The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 28, 1893, Image 4
, THE DIVINE SCIENCE.
DR. TALMAGE ADDRESSES THE CHAU
TAUQUANS AT MONONA LAKE.
An the Israelite* Fooght With Weapons of
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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*
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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.
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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. One tabule taken at the
tis'st svmptom of indigestion,
! liuustu-ss, dizziness, distress
alter eating, or depression of
spirits, will surely and quickly
remove the whole difficulty.
RipansTabules may be oo
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