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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KJiOWLBS. - Editor.
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OCTOBER,
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The superiority of Rome as
a trade center, its prosperity,
past history and the present
attractions and advantages
of Rome, Floyd County and
North Georgia will be set
forth.
Descriptive, Statistical,
Industrial and Biographical,
Watch for it. No labor will
be spared to make the
Souvenir and Trade Edition
of The Tribune the finest
ever issued here and a credit
to Rome and North Georgia,
Advertisers should endeavor to get
copy in as early as. possible to get
their advertisements artistically set
and properly placed-
The Official Organ of
The City of Rome,
The Sheriff,
■ The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials,
16 PAGES.
The Tribune believes in being on
the safe side.
Everybody wants to see jack frost!
knockout yellow jack.
Tight sleeves and tight trousers as
fashions tight squeeze.
Begin the autumn season properly
and go to church today.
All other questions take a back seat
until the baseball season is over.
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There are sixty women in the Geor
gia penitentiary and only one is white.
No good reasons have been advanced
for not quarantining, and the refugees
are fleeing.
The Tribune greets is readers with
sixteen pages today full of bright and
interesting reading matter.
There is little doubt that yellow fever
could become epidemic in Rome, but
would not one case in a refuged to
develope here hurt us?
It sounds very silly in the Americus
Times-Recorder to say that the Hall
penitentiary bill means bankrutcy to
Georgia. What better plan has it to
suggest? Does it wish to perpetrate
the present lease system?
The great need of a reformatory for
juvenile criminals in setting Georgia’s
portentous problem is shown from the
fact that there are 284 boys under
seventeen years of age in our peni
tentiary. Is it not a crying shame to
Georgia that they worked with hard
ened criminals?
We join Editor Hook in his request
that the postofflce authorities will
please fumigate the New Orleans and
Mobile papers before sending them to
us. The newsboy who died from yel
low fever at Beaumont, Texas, caught
it from handling New Orleans’ pa
pers. .. . a.
Fall Trade And Outlook,
The prospects are that Rome will
have a larger trade this ’fall than *n
several years. The busy season has
already opened up briskly.
Our and attractions as
a trade this section are well
known, and it is no unusual thing for
farmers to bring their cotton and pro
duce one hundred miles or more to
Rome in.order to get the highest mar
ket prices.
“Rome pays the highest market
prices in Georgia for cotton,’* is a
proverb that every farmer in a radius
of 100 miles of Rome knows. The
flue quality of Cotton raised in this
section causes it to bring from one
eighth to one-quarter of a cent higher
than any grown in Gergia in the Liv
erpool market.
With the splendid fall season for
gathering the cotton crop the pros
pects are that the fleecy staple will be
of a high grade, and our farmers will
be in a position to settle their old
debts, and have money left over for
trading. The prosperity of the farmer
means the prosperity of the merchant
and everybody else.
The merchants of Rome have more
varied and larger stocks of goods this
autumn than in several years, and
these many carloads of new goods
were bought at such low prices before
the advance came that they can offer
greater bargains than any merchams
in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.
We have compared Rome prices with
those of other cities in the states
named and know whereof we speak.
That the Rome merchants are alive
to the conditions and prospects for a
large autumn trade the columns of
The Tribune this morning- are fln
evidence. The season is upon us,
and the enterprising merchants of
Rome who let the public know
through The Tribune the bargains
they have to offer will reap a rich,
return.
Bibles With Blunders,
Os curious Bibles, the names of
which figure occasionally in sales, the
following are the best known: The
“Vinegar” Bible is so called because
the ‘‘Parable of the Vineyard” is
printed “Parable of the Vinegar.”
The date of this Bible is' 1717. The
“Servant” Bible makes the error of
printing “Servant'’ for “Serpent” in
third chapter of Genesis, thus: “Now,
the servant was more subtle than any
beast of the field. ’ ’ J
The “Judas” Bible has a bad typo
graphical error, substituting Judas
for the Savior. “Then cometh Judas
with them into a place called Gethse
mane.” The “Wicked”-Bible is of
1631, and the “not” is left out in the
Seventh Commandment. The printer
paid for that blunder, so it is recorded,
to the amount of £3OO.
The “Pagan” Bible contains in its
illustrations some terrible anachron
isms. It was published in 15'2, at the
time when the same wood cuts served
for many purposes. At the head of
St. John’s first Epistle, chapter 1,
appear Mount Olympus, Leda, the
siren, Daphne and Appollo. The least
that can be said of the pictures is that
they are good examples of old art. -
“The “Bugge” Bible is exceedingly
rare. Psalm xci., 5, reads in the Mat
thew Bible (1551), ‘ ‘So that thou shalt
not nede to be afrayed for anye bug
ges by nyghte,” By bugge is meant
“bogle.” A perfect “Bugge” Bible
will bring S3OO or more.
Occasionally the “Breeches” Bible
turns up. In Genesis iii., 7, the text
reads’: “And they sewed fig-tree
leaves together and made themselves
breeches.” Coverdale makes it
“apurns” —and, perhaps, comes nearer
to primitive fashions.
A queer mistake is in what is called
the “fie” Bible. In Ruth ii , 15, the
compositor unsexed Ruth, and makes
her “he,” This blunder was printed
in 1611. The edition in which the
word is corrected is known as the
“She” Bible.
The “Treacle” Bible is the one in
which the ‘‘balm of Gilead” (Jere
miah viii.) is made to read. “There
is no more treacle at Gallaad.” When
this double blunder was made, in
1577, translator and printer were held
to task, and all the copies were de
stroyed, ’ but some few escaped.
“Treacle” or “trlacle” is not, after
all, such a blunder, because, in the
sixteenth century, “treacle” meant
any kind of an antidote, or a mixture
which assuaged pain. Galaad’ was,
perhaps, the compositor’s mistake.
The “Wooden Leg” Bible is so
called from a picture, where Satan,
with that conspicuous tail which
belongs to the part, sports a wooden
leg. But why of wood? There may
be many surmises indulged in. One
is that in the England of that time
there were numerous soldiers who
were tramps, and some had wooden
legs and bad traits.
! THjE SUNDAY. SKPTJEMBER 36, 1897.
A Stupendous Problem,
The press of Georgia is taking up
the discussion of the great state
problem—“ What shall we do with our
convicts?-”—in a very gingerly man
ner.
Let us have light.
Let us have all possible information.
Let us take up the question in a
common sense way.
At present the subject for discus
sion before the people is the bill of
Chairman Hewlette Hal), of the peni
tentiary committee. His bill provides
for farm work and hiring state
control of a large portion of the able
bodied men, and building a refor
matory.
Let us consider this convict prob
lem in its larger aspects.
Tennessee with 1,674 convicts (Geor
gia ha 52,300) was the last state to abol
ish the iniquitous lease system. That
state issued $600,000 in bonds tcfchauge
her penal system. We are quoting
from the official report of the Tenues*
see Prison commission. The new main
penitentiary (not completed) was con
tracted for at a cost of $265,666. In
the coal mines owned by state at
Brushyj mountain 451 convicts are
worked and at Tracy City coal mine
307. In farm work 250 including sick
and decrepit are employed. Os the
remainder who are hired out under
state control as proposed in’ Georgia
75 make harness and saddles; from 100
to 150 work in an iron foundry; female
convicts work in hosiery mill and 175
others will be employed later in this
work and 50 to 75 make brick. The
cost of Tennessee’s two farms, coal
mines and 'equipments, not including
price of main penitentiary, was $238,-
671 09. The convicts were mdre than
self supporting last year and cleared
$661. The system which was just in
augurated last - y°ar it is estimated
will clear SBOO,OOO in six years and pay
off the bonds.
It is useless to argue that Georgia’s
2,300 convicts could all be employed
in farming. Hon. Calvin Hitch, of
Brooks county, thinks 30 convicts .in
dustriously employed could supply
all the charitable institutions in the
state .with vegetables,and that he cocl i
take 4,000 convicts and raise enough
to supply the * ‘Chinese empire!” Sea
Island cottofi is the one product of the
soil of which too much cannot be
raised, but could all the prisoners be
profitably employed at this?
Amid the many ideas and views the
Atlanta Constitution is arguing for a
reformatory and commends Mr. Hall’s
till. A number of South Georgia pa
pers favor the penal colony plan.
The Americas Times-Recorder con
demns the Hall bill, but suggests no
tetter plan.
This convict problem must be set
tled. It cannot hold over. Let the
press of Georgia turn on the light and
help the legislature of Georgia to set
tle for the state’s best interests this
stupendous problem.
No More Old Maids,
“A man is never older than he feels
nor a woman older than she looks” is
the polite French way of putting it. In
deed, it has been decided in a Georgia
court that a woman is not old until she
reaches 65, therefore under the law, as
thus interpreted, no woman could be an
old maid until she is too old to care
for anything except preparation for the
grave, says the Chattanooga News.
The term, however, does not carry
with it the scorn wnich formerly at
tached to it. The average age at which
sensible people marry has been advanced
at least a half decade, since the days of
our grand-fathers. In fact, it would
seem that the more intelligent the peo
ple of any communitv are, the later the
limit set for matrimony
Moreover, in this enlightened age, it
is not considered a disgrace to go un
married until the end of your days. A
girl is more respected who goes unwed
if she can’t get as good a husband as she
deserves, than if she "throws herself
away on anybody” for the sake of.avoid
ing tho opprobrium that 'some silly
people still think attaches to the term
“old maid.” One reason of this is that
more girls are making themselves self
supporting. In former days marriage
or despised single misery was the only
recourse of the ordinary woman, but
now there are many vocations in which
she can make an independent living and
be respected in the community.
These are the sorts of rights that are
of real benefit to women and which are
emancipating her from the tyranny of
antiquated custom.
When the world'is really civilized,
there will be no snob word as old maid
in the vocabularies of the nations.
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Cotton Goes Lower,
Each day the cotton gamblers in New
York, says, the Macon Telegraph, take
another peep at the bear nbws sent out
from the south several weeks ago, and
then they give the price another whaok!
In tho face of a failing crop the price
goes down. Cotton is a cent lower to
day than it was \vhen a ten and a half
million crop was predicted some weeks
ago. The whole world ought to know
that the fields, have been gutted since
then. But the spinners prefer to live
READY MADE CLOTHING
Fresh from the Biggest Manufacturers in the
United States at Hard Time Prices.
Never before in the history of this store have goods been
bought so low. Our entire stock was purchased before the ad
vance in prices and we propose to sell
Clothing, Hats, Underwear. Shirts and Hosiery
Cheaper than it can be bought anywhere.
WE HAVE COME TH STAY we realize that fake adver
WL IIHfL UUlilL IU 01 Hl Using will never bring lasting re
sults, therefore we prefer not to advertise rather than advertise fakes
Our Entire Stock Was Never in Better Shape..
Counters and shelves loaded down with new, fresh, clean desirahlp
goods bought right and priced right NO CUT THROAT BUSINES®
IN THIS STORE. Men’s suits in aU styles, colors, qualities and
makes. Boys’ and Childrens’ school and dress suits in Double-brested
suits, Vestee suits and Junior suits.
BIGGEST STOCK OF HATS IN NORTH GEORGIA
On one’side of our store the shelving is filled with nothing but
Hats and Caps from front to back. Fullline of Knox and Stexson hats
Our stock ot Furnishing goods is the biggest and best selected m the
city. Big line of Shirts Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves Sus
penders, E & W. Collars and Cuffs. Manhattan Shirts and Shaw ’Knit
Hosiery. Come,to see us, your call will be appreciated and we will save
you money.
J. B, WATTERS i SON,
242 and 244 Broad Street, - - Rome, Ga.
from hand to month as the Financial
Chronicle puts it, in the hope that the
news sent from Georgia a few weeks
ago may yet tarn out to be true. They
prefer 5-cent cotton to 7-cent cotton.
They are apprised of the fact that far
mers have been told by southern bears
to rush their cotton into market, and to
'expect 5-cents a pound for it.
Nothing short of a conspiracy can
keep cotton down in the face of the facts,
as they are known today. Hester’s
last report, made on the 17th instant,
shows that the receipts at the ports since
September 1 have been but little over
half what they were daring the same
period last year. This fact alone ought
to advance the price beyond last Sep
tember’s figures, but in the face of
them the quotations are much lower.
So it goes. The only explanation is
that the southern bears got in their
deadly work early in the season. It is
hard to rub it out.
Magnificent Painting of Christ-
Next month in Paris there will be ex
hibited the largest painting of our
Savior extant. It is the work of James
Tissot, and is pronounced a marvelous
production because of its great power
and immense size. The painting will
be placed in the chapel of the Domini
cans, in the Faubourg, Saint Honore.
The back ground of the picture is azure
blue, brightened by sprays of golden
light. The Christ is represented at half
length, with ontstretcbed arms, as
though appealing to humanity. The at
titude of the figure and execution of the
work is full of symbolical mysticism.
The lips of the Savior are parted slightly;
the eyes are dark, with a questioning
look, and the whole face is made gentle
by a tender smile. Behind the head is
the triangle, emblematical of the Trinity,
with a white dove hovering near. The
draperies are in the three historical
pieces; first, the tunic, seamless and
redish brown; .then the Geba, or pure
white linen robe, and then the white
mafatle of the old prophets* one end of
which is thrown over the right shoulder.
The sizeot this picture can be somewhat
appreciated when It is known that the
majestic head measures six feet and six
inches from the chin to the top of the
forehead.
Charles Cross, a letter carrier of
Huntsville, Ala., hasjscored a doubtful
victory after having been suspended
from duty for refusing to work on
Saturday, which he observes as the
Sabbath. He is a Seventh Day Adven
tist. The department ordered his re-
instatement on the ground that there
was no disposition to interfere with
a man’s religious belief, but the post
master was instructed in case Cross
should again refuse.to work, to report
him for immediate removal.
The Macon News says that thusly
doth Bayne the poet he
is out of the woods. * ‘The wilted col
lar has perished from the earth and
ten cent sillabub has come home to
roost. The skies are gray and the
ice man blue. The mosquito has be
come a memory and Christmas a
hope. Revivifying, exhilarating and
delightful, the days of autumn are
here.”
The Tribune’s editorial advising
quarantining was very generally com
mended yesterday.
Rome is all right. The merchants
are all busy, and there are no idlers in
the city.
A Philistine,
“This painting,” said the erudite
critic, ‘.‘lacks atmosphere ”
“Dear me” said the young woman
who was so guileless that no one be
lieved it “can a picture be pumped up?’
Aristocratic Felons.
Mrs. A—ls it your son holds
the appointment of warder in a jail?
Mrs. B.—Yes, but only criminals of
good families are imprisoned there.—Tit-
Bits.
God Loved Her!
Think not of her as dead! She hath but pass'd
On from life’s ante-chamber to the presence
Os the Eternal. The aetherial essence
Os that which once was human—io the last
'Thiobbing with tender,, wifely, woman’s
love— • .
Hath gone before thee, to that home immortal
Where she and thon will meet again, the
portal
Os which, Death holds the key. That grief
should move
Thy heart with anguish, fill thine eyes with
tears.
And make the future seem forlorn of hope,
Is but apart of nature’s law, for thee,
Doubt not that on through all the coming
years,
Her spirits still will help thine own to cope
With care, till thine also, like hers, is free.
A prayer for the wife you loved—
God Hived her!
A prayer for her eyes of faded light
And the cheek whote red rose waned to white,
And the peaceful brow with its shadow and
gleam,
And the lashes clasped in a long, sweet dream:
And ttie fair hands crossed for the churchyard
rest.
And the flowers dead on her young, dead
breast:
God loved her.
For a Good A
Square Meal J[
GtO tO
W. Chinnick’s.
Fresh Oysters, Fish and Game:
in season, nicely prepared.
Everything new and attrac.
tivi. Good cooks and at
tentive waiters. The very
best the market affords at
Moderate Prices!
My experience in managing a first class, up-to
date restauran t warrants me in asking
tor a generous patronage. Nicely pre
pared meals for business men and offices
sent at all hours. Families can arrange
for dinners. '
W. CHINNICK,
226 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
Pawtucket Fur Company,.
294 Main St, Pawtucket, R, I.
WANTS ALL KINDS OF
Raw Furs, Skins, Ginseng, Senaca, etc
Prices quoted for next 60 days are as fol
lows: Silver Fox, sls 00 to $l5O 00; Bear,
$5.00 to $25.00; Otter, $4 00 to $9 00; Martin
$2.00 to $9.00; Beaver, $3.00 to $3.50 oer
pound; Wolf, SI.OO to $2.00; Red Fox, sl,oo'
to $2,00; Mink, 75c to $1.00; Skunk, 25c to
$L00; Gray Fox, 50c to 75c; Rat, 20c to 25c.
Price list on all other furs and skins fur
nished upon application. Full prices guar
anteed, careful selection, courteous treat
ment, -and immediate remittance on all*
consignments.
Ostrich Feathers-
Boas, Plumes and Tips
Cleaned, Curled
and Dyed.
Kid Gloves cleaned, 15c to 50c per
pair,
I. PHILLIPS
Whitehall St,, Athuita.Ga.
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