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6 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. * * » “Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray, Take her to thy protecting arms, With all her youth and all her charms,” * * * 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. O’Neill Manufacturing Co. MANUFACTURERS OF SASH, DOORB AND BLINDS. ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK. LUMBER Lime and Cement, HAMMAR PAINTS' 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. i O'Neill Manufacturing Company, JFtome, G-a. Telephone 76, Tyner’s cures indigestion, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn >