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A SEM10N FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED ANCELS' VISITS," The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Draws a Dleautiful Lesson From tho Psalm : Written in Memory of the Wilderness Waiiderings-Angels as Guardians. ' NFW YORK CITY.-The following beau tiful and uplifting sermon is by the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the best known evangelist in the country and one of the most popular pulpit orators of New York. It is entitled "Angels' Visits," and was preached from the text, "He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wars." Psalm 91: 11. The writer of this Psalm is undoubtedly Moscs. We shall appreciate its strength and beauty all the more when we reali.e that it was written in the memory of the wilderness wanderings. In these verses we find that 'Moses speaks of victory in every scrt of trial. Things hidden and seen are to be overcome and influences most insidious as well as trials that are most abundant and powerful would be as nothing because of the fact that the Lord is the leader of them all, and the very an gels of heaven are their bodyguards. It is a general Psalm. evidently for every one, as indicated by the words. "He that dwell eth in the secret places of the most High." Verse 1. It is a Psalm of sweetness be cause the secret Place is suggested where we may meet God. and rat only tell Him our secrets. but listen to Him as He speaks. "for the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him." It is a Psalm of light as indicated by the mention of shadows, for shadows ever accompany the light and likewise a place of comfort, for the thought of the feathers would suggest the building o: a bird's nest. all the thorns of whien are covered with birds' feathers. and 'Moses would mean in this way as to the comforfaible position of the child of God. It is a Psalm in which God subjects His faithfulness to His own, for in the 14th and the 16th verses there are six "I wills" mentioned. "T will deliver him." "I will set him on high." "I will answer him." "I will be with him.'' "T will deliver him and honor him." "I will satisfy him." All these blessings as indicated 1 the 1Dth. Psalm are for us if we stay in the se .czet place of the Most High and not with out. To preach nrivileges without saying to whom they belong is like putting a let ter in the post box on which no direction -has been written. Men have always be lieved in angels, and the Bible confirms this belief. Their ministry is quite dis tinct from that of the Holy Spirit of God .nd yet quite as real. They are not to be confused with our beloved dead, for our loved ones are higher than they. In speak ing of Jesus the writer to the Hebrews says. "Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His per son. and upholding all things by the word of His power. when He had by Himself purged our sins. sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more ex cellent name than they." Hebrews 1: 3-4. And that we are to have the same as Christ has received is indicated in the prayer of Jesus. "Father. I will that thev also whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am: that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me, for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world." John 17: 24. The Holy Spirit in all dispensations has been the interpreter of the word of God. but angels have had a Inore material work ~"'*~" ~was in trouble an an gel anpeared unto him as the captain of~ the hosts: when Peter was in pri son an angel threw back the bolt of the prison door and talked with him. The best illustration of the ministry of the two is in the life of our Lord. He was led by the Spirit, taught by the Spirit, filled with the Spirit, but was fed by an gels, defended by ange4., strengthened by angels. The law was spoken by angels, so the'word of God declares. "'Who have re ceived the law by the disposition of an gels, and have not kept it." Acts 7: 53. "For if the word spoken by angels was steadiast, and every transgression and dis obedience received a just recompense of reward." Hebrews- 2: 2. While the Gos pel was spoken by the Spirit, "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us. written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the livingt God; not in tables of stone. but in fleshy tables of the heart." 2d Corn thans 3: 3. "An;;els are actual beings. They ate with 'Abraham, they took Lot by the hand, they refused to be worshiped and they accept ed hospitality. They are a company rather than a race; they do not marry, neither do they die; they are of two orders, good and evil, but they were not always so. Once they were all holy-; then some sinned and kept not their first estate. The oth es are distinguished from this company in? the fact that they are called the elect-an gels. The employment of angels is two fold, heavenly and earthly. First. they minister as priests in the temple in the city of God. Isaiah beheld such a vision, Isaiah 6: 1-8..- "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne. high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and. with twain he did fly. And one cried unto an ither, and said. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of Bis glory. And the posts of the door moved, at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Thena said I. Woe is me! for I am undone; -be cause I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lipst for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the serat'him unto me. having, a live coal in his htand. which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said. Lo. this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away. and thy sin ourged. Also I 'hear the voice of the Lord saying. Whom shall I send. and who will go for us. Then said I. Here am I: send me." They are interested in creation. In the ver- beginning they have their ipart in the anthem oi praise. .Job 3S: 7. "When the morning stars sang together- and al the sons of God shouted for- joy?" While in all that has to do with the control of na tur-e they are an active agensv. Psalm 1: 20 "Bhes the TLord, ye Bi ages that excel in strength. that do His comn mandmie,te, hearkening 'into the voice of His word."' Their ofilje is seven foli. Fat they p.uide. WXhen Philp was at v-on in Sa""ia they" sent lhim into the desee.Acts 8 26-29 "And the angel of the Lord spak e m'o Piiip saying. Ariae an' "o towa.rd the south unto the way thot 'ab down from ,Jer' salemo unto (a e w b i 't. And be arose and w-. *-fl te l " m'an of I Ethon'a. ar cc: e 1mbor' 'ity uder ( aidare. he- Ethi'oves "wh ha ad the c. eal hetraue. an id he' d come t n'em "o 10 worship. as rturn inl- in" in is ch'iot read' E-aias. lie w he'''.~ Th-I th icSniri-t said to : Lou 'ain Hi , w 1:k 'si Matthew 4: 11. "Thethededile~ethhim. and behold, T r .w the "-'' d.~ When Daniel wals in ae in's den they were hi-a comfiort. "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones, for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven." Matthew 18: 10. That is not the angels of the children behold the face of the l-ather, but the angels that guard the children be hold His face, as if to know His will con cerning them. Fourth, they watch over the church. Paul must have had this in mind when he said, "For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last as it were appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels and to men." I Corinthians 4: 9. Fifth, they have charge of the dead, as is indicated in the story of Stephen and the death and resurrection of Lazarus, also in the fact that our Lord was in the tomb and two angels were guarding him. Sixth, they shall accompany Christ at His second coming. Prophets, evangel ists, apostles all declare this truth. Seventh, they shall be the e::ecutors or judgment. Matthew 13: 41-42. "The Son of Man shall send forth T~i angels, and they shall gather out of his kindoin all things that offend, and them which do ini quity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire.: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." It is my purpise to show something. con cerning angels' visits in days that are past that I may make application of the truth to the present time. . Their visit to Abraham. Genesis IS: 1-2. "And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day, and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him; and when he saw them he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground." We have here the thought of communion of which the Christian Church is so much in need in these days. It is not so much service that is demanded now as fellow ship with Him and waiting upon Him by means of which we reiay know His will. I like to picture this visit of rngels. Abra ham at his tent door during the heat of the day, when suddenly the angels ap peared. There were three of them, the angel of the Covenant being their leader. I stood on the very spot where it is said, according to tradition, the tent of Abra ham stood and the place seemed holy ground. I doubt not the tent was ever more beautiful to Abraham and Sarah. for as a matter of fact homes are transfigured and lives made beautiful just in propor tion that Christ. the Angel of the Cove nant, fills us, and He still comes to us to day, and in His coming He is the saine yesterday, to-day and forever. He entered the home of Zaccheus and gave him r. new song, and salvation came to his entire household. He filled the heart of Peter so that when Paul was converted he came down just to visit him that he might know concerning his Master. Doubtless he saw the couch where He rested, possibly the room where He slept, and I have no ques tion at all but Peter and Paul journeyed together visiting the scenes that were made sacred by His gracious presence. He walked with the two on their way to Em maus and illumined ti''e Scriptures and also made their hearts burn. We may have angels' visits in these days in unex pected ways. I like the story of the German boy who sat a place at the table for Christ, and suddenly there was a knock at the door. When the child opened the door he found there a peasant poorly clad; bade him take the seat, feeling that since Jesus could not come He had sent this man in His place. Whatever may be the dispensational interpretation of the 28th chapter of Matthew, the 35th to the 40th verses are at least most striking in this connec tion. "For I was an hungered and ye gave Me meat; I was thirsty and ye gav-e Me drink, I was a stranger, and ye took Me in; naked and ye clothed Me;' I was sick and ye visited Me: 1 was in prison and ye came unto Me. Then shall the righteous answer Him saying, Lord. when saw we Thee an hungered and fed Thee? or thirsty and gave Thee drink? When saw we Thee a stranger and took Thee in? or naked and clothed Thee? Or, when saw we Thee sick or in prison and came unto Thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily, I s - unto you, In asmuch as ye have done XL unto one of the least of these. My .brethren, ye have done it unto Me." As a matter of fact we never give a cup of cold water, we never say a kind word, we never lift another's burden for the glory of Christ that we do not do these things unto Him. Ili. Their visit to Lot. Genesis 19: 1-3. "And there came two angels to Sodom at even: and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them. and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; and he said, Behold, now. my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your serv ant's house and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night And he pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in unto him and entered into his'house, and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.'' Will you notice .the difference be tween the number of angels in the first pic ture and the second; three in the first, two in the second. Lot is a type of a worldly Chris tian, a man who had a good start and made a miserable failure. With such a man the Angel of the Covenant can have little fellowship, while for his soul he may have a great longing. Note the steps in Lot's downfall. He pitched his tent to ward Sodom. They moved into Sodom. Then Sodom gained possession of him then he lost his influence with his own bou.ghold, his fellow-citizens and with the aiigels of heaven. He is like the man who came into a service after he had been wan dering from Christ for thirteen years. Once he had been faithful and true, brought face to face again with Christ he renewed his vows and then started out to win his children, but returned at the close, of the day after he had been in their beau tiful homes to say that they had every one of them lapsed into infidelity, and he was powerless to move them. There may be such a wanderer here who is saying, is there any hope. In answer I give you the picture of Jacob and the angels guarding him when he swas a supplanter and a cheat. Genesis 32: 1-2. "And Jacob went on his wvay, and the angels of God met him. And wvhen Jacob saw them he said, This is God's host, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim," and of Peter concerning whom the angels said as they gave the Master's invitation for the disciples to meet Him, '"He told His disciples and Peter." These angels went into Sodom and that is the way to work, not to sit with folded hands in the pew and escpect the unsaved to come to us; they' hastened Lot, for they were dead in earnest. The church needs a baptism of enthusiasm. 'They laid hold upon the hand of Lot. Preaching is not enough; there must be Personal contact with those who are lost. The angel of strength. Matthew 4: 11. ~Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold. angeis came and ministered unto him.". There is no reason why we should fail in these coiming days granted the fact that the flesh is weak, the tempter strong. our appetite awful, but still I Corinthians the 10th chapter and the 13th verse is true. -'There hath no temptation taken vou, but such as is common to man, but God is faithful. who will not suffer you to he tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to cscape that ye may be able to bear it." In traveling through the country yester day a friend called my attention to the fact that the leaves which have been upon the scrub oak all through the winter months were now falling away. Th wind of the winter did not make ther fall nor the weight of the snow could nc make them break away from the branche! but now they were falling because the ne, life of the spring in the tree is pushin them off. This is the secret of victor over sin with the new life within, an whileC?*e may be hedged about with diff culties Satan can never put a roof ove us. There is always a vision straight u into the skies. Do not look at your fait or your feelings. but away to the promise of God, especially such a one as my tex "He shall give His angels charge over the to keep thee in all thy ways." Has F ever failed, are the planets overdue, d the seasons ever forget to come, has 1i ever failed to keep His word with any on is there any reason why He should begi with you? God is faithful and will nc forsnike as. iv. The angel of comfort. Genesis 21: 14-2: "And Abraham rose up early in the mori ing. and took bread and a bottle of wate: and gave it unto Hazar, putting it on he shoulder, and the child. and sent her awa: And she departed and wandered in th wilderness of Beersheba. And the wate was spent in the bottle. And she cast th child under one of the shrubs. And sh went and sat down over against him good way off, as it were a bow shot; fc she said. Let me not see the death of th child. And she sat over against him an lift up her voice and wept. AndGodhear the voice of the lad: and the angel of Go called to Hagar out of heaven, an4 sai unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fes not; for God hath heard the voice of th lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, an hold him in thine hand; for I will mak him a great nation. And God opened he eyes, and she saw a well of water; an she went and filled the bottle with wate and gave the lad drink. And God wa with the lad; and he grew and dwelt i the wilderness and became an archer. An he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; an his mother took him a wife out of the Ian of Egypt." This is a saiitory of Haga and her child. but there is many a mothe whose heart is just as heavy. It may b because of sickness, possibly because c trial, undoubtedly because of the sin c some one. The 19th verse is most strikinj The angels showed Hagar a well of wate1 The Bible is a well, for all who are o pressed. prayer is a well for all who ar cast down, the church is such a wel steep down and drink this morning an go away refreshed. V. The angels in the tomb. John 20: 11-1E "But Mary stood without at the sepulchr weeping; and as she wept she stoope down, and looked into the sepulchre, an seeth two angels in white sitting, the on at the head and the other at the fee where the body of Jesus had lain." One of the most ponular legends of Bril tany was that relating to an imaginar town called Is. which is supposed to hav been swallowed up by the sea at some ur known time. There are several place along the coast which are pointed out a the site of this imaginary city, and th fishermen have many strange tales to te of it. According to them the tops of th spires of the churches may be seen in th hollow of the waves' when the sea i rough. while during a calm the music c tl'pir bells ring out the hymn appropriat to the day. There are many hearts to-day submerge by grief and despair and trouble up fror which there is rising a great cry. To mee this longing the angels visit us. A Highland regiment in India a nuit ber of years ago was for some ur known reason found to be actuall dying rapidly. Their food was the bes and the water was perfect, but one day, Scotch piper began to play a Scotch ai and instantly the whole command was er livened. They were simply homesickI old Scotland, and the most of us are. sick for those days when we were fre from trial, and best of all the better day when we shall see Christ as He is, but alas between us and that fair city lies : grave, and we shudder and draw bacd but I bring a word of cheer this mornin in the fact that if the Lord should tarr and we should go in the tomb all th wile we rest there ausgels will guard um for in every tomb from Christ's down t the present time if a child of God res there the angels of heaven keep guard. Our Cares. "Casting all your cares upon Him. What a vast amount of encouragement w have in that little word "all." Not onl the great trials and heart-breaking sorrow that come to us but seldom, but the littl worries, the petty ve:xations and anxietie that come to u~s daily as wie go about ou duties. For, after all, you and I know tha it is the little worries that cause us th most trouble. We find them on ever hand. They come upon us in every ddpart ment of service. How glad, then, w should be to remember that we arde encoms aged by the Master to cast them all-no some of them-but all upon Him. Here then, is the great time-tried remedy io the world's worry. We hear much thes days about "don't worry clubs," but her is something far better, even a gracious ir vitation from our Lord to bring every thing 'that vexes us to Him. But havin cast our cares upon Him we should leav them there. This is as important as tha asting. Many good Christian pEople g through life burdened with cares that the: have tried to cast upon Him, but havin failed to leave them there are still struj gling under the load. He has promised t bear our burdens. How much better thal to take Him at His word, and when life' trials, no matter how small, assail us, tak them to Him in every truth, and havin done so, leave them there. It is only whei we get into the habit of daily, hourly intes course with Him that we discover the tru meaning of such promises as these. Thus only are we able to live rejioicingly no mai ter what our condition in life may be. Presbyterian Journal. Salvation. Sa'vation, as a growth, is no cheap ani fleeting result. It has dignity and endus ance, and they who make it theirs, to an: good degree, are the men and women various and sterling growth, upon whor the temple of civilization rests, with all it riches of use and beauty, as on strong co umns. Salvation, as the putting forth our complex life into higher and bette growths, is a gradual achievement, an cannot be consummated even in this spher of our existence. For whose nature, es riched as it may be, has culminated in a: the perfections of life? The great yearc eternity is still a year of growth. Ever th way opens and the ardor rises. We ma find indifference low down. but never ia up: for ever wisdom and virtue and lov and piety know their own value, and fin in theniselves the sufficient motive of pr< gress.-Universalist Leader. Man's Faith. What we inherit, strictly speaking, ma bc said to fix our trial, but not our fat< Every man is to be put to the proof som: how, and to a i-ertain extent his nat'ar: ancestry determines the mode of it: it de pends on them, so to speak, whether hi temptation is to be anger, iemperanct greed, duplicity or .whatever else. But does not depend upon them what the issu of this trial is to be. It depends on t man himself, arnd above all his faithi God.-Professor Janies Dennev. Quakers on Intemperance. The Westersn yearly meeting of Friendsi session at Plainfield. Ind., adopted a amendment to the church disciplinei which it recommends to the subordinat meetings that they do not appoint to an official position in the church any mnembe who is a member of any secret organmzs tion, or who habitually uses or sells t< e AM g9 x~ Aflr~L Or, V rVlUZZV e Social Advantages. e 0 Good roads indicate the civilization e of a people. Gillespie: The roads of a country are accurate -ind contain tests of the degree of its civilization. Their con struction is one of the indications of the eierrgence of the people from a savage state, and their improveme-nt keeps r pace wit' the advances of the nation, " In numbers, wealth, industry, and sci ence, all of which is at once an element e and an evidence. e Macaulay, History of England, Vol. I: It was by the highways that both e travelers and goods generally passed d from place to place, and those high ways appear to have been far worse d than might have been expected from r the degree of wealth and civilization which the nation had then attained. e Report of New Jersey Public Roads r Commissioner: The building of good i roads is the next step forward in r human development. a Ella F. Mosby: A population remains sparse and scattered where there are no roads, and 'there, too, are found r those pathetic households of the old r and the helpless. The young men, aye, and often young women, are gone to f the towns, gone West, gone anywhere where there is a chance for them. If they had raised good crops, fine fruits, how transport them to market? If I. they had good horses, the hard wear and tear of the roads used them up. If they were ingenious or thrifty, there were no neighbors to give a word or e two of wholesome praise, to keep up a friendly competition, to trade and barter ideas with; there was wornout t thinking in old grooves as well as wornout harness. And in the short winter days and long winter nightsthe e house was drearily isolated from other houses by long stretches of muddy and s rough ways, and the sight at a human face at the door was startling. It has I been said that the Salem madness of e witch murder was greatly due to the slow and infrequent communication be f tween the towns of old days. There e was time for unhealthy brooding. Permit Easier Intercourse. t Good roads better the social condition of rural populations by permitting easier intercourse one with another. St. Paul Pioneer Press: The worst t difficulty about rural life is not the dis 'tance that separates one habitation .from another-it Is the fact that this r distance to be traversed is a barrier during certain seasons of the year al Smost as impossible as a mountain ,range or a swollen torrent. Farmers, e as a rule, are well supplied with vehi cles and horses. They are not wedded V to a life of solitude, but love cheer e and sociability even better than other folks. tDr. Schaeffer. ex-President Iowa State University: Good roads would enliven social life in the country and arrest the regrettable tendency of e many people to push to the city. Make i the life bright on the farm, and you S will send fewer farmers and farmers' , wives to the insane asylum. r Report of Commissioner of Public t Roads, New Jersey: Road Improve Sment by which people can enjoy rapid and smooth communication, promises e t,, be the problem that will settle many of the evils of our congested cities. , Professor N. S. Shaler. Harvard Uni r versity: On the character of these a ways ultimately depends the ease with . 'which, a people secure neighborly com - bunication, as well as advantageous C k'elations to the outer world. It Is doubtful whether :.sound democracy, e lepending as It does on close and con Sstant interacti* of the local life, can well be maint ed in a country where , the roadways put a heavy tax on 1 human intercourse. The Kovsent in Nlcaraguxa. 2 The President of Nicaragua has created a fund for the construction arid repairing of public roads, which is to be raised by a direct personal tax on - all male citizens over eighteen years of age, and on foreigners living in the country, with the exception of those in I military service, students and decrepit old men of over sIxty years of age, as Salso subjects of charity. For the pur a pose of this tax, the men are divided s into five classes, viz., day laborers, who shall not pay in money, but shall give r two days' labor each year; clerks and Iartisans working in establishments not e belonging to themselves, one peso (40.3 cents); those working in their own 's i tablishments, two pesos (S0.6 cents) an e nually; traveling agents and persons Sowning city property, five pesos ($2.015) ealy;planters and farmers own :igtheir own lands, ten pesos ($4.03) arnually. Great satisfaction is felt on account of the improvements to be made in the roads and public high V ways, which heretofore, without any especial fund, were always in a bad .ccndition. S Indisputable. ,On the banks of a rivulet near Stra t bane is a stone with this singular in scription, which was no doubt intended a for the information of strangers travel ing by the road: "Take notice, that when this stone is out of sight it Is n not safe to ford the river." This re a calls the famous finger post which is said to have fieen erected by order of y a surveyor of roads in Kent: "This is r a bridle-path to Faversham. If you can't read this, you had better keep the main road."-London Graphic. Corporation Philosophy. In the offce of a large corporation down town the following bit of philos ophy is displayed conspicuously in bold lettering: "No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character is required to set up in the grumbling business, but those who are moved by a genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring Dr complaint." Life is concrete opportunity. So. 42. 'My Lungs " An attack of la grippe left me with a bad cough. My friends said I had consumption. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it cured me promptly." A. K. Randles, Nokomis, Ill. You forgot to buy a bot tle of Ayer's Cherry Pec-. toral when your cold first came on, so you let it run along. Even now, with all your hard coughing, it will not disappoint you. 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Pittsburg, Pa.-While labor'ng under mental aberration, the result of the strain of perfecting an appliance for patents on an air brake, which are pending in Washington, Charles Caw ley, a seventeen-year-old boy of Home stead, killed his mother and one sister while they slept and injured four other children, who. however. are expected to recover. He also tried to kill his two older brothers, but was detected, overpowered and turned over. to the police. The weapon used was an axe. The dead are: Mrs. Hanna Cawley. aged about forty years; Belle Cawley, aged twelve, who slept with hermother. The Cawley family live in a neat six room house. At night all the members retired about 10 o'clock.' Mrs. Cawley and Belle occupied one bed, while the others, Joseph, Adeline, Raymond and Agnes, occupied other beds and cribs in the same room. Charles, the mur derer; his brothers, James, aged twen ty, and Harry. aged fourteen, occupied a room adjoining their mother's. Some time about 3 o'clock in the morning Charles quietly arose, and, dressing himself, but not putting on his shoes, crept down to the cellar and se cured an' axe. Coming up stairs he went into his mother's room. where the victims were sleeping, and attacked each !n turn. Believing that he bad dispatched them all he started for his brother's room. but James, the eldest, had been awakened, and as Charles enterd he seized a heavy rocking chair and after a fierce struggle overpowered him. On the way to the station the murderer fought ferociously. After he was lodged in jail the mur derr failed to recognize his brother James, and when questioned about the tragedy talked incoherently. Later In the day the murderer denied emphati cally that he committed the deed. He told a fairly connected story. He said he was awakened at an early hour by sounds on the first floi.r and went down stairs to Investigate. Returning up stairs he found his sister lying across the bed covered with blood, and fled to give the alarm. For two years he has been working on a device for a combined air and power brake. It is said to be a won derful invention, and men who have seen it marvel at the mechanical abil ity of the inventor, in view of his years. He was of a kindly disposition, and was said to have been very fond of his mother and brothers and sisters. KILLED IN A STREET DUEL. ritched Battle ID an Arkansas Town Leads to Call For Militia, Eldorado, Ark.-This village was the scene of a desperate battle between parties to a feud. When the fight was ended four men were dead and half a dozen others wounded. As the result of a quarrel begun some weeks ago over Robert Mullins's refusal to permit his young woman assistant to receive her fiance at Mul lins's photograph gallery, Mullins was killed by Constable H. L. Deering. The killing caused much excitement and two factions sprang up, one side Justifying the killing, the other con demnIng it. The controversy grew into a bitter feud and there were threats of killing on both sides. The two factions met in the streets. Both sides were armed to the teeth, and indiscriminate shooting immedi ately began. The battle lasted but a few minutes, but was most desperate. Each man fired till he was killed or his asmmunition gone.. When the smoke of battle cleared Tom and Walter Parnell, brothers: Constable Deering and City Marshal Guy Tucker were dead. Mat Parnell and City Physician Hilton were dan gerously wounded. In compliance with the request from the Sheriff of Union County. Governor Davis ordered the company of the State Guard at Eldorado on duty to suppress trouble and preserve the peace. GETS FIVE YEARS FOR BIGAMY. A Missouri Mayor Had Married Under an Assumed Name. Emporla, Kan.-James Pendleton.{ Mayor of Gentry. Mo.. convicted of bigamy. was sentenced to five years in the peniter tiary. Pendleton, under the assumed name of Coda S. Morris, married Miss Grace Obler, of Emporia, a few months ago, and later, under the name of John Cox, buried a coffin containing ice at Orlando, Oklahoma. and circulated the report thai: Coda S. Morris had been killed in a runaway. Pendleton has a family at Gentry. Killed Sweetheart and Himself. Miss Alice Fisher, a young woman employed in the Government Printing Office at Washington. was shot and In stantly killed by William Dougherty. an emuploye of the same office. Dough erty then shot and killed himself. Jeal ousy was the motive. Town of Perth Honors Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie, in receiving the freedom of Perth. Scotland, dilated on the horrors of "civilized war.'' and praiscd the work of the Czar in creat ing the permainent Hague Arbitration Tribunal. Rhode Island Favors Roosevelt. Rhode Island Repubiucans have nom inatedl Charles D. Kimball for a sec ond term as Governor. They declared for President Roosevelt's nomination in 1904. school Teracher Itan Amuck. A school teacher named Towes ran amuck at Altoona Village, Manitoba. :mi shot six persons. H. 1. Ebert and J. Rtempel, school trustees, and two of Rtempel's daughters will die. Towes committed suicide after the crime. WVorried Over Cuba's Attitude. The situation in Cuba causes much con-ern to ofieials in Washingion, the State Department having thus far failed to secure the adhesion of the Cuban Government to the treaty re ,uired b the +hatt+ aenrdment.