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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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The Official Organ of
The City of Rome,
The Sheriff.
The'Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating horn
these officials.
This weather stamps out the yellow
fever.
The thermometer in Rome early
yesterday morning marked 50 degrees.
Georgia is ashamed of Indiana,
says the Savannah Press. Too many
lynchings.
That trade and souvenir edition of
The Tribune will be a fine advertise
ment for Rome.
The leading newspapers of Georgia
have published articles favoring the
penal island plan.
Floyd counties’ members of the
legislature have the best and most de
sirable seats in the bouse.
A few degrees cooler temperature
than North Georgia had yesterday,
and we would have frost.
. It seems to be pretty well agreed
upon that the farming plan is the best
for utilizing long term convicts.
The first and only pictures Mrs.
McKinley has had taken in ten
years appear in the October number
of The Ladies’ Home Journal.
If eo education ever becomes a fact
in Georgia, it will be in spite of the
vigorous protest and excellent logic
of Mrs. Myrick.—Augusta Herald.
The legislative subcommittee on
the convict problem has a big ques
tion on hand to settle. This section
is represented by Senator Wesley
Shropshire who favors Gov. Atkin
son’s plan.
The Hogansville affair appears to
be mixed up. But whether it was
political, or personal enemies who
shot the colored postmaster at Ho
gansville they did a very brutal and
ruffianly thing.
The Griffin News declares that “the
two greatest forces in public affairs
in Georgia for three years past have
been Governor Atkinson and the
Atlanta Constitution and they are
now together.”
The King of Siam is evidently not
a Shakespearean scholar. It is relate'!
that on the recent occasion of hus visit
to Denmark he was conducted by the
Crown Prince Frederick to the grave
of Hamlet, Prjoce of Denmark His
Majesty stood before the tomb wjth
uncovered head and in reverential
silence. Finally he turned to the
Crown Prince and raidjin tones of poli e
sympathy: “A relative of your royal
highness. I presume. Has be been
long dead?’’
Popularity of The Tribune,
Thk Tribunk was never more ap
preciated by the public than it is
today. It is universally acknowledged
to be the best and the newsiest paper
Rome has ever had. It is intensely
devoted to this city and section and
never fails to guard most jealously all
the interests of North Georgi ~
Our subscription list is growing
daily, and our columns of well filled
advertisements attest its popularity
as the best advertising medium in
Northwest Georgia.
With these conditions in our favor,
and the fact that we shall increase
our news and telegrapic facilities with
the busy season which is upon us we
can assure the public that if they will
give us their entire support we will
give them a paper they will be still
prouder of.
The Tribune is delivered to sub
scribers by mail, or carrier at 50 cents
per month. This is le.ss than 2 cents
per copy.
"The Idea a Good One,"
The Savannah News publishes the
following:
The time is rapidly approaching
when the legislature must decide
what shall be done with the state con
victs. Arrangements must be made
for taking care of them before the
contracts with the lessees expire, and
these contracts will expire in about
two years.
The best of all the suggestions for
caring for the convicts is the one that
a large tract of land shall be purchased
and theconvictejutilized in cultivating
a big state farm. In Mississippi this
plan is productive of very satisfactory
results. The state owns two or three
plantations, and, as has been pointed
out frequently by the Morning News,
the products of the labor of the con
victs more than pay the expenses of
feeding, guarding and clothing them.
After all of the expenses of the peni
tentiary are paid quite a large sum
remains almost every year to be held
as a surplus to meet the deficiencies
of poor crop years or to be turned into
the state treasury. A convict farm to
pay, must, of course, have a very ca
pable manager. ,
In connection with the farm plan
for the Georgia convicts The Rome,
Tribune suggests that the farm be
located on one of the sea islands off
the coast of the state, and that the
convicts be employed in cultivating
sea island cotton for the money crop.
They would also cultivate enough
food crops to supply their own wants.
The sea island idea is a good one. It
would be more difficult for convicts
to escape from such an island
than from a farm on the mam
land, and, hence, the expense for
guards would be less; besides,
the living on a sea island would be
cheaper than in the interior because
very little fuel would be needed for
heating purposes and the sea would
afford much of the food needed by the
convicts. Os the healthfulness of the
islands there is no question.
But could a desirable sea island <?r
part of an island, within Georgia’s
jurisdiction, be obtained at a reason
able price? What has The Rome
Tribune to say of that question. It
must have investigated the matter
pretty thoroughly before it made its
suggestion, and we are sure there are
many who would like to have the
benefit of its information. Has it
Sapelo and Warsaw in mind?
The Money Value Os a Man.
What is a man worth in money?
That depends on circumstances. Let
us calculate the matter:
1. A man without an education is
usually worth what his labor will
bripg as a hireling. We will place it
at sls per month. This will make
SIBO a year. The laboring time of a
man’s life is from the time he is 20
years old until he is 60—forty years.
Thus such a man’s active life amounts
to $7,200, making no estimate of dis
count and interest.
2. A man with a good, solid, all
round education ahd a mind to labor
is worth SI,OOO a year. In 40 years
his value runs up to $40,000. What a
difference! They may be two brothers,
and one may have just as much native
talent as the other, and yet, there is
the difference in cold, unflinching
figures—s32,Boo.
Young man, educate! Don’t dilly
dally! The time is short you cannot
afford to delay. Now is the time.
Now you have the opportunity. You
say studying is ,uch hard work. Yes,
it is hard work, but remember, you
will be repaid in double compound
interest for every cent of money and
hour of time you give it. Think of
this carefully now young man, or in
after life, when it is too late, your
regret will only rise to mock you.—
Ex. '
Will Stick to The Bight,
The editor of The Times Recorder
has neither the time nor inclination
to enter into a personal argument
with all who choose to take issue with
us because of oni expressed opposition
against women being allowed to enter
THE DOME TBIBLNE. THURSDAY SLPTEJdBLB 23. ,891
* ‘ j<.
the State University. The reasons
against co-education are well estab
lish* d. natural' ones, both physical
and mental, which have existed ever
since the days of Adam and Eve in
the garden, and ought to be fully rec
ognized and understood by every in
telligent man and woman in the state.
To go into disgustiug details of this
phase of the situation is simply need
less, but the most important question
to be considered is whether the tax
payers of the state can incur the heavy
additional tax whicn must necessarily
be levied to equip the university in a
style suitable for our voting women.
As we have stated before, this
is an untimely agitation, totally
without necessity or method, and the
petty personal dings of a few seem
ingly jealous writers charging us with
want of charity for women will never
drive us from the position we have
taken. Our record on this line it} too
well established in this state for the
threats of the novice and narrow
minded to have any weight. We will
continue to fight attempted
wrong to perpetrate co-education upon
Georgia, which is distasteful to all
the refined and cultured traditions of
the old South, and to our honest
thinking a condition foreign to our
Christian civilization and should be
frowned down by the .righteous press
and pulpit of Georgia.—Americus
Times Recorder.
Endorsed by Leading Papers-
(1 meric us Herald)
The penal island colony plan is grow
ing in favor and is generally endorsed
by the leading papers of the state.
The Herald has, from the first,
favored such a scheme and on the only
question which now remains is the loca
tion of a proper place to confine the
misdemeanor convicts.
Several islands have been suggested
but- upon this point we are unable to
express an opinion, not knowing any of
the advantages or disadvantages of the
proposed sites, but is certain that the
plan is a good one and should be carried
out as soon as practicable.
In addition to having the convicts
upon the island, where they could be
worked with profit to the state, at the
same place could be established a re
formatory for young criminals, which
is one of the crying needs of Georgia.
As.it is now there is no place where
young ciiminals can be sent and they
are therefore turned loose even after
having committed one or more crimes,
and are to continue their career until
they grow old enough to land in the
penitentiary for a long term of years.
A reformatory would correct all of
this by confining them for several years
where they would not be brought into
contact with hardened criminals and
where some attention could be given
them, and in a majority of oases, they
could be made into good citizens,
This could easily be done in a convict
colony and would, in itself, pay the
state many times over for the money
invested.
A state camp of some kind seems to
be the only solution of the problem and
it would seem that the penal islands
offers more advantages than any other
scheme yet suggested. '
Let our legislators take the matter up.
Statute of Limitation Pleaded,
(Chattanooga Times)
The Atlanta Journal says: “The
talk about Chattanooga being in Geor
gia, which was at first taken as a joke
by most people, is shown by an exhaust
tive special article, printed elsewhere in
the Journal today, to have a most sub
stantial foundation in fact. Speaking
for Georgia, we can say that we don’t
know of any city we would rather take
in that Chattanooga, and we are per- ’
fectly sure we could make good use of
that twelve-mile strip which seems to
be really ours.”
Georgia is barred by the statute of
limitations. She knew of the fact nearly
a hundred years ago, and made no effort
to take the “strip,” However, if the
Goobers want us and tbink they can
take us, let them try!
X Rays and Tight Lacing,
The Queen of Portugal has lately
been experimenting with the X-rays.
She has detailed the ladies of her court
to serve as subjects and has lately in
dulged in the weird occupation of mak
ing pictures of their skeletons. It seems
that these sketches gave such an alarm
ing insight into the distortions wrought
by tight lacing that the female nobility
of Portugal rushed to order gowns six
or eight inches wider in the belt meas
ure. It would be a curious instance ot
the unexpected happening if tignt lac
ing, denounced in vain by medicos and
moralists, should finally be supprespid
by Dr. Roentgen’s invention, and sash
ion should turn to the Venus de Milo as
her ideal of figure,—New York Ledger.
Supinely Superlative,
(Rochester Post-Express)
The meanest man in the United
States lives in Atlantic, lowa. He took
his girl to the theater and her ticket
won a bicycle that was offered by the
managers He claimed the bicycle, as
he had bought the ticket. And yet
Charlotte Smith would compel such a
man to marry.
A Good Story on Silly Willie
A young man, living within a thou
sand miles of Boston, recently called to
spend the evening with his lady love.
Before the hour of depat ture came it be
gan to rain furiously. His prospective
mother-in-law took pity upon him and
invited hitn to remain all night, and so
save going home in the wet and perhaps
contracting pneumonia, or at leat rheu
matism. Her kind invitation was ac
cepted with alacrity and gratitude.
When the considerate hostess came
down stairs in the morning she noticed
the young man’s overcoat hanging in
the hall, and to her surprise, it was
thorougly [.'soaked, “Rd had evidently
seen wet weather very recently, What
eould it mean? Her curiosity could not
be controlled, and oat the breakfast
table she said.ta her promising sou-in
law: •‘Willie, I notice'that your over
coat is very wtt How did it happen?”
“Why,” be meekly replied ‘‘before I
went to bed I went borne to’tell mother
and to get my nightgown. ”
That Wonderful Cotton.
(Grffln News )
We can raise large enough crops in
the south without using Jackson’s won
derful four bale to the acre product.
Better to lynch Jackson and burn his.
seed than bring about a forty million
bjgcrop, which would bi the inevitable
Kit in a few years.
Still Harping on her Age,
‘(Savannah News)
An Atlanta paper sajs Miss Dortch
is “80 years General Longstreet’s jun
ior. ” Mrs Myrick says Miss Dortch is
“37 if she is a day.’’ That makts Gen
eral Longreet 97-
"Oh, Saucy Wind!"
As down the walk my Lady Lucy goes
The summer wind will wanton with her
clothes;
And, darling as a lover e’er may be,
He romps about her danity drapery.
A careless hand upon her skirt he lays.
And foaming waves of tossing lace displays;
Her little feet be fondles in his sweep. x
And with her silken stockings plays bopeep.
He streams her ribbands out unto the sun,
While through her aair his errant fingers run
Or ’round her slender waist they fold. as
though
He knew she loved to have it circled so.
He breathes the breath of 1.0 e upon her cheek.
And with her dimples sports at hlde-and-4©ef<;
He dallies with the kerchief on her brfeast,
And leaves, his kisses 'neath its folds imprest.
Oh, saucy wind, that, lover-like and bold,
Presumes my lady’s beauties to enfold!
Oh. silly heart of mine that dare not dare,
While Lucy’s charms waste on the empty eir!
—W. D, Ellwangbh in Life.
The Hand«
■ nw ■■«««■«■ rules the world.
„ But few appreciate
g/the danger to which
tlle e --P ec tant
mot -t ler is exposed,
and the foreboding
with which she
$ w/Zw looks forward to the
hour of approach
ing motherhood.
. jjy tf)e \jg e ot -
“Mother’s Friend”
the body is made to yield pleasantly
to the change. Headache and nausea
are dispelled, the depressed and nerv
ous feeling yields to one of hopeful ex
pectation. Danger to life of mother is
avoided, and she passes through the
trial quickly and her recovery is rapid.
Sent by Mail, on receipt of price, SI.OO. Book
to “Expectant Mothers" free upon application
The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
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Fresh Oysters, Fish and Game
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E erything new and attrac
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My experience la managing a flrat class, up-to
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228 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
Hand & Co.
Leaders and
Headquarters on .
Tooth Pick Tobacco.
The best on the market for
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sample. They are also
headquarters for all things in
The Grocery Line.
Ostrich Feathers-
Boas, Plumes and Tips
Cleaned, Curled
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Kid Gloves cleane 1, 15e t ,50c jer
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W hitehall St,, JAilantn Ua-
O’Neill Manufacturing Co.
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We take contracts for all kinds of build
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telephone 76.
Tailor-made Soils Io Order.
Ths Chance of a Life-lime,
Grand Opening Display I'
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Correct Prices. Correct Styles. Coirect Fits,
A special representative, who is an expert,
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