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read in thousands of households
where THE ROME TRIBUNE
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General Manager,
Enforce the law.
P ant more wheat.
Judge Branham.
Alabama and Arkansas will prohibit
football playing.
Let all good citizens of Georgia
stand by the law.
Star chamber sessions are not popu
lar with newspaper men.
Secretary Wilsonia evidently a very
scientific farmer—on paper.
Col ambus had the last football game
in Georgia on thanksgiving day.
Atlanta newspaper men to Judge
“Sphinx” B- 1 u»- ? 1-»? ?*- i ill
Augusta’s song: “There’ll be a hot
time in this old town today”—we wont
wait for night.
Some women in Georgia have done
all they could to save Mrs. Nobles.
Now let her hang.
The editorial epithets being applied
to the legislature might have been
selected from Brann’s Iconoclast.
Floods of talk—congress, Georgia
legislature and arrangements for
another Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight.
No maudlin sentiment should sway
any of the “Bisterin” in the Nobles
case. The old woman must be hanged
for her crime.
Judge Branham has resolved him
self into an executive session since
-Saturday. The doors are staying
closed a long time.
If Gov. Atkinson should dare to
listen co any appeal in the case of
Mrs. Nobles, how can we hope to keep
down mob law in Georgia ?
The Pullman car porter who at
tempted to rob a passenger of an
amount variously stated from $39,000
to $42,000 evidently was tired of smal
tips. ’
Not one member of The Tribune
staff cares for, or would accept a place
on “The Atlanta-Branham Daily Mil
lionaire.” There is enough glory for
us in getting out a bright newsy paper
like The Tribune. •
Mrs, Myrick declares that her name
must not be used in* connection with
Che governorship. But Mrs. Myrick
might not object to becoming mistress
of the governor’s mansion.—Baxley
Banner. We are sure that if she ever
should, she would grace the executive
mansion as its mistress, as few women
have ever done. She would godown
dn history as the “Dolly Madison” of
"■Georgia.
Let Mrs. Nobles Be Hanged.
After having been given every ad
vantage under the law the highesi
tribunal in the land—the United 8 aces
supreme eoprt -says that Mrs. Nobles
must be hanged.
We trust no further effort will bi
made to delay the execution of the
sentence for one of the most brutal,
cold-blooded and diabolical murders
in the history of Georgia. All the evi
dence shows Mrs Nobles to be a
wicked,bloodthirsty old fiend with the
devil incarnate in her soul. In June
1895—over two years ago—she assisted
by a negro man whose relations to
her and her daughters were peculiar
to say the least, murdered her hus
band. Fearing that the negro had
not killed ,the one whom she should
have cared for more than all others,
she used an ax to further brain him,
and to be sure that he was dead.
No mitigating circumstances.
Not one.
There should be no meicy now. No
appeal to the governor. Let justice
prevail.
If Mrs. Nobles and her accomplice
Gus Fambles are not hanged let us
hold no more courts for trial of mur
derers in Georgia, but let mob law
rule.
Anent this subject The Charleston
News and Courier says: “it is safer
for a white man to commit murder in
South Carolina than to steal a horse;
to shed blood than to forge a note; to
attack the person than to trespass upon
property. The hip pocket is to blame.
“We go armed not for fear, but for
resentment.” In the fifteen years
ending in 1880, according to the care"
fully prepared statistics of Mr. Red
field, 40,000 homicides were committed
in the southern states. In the year
1878 more homicides were committed
in South Carolina than in the eight
States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver
moot, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Michigan and Minne
sota."
This is a terrible record.
One reason why there are so many
murders committed in that state is
thus explained by the News and
Courier: “White men commit murder
in South Carolina, but white men
are not hanged for murder in South
Carolina. Some loophole is always
found for their escape. Public opinion,
as expressed by the verdicts of the
juries, is almost invariably with the
survivors, and what the juries fail to
do for the promotion of homicides is
done by the executive exercise of the
pardoning power,”
Does Georgia desire such a terrible
record? »
Do we desire to put down mob law?
Let the law be enforced.
Let crime be punished. »
Let murderers be executed.
Let the courts do their full duty if
they would be respected.
Let there be no interference to pre
vent the execution of the sentence by
the pardoning power after the courts
have acted with due deliberation.
The law will be respected when It
is duly enforced.
The Causes of Poverty,
“The causes of poverty” is the sub
ject of a paper by the late Francis A.
Walker in the December Century.
General Walker says:
“In the first place, I should without
hesitation say that easily chief among
the causes of poverty is the hard con
ditions of the human lot as by nature
established. The prime reason why
bread must be so dear, and flesh and
blood so cheap, is that the ratio of
exchange between the two has been
fixed in the constitution of the earth,
much to the disadvantage of rhe latter
When it is written that God cursed
the ground and bade it be unfruitful,
bringing forth briers and thorns, that
man should only eat bis bread with a
dripping brow, the Scripture does not
exceed the truth of the unceasing and
ever-painful strugg e for existence.
"Taking it by and large, it is a hard,
cold, and cruel world, in which li'tle
h to be got except by toil and anguish;
and of that little not all can be kept
by any degree of care and pains.
There are, indeed, regions where the
earth spontaneously brings forth fruit
enough for a small population, and
where a moderate effort will largely
increase that product, while the cli
mate is so benign that life is easily
protected from exposure But these
are not the regions where man ever
has, or seemingly ever can, become a
noble being; and even here, in the
midst of tropical plenty, the serpent
stings; the tiger prowls at night around
the village; the earthquake and the
tornado work their frightful mischief;
chole>a and malar!. kill their mil
lions; while every few years gaunt
famine stalks over the land, leaving it
cumbered with corpses.
"Throughout the regions inhabited
by our own race life is a terribly
IHE ROME TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER !. 1897.
dose and grinding struggle. From
four to seven months the earth lies
1< eked up in frost, and its wretched in
habitants cower over the scanty fire
and try to outlast the winter. When
summer ojieus it is to a harsh soil that
the peasants resort to win the meant,
scanty at the best, of barely preserv
ing life. Sterility is the rule among
the soils of earth, mountain and plain
-dike. The exceptions are a compara
tively few fertile valleys in which
are concentrated the productive es
sences of nature. The literature of
primitive peoples is ever telling the
s r ory of this unceasing- wrestle with
the hard conditions of existence, and
the same dreary tale is repeated down
to our own day. Aleman, the Greek,
calls spring “the season of short fare,’’
and less than forty years ago the Irish
peasant spoke of “the starving season”
which immediately preceded the har
vest of the year. If, then, you com
plain of poverty, make your complaint
manfully and squarely against the
Maker of the earth, for poverty is
largely bis work. The socialist is sim
ply dishonest when he charges hu
man misery upon society. Society has
done vastly more to relieve misery
than to create it.”
Miss Cain's Candidacy,
A strong influence is at work to secure
the appointment of Miss Edna Cain as
assistant state librarian. Miss Cain is
eminently qualified for the position,
and deserving of any recognition within
woman’s grasp. By virtue of every sur
rounding that strengthens a claim, her
ambition appeals to the good will of
Librarian Brown, and is impressed by a
cordial endorsement from every section
of the state, that should have its weight.
The Advertiser has no knowledge of
any embarrassment that may surround
Mr. Brown in such appointment, and
therefore, is slow to urge any act of his;
but in the appointment of Miss Cain he
would subserve a very strong senti
ment. —Brunswick Advertiser.
One Way of Looking at It.
(New York ’ reus)
It cost the state of Georgia just $1,500
for a three-minute prayer yesterday.
Wnen a motion was made on Wednes
day to adjourn the legislature until Fri
day, so that all might observe Thanks
giving day, a spirit of stubbornness
seized upon the rural members, who
forced an adjournment until yesterday.
When the house was called to order
yesterday not more than a dozen seats
were filled. During prayer four more
stepped in, and immediately on the
chaplain’s retirement a motion to ad
journ was parried. The $1,500 is the
total of the members’ pay for the day.
Gigantic Old Humbug
Here follows the Chicago News just
Characterization of a gigantic humbug:
“lam surprised over the silence of
the Daily News about Ingersoll. He
shouldbernn outof the <ountry.”-Mrs.
C. P. W., in a long letter to the editor.
But why should the Daily News waste
space railing at this old oratorical fakir?
No sane, orderly person believes in
him—he does not himself believe in the
dribble he drolls for SI,OOO per droll
Most folk making up an Ingersoll audi
ence are there for the same reason that
the next night they are at the farce
comedy or cheap vaudeville. Nothing
serious about Ingersoll. He never
caused a church or ah orphan asylum to
fail; he never made a good man bad, or
a bad man good; he has never given an
iota of benefit to human progress, nor
has he ever been able to stay the march
of truth. Why get excited over old bald
headed Bob and demand that he be
“rnn out of the country?”
Kissed Her on a Bet.
(Louisville Courier-Journal.)
A clever trick was worked by Walter
Redmond and his wife yesterday morn
ing at Union Station by which several
traveling men were duped out of tbeir
money. At the end of a long seat in the
waiting room was a pretty and modest
looking young woman attired in a salva
tion army uniform, She was very in
tent upon a paper which she was read
ing and paid little attention to the
crowd of traveling men standing near
her.
Aside from the crowd was a well
dressed young man, who was walking
back and forth by the news stand puff
ing away at a fragrant cigar. Finally
a member of the crowd of traveling
men remarked upon the beauty of the
littlS Salvation army worker. All eyes
“Old inistrein chest ut once lived in a burr,
P idded and linedtwith the softest of fur.
Jack Frost sp'it it wide with his keen silver
knife,
And turned her out at the risk of her life.”
Bay your fresh Nute, Raisins,
Prunes Citron, Lemon and Orange
peel. Mince Meat, Plum Padding
Preserves. Jams Pickles, Ferris
Hams and breakfast bacon, Teas
and Coffees, (resh crackers, olives
in glass or bulk all very nice and
good attention given at the old post
office corner.
LESTER’S
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga.
were fixed on the little woman and she
received many compliments. The pros
perous-looking young man who had
been walking near the group of drum
mers near to the crowd. He, too, was
struck with the appearance of the
woman.
"I’ll go any one of you fellows sls if
you kiss that girl, ” said he.
None in the crowd took the dare.
One spoke up however, and said to the
stranger who bad offered the money:
*l’ll bet yon S2O that you can’t kiss
her. ’ ’
The stranger hesitated for several
seconds and then said:
“I’ll just take that bet'”
Toe money was put up and the stran
ger. who had given his name as Walter
Redmond walked over to the little
woman in uniform, and after bowing
profoundly took a seat by her side.
At first the women seemed to be very
indigbant, and the traveling man
thought he had the S2O won. A minute
later, however, Redmond’s arm stole
around the woman’s waist. The specta
tors then oegan to open tbeir eyes wide.
One of them said: “That fellow has a
whole lot of influence over that girl. It
may be that he is a hypnotist.” Red
mond talked for probably two minutes
and then kissed the woman.
Redmond walked over to the stake
holder and received his money. He
then started from the depot.. The little
woman quickly arose from her "Beat, and
taking his arm, walked to Ninth and
Broadway, where the conple took an
East Broadway oar. Redmond is tall
and handsome. His wife is a blonde
and is exceptionally pretty.
Fifteen thousand employes of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain
railroad systems whose salaries were
cut from five to twenty per cent in
1893, owing to the prevailing hard
times, have b a en made by a procla
mation issued <by President George
Gould restoring wages to their former
basis. The raise included men whose
salaries varied from S4O per month to
SIO,OOO per year. The increased sala
ries were entirely unexpected.
The Savannah Press says: “Hon. R.
A. Denny of Rome is making a
record in the town council. He is
keeping the city clean and is developing
into a regular Waring.” The Press
is correct, and we will have the cleanest
city in the south before he gets through.
The law makers of Georgia have
pissed a law prohibiting foot ball in
that state and it now awaits the sig
nature of the governor. Georgia can
always be (counted on to do the right
thing at the proper time.—Gadsden
Times News.
“The miserable scoundrel who sent
out the false reports about the lynch
ing of the negroes from Waycross and
Jesup ought to be punished,” says
the Atlanta Commercial. If we had
him in Rome we would fix him.
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