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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - • Editor.
9 'FCOB—NO. 8»7 BBOAD BTRKKT, UP
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THE BOME TRIBUNE,
Bomb. Ga.
The Rome Tribune
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,
12 PAGES.
C. U.R. —“Cerulean Union of Rats.”
Ths Atlanta Gorillas’ are addressed
as missing links-
The sprinkling pots of Jupiter Pluvius
seem to have dried up.
Are our city authorities seeing to it
that our sewers are flushed?
The golden rod is now the scepter of
the world, says Editor Bayne.
Some Atlanta men not content with
being monkeys wish to evolute into
gorillas.'
It is scarcely necessay to inform the
public that not all Atlkntians are
D. O. G.’s.
The Tribune is receiving great en
couragement for its big trade and
souvenir edition.
The Savannah Press calls it the ‘ ‘con.
viot fiasco. ” It believes the lease system
will be perpetuated.
A splendid exhibit of Georgia fruit
will be one of the attractions at the
Paris expositian in 1900.
Georgia now has 100 dry counties.
Bow many more drunkards does this
mean?, asks Editor Lambright.
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How about, that Floyd county penal ]
farm? Somebody should go to Atlanta
today to represent it to the sub-oom
mittee. '
The prosperity of Rome is evidenced
by the large issues The Tribune is
compelled to print to accommodate ad- 1
vertisers.
The Atlanta physicians will be i
agreeably disappointed if two to six j
more cases of yellow fever do not de- i
velop among the refugees. <
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“Governor Atkinson threatens to j
veto any bill providing for another
lease of tbe convicts,” says the Thom- ,
asville Times-Enterprise. But will he
do it? <
The woman’s Halloween edition of *
the Augusta Herald smacking of the '
feminine talent and loveliness of that .
delightful city will be as beautiful as a :
dreamland fairy. j
•‘Does tbe penitentiary committee
think of making a penal island out of
Jekyl?” asks the Augusta Chronicle. -
Yes, it might answer for Representa
tives Stone’s lapsus linguale class.
The Athens Banner wants all of
Georgia’s 2,300 felony and 2,000 mis
demeanor convicts worked on the .
road. So does every citizen of Geor
gia. But has Editor Carlton counted
the cost?
The Augusta Herald says’ ‘ ‘When Mie
northern magazines want typical Ameri.
can beauties they come south for them
and Augusta may well be proud of her
contribution to the October number of
the Cosmopolitan ”
Som carping critic suggests that this
plan of locating tbe convicts on Ossabaw
and S polo islands is just a scheme to
have thorn killed off by yellow fever.
Who ever heard of yellow feyer at Ossa
baw?—S .vannah Press.
A Birmingham dispatch says: “The
two rolling mills in Birmingham and
Gate City are shipping finished iron as ;
fast as they can make it. The finished J
iron market has never been so active as 1
it is now. The rolling mills are em-1
ploying more hands now than ever.’’ !
”D, O. G Not C. U. R.
“Are you a D. O. G. ?’’
This is the familiar style in which
’ -some Atlantians are greeting each
: other these dusty days. It is the latest
’ fad of the grand stand dity to be a
D. O. G. If yon are not aD. O. G.
you are liable in that sensational city
to be cast into the outer darkness
where your brightest hopes may never
( evolute into realities.
i While the D. O. G.’s might have
constituted themselves into the ‘•lcono
clastic Idioms of Ichneumons,” or the
“Etberialized Essences of Ento
mology,” or the “Pristine Perihelions
of Pseudonymic Pterosaurians” or
the “Merry Mammals of Megathe
riums,” they did not do so.
Why? Why? Why?
We don’t know, and like Rudyard
Kipling’s woman vampire we “may
never know why, and never under
stand. ”
But D. O. G. don’t mean tbe com
mon, every day C. U. R. It is a little
higher in the scale of the aristocracy
of animals. To come to the point the
mystic letters D. O. G. mean “Disor
ganized Order of Gorillas.” It is all
according to a man’s taste whether
he had rather be a dog, or a gorilla.
In this land of liberty and lawyers
and insurance agents we had rather
be a dog than a gorilla. There are
many reasons for this. For instance
if we were a dog we could run pos
sums, and have a tail to wag.
D. O. G. sto whom we
refer are to hold a conglomeration in
one of Atlanta’s sky scrapers tonight
and all members are ordered to “come
a-running; come a-growling.”
Tbe Supreme Gorilla’s call as pub
lished ie as follows:
“Gorillas, Attention: I command
every Missing Link or D. O. G. to re
port at our wilderness in the Kiser
building on Thursday, September 30,
at 7:30 p. m. The entire evening will
be devoted to our meeting. Bring
your candidates. Last chance to join
as a charter member.
“Special —Two fine camels will be
on hand. Refreshments will satisfy
our ravenous hunger. Under no cir
cumstances will we allow a single
Gorilla to eat a ' candidate. Come;
come a running; eome a-growling.
‘‘lt is our special desire co have
every Gorilla in town present. We
will on this night suitably celebrate
the veto of tbe D. O. G. ordinance. ”
We hope the Atlanta Gorillas will
soon grow tails. We stick to it that
we had rather be a plain dog. We
want a caudal appendage.
Governor Atkinson's Home Paper,
How this convict problem will
finally be settled is unknown It is
very certain that tbe penal island is
well before the public, and has a
large following. Today the peniten
tiary sub-committee will meet in
Atlanta to hear plans and receive bids
on various properties to be offered for
penal farms.
It is a noticeable fact that Gov.
Atkinson’s home paper comes out
strongly in favor of the penal island
plan.
The editor of tbe Newnan Herald
and Advertiser is Mr. James E. Brown
who it has been said Gov. Atkinson
will appoint as the next state libra
rian. Chairman IJewlette Hall, of the
penitentiary committee, also, lives
at Newnan, an<J is a law partner of
Gov. Atkinson. It would therefore
seem that the administration endorses
tbe penal island plan
Here is what the Newnan Herald
and Advertiser says:
“WE ARE YET OF THE OPINION
THAT THE ISLAND PLAN, SUG
GESTED BY HON. JOS. MANS
FIELD OF MCINTOSH, FURNISH
ES THE EASIEST AND BEST SO
LUTION OF THE CONVICT PROB
LEM. IT MEETS ALL REQUIRE
MENTS, PRACTICALLY, AND
WOULDJGIVE US THE MOST PER
FECT PENAL SYSTEM IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES.”
Suppressing The News,
It never helps a city or a com
munity to suppress tbe news.
Mobile furnishes an example of this
in the recent action of its city coun
cil which passed an ordinance to pre
vent correspondents from sending out
yellow fever reports. The Columbus
E-jquirer-Snn in commenting on this
says:
Since the outbreak of yellow fever
in the coast cities of the South there
has been a disposition in certain sec
tions to prevent the news from reach
ing the outside world, a disposition
which is the offspring of a mistaken
idea of the rights of the people. The
stricken sections ignored the fact that,
while a knowledge of the truth upon
the part of outsiders might lead to
severe quarantine measures, at the
same time those distri ts, in which
tbe fever had gained a foothold bad
' no right to conceal the truth and thus
' expose the entire south to the dangers i
of au attack.
Mobile went so far in this mistaken
‘ conception of her rights as to pass an
THE HOME TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 18»7.
ordinance forbidding correspondents
to send news items to their papers in
other cities. The newspaper men
naturally demurred to such action and
a test case was made, which was tried
day before yesterday in the city
court, the court declaring that the
city bad no right to pass such an
ordinance. ,
The decision of the Mobile judge is
to be commended. Mobile ie not to
be so severely blamed for its selfishness
under all the circumstanced—but it
should not expect the people in other
sections to permit the fever to rage in
that city and neglect to discover the
truth and protect themselves from the
contagion.
The Luetgert Trial,
A correspondent of the Chicago
Record, writing from lowa, takes the
editor of that paper to task for a
slighting reference to the new song,
‘ There’s Nothing Left of Darling but
a Little Sesamoid. ” Continuing, the
correspondent says:
“I feel sure that you have Dever
read this sweet song—have never come
under the spell of its touching pathos,
or you would have hesitated to speak
of it in such terms. For your infor
mation I reproduce a fragment:
•“An aged man stood weeping- in a soap
establishment, x
His eyes were red and bleary; he was a
seedy getV;
And all the burden of the grief by which he
seem annoyed
Was centered in that little bone we call a
sesamoid.
Chorus:
*• ‘The orbicularis oris has lost the smile it
wore,
The veriform appendix will trouble her no
more;
Death struck her solar plexus and smashed
the coracoid—
Now there’s nothing left of darling but a little
Sesamoid.
” ‘l’ll tell yon how it happened; she made him
mhd one day.
He hit her mental process in a careless sort of
way;
He didn’t think ’twonld hurt her, but he
cracked a condyloid.
And drove the maxillary into the pterygoid.
Chorus:
*• ’Theorbicularis oris.”
“This is not sll of the production,
but you will doubtless agree with me
that it is quite sufficient to enable you
to judge of the merits of the little
gem you have so ruthlessly attacked.”
GEORGIA'S GREAT PROBLEM,
What the Editors of the Newspapers
are Saying About it,
(Atlanta cor., Augusta Chronicle)
While there is a strong sentiment
against the lease system among the com
mittee, as well as in the public mind,
those who think that the reform that is
demanded in the convict system is
going tube achieved without determined
opposition will find themselves mistaken
before it is finally disposed of. It is be
coming more apparent every day that a
counter sentiment is being fostered and
worked up by those in favor of another
lease similar to the present one. There
have been several little caucnsses in the
sky parlors of the Kimball bouse for
the purpose of discussing plans to pre
vent the adoption of any plan that con
templates a withdrawal of the convicts
from the hands of private lessees. Some
of tbe present lessees are taking an ac
tive hand in the business, and in a
quiet way they are maxing their in
fluence felt. One of the oldest members
of the house, a Middle Georgian, made
the prediction today that the upshot
of the whole business would be a re
leasing of all the able-bodied convicts
for a term of years, with the state ap
pointing all the guards and attendants
and exercising complete control over
them. This member will not be quoted.
He is a member of the penitentiary com
mittee, but has not put himself upon
record yet as to his views. It is hardly
likely that the confusion that surrounds
the issue will be blown away before the
meeting of the legislature, very, few of
the legislators entertaining the belief
that any plan suggested by the sub-com
mittee will be accepted without a long ■
struggle.
A Penal Island,
(Brunswick Times.)
The Rome Tribune ie earnestly ad
vocating the penal island plan, The
plan seems to be looked upon very favor
ably by the penitentiary committee,
and there is strong probability that it
will be adpted,
The arguments in favor of the plan,
a. T>reannted hv its advocates, are as
follows: Desirability of location, no
competition with free labor, success of.
other penal islands and cost at a mini
mum.
Some objections have been urged to
tbe plan. It is argued that in case of
a foreign invasi n it would be practica
ble for the enemy to maliciously release
all the convicts and turn them loose
upon the paople of the state. Another
argument presented is that it might be
come necessary to move the convicts in
case of yellow fever infection. These
points, it is true, are based on remote
possibilities and are rather far fetched.
There is another consideration. How
would the convicts be employed on the
island? Would there be enough work
to keep them busy? Should they be put
ito the Cask Os raising sea island cotton,
would not their product be large enough
to seriously affpet the market?
All these things should be carefully
considered by the members of the legis-
Souvenir
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Trade Edition
OF
The Rome Tribune
Will be issued in
OCTOBER.
This issue of The Tribune
will be one of the best yet
) printedi will be handsomely
illustrated and will contain
UJaJ ) the choicest specially written
j. n articles (in addition to all the
news) that can be prepared,
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-
lature, upou whom will devolve there
sponsibility of accepting or rejecting the
proposition.
The Times is favorably inclined to
the plan, but recommends thorough in
vestigation. If an island is decided on,
got the best island. Above all things,
don’t be too hasty.
A Pardoning Board,
“Again,” says the Americus Herald,
“the pardoning is being agitated
by many of the papers of the state and
it is hoped that something will come out
of the discussion. As it now is there is
too much power vested in one man and
at the same time there is too much re
sponsibility thrown upon him.
‘‘For a single individual to hold the
entire pardoning power of the state in
his hand is as unjust to him as it is to
the people, and the only way to rectify
it is to have appointed a board-which
can investigate all cases where pardon
is asked for and their decision could be
binding. The present system is poor to
say the least of it, and the legislature
should attend to the matter at once.”
As has been well said before, we can
not expect the governor to take all this
great responsibility. The pardoning
board is a great necessity.—Griffin
News.
Pound of Cotton vs Glass of Beer,
(Americus Herald)
This morning a sad eyed man was
heard to remark:
•‘The melancholy days have come,
Tbe saddest of the year,
And It takes a pound of cotton
To bny a glass of beer.”
Says the Augusta Cbropicle: ‘‘Mer
cer also reports the largest matricu
lation in her history. May not the en
rollment of an unusually large num
ber of boys in Georgia colleges be
taken as an evidence of improved
conditions, either real or imaginary?”
In the terrible >ellow fever epidemic,
in New Orleans, in 1853, when the
deaths for August wereJi.lSS and the
deaths from fever for tbe season
reached the appalling total of 7,848,
there were but four deaths from this
cause in December. December is
credited with five yellow feyer deaths
ini the city in 2.858, none in 1878, twen
ty six in 1867; ten in 1848, and seven
in 1855. It is more than probable that
there will not be a single case in
New Orleans this year, at the begin
ning of November. The fever is light
and slow. Everything indicates early
cool weather. Altogether we may
fairly expect that there will not be
enough fever m the south, a month
from now, to disturb business or the
serenity of the people.—Chattanooga
Times 1
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