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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. •rriOK-xo. sst br,,ad street, up STAIRS. TELEPHONE 78. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Dally, Exoapc Monday.) One Year 86.00 Oae Month •••.•J® Six Months 3.00 One Week -.U Three Months-... 1.601 Weekly.peryeax-1 00 Delivered by mail or by city carriers free of Charite. All subscription strictly in advance. Ties Tbibum* will appreciate news from any community. If at a small place where It ha" no regular correapondent, news re porta of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc, made payable to THE BOMB TRIBUNS, Romk Ga. rytje W’arld Is Iflipel Thus spoke the man whose advert tisement was being regularly read in thousands of households where THE ROME TRIBUNE is considered to be the authority for their purchases as well as their news. For the field ered by The Rome Tribune is a wide one, and an advertiser ment in its columns every day is sufficient to make business good anywhere,' The Official Organ of The City of Rome, The Sheriff. The Ordinary, The Countv Commissioners, and publishes regularly all legal advertisements emanating from these officials. Write for estv* mates to •W. A. KNOWLES, General Manager, With this weather who ever thinks of ft coal famine? “The “Last Rose of Summer has * not said goodbye. A May day got displaced in Novem ber’s calendar yesterday. The Augusta Herald’s editorial page is able and comprehensive. Dr. Felton: "Strike down the uni versity and you impair and mar the of Georgia.” The politicians will ail be at the re. eption of Gov. and Mrs. Atkinson eight at the executive mansion. The Augusta Chronicle presumes ‘from an explanation in the Atlanta ■ ournal that Hon. F.G. dußignon is a Bryan democrat. The chrysanthemum editorial of the SaVannab Press has gone the rounds. Almost every newspaper in the state has republished it. Puck and Judge and other humor ous papers are now caricaturing foot ball. The dangers are depicted as worse than going through a sausage mill. Speaking of the uncertainties of women a Kansas paper says: “When a woman is particularly pleasant to a man he yever knows whether it is be cause she likes, him or does it to tor ment some man she likes better. ” London’s big fire destroyed $25,000.- 000 of property. The Chicago fire in 1871 caused a loss of $196,000,000. What iS known as the great fire of London oo curred in 1661, lasted four days and nights and destroyed five sixths of the city. In New York the other night a young woman weighing 200 pounds, slipped during a waltz and fell upon her escort, killing him. That woman should be arrested for carrying con cealed avoirdupois, says the Chicago Times-Herald. The Boston Herald says "It looks queer to see the Georgia legislators dis -cussing the question of adopting the Australian system of voting at this late day. Why should the empire state of the fouth remain so eoorentic on this subject? It has only three states to keep it company.” The legislature should pass the bill. The Savannah Press wants ex-Con gressman Blount to write a book. It says: “Hon. James H. Blount, of Jones county, has been mingling with the politicians in Atlanta. He repre sented the Macon district in congress a number of years. Mr. Blount should write a reply to Mr. Blain’s book, ■“Twenty Years of Congress.” Two Sessions Each Day, In line with what The Tribune has contended for, the legislature has passed a resolution to lengthen the hours of its meetings, Beginning today, two sessions will be held daily. In its report of the legislature’s proceedings on Saturday the Atlanta Constitution days: “On a resolution of Mr. Little, of Muscogee, the lower oody voted to hold two sessions each day. The first session will be from 9 in the morning until 1 o’clock in the afternoon. The after noon session will convene from 8 o’clock until 5 to’ciock. Mr. Little spoke earnestly in favor of his resolntion. He said that it seemed that the mem bers of the legislature should be will ing to devote more time to the business of the state. He thought in consider ation of the large volume of business before the house the two sessions should be held. , Mr. Little suggested Cbdt the morning session be devoted to the convict vuestion and tha after noon session to other business before the house. The resolution goes into effect Tuesday.” This is very proper and was a wise action in the legisla* tn re. Although the convict bill was the special order for last Tuesday and every day thereafter at 11 o’clock only on two days was it called up and then there was nothing but talk. Not an iota of action was taken. The Atlanta Journal dears up the atmosphere of the convict cloud con siderably ‘by publishing interviewb with 107 members of the legislature on this important topic. It was a splendid journalistic feat, and was just what was needed to aid in settling the legislative mind. From what 83 representatives and 24 senators say in the Journal we are lead to believe that there will be a five year lease of the able-bodied convicts, with state control of guards and physicians, the lessees to feed, clothe and shelter them under state regulations and inspec tion with a farm for the women, the boys and the aged and infirm convicts. We trust that now that the legisla ture has shown that it is going to get down to work that great progress will be made on the passage of a bill for the proper disposition of the convicts this week. Autumn Leaves Change in Color, The changing of the leaf is not a sud den and quick response to any single in environmental conditions, but is brought about with a complex interplay of process begun days or perhaps weeks before any external changes are to be seen, says Professor MacDaugel in Harper’s. The leaf is rich in two classes of substances, one of which is of no further benefit to It, and another which it has constructed at great expense of energy, and which is in form of the highest possible use fulness to the plant. To this class belong the compounds in the protop lasm, the green color bodies, and whatever surplus food may not have been previously conveyed away. The substances which the plant* must needs discard are in the form of nearly insoluble crystals, and by remaining in position in the leaf drop with to the ground and pass into that great complex laboratory of the soil, where by slow methods of disintegration useful elements are set free and once again may be taken up by the.tree and travel their devious course through root bains, along the sinuous roots and up through million-celied columns of the trunk, out through the twigs to the leaves once more. The plastic substances within the leaf, which would be a loss to the plant if thrown away, undergo quite a different series of changes. These substances are in the extremes! parts of the leaf, and to pass into the plant body must penetrate many hundreds of membranes of diffusion into the long-conducting cells around the ribs or nerves, and then down into the twigs and sterna The successful re treat of this great mass of valuable matter is not a simple problem. These substances contain nitrogen as a part of their compounds, and as a conse quence are very readily broken down when exposed to the sunlight. In the living normal leaf the green color forms a most effectual shield from the action of the sun, but when the retreat is begun one of the first steps results in the disintegration of the chloro phyll. This would allow the fierce rays of the September sun to strike directly through the broad expanses of the leaf destroying all within, were not other means provided for protec tion. In the first place, when the chlorophyll breaks down among the resulting' substances formed is cyano, pbyll (blue), which absorbs the sun’s rays in the same general manner as the cyloropbyll In addition the outer layers of the loaf contain other pigments, some of which have been massed by the chlorophyll, and others which are formed as decomposition products, so that the leaf exhibits outwardly a gorgeous panoply of colors in reds, yellows and bronzes that makes up the autumnly displays. From the wild riot of tints shown by a large club of trees or shrubs THE BOMK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, I8»7. - . ■■■; . ■'».» i : : the erroneous impression might be gained that the colors are accidental in their occurrence. This is far from the case, however. The keynote of color in auy speeiee is constant, with minor and local variations. The birches area golden yellow, oaks vary through yellow orange to reddish brow,nthe maple becomes a dark red, the tulip tree a light yellow, haw thorns and poison oak become violet, while the sumaes and vines take on a flaming scat let. These colors exhibit some variation in accord with the character of the soil on which the plants stand. The Sur eons and Football, The Medical Record, one of the most responsible medieai journals of tb.e country, takes up the ease of young Von Gammon ki’led in a game of football in Atlanta, and because o f whose death a bill, interesting, to all college students, has been passed by the Georgia general assembly, and says: “The lamentable death of the Geor gia student Gammon as the result of injuries received in a game of football has occasioned the passage of a bill by the house of representatives of Geor gia, making it a misdemeanor to en gage in the game when matches have be a n arranged or gate money has been demanded. The overwhelming ma jority vote of the lower bouse makes it quite probable that the senate will endorse the action and the bill will become a law. If this be the case, Georgia will set a laudable example for every commonwealth or the coun try, The time certainly has come when such a general movement is necessary. * “In view of the great number of accidents on the football field between college teams, it is impossible any longer to view the game in the light of innocent, recreative amusement with harmless and healthful athletics as its object. Although so called slug ging has been ruled out in the new game, there is still left enough of brutal muscular force to make the al leged sport productive of the greatest variety of surgical injuries to every part of the body. In fact, there is hardly a game played in Which some one of the contestants is not mors or less seriously hurt. Only the severer injuries are noted, while the lesser ones serve as enlivening incidents to call forth the plaudits of an excited audience. Short of actual death on the field, not much account is taken of the hundreds of young men who are oftentimes injured for life as the result of the rough and tumble methods of the match. The trainers explain the number ot injuries by the lack of requisite physical preparation for the contest, but, in reality, the more the footballers are trained, the more dangerous becomes the game. "It is certainly time we should look the matter fairly in the face. If we wish to develop pluck, courage, endu rance, and strength, we can do so in more healthful and safer ways. It is time that the new game, with mere weight against weight, should be abolished.” The First Cotton Mill, Several different towns in the United States claim the unique distinction of having erected the first American cotton mill, but from ■ the information tbat can be obtained, it seems tbat the credit properly belongs to the town of Beverly, Mass. The circumstances leading up to this discovery may be of interest to our read ers. Some two or three years ago Mayor Rantoul, of Salem, Mass., was invited to Pawtucket, R. I. to attend the cen tennial exercises held at that place in commemoration of the opening of the famous Slater mill. In sending out in vitations to this centennial event the owners of the mill made the claim that it was the first establishment of its kind ever erected in the Unsted States. For some reason Mayor Rantoul was unable to be present at the exercises, but being deeply interested in historical researches, he decided at his leisure to investigate the claims of the Pawtucket mill owners. This investigation led to the discovery tbat the old cotton mill at Beverly, Mass., which was burned down in 1838* had been in operation for several years prior to the establishment of the mill at Pawtucket, and tbat no less a witness than General Washington himself could be cited in confirmation ot the facts. It seems that General Washing’on, while on a totfr es the New England states in 1789 made a visit to the old Beverly cotton mill, and was so impress ed with the novelty of the spectacle that he devoted several pages of his diary to its description. This old diary is still to be found among General Washington’s papers. As the researches of Mayor Rantoul seemed to settle the matter beyond all controversy, the residents of Beverly, Mass., have recently caused a handsome tablet to be erected on the site of the old mill, commemorating the establish ment of the first enterprise of its kind ever inaugurated in the United States. —-Dixie Home and Manufacturer. Trade in Rome Is brisk these days. For Assistant librarian, (Jonesboro Enterpri.e) The Enterprise earnestly‘hopes that State Librarian Brown can see hip way clear to appoint Miss Edna Gain oi Chattooga county, as his assistant. Mies Cain isemlnently cable and deserv ing. She has abundant tact and talent, and we are confident tbat she would fill the position in the most creditable manner. Miss Cain is a young woman far above the average in character, intelligence and experience. She is womanly in the highest and best sense, but she is active and self-reliant and has already achieved no little in the field of endeavor. No applicant possesses more excellent fitness or ability than this air and clever young Woman, and if Librarian Brown will give her the appointment he will win the thanks of a host of Georgians] and increase the efficiency of his administration. Proper Person for the Place, (Savannah News) Another lady offers her services as as sistant librarian of the state. She is Miss Edna Cain, an associate editcr of the Summerville News. The office seems, by general consent, to be reserv ed to the gentler sex, and with the in dorsements which Miss Cain has, it would seem that she is the proper per son for the place. Thb Rome Tribune, in an editorial indorsing Miss Cani’s candidacy, says: "In every way Miss Cain, a native North Georgia girl, is eminently qualified for the position. She is bright, quick, experienced, well read and self-reliant. Withal she is a thoroughly womanly young woman.’’ It Is All Perhaps, (Spring Place Jitnplecute) Hon. Watt Harris may be a candidate for a congress, but will he ever be a con greessmau? We think 'not, if he and his friends base their hopes of realizing this high gift in the next campaign. Mr. Maddox is too firmly implanted in the confidence of the people to be swapped off just yet. They know him. He has been firm and true and the people of the seventh are too sensible to try any experiments in these trying times. Per haps, when clouds lift, Mr. Harris’s claims may be considered. Perhaps. Straws Show Which Way The Wind Blows. Little children get proper attention at MR. LESTER’S. Sweet peach pickles and preserves please the most fastideous, Teas and coffees to please the people Home-made mince meat, very nice. Boneless sardines, bam and codfish, canned asparagus, okra and toma toes, Peas, Beans, mushrooms, Hun garian sweet pepper, apricots, plums, and cherries in glass. Call at LESTER’S Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga I If your Watch Don’t keep Time carry it to JOE VEAL, 205 BROAD ST. BENH FOR MY CATALOGUE OF CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES in STERLING SILVER. If you are conteniplutina purchases for the HOLIDAY SEASON. Charles W. Crankshaw, Jeweler, XX WHITEHALL ST.. ATLANTA GA. W. M. GAMMON & SON. Men’s Fine Cloves. W. M. Gammon & Son have for this season the hand somest and most complete line ot men’s fashionable gloves they have ever shown. Silk Lined ;Paris made kids in all the new shades. Per rin’s French kids in latest styles. Mocha kids in all sizes. . Buckskin driving gloves. Buckskin gauntlets, Dogskin driving gloves, Fur Lined combination gloves for cold weather. Fire proof Hogskin gloves for railroad men; Boys’ gloves in all styles —in fact we have everything in gloves that is new and de sirable; prices reasonable. We have what you want in everything that a man, boy or child can wear. No old goods. If you want a glove, hat, suit, shoe, tie, under wear or neckwear, recollect we have the thing you want —standard goods, latest stlye, of best quality, at a price you can afford. Sood goods at reasonable prices are what you need, and we have them. W. M. Gammon & Son, Dealers in everything a man’or’boy wears. Robt. W. Graves & Co. The Glorious Bird, nit the eagle, but the turkey—isn’t I '-s’ ’''' 7 A4 worth much for your Thanksgiving dinner unless it’s well cooked ; and, y o lj no matter how excellent your chef c H or domestic, unless the fire is good the results will oe dire indeed. r a That’s where we come in—coal that IR wf|_Jt will burn, make a hot fire and make life worth the living. Yard, Southern Railway. Telßphonesj^^,ff ot , BO Your Physician Aims To put all his knowledge, experience and skill into. the prescription he writes It is an oHer for the combination of remedies ycur case demands. , Pure and Reliable. He cannot rely on results unless the ingredients are pure and reliable and are properly compounded. Bring your prescriptions to the ROME PHARMACY, Where is carried one of the best stocks of drugs in town, and a complete line of Squibbs’ Shemicals for prescription use. Everything of the purest quality that money can buy or experience select. Prescriptions compounded By a careful and experienced prescriptionist. Everything at reasonable prices. Rome pharmacy, 309 Clark Building, Broad Street, Rome, Ga.. JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier. P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President. FIRST NATIONAL BANK ROME. GEORGIA Capital and Surplus $300,000. AU Accommodations Consistent With Sa's Banking* Ex tended to Our Customers, Men's Fine Shoes. The handsomest styles, the most beautifully finished and most durable and elegantly fit ting shoe yet pro duced is Edwin Clapp’s Fine Hand Sewed Shoes. J?’! W. M. Gammon & Son have them in all the new and stylish shapes. As Stetson’s’ name stands for the finest hats. Edwin Clapp’s stands, for the finest shoes in Amer ica. We are agents for both..