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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. OFFICE—NO. 387 BRjAD STREET, UF STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (Dally, Except Monday.) One Year J6.oo;One Month Six Month* 3.00 One Week -.U Three Months.... 1.60 | Weekly, per year..l9o Delivered by mail or by city carriers free ot charge. All subscription strictly in advance Thb Tbibunb will appreciate news trona any community. If at a small place where it no regular correspondent, news re ports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc, made p tyable to; THE BOMB TBIBUNB, Roms. Ga. Endorsement From Texas. Frost, Texas, Nov. 23, 1897. W. A. Knowles, Editor Tribune, Rome, Ga.: —Dear Sir: “Enclosed . herewith find check for $6.00 with ex change added, for which credit my subscription to The Tribune. Please accept my congratulations for the great improvement and the success attained by The Tribune under your able management. Your Souvenir and Trade Edition speaks volumes for Rome and the entire South. Os the twenty-seven daily and weekly papers I receive each week none are more highly enjoyed and appreciated than The Tribune. With kindest expressions for your future success, I am, Very truly, Ben H. Johnson. Dictated by B. H, J. Has winter weather really set in? The press of Georgia strongly favors the Australian ballot system. “A Texas editorial greeting: “Good Scorning, have you been shot at?” The newspapers are rapping the leg islature for not acting on the convict question. What is the matter with the Bruns wick Times? It only comes to us semi occasionally. The Macon News and the Birming ham News observed thanksgiving day by taking holiday. ‘‘The day of tbankgiving is over,but we have much to be thankful for al] the year,” says the Augusta Herald. Representative Slaton’s commission will decide that? Chattanooga is in Georgia. But can they get the goods? The Dalton Citizen wants congress to prohibit the sending of ten cent novels through the mails as second class matter. The trade edition of the Ghatta nooga News contained twenty eight pages, and was filled with interesting contributions. The Shorter college girls have set tled the question of co education by their debate, of course. Their de cision is against it. Mrs. Kate E. Johnson, of Norton, Kan., has been elected county treas urer on the republican ticket. She owns two good farms, and manages them profitably. The Thomasville Times sensibly philosophizes that “Georgia wants fewer, simpler, and plainer laws, without so many surplus whereases, ' wherefores, and therefores.’’ The Little Rock News, commenting on an item about a New York girl kneading bread with her gloves on, says: “We need bread with onr pants on; we need bread with our boots on, and if our subscribers in arrears don’t pay up pretty soon we shall need bread without anything on.” One of our exchanges the other day said that a one cent daily paper could not succeed in the south. The Bir mingham Ledger is a refutation of 'this. It is a bright, ably edited and newsy paper with 3,535 subscribers, j* is better than a majority of the five cent papers. Only two newspapers in the south oppose the national quarantine on the grounds that state’s rights would be infringed, and even these are probably protesting simply for the purpose of attracting attention. Practically the entire south, and, so tar as we know, the entire nation is in favor of the proposed measure. The October railroad earnings of 120 railroads, operating 100,000 miles of road, were $5,000,000 better than those of September, and nearly 10 per cent greater than those of October of last year. The September railroad earn ings were 14 per eent better than those of September of last year, and the August 12 1-2 per cent better than .those of the corresponding month of 1896. Our Pearls and Pearl Buttons. The pearl discoveries of North Geor gia and this section have attracted a great deal of attention. A number of the pearls have been set in pins and are being worn with pride by Roman ladies and gentlemen. They make beautiful pieces of jewelry, and would make pretty souvenirs to be sold to visitors to our eity. Another use to which the brilliant hued mother of pearl mussel shells may be used is in making pearl but tons. A Chattanooga paper says: “ WANT PEARL SHELLS—Secretary Goulding, of the Chamber of Com merce, has received an inquiry from a manufacturer of pearl buttons in Amsterdam. N. Y., about pearl shells along the Tennessee river. The com pany is [desirous of obtaining a num ber of shells from this section.” If some of our pearl hunters should write te some of the pearl button man ufacturers of Anderson, N. ¥., or else where they might find a good market for profitable use of shells. There is no doubt, but that the mussel shell a found in the streams of North Geor gia would make a high grade of pearl buttons.) ■ For Orderly Elections, A very strong demand is being made by the newspapers.of Georgia for the adoption of the Australian,ballot sys tem in Georgia. The bill now before the legislature can be amended if all its provisions are not what our legis lators think Georgia needs. But let us adopt a plan of ballot reform. The secret ballot system wouldjnot‘be ob jected to by any man favorable to honest elections after he saw its work ing. The Americus Herald states the case well when it says: “If the Georgia law makers could spend an election day in any city where the Australian ballot system prevails it would not be thirty days before the system would be in effect in this state. As it is now all is push, pull, crowd around the polls, tabs kept as far as possible on each vote cast, the whole thing done in no less than a disorderly manner. How different it is in other states. No one, except voters and the managers allowed within fifty yards of the booth. The voter goes into the booth, quietly makes up his ticket and deposits it. No crowd, no push, no confusion, and hence no pulling a pur chased ballot up and personally su perintending the depositing of it. If this state wants to purify the ballot it can only be done by the Australian system or one similar to it.’’ We hope to see the Georgia legisla ture take action on this matter at this session. For several years the ques tion has been agitated in Georgia and the people want it. Boycotts and Blacklisting, Recently the United States court of appeals at St. Louis held that a boy cott by labor against capital is a crim inal conspiracy. A few days ago an Illinois state court decided that “blacklisting” by capital against labor is unlawful, and awarded a blacklisted railroad conductor $12,666.33 damages. Noting these decisions the New York World says: “If the boycott were sound in law, then the blacklist wonld also be soon 1. But these courts, deal ing out even justice, have declared the truth that blacklist and boycott are equally odious, equally hostile to democratic institutions and ideas. It is fortunate that these two decisions came so closely together. The object lesson they present will not be lost upon either labor or capital.” It will be noted that the decision against the boycott comes from the federal court and the decision against blacklisting from a state court. Solving the Convict Problem, The convict problem in Georgia is of so much interest now that the fol lowing from the Chicago Times-Herald is to the point: If New York has not solved the convict labor problem it has certainly come nearer to it than any state in the union. The state of New York fur nished this country the first practical solution of the problem of caring for the insane when in 1890 it passed the “state care bill,” providing state care for all the dependent insane, taking them entirely out of the bands of county officials and placing the hos pitals under the control of the state commission of lunacy, thereby re moving them safely beyond the range of politics and politicians. It may be that the distinction of providing the only practical solution of the convict labor problem is also reserved for New York. The new law forbiding the prison authorities to sell the products of the state prison convicts went into effect last January. Three thousand Jeon victs were suddenly made idle at Sing Sing, at Auburn and at Dannemora. Before this law went into effect the convicts had been kept at healthful employment in the manufacture of goods which were sold in competition with the products of free and thus the state prisons were partly self sustaining. The naw law not only declared that THE ROME TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1897. no article manufactured by a con vict should be sold, but it placed upon the prison authorities the obli gation to keep the convicts from go ing insane by giving them some thing to do. The section was not io be construed so as to prevent the legislature from providing that con victs might work for the state and that the produets of their labor might be disposed of to the state. The commission of prisons met the crisis promply and wisely. They found >20,000 persons in the hospitals tor the insane who needed shoes, clothing and bedding. There were also 12,000 members of the national guard who required new uniforms annually; in the minor charitable in stitutions of the state they also found 8,000 persons who needed shoes, cloth ing and bedding. The 3,000 convicts were set to work making these articles for the state. Ab a result, there has been a great transformation in the penal institutions of the state. Sing Sing resembles a vast industrial es. tablishmeni, with sboeshops, tailor shops and furniture factories for the manufacture of desks for the public schools of the state. In addition to this work art classes were formed, limestone cutters were put to work on stones for state build ings, and a big brush factory was started for making scrubbrushes and brooms for the state institutions. The experiment has been an ac knowledged success. The state say g the product of the toil of convicts must not be sold; humanity says the convicts must not be idle. If the prison commission of New York has devised a scheme for enabling the state to reap the fruits of their pro ductive energy without menacing or jeopardizing the interests of free labor it has made a long stride in humane and progressive penology which other states will do well to follow. WHIPS ARE CRACKING. And now they say it will take an extra session of the legislature to settle the convict question. Our law makers have got to solve the problem, and they might as well quit dodging it and get down to business at once.—Valdosta Times. The legislature is wrangling over the convict question. It is given out from Atlanta that in case the body ad adjourns without adopting plate, with a view to an extra session, j the gover nor may refuse to call the extra session. He thinks the work can and should be done at the present session-—Thomas ville Times. An extra session could be i VOld.'d if the members would consent to drop their purely local bills until the convict question was disposed of. It is the most important matter by far before the leg islature, and ought to take precedence of everything else. If the local bills were put off until the- latter part of the session, the determination to have a prompt settlement of the convict ques tion would be much greater. Instead of practically losing Mondays and Satur days because of the difficulty in getting a quorum on those days, work would be carried on vigorously every day in the week—Savannah News. “You do not, then, believe an extra session will be necessary?” I asked Gov ernor Atkinson . “I certainly do not. It will all be settled witbin the next few days. If the present general assembly cannot* decide the matter within the'fifty days allotted, it would hardly be worth while to call an extra session, but it would be better to leave the question to the people for a new deal altogether.” These remarks of the governor throw more upon the situation. He . evi dently believs that the whole problem will be solved within the next week or so, and that the new law will conform in all important particulars to the recommedations of his message. He spoke with entire confidence.—lnter view with Governor Atkinson in Macon Telegraph. * Ode to Autumn, 1 saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ears from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge, nor solitary thorn; Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright, With tangled gossamer that feel by night, Pearling his coronet oi golden corn. Where is the pride of summer—the green prime— The many, many leaves all twinkling? Three On the moss’d elm; three on the naked lime Trembling—and one upon the old oak tree! Where is the Dryad’s immortality? Gone Into mouraful cypress and dark yew, Or wearing the long g oomy winter tarough In lhe smooth holly’s green eternity. —Thomas Hood. Alfred Harper's Letters, (Madison Madisonian) Alfred S. Harper, cue of the brightest young newspapermen of the state press, is now making love to the black-eyed Seuoritas of the far West. He is testing the healthgiving properties of that salu brious dime, and byway of parenthe ses is contributing some charming let ters to his home paper, The Rome Tribune. He is now in Santa Fe. MISS CAIN'S CANDIDACY, Miss Edna Cain, of Chattooga county, is an applicant for thfe position of assis tant state librarian, and if appointed, would doubtless fill the plaee with universal satisfaction. —Cartersville Courant American. It affords The Tinies much pleasure to give its indorsement to the candidacy of Miss Edna Cain for the position of assistant state librarian. She is one of the most competent and deserving young ladies in Georgia. She would make a most excellent official and her appointment would be most acceptable to the people of the whole state. —Cal houn Times. Miss Edna Gain, of the Summerville News, is an applicant for the position of assistant state librarian, and she has the hearty and earnest support of the North Georgia press. Miss Cain is a charming and accomplished young lady, and no better selection could be made by Mr. Brown than this worthy and deserving young woman.—Cedar town Standard. Miss Edna Cain, of Chattooga county, is a candidate for assistant state libra rian. and we doubt not she will make a most formidable competitor. Our rea son is, because she is a most beautiful and charming young lady who is highly accomplished, and we think it wonld take a hard-hearted member of the legislature, either married or single, as well as the crusty old bachelor, to re sist her bewitching appeals and cast their vote against her. Miss Edna is a talented young newspaper writer and we trust she may be successful in get ting the position she seeks. She is a most deserving young lady who is worthy and is well qualified in every re peat to make an excellent assistant. Vote for Miss Edna, boys.—Acworth Post. I It's Time to Kick Against that Rheumatism of yours. Uric acid in the blood is what is causing all A the trouble. al Johnston’s a Sarsaparilla U will purify the blood and re- Tr move the acid; and with it, the cause of your aches £ and pains. Our illustrated book of 36 pages ha* tome interesting chapters on rneuma littn. It’s free tor the asking. Williams. Davis, Brooks A Co.. aJ Detroit, filch. 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