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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA. GA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
OURMOTHEiVEVfi.
DR. TALMAGE ON THE FIRST WO
??? MAN???S FALL.
The First, the Faired and the Beat oC Women Por
trayed in striking Cclors-The Min of Curiosity
Dwelt Upon???Tasting the Apple Which
Led to the Downfall of the Race.
Bbookltx, November 9.???[8peetal.]???At
Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day Dr. Talmage after
expounding appropriate pauagea of Scripture
Ijaveout the byun:
"He leadeth me! Oh. bleated thought!
Oh, words with heavenly comfort fraught
Where ere I go, where ere I be,
Still HU God???s hand that leadeth me.???
Dr. Talmage'a text waa taken from Geneaia
ii. 22: "Of a rib which the Lord God had
taken from man made lie a woman and
Drought her unto the man."
It is the first Saturday afternoon of the
World's existence, said Dr. Talmage. Adam
lias since sunrise been watching the pageantry
of wings and scales, and while taking his first
lessons in toology and ornithology he notices
that the robins fly by twos and the fish swim
by twos and the lions walk by twos. And in
I the warm redolence of that sceno he falls of!
into slumber as If by allegory, to impress all
nges with the fact that sound and healthful
) Bleep is the grandest ot all earthly blessings
this paradiseieal ominolence ended Jn wo
man's arrival on the new planet.
Of the mother of all the living I to-day dis
course. Eve. the first, the fairest and tho best.
1 make me a garden. Its paths I inlay with
mountain moss, and border it with shell 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 ripplo under the pad*
dliog of swans. I plant me lilies Jrom tho
Amazon and crange groves from tho tropic and
tamarinds from Goyas. Woodbine and
Loneyauckto climb over the walla
end starred spaniels sprawl upon
tho grass. Among the tree branches, I eall
doves and larks and brown threshers that stir
I the air with infinite chirp and carol. But this
?? I would be a desert full of bowling and death
compared with tho bright residence of the wo-
' man who is tho subject of my morning???s story.
Never since Eve such skies looked down
through such eaves into such waters. Never
since has river wave known such curve or
sheen or bank as adorned Pisen, Havitah,
Oibon and Hiddekel, the vary pebbles beta]
bdellium end onyx stone. What fruits witl
no curculio to sting the rind 1 What flowers
with no slug to grow the root! What atmos
phere with neither chill biaaLto frost nor boat
to consume! Sunlight on the waters, bright
colors tangled in tb??* grass, perfumo in the air,
music In the sky. Biro* warble and trees hum
and waters dash. It was all gladness and life
and song.
Under these bowrni of vine and leaf ami
Brub at an altar carpeted with flowers, was
tho first marriage. Adam as he .toko* the
band of this immuuulate daughter of God pro-
totuhcea the ceremonial himself when be says,
*???Bone of my bone aud flesh of my flesh."., A
forbidden tree stands in tho garden, Eve
atrolling out alone ono day comes under it.
She says to herself: "What beautilul truitl I
wonder how it tastes. Let mo fust put my
bands upon it. Yes; ripe and beautiful; 1
will take it down, but not to eat. 8uppoae I
just orack the rich timed rind; that can do
so harm.??? After awhile sho tasted. Calliug
to Adam he also came and tasted. Sin for the
first time ia insido the gates of the world,
let the heavens put ou gloom and the winds
loben the booout of tha hills and from cavern
snd from ocean depth and from deserts and
from sky lot there come one long, deop. hell-
resounding howl: ???The world is
lost.??? Leasts before playful and
harmless, growl u {ton each other,
and run out euw and tooth and tusk. Birds
whet their beak for prey. Wrathful clouds
troop in the aky. Sharp thorns shoot up
through soft gru????. Blasting ia on tho leaves.
The rivers, rued and angry, rush between torn
banks. The cords afthat great harmony are
pnappei. Upon the brightest home that earth
ever saw our parents turned their back'and led
forth on a pilgrimage ot sorrow, tho broken
hearted myriads of a ruined race.
Bee first the danger of an illegal inquisitive-
Dess. Healthful curiosity has done mnch for
letter*, art, science and religion. With the
geologist it has gone down into the earth and
read the first chanter of Genesis in the book of
Datnre IlluitraUd with engravings on the
rock, and from its inspiration the
flntiqusrian t bath blown the trunipetofresurrec
tion over burird Pompeii and Herculaneum un
til their sepulchre* have opened, and shafts,and
towers, md amphitheatres have arisen to tho
world???s gaze. Curiosity hath attracted the
telescopic vision of the astronomer until dis
tant worlds have coiuo out of their-biding
placet in the furtberest heaven to choir
praises of God, while planet' 1*1 weighed
against planet snd wildest meteors are lassoed
oi resplendent law. It bath found traces of
tho eternal God in the polype aud star-fishes
In the sea and the majesty of the great Jeho
vah encamped u infer the gorgeous curtains of
a dahlia. It lath examined the spots on tho
Bun and the Jarvnt bidden in a leaf, the light
under tho hre ily???a wing and tho terrible
glance of the condor pitching from Chlm-
oroaza, the myriads of animalcttlae
that make the phosporesoent
blaze in a ship'a wake and the mighty maze
??f sunt and spheres snd eoustellations and
galaxies that blaze on in the inarch of God.
Curiosity has inspired tho inventor until
forces that for ages lay bidden have come to
wheels and levers and shuttles and wings
ir numerable, swimming through tha waters,
cleaving through the mountains, soaring
through the air, until tho whole
earth rattles and crushes and roars
and rings with strange mechanism
and lightening* play kite with philosopher*
and ships with nostrils of hot steam and yokes
of fire draw together the continent*. We
would not condemn the labors ot human In
quisitiveness, but we hope that their leyden
jars and electric batteries and Voltaic piles and
magnifying gists*-* might charge upon the
barred castles of the natural world until it
should surrender the last secret. Give it wider
range, and let new discovery come down from
the air and leap up out of the waters
and rear from the earth to crown human
Inquisitiveness. G????d be praised lor this geolo
gical curiosity of Professor Hitchcock, and the
zoological curiosity oi Agasis, and the chem
ical curiosity of Liebig, and the architectural
I curiosity of Christopher Wren, and the inven-
< five curiosity of Luwiml
i But the inqubi ti veuess of many have rushed
them into pn-dirsment. Eve wanted to know
bow the fruit snd ??he found out, but fl.OOO
years of wretobe??J*>??** et??d woa have deplored
her curiosity. Unlawful curiosity has tent
the theologian iu*??t i??.to the forbidden systems
of God end rrlntfou* Ho has sometimes
wrenched his who)* moral nature out ol joint
in trying to plurk Iruit from branches beyond
bis reach or venturing too f ir on tho limbs
bath tumbled fonuloue without remedy.
There are ten 'thousand trees from whieh
Wo may eat and get only good,
but from the foi>*t of mystery,
divine election. Trinity, the resurrection, how
many have pluck.-d ruin? Thousands
of men are not Christian* because tusy do not
know who Mel^htsed- oh ??a??.
There are many lorm* of unhealthful InquU-
i Stiveness. Many *it fr.-ra morning to night
f with the eye storing and mouth agape of curi
osity. They are the first to know who told
B lie, and LUIld it another story Wgh and
two wings to it. About other people's
bouses, about other people's fbod, about other
people's apparel, ah-mt **h??r people's finan
cial condition they a.e over anxious. No
choice bit of gossip floating in community
tut stops at their. oor, *nd they luxuriate and
grow 1st in the endless round of the
greet wrrfd ot tittle tattle.
He Invites, snd aumptuoasTy* e??-
ertains at bis fircide Colonel Twaddle, Es
quire Chit-Chat and Governor Small-Talk.
Whosoever hath a slander, whosoever hath on
inuendo, whosoever both a valuable secret let
them come and oiler it a sacrifice to this god
dess of splutter. Multitudes of Adams snd
Evcstpend their whole time in eating fruit
that does not belong to them. Borne who are
proficient mathematicians have never learned
this computation in moral algebra:
| Good bense, x Good ???Breeding???Curiosity, |
minding your own business.
Young people, urged on by their inauisi-
tiveness nave ransacked the whole field of
French novels to find out whether they are
really as bad as moralists have pronounced
them. Jutt coming to look over tho parapets
they have lost their balance and down they
went, dashed into remediless destruction or
perchance crawling upon the rocks shattered
and bleeding and ghastly, gibbering with
curses or groaning ineffectual prayers. Pas
sion is a fiery courser tnu driven along
dangerous places it may become
unmanageable, and at the sudden sound of
mirth???s- trumpet bit and nolo break and it
lunges like a belt into terrible abysm. '
Again, learn from Eve's career that tome
fruits that are pleasant to the taste afterward
produce agony. The forbidden fruit was so
pleasant to Eve's appetite she is not satisfied
until her husband tastes it. But her bsniih-
mentfrom Paradise nmltho sufferings, of an
entire race were the price paid for tho luxury.
Eve is not tho only one who hath sold great
happiness for temporary satisfaction. Tho
cup of sin always sparkles at the top, but'
there is death at tho bottom. Intoxication
bath pleasant exhilarations, makes a roan seo
five stars where others see ono star, putskpring
into the ground, filipps the blood, makes tho
poor man feel rich, and cheeks whito as snow
red as roses. But what about the dreams that
come afterward when they seem falling from
great heights snd in an effort to save them
selves meeting with other fancied^ disasters
till the sweat stands on the brow like the night
dews of eternal darkness, and they are ground
under the hoofs of horrid nightmares, shriek-
ingoutwith ftps that crackle
??? * ltd
with feverish
torture. Look into that hall of revelry where
ungodly mirth staggers and blasphemes. Lis
ten to the senseless gabble and watch tho going
out of the lust traces of manhood from mou
mode from God's own imago. "Ha, ha! this
is joy for youf ??? suith a royatoring noighbor.
"Fill your cups, my boys! Here???s to
your cups, my boys
wife???s sorrow and my children???s
rags and my God???s defiance 1'
But
he secs not that the fiend stirs the goblet in
tho hand aud adders uncoil from tho bottom
and thrust up their forked tongues, hissing in
the froth on the brim. Perdition bought for a
sixpence I
The fruit was pleasant to Eve, bnt that dis
obedience still unite* the enrth until it reels
like an ox under the butcher???s bludgeon. Who
could tell the consequence of that ono sin un
less, all at once, he could make tho world throw
open all it* prison doors to exj??oso the crimes,
and all its hospitals to show tho disease,and all
tbe alm-houres to show the squaltor,- and., all
tho insane asylums to display the madness,
and all the sepulchres to show tho dead, and
all the gates of the lost to show the damned.
That one Edcnic transgression has lighted up
every ungodly passion aud stretched cords of
misery over the world, striking them into
dolorous woe, and hath seated plagues on the
air and shipwrecks on tho tempest and hath
fastened famine like a leech on tho sick heart
of tho nations oud made 10,000 battlefields
groan with horror.
Ob, tho deeeitfiilncss of sin I The ground
over which it lends you Is hollow, tho fruits
it offers to your taste aro poisoned, tho prom
ise it makes is a lie. Over this ungodly ban
quet the keen, glittering source of Hod???s
judgement is suspended. An ominous hand
writing is ou tbe wall. 0, thou misguided
victim of pleasure, I sound tho alarm!
Thy pleasure boat is for from shores.
Tho aviumer day is closing roughly*
lor the winds and wnvos ore loud-voiced and
the ovcr-comiug clouds are all a writho and a
;le*m with terror. Thou art Past the *'nar-
.ows,??? almost outside the "hoolc??? and If the
Atlantic take thee, frail mortal, thou shalt
Dover get to-shore again. Homeward! Put
back! Itow swiftly, swifter, swifter I Jesus,
from the shore rasfath a rope. Grasp it quick
ly I Now or never! Some ol my nearer* I
fear have freighted all their hopes and loves
and joys uptu a vessel which shall nevor bring
them to a ]>ort of safety. See,
thou nearest the breakers! Ouo
heave upon the rocks! Another luago may
crush thee beneath the shrivelled spars or
griud tby bones to powder among the torn
timbers! Overboard, for thy life! Overboard!
Trust not that too*e plank nor tempt tbe shop,
but quickly clasp the feet of Jesus walking
upon tho watery pavement, shouting till ho
hear thee: "Lord, save, or I porlshI"
Again tho biography of Evoteachcamo what
???hocking thing sin is, when appended to
great beauty and refinement. Never
since Eve???s death has the world seen such per
fection of womanhood. Coming directly from
tbe band ot God, thcro was not another at
traction you could have suggested for her
person, nor atolber refinement to her man
ners. No gracefulness could have been added
to her gait; no sparkle to her eye; no color to
her cheek 5 no sweetness to her voice; to bo
the companion of a perfect man, and the in
habitant of ?? perfect home. God Fad created
her and all that beautilul naturo vibrated in
accord with the brightness of the
scene of Paradise. But she re
sisted God???s authority, snd with the
same hand with which she had plucked the
fruit launched upon unborn generations tho
crime end the wars, aud the tomtft, and the
woes which hsveiet thouniverse availing.
Terrible offset to all her attractiveness.
To find men end women naturally vulgar,
given up to evil practices, doss not startlo ns
very much, for we expect. those who live in
tbe ditch to have the manners of tho ditch.
But when we find wickedness joined to
acuteness of Intellect and attractiveness of
manner, wc are startled. The a cc implish-
metits of Mary Queen of Scots make her pat
ronage of Darnlry, the profligate, the more
astounding. The geniua of Catharine II., em
press of Hu??is,onTy set off fu more repelling
light her unappeasable ambition.
The translations which Elizabeth inode
from the Latin and the Greek
and her extraordinary qualification
for a queen only brought out into more vivid
contempt her cepriciouscess of affection and
haughtiness of temper. Lord Byron???s great
ness makes tha more shameful Lord Byron's
sensuality. J*t no one think that suavity of
bearing or a high style of accomplishment can
apologize for vanity or ill-temper or unkind-
ness. Disobedience to Ond or unrighteousness
towards man will becloud tho mod brilliant
attainments. Though your eecomplUhruenU
be heaven-high, they will not excuse for vice
hell-deep.
Again, learn the real influence of woman,
.a the power which Eve exercised over Adam,
and on tbe destiny of uncounted generations 1
see a type of the power which hor descendant#
should ??zeroise. We have no sympathy with
the flatter!** that aro showered upon h*r frorp
the pulpit end the stage. The true nobilit/of
wr man con*M* in the power of a Christian in-
fin erica. Eve???s overthrow of Adam and tho
race was only sn illustration of wbat power
there is now in the frail arm of woman to
strike until tho echo ring through eternity,
down amoig the caverns or up among the
throne*. That influence was not monopot:*ed
by such great representative women as Evs
who ruined the race with omf fruit plucking,
nc r Jael v bo sent a spike through the head ot
Sisers. nor of Esther who overcame royalty,
nor of Abigail who by her beautiful counte
nance arrested a nostila army, nor ol
Mary who nursed the world*???
Savior, nor of fhe great dancer who carried
???bout on a dish the gory head of John tha
Baptist, nor of Grandmother Lol* who was
immortalised in her grandson, Timothy, nor
of Charlotta Corday who, with bar <Umr,
ah w the sstssain of her 1 over, nor of Marie
Antoinette who could conquer a mob by one
look frem tbe balcony of her castle, and
whose scaffold was a throne of f-yglve-
ness and moral courage, I refer to the
mothers, to tbe wives, t> tbe daughters,
to tha sisters who, unambitious for political
power end ??? he scramble of the bostiogs, are
???erforming the tea thousand sweet offlcee of
When I thus apeak I find myaalf using as a
model, *m woym awsi sweaty year* age we
put away for the resurrection. About eighty
years ego, iiist before tbe day of their mar
riage, my lather and mother stood up in the
old meeting-house at Somerville to take the
vows of a Christian. Through a long
lifo of vioissitude she lived blame
lessly and usefully and came to her
end in in peace. No child of want ever came
to her door and was turned away. No strick
en sonl ever appealed to her and was not
comforted. No sinner ever asked her the way
lo be saved and was not pointed to Christ.
When the angel of life came to our neighbor's
dwelling, she was there to rejoico at the in
carnation; when the angel of death came she
was there to robe tbe departed one for burial.
.We had b/len heard her while, kneeling
among her children at family pray
ers, when father was absent
say: "I ask not for roy children wealth
>r honor; but I do ask that they may all be
come the subject* of their converting grace.
"6he had seen all of her eleven children
gathered into tho church and she had but
one more wish and that waa that ahe might
again see her missionary ton, and when the
snip came from China and anchored in
New York harbor and the long absent ono
crossed the threshold of hit paternal home,
she said, "Now*, Lord, lotteat thou, thy ser
vant depart in peace, for mine eye# havo seen
thy salvation.?????????
we were gathered from afar to see only the
bouse from whieh the soul had fled forever.
How calm she looked! Her folded hands ap
peared just as when they were employed In
kindneiies for her children. And we could
not help but say as we stood and looked at
her: "Didn???t she look beautiful I??? It was a
cloudless day when with heavy hearts we car
ried her out to tho last resting-place.
Tho withered leave* crumbled under
wheels and hoof at we passed
and tho setting sun shone upon the river until
it looked like fire. But more calm and bright
was tbe setting sun of.this aged pilgrim???s
lifo. No more toil. No moro tears. No more
sickness. No more death. Dear mother!
Beautiful mother I
non, N. J. Hammond???s Remarks,
Mr. N. J. Hammond made the following re
marks at tbe centenary services at Firat M,
E. church Sunday November 2d:
To mo listening would bo far preferable to
speaking this morning. And it would bo more
profitable to you to hear these ministers, who???
life study has been Methodism. Were I competent
for the tusk no recital of Its history could be made
in the time so limited by the other neoessaiy ser
vices of this occasion. (Mr. Dodge???s address and
the sacrament ot tho Lord's supper.) Nor would
it* hurried review bo useful except u it might
nwakcu interest aud prompt a study ol tho orittn
nnd ptogteM ol this remarkable, thia wonderful
Christian organization. It caine from no now de
parture In religious opinions. Its twenty-five
HitjcUa me practically tho aame na the thtrty-ulno
of the mother chun hoe.
It ??t rune not from Ignorance craving notoriety.
The Wesleys, John and Charles, were tnined
students at Oxford, and their fellow-worker*,
llaivi-y and WhittUld were of Pembroke college.
They witnessed tho sin and Infidelity in high
plum and observed the llfelesfttiem of thoestao-
fished church of F.ngluiid, whose legal head was
the V Ing, though he might be as wanting In piety
as "Jliuff King Hal,??? whose forma of worship,
whore very prayers were prescribed bylaw.
They desired a derper work of graco la them-
*lr??s and sought to carry tho gospel homo to the
topic. They scattered the seed# In England,
Scotland and Ireland, and Wesley brought thorn
aatnrlra* 173ft, to Georgia. WnltcfleJa carried
than all along the Atltutic coast to Massachusetts
In tho public mind, by out-door preaching, fervid
mrcli aud earnest prayer excited contempt and
nnuy. But rldfcuto and persecution com-
Hlid rimer friembhip and mutual aid. Novelty
inolf gained for them adherents aud their orderly
walk and godly conversation made these societies
glow and prosper. Hue tho oouln* revolution,
the actual revolution, absorbed all thoughts fur
years. Mottof their minister* returned toB.ig-
fand and tbiJr flocks were scattered. Psxoe was
du-laridin 19*8, bnt there remained personal
dbllkc nrdJblttiTUCM towards everything British.
Further oflu lnl connection with tae e-Ubillhed
rhun-b by the Mt-tbodmis of the. colonies after
the odonlcs had achh ved their Iiidnpeuce WM
Impotslblc. The situation demanded an Inde
pendent church, acknowledging no bead, but Its
own bishops. No law making power, but It# own
conference# and utter aud irrevokuble divorce
ment from the state. Mr. Wesley reoognlted tho
ntmalty, ordained Coke, who eamo over and,
withAabury In Deoember 17H4, assembled the
sixty mIt. liters in the first Methodist conference
st Baltimore.
goon eftcr. the Wesleys were gathered to their
fetters, Charles In 1780 John In 17U1, leaving s
fame purer than that of kfug* and wnlch brlgnt-
ens as the good and glory of their work develops*
upon the nations. . .
lu Hi. centennial year great (a now the tempta
tion to ??p?? sk of its feeble beginnings . and lu ac
quired atrctigth, Itt struggles and triumphs; to
call thd roll ot the grand men wbo from it?? pal-
Iplts have preached Christ t> a dying world. But
wt-rel familiar with It, thelUt la bm long tobo-
?? in upon. J would bresk down os did Fsul when
???c essayed to recount the work of faith;
I Ho sni-ntfontd its work In Abel and Knorin
Noah and Abraham, Isasosnd Jacob, Joseph and
Mom*, the parting of the Bed tfea and the crumb
ling of tho walls of Jericho. Aud theu ho brought
gm ??? with this question and answer:
11 more say? Fortune would
fenffle* It to ??sy the "murtard seed??? town In Ox-
>id 11 ITto, bss become a mighty tree. I am not
[*tcd in ecclesiastical sUiittilRi; hut even lu the
-nlted mates the Melbodfeta of all kinds, by sosq-
lsrttrtfetlis, number two sad thrcc-qnsrur mil
lions of communicants, a half million more than.
??U the Baptists, three time* os many as
the Pi*ftbyterisns, more than four times os many
"1 the Congregational feta, snd nearly one-third of
l the Protistsuts of this country.
Its miiifetcrs bsv# awskeued the dull ear of hu
manity with an eloquence which rivaled and ex
celled that of Greece and Korue, have mingled
lheir prayers and prafeev with the oound of the
fiontiiinisn???ssxe blazing the way of clrJUtUou
on laud, and wherever ships have sailed they have
*??i* hat has been the secret 0/ this marvelous
growth? The answer bos already been made. It
was a striving lor personal piety and more tha
earning ot the pnlplt to the people. *???????? ??
wss rolvvd when, in 1739, Whip-fluid
ide and new awtonanoe.
low be called by Ot*
h. an oflkmooi from the
).j> m>rJr>bs w??re sent to iearn whether He we e
the very Christ. The Bavlour told them logo 1# 1
John what they bad wltneiwcd. vis: the deal
beard, the dun k spoke, the lame leaped for joy,
sn?? to sightles* eyebslls vision came. That seem
ingly was enough; for each ol them waa the work
of a God. But that was not all. He capped the
grand climax with: "sod tbe poor hstre the gos
pel prosi-bed to them." Our church Is like the fa-
mom r an van tree of India, whose branch* reach
ing tbe earth take root and eaob becomes itself a
trie, furnishing new shade and ???
Tour attention wlH now
U under to Grace church, an
t sit nt stu k. Its membership Is of pt-noos lu oar
rubor la, out on the Boulevard, who, without that
ihmrh and tonr aid, may never hear tbe U<H(iel,
st least may never he*r It m you have it preached.
May we give attention to what he h??a to say aud
then give of our means as oor purser will allow.
Mr. Dodge then presented the claims of his
charge and took up quite a large collection
for its benefit.
Mischief n Wrought
by bid cooking, tough meets, Into hours, bus
iness worrits, irregular, livers, soar disp-Mi-
lions, evil'digestion and impure blood. Much
of this miscDtef con be overcome by the it*e
of Brown???s Iren Bitrere???the best tonic ever
trade. Mr*. Ernilie Crawford, JteidavUle, Go.,
writes, "After frying Brown's Iren Bitters are
???re persuaded that it is all that it claims to be
???a good sad reliable tonic.??? Thousand* of
others speak In Hire f??ann-r. .
Hor*fcrd???e Sefd Phosphate???A Good Thing
Dr. Adam Miller, Chicago, 111., asyat "I
have recommended Ilorsford'a Acid Ph-nphate
to ir y patients, and have received very, fa
vorable reports. It is one of the very few
really vejnable preparations, now offered to
the afflicted. In ???. practice of thirty-five
yeara 1 have foun-J s few good thing:, sad
this U one of flirei "
A TRAGEDY at temple.
T. J. ITnrper, the Depot Agent At Temple, on
the Georgia Pacific Nearly Killed.
T. J. Harper, the Georgia Pacific railroad
agent at Temple waa assaulted and 'fatally
Wounded by robbers late Saturday night.
Tbe fatal affair occurred at
Temple Saturday night between 11
and 12 o'clock, and intelligence of it reached
the cily early vetterday morning. Saturday
morning last all trains on the Georgia Pacifio
road were thrown off schedule time by a break
in a bridge near Birmingham, and the
parsenyer train which usually reaches Atlanta
at eight o???clock, p. m.. did not arrlvo night
before lost, but camo in
???ASLV YEStCKDAT MOSXIVO. *
It passed Temple about ten or fifteen min
ute* before midnight, and Mr. Harper,
who had been advised by tele
graph of the broken schedule, was on
the watch. He met tho train when it Stopped
at the depot, and, as was his custom, received
the moil pouch and other packages consigned
to that place. The night was dark and the
hour so late that all the yillogers wore in, and
elone Mr. Harper witnessed tho arrival
and departure of the train. As the
tiain rolled away the baggage master waved
bis band at Mr. Harper who turning around
started towards the depot. But he had token
only a few steps when a man approached and
struck him over tbe head with a stick. The
blow was a fearful one and Mr. Harper stag
gered backward,
Birr wo WOT VAtt.
Then gathered himself and made a spring at
bis esssilatot, who received biro with a deadly
knife, which he began using with terrible
effect. The knifo blade was long and keen,
and every time it entered Mr. Harper???s flesh
an ugly and dangerous wound was
made. Mr. Harper was unarmod,
but realizing that he was the custodian of tho
road???s property at that station he * declined to
give in, and with his lantern fought the would-
be assassin bravely. Tbe duel between the
two men???the one a robber armed with a
deadly knife, and tbe other an honest man
with nothing but a lantern???was a fear
ful one. Tbe night waa intensely dork and
SO OMR WAS NKAR
to protect the almost defenseless man, vet he
itood hi a ground until the loss of blood from
a holf score wounds made him aink to the
ground almost lifeless. As soon as Mr. Har-
1 >tr fell tho robber turned upon his
leels and walked away without
even fondling the mail pouoh or tho express
packages, or oven searching Mr. Harper???s
pock eta.
After the rascal had skipped out Mr. liar-
I ter made an attempt to crawl to the depot,
Hit finding himself too woak ho placed tho
mail sack under his head and laid down'
to await tho coming of day.
well knowing that ho would
then be found- Hoon after this a Mr. John-
tqn happened to bo out, and hearing Mr.
Harper???s groans wont to tho depot to invcstl-
f tate. He found Mr. Harper and then accnr-
ng aid removed him to tho depot. Mr. Har
per then attempted to use tho telegraph wires
to In form tho railroad officials in
Birmingham of what had occurred, but found
himself
TOO WRAK TO VAVtmitR THE EXT.
tragedy became known oil aloug tho
road and yesterday reached Atlanta.
A physician was procured as soon after
Mr. Harper waa found aa possiblo and
his wounds were dressed. Fully a half dozen
serious cuts were found on various part* of his
body, whiles heavy contusion showed where
the club first struck him. The uhysioian who
drrncd the wounds considered thorn so dan
gerous that Mr. Harper???s sister, Mrs. Dr.
Hopkins, of Seneca, South Carolina, was tele
graphed for. The railroad officials arousing
ovefy means to ascertain the fiend who com-
niittid the deed, but bad not succeeded up toa
lato hour last night. From railroad men who
canfo'in on the G< orgia rnciflo lost n ght, it
vraa???atCrTtc|(nfd that Mr. Harper wai still
rlivo/ato yesterday evening, but little hopes
of hi* recovery ????????? entertained.
RIDING IN A ROX GAR.
New Advertisements,
?OR BENT???A FIVE (fir IIORTO FARM IN WA A
. ten county on rcasnnablo terms. Apply 1?? M.
1 <????? ??*v. Wrtrtpn 1 ounre, Us. wav oov 4. T
young
Bt. Lou!
pretty.
tuff#
A Young Woman Makes n Trip from St.
Louis to Atlanta ??la Tramp.
On tbe extreme western end of Foundry
street tbe curiosity seeker will uow find a
??? woman who mado tho trip from
Ufa to Atlanta in box cars.
The name of tbe girl who performed thU
remarkable leat i?? Maggie Forgueon. She is
about fifteen yeara of age and ia decidedly ???
Bhe arrived in Atlanta Friday morn
having made the trip from
Nashville to Atlanta in a looked box
car from which she waa released'in the West
ern and Atlantic railroad yard. Soon after
leaving the car ahe approached Captain Grim
who was then on Alabama street, to whom
Ibtfsaid that she was a stranger in tho city
and that she wanted to find soms relatives
who lived in Atlanta, fibs did not nresout
neatest appearance when ahe ap
proached Captain Crltn. Hor wearing
apparel was somewhat soiled, and tho valiao
she carried in her hand looked as though it
had pawed through several campaigns, fllio
informed the captain that her nemo waa
Maggie Ferguaon, and said that aho waa
looking for a family by the aame name. Cap
tain Crini secured ??? city directory, and amoug
the many Ferguson's therein found the one
tbe young woman was in quest of. They re
sided on Foundry street, aud to the place the
captain conducted her. On his way the girl
electrified tbe captain by telling biin that sho
raq away from her homo' in St. Louis, nnd
Hat the had ridden all the way from
8*. Doii to Atlanta on freight
train*. Yesterday Captain Crim told the story
to ?? CoxamtlTlOX reporter who called to see
the girl. The reporter met a young girl of
???bout fifteen, with bright blue eyooend gold
en hair and a bright sunny nature. Bhe was
as vivacious as could he, and when
the reporter made His mission
nown and asked ifer to toll about
her trip aba quickly responded, as a pleasant
???mile played about her mouth and her eye#
looked straight into those before her:
"Yea. 1 did make the trip, and it wasn't
???ueb a hard task aa you might suppose. Yon
???1 e my father was not kind to me, and I left
borne. He Is a mason by trad#
and Uvea on Tenth street. My
mother is dead and because I objected to him
marrying again ha treated me cruelly. I
knew of Uncle Ike living here, but I had
never aeen him and I determined to eome. I
put some clothing fn a valise of my brother's,
who gave me five dollars and got a conductor
one freight train to carry me to Evans
ville. You see my brother ia
railroad man and he knew
conductor who let me ride in his cab.
tha
Skinny Men.
"Wells's Health Henewer" restores health
and vigor, cum dyspepsia, impotence, atml
lability. |t??
Evansville I paid for my rid* over tho river
to Hi nritTRon, and one night I got on a flatcar
snd tbe next day I waa in Nashville. Thera I
got In a be.x csr. It was locked alterwaida,
sad for three data I was in there without any
wgtor. but I bed a lunch. I did not
??ufl*v. I knew the ear woe
nming to Atlanta and that I would get out*
l et oh, you ought to have seen the man when
hi opened the ear and daw me. He waa so
artfully reared that I was a bit afraid."
Miea Ferguson says she will ramsiu In At
lanta and not go track home.
Tha Great tVfit-Esd ???Bar Gomnnry,
Mr. B. Child, Manager of the West-End
Bus Company, Auckland, Naw Zealand
slates In the Daily Herald of that city, aa (el
lows: We have much p>o??ure m beat mg t-* ???
ttmoi??y to the ???fficocy of Si. Jacobs Oil. It#
saccekB baa been particularly marked in on*
rasa of laments, that of a very vainaV#
borsa suffering from amcera sprain of'*"*
back sinews, so severe as to defy the usual
remedies. Other remedies having failed, wa
were induced to try fit. Jacobs Oil, and alter
using It for a f# w day*, the lamenc-s, which
was almost chronic, entirely dUstppnarwd, nnd
the bone baa elnee stood constant work.' Wo
have also used tbe Oil mottsuccMsfully for
brufeea. It la a remedy that should boat
band in every stable.
Endcr ed by rhjslc???nas nnd Druggists.
Everybody knows the general use* of a
(flatter, end that Be&foa's Gipcine i???ltstors
ore the but.
fl OThAt.HhKH-THKbTOCKHOLDKR-tOF ME
J uumner High School, in tbe town of 1
Vortb county, (In, on the B. and W. K.
a tin t claw teacher. Locality notorious l ???
health. Country abound* with good material.
Building spacious and most modern. First hcmIou
opens January. nS5. Mu??t boa grsduato and ap-
1 IMTAUIAN GIIltlsriANITY???HKHMON4
U tract*,lepers and book explanatory of Unitarian
Christianity will be sent free ami postpaid to all
persons applying to Rev. Georee Leonard Chaney,
or Mr*. A. V. Rude, Atlanta, da.wklv lot
THE BIGGEST THING OUT
(stw) E. Nason dt Co., 120 Fulton Bt, New York.
wky HI
VokKls something uevr. Hare chance, aft outdi
iifree;wrlte to-day. Empire Co, 881 Canal at, N Y.
[Xt | Nt-w.rancy t.hromo Cards. Uamlaouioatsold.
t)UfO styles with name. 10c. Niwu Card Co.,
Nassau, N. Y. t oot7--wkp4w e o w
JERSEY BULL FOR SALE
A XAKGK FINE AS'TStAT, IN EVERY BE-
A ???iiw.t.thmjMnol.Unil hM l'SB CENT
Itnwj.BcU. ol Scitu??t?? Woml.
JNO. L. HOI-KINS,
Hurninoj
Atlanta. (Iiu
SURE CURE?
PV-l*Kl???sl\ I MUi: ??- >TiOnT
Address Dr.W.W. UBJfiQOkV. Chariot ic.Nit.ctiroUim.
SPECIAL NOTICE,
T AM FRKPARKD TO BUY flEWINO -MA-
J chine# and Organa cheap, tor thoae who may
desire to purchase. Can save each purchaser
from *10 to gift on Maehlne or Organ. Kt ???client
quality guaranteed. For partitionladdras^.
OCt?1???wkyst. . * * Madt-on, (ia. "
30 HUM Arm II-krrmnt *1 l??\
With Him-. 10#. ISMe*tta??wt*t, Ill-Mew
Kumf, I t.r. ISXMmS RrwYMT.IIhM#*
rnm. net. Rmnm v*m r??. rmhi, r. i.
Opium, (.Moral, Whisky and Tobacco
Habits sncccrafnlly treated without pain or hin
drance from dally bnslneaa.
NO RESTRICTIONS ON DIET.
All communications strictly confidential,
BY A. S. WOOLLEY, M. D.,
BF.LMA, ALA. 8m wk
fwylaf w??**r. sm If ??<* ??????tuuoirT.r*
* viipMi WcvtMfMtgnalfear
flytThlsOarf
Aiotocx goieraaots
11 AOkNTB WANTEOtn take orders for our fl
It
lm
I A niCO A 8EWINO MACHINE (Utmt
L mJlLO Improwmeltt on the Hlngfr, nnd
LnUILU -.meu retailed *t H??VllKK
- ??? "??? - 1 -" to any agotttor person who will
{ st n# a rlub of 20 subscribers to .TtCXA* tffrr-
PGH, the treat humorous aud family Weakly,
Imported China Tea Set (41 piece*) for club of 8,
afro a premium to each subscriber. For premium
list write to TLXAB BIFTINUi POB. CO., New
Henley???s Challenge Roller Skate
ACKKOWLMtHItn BY KXIdCXTR AS TttE
??? *st roMM.irru,
rxNTjyrcsiuTB.
d ly rink mi'ii I
the moot nu-L
DUtondfntbc ??? v
irket. J.ibcrnlh l gjP-uIi??;
???mi to tho trade. For tic
- emu !"???-???<> caialotiuc.fc'-nd 4a. st< M(??t/>
M-1 tfon this paper. M ??). iikni.ky,
?????? Richn * - *
FOlt SAL E3.
Plymouth Rocks, Brown Leghorn*,
and White Leghorn*. Chicks two to
four months old, 75c to ll.ftO etch;
ft (of | per trio. Grown fowls. 85
to |7 pur trio. Extra large Fly-
mouth Rocks flO par trio. Send
your order at once an l gat your
II. A. ItUflNd.
Atlanta, U??.
pELKUIA. RABUN CONNTY???8ARAII 8 If IT ft
U ha* applied for exemption of personalty and
*???????? ring spurt and valuation of homestead, and f
will pare upon the same at 10 o???clock, a. m , on
the 20th day of November Instant UMI.at my of
fice. Lafayette wall,
November 1,1M4. Ordinary.
Manhood Restored!
CRAB ORCHARD WATER.
Kentucky'a Great Natural llnmedy.
CUKES I REGULATES
DYSPEPSIA, I The Liver,
CON8TIPATION. S to mnrh, Klrla./i
A kaUtaolUieVDOMntnta, oont.lnln, wh??t I.
mil In two ,.llnn?? o( tt?? natural watar, W MW
IIY AIX DRUUOlHTi! pile*. 3.1 font., wllU lull
dlnetlnna hnw to uaa It. Try It one.
tlrnb Orehnrtl Nprliie. ill. Onmpanjr.
Bui*- Ernprleture, LmiUrll e Ktmtnck,.
Note???Baa that nnr "drab Appla??? trade Dark
la on tha label, aa counta-felta an on aala. Tor
rale br Ji.rtih Jerobe, Theordore Hcbuin.iiii
IiMinliU, Atlanta, Oa. *??*
MARK. BERRY,
12 MARIETTA ST.
FINE BOOTS
* and
SHOES.
LEATHER AND SHOE
FINDINGS.
Reliable Goods
AND
POPULAR PRICES AT
THE
PALACE,
12 MARIETTA ST.,
ATLANTA.
rovll???wkyam
AGENTSs
UBCOATXO*
Reflecting Safety Lamp
rblrbran tawiMlnwenr Ijmllr.. nl????
re* ordinary Umos.
igsMt Are
& McMAKIM, Cincinnati. 0>
adminiatrstor. aud Mary W. *Ui??u??, admiu-
r next. Thia November 4. ft??t
L. U. UKKfrWr Ordinary.
1.000 BUSHELS
Hunnicutt???s Prolific Oats
CUotoo Boedn for Hula.
$1.00 PER BUSHEL.
r lSEOATd HAVE STOOD EVEKYTEHT tND
ntovril t*< be the be.1. They ????? ruat proof,
i "rtliir, bcarlcr ami more proltQo than ao, olhor
T * james a nuNNicuTr,
snAwky Turin. Coweta county, (la.
WAlKfcSIlA GLENN MINERAL WATER.
P UIIK DRINKING tMTSB Irom'lhe IVanko-
??ba Olenn flprlujr. Waukraha,delleered In anr
part ol tb, world. Tbe duonud for tbe celebrated
water b, our lending famlllen an ?? lemiljr drink-
lpu water In dally lucmwlu*. Itivaloahla III all
Hdncp and liter dlfllciiltlm. For wileibr leading
IiroRKlrta, Hample Rrwinif. Qroeera, or direct fro or
BpriDj In llarrela, Hall???a and (liner Umtlee. Ail-
Ulire T. II, 11UYANT,
tb Ml wkyeow Wenkiwba. Win.
P llllll worklaeiorua we Oder a dwium
1s,T??'W."n
UUil to work * tit net rich. Men,woman aid
errnhoyeand glrla aro nrakln, for
Innra. No capital reoulrca. Wa will ttart jon la
tueloraw Vounittnortak wbatorar. You naed
! (Ihlr^wtrQ 1 in
jj-coriii
i *r. a (
[PEARS
from i uttlna*. huy'uo other and avoid ItIUrht.
Ca??*foguoik free. W. W. Thompson, Bmuhvlllo, (Ja??
C ?? ' k, A'B0OF FUNT
T?? tmy tmJUr ???( l*U w3I ??? u I
(drvtu. Jutl??*ewhAiaitUtr -uintil
Mfh ???^(.-???jw)I Mai M .IIW
-Kw**n4*??r.??, | g tMrw q-w UiV-wsf* r A??-
T.nrt.ee e i. e??ut,i .wt Vr r???w ei^Hwiw-w.ow. mt
???**7/. e''vrVrlt:!ruiiiw *''Vvi. '
aSi^iiiUJ^dwiiAU am
BOLDiC
LONGTIME, percent. LO ANa.
IMnoIpnl to stand na long as Inl*rn??t to
fmld. Men of modt-rato i.unux should write at
once for part lm lam, enclosing ft eta. for Ix)aa
form#, eto. Personal srnirlty only for Intnr-
rnni. It. Went,Heriy, fll W. fith ht., Clorlnnntl,
O.
STR0WBRID6E SOWER
iprcteg *VSIiSrld|aS
??? BESTTCHEAPESr.SiMPLEST.
C.W. DORR, Manager tSt^litlormUco'tKl'SSaSnSl tftaKanl*.
HACINt: SKEUElt tOMPANTV V U FOURTH W H DKB MOIICE3, IOWA*
otopla* l>o
r. Beml at
for igos
f^ODEY???S
^LADY'S DOOK.
WILL* CONTAIN
HUM