The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
The Rose of Dixie

The Rose Of Dixie maga-
,AN( zine was started by stock
WV company in Toombs City,
4 Georgia, there was never but
one candidate for its chief editorial Po-
1ition in the minds of its owners. Col
Telfar was the man for the
hplace. BY all the rights of learning,
aamily. reputation and southern tradl,
'4ions. he was its foreordained, fit and
lopical editor So committee OF the
oatriotic Georgia citizens who had SUB.
Scribed the founding fund Of 100000
Vailed upon Colonel Tclfalr AT his resi-
'aence. Cedar Heights, fearful lest the
Enterprise and the south should suffer
,5y his possible refusal.
i, The colonel received them in his
trreat library, where he spent most Of
sis davs The library had descended to
.3im from his father 1t contained ten
Thousand volumes, some of which had
-been puhlished as late as the year
1861. When the deputatlon arrived,
,scolonel Telfair was seated at his mas
l;ive white-pine comfortable, reading
Burton s Anatomy Of Melancholy. He
arose and shook hands punctlllously
with each member of the committee:
df Won were familiar with The Rose OF
5Dixie you viii remember the colonel S
.portrait, which appeared in 1t from
rlime to time You could not forget the
Gong, carefully brushed white hair; the
: booked, high -bridged nose, slightly
iwisted to the left; the keen eyes un-
Her the still black eyebrows; the classic
mouth beneath the dropping white mus
.riacbe, slightly frazzled at the ends.
n The committee solicitiouslv Offered
Ehim the position of managing editor,
,Aumbly presenting an outline Of the
Yield that the publication was designed
70 cover aud mentioning comfortable
lalary The colonel S lands were grow
/, ne poorer each year and were much
|! iut up by red gullies. Besides, the
tAonor was not one to be refused.
! In forty.minute speech of accept
IFmce, Colonel Telfair gave an outline
cs.f English literature from Chaucer TO
ssAIacaulav. re-fought the battles OF
s,han ellorsville. and said that, God
,laeIping him. he would so conduct The
f2ose Of Dixie that its fragrance and
r5eauty would permeate the entire
.,rorld, hurting back into the teeth OF
a-,he northern minions their belief that
40 genius or good could exist in the
Jarains and hearts Of the people whose
siroperty they had destroyed and whose
M5ehts they had curtaied.
y = iJ1llfSh itl iuF IidEdE4u' NtlC POI
Mitioned off and furnished in the sec
ssp9rid floor OF the First National Bank
h, ,,,uilding: and it was for the colonel to
pause The Rose of Dixie to blossom
n md flourish or TO wilt in the balmy air
the land Of flowers.
IThe staff Of assistants and contrib
NJ tors that Editor Colonel Telfair drew
wkbout him was q peach, Tt was a whole
mnrate OF Georgia peaches. The first as
ssSistant editor. Tolliver Lee Fairfax
81 sad had father killed during Pick
ge It 9 charge The second assistant
, u5eats Unthank, was the nephew Of one
.Mf Morgans Raiders The book re
,ur lever, Jackson Rockingham, had beer
y, Youngest soldier in the Confederate
d,i my, having appeared on the field Of
% r3ttle with q sword in one hand and {
Tx bottle in the other. The art ed
or, Roncesvalles Sykes, was third
vsausin to nephew Of Jefferson Davis
he riss Lavinia Terhune, the colonel
Ter senographer and typewriter, had az
Want who had once been kissed b.
ntM@ M@}onewal Jackson, Tommy Webster
e, pe head office-boy, got his job by hav
- n q recited Father Ryan S poems, com
,ours ete, at the commencement exercise
hey Z the Toombs City high school. Tn
u prls who wrapped and addressed tn
,ons agazine were members Of old south
psp'rn families in reduced circumstances
:. he cashier was Il scrub named Haw
Iss hns, from Ann Arbor. Michigan, wh
Thetd recommendations and a bond fror
Fm guarantee company filed with tn
Bssvners. Even Georgia stock comps
ce ges sometimes realize that 1T take
c.srs5e ones to bury the dead.
ssotb satjb We'll, sir, if you believe me, The Ros
: q Dixie blossomed five times befor
~ Nv r1 - nj
rlpg pho buy their hooks and eyes j
le H9jombs City. Then Hawkins climbe
me, Il his stool and told on 'em to tn
sns tock company, Even in Ann Arbor h
ss,a I'D been used to having his bushes
' Dpositions heard Of at least as ia
as Detroit. So an advertisin
Inager was engaged = Beauregar
n Lzhugh Banks, a yonng man in q La
Y<der necktie, whose grandfather ha
5en the exalted high pillowslip {
lR5kgt Kuklux Klan.
sSfl[n spite of which The Rose of Dix
ssSEe pt coming out every month. A
sMllS Iugh in every issue il ran photos
her the Tai Mahal or the Buxe1
Gardens, or Carmencita or
lette, n certain number of peop
light it and subscribed for it. AS
p~svpm for it, Editor Colonel Telfair rs
gof diffeFent ai6 rent. veTs sTi of AndTsw JAG
Fpage engraving OF the second ba
tof Manassas, entitled "Lee to Il
rl' and five-thousand word bio
ny Of Belle Boyd in the same nuI
The subscription list that mon
Tanced lls, Also there were poer
III fhe same issue by Leonina Wash
AxNuEicot Open name). related to t.
FgIIPeots Of Charleston, South Car
AAsr and Bill Thompson, nephew of o.
the stockholders And an artic
toNeW a special society corresponds
Nfieing a tea party given by +
assilV'fl Boston and English set, where
oi tea was spilled overheard
OF the guests masquerading
rice ne day person whose breath von
uy cloud a mirror, he was 50 mu
'e entered the office Of The Rose
te. He was a man about the si
real estate agent, with self-ti