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bggatowß ^ > f \J\J == =^^ i^ =& 'J kH^-—i-—A-ALLET4 H-T) 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. 'aft;*? < ■' '/ 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.