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Vol. IV.
Cavalry Song.
BY J. C. STEDMAN.
Our good steeds snuff the
evening air,
Our pulses with their pur
pose tingle;
The foeman’s fires are twink-
ling there;
He leaps to hear our sabers
jingle!
Halt!
Each carbine send its whiz
zing ball:
Now, cling! clang! for
ward all,
Into the fight!’
Dash on beneath the smoking
dome,
Through level lightnings
gallop nearer!
One look to Heaven! No
thoughts of home:
The guidons that we bear
are dearer.
Charge!
Cling! clang! forward all!
Heaven help those whose
horses fall!
Cut left and right!
They flee before our fierce
attack!
They fall, they spread in
broken surges!
Now, comrades, bear our
wounded back,
And leave the foeman to his dirges.
Wheel!
The bugles sound the swift recall:
Cling! clang! backward all!
Home, and good night!
Running Trains Promptly and
Safely.
A prominent gentleman was talking
to lis a few days ago about the Western
& Atlantic Railroad, and remarked
that there was one particular feature
of the road which always struck him,
and that was the safety which attend
ed traveling upon it. “Somehow or
other,” said he, “whenever I get on a
train that goes over the W. & A. I
feel that my life is perfectly safe, that
is so far as human safe-guards can
make it, and that I will not only get
to my destination on the promised
schedule time but that I shall inevita
bly get there safe and sou ml.”
Upon asking him the question, “To
what do you attribute the safety to
which you refer as compared with that
of other roads,” he remarked :
“I think that the main reason is to
be found in the fact that the road has
for its General Manager such a man as
Bob Anderson, and for its master of
trains such a man as Charlie Beards
ley.” “BobAnderson,”said he “is not
only a conscientious and upright man
m all of his personal dealings, but
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REV. SAM JONES’ TABERNACLE, AT HIS HOME, CARTERSVILLE, GA., ON THE W. & A.JI.’R.
OUR. “INDIA.IXr SUMMER" NUMBER.
ATLANTA, CA., OCTOBER 15, 1889.
when it conies to running a railroad he
is one of the safest men I have ever
been thrown in contact with. In fact
if we could get a phrenologist to ex
amine his head I think he would tell
us that the bump on Bob Anderson’s
head which is more prominent than
any other is the bump of caution, and,
by the way, that’s a mighty good bump
for a railroad man to have well devel
oped on his head. We like to run
fast when we know we have got a good
road bed and a safe engineer and con
ductor ; but we like to have the assur
ance that we are running on such road
bed and with such an engineer and
conductor under the vigilant manage
ment which makes the schedules and
sees that they are carried out; and a
General never had a more able Lieu
tenant than Mr. Anderson has got in
Beardsley. He is always on the alert.
He is always thinking of the safety of
the schedules and protection of life and
property when he is at his instrument.
Nothing seems to escape his attention,
in the way of giving directions to the
trains, which will insure the safe run
ning of them and the maintenance of
regularity of schedules.
“These two men are the most perfect
match for each other in their recipro
cal habits and relationships that I have
ever seen, and I think that beyond all
uestion you can safely assert that the
Western & Atlantic Railroad owes
more of its reputation for safety and
regularity to those two men than to any
others who are actively interested in
its management; and those two in the
course of long years have picked out
men for their engineers and conductors
whom they have trained up to such a
thorough knowledge of the road that
it makes it a comparatively easy matter
for them to run the road as well as
they do.”
The above are golden words and every
one of them is deserved. We do not
think there is any question but that
Mr. R. A. Anderson, as General Man
ager, has no superior in America in
the particulars above referred to, and
as to Mr. Beardsley, he has a reputa
tion which extends very far beyond
his own “little, great big” road. — State,
Town and County.
Some of the grandest scenery in
America is exhibited from Lookout
Mountain, right above the city of Chat
tanooga. By the Western & Atlantic
Railroad from Atlanta, and the rail
road leading to the top of the moun
tain you now go upon grand old Look
out without the tedious hack drive
which was formerly an inevitable part
of the trip. See that your tickets read
over the W. <fc A. R. R.
The W. & A. is always “on time”.
The Ostrich’ancFthe
Bald Head.
An Ostrich one day
found a Bald Head lying
on the grass, .and not
noticing that it belonged
to a sleeping middle-aged
gentleman who always
sat next to the orchestra
in the theatre, took it to
be an ostrich egg, and
determined to hatch it
out at once. The bird
was sitting quietly on the
supposed egg, and making
plans for the education of
the little ostrich soon to
beborn, when, all at once,
there was hatched out,
not a little ostrich, but a
blonde chorus girl,dressed
in lilac tights and a green
belt.
Moral: This fable is
intended to give a dim
and nebulous hint of the
varied and fanciful ap
pointments of the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad.
You may not be able to
see it, but it’s there.
Girls of a marriageable age do not
like to tell how old they are; but you
can find out by following the subjoined
instructions, the young lady doing the
figuring: Tell her to put down the
number of the month in which she was
born, then to multiply it by two, then
to add five, then to multiply it by fifty,
then to add her age, then to subtract
365, then to add 115, then tell her to
tell you the amount she has left. The
two figures to the right will tell you her
age and the remainder the month of
her birth. For example, the amount
is 822 ; she is twenty-two years old and
was born in the eighth month (August).
Try it.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
has at Chattanooga, Atlanta and in
termediate points 66 connections
with its passenger trains. These in
clude connections which arriving trains
make with its departing’ trains, and
which its arriving trains make with
trains departing over other roads at
various points of junction. We ven
ture the remark that there is not an
other road, even three times as long as
the Western & Atlantic, whose pas
senger trains have as many connec
tions as those of the Western & At
lantic.
The W. & A. gets there on timer
NO. 20.