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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
Get you a catchy ad in the Trade
Review.
Blizzards and circtfses give Rome
the go by. .
An editorial on “Bryan’s Mistake”
reads very much like ancient history,
nowadays.
Editor Hal Moore’s Augusta Mews
has a regular holiday look these De
cember days.
The Dallas New Era was fifteen
years old yesterday and has been very
successful during its career.
Don’t forget the fact that our ele
gant Trade Review will be issued
Tuesday and secure space.in its bright
and attractive pages.
If we do not hurry up and recog
nize Cuba the Cubans will refuse to
recognize us. The wails of Weyler
grow feeblar every day.
It is the concensus of opinion that a
pardon or, at least, a remission to a
lighter penalty, for old Mrs. Nolfie?>
would meet with the ends of justice.
Sam JoneS IS disgusted with the
lack of religious enthusiasm in New
York. He has only Rev. Dr. Parkhurst
to blame. He has Bulled the market.
Hired opera glasses are said to be
responsible for many diseases of the
eye. Hired dress suits are responsible
• for many of the financial troubles
likewise.
The lockmakers have organized a
trust. With a few more combines
and trusts we will need no locks as
there will be nothing for anybody
. to steal.
Eight ami a quarter million bales is
the size of the cotton crop according
to the latest estimates. That is not
such a short crop, after all, when you
come to think of it.
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A printer entered the sanctum of a
Springfield (Ill.) paper the other day
and fired four shots at the editor with
out effect. The Cincinnati Post thinks
that fellow ought to be discharged.
He may know how to set up a scare
head, but he can’t distribute leaded
matter well.-
Edward Scofield, the governor-elect
of Wisconsin, is the son of a Pennysl
vania farmer. At the age of 14 he be
came a printer’s “devil” in a country
newspaper office, afterward becoming
a typesetter. He served through the
war with great gallantry, coming
out as a major.
Will T. Hale, of “The Nashville
American;” Frank L. Stanton, of the
Atlanta Constitution, and Mont
gomery M. Folsom, of The Rome
Thibcnk, are three poets that are
adding much to Southern journalism
by their splendid contributions. —
Knoxville, Tenn., Tribune.
Indications are that the farmers of
the South will raise more mortgages
during the coming year than they
have in any year for a long timA. As
a farm product the mortgage is never
profitable and when the crop is once
raised it is best to abandon its culti
vation entirely.—Columbus Enquirer-
Bun.
THE BOATNER BILL.
Congressman Boatner has prepared
a bill to increase the pay of con
gressmen. It is a bill that will
not meet with general favor outside
of congress. There are many ways in
which the public funds may be spent
more profitably than in paying it out
to those whom we send to the national
capital to represent our interests.
Money is too scarce and the public
needs too imperative to permit much
consideration for such a measure.
The Savannah News says:
Congressmen are not satisfied with
the compensation they receive. They
wouldn’t be satisfied if they were paid
twice as much. The salary of a con
gressman is $5,000 a year. He also
has a clerk whose salary is $1,200 a
year. In a good many instances
most of the clerk’s salary finds its way
into the pocket of the congressman.
Besides a clerk a congressman has
$125 each year for stationary. He may
take the amount in paper, pocket
knives or cash.
He doesn’t have to pay any letter
postage and, as a rule, he is furnished
with passes on the railroads, although
he receives mileage. It is safe to say
that a c mgressman gets about $6,000
a year. Out of the two years for
which he is elected he is in Washing
ton about eleven months. Therefore,
for eleven mouths’ work he is paid
about $12,000. It is reported that
Representative Boatner of Louisiana
proposes to offer during the approach
ing session of congress a bill to in
crease a congressman salary to $7,500
a year.
Mr. Boatner will not be a member
of the next congress, he having de
elined a re-election. It is pretty cer
tain that of those who should vote
for the Boatner bill very few would
ever get back to congress. In the
recent campaign of education the
people weye taught that prices have
declined so much that it costs a man
only a little more than half as much
to live now as it did twenty years
ago. If, therefore,' congress were to
increase the salaries of its members in
this period of low prices of food pro
ducts and clothing it would arouse a
feeling of violent opposition,
When the salaries of congressmen
were increased from $8 per day to
$5,000 a year the people protested
strongly. They thought then that
congressmen were being well paid.
What they would say if the alleged
Boatner bill should be passed cannot
be predicted with any degree of cer
tainty. It is pretty safe to pradict,
however, that they would make con
gressmen wish they had never heard
of Mr, Boatner and his bill,
. A higher salary would not insure
the election of abler men to congress.
It would bring to the front a crop of
men who would think more of the
pay of the office than the welfare of
the country. If Mr. Boatner desires
to do those of his fellow members who
expect to remain in congress a number
of years a service he will keep his
salary raising bill in a pigeon hole of
his desk.
The special features of Sunday
Tribune will be attractive.
FOR YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS.
Hon. John T. Boifeuillet, of Bibb,
has introduced a bill into the house of
representatives which certainly de
serves to become a law.- Such a meas -
ure has been long needed in Georgia.
The fact that 14-1 boys are now in the
state penitentiary and forced to come
in daily contact with the lowest element
of malefactors and law breakers while
at work- in stripes and chains does
not speak well for our civilization.
The bill provides for an appropria
tion of $50,000 with which to establish
the proposed reformatory and main
tain it daring the year 1897. The in
stitution is to consist of eight differ
ent branches, one located in each of
the counties that may donate the
most to it, the preference being given
to Glynn, Chatham, Muscogee, Bibb,
Richmond, Fulton, Floyd and Clarke
counties.
The reformatories are not to be
located within the corporate limits of
any city, town or village, but to r.»
main in the country strictly, the idea
being to keep the youthful evil doeis
as far away from city influences as
possible. The management of the re
formatory is to be vested in a board
of seven managers, appointed by the
governor with the approval of the
senate, their term of office being seve?.
years.
If the bill passes, the first board is
to be appointed by February 1, 1897
and each of these appointees is to
serve terms, varying from one to seven
years, so that a new manager will be
added each year. The pay of the
board of managers is fixed at not more
than S4OO per year. This board is to
have complete control over the insti
tiltion, but is required to make an
nual reports to the governor.
It is provided that the courts may
sentence juvenile offenders to the re
formatory and that the governor may
commute the sentence of any now in
the penitentiary to the reformatories
provided that the offense committed
THE ROME, TIUBVNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1896.
is not a capital one. The measure
looks toward removing the youthful
criminals from the vicious atmos
phere and depraved influences by
which they are now surrounded in
the ebaiogaug.
It is to be sincerely hoped that the
lawmakers of Georgia will not over
look the importance of this bill.
With better school facilities and with
a reformatory where the youth who
go astray may be brought under bet
ter influences, so that they may be
received and made better citizens of
the future of Georgia will be far
brighter and more hopeful. We hope
that the legislature will pass the bill
and that it will go into effect without
delay.
The Sunday Tribune will be far
ahead of any other issue, send in
your* ads early,
SONGS AND SCENES.
A Reverie.
When maytime woods are blooming-,
And summer days are nigh;
And mocking birds are fluming
Beneath the sun-bright sky.
Then scented south-winds whisper
Their dreams of lore and lore,
And every low, sweat vesper
Chants lay* unsung before*
Bat the days were not so lonely.
The days were not so long.
Methinks if I could only
Revive that bygone tong!
The path is long and narrow
That I must tread alone,
Though shielded for rhe arrow
My feet strike many a stone.
Bat oh, with thou to guide me
With thine unerring hand
No evil might betide me
Within this weary land!
The days were not so lonely!
The nights were net so lofg,
I think if I conld only
Hear that inspiring song!
—Montgoniery M. Folsom.
JSueb a Gay Old Time.
The last meeting of the Bohemians
marked an epoch in the history of the
social organizations of Rome.
Miss Clara Rhodes was the instiga
tor and the director, and oh, we had
such a happy, happy time!
I have not laughed so much in many
a moon as I did that night at Mr-
Rhodes,’ and *ll who were present
will say the same thing.
But the joke is all on me. Mrs.
Dallas Turner had send us a mess of
delicious spare ribs and home made
sausage meat, fresh from the planta
tion, and when I got home to dinner
I could not enjoy it.
I had sueh curious feelings and
twinges of pain in the place where
the brain is supposed to be located,
that my wife became alarmed.
“Papa is off his feed,” she remarked
to one of the children, “and lam
going to fix him up a cup of my liver
medicine. I will sit the cup here on
the mantel and don’t any of you
drink it.”
The boys made horrible grimaces
and the little girls sniAkered. They
had all had to take some of that fa
vorite prescription and they were re
joiced that my turn had come.
“Now,” she said to me as I was put
ting on my overcoat, “tell those ladies
to excuse you that you cannot eat
much, for I want you to take this
medicine when yon come in tonight.”
Lord preserve us! I was already
melancholy and sour, but that last
stroke settled the matter so far as I
was concerned.
All the way down to the scene of
festivities I was revolving in my mind
some way to escape the penalty. I ■
thought once of engaging a room at
the Armstrong and spending the night
there, but I knew that wouldn’t do
So 1 put on a brave face and en
tered into the enjoyment of the eve
ning with an unnatural hilarity that
was the very desperation of cold
blooded despair, 1 laughed at any
thing and nothing at all.
Professor Thompson played “Old
Black Joe” in such an affecting man
ner that we were all carried away
into the adjoining room with cur
emotions.
Miss Mary Duggan sang “The
Mocking Bird” until we wept tears of
the bitterest woe. We wondered if
the mocking bird, in question, had
ever suffered what we were called
upon to suffer.
Miss Gibbs told a story just, as
glibly as if she were accustomed to
that kind of work.
I read a poem that put them all to
sleep and their slumbers were so pro
found that 1 implored Miss Dustman
to play something that would arouse
them.
She succeeded. She not only arous
ed them but also the inmates of tl e
infirmary, a block away, who took
up their beds and walked so that
they might get out of range of the
music.
She was encored and asked not to
repeat the offence, but Bohemian like
she did.
Mr. Buchanan had all the while
been harboring a sweet revenge. At
the first stroke of his bow the violin
wailed out a strain such as is sup
posed to emanate from the condemn
ed souls in purgatory, and a chorus
of tom cats, outside, joined in the re
frain.
Then we had Mies Selman to recite
so as to take the taste of the music
out of our ears, and by the time she
got through we were filled with re
gret that we had asked her.
Fred Govan told a ghost, story that
had such a spirituous flavor that our
senses reeled and our credulity stag
gered.
Then we adjourned to the dining
room where we feasted. The viands
were of the most delicious variety
but, alas!
I remembered that fatal potion that
was awaiting me on my return to
my own domicile. That was the
principle reason why I ate so much.
Then there were other reasons.
Finally, after I had kept them
there as late as possible, so as to post
pone the terrible ordeal, we broke up.
As I walked un the street I whistled
sadly “What is home without a liver?”
Finally I arrived at the fatal spot,
I grasped the dreaded cud and after a
brief invocation, I drained it to the
dregs. lam still alive at this writing,
but there seems to be little left worth
living for. M. M. F.
The Glpey Taint.
Father is a townsman, mother from Ute far
Green southern uplands, where wealthy pas
tures are.
My kith and my kindred are prosperoMK and
sleek.
Who feed well and work well, and thrive all
the week.
But somewhere and sometime, many a year
ago.
There was a gypsy woman , that right well I
know—
A wild, dark woman from the moor and wold—
Who bare me an ancestor in days of old,
They hushed up her memoay, hid her name
away.
Thought they had done with her forever and
a day,
Yet She hath left an heritage that none else
shall win
Whereunto my wandering feet have entered
in.
For surely when the dead leaves scatter down
the street
’Vith a rush and a rustle like little flying feet:
When the sou’west awakens and with scared
looks askance 1
The townsfolk hasten from the storm’s ad
vance .
My whole sou! sickens with a fierce desire
Stress of sudden longing sets my blood on fire
For the wind on the hilltops in a lonely-place
And the cold soft raindrops blowing on my
faca.
For the steep huge hedges of the winding road
And the forest pathway by the stream o’er
flowed,
For the storm-twept heather where the black
cock whirs
And the salt wind whistles through the stunt
ed firs
For the brown wood water and the brown
field’s swell,
And the wide sea marshes where the curlews
dwell.
For the moorland black against the last red
light.
And the sunk reef's breakers brawling to the
night,
Hide within your houses with your glaring
gas!
Mine shall be the peat Smoke in the beech
roofed grass,
Count your sordid silver, tell your giimy
gain !
Mine shall be the treasures of the wind and
rain
—San Francisco Argonaut
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