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and artillery, they at last made a grand
assault upon the mountain, but were
hurled back with terrible slaughter.
The mountain during the tight it is said
resembled a volcano, so incessant was
the explosion of the shells hurled
against its crest, and the counter-fire
from the batteries and infantry lines
which were upon it.
Little Boy—Yes, and Uncle Bill
said that some of the bomb-shells they
shot against the mountain were as big
as pumpkins, and made a sound louder
than a gong. He knows, for he was
there.
Teacher —That is well stated, and
it is true, too. But has that mountain
been famous for anything since the
war, and if so, for what ?
Best Scholar —Yes, it has been
made famous by reason of the fact that
one of the competitors of the Sidetrack
made an attempt to steal it and take it
up into East Tennessee and set it down
in the vicinitv of Knoxville.
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Teacher —Yes, yes ; that’s so. I see
you are unusually well posted, and I
am proud of your proficiency. But
can you tell me the result of this at
tempt to steal the mountain ?
Best Scholar—Yes, sir; there
■was a general ‘guffaw’ all over Ameri
ca at the utter ‘ridiculosity,’ (as Chas.
Sumner once said), of this attempt.
Even the mountain was immensely
amused at it, and laughed heartily and
uproariously, so much so, that it got a
great big wrinkle in its side.
Teacher —Yes, I know that’s so,,
because I’ve seen the mountain. Well,
what else is the Sidetrack noted for?
You say that there was a great battle
fought there during the War between
the States ; but di I the Sidetrack ever
go into a war with any of its neigh
bors ?
Smart Boy—Yes, it took part in
one of the liveliest wars that this coun
try or any other has ever seen. The
Sidetrack is very peaceable by nature
and doesn’t do anything which would
justify anybody else in making war up
on it; but this disposition on its part
was presumed upon too much by
the ‘Great System' which runs parallel
to it, and which, by the way, was the
same one which tried to steal the moun
tain, and made so ignominious a fail
ure in the attempt. It began to tramp
on the Sidetrack’s toes, so to speak,
and to do a number of other unjustifi
able and illegitimate things, and, ac
cordingly, after exhausting all the hon
orable expedients which were possible
for the purpose of averting open hostil
ities, the Sidetrack at length concluded
that it would have to teach the ‘Great
System’ a lesson. It therefore sailed
in, and things became remarkably live
ly. It did not stand on the defensive,
like the ‘Great System* thought it
would ; but with astonishing boldness
and wisdom went straight up into the
enemy’s territory at the very start.
They say that the Sidetrack got the
most ‘closely neighborly’ in this war, of
anything on record. It went right in
to the home of the ‘Great System’ and
stayed there until somebody got awful
ly sick of the affair, and it was not the
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9 30 pm 9 30 pm 2 00 pm Lv JACKSONVILLE, S EA W. Ar 12 00 n’n
10 20 pm 10 20 pm 2 45 pm “ Callahan “ Lv 11 27 am
12 45 am 12 45 am 5 00 pm “ Waycross “ Lv 10 00 am
9 45 am 5 40 pm 3 35 am “ Macon “ “ 10 50 pm
12 00 n’n 756 pm 553 am “ Griffin “ “ 829 pm
12 46 pm 842 pm 647 am “ Jonesboro “ “ 739 pm
1 35 pm 9 35 pm 7 32 am Ar ATLANTA “ Lv 6 50 pm
555 pm 11 00 pm 750 am Lv ATLANTA W& A Ar 635 pm 725 am
6 47 pm 11 55 pm 8 42 am “ Marietta “ Lv 5 44 pm 6 32 am
718pm12 14 am 901 am ‘ KENNESAW “ “ 525 pm 613 am
742pm12 40 am 927 am “ Allatoona “ “ 458 pm 544 am
847 pm 149am10 33 am “ Adairsville “ “ 348 pm 437 am
921 pm 225am11 07 am “ Resaca “ “ 313 pm 403 am
10 04 pm 258am11 40 am “ I alton “ “ 240 pm 331 am
10 21 pm 315am11 56 am “ Tunnel Hill “ “ 224 pm 314 am
10 39 pm 332am12 12 pm “ Ringgold “ “ 207 pm 254 am
10 54 pm 345am12 25 pm “ Graysville “ “ 154 pm 241 am
11 08 pm 400am12 38 pm “ Chickamauga “ “ 140 pm 227 am
11 18 pm 4 15 am 12 50 pm “ Boyce “ Lv 1 31 pm 2 13 am
11 35 pm 4 30 ami 1 00 pm Ar CHATTANOOGA “ Lv 1 15 pm 2 00 am
11 55 pm 5 20 am 1 10 pm Lv CHATTANOOGA,N C&St L. Ar 105 pm 1 00 am
3 25 am 8 55 am 4 15 pm “ Tullahoma “ Lv 10 00 am 10 08 pm
5 05 am 10 25 am 5 40 pm “ Murfreesboro “ Lv 8 40 am 9 00 pm
6 20 am 11 45 am 7 00 pm Ar NASHVILLE “ Lv 7 30 am 8 00 pm
725 am 725 am 725 pm Lv NASHVILLE L& N Ar 725 am 800 pm
9 25 am 9 25 am 9 15 pm “ Guthrie “ Lv 5 35 am 6 00 pm
1 15 pm 1 15 pm 12 30 am Ar Henderson “ “ j 2 15 am 2 20 pm
1 50 pm 1 50 pm 1 30 am “ Evansville “ “ 12 55 am 1 10 pm
745 am 745 am 740 pm Lv NASHVILLE LA N Ari 705 am 740 pm
10 25 am 10 25 am 10 15 pm “ Bowling Green “ “ 455 am 5 10 pm
12 30 pm 12 30 pm 12 30 am “ Elizabethtown “ “ j 2 29 am 2 34 pm
2 20 pm 2 20 pm 2 25 am Ar LOUISVILLE “ “ 12 30 am 12 35 pm
6 40 pm 6 40 pm 6 35 am Ar CINCINNATI “ Lv 8 20 pm 8 15 am
8 00 pm 8 00 pm 8 15 am Ar CINCINNATI () & M Lv) 6 30 pm 7 30 am
Pullman Palace Sleeping-Cars between Nashville and Cincinnati, without change.
Train leaving Nashville at 8.00 p. m. has Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta without change
also day coach through, without change and without extra charge.
First-Class Eating Houses. Meals at Seasonable Hours.
The above line may be justly termed THE HISTORIC BATTLEFIELDS’
ROUTE OF AMERICA, the passenger traveling this route passing through or near
the famous battle grounds of Port McAllister, Griswoldville, Jonesboro, Atlanta, KEN
NESAW MOUNTAIN, Allatoona, (“ Hold the fort; for I am coming!”) Resaca,
Rocky Face, Tunnel Hill, Ringgold, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Tullahoma, Murfrees
boro, and many others, nearly as famous.
Train leaving St. Louis at 7:20 p. m. daily, has Pullman Palace Sleeping-Car, without
change St. Louis to Nashville. Train leaving Nashville at 8.00 p. m. has Pullman
Sleeper to Atlanta, without change; also day coach through, without change and without
extra charge.
Trains leaving Savannah at 8:10 p. in., and Atlanta at 6:50 p. m., have through
Sleeping-Cars between those points without change.
Train leaving Atlanta at 5:55 p. m. has through Pullman Palace Sleeping-Car, At
lanta to Nashville without change, and through coach, Atlanta to Little Rock, Ark., via
Nashville and Memphis, without change and without extra charge.
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800am245pm7 30 pm Lv ATLANTA, GaRR Ar 550 pm 100 pm 640 am
843 am 316 pm 825 pm “ Stone Mountain “ Lv 500pm12 23 pm 547 am
11 40 am 521 pm 12 06 am “ Greensboro “ “ 220pm10 16 am 215 am
530 pmAr Athens “ “ 900 am 745 am
335 pm 8 15 pm 500 am “ Augusta “ " 10 50 am 740 am 940 pm
525pm1155pm 650 am “ Aiken SC Ry “ 605am6 05 am 935 pm
930 pm 625am11 00 am “ Charleston “ “ 10 30 pm 10 30 pm 510 pm
H 20 am (> 15pm “ Beaufort PR&A “ ! 7 13 am
10 25 pml 1 32 pm “ Columbia CC&A Lv 6 15 amj 5 25 pm
Elegant Sleeping-Cars from Atlanta, via Stone Mountain (train passing in full view of
same) Augusta and Aiken to Charleston without change.
The above close through schedules are made Exclusively with the U&s/em Atlantic
Railroad, all connections being made in Union Passenger Depots, and above named points
cannot be reached by any other line from the West without a tiresome delay and a long
and tedious Omnibus Transfer in Atlanta.
Privilege allowed to holders of all through tickets to stop over at Marietta, the Sanita
rium of North Georgia.
Sidetrack, either.
Teacher —That has been very cor
rectly stated. Now, tell me which one
of Napoleon’s reputed sayings did the
Sidetrack prove to be erroneous.
Well-read Scholar —It explod
ed Napoleon’s reputed doctrine that
‘Providence is always on the side with
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
the heaviest battalions.’
Teacher —Yes; that’s the answer
to the question. Well, now, you got
that so correctly, let me see if you can
tell me which one of the songs of the
old Plymouth Puritans did the Side
track show to have reason as well as
rhyme and religious fervor in it ?
Welt .-read Scholar :
“The race is not for to be got
By them what fastest run;
Nor the battel by them peopel
What shoot the biggest gun.”
Teacher —Yes, you remember it.
Now, finally, somebody tell me what
was the opinion of the public on the
result of this war?
Smartest Boy That it was a
triumph of brains over beef.
Teacher —That’s exactly so. Now,
my scholars, I am proud of your pro
ficiency in the studies in which you
have been engaged during the past
term. And while I intended to have
kept school for the rest of this week,
yet, you have done so well that I will
let vacation begin to-day and last
four weeks and a half instead of the
four weeks as intended. School is now
dismissed.
The Western & Atlantic is the
Only Railroad in America
Whose line is not “geographically
straight” —on paper.
Whose trains run into the Union
Passenger Depots at Atlanta and Chat
tanooga, making connection at each
place, with no omnibus transfers.
Which runs around the base of the
majestic and famous Kennesaw Moun
tain.
Which runs through and within
cannon sound of scenes where occurred
over fifty battles, or minor conflicts,
of the “War between the States.”
On which occurred the noted “Cap- .
ture of a Locomotive,” the chase, and
overhauling of its captors.
Which runs through the beautiful
and historic Chickamauga Valley its
entire length.
Which runs through the famous Al
latoona Pass.
By which you can go from Atlanta
or Chattanooga to the great Georgia
marble quarries.
By which the “great American trav
eling public” reach the line penetrat
ing the healthiest county in America —
Fannin county, Ga.
Whose competitors termed it “only
a Sidetrack ;” but found it “The Big
gest Thing for its Size in Ameriky.”
Whose superiority its chief compet
itor has acknowledged, after vainly en
deavoring to equal its superb advan
tages and attractions, by practically
giving up the contest in this respect,
and endeavoring to cabbage its route
title, “The Great Kennesaw Route,”
and thus fooling the traveling public
into the idea that it was “The Great
Kennesaw Route.”
(This attempt by its competitor to
deceive the public into the belief that
it is “The Great Kennesaw Route”
is the highest compliment one line ev
er paid its rival, as well as a most hu
miliating confession of the weakness of
the line attempting to practice the de
ception. The Western A Atlantic peo
ple are so proud of this compliment
that the editor is afraid they are going
to get spoiled.)
Which runs through scenes associat
ed with memories of three of the most
beautiful as well as stirring lyrics in
the English language, viz:
“Home, Sweet Home,”
“I am dying, Egypt, dying,
“Hold the Fort, for I am Coming,”
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