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, THE DIVINE SCIENCE. DR. TALMAGE ADDRESSES THE CHAU TAUQUANS AT MONONA LAKE. An the Israelite* Fooght With Weapons of Met*!, tfe? trti?*chJI?5t **<>w *:in ploy L otic, Astronomy, Oe ol ogy, Cbemi^ry, au?i All For GoMnJ \ Truth. Madison, Wis., July A great throng of many thousands from all ' parts of the north and are gath at the Monona Lake a^mbly, a Chautauqua held near this city. Kev. Dr. Talmage this forenoon preached to this great multitude on "Sharpened Axes," the text beiijg I Samuel xiii, 19-21, "Now, there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, etc. My loving and glad salutation to this uncounted ^host, Chautauquana, Christian Eudeavorers, gospel work ers and their friemla from all parti of Wisconsin a id America, saints and sinners! My text is gloriously appro priate. What a galling subjugation the Israelites were, suffering! The Philistines had carried off all the blacksmiths and lorn down all the blacksmiths' shops and abolished the blacksmith's trade in the land of Israel. These Philistines had a par ticular grudge against blacksmiths, although I have always admired them and have sometimes thought I ought to have been one myself. . The Philistines would not evety allow these parties to work their val w uable mines of brass and iron, nor might they make any swords or spears. , There were only two swords left in all the land. Yea, these Phil istines went on until they had taken all the grinstones from the land of Israel, so that if an Israelitisk farmer wanted to sharpen his plow or his ax he had to go over to the garrison of the Philistines to get it done. There was only one sharpening instrument left in the land, and that was a file. The farmers and the mechanics having nothing to whet up the colter and the goad and the pickax save a simple file, industry was hindered and work prac tically disgraced. GOn'S PEOPLE DISARMED. The great idea of these Philistines was to keep the Israelites disarmed. Tbey^awgty get iron out the hills to mak* swords of, but they would not have any Macksmithsto weld this iron. If they gi>t the iron welded, they would hav^ no grindstones on which to bring instruments of agriculture of the nnlitary weapons up to an edge. Oh, jou poor, weaponless Israelites, re duced to a file, how I pity you! But these Philistines were not iorever to keep their heel on the neck of God's children. Jonathan, on his hands and knees, climbs up a great rock beyond which were the Friilistines, and his armor bearpr, on his hands and knees, climbs up the Uame rock, and these two men with their two swords, hew to pieces the Philistines, the Lord ? throwing a great terror upon them. 50 it was then; so it is now. The two men of God on their knees mightier than a Philistine host on their feet. I learn first from this subject how "'?^^dangwonait is for the church of God sfe allow its weapons to stay in the hands of its enemies. These Israelites ^ might again and again have obtained a supply of swords and weapons, as, for instance, when they, took the spoils of the* Ammonites, but these Israelites seemed content to have no swords, no spears, no blacksmiths, no grindstones, no active iron mines, until it was too late for them to make any resistance. I see the farmers tugging along with ? their pickaxes and plows, and I say, "Where are you going with those things?" They say, "Oh, we are going over to the garrisoa of the Philistines to get these things sharpened I say, "You foolish men; why don't you ? sharpen them at home?" "Oh," they '=* say, "the blacksmiths' shops are all torn down, and we have nothing left us but a file." CHRISTIANS NEED THE SCHOOLS. So it is in the chnrch of Christ to day. We are too willing to give up ,our weapons to the enemy. The world boasts that it has gobbled up the ^ schools, and the colleges, and the arts, and the sciences, and the literature, . and the printing press. Infidelity is making a mighty attempt to get all * our weapons in his hand, and then to ? / keep them. You know it is making ' this boast all the time, and after awhile, when the great battle between sin and righteousness has opened, if we do not look out we will be as bad ly off as these Israelites, without any swonia to fight with and without any sharpening instruments. I call upon the superintendents of literary institutions to see to it that the men who go into the classrooms to stand beside the Leyden jars, and the electric batteries, and the microscopes or telescopes be children of God, not Philistines. The atheistic thinkers of this day are trying to get all the intellectual weapons of this century in their own grasp. What we want is scientific Christians to capture the science, and scholastic Christians to capture the scholarship, and the phil ;* osophy Christians to capture the phil osophy, and lecturing Christians to take back the lecturing platform. CHRISTIAN MEN OF SCIENCE. We want to send out against Schenkel and Strauss and Reman of the past men like the late Theodore Christlieb of Bonn, and against the infidel scientists a God worshiping 51 Hi man and Hitchcock and Agassi*. We want to capture all the phil osophical apparatus and swing around the telescopes on the snivel until through them we can see tie morning star of the Redeemer, and With mineral ogical hammer discover the . "A '?Rock of Ages," and amid the flora of the reafcns find tie "Rose of Sharon sy the Lily of the- Valley.* k." ' - We want a clergy learned enough ^ ^ to discourse of the human eye, show ing it to be a microscope and telescope ii one instrument, with 800 wonder ful contrivances and lids closing 30, 000 or 40,000 times a day, all its cou ^cles and nerves and bines showing the infinite skill of an infinite God, and then winding ' up with.^ peroration, "He that fanned the eye, shall he not see?" And then we want to discourse about the human ear, its wonderful Integuments, membranes and vibration, and its chain of small bones, and its -auditory nerves, closing with the question, "He that planted ear, shall he not hear?" And we want some one able ex pound the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it the geology and the astronomy of the world until, as Job suggested, "the stones of the field shall be in league" with the truth and "the stars in their courses shall fight against Siaera." Oh, churcfe of God, go out and recapture these weapons. 1 Let men of God go out and take pos session of the platform. Let all the printing press of this country speak out for Cnrist and the reporters, and the typesetters, and the edftors and publishers swear allegiance to the Lord God of truth. Ah, my friend, that day must come, and if the great body of Christian men have not the faith or the courage or the consecration to do it, then let some Jonathan, on his busy hands and on his praying knees, climtAup on the rock of hindrance and in the name of the Loid God of Israel slash to pieces those literary Philistines. If these men will not -be converted to God, then they must be destroyed. Again, I learn from this subject what a large amount of the church's resources is actually hidden and buried and undeveloped. "The Bible inti mates that was a very rich land, this land of Israel. It says, "The stones are iron, and out of the hills thou ; shalt dig brass," and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of this metal was kept under the hills. Well, that is the difficulty with the church of God at this day. Its talent is not developed. If onehalf of its energy could be brought out, it migh take the public iniquities of the day by the throat and make them bite the dust. If human eloquence were consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ, it could in a few years persuade this whole earth to surrender to God. There is enough undeveloped Chris tian energy in the United States to bring the whole world to Christ, but it is buried under strata of indiffer ence and under whole paountains of sloth. Now, is it not time for the mining to begin, and the pickaxes to -plunge, and for this buried metal to be brought out and put into the fur naces and be turned into howitzers and carbines for the Lord's host? The vast majority of Christians in this day are useless. The most of the Lord's battalion belong to the reserve corps. The most of the crew are asleep in the hammocks. The most of the metal is under the hills. Oh, is it not time for the church of God to rouse up and understand that we want all the talent and all the wealth enlisted for Christ's sake? I like the nickname that the English soldiers gave to Blucher, the com mander. They called him Old For wards. We have had enough retreats in the church of Christ, let us have a glorious advance. And I say to you now as the general said when his troops were affrighted, Kising up in his stirrups, his hair flying in the. wind, he lifted up his voice until 20, 000 troops heard him crying out, "Forward, the whole line?" PAUL, THE PHILOSOPHER. Again, I learn from this subject that we sometimes do well to take ad vantage of the world's sharpening in struments. These Israelites were re duced to a file, and so they went over to the garrison of the Philistines to get their axes and their goads and their plows sharpened. The Bible distinctly states in the context that they had no other instruments now with which to do this work, and the Israelites did right when they went over to the Philistines to ' use their grindstones. My friends, is it not right for us to employ the world's grindstones? If there be art, if there be logic; if there be business faculty on the other side, let us go over and employ it for Christ's sake. The fact is, we fight with too dull weapons, and we work with too dull implements. We hack and we maul when we ought to make a clean stroke. Let us go over among sharp busi ness men and among sharp literary men and find out what their tact is and then transfer it to the cause of Christ If they have science and art, it will do us good to rub against it. In other words, let us employ the world's grindstones. We will listen to their music, and we will watch their acumen, and we will use their grindstones, and we will borrow their philosophical apparatus to make our experiments, and we will borrow their printing presses to publish our Bibles, and we will borrow their rail trains to carry eur Christian literature, and we will borrow their ships to transport our missionaries. That was what made Paul such a mas ter in his day. He not only got all the learning he could get of Dr Gamaliel, but afterward, standing on Mars hill and in a crowded thoroughfare, quoted their poetry, and grasped their logic, and wielded their eloquence, and em ployed their mythology until Diony sius, the Areopagite, learned in the schools of Athens and Heliopolis; went down under his tremendous powers. That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his power in his day. He conquered the world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out the wisdom and greatness of the Lord until for the second time the morning stars sang togather and all the sons of God shouted for joy. THE LEARNED EDWARDS. That was what gave to Jonathan Edwards his influence in his day. He conquered the world's metaphysic and forced it into the service of God until not only the old meeting house in Northampton, Mass. but all Christen dom felt thrilled by his Christian power. vVell, now my friends, we all have tools of Christian usefulness. : Do not let them lose their edges. We want no rualy blades in this fight. We want no colter that cannot rip up the glebe. We want no ax that can not fell tke trees. We want no goad that cannot start the lazy team. Let us get the very best grindstones we can find though they be in the posses ion of the Philistines, compelling them to turn the crank while we bear down with all our might onswift revolving wheel until all our energies. and facul ties shall be brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge Again, my subject] teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine in iquity puts a man. Yes, these Philis tines shut up the mines, and then they took the 8 pears and the swords, then they took the blacksmiths, then they took the grindstones, and they " took everything but a tile. Oh, that is the way sin works. It grabs everything. It begins with robbery and it ends with robbery. It despoils this faculty and that faculty and keeps on until the whole nature is gone. Was the man eloquent before, it generally thick ens his tongue. Was he fine in personal appearance, it mars Jhis vissage. Was he affluent, it sends the sheriff to sell him out Was he influential, it de stroys his popularity. Was he placid and genial and loving, it makes. bim sj lenetic and cross, and so utterly is he changed that you can see he is sar castic and rasping and that the Philis tines have left hiift^ nothing but a file. Oh, "the way of the transgressor is hard." His cup is bitter His night is dark. His pangs are deep. His end is terrific. Philistine iniquity says to that man, "Now, surrender to me, and I will give you all you want, music for the dance, swift steeds for the race, imperial couch to slumber on, and you shall be refreshed with the rarest fruits, in baskets of golden filigree. ' He lies. -The music turns out to be a groau. The fruits burst the rind with rank poison. The fili gree is made up of twisted snakes. The couch is a grave. Small allow ance of rest, small allowance of peace, small allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough ? nothing but a file. ' Bo it was with Voltaire, the most applaud ed man of bis day. The Scripture was his jestbook, whence he drew j JT Bon mots to j2rn.ll the Christian and the 'jjew. An infidel? when well, but what when sick? Ob, then a text would touch him to the quick. THE DEATH OF VOLTAIRE. Seized with hemorage of the lungs in Paris where he had gone to be crowned in the theater as an idol of all F ranee, he sends a messenger to get a priest that he may be reconciled to the church before he dies. A great terror falls upon him. He makes the place all round about him so dismal that the nurse declares that she would not for all the wealth^ Europe 900 another infidal die. Philistine iniqui ty had promled him all the world's garlands, but in the last hour of his life: he needed solacing, sent tearing across his conscience and his nerves a file, a file. So it was with I,ord Byron, his uncleanne38 in England only surpassed by his unclean ness in Venice, then going on to end his brilliant misery at Missolonghi, fretting at "his nurse, Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting at the world, fretting at God, and he who gave to the world "Childe Harold" and "Sardanapalus" %nd "The Pri soner of Chillon" and "The Siege of Corinth" reduced to nothing but a file! Oh, sin has great facility for making promises, but it has just as ; great facility for breaking them. A .Christian life i3 the only cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender is remorse, ruin and death.' Its painted glee is sepulchral ghastliness. In the brightest days of the Mexi can empire Montezuma said he felt gnawing at his heart something like a canker. Sin, like a monster wild beast of the forest, sometimes licks all over its victim in order that the victim may be more easily swallowed; but generally sin rasps and galls and tears and upbraids and files. Is it not so Herod? Is it not so, Hildebrand? Is it not so, Robespierre? Aye! aye! it is so; it is so. "The way of the wicked he turneth upside down." History tells us that when Rome was founded, on that day there were 12 vultures flying through the air, but when a transgressor dies the sky is black with whole flocks of them. Vultures! When I see sin robbing so many people, and I see them going down day by day and week by week, I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep it back lest I risk the salva tion of my own soul. Rover the pirate pulled down the warning bell on Inchape rock, thinking that he would have a chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but one night his own ship crashed down on this very rock, and he went down with all his cargo. God declares, "When I say to the wicked, thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, that same man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hands." MORE METAL NEEDED. 1 I learn from this subject what a sad thing it is when the church of God loses its metal. These Philistines saw that if theyv could only get all the metallic weapons out of the hands of the Israelites all would be well, and therefore they took the swords and the spears. They did not want them to have a single metallic weapon. When the metal of the Israelites was gone, their strength was gone. This is the trouble with the church of -God today. It is surrendering its courage. It has not got enough metal. How seldom it is that you see a man taking his position in pew, or in pulpit, or in a religious society, and hilding that posi tion against all oppression, and all trial, and all persecution, and all criticism. The church of God today wants more backbone, more defiance, more consecrated bravery, more metaL How often you see a man start out in some good enterprise, and at the first blast of newspaperdom he has collapsed, and all his courage gone, forgetful of the fact that if a man be right all the newspapers of the earth, with all their columns pounding away at him, can not do him any permanent damage. It is only when a man is wrong that he can be damaged. Why, 'God is going to vindicate his truth, an4 he is going to stand by you, my friends, in every effort you make for Christ's cause and the salvation of men. I sometimes say to my wile: "There ia something yrong. The newspapers . f ' ? ? . 1 1 . ? ? i have not assaulted me for three months.' I have not done my duty against public iniquities, and I will stir them up next Sunday." Then f stir them up, and all Uie following week the devil howls and howls, show ing that I have him very hard. : Go forth in the service of Christ an4 do your whole dutyw \ ou have one sphere. I have another sphere. "Tfce Lord of Hosts is with us, and the God of Jacob is our refuge, Selah." We want more of the determination of Jonathan. I do not suppose he was a very wonderful man, but he got on his knees and clambered up the rock, and with the help of his armor bearer he hewed down the Philistines; and a man of very ordinary intellectual at tainments on his knees -can storm any thing for God and for the truth, j - MORE CX>URA(iE NEEDED, i We want somethings of the determi nation of the general who went into j the war, and as be entered his first battle his knees knoeked together, his physical jxki rage not quite up to his moral courage, and he looked down at his knees and said, "Ah, if you knew where I was going 40 take you, you would shake worse than that!" There is only one question for you to ask aud lor me to ask. What does God want me to do? Where is the field? Where is tiiie work? Where is the anvil? Wijere is the prayer meet ing? Where is the pulpit? And, finding out what God wants us to do,' go ahead and do it ? all the energies of our body, mind and soul enlisted in the undertaking. Oh, my brethren, we have but little time in which to fight for God. You will be dead soon. Put in the Chris tian cause every energy tgat God gives you. "What thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for there is neither wisdom nor device in the ^ grave wither we are all hasten ing. Oh, is it not high time that we wake out of sleep? Church of God, lift up^ your head at the coming vic tory! The Philistines will go down, and the Israelites will go up. We are on the winning ^ide. Hear that ? on the winning side!^* I think just now the King's horses are being hooked up to the chariot, and when he does ride down the sky there will be such a hosanna among his friends and such a wailing among his enemies as will make the earth tremble and the heavens sing. I see now the plumes of the Lord's cavalry j men tossing in; the air. The arch angel before the throne has already burnished his trumpet, aud then he will put its golden lips to his own, and he will blow the long, loud blast that will make all uations free. ( Map your hands, all ye people! Hark! I hear the falling thrones and the dash ing down of demolished iniquities. MIMING FOR HIDDENITE A Gem Accidently Discovered That is as Valuable a? tne Diamond. Some years ago Edison, the electric wizzard, was convinced that platinum existed in North -Carolina. He sent William Earl Hidden, an accomplished mineralogist, in search of it. Mr. Hid den little knew at the time how full of results to him that pursuit of plat inum woulchfee. s He could not find the desired mineral but he found something far better. At Alexander county, a quiet part of the State many mile? from a rail way, he was directed by Mr. J. A. D. Stephenson to gem-hearing ground, and, looking a little more narrowly, found some of the gems. He purchased' some land, returned to Edison, report ed his vain quest of platinum, then went back to North Carolina. He at once began to develop the mine. Sink ing a shaft in a -simple way, he grad ually made the opening larger aud . larger, until superficially the mine presented the aspect of a stone quar ry. Out of this rude pit in the earth were taken unnumbered gems, one hitherto unknown. To this Mr. J. Lawrens Smith of St. Louis, an emi nent scientist, gave Hidden 's name, and "Hiddenite," the eqnivalentotthe diamond, became instantly tne fash ion. Its tender tinted gr<jen crystals, its intense hardness and its new beau ties when cut were only some of its charms. From the day o:f its discov ery to the present it has been a hope less task to supply the demand for it. Every Hiddenite found is pur chased long in advance. But strange as is this flashing green miracle of the earth, the place of its birth Js yet stranger. The laborers who are working in the mine handle tfieir picks with the gratest care. They are on the watch for "pockets". Possibly for an hour the digging goes on, and no "pocket,, is struck. Presently the pick goes into an opening, and "with careful fingers the earth is partially removed, andvfinally the miner feels with his hands every portion of the walls of the opening. It may happen that his search is in vain, but it is oftener the case that his fingers touch little crystals that are so imbed detl in the sides of the pocket that their points alone project outward. They are carefully picked out. Per haps all are beryl*, perhaps there are a dozen kinds of gems, or it may be that there are only Hiddenites. Some times gems worth hundreds of dollars are thus taken from one pocket ? The State. A MILLION AND A HALF. That's the .^Wiount of Damage Cau.sed by Fire in London. London, July 18. ? Last night's warehouse fire in the district hounded by Leydenhall street and Bevis marks and Cammomile streets burned over an area of five hundred yards square before the flames were extinguished. Thirty buildings were entirely de stroyed. These buildings were occu pied by more than twenty- Jve firms who dealt in stationery, clocking, tea, wines, furniture, imported goods, etc. Porters and their families living on the premises had narrow escapes. Many rushed to the streets in their night dresses, ? It is expected that the loss will reach $1,5,000. The burned district is but a short distance to the Eastward of the bank of England , the royal ex change and Mansion House, the resi dence of the Lord Mayor. SHOT TO DEATH. "DUB" MEETZE LYNCHED IN LEXING TON- ; Suspected of Barn lag His Own Hcm>e iu Which Hi# Wife ami Two Children bk'pt. Threats Against Other Persons? Hunted Down and Riddled with Bullets. Died at the hands of a mob. Another lynching has been added to the record of Lexington County. Early yesterday morning news reached Columbia that "Dub" Meetze had been hunted down and lynched by a juob between y and 10 o'clock SuTw^ftiight at his old home in Lex ington County, about seven miles from Columbia. About a year ago a warrant was issued against Meetze in this County for forgery and one in Lexington County for horsestealing. He wa s captured in Florida and brought back and put in jail. The cases against him were compromised and dropped upon the express condition that he would leave the State forever. He was released and went away. The circumstances of his tragic end. as gathered by a Register redorter yesterday from citizens of the neigh borhood, are as follows: Meetze had made threats to burn his own house and the houses of several people who informed against him in the horse- stealing matter, and had threatened also to kill others. He had gone away, however, and the com munity felt at ease. A few days ago it was rumored that he had come back and was hiding ar round in the neighborhood. The citizens were "fct once arrouaed to a feeling of fearful suspense, not knowing at what time a house would be burned or somebody killed from ambush. Last < Wednesday night -Meetze's house was burned down and his wife and two children narrowly escaped being burned to death. The fears of the community were still further ar roused by this and every one felt certain that it was Meetze's work, and the question was whose house would be next. The people then began to look out for Meetze. Sunday morning, while the congregation was at service at Zion Church, a colored girl went there in a state of considerable excite ment and told the people that she bad seen Meetze in the woo<ls near the house of Mr. Andrew Lor ick, whose house was included in the list of those threatened to be burued. The people at once resolved to in stitute an organized search for Meetze, whom they regarded as an outlaw and of whom they were afraid. They sent for sheriff Drafts and the search began at once, After searching untill about 9 o'clock without avail, the posse stopped for the night, going to their homes. """ "Sheriff Drafts was at Mr. I^orick's house, and shortly afterwards he and Mr. l?rick heard some shooting over in the direction of Meetze's house, which had been burned. In company with Mr. Lorick, the Sheriff went to the place and looked ar. und, but no one was to be seen. A groan was heard. They asked who it was and the reply came that it was Meetze. Going in the direction of the groan, they came upon Meetze lying srfew yards from the barn in the agonies of a fearful death. There he lay in the dark night, with no one near. His slayers had Hed. Who they were, no one knew. Meetze was I able to talk a little and beg for water, but did ftot say who shot him. He is reported to have said that he did not burn his house 011 Monday night In a little while he breathed his last. The reporter was unable to learn from any source whether there was any proof that Meetze burned his house beyond his threat and the consequent suspicion that rested upon him. From all that could be learned con cerning his tragic end, it appears evi dent that he died at the hands of the people among whom he was raised, be cause they feared him, and it is said that there is now a feeling of relief in thrt community that he is dead. As he lay on the ground in his own blood he presented a sad spectacle in deed. His clothes were ragged and the bottoms of his shoes were worn off. " ^ esterday morning a crowd of his former neighbors were gathered about him as he lay cold and stiff in death. His body was riddle with shot and pistol balls. The Coroner was notified and a jury of inquest was summoned. Dr. Leaphart made the post morteii examination. The most serious wound was in his right side and was inflicted with a shot-gun. A number of shot also passed through his right hand, which appeared to have been agaiusthis side1 when the wound was made. There was a wound in the stomach and one in the left shoulder. A pistol ball split his scalp and the left side of his face was filled with shot. After the jury had viewed the body | and the mortem examination had j ; been made, the body was turned over i | to his brother, Mr. J. H. Meetze, who : carried it to his home at Lexington j ; Court House. I The jury ot inquest spent some time j ! in investigating the case, but secured ! | no evidence on which to reach a con- j | elusion and their verdict was that ' "Dub" Meetze came to his death by \ i gunshot wounds at the hands of per- ' sons unknown. The funeral services will be held to day and the remains will be buried at Peter 8 Church, a few miles al>ove I^exingtou. "Dub" Meetze will be remembered '? as the man who was mixed up in the trouble which resulted in James I. Clark being killed in Columbia b\* ' W. B. Meetze. It was reported yesterday that \ "Dub" Meetze came back to Lexing- I ton County from Savannah under the name of J. W. Dreher; that he travel- ! ed with another man and they both ' stopped at a house a few nights ago. ; The next morning Dreher was miss ing and $75 of his companion's money was gone. The man saw Meetze yes- ! terday morning after he was killed j and identified him as "Dreher." This ! report could not be verified. It was also reported that when I Meetze was found, after beiug shot, he told Sheriff Drafts where his satchel was hi<l in the woods, and that it was found but had not been opened, so it could not be learned what was in it. This report, like the other, could not be confirmed. There were also a number of other rumors afloat whose foundation could not be ascertained. ? Columbia Regis ter. I WHOLESALE MURDERS COMMITTED BY POISON. l>r. Mt-yer ami His "Wife" Killed l'eople to Secure Their Life Itjeuniuce. The Woman Marries Her Intended Victim nl f Wh at is without exception the most startling scries of crimes ever j>erpe trated in this country, says a New York special, has been exposed through the ellorts of Su{>criuteudeut of Police Thomas F. Byrnes, Inspector MeLaughliB, chief of the detectives, and Detective Sergeant Julian, of the central office squad, backed by num bers of private detectives and all of the lite insurance companies in .America. The crimes consist of an unknown numl>er of cold blooded murders committed by a German doctor uamcd Meyers and a female fiend who has }>assed as his wife, simply for the sake of the money for which the lives of their victims were insured. The crimes have been |>er|>etrated in nearly every city in the North, beginning in New York and ending in San Francisco. The trail of graves leads clear across the continent and half the distance back again, and the murders extend in time over a periop ofa number of years. The story seems more like a fantastic tale from the pen of a weird French writer, rather thail^ .actualities, for they have 110 equal. \Fven the infamous crimes of Lucretia Borgia palls into insignifi cance when compared with them. The fiend incarnate is Henry C. Meyer?, a refined-looking hloude Ger man who appear* to l>e a wealthy physician, as he frequently claimed to be. His accomplice is a very hand some woman, but a fiend it there ever was one, for each of the hist few men poisoned was married by her l>efore the deadly drugs were administered by her shapely hands. Meyers graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic school in 1N7.S, and im mediately l>egau his awful career, which has just been ended after a two years' chase by the detectives getting him behind prison Imrs at Detroit, where he was arrested last night. Meyers married a pleasant little woman of (Jerman extraction in 1*71*. She had her life insured for $3,000. In six months Meyers poisoned her and collected the money. Then he had a friend named Gildersleeve in sure his life for $5,000; that of his wife for $2,000, and a young son for $1, 000. Hardly had the ink 011 the policies dried when the friend {miaoued Gildersleeve. Two months later he married the widow. She was j>oi soned the following week, and finally the son was drugged to death and Meyers secured all of the money. All of the victims were buried in the German Lutheran cemetery in the suburbs of the Windy City. So de&Uy were the drugs used and so secret their composition that not a thought of foul play was ever conceived. But the awful dread of discovery gave the poi soner no rest, and it finally drove him to New York. Though comparatively wealthy from the proceeds of his murders Meyers insatiable fieudlshness drove him 011 to commit still others. A lew da) 0 af'ier his arrival he met a man named Brant and talked him into a scheme to swindle insurance companies. Brant fatally and foolishly insured his life for *$4,500. Then he sham med sickness. A- corpse, Meyers told his intended victim, would be secured later to take his place. It was. Mey ers gave Brant what the latter sup posed to be a drug to produce a coun terfeit of death. It produced the gen uine article. In less than an hour Brant himself furnished the needed corpse and Meyers got the $4,AO0. Brant was given a conventional burial from No. 211 East Twentv-ninth street, and Meyers again went West. In Toledo he met the beautiful fiend who has since helped him {mison a dozen other people in New York, Chi cago, Denver, Toledo, Detroit and I San Francisco. In many cases she I married the victims, to more con veniently administer the fatal draughts, while Meyers would wed the woman. The last of the?e was a six teen-year old girl named Mary NV illiams, whom Meyers married in Indianapolis and poisoned in Toledo. 1 he qualification of a surgeon to a large insurance company necessarily ' include a few of the instincts of a detective. To this fact is due the final capture of these extraordinary criminals despite ther wariness and I carefully laid plans Meyers returned to New ^ ork after meeting and evidently marrying his accomplice. They made the acquaintance ?.f (Jus tave J. Baum. of No. .'>20 Fast Thir teenth street. 'I he woman pas>ed as a widowed sister of Meyers, and in two months married Baum. Then, of course, yielding to his wife's earnest solicitations he had his life insured in her favor for $3,000. Then he ww suddenly stricken with virulent dvs entery and died. Dr. Gillete, the physician of the insurance company, saw Baum after death, and became suspicious. The woman, however, did not wait to bury her victim, but collected the money, and when Dr. f iillete tried to locate her he found that she had disappeared. I hen he called uj>on Superintendent Byrnes and Insj>ector "Biily" Mc Laughlin. They began one of the finest pieces of detective work ever known, in which seven murders have already been fasteued up^u the pris- ! oneis, while they are suspected of hav ing committeed at leist ten more. | They traced the couple from city to ' city, and finally located them in De troit, where they were arrested last night. The grand jury today indicted the ; pair. Lx tradition j tapers were im mediately secured ami forwarded to j Sergt Julian, who made the capture in Detroit. ? The State. for Infants and "Children* T j ? : ? ? ? i HIRTY year*' ob?ervation of jCaetorU with the J*b4 millions of personv permit us to ?p?k ?f It wtth*>t It in nnqnentionablj' fh? l>e*>t remedy for Jttf?tl ? ? ?? ? tl th* world h y over known. It in harmlon. Children like H give* them health. It will ?rV? their liven. In it Mother* hi nome thing which N abnolntely _?afqjmd practically perfeot 3 child's medicine. Castoria destroy* Worm^. Castoria allays Feverishnens. Castoria prevents vomiting Sonr Cnrd. Castoria cnres PiarrhcBa and W ind Co Ho. Castoria relieves Teething Troubles. Castoria cyct Constipation and Flatnlency. Castoria neutralises the effects of carbonic acid gas ?* ? t Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or other Castoria assimilates the food, legwlate* the stomach t giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is put up in one* size bottles only. It is not sold Don't allow any one^to sell you anything else on thejdea wr that it is "just as good" and " will answer every purpoe^** i>ee that yon get C-A-S-T-O-R'I-A. The fee e signature ol^ lit on I \ . ^ ; i j!||J Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. RACE CONFLICT FEARED. ! Ne^roc* Kefuse to Drtve" From Tbeir Homes. Little R^k, Ark., .July 18. ? The white people in the town and vicinity of Neelyville, just across the Arkansas line, in Missouri, a few days ago, server notices on the negroes em ploy ad at the mills and on the farms to leave the country. The negroes have protested against l>eing driven from their homes, and have purchased guns, pistols and am munition in large quantities, ami in formed the white men "that they have made up their minds to stay where they are and light to the death !>efbre surrendering a single one of their rights. There has l>een no conflict a* yet, hut one is likely to occur at any time. Four IVr*ons Killetl and Sov?mi lujurctl l?y an Kx plosion. Chk'Aijo, July K> ? Four persons w*re killed and seven injured by an explosion of fireworks this evening at Fifty-ninth street and Ashland avenue. The explosion took place in a small park, where an Italian picnic was l)eing held. .During the display of fireworks, which was part of the pro gramme, a premature explosion occur red, caused, it is supposed, by care lessness of the men in charge of the display. The entire supply of fire works became ignited, scattering powder in all directions. Two of the men in charge of the fireworks were instantly killed. Two spectators were fatally injured and half a do/en others badly burned. RipansTabules. Ripans Tahules nro com pounded from a proscription widely used by the best medi cal authorities and are pre sented in a TC>r?i that is be coming the lashion every where. Rijvins Tabulcs ;u't gently nut pr<?mpt :V upon the liver, stomach and inU'stincs; cure dvspepsia, iKilMtu.il constipa tion, ottensiye b; v.uh and head ache. 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