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12 PAGES.
Tfie rain is very refreshing.
* _
That rumor about the seven years
famine is a fake. 3
The buzzard and the crow are not
on speaking terms.
Not enough rain fell to injure the
snow white fields of cotton.
Why do not the city authorities
have the slag on the streets covered
with chert?
Anthony Hope has sailed from Lon
don for the United States to engage in
platfoim readings.
The new penitentiary[system threat
ens to prove a political deadfall.—
Brunswick Advertiser.
Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee
will deliver the anniversary oration
at Lucy Cobb this year.
The New York Sun says it will be
a square out fight between General
Tracy and Henry George.
New Orleans up to Sunday had
officially reported 575 cases of fever
and 61 deaths and Mobile 121 cases
and 20 deaths.
Jupiter Pluvius has proven that
the wonderful baby born with whis
kers and teeth is a true and lineal
descendent of Ananias.
Galveston people say they have had
15,000 cases of dengue fever in the last
sixty days. They do not believb that
any yellow fever exists there.
Lyons is said to have given up the
fight for the Augnsta postoffice. This
information comes from Washington.
He has returned to Augusta.
The Atlanta Constitution’s scheme
for the prison commissioners to serve
without pay will fall about as dead as
the Dade coal mine scheme. Nextl
The Macon floral carnival yester
day with her lovely women in their
carriages was one of the most beauti
ful sights ever witnessed in Georgia.
That “Don’t Worry” editorial of
the Atlanta Jonrnal is a gem. All
men who follow it may expect to live
to live to be almost as old as “She.”
Bryan’s Nashville speech would take
up about fifteen columns of The
Tribune. This is an off year and
people haven’t time to read such long
speeches.
So “Col.” Nellie Ely. of Gov. Tay
lor’s staff is to marry Hon T. Leigh
Thompson, representative of Mar
shall county, Tenn. She must give
up her title.
Maude Andrews writing about New
York’s filthy streets says that “a
dainty woman may pick her way ike
a pink curlew over the slime of a Mis
sissippi swamp.”
The rainfall which breaks the
drouth appears to be very general ex
tending frbm Cincinnati to Colorado
and from New Orleans to St. Paul!
Now watch out for frost.
The Savannah Press and New Or
leans Picayune have written up the
reception given the first cylindrical
cotton bales in those cities. The
round bales got the marble heart.
Says the Waycross Journal: “Gov.
Atkinson is reported to have said that
he will veto any bill which provides
for a continuance of the convict lease
system.” But will he really do it?
To Hold On to Lease System,
Ignorance is daily displayed in the
Georgia newspapers in the discussion
of the convict qu<s ion. Not one of
them is free from it.
The Savannah News is generally
very correct, but falls into the error of
talking about the state issuing bonds
to buy land for a penitentiary. The
Tribune showed some time ago from
an interview with Attorney General
Terrell that this could not be done-
A constitutional provision prohibits
it. The fact was also published in
other newspapers. If the editor of
the News had kept up with the dis
cussion he would not have made the
error. The News now thinks like
The Tribune that the end will be the
lease system and says: “It would not
be surprising if all the other plans,
except that of leasing the convicts,
should be abandoned. The leasing
plan, which is subject to so many
and to such horrible abuses, and to
which the people are strongly opposed,
is about the only one which does not
require the expenditure of a consid
erable amount;of money by the state.
The legislators don’t know how to get
♦he money for carrying out any plan
which requires a large outlay. There
are only two ways of getting it. One
is by increasing the tax rate, and the
other is to issue the bonds of the
state. Neither of these ways would
be popular. The people don’t want
to pay higher taxes and they don’t
want the state debt increased. The
elimination of the penal island (plan
will have ;the effect of strengthening
those who are .favoring another lease
of the convicts. ”
In discussing the penal island plan
the News exposes the ignorance of
Gov. Atkinson on the amount of sea
island cotton raised. The governor
may have been quoted wrong, but the
News says. “The amount of sea island
cotton thejrwould produce wouldn’t
b'e one-tenth of the amount stated in
our dispatches and therefore the con
vict cottou would not seriously affect
the sea island cotton market.”
It would be foolish to ‘talK of em
ploying all the 2,224 convicts on any
one island at farming, and any one
who would stop to calculate would see
that it would be unreasonable as it
would take 75,000 to 100,000 acres of
land and no island off the coast offered
to the state has over 20,0Q0 acres, of
arable land. The advocates of the
penal island plan will give the legisla
ture something to think about when
it meets. Why does not some news
paper, or person who has a real good
argument agafbst the penal island
plan come out, and let the state
know it.
Gov. Atkinson’s home paper, the
Newnan Herald and Advertiser, still
strongly favors the penal island plan
as will be seen from the editorial from
it we republish on this page.
Brunswick Girls' Salutation,
Editor Lambright has discovered
that the Brunswick girls have a new
style of salutation. It is done by
sticking the tongue out to its full
length, and then drawing it back sud
denly in a regular jack-in-the-box
style.
“Now what do you suppose the dear
creatures mean?”, asks Editor Lam
bright.
We do not know, but on the first
impulse we would think she meant:
“You are a jay.”
But then we may be mistaken as
she might intend to be understood as
follows:
“You ain’t so warm.”
“Good morning! Have you used
Sapelo?”
“I am engaged.”
“You can get me.”
“You cannot have me.”
“Come and kiss your honey.”
“You are a fool.”
“I’m yours for a few moments.”
“Go to Gehenna,”
We don’t know. Woman is a far
greater puzzle to us than the Gc jrgia’s
great problem. In order to be on the
safe side we would give our brother
by-the-sea this sage advice: “Look
noton the tongue when it is red. ”
We don’t know, never will know
and perhaps never will understand
this slick sea-side salutation.
Bryan on a Silver Dollar,
The enterprising Nashville Sun did
itself proud on the morning of Bryan
day at the Centennial. It published
a five column pjrtia.t ox tan hero it w jr
ships, as the central figure of a big silver
dollar. The picture of Bryan conceals
all of the eagle on the dollar with the
exception of its wings. Accompanying
this work of art was a soul-stirring
poem from the facile pen of Tennessee’s
poet laureate. Rufus McClain Fields,
in which be indulges in an orison to the
“democratic flag, praying heaven to
send it “happy days,” and earth to
‘ lend it life anew,” B'yan smiled
benignly on the Sun office during his so
journ in Nashville, as he is not wanting
in gratitude.
The attendence at the Centennial for
Bryan-Nebraska day which was last
Friday was 84,995. It was one of the
vei;y largest days in the history of the
Tennessee Centennial.
THE SOME TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 18«7.
Might be Saved by Brides,
If all the autumn brides of Georgia
were to celebrate their nuptials by
bicycle weddings, or runaway matches
what a saving there would be.
Between September and the new
year there have been atul will be fully
one thousand marriages in Georgia!
On an average the brides apd grooms
who participate in these matrimo
nial affairs will expend not less than
SIOO. Some couples will spend SI,OOO
and some few only sLi>. It is the
greatest event in life and every happy
man is willing to go to £is limit in ex
penses.
But just-suppose every couple went
to .the preacher without preparing
trousseaus, or having receptions after
wards what a saving there’would be!
GEORGIA'S GREAT PROBLEM.
What the Press of the State is Saying
on the Subject.
Gov. Atkinsons’s advance sheets of
that portion of bis next message dealing
with the convict problem seem to have
created little comment.
The Savannah News and Atlanta Con
stitution did not publish, or comment on
it.
The Macon Telegraph published it in
full, but did not comment on it.
The Atlanta Journal, Columbus En
quirer-Sun, Augusta Chronicle, Ameri
cus Times-Recorder, and Athens Banner
like The Tribune published extracts
from it, but they made no comment.
We publish the comments made by two
papers.
All to Prison Commissioners,
(Brunswick Times)
The governor remarks that it would
be “unwise” to limit the commission to
any particular work for the convicts to
be engaged in. He closes with the hope
that the legislature will be guided right
ly in arriving at a disposition of the
vexed problem.
The message does not mention the
sea island plan in any particular, but,
from its general tone, the governor is
in favor of leaving all decisions of place,
occupation, etc., to the prison commis
sion. i
Should Receive Serious Regard,
(Griffin News)
The governor has given this subject
more study and attention since his
second inauguration than he has be
stowed upon any other state matter,
and more than any other man in the
state has had time or opportunity to
give it, and his views will on that ac
count receive the most serious regard of
the legislature and the public. Aside
from that, however, they appeal by
their presentation of facts and conclu
sions to the intelligence and judgment
of every man who is willing to give the
subject fair thought, and it seems that
they must win the approval of those to
whom they are addressed; at least, until’
some better place is suggested—and
none has yet been broached.
The Woman in the Case,
(Americus Times-Recorder)
The Penal colony plan died a horning.
The Times-Recorder said it would.
The Committee's Suggestion.
(Brunswick Advertiser)
The convict ecbeme has incubated. A
bill is framed for legislative discussion.
It has bid features and good features,
and the encouraging feature that it will
probably not be adopted. * * * *
But why discuss the matter. The leg
islator will not leave a shred of the bill
to mark its epitaph.
Gov, Atkinson's Home Paper.
(Newnan Herald and Advertiser)
We are still of the opinion that the
island plan is not only practicable, but
excellent. The objection urged that, if
the able-bodied convicts were put to
work growing sea island cotton, the
effect would prove disastrous to the sea
island industrv along the seaboard, is
preposterous. Sea island is a very desira
ble grade of cotton, and is indispensable
in the manufacture of the finer domestic
fabrics. We do not believe that the peni
tentiary convicts could produce enough
to materially affect the price, and there
are so many compensatory advantages
offered by the island plan that this ob
jection appears frivolous. With the is
land plan we would have a complete
system, with ample room for separate
colonization, as age or sexual conditions
might require. With the convicts scat
tered over the state, employed at differ
ent avocations, the system would be a
disjointed and expensive one. If the
island plan is not adopced, the state
should purchase a farm of sufficient ex
tent to colonize all the convicts in one
body. They can at least be made to sup
port themselves on a farm, and this is
more than can be safely claimed for any
other than the lease plan,
Says the Baxley News and Banner:
‘‘ln the discussion of co-education in
the State University, some of the
ablest women in Georgia have taken
strong grounds against the move
ment.”
Says the Columbus Enquirer-Sun:
“Seaborn Wright contributes a very
interesting article to the Atlanta Con-
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Never before in the history of this store have goods
bought so low. Our enure stock was purchased bi fore the afl
vance in prices and we propose to sell
Clothing, Hals, Underwear, Shirts and Hosierfl
Cheaper than it can be bought elsewhere.
WE HAVE COME TO STAY
suits, therefore we prefer not to advertise rather than advertise
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Leaders of Low Prices. J
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, (flfl
stitution upon “Old Time Biscuits.”
He treats, in a most intelligent man
ner, of wheat raisingin the south and
how to make biscuits. It is not stated
whether this is to be Mr. Wright’s
platform in his next race for governor.’,
That was a caustic cut in The Rome
Tribune when it said that since the
New York Sun has gone squarely
over to lhe republicans, it has
hauled down its sign: “If You See It
in the Sun, It’s So.”—Coosa River
News.
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OCTOBER
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!_n illustrated and will contain
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ji m 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
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