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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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ROME, GEORGIA, JANUABF 3, 1895.
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Entering upon the new year, The
Tribune tips its new and fashionable
beaver to its many friends and pa
trons and to the public generally.
It has quietly pursued the even tenor
of its way, laboring steadily and
earnestly to promote the best inter
ests of Rome, of Floyd county, o'
the State and of the country; and it
feels that its labors have not thug
far been wholly vain.
Encouraged by kindly expressions
and cordial patronage at home and
abroad, The Tribune enters hope
fully, heartily, upon the labors and
duties of another year, much en
larged and unmistakably improved.
The management, with an opportune
view to its constant advance, and
with added facilities, purposes to
make it more than ever worthy the
high place sought to be established
for it, in the esteem, approbation and
patronage of the advertising and
reading public, assured that all
classes of our fellow-citizens fully
appreciate the duty and importance
of sustaining a live and progressive
daily newspaper in a section so
fraught with innumerable riches as
is this of North Georgia.
For the good people of this gicat
city and grand old county The Trib
une bespeaks a happy New Year.
PROCRASTINATION.
The lamentable fruits of the fear
ful commission of what we shall call
a prodigious omission, common to
all humanity in all the ages —the
full and natural product of the bit
terness of postponement, of procras
tination—droop funereally over the
grave of nearly e/ery unfulfilled am
bition that man has buried.
Proverb lias varied in a thousand
ways its precautions against the
putting off to be done tomorrow that
which should be done today, and
Pope bequeathed to all coming time
the epigrammatic monition that
Procrastination i» the thief of time.
It is the saddest of all reveries,
that burdened with thoughts of what
we might have clone, yet omitted to
do; the keenest of all sorrows tore
call that we shall nevermore regain
our lost chances —lost through our
procrastination!
We are come to a time and season
consecrated by tradition to the un
dertaking of higher duties and the
making of new resolves. It is a cus
tom none should deprecate. It is
fragrant of beautiful desires and
vivid with sparkling promises. We
all know what it is to whisper into
our hearts that for this coining year
we mean, in one way or another, to
improve upon the last. Whatever
the task we’ve set us to do, let's do
it!
BREAK IT UP.
The Tribune heartily commends
several editorials recently noticed
in exchanges on the subject of
carrying concealed weapons. It is
a practice that should be bioken up,
aid the only way to do so is to deal
severely with those cn whom pistols,
dirks and other weapons are found
concealed. If the hip pockets of all
the men, white and black, in Rome
were searched today, we believe
there would be great surprise at the
number of these weapons found.
Os these many would be found
prominent and in other respects
law abiding citizens. Yet they en
courage this most dangerous prac
tice.
Nearly all of the killings, shoot
ings and cuttings which are daily
told of in the papers are traeable to
this pernicious practice. If the
committer of the crime had not been
armed at the time, the crime would
not have been committed. We do
not mean by this that men should
be searched on suspicion; that
would be a high-handed action
which none could endorse. But
where a man is found with a con
cealcd weapon ne should be so dealt
with that others would lay aside
their pistols through fear of the law.
This hip-pocket business must be
stopped, and no legal measures can
be too vigorous.
A REAL WINTER.
Reports of the weather, covering
alike the extent of the country and
the period, though brief, which has
elapsed since the opening of the
season only ten days ago, show that
the present winter is of the olden
lime variety so well remembered by
some of us for the regularity of its
return with the round of the year.
The weather bureau in that day
was the family bureau in which,
possibly, the indispensable almanac
was preserved for frequent refer nee
by the farmer or the household;
and as there were no “weather pro
phets,” it followed, as it were, that
there were no “weather losses;'* in
other words, that when the ciair
voyant little pamphlet warned to
“look out for rain,” the locality set
its preparations for that blessing,
and it usually fell.
Now, the author or compiler of
the generic almanac was not a wiz
ard. He was a plain, modest colla
tor of certain intimations that came
to his assistance through observed
repetititions of like effects at sim
ilar stages in a series of associated
years that were past. It was rea
sonably assured, in that day, that
whatever characteristics marked the
meteorological progress of one year
could be relied on to recur in the
next; and the function of forecast
in the almanac rested entirely on
the likelihood of these coincidences.
Have these climatic, atmospheric
and like natural conditions really
undergone essential or permanent
change? We think not. Arborical
scientists tell us grave modifications
have been traced to the ruthless de
struction of the great forests. But
why should effects so universal suc
ceed causes comparatively local?
Humorists claim that the establish
mentof the national weather bureau,
abetted by the periodic idiosyncra
sies of Wiggin®, produced the ele
mental variances which we all have
observed. But here again full upon
us opens up a genuine, old-fashioned
winter on schedule time and with
accompaniments that presage an ex
tended sojourn, as in bygone years!
The day of the almanac is not wholly
dead. There are of a past genera
tion in Georgia today, doubtless,
persons who have preserved copies
of it from the time when it ranked
as oracular. Would it not be in
structive and gratifying to compare
these whitened, icy antics of the
present days of Januaiy with those
of like day and month of, say, 1840,
and see if real, robust, regular, old
time winter hasn’t resumed its long
vacated dominion among us?
Tom Watson’s Daily Press says
this year will see the death of the
Populist party or the defeat and dis
integration of one of the old parties.
That’s right; only there was no need
to put in the last c'ause.
TH® SOME TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1595.
A RETROSPECT. '
Again we stand in the shadow of
a dying year and, with hearts full of
hope, await the birth of the new!
Before the issue of another num
ber of The Tribune 1 the record of
the old year will have been made up,
the book having been closed and laid
, away in the archives of the great
eternity of the past. The outgoing
year has been crowned with events
’ of unusual interest and magnitude.
Standing, as we now do, with the
future ahead of us, seeming bright
and full of sweetness, it can but re
mind us vs the years which are bur
ied. We see disappointed hopes;
aspirations crushed; designs frus
Haled and resolves broken; and we
are prone to t hink of the future only
as those who foresee it fraught with
sorer trials. The home folk will as
semble about the hearth again, but
there are vacant chairs and absent
faces into which how long we had
looked the kindly love of a thousand
atiachments. And yet j,f we can ac
cept these and like sorrows with un
speaking meekness, if we can believe
those forms, unseen, are there and
that in spirit they verily rejoice with
jour joys—for however deep be grief
the joy of thankfulness may enter
there, thankfulness even for the life
we still Uve—then shall we have
hope and promise of better things;
and they are the highest form of
bliss which mortal may cuvet.
• And upon the features of those
[ who, visibly and tangibly, we know
are gathered about the borne fireside
the glowing flame glinting the chim
ney back will dispense a softened
halo, shedding a beautiful radiance
on the dying year and brightening
the noiseless incoming of the new
born. And lingering thus in com
munion with those ever dear to us.
how many’ and how pure and prec
ious the memories of the missing
o ies that like “flights of angels” will
flock to our thoughts!
In silence we bow bur heads, and
while the light grows brighter we
forgive, from the bottom of our
hearts, the wrongs done us in the
year that is dead, as we hope for
remission and mercy; then ca'tnly
arise to uncomplain
ingly await the a dawning
with
tore, that if we frail in
the days agone we will strive to be
strong in those that open before us.
And then, at last, looking up to
and leaning for guidance upon Him
who doeth all things well, we yield
from the inmost recess of a sincerity
too deep for doubting the devout
w.sh for all that the New Year may
bring them surcease of care and
abundatn happiness.
THE TROUBLE IN BROOKS.
At this distance it is hard to
judge with any degree of exactness
of the Brooks county trouble, which
has been called a race war, and The
Tribnne has no desire to unjustly
criticise either white or black par
ticipant. but if a personal letter
which Editor Stovall prints in the
Savannah Press is true, it seems the
entire trouble —the race war feature
—was due to a few lawless whites.
This letter states that only three
were killed, and these three were
'innocent negroes. Then it says:
“If Ware Pike, the negro that mur
dered Isham, had been caught and
shot, very little would have been
said about it, but it is an outrage
to be murdering people who are in
nocent.”
If this letter is true, then the
Sheriff of Brooks county should
bring the murderers to justice or be
fired from the office. Georgia, as
we all know, is as free from lawless
ness as any State, and her people
with the few exceptions that may’
be found in any section, are law
abiding and peace-loving. We can
not afford to allow such assassins as
are told of in the letter to the Press
to go unpunished. We can only
hope that as one side has been ex
aggerated, this letter also exagger
ates the other. The people of
Brooks should know, and it is their
duty to swiftly punish those whose
guilt is proven.
One other feature of this trouble
is a striking argument in favor of
military appropriations. Represent
ative Humphreys, of Brooks, was
opposed to the appropriation, yet it
was he who wired Governor Atkin
son to order out the troops. He
should remember this the next time
he votes.
NOW, ALL TOGETHER!
Yes, we believe it, we know it, we
concede it, we confess it—last year
was a hard one and it hit all around!
It hit you, it hit us, and it hit the
other fellow. It was hard on all
classes, all kinds, all conditions of
people, sparing nor size nor sex. It
smote one cosmical hemisphere, and
then swiped the other. Continents
and kingdoms, republics and states,
towns and interiors, each and all
got a whack—some got two whacks
It was a cruel year, that harried the
unfortunate and the, feeble and the
weak; a cowardly year, that struck
hard st the man who was down!
Twice it swept the fruits of the
harvest from the bosom of hope and
aid teeming acres a reeking waste
The very latest vandalism of its
veritable harliquinade of woes was
to shroud the country in a sheet of
ice,’stifle the life imploring and -life
supporting food germ witbin its cell,
and then sneak away at the mid
night of the misery it wrought !
I Whether or not the bold, bad past
year committed other and deeper
sins than these we specifically’ have
herein stated, we do not know but
dare not question.
But what of it all? Ho.v many of
us have time to reiterate the grew
some story of a year of griefs —how
many of us who would help to make
a better year can afford to fritter
away these budding hours over the
weird recital of days that are dead?
How many of us dare hope to catch
a gleam of brightness if we choose
to look for it into the gloom? Men
do not explore among caverns for
the sources of light; they do not
listen at the portal of death for the
peal of laughter.
Just as the hard times hit us all—
not one of us escaping—so it put the
last and the least of us exactly and
equally prostrate and has left us all,
alike, to arise! And we must rise
in unison, rise together, and rise at
once!
For good times, then, “Now, all
together!”
OUR LEGAL TENDER.
These interesting facts are from
the New York Recorder:
The government is responsible
for the redemption of five classes of
paper currency which it has issued:
1) Legal tender notes issued during
the war as promissory notes; (2)
treasury notes of 1890 issued in the
purchase of silver bullion; (3) cur
rency certificates issued for legal
tender notes deposited with the gov
ernment; (4) gold certificates issued
for gold deposited, and (5) silver
certificates issued for silver de
posited.
As to the legal tender functions
of our various currency, gold coin is
a legal tender in all payments with
out any limit as to amount.
The silver dollar of the act of 1792,
1837 and 1878 is a full legal tender
to any amount. The trade dollar
has no legal qualifications now.
All fractional silver coin now
minted is a legal tender to the
amount of ten dollars.
Minor coin is a legal tender to
he amount of t wenty-five cents.
United States notes (“green
backs”) are a legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and pri
vate, except for duties on imports
and interest on the public debt.
Gold certificates are not a legal
tender, but may be issued in pay
ment of interest on the public debt,
and are receivable in payment of
customs, taxes and all public dues.
Silver certificates are not a legal
tender, but are receivable for cus
toms, taxes and all public dues.
Currency certificates are not a
legal tender tor any purpose, but
may’ be coiinted as part of the law
ful money reserve of banks, and
may’ be accepted in the settlement
of clearing house balance.
United States Treasury notes of
1890 are a legal tender in payment
of all debts, public and priva e, and
are receivable for customs, taxes and
all public dues. They may be
counted as a part of the lawful
reserve of the banks, and are re
deemable (like the legal tenders) in
gold or silver coin, in the discretion
of the Secretary’ of the Treasury.
National bank notes are not as
legal tender, except that they are
receivable for all dues to the United
States, except duties on imports,
and for all debts and demands owing
by the United States, except interest
on public debt and in redemption of
the national currency. Each na
tional bank is required to receive at
par, for any debt or liabili'y to it,
the notes of every other national
bank.
ROME’S COTTON MARKET.
Since the first of September Rome
has received nearly 80,000 bales ot
cotton. These bales were bought
by Rome buyers and Rome money
paid for frbem. That means about
$2,000 000 put into circulation here
for one product alone in lees than
four months. Nearly all of this
money went at once into the pockets
of Rome merchant 1 -, and it is no
wonder that they have been enjoying
a good trade. Os the cotton brought
here much of it came from over 100
miles by wagon; some from Ala
bama. and some from near the Ten
nessee line. The farmers have found
out that, Rome’s market price is
from a quarter to a half cent above
any other citv in this section of the
country, and they bring their cotton
here in pre*erence to taking it to
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Birmingham
or other places.
Without a doubt Rome is the
leading inland cotton city of its size
in the Union, and less than half a
dozen inland cities of any’ size re
ceive more of the fleecy staple.
Rome’s mineral resources are great
and varied, and her manufacturing
industries are many and of great
importance. These, with our other
enterprises, keep up a steady trade
all the year, and of all the cities we
know of, not one equals Rome in the
manifold advantages that go to
make a city.
A GENERAL RESUME.
The Old- The New.
Softly the shadows come and go
On hill and valley wreath-' d In snow,
.And silently the sunbeams creep
Along each lovely tree clad steep;
v And sid and lone the night winds wall
A solemn dirge atlowii the vale,
With voltes tearful, tremulant,
In melancholly tones they chant;
“The year is old. the year is old,
His feeble h nds are growing cold.
With sorrows keen i nd memories dear,
His pag s filled, the dying year!”
Han< from yon hill top far away
Is heard a gladder, sweeter, lay,
As mystic voices low ly cr< on
Os hope, beneath the midnight moon,
Ui hope that warms the human brer st
Anew with promises meet blessed.
Os vows renewed by hearts that wept
New faith in consciences that slept;
“Cheer up, for come:h into view
A Liter year, a year that’s tew!”
Rings gladly out the gleeful bell,
“Xis twelve o’clock and all is well!
Mo .to meut M. Fols >m.
I: seemed so appiopriate that nature
had prepared for the dying year such a
spotless winding sheet.
When we left Atlanta there was a
strong presage of rain or sleet from the
leaden gloom of t e loweiing. heaven
that people involun'arily shuddered as
they g: z d out of the car window on the
scene of silent desola'ion.
This side the riv. r the wooded hills
rose grand and imposing in their spotted
mantles, with icy Nick, jack wincing in
and out noiieeesly as some wild creature
a lonely graveyard.
The clustering cottages of AusteD
hovered around the dark pyramid of the
station building, and through the strug
gling dawn familiar ohj-cts appeared,
s range and unnatural in the uncertain
light.
The two diverging lines of railfosd
stretched away, gaunt and ghastly, as
we steamed away, the great, black smoke
wreaths wieathing and twisting as if in
a demoniac dance over the silent hills,
pallid and lifeless under the spell of the
mighty K ng of the North.
It was a wild scene, made wilder still
by the low moans of the Hying engine.
We were nearly two hours late, and the
engineer, whoever he may be, was push
ing his black-maned steed.
Then slowly and stealthily the invisi
ble scene shifters rolled back the dull
curtains, and on the brow of the eastern
heavens flashed the splendor of dawn.
It reminded me of that wondrous
scene witnessed by no mortal eye, wlrtn
'he Creator uttered that most motnen
t ius sentence that ever fell upon an awed
universe, “Let there be light!”
And there was Ugh*!
Out of the semi darkness shone forth
the wonder and the glory of a world
wreahed in the spotless garments of the
little hills like mute mourners gathered
about the bier of the dead year, soon to
be laid away in the vaults of the mighty
ages gone before.
Like motionless plumes the young
pines stood forth and the few faint stars
>hone afar in the opalescent heavens
like tapers tai’, and the vision of a mar
velous funeral.
Oi and on we went bounding away,
rnd little by little the silvery sheen ap
peared, as we passed by the straggling
mountain towns deserted and as lonely
as if all their inhabitants lay beneath
stainless snow.
.lust as we emerged from the east of
the scraggy hills into the Undulating
plain rhe great mri arose in ail his win
try splendor, and I felt as if God, hitr.-
se’f, was a spectator in this unreal
reality.
The long icicles, like frozen tears,
gleamed and glistened with all the tints
of a rainbow of flame.
And then methought that out of the
great tragedy of nature wou’d come a
fairer dawn than this, when at the toll
ing of the midnight bell the infant new
year would appear and the cerements of
the tomb would be changer! into swad
dling clothes and all the stars would sing
together a glorious hymn of faith, hope
and pleasure of a brighter future to
come.
Le roi est mort! Vive le roi!
HOLIDAY
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This Minplu message from t .e sea !
Montgomery m. '
The newest fad in Now YuaPa
is rhe bill colb ctor. It i« on the
the eariy bird catchii g the woim.
The New Year's caller,
lie looked u ighry slick, |
And felt a foot taller 7
Than a hat on a brick; >
But oh, in the morning /
What a difference was that,
For his headgear adorning
Was a brick in hia hat.
Ou th’s beautiful second day of Jan
uary, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,
there is many a gay equipage that re
minds one of a slay that was slain.
Will poets never learn
That “cold”Tliymee not with “t< 11.”
No more than “warm” with “yearn”
Or crowns of "gold” with “sou.?”
Unary Mu-ket—“Wbo's that
lurnip patch? Speak, or I’!I ” I
Hut there was a wild crash es tailing I
fence rails, and the challenged parties 4
failed to turn up even in patches.
“ T wo little girls in blue,” he sang,
For that was the song of his choice;
Then there was a biff and theie was a bang, ■
And th> y eaid he had lost his vo ca. M
The Cedartown Spaniard comes out I
fl ty-two weeks in every year, for there ■
is a liussler ai the front wheel. ■
Better tixe° >'n*—
Bee ’em ev. ry uwj;
They certainly are cornin’, and
Are coming here to stay.
Albany Herald. ■
Better times a-coniia’, jfl
W ish they’d hurry up •
’Fore we’re forced by pover j;
To sell our jailer pup. ■
The English bishop who preaches reg- W
ulaily in his sle-p is oifferent from many ■
preachers whomere’j furnish the sei mon ■
while the congrr gation furnish the sleep. ■
—Camilla Clarion. ■
In’other words, the latter touch the 1
button and the congregation do the rest J
As through the slush and mud
We wish lor a briglit, clear day—
Hut we wish in vain we leave
Our cv..shoes stuck in the clay.
-Cleveland
You ought to lie thankful much
'1 h it you've got overshoe? to spare,
For in the throng that splashes along
Many lack a .. aterproof under pair.
The jail sirce the County Court is as
empty as the average country editor’s
stomach between picnics. Douglas
Brei ze.
Why not put the editor inside, and
then neither would be empty, asthe M
jailer is bound to feed prisoners, no mat- JB
ter what the charge may be.
It takes no m ore strokes of the pen to ■
write a figure 4 than a figure 5, but, Lord, H
wbat a difference between “1894” anAM
“1895.”
There was a mau in our town
Who had a hackihg coush
And as h ■ could not drink it
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read sum ’bin.' like thi- :
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whole year.
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1-laim Tint would b > straiifHggVKflGH
inasmuch as thev were net
sidereii in the awards. VHmHhUH
Was it ammonia in the
,’owdei that prevented its jfflj
competing? If not, what?