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6 THE ROME TRIBUNE? W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. • rriCß-NO. »■» BROAD snUBBT. VP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 7S. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Dally. Except MoeAey ). One Year *6.00. One Month .50 Biz Months 3.00 I One Week --U Thrae Months.... 1.801 Weekly.per year..loo Delivered by mail or by city carriers free of charge. All subscription strictly in advance. Thb Tbibuhb will appreciate news from any community. If at a email place where it has no regular oorreepoudant. news re pyrta of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratetally received. Oommunications should be addressed aad all orders, checks, drafts, etc, made plyable to _ .. . THE. BOMB TRIBUNE, Rom*. GA. Werld | IsMioel Thus spoke the man whose advert tisement was being regularly read in thousands Os households where THE ROME TRIBUNE is considered to be the authority for their purchases as well as their news- For the field cov/ ' ..... cred by ... The Rome Tribune is a wide one, and an advertise/ ment in its columns every day is sufficient • to make business good anywhere, ' . The Official Organ ol The City of Rome, . . The Sheriff. The Ordinary, The County Commissioners, and publishes regularly all legal advertisements emanating from these officials. Write for estiz ma f es to W, A, KNOWLES, ’ . General Manager, 12 PAGES. 1 ■ / ■ - ■ ' Attention is called to article on the first page of today’s Tribune about the unfair representation in democratic congressional and other political con ventions in Georgia. The “all cotton folly” will min the south if kept up. A 50 day's session of the Georgia legis lature costs $70,000. - ‘Are clubs tramps?,” asks an Ala bama exchange. You . bet they are in Georgia, Atlanta is trying very hard to get up a murder mystery to equal the Gulden suppe and Luetgert affairs. i■J: : ~ “ft is the spankless child now who is sharper than the serpent’s tooth;’’ ' says the Birmingham Ledger. That southern states cotton growers convention to be held in. Atlanta, Decem - her 13, can accomplish great things if it gets on the right line. < Says the Augusta Chronicle: “Joo. v much ; son-jn law killed poor Mr. Peiky. : ~ lt.-wae an English-sen-in-lawy and so (Jeorgiais not to blame-” The South Carlolina dispensary sys tern fs said to be in a hoie/atfd there is talk, of getting Senator Ben Tillman to run for Governor’to pull it ont.\’ ■ Three men are running for commis sioner of agriculture in Georgia and ’ three more foi attorney . general.—Sa vannah Press How many did you say are running for governor? f - If Mr. Mudd of Maryland succeeds in ‘ breaking into ti|e Unitid States senate the New York. Journal believes “he will have no trouble in arranging a pair 4 ..With Mr, Clay, of Georgia.!’ ‘ The Sparta Ishinaelite Bays it will never support sot any office within the gift Os the people of Georgia, whether nominated by the Democratic party or ■- 1 not, any man who speaks of the late . , war for Southern independence as'“the war of She rebellion.!’ The Colhmbus Enquirer-Sun repub lishes the. description of Miss Till > man’s Dinner carriers’ school written ' for The Tribune by our request. The Enquirer Sun does this for the pur pose of “enlightening to some of our own people, as comparatively few have interested themselves in this im- - portupt ~WQrk4’”, If the Columbus «£Hfoi*T<auld read The Tribune daily; ' .and publish m live a newspaper they would enliven their sleepy town. The Doom of Football, The game of football is doomed. The New York Herald, the New York World and other great newspapers of the country are condemning it in the most unmeasured terms. They have collected statistics showing how inimi cal it is to life and limb. The Tribune published yesterday an extract from the New York Herald showing the number .of deaths from the brutal game. We have endeavored as far as pos sible recently to cease to reprint the hundreds of notices of the Von Gam mon tragedy. Yet the fact is that the young Roman was the martyr who has roused the nation to the necessity of the protection of its col lege boys in this “game of death.” The subject has become one of such widespread interest that The Trib une has been forced to print mueh about it. The action of the Geor gia legislature has brcugnt the subject to national attention and so strong is public sentiment against football that it will never be played another season with the brutality it has this. It will be prohibited in many states, and the game of football is doomed. In a very strong editorial the Mem phis Commercial Appeal condemns much of the college athletics of this day as “Insane Exercise,” and says: That a moderate amount of athletic exercise in conjunction with collegiate studies is beneficial no one can deny, but it seems proper to remember that the main object of a university course is the development of the mind, and that the development of the body can be obtained at the gymnasium at one’s home. A perfect healthy man may be little better than an idiot. Au in valid may be a genius. Charles Lamb had hanging over bis head throughout life the specter of insanity ’Milton was blind. George Elliot was an almost daily sufferer from head ache. John Randolph, of Virginia, was ill all his life. Pope was a chronic sufferer. Robert Louis Ste venson always traveled with con sumption for a companion. And so it goes. On the other hand, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Tennyson, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster and Bryant were men of fine physique- A nor mal amount of exercise taken judic iously is needed by the body, and when the body is in good condition, then the person owing that particular body is apt to be physically happy. But this state is to be obtained not by allowing the bodily functions to become sluggish any more than it is by subjecting them to the strain of injudicious exercise, and a sound body can be obtained better by observing the laws of health and by guarding one’s self from over-indulgence and exposure, and warding off the shafts of worry than by spending hours giv ing an unnatural hardness to one’s muscles. We have had something to say of late about the brutality of football ,and have cited several instances going to show that unless the game is radically amended It will have to be treated as any other form of homicide. Since our last observations on this subject more returns have been received, and the sum total is sufficiently alarm ing to call tor. lUfther mention. Bo far as reported this season in the United States, four young men have been killed, five probably injured fatallyeand 125 have been severely in jured, having had their collar-bones broken, shoulders dislocated, clavicles fractured, backs strained, arms bro ken, and ligaments severed. It is a pretty well understood thing now now that one team will often go into a game with the deliberate intention of “disabling” certain crack players in the other team. The prevalence of this spirit deprives the game as mow played of all claims to friendly consideration. Deliberately fouling is now one of the features of nearly every game, but where a dozen or more youths are all struggling to gether it is almost impossible for a spectator to distinguish and locate the ~ deliberate brutality. Unless, therefore, a change comes over the spirit of the sport and that pretty quickly, it will become the duty of the criminal law to come into the game and consign it to the same dis repute enjoyed by bull fighting and gladiatorial combats. “Too Sperty, Ye Gods!" No. The University of Georgia is just now a lively topic in the state The Albany Herald publishes a lengthy editorial under the caption “The trouble with the state univer sity” and It is interesting reading to say the least of it. It goes on to say, and most truth fully. that the institution is not so popular with some people of the state as it should be and then it looks for the reasons why this is the case. After stating several minor reasons the Her ald ask the following: “What is it? Why is it that so many fathers in the state who have boys to educate are as raid to send them to the State University? ! “The tendency of the university at Athena and the influences that sur- THE ROM* TRIE UN It. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, IBH7. round it are too “sporty” and aesthetic to suit the common people of Georgia. Too mueh football and baseball and “swell” society! There’s the trouble' with Che (State University that we have at Athens today.” The Americus (Herald comments facetiously on the “Too sporty” idea and then gives its opinion as follows: “If the true reason as to why 'pa rents do not send their sous to the university is wanted it is because the university has not the support from the state which is due it. The Her - ald wants the university to succeed in every possible way, but it cannot do so unless the state will help it. As soon as the legislature sees fit to do the proper thing by the beet institu tion in our state and plaee it on a par with other first class colleges, just then will our people be only too will ing te send their sons there for their education.” Both our contemporaries miss the point. The Tribune can sta+e the whole trouble and prove it beyond all reasonabledoubt in these words as follows: TOO MUCH POLITICS. Weary of Law’s Delay, The supreme court of United States has decided to issue immediately -a mandate in the Durrant murder case. This will hasten the execution of the arch fiend. The people have grown very weary of the law’s delay in this case. Durrant committed in San Francisco two of the most brutal and revolting murders ever recorded in this country. The crimes occurred in April, 1895. The trial took place about six months later. The evidence was convincing. Durrant was a medical student,with an alleged 'pious turn of mind His victims were two young ladies. Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams, with whom he was associated in Sunday school and at other places. It is al leged that he criminally assaulted and then murdered them in a church. Everything that money and influence could do was done to save the mur derer’s life. His ease passed through every court in California, and to secure further delay was finally taken to the United States Supreme Court, which tribunal on Nov. 8 affirmed the sen tence of the state courts without even so much as thinking it necessary to give the reasons for its action. Now it has decided to issue a mandate for the hastening of the execution of the law. The Philadelphia*Times, tn com menting on Durrant’s case, well says that if criminal law is to be adminis tered with any sort of effect, it is necessary that it be administered with reasonable promptness. Appeals to the higher state courts give more than enough delay; there ought to be some means of preventing motions for delay that can have no other end or purpose. There is also the scandal, in these appeals to the federal courts, that they >re made by lawyers only for the sake of fees and open only to criminals who can command money, while the poor man is hanged by due process of law. While it is not easy to suggest a.statute that would exactly cover this ground, it is certainly pos sible for the United States Courts, which always reach the same conclu sion, to declare it promptly and per emptorily. The sentence on Durrant ought to havo been executed at least a year and a half ago. GOSSIP OF GEORGIA EDITORS, Chronicle has a medical expert on its staff He writes learnedly about "Cirrhosis of the Liver,” serpent cures, “The Floating Kidney. ” Hemor rhagic Fever, “The Deadly Mush room” and like topics. Is Editor Hook about to desert his profession for medi cine? • « « Editor Loyless thinks that the leading question in the Augusta municipal cam paign is whether Macon, or Augusta beer is the best? As Pat Walsh is for the home product, of course, he has the best of it on this point. The entire Georgia press seems de termined to marry Douglas Glessner off, meanwhile, Brer, Glessner, he lay low and say nothing.—Americus Herald. Echoes Still Heard. (Marietta Journal) The Rome Tribune’s Souvenir and Trade ’Edition, of forty pages, beauti fully illustrated, was a most excellent production and a credit to journalism. It advertised Rome in a manner that will be advantageous. Federation of Women’s Clubs. , (Columbus Ledger) The Georgia Federation of Woman’s Clubs has been invited to hold the next annual congress in Columbus, and it will no doubt be the occasion of much social gaiety well as intellectual pleas ure. The Federation works for the broadening of ideas and the advance ment of education and culture and for the growth - and practical exercise of philanthropy. It is a noble aim. %nd the women hold .*o great a part of tfie responsibility of the Well being a*’* ciety upon their own shoulders, no mat ter how averse sOine may be to acknowl edging it, that it is well for them to think of it and realize what a power for good rests with their influence. • , AUSTRALIAN BALLOT SYSTEM, Georgia will take a long step forward if the legislature shall give us the best form of the Australian ballot. It is one of the most important measures, if not the most important, now before that body. The best political reform that can be vouchsafed to the people at this time is ballot reform of the right kind.—Ma con Telegraph Wherever the Australian ballot has been adopted—and all but a few states have adopted it—it has worked great re forms. It has come nearer giving se curity to the voter than any other sys tem. It has driven from the polls, to a great extent, the ward heeler, the bold intimidator and the corruptionist. Georgia needs such a law, and she needs it at once. Let this legislature do creditjto itself and to the statejby mak ing Mr. Felder’s bill, or one on the same line a law.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Georgia will soon adopt the Austra lian ballot system. That is a step up for Georgia—Birmingham Ledger. Georgians will be glad to know that the general assembly is making an hon est effort to give the state the Australian ballot.—Savannah Press. Lunatics to Displace Legislators, The Brunswick Times is getting ex ceedingly sarcastic. It suggests that the homeless lunatics at Milledgeville be sent to Atlanta to act as substitutes in the legislature.—Americus Herald. One-third of the fools in the country think they can beat the lawyers in ex pounding the law; one half think they can beat the doctors healing the sick; two-thirds think they can beat the ministers preaching the gospel, and all of them think they can beat the editor running a newspaper, truth fully says an exchange. The Chattanooga News wants every southern congressman to go to Wash ington loaded fora national quaran tine law. What's the Use. What’s the good of always fussing About something we cannot enre? As if growling and complaining Could n-ake our troubles fewer. Suppose all things don’t go our way, Grumbli g won’t change them much; But, instead, make everything seem wrong That we may chance to touch. Let’s q nit comp'ainlug about the way That thts old world is run— Instead of a'wrys finding fault, Let’s mix in a little fun And we’ll find that half our troubles Never really did exist; But, when warmed np by a light heart. B< come a transparent mist. —Coosa River News, Have You Examined The Nice Things AT LESTER’S Call and get waited on by polite clerks and get prompt delivery. Fresh fruits, domestic and im ported ; fresh cereals, new jams and preserves, sweet pickled peaches, home-made miuce meat, ginger preserves, boneless sardines, boneless canned hams. 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