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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1884,
NO. 40.
rhe Sumter Republican.
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Law N otice.
From and after toW dato-B. B. ninton
ind Edgar F. Hinton will be associated to-
K bit fa the practice of law. The portner-
p will be confined to the practice 1*» Sum
ter county. The practice in adjoining conn-
ties will be separate and distinct. The
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coUection of claims. octSStf
B. P. HOLLIS,
Attorney at lMte,
AJIEItICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street. ’j> National Bank
building. decSOtf
E. G. SIMMONS.
Attorney at JL.aic,
AMERIOUB GA.,
a Hawkins’ building, south side of
“of Fort *
JanStf
r Street, in the old office of Fort A
Dr. J. A. FORT,
Physician anil Surgeon,
Offers his professional services
people of Americas and vicinity. Office at
I)r. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can
it residence at the Taylor bouse,
ou Lamar street.
Calls will receive prompt attention.
Dr. D. P- HOLLOWAY,
DentisT,
Americas, ... Georgia
Tieatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth oy «ne Improved
method, and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
lyOFFICK over Davenport and Son’s
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MACON, QEORQIA.
E. E. Erows & Son, Proprietors.
Rater $2.00 Per Day.
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MONEY
We Must Have!
ALL OLD NOTES AND ACCOUNTS
must be paid or eatmfactorially arraugde.
else they will be piaced in the hands of
officers for collection. We mean wbat *—
say. J.W. SHEFFIELD A CO.
NEW
E. J. ELDRIDGE
Has moved into his Old Stand
in the
14&L0W BLOCK
And will be glad to see
BIS OLD DB,
AND AS
MANY NEW ONES
os are disposed to call.
Competent Persons
TO FILL PRESCRIPTIONS
BARLOW BLOCK.
HAVE JUST OPENED A NEW LINE OF
MILLINERY,
LADIES FANCY GOODS.
UNDERWEAR,
DRESS GOODS.
NOTIONS,
TOYS,
ETC.
Give us a call, examine our goods and get
before purchaahlng elsewhere.
WILL F. HARE,
—DEALER IN—
Staple^ Fancy Groceries
Pina Wines and Liquors,
Cotton Avxnce, Americcs, Ga.
Has on hand allkinds of
CANNED GOODS.
CRACKERS,
COFFEE,
SUGAR,
LARD.
TOBACCO,
CIGAB8. ETC.
ggffiauy Invited, to give me a trial.
Bead six cents for portage,
Vfl and receive free, a costly r
m*2L.
■ ‘“'“US?* *
E. J ELDRIDGE,
Barlow Block, Public Squa
Eldriffee’s Drag Store
toted for his sterling Ir.toarity. His post-office
s Yetearlile, Upeon County, Georgia. The fol-
Mr. John Pearson’s Statement:
In the Sprinjr of 1R*2 I was attacked with a
•ontinued to grow
t*. HoUo«y2niujr
ms Restorer. They
S»t a bottle; and I
kinds of medicine, 1
tolil me to try Errw t's Ij
Font to Want’s Kore and
two or three (lose * 1 l«-ean to improve,
the time I had used up one bottle I was
ret on my feet an in. I am now In excellent
health. l am confident that the Long Restorer
' mr life, and my neighbors am of the
opinion. It Is tho best Lung Remedy
’ ’ y opinion. Dr. H. promised me
rite to the mannfactnrem and
Statement of Mr.Benj.F.Hearndon:
Early in November, 1R81, while sewing on the
waehma^my wifr ‘- 1 - “*■ *-
‘Good wife, what are you singing for? you
know we’ve lost the bay; •
And what we’ll do with horse and kye, is
more than 1 can say;
While, like as not, with storm and rain,
we’ll lose both corn and wheat.” :
She looked up with a pleasant face, and
answered lo w and sweet: -
‘There is a Heart, theretoaHand, we feel,
but cannot see;
We’ve always been provided for, and we
shall always be.
He turned around with sudden gloom. She
said, “Love, be at rest:
You cut the grass, worked soon and late
you did your very beet,—
That was your work; you’ve naught at all
to do with wind and rain.
And do not doubt but you will reap rich
fields of golden grain: ..
For there’s a Heart, ana there’s a Hand,
we feel, but cannot see;
ve always been provided for, and we
shall always ba.’^
That’s like a woman’s reasoning, we must
taken with a severe pais
soon followed by bemor-
■ hares from her langs and a severe cough.
Fever commenced, she r—" —“*■ *
living ske .
me that he thought o
tirely gone. She oould n-
delicatsjptmrhhment^on h«
to call Dr. Holloway In c
made a final examination
I hen sucsestcd
a last resort. I
She softly said, “I reassn not. I only work
and trust.
le harvest may redeem
heart whato’er betide;
When one door shuts, I’ve always seen
another open wide..
There is a Heart, there is a'Hand, we feel
buteonnot see: . - .
f the patient, a—
hopeless. Dr. Holloway
■ewer’s Lung Restorer as
»r a bottle, and ^ave her
■ about the third di
KSCSK
ass
id by the
is able to
Mr. Hearndon’i?trot-office is Yatcsville, Ep
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He kissed the calm and trustful face; gone
was his restless pain.
She heard him with a cheerful step go
whistling down the lane,
1 went about her household tasks foil of
a glad content.
Binging to time her busy hands, as to and
've always been provided for, and we
sh«ll always be.
and go, *twas Christmas tide,
represents an Italian princess under an
ilc* tree. I think ahe looks a trifle like
yoUr son, Ned, only, of coarse, he’s not
done 'in Kensington. Well, I was
planning that once in awhile, on very
grand occasions, yon might take me
out with you—”
"Once in a while, madam\” The
major was a vast substantial protest.
“Ob, I know, of coarse, what yon
think you have to say. Bat don’t 'do
it. Besides, we couldn’t leave Ned be
hind very often.” A larking langh in
the corners of two brown eyes. “Or,
he might go with Aunt Maria, eh?
Oh—o—o—ol”
The major couldn’t see anything
funny in that commonplace arrange
ment.
“My dear Miss Margery”—(Con
found those chairs ! A man couldn’t
move them an-inch without getting red
in the face, they were so heavy.)—
“you are aurely determined to defraud
me of my share of the conversation,
thongh I cannot tell yon how relieved
I am to find you prepared to receive my
overtures. I confess there were mo
ments when I feared yon might be less
fond of me on account of the disparity
uui oudiiui bob: . * r, oi our ages -
W8, ^^^j^V rOVld - ed ?QL an, ’' Wt ' “ Wh 7* Boodntss, it wouldn’t seem
and the gre^&re burned clear,
The fanner said, “Dear wife, ifa been
good and happy year,
The fruit was gain, the surplus corn has
it tnehay, yon know.”
then, a smiling face, and said
. you so.
For there’s a Heart, aud there’s Hand, we
feel, hut cannot see;
We’ve always been provided for, and we
shall si wavs ho /’
Mrt S C. Y.VLVIV'&O'U 6.
the Major s discomfiture.
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A CARD.
To all who are suffering fre
" iof jeuth,
Sixty-five
deed !
If one is still straight, with a service
able eye and a tolerable hearing, in ad
dition to a well-filled pocket book, why,
what is sixty-five ?
To count sixty-fire distinct summers,
and sixty-five mellow autumns; that
drowse into peaceful winters and awak
en in refreshing springs, and great
privilege. Think of the accumulation
of ideas and experiences, of friends and
memories. A rare age, surely, to be
enjoyed in spite of rheumatic wings.
Major Weatherbeam, buttoning his
elegant fall overcoat about him aa he
strode down the avenue under the
maples, was sure he would not give his
ripe perfection for the callow and taste
less experience of the past. He smiled
up at the bright foliage, and knocked
the bead off a straggling aster in hit
complacency. He found a dime for a
little boy peeping, wide-eyed, into a
candy-shop, and stood still to watch
the urchin as he bolted for tho door, j
and nodded a good fellowship to a wo
man who watched with him amused.
The major’s little terrier followed, for
once, quite nnrebuked, and turned wiih
him up a broad macadamized street at
the right. The firm stride traversed
two blocks quickly, and paused before
a brown stone mansion, with a pine-
dotted lawn in front. One naturally
puffs a little at the end of a long walk,
whether one is sixty-five or not, and if
by natnre discreet, pauses awhile to re
gain the breath before venturing to call
on ladies. Any tidy man will dust his
clothes a little with his handkerchief,
and twist his moustache a trifle when
he wishes to look well. The major
presses the bell beside the stately door,
and stands erect. A little pause follows,
in which he listens to the wind running
the gamut of elfin melody in those
grouped pines; then the heavy dooTS
unfold; a salute no younger man could
imitate; an inquiry, and closed doors
again, with the major inside. The man
sion is divided in quarters by two huge
halls, and a wide fireplace gives forth
a glorious radiation of heat and light
over the statues and trescoed walls.
The major sets himself before the blaze,
and counts the tiles and deciphers the
inscriptions about the mantel. . There
is rustle of silk skirts and a tap of feet
on the oak stairs. The major rises,
with a sadden rush of blood to the head
—not apoplectic, sorely—and Balntes
the red-draped figure through the ii
terRticcs of the balustrade.
He handed the lady down the last
steps, and her across the hall, while
green parrot hopped at her heels.
“Miss Margery”—his voice was lil
a violoncello—“it is not usual for a
business man like myself to call
lady of an afternoon.”
Therefore, sir, is the honor all the
greater,” poising one toe on the fender
to aid her balance in the high-seated
leather chair.
Therefore, is the need great, my
dear yonng lady.
“Oh! ha! ha! ha!” in musical stacca-
from the high-backed chair. At
ty-five one is too dignified to like snch
langh in connection with one’s self.
*•'Ye«, Miss Wheatcroft, I felt I could
it, in justice to yon or myself, remain
longer without confessing to you my
attitude towards you.”
“Oh, how kind of yon,” very sincere
ly. “I looked—I looked for yon all day
yesterday, sir”—a little hurriedly with
the red deepening about the dimples.
The major’s head gave an involun
tary jerk. Girls were, once, more deco
rous. His deceased Jnlia Ann would
never have shown snch impulsiveness.
Yet it must be confessed ’twas extreme
ly flattering; and then, good heavens,
what eyes! The apoplectic symptoms
returned.
“Miss Margery, how gracious of yon
to say so. I'm sure I never hoped ”
“Yes, and I was making all sorts of
plans for us two. Poll, come down !
Major, she’s trying to pall yonrhmir.
Look out, sir; she’ll scratch yon. Here,
give her to me! There, Miss Poll, you
sit on my chair. You can’t pull my hair,
because I don’t reach np high enough—
ha! ha! ha!—eh. Major?” her teeth
gleaming out in the glow from the ce
dar fire. “Yes, 1 was thinking, yon see,
how proud I should be of you. You are
so tall, and—now, don’t mind, for I’m
going to flatter yon all the rest of your
days—and so handsome! And hoi
proud I hoped you would he of me!'
lgtlf so lovely any other way ! That'
just the nicest part of it!” How that
presumptuous firelight clambered up
from her little feet to the dimples in
her hands and the rosy folds abont her
neck, and, climbing still, stopped at
her rosier lips ! Her last sentence, and
the fire light stopping right there,
where it did, made the major gasp.
“This is one of the most delightful
surprises of my life,” he went on, when
he conld speak. “I want to tell yon
how fondly I shall cherish you; how
earnestly I shall strive to gratify every
wish that yon can make, how truly
proud. I shall be of my beautiful
young ”
“Oh stop! You praise
than I can ever deserve.” Two limp
ed tears showed through the gathering
bloom. “I never dared hope you would
receive me so tenderly. I am coming
right over there, sir—and—right be
hind yonr chair—so—on my tip-toes,
and—pat one—little kiss—like that !
■on yonr dear old forehead.”
The major grew more agile than he
had been tor twenty years. Meanwhile
Poll had got to screaming, and wonld
not leave off.
'Oh, yes, I’m to thankful you like
! And we’ll all he so happy to
gether, won’t we ? And we both
grateful, I assure yon. Here’s the ring
he gave me. See! Two beautiful
pearls and that twinkling diamond,
Doesn’t it look charming in the fire
light? Ned said—don’t think me
silly for telling yon—that if you were
satisfied with the little wife he had
chosen he believed he would go half
mad with joy. But really I didn’t
think he’d tell you so soon, for he felt
a little timid abont it.” A long pause,
daring which the major relaxes his
fatherly embrace somewhat. Then
venture from a girl: “I’m afraid I’
talked too freely with you! Or, p<
haps yon feel sad when yon rememh
Ned is going to belong to me 7” The
had bows so low that the light climbs
to that now.
i’ll live somewhere
and see yon every day. Why must
yon be going? Can't yon stay to tea.
Well, button np your coat well. Now,
please give your new child
kiss, to tell her that you mean all you
have said. Good-bye! Good-bye!”
How the bird screams. The wind
is risen very fast, and the pines
strike at each other angrily. There is
a promise of a dismal rein, and the
dnsk hides all the antnmn’s beauty,
and leaves only its leaflesiness apparent.
Sixty-five, sixty-five! At that age it
hard climbing a hill in the teeth of
the wind.—Ella IF. Peattie
Current.
WILL CLEVELAND MARRY?
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(A half-rising attitude on the part of
the major, who is forgetting decorum,
and how girls were forty years ago.)
“Oh, major, yon are finding the blaze
too hot. How stupid of me to let yon
roast in that manner. Here, let me
put np the screen. Isn’t it i
one? I embroidered it myself.
Here it is regarded as settled, says
i Albany special, that Gov. Cleve
land is the next President, and already
the gossips are busy with conjectures
as to who will be the lady of the White
House. There is a well defined belief
among his friends that there is a yonng
lady in Western New York who will
soon be led to the altar by the Presi
dent-elect. Others who have known
him long and well say that he will
never marry, and that 4his talk simply
comes of the fact that be has shown
this yonng woman some slight atten
tions since he was elected Governor.
Early in life his hopes and ambitions
for a wife were crashed by the hand of
death, and his affection for the lost one
has kept him treading the winepress of
life alone. If the reports that he is to
marry are not true, then his own imme
diate family will famish the lady to do
the social honors of his administration.
It is generally believed by those who
know him best that there will he less
festivities daring his term of offioethan
there have been for many years past.
He has been a hardworking Governor,
and will probably continue his industri
ous habits as President. Bachelor as
he is, the White House will however,
have a moat creditable mistress. There
four ladies in his immediate family,
either of whom can well do the honors
of the household. His eldest sister ii
this country, Mrs. W. E. Hoyt, Fay-
ettosville, would fill any position with
credit. 8he is a middle-aged lady, of
pleasing address, who has spent a good
deal of time at the Executive Mansion
here since her brother has benn Gov
ernor. She has made many friends
here in the capital of the State, and will
doubtless do the same in Washington,
where she will probably go March 4th
next. Miss R. E. Cleveland is the
maiden sister. She still resides in the
little home cottage at Holland Patent,
just above Utica. A good public
speaker, a quick conversation alist and
generally a plain woman of intellectual
force, she would do her share in enter
taining her brother’s gnats at the
National Capital. Mr. Cleveland has
a sister who for 20 years has been mis
sionary at Csylon. She has two charm
ing young lady daughters, Mary and
Oarrn HastiBgs, whom the Governor
has been for years educating in this
country. He has given them every
advantage, * and they have improved
them. They will no doutt be a part
With Mrs. Hoyt or any one of the
three other ladies spoken of the social
end of the first Democratic administra
tion for a quarter of a century will be
well sustained, even should the Presi
dent elect continue a bachelor.
SUUHVY YS.Y.VDH0.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
IT BET. T. DeWITT TALMAGE.
God’s Creation of Eve.
Text: “Of the rib which the Lord God
had taken from man made He a woman and
brought her unto the man.”—Genesis 11., 22.
the first Saturday atteruoou of
tho world’s existence. Adam has since
sunrise been watching the pageantry of
wings and scales, and while taking his
first lessons in zoology and ornithology
and ichthyology he notices that the
robins fly by twos, and the fish swim
by twos, and the lions walk' by twos;
and in the warm redolence of that scene
he falls off into slnmber, as if by alle
gory, to impress all ages with the fact
that sound and healthful sleep is the
grandest of all earthly blessings. This
Paradisaical somnolence erded in wo-
in’s arrival on the new planet.
Of the mother of all the living I to
day discourse Eve, the first, the fairest
and the best. I make me a garden.
Its paths I inlay with mountain moss,
and border it with shells from Java
and pearls from Ceylon and diamonds
from Golconda. Here and there are
fountains that toss in the sunlight and
ponds that glitter with golden scales
and ripple under the paddling of swans.
I plant me lilies from the Amazon and
orange groveB from the tropics and
tamarinds from Goyaz. Woodbine
and honeysuckle climb over the wall
and starred spaniels sprawl upon the
grass. Among the tree branches I call
doves and larks and brown-threshers,
that stir the air with infinite chirp and
carol. Bat this wonld be a desert full
of howling and death compared with
the bright residence of the woman who
is the subject of my morning’s story.
Never' since Eve such skies looked
down through inch laves into snch
waters. Never since has river waves
known such curve or sheen or bank as
adorned Pison, Havilah, Gihon and
Hiddekel, the very pebbles being bdel
lium and onyx stone. What fruits,
with no curculia to sting the rind!
What flowers, with no slug to gnaw
the root! YVhat atmosphere, with
neither chill-blast to frost nor heat to
consume! Sunlight on the waters,
bright'colors tangled in the grass, per
fume in the air, music in the sky.
Birds warble and trees hum and waters
dash I It was all gladness and life and
song.
Under these bowers of vine and leaf
and shrub, at an altar carpeted with
flowers, was the first marriage. Adam
as he takes the hand of this immacu
late daughter of God, pronounces the
ceremonial himself when he says: ‘Bone
of my bone and flesh of my flesh.’ A
forbidden tree stands in the garden.
Eve strolling out alone one day comes
under it. She says to herself. “What
beautiful fruit! I wonder how it tastes?
just put my hand upon it. Yes;
ripe and beautiful; I will take it down,
but not to eat. Suppose I jnst break
the rich tinted rind; that can do no
harm.” After a while she tasted.
Calling to Adam, he also ci
tasted. Sin for the first time is inside
the gates of the world. Let the heavens
pnt on gloom, and the winds sob
the bosom of the hills, and from i
and from ocean depth, and from
deserts and from sky let there come one
long, deep, hell-resounding howl: “The
world is lost!” Beasts, before playful
and harmless, growl upon each other,
and run out claw and tooth and task.
Birds whet their beak for prey. Wrath
ful clouds troop in the sky. Sharp
thorns shoot up through soft grass.—
Blasting is on the leaves. The rivers
riled and angry, rush between torn
banks. The chords of that great har
mony are snapped. Upon ths bright
est home that earth ever saw onr pa
rents turned their back, and led forth
pilgrimage of sorrow the broken
hearted myriads of a ruined race.
See first the danger of an illegal in
qaiBitiveness. Healthful cariosity has
done much fo( letters, art science and
religion. With the geologist i
gone down into the earth,
read the first chapter of Genesis in the
book of nature, illustrated with engra
vings on the rock, and from its inspi
ration the antiquarian hath blown the
trumpet of resurrection over buried
Pompeii’s herculaneum until their
pulchres have opened and shafts and
towers and amphitheatres have arisen
to the world’s gaze. Curiosity hath
attracted the telescopic vision of the as
tronomer until distant worlds have
come out of their hiding places
furthereBt heaven to choir the praises of
God, while planet is weighed against
planet and wildest meteors are lassoed
of resplendent law. It has found tra
ces of the eternal God in the polypi,
and star-fihes in the sea, and the ma
jesty of the great Jehovah encamped
under the gorgeous curtains of the dah
lia. It hath examined the spots
the son and the larva hidden in a
the light under the fire-fly’s wing and
the terrible glances of the condor pitch
ing from Chimborazo, the myriads of
animalcnlse that make the phosphores
cent blaze in a ship’s wake and the
lighty maze of suns and spheres and
constellations and galaxies that blaze
l in the march ef God.
Cariosity has inspired the inventor
until forces that for ages lay hidden
have come to wheels and levers and
shuttles and wings innumerable,
ming through the waters, cleaving
through the mountains, soaring through
the air, until the whole earth rattles
and crushes and roars and rings with
strange mechanisms and lightnings
play kite with philosophers and ships
with nostrils of hot steam and yokes
of fire draw together the continents.—
We wonld not condemn the labors of
nqnisitiveness. bat we hope
that their Leyden jars and electric bat
teries and voltaic piles and magnifying
glasses might charge upon the barred
castles of tha natural world until it
should surrender the last secret. Give
it wider raqges and let new discovery
com# down from the air and leap np
ont of the waters and rear from the
earth to crown human inquisitiveness.
God be praised for this geological
curiosity of Prof. Hitchcock and the
zoological curiosity of Agassiz and the
chemical cariosity of Liebig and the
architectural cariosity of Christopher
Wren and the inventive cariosity of
Edison!
Batihe inquisitiveness of many have
rushed them into predicament. Eva
wanted to know how the fruit tasted,
and ahe found'out, bat 6,000 years of
wretchedness and woe have deplored
her cariosity. Unlawful cariosity has
sent the theologian mad into the for
bidden systems of God and religion.
He has sometimes wrenched his whole
moral natnre ont of joint in trying to
plnck fruit from branches beyond his
reach, or venturing too far on the limbs j erations the crime and the wars and the
hath tumbled headlong without remedy. I tronble and the tombs and the woes
There are 10,000 trees from which wo I which have set the universe a-wailisg.
may eat and get only good, but from
the forest of mystery, divine election.
Trinity, the resurrection, how many
havo plucked their ruin ? Thousands
of men are not Christians because they
do not know who Melchisedech was.
There are many fonnsof nuhealthfol
inquisitiveness. Many sit from morn
ing to night with the eye tearing and
mouth agape of curiosity. They ate
the first to know who told a lie, and
build it another story high and two
wings to it. About other people’s
houses, about other people’s food,
abont other people’s apparel, about
other people’s financial condition, they
are over-anxious. No choice bit of
gossip floating in the community hut
stops at their door. And they luxuri
ate and grow fat in the endless round
of the great world of tittle. He invites
aud sumptuously entertains at his
fireside Col. Twaddle. Esquire Chit-
Chat and Gov. Small-Talk; Whoso-
hath a slander, whosoever hath
iauendo, whosoever hath a valu
able secret, let them come and offer it
sacrifice to this goddess of splutter:
Multitudes of Adams and Eves spend
their wholo time in eating fruit »hat
not belong to them. Some who
proficient mathematicians have
r learned this computation in moral
algebra:
Good sense. Good breeding. Cari
osity. Minding yonr own business.
Young people urged on by their in
quisitiveness have ransacked the whole
field of French novels to find out wheth-
they really are as bad as moralists
have pronounced them. Just coming
look over the parapets they have
lost their balance, and down they went
dashed into remedyless destruction, or,
perchance, crawling up on tho rocks
shattered and bleeding and ghastly,
gibbering with corses, or groaning in
effectual prayers. Passion is a fiery
courser, and driven along dangerous
places it may become unmanageable,
and at tho Budden sound of mirth’s
trumpet bit and pole break, and it lun
ges like a bolt into terrible Abyson.
Again learn from Eve’s career that
some fruits that are pleasant to the
taste afterward produce agony. The
forbidden fruit was bo pleasant to Eve’s
appetite she is not satisfied until her
husband tastes it. But her banish-
from Paradise, and the sufferings
entire race were tbo price paid for
the luxury. Eve is not t^o only one
who has sold great happiness for tem
porary satisfaction. The cup of sin
always sparkles at the top, but there is
death at the bottom. Intoxication
hath pleasant exhilarations,* makes a
see five stars wliero others
. puts spring into the ground, fil
lips the blood, makes a poor
rich and cheeks whito as snow and red
But what about the dreami
that come afterward, when they seen
falling from great heights and in effon
themselves meeting with other
fancied disasters till the sweat stands
the brow like the night dews of
nal darkness and they are ground
der the hoof of horrid nightmares,
shrieking ont with lips that crackle
with feverish torture.
Look into that hall of revelry, where
ungodly mirth staggered and blas
phemed. Listen to the sensele'-s gabbli
and watch the going out of tho last
traces of manhood from men made
God’s own image. “Ho, ha! This
, oy for you,” saith a roystering neigh-
>or. “Fill your cups, my boys! Here’
to my wife’s sorrow and my children 1
rags and my God’s defiance!” But he
» not that the fiend stirs the goblet
the band, and adders uncoil from the
bottom and thrust up thoir forked
tongues, hissing in the froth
brim. Perdition bought fot
The fruit was pleasant to Eve, but
that disobedience still smites the earth
until it reels like an ox under the
butcher’s bludgeon. Who could tell
the consequence of that one 6in unless
all at once he could make the world
throw open all its prison doors to e
pose the crimes, and all its hospitals
show the disease, and all the almhons
o show the squalor, and all the insane
.sylams to display the madness, and all
the sepulchres to show the dead, and all
the gates of the lost to show the damu-
That one Edenic transgression has
lighted np every nngodly passion and
stretched cords of misery over the world,
striking them into dolorous woe, and
hath seated plagues on the air and
shipwrecks on the tempest, and hath
fastened famine like a leech on the sick
heart of the nations, and made 10,000
battlefields groan with horror.
Oh, the deceitfnlness of sin! The
ground over which it leads is hollow,
the fruit it offers to your taste are pois
oned, the promise it makes ’
Over this ungodly banqnet the keen,
glittering source of God’s judgment is
suspended. An ominous hand
on the wall. O thou misguided
of pleasure, I sound the alarm!
Thy pleasure boat is far from shi
Thy summer day is closing roughly,
for the winds aud waves are loud voiced
and the over-coming clouds
writhe and agleam with terror. Thon
art past the “narrows,” almost out
side the “hook,” and if the Atlanti
take thee, frail mortal, thou shalt ne\
get to shore again. Homeward!
Pntback! llowswiftly, swifter, swif
ter! Jesus from the shore casteth
rope. Grasp it quickly! Now,
never! Some of my hearers I fear have
freighted all their hopes and lov
joys upon a vessel which shall
bring them to a port of safety. See,
thou nearest the breakers! One heave
upon the rocks! Another lunge may
crush thee beneath the shrivelled spars
grind thy bones to powder among
the torn timbers! Overboard, for thy
Overboard! Trust not that
loose plank nor tempt the shore, bat
quickly clasp the feet of Jesus walking
upon the watery pavement, shouting
till he hear thee: “Lord,
perish!”
Again the biography of Eve teaches
ne what a shocking thing sin is when
appended to great beauty and refine
ment. Never since Eve’s death has
the world seen such perfection of
manhood. Coming directly from the
hand of God there was not another
attraction you could have suggested for
her person nor another refinement to
her manners. No gracefulness conld
have been added to her gait.no sparkle
to her eye, no color to her cheek, no
sweetness to her voice. To be the
companion of a perfect man and tho
habitant of a perfect home God had
created her, and all that beautiful
tore vibrated in accord with the bright
ness of the scene of Paradise. But 6he
resisted God’s authority, and with the
hand with which she had plucked
Terrible offset to all her attractiveness.
To find men and women naturally,
vulgar given up to evil practices does
not startle r.a very much, for we. expect
those who live In the ditch to have the*
manners of the ditch. But when we
find wickedness joined to acnteneBs of
intellect and attractiveness of manner,
wo are startled. The accomplishments
of Mary Qneen of Scots make her pat
ronage of Darnley. tho profligate, the
i astounding. Thegenius ofCatha-
II., Empress of Rnssia, only set
n more repelling light her unap
peasable ambition, The. translations
which Elizabeth made from the Latin
and the Greek and her extraordinary
qualification for a Queen only brought
ont into more vivid contempt her cap-
ricioasness of affection, and naughtiness
of temper. Lord Byron’s greatness
makes the more, shameful Lord Byron’s
sensuality. Let no one think that
suavity of bearing or a high style of
accomplishment can apologize for vani-
tp or ill-temper or unkindness. Diso
bedience to God or unrighteousness to
wards man will becloud the most bril
liant attainments. Though your ac
complishments be heaven high, they
will not excuse for vice hell-deep.
Again learn the real influence of wo-
In the power which Eve exer
cised over Adam, and on the destiny
of uncounted generations I see : type
of tho power which her descendants
should exercise. Wo have no sympathy
with the flatteries that are 6howefed
upon her from the pulpit and the stage.
The true nobility of woman consists in
the power of a Christian influence.
Eve’s overthrow of Adam and the race
was only an illustration of what power
there is now in the frail arm of woman
strike until the echo ring through
eternity down among tho caverns or up
among the thrones. This influence was
monopolized by. such great repre
sentative women as Eve,who ruined tho
with one fruit plucking, nor of
Jael, who sent a spike throngh the
head of Sisera, nor of Esther, who ov
ercame royalty, nor of Absgail, who by
her beautiful countenance arrested a
hostile army, nor of Mary who ; nursed
the world’s Savior, nor of the great
ho carried about on a dish the
gory head of John the Baptist, tor of
grandmotherLouis who was immortal
ised in her grandson Timothy, nor of
Charlotte Corday who, with her dag
ger, 6lew the assassin of her lover, nor
of Mary Antoinette who could conquer
a mob by one look from the balcony of
her castle, and whose scaffold was a
throne of forgiveness and moral cour
se. I refer to the mothers, to the
ives, to the daughters, to the sisters,
ho, unambitious for political power
and the scramble of the bastings, are
performing the ten thousand sweet of
fices of home.
When I thus speak 1 find myself
using as a model ono whom, about
twenty years ago, we pnt away for the
resurrection. About eighty years ago,
just before the day ol their marriage,
my father and mother Btood np in the
old meeting-house at Comerville to take
♦ k. vo«T* of a Obristickn. Tbrotigb «.
long life of vicissitude she lived blame-
lesbly and nsefully, and came to her
peace. No child of want ever
5 her door and was turned away.
No stricken soul ever appealed to her
nd was not comforted. No sinner ev-
r asked her the way to he saved and
ras not pointed to Christ. When the
ngel of Life came to a neighbor’s
dwelling, she was there to rejoice at
the incarnation, and when the angol of
Death came she was there to robe the
departed one for burial. We had often
heard her, while kneeling among her
children at family prayers, when father
absent, say: “I ask not for my
children wealth or honor, hot I do ask
that they may all become the subjects
of Thy converting grace.” She had
all her eleven children gathered
the church, and she had but one
) wish, and that was that sho might
again see her missionary son,and when
the ship from China anchored in New
York harbor, and the long absent one
crossed the threshold of his paternal
home, she said: “Now, Lord, lettest
Thon Thy servant depart in peace, for
niine eyes have seen Thy salvation.”
Wo were gathered from afar to see
only the house from which the soul had
tied forever. How calm she looked!
Her folded hands appeared just as when
they were employed in kindnesses for
her children, and wo could not help
but say as wo stood and looked at her:
“Don’t she look beautiful!” It was a
clondlesB day when with heavy hearts
we carried her out to the labt resting-
place. Tho withered leaves crumble
under wheel aud hoof as *ve passed,
id tho setting sun shone upon the
ver until it looked like fire. Rut
mre calm and bright was the setting
in of this aged pilgrim’s life. No
i re toil. No more tears. No moro
ckness. No more death. Dear
mother! Beautiful mother!
A PECK OP WORMS HAVE
been known to pass from one child.
Shriuer’8 Indian Vermifuge was the
iedy used. Only 25 cents a bottle.
A full assortment of all sorts and
kinds of Patent Medicines at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
A Bonanza the Politicians Lost
Sigtli of.
While politicians everywhere were
quarreling ou Tuesday, October I4th,
1884, the 173d Grand Monthly Draw
ing of The Lonisiana State Lottery
came off. M. A. Dauphin, New Or
leans, La., (to whom all inquiries
should be addressed). Ticket No. 78,-
455 drew tho first capital prize of $75,-
000, and it was sold in whole ticket to
a well-known business man of the
Crescent City, and jail in toE. B.
Lhoste, of the Louisiano National Bank
there. No. 77,956 drew the second
prize of $25,000, sold in fifths at one
dollar each—one-fifth each to Mr. H.
Smith, Jnstice of the Peace and Win.
M. Kennedy, planter, both of Green
ville, Miss.; one-fifth to W. C. Briggs
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No. 210 Sedgwick St., Chicago. Two-
fifths of the third prize of $10,000—
ticket No. 47,254:—was won by O. C.
Fox, Portage, Wis. The fourth prizes
of $6,000 each were won by Nos. 18,-
888 and 54,631, sold in fifths at one
dollar each, and scattered very pro-
miscnously, North, Sonili, aed West,
to parties in Memphis. Tedn.; Colum
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New York city, «feo., Ac. But it will
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the fruit, launched upon unborn gen- (To bt continued irAcJinitehj,)