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4 THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor. •rriCB—MO. BU7 BBjAD STRBET, UP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 78. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Daily. Except Monday.) One Tearß6.oo • One Month .SO Six Month!3.oo I One Week-. 12 Three Months.... 1.601 Weekly,per year..l.W Delivered by mall or by city carriers free of Charge. All subscription strictly In advance. Tan Tbibunb will Appreciate news from any community. If at a email 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 TBIBUNB, Bomb. Ga. WAR> f Business is war. Advertis er ln g ’ 8 the outward indication of the conflict. * * Adver tising is the army and navy; the battle ships and the bri- B 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 ou 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 Hi PAGES. 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.