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The Christmas fire cracker is silenced
today.
Christmas is over, and tomorrow to
business again.
Go to church today and hear some
Christmas sermons.
The holly and mistletoe are the em
blems of the season.
“Glory to God in tne highest; peace
on earth, good will to men.’’
And the Christmas dinner I Why it
was the best thing of the day.
If yon did not send all the Christmas
gifts you wish you will have other
chances.
The Chrismas edition of the Barnes
ville Gazette is a very neat paper filled
with interesting matter.
The Washington Post says that the
only exclusive people in Atlanta are
those who have escaped the vaccine
point.
River conventions are to be held at
Tuskaloosa and Chattanooga soon. The
improvement of the South’s waterways
mean a great deal.
A Pittsburg man threw silver dollars
at his wife, and she has begun suit
against him for divorce. This poor
woman is evidently a goldbug of the
most rabid kind.
' ‘Christmas comes but once a year, ’ ’
said Uncle Eben, “but du ain’t no ’jeo
tions ter anybody’s makiu’ de cheerful
ness an’ jiuerosity ob it hold ovuh for
12 months, es he wants ter.’’
Now for Omaha! Georgia must de
monstrate that she is the best and
most resourceful state in the union,
and under energetic commissioners
Gov. Atkinson has appointed we be
lieve she will do this.
Says the Americus Herald: “While
all this talk of the pension steal is going
on would it be well to remember that
Hou Hoke Smith turned down more
pension applications than any other
man ever in the cabinet.”
Atlanta fell in behind Columbus and
adopted the vertical system of hand
writing in the public schools, and now
Savannah is preparing to follow suit.—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Why teach
writing at all If 'typewriting machine 8
are to be given away.
As one glances over his exchanges he
sees articles almost every week urging
that men and boys be slow to leave the
farm. A writer in a paper before us
says: “You cannot sell your farm and
put your money in any business today
that is honorable and safe and legiti
mate that will pay you as well. A
family out of debt owning a good farm
reasonably improved, are'well fixed in
this world’s goods,’ ’
"Put Our Name in the Pot,”
The Tribune in its Christmas mall
yesterday received an invitation to at
tend the possum supper of the Coweta
club at Newnan next Friday evening,
Dec. 31.
In response to the invitation we say:
“Put onr name in the pot. ” Such
feasts are the joy of life in Georgia,
and we would not miss one for a great
deal.
The occasion is complimentary to
Gov. W. Y. Atkinson and the state
houss officials. It goes without saying
that a brilliant company of guests
will assemble at this famous possum
supper.
The invitation which is unique is
printed on gray paper about the color
of Brer Possum’s coat. Vignettes of
the animal which Bob Taylor says
the old Tennessee mountain woman
declared “wnz the sweetest of all wege
terbles” adorn the invitation. These
possum suppers of the Coweta club
which are annual affairs have become
historic, and this one promises to be
the most noted of all.
Thb Tribune accepts. “Pat our
name in the pot. ”
Honor Your Calling,
Bishop Potter, of New York, one of
the oldest divines and one of the fore
most citizens of America, recently de
livered an address before the students
and Professors of the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on “The
Way (to Look at Your Profession,”
which is.fuil of sound sense and enob
ling sentiment. Among other things
he said:
“There is no denying that profes
sions are influenced by the atmosphere
of their times. And it is no disparage
ment to our own to say that ours is a
commercial atmosphere. The fact
that we have had, since 1873, quite ab
normal times in American business
history has created a distinct atmos
phere—a a sordid one—affect
ing all professions.
‘ ‘There are two ways of looking at
your calling, be it law or medicine,
or business, or whatever it may be.
One is as a means of livelihood or
for gain. A year ago last spring, at
the fiftieth anniversary of the New
York Medical Society, President Cleve
land, who was then in office, in a
speech, drew a picture of the family
doctor, which was one of the most'
touching I ever heard. He referred
to this physician as one whose gifts
and energies are devoted to helping
his fellow man—as one who goes into
the sick family to relieve distress or
pain, and not for any mere personal
gain. It was a picture of the good
physician.
“You who are studying for a pro
fession remember that, in the long
run and in the large view, this pic
ture is alone the satisfying one.
Take care that, as far as you are able,
your profession is not characterized
by the commercial spirit which meas
ures all things by what is produced
in money.
“Another image I would leave with
you is the relation of education to life—
the difference between college graduates
and other men. In the contact through
your studies with the great men of your
profession you have probably come to
look upon them as men who held the
higher conception of their callings. The
fruit of all your studies ought to enable
you to recognize that your advantages
are given out of the providence of God
for the use of your fellow-man. May
God make your university life a means
of creating in yon high ideals of wisdom
and of sacrifice.’’
Five Years of Christmas Days,
More than five solid years of Christ
mas days since the Star of Bethlehem
began to shine 1 What a radiant clus
ter of throne-white gems in thejcirele
of Christian ages they would make!
But we want them just as they are
strewn, one a year, along the line of
our lives. Like the well and the palm
in the desert, they are places where
pilgrims call a halt and unburden, and
lie down to pleasant dreams, and rise
up with sweeter memories, truer hopes,
fresher strength, nobler aspirations,
and tenderer humanity.
Whoever does not feel angels in the
air on Christmas-eve, though he may
not see the shining of their wings, has
too little imagination to obey the Gol
den Bule. To be younger and happier
for the day, we must be like them of
whom the Saviour said, “For of sush
is the kingdom of heaven,” Christmas
is children’s day. Little and big let
us all for twenty hours a year be chil
dren every one. The first Christmas
gifts brought to the Babe in the far
away village, who was not born in a
human dwelling, were “gold and
frankincense and myrrh. ” They were
the offerings of the wise men of the
East. But there have been wiser men
and richer gifts since then—faith in
things unseen; hope which wakens
through the night, impatient for the
morning; love which casteth out fear.
It is not wrath, but love, which
make brave to dare, to do, to suffer;
and fortitude is the sublimest of cour
age. Miles Standish, belted and booted,
striking forth with his stout heart and
THB BOMB TBIBUNE. SUNDAY.
sword to the savage “front,” was
valiant; but the pilgrim women, shiv
ering around their cabin-fires, strong
to suffer, and waiting, serene and
patient, for the Christmas, there in
that long-gone December, the new
world’s guardian angels of the virtues
of mankind.—Good Words.
Our Working Women.
Fully 4,000,000 wide awake American
women, according to a late labor bulle
tin, have auspiciously entered the work
day work, says the Chicago Times-Her
ald. Os this number there are in New
York city alone 100,000 women workers
who support families. So it has come to
pass that conventional avocations over
which the gentle sex has long held un
questioned sway sink into insignificance
by the side of the more daring endeav
ors of fin de siecle femininity. The pro
fessional woman author, artist, archi
tect, doctor, dentist, lawyer and minis
ter, and in the lesser positions, typical
of which are the woman grocer, butcher,
undertaker, sexton, solicitor and
rancher, have ceased long ago to be
looked upon as unique'in their under
takings. Many a working woman has
naturally come into her particular pur
suit at the death of her husband, when,
in numerous instances, there was left a
family of little ones to support. So by
reason of personal ambition or stern
necessity the fair professional has
steadily made bold invasion in the work
ing world.
Gov. Francis on Newspapers.
Every once in awhile you find a man
whose discernment is so acute that
you wonder what preparation he
passed through to qualify him. One
of these men Is Gov. Francis of Mis
souri, and'he has discovered that the
local newspaper is a pretty good in
stitution.
He says: “Each year the local pa
per gives from S6OO to $5,000 in free
lines to the community in which it is
located. No other agency can or will
do this. The editor, in proportion to
his means, does more for his own town
than any other ten men, and with all
fairness with men he ought to be sup
ported—not because you like him or
admire his writing, but because the
local paper is the best investment a
community can make. It may not be
brilliantly edited or crowded with
thought, but financially it is of more
benefit to the community than the
teacher or the preacher. Understand
me I do not mean mentally or morally
—but financially. And yet on the
moral question you will find most of
the local papers do the most for the
least money of any people on the face
of the earth.’’
By A Southern Woman.
The first southern woman to have '
her name engraved upon a monument ■
as the designer, says the New Orleans
States, is Miss Virginia Montgomery,
a native of Alabama, but a resident of
New Orleans, “who has long held' a
foremost place in the art world of the
southern metropolis.’’ The monument
that is to be built after Miss Montgom
ery’s design, it is explained briefly, is
to be erected in San Antonio, Tex., as a
confederate memorial and is to be a
very handsome tribute to the confeder
ate cause. The material will be the
same stone that was used in building
the state capitol at Austin.
Miss Montgomery submitted the de
sign to the Bernard.E. Bee chapter of
San Antonio in an open competition
with many accomplished artists, and
hardly dared, as she says, to hope for
success. Her design was accepted, how
ever, and is much praised for its beauty.
The artist has herself explained this
feature of it in acknowledging some of
the compliments to her work. She said:
“It ought to have beauty, for I worked
at the drawing with all the southern
woman's love for the lost cause surging
through my heart and mihd. The sub
ject was so tender and dear that it could
hardly help making beauty.’’
Churches in New York,
In the present city of New York the
three religious dominations most largely
represented in the population are the
Roman Catholic, the Presbyterian and
the Methodist. There are eightby-nine
Catholic churches in New York city,
fifty-eight Presbyterian and sixty-eight
Methodist churches. The number of
churches of a religious denomination is
not. however, of Itself a guide to the
church membership, for there are
eighty-five Episcopal churches in New
York, though the number of Episcopal
ians is materially less than the number
of Presbyterians. The explanation of
such disparities if found in the fact that,
as a general rule, Presbyterian churches
are larger and more generally attended
than Episcopal churches, and the Ro
man Catholic churches are filled not
once or twice on Sunday, but as often
as half a dozen times in many cases
says the New York Sun. There are
thirty-one Lutheran churches in the
city of New York but in Brooklyn,
with a population half as great, there
are ihirty-six Lutheran churches. The
German Lutheran population in Brook,
lyn is larger than it is in New York,
and, moreover, Brooklyn has a very
BIG COST SALE
\ ,OF THE
E. C. WOOD & COMPANY’S S FOCK
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 ftOe.
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
Come and see our Bargains. Remember the
Number, 202, Broad Street.
large Scandinavian population, almost
exclusively made up of Lutherans. Af
ter Jan, 1, it is claimed, New York
will be the greatest Lutheran city in the
world, with sixty eight churches, 27,000
Sunday school members, and church
property to the value of $3,000,000, ex
elusive of Staten Island, which has four
Lutheran churches and 410 Sunday
school members, and of the five Luther
an churches in the portion of Queens
eounty which joins New York.
Says the Augusta Herald in com
minting on the prison commissioners:
“The penal system of Georgia so long
a disgrace to our people is to be revo
lutionized, and ultimately built upon
more practical and humane lines. The
success of this radical change depends
in a large measure on the new com
missioners. They have every incen
tive to distinguish themselves by the
diligence and wisdom with which
they discharge their new duties. The
state expects great things of them,
and we see no reason why those ex
pectations should not be fulfilled.”
Editor Lambright observes: “The
patent on the essential features of stan
dard typewriters have expired, and the
result will be a general reduction of
cost from SIOO to SSO. This, of course,
does not refer to human typewriters.
They will, it is presumed, continue to
draw the same old scale of wages.’’
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
ripe very nice, at
LESTER’S
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga
NOV
OR. FEL,X LC BRUN’S
V“S Steels Pennyroyal Piils
J are the original and only
J f FRENCH, safe and reliable cure
'C on the market. Price, $1.00; sent
r tby mail. Genuine sold only by
For sale by Curry-Arringtcn Co.
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.