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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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p*y* ble THE bomb tribune,
Rotts. Ga.
The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ oi
The City of Rome.
The. SherifE
The Ordinary.
■‘Tht* County ComnuMionera.
and publishes regularly all legal
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16 PAGES.
2 Columbus—l pass.
Rome is the fifth city in'commer
cial importance in Georgia.
A modified lease bystem will be
Mark the prediction.
Capitalists shown their faith in
Rome by establishing a new bank
here.
Don’t complain about the dry
£ weather. Rome’s health record was
? ! never better.
Asheville. N. C. had fifteen deaths
n in September while Rome which is
I larger had only five.
Water is selling in Arkansas at 5
cents a pint. The people over there
to drink it.
young Roman-, who
Hk bicycle wei jug show
outbid her for
the cminih-r-
organization of the new
will have four financial
ons—two national and two
banks.
Dug Skat of Ty Ty, Ga., is de-
I manding something equally as good
I from the present administration. He
I ought to have it. Dug go on and
I get it.
The autumn brides are now the as
sistant society editors of the newspa
pers. But they should not press us
to much to leave out details, but let
Us groom the gossip wedded to news
feature.
The public schools are the means
of saving a great deal of property. It
is said that during vacation the
ichqol children of America destroy,
property of various
kinds to the amount of one million
dollars a day.
r ——
If we should have a seven years
drouth the Kentucky editors might
get along without water as a beverage,
but we would need- it for personal
ablutions and agricultural purposes.
That Tennessee kid should have taken
something for its colic and quit proph
j Mying ' _
i Says the Georgia Cracker: “Dr. I.
b. Hopkins has entered the life insur
. »nce business. He was in the soul
| saving business until he thought he
I bad the appointment as a foreign min
’ ijfer jandeß Mr. McKin ey, but he
rdido't get it. He is now located in
New York.”
While The Tribune has advocated
the penal island plan, it is not as it
has stated so wedded to it, that ft will
I not favor a better and cheaper plan
should it be suggested. We do not
believe that the eoming legislature
will provide in any way for building
j amain penitentiary, but will adopt a
modified lease system.
pStrs. Myrlck writes in the Ameri-
SHbJ Tirnes-Recorder:” “The versatile
? editor who presides over the desti
»<es of that highly enterprising paper,
/ The Rome Tribune, while a professed
of womankind proposes to
lesser lights taken care of.
*'?JjArten at his sweet talk to Charlie.”
; “Tfie editorial in last Sunday’s Trib
|lsS* is thenr eprinted by our Americas
temporary.
Gov. Atkinson And The Convict
Problem Discussed,
The Tribune received yesterday
morning from Gov. Atkinson the ad
vance proof sheets of that part of hie
message <to the legislature dealing
with Georgia’s convict problem.
We have handled the subject fully;
and exhaustively and have, perhaps,
published imore news features about
it than any newspaper in Georgia.
Readers of The Tribune are quite fa
miliar with the administrations plan,
and we will not use five columns of
space to publish all that Gov. Atkin-:
sou says, but shall refer to its salient
points.
The Tribune has already published
4.he information as a probability that
the legislature would in the end adopt
a modified lease (not hirej) system
much as we have at present.
The chief points of interest in the
governor's message are as follows:
(lj) His promise to veto the reinact
ment of the present lease system.
(2) Power to be delegated to the
three prison conunisioners.
In answer to the first point
we note that the governor state*
that at the democratic state conven
tfon which nominated him in 1896
he requested the adoption of a
plank opposing the present lease
system. He says: “I announced in
my address to the convention that, if
elected, and a bill was passed rein
acting the system, I would veto it. To
this announcement I must adhere,
because it is my pledge, madft to the
people, and because in my opinion
now it is the proper position for the
state to assume. ’ ’
Os coarse, any man with with a
grain of common sense would be
against the present lease system
which hires able bodied convicts for
only $lO a year while Alabama gets
$lB per month! Georgia is being out
rageously cheated.
The governor wisely does not com
mit himself against a modified lease
system —at least we cannot find a sen
tence in which he does so. In fact be
advocates state control of the hired
felons. He says: “Every - person
sentenced by the courts to penal ser
vitude should remain in the custody
and control of the state, and owe obe
dience to nonefbut officers of the state.
If private individuals receive the out
put of his work they should pay the
state a stipulated sum therefor with
out having control of the convict.”
It would seem that the governor is
rather ambiguous on the second point
in reference to the power of the com
missioners as he says: -'The entire
power, subject to legislative restric
tion and direction, to locate and pre
pare a penitentiary, build and equip
the necessary prisons, hospitals and
other houses, control, care for, work,
make contracts for, the employment
of convicts, and appoint all needed
officers and employees, should be
vested in three citizens to be known
as the prison commission. This com
mission should be appointed imme,
diately upon the passage of the act'
apd at once proceed to select and pur
chase the land necessary to conduct
the work of the penitentiary. Whether
the land purchased is in one or more
tracts, said commission should be di
rected 'to arrange separate quarters
for boys, men and women.”
But in direct opposition to this he
says: “The plan which I advocate
contemplates and is capable of grow
ing into a system in which the state
maintains upon its own premises all
convicts. Yet this vast power should
not now be vested in the prison com
mission. The appropriation to be
made and the directions given the
commission by you limit its power and
authority.”
The commission is to buy the land
and expand a million, or more dollars
-if
But why discuss this matter now, if
as we perceive it and as the governor
does not oppose it, a modified lease
system is to be finally adopted. The
members of the legislature are going
in for economy. Many members of
the penitentiary committee are even
opposed to a reformatory, but we be
lieve this recommendation of the gov
ernor will prevail.
While it is certain that progress has
been made in the discussion of Geor
gia’s great problem, yet it will require
caution and wisdom to settle it for
the best interests of the state and
humanitv.
Concerning Colonels,
The erudite New York Sun gives a
possible explanation of the number of
colonels now living and in good health
in the South, saye the Nashville
American. The commands of south
erners, it states, were smaller and
more widely separated than those in
the northern army. The number of
officers was, therefore, larger. This
is probably true and is easily to be
understood, since the northern army,
backed by more money and many
times more men, was more compact
than the army of Lee. The explana
tion which the Sun gives of the fight
ing Colonels, Majors, Captains, etc.,
THE ROME TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, OCTOBER JO. 1897.
is all right, but it is seemingly not
aware that the list of Colonels, Majors,
Captains, etc., are not on the decrease
in this part of the country. There
are numbers of gentlemen holding
commissioners of Colonels as well ae
other inilitaiy offices, who were never
in a war and who hope they never will
be. These titles were not created by
governors of states, either, burt by the
free consent of the community.
Railroad conductors over 4® years
of age are all captains; this is fre
quently and unceremoniously abbre
viated to “cap,” b«t captains they
are. They hold a title to that office
just as securely as do the commis
sioned officers sos the army of the
United States. No one with auy .eense
of propriety or the fitness of things
would address snch a personage as
Maljor, Colonel or General.
Projectors of enterprises, successful
financiers, opulent merchants, emi
nent lawyers who are not called
“judge” and the gentlemen designed
by the.newspapers as “leading citi
zens” are all colonels. When a com
munity has once bestowed a title on
an individual it is beyond the power
of man to remove it. Once a colonel,
always a colonel.
Majors and generals, while highly
prized titles, are not in ‘frequent use
except in those instances where men
have actually seen service. Railroad
presidents and private citizens of
great etninenee are sometimes granted
the title of general. Successful pol
iticians and others who have attained
a reputation among their fellow-citi
zens now and then accept the title of
major, which, though of a lower
rank than colonel, is not in such gen
eral use, and is, therefore, thought by
some to be more desirable.
This custom of bestowing titles as a
reward for success in life is a survival
of the monarchical system of granting
estates and hereditary titles to the
defenders of the reigning house. In
England today men who attain emi
nence are often given titles by the
sovereign. This is contrary to our
Constitution, but we do it neverthe
less in the manner indicated.
These October Days
Editor Bayne, of the bright and spark
ling Augusta Herald, greets the October
days in the following poetic prose:
Mid-autumn, garlanded with roses
and russet sheaves, steps forward from
among her mellow sisters, and now
claims dominion of the revolving year.
This is the season “when the grapes in
bacchanal profusion reel to earth,” when
the mist hangs low over the blue horizon
and the smoke curls straight through
tha crisp evening atmosphere to heaven,
when the air bears just a suggestion of
autumn as a sweet reality and the calen
dar finds its first substantiation.
The material mind, which concerns
itself little with sentiments and symbols,
at last understands by the quickened
activities of purchasers and the necessity
of furs and flannels, that the season is a
reminiscence and the mountains a
memory; that fall trade and fall styles
are here and winter just around the cor
ner.
It is small wonder that so many sensi
tive souls expand under the glowing
touch of these mild, mellow days,
• *wheu the frost is on the pumpkin and
the corn is in the shock.” In the fields
and gardens there is the cumulated rich
ness of all the year. The light and
warmth of the summer have been stored
away in the garnered fruit and grain
and the sweetness and beauty of another
spring and summer have been stored
away in reminiscent hearts. They are
happiest who dispense that sunlight
again in rendering others happy.
First Woman's Club,
la view of the coming meeting in
Rome of the Georgia Federation of
Woman’s clubs, the following account
of the first woman’s club, taken from
the Philadelphia Ledger, will be of
much interest to* club woman in general:
The first woman’s club founded in
America, or at least the first about
which we have authentio information,
was hdld in the city of Penn 102 years
ago, under the name of * *Thq Female
Society for the Relief and Improvement
of the Poor. ” It was begun and organ
ized by a Quaker spinster, Anne Parish,
who was born in 1760, and died just be
fore the nineteenth century begun, at
the end of the year 1800. The society
consisted first of twenty-three young
women of the best families, wno met
every week to go about among the poor
and needy. When the city was visited
by yellow fever, shortly after th® forma
tion of the club, the mettle of its mem
bers was tried and found to ring true;
while most who bad the means fled
from the town, these twenty-three
Quaker women stayed with Anne Parish
and fought the plague, raising money,
visting the dying, clothing the well,
and comforting ttye bereaved. From
that time to the present the society has
endured and continued in the work thus
early initiated; the granddaughters and
great granddaughters of the first found
ers, who have inherited the club mem
bership along with their Quaker trad!
tions, their fine old family names
that count in Philadelphia society, are
now preparing to celebrate the club's
RE/IDY 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-J
vance in prices and we propoise to sell 1
Clothing, Hals, Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery
Cheaper than it can be bought elsewhere.
,WE HAVE COME TO STAY SSiJWßtßafteaftr
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 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 Tine 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.
one hundred and second birthday. The
membership is passed down through the
eldest daughter, and the methods are
not altered from those first chosen; there
is no president nor vice-president, the
only officers being two clerks, a treas
urer, and a committee of thirteen; the
prominent work of the club is the main
tenance of a ‘.‘house of industry,” where
nearly a hundred old Quaker women of
indignent circumstances go daily to sew,
knit, and mend in comfortable quarters
in the house on North Seventh street,
which the club has lodged in since' the
middle of this century. The women
are paid good wages for their work, and
are given a good meal in the middle of
the day, besides being provided with
easy chairs while they work. The
society women provide them with sew
ing, and bachelors send thither for their
mending.
ROME AND THE TRIBUNE.
The Rome Tribune is dead against
the indiscriminate colonelling of the
people—Augusta Herald
The Rome Triune begs its readers to
stop their “mad* wild rush” afte/ fame
and fortune. Editor Harper cares for
neither. He believes that the glory gain
ed running a good newspaper is compen
sation enough. —Atlanta Journal.
The Rome Tribune publishes the
figures of cars of freight received at the
various Georgia cities during the month
of August, The number of cars of
freight h; ndlad is a good index of busi
ness importance. Brunswick is seventh
on the list, with 533 oars handled for
the month. The number during the
winter is much larger.—Brunswick
Times.
The Rome Tribune has passed its
tenth birthday. The first issue was
published Oct. 2. 1887. The late Dr.
Robert Battey gave |5 for the first copy
printed. The Tribune is growing in
brilliancy, strength and power daily.
Long live the great and noble Tribune
of Rome —Americus Times-Recorder.
Says the Memphis Commercial:
“Having led Tammany into the Red
Sea, Croker is inclined to sing,
•'Shwim out O’Grady,”' and then
bring on the Pharoah act.”
The penal island plan will “bob up
serenely” when the time comes. No
argument against it worth a hurrah
has ever been presented.
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