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Vol. 11.
Rosalie, the Prairie Flower.
On the distant prairie, where the heather
wild,
In its quiet beauty lived and smiled,
Stands a little cottage, and a creeping vine
Loves around its porch to twine.
In that peaceful dwelling was a lovely
child,
With her blue eyes beaming soft and mild,
And the wavy ringlets of her flaxen hair
Floating in the summer air.
Chorus: —Fair as a lily, joyous and free,
Light of that prairie home was she,
Every one who knew her felt the
gentle power,
Os Rosalie, the prairie flower.
On that distant prairie, when the days were
long,
Tripping like a fairy, sweet her song,
With the sunny blossoms, and the birds at
play,
Beautiful and bright as they;
When the twilight shadows gathered in the
West,
And the voice of nature sank to rest,
Like a cherub kneeling seemed the lovely
child,
With her gentle eyes so mild.
But the summer faded, and a chilly blast
O’er that happy cottage swept at last,
When the autumn song-birds woke the
dewey morn,
Little prairie flower was gone !
For the angels whispered softly in her
ear,
“Child, thy Father calls thee; stay not
here.”
And they gently bore her, robed in spotless
white,
To their blissful home of light.
Chorus :—Though we shall never look on
her more,
Gone with the love and joy she
bore,
Far away she’s blooming in a fade
less bower,
Sweet Rosalie, the prairie flower.
Southern Homes.
We give, on this page, an illustra
tion of a southern home of the old
style. We suppose the fact that we
have been reared in the south has
something to do with our ideas on the
subject; but we will confess, very
frankly,that we have always admired,
and still admire, the style according to
which houses were built by the weal
thier class of people in the south before
the war.
The long piazzas and tall Corinthi
an columns have always impressed us
as presenting an appearance which
was not only pleasing to the eye but
imposing to the mind. Our childhood
.days were spent in just such a house,
and if we ever build a residence we
intend to let’modern ideas take aback
at
seat and have one with a piazza K and
A humorous dare-devil —ttie very man to suit my purpose. Bulwee.
“OLD TIME MEMORIES” NUMBER.
columns like those above referred to.
There are some things about the old
regime in the south which we take
great pride in retaining, and the wri
ter confesses that the old style of ar
chitecture has some features about it
which he has no desire to wean him
self of an attachment for.
The cut herewith shown is of a resi
dence in Marietta, Ga. There are
several more in that beautiful little
city which are similar in style, and
they are among the attractions of the
place.
The National Car and Locomotive
Builder has a very good picture of the
Western & Atlantic engine, the “Gen
eral,” which was stolen by the Federal
spies April 12, 1862. Thus the great
and good Western & Atlantic is rapid
ly and surely enlarging its space in the
temple_pf fame.
ATLANTA, CA., AUGUST 15, 1887.
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A SOUTHERN HOME OF THE OLD STYLE.
Gentlemanly Courtesy.
A lady was sitting in a train on the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, talking
to a gentleman who was on the same
seat with one of the officials of the
road. Bhe made some remarks, in
talking to the official’s comrade, which
were somewhat derogatory to the road,
and also were incorrect in point of
fact. After the train arrived at desti
nation the official was asked why he
did not correct her statements, which
were made either in ignorance of his
presence or with the intention of draw
ing him out, or at least of wounding
his feelings.
“No, sir,” was the reply, “if she
was ignorant of my presence I had no
disposition to embarrass her by turn
ing around and making myself known.
If on the contrary she knowingly
madejhe statements, with the inten-
tion of causelessly making me feel a
little badly, then I will confess that I
had no disposition to descend from the
level of a gentleman simply because
she voluntarily disregarded lady-like
manners.”
Major Presstman’s Fate.
Any one who reads Johnston’s Nar
rative, in which is shown the version
of the operations of the Atlanta cam
paign by the highest authority on the
Confederate side, will note several ref
erences to Major Presstman, Chief of
Engineers of the Confederate Army.
He had charge of the construction
of the fortifications which the army
successively fell back behind. At
Resaca, at Kennesaw Mountain and
at other points he is mentioned by
Gen. Johnston in the above connec
tion.
We had never known what had
become of Major Presstman until we
learned while in conversation with a
gentleman who was in General John
ston’s army in 1864, and who is now
very prominent in railroad circles,
that some time after the fall of Atlanta
Major Presstman, who had gotten into
a state of wretched health, was going
through North Carolina to, we think,
some point in Virginia. He was in
the act of boarding a train at a station
in North Carolina, and was walking
down the track to reach the platform
of the car which was on an adjoining
track, when in the darkness of the
night a freight train was backing up
on the track on which he was walking.
Major Presstman was suddenlyi knock
ed down by the rear car of the freight
train, and before he could recover
himself was run over and terribly
mangled. He was dead within a very
few minutes. This sudden close of a
life full of so much usefulness was
greatly deplored by all who knew
him.
Magnificent scenery is viewed from
the summits of Kennesaw, Allatoona
and Rocky Face Mountains, directly
on the line of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, and all along the line. of the
Marietta and North-Georgia Railroad.-
The Western & Atlantic Railroad is
knOwii aS. the “old reliable.”
NO. 16.