Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-01-10
A TOWN.
A DELIGHTFUL CITY OF REFUGE.
HARTMAN, Tenn, Nov. 90, 1893.

HARTMAN, Tenn, Nov. 90, 1893.
This is a beautiful little city of $500
population. 1t rs In a valley densely
surrounded by mountains. Its sur
roundings are rich in mineral, timber
and agricultural resources. 1t has two
railroads, the Cincinnati Southern and
East Tennessee. II has electric lights
and waterworks. There are ten churches
and one college, the American Temper
ance University. The college has Just
started and already has about one hun
dred and seventy students from almost
every section in the Union.
The best thing in and about Harri-
man is prohibition. Here is absolute
prohibition. Prohibition is in the title
deeds. No saloons and never to have
any. The owner of property who sells
or rents his property for the sale of
liquor forfeits the title for ownership
in the property and the deed so stipu-
lates. Hundreds are here for the sole
purpose of rearing and educating their
children away from the evils of intern
perance. I have been here three days
and have seen the good resulting from
absolute prohibition. Happy homes
and happy families. There are a mum.
Der of men here who came on purpose
to be away from temptation. They are
good men, but men with the appetite
for liquor and they have fed from their
merciless enemy to this city of refuge.
l talked with a young nan today who
told me that he had taken the Keely
cure, but he had drank since and had
come here to be away from the offered
temptation. Any person, ever a minis
ter, bringing liquor into Hartman is
fined heavily. An officer especially ap-
pointed for that purpose meets every
train and prevents any liquor from
being struggled in. This is really an
asylum for the man who wants to free
himself from the appetite for strong
drink.
One week ago tonight when l was
lecturing at Athens y young man COM
mitted suicide while drunk. He was
fresh from the Keely Institute.
At another town the postmaster's
son, a bright young man, was recover-
ing from a month spree. He told me
he had taken the Keelv cure to his
hurt. 1t is rapidly becoming known
that human character and the natural
human heart can not be changed by
hypodermic injections through the skin
into the arm or stomach. The land is
fnll of mental and physical Keely
wrecks.
While here l have been and am the
guest of Rev. j. H. Harwell, pastor of
the First NJ. E. Church. He is a young
man of great ability and power and
full of the holy ghost. He is now in
the midst of a marvellous revival.
Scores are crowding to the alter day
and night, seeking and finding pardon.
Brother Harwell has the largest church
and the largest membership in the city,
there being about 500 members. Rev.
Harwell's father was a Methodist min
lister for more than forty years and he
brought the son up in the way he
should 60 and he has not departed from
it. He has never tasted or touched
liquor or tobacco. His keen, bright,
kind eyes look out from a face as pure,
tender and innocent as that of a little
child. Not only his own congregation,
but all Hartman loves him. He mar
ried the youngest daughter of H. W.
Nichols, of Glenwood, Rush County,
Miss Zetta Nichols, About every mar
and woman in Rush and Fayette Coun-
ties know ii. w. Nichols. He used to
live at Falmouth and owned the 90 W
mill there more than thirty years ago.
l played with and went to school with
his older children, and l hauled saw
logs to his mill and lumber from it
with my white oxen, Buck and Berry.
Every person can congratulate my old
friend, Fl. w. Nichols, on the possession
OF such a son in law and daughter as
Rev. ]. II. HarwelI and his good wife.
l have enjoyed a strange and pictur-
esque sight here for three successive
nights. Natural fireworks. The noun
tains all around Hartman are on fire
and the sight at night is truly magnif
icent. Long lines of fire running up
the mountain sides and leaping across
chasms and from one table land to an.
other are W inspiring sights. The
flames assumed every shape and form,
now clapping their hands and chasing
each other in very glee, then Engaging
and twisting and writhing like serpents
of flame The fire would rush and roar
up to a great mountain of rocky imped-
iment and in a moment surround it
with q high wall CT flame and the large
rock would look like a castle surround
By fire. 1t was a sublime scene of won
'sderful grandure to live in memory for
ever.-Luther Benson in the Rushville
Jacksonian.
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