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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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THE BOMB TRIBUNE,
Rom*. Ga.
The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ of
The City of Rome*
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
r and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials.
Will Be Issued Sunday
The Trade and Souvenir edition of
The Tribune will be issued Sun
day. All advertisers and others
having copy for this edition should
send it to this office today.
Look out for the western blizzard.
An exchange wishes to know when
the annexation of the hula hula dance
takes place,
The New York Sun is now working
off its Cleveland outfit on Seth Low.—
Memphis Commercial.
The Summerville news contains ten
pages this week caused by increased
advertising patronage.
While Rudyard Kipling is to be
paid a dollar a word for a poem, most
of the Georgia poets will accept one |
dollar per poem. ;
That was a fearful plunge of a New
York Central train into the Hudson
river. It is one of the great railroad
horrors of the centnry.
Wyck has a level head,” re.
marks the Brunswick Times because
“he says one newspaper interview is
worth a thousand speeches. ’ ’
Quarantine regulations are greatly
interfering with October weddings.
In Memphis weddings announced for
churches have been changed to homes.
The Dana interests still control the
New York Sun. Paul Dana has
been elected president of the Sun
Publishing company and editor to suc
ceed his father.
Hon Hewlette Hall has accomplished
a great deal for convict reform. His
ideas will yet prevail,|and be adopted,
but it seems that Georgia is not
ready for them now.
Seven hundred car loads of Geor
gia marble! That is what it will take
to build Minnesota’s state capital,
and the work of quarrying it has be
gun in Pickens county.
Paris has invented an artificial oys
ter, which, report says, cannot be
possibly told from the genuine. This
is a wonderful story, but will the
world swallow it, asks an exchange.
Dr. Touatre says that one yellow
fever microbe has in twenty-four
hours augmented to twenty billions
and over. Gee whiz! Does old papa
microbe have to support the multitud
inous offspring.
the Birmingham Ledger: “The
frosts are upon us and Birmingham
can have no fever. That fact will
season our thanksgiving dinners and
make ns willing to contribute to the
relief of the stricken cities,”
Says the Valdosta Times: “A very
strong sentiment has been up over the
state against revolutionary action in
regard to disposing of convicts, and
it is not expected that there will be
any very material changes in the
present system.”
Congress is only about a month off,
yet not one of the republican leaders
seem to have outlined a plan of busi
ness which meets with general appro
val by the party. The probabilities
are that there will be lots of talk
about Spain and Hawaii, and prob
ably the seals and the Klondike, in
order to stave off consideration of
the financial question.—Savannah
Mews.
SeventyzThree Charity Counties,
The disclosures recently made by
the Atlanta Constitution showing that
seventy three counties draw from
the state treasury than they pay into
it is a very bad exhibit. The state of
Georgia is a very poor business man
ager. Where is the corporation that
having 126 agencies would allow 78 of
them not to be self supporting? It
would cut down their expenses until
they were, or shut them up.
A number of the state papers are
speaking out their minds about these
pension grabbing counties, and they
are right about it. The law which
permits it should be changed.
Toe Brunswick* Advertiser has this
to say: “Seventy-three counties draw
more from the state treasury than
they pay into It. One county draws
$9,508 more from the state than it
pays in. Four get a profit of over
$6,000; six get over $5,000; fourteen
get over $3,000 each, and so it goes.
Glenn county pays to the state
$23,629,43, and gets $7,805.94 back, or
$15,825.49 profit to the state. These
figures show a deranged system of
public economy so vividly suggestive
of dishonesty as to call for heroic
treatment by the legislature; but em
barrassed by a condition that may be
difficult to overcome. The counties
which are robbing the state actually
control its legislation, and more apt
to join with selfish purport to grab
still further benefits than to consider
the wrongs of ruch inequality. There
could be no greater benefit from the
coming lesislature than to consider a
remedy to this outrage. The most
charitable view that must be taken is
that these drawing counties do not
thoroughly appreciate the humility
and dishonesty of their position.”
- Concerning the inequality in taxa
tion the Savannah News says: “There
is certainly great inequality in taxa
tion. but it is about impossible to get
legislators from the counties lightly
assessed to agree that there is. S .me
of the counties get from the school
fund an amount much greater than
that which they pay into the state
treasury. That is a condition of
affairs which ought not to be tolerated,
Each of the counties should contri
bute something to the support of the
state, and each one of them should
levy a tax for school purp ses that
would produce an amount equal to
thM received from the state. If there
were a law to that effect these Would
be a higher appreciation of the pnbl c
schools in the rural districts.”
The legislature should take up this
subject and amend the law to
make each county, or a great many '
less than seventy-three pay their own '
way.
Against Co-Education,
In a very strong editorial over a col
umn in length the Athens Banner;
protests against co-education at the
university of Georgia. In its argu
ment the Banner says:
Proud has been our southern record
in all things pertaining to true man
hood and chivalric character, yetjnoth
ing has proclaimed to the worid at
large southern kinghood so effectually ,
as the exalted station with which
southern women have ever been hou- |
ored by southern men. Not content
to remand our wives and our daugh- i
ters to the sole drudgery|of domestic
necessities they have been the prin
cesses of happy homes, the queens of
our sunny south.
It is true that the invasion of van
dalism has brought upon the south a
changed condition in many respects
and forced upon us duties and neee—
sities former to onr civilization, but
God grant that the introduction of
no modern da” sentiment may ever
induce southern mauhood to so far
forget itself as to dethrone our south
ern women by removing those im
pregnable barriers, those invincible
safe-guards, which have ever main
tained them in their queenly, their
honored, their respected and their dis
tinctive sphere.
Assuming that the foregoing is in
full accord with true southern senti
ment, and by no means incompatible
with the best interest of our southern
women, we shall boldly maintain that,
nothing will so certainly and so effrc
tually break down and destroy our
proud and boasted southern civiliza
tion, likewise the surest safe-guards
of protective interest to southern wo
men, as the proposed idea of mixing
southern boys and southern girls in
our institutions of learning.
The idea originated not in our God
blessed south-land but came from the
land of Puritanism, from that region
where woman are regarded more for
their domestic utility than for their
adornment to society, more for their
usefulness as housewives than com
panions in literary and social circles.
Such being the fate of the unfortunate
women whose lots have cast them as
submissive subjects to ihe utilitarian
and mercenary ideas of their inconsid
erate benedicts, they have as an es
cape from such female thraldom cried
out for equal show and >-q<ial chance
with the lords of their laud. * * •■•
We submit that no great er calamity
conld befall both the male and the fe-
THE HOME TRIBUNE. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29, 189 .
male citizenship of our coultry than
the introduction of any sysl mos ed- j
ucation or any other system relative
to jjthe relations between te sexes
which will tend to estrange our sone
and daughters from that fc <h order
of refined sentiment and cfstinctive
civilization for which oOrf southern
country has ever been distinguished.
It is to be hoped that .ie wisdom
and prudence of our leg ilators will
not be made subservient to a false
idea, an un-southern a d modern
day sentiment relative to he necessi
ties of female education, out with a
statesmanship and patri tism com
mensurate with the duties >f]the hour,
and which will lead them to the ad
mission that it is the stab’s duty to
do as well by her daughtei 1 as by her
sons, provide ample meant by which
onr female institutions of teaming in
their separate relations,! shall be
placed upon as high and successful
a plane of instruction as are our male
institutions for either collegiate or
university instruction.
GEORGIA EDITOR!
Give Georgia a state board of health.
One has been badly needed during the
quarantine racket.—Thomasville Times,
But Judge Fite and the honest juries
of Whitfield county have broken up the
business of these thieves and their ac
complices and a healthier state of affairs
will exist in that town and county from
this time on. Men may resort to nearer
cuts and dishonest methods t» make
money, and make it fast, but er» they
are aware, their sins will find them out
and then come the judgment of outraged
and indignant public sentiment and the
penalties of violated law, which con
signs them to disgrace and punishment.
—Marietta Journal.
An enterprising Georgia banker tele
graphs Senorita Cisneros offering her
the oashiership in one of his institutions.
It is quite natural for bankers to be
after this young woman, seeing the
great amount of interest in her. Why
not take her on deposit?—Raleigh News
and Observer.
That comet which is to smash things
up on November 13th, is only a little
over 73.000,000 miles away. Later re
ports say it has been turned from its
course a d will not hit us. Lord! what
a relief from A terrible suspense Way
cross Leader,
Any woman between the ages of 16
and 40 who wears this paper for a bustle
Will never take the yellow fever. We
are a phylactery and an amulet for your
“lilacs, ’ ’— Hardeman Free Press.
The press of the state has been mak
ing all manner of fun of The Rome
Tribune because it has bSen telling of
pearls to be found in the river near that
city. He laughs best who laughs last,
and The Tribune can now point to the '
fact 1 hat within three days a citizen of 1
Rome secured pearles worth at least 1
seventy-five dollars —Americus Herald.
• ‘Douglas Glessner would rather be
Charles Duval Decker than be State
librarian,” says the Savannah Press.
No; that was only our second choice,
and we hope the Press’ misapprehension
will not spread. We would rather be
ourself—and State librarian.—Griffin
News.
There are few Georgians in public
life who did not know genial Brad
Tatum, of Dade county, and every one
who did will drop a tear at the knowl
edge of bis tragic ending.—Brunswick
Advertiser.
If Georgia will buy one of the coast
islands, put her convicts on it and place
Editor Harper of The Rome Tribue in
charge of the whole business, we will be
satisfied. —Trion Factory Herald,
Betting takes all forms. We learn
that when Thomas A. Hendricks was
elected govern >r of Indiana John Diet
zer. of Shelbyville, won a coffin from a
local undertaker as the result of a bet
on the election. Dietzer has just been
buried in the coffiu. Augusta Chronicle.
Higher Education of Women,
(Jennie Jnne Croly)
• I believe in the higher education for
woman, but mine is that higher educa
tion wnich is not taught in colleges. It is
learned at one’s mother’s knee. It is
cultivated all through life. And she is
them-ist highly educated who under
stands best how to make most happy
the greatest number of people.
Let your girl learn all that it is wise
for her to know from books, but be
sure that she gets that very highest
education which will make of her a
good woman, a woman whose father
and other will be prond of her and
whom the heart of her husband may
safely trust That’s the only higher
education worth having. And if I
c mtrolied any girl, that’s the one
that she would be forced to take by
my positive order.
The Hudson River Disaster,
A New York paper says: Catastro
phes like that of yesterday mock civili
zttioi.. They show the weakness of
man’s strongest works'and perils that
lurk within his most assured security.
Au accident killing a score or more of
pers n> in some barbarous land would
scarcely give cause for comment, and
su< h disaster at sea would merely re
mind us of the impossibility, of curbing
' the fury of the great deep. But this one
Overcoats, Hats, Shirts,
Men’s Suits, Underwear,
Boys Suits, LAa Hosiery,
Children’s Suits Neckwear.
Divide Profits
Perhaps you think that’s a flight of artistic imagination! It isn’t. The artist is right
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
are not dividing our profits in the middle. On the contrary the division is
overwhelmingly in favor of the purchaser. Our entire stock of
Mens, Boys and Childrens Suits, Overcoats,
Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery.
For the fall and winter was purchased before the advance in prices, and we are going;
to sell it cheaper than it can be bought anywhere in Rome.
Hats. Hats,
We own the biggest stock of Hats of any retail store in North Georgia. This is a bigr
assertion, nevertheless it is true. Full line of Knox stiff Hats and Stetson
soft Hats. Our stock of
FUBNIBHING GOODS.
Is the newest and best selected in the city. Every article new, fresh and up-to-date.
Big line of Shirts, Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Suspenders. E. &
AV. Collars and cuffs, Manhattan Shirts; Eclipse Shirts and Shaw knit hosiery.
Come to see us, your calj will be appreciated and we will save you some money.
J. B, WATTERS 4 SON,
Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244, BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
occurred on solid land, in the heart of
one of the most highly civilized states
on the globe. It occurred, too, on what
is self-styled “America’s greatest rail
road,” and is indisputably one of the
best constructed and equipped in the
world. It is a road with air-brakes and
block signals, and all the vaunted
‘ 'modern improvements” for safety, as
well as for speed and comfort. Yet here,
in spite of all, is a disaster almost as de
structive as any that could happen to
a wildcat train on a primitive pioneer
road. There could be no more impressive
demonstration of the frailty of all hu
man devices.
The Modern Spirit,
Drink, and the world laughs with you,
Go thirsty, you thirst alone!
And every friend with a dollar to spend
Has most impecunious grown.
Flirt, and all women flirt with yon.
Love, and you’re left in the cold!
And the one that did seem the .delight of
yonr dream
Turns brazen and brutal and bold,
Sin, and the crowd sins with you,
Repent, they laugh and they jeer!
Even if soda you drink, they complacently
think
You’re been toying with whiskey or beer.
Die, and (if wealthy) all love you,
Die poor, and you rot, forgot!
And your best girl will spoon with your evemy
soon
Right over your burial spot.
Lie, and the public admires you,
(I do in these verses now!)
Bat never forget that lady wears yet
The posy crown in her brow,
W. E. S, Fales, in Journalist.
Hecker’sGoods.
I have a fine assortment of this old
reliable brand of farinacious
gc ods
Rolled Oats,
Rolled Wheat,
Cracked Wheat,
Wheaten Grits,
Wheat Granules,
Pearl Flakes,
Oatmeal,
Farina,
.Flapjack Flour.
I ■
> Fancy Celery, Cape Cod Cranberries.
B, S, LESTER,
‘ Old Postoffloe cor. /ROME, GA.
I .
Trains for Atlanta leave Rome at 6 k
, tn., 9 a.m. and 4:25 p. m. Depdt foot
i of Broad street. t 29.
J. A. GAMMON & CO.
We have not the greatest stock in America.
We don’t advertise to sell goods at 50 cents
on the SI.OO (nor does any other house who
have any regard for their word)
OUR FALL STOCK
is new and up-to-date in every respect.
OUR * CLOTHING
is the best manufacturers in the country.
EzL&JX’S, HA.TS!
Our Hats are recognized throughout the civilized world
as the best that can be produced. '
FURNISHINGS.
Our shirts, ties and other furnishings are correctjstyles,
low in price and the very best in quality.
J. A. GAMMON & CO.
Clothiers and Furnishers.
Tyner’s Dyspepsiaßemedy cures indigestion, Bad
Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs,. Heart-burn.;