FRANCE'S WAR MINISTER KILLED Monoplane Plunges Into Group of Members of Cabinet. PRIME MINISTER IS INJURED. Accident Occurs on Aviation Field, Where 200,000 Persona Hid Gath ered to Witness Start of Race Driv er Loses All Control of Machine. Paris, May 22. Fiance paid a terri ble toll for its magnificent endeavor to Ittaln supremacy of the air when a monoplane, the driver of which had lost control, plunged Into a group of members of the cabinet, who had gath ered to witness the Htart of the race from Paris to Madrid, killing the min ister of war and Injuring the prima minister, his bod and a well known iportamnn. The dead: Henri Maurice Rerteaux, tnlnluter of war. The injured: Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monin, premier and minister jt tho Interior; Antoinc Monls, son of the , premier; Henri DeutHch de la Mourlhe, the aged patron of aero nautics. The accident occurred on the avia tion field at Issy lea Mollneux, where 2K),000 persons had gathered to see the start of the race. Aviators Not Hurt. M. Train waa piloting the mono plane. With him In the car was M. Bonnier, a passenger. Neither of thce men was injured. The machine Was wrecked. Minister of War Berteaux was hor ribly mangled. The swiftly rovolvlng propeller cut off his left arm, which waa found ten feet away from the spot where he was struck, the back of his bead was crushed in, his throat gashed and the whole of his left side cut and lacerated. Premier Monls was hurled beneath the wreckage of the monoplane. He was taken out as quickly as possible and examined by military surgeons, who found he had sustained com pound fractures of two bones In the right leg, thai his nose was broken, his face hadty contused and there were bruises on the breast and abdo men. Approach for Closer View. The line of spectators bordering the flying field was held rigid by sol dier, whu permitted the ministerial party and some halt hundred other parsons of distinction to walk across the field to where they could get a tetter view down the course and see the airmen as they rose from the start ing point. Train left the ground. Ascending; swiftly, he circled the field, curving round to tho starting line and then flying down the course at forty miles an hour, his machine rocking In the wind. At this moment it was observed by the commandant of the troops that the crowds were breaking the line formation on one side of the field and he dispatched a troop of cuirassiers to . get them back In order. The cuirassiers galloped across the field, breaking Into double linen an they went. Loses Control of Machine. ' Truln's monoplane horn swooped to ward the earth under the Impulse of on air Hurry and It appeared as (hough the uvlator was about to dash Into the cavalry. The pilot's attention seemed momentarily to have been diverted from his course and he made a quick turn to the loft, toward where the party of officials were standing. Then he lost control of the craft altogether and It dashed violently Into tho min isterial group. The Impact knocked M. Herteaux ten feet away, where he lay In a pool t,t blood, badly mangled, while under the wreckage of tho monoplano lay Itemler Monls, his son and M Deulsch. Train and M. Bonnier emerged from the wreck uninjured. A scene of frightful confusion fol lowed. From all parts of thn field arose cries of alarm and dismay and tens of thousands of persons broke through the lines and moved toward the scene. The cavalry, by repeated charges, managed to clesr the field and the Injured men were given first aid treatment by the field surgeons. It was seen that M. Berteaux was fa tally hurt and that M. Monls was sort Ouely Injured. After the ministers hsd been cared for the aurgeons dressed the wounds of those who had received minor braises. There are various versions as to the cause of the" accident, but everyone seems to agree that It occurred with such rapidity there was no time for M. Berteaux, M. Monls and the others to escape BRAZIL DEPORTS MUTINEERS Member of Opposition Asks for Ex planation In Chamber of Deputies. Rio Jsnelro, May 22. The R1o Ja neiro newspapers publish a story al leging the deportation from Br sill by order of the government of 700 men, Including mutineers and crim inals, on board the steamer Satellite. As a result Barbosl I,lma, a member Cif the opposition, asked for an ex planation In the chamber of deputies, and thn brother of President Fonseea, leader of the government, promised Ibat the president would make an ex planation later. I BRIG. GEN. C. I EDWARDS. Whose Resignation From Club Board Has Stirred'Washington. CLUB CIRCLES DISTURBED Resignations From Board Cause Stir In Washington, Washington, May 22. Club circles are disturbed by the resignation of three prominent members of the ultra exclusive Metropolitan club from the board of governors following President Taft's references to the practice of blackballing proposed members be cause they are self made men The men who resigned are Brigadier General Clarence R Edwards, U 8 A, chief of the bureau of Insular af fairs; Lieutenant Colonel Charles L McCawley of the marine corps and Captain Templin M Potts, U 8. N. General Edwards and the others, It Is Intimuted, are diapleamd with the actions of a small minority of the gov ernlng board and wish to wash their hands of all responsibility for Its ac tions In club affairs SIX NEGROES ARE LYNGHEDIN FLORIDA Dozen Men Masquerade 3s Olli- cers In Secure Blacks. Lake City, Fla . May 22. Six ne groea were lynched here niter u parly of more tti n ii a dozen mm, masquer adiiiK as olliceis, appeared at the county Juil and seemed possession of tho men by presenting a hngu:i tele grnm to the sixteen year old son of tho OieiilT. ordering the release of the lilueks to tho alleged posse of officers. I lie neRioes were being held here for safe keeping nn the elwnue of murder ing II II. Smith, a sawmill man of WadeslioioiiKli. and wounding another man named Register The men, who had come from Tal lahasseo to Lake City In niilomnbiles, took the neg'oes nluiut a mile outside of Ijike City Tbev compelled tho ncgiocK to st ti ml abreast and about ten men commenced llrlng with rifles snd pistols until every one or the six bad been riddled with bullets EXHUME TAYLOR'S BODY Attempt to Prove Hospital Attendants Injured Him. Farmlngton. Mo. May 22 The body of J. F. Taylor, who died M the state hospital for Insane here April 4, snd because of whose death Pate Sualm snd Harris lilr.rell, attendants at the hospital, sre awaiting trial, was exhumed by the prosecuting attorney The coroner reported after the au topsy that no abs esses which the dn fense maintained caused the death weie found Five fractures of the 'lbs were dUclosed Before his death Taylor alleged the attendants stamped on him Kansas City Shop Strike Off. Kansas City. May 22 -Following the removal of an aliened strikebreak er, said to have been transferred from the Missouri Pacific roilway shops In St liuls to the company's enst hot toms shops In this city, most of the 250 bollermakers. blacksmiths and ma chlnlsts employed by Hie company on a strike, returned to work. Hatpin Stab Is Serious. Uma. O, May 22 Professor John It Coiner of the local high school faculty Is routined to his home, threat ened with lockjaw as the result of an accidental stab In bis loft temple, made j a hatpin In the hands of a cbolr girl at Giare church Sunday. . -r .' .. - X 4 , ' 'I r.. -.... .i -m x 1 V ' 'i .';. -'V - . T iv ' ' , ' i. fii f. ' ' r if - , I . ? ,-; INSANE MAN KILLSPATIENT Martin Skow Chckes Fellow In mate ot Asylum at Lincoln. FOUR PERSONS IN THE ROOM. Attendants at Asylum Say Skow Has Been Model Patient and Has Never Given Cause for Any Suspicion, Slayer Tells of His Deed. Lincoln, May 22 Martin Skow murdered Charles Brookman by chok iug him to death. Both are inmates at the Insane asylum. The crime was not discovered until morning. when the breakfast call was given at the state institution. Four patients were in the room In which the murder was committed, the other two beside the murderer and his victim not hear ing a suund and not knowing that the deed had been done until they awoke in the morning. Skow talks very freely of his crime and tells how he did it in a most un concerned manner. He declared that he simply took the suspenders off a pair of bib overalls which he was wearing and tied them around Brook man's neck and then holding a pillow over his mouth, twisted the suspend ers until Ufa was extinct. He asserted that he waited until the night watch of the ward had gone to the other end of the hall before he did the deed The attendants at the asylum state that Skow since he has been here has been a model patient and that he has never given the least cause to sus picion that he would do such a thing. The man, who Is a Dane, about twen ty-two years old, says that the man had hit him In the back the night be fore and that he simply wanted to get him out of the way so that it would not be repeated. The Douglas county patient was brought here in February. Brookman, his victim, had been In the asylnm over seven years. The latter waa formerly a street ear conductor in this city and is survived by a brother, who Is In the employ of the Burlington in this city. HIGHWAY ACROSS THE STATE First Survey Is New Being Made In Vicinity of York. York, Neb., May 22. The first sur vey of the across the state public highway state road short route for all travel Is being made. Hamilton county has mailed to Al fred Christian of York, president, Its survey of the short route road, which enters near the renter of the county and goes straight west, passing through Hampton, Aurora and Phil lips, where It crosses the Platte river bridge. There Is not a turn "or crook In this road in Hamilton county and It passes over a highway In which there Is not a hill and over a road on which In the last year over $.1,000 has been ex pended, making It an ideal route for tourists Connecting with It is n straight east and west road across York county, which, with the excep tion of entering York and passing through it is as straight and Just ns good and passes through a county In which 97 per cent of the land Is smooth. Seward county Is now making a sur vey of the main traveled mad on which hundreds of dollars have been paid out to build it up to the present high standard of excellence. This road connects with York and goes di rectly across the county, passing through Seward. PRCHIBS WORK IN HAVELOCK Chicago Worker Starts Campaign With Open Air Speech. Lincoln, May 22. Eugene Chapln of Chicago, prohibition worker and candidate at the last presidential elec tion for tho office of national execu tive,' opened the liquor campaign at Havelock with a street speech which was listened to by over COO people. The shop city will vote upon the saloon question under the Initiative and referendum, June 9, the town, which Is now dry, deciding to submit the question in view of the fact that Lincoln went wet at the last city elec tion. Indictments Quashed. Lincoln, May 22. Judge Cornish sustained the motion to quash the In dlctments returned by tho late grand Jury against a local commission com pany, .1 Mnugan and others, who were charged with having violated the 1907 law relating to the operation of buck etshops Tho finding of the court r.lates that the Indictments were un certain and defective In that they did l ot Bet cut specific wrongful acts. Steady Rain In Gage. Beatrice. Neb., May 22. The drought which has prevailed here for the last few weeks was broken by a good steady rain, which fell a greater part of the night The moisture came Just in time to save the wheat and oat crops from damage by drought Girl Killed by Automobile. Weeping Water, Neb., May 22. Gus Mohr of Avoca, while driving Into town, ran over the young daughter of Tom Bherfey. The child died. Mr. Sherfey resides a bait mite north of Avoca. ASCENDED UP ON HIGH WHEREHEWAS BEFORE How He Led a Multitude ot Captives. What the Ascension of Jesus Im plied For Himself and For the World. Baltimore, Md, May 21. Pastor Russell of the Brooklyn Taberna cle preached here twice today to large and atten tive audiences. We report one of his discourses from the text, "When He ascended up on high ne led a multitude of captives" (Epbeslans lv, 8-10). In this week occurs the anniversary of Jesus' ascension. In one sense of the word our Lord ascended (that Is, from human nature and the tomb, to the dlvlue nature and Immortality) at the time of Ills resurrection from the dead. He tarried, however, for forty days, with the Apostles for their es tablishment and Instruction He on the spirit plane, Invisible to them, ex cept when he manifested Itlmself by appearing miraculously In various forms to convince them that lie was no longer deceased, and also that He was no longer confined to human con ditionsthat Ills resurrection bad made Illm again a spirit being on the higher plane, where He was before lie took human nature for the suffer ing of death, for the redemption of humanity. Not alone by Ills words, but also by Ills conduct, our Lord taught Ills fol lowers. They had not as yet been be gotten of the Holy Spirit, and hence could not understand or appreciate spiritual things. The could there fore receive instruction only along nat ural lines. Jesus was raised from the dead a spirit being, far above angels, principalities and powers. Had He then gone directly to the Father with out manifesting- Himself to His disci ples, they would never hare been able to understand the truth of the matter. nence their lessons were given them largely in pantomime, corroborated by the Master's words, explaining that It was necessary that Messiah should die In order that He might redeem the world, and that It was also necessary that He ascend up on high and re enter upon the spiritual plane of ex istence, wblcb ne had before lie came Into the world in order that from that blgber plane of being ne might be the more capable of filling the great Office of Prophet, Priest, Medi ator and Kins of the world. "Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God." Not only, therefore, did Jesus mani fest Himself during tho forty days, some seven times, for a few moments each time, in various forms, but final ly, at the conclusion of the forty days, He ascended In full view of Ills dis ciples. This was one way of telling them of His ascension, that He had gone to the Father, that they need not expect to see Him again as formerly. We are not, however, to suppose for a moment that Jesus ascended a fleshly or human being; we remember, on the contrary, that "flesh nud blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God," and that "He was put to death In the flesh but quickened In the spirit," and that thenceforth, ns the Apostle declares, "The Lord Is that Spirit" (11 Corlu thhuis 111, 17). Seen by 8sul of Tarsus. The Apostles were to bear witness to the resurrection of Jesus; but Judas having lost his place, and It having been given to St. Taul, It was proper that the latter, as well as the rest of the Apostles, should be able to bear witness to Jesus' resurrection. Re counting those who hnd seen the Lord after His resurrection, In some of the various manifestations, St Paul says, "Last of all He was seen of me also, as one born before the time." Jesus appeared to St Paul In the glorious brightness of nis Spirit Be ing, "shining above the brightness of the sun at noonday." The sight caused Injury to the eyes of the beholder. Such a manifestation would have been Inappropriate and unsatisfactory had the Redeemer so appeared to the elev eu during the forty days. How could they have Identified the glorious Per sonage, who shone above the bright ness of the sun at noonday, as the Lord Jesus, whom they had known for years. How could they have been en abled to fully Identify Illm, In Ills many different appearances, with His former self their Friend, their Teach er? But to Saul of Tarsus, the reveal ing In fiery light, r.bove the noonday glare, was very appropriate. It con vinced him, In a manner that no human appearance In the flesh could have equalled, that Jesus was no longer a man and that He was no Impostor. St Paul's conversion was Instantaneous. "Who art thou Lord?" be asked. "1 ra Jesus Whom thou persecutest" still represented In My followers, of whom St. Stephen was one, whom you murdered, and others of whom you have been hailing to prison. It should not cause us to marvel that Jesus ascended ns He declared, "up where He was before" (John vl, C2). It should not surprise us that tho Heav enly Father gave Illm back all the glory and honor which ne had before y ; 1 vine nature, and entirely disassoci ated from human nature. Thinking of the Lord at nis second advent as a glorified mas, they asso ciate Him with a material throne and an earthly court. This. In turn, leads other Christian people In an oppo site direction. Realizing that such an earthly kingdom would be a step backward rather than a step forward, they deny the second coming of Mes siah to establish the Kingdom bo long promised. The proper thought Is that Jesus, In the flesh, accomplished the work which the Father had given Him to do, when He sacrificed His earthly life. The Father gloriously rewarded Him on the spirit plane. Now He Is waiting for the gathering of Ills Church. Ills Bride, Ills Elect. These are to share In His resurrection to the divine nature and to sit with Him in His throne. Then the Kingdom of Messiah, so long promised, will begin to bless the world, using as its earth ly representatives, visible to men, Abra ham, Isaac and Jacob and all the Ancient Worthies, mentioned In He brews xl, 38-40; through whom the blessing will extend to Natural Israel and to all the families of the earth (Acts 111, 19-21). A Multitude of Captives. Our text, In a figurative way, repre sents the ascension of Jesus from the earthly plane to the heavenly as the triumph of a great Conqueror. Sin had gained ascendency over Adam and his race, and had brought mankind low to the dust, mentally, morally and physically. Moreover, this victory over man had been gained In a legal man nerthrough one man's disobedience (Romans v, 12). The Logol divested Himself of His glory on the spirit plane, was made flesh, fulfilled the de mands of the Law, proved Himself competent to pay the sinner's Ransom price, and gave Himself a Ransom for all, "to be testified In due time" , (I Timothy II, C). Having finished II is sacrificial work He was received again to the spirit nature with exceeding glory and to the right hand of the Majesty on high. Thus the great Conqueror Is seen re turning to the heavenly state, acclaim ed by the Heavenly nost; and follow ing Illm far down the centuries, the prophetic view saw, first the Church, the "Royal Priesthood." "His broth pen," "His Bride," delivered from the power of sin and death, through the merit of nis blood. And these were but the first corps of a following host; they were "a kind of first-fruits to God of His creatures," rescued from sin and from death (James L 18; Rev elation xlv, 4). Later on, stretching down for a thou sand years beyond the Church's deliv erance, the prophetic pen foretells countless hosts of every nation, peo ple, kindred and tongue, to be deliv ered from the power of sin and death through the merit of nim Who died, "the Just for the unjust" Now the Savior of the Church. His Bride, He will shortly be the Savior of the world, its Great King, Great Teacher. Great Priest, Great Mediator. Then will come the glorious consum mation, when nil who will have re fused Divine grace shall have been de stroyed In the Second Death then shall be heard every creature In heaven and on earth and under the earth saying, "Glory to God In the Highest." Thence forth there Khali be no more crying nor dying, for all the former things of sin and death shall have passed away. "Times of Restitution, Which God Hath Spoken." At our Lord's First Advent the "ac ceptable time" began the time when God, having accepted the sacrifice of Christ Jesus, became willing through Illm to accept the sacrifices of all who desire to become Ills disciples to take up their cross and follow Him through evil report and good report even unto death. The entire Gospel Age anti types Israel's Day of Atonement, nnd the sacrifices of our Lord and the Church, Ills Body, nre the "better sac rifices," foreshadowed by the bullock and tho goat offered typically by the Jews (Hebrews ix. 19-23). This Is the acceptable year of the Lord which Jesus declared (Isaiah Ixl, 2; Luke lv, 19). God's faithful people of this acceptable day are glad to be Invited to "present their bodies living sacrifices, holy and acceptable unto God" (Romans xll, 1). In the end of this acceptable day will come the end of all opportunity to thus sacrifice the human nature and become Jolnt-helrs with Christ nnd partakers of the heav enly nature. Then will be Introduced n new period styled, In the Scriptures, "Times (or years) of Restitution." The acceptable day for the Church's sacrifice has last ed for nearly nineteen centuries. And we know how long the "Times of Res titution" will Inst nearly a thousand years. St Peter tells us Just when these "Restitution Times" will begin. They did not begin In his day. They have not begun yet. They will begin as a result of the Second Advent of Jesus, the Messiah, and the establishment of Ills Kingdom nnd righteousness, "Times of refreshing sbnll coi.ie from the presence of the Lord nnd He I'luill send Jesus Christ, ns before was preached unto you, whom the heaven must retain until tho Times of Resti tution of nil things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world begnu. "For Moses verily said unto the fa thers, A Prophet like unto me (of whom I nm but n type or figure) shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from amongst your brethren. Him sbnll ye hear In nil things whatsoever He shall spenk unto you. And It sbnll come to pass that the soul that will not oley thnt Prophet shall le de stroyed from nnionpM tii people" (Acts 111. 10 2.11-1(1 .be F.'nd Death He came Into the world with added glory. It should not surprise us there fore, that the Apostle declares that He ascended. In dignity and station, far above angels, principalities and pow ers, and every name that Is named! (Epbeslans I, 21.) On the contrary, It would be both equitable and God-like thnt the great Jehovah should highly honor His faithful, Only Begotten Son, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the Ending of the creation of God (Revelation nil, 13). Could we for one moment suppose that our great Creator would allow Ills faithful Son, or any servant, to lay down life In Di vine service, and to suffer loss as a consequence of nis obedience? Is It not much more rational to believe, as the Scriptures declare, "nim hath God highly exalted" (PhUipplans 11. 9). The Ascended One Descended. Pastor Russell called attention to the Apostle's phraseology in the context that the Ascended Oue had previously descended, and that the ascending and descending were related as cause and effect The One who ascended up on high completely filled the highest po sition In the great, Divine Government of the Universe as Head of principali ties and powers, angels and men next to the Father. Yet, the Apostle warns us that we must not Identify the glori fied One with the. One Who, In obedi ence to the Father's will, bumbled Himself to come down from the heav enly nature and glory to the earthly station where lie, as a man, humbled Himself unto death, even unto the Ig nominious death of the cross. The Apostle calls our attention to these two extremes the extreme of humlllntlon and the extreme of exal tation, both accomplished in the Son of God, the Logos, The Christ If some of us at one time misunder stood the Scriptures and supposed that our Lord Jesus ascended to heaven In a physical condition, as a man, we en tirely misunderstood the Scriptures He Who was rich, as the Logo In glory, preserved nis identity when He was made poor for our sins, made fleh, that He might be our Redeemer. Simi larly, that Redeemer preserves His Identity now that He has been made rich again now that He has been re ceived up to the Spirit Plane of glory, honor and Immortality, the divine na ture. To suppose that Jesus went to heav en a man Is to mistake the significance of His title, The Son of Man, which He maintains, as Identifying Him with His great redemptive work as one of His many titles. To suppose that Jesus Is a human being In heaven would be to suppose that He Is still ss when In the flesh, "a little lower than the angels," whereas the Scriptures de clare that ne has ascended far higher, so that all the angels of God, as well as men, are commanded to worship Him. To suppose Jesus In heaven a human being would be to suppose Ulm out of all harmony with heavenly, spiritual conditions and surroundings. Moreover, are we not told that the Church of Christ will be changed from the human to the spirit condition in the resurrection, and tbnt this chnnge will make the "elect of God" ilke their Re deemer, so that they may see Ulm as He is, not as He was that they may see Him In glory, honor and Immor tality, exaltation, and not as the hu miliated One, Who was made fesh that He might sacrifice Ills tsb on man's behalf? When we so thought we for got the Scriptural declaration that "flesh and blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God," hence that all those called to be partakers of the dlvlue nature and heavenly Kingdom with their Redeemer and Lord must be made like Him by the power of the First Resurrection. Difficulties of Unbelievers. The Pastor declared that he had found worldly-wise people very skep tical respecting the descent of the Logos, the Son of God, to earthly con ditions; but that Christians seem to have more difficulty than the world in comprehending the return, the ascen sion of Jesus to the spirit plane and Its excellent glory. Both points, however, are important, necessary, as the Apos tle declares In the context Whoever is unable to see that the Logos, the glorious Son of the Highest, bumbled Himself, divested Himself of the Spir it Nature nnd took Instead human na ture, cannot see that Jesus was sin less. And those who cannot recognize that He was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from the sinner race (He brews vil, 20), cannot believe Initio sacrifice of Jesus as being a RatVoi price for Adam, to effect his release and that of bis race from condemna tion. Pastor Russell went Into considera ble detail respecting the manner by which the Logos was transferred from heavenly conditions to earthly condi tions, and how His purity. His perfec tion of Orguuism, His freedom from sin was preserved, notwithstanding the fact that he was" born of an earthly mother who was not free from the blemishes of Adam's race. He prof fered his hearers, free upon applica tion, a treatise entitled "Tho Undefiled One," which he believed showed scien tifically the process used of God by which the Lopot was changed from the higher to the human nature, yet pre served Immaculate. The error of supposing that Jesus Is still a man signifies the denial of Ills word, that He would ascend up where ne was before, nud the denial of the Apostle's teaching that He has been highly exalted to glory nnd distinc tion, the divine nature, as instead of human nature. This error, the Pastor declared, had led to other errors, one of which he cited, namely, the error made by many Christian people of ex pecting the second coming of Jesus In the flesh as a glorious mas and not as a glorious Spirit, Partaker of the dl-