The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-18
LAND OF THE SKY"
WHERE MOUNTAIN BREEzEs BLOW
PERENNIALLY.
AsheviIIe is the Ideal Resort for All
Who Seek Relief From the
Heat of Summer.
AIR IS CRISP AND CLEMENT.
Winding Rivers, SpIRshing Torrents,
Lofty Peaks, fragrant Woods, Fine
Hotels, and a Cordial People Are
the Attraction.


the Attraction.
There are very few things more disa-
greeable than a railway journey IN hot
weather, and under certain temper-pro-
voking conditions, You lounge restlessly
and uneasily on your seat and alternately
stretch your limbs and yawn without
making an effort to conceal the ennui that
possesses you. You sweltert your eyes
ache, wandering about, they arc riveted
for the hundredth time on the jaded feat
ures OF the obese woman who fills the
seat across the isle. A thick deleterious
atmosphere hangs over the car; through
the flying cinders you catch glimpses of
smirched faces unlighted by smiles Of
cheerfulness. Bad humor reveals itself be-
meath quietness and decorum. You buy
a newspaper and find 1t stupid. You read
the railway guide and find IL sull more
stupid. Finally you grumble audlbly that
the trip is tedious and uninteresung.
When the ordeal comes to change cars"
and you are forced to walt at some DESC
late station, you are In a frame of mind
the dark side. Every small inconven-
fence. every trifing discomfort and every
slight delay Is magnifled until 1t frets you
exduisltely.
This is the kind Of travelling experience
that creates ingrowing nerves and pro-
duces utter prostratlon.
The modern methods of grand trans
portation companies exempt their patrons
from all the foregoing annoyances and
narrowing situations.
Rest recreation and pleasure, these are
the essentials of health and energy, and
are vital requisites to both body and mind.
No prudent man who appreciates the
value of his faculties, physical and men,
tall can afford to ignore or neglect them.
But where can health and happiness be
found? Where relief from the intolerabIe
heat OF densely-popuiated cities? Where
rest from the correcting cares of business?
Where can surcease of turmoil be found?
The answer lis ready. Nature, prodigal
with her blessings and bounteous with her
priceless favors has provided an Eldorado
for oVertvrought mankind.
Asheyille, lifted as II we're two thousand
feet above the sea, is the queen city of the
cOuds--the pearl OF the mountains. II il
the magical sanitorlum Of the south,
tie alchemy OF nature distilled into peer
less elixir of life.
The through service recently establish
ed between Macon, Atlanta, Spartanburg
and Asheville by the Southern railway,
comprises Pullman's latest drawing room,
buffet and sleeping cars and is great
boon 90 all who desire 10 invade the rock
ribbed realm of North Carolina in search
of rest and health The elegant equipment
OF this splendid road, the solidity and
smoothness OF its tracks, the luxuriousness
Of the coaches and the unyarying courtesy
OF It's officers, rob railroad travelling OF all
Its terrors.
1t may be mere fancy, attributable TO an
lmpressionable and sensitive imagination,
but one enjoys a foretaste of coming de-
lights the very moments the train puffs
out OF Atlanta at 1850 .. m
This sensation Is intensified as sweeping
around the easy curve through Edgewood,
and on beyond sylvan Ponce de Leon the
tumult and warmth of the city are left
behind.
AS the Slope Is gradually climbed, and
by an imperceDtible ascent the train
whirls into an upper and purer atmos-
phere the lulling motion suggests sleep.
Your commodious berth, with It's snowy
linen and downy blankets il ready You
retire and enjoy unbroken Elumber until
rasplesa, dulcet tones he cries "Asheville."
You left Atlanta az II 80 p. m. The train
glides into Ashevllle next morning at 8:45.
What a marvellous change In ten hoursi
The mild, pale sun yields genial light
from the blue above. and a bracing breeze
blows about your face like a vigorous ca
ress. II Is not winter but rather am antici-
patton of Il. All the magnEncence, all the
serene and eternal grandeur OF southern
mountain scenery Is outspread In the efful-
gent distance.
Ever and anon the train is buried IN de-
files and recesses. Peak after peak extend
Ing into nhnlty arise all around. They
seem to glow with seraphic splendor, 80
much light IL there about them--lights
which BY tricks OF distance and atmos-
phers appear to enrobe and ray range af-
DER range OF lofty and massive striated
mountains The sharp crags Of their SUM
mits are illuminated by the gold Of ver-
nal sun. The lungs inh0le inspiring oxy-
gen. The land Of his and llstlessness Is LETT
behind,
Your sense OF vision encounters another
world, Instead OF the monotony and in-
placable heat OF an Atlanta forenoon, and
the dead level OF llyid cobbiostones and
lurld brick walls, before you r. an inees-
SAINT radiance Of dlssolving tlnts. divers
lfed. ohangeable and rich sky. Every
where you behold traces Of ioyousness.
Clusters of foliage, rosy blossoms, verdant
masses Of Wild Rrowtha, delicate and ten
der blooms. interlaced vines. transparent
azure. ehlmmering sunshine on the Rlls.
tening and lustroua rlppies OF French
Broad, varying It's hue and changing its
sheen according 20 the shifting Influences
OF rock and depth.
Indeed, ell Is beauty. and IN this crisp
and clement atmosphere the invalid may
revive the robust health OF youth.
The tourist and coAmopollte soon begin
thinking OF making Asheville a place OF
permanent residence, and vow az least
that they will stay as long as possible.
You admire not only with your brain.
but also with your heart, your senses and
your entire being. You feel falls disposed
20 be happy: you confess that life u
charming and good All that - essential
Is oDon 20 the eyes. there being no need
Of strain Of effort Every worry Is for