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THE ROME TRIBUNE W. A. KNOWLES, - - Editor. Office: 327 Bboad Stbhet, Uf-Staipb Telephone 73. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. (Daily, Except Monday.) One Year $6.00 I One Month tt Six Months 3.00 One Week ’2 Three Months i.fw I Weekly, per year .$ 10 Delivered by mail or by city carrie-s free of charge. All subscriptions strictly in advance. The Tribune will appreciate news from any community. If ata small place where tt has no regular correspondent, news re ports of ceighbortiood happenings i»oui any friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc , made payable to _ _ THE BOME TRIBUNE, Rome. Ga. 36 PAGES. | To | ♦ Business Men. ♦ T U~WANT your business ♦ ♦ x placed before the reading ♦ , public. Orders received for ♦ advertisements in the J ♦ ROME TRIBUNE ♦ ♦ with an absolute guarantee ♦ that it has the largest cir- 4 j culation of any newspaper Y ♦ published in Nortl. Georgia. ♦ Proof furnished this office > J to the contrary will liquidate Y ♦ the bill for the work. ♦ J Official Advertising Medium J ♦ OF ♦ £ The Sheriff, X ♦ The Ordinary, ♦ ♦ The County Commissioners, ♦ X . The City of Rome, X J The Marshal of Northßome, J ♦ The Marshal of East Rome, ♦ X and publishes regularly all > X Legal Advertisements ema- X ♦ nating from these ♦ «. officials. X A A A A A A A A A AXA A A AAA A AAA A AAA, 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. + 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. I • - ■■ 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.