Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-01
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN,

edges of the Rockies, the Selkirks, and
other great mountain chains, and yet 1t
is doubtful whether any otlcr e beauti- |
full is to be found. For it has seldom
happened that a tall mountain rises
abruptly to interrupt and dominate
view so majestic and of such varied
features. Gllstening water, smiling
farm land, forest, city, hill, AMI island,
all lie upon the gorgeous and gigantic
canvas of the Master Painter, who there
invites mankind to his studio 10 enjoy
such vews.as we had fancied only the
stupid denizens of the air are privileged
to duly scan.
TO surfeit ones self with the won
drous changing, widening beauty OF that
splendid scene one does not have to con-
slider the martial records that the brave
men wrote with their blood all over the
foreground of the prospect. But when
it happens that the spectator is an Amer
lean whose soul has been stirred by the
poor printed annals of Cbickamauga and
Mission Ridge, the feast spread before
Lookout mountain ministers to the UNI
Outstanding the while it ravshes the eye.
In,nothing is this wonder-spot more
wonderful than its accessibility. 1t is
even more convenient to the tourist than
Niagara Falls--almost the solitary great
natural curiosity in our country for
which one does not have to travel far and
labor hard. In this case the grand view
is one of the sights of Chattanooga, the
'I.ittle Pittsburg" of the South. The
city enjoys it as householder does his
garden, by merely travelling to back
window, as it were, for the historic
mountain is at the end of tive-cent troll
ley line. During half the year the tour
ist is even better served, for the railroads
haul the ''sleepers" up the mountain
side in summer and discharge the passen-
gers on the very edge that divides terra
TRINA and eagles vision. Guided by MIR.
Milton d. Ochs of the Chattanooga
Times, who could have offered very
wonderful view of his own from the
towering pile in which that newspaper
is housed, | took the trolley line during
what the Southern folks are pleased to
call winter-time. The way led to just
such looking railway as one finds at
Niagara Falls going down to the water S
edge, though this one darts up the two
thousand-foot-high mountain side and is
famed among professional engineers as
a remarkableEcreation. 1t was planned
and built by Col. w. r. King, L. 5. A.
1t is 1900 feet in length, with an eleva-
ton of 400 feet, and a grade of nearly
one foot in three at the steepest place.
The terminus is the Lookout Point
Hotel, which appears to stand upon a
bowlder suspended over the remainder
of creation. as if a mountain rising out
of plain had thrust out finger and men
had put up building on the finger-nail
The biblical word-pcture which tells OF
our Saviour being taken upon high
mountain and shown the Kingdoms OF
the earth conveys the idea that the view
from this point suggests. One can bu
have an idea of it, and it can only be eX
pressed or described with figure o.
speech To be told that it commands
800 miles of the earth's surface, and tina
+ the most distant objects are parts o
seven different States, is too much for thu
mind to master. What the eye takes il
> is a ehecker-board made up of farms
Al roads, villages, woods, ridges, ant
mountain ranges, all in miniature. TIT
- Tennessee river gladdens the scene
Though it is 400 feet wide, it looks lik
a ribbon, and, like ribbon thrown care
lessly from the mountain-top, it lies il
many curves and cOnvolutions, dull
green band everywhere fringed with
thin line of trees that wall In the farmers
fields. You may count ten of its curves
and three of them, Immediately below
the mountain, form the exact shape o
an indian mOccasin, around the toe o
which toy freighttrain crawls lazil.
with lmuifled gasping out of all pro
portion to its size. A brown and whit
mound of smoke and steam beyond tn
nearest farms is pointed out as Chatta
noOga, and rolling wooded region o.
field of the rebelion-fearful Chickamau
ga. The low dark green mound in tn
immediate foreground is Mission Ridge
and between that and the curtain O
SMOKE that hides the busy city tiny b
of yellow road is seen to disappear at
microscopic white gate, which is the POI
tai of cemetery wherein thirteen flu
regiments of Northern heroes lie-th
blue who have turned to gray In the Ion
embrace of death-iiye thousand of theI
not remembered by name Julia
J.! Ralph in March Harper's.
Tho British museum has coins or med
ais Of every Roman emperor
is HOW SHALL I LOVE your