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Vol. 111.
Fairy Belle.
The pride of the village, and the fairest in
the dell,
Is the queen of my song, and her name is
Fairy Belle,
The sound of her light step may be heard
upon the hill,
Like the fall of the snow-drop or the drip
* ping of the rill. ■
chorus:
Fairy Belle, gentle Fairy Belle,
The star of the night and the lily of the
day,
Fairy Belle, the queen of all the dell,
Long may she revel on her bright sunny
way.
She sings to the meadows and she carols to
the streams,
She laughs in the sunlight, and smiles while
in her dreams;
Her hair,like the thistle-down, is borne upon
the air,
And her heart, like the humming bird’s, is
free from every care.
Her soft notes of melody around me sweetly
fall,
Her eye full of love now beaming on my
soul;
The sound of that gentle voice, the glance of
that eye,
Surround me with rapture that no other
heart could sigh.
The Western & Atlantic.
The reduced passenger fare on the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, which
our readers will remember was men
tioned in the Capitol some weeks ago,
has gone into effect.
Travel over that road is now, as
promised then, for 50 miles and less,
cents per mile ; for 100 and oyer
50 miles, 2J cents per mile.
This reduction, when considered in
connection with the circumstances un
der which it was made and the results
by which it will be followed, is cer
tainly an act of great generosity and
benevolence.
No other railroad in the south or
west has offered such terms, and yet
no other road in the south or west
has such expensive equipments- to
stand in the way of reduced, fare. The
bed of the Western & Atlantic is laid
the whole length with steel rails, its
streams covered with iron bridges, and
the entire distance so watched and
guarded that, with eight through pas
senger trains daily, a passenger has not
been hurt by any accident on the road
in several years.
Such a record of safety and expense
isn’t usually followed by a gratuitous
reduction, and a patronage that sus
tains eight daily passenger trains
proves that the reduction is not need
ed as a means of aggrandizement,
and must have been gratuitous and
voluntary, . . . . ;
A. lxuixiox*ou.s dare-devil---the very man to suit my purpose. Bulweb.
OTTR, ‘‘IMMIGRANTS' EXOTJR.SIOISTS” TxT'mVEBE'F?.
ATLANTA, GA., MARCH 15, 1888.
I wonder if there are any yellow jackets in there.
Eigh-e-e-e-eh! Yes, millions of ’em ! Eigh-e-e-e-eh !
But this reduction does not stop
with the railroad by which it was in
augurated. It will also reduce passen
ger fares from points in the north
east and southwest, to Atlanta, and in
fact from most other directions, besides
exercising a strong influence on con
necting and competing railroads to
adopt similar measures.
- The authorities of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad deserve public grat
itude for this and many other steps
taken which were signally promotive
Os the general welfare. — Atlanta Even
ing Capitol.
No Parallel Yet.
The E. T., V. & G. Ry. is getting
out a monthly publication for the pur
pose of advertising the towns along its
fine. Ten thousand copies of each
issue will be printed and distributed.
The city of Rome has been given two
pages, and the live citizens of that
town will use it to the best advantage.
Now, watch the W. & A. R. R. eclipse
this effort of the East Tennessee with
an advertising scheme that will far
surpass it in magnitude. Our W. &
A. is one of the livest and most pro
gressive railroads in the country, hav-
ing the welfare of the country tribu
tary to it entirely at heart, and it will
not be downed in any undertaking.—
Cartersville Courant-American.
We read the above and almost
trembled with apprehension. We con
tinued to hear so much about the pro
posed magazine “devoted to the devel
opment of the section” that we thought
that after all “the line that copies after
the W. & A.” had finally concluded
to do something to develop Georgia.
The first issue of the monthly has
appeared, however, and we do not find
therein one single word about the re
sources, industries or attractions of
Georgia. The two outside columns of
each page are filled with jokes and
poetry which apply as well in Oregon
as in Georgia, and the two inside
columns merely show schedules.
So, as there is nothing in it which
even pretends to rival the W. & A.
publications about the advantages of
Georgia to immigrants and capitalists,
and as the W. &A. don’t run races
with imaginary steeds we will just roll
along in our usual channel.
Rash, if Not Cheeky.
As the W. &A. R. R. passenger
train was leaving Atlanta last Mon
day morning, a freight train on the
East Tennessee road, which runs
parallel with the W. & A. R. R.,
attempted to run a race with the W.
&A.R. R. passenger. Just as the
passenger train went whizzing by, the
East Tennessee freight jumped the
track and turned over on the W. & A.
R. R. There is no use for the East
Tennessee engines trying to run against
the old reliable W. &A. R. R. It
can’t be successfully done.—Marietta
Journal.
An eye-witness to the above stated
to us that although serious it was one
of the most ludicrous sights he ever
witnessed. The jump-off occurred just
as the freight was doing its best, and
the cars went piling one upon another
and scattering packages of oranges,
etc., in every direction. One flat car
straddled a telegraph pole and reared
up at full length against it, and there
stood.
Chattanooga on the W. & A.’s
Reduced Rates.
At a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce of Chattanooga on February
9th, the following resolution was pass
ed by that body:
Whereas, the Chamber of Com
merce of Chattanooga recently appoint
ed a special committee to endeavor to
secure cheap passenger rates from all
southern railroads to parties seeking
homes in the south,
Resolved, That this Chamber of
Commerce views with much pleasure
and appreciates very highly the recent
action of Mr. Joseph M. Brown, Gen
eral Passenger Agent of the W. & A.
R. R., and regards this as the first
step towards securing the cheaper
rates that we have been striving for.
Resolved, further, that a copy of
this resolution be forwarded to Mr.
Brown.
All parties in Indiana, Ohio, Mich
igan, or States east who are going
south; or who expect to ship freight
south should call on or write to C. E.
Harman, General Western Agent of
the Western & Atlantic and Associated
Roads at 181 Vine street, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
NO. 6.