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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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WAR§-
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•W. A, KNOWLES,
General Manager
Rome merchants report their
Christmas and December trade better
than last year.
All the returns are in, and while
there were many, yet the Christmas
tragedies were not as numerous as
usual.
Senator Morgan, the king of the
jingoes, wants Uncle Sam to get a tea
cup, or a hadd painted plate in China’s
division.
Evidently Charlotte Crane was
playing the role of ‘‘A Stranger at a
Charleston Ball” instead of “In New
York” on Christmas eve. J
After all the Charleston incident
was nothing, but a theatrical adver
tising dodge. We did not intend to say
as much as we have on the matter.
The merchants of all classes of trade
report larger sales for December than
for several years past. They all seem
well pleased with the big trade en
joyed.
The Tribuns has been presented by
Congressman Maddox with some
valuable maps of Northwest Georgia
made by the United States geological
survey.
A woman in Switzerland has had
her stomach removed and still lives.
There are many people whose brains
might be removed and it would not
hurt them.
X The fact that only 92,000 men in the
organized trades of New York are out
of employment is considered evidence
of better times. There were 125,000
unemployed at this time a year ago.
‘ ‘All nnite in praise to Santa Claus in
1897. It has been years and years since
the old saint did such a land-office busi
ness and came so near remembering
everybody, ’’ says a Chicago paper.
Three daughters of members of
ex-President Cleveland’s cabinet have
committed suicide. Miss Bayard took
an overdose of chloral, and Miss Gar
land shot herself with a pistol. Both
happened in the first administration.
Miss Herbert’s sad death was the third
case.
Hetty Green wants a man of brains
and character and not necessarily of for
tune for a son-in law. The Philadelphia
Press says that “if she will just look
around among the newspaper offices of
the country she’ll no doubt be able to
find a number of young men who will
come up to her plans and specifications
in the son in-law line. ”
The Augusta Chronicle speaking of
the burning of the monster colisenm
building in Chicago says:
‘ ‘The area was equalled in extent
- only by that of the Roman Coliseum.
The building was insured for $120,000
in twenty-six different companies. No
doubt the news of its destruction was
read with regret by Mr. Bryan, by
Just'o i Hal Lewis and others who took
part in the memorable Chicago con
vention.”
Fl.aud and Misrepresentation
There seems to be a general disposi
tion throughout the country to call
down the high-handed methods of
life insurance companies. They have
away of sending out a silk hat repre
tentative with lordly airs who is given
icense to tell you how to accumnlate
a fortune if yon should live, and to
leave your family well off if you die.
But unless you submit bis figures to
the bead office of the company and get
his written statement endorsed, you
are liable to get left. Even then you
need not be too sanguine. The Memphis
Commercial Appeal says:
“A case of considerable importance
was decided in this city yesterday. It
was the case of a widow suing an in
surance company which had issued a
policy on the life of her husband dur
ing bis lifetime. The case was bitterly
fought, and without reference to the
manner in which it ended, it might
be well to suggest to insurance com
panies that if they wish to continue
piling up the millions which the people
have paid them they must make it
apparent to a man who patronizes
them that when he dies bis wife and
children will have something more to
depend upon than a lawsuit in the
Federal courts. The insurance com
panies make enough money and can
afford to treat people fairly. When a
man struggles and skimps to save the
money necessary to carry a policy,
and when that policy becomes due
through his death, his wife and chil
dren should not be compelled to spend
the greater part of it in lawyers’ fees
and court costs. Honesty in insurance
circles is the best policy, and this
polioyishould be pursued.”
These lawsuits to collect insurance
ought not to be necessary. The com
panies which permit them show a
spirit to defraud which should cause
all to be charged of doing business to
them. But the silk hat solicitor is
generally one who is most to blame
by his misrepresentations. Honest in
smanoe companies should call them
down.
Cuba and Sherman's Raid.
The amount of property destroyed in
Cuba by Gen. Weyler is estimated at
$70,000,000. as follows: “One hundred
thousand country houses and 50,000
dwellings in villages and hamlets de
stroyed. $16,000,000; 800.000 cocoa trees
cut down. $5,£00.000- 1,000,000 palm]
trees destroyed, $10,000,000; 2,000 000
fruit trees destroyed. $1,000,000; 5,000, -
000 banana plants destroyed, $125,000;
1,000 tracts of boniatas and yuccas de
stroyed, $2,500,000; 4,000,000 coffee
plants destroyed, $1,500,000, 2,000.000
horned cattle killed outright, $30,000,-
000; 2,000 horses killed, $200,000; 500,-
000 cordels of fencing burned, $3,000, -
000; 300,000 hives of domestic bees de
stroyed, $1,450,000; 650,000 head of
sheep and swine destroyed, $2,300,000;
500,000 tieroes of tobacco appropriated,
$5,000,000. ” The Charleston News and
Courier makes this comment on these
figures: “It is interesting to note, by
way of comparison, for the instruction
of the present generation, that Gen.
Tecumseh Sherman, in his official re
port, estimated the ravages inflicted by
his army in Georgia alone at SIOO,OOO. -
000, of which only $20,000,000 ‘incured
to our advantage, ’ thp remainder being
-simple waste and destruction, ’ as he
complacently remarked.’’
Antique Aristocracy Agog,
That is a right gossipy story from
Charleston about the withdrawal by
request of Naval Cadet Peterson with
Miss Charlotte Crane, an actress, from
the Christmas eve ball of the students
of the South Carolina Military Acad
emy. A Charleston special says:
“Among the invited guests was
Cadet Peterson, of the revenue service
training ship Chase, at present in tbe
harbor. Cadet Peterson appeared at
the dance rather late in the even
ing, accompanied by Miss Charlotte
Crane,the leadinglady of Hoyt’s “A
Stranger in New York,’’ which had
given a performance during the
evening. Miss Crane is a very pretty
girl, modest, unaffected and discreet,
and she received much attention from
the cavaliers at tbe ball.
Inquiry by the chaperones as to the
identity of the young woman having
developed the fact that she was an
actress, a great stir was made. The
Hyper sensitive four hundred of Char
leston for the most part are disciples
of Mr. Clement Scott in their opinions
of stage women, and having seen
naughty posters advertising “A
Stranger in New York,” concluded
perhaps that Miss Crane would indulge
in French ball antics at their modest
entertainment and that then the
young women under their charge
would be corrupted thereby.
However that may be, one of the
chaperones preferred a request, in
effect a demand, upon Captain Howlet
of tbe Chase to order the cadet and
his partner from tbe hall. Captain
Howlet under the circumstances had
no choice and he ordered Cadet Peter
son to leave with Miss Crane. The
cadet and the young lady then with
drew their unwelcome presence. ”
Tbe newspapers from Boston to Gal
veston are publishing the story, and
THE ROME TBIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1897
some are denouncing Charleston cus
toms as an insult to Miss Crane. But
that depends a great deal on tbe way
in which a town'grows up. In Atlanta,
or Memphis, at a similar ball nothing
would bs thought of it. But in Char
leston, or Nashville it might be a fit
grant breach of etiquette for a young
man to take an actress who had not
been invited.
In many of our southern cities there
has grown up a laxity in the matter
of social affairs and introductions
Young men unthougbtedly with their
inborn hospitality introduce fellow®
about whose birth and rearing they
know nothing. This is particularly
the case since the monetary standard
has set up its coat of arms, and is
accepted almost everywhere.
Undoubtedly, there are good women
on the stage, but at the same time it
is tbe most demoralizing profession
that women ever entered. The am
bition that causes a girl to go on the
stage, unless she be extraordinary will
she gets to thinking, allow her to do
other things that she does not have
license to do elsewhere. This is a free
country and men and women off the
stage who wish to associate with ac
tresses are at liberty to do so. There
are actresses on the stage who are
good women in every way. But there
are lots of people all over the country
who will never associate with them as
social equals.
Knowing Charleston’s exclusiveness
and social traditions we think that
Naval Cadet Peterson acted a fool,
that Miss Crane has received a rare
juicy advertisement, and that tbe
chaperones did right in asking that
the couple, withdraw.
The Pension Cancer,
Some idea of the extent of the ex
travagance and robbery of the pension
system may be gained from these fig
ures. There are 737,122 actual surviv
ors of the war; there are 733,527 alleged
survivors drawing pensions; there are
187,500 survivors now demanding pen
sions, number of wldowsjdrawing pen
sions, 213,352; widows demanding pen
sions, 104,938; pensioners demanding
an increase, 255,849; total number
pensioners on the rolls, 947,528; total
survivors or widows drawing or de
manding pensions, 1,139,317. In 1883
there wers 303,658 pensioners; in 1893
there were 966,012; in 1897 there are
976,014. More than 25 years ago Gen.
Garfield, afterwards president, apolo
gized for reporting a pension appro
priation bill of $30,000,000, saying that
thereafter the amount would annually
decrease. Now it amounts to $141,-
000,000 a year, and it is increasing
every year. Next year it* will be not
less than $150,000,000. No argument
can answer or justify these figures.
They tell a rtory of extravagance, dis
honesty and profligacy truly aston
ishing.
Tillman Eliminates Negroes,
The prediction made by Senator Till
man a few years ago that he intended to
elminate tbe negro from South Carolina
politics has at last been fulfilled. The
new constitution recently adopted in
that state has gone into effect, leaving
about 131,000 colored men of eligible
age whose names are not on the registra
tion lists and,who must remain disfran
chised until they learn to read and write
or acquire and pay taxes on property
worth S3OO,
It will be at least ten years before the
negro vote will again become an impor
tant factor in South Carolina politics.
All the indications are, however, that
the rising generation of negroes will be
well educated, The colored youths in
the cities and towns are attending
school, and it is the exception nowadays
to find a colored boy of 14 years in a
South Carolina city who can not read.
They attend the graded schools as
freely as the’ white. Moreover, there
is a marked disposition among the
younger elements of the negro popula
tion to become property owners.
It is conceded that for a decade at
least there will be nothing to hold the
white people in South Carolina together
if they wish to divide politically.—
Washington telegram to the Chicago
Chronicile
Diversify Crops,
The way to reduce the cotton acreage
is to encourage the introduction of root
crops, trucking, melons, berries, small
fruits, sheep breeding, [more corn, and
wheat where* the soil is suitable. Ina
word, push the idea of diversification,
for all that is in you, and the cotton
question will take care of itself. The
convention of cotton growers at Mem
phis, the other day, organized an asso
oiation which pledges itself to “take no
part in politics, but in every other way
possible to advance the price of cotton
and the condition of tbe cotton growers.
To this end they urge tbe farmers to re
duce their acreage in cotton, to keep
out of d bt, by economy and thrift to
reduce the cost of production, to raise
all their supplies at home so as to make
cotten a surplus or money crop; and,
finally, to build up tbe cotton manufac
turing industry of the south as one of
tbe best modes of assuring a good price
for the staple.” This programme is all
right, but its general adoption will be a
result of time and education. —Chatta
nooga Times.
“Tie not tbe food, but tbe content
That makes tbe table’s merriment.’’
W itn puor material to { ut in the
food, there’ll be no content or mer
riment, therefore for nice things go
■o the old postoffice corner and get
plum pudding, fruitcake, chocola e
marshmeilows, vanilla wafers, pre
serves and j ams, nice cream, Edam
and Club-house cheese, Cross &
Blackweb’s orange marmalade ' and
pickles, nice hams and briakfast
bacon, at
LESTER’S.
Old Postoffiee Corner, Rome, Ga.
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Has received
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317 Broad St, Rome, Ga.
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NEW YEAR 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
tbe cheapest. Come and see what
we are doing.
W. M. Gammon & Son,
Dealers in everything a man or boy wears,
Beautiful Line
Bridal Presents and
Fine Cut Class at
J. T. CROUCH & CO’S.
Finest toilet goods, Huyler’s candy, choicest
perfumeries. Our extracts are the best and
purest. Our stock of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
are strictly firs, class and up- to-date. In our prescription
department our Dr. Davis is ever ready to fill your wants,
night or day. Prescriptions are compounded accurately
and delivered to any part of the city. We are carrying the
best line of fancy articles in Cut Glass. Our line of per
fumes is the best the market affords. Ladies can find just
what they want for bridal presents at prices which cannot
be duplicated outside of New York city. A fresh supply of
Hujler’r candy just received; also Hujlet’s liquoric; drops
for coughs, colds and sore throat. Call on us and you will
find the best of everything Our line of Cigars and Tobacco
has never been so full and with such brands that delight
the taste. Try our 5 cent cigar.
J. T, CROUCH & CO., 300 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
Art and Precious
Stones and Metals.
Are striking combined in my stock, Collected in the art centers of
the United States and Europe, lam showing something very new and
pretty in Vases, Clocks, Pocket Books, Combs, Brushes, Mirrows, Solid
Silver
Cut Glass and
Silver Novelties.
My entire stock is the season’s latest productions selected with
great cite. My purpose is to give my customers the best ya.ues for
the money, lam admirably equipped for displaying a beautiful stock
and 1 extend a pressing invitation to my friends and customers to exam
ine and buy,
TV. O. Stepliens,
Jeweler, 218 Broad Street, Rome,'Ga