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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
■w. A. KNOWLES. •- Editor.
OrriCß-NO. 3»7 BROAD BTRKT, UP
STAIRS. TELEPHONE 78.
Souvenir
. and »
Trade Edition
OF
The Rome Tribune
Will be issued in
OCTOBER
This issue of The Tribune
I W will be one of the best yet
CjJCQII printedi will be handsomely
2 W illustrated and will contain
( the choicest specially written
/ articles (in addition to all the
(II news) that can be prepared.
The superiority of Borne 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-
12 PAGES-,
It is now St. Jack Frost.
Knoxville is advertising for yellow
fever refugees.
This is the last week of the Ten
nessee Centennial.
They are now calling him Gov. Rob
ert Demosthenes Taylor,
No man should try to ride a wheel
unless he has horse sense,
The University of Georgia’s football
team is getting in fine shape.
Frost was reported in the lowlands
near Rome yesterday morning.
Unreasonable requests ought not
and cannot be grantedjby newspapers.
In several churches of Rome on
Sunday special prayer was made for
frost.
We hope a large delegation will
represent Rome on President Thom
as’s Day.
The Chattanooga Times is making
a strong effort to have a cotton mill
built in that city.
The city authorities should see to it
that the sewers are flushed every day
while tbis dry weather continues.
The south will worship jack frost as
a divinity when he spreads his white
mantie fnm the gulf coast northward.
In 1878 when several hundred yellow
fever refugees from Chattanooga
came to Rome not a single case de
veloped here.
Atlanta will send 1,500 people to the
Nashvilie exposition on President
Thomas’ day. Rome should, also, be
well represented.
The Rome Tribune deserves the
thanks ot Georgia for eliminating two
“fake” lynchings from the record
against us.—Brunswick Times.
It seems as if Alabama’s governor
has acied the part of a coward in flee
ing bimseit from the fever at Mont
gomery, and locking up the rest with
a rigid and inhuman quarantine.
The St. Louis Republic says: “The
government armor plate board finds
that Bhmlugham, Ala., ‘makes iron
and Svi-el cheaper than any other
place iu the world.’ The use of sec
tioniil specraeles alone prevented Uncle
Sam's making this discovery long
ago. ’ ’
The el<cti -n of Mr. W. A. Turk,
generol passenger agent of the South*
ern railway, as president of the Amer
ican association of railroad passenger
agents was a deserved tribute to his
ability. Southern men and southern
enterprises are to the front every
where.
Only Remedy is National Quarantine
The breaking out of the yellow
fever at Selma amd Montgomery pro
cess that the shotgun quarantine is in
effective.
“We will take no risks,” said the
people of these two cities. From what
we have read we do not think a more
rigid local quarantine could have been
enforced. Trains were not allowed to
stop, and no mail was received.
No precaution was omitted to keep
the yellow plague out. The quaran
tine regulations were so severe as to
be condemned as inhuman and barba.
roue. In spite of all this the fever
has broken out in these two cities.
How it got a foothold is a mystery and
this has caused all the more, alarm
among the panic stricken people.
It is very apparent now that the
only method to keep yellow fever out
of tbe south is to inaugurate a na
tional quarantine. Every person and
all imports from Cuba and South'
American countries should be sub
jected to detention and fumigation.
From the best evidence this scourge
of yellow fever which originated at
Ocean Springs reached there through
Ship Island which is not a quarantine
station. It seems that some of the
visitors at Oceun Springs went "ver to
Ship Island on excursions and it is be
lieved there contracted it, and that it
developed on their return to Ocean
Springs.
The subject of a national quarantine
is receiving considerable attention
just now from the southern press and
The Tribune most heartily favors it.
Girls Will Read "Les Miserables,"
A dispatch published in Sunday’s
Tribune stated that tbe Philadelphia
board of education had reconsidered
its action putting '‘Les Miserables”
under the ban. Miss Dalcourt, the
teacher of French literature, said she
had recommended an expurgated edi
tion and the course would not be com
plete witnoutjit. So “Les Miserables”
will be read by Philadelphia school
girls.
The Knoxville Tribune says on this
subject: Philadelphia’s board of edu*
cation lecently issued an edict prohib
iting the use of ‘‘Les Miserables” in
the girls’ high school of that city.
Now it has modified the order by
permitting the use of an expurgated
edition of Hugo’s immortal work. This
action of the school board has well
advertised the assininity of its mem
bers. If there is a high school girl in
Philadelphia who has not already
read “Les Miserables,” or “Lee’s Mis
erables,” as the Confederate soldiers
were wont to call it, we may be sure
that she will do so now—and she
will not read it in expurgated form.
And if she is a sensible girl she will
not be any the worse for reading the
story of Jean Valjean, the greatest
character in all tbe world of fiction,
and even tbe story of Fantine, to
which,presumably, the prudish school
board of the Quaker City objects.
Victor Hugo was a master among ro
manticists and “Les Miserables” is his
greatest work, the equal of any ever
written and the superior of all but less
than half a dozen. While it is not of
Miss Nancy order there is nothing in
it to appeal to the prurient taste or
concupiscent mind. It conveys its
own lesson and moral and masterfully
contrasts tbe good and the bad, tbe
ignoble and vile with the grand beau
tiful. The school board might as well
inhibit the reading of “Vanity Fair”
because of the character of Becky
Sharp. It might with more reason de
mand an expurgated edition of the
Bible or of Shakespeare. Its action is
more absurd than that of tbe Brook
lyn school board which objected to
Longfellow’s “The Building of the
Ship,” in which occurs these lines.
With one exultant, joyous bound,
She leaps into the ocean’s arms.
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“Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray,
Take her to thy protecting arms,
With all her youth and all her charms,”
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How beautiful she is! How fair
She lies within those arms that press
Her form with many a soft caress
Os tenderness and watchful care!
This description of the launching of
a ship was considered too erotic and
meretricious by the Brooklyn school
guardians. Tbe sapient Brooklyn and
Philadelphia school boards remind
one of the mother who wrote this note
to the school teacher: ‘‘Please don’t
teach my darter no fisiology. I don’t
want her to know about her innards.”
Higher Education of Woman,
Mr. Oscar Browning, in the October
Forum, says:
“After SO years’ experience, and
more, I am not convinced of the
mental equality of men and wo
men; neither that they can produce
the same results, nor that the same
training is good for them. The disad
vantages of a joint education, as they
concern women and men, are of two
kinds. We have shown with regard
to the first that what is tbe ideal edu
cation for a woman has never been
worked out, and tbe proposition that
it should be identical with a man’s is
a mere assumption. The contention
THB KOME TRIBUNE, TUESDAY. OCTOBJKK 26. 189?.
that it should be different was a strong
point with tbe opponent of the Cam
brige grace. The most authoritative
statement on tbis side came from Dr.
Westcott, bishop of Durham, in a let
ter to Bishop Sei wyn. He says that no
one can be more anxious than him
self that the highest possible educa
tion should be placed within tbe reach
of women, but that such education
must be adopted, both from its gen
eral scope and in its details, to the dis
ciplining and developing of their pecu
liar endowments.
“A perfect woman is distinct in
type from a perfect man. It will, I
suppose,_be admitted that women are
constitutionally different from men,
that they have, ’peculiar gifts, and tha*
the moral and intellectual powers
which the two sexes have in common
are, for the most part, combined in
them in different proportions and tend
to form different characters. It will
also be admitted that education is de
signed to train the whole person and
not any one part, and to give as nat
ural and complete and harmonious an
expression as possible to tbe s m of
tbe student’s powers. If, then, the
Cambridge honor course has been
carefully designed to meet the special
powers and needs of men, it must so
far fail .o meet the special powers and
needs of women. If a woman is forced
to submit to conditions which have
been laid down, not only without con
sideration of her requirements, but in
view of other requirements, she must
suffer. I gratefully recognize the in
tellectual gain which women have
found in the Cambridge course, but 1
believe it has been secured at a high
cost and not without loss-
“It would probably, therefore, be a
misfortune if the education of women
was fixed for tbe future on the same
lines as that of men. ”
Down With Shot Gun Quarantines,
(Birmingham News )
The development of a case of yellow
fever in Memphis and the appearance of
a suspicious sickness at Selma with
symptoms of the dread disease, but again
shows with what rapidity this fearful
scourge spreads. However, there is no
occasion for alarm over the situation,
yellow jack is making his last desperate
effort before he surrenders to the frost
king, and it can be but a few days at
most before all of North and Middle
Alabama will be absolutely safe from
his ravages.
Light frosts have already appeared
in Tennessee* Northern Alabama and
Northern Mississippi, ao.that all possi*
bitity of an epidemic at Memphis is out
of the question. The people of that city
well known that fact and view the
situation serenely. Besides, the Bluff
City which proved such a death hole in
1878, warned by that awful experience,
has been fortifying itself for yellow
jack this year. As the result it is in
most excellent sanitary condition ac
cording to all accounts, and is prepared
to successfully L cope with it’s unwel
come visitor.
As for Selma, if it develops that yel
low fever has appeared there, the fac*
will be proven beyond doubt that there
is no such thing as an effective quaran
tine. Selma’s regulations have been the
most rigid in the south. Trains from
infected places were shut out of that
city as soon as infection was even hinted
at, public roads as well as railroads
were guarded by armed men and the
town practically bottled itself up. Des
pith all this a case of sickness resemb
ling yellow fever comes to light.
The outbreak at Montgomery, Mem
phis, Selma and other places where
such strict quarantines have been main
tained, illustrates one fact very forcibly
and that is that southern cities and
towns cannot and must not depend upon
shot gun methods to keep out epidemics.
Tbe only absolute safeguard is found in
healthful conditions. Instead of spend
ing thousands of dollars to enforce shot
gun quarantines, thereby doing incal
culable injury to commerce, liberal ap
propriations should bo made for proper
sanitation and the work should be prose
cuted in season and out of season.
After all, this is the only effective quar
antine against disease.
Commendable Trait
(Birmingham Age-Herald)
George M. Pullman had one trait of
character which was commendable, and
for which he deserves the fullest of
credit. He allowed his daughters to
Cannedfruits.
I have a full line of these goods.
See the following.
> Grated Pine Apple.
Sliced Pine Apple.
White Cherries.
Preserved Figs.
Bartlett Pears.
Green Gage Pium
Apricots,
Lemon Cling Peaches.
Ginger Preserves, Fancy Celery
Fine Butter 25c per pound.
B, S. LESTER,
Old Poetofflce cor. /ROME, GA.
Overcoats, Hals, Shirts, 1
Men’s Suits, Underwear,!
Boys Soils, WCM] Hosiery, j
Children’s Suits Neckweaii
■We Divide Profits > 1
Perhaps you think that’s a flight of artistic imagination! It isn’t. The artist is right I
as far as he goes, but he doesn’t go quite far enough. When you split a thing ‘
in two it doesn’t always happen that you cut it exactly in the center, and we m
are not dividing our profits in the middle. On the contrary the division is M
overwhelmingly in favor of the purchaser. Our entire stock of V
Mens, Boys and Childrens Suits, Overcoats. 1
Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery. J
For the fall and winter was purchased before the advance in prices, and we are going n
to sell it cheaper than it can be bought anywhere in Rowe. & I
Hats. Hats, I
We own the biggest stock of Hats of any retail store in North Georgia. This is a big I
assertion, nevertheless it is true. Full line of Knox stiff Hats and Stetson I
soft Hats. Our stock of
FUENISHING GOODS. . I
Is the newest and best selected in the city. Every article new, fresh and up-to-date. fl
Big line of Shirts, Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Suspenders. E. & fl
"W. Collars and cuffs, Manhattan Shirts; Eclipse Shirts and Shaw knit hosiery. <• I
Come to see us, your call will be appreciated and we will save you some money.
J. B. WATTERS 4 SON,
Leaders of Low Prices. I
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA. j
marry men of their choice, and each
selected worthy young gentlemen, not
rich, bat had sense and the ambition to
make their way in the world. A mem
ber of the titled aristocracy of Europe
wished to marry one of the daughtei s,
and the father said he would prefer his
daughters to marry Americans, even
they be poor, than to become wives of
broken down families of title. Each of
his two daughters married for love, and
their husbands are poor men.
Atlanta Congratulates Herself
(Augusta Chronicle)
Atlanta has reorganized her mutual ad
miration society and the town will get
on a hump. Hurrah for Atlanta!
(Augusta Herald)
Atlanta is the Hans Breitmann of
Georgia cites. She loves to “give a
party.” She invites herself’ to be pres
ent, says pleasant things about herself
and goes home in the more or less small
hours in a good humor with herself,
But she has a right to do it, and her
latest party was a great success.
A Quarantine,
Around the form of Phyllis
A rigid quarantine
To keep—her father’s will is.
She is scarce seventeen.
But Lachesis, the weaver,
Saith otherwise. Love slips
Within and cools his fever
Upon her maiden lips.
Then Love shakes off dejectioa
. At finding her so fair;
She catches the infection,
And doesn’t seem to care
—J. R. Taylor.
Waiting ior the Frost,
StiU lifts the lily in the mild, Still air
Its enp of perfumed snow.
And star-like gleam the myrtle blossoms wher c
The Autumn roses glow;
This fragrant beauty seems the mask of death;
The whispering South wind is his poisoned
breath;
We weary for these warm, bright days to end;
The summer lingess at what fearfnl cost!
O, pitying God! in mercy to us send
The white gift of Thy frost.
From its cold touch the resilience will fly.
And plague-shut houses will their doors
unfold.
And mourners, who have seen their loved ones
die.
Tet shuddering, feared their helpless hands
to hold,
Will seek, with tears, the graves from which
to-day
Love, terror-haunted, trembling, turns
away.
All-Powerful Lord, at Thy dear feet we bow;
If Thou delay, how many lives are lost!
We ask a blessing never prized till now—
The white gift of Thy frost,
—Harpers’s Weekly 1878.
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Telephone 76,
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