. In modern business war, the winner is he who employs the wisest and most experienced generals, and the latest improvements in projectiles. * * ♦ For many years The Rome Tribune has been directing campaigns of advertising, being thoroughly equip ped in every way, and is now ready to help you make a conquest of the City, County and State. Economy combined with efficiency. Rate, furnished on application to the Ad vertising Department, Business offices W. A. KNOWLES, General Manager, 20 PAGES 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. • 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. ra 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. DOLLS! DOIaLS I DOLLS 1 AT CURRY-ARRINGTON COMPANY’S Tlxis WeeK. HARPER’S Jwill enter the coming year prepared to rive to the reading public that which has made it famous for the oast quarter of a century—contributions from the pens of the great literary men and women of the £ world illustrated by leading artists. A brief glance over its prospectus announces such reading as J JOUR PACIFIC PROSPECT f pxoncTS rou a nicanaouan canal. thx counciai ixpoxyancx or an israxian canal F nn WORTHINGTON C. FORD * 5 xawxxn nißXßia ann TBX pacinc thx wvxLOP»nT or ovx panric Douain i w Bf STEPHEN BONBAI CHARLES F. LVMMIS K J RODEN’S CORNER—THE NOVEL OF THE YEAR Y u„ M.s.v Srton Mbrrimak,author of "The Sowers.” Striking novelties in short fiction will X 4 he contributed bv such authors as W. D. Howells, Richard Harding Davis, Brander Matthews, ( I 5 Frederic: Reming y tZßuth McEnery Stuart, and others. There will be a serie, of articles on i £ THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE EUROPE. 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