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SERMONS BY EMINENT
Rev. George BH. Hepworth Preaches in the
New York Herald's Columns on “An
Ennobling Faith”’—Rev. Dr. Talmage
Tells About “The Bare Arm of God.”
With the return of Rev. George H. Hep-
worth to New York from his Armenian mis-
don the Herald closed its series of competi-
dvesermons, fifteen altogether having ap-
eared in its columns on consecutive Sun-
ays. Dr. Hepworth resumes his regular
Sunday sermon as the leading editorial in
the Herald’s columns. The first one is en-
titled “An Ennobling Faith,”” and appears
below in full.
Texr: ‘Now faith is’ the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen,”’—Hebrews, xi, 1.
On a bitterly cold day I was recently rid-
ing with a comrade through one of the
most exquisite bits of. scenery on the ;face
of the earth. We were toiling up ‘the last
spur of a mountain so high that the clouds
would have rested on its summit had there
been any in the sky. But the heavens were
cloudless, the sun shone in dazzling splen-
dor on the snow covered ridges which sur-
rounded us on all sides, and we seemed to
have left our little globe behind us and to
be on our way to another world. .
Naturally we talked of that Great Be-
yond, which was apparently not far distant.
Conversation under such circumstances
must needs be serious. One cannot be tri-
vial when he is looking on the grandest of
God’s great works. It was a time when
souls were in close relations] to each other;
when inmost thoughts came to thelips and
uttered themselves almost?unconsciously,
as in soliloquy.
My comrade spoke freely of a loss he had
suffered. A little child had been called
from the family circle, thad sped away in
the night and gone where no human eyes
could follow her. With a broken heart, but
still in somewhat stoical language, he re-
ferred to that vacant chair. ‘‘Gone! gone!”
was his despairing exclamation. I listened
to the story,’and at its ciose quietly re-
marked: ‘‘Yes, gone, but not gone far! In
the brighter land you will see her again.”
Then we lapsed into silence, a silence only
broken by the sound of the horses’ iron:
shoes on the sriep and frozen snow.}
“If I could helleve that,” he said after a
little, ‘““nine-tenths of the burden would be
removed. But to feel that such farewells
are forever, that .is very hard,” and the
strong man trembled with suppressed emo-
tion, while tears made it impossible to con-
tinue the compensation,
I thought to myself that after all this
world is of very little importance unless we
have another world to look forward to.
What makes the present'life endurable is a
firm and unshaken belief in another life.
If love can die, then love {3s only prolonged
agony; but the conviction that love can
never die strengthens, broadens and en-
nobles the soul.
It would be an act of unspeakable cruelty
on the part of God to teach us howto love,
to place us amid circumstances in which
love develops all that is chivalrous and
grand, and then tell us in the supreme mo-
ment of parting to say goodby for time and
eternity. The Lord’s Prayer would become
an impossibility, nay, more than that, a
rim sort of farce, and in his innermost
ths a man would not only rebel, but
lose his self-respect and his respect for the
laws of the universe. It is clear that it
would have been so much better to make
him incapable of affection than to annihi-
late the object of his affection, and bid him
go home from the churchyard a despairing,
hopeless creature.
Faith can do so much for a man, is so
necessary to his spiritual and even to his
physical well being, that if you take it away
e isin a worse plight than the animals of
the flelds and forests, for he appreciates his
loss and they do not. To beborn a dog and
to die a dog is one thing, hut.to be born a
man and then die like a dog is something
which a just and omnipotent Creator will
not ask of us. It is so unlike what we
have learned of His methods that we are
quite right in pronouncing such a state-
ment libellous. .
Your faith in Providence is the best of all
your possessions. It is worth more to you
than your fame, your social position or
your wealth—worth more than all else
combined. Give me in my relations with
God that mysterious something which the
child has for its mother—a feeling that He
knows who and what I am, that at my call
He will come to me—that every day He
leads me and every night protects me—and
there is very little more than I can ask or
desire. I havethe one best thing in the
world, and therefore am content.
The plant that has sunshine and dew
will blossom before the frost comes, and
- with God, the sun of my soul, to shine on
me, I shall not only blossom into noble
thoughts, but bear the fruit of good deeds.
man becomes a miracle worker from the
_ moment when he is conscious of God’s
presence and love. Life may be hard, but
at the same time it is glorious. Even sick-
ness and death are the only miry spots
which lead to the eternal - upland. There
is a repose in the soul, a vigor, an enthu-
siasm and a power of endurance which
nothing élse in this wide world can give.
Tell me how to doubt—that is, how to
eutloose from my trust in Providence—and
you tell me how to be miserable. On the
other hand, confirm my belief in God, in
the ministration of His angels, in the pos-
sibility of a continuous, and: unbroken
communication with beaven, and you make
my life more beautiful than words can ex-
press. As long as I dread the future, my
present is leaden; if I am sure of the fu-
ture, and know that my dear ones will
greet me there with undimiuished love, my
tears are like the rain cloud on which the
sun shines and makes a rainbow.
Take from me what you will, but leave
me my faith, for it is my only real posses-
sion. All else will pass like a dream —a
pleasant dream, but still a dream. To-day
am rich, to-morrow I may be poor.” I am
well to-day, to-morrow I may be ill. But
faith remains with me, is closer to my
heart than tke closest friendship, and gives
me good cheer when I walk in darkness.
It is all I have, all I can keep throughout
eternity, the one thing of which death can-
not rob me, the prophecy of a better home
on high when this earthly home is broken
ap. It is God who has given that gift, and
it must be jealously guarded. In their last
analysis faith is heaven and doubt is heil.
GEeoraceE H. HEPWORTH,
“THE BARE ARM OF COD.”
Rev. Dr, Talmage Tells What It Will Ac-
> complish.
Texr: ‘The Lord hath made bare His
holy arm.” —Isaiah iif., 10.
“It almost takes our breath away to read
of the Bible imagery. There is such bold-
ness of metaphor in my text that one must
rally his courage to preach from fit. Isaiah,
the evangelistic prophet, is nding the
jubilate of our planet rede: a cries
out: ‘The Lord hath made®bare His holy
arm.’ What overwhelming suggestiveness
In that figure of speech@he hare arm of
God!’ The people of Pai#stine to this day
wear much hindering #bparel, and when
they want to run a spg@¥ial race, or lift a
special burden, or fight" a special battle,
they put off the otitaalfe apparel, as in our
{and when a man piPposes a speclal exer-
B coat and rolls up his
ough our foundries, our
bur mines, our factories,
id that most of the tollers
oats off and their sleeves
slat saw that there mugt be a tremen-
dous amount of work dope ‘before this
world mes what it oughf to be, and he
foresees it all accomplishdd. and accom-
plished by the Almighty; nbt as we ordi-
‘narily think of Him, but byjtbe Almighty
with the sleeve of His robe Folled back to
His shoulder. Sle .
DIVINES.|
“Nothing more impresses me in thé
Bible than the ease h which God does
most thi There is such a reserve of
wer. He has more thunderbolts than He
has ever flung; more light than He has ever
"distributed; more blue than that with
which he has ovararched the sky; more
green than that with which He has emer-
ulded the grass; more crimson than that
with which He has burnished the sunsets,
Isay it with reverence—from all that I can
see, God has never half tried. :
“My text makes it plain that the rectifle
cation of this world is a stupendous under-
taking. It takes more power to make this
world over again than it took to make it at
first. A word was only necessary for the
first creation, but for the new creation the
unsleeved and unhindered forearm of the
Alsiging, The reason of that I can under-
stand. In the shipyards of Liverpool, or
Glasgow, or New York, a great vessel'is
constructed. The architect draws out the
plan, the length of the beam, the capacity
of tonnage, the rotation of wheel or screw,
the cabin, the masts and all the appoint-
ments of this great palace of the deep. The
architect finishes his work without any
perplexity, and the carpenters and artisans
toil on the craft so many hours a day, each
one do his part, until, with flags flying
and thousands of people cheering on the
docks, the vessel is launched. But out on
the sea that vessel breaks her shaft and is
limping slowly along toward harbor, when
Caribbean whirlwinds, thnss mighty hunt-
ers of the deep, looking out for prey of
ships, surround that wounded vessel and
pitch it on a rocky coast, and she lifts and
falls in the breakers untll every joint is
loose and every spar is down, and every
wave sweeps over the hurricane deck as
she parts amidship. Would it not require
morse skill and power to get that splintered
vessels off the rocks and reconstruct it than
it required originally to build her? Aye!
“Our world, which started out with all
the flags of Edenic foliage and with the
chant of Paradisaical bowers has been six-
ty centuries pounding in the skerries of sin
and sorrow, and to get her out and off, and
to get her on the right way again, will re-
quire more of omnipotence than it required
to build her and launch her. 80 I am not
surprised that, though in the drydock of
one word our world was made, ic will take
the unsleeved arm of God to lift her from
the rocks and put her on the right course
again, Itisevident from my text, andits
comparison with other texts, that it would
not‘be so great an undertaking to make a
whole constellation of worlds, and a whole
galaxy of worlds, and a whole astronomy
of worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits, as to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
destroyed world, and make it as good as
when it started. .
“But I have no time to Sbeciiy the mani-
fold evils that challenge Christianity. And
I think I have seen in some ‘Christians, and
read in some newspapers, and heard from
some pulpits, a disheartenment, as though
Christianity were so worsted that it is
hardly worth while to attempt to win this
world of God, and that all Christian work
would collapse, and that it isno use foryou
to teach a Sabbath class, to distribute tracts,
or exhort in prayer meeting, or preach in
a pulpit, as Satan is gaining ground.
To rebuke that pessimism, the Gaspel of
Smash-up, I preach this sermon, showing
that you are on the winning side. Go
ahead! Fight on! What I want to make
out to-day is that our ammunition is not
exhausted; that all which has been ac-
complished has been only the skirmishing
before the great Armageddon; that not
more than one of the thousand fountains
of beauty in the King’s Park has begun to
play; that not more than one brigade of
the.innumerable hosts to be marshaled by
the Rider on the White Horse has yet taken
the fleld; that what God has done yet has
been with arm folded in flowing robe but
that the time is coming when he will rise
from his throne, and throw off that robe,
and come out of the palaces of eternity,
and come down the stairs of heaven with
all-conquering step, and halt in the pres-
cues of expectant nations, and flashing
his omniscient eyes across the work to be
done will put back the sleeve of his right
arm to the shoulder, and roll it up there,
and for the world’s final and complete
rescue make bare his his arm. Who can
doubt the result when according to my
text Jehovah does his best; when the last
reserve force of Omnipotence takes the
fleld; when the last sword of Eternal Might
leaps from its scabbard! Br |
“Do you know what decided the battle
of Sedan? The hills a thousand feet high.
Eleven hundred cannon on the hills. Ar-
tillery on the heights of Givonne, and
twelve German batteries on the heights of
La Moncello. The Crown Prince of Sax-
ony watched the scene from the heights
of Mairy. Between a quarter to 6 o’clock
in the morning and 1 o’clock in the after-
noon of September 2, 1870, the hills
dropped the. shells that shattered the
French host in the wvalley. The French
Emperor and the 86,000 of his army cap-
tured by the hills. At the close of that
battle of Sedan the Emperor sat broken-
hearted in a poor woman’s cottage, and
when she said in sympathy, ‘What ean I
do for you?’ he : ;
pull down those blinds so that they can-
not stare at me!’ Sedan decided by the
hills. Soin this conflict now raging be-
tween holtness and sin ‘our eyes are unto
the hills,” Down here in the valleys of
earth we must be valiant soldiers of the
cross, but the Commander of our host
walks the heights, and views the scene
far better than we can in the valleys,
and at the right day and the right hour
all heaven will open its batteries on our
side, and the commander of the hosts of
sin, with all his followers, will surren-
der, and it will take eternity to fully
celebrate the universal victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘Our eyes ars unto
the hills.’ It is so certain to be accom-
plished that Isaiah, in my text, looks down
through the fleld-glass of prophecy and
speuks of it as already Os , and
I take my stand where the prophet took
his stand, and look at it as all done. See!
Those cities without a tear? Look! Those
continents without a pang! Behold! Those
hemispheres without a sin! Why, those
deserts—Arabian desert, American desert,
and Great Sahara desert—are all {rrigated
into gardens where God walks in the cool
of the day. The atmosphere that encircles
our globe floating not one groan. All the
rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled with
not oue falling tear. The climates of the
earth have dropped out of them the rigors
of the cold and the blasts of the heat, and
it is universal spring. Let us change the
old world’s name. Let it no morebe called
the earth, as when it was reeking with
everything pestiferous and malevolent,
scarleted with battle-flelds and gashed
with graves, but now so changed, so aro-
matic with gardens, and so resonant with
call’ it Immanuel’s Land, or let us cali it
Beulah, or Millennial Gardens, or Paradise
Regained, or Heaven! Hallelujah, for the
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! Hallelu-
jah, for the kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of Christ!”
SUFFERING IN ALASKA,
The Klondike Adventurers Are Meeting
With Fearful Experiences.
All reports from Alaska indicate that the
prospectors whe have gone up early are
having a fearful experience with cold and.
many of the outfits at Lake Bennett, and
several well-equipped parties have been
unable to get over the Chilkoot Pass be-
cause of the blizzards which have raged for
days. Freight is blockaded, add many
adventurous prospectors who tried to get
over the mountains wers badly frogaen.
‘The worst reports come from the Copper
River couatry, for which several expedi-
tions have sailed. One party from Los
Angeles prospected the river for sixty
miles, and found nothing for their labors.
The snow was fifteen feet deep, and not
even skin clothes could protect them from
the bitter wind that swept over the glaciers,
song, and so rubescent with beauty, let us |:
snow and ice. Avalanches have destroyed pasylum mentally deranged
the delusion that
Nine of the party were badly frost-bitten,
TELEGRAMS TERSELY TOLD.
Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria
g very ill.
Gen. Rosecrans-18 reported dying at
Los Angeles, Cal.
The great iron Pando bridge in Cuba
1a8 been destroyed by insurgents.
Luetgert, the Chicago wife-murderer,
vill make sausages for use in the pris-
mn.
Mutilated bills are held by the New
fersey court of errors not to be legal
ender.
The Carnegie steel workers at Home-
itead, Pa., are drilling ‘daily, preparing
‘or war with Spain. f
Ex-Minister De Lome will now pub-:
ish a book, dealing with his retirement
\s Spain’s representative.
Fifty Apache Indians,
paint are marching toward Cuba
ight against ‘the Spaniards.
Because a headache annoyed 18-year-
ld Clinton T. Jones, he committed sui-
‘ide at Chicago a few days ago.
Quarrelling over a quarter’s worth of
Irinks Mike Coggins killed James Mc-
Vahon in Chicago the other day.
Thirteen Cincinnati breweries have
rassed into the hands of a trust. The
lew company has a capital of $10,000,-
00.
Judge John Newton Hendern, the
ast treasurer of the Confederacy, died
it Staunton, Va., last week aged 75
years.
Ex-Mayor Washburne has been in-
licted at Chicago of certifying to can-
iidates for the police force who were
ineligible.
A terrific hurricane has devastated
Vew Caledonia, doing great damage to
thipping. The French gunboat Loyal-
'y was sunk. :
A camera attached to a kite for the
>urpose of locating distant warships
it sea is a suggestion meeting the ap-
sroval of naval experts.
in full war
to
The press censor of Constantinople:
suppressed the news of the attempt
nade on Saturday last to assassinate
he King of Greece. *
After obtaining $21,500 worth of
iewels from his sweetheart at Chicago,
Budford C. Baxter, started for the
Klondike. The police are after him.
In a combat with Cubans recently
the Spaniards lost 1,000 men. The suc-
ress of the battle is due to an expedition
which sailed from Long Island a few
iveeks ago. i;
After writing a note, in which C. E.
Rathfon, of Ypsilanti, Mich., explained
that he had disgraced his family, he
took poison the other day and died in
1 Pittsburg hotel.
The yellow fever germ has been dis-
covered by Prof. Krebs, of Chicago.
The professor is the discoverer of the
diphtheria microbe which led to the in-
troduction of anti-toxine.
James Carrigan is suing John D.
Rockefeller for $1,000,000 worth of Stan-
dard stock, in a Cleveland, O., court.
He claims that the millionaire defraud-
ed him out of this amount.
Two persons were killed in a Pitts-
burg fire Sunday. Mrs. Dominic En-
riello and Ethel Verlinski were burned
to death. Six others were injured. The
fire occurred in a tentment. 4
The supreme court of Wisconsin has
rendered a decision which will force
nsurance companies operating in this
state to pay back taxes amounting to
$104,000, or forfeit their charters.
A reward of $1,500 for each of the
murdérers of Postmaster Baker at
Lake City, S. C., has been offered by,
Postmaster General Gary. Blake was
colored, and killed on the night of Feb+
ruary 21. \
A concert was given at the Hotej
Waldorf, New York, one night last
~eek for the benefit of the survivors of
the Maine explosion. Chauncey Depew
made an eloquent speech. $2,500 wa
zontributed. ;
trikers tn the number of 3,300 have
returned to work at the Pepperell and
Laconia cotton mils in Biddeford, Me.
They accepted the company’s terms,
that the mills would not be the last td
restore the old rate of wages. -
Will Overton, assisting Arsenal Keep-
ar Dixon in firing 100 guns in celebra-
:ion of the Irish anniversary at Frank-
‘ort, Ky., the other day, was blown al,
nost to pieces and Armorer Dixon was
sadly hurt by a premature explosion.
The reindeer expedition which the
government is sending to the relief of
the Alaskan miners is now speeding
across the country. It consists of 537
reindeer, 113 Laplanders, Finlande
and Norwegians and several carload
>f sleds and harness.
Tuesday morning Charles M. Lowe
t . _had been
separated some time, walking with
inother man at New Orleans. He gave
the man a severe beating, then killed
ais wife and then himself while stand-
ing over the dead body.
Commenting on the rumor that a Jap-
anese loan of 150,000,000 yen will be
raised in the United States through ex-
Minister Dun, the London Globe says it
may be regarded as certain that when
the loan is definitely decided upon it
will be ffoated in Burope. %
Sergeant Fisher, chief of the West
Point Academy police, committed sui-
ide a few days ago by turning on the
gas. In a dispute with a private as to
Spain’s responsibility for the Maine ex-
plosion, he lost his temper and drew a
revolver. He was interfered with and
reduced to the ranks.
On the logging road of the Peters
L.umbegr company, six miles from Brew-
ton, Ala., the other day the boiler of a
iummy engine which was pushing a
train of logs, exploded, killing six men.
The dead are: William Kelso, fireman;
Andrew J. Wright, Arthur Atkins,
Peter Thomas, David Alston, G. W.
Tompkins, laborer.
Tour men were found dead in a re-
frigerator car at Fort Worth, Tex., a
few days ago. Death resulted by gas
from a fire built with coal. Six men,
supposed to be tramps, entered the car
>losing the door behind them. Two of
the men escaped in a dying condition,
but were resuscitated. They are Char-
ies Ryan and Jim Taylor. W. Reming-
ton is the name of one of the dead men.
The other three are unknown.
The powerful wrecking tug Under-
writer, of Boston, foundered off Cape
Hatteras in the storm which raged last
week. The Underwriter belonged to
the Merritt & Chapman Wrecking Com-
pany, of Boston, and was bound for
Havana, there to join the tug Right
Arm and derrick Monarch in working
at the Maine's ruins. She was 600-horse
power and carried additional divers and
men to the wreck and had orders to
lose no time.
John Canon, a farmer of New Lisbon,
Pa., has been placed in the Newburg
over the
present war talk. He is laboring under
he commands an
army. In the jail he tore the beds apart
and it required the combined efforts of
six men to put him in restraint. He
fran®ically waves his hands over his,
"head and*+cries) to*imaginary men to
follow him to Havana.
A hurricane which swept over the
port of Batabano, on the south coast
of Cuba, opposite Havana, has done
great damage. It destroyed a hut in
which vere quartered a number of sol-
diers belonging to the Castilian battal-
ion, killing two of the men and wound-
ing twenty-five others.
TT Two tons of
IN RFECTONTE WIFE MURDERED
TRAGEDY IN JAIL.
About to Take Leave From Her Husband
When he Cuts Her Throat.
A poor woman visited her husband at
Sing Sing prison last Saturday. She
had left her three children at home,
hoping to return to them after seeing
the man whom she loved, yet who had
assaulted her. Her husband, Braun, is
a German, 35 years old and a cigar
maker. He was sentenced on August
31 of last year to serve a two years’
sentence for assault in the second de-
gree and was received at Sing Sing on
September 1.. He was convicted of hav-
Ing beaten his wife, but notwithstand-
ing this Mrs. Braun forgave her hus-
band and expressed sorrow because of
his imprisonment. She has been living
In New York City with three of her
*hildren, her two other children having
been placed in an asylum.
Mrs. Braun decided to visit her hus-
band. She went to State Detective
Jackson’s office and inquired for her
husband. He had been serving in the
mess room, acting as a potato peeler.
When the two met they kissed each
ther and were very friendly. They sat
for half an hour conversing only a few
feet away from the desk of Detective
Tackson, who was present. Finally De-
tective Jackson informed Braun that
his time was up, but Braun pleaded for
a little time longer, saying: “Can’t we
have a few minutes more?”
Becduse of the trouble Mrs. Braun
had taken to pay her husband a visit,
he plea was granted. Suddenly Braun
raised his arm, and the detective saw
ihe glitter of a long, thin kinfe. Braun
brought it down with fearful force
against the left side of his wife’s neck
One cut severed the great blood ves-
sels and almost instantly the woman
vas dead.
Detective Jackson sprang upon
Braun, but the convict had time to
rash the woman’s head several times
more. Two other convicts who were
in the corridor came to the detective’s
assistance and the murderer was sub-
jued. Warden Sage had him removed
but not, however, before another knife
similar to the one he had stabbed his
wife with, was found concealed in his
oocket.
Warden Sage questioned Braun as to
why he killed his wife, but the man
refused to say anything . Later he
Yeomoen to be sorry for what he had
one.
GREAT BRITAIN FRIENDLY.
Her Attitude Towards Spain Noted With
Pleasure by Americans.
Americans in London express them-
selves as being much gratified at the
friendly attitude which the British
Government has evinced toward the
United States. By advice of the Brit-
(sh Government shipbuilders and deal-
ers in munitions of war insist, practi-
cally, upon cash payments in the case
of all orders booked by Spain. It
seems that the Spanish Embassy, when
bargaining with the shipbuilding and
other firms, indirectly suggested that
Great Britain sympathized with Spain.
This coming to the ears of the British
Government, the latter lost no time in
osutting the firms which are in the habit
of doing Government work on their
guard.
Another rumor which has decidedly
pleased Americans was that the Gov-
arnment has succeeded in obtaining
romplete plans of the principal Spanish
harbors and their defenses.
In short, both Americans and Eng-
ishmen have about concluded that the
present calm has been brought about
by President McKinley in order to al-
low the completion of preparations for
defense and for possible initiative ac-
tion, and few people will be sorry when
a decision is reached and the long-
standing tension is ended,
Sherman’s Opinion.
As far as the United States Govern-
ment is concerned, says Secretary
Sherman, it has no just cause to de-
clare war against Spain, nor will it
have until it is plainly shown that
Spain has committed some overt act.
When a great nation goes to war the
provocation must be great enough tc
bear the searchlight of civilized na-
tions.
THE MAINE DISASTER.
Th Spanish war ship Vizaya has ar-
rived at Havana.
—dynamite were ship
trom Cincinnati to Pensacola, Fla., last
week.
Another Spanish battleship, the Al-
mirante Oquendo, has arrived at
Havana.
Eight old monitors are being over-
hauled at the League Island Navy yard
near Philadelphia.
The survivors of the Maine have ask-
ad an extra month’s pay, to cover loss
of personal effects.
Three bodies were recovered from
the Maine Saturday. One was identi-
fied as Robert White.
A consignment of Gatling guns were
shipped to ensocola, Fla., from
Brooklyn the other day.
Experts, examining the Maine, have
been requested to give no more theories
to the press re resentatives.
A man who said he sold to Spain the
mines which blew up the Maine is now
in communication with government of-
ficials.
The Winchester Rifle company have
stopped work on sporting guns and are
running 24 hours a day on navy rifles
and cartridges.
Most inhuman have been the utter-
ances of The Diario de la Marina, the
oldest Havana newspaper, in regard tc
the dead sailors of the Maine.
Two American warships, the Mont-
gomery and Nashville, will soon sall
for smaller Cuban ports, for the pur-
pose, it is said, of carrying supplies to
the starving people.
The Spaniards in Havana, having
feared fearful American retribution.
feel more at ease now with the Vizcaya
in port. Capt. Eulate was received on
shore by 100,000 enthusiastic supporters
of Spain.
Senator Proctor, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
Capt. Sigsbee and many other promi-
nent Americans attended the ceremony
of decorating the graves of the Maine's
dead at Havana last week.
A special dispatch from Shangha
says:
“The United States squadron is con-
centrated at Hong Kong, with a view
of active operations against Manila
Philippine islands, in the event of an
outbreak of war between the. United
States and Spain. The sq iron, which
is powerful, includes the cruisers Olym:-
pia, Boston, Raleigh, Concord and Pet-
rel.” + ot >
Pneumatic tubes in the Chicago post:
office are not a success.
You don’t require a big income to
“get along” in Japan. A man can live
there like a gentleman on $300 a year.
This sum will pay the rent of a house,
the wages of two servants, and supply
plenty of food. - NL '
‘(he Business Situation Congidered to be im
Good
Neither could conquer the other; and
. February 19.
“Bose
TRADE REVIEW.
Condition.
R. G: Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review o
(rade reports as follows for last week
Stories of the most reckless sort, dis
roved promptly, and many of them be-
‘ore they are told, affected speculation
n stocks much last week and at times
{his week, but they have not disturbed
‘he industries and the trade of the
‘iountry at all. There is confidence that
he authorities are doing what is proper
0 provide for public defense, and busi-
tess is moving on with the assurance
that it will not be seriously disturbed.
Failures in February have been small-
'r than any other month, except three
if the previous fifty-two months, with
lemarkable decrease in the failures for
{100,000 and over, though in number
ind amount the smaller failures show
ess change than might have been ex-
rected, indicating that in good times or
vad a large proportion is due to causes
part from the general condition of
»usiness. The ratio of defaulted lia-
iilities to payments through the clear-
ng houses is but $1 71 per $1,000, a low-
sr rate than has appeared in the first
juarter of any year except 1880 and
881 of the past twenty-three years.
Production of pig iron is the greatest
wer known, some furnaces having
itarted in the past month; but besse-
ner billets are so scarce at Chicago that
jome works are embarrassed, and
1eavy purchases at Pittsburg, includ
ng one of 26,000 tons, have stiffened th
yrice so that bessemer pig and local
:oke at Chicago are stronger than since
November 1, with gray forge unchang-
yd at Pittsburg. Foundry at the IEast
s slightly lower, basic pig having been
ffered in a sharp competition at about
10, though southern makers in Ala-
rama and Tennessee, excepting two,
1ave agreed upon a plan of sales
jhrough a commission. The demand for
inished products covers work far
thead in plates, structural forms,
theets, In pipe since the advance in oil,
ind in rails with a Chicago sale for a
Janada road to Alaska, but bar is
veak, with increasing use of steel, and
in plates are quoted at $285, against
‘4 for the same quality of foreign. Tin
s stronger at 13.20 cents and lake cop-
per at 11.87 cents.
The strike in cotton mills does not
spread, but helps to a slightly better
lemand for some goods, while in wool-
ns the business is slow in some of the
iner qualities, which have been much
idvanced in price, and in these and
ither grades as well, cancellations have
yften exceeded reorders, indicating less
listribution than was expected at the
idvanced prices. Wool has yielded a
ittle, the average of 100 quotations by
Yoates Bros. for domestic being 20.28
rents, against 20.82 cents February 1,
ind while yielding is thus far mainly
n inferior qualities, stocks at least
three years old are pressed for sale.
Wheat has grown stronger, exports
continuing at a rate which threatens
:xhaustion of supply if trade reports of
'armer’s stocks are correct. From At-
antic ports 2,426,240 bushels went out,
lour included, against 1,368,416 bushels
ast year, and from Pacific ports, 864,993
yushels, against 479,959 bushels last
rear. The price has risen 1 cent, but it
s possible that the estimates of last
rear's stocks, though 50,000,000 bushels
n excess of the government estimates
nay prove too small. Corn has declin-
»d only % of a cent, with exports of
., 748,843 bushels against 5,221,785 bush-
ils last year. }
Failures for the week have been 251
n the United States, against 246 bos
year, and 32 in Canada, against 59 las
rear. >
Big Chunk of Glass.
A year ago at St. Louis, when the
Heitz Glass Company failure occurred
and the works shut down, the “pot”
was full of molten glass. It was not
rained off, but neglected and permit-
red to cool. Recently the property was
surchased, and now it is found that the
pot contains a solid piece of glass 66
feet long, 22 feet wide and five feet
thick, estimated to weigh almost 600
tons. A force of workmen has been
put to work with drills, crowbars and
sledge hammers to quarry out the solid
mass, and a new company is organiz-
‘ng to start the works again in the
spring. : 5 \
America Not Prepared.
The London ‘Daily Mail’ discussing
‘he “probability that the United States
may goad Spain into declaring war as
2 last desperate move,’ says:-
“In: America’s unprepared condition
Spain could inflict appalling damage
Spain could inflect impalling damage.
the utmost America could gain would
be the equivocal triumph of securing
“uban independence. If Spain takes
the first step America will have her-
self to thank.”
Bribery in Chicago.
Richard C. Gunning, assessor of the
South Town, Chicago, was indicted on
a2 charge of soliciting a bribe. The in-
jictment alleges that Gunning suggest-
ad. to Charles Fellows that for $1,000 he
would reduce the assessed valuation of
the property known as the Reliance
building, State and Washington streets,
$100,000.
Japan May Threaten Spain.
There were some Japanese sallors on
the Maine when she was. blown up.
Secretary Long has been requested to
ascertain the names and ratings of
these men. Spain fears that Japan will
then ask recompense for each man's
life. In the meantime Japan may send
warships to the Phillippine islands
pending a settlement,
Government Receives a Million.
The first payment of $1,000,000 on ac-
count of the sale of the Government's
interest in the Kansas Pacific railroad
was made during the present week.
The remaining $5,203,000 will be made
in four equal installments in 30, 40, 50
and 60 days from the date of the sale,
SPAIN’S REPRESENTATIVE A LIAR.
#0 says a Successful Promoter of Filibuster-
ing Expediticns-
Emilio Nunez, promoter of fillbuster-
ing expeditions to Cuba, spoke as fol-
lows the other day: ‘My last expedi-
tion put into Cuba 700,000 bullets loca
ted at the end of 700,000 Mauser cart.
ridges. And every one of these bullets
{s now being used to let daylight inte
the Spaniards who think as Sénor Du
Bosc thinks. If Senor Du Bosc knowi
as much about my recent expeditior
as the Spanish authorities In Havana
know about the destruction of the
Maine, and if Senor Du Bosc says that
expedition was a failure, as the Ha-
vana authorities say the Maine blew utr
on its own account, then Senor Du
sc 1g of ‘the same stripe as the au
thorities in Havana. He is far.”
Mr. Nunez expressed the opinion that
the battleship Maine was destroyed ‘‘by
Spanish officials, with their knowledge
and by their hands.”
_A fibrouss preparation of steel, made
in the same manner as the so-called
“mineral wool,” by passing an air blast
through molten steel, is coming int¢
SPAIN wooud AVE LEE RECHLLED,
MAKES DEMANDS.
The United States Ignores the Requests, Bes
ing Unable to Comply.
Senor Gullon, Spanish Minister of
Foreign Affairs, recently intimated
to United States Minister Woodford
that the Spanish Government desired
the recall from Havana of Consul Gen-
eral Lee and that the American war-
ships which have been designated to
convey supplies to Cuba. for the relief
of the sufferers there should be replac-
ed by merchant vessels in order to de-
prive the assistance sent to the recon-
centrados of an official character.
Minister Woodford cabled the re=-
quests to the Washington government
which replied refusing to recall Gen-
eral Lee in the present circumstances
or to countermand the orders for the
dispatch of the war vessels, making
the representation that the relief ves-
sels are not fighting ships.
Acting Secretary Day said: The
President will not consider the recall
of General Lee, who has borne himself
throughout this crisis with judgment,
fidelity and courage, to the President's
entire satisfaction.
As to the supplies for the relief of
the Cuban people all arrangements
have been made to carry a consign-
ment this week from Key West by one
of the naval vessels, whichever may be
best adapted and most available for the
purpose, to Matanzas and Sagua.
For several days the Spanish news-
papers have been violently attacking
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee. The
“Imparcial,’”’ after remarking that “an
American newspaper has insinuated
that General Lee is a member of a syn-
dicate desiring to purchase Cuba,”
says:
“His ill-will toward Spain is so mark-
ed that even American newspapers in-
imical to Spain are remarking it.”
The ‘“‘Imparcial”’ calls upon the gov-
ernment to demand the replacing of
Consul General Lee ‘‘who, instead of
tightening the bonds of friendship be-
tween Spain and the United States,
daily renders the situation more
threatening.”
Key West authorities insist on en-
forcing quarantine law against United”
States cruifers coming from Cuba, and
a clash with the general government is
expected.
The “Globe,” a Spanish paper, says:
“Nothing could be more promising than
the present relations between the two
nations. General Woodford’'s words,
“Peace forever,” are hailed with de=-
light. Senor Sagasta, the cabinet min-
isters and General Woodford all make
such explicit peaceful statements that
peace may be regarded as assured. This
is all the more satisfactory, since the
late events all point to a different is-
sue.”
The “Liberal” says: “The high fever
from which a portion of the populace
has been suffering has considerably de=
creased within the last few hours.”
Most bodies buried some weeks ago
are unrecognizable, It is against Span-
ish law to exhume until expiration of
five years. Neither steamers nor au-
thorities permit shipment of bodies un-
less at once embalmed in metallic cases.
Cost of embalming and encasing from
$66. to $800 each.
It was just learned at the navy de-
partment why the Maine was tied up
to a buoy in Havana harbor instead of
anchoring, a fact that has been the
base for some of the theories as to the
eause of the disaster. It is stated that
not only is a man of war at a buoy in
much better place for quick service
than when anchored, but it appears
that if a ship casts her anchor in Ha-
vana harbor, so foul and polluted with
yellow fever and other disease germs
is the mud that adheres to it when it is
hoisted that the ship must go into °
quarantine upon her return to any
Florida post.
AMERICANS IN DANGER.
Presence of Warships in Havana Strengthens
the Hatred of Spaniards.
Reports from Havana indicate an
alarming situation. Blanco is almost
as good as nothing so far as affording
protection to American citizens is con-
cerned. The wrath of the populace is
directed against everything American,
and an outbreak is expected hourly.
The volunteers are rampant, and
threats of violence are frequent and
made openly. :
Blanco, who, according to reports,
means well, is unable to control his
men. The situation is understood and
the danger realized by the Americans
in Havana, who are making prepara-
tions to leave as soon as possible. A-
merican merchants are preparing to
send their families home and to close
their business.
The presence of three Spanish men-
of-war in the harbor has excited the
population until the Spaniards believe
that they are invincible. . Outcries
against Yankees are heard on every
side. Americans are insulted in the
streets, and the volunteers cannot be
restrained. They swagger about and
talk war. They are waiting for leaders
strong enough to lead them in an out-
break. The Spanish troops, since the
coming of the warships, also have be-
come restless. Many who were of use
in keeping the volunteers from talk of
violence now are in sympathy with
them. The situation is known to Blan-
co, who is on the verge of nervcus pios-
tration, being unable to enforce disci-
pline either among the Spanish troops
or the volunteers of Havana.
Coal for Cruisers.
The United States Government, by
Secretary John D. Long, of the navy
department, has just closed a contraci
with Peale, Peacock & Kerr, coal oper-
ators in the new Pittsburg district, for
the delivery at Key West, within 4(
days, of 400,000 tons of steam coal. This
contract is unauthorized by Congress
but is made under the emergency
clause, which permits the heads of Na-
tional departments to make large ex-
penditures on the National credit with:
out specific authority “when the occa-
sion arises therefor. The contract calle
for the delivery of 10,000 tons of coal
per day at Key West for 40 days, ship-
ments to commence on or before Apriy
1
The budget committee of the German
reichstag has adopted the proposal
that the new vessels of the German
navy shall be finished in six instead of
seven years. Admiral von Tirpitz, see-
retary of the imperial navy, said its
adoption would result in considerable
military and political advantages.
An old Indian degtor and a little girl
who kept house for him, have been
found hanging from trees near thetr
cabin at the head of Irish creek Mor-
gantown,
about a year ago, .and spent most of
their time in hunting herbs. Threats
had been made against the old man.
A plot of ground has been secured at
Key West, where the bodies of the
Maine's sailors will be buried.
Atlanta. has a law. prohibiting vehi-
cles from passing places of worship at
use for cleaning, polishing, etc., inatead
of sandpaper. a :
a rapid rate of speed on Sundays.
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