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ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 5 1886
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Our Story Corner
A Flash of Lightning.
A Carious Tale Told by a Metropolitan
_ Reporter.
I sm not t detectivo by profession—Indeed,
1 should not cue to be one. I *m simply ■
reporter for one of the New York dslly pa
pers. Dot, cither by sheer chance, or because
of some especial mental gifts, I have been
enabled several times to unearth the bottom
facts in criminal cases which had sorely puz
zled the members of the detective force. So
that row, whenever a particularly Interacting
murder, icbbery or dlaappearanco takes place,
ft accma to have become a matter of course in
the office that I should be the one detailed
to write it up.
, The West side affair, however,came into my
bauds by obanoe, pore and almple. My wife
Wanted to go to the theater. It was a warm
evening in Jane, and I was not anxions to go;
but what my wife wills nsnslly takes pises,
and we went. After the play I would have
taken the neareat ronte to the Brooklyn forty
and home. For aome reason, hut known to
heraelf.my wife preferred to retnrn by the one
elevated railroad which happened to bo tho
Tnithiet from the theator, though distant
growlioga of thunder warped na of approach
ing storm, and wo had no umbrella. I loro
peace even-better than a dry coat, ao wo walk-
edacitsa town and look a train on thst road.
We vytro the only occupants of the rear car.
boiled myaelf w!
' The itorrn waa coming on rapidly, the tbun*
dergroning louder and nearer and the light.
mine flashes sharper and more frequent, but I
paid little heed to them, until at
.■■■V ■.... 1 at last, as tits
tisin sioirtd down, while routdlng a carve,
thelamplight, and I dlstlocUvheardaahri
cry, drowsed, however, quickly by a crash of
thunder. My wife grasped my vm excitedly,
hereyie staring.
“Great heavens!" sho criod, “did you see
that?”
“Yes, It was a sharp one."
“No, no; 1 don’t mean the lightning, John.
A woman is being murdered. I saw her by the
flash. She’s hinging from a window close to
the track and a man is pushing her off. Didn't
you heir her shriek?’ 1
“Oh, nonsense!” I said. “You couldn’t
hive seen all that. Some one waa frightened
by the lightning, and screamed—that’s all.”
.“Italljoul did aee it. She had hold of
the window sill, and the man stood in the
window ibovo her, tryiyg to wrench hefjhiada
loose. Why. I saw his zsoo plainly. He had
She was considerably agitated, and would
have bad mo got one at the next station sod
hard, and, feeling aura thst her opes had de
ceived her, I flatly reftised to leave her to
snake her way home alooo at sdoh a time.
Still, a poor man cannot well neglect the
smallcet. hence of a good item, and when I
had peril her safely homo I hurried back to
New York and to tho polica station nearest
the place, where I found, somewhat to my
surprise, that some time before a young wo-
Seen hell indeed been carried there, uncon
scious II d to terribly injured by falling from
tho window of a lodging houao a few blocks
away tlat she had died within a fow minuter.
Nothing was known of her but that she had
hired a room in the houao about a week
in advance. Her landlady had spoken
ns a quiet, ladylike person who kept much by
hoiscif and received no callers, and, u her
room doer bitd been found locked on tho In.
side, it was supposed that sho had lest her
balanco and fallen from tho window whiio try
ing to close the shutters during the storm.
Z saw tho body. It was that of a medium'
years of sge, with features of tho ordinary
American type. Her light brown hair must
havo bten 'hanging loosely down her bask
whoa ehe met nor i "* '
dealhl In lifo sho might
have leu thought a ratbor attractive looking
girl, despite an uncommon and unplosiant
thinness of the lips, but, lying there cold and
ilesd. tho face was not an agrcoablo light, and
ere was nothing about her to show her
identity, tho loose wrapper which aha wore
having no jackets, wM.'o her underclothing
was unmarked and sho wore only one plain
gold ling on her right hand; eo, as I could
gom nog ou ner airuw u»uu, wj, * wum
gain no farther information from tho polled
and tho lodglnghouio was tightly cloaod for
tho night, I simply wrote out a few linos do.
scribing tho occurrence as an accident, took
them to tho tfllco and then went to a neigh
boring hotel to sleep. .. .
There was evidently something In my wife s
ntory, after all, and I determined toJook into
it farther while laying nothing to tho police
wntil I bad somo definite cluo to work npon.
In the morning, therefore, I took my way to
tho ledging’houso.
The landlady was a rcspcrtoblo Irishwoman
who ttadlly auiwered my questions without,
however, nlliDgmomuch inure than I alr eady
knew, and willingly offered U show me the
girl's room,
' “But it's nothing yeH find," abo util, as she
Jed the way up stairs. “It’a all Just at aha left
’ ng; but there’s never a tetter or as
it, poor thin,, —— .
orucli M a scrap of writing to tell where ahe
•came from or where her friends live.'
It waa a hall bedroom on the third floor,
plainly furnished in the usual way, with a
bed, washstaod, bureau, small table and a sin
gle ebair. The bureau stood between the
-window and tho aide wall of the houso, At
<the comer nearest the street wai a doorway
into tbe nest room. The door was cloiai.
There waa not the faintest sfgn of anything
like a atrufgio. The Water pitcher upon the
wrashstsrd wai filled to the brim. Upon the
table stood sniuk bottle, and beside it lay, in
older, setrerspe* and envelopes and a psn.
The Jew toilet articles on washiund and ba
teau were 1U0 neatly arranged, excepting a
coomb ai d brush, which lay apart and askew
«*fere the gWamo^ ~*
Birrs, and which, with the poelHon of wo
5bair before the bureau, enggeMed the
<fdea of a women interrupted wkils.brushing
Idea cf a womsn interrupted
r. z&xfsss?
too, cltee by the ehetr, it wms plain that a par-
oog'bsdrek Othcrwiih that had not boon
disturbed.
Oaprga bohini tho door hoeg a hat and two
Suit dark gownt. Tho pockets wroro ornery.
Tho barren was fairly fliiad with plain under-
clothing, and in the upper dfewerwae a box
ccntalnii;; a ftw sober colored ribbons eat
tieekllf. two or thrre UtUe cheep trinkets and
a pnrrc w.tb i small anm of ssouey. Bit no-
vrtoro In : i.c room conld I find o card or now
oraddms. 1’ltlnly tho wooin hal takso
great puns to conceal her Identity—or soms-
o:.t ilia had J-no Co for her.
Whiio 1 was nothing then pirtlcnlan
landlady cluttered uncMJtcslx. I l«nicd
thst she iad spent the whole of tho procooding
evening, np to the lime of tho accident, In tho
parlor w a
position to command a view of tho
staircase and that no stranger could havo
gene np it without her knowiedrt; also that
the room next to the ono In which wo stood
was occupied by a qnlot, middle-aged gentle
man who had been there but a few days, and
who was so senr-d a sleeper that he had liesrd
none of the confusion, and had not kuotrn of
the accident until sho told him thst morning
as he went out to breakfast. Accardlog to her
account, too, no one hal since been in the
ballroom, except a polica officer, herself and
the locksmith, whom ahe bad called in to
open the door.
Itciulcdcdby this of the commnnictting
dcor between the rooms, I stepped carelessly
along and glanced over it. It was looked and
the key holo empty. There was a bolt aa well
as the ordinary lock, bnt it was not shut, and
the put which would havo fitted Into tho
socket waa dark with rust, while tho whole
door, including the rest of tho bolt and tho
socket, bail evidently been lately painted.
Then by a little judicious questioning I ascer
tained that tho landlady always kept posses
sion of tho key, and that she had not nsod.lt
uva uz ku« jtvj. suu »uBk duo uau uwu.tir
for months past, and that tho painting had
sot been done a week before. So, within a
week, that door had been unbolted by the
dead girl, or, at least, by some ono In her
reom.
It was rot mnch of a dns to found a theory
upon—still it was something, and I felt en
couraged. Search as I woulJ, however,
through tho room, I could discover nothing
olio to aid me, until I picked up, mechauioatly,
a pair of well worn kid aboes which stood be
side tho bureau, and shook them ont over my
hand.
To my surprise, from ono of them dropped a
gold slcevh button. I closed my hand upon It
ini'.aniiy, and dropped it into a side pocket
wltboot attracting the woman's notice, and
then, throwing tho ahoes down, “Woll." X said,
‘T mutt not keep yon any longer; I can writa
my report now," and thanking her for tho
tronblo sho had taken, leit tho houso, passing
on tho front steps a small, swarthy man with
bushy black hair and board, who waa coming
up. He eyed ms rather sharply, bat I paid
little heed at tho tlmr. I waa thinking of
my find, end, once in the street, I examined
it. I conld not at once determine whether it
had belonged to a mac or a woman, bnt It was
evidently not such an ornament as would havo
been worn by a person in the circnmitancos of
the dead woman. It was a solid gold horse,
shoo of moderate site, bnt very heavy, set
with a handsome diamond, o sapphire and a
rnby—a showy and costly thing, snob aa I had
ncTcr irtn before. Tho shank was badly
bent, aa if It had been violently wrenched
from the cuff.
How had it found Its way Into that shoo?
tsd where was its mate now? Certainly tho
csso waa growing interesting, but I began to
feel the need of help with It. Now I have an
old friend who happens to ha a clever detec
tive employed by one of the private offices,
and him 1 decided to consult.. I found, how
ever, that he Lad been sent out of towu a
mouth-emu before, and had ’Written tuac he
woaldhot return for a day or two yet. Tnere
was nothing for it then but to roly up to my
own wits for the present, calling in the aid of
the polio-, prrhsps, os a lsst ri-.nrt.
hly wifo is securtomed to sadden flights up
on ay per 1, to I merely sent a boy for my
valise, wiili a chore message; held a brief in
terview with the landlady of the lodging
houtr, and in the evening found mytslf the
occupant or the little bedroom which I had
visited that morning. Two days past. A cor-
oetr’s jury had sat upon the body cf tho dead
b'lghbor's familiar form tnrnod the corner.
At a'most tho same fnoment Iiice rejoined mo
and relotkcd tho door,'
“Is he in sight?” ho whispered.
‘ Yes, coming in."
He patted my back cheerfully and grinned.
“It’a ell right,” ho whispered sgeio; "hut
keep quiet and give me yonr latohkoy.” sod
no sooner had Boblnson entered hts room than
my friend was gono. When ho reappeared
later It was In company with a heavily built
roan, whom I recognized as one
of tho ward dotectivos, and, with
a ned to mo, he at once knocked
at the next doer. Tho key turned and
It waa opened cautiously a fow Inches, whoa
both men suddenly threw themsrlvos against
It and pushed Into the room. “Good eventug,
Dr. Eaymond," I hoard Eico asy. "Sorry;
must trouble you to come with us.” Than'
“crackl crack!" sounded two pistol shots la
quick succession, end the word detactlvsstag-
gored heck into the hell.
I jumped to the doer. Eice bed closed with
tho man and held his pistol arm. I at ones
seized him alto; bnt he fought liko a madman,
and it waa not until after a hard struggle thst
he was disarmed and hitriculftd. Then,
quick aa a flash, my friend plucked from the
fellow's head n wig and from his chin the
K at beard which I had to admired. Bit
d waa bald aa a billiard ball and bis face
rmoeth. Eire cast a meaning look at ms and
Inndfed. I began to understand. Moan-
whiio the ward detective, nnrslng his wound
ed shoulder, had aldicd into thorcomand
Eire stepped back.
’ “Lock here, doctor.” ho said, “you’d better
cemo qilcklynow. Yon are wanted in Cleve
land. : Just take that package out of yonr pll-
low and come along, or shall I—” and with
that he ripped open ono of the pillews on the
led and drew ont a package covered with
broil n paper.
The prisoner's face worked, but he didn't
utter a word.
Then Eire moved closo to him and held be
fore hra eytu the photograph which I had
Men.
“Yon aro wanted for that, too," he said.
The man fainted and fell flat npon the floor.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
PREACHED YESTERDAY IN BROOK
LYN TABERNACLE.
rrev. Or. Talnass rreach.. a Sfaattrly Berman f r0B
tht Text. -Tit Qod Arias. LaS Rla XnenlM Bd
Scanned’’ - Ood Moat Be Pus Flrat.
In order to Suoooed. KM., Btc.
■J have now told yon all the circnmstanoes of
my own connection with this Wert side aflatr.
All bnt the fact that tho story I wrote of it
S ee mo not a little klory and gold; and you
vo yet to hear tho part tlmt Eico played, a
1 -art that brooght him great pro, tlge and (5,000.
con tell It yen briefly, for aftor ail when tho
deioument of a story ta reached n retrospect
is a boro—at laaat it la to mo. Tho facts aro
simply these:
A mu named Georgo Brand entered the
Miss Smith, and had brought in a verdict of
accidental death; and she hail beet
been hurled by
tho county. I had mussed to obtain a sight
of all the lodgers In tho houao ud learn some
thing of their occupstlous and habits, and as
yet had found no good reason to suspect uy
one of them of knowing aught of the affair.
My next door neighbor proved to be the dark-
bearded mu whom I have montiened. It was
through his room I had convinced myaeif Ihtt
tho murderer, if there had bun a murder,
must have eresped, and upon
him I kept as close a watun
as could he done without exciting his
suspicions. Ho confined himself, however,
ciorely to hia room, only leaving tho houau to
take bis cals at a little restaurant nesr by,
until tbo afternoon of tbo second day, when
he went ont ao quickly that, bad I not bean at
the window and aeon him cross the slreet, I
should not havo known It
1 followed him. kept him in eight nntil he
turned Into the Havana steamship office, and
later, leaned there that he had taken presage
by the boat aafllog next day, under the name
cf Boblnson. It waa the same ono by which
he was known In tho house, and there wu
really nothing especially auspicious in the fact
that a mu of whose b-.uiocts 1 know noth
ing contemplated a Lip to Cuba; Hill I didn't
like It.
I called egtm at the detectivo office,and thla
time, fortunately, found my friend. I wished
to watte no time, ud plnoged et once Into my
story.
Ho waa a very cool hud, this Frank Bice.
I had seldom, if ever, teen him thow emotion
orertu surprise. Nor did he say much now.
But et eigne of the gold horseshoe, which I
bended to him as I finished my tale,he flushed
slowly to the roots of bis hair, and iui eyes
opened wide.
•This mu, whom your wife thonght ahe
sew In the window,” he said, after a pause,
“hewuimooth-faccdudbald,yoaaayr Ham
—end the wemu?—wait, look at this," and he
took a photograph from his pocket ud held
It out to me.
“Why, ft la tht! How on earth—?" for ft
wu In truth o very good llkeneaa of the girl
whom 1 bid seen lying dead in tho Pre
cinct station honse two nlfhta before.
“My dear John." said my friend, atowly, “I
think yon have done it this time. I fancy you
will have inrtthing to acrtbblo about before
many boon. Now tell me where I can eta
yonr dark cciopicxlcned, hnshy-whlakored,
black-bat rid fricn-l; 1 may not know him, bnt
1 should like lu gaze npon him.” And ho
calmly pocketed tbo sleeve button.
litre I drawing near to tho hour at which
Ur. Boblnson dined. I took Eire to the little
restaurant near my lodgings, wfceo aftor a few
words with the proprietor we were allowed to
take eur stand lo the kitchen, near awinio.
In the partition; which commanded a view of
tbs dliiiog-raom.
As I expected, Mr. KoMoton carat. In a
few mlnnUoBln laid bb hand npon my shoul
der, ul we left by tho back door. “No «r
taka mi to your bouse," ho aid qsttkly, “ao
ta nfo enough at present.
“Are you eatlticdr" I asked. "Is bo tho
man you vented? Ant who is hr. anyway?’’
But Elce merely ssotloJ, and would toll mo
retiring.
“Bo patient,’, be aid, calmly, “I’ve no time
to was'a now,” ood strode rapidly along.
Once in my recur, he locked tho door aod
threw tho window open.
“Now watch ben," ho laid, “and when you
aeo cur mu earning, were me at owes."
With that ho preceded In the moat matter-
of tact way to ptek tho lock ofthv dcor opto-
lug Into the next room, took off Ml ahoe* ud
e.ipprd noftcleesly In.
It wu still daylight, end I stock closely to
my post at tbs window. A quarter of ao
on/, twenty mlnatta, (.went bj. Then my
the wamtaSMUM
of a skillful detective. His case was this: A
wealthy aunt living In Cleveland, from whom
Brant hid great expectations, died suddenly,
without leaving him a penny; died, indeed,
leaving no tangible property whs teres. All
he could learn wae that she had been actively
engaged for months previous to herdoa’.h in
convening all her wealth iota coupon bonds.
When he reached Cleveland bo found her
her decize residence mortgaged and onlya fe-v
hur.drcd dollars deposited in the locit bsnks
In her name. Brand sos;O',led evil and want
ed a detective to work out tho case. He oflbrod
live per cent, ef tho money rc.-uvcrol to the
man who would undertake It.
Bice cngctly seized tho opportunity and
went to Cleveland. Ho wu not long in fer
reting ont the truth. A Dr. Bs/mond had
been the old lady’s physician, and with her
meld, Ella Josei, a lonng girl of preouaseat.
Inr appearance, virtually the only personc
1th whom she had recently come In contact.
Baymend bore the reputation of a gambler
ana a rake. Fcoplo had talked of the Inti
macy that seemed to exist between him and
the maid.
Thia wa* enough for IVce. Ifo had tho
Er.00Ki.TK, N. Y. ( October 3,—Tho opening
hymn at tha tabernacle this morning bogles:
“Aim of the Lord, awake! awakel
Ihrlim Iby xtrcnglb, the nations shake.’ 1
..Having expounded the acoonnt of Paul's
rnnvcieion, aa given In the twaaty-socond
chiptcr of Acta, the Eev. T. De Witt Talmage,
D. D., took for his text the first verse of tho
sixty-eighth Psalm: “Let God Arise, Let
Ills Enemies bo Scattered,” from which ho
prtsclicd tho following sermon:
A precession waa formed to carry tho ark or
excrcd box which, thoegh only throo feel, nine
lucl.es In length, ud fear feet, throo inchee
in bright and depth, was the aymbol of
God’s preteuco. At the loaders of tbo proces
sion lifted this ornamented end brilliant box
by two golden poles run through four goldon
rings, and started for Mount Zion, ell tho peo
ple chanted the battle hymn of my text:
■ Let tied sriso, let Ills enemies be scattered.’’
The C'amerouians. of Bcotland, outraged by
Jan or tbo Pint, who forced npon them reli
gions forms that were offensive, and by the
tcmble persecution of Drummond, Dslzisl
and Turner, and Jry tho oppressive laws of
Charwo the First and Charles the Second,
were driven to proolaim war against tyrants,
Hhd vtut forth to fight for religious liberty;
sire tiro mountain lieathor bocame red with
cnaa|c, and at Bjtbwoll brldgo and Atrd’i
Mcisard Dromologthe battle hymn and tho
battle shout of tboso glorious old Scotchmen
vssthotcxtl bavochoseu: “Let God arise,
let Ills cm miis boicettcred."
What a whirlwind of rower was Oliver
Cromwell, srvl bow with lift roMior’s namo,
“The Irousidie," bo went Irom victory to vie-
tory! Opposing armlrs molted as lie looked et
Ibirn. He dismissed par Unmeet as easily as a
icLnnlmssteraichcot. He pointed his linger
et Herktlrj cuttle, and it wae taken, lie
ordered Loid llopton, tho general, to dismount,
ud he dlemcunlcd. Smi t.'romwell marching
otr with his urmy, end hetr tire battle cry of
tl o-’Ircnridcr," loud as ft storm and solemn
as a death knelt, standards reeling before It,
and cavalry horses going back on their
hr.unrhcr, and armies riving, at Maraton Moor,
at Wleccpy Fiold, at Naseby, at Bridgewater
m.d Dsrtmcuth—“Let God arise ud Hts ene
mies bo scattered!'’
He yen aee my text Is net like a complimen
tary aLd tarsclled sword that you aometlmea
sto hung up in a parlor,a aword that wae never
in battle add only to boused on general train
ing day, but mere-like some weapon ctnfally
uftng up In yrrar home, telling lu story it
cbxpuitrpec, Lerro Gordo, and Cberabusoa,
and Tiixtohcr’e Bun, ud Maivern Hill; for
topey showed tbit sho had died, not from
heart disease, os Eaymond hud certified, hut
from arsenical poisoning.
The rest ft plain. Tho girl and the arch
fiend fled to Now T’ork, Intending to axil to
seme foreign country and enjoy their spoils
together. Bnt Eaymond grew tiro-1 of his
male. He lingered in Gotham long enough to
tee If any suspicion of the crime would arlso
in Cleveland, and whether It was that he bad
heard of Bloc's activity, or completely wearied
of hia companion ud fearful cf the possibility
ef her tongne, he finally decided to dirorco
f from her eaeiety,
UwIIMMMP .
And he ttvsgeiy.did it on that mnrkynight,
pltilisily barling her from the widow just set
onr elevated tram tnshed around the oorner
aid the murderer's face stood revealad ta that
Bath c-f lightning. He was never hanged. He
weak Bad liter file conviction, and now r.svua
In an asylem.
A BIO CLAIM
New Ohlf.ans, La., October L—Sonor An-
tonio Fernandsz deT’ava, a Hpiuiah subject
who baa been residing In New Orleans for
yens, haa addressed a ooraininicft'.lon to the
mlnts'er of stato of tho Spanish government
ashing for a consideration of tbo just claims
which the fsmlly of Pedro Blince Fcrnandea
de Trava, of whom he is one of the heirs, have
to the territory of GalUner, on tho coast of
Guinea, Africa.,
It le shown by Mr, Fernvndo do Trava
that Don Pedro Bianco, in IBM, after several
engagements with tha aborigines or GsUIuh,
conquered raid territory, as captain gonerxl,
end held It. Don Blanco continued In the
possession of the lud until 181?, when he
mode a voyage to Europe. During his abience
an Ergllsb fleet, commanded by C'tptaln Din-
mu, landed there and raided all tbo establish,
menu which had been erected by Sonor Blan
co; In company with 1’odro Martinez, also a
Spanish rubjett.
In ccnacqecnco of this damage, a claim wav
made against the British gorernment for
|ACOO,COO. The defense was mado tbattho
queen had not uthorlzed Csptxln Dsn-
man to commit the ravages stated, and thst
the captain wu himself responsible for aay
damages dene. The proper steps were then
takur against the captain, bat all hia worldly
tends wue found to bo in the namo of hia
When Don Pedro Bianco
informed tho minister of tho nary, Dm Dio-
nhio Capex, that the British were colonizing
the Islands cf Ferdoudo Po ul Annobon,
end that the time had arrlnd for Spain to
uphold her rights. The minister sent a
msn-of-wsr, commanded by Captain Pir-
aeo, new an admiral In the nary, who
hoisted the ceicre of Spain on the Islands.
For each patriotic services the government
conceded to Honor Pedro Blanco tha honors of
Inundrnt of tha navy. Don Blanco died at
Genera la lbfil.
Mr. Fcrnandea, who now addresaaa the
Spaniah government, la out of the heirs of tha
Mible old Spaniard. Ho wu at ona time a
wealthy plantar of Lonialua, ud occupies to
day tho chair of Bpessilh professor In tha
Tuiana university la Louisiana.
A gnotr Storm in Michigan-
if A*QTrrrE, Mich., September 30.—A aaow
stonu prevails hue. The wind ud eaa on
Lska He parlor are very heavy, ud Tesscls are
seeking shelter at Marquette.
the holy wars of three thoastoj
yean in which It his bean carrlod,
but as keen nud mighty as when
David first unaheatbed ft- It teema to mo
what in tho church of God, ud in all atylea
■of reformatory work wo most need now, ft a
tattle cry. We rnlio our little standard and
I ut on It the time cf aome man who only a
few yean ago began to live, and la a row
yean will ccato to live. Wo go into
conLat against tho armies of
depending too mnch
on human agencies. We nre for a battle cry
the name of acme brave Cbrlatlu reformer,
tut alter a while that reformer dies, or gets
old, crimes his courage, uil then we take
another battle cry, and this time, perhaps, we
put tie name of aome one who nlaya Arnold
'That we .wank
God ont of one day anyhow; and the man who
worked with him on tho asme Stbbath la
still living, bnt a helpless invalid under the
•une flash. On the road from Mergvte to
Bamrgato. England, yon may fled a rough
monument with the fnsciiptlon: “A boy wu
■'-rock dead here while in tlm net of swearing."
Yetis ago in a rlttsburg prison two meu were
talking about the Bible and Ohria.
tianity, and ono of them, Thompson
by name, applied to Jrsns Christ a
very low and vlualneua epithet, and at he was
uttering it he fell. A phyaielan wss called,
but no help could be giveu. After a -isvlylng
with distended pnpils and palsied tongue, he
reared out of thla world. In a cemetery la
Solllvan county, in thla state, are eight head
stones In a line and all alike, ud these are
tho facto: In If-t.'l diphtheria raged in the
Tillage, and a physician wu remvrktMy auc-
ccsflll in curing his patients. Hi eon-
fidcut did he become, that he boasted that no
cue of diphtharla conld stand before him, and
finally defied Almighty God to produce a ease
of diphtheria that he could cot cure. His
youngest child soon after took the disease and
died, and one child after another, nntil all
the eight had died of dipthberia. Tnoblas-
phimer cha longed Almighty God, ud God
accepted tho challenge.
But I come later doan and give you a fa et
that la proved by scores of witnesses. This
last August ofltKi, a man get prorokedat
the roi,tinned drought and the min of hia
crops, aud In the presenco of bla neighbors he
'rural d God, faying that ha would cut Ma
heart ont 11 he wonid come, calling Him a
liar rrd a coward, and flashing a knlfo. And
w hile he wss speaking lower Jtw dropped,
amtke Issued front bla mouth aud nostrils,
orfi tho heat of his body wav ao Intensott
drove bark those wbn would como nesr.
Scores of people have visited the scene and
Biwthe blasphemer i^ awful prooexsofax-
and Bethuldu of greater lights. It is no ■
piling.
Do rot think that because God has been
•iirntlo your caae, O, profane swearer! that ha
is lii cel. Is thi rr net lung now in tho peculiar
tilling of your tongue, or nothing lu the
Dumbness of your brain that imilcste-that
God asy como to aveugo your blasphemies,
or is already avengirg them? But these csiea
I hare noticed, 1 believe, aro only a fow esses
where there are hundred! Fsmtlios keep
tin in s ill to avetd the horrlbio consplcnity.
l'bytirtano suppress them through profos-
siorol confidence. It Is a very, very, very
In-g roll that contains tho names of those who
dltd with blasphemies on their lips; and still
tl.c crime rolls on, np through pirlora,U]
through chandeliers with lights allablsza, an-
tbrongb the pictured corridors of club rooms,
eta, out through busy exchangee where oath
mceti oath, and down through all tho haunts
of sin, mingling with tho rattling dicoand
' llliaid balls and tbo laughter of
on (king M 1HI. „
l'ir w ho hath forgotten the covenant or nor
ft* tl ; and round tbo city, ftnd round tbo con
tinent, and round Iboearth a seething, boil-
and aella out to the enemy. W H
f- r a lattlo cry la the namo of some leader
who will never betray ns, and will novor sur
render and will never die.
All respect have I for bravo meu and women,
but If wo aro going to ret tbo victory all along
the lino wo must pm Ct.d flr-t. We must tike
Ibo bint of the Gidconitoi, who wiped out tbo
Jkdcutn Arabs, commonly called Midlaaltaa.
These Oldicultcs bad a glorious loader laQld-
lull, I ut wl-Ht was the. battle cry with which
they flung their enomiea into the worst defeat
into which any army was ever tumbled? It
aw. “Tto sword of tho Lord and of
Gideon." Put God firs!, whoever you put sec
ond. If tbo army of tbo American revolution
are to fico America, ft must to “the aword of
the Lord and of Washington.” If tha Ger
mans want to win the day at Sodan.it must
be “tho sword of the Lord and Von Moltko."
Waterloo wai won for tho English because not
only tho armed men at tbo front but the wor
shippers in the cathedrals In the rear were cry.
ing, “Tho sword of tho Lord aod Wellington.'
Tho Methodists havo gone lu triumph across
nation after nation with tho rry: “Tbo aword
of Ibo Lord and ol Wesley." Tho Prcibytorl.
ana have gono from victory to victory with tho
cry: “Thosword of tho Lord and of John
Kntx." The Baptists have conquered rail-
lions after millions for Christ with tha cry:
“ThaawoadofthoL nd sod of Jc-laon.” The
Amtrlcan Episcopalians luvo won their
mighty way with tha cry: 'T’hff sword of tbo
Lmd aud of Bishop Mellvalns.”
The victory la to tbota who pnt God
first. But as wo want a battle cry tultad to
all recti of teiigioniats.andtoall lands, I nom
inate as tho battle cry of Ghrfttoodom In the
til carried
to Mount Zion: “Lot God arita, lot Hft one-
n.i.1, I t scattered.''
Aa far aa our finite mind can judge, itieoms
about time for God to rise. Due* it not
stem ta you that tho abominations
of Ihla earth have gono far enough?
Was there over a time when aln was so
dillaut? Wtro there ever before ao many fists
lifted toward God, telling Him to como on If
He dare? Look at the blasphemy abroad!
What toweling profanity! Would It ho possi
ble for any coo to calculate the numbers of
tlmrl that the namo of Almighty God, and of
Jcrnt Christ, are every day taken irravautly
eu tha lips. Ho common has blasphemy be
come that’ the public mind ana public
ear have got used to it, and
a blasphemer goes up and
down this country In his lectures defying ins
plain law agatnit blasphemy, and there If uot
a may or iu America that haa beekbmo enough
to iutcifere with Mas lava ono, aud that, the
mayor cf Toronto. Prehno swearing li as
much forhiddns by tho law as theft, or a-auu,
or murder; yet who execute# fir Profanity is
mores than theft, or arson, or leurdar, for
MVIIQ io«u list.lb, Of M-WII, Of wurmi. IVI
Him erin.ci are attack* on hum&uitj—that U
an attack cn God.
This conntry it pr+ettfoebt for blatphaap.
A man traveling in Bonin wai tnppoco! to ba
a Cs’cti jmaa. “Wkj do you take m« to ba a
cUrpmaa?” fiM tha man? tha
Itatcitp, "all ether Aarricani Bwetr.” Too
crime U maU'pljJn* in God very
often shows what 11« Ihiakc of it, bat for tho
meat part tha fatality U bashed np. A few
tnn,n.tn eto imcvjf the Adirondack* I mat
tha foaml proecnUm of a man who, two
tefora. had fallen under a flash of
KpMrtrf wbilaboaatttf, after a flnnd*r of
noxk in tho that he hal cheated
ong-tuifcrlnK God. And the ship captain
d»mns his crew, and .Che march ant damns his
clcrkv. and ikt i«astsr hoildardanwih hts men]
and'the kJui'drftir damns hfs Lotto; -aad Ua
tmvrlri dsiriis the stoiiethat bruises his foo',
ci the a.mi thst toils his «bo<s or the defact*
ive time jiirc* that pets hiru too Islototba
rail train. I arraffn prolsno swearing aod
M»i)ihtjny, two i.mucn fur the ha me thing. U
beiif* one of tho giffsntfc crimes of this Ucd,
sedforits fxtirpulou it does seem at If it
*' out time fur Ood to arise.
Then look a moment at the evil of drunken*
mn. Whether you live In Brooklyn, or Now
York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, or 8svanuah,
or Botiov. or in any of tho cities cf tbit lead,
count up thetsloona on that street asoom*
psied with the saloons live yean ago, and see
thry are growing fsr ont of proportion to tho
ii.t Hift* of the population. You poople who
are to precise and paiticular lest there should
be srme imprudence or rsibncM In attack ing
the rem ir»fli \ will have your son some
nifbt pitched into your front door de«4
dini»k, or your daughter will come homo
with iter children because her imibsud
has ly strong drink been turned into
a demonise. The rum llend hu despoiled
whole itmts of good homes in all our cities.
Father*, brothers, sons on the funeial pyre of
»trong drink! Fasten tighter tho victims J
6tfr up the flames! Pile on the corpse*! Mora
mtn, women and children for the sacridcet
Let ui havo whole generations on Are of evil
in-lit; and at tho sound of the cornet, flute,
bmp, is> hint, psaltery and dulcimer let all
thr people fall down aod worship King Alco*
hoi, or yon shall bo cast into the flery furnace
111 ' ll hou.i political platform :
I lidlct ibis evil as the fratlclde, tho pratl-
c'dr, tbo uutrhlde, tho uxoricide, tho regicide
oftbe century. Yet under what Innocent
and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism
deceives the people! It la a "cord 1 *].” It fr
••bitters.” It is an ‘'eTa-opcner.” It Is an
••appatixer.” It is a ••digester.” It is an “in*
vff orator.” It is a “settler.” It is a “night
cap.” Why don't they put on the right labels:
••Ksience of I’crdilion. “Conscience Ktupo*
fit-r,” “Fivo Drachms of Heart-
echo,” "Tears of Orphanage,” "Blood
pf Bonis,” ‘Scabs of an Ktcrnal Leprosy,”
“Vaix u of the Worm That Never Dies?”
position with two or three families, or _
ladies willing rolemnly to marry the
swine of Eodety if they be wealthy.
Brooklyn, whoso streots fifteen yean
ago were almost freo from a'l dgi
of the social evil now night by night rival!eg
upper Broadway In iu flamboyant wicked*
nets. The Bible all aflamo with dennoclatlow
sgalrst an impure lifo, hut many of the Arner*
lean ministry uttering not oue potuthleak
word against this Iniquity lest some old liber
tine throw up bis church pew* Machinery or
ganised in all tba cities of tho United State*
and Canada by which to pat yearly in tha
grinding mill of this Iniquity thousands of
the uneueporting of tlm country farmhouses,
one prccurcss confessing last weak fntha
coin- a that she had supplied the infernal
mmket wilh nno hundred and flfty sou's i«
six months. Ob, for five hundred Pall Hall
Gazettes in America to swing onon the doom*
of this Ik/.iir Lome of n<nd*l corruption!
Hxpostiro muHt como before ertirpatioa.
While the city van carrloa the scam of thla
sin ficm the prison to tho police coart mor*»
Ing by morning, it is fall lime, if wo do nob
want high American life to become like tha*
of tho court of Lsuis XV., to pat mUUonaiiv
Lotharios and the Pompadours of your broma
stono palaces Into a van of popular indigna
tion, and drive them ont of respectable too*
ciotfonp, What prospect of social porlfloatlew
CPU there he as long as at summer watering
picas It la usual to aeo a young wo-
matt of excellent rearing sUud, sal
sin.] cr, and giggle, and roll up hor oyes aid#*
ways bofore ono or those first class satyrs ef
fftShlonable life, aud on the ballroom floor joia
him in tho tqusie dance, the maternal chape
rone nicuuwLilo beaming from the wall on tho
scent? Hatches are mace in Hevveu, they
say. Not sueh matcher, for the brlmrtono ra
dicates the opposite region,
some these Immoralities are called peejadif
ln», gallantries, eccentricities, aafl
are lelrgatcd to the realms of
jocularity, and fow cflbrta aro being
made against it. God bless tbe “white croe*”
movimeat, as it is called, tbe excellent and
njuv, iiii'uv, mb iv ia i muu«j, auD ntuvitoui u«
ts!(nud Miss Frances Willard, its ablest ad
vocate cn Ibis bide tho sea, nn organiutto*
making a mighty Hinault on this evil, (tod
forward the tracts on this subject distributed
by the religious tract sjciettos of the laud!
Clod hilp parents in the groat work they aro
doing In trying to itsrt their children with
pure principles! God help all lo^islitors ia
their attempt to luhiblt this crime!
. But, is this all ? Thou it is only a quaaUea
of time when the last vestige of purity and
heme will vauUh out of sight. Huui «n arms,
human per*, tinman voices, bumsu taleala
aro nut eufliciont. I begin to look up. I listen
for artillery rumbling down tha sapphire
Uulcvards of heaven. I watch to >«* Jf (a
the morning light there be not the flash of do-
scuidingar.lmeters. Oh,for God! boos lino*
m cm time for his appesranoe? Is it uot time
fsr all lands to cry ont. “Le* God -arise, and
let Bis enemies be scattered 1”
J got a truer’ a few days ago mbdmgomH t
i earthquake In Charts*
•eying that if all our American cities go* i
the ] niilshment they deserve for their her», ■
hie imi'Utiiu tf, (lie earth wonid long ago havo
cracktd open Into crevices transcontinental,
and taken down all our cities; and Broskha
si.d New York would havo gone so fsr unaar
that tbe tip of our church spires would bo fivo
hui><1 rrd feet below the surface. It Is of Iho
Isold's mercies that we have not been coo-
aumed.
Notodly ere the sflairs of this world so •»
twist, a jangle and racked, that there seems »
netd of the Divio* appearance, but there te
another reason. Have you not noticed tho*
in the history of this planet God turns a l**f
about every two thousand years? Qod tanted
a leaf and this world was fitted for husaaa
residence. About two thousand mere raaro
pMhtd along arid God turned another leaf, nad
it wss the deluge. About two thousand naovo
ytais pasted on. and It was the Appearance of
Christ. Almost two thousand more years havo
psmd bj, arid bo will probably roou turn an
other leaf. What it shall bo 1 cannot say. Zft
msy be tbo demolition of all these rnonstrtrf-
ticaof turpitude aod tho e«lablishmont of
rifbtccmnets in all the earth. Ho can do 1*^
and Le will do it. I am m confident as If i*
were already accomplished. How easily H«
c*n do it my tex". suggests. It doe* not ask
God to strike with bis right hand, or stamp
wilh his foot, or hurl a thunderbolt of Hin
power, hut Jntt to get up from his throne oa
which He sits. Only tha* will be necessary:
'*Lct God arilft!”
It will be so exertion of omnipotence. II
will he no herding or bracing for a mighty
lift. It will bo no sending down the skr of
the white Lorre cavalry of heaven or rambling
wsr chariots. Jfe will only rise. Now He fe
sitting in the mtjesty and patlenoo of Hin
reign. IIo is from Hts throne wstohlng ibo
muttering of all tbo foices of blasphemy, and
dtur kti ncM.and impurity,audfrind.and ^
Only once In % while is there Anything in the
“ Jr atrocity,
title of liquors to oven hint thst
in the rt»e of sour nub. Thst I sos adver*
U*«d all oVir. It is an honest name and any
one can understand it. Hour tnisb! That is.
it o.ikc« a man’s di>pj«ition soar, and
his atHQciatlons sour, and his
moipects sour; and then
It is good to mub hia body, and mash his soul,
and msib his builnesr, and nub his family.
Sour tcaik! One honest name>t least for an In*
toxicant! But through lying labels of many
of tbe apothecaries’ shops good poople who
are only a little undertone In health, aud
wMstir-gof mine inviuoration,bave unwitting
ly got on their tongues tke fangs of this cobra,
that itlngs to death to large* ratio of the hu
man rase.
Others are luJcel by the common and all*
iU fctn,< t:\t_ habit of treating customer*. And
liiaa treat on their coming to town, aud a
treat wbilo the bargaining pregreseer, and 4
treat when tbe purchase is made, and a treat
as behaves town. Others to drown their
troubles submerge themselves with this worse
trouble. Ob, the world Is battered and bruited
aid bleated with this growing evil. It Is more
and more entranced aud fortified. They have
milliots of dollars subscribed to marshal and
acvli >i lie alcoholic forces. They nominate
and elect and govern the vait majority of the
olDce holden of this country. On their side
they have enlisted the mightiest political
pom r of tho centuries. And behind them
v»i.-! *11 the myrmidons of tbu nether world,
sstsnic ted apoliyocic and diabolic. It is be*
yocd all human effort to throw this Butiio of
■ '•'M.lu! ir «apture this Gibraltar of rum
Jogs. And while I approve of all human
agencies of reform, I would utterly despair if
we bad nothing else. But what cheers me Is
that our bat troope are yet to come. O ir chief
artillery la In reserve. Our greatest com*
mander has not yet fully taken the field. If
all hell is on their aide all heaven Is on our
tide. Now, "Let God arise, and let his ene*
mire be scattered.”
Then look at the impurities of these great
dties. Lrcr and anon there are in the news-
pepers explosions of social life that make the
ftoiy of Sodom quite respectable; for such
things, Christ says, were more tolerable for
gsdomdump tUa forth* Chomlae
urut lirei, *u<J Iiuj.il niy, »UU 11 >uu. nuu ww
bath hicsklng, and when they have dona their
worst and ere most securely organized, Ha
will bestir HImfc< If ahdsaj; “My euooiies nave
defied mo long eiough, aud their cup of In
iquity is full. I Lave given them all opportu
nity for repentance. This dispensation of pa-
tlenco ii ended, and the faith of the good shall
be trhd no longer.”
And now God begins to rise, and whal
mountains glvo way under his right foot, aod
what ccutInonts link under hU left fcot. I
know not; hut standing In the foil
bright, and radiance, and grandeur of
Wa nature, Hoiotka this nay, and shat,!
white and dumb, reel down to thsii
aid those who have trafficked in that whiek
destroys tbe bodies and souls of men and fam
ilies, will fly with cot foot on tbe down grade
of bioken decanters; and tho polluters of so*
defy, thst did their had work with largo for
tunes and high social sphere, will
overtake in tbeir descent tho degraded rabble
of underground city lifo aa they tumble ova*
the eternal precipices; and tbe world shall ba
left dear and dean for tho friends of humani
ty ud tke worftlippcrsof Almighty God. The
last tkern plucked eff, the world will be left m
becoming rose on tho bosom of that Chriat
who cams t» gaidcnlze it. This aavtk
that itsod snarling with Its
tigerieb paaiicn, throating out in its raging
claws, *1 all lie down a lamb at tho feet of the
Lamb of God, who took away the slot of tha
world.
Ard now the beet thing I can wlih for you*
and the beat thing 1 can wish for mysslf, Is,
hat we may bo found Ills warm and uodta-
i nked, and enthusiaatio ftltnda in that hour
Whtn God fchall ri<o and hit enemies a Sail be
scattered.
TJgbtniu: Tliotogruphs.
Cincinnati, Ark., September 21— Editor*
Con»tltnilr,n: Having noticed a paragraph in rw*
sard to lightning photograph*. I would aubmU
following: A*:oaitbe f*sr 1 • • NV.C- Jones and s
wIdle itaudlnz under a beech tree, worn both
ktcLtiy killed by IiiLlnlng, aud upou examining
tbe bodies a perfect t.Lotogrsphof tho tree was
found dUtliH Uy otitllnr-q on tbo ca!f ot the ter.
Loth Of 5fr..'ou< a atd hb* boy. Any old clt tern*
1 t<ji»a, Ohi«\ will VOQCh for the nV*rc.mW, C.
Jcnft was proprietor of the C ity hold, lu iijua. ah
the time or bb death, and tncafl'alr created a fosfi
deal oft AQiiCiucut. Yours icapectftjiir.
F. B. ]
. Baxios*
