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AT THE TABERNACLE. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON A VISION OF HEAVEN. The Eloquent Preacher Speak-. of Impres Sioni of Heaven-What Me Saw Kn a Dream-A Glowing Demeription-The Lesson and the EXhortatiOn. BEOCKLYN, Fob. 4.--In the Brook. lyn Tabernacle this forenoon the hymns, the Scripture losson and the prayers, as well as the sermon, were about the future world more than about tbis world. Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his subject "A Vision of Heaven," the text.being Ezekiel 1,1, "Now it came tc passas I was among the captives by the river of Chebar that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God." Expatriated and in tar exile on the banks of the river Chebar, an affluent o the Euphrates, sat Ezekiel. It waf there he had an immortal dream, and il is given to us in the Holy Scriptures. He dreamed of Tyre and Egypt. lit dreamed of Christ and the coming fieuven This exile seated by that river Cirb.ir had a more wonderful dream than vou o'r I ever have had or ever will have seated o' the banks 'f the Hudson or Alabama or Oregon or Thames or Tiber or Danube. But we all have had memorable dreams some of them when we were half asleep and half awako, so that we did not know whether tt.ey were born of shadow or sunlight; .whether they were thoutghtAs let loose and disarranged tis In slumber or the imagination f taculties awake. Much a dream I had this morning! L. was halt past 5, and the day was break Ing. It was a dream of' God-l dream of heaven. Ezekiel had his dream on the baks of the Chebar. I had my dream not far from the banks of the Ifudson. The roost of the stories of heaven were written many centuries ago and thev tell us how the place looked then or how it will look coutuics ahead. Would you not like to know how it looks now? That is what I am going to tell you. 1 was there this morning. I have just got back. How I got into that city o the sun I know not. Wbwhi of the 12 Ziates I eniterefd is tv me uncertan. Butmy firstremembrance of the ee is that, I Ptood on oo of tihe m -in averues, lookin this way and that. lost in raptures, and the air so tull of music anti redolence and laughter and light that I knew not which atreet. to take, when an anuel of God accosted me and offered to show me the objects of' greatest interest, and to conduct me from street to street, and from mansion to mansIon, and from tempie to temple, and form wall to wall. I said to thI angel, "How long hast thou been in heaven?" and the answer came, "Thir. ty two sears, according to- the earthly calendar." There was a aecret about this' angel's name that was not given me, but from the tenderness and sweetness and afl'ec hIon and interest taken in my walk through heaven, and more than all in the fact of 32 years' residence-the number of years since she ascended-I think it was my mother. Old age and decrepi. tude and the tired look were all gone, but I think it was she. You see, I was only on a visit to the city and had not yet taken up residence, and I could know only in part. I lookea in for a ew moments at, the great temple. Our brilliant and lovely Scotch essayist, Mr. Drummond, saiys there Is no church in heaven, but lhe (did not look for it on the right street. St. John was right when in his Patmosic vision, recorded in the thir-d chapter of Revelation, hie speaks of "the temp~le 0! my God." I saw It this morning-the largest church I ever saw, as big as all the churches and cathedrals of the earth * put together-and it, was thronged. Oh, what at multitude! I had never seen so * many people together. All the audiences of nll the churches of all the ear th put to gether would make a poor attendance compared with that assemblage. There was a fashion in attire and headdress that Immediately took my at tention. The~ fashion was white. All In white save one. And the headdress was a garland 01 rose and lily and mig nonette, mingled with green le aves culled from the royal gardlens and bound to gether with binds of gold. And I saw some young muen with a ring on anger of the right hand and said to my accompanying angel, "Why those rings on the fingers of the right hands?" and I was told that those who were them were prodigalsons and once fed swine in the wilderness and lived on husks, but they came home, and the rejoicing father said, "Put a rmne on lis hand." But .1 said there was one exceptirn to this fashion of white pervading all the auditorium andl clear up throunh all the galleries. It was the attire of the one who presided in that immense temple the chictfest, the m'ightest the lovelj. est person in all the place. Its -cheeks seemed to be flushed with -infinite beauty, andl his lips were eloquence omnipotent. Bunt his attire was of deep colores. They sums Rested the carnage through whish hie had passed, auid I said to my attending angle, "What is that crimson robe that that he wears?" and I was told, "They are dyed garm ents form Bozrah," and '-le trod the wine press a lone." Scon after I entered tuuls temple they began to chant the celestial litany, it was unlike anything I had ever heard for sweetness or power and I have heard the most of the great organs and the most of the great oratorios. I said to my accompanying angel, "Who is that standing von<'- with the harp?" and the answer wad, "David." And I said "Who ls that sounding that trumnet?" and the answer was, Gabriel." And I said, "Who is that at the organ?" and the answer was, -"IhandIle.'' Anid the music rolled on till It came to a doxology extollina; Ch'ist himself, when all the worshipers lower down and higher up a thousand galleries of them, suddenly. dpped on their knees and chantedI "Worthy ia the L~amb that was slain." Under the overpoweing harmony I fell hack. I Bald: "~Let us go This Is too much Ifor mortal ears. I cannot bear the overwhelming symphony." But 1 noticed as I was about to turn away that on the steps of the altar was something like the lachrymaal, or tear bottle, as I had seen It in the earthly Smuseums, the lachrymals, or tear bot tes,.lnto which the' orientals: used to Wdeli their grIefs ana set them away as sacred. Bunt this lachrymal, or tear bot tie, Instead of earthenware as those the orlentals used, was lustrous and fiery, with many splendors, and it was tower mug and of great capacity. And I sahl tog attending angel, "what Is thai -great .achrymial or tear bottle, standing on Lbs step of the altar?"' and the an ~eI said: "Why, do you not know? Thai Isti kotil to which David, tne psalm side A*fz4 Irn his flfty-sixth psalw whu ho said, Tat thou my tears iato thy bottle.f It Is bilof tears from earti -tears of repentance, tArs of bereave ment, tears of Joy, tears of many cob turies." And then I saw how maores to the sympathetic God are earthly sor, rows. As I was coming out of the temple I saw all along the pictured walls there were shelves, and golden vials were be. lug set up on all those shelves. And I said: "Why the setting up of these viale at this time? They seem just'now to have ceen filled," and the attending an. gol said "The week of prayer all around the earli has just closed, and more sup. plications have been made than have been for a long while, and these new vials, newly set up, are what the Bible speaks of as 'golden yials lull of odors, which are the prayers of saints.'" And I said to the accompanying angel, "Can it be ponsible that the prayers of earth are worthy of being kept in such heav only shape?" "Why," said the angel, "there is nothing that so moves heaven as the prayers of earth, and they are se' up in sight of these innlute multitudes, and, more than all, in the sight of Christ, and he cannot forget them, and they are before him world without end." Then we came out, and as the temple is always open, and some worship at one hour and oders at other hours, we passed down the street, amid the throngs coming and going from the gi eat temple. And we plnsed through a street called Martyr place, and we met there or saw sitting at the windows the souls of those who on earth went through Oro and food and under sword aud rack. We saw Joha W iclif, whose ashes were by decree of the council of Constance thrown into the river; and Rogers, who bathed his hands in twe tire us though it had been water; and Baih >p Hooper and McKail and L it.imer and Itidley and Polycarp, whom the flames refused to destroy as thay bent outward till a spear did the work, and some of the Albigenses and Ifnauenoto and consecrated Qnakeri who were slain for their religion They hand on them many scars, but their scars were illuminated, and they bad on their faces a look of ealeciul triumnh. Then we passed along Song row, ,and we met some of the old gospel singers' "That is Isaac Watts," said my atten I. ant. As we came up to him he asked me it tho churches on earth were still singing the hymns he composed at the house of Lrd and Ladv Abney, to whomil he paid a visit of 36 vears, and I told him that many of the churches op ened their Sabbath morning services wilh his old hym, "Welcome Sweet. Day I f Host," and celebrated their gospel triumpths with his hymn, "Salvation, 0 the Joy fui Songil" and often roused their devotions by his hymn' "Come We Th'at Love the Lord." While we were talking he introduced me t.' ,.nother oh the song writers and said, "'This Is Charles Wesley, who be. longed on earth to a different church fro'u mine, but we are all now members of the same church, the temple o0 t4od and the Lamb." And I told Charles Wesley that almost every Sabbath we sang one of his old hymns, "Arm of the Lord Awakel" or "Come, Let us Join Our Friends Above," or "Love Di vine, All Love Excelling." And while we were talking on that street called Song row Kirk White, the consumptive college student, now everlastingly well, and we talked over his old Christmas hymn, "When Marshaled on the Night ly Plain." And William Cowper came tip, now entirely recovered from his re. ligious melancholy and not looking as ii he had ever in dementia attempted sul cide, and we talked over the wide earth ly celebrity and heavenly power of his 01(d hymnns, "When I Can Read My Ti tle Clear" and "Thero Is a Fountamn Filled With Blood." And there we met (George W. Be thiune of wondrous Brooklyn pastorate, and I told him of how his comforting hymn had been sung at obsequies all around tao world- -"It is not Death to Die." And Toplady came up and asked about whether the church was still making use of his old hymn, "Rock of Ages Cleft For Me." And we met also on Song row Newton and Hastings and Montgomery and Horatio Bionar and we heard floating from widow to win dow snatches of the old hymns which they started on earth and started never to die. "But" says some of my hearers "did yotu see anything of our friends in heav en?" Oh, yes I did. "Did you see my children thr? says some one, "and are there any marks of their last sick ness still upou t~hem?" I did see them, but there was no pallor, no cough, no fever, no languor about them. They are all well andi ruddy and songful and bounding with eternal mirth. They told me to give their love to you that they thought of' yoti hour by hour and t hat when they could be excused from the heavenly playgrounds they came dIown and hovered over, and kissed your cheek, and filled your dreams with their glad faces, and that they would be at tihe gate to greet~ you when you ascended to be with them forever. "But," say other voices, "dlid you see our glorified friende?" Yes, I saw them and they are well in the land across which no pneumonmas or palsies or drop eies or typhoids ever sweep. The aro ma blows over from orchards with trees bearing 12 manner of fruits, and gardens comp~aredl with which Chatsworth is a desert. The climate is a mingling of an earthly Jtune and October, the balm of the one and the tonic of tiheother. The social life in that realm where they are is superb and perfect. No controversies or jealousies or hates, but love, univer sal love, everlasting love. And they told me to '.ell you not to weep for them for their happiness knows no bound, and it is only a question of time when y- u shall reign with them in the same palace and join with them in the same exploration of planets and the same tour of worlds. But , onder in, this anisembly is an up turned face that seems to ask how about the ages of those in heaven. "Do my departed children remain children or have thley lost their chiidtsh vivacity? 1Do my departed parents remain aged, or have they lost the venerable out of their na ture?" Well, from what I saw I think childhood had advanced to full maturIty of faculty, retainmng all the resi'isnce of childhood, and that the aged aiad re treat c:1 to midilfe, freed from all decad ence, but still retaining the chwum of the venerable. In other wor, it was fully developed and complete life of all souls, whether young or old. Some one says, "Will you tell us what most impressed you in heaven?" I will. I was most impressed with the reversal of earthly conditions. I knew of course that there would be diflerences of attre and residence in heaven, for Paul had declared long ago that souls would then differ "as one star differeth from another," as Mars from Mercury, as Saturn from lupiter. Bunt at every step toi my dream in heaven I was amazed to see that some who were ex pected to be high in- heaven were low dlown, and some who were expected to be low down were hlgh up. Yo thought, for instance, that those born pious parentage and of naturally go( disposition, and of brilliant !acultle and of all styles of attractiveness w! move In the highest range of celesti splindor and pomp. Ao, nol I founa the highest thrones, ft brightest coronets,the richest mansior were occupied by those who had repr< bate father or bad mother, and who ii herited the twisted natures of 10 ge erations of miscreants, and who hi cow ressed in their body all deprav appt ites and all evil propensities, bt they laid hold of God's arm, they rlie for especial mercy, they conquered so, en devils within and 70 devils withot and wcre washed in the blood of Ui Lamb, and by so much as their conteE waz terrile and awful and rrolix thel victory was conanlmate and resplend ent, and they have taken places in: measurably higher than those of goc parentage,who could hardly help bein good because tiiey had 10 generation ,f preceding piety to aid them. The steps by which many haN mounted to the highest places in heal en were made out of the cradles of corrupt parentage. When I saw tha I said to my attending angel: "That: fair; that is right. The harder tt struggle, the more glorious the ri ward." Then I pointed to one of the moi colonaded and grandly domedresidej ces in all the city and said, "Who livq there?" and the answer was, "TI widow who gave two mites." "An who lives there?" and the answer wa "The penitent thief to whom Chri said, 'This day shalt thou be with i in paradise." "And who lives there? I said, and the answer was "rTho blin beggar who prayed, 'Lord,that my eye may be opened." Some of those professors of religio who were famous on earth I ask,3 about, but no one could tell me an] thing concerning them. Their name were not even in the city directory c the New Jerusalem. The fact is thu I suspected some of them had not g< there at all. Many who had 10 talent were living ou the back streets c heaven, while many with one taler had residences fronting on the King park and a back lawn sloping to tb river Clear as Crystal, and the higher nobility of heaven were guests at theJ table, and of# en the white horse of hit who "hath the moon under his feet champed its bit at their door way. It tinite capsize of earthly conditions! A social life in heaven graded accordin to earthly struggle and usefulness a proportioned to talents given! As I walked through those streets appreciated for the first time wha Paul said to Timothy, "If we suffei we shall also reign with him." It sur prised me beyond description that al t he great of heaven were great suffer era. "Not all?" Yes, all. Moses.bin of %he Re sea, a great sufferer. David him of Absalom's unfilial behavior an( Ahithophel's betrayal, and a nation' dethronement, a great sufferer. Eze kiel, him of the captivity, who had th dream on the banks of the Chebar, great sufferer. Paul, him of the dit eased eyes, and the Mediterranea shipwreck, and the Mars 1ill derisiot and the Mamertine endungeonmeni and ,the whipped back, and the hea man's ax on the road to Ostia, a grea sufferer. Yea, all the apostles afte lives of suffering died by violenci beaten to death with fuller's club,c dragged to death by mobs, or from tb thrust of the sword, or by exposure o barren island, or by decapitation. All the high up in heaven great su ferers and women more than men Folicitas arid St. Cecelia and at. Agn< and S't. Agatha and 80. Lucia ar women never heard of outside the: own neighborhood, queens of needi and the broom,and the scrubbing brusi and the wash tub, and the diary, re warded according to how well the: did their work, whether to set a tea ta ble or govern a nation, whether em~ press or milkmaid. I could not get over it as in m dream I saw all this, and that some o the most unknown of eartn were th most famous in heaven, and that man who seemed the greatest failures o earth were the greatest successes c heaven. And as we passed along on of the grandest boulevards of heave there approached us a group of person so radiant in countenance and appart I had to shade my eyes with both hand because I could not endutre the lustes and I said "Angel! do tell me who the are ?" and the answer was, "These ar they who came out of great tribulatio and had their robes washed and mad white in the blood of the Lamb!" My walk through the city explaine a thousand things on earth that ha' been to me inexplicable. When I sai up there the superior delight and th superior hoavec of many who had oi earth had it hard with cancers ani bankruptcies and prosecutions an trials of all sorts, I said: "God ha equalized it all at last. Exccess- of en chantmuent in heaven has more that made up for the deficits on earth ." "lBut," I said to my angelic escort," mnust go now. It is Sabbath mornmn, on earth, and I must p reach today and be0 in my pulpit by hal f past 10 o'clockt "Good by" I said to the attendinar angel "l'hanas for what you have shown me I know I have seen only in part, but: hope to return again through the aton lng mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. "Goodby ." Then I passed on amid chariots o: salvation, and along by conquerere thrones, and amid pi. ared majesties an:l by windows of agate, and undw. arches that had been hoisted for re turned victers. And as I came towart the walls with the gates, the walli flashed upon me with emeralds an< sapphires and chrysoprases and am ethyats until I trembled under th glory, and then I heard a bolt shove ant a latch lift and a gate swing, and the3 were all of pearl, and I passed oul loaded with raptures, and down by worlds lower and lower and lower stil I came within sight of the city of m3 earthly residence, and until through the window of my earthly home thi sun poured so strong upon my pillo that my eyelida felt it, and in bewilder ment as to where I was and what I hat seen 1. awoke. Reflection the first: The superiorit3 of our heaven to all other heavens The Scandinivian heaven. The depart ed are in everlasting battle except at restored after being cut to pieces They drink wine out of the skulls oj their enemies. The Moslem heaven a described by the K~oran. "There ehal be houris with large black eyes like p earls hidden in their shells." The Slav's heaven: After death the son hovers six weeks about the body ant then climbs a bteep mountain, on the top of which is paradise. The Ta:ma nian's heaven: A spear is placed by the dead that may have something to Aigh1 with, and after awhile they go into long chase for game of all sortik The Tahitian's heaveni: The departed are eaten up of the gods. The native At rican heaven: A land of shadows, ant in speaking of the departed they say "All is done forever.'' The Americat aborigine's heaven: Happy hnntinj grounds, to which the soul goes on bridge of snake. The philosopher' heaven: Made out of a thick fog or ai infinite don't know. But hearken an behold our haven, whatougm )u mostly described by ilgures:A speeh, of in the Bible and by parable of a Gream Id in this disoourse, has for its chief char. , acteristics separation from all that is i vile, absence from all that can discom. al fort, presence of all that can g(ratulate. No mountains to climb, no chaams to ie bridge, no night to illumine, no tears to Is wipe. Soandinivian heaven Slav's heaven, Tasmanian heaven, Iahitian 1. heaven, African heaven, aborigine's heaven, scattered into tameness and d disgust by glimpse of St. John's Id heaven, of Paul's heaven, of Christ's Lt heaven, of your heaven, of my heavent d Reflection the second: You had bet F ter take patiently and cheerfully all it pangs, affronts, hardships, persecutions e and trials of earth, since if rightly born t they insure hevenly payments of ecstasy r Every twinge of physical distress. every lie told about you, every earthly - subtraction if meekly born,will be heav d enly addition. If you want to amount to anything in heaven and move in its best society, you must be "perfected through suffering." The only earthly e currency worth anythin at the gate of r- heaven is the silver of tears. At the a top of all heaven site the greatest suf t, fered Christ of the Bethlehem caravan I sary and of Pilate's oyer and terminer and of the Calvarean assassination. What he endured, oh, who can tell, To save our souls from death and hell. 3t Oh, ye of the broaken heart, and the disappointed ambition, and the shat , tered fortune, and the blighted life, take comfort from what I saw ina my d Sabbath morning dream. s Relection the third and last: How it desirable that we all get thereI Start a this moment with prayer and penitence '" and faith in Christ, who came from d heaven to earth to take us from earth s to heaven. Last summer a year ago I preached one Sabbath afternoon Ic Hyde park, d London, to a great multude that no man could number. But I heard noth ing from it until a few weeks ago, when Rev. Mr. Cook, who for 22 years has t presided over that Hyde park outdoor meeting, told me that last winter, go ing through a hospital in London, he saw a dying man whose face brightened i as bA told him that his heart was chang. ed that afternoon under my sermon in Hyde park, and all was bright now at e his departure from earth to heaven. I Why may not the Lord bless this as well as that? Heaven as I dreamed about It and as I read about it is so be ning a realm you cannot any of you af ford to miss it. Oh, will it not be transcendently glor ious after the struggle of this life is over to stand in that eternal safet ? Samuel Rutherford, though they vie. lously burned his books and uujustly arrested him for treason, wrote of that celestial spectacle: The King there In his beauty, Without a veil, is seen; It were a well spent journey, Though seven deaths lay between. The Lamb with his fair army Doth on Mount Zion at and, And glory, glo7 dwelleth In Immanuel s land. DELAYING TARIFF REFORM. The Senate Sub-Committee Devising 1,rMany Changes. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-The sub committee of the Senate committee on t. inance, consisting of Jones of arkansas r Mills and Vest, got to work early this 3, morning in Vest's room and went over ir a number of schedules in the tariff bill *e suggesting changes in number that are * nearly tentative pending final action by the full committee. It is said that f- the bill might be reported to the Senate - next Tuesday,b but this was emphati as cally denied this moning by a mem d ber of the sub-committee, who said that hr despite whatever progress had been a, made, it would be utterly impossible to ', have the bill ready by that time. Speak - lng of the bill generally, this Senator i declared that when the measure was - reporterd to the Senate it would be a - strictly revenue bill, yielding suficient revenues for the government under an v economic administration of affairs. f This, he said, meant that there would e be a duty on sugar, which was in line Y with the Democratic policy as enunciat f ed in the Mills bill, and an increase in f the whiskey tax. e The bill *has been practically divided a into five sections or schedules--A, B, C s D and E. In the first schedule will be 1 placed all articles bearing compound 5 or combined specific and ad valorem duty and the duties will be all ad valor. y em. In scneedule B will be placed all 'e iarticles bearing a duty of 40 per cent; n lschedule C those bearing 30 per cents;in 0 in the schedule D those bearing 20 per icent, and in schedule E those bearing 10 d per cept. The bill when reported will d contain no free list. :Every article V mentioned In it will be subject to a e duty of some kind, and those not men i tioned in the bill will be admitted free 1 of duty. The sub-commnittee are going I carefully through the Wilson bill and B selecting the largely imported articles. -As these articles are picked out, they 1 are placed in the schedule, which the judlgment of the committee will cause I them to yield the greatest revenue. i urn the afternoon the wis. e chedule was briefly dis ,discussed. The talk was as to .the advisability of increasing the tax .and extending the bonded period. No [ agreement was reached, but it was do. - cided to have a talk with tbe Commis sioner of Internal Revenue on the sub ject. One point appears very clarly as Sthe result of thesub-committee's labors 'up to this point and that is, that the tariff bill1 which they will present to r their Democratic associates on the fl-r nace committee for approval will boa Sa slight resemblance to the original i Wilson bill. The reason for the exten I sive changes in contemi plation, and already made, is to be found in the do. cision of the three sub-committeemen to be governed by the plan of the old Walker tiiriff act, and so place the du ties as to secure the largest amount of revenue, which in volves, of course, re ductions in some cases, inereases per haps, in others and a very restricted free list, if indeed, any articles entering largely into consumption are permitted to enter duty free. The Republican members of the com mittee are devoting themselves to de vising a metilod by which the action of the Democratic majority against further hearings upon the bill by inter ested parties may be reversed. They are planning to have the bill recommit ted to the committee when it reaches the senate, with Instructions to the sommittee to grant hearings. This they hope to accomplish through the aid of Democratic votes. Mills Biowna Vp. SPARTANBUJRO, Feb, 6.-At 0.20 this I morning, the large driving wai-lof the 3 Spartan Cotton Mill went to iAces sud -denly, and falling on some of the large pipes, broke them and caused a terrific 1. explosion. Both cylinders were torn to t pieces. F. A. Lewis,engineer, was in a stantly killed. Noah Greene, who work 3 ed in the engine room had both legs - broken. The engine house was shaken I to pieces, the root being blown off. , Geo. Poore, the assistant engineer, was i not hurt, much. lie thinks the driving f wheel was the first thing to give way. * It was a fearful crash and it will be a several days before the mill starts up i again. 'Engineer Lewis was a Northern I man, perhaps from New York. The a main building was not ininred A LIVELY STREET DUEL W. B. MEETZE PROBABLY FATALL 8HOT BY J. 0. MILLER. The Trouble Was Over a Dispensary Oaau M~en Who Wanted to XKil Miller Atte the Shooting Preveuted by a Brave Pc 1 . .. COLUMBIA, S. 0., Feb. 8.-For tb first time since the dispensary law bi came a law, blood was shed on its a( count In the capital of the State yes terday afternoon. Mr. W. B. Meetze the man who shot and killed ,lark few years ago, and the man who defle Governor Tillman and his constables a the fair grounds last November, gc Into a street affray near Columbia's fa mous street fighting ground, the corne of Main and Washington streeti where every serious affair of any im portance that has happened in recen years in Columbia has taken placf with Davis Miller, a stock dealer hall ing from North Carosina and the forme er fell with a bulletin his side withi one hundred yards from the spot wher Clark fell and expired when he shc him. The extent of his injuries car not yet be ascertained. Never before has a pistol fight oc curred here In which so many shot were fired without Injuring any one ex cept the participants. The street wa filled with people at the time, anct Mil ler, knowin-r he had a cool sure shot t deal with, emptied two pistols, save on bullet, in less time than it takes to to: It. It was a perfect fusilade, and cre ated the wildest excitement, especiall when Mr. Meetze was seen to reel an fall to the ground. All day long serioui trouble of some kind bad been antic pated, but no one knew from wha quarter it would come, or at what houi Miller had been a witness In the fira blind tiger case and his testimon goaded some of the liquor men an their friends to desperation. Long be fore he had concluded the giving o his testimoney, it could be seen that h would have to answer in one way o another to somebody for some of hi statements. Some of the men looket very angry. Miller evidently knew to( that he was to be "talked to," for h had come to the co, rt house arme with two pistols, both self-acting which he carried in his outside over coat pockets. At any rate, just as th recess was taken things looked pretty squally. Miller went back into one o: the jury room and serious trouble cam< very near resulting in there, two met tackling him and cursing him pretty severely. Justice Clarkson went ir there, however, and pulled Miller out taking him downstairs. Mr. MeetzE and others who were very much in censed came on around on Main street and they talked very bitterly aboul Miller. Several parties urged them te go on home but somehow they gol around on Law Range qgain. They went to a point In front of McMaster'a law office and stood there talking Among them were Messrs. William Sheppard, Meetze Fry and Herriot Miller was standing up In front o: Shand's law office at this time, talking to some young men. Fry evidently wanted to tackle Miller, for some onf heard Mr. Herriot say to him: "No yoi ought not to do it." Just about thi time Mr. Charles Hendrix, the defend ant in another case, pulled out a piste near the corner and appeared to be verl angry. Police Sergeant Morehead an Bell Towerman Dunning saw hire grappled with him and took the piste from him, sending him away to th' station house. Just about this timi Mr. Miller came on down towards Mali street. Eye witnesses all agree on the story They say Miller came on down th< sIdewalk, and tried to paies around thi crowd standing there. As he did si Fry stepped up to him and said: "Dic you say .L swore to aldamned lie today ? Miller replied: "No, I did not." Fr' said: "Well, these fellows tell me so.' Miller said: "Well whoever saId so tol a G-d d--d lie." Mr. Meetze, whi was standing behind Fry, rnaroun( and came up before MIller, cursini him, It is said and hit him once on th sIde of his head. Trial Justice Stack, who',happened t be near, rushed In between the tw men and pulled them apart. Mr. Fry pulled Mr. Stack to one side. Mi Stack, in the name of the law, com manded the men to keep the peace ani called on others to help him handle th two men, lHe grappled Miller ani started off across the drain with hire Meetze, being released, followed Mille up to the middle of the street dalinj him to draw his pistol, and sayIng "G--d d-~n you draw. I dare yoi to pull out your pistol." In the meantime Justice'. Stack wa still wrestling with Miller, and had got ten him ten paces a~way from Meet Zi in the Middle of the street. EFial' Miller squared himsel', shook Stack of and ran his hand into each overcoa pocket. When his hands came ou there was a shining weapon in each Hie pointed one at Justice Stack, wh4 left, seeing he could do nothing more Miller leveled both his pistols atic shouted: "Come on, all you people." At this time Mieetze was still advanc ing upon him still shaking his lef t hanc at hIm and pulled his pistol from hii hip pocket with his right. Then s< several eye witnesses say, Miller let Ilre at Mr. Meetze. In quicker time thar it takes to tell it Miller proceeded tc fira nine bullets at Mr. Meetze. Mr Meetze returned the fire as rapidly, and the firing sounded like an infantry com p any practicing "company firing." Mr Meet 'e nearly em ptied bis pistol. Aftei the first fire Mr. Meetse was hit in thc side and was seen to reel back wardi and fall to the ground like a dead man lie tried to rise, but could not. Sergt Morehead of the police force, rushed al Miller with his club raised. Miller still had both of his pistol leveleel. As the officer came up to him he raised bott hands and said: "I surrender." Them Meetz's friends, seeing that Mestze was D.ENS "THE WORLEIfS GRE) THEK MACHD~ T he On1 FOR TYPEIWRITERS AT THE E "NO MACHINE COULD2 BE ANY BETTER. IT.D~I I'P'EET." pr1vave statement of one of the Judges. Responsible Oouti . J. W. Gik GENEZIIL AGNTm' badly wounded and thinking that he was killed, cried "kill the scoundrel' and were about to make for him. Then , it was that Sergt. Morehead displayed wonderful courage. le placed the prisoner behind him leveled his platol on the crowd and told , them that the first man who came al Miller he would shobt dead in hie W tracks. As soon as possible he turned . Miller around, and being joined by otbr officers went 'as quickly as pos. sibTe with him to the station house Miller left thinking that he had killed e Meetze, and sent for Capt. John G. Ca pers to act as his attorney for him. . As soon as the firing ceased many of . the bystanders rushed to Mr. Meetze'i side. When asked if he was hurt mudh " he said: "I think my leg is broke." A a hasty examination revealed a bullel I hole in Mr. Meeze's right si(,it being t located just about the center of hit t vest pocket. The blood poured from thf , wound. Several gentlemen lifted th r wounded man and dispatched messen , gers for a physician. They were abou - to take him into Dr. Ray's office, but hW t said: "No, take me around home." Hi , was perfectly cool and collected, bu - was powerless to move a muscle. Hq g was placed in a carriage and takei i home. He asked for his hat just as hi was driven off. The people all alonj t Main street heard the fusilade auc came running to the scene of the trou ble. In a few moments the excitemen1 Swias intense, and the streets were filled for two hours with excited men. Dra - Talley, Folk and Taylor were soon a s Mr. Meetze's .ide. They examined th wound and I oked for the bullet, but ) failed to flnd it. It ranged backwardl P .he physicians say it may have en 1 tered the abdominal cavity, but the) - cannot yet tell. In this case the wount I Is a very serious one indeed. They soor I inclined to think, however, from tht s symptoms and the fact that it was i small bullet that it ranged around to t wards the back, and in that case wil not have serious results. About 8 o'clock last night Dr. Ken dall, the family physician, was callet in. He made a cateful examination and located the ball in the abdomina cavity. It is impossible to extract it * It entered between the tenth anc r eleventh ribs, fracturing the upper bor 3 der of the former. It is lodged neai the liver. Dr. Kendall says the wound is not necessarily fatal, but is extreme ly serious, and it would be hard to pre. dict the result. The great danger is from peritonitis. Mr. Meetze was rest. Ing pretty easy at 10 o'clock last night Mr. Miller was only slightly scratche by one of Mr. Meetze's bullets. It en tered his coat sleeve near the wrist glanced along his arm and came ou near the shoulder.-State. KILLED HIS FATHER To Prevent Hlm from Beating His Mother. COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 4.-Eas1 Hfighlandb, a suburb of Columbus, wan the scene of a terrible tragedy earli this morning. James Thompson, a ma chinist, returned home last nilht con siderably under the induence of liquor quarrelled with his wife1 and finally drove her out into a furious rain stor at midnight, Bhe sought reibge at a neighbos's house, with three little chil aren. About 3 o'clock, a son, CIto Thompson, aged 23 years, who is v printer by trade, returned from his worl and went to bed knowing nothing of tht r treatment of his mother. ChIff is dea and dumb. This morning at 6 oflocli ,Mrs. Thompson returned to her home I and attended to her children, who re 3 turned with her. Thompson was aroused and finding his wife in the house renewed his quarrel with her and ordered her to get out. The woman pleaded with her brutal husband, who, losing control of himself, made a savage at tack on her. At this juncture, Cliff, the deat mute son, appeared in the rooa and sprang to tbe assistance of his moth er. His father turned on him to drive bi.e off. The boy jerked his mother away, when Thompson reached for a pistol, mntending, it is presumed, to shoot either his wife or son, possibly both. Chifi grabbed a razor from the top o1 a bu. rean and a deadly struggle ensued be. tween him and his father. The bo.1 . made a lunge at the infuriated man, slashing him across the throat, severi the carotid artery and cutting him se verely in several other places. Thomp Sson, the elder, fell to the floor in a poo Sof blood and expired in a few minutes The son proceeded at once to the police .station, wrote a statement of the trast edy on a piece of paper and burrenderec g himself and was placed under arrest. :The affair has created intense excite. 1 ment and hundreds of people surround the place. Public sentiment Is with the son, who was an industrious man ani was forced to commit the horrible act in defense of his mother. A Storm'. Deadly Work, iii RMINGHIA M, Feb. 4.- A wind and i'ain storm, which passed over Birm. -tngham last night, blew down the Con. gregational church at Gate City, siz miles from here. The Christain En. deavor Society, composed of thirty wo, men and children, was holding a meet. ing at the time. The roof crashed in on them beneath th'e debris. Nearly every person in the building was more or less hurt. The serious casualties are Mrs. R. S. Protchell, leg broken 'and internally injured and will die; Mrs. James Niles, internally injured will dIe; Charlies, Olsen, thigh broken, probably fatal. The others are not seriously hurt. Half the physicians of Birmingham are at Gate City, and the greatest excitement prevails. The building was a small frame structure, or many would have been killed. 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