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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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General Manager
Christmas conies but once a year,
And when it comes, it brings good cheer,
Don’t forget The Tribune carrier
boys today.
The Christmas re-unions today will
be numerous.
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Make everybody you can happy on
this good day.
*‘A joyous Christmas to all” is The
Tribune’s wish.
Santa Claus came last night just as
he said he wonld in his telegram to
The Tribune.
A Dalton poet writes of ’’brown
eyes.” He will make the blue, grey
and black eyed girls jealous.
“In connection with the old year
passing away, horns and guns may be
used because the occasion is a kind of
blow-out,” says the Dalton Citizen.
This ought to be a peaceful Christ
mas day in Georgia. All our exchanges
are counseling their readers to exert
their influence for a proper observance
of the day.
Brunswick people are much gratified
over the appointment of Hon. Jake
Beach as a prison commissioner* He
is said he the “Jake Moore” of South
west Georgia.
Nearly all the weeklies announce
that they will issue no paper next
week. The Summerville News will
fail to appear for the first time since
it was established.
The Cedartown Standard is right
when it remarks: ‘ ‘lt seems strange
in this enlightened age that any one
should omit the simple precaution of
vaccinating against small pox.”
The Coosa River News issued its
Christmas edition this week, and it
was a most creditable production.
The reading matter was well selected
and it was full of Christmas advertise
ments. Editor Shropshire gets out a
good paper all the time.
There is thought to be no doubt
about the passing of the bankruptcy
law at this session of congress. There
are some differences of opinion as to
voluntary bankruptcy should be per
mitted, but the opinion of some of the
old leaders is that an agreement will
be reached and a bill presented that
will secure a majority in each house.
Sensible women, take care how you
listen to the voice of the flatterer, who,*
in return for his little stock, expects to
derive from you considerable advantage.
If one day you do not comply with his
wishes, he imputes to you two hundred
defect*, instead of perfection. - Ameri
cus Times-Reoorder.
Sensible men, lookout for the female
flirt and flatterer.’.Remember that she
will praise you until you, poor vain thing,
believe you are the only thing on
the Christmas tree. Just listen and you
will hear her pay the same oomp'.i
ments to the next fellow.
Christmas Greetings,
Christmas day,lß97,that we have all
looked forward to, is here.
The Tribune wishes each and all
of its many readers a merry Christmas
and a happy new year. (
In this season of joy and “peace on
earth and good will toward men,” let
us all be joyful. Let us cast all care
and business aside, and devote our
selves toward making the world about
us brighter and happier. Let good
deeds abound today.
Let us make this a Roman holiday
of peace and pleasure for all around
us.
Let the sun-kissed atmosphere re
sound with merry Christmas greetings.
Rome's Best Christmas Story.
There are and will be many Christ
mas stories and incidents and The
Tribune would be pleased to have
them to publish. But the best one
we have beard is as follows:
The past summer was when the
first chapter of the story opens. One
of Rome’s truest and most philan
thropic girls whose generosity and
unselfishness causes her to ever look
to the comfort and pleasure of all
about her, was visiting in New York.
While there she met an intimate young
lady friend of Miss Helen Gould,
daughter of the late Jay Gould. This
friend of Miss Gould’s appeared very
much interested in the conditions of
the south. She asked about the edu
cational and religious condition of
children of the south. She asked es
pecially about negro children and
seemed to think that they were the
only ones neglected. The Roman
young lady who is exceptionably well
informed on southern affairs told her
about the poor white children of the
south, and their needs. Her argument
it might now be said was forcible and
eloquent.
Nothing more was thought of the
matter until a week or two ago. Our
story is now getting towards its con
clusion. On a certain day recently
there was received by the young lady
in Rome who in a mission
Sunday school which is doing a good
work for children in poor circum
stances, a letter from New York. It
was unexpected, but what was a still 1
greater surprise was to find a check
enclosed for SSO to be expended in
making the children of her Sunday
school have a merry Christmas. It
may be surmised that none in this
section will have a merrier and pleas
anter Christmas. The check was from
Miss Helen Gould.
The American Newspaper.
Charles Emory Smith, editor of the
Philadelphia Press, at a dinner given
by the Independent Club in Buffalo
last night, responding to the toast,
’’The Usefulness of the Press as a Fac
tor in Modern Political Life,” paid a
splendid tribute to the American
newspaper, as compared with that of
Europe, and pointed ont forcibly the
power and usefulness of the press in
holding in check political bossium.
What Mr. Smith said on these points
is full of meat and is well worth re
producing. It was as follows:
“American journals are the best
newspapers in the world. This is no
vain boast, but an indisputable fact.
In range, in constant and far-reaching
enterprise, and in minute and com
plete fulness they are absolutely un
equalled. The continental j ournals of
Paris have a superior literary flavor
and sparkle, which is the special gift
of the French, but as newspapers in a
large sense they are grotesque.
“In comprehensive range, in splen
did enterprise and in marvelous com
pleteness even the English papers do
not approach ours. The other day
there was a great fise in London which
swept millions of property away. The
American paper next day bad better
and fuller reports of that event than
the London papers themselves. The
two great factors in our political life
are the party organization and the
press. The press is its strength, the
organization is the instrumentality.
The tendency of the party organiza
tion is to develop into a machine un
der the control of the boss. Parties
are the necessity and the life of a free
government. Dominatioh within party
is the natural outgrowth of general
apathy and of per
sonal aptitude and superior opportu
nity. One available check upon the
inevitable tendency is the press. The
vigilance, independence, courage, pub
licity and articulate expressions of
newspapers must be the real safe
guards of the social and political
fabric.”
Good Manners.
A great many southern people have
gone to New York since the war and
many of them have been very successful
in business and in the professions.
Some of them, if'this, from the New
York Press be true, have dropped their
southernisms and have become like
natives:
“The southern young man coming to
IHB ROME TRIBUNE. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1897
New 'York fetches along his polite
•Yes’m’ and ‘No’m’ when replying to a
lady. It is hard to break him of it. I
heard a charming woman say to one:
‘Why don’t you imitate Mr. Hugh Gor
don? He has dropped nearly every one
of bis southernisms, hnd talks quite like
a native. If you want to get on in our
society you must say ’Yes* Madame,*
and ‘No. Madame,’ or simply -Yes and
’No. ’ Hugh Gordon be it known, is the
elder son of Gen., John B. Gordon, ex
governor and ex United States senator.
He is nearly as heavy a strut as Col.
John C. Calhoun. The lady giving the
advice is from Mississippi, the wife of a
New Yorker. She can’t bear anything
southern.”
It may be remarked here, that south
ern people may not be perfect in their
manners, but if they were going to take
lessons in good behavior, they could do
better than to go to New York city.
There are plenty of southern communi
ties that could give the average New
Yorkers, even the very best of them,
valuable lessons in good manners,
Christmas in Nature,
Going thiough the woods, the soft
ness of my tread upon the mossy ground
and among the brown leaves enhanced
the Christmas sacredness by which I
felt surrounded. As the whitened stems
environed me. I thought how the
Founder of the time had never raised
his benignant hand, save to bless
and heal, except in the case of one un
conscious tree. By Cobham Hall, j
came to the village and the churchyard
where the dead had been quietly buried
in the “sure and certain hope,” which
Chritmas time inspired. What children
could I see play, and not be loving, of,
recalling who had loved them! No gar
den that I passed was out of unison with
the day, for I remembered that tne tomb
was in a garden, and that ‘‘she suppos
ing him to be the gardener,” had said:
“Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell
me where thou hast laid him, and I
will take him away.” In time, the
distant river with the ships came
full in view, and with it pictures of
the poor fishermen, mending their
nets who rose and followed him—of
the teaching of the people from a ship
pushed off a little way from shore, by
reason of the multitude—of a majesti*
figure walking on the water, in the
loneliness of the night. My very
shadow on the ground was eloquent
of Christmas; for did not the people
lay their sick where the mere shadows
of the men who had heard and seen
him might fall as they passed along ?
Charles Dickens.
The Kiss Under the Mistletoe,
It would not be right in speaking of
this subject, to ignore the origin of the
hanging of the mistletoe.
The pleasant old Christmas custom of
a kiss under the mistletoe is a relic of
Norse mythology. Baldur, the beautiful
god of light, was slain by a spear whose
shaft was amistletoe twig. This was
bewitched by Loki, the marvelous god
of fire, until it swelled to the requisite
size and was given to him to blind
Rodur, who threw it and unintentionally
struck Baldur when tbe gods were at
play. Friga made everything in heaven
and earth swear not to harm Baldur,
but had left out the mistletoe as being
too slight and weak to be of harm. Bal
due, however, was restored to life and
Friga guarded the mistletoe, which the
gods determined should not have power
to again do any mischief unless it
touched tbe earth. For this reason it
has always hung from tbe ceiling and
the vigliant godess propitiated by a kiss
a sign of good will.
Who Says there Is no Santa Claus?
Who lays there is no Santa. Claus?
Don't you believe that, dear;
Os course there is a Santa, and
He comes but once a year
To see his little girls and boys
And bring them lots of cheer
Else, where would you get all the toys?
Yts Santa Claus
• Is here.
Who says there is no Santa Claus?
There always has bzen one;
Your teacher maybe very wise
But here at home is fun.
Your teacher says no reindeers prance
Upon the snow, but I,
Can tell you Santa’s reindeers dance
Upon the
Chimney high
The fairies come to visit yon,
And charm ycu, dear to sleep.
They dance upon the lawn, and sing,
■SAnd vigils ever keep*
There always have been fairies, dear,
And so, there'll always be
A Santa Claus to bring you cheer,
And also joy
To me.
‘Twas Santa filled the Christmas tree
With toys and delight;
It was that same old jolly chap
Who brought you here to-night
The sweetest cheer you’ll ever kuow
In all the days to be;
I tell yon there's a Santa Claus
To you, pet, and
To me,
1 know there is a Santa Clan*!
Os course I never saw
The reindeers, but they’re surely there,
And bells without a flaw;
Ah! merrily the bells they ring—
Though you can never hear
Their music in the winter air,
Still Santa Claus
Is near.
So, rest yon in yonr downy nest,
Yes, Santa Claus will come;
He’ll heap tbe tree with dainty sweets—
Perhaps he’ll bring a drum.
I never doubted Santa Claus
Nor dreamed there wasn’t one.
And you muet always know, mj dear.
That Santa has
His fun.
H. 8. Kellek.
BIG COST SALE
-OF THE*
E. C. WOOD & COMPANY’S STOCK
Now is the time to buy your Christmas
Goods at less than Cost for Cash
E. C. WOOD & CO.’S
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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 at 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
ripe very nice, at
LESTER’S
Old Podloffice Corner, Rome, Ga
Roark, the Jeweler,
Has received
another line of
FINE CCT GLASS
and Silver Novelties.
Just the thing for
Bridal and
Christmas Presents.
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 anv
goods in this line call and see me.
It wid pay you.
T.W. McCord
Under Beuna Vista Hotel.
536 Broad St., - Rome, Ga.
Practical, Useful
and Economical,
Almost everybody wishes to be
e joncmical 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 T.mA 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
tbe cheapest. Come and see what
we are doing.
W. M. Gammon & Son,
Dealers in everything a man or boy wears.