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THE ROME TRIBUNE. ' ■ W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. •mei-NO. 8»7 BBjAD STREET, UP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 78. RATES Or SUBSCRIPTION (Dally. Except Monday.) One Tear*6.oo. One Month .60 Six Months3.oo One Week-.U Three Months.... 1.60 | Weekly.per year..l.oo Delivered by mall or by city carriers free of Charge. All subscription strictly in advance. The Tkibunx will appreciate news from any community. If ata 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 ROME TRIBUNE, Roni, Ga.'J WAR§<- * Business is war. Advertis er In R ’ 8 s h e outwa.d indication 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 sharpshoot ers are en> ployed. The boom of big guns and the continuous rattle of musketry is apparent in our every column—competitors are fighting every day. * * Success perches on 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 campa ; gns 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 Old Santa Claus comes tonight. This is the merchants busy day. Make it a really merry Christmas for all your family and neighbors. The Macon News has no pity for Savannan with its colored collector of customs. Fill some poor child’s stocking this Christmas and see how happy it will make you. The Tribune will take no Christmas vacation. It appears every morning throughout the year except Mondays. “The legislature having adjourned, let us to have peace on earth and good will toward all men,” says the Griffin News. Tlie Calhoun Chronicle remarks: “Mr. W. McKinley is a very small man now when compared with Santa Claus. The Washington Post wants con gress to meet in October instead of holding its twelve days session before the Christmas holidays. We hope that Rome will observe to morrow in a fitting style. The sa loons will all be closed, and we hope the day will be quietly and pleasantly spent. A Western exchange says: First it rained and then it blew, And then it friz and then it thew. And then it slit and then it shew. Next year a pleasant day or two. The comments of all the papers we have seen applaud Gov. Atkinson for his excellent appointments of peniten tiary commissioners. He seems to have accomplished the remarkable feat of pleasing everybody. -■' Because it has been stated that the Savannahians played poker with one cent ante, Editor Loyless thinks that city has been slandered. To his mind tiddle-dy winks, or pigs in the clover and one-cent ante poker are on a par. Says the Summerville News: “A larger acreage has been sown in wheat this fall in this county than for many years past, and the soil has been better prepared than usual. ” As far as The Tribune can learn this is true all over Northwest Georgia. Mayor Collier, of Atlanta, is wise. Atlanta’s Christmas celebrations in the past have been a disgrace to that city. From 800 to 400 drunk persons have, been arrested and numerous fights and rows with one or two mur ders have been Atlanta’s record for the day of “peace and good will. ” The Rome Tribune is still clamoring for hanging. Why worry, for when you have aided in breaking old Mrs. Nobles neck, what will you have gained? So devote your pen and space to something more ennobling.—Amer icus Times-Recorder. We will have established more respect for the law. We can devote our space to nothing better. Criticising the Convict Bill. The iSalton, Argus for whose able, fearless and outspoken opinions we entertaiu the highest respect states the Representative Berry, of Whitfield county, thinks no convict bill would have been better than the one passed. The Argus says: ‘ ‘The new penitentiary bill is a very objectionable one in that it gives the governor a still larger appointing power—an army of commissioners,doc tors, captains and guards. This power will be used to whip some into line and to buy up others, and the power of “the ring’’ will be increased in Georgia, unless the people arise in their might and smash the last one of “the men who control.” We defy any one to show that the convict bill as passed is nothin the in terest of reforming our penitentiary system. A few new offices may have been created, but the additional rev enue to be gained by the new leases of the convicts should more than repay all the first year, After that it will be a clear income to the state. It is true that the bill passed has some ob jectionable features, but it would have been a serious blunder and everlasting shame to the legislature bad it not been passed. The pardon board and other good features of the bill outweigh the objectionable ones. The Newspaper Interview, The speaker of the house of repre sentativeg, Mr. Thomas B. Reed, con tinues to give his views outside of the speaker’s chair in the columns of the Illustrated American. He tells this time what he thinks of the newspaper interview. He contends that, though deemed undignified at first, it has conquered its position, since it is now a fixed method of pro cedure in many countries. ’ Considering the origin of the cus tom, he finds it in the need for a me dium of communication between the public man and the public. But he remarks that to give force and effect to the newspaper interview: “Two things have to combine. The citizen interviewed must want to say some thing and the newspaper must find it worth printing. Stated in that way it will be seen at once that an inter view is for the advantage of both and probably for the benefit.’’ The speaker concludes that the 1 newspaper interview is a device that has come to stay, and that it only re mains for it to be used decently and sensibly. We deem it one of the best ways for persons to express themselves to the public, and the quotation marks always make it more interesting. There Is a Real Santa Claus- We find this appropriate article in one of our exchanges: We would not, especially at this joyous season of the year, throw the slightest doubt upon the existence of a real Santa Claus. He is a short, rather dumpy gentleman, with bristly gray whiskers forming a sort of rim about.the lower portion of his smiling [face. He never has his hair cut, and wears a ridiculous little cap without a visor. His fur-trimmed coat is kept from flapping by a belt which has worn a permanent crease in his fair, round belly. Everybody has seen pictures of this beneficent old man many times in the newspapers and in story books. The cynic who declares there “ain’t no sich person” stands op dangerous ground. No, The Enquirer is rtot a doubter as to the man, but only asks if it is not in the nature of a misnomer to call him Santa Claus? He has. gentle, even wo manly ways about him, but under strict construction he is not a female saint. , Forced to Acknowledge It The New York Evening Post, in commenting on the cut in wages in the spinning interest at Fall River, Mass., says: "This is not a case of temporary glut of goods, which needs time in which to work them off. The trouble is more deep-seated. The cause of the depression is recognized as a per manent one. It lies in the fact that for one reason or another cotton spin ning can be done more cheaply in other parts of the country, and par ticularly in the southern states, than in Massachusetts. There have been mutterings in the air on this subject for full twenty years. The fact has been perceived all along that the southern spinners have all the facili ties that New England possessess plus nearness to cotton fields.” The Observance of Christmas. We publish elsewhere in today’s issue of The Constitution a timely oommuni oation from the Episcopal clergy of tnis city protesting against the desecration which is too frequently observed in cel ebrating Christmas, and urging our peo ple to bear in mind the religious charac ter of the event which the day com memorates. As one of the most sacred festivals of the year Christmas should be religiously observed, and anything which seeks to obscure its religious character or turn it THE BUMS TJHIBUNE, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24 18H7 over to worldly excesses and frivolities should be discouraged. In support of this contention no argument is for every one must admit the impro priety of celebrating the Savior’s birth otherwise.Jhan by observing Christmas in the most devout manner; and if riot ous conduct on the street is unseemly and out of place at any time, it is most certainly so in the Christmas season. May this year’s observance of the sacred festival which is now close upon us be characterized by the most orderly and reverential spirit which Atlanta has ever displayed on Christmas. This plea for observing the anniver sary of the Savior’s birth in the proper mood and spirit is not made on the idea that Christmas should be observed with Puritanic solemnity. Such is not in keeping with the light which the script ures throw upon the subject; for when the angelio host announced the advent of the world’s Messiah they declared that the tidings which they brought were joyful. Mirth and gladness should reign supreme throughout the Christ mastide, and hearts of every one should pour itself forth in gratitude to the au thor of every good and perfect gift, but there should be no disposition to mar the sacred character of the day by im proper and reckless behavior. So far as the giving of presents is concerned this beautiful and generous custom emulates the example of the wise men of the east, who brought costly gifts to the feet of the young Savior; and it furthermore interprets the spirit of Him who freely poured out His own life in atonement for the sins of man. Let every one enjoy the Christmas season fully, but not without due re gard for its sacred character. —Alanta Constitution. That Christmas Issue / (Coosa River News) The Rome Tribune’s Christmas issue Was an excellent edition. Manager Knowles is a hustler from the head waters of hump, and his paper appears to be meeting with the favor it so justly deserves, Cotton Growers Resolutions, (Savannah News) The resolutions adopted by the cotton growers’ convention at Memphis are concise and straight to the point. They set forth clearly that the cause of the low price of cotton is overproduction, and that the only way to increase the price to tbe profit point and out of harm ful speculation is to reduce the produc tion to the amount of cotton the world needs. We do not know that the plan of procedure adopted by the convention will be found effective, but we do know that the end sought, the reducution of the crop, is the right one. The output cannot be reduced by resolution, how ever. The farmers must give less acreage and less attention to cotton, and more of eaoh to food and other crops, if they would see the price go up. Bora Christmas Eve, On the evening of December 24 several noted historical characters were born, — among them Galba, John of England, William Warburton, the critic, George Crabbe, the poet, and Eugene Scribe, the French dramatist. On the same day died Vasco da Gama, the gn a.t eiplorer, Mme, de Genlis. and Hugh Miller, the geologist. Tartlets. If all men were honorable we would need no millennium—it would be here. 8 The man who “holds the key to the situation” generally turns it with a vim, Poisonous stings hurt more than great cuts. The unexpected things of life bring most joy or woe. A tender conscience may be a stern reprover. The pleasures of the poor are more to be desired than the sorrows of the rich. There is no cure so good for “the blues” as helping some one else to get rid of them. Work wearies; worry kills. The one will tend to preserve your soul, the other will help yon to lose it. Old age needs youthful hearts to lean on, as much as the mountain climber his alpenstock. “Personal magnetism” will do for some what “truth and beauty” will not do for others,—Phillip No Cripe When you take Hood’s Pills. The big, old-fash loned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you all to pieces, are not in it with Hood’s. Easy to take Hood’s and easy to operate, is true of Hood’s Pins, which are - I 1 up to date in every respect ill Safe, certain ana sure. All ■ ■■ ■ druggists. 25c. C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. The only Fills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla, BIG COST SALE • • ■ OF THE- E. C. WOOD & COMPANY’S S TOOK Now is the time to buy your Christmas Goods at less than Cost for Cash! E. C. WOOD & CO. S Stock to be closed out at once at cost, and less than cost. Fancy Fruit Cakes at - - - . 18c Best Citron Glace at - - - - -15 c Sparrow’s Finest Candies from . • 25 to 30c Regular Price 50c. Chocolate, Dates, Fancy California Fruits and a full line of the Freshest Family and Fancy Gro ceries in the city at your own price. This Stock Must Be Disposed Os At Once. Come and see* our Bargains. Remember the Number, 202, Broad Street. Dear Little Chinquapin. “Dear little Chinquapin, modest and neat, Isn’t she cunning and isn’t she sweet? Her skin is as smooth as a little boy’s chin, And the squirrels all chatter of Miss Chinquapin.” Don’t put off your buying some of the good things for Christmas. You can get nice clean groceries at Les ter’s. Oranges, apples, figs, dates, prunes, nuts and confections. Most everything in the canned goods line, Ferris Hams and breakfast bacon, jams and preserves, Cross & Black well’s Pickles and orange marma lade, nice spices and home made mince meat, canned pigs feet and ripa very nice, at LESTER’S Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga Roark, the Jeweler, Has received another line of FINE CUT GLASS and Silver Novelties. Just the thing for Bridal and Christmas Pt esente. 317 Broad St, Rome, Ga. 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 wiil 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 Sults 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. Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures Indigestion, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn . -