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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. • rriCK—NO. 387 BB,>AD STREET, VP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 78. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Dally, Except Monday.) One Year *6-00 , One Month .M Six Months 3.00 One Week ~U Three Months.... 1.50 | Weekly, per year..!. 00 Delivered by mall or by city carriers free of Charge. All subscription strictly In advance. Twa 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 ROMB TBIBUNIJi Romb. Ga. 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 guns and the continuous rattle of musketry is apparent in our every column - competitors are fighting 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 City, County and State. Economy combined with efficiency. Rate, furnished on application to the Ad vertising Department, Business offices 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.