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Autumn seems still wedded to sum
mer.
Charity aud tolerance of the opin
ions of another mark the true gentle
man.
Train up a hired girl in the way she
should go, and the first thing you
know she is gone.—Princeton Paper.
Some physicians don’t know yellow
label from imperial pilene;. Would
they know caterwoul from screech
owl?
The Brunswick Advertiser publishes
some of the most incisive paragraphs
that are seen in any Georgia news-
, paper.
The English critics are tearing Hall
Caine’s “The Christian” to pieces.
They say he appeals to the emotions
instead of the intellect.
Rain is greatly needed in North
Georgia. The sun and winds of the
autumnal equinox have dried the soil
and parched vegetation.
Says the Savannah Press: ‘-The
Rome Tribune has read “The Chris
tian” and pronounces it the greatest
and truest of Hall Caine’s works.”
The advocates of the penal island
plan will ask the labor organizations
of Georgia to endorse it as coming less
in conflict with free labor than any
other.
It is now denied that Nero fiddled
while Rome was burning, and the
Chicago Times-Herald suggests that
he merely sang “There’ll Be a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight.”
The theory of a French physician
that love is a disease is not unreason
able. People have been known to
grow sick merely at the sight of two
young persons under its influence.
Football will not differ materially
this year ,lrom the style that has
been in vogue during past seasons.
In a game upon an eastern college
campus the other day one player sus
tained three broken ribs aud another
lost his front teeth.
Somebody, in the New York
Tribune, gives the following
antithentical advice: “Drink less,
breath more; eat less; chew
more; ride less, walk more;clothe less,
bathe more; worry less, work more;
waste less, give more; write less, read
more; preach less, practice more.
M. V. Richards, land commissioner
of the Southern railway, is doing a
great work for the south’s develop
ment. We are in receipt of the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger, recognized as
one of the most conservative of Amer
ican newspapers, which contains a
glowing two column interview of the
south’s marvelous resources with Mr.
Richards. •
A Georgia woman, Mrs. Julia Pat
ten, will soon become manager of the
woman’s department of the American
insurance union, of New York. Mrs.
' Fatten is the daughter of the lat-
Gen. Alfred Iverson, and a niece of
“Bill Arp”—Charles Smith, of Car
tersville, Ga., Mrs. Patten was one of
Georgia’s belles previous to her
marriage and is a woman of
unusual mental qualities, but
delicate physique. She will have
the distinction of being the man
ager for the first woman’s insurance
department in the south, and will
have a regularly equipped office at
.Atlanta. She’is well known in Rome.
That Pardoning Board.
Anent the pardoning board which
it is proposed that Georgia is to have
The Tribune would ask the consid
eration of thejfoliowing:
The new constitution of Mississippi
has an excellent provision in regard to
pardons, which is well calculated to
expose and prevent abuses of the par
doning power.
It requires that no pardon can be
granted in cases of felony, after con
viction, until the application for the
same shall be published forjthirty days
in some newspaper in the county
where the crime was committed. The
petitition for pardon must set forth
the reasons why such pardon should
be granted.—Mississippi Constitution
(190), An 5, sec. 124.
In twenty-one states of the union
there is an express constitutional re
quirement that a report must be made
to the next session of the legislature
showing all pardons and the reasons
therefor.
In a number of other states the
governor cannot pardon without the
consent or recommendation of a board
of pardons.
There fs a constitutional provision
in nearly all the states (Tennessee
and Georgia being among the exceptid)
authorizing the regulation by law of
applications and proceedings for par
don.
Is There a Santa Claus?
We take pleasure in answering at
once and thus prominently the com
munication below, expressing at the
same time our great gratification that
its faithful author is numbered among
the friends of the Sun:
“Dear Editor: I am 8 years old.
“Some of my little friends say there
is no Santa Claus.
“Papa says “If you see it in the
Sun it’s so. ’
“Please tell me the truth; is there a
Santa Claus?
“Virginia O’Harlon.
“115 West Ninety-fifth street.”
Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of a skeptical age. They
do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which is
not comprehensible by their little
minds. All minds, Virginia, whether
they be men’s or children’s are little.
In this great universe of ours man is a
mere insect, an ant, in hie intellect as
compared with the boundless world
about him, as measured by the intel
ligence capable of grasping the whole
of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a ISantaClaus.
He exists as certainly as love and gen
erosity and devotion exist, and you
know that they abound and give to
your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world
if there were no Santa Claus. It would
be as dreary as if there were no Vir
ginias. There would be no childlike
faith then, no poetry, no romance to
make tolerable this existence. We
should have no enjoyment, except in
sense and sight. The eternal light
with which childhood fills the world
would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You
might as well not believe in fairies!
You might get your papa to hire men
to watch in all the chimneys on Christ
mas Eve to. catch Santa Claus, but
even if they did not see Santa Claus
coming down, what would that prove?
Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is
no sign that there is no Santa Claus.
The most real things in the world are
those that neither children nor men
can see. Did you ev°r see fairies
dancing on the lawn? Os course not,
but that’s no proof that they are not
there. Nobody can conceive or im
agine a’l the wonders there are un
seen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rat
tle and see what makes the noise in
side, but there is a veil covering the
unseen world which not the strongest
man, nor even the united strength of
all the strongest men that ever lived,
could tear apart. Only faith, fancy,
poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture the
supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is
it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this
world there is nothing else real and
abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he
lives, and he lives forever. A thous
and years from’ now, Virginia, nay,
ten times ten thousand years from
now’, he w ! ll sortime to make glad
the heart of childhood. —New York
Sun.
Southern Women.
There is nothing that is nearer to
the hearts of Southern men than
Southern womanhood, says the Amer
icus Times-Recorder. It is the glory
of our section. It is the inspiration
of noble achivements, of splendid
deeds and higher civilization. The
Southern women is not fanatic on the
subject of woman’s rights. In fact
she rather adheres to the old and
sweet ideal that woman’s sphere is in
the home, and.tbat her impress should
be nyule upon the world by influence
I and not by competition with the
sterner sex. God bless her. May
THE ROME TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 18»7.
she always bold to this ideal. It gives
her more real power for good than
the adoption of all the new fangled
notions of the new women could
bring Nowhere on’the globe are wo
men treated with the chivalry, the
courtesy and the respect that is ao*
corded them in the South. If they
have to work for a living, as many of
them do. they receive the same chiv
alric courtesy from the true gentle
men of the south. Woman suffragists
of the north say that the women of
the south are forty years behind the
times. If these suffragists represent
progress, then we are glad that south
ern women are behind the times. We
hope they will stay so.
Errors in Shakespeare.
“Jove nods at times,” says James
O’Neill, “and even iu the divine Shake
speare the peering and critical student
may detect many anachronisms. In 'A
Winter’s Tale’ he speaks of the coast
of Bohemia, and island country, and in
‘Coriolanus’ sails Delphi an island,
whereas it is a city in Greece. The
‘beetling cliffs of Elsinore’ are men
tioned, but Elsinore has no cliffs, while
although the Danes were pagans in
‘Hamlet’s time, the ghost in ‘Hamlet’
speaks of absolution and purgatory. In
‘Tweltb Night’ the clown in Illyria
speaks of St-Bennet ’s church in London.
In ‘Julius Caesar’ ‘Brutus’ tell ‘Cassius,’
‘Peace, count the clock,’ and ‘Cassius’
answers. ‘The clock has stricken 3,’
when striking clocks were not invented
for 1,400 years after that time. ‘Hamlet’
is said to be educated at a school which
in his time had no existence, and ‘Men
enius’ in ‘Coriolanus’ mentions Galen
over six hundred years before the latter
was born. In the play of ‘Henry IV’
turkeys are spoken of 100 years before
the discovery of America, whence they
came. Hector is made to quote Aristole;
Cleopatra’s palace is fitted out with a
billiard table andJTunis and Naples are
spoken of as though an immeasurable
distance from each other.”
A Judicial Ass.
(Chicago Chronicle)
An lowa newspaper publisher named
B. F. Wright, who seems to be a man of
enterprise and credit, as he publishes
three of four local issues, came into pos
session of some scandalous letters relat
ing te the appointment of a postmaster
at Charles City, in tnat State. They
were written by Senator W. B, Allison,
Senator Gear and some of the members
of the Lower House from lowa.
It was understood that Editor Wright
would print the letters in the various
newspapers of which he is the proprietor.
One or two of the epistles were given to
the public. This was warning as to
what would follow. The Republican
managers feared the disclosures that
would result.
They therefore applied to a state
Judge named J. F. Clyde of the Charles
Citv circuit for an injunction forbidding
the publication of the letters and he
promptly responded. His name and his
jurisdiction should be perpetuated to
commemorate a shameful episode in the
judicial history of the country. It sur
passes in its vicious usurpation of
judicial power all the recent acts of the
Federal Judges in the strike cases.
The iniquitous order of Judge Clyde,
for its oppressive character, for its refer
ence to unknown persons in which it
appears as a general criminal ukase,
for its other unusual and unlawful char
acteristicsis a curiosity in jurisprudence.
It as as follows:
“B. F. Wright is strictly enjoined
and restrained from in any manner
using, employing, publishing or com
menting upon any letters to plaintiff
from John H. Gear, William B. Allison
and Thomfis Updegraff or any other
letters from other parties to said plain
tiff, of any of them, either in the Floyd
County Advocate, the Charles City X-
Rays or the Rockford Gazette or pri
vately, and from having anything to do
with said correspondence without the
consent of plaintiff.”
This is’ the extreme of judicial ty
ranny. Mr. Wiight shall not publish
the letters which came lawfully into
his possession. More than that, he
Hew Goods
at LESTER’S.
BONELESS SARDINES,
Salmon Steak in 1 lb & | lb tins,
Fresh Maine Lobsters,
Dunbar Shrimp,
Full line of California Canned Frutts.
The Oyster Season is now open, and
this is the place to get fresh
oyster crackers and fine celery.
I also receive, twice a week, the
Yancey butter, fresh from Col.
Yancey’s fine Cloverdale farm.
Price, 25 cents.
B, S, LESTER,
Old Postoffloe cor., ROME, GA
RE4DY 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 tvas purchased before the ad
vance in prices and we propose to sell
»
Clothing, Hals, Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery
Cheaper than it can be bought elsewhere..
WE HAVE COME TO STAY
suits, 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 desirable’ ’
goods bought right and priced right. NO OUT THROAT BUSINESS
IN THIS STORE. Men’s suits in all 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. Full Tine of Knox and St exson hats-
Our stock of Furnishing goods is the biggest and best selected in 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 <£ SON,
The Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
shall not “comment” on them in any of
the papers that be publishes. lowa
needs a new dispensation of democratic
rule under which the freedom of the
press and its right to “comment” on
public matters and the freedom of public
opinion shall be vindicated.
Yellow Fever Epidemics,
In 1878 yellow fever first appeared in
New Orleans, in May. There were two
deaths, one being an imported case,
which set up the first focus of infection.
The authorities had apparently stamped
the fever out in May. There were no
cases in the month of June. On July 9
some “suspicions’ ’ cases were reported,
on the 10th they were declared to be yel
low fever. It ran rapidly over the un
sanitary quarter, where it broke out.
There were fifty deaths reported for the
month. August’s list was 974 deaths,
September 1,893, October 1,044, No
vember 90, December 3—total 4,056.
This total is the health board’s report,
and is 7,8 larger thap the Howard as
sociation total. Those who are curious
on this matter, that has supplanted
most other topics, will find full statis
tics of the runs of fever in New Orleans
in that year, and previously, in Apple
ton’s Year Book American Cyoldpedia
of 1877,
The cottonfields are white, and our
farmers should see that they are
rapidly picked.
•
On Kipling's Poem s "The Vampire/
* i.
His mother a rag !
His wife a bone!
Hie daughter a hank of hair!
Kipling, the fool, misses the soul in woman’s
eyes;
Kipling, the fool, misses the heart in a moth
er’s sighs;
Misses the heaven of parental paradise!
A hog hath hair,
A dog hath bone, ,
And filth stays in rags!
A hog and dog and filth all roll
Into one being without a soul,
And you have the woman of Kipiing, the fool 1
11.
With hie heart as the bone.
And his soul as the rag. •
And his mind a hank of hate!
Kipling, the fool, fails to seel
The troths of Woman that make her real
Above this poet’s low ideal.
He can spit at the moon,
Throw dirt at the stars.
Or shut the sun from his own little eyes;
But the light of mankind will still be as
bright.
And no whit darker the stars of the night.
Though blind Kipling, the fool, should be
witbont sight!
—Thos R.R. Cobb
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