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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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WAR§<-
f Business is war. Advertis
er mg is the outwa.d indication
the conflict. * * Adver
tising is the army and navy;
MV * the battle ships and the bri-
1 gades; the shellsand the bul
lets. In advertising, business
broadsides are fired and sharp-shoot
ers are employed. The boom of big
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every day. * * Success perches
oo 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
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W. K. KNOWLES,
General Manager
Possums are scarce in Coweta.
The pretty calendar is the thing
now.
New England cotton mills must
come to the fields.
The record of Hon. W. M. Singerly
proves the honesty of the editor.
Brer Possum will be roasted and
toasted in Newnan tomorrow night.
Today and tomorrow will be pream
bles for many people to resolution day.
And whojis the editor of the Amer
icus Times-Recorder “a pinin’ for”?
Beware of the dishonest insurance
company. You will have a hard time
to prove it.
Look back over the mistakes of the
past year, and resolve not to make
them mxtyear.
If gold dollars were us numerous
as Christmas trees Georgia would be
happy aud prosperous.
"Bish life and socie'y follies appea
to be a .‘.emiLary oi suicide in Washing
ton,” remarks Editor Hook.
Editor Lambright will, it is an
nounced shortly indicate a poem to
the girl “in the Dine drees. ’’
Editor Stovallfailed to remember u g
with a Christmas present—we refer
to the Christmas edition of the Savan
nah Press.
“For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain” commend us to an
Atlanta republican. He is worse
than Bret Harte’s immortelles!
The Cartersville News issued a most
excellent and readable paper on Chris
mas eve. Editor Willingham can al
ways do this when he half tries.
According to Webster’s International
Dictionary and the Standard Dictionary
you must, as an educated man, say,
“ether and nether” and not “i-ther
and ni-ther.”
Says the Augusta Chronicle ‘ ‘A Balti
more man has been idicted for kicking
a mule in the stomach. It is claimed
by criminal lawyers that he is the first
man who ever got the better of a mule
in a kicking match. ”
The estate of the Baring Bros., the
' great bankers of London,is finally set
tled. The house failed in the year
1890. The New York Herald says:
“Our cable chronicles the final sales
of Argentine securities for account of
the Barings and the impending resto
ration of the business to the partners.
This closes the most remarkable mer
cantile and banking operation ever
conducted. It began with the organ
ization of a syndicate, which took over
the assets of the great London firm in
the autumn of 1890 and prevented a
crash, and after seven years of saga
cious liquidation is now happily con
cluded.’’
Pardon Board at Work.
The penitentiary commission is sit
ting as aboard of pardon in Atlanta.
It is said they have over 800 applica
tions for pardons to look into.
One of their first acts is to recom
mend a reduction in the sentence of
W. E. Saunders from three years to
one year. Saunders was the shipping
clerk for the Draper Moore company,
and was implicated with a drayman
and others in robbing bis employers.
His arrest and trial and conviction
caused a great sensation at the time
in.Atianta.
We do not know on what grounds
the board of pardons recommended
the reduction of the sentence. The
published statements only say that “a
number of prominent attorneys” ap
peared before the board, and made a
strong plea for him. We do not know
whether the judge and jury who tried
Saunders petitioned for this, or not.
We know nothing of the merits of the
case, but we do know that he was
guilty. If we had the indeterminate
sentence in force in Georgia it might
be demonstrated that his punishment
has already been sufficient, and that
he is thoroughly repentant.
We hope the pardon board will make
public their reasons for their recom
mendations in the various cases which
come before them. The Tribune is
for the enforcement of the law in every
case, rich and poor, high and low.
We desire to Jeee the man who leads
the honest, straight forward life, not
put on the same footing with one who
does not. We do not believe in too
free use of the pardoning power.
When we have the full facts in the
case of Saunders laid before us we
shall perhaps make some further com
ment. __________
Why Cotton is Low in Price.
The Montgomery Advertiser in
commenting on the low price of cotton
says:
‘‘From all quarters comes the same
report—unexpectedly large yield of
cotton. In August there was every
prospect of such damage as would
inevitably cut the crop below that of
last year, and a yield of not over
9,000,000 at the outside, was the gen
eral belief. The long dry fall gave
new life to the plant and the fields
were full of bolls when struck by frost.
No one now counts on less than 10,000,-
000 bales and there is very general
concurrence of belief of the largest
crop in the history of the country. A
few days ago The Advertiser published
a statement from Uniontown in this
state showing that receipts there al
ready were more than double those
of the whole of last cotton year. Re
ports of as heavy receipts as for all of
last year have been published from
many places, but none where the in
crease was so great as at Uniontown.
Our local receipts give a fair idea of
many cotton points. For the year
ending August 31, 1897 the receipts
here were 129,747 bales. Up to the
end of last week the receipts of tuis
cotton year were 130,768 bales which
were 10.000 greater than for same pe
riod last year and 1,021 greater than
for the whole of last year. The receipts
will be the largest that Montgomery
has known in many years, as at least
30,000 more bales will be marketed
here. It is not hard to account for
5-cent cotton when men stop to con
sider the amount raised.”
While this excessive production has
been the case in Alabama, it has not
shown up that way in Rome and in
other points in Georgia. The crop
here was large, but not as great as
that indicated above by the Adver
tiser. The figures are only another
pointer to the farmers showing the
necessity for reducing the acreage.
Degeneracy of the Stage,
The Macon Telegraph publishes the
following:
Clement Scott, the dramatic critic
of the London Telegraph, has aroused
a great storm by his declaration that
no woman going upon the stage can
retain her purity. Mr. Scott speaks
out of the knowledge that, he says,
has come to him from an association
with the stage covering a period of
thirty-seven years. Actors, actresses
and managers are now busily engaged
in denouncing him and an effort has
been made to have him removed from
the position he has filled for so long a
time and with such distinction, f
But while the members of the dra
matic profession are quarreling with
him because of his animadversions
upon the virtue of the life behind the
curtain, we presume that no one on
either side of the footlights will ques
tion the statement that the stage in
these days is, upon its intellectual
side, absolutely degenerate.
The production of a thoroughly
good play by a thoroughly good
company of players is a very rare thing,
not only in the "provinces,” but in
New York. The tragedies of Shakes
peare have not been ell presented
in America for years. Children are
growing up who have no opportunity
to witness the old English and Irish
comedies. Since Edwin Booth died
there is no one to give us “Richelieu.’’
THE ROME TRIBUMF. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1807
The managers will reply that the pub
lic taste has changed. We doubt this,
but if it has changed it has been be
cause the managers have consented to
appeal to false tastes and to low states.
The theatre lacks the atmosphere of
genuine art.
Gladstone to Young Men,
What Mr Gladstone has to say to
young men about success in life ought
to be worth reading and worth thinking
about as the “Grand Old Man” is fully
capable of giving good advioe.
“Be sure that every one of yon has
his place and vocation on this earth,
and that it rests with himself to find
it.
“Do not believe those who too say,
‘nothing succeeds like success.’ Effort,
honest, manful, humble effort succeeds
by its reflected action, especially in
youth, better than success, which in
deed too easily and too early gained, not
seldom serves, like winning the first
throw of the dice, to blind and stupefy.
“Get knowledge all yon can-
“Be thorough in all you can do, and
remember that, though ignorance may
be innocence, pretension is always despi
cable. Quit you like men; be strong,
and exercise your strength.
“ Work’onward and work upward.”
Omaha Commissioners,
■ (Griffin News)
In appointing commissioners to look
after Georgia’s exhibit at the Omaha ex
position of next year. Governor Atkin
son has again shown his sound judg
ment by invading the ranks of newspa
perdom and appointing five of the most
prominent editors and publishers among
the fifteen who constitute the full board.
They are F. H. Richardson, editor, of
the Atlanta Journal; W. A. Hemphill,
business manager of the Atlanta Con
stitution; W. A. Knowles, general
manager and editor of The Rome
Tribune, P. A. editor of the
Savannah Press and George Ketchum,-
the well-known Macon newspaper man.
It is the editors who do the work in such
enterprises and they §hould have the
honors.
Among the appropriate selections are
real estate agents and railroad men,
two other classes who are greatly in
terested in building up Georgia, and
have experience in exposition business,
the balance of the comission besides
those named being George C. Smith,
president of the Atlanta and West
Point railroad; Col. J. F, DeLacey,
prominent lawyer of Eastman; ex-Gov
ernor W. J. Northern; Edwin Brobston,
a Brunswick real estate man; Thomas
K. Scott, president of the Georgia rail
road ;E. F. Blodgett,* former chief of
installation at the Nashville exposition,
and now assistant postmaster at Atlanta;
J. S. B. Thompson, assistant general
superintendent of the Southern railway;
C. E Harman, general passenger agent
of the Western and Atlantic railroad;
H. M. Comer, president of the Central
railroad.
The commission will collect specimens
and exhibits and add them to those al
ready owned by the State, and a very
creditable exhibit will be made at a
small c jet. Any one having anything
to add to the exhibit can correspond
with any of the gentlemen named.
Reflection, of a Bachelor,
Women like a womanly woman, but
they hate a feminine one.
Misery runs the biggest road-house on
the turnpike to happiness.
Every poor girl believes it is wrong
for a man to marry for money.
Next to a mosquito, a girl is the most
aggravating thing in the world.
In life’s race a man runs better if he
has a woman to set the pace.
If the average woman could be born
a widow she wouldn’t get married.
If a man is thirty, he suffers less from
love than he does from rheumatism.
A woman never feels so important as
when she goes to buy her first baby car
riage.
A man always boasts about what fine
coffee he can make, unless his wife’s
around.
The main reason why women don’t
like flats is because there’s no garret to
save up old trash in.
When a woman has fully made up her
mind about a thing, she goes and asks a
man’s advioe.
The woman who will scrimp for a
month to wear a stuffed bluebird on
her hat, cries her eyes out when the oat
gets the canary.
“Recent events have proven that
Grover and Willie are as much alike in
some things as two oow peas—the only
difference at present being that they are
notin the same pod,"remarks the Chat
tanooga News.
There is a radical difference between
a party leader and a party boss. The
one leads, J the other drives. Blaine
and Tilden were leaders. Platt and
Croker are bosses. Under the rule of
bosses there is no place for a leader.
Latest Negro Song,
The latest thing in “coon” songs has
been introduced with marked success in
New York by May Irwin. It is called
“Ma Sweetest Girl,” with words by
Leander Richardson and music by
Andrew Mack. The ballad is said to be
not the ordinary “rag time” ditty, but
is a genuinely plaintive love song, writ
ten in the negro dialect, as follows:
When the early dawn am breakin*,
An’ the Diggers am awakin'.
In ma veins the pulse of love am beatin
strong.
Then the day looks cold an' dreary,
An’ ma life am dark an* weary,
An’ ma ears am ever ringin’ with the
song—
I’m a-longin’ for you sweetest girl,
I’m a-longln’ for yon, neatest girl,
I’m a-longln’ in ma arms to hold you
tight.
To ma breast I want to press you, dear,
I'm yearnin’ to earess you ,dear,
You’re ma sweetest girl, ma honey’ ma
delight.
When the noonday sun’s a-quiver,
An’ I doze beside the river.
Au’ the bumble bees am humin’ in the lane
Then I’m dreamin’ of you only.
An’ the universe am lonely.
An* the water sings to me the old refrain—
I’m a-longin’, etc.
When the cattle am a-lowln’,
An* the night wind am a-btowin’.
An’ the stars am blinkin’ gently at the
moon,
Then ma heart grows Sad and tender,
Spite of all the silv’ry splendor,
Au’ ma Soul am all s-shiver with the tune—
I’m a-lougin” etc.
—Hepburn Johns.
MfITUED!
IflU I HLII I word"’
English language and the one about
which the most tender and holy recol
lections cluster is that of Mother —she
who watched our tender years; yet the
life of every Expectant Mother is beset
B, Mother’s Friend
so assists Nature in the change taking
place that the Mother is enabled to
look forward without dread or gloomy
forebodings to the hour when she ex
periences the the joy of Motherhood.
Its use insures safety to the lives of
both Mother and Child, and she is left
stronger after than before confinement.
Sent by Mall, on receipt of price, 81.00 per bot
tle. Book to “ Expectant Mothers ” will be mail
ed free on request, to any lady, containing val
uable information and voluntary testimonials
The Bradfield Regulator Co.. Atlants, Ga.
•OLD BY all drugohit*.
‘‘Tie not the food, but the content
That makes the table’s merriment.”
With poor material to jnt in the
food, there’ll be no content or mer
riment, therefore for nice things go
to the old postoffice corner and get
plum pudding, fruit cake, chocola e
marshmellows, vanilla wafers, pre
serves and jams, nice cream, Edam
and Club-house cheese, Cross &
Blackwell’s orange marmalade and
pickles, nice hams and breakfast
bacon, at
LESTER’S-
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga.
Georgia. School For The Deaf.
Cave Spring, Ga.
SEALED BIDS.
CAVE SPRING, Dec. 29,1897.
SEALED CASH BIDSEOR THE FURNISH
ing of the following articles to the Georgia
School for the Deaf, delivered free at Cave
Spring, will be received to 2 o'clock p. m. of
Friday, January 7. 1898, the right to reject any
and all bids being reserved. Samples of flour,
meal, oatmeal, grits, hominy, beans, starch,
sugar, coffee and syrup, such as designated
below, must accompany the bids or no atten
tion will be paid them.
Parties will please write the word “bids”
plainly on the envelopes containing bids.
7.500 lbs. pa ent flour.
1.500 lbs. s-. them white corn meal as wanted
1 box full M ,-ight candles (sixes)
500 lbs. bei t 'eaf lard orcottolene.
300 lbs. g <od sugar cured hams.
500 lbs. b jst ice cured side bacon.
50 lbs. bi s nin dead or rolled oatmeal.
1 bbl fu’l weight No. 2 shore mackerel.
3 bbls besi pearl grits.
2 bbls bet t rice, not fancy.
1 bbl I est hominy.
1 bbl best white beans.
3 bbls, standard granulated sugar.
3 bbls. New Orleans Y C sugar.
2bbls prime New Orleans or South Georgia
syrup.
201) lbs. Roasted coffee.
3 boxes Octagon soap.
Beef and mutton delivered on the premises
as wanted.
By order of the Board of Trustees.
W. O. CONNOR, Principal.
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.
The Best Work.
We guarantee the best work in
the shortest time of auy laundry m
the city. Try üb, ’Phone 158.
MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY,
No. 502 Broad St., Rome, G a
Practical, Useful
and Economical,
Almost everybody wishes to be
economical and practical in the
selection of their
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 Sulls anil 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.
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 first class and up-to-dale In cur presciiption
department our Dr. Davis is ever ready to fil your wants,
night or day. Prescriptions are compounded accurately
and delivered to any part of the citj'. We arc 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
Huyler’r candy just received; also Huyler’s liquoric ;' b drops
for coughs, colds and sore throat. Call on ns 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 care. My purpose is to give my customers the best va.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,
2V. c.
Jeweler, 218 Broad Street, Rome,'G a
Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures indigestion, Bad
Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn.
rgTGuaranteed.