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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ of
The City of Rome*
The Sheriff,
JThe Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials.
Have you bought your winter sup
ply of coal?
G. Cleveland has decided not to go
on the lecture platform. What a
relief 1
Bachelors are woman's rights and
widowers are woman’s lefts, says an
exchange.
There is very little waist material
in a fashionable bait dress, remarks
the Chicago News.
The supreme court has set- Nov, Ist
as the date for hearing the Flanagan
murder case. And it will confirm the
verdict of the lower court.
Would Gov. Atkinson veto a modi
fied lease system? If he did would
not the present leesees retain control
until anotner legislature met?
Man is the only being that has the
power of procrastination, and the
saddest feature of the fact is that he
continually exercises that power.
The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks
that the verdict in the Luetgert case
hangs on the identification of a ring
and a bone and a hunk of sausage,,
Atlanta's baggage hauling and
street car trusts appear to run that
city. Anybody who opposes them
can go to Gehenna, or Hades —no water
route."
Some of us have more ups and
downs in this world than others, but
when we get to the cemetery we will
all be on a dead level, says an ex
change.
Joe Pulitzer, owner of the New York
World, is building a new mansion on
Jeykyl island. Joe, it is rumored, is
going to try to capture bright Lam
bright.
A gentleman from Coweta will in
troduce a bill for a pardoning board.
Coweta is a champion bill grinder,and
its make is of the I. X. L. brand—a
boy’s first knife.
The Boston Globe asks: “Will the
new woman knit her own stockings?”
The fifth word of that question an
swers it, in the vernacular, observes
a contemporary.
The Atlanta Journal will issue a
Masonic Souvenir edition on Oct,, 29.
It is expected that 1,800 masons will be
in Atlanta on that date attending the
grand lodge meeting.
Says the Waycross Herald: “We
will always have a solid south so long
as fools like McKinley persist in ap
pointing negroes to offices of trust
over decent white men.”
A Cincinnati policeman has com
mitted suicide because he ws not
voted the handsomest and most popu
lar man in the city through a news
paper voting contest. Vanity of
vanities.
The Greensboro Herald-Journal
issued a special home-seekers edition
last week which fitly represents the
progress and enterprise of its section.
The paper is handsomely illustrated
with half-tone engravings and reflects
great credit on Greensboro and its
publishers.
A writer of fashions in a Rome
paper says that the "winter hats are to
be “prettier than for years past.”
This is to be taken as an indication
that the summer girl will hot be much
missed. —Summerville News. Why so?
What is to prevent the same summer
girl from looking prettier in a winter
hat?
Jealous of Atlanta.
It seems to us that the continued
and malevolent attacks of the press of
Charleston and Birmingham and other
places on Atlanta are simply from
jealousy.
From the littleness, bitterness and
unreasonableness of these attacks it
would appear they are persistently
repeated to hurt Atlanta's trade.
It was within reason for these news
papers to state their opinion of At
lanta’s action in harboring the yellow
fever refugees, and to criticise that
city. But when it comes to denounc
ing the people of Atlanta as ghouls,
and toward printing all kinds of sto
ries in an effort to hurt Atlanta’s
trade it shows a most contemptible
spirit of jealousy.
We can see no other reason than
jealousy for these continued attacks,
and every fair minded man will con
demn them.
A Brave Man,
The action of Dr. Guiteras, the fa
mous yellow fever expert, in the present
epidemic commands our highest ad
miration. He has been traveling
from Mobile to Galveston and New
Orleans to Cairo visiting each infected
point where duty called him.
Some carping critic may say this
was no more than he should be ex
pected to do. This may be true, but
where will you find another physician
of his prominence and comfortable con.
dition in life who would risk catching
the yellow fever, or endure the hard
ships of travel in these days of panic
stricken people and quarantines.
Judging from the reports we read
we would not, if we were in Dr. Guit
eras place fear the fever as much as
a shot gun in the hands of some
frightened fool. He has been held up
several times by shot guns on the out
skirts of towns which refused to allow
him to enter. A man who was not
so brave as Dr. Guiteras would fear to
face these shotguns in the hands of
panicky people.
"Decency Outraged"
Under the above headline the Cal
houn Times excoriates a sensational
writer from Atlanta for an untrue and
slanderous story in which Sheriff Ma
ginnis and (other well known citizens
of Gordon county are made to figure.
It seems to us the people of the
south have been very lenient to this
class of correspondents who write
false and harmful stories. Rome, At
lanta and Gadsden are not the places
which have been hurt by them. But
here is what the Calhoun Times says:
“The New York Sun of last Sunday
contained what purported to be the
account of a justice court proceeding
at Plainville in this county. The
story was sent by some fake space
writer from Alauta who knew he had
to be fantastic and untrue to r. ceive
attention at the hands of the New
York editors. Plainville is described
as a typical moonshine village in the
heart of the Unaka mountains, which
everybody knows are in North Caro
lina, and raw corn liqor is made to
take an active part in the trial, the
justice, bailiff, sheriff and solicitor are
all described as carrying bottled and
drinking freely during the trial. The
whole story is too ridiculous to con
sider seriously and if it had been in
tended as an effort at humor it might
have been passed unnoticed. But it
it gives the names of the town and
county and is a gross reflection on an
excellent community and a sober and
honest citizenship.
“If a writer cannot be humorous
without being unjust and cannot at
tract attention without misrepresen
tation and falsehood he ought to stay
out of print. He must possess but
little manhood who is willing thuta to
belie the intelligence and honor of
his own state for a pittance of space
money. ”
The Pardoning Power,
It is understood that in bis forth
coming message to the general as
sembly Governor Atkinson will recom
mend the creation of a board of par
don, says The Savannah News.
It is not known definitely whether
it is his idea that the board shall have
full powers or be merely advisory to
the executive; but it is known that
the governor—and with very good
reasons —desires that the executive
shall be relieved of the burden of ex
amining into and hearing a guuieiua
upon the great number of applica
tions for executive olemency which
come into his office.
The strain of such work upon the
governor is some times very great, as
has lately been illustrated at Atlanta.
The Perry case is still fresh in the
minds of the people.
Is it just to the chief executive of
the state that he should be subjected
to the nerve destroying strains, as
well as saddled with the great amount
of labor, which the pardoning power
carries with it inevitably when that
power is vested in one man?
Is it to the best interest of the state
that this great power, which is above
that of the courts, should be vested in
one man, who may or may not be pos
THE ROME TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER ft'
sessed of a judicial mind or non-emo
tional temperament?
The perdoning must be perpetuated,
of course, 'but to secure the best re
sults. where should it be lodged and
how exercised?
It will be noted that nearly all of
the states gave pardonjboards, or com
missions, Many of them are vested
with full powers, while others merely
collect information for the executive
and advise him with regard to the
disposition ■of the application for
clemency. In most cases the final
power is left in the hands of the gov
ernor. In nearly every state where
there is no board or other aid to the
governor in hearing and determining
upon the matter of pardons, the gov
ernor now in office thinas there should
be such a board. On the other hand,
some of the governors who have the
assistance of boards are of the opinion
that the executive could get along
better if he were given lull power and
the advisory board abolished. The
opinions of the governors cover the.
subject succinctly, and convey a great
deal of information and many Bug
gestions which will be found useful
when the matter comes up in the leg
islature for discussion.
GEORGIA'S GREAT PROBLEM*
What the Editors of the Newspapers
are Saying About it,
(Americas Times-Recorder)
The Times-Recorder would like to
know if the legislative penitentiary com
mittee know where they are at? If so
then let them convey to the public some
intelligent information as to what they
did at the meeting in Atlanta last week.
Hotel Accommodations,
(Valdosta Times)
The new convict bill wants a peniten
tiary with separate rooms for each con
vict. This is better than the traveling
public is accustomed to. The hotels
usually charge from two to four dollars
a day for accommodations of this sort.
Tangling the Question,
(Savannah News)
All of this pother about the forthcom
ing bill to be presented to the legislature
for the puipose of reforming the convict
system of the state is just working into
the hands of those who would like to de
feat the reformation and have the lease
system perpetuated. Anything which
tends to produce confusion and delay
is so much of good material for the op
ponents of reform, although it may come
from persons who are really anxious to
abolish the lease system and give the
state a model penal establishment. To
get the matter tangled and the reform
ers to disagreeing with each other would
mean the postponement of the matter by
the legislature.
Very True,
(Americus Herald)
The Albany Press very properly
observes that what a great many Geor
gia editors do not know about the con
vict question would fill a great big lib
rary.-
Let More Boys Plow,
(Augusta Chronicle)
That almost 1.000 young men are to
be found in the colleges and high grad
ed schools of Georgia, is a proof that our
people are appreciating the importance
of higher education. But may the ap
prehension not arise that the number
who are receiving high eductation may
be too large for the number who are
taking low education? The plow must be
sped successfully iu order to make high
education a profitable investment.
Sesamoids,
The sesamoid bones, about which so
much expert evidence is given in the
Luetgert trial, are small bones in ten
dons of muscles near certain joints. In
the human subject the patella, or knee
pan, is an example. The sesamoids are
found also in the hand and foot near the
joints which untie the thumb and great
toe with the metacarpal or metatarsal
Fancy Groceries.
Under the above head look at
the following:
Lea <fc Perrin’s Sauce.
Durkee’s Salad Dressing,
Creole Mustard,
Heinz’s Celery Sauce,
Shrewsbury Ketchup,
Hienz's India Relish,
Celery Pepper,
Celery Salt.
Spices
I have given special attention to
thL> department, and the quality
and assortment would suit
an epicure
Chase & Sant'orn’s Coffee.
New Holla? d Herring,
Neufchatel Cheese.
B, S, LESTER,
Old Postoffloe cor., ROME, GA.
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 elsewhere.
VUF IIA VP PDMF TO QTAY and we realize that fake adver
" L iIH IL UUITIL IU uI n I tismg 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 desirable
goods bought right and priced right. NO CUT 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 line of Knox and Stexson 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, £ & 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,
Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
bones. The term sesamoid means re.
sembling the sesame, or seed of the se
same, which are small, flat and abovate.
The sesame, or benne-plant, is a herba
cious plant, found in the southern states,
supposed to have been introduced from
Africa by imported slaves. It has rich
oily seeds from which an oil is expressed
ee lied oil of benne or gingelly oil. —Nash
ville Banner.
Not Today. S’m' other Day
(Atlanta Constitution)
The Coustitation will not “go to hell”
—not now, any way. It has other bus
iness on hand,
Dear Little Lady Laurette.
The friends of Mils Laurette Boykin
will be interested to read the piquant
little sonnet which appeared in the
Boston Transcript of September 19th. It
was found after her death written up
on the top of a paper box and dated “5
o’clock in the morning.” It follows:
A DEAR DIABLESSE.
(A Coquette)
Is her laugh a shade malicious?
Or just heartily delicious?
Do those eyelids cover guile?
Is it magic—that dim smile?
Can this mutability
Mean a soul’s inanity?
Ahl—l know not wbat to say!—
’Tis ambrosial cruelty.
—Laurette Nisbet Boykin.
My Confidante
She loves me, I know
For she tells me so.
And I can always, always trust her;
She smiles upon me
When she looks at me
With eyes of tender, splendent lustre.
When all thing's seem bad,
And when 1 grow Sad,
When troubles fill my heart with sorrw—
•Tis then that I say
That my friends to-day
May all become foes to-morrow.
She quickly gives cheer
To my thoughts’so drear
By words of lova so sympathetic.
That I always smile
Just to tease her awhile,
To tell her not to be pathetic.
It matters not who—
She ever is true—
No Prince nor King could take my place.
' My secrets I tell—
She knows them full well.
But no one reads It in her face.
Though others deceive,
I ever believe,
And trust her as I trust no other;
For I must Contend
That sht'a my best friend.
My confidante? She is my mother.
: > —Nathaniel Sewell, Jh
O’Neill Manufacturing Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
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we sell everything needed in house-build
ing. Flooring, Ceiling, Moulding, Brackets.
Shingles and Laths, Glass, Builders’ Pauer
and Material.
Contractors and Builders!
We take contracts for all kinds of build
ings, large or small.
O'Neill Manufacturing Company!
Rome, Ga. I
■ Telephone 76. 1