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North Georgia has all seasons for it
own.
Rome grows in extent and impor
tance every year.
The calamity how’ler is generally a
wolf in sheep’s clothing.
There is no finer summer resort in
the South than our own fair city.
The underhand slanderer is far
worse than the midnight assassin
Fruit growing is proving exceed
ingly profitable in North Georgia.
Everything indicates increased
prosperity for our city and section.
The story of Rome's progress needs
no coloring to increase its attractive
ness.
The strawberry crop in Floyd
county is assuming important propor
tions.
Floyd County affairs aj-e in splen
did shape and peace and plenty reign
supreme.
Higher education increases our ca
pacity for the enjoyment of spiritual
blessings
He who contributes to the building
of a school house creates a legacy for
prosterity.
With the opening of the Coosa
Rome will ha ze 1,200 miles of naviga
ble waterway.
Strangers visitinu the city find our
hotels first class and their proprietors
clever and accommodating.
The rival railroad systems radiate
from Rome, giving us fast advantages
in freight and transportation rates.
In the quality of their literary at
tainments and socialjaccomplishments
the women of Rome are par excellence.
Our jobbing trade covers a terri
tory unequalled by that contiguous
to any point in Georgia of the same
extent.
The men and women who have
made Rome what she is are capable of
far grander accomplishments in days
to come.
The breezes from the hills temper
the heat of summer while the hills,
themselves, protect us from the chill
winds of winter.
The drowning man catcheth at the
straw. So doth the drinking man
man when n 'ere is a. mini julep ar
the other extremity.
OUR BEAUTIFUL EDITION.
The publication of such an edition
as this, at this season of the year,
must necessarily entail upon the pub’
Usher a vast amount of work and ex
pause. But we have found the task
simplified and made much easier
through the hearty co-operat on of
our patrons whose faith is shown by
their works in these pages.
Such a feat as the getting out of
this beautiful Educational and Indus
trial edition could only have been ac
complished by the aid of a people so
enterprising and progressive as those
who have contributed to this great
work. It speaks volumes for the ap
preciation which the people possess
of a worthy cause and for their loy
alty to home and home enterprises.
In the quality of the paper on which
it is printed, the style of the i ress
work and tlie typographical appear
ance, no less than in the ‘"attrac
tive nature of its concents, this edi
tion is something unique in Georgia
journalism. We feel justly proud of
the accom lishinent and rejoice in
the evidences of loyalty and apprecia
tion displayed by our patrons.
The illustrations speak for them
selves. The subject matter will ap
peal to a large circle of readers as the
paper will be sent out to every sec
tion of the union where it will do the
most good, bearing its message of
(progress and development and the
lapidly growing reputation of Rome
and the surrounding country.
Cherokee county, Ala., has fur
nished much of the most valuable
material of which Roman citizenship
is composed and still contributes
largely to our commercial prosperity.
THE PRIDE OF ROME.
The hope of Rome is in the pride
and glory of our educational institu
tions. To them is largely chaigeable
our rapid advancement along the
lines of progressive development.
Shorter college and the public schools
of Rome are doing more f >r the moral,
physical and spiritual development of
the youth of the city than can be es
timated.
There is an air of intellectuality
and refinement that pervades the so
ciety of Rome that is equalled by few
citiesand surpnssed by none in the
country. It animates the men to
higher designs and nobler ambitions
and throws aroun 'the women that
indefinable air of spiritual conge
niality that is beautiful to contem
plate.
Our public school system is perf ct
in its models and equipments and
Prof. J. C. Harris, the efficient super
intendent and his capable faculty,
are untiring in their zealous efforts
to improve the minds of the children
under their charge. The methods of
teaching are of the most modern or
der and the educational advancement
of the pupils is remarkable.
The adding of the High school de
partment has been one of the more
recent acquisitions and much good
has been accomplished through its
influence. Nearly 1.500 children are
now in attendance in the white and
colored schools and the cause of edu
cation is receiving that encourage
ment commensurate with its impor
tance in contributing to the welfare
of the community.
Our public roads constitute one of
the most attractive features of our
many and varied advantages. They
all largely responsible for the rapid
growth of Rome.
THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING.
It is difficult to realize the phenom
enal advancement in the art of news
paper illustrating within a period of
ten years. During that short time
it has grown from an occasional
poorly executed chalk plate portrait
to such elega't and highly finished
half tone engravings as appear in the
pages of this beautiful edition.
We venture the assertion that never
has there appeared in Georgia daily
journalism such an array of high-class
illustrations <. e beautify and adorn
the columns of this splendid specimen
of the printer’s skill. Even the maga
zines, with all their accessories, can
boast no finer portraits than appear
in these pages
Os course such work costs money
and a great deal of it, but The Tri
bunk has set the pace and others
may follow if they like, or be content
to remain in the rear ranks. We are
determined that our city and our
people shall be placed in the fairest
light on every occasion.
These illustrations are as far above
the ordinary newspaper cuts as an
oil painting is above a common
chromo, in point of artistic elegsnce
and we feel very much gratified over
our success in securing such excel
lent work for our elegant edition.
The public schools of Floyd county
| have taken on a new prosperity un
der tin- superintendence of Prof,
.lames D. Gwaltney. He is the right
m id in the right p'ace.
THK ROME TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1»»6,
ROME AS A PLACE TO LIVE.
No city in the world offers more at
tractions ai.d a i vantages to the home
se ker than Rome. It possesses every
qualification «>( soil, climate and sur
roundings that contribute to comfort,
health and happiness. Statisticians
iiive us an exceedingly low mortuary
record, there being no influence prev
alent deleterious to the health of the
people.
Suirounded by a country abound
ingin natural resources agricultural,
horticultural, stock raising, mining
and industrial; there is no laek oi
natural qualifications upon which to
base the highest materia) develop
ment. So favorable is the climate
that all the outdoor vocations may
he pursued under the most favorable
auspices.
The markets are well supplied
through the agencies or an extensive
country trade and tine facilities for
rAnsportation connecting us with
the great commercial centers of th
country. Living is cheap and labor
ers receive good wages for their
work. All the social advantages are
to be found in the highest state of
perfection.
The visitor has but to survey the
inviting prospect to b<- convinced
of the superior attractions of Rome
and the country tributary as a place
of residence. We are securing a large
share of the very best class of emi
grants from other sections, and to all
such our people are ever ready to ex
tern) the generous right hand of fel
lowship.
The true and loyal citizen always
1 gives his town a good name though
he may not have achieved a success
in his calling therein.
OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.
We are glad to congratulate our
i eighbors on the splendid showing
wh ch they make in this isme in the
line of educational advancement.
Rockmart, Fair mount, Cave Spring,
Dallas and Welasca, Georgia; and
Anniston, Piedmont, Jacksonville
and Gaylesville, Alabama. Ail these,
show up well in the discriptions of
their schools and colleges.
They go to show that Rome is the
center of a section that is excelled by
none in the mental acquirements of
its people, and no finer adveitise
ment of the attractions of a country
could be sent out io the world than
this. This is an age of enlightenment
and those communities where schools
and churches most abound will ever
be found in the front ranks of pro
gress
The charge of illiteracy and igno
rance can not longer be brought
against a community where such
splendidly equipped schools are so
loyally and largely patronized. The
men and women in charge of these
schoolsand colleges are all high-class
teachers who have shown their profi
ciency in their profession by the
quality of their work.
We feel very much gratified over
their educational attainments and we
trust that success may attend them
in the future commensurate with the
laudable aims and intentions of their
founders and promoters. There is no
cause more meritorious than that of
higher education and no class of peo
pie more deserving then those who
are engaged in promoting its ad
vancement.
Floyd county stock raisers are set
ting a fine example to other sections
of the state They have found the
business very profitable.
FLOURISHING INDUSTRIES.
To the size of the city Rome can
boast of more successful manufactur
ing industries than any place in the
state. Owing to our peculiarly advan
tageous location the manufactories
from the North and East have found
Rome especially adapted to then
wants in that direction and they have
found it profitable to locate in this
vicinity.
We have now, in active operation
the largest cotton mills, built by East
ern capital, in the state and the qual
ity of the product turned out is of the
very best. The cotton grown in the
fields contiguous to Rome is best
adapted to the production of high
grade goods, and the nearness of the
coal fields renders fuel exceedingly
cheap.
Then, among other big enterprises,
is the Garlock Packing company, the
only manufactory of its kind in the
South, which is being very success
fully conducted. Smaller industries
flourish here, the low rate of taxation
and the many conveniences of loca
tion adding to the adaptability of
Rome for such profitable enterprises
There is room for many more and
every year shows a marked increase
in these industries so essential to the
growth and prosperity of a city. Cap
italists find this a favored field for in
vestment and in the course of a few
years our splendid water powers and
other natural advantages will be still
more fully developed in the establish
! meut of these paying industries.
GRAND OLD SHORTER.
There is no more touching memo
rial of human benevolence in all this
broad land than grand old Shorter
College, the light of whose example
has illuminated such an extended en
vironment. Within those hallowed
halls the mothers of the South have
been trained and instructed in days
that are gone, and now their daugh
ters and grand-daughters are sharing
the same benefits.
Since the day that Col. Alfred
Shorter conceived the noble plan of
establishing and endowing an institu
‘ ion for the education of the young
women of the South up to the present
hour, its influence for good has been
expanding until it encompasses avast
scope and students from many differ
ent states are now receiving instruc
tion there.
Every commencement marks an
epoch in its history when the gradu
ating class bids adieu to the scenes
endeared to-them by so many hal
lowed memories and its members go
o it to their different homes endowed
with all the qualifications essential to
happy and hopeful womanhood. The
alumni of Shorter are fitted to occupy
the most exalted positions in the
hearts and homes of the South.
To Rev. Dr. A. J. Battle, the gifted
and honored president, and his asso
ciates, Prof. Ivy W. Duggan and
Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs, and
the faithful faculty, are due the high
est measure of praise for their fidelity
and indefatigable efforts in behalf of
this noble institution whose influence
is all pervading and shall endure for
ever.
Every year the world finds out
that Norlh Georgia is the goal of the
home seeker.
A NOBLE INSTITUTION.
There is no public institution in"the
state that appeals more strongly to
the sympathies of the people than
theßtate School for the Deaf, at Cave
Spring. It is nearing its semi-centen
nial and during its existence it has
been the means of accomplishing in
calculable good among a class of un
fortunates who are deprived of two
of the most essential faculties of use
ful and happy existence.
Little did Prof Fannin, the noble
hearted philanthropist dream when
he began the work on an humble
scale, that it would expand and grow
to such extensive usefulness. Instead
of becoming a burden upon their
friends or the public the unfortunates
who are taught and trained in that
institution are fitted to fill many posi
tions in life along with their more
fortunate fellows.
The state has been somewhat negli
gent and slow in providing funds for
the equipment and support of the
school, but the devoted superintend
ent, Prof. Wesley O Connor, and the
board of trustees, headed by that able
business man, Hon. Felix ® Corput,
have been able to largelv make up
these deficiencies and to bring the
school up to the highest standard of
excellence.
The location is pre-eminently suited
to the purposes of the school, quiet,
healthy, easy of access and in the
midst of a section producing in abun
dance all the necessaries md many of
the luxuries of life. The school de
serves every encouragement for its
benefits are beyond computation.
The White Star line of steamers
contributes largely to the commerce
of Rome, bringing into our coffers the
riches of the fertile valley of the
Coosa.
A MONUMENT TO METHODISM.
For sixty years Emory College has
stood as a monument to Methodism in
Georgia. It has numbered among its
graduates some of the foremost men
of the South, such masterly spirits as
L. Q. C. Lamar, associate justice of
the United States supreme court,
Bishops Joseph S. Key and the la
mented Atticus G. Haygood, and
others of high renown.
Its healthful situation and admira
ble surroundings are equalled only by
its high literary, social and religious
influences, and the student of Emory
College is given every advantage con
ducive to intellectual, moral, physi
cal and spiritual development. Many
of them occupy high positions as
leaders among men.
Georgians have alright to be proud
of old Emory with its endowment of
$200,000, which is constantly being
added to, and its superb equipment
with everything essential to the
highest development of the youth
who receive instruction from the most
accomplished teachers whose services
can be secured.
The college is pecularly fortunate in
having for its president such a man as
Rev. Dr. Warren A. Candler, a man
endowed with such superior talents
enhanced by long experience and kept
in full play by a soul devoted to such
grand and glorious purposes. Not
only Methodists, but people of every
creed and calling, feel a pride Jin the
success of this noble intistution.
The scent of new mown hay is in
the air.
|SONGS AND SCENES#
The Queen Os Rom’’.
IN ancient days imperial Rome
* Sheltered beneath her palace dome
Her emperors, the wise and great,
Os noble birth and proud estate,
Illustrious in word and deed
Were they, of haughty, high-souled breed.
Some were, whose fameout-li ved the breath
That failing" laid them low in death,
And some of that Ctesarean line
Aspired to attributes divine
To whom the poor plebeians bowed
As if with God-like gifts endowed.
AH, glorious must have been the gift
That to such heights a man couldilift,
The splendor of whose purple robe
Shone radiant over half the globe,
Whose sceptre, even for an hour
Could wield such transcendental power
That of swart Ethiop, Arab, Jew
And haughtiest host of Persia, too,
With Scythian, Sclav, fierce Goth and Hun
And vanquished Vandal, all in one
United nation, none gainsaid
The nod of that imperial head.
6UT they, with all their conquering arts*
Fixed not their rulein human hearts
Save through supine and slavish fears,
The mingled mists of blood and tears,
And every jewel in that crown
A thousand spirits weighted down
While rude oppression’s mill-stones ground
The knife that dealt the fatal wound.
When hope’s horizon, crimson rimmed
The splendor of her glory dimmed
A nd crumbling into dull decay
Rome and her Ciesars passed away.
3 EHOLD the contrast, oh, how bright,
In civilization's fairer light
Compared to Ciesar’s golden throne,
Our modern Rome where each hearthstone,
Can boast its queen raised far above
Those potentates, her sceptre love;
And wreathed about her hallowed head
A crown of roses blushing red
For shame that hues so wan and weak
Should emulate the glowing cheek:
Whose empire is the heart and home,
Where radiant rules the queen of Rome!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Retroap Ct And Prospect.
IN the sweet gloaming time, standing
on the summit of Myrtle Hill the
kindling vision sweeps the environs
of beautitul Rome.
Seated at the confluence of two broad
rivers the prospect embraces a panorama
that is superb in its variant loveliness.
From the distant spires of the Blue
Ridge, hooded with the purple mists, to
the dim vistas that lie convergent in the
south, where the sheen of the wheat
fields is blended with the shadows of
waving woodlands.
Looking back over the half revealed
record of the years that have passed, I
try to reproduce the wonders of the
scene that lay extended before the eager
gaze of DaSoto and his wanderers when
first the vision burst upon them.
On the peninsula between the Oosta
naula and the Etowah stood the wig
wams of the Cherokees and the canoe of
the swart fisherman glided noiselessly
among the reeds and rushes along
the margin of the stately Coosa,
The wanderers must have thought
they had discovered the El Dorado
for which they had been searching.
And for many moons they remained
encamped in the valley west of the
Oostanaula while detailed parties ex
plored the headwaters of the Conne
sauga m search of gold and others sought
the rich mines of Silver Creek for the
argentiferous metal.
The natives were peacable and plenty
reigned supreme over the lush fields
and happy hunting grounds.
Among the shoals of the dashing
Oostanaula DeSoto busied his slaves
searching for the pearl bearing mollusks
and the great shell mounds, faint traces
of which still exist, indicate how assidu
ous were the labors of the explorers in
search of pearls for the white necks of
the senoritas of old Spain.
How richly they were rewarded will
never be known. The rude coffin, sunk
in the turbid waters of the mighty Mis
sissippi, contained the secret of one of
the world’s wildest romances.
Then, in after days, came the shrewd
Scotch trader and the meek Moravian
missionary and the dawn of civilization
displaced the shadows of savagery.
The white mau acquired the witchery
of woodcraft and the red man took upon
himself some of the accomplishments of
his enlightened brother.
Then came Sevier and his cavaliers,
like a mountain torrent sweeping down,
carrying before it the wigwams, the
cornfields and the canoes of the Chero
kees.
Finally came the Englishmen who
settled along the banks of the Savannah
and the saores of the southern sea, and
spreading like a contagion they forced
back the red men until the great hegira
transplanted the Cherokees to the far
west, leaving only white and black faces
among the red hills of Georgia.
The transformation was complete and
the infant city was fed and fostered by
the richest blood of the new republic.
Since those pioneer days there have
been numerous change".
Fire and Hood and withering war have
swept over the devoted city, but it has
grown and flourished in spite of every
opposing influence.
Standing here, today, on the crest of
the hill where the dead of Rome lie’
1 uried, it swells my heart with warm
emotion to behold i, 1 the evidences of
prosperity looming up on every hand
and the most beautiful city in rhe South
spreading over the hill and vales of an
cient Cherokee.
Looking beyond the confines of the
present I perceive still grander gkries
unfolding and the prospect is one to
animate the soul with beauteous dreams.
Al' the mighty forces of enlighten
ment and progress are at work dei elop
ing the natural advantages possessed to
such a superb degree by our fair me
tropolis.
Our wild imaginings can but faintly
conceive of the future that awaits this
city in the years to come.
Majestic in her pride and beauty, em
press oi a fair and fruitful realm, ours
is a city set upon a hill whose example
shall be for the edification of all who
behold her development
The hearts tbat beat for her are the
most loyal and the hands that are work
ing out her destiny are the most untir
ing.
With the dream of the future the
heart grows strong and the soul is en
couraged with hopeful aspirations.
M. M. F.
The negro in the South has shown
a wonderful improvement and has
displayed the racial susceptibility to
moral and < dueational influences in a
marked degree. The Southern peo
ple and the negroes understand each
other and get along well together,
and Rome boasts some of the most
prominent and useful men of the
colored race who are held in high es
teem for their talents and acquire
ments.
By a recent vote congress has
passed an amendment to the immigra
tion law excluding all male persons
between 16 and 60 who cannot read
and write the English language or
some other language. Our law-makers
are gradually coming to a just and
proper appreciation of the advantages
of education in regard to the exten
sion of suffrage.
Prof. E W. Ballenger has done a
great work in the founding ami up
building of Piedmont institute, at
Rockmart. He is a gentleman of
scholarly attainments and untiring
energy and well deserves the su cess
he has attained and richly merits the
continued encouragement of the pub- '
lie.
This week we will send out to our
weekly subscribers, in lieu of The
Weekly Tribune, copies of this
handsome edition which we feel as
sured will meet with the approval of
the large list of subscribers in the
country who are seldom treated to
such a large and handsome periodi
cal.
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The summer peach erop, the fall
cotton crop, the winter shipments of
cattle and the strawberry sales in the
spring; cause a constant circulation,
of cash in the markets of Rome.
The sweetest watermelons in the
world are grown in the valleys of
North Georgia. The sweetest girls in
the world are found on the the streets
of Rome.
The religious denominations are
well represented by magnificent
churches and large and rapidly in
creasing congregations in our beauti
ful ciiy.
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Life and property are safer among a
people who support the schools and
attend the churches than where God
lessness and illiteracy prevail
The cotton plant thrives in North t
Georgia and the cotton mill plant
grows luxuriantly in Rome. «
Commencement days are at hand
and none surpass the fair girl gradu
ate of Shorter.
Our smokehouses and corn cribs are
a reputation of the calumnies of the
cracker.
We have our rivers but they are
safely bridged.
The Country Lane.
THE country lane! I know no place
Which shows Jehovah's brush’s trace
in freer line and color.
Beside the rail fence elders lift
Their white palms to the sun; the shift
Os shade below limns on the turf
A devilfish beneath the surf;
A moth in black and white goes by.
A nnn that flees her nunnery;
Across the fields low voices come
From heaven’s holiest blessing*, home;
While near where smells the curing hay.
The wild rose dre inis the day away
as Nature’s fair Maud Muller.
The country lane! It has a part
Within the memory of each heart, U
And hints of dreams and flowers. tt
It leads us each back now and then
To some dear Griggsby's Station, when I
We fain would rest and wander far
From where our daily worries are. tt
Though maybe years their leaves have shed
Upon the track which we would tread,
*Tis yet a joy to wander through
Its depths as we were wont to do;
A id G.»d be thanked for theold lane j
That leads us buck again, again.
To childhood's sa -red bowers!
Win T. Hale.