‘ 1 THREE: MORE HPS FOR THE NAVY $5,000,000 EACH. One of the Cruisers to be Named After the Il1-Fated Maine—Two More May be Purchased in England. Three new battleships of the staunch- est type afloat were authorized by the house committee on naval affairs Fri- day and a provision for their construc- tion was Inserted in the naval appro- priation bill. At the same time the committee agreed on a maximum price of $400 per ton for armor plate for our vessels, increased the force of naval marines by 473 men, and put matters in fair shape for a decision to-morrow on the location of dry docks, probably four in number, capable of acgommo- dating the largest-sized war vessels. ; The new warships provided for will be of the finest pattern. It will be two years, doubtless, before they can be placed in conmvyission. One of them, fhe committee decided, should be nam- od after the fll-fated Maine. The cost. it 1s expected will be about five mil- {ion dollars each, though for the fiscal year covered in the bill, the amount of penditure may not exceed two mil- ons each. o The war department last week pro- mulgated its order creating the de- partments of tlie gulf and the lakes and abolishing the departments of the issotiri and ef Texas. The department the east will embrace the states on the Atlantic coast to and including North Carolina, the department of the lakes will include Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, with headquarters at Chi- cago, and the department of the gulf will comprise the states of South Caro- lina, Gorgia, Florida, Alabama, Miss- issippi, Louisiana and Texas, with headquarters at Atlanta. Major Gen- eral John R. Brooke will command the department of the lakes and Brigadier General William M. Graham the de- partment of the gulf. The navy department has reason to believe it has secured the two war- ships Amazonas and her sister ship now building in England for Brazil. It was stated at the cabinet meeting by Secre- tary Long that the naval attache at London, Lieut. Col. Well had almost completed the negotiations for the sale, Said a Spanish consul at Berlin: “So soon as war is declared a large and well-equipped fleet of privateers will mmegiately begin hostilities against e great American commerce. Spain 1 ul t remained idle since the 24 Re erstandings. Ninety eamers lie in the harbors of Barce- na and Valencia, ready to sail and do ecution, and we have friends, power- ful ones, who will assist us, if not with men, with moneys but, I, in common with the Spanish government, trust peace will be preserved.” ENGLAND CONCERNED. Her Commercial Interests Would Suffer In Case of War With Spain. That Great Britain is not only friendly to the United States, but also that he terests would suffer in- event $ war with Spain, was shown by a Isit of Sir Julian Pauncefote to Presi- dent McKinley a few days ago. Quer Victoria has, through Sir Ju- lian Pauncefote, conveyed to President McKinley her gratification at the wise and conservative course which he has thus far pursued in relation to the Cu- ban and Bpanish situation. She also expressed the sincere sympathy with the efforts put forth by the United States to reHeve suffering humanity in Cuba, with the hope that these endeav- ors may be conducted to a successful ‘concluskon without war. “The desire of the queen that war should be avoided was emphasized for several reasons. It was pointed out that the commercial relations of Great Britain with the United States were too extensive to be jeopardized by a war between this country and Spain. The blockade of the port of New York, for instance, it was pointed out, would be of irreparable damage to British ship- ping, while the cessation of the ship- ment of food supplies to England would be exceedingly serious. “The reply of the president expressed his pleasure at the utterance of the queen, with the additional statement that he also hoped that war could be averted. Public announcement of the real purpose of the ambassador's visit has been avoided, and a denial of the fact that it had relation to the present crisis has been made because it was feared that the friendly utterance might be misconstrued. It was thought that the approval given by the queen to the president’s course might be dis- tasteful in quarters and might be re- gerd as unduly influencing the presi- ent’s actioms in the future. There was another reason, however, which had its weight in the direction of secrecy. The attitude of Great Britain goes further in this matter than a mere xpression of good wishes. There is a lesire, which has yet only reached the dtage of tentative suggestion, that an alllance may be formed between Great Britain and the United States. It has been shown that the interests of Eng- land and this country are not only identjcal in a general sense, but are especially identical in the great ques- tion of finding in China and the east a market for manufactures. CUBANS READY. Waiting for Hostilities to Open Between the United States and Spain. A dispatch to the New York Sun from Santiago de Cuba, under date of Feb- ruary 18, says President Bartolome Magso has been informed from New York of the strained relations between the United States and Spain, and the podsibility of war. Masso immediately called a meeting of his cabinet to dis- cuss the news. According to most trustworthy information received by the Sun correspondent, the Cuban gov- . ernment has decided to address a mani- fosto to the oountry as soon as hostili- es are opened between the United States and Spain, inviting every Cuban who is now on the island living within the fortified towns to take the fleld and join the Cuban army. vious laws forbidding unarmed men to join the Ctiban forces, will be abolished. Reports from Havana say that the entire Spanish guerilla force of the bat- talion of Cadiz was exterminated by the Cubans. Their leader, Lieut. Pero- jo, was one of the first men killed. Gen. Jiminez Castellanos lost in a subse- quent engagement 300 more men and was compelled. to Tetreat to Puerto Principe. . 5 ~~ Only a Few Can Enlist. ‘Since the War Department sent out orders to enlist men for the two addi- tional regiments of artillery, the re- -cruf station at Beston has been un- SU; “busy. On an average 30 men re-applied daily for enlistment in the d heavy artillery regiments, but centage has been very ‘as Thursday, examined, o out of 28 men who nly three were able 1 TELEGRAMS TERSELY TOLD. Prince Albert of Belgium has arrived in New York. : Gen. W. S. Rosecrans died last Friday morning at Los Angeles, Cal. Carnegie will ship 3,000,000 tons of ore from his Michigan mines this season. James Anderson, a jealous colored man, murdered his wife at Pittsburg last Sunday. A Chinaman was hanged at San Francisco last week for the murder of his uncle. A man was arrested in Pittsburg the other day for spitting on the floor of a street car. Spafiards are making an attempt to expel American newspaper correspond- entg from Cuba, ec President Dole, of Hawaii, has return- ed home, and says the American senti- ment is in favor of annexation. : John Wanamaker will be the candi- date of the Business Men’s Republican League of Philadelphia for governor. A steamer from the United States de- livered 6,020 packages of provisions at Havana Thursday for starving Cubans. Ex-chief of Police, George H. Jacks, of Muskegon, Mich., is held at Chicago, charged with murdering Andrew Mec- Gee. The New York Central Labor union adopted resolutions the other night calling the verdict in the Lattimer case a farce. : Cases of food coming from the Unit- ed States as relief for Cubans are said ky Spaniards to contain ammunition for the rebels. Armed robbers held up a trolley car on the Cicero & Proviso line, Chicago, Wednesday night and secured $40 from conductor and passengers. Ex-Pregident Cleveland will speak at the Iroquois club dinner at Chicago April 23 on “Sound Democracy and Sopnd Money Demonstration.” Robbers broke into the house of Jos- eph Christie, 247 Desplaines street, Chi- cago, and on the occupants awakening, cut Mrs. Christie's throat. She will die. A burglar trying to escape from the residence of William OG. Hutchins, a manufacturing jeweler of Providence, R. I., the other day, shot Mr. Hutchins dead A severe storm swept the Sicilian coast a few days ago. The steamer Or- sini was wrecked and 19 other vessels more or less damaged. Many persons were drowned. : Ex-State Auditor Eugene Moore, of Nebras was arrested at Lincoln ‘the other night on a grand jury indictment, charged with stealing $30,000 fees from insurance companies while in office. Ten dollars is the lowest price a seat can be obtained for at a concert to be ven in Havana shortly. The money is to be used as the nucleus for a pop- ular fupd with which to purchase war- ships for Spain. Acting President Cabriara, of Guater mala, ‘has issued a general decree of mnesty to all persons who were driven ut of the Southern republic during the late Barrier regime. All confiscated property will be restored. 27 One of the Standard oil company’s . pipes sprung a leak Sunday and 50,000 gallons of petroleum flowed into the Pequonnock river, polluting the mil- lions of gallons of water intended for Newark and Jersey City consumption. In a battle with moonshiners in the Ozark mountains, near Fayetteville, Ark., Granville Phillips, leader of the moonshiners, was killed, a revenue of- ficer was dangerously wounded and others had their horses killed under them. Dr. Trumbull Cleveland, a prominent and fashionable physician; was arrest- ed a few days ago at New York, charg- ed with manslaughter. It is alleged that by ignorant treatment he caused the death of the infant child of James L. Carhart. A severe hail and wind storm passed over Ganado, Tex., the other night. Several houses were demolished and much damage was done by hail. The residence of Wm. Dodson was blown to pieces. Mr. Dodson and a 9-year-old boy were killed. Dodson may die and two younger sons are seriously injured. A heavy rain came with the storm and the country is flooded. > DANGEROUS COUNTERFEITS, Congress May Adopt a New Design for the Silver Dollar. : During the last two weeks the atten- tion of the business men of Denver has been attracted to the unusually large number of counterfeit silver dol- lars made of silver that are in circula- tion. The counterfeits are remarkably close imitations of the genuine coin. The situation is so serious that the Treasury has made it the subject of & communication to Congress regarding the propriety of adopting a new device for the coin. It is estimated that there are fully $2,000,000 worth of these spurious coins in circulation ‘in the country. All that have been found bear the mark of the New Orleans mint, a lower case ‘‘0”’ immediately under the cagle, and the dated 1888. The Govern- ment’s efforts to detect the men en- gaged in this business so far have been without success. SHERIFF MARTIN ACQUITTED. His Deputies Also Upheld in the Shooting of Nineteen Men Last September. Sheriff Martin and his sixty-seven deputies were acquitted by a jury at ‘Wilkesbarre, Pa., last Wednesday. The sheriff and his deputies were on trial for killing nineteen men during a riot . ember. Jud Woodward has received many ening letters; so has Sheriff Martin and his deputies. There is talk at Wilkes- barre that the greatest strike in the history of Hazleton is about to break out as a result of the verdict. Edward Uffalessary, editor of a Lith- unan weekly paper published at Wil- kesbarre, is responsible for the state- ment that the Austrian government, despite the result of the Lattimer trial, will demand indemnity for its sube jects killed at Lattimer. Spain Reports a Cuban Defeat. ” A Spanish column under Col. Tejeda, according to a& Spanish report, has captured several entrenched insurgent camps in the Manzanillo district, in- cluding’ the camp of El Chino. The troops, the Spaniards add, killed nine men, made three prisoners and captur- ed “an armory with many tools and destroyed many great huts and hos. pitals.” Col. Tejeda’s column, it {is further announced, will continue pur- suing the insurgents, who are said to be in retreat. There was another en- gagement between these opposing forc- es, it appears, at Sierra, and the insurgents are alleged to have lost over i100 men, while the Spanish colonel re- ports only two of his men killed and fifteen wounded: skew oed : A New City in the Klondike A letter just received from a Montre- al man at Skaguay states that a new has been born at Lake Bennett and named Portage City. All the land between Linderman: and Bennett | The Carpenter steel Works at Read- | -Herald, who has direct charge of the being laid in the harbor of Key West. FEVEN LODERS BURNED TO DENT. FOUR IDENTIFIED. The Bowery Mission at New York, Conducted by the Christian Herald, Destroyed. Lighted Cigarette the Cause. The careless throwing of a cigarette among a lot of papers resulted in the death of eleven lodgers at the Bowery Mission, New York, Sunday morning. Only four were identified, Elias Cuddah, John Foran, ——McDermott and Wil- liam Sodan. No. 105 Bowery, which was swept by fire, is one of the best-known lodgin houses ‘on that thoroughfare. It is called the Bowery Mission lodging house and is conducted by the Chris- tian Herald. In the basement of the building there is a cheap * restaurant, while the ground floor is used exclu- gively for mission purposes. Gospel services having been held there daily for several ycars. The four upper floors were fitted up as a cheap lodging house, with accommodations for 150 males, who paid 15, 20 or 25 cents each, accord- ing to the location of the rooms. After the fire had been extinguished sufficiently so that a search of the place was possible, the police and firemen entered the building and the work of searching for the victims was begun. Several bodies were found near the windows on the two upper floors where they had been stricken down by at- tempting to make their way to the fire escapes. So many bodies were found in the early stages of the search that it was estimated that over forty persons must have been killed. However, the officers, fortunately, over-estimated the logs of life, and eleven bodies in all were found. Some of these were dis- covered in the small rooms they had pied, while others were found in the hallways and on the stairs of the fourth and fifth floors. All of them were naked, and most of them were burned and charred beyond recognition. As soon as the bodies were carried to the street they were transferred to the police station. Coroner Zucca was summoned, and after looking the bod- fies at the station house over, gave a permit for their removal to the morgue. Manager Sardison, of the Christian mission and the lodging house, called at the Eldridge street station later and told the officer in charge that he would bury the dead. PEACE DESIRED. ~~ oeilgre Spanish Minister Meets and Addresses President McKinley. Senor Luis Polo de Bernabe, the new Spanish minister, who succeeded Senor Dupuy de Lome, was formally present- ed to President McKinley Saturday. The reception, which was without inci- dent, took place in the blue parlor. The exchan®e of greetings were most cor- dial and occupied about 20 minutes. The Spanish minister said: “The principal object of my honor- able mission is to endeavor, so far as possible, to maintain and draw closer between our two countries the most friendly relations. In order to attain this end, so much in harmony with my own pedsonal feelings, I am ready to omit no effort whatsoever on my par.” “It is very gratifying to me to receive the assurances you have just made of your purpose to endeavor to maintain and draw closer in all possible ways the most friendly relations between the two countries, and in response I assure you that my own efforts and those of this Government will be no less earnestly directed toward the same high end.” Senor Polo also expressed the well wisheg of the queen regent, and the President replied in kind, referring also to Senor Polo's distinguished father’s services as minister: to the United States. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. The navy department has found no available ship at Italian shipyards. The United States cruiser Montgom- ery has anchored in Havana harbor. A concert at Philadelphia netted $6,- 000 for the Maine survivors last Friday. Two car loads of torpedoes are now “Treachery,” it is asserted, will be the report of the Maine investigating board. Three shifts of men are working 24 hours a day at the Washington navy yards. It is authoratively stated that Spain will receive no aid from Germany in event of war. : One thousand Chippewa Indians of Northern Wisconsin are ready to fight against Spain. s William J. Bryan approves the action of President McKinley in his attitude toward Spain. : - “The United States cruisers Helena and Bancroft of the European squadron have been ordered home. § . .. A Spaniard recently wrote to g friend in New Yb%rk for'a map with the loca- tion of the banks marked. - Gen. Lee is very much ‘overworked, but will not leave his post at such a critical time as the present. For the first time since the civil war the war and navy departments were open Sunday at Washington. Reports from all recruiting stations show that the two artillery regiments would be recruited many times over. General Wesley Merritt claims that 30,000 United States troops would be sufficient to send to Cuba in event of war, ing, Pa., are enlarging their plant, and will work day and night manufactur- ing projectiles. Fifty more mechanics were at work at the Watertown, Mass, arsenal Mon- day, and night work in the machinery department was begun. Folliwing is the present strength of the Spanish navy: ‘Protected ships, 17; unprotected, 20, gun-boats, 80; torpedo boat destroyers, 14; torpedo boats, 14; transports, 25.” The Holland submarine boat was given a successful trial at New York last week. She travels under water, and unawares sends a torpedo against the enemy’s ship. ; The ‘‘Paris,” a French paper, says: “The pean concert which prevent- ed the partition of Turkey, owss it to Spain not to allow her to beppme the first victim of Pan-Americanism.” Hundreds of workmen are being ad- ded to the usual force at the navy.yard at Vallejo, Cal, to rush the work of preparing the Charleston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Pensacola and Adams for service. The Etna Powder Company, at Miller Station, Ind.;, has received an order for 100 tons of powder and 200 tons of dyna~ mite cartridges from the war depart- ment. e works will be run day: night. ~~ : $0 1e Staples Coal Company of Tauns ‘ton, ., has received requests from ‘the government to name the selling price of the two large and powerful ocean tugs = : Ng _gteam lugs 4 to report in favor $50,000,000 APPROPRIATED. Congress Busiains tae Adthinistration in Pree paring for Emergency. President McKinley's hands have been upheld by both branches of the American congress. With enthusiasm expressed in deeds rather than oratory, with fervor and promptness almost un- paralleled in the senate in time of peace, that body Wednesday passed the emergency appropriation bill, car- rying $183,000 of deficiencies and plac- ing at the disposal of the president $50,000,000 for national defense. The vote by which the measure was passed was unanimous. In a spirit of patriotism, with elo- quent words ringing in their ears, every member of the house of representatives Tuesday responded to the presidents first call to meet the Spanish situation by casting his vote for a bill placing in President McKinley's hands $50,000,000 to be expended at the discretion for national defense. Party lines were swept away, and with a -unanimous voice congress voted its confidence in the administration. Many members who were paired with absent coileagues took the -responsibility of breaking their pairs, an unprecedented thing in legislative annals, in order that they might go on record in support of this vast appropriation to maintain the dig- nity and honor of their country. Speak- er Reed, who, as presiding officer, sel- dom: votes except in case of a ‘tie, had his name c¢alled and voted. The scehe of enthusiasm which greeted the an- :nouncement of the vote—Ayes, 311; Nays, NONE—has seldom been paral- leled in the house. In all fifty-nine speeches were made. Gen. Bingham spoke too conservative- ly in regard to our relation with Spain and his speech was hissed by many members. The president at 3.40 o’clock p. m., ‘Wednesday, signed the measure appro- priating $50,183,000 for the national de- fense, to be expended by him as his wisdom may dictate, and it is now a law. WAS NOT EXTERNAL. Spanish Board of Inguiry Fails to Discover Evidence of Treachery. Capt. Peral, the president of the Spanish naval court of inquiry into the cause of the Maine disaster authorized the following statement: “Our divers are hard at work examin- ing the hull of the Maine. Great dif- ficulty is experienced owing to the deep mud jn which the hull is buried and the conditon of the wreck forward of amidships. The whole forward part of the ship is a mass of iron and steel de- bris. We have hoisted up much of it; but in the mud it is not always possible to tell what parts of the ship, armor, deck, beams or stanchions are found, the explosion so changed their posi- tions. “We think we have located the ram or prow, but not in the position sup- posed. The forward turret, mounting two large guns, was blown clear of the hull into the water on the starboard. We shall continue our work and try to examine the hull forward down to the keel. It is possible that we may pro- pose to the American authorities to raise the hull by means of the floating dock, brought from England, and now in Havana harbor’ “We can not believe there was an ex- ternal explosion of a torpedo, for the following reasons: A torpedo following the line of least resistance, must have blown a great hole in the mud at the bottom of the harbor. No such hole was found. A torpedo must have thrown a large mass of water into the air if exploded at a depth of only 2{ feet or so, or at least have produced a wave reaching the other ships and the shore of the harbor. We have examin- ed every one on shipboard or shere who saw the explosion; but no one can be found who remarked any upheaval of the water or a big wave. A torpedo ex- plosion always kills fish in the vicinity. No fish were killed by the Maine dis- aster, as fishermen who have known the harbor f8r many years testify. To produce the effects noted in the wreck, a torpedo would have been of enormous size fully 150 or 200 kilos. Dependert on America. The iron trade in London has been considerably stirred by an article in the “Statist,” pointing out that the exports and home consumption of iron have ex- ceeded the whole output of the United Kingdom by nearly half a million tons and predicting a pig. iron famine before the end of the year. The “Statist” con- cludes: “There is quite a large proba- bility that we may have to fall back on America at. no distant future, to make good our deficient supply on America, once our largest buyer of both pigs and finished madterial.” The war department Monday opened bids for one of the largest orders of shot and shell for heavy caliber gung ever given, including armor-piercing projeetiles and deck-piercing and tor- pedo shells. : rego Loyal Brothers. After seeing his brother convicted of highway robbery, at Chicago a few days ago Frank Hill took the crime on nid shoulders, and was sentenced to the penitentiary. The brothers resemble dach other much. Witnesses pointed out Robert Hill as the culprit, and he was convicted, but Frank swore that he had committed the crime. CAPITAL GLEANINGS. The new Spanish minister, Senor Luis Polo de Bernabe, has arrived in Wash- ington. Senator andler President will intervene for the inde=- pendence of Cuba within 30 days. President McKinley attended a con- cert at Washington Tuesday given for the benefit of the Maine survivors. Wednesday crowds of people came to the Benate expecting to hear a flow of oratory on the $60,000,000 war appropri- ation, but no speeches were necessary to pass the bill. Prince Albert of Belgium was given a dinner by President McKinley Friday evening. In New York he visited the stock exchange, lunched with Freder ck Coudert and drove with the Belgian consul to Grant's tomb. The House naval committee bas de- cided that one of the three battleships they authorized shall be built on the Pacific coast. These great vessels, which are to be peers of any afloat, are to cost $6,000,0000 each. House committee on Slectlons NO. a party vote the er Y, > a Willlam A. Young, representing the Second’ Vir- .ginia district, and seating in his stead Dr. R. A. ise, the Republican con- testant. W. E. Spencer, journal clerk of the genate, died at his rooms at Washing- ton the other day. Mr. Spencer was a bachelor and was alone when he expir- { ed. He was one of the oldest employees] of the senate, having first entered.the service in 1862. He was regarded as one of the ablest parliamentarians in the United States. He was a na of —— SNDS BY EAE DVRS GOSPEL MESSAGES. «Our Yesterdays and Our To-morrows’ is the Title of Dr. HepwortH’s Sermon in the New York Herald-Dr. Talmage on Trying Life’s Journey Over Again. [NoTe: The one-thousand-dollar prize for the best sermon in the New York Her- ald’s competition was won by Rev. Richard G. Woodbridge, pastor of the Central Con- gregational Church, Middleboro, Mass. “The Power of Gentleness’”’ was the title of Mr. Woodbridge’s sermon. Fifteen sermons in all appeared in the Herald’s competitive series.] TexT: “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”—Matthew vi., 34. Here is a bit of philosophy too profound to be appreciated without careful and con- tinuous study. It also contains a stern in- junction not to worry over what cannot be helped, but, on the other hand, to make the best of your circumstances. You are com- manded to let the past go its way into the land of forgetfulness, and not to borrow from the future the troubles which you fear it may contain, but to live in the present as far as possible. It is 4 command very dif- ficult to obey, and yet obedience is abso- lately necessary if you would get out of life all that God has put into it. The man who has a vivid remembrance of his past troubles and who cherishes that memory deliberately throws a gloom over his present. If he will confine himself to the duty of the moment he will generally find that he is quite equal to it, but if he collects all the miseries of yesterday and of the day before and adds them to the bur- dens of to-day he becomes disheartened, and his disconragement saps his moral strength and produces moral weakness. You have enough to do to face what is im- mediately before you, and if you conjure up the ghosts of misdeeds and of trials which have been outlived you do yourself a seri- ous injury and interfere with your spiritual or business success. In like manner, if you think you can master to-day’s work, but dampen your ardor by wondering how you are going to get through to-morrow, you produce a nervous tension which debilitates and brings about the very failure that you dread. Noman can carry more than one day at a time. When Jesus asks you not to attempt to do so He gives you wise counsel, and you had better follow the ad- vice. Lifeis not so smooth that you can afford to make it rougher by recalling the bad roads over which you have already passed or anticipating the bad roads over which you will have to pass before the end of the journey ic reached. You may be cheerful, and therefore strong, if you will forget the things that are behind and let the future take care of itself; but if you propose to add yesterday and to-morrow to to-day you will add what God warns-you against doing, and will certainly make a great mistake. It the sun shines now, be grateful and contented. Suppose it did rain yesterday, or suppose we are to have a blizzard to- morrow. You have got beyond therain on the one hand, and, on the other, the time has not come to meet the blizzard. It is foolish to make yourself miserable now because you were miserable a few days hence. One duty, one labor at a time is quite enough. If there is any enjoyment to be had, take it with an eager grasp; for it you sit in the warm sunshine for only five minutes it helps you bear the cold of the next flve minutes. It is poor policy to spoil those first five minutes by worrying about the other five minutes. Let me {llustrate. There is nothing in connection with death more wearing than the regret that you did not do more for the one who has gone. This is a universal ex- perience with those who have any heart. The fact of separation seems to have a magic in it, for it is suddenly revealed to you that there were many little attentions which you failed torender, and the remem- brance pierces like a knife. No one ever parted with a loved one without self-blame of that kind. But asa general thing it is all an illusion conjured up by overwrought nerves. In very truth you did whatever the circum- stances suggested, you did as much as hu- man nature is capable of doing, but in the presence of death you accuse yourself of things of which you are quite innocent, and in doing so you make the parting harder to bear. It may be well for the dear one that he has gone. He haa sweet sleep for the first time in many months, He is glad that the bonds of mortality are breken, that he is at last released. and in the lower depths of your own heart you are also glad for his - sake, But there comes this thorny thought, that you may have been remiss, and your soul is wrung by it. You do yourself a wrong. You did what you could. You were loving, tender, gentle and more than kind.” You havereal burdens enough without adding imaginary ones. Your tears must not be embittered by an accusation which bas no basis in fact. Life is too precious and too short to be wasted in regrets of that kind. The duties of the future demand your close attention, and you have no right to think of the dead ex- cept to recall a sweet relationship and to dream of a reunion. Live your life as quietly and 1s peace- fully as possible. Live in each day as it comes. Other days, whether past or future, must not be allowed to press on your heart. This is the noblest policy you can adopt, the policy which comes to you as a divine injunction. Let neither regret nor an- ticipation intrude upon you to make you weak. 5 It is evident that there is a plan accord- ing to which your life is arranging itself, and equally evident that if you are repose- ful and trustful, doing the duty of the resent thour and not fretting over the uty of the next hour, you are in a mental condition which keeps all your powers at their best. It is the grandest privilege to feel that there is a God, a guardian of human des- tiny, and that you are in His hands. If that conviction is one of your possessions, your pearl of great price, you can be quiet even in the midst of tumult and cheerful in the midst of sorrow, for your very tears ] for the rainbow of hope and promise. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. “Would You Like to Live Your Life Over Again?’’ is the Subject. TexT: “All that 8a man hath will he give for his life.”—Job. ii., 4. ‘““That is untrue. The Lord did not say it, but Satan said it to the Lord when the evil one wanted Job still more afflicted, The record is: ‘So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils.” And Satan has been the author of all eruptive disease since then, and he hopes by poisoning the blood to poison the soul. But the result of the dia- Polical experiment which left Job victor proved the falsity of the Satanic remark: All that a man hath will he give for his life.” Many a captain who has stood onthe bridge of the steamer till his passengers got off and he drowned; many an engineer who has kept his hand on the throttle valve, or his foot on the brake, until the most of the train was saved, while he went down to death through the open draw bridge; many a fireman who plunged into a blazing house to get a sleeping ¢hild out, the fireman sacrificing his life in the at- tempt, and the thousand of martyrs who submitted to flery stake and knife of mas- gacre and headman’s ax and guillotine | rather than surrender principle, proving that in many a case my text was not true when it:says, ‘All give for his life.’ Xd ‘“‘But Satan’s falsehood was built on a very precious, and if we | wouli not give. up - that a man hath will he | surrender it. We see how precious life is from the fact we do every t gto prol it. Hence all sanitary régulatioss, “ul study of hygiene, all fear of draughts, waterproofs, all doctors, all medicinds, all Struggle in orisis or accident. An Admiral of the British Navy was court-martialed for turning his ship around in time of dan= ger, and so. damaging the ship. It was ‘proved against him. But when his time came to be heard he said: ‘Gentlemen, I did turn the ship around, and admit that it was damaged but do you want to know why I turned it? There was a man over- board, and I wanted to save him, and I did save him, and I consider the life of one sailor worth all the vessels of the British Navy.” No wonder he was vindicated. Life is indeed very precious. Yea, there are those who deem life so precious they would like to try it over again, They would like to go back from seventy to sixty, from sixty to fifty, from fifty to forty, from forty to thirty, and from thirty to twenty. “The fact. is, that no intelligent and right feeling man is satisfied with his past life. “However successful your life may have been, you are not satisfied with it. What is success? Ask that question of a hundred different men, and they will give a hlin- dred different answers. One man will say, ‘Success is a million dollars;’ another will say, ‘Success is world-wide publicity;’ an- other will say, ‘Success is gaining that which you started for.” But as it is a free country, I give my .own definition, and. say, ‘Success is fulfilling the particular mission upon which you weresent, whether to write a constitution, or invent a new style of wheelbarrow, or take care of a sick child.’ Do what God calls you to do, and you are a success, whether you leave a million dollars at death or are buried at public expense, whether it takes fifteen pages of an encyclopedia to tell the won- derful things you have done, or your name is never printed but once, and that in the death column, But whatever your success has been, you are not satisfled with you life. ¥ “But some-of you would have to’go back further than to twenty-one years of age to make a fair start, for there are many who manage to get all wrong beforethat period. Yea, in order to get a fair start, some would have to go back to the father and mother and get them corrected; yea, to the grand- father and grandmother, and have their life corrected, for some of you are suffering from bad hereditary influences which started a hundred years ago. Well, if your grandfather lived his life over again, and your father lived his life over again, and you lived your life over again, what a clut- tered-up place this world would be—a place filled with miserable attempts at repairs. I begin to think that it is better for each generation to have only one chance, and then for them to pass off and give another generation a chance. Besides that, if we were permitted to live life over again, it would be a stale, and stupid experience. The zest and spur and enthusiasm of life come from the fact that we have never been along this road before, and every- thing is new, and we are alert for what may appear at the next turn of the road. Supe pose you, a man of middle-life or old age, were, with your present feelings and large attainments, put back into the thirties, or the twenties, or into the tens, what a nuie sance you would be to others, and what an unhappiness to yourself! Your contempor- aries would not want you, and you would not want them. Things thatin your pre- vious journey of life stirred your healthful ambition, or gave you pleasurable surprise, or led you into happy interrogation, would only call forth from you a disgusted ‘Oh, pshaw! You would be blase at thirty, and a misanthrope at forty, and unendurable at fifty. The most insane and stupid thing Dniginanle would be a second journey of ife. ‘Out yonder is a man very old at forty years of age, at a time when he ought to be buoyant as the morning. He got bad habits on him very early, and those habits have become worse. He is a man on fire, on fire with alcoholism, on fire with all evil habits, out with the world and the world out with him. Down, and falling deeper. His swollen hands in his threadbare pockets, and his eyes fixed on the ground, he passes through the streets, and the quick step of an innocent child or the strong step [of a young man or the roll of a prosperous car- riage maddens him, and he curses society and he curses God, Fallen sick, with no resources, he is carried to the almshouse. A loathsome spectacle, he lies all day long waiting for dissolution, or in the night rises on his cot and fights apparitions of what he might have been and what he will be. He started life with as good a pros- pect as any man on the American continent, and there he is, a bloated carcass, waiting for the shovels of pubiic charity to put him five feet under. He has only reaped what he sowed. Harvest of wild oats! ‘There is a way that seemeth right to a man, butthe end thereof is death.’ 4 “To others life is a masquerade ball, and as at such entertainments gentlemen and ladies put on the garb of Kings and Queens or mountebanks or clowns and at the close put off the disguise. so a great many pass their whole life in a mask, taking off the mask at death. While the masquerade ball of life goes on, they trip merrily over the floor, gemmed hand is stretched to gemmed hand, gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On with the dance! Flush and rus- tle and laughter of immeasurable merry- making. But after awhile the languor of death comes on the limbs and blurs the oyesight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with sepulehral echo. Music saddened in- to a wail. Lights lower. Now the mask- ers are only seen inthe dim light. Now the fragrance of the flowers is like the sicken- ing odor that comes from garlands that have lain long in the vaults of cemeteries. Lights lower. Mists gather in the room. Glasses shake as though quaked by sudden thunder. Sigh caught in the curtain. Scarf drops from the shoulder of beauty a shroud. - Lights lower. - Over the slippery boards in dance of death glide jealousies, envies, revenges, lust, despair and death. Stench of lamp-wicks almost extinguished. Torn garlands will not half cover the ul- cerated feet) Choking damps. Chilliness. Feet still. Hands closed. = Voices hushed. Eyes shut. Lights out. “Young man, as you cannot live life over again, however you may long to do so, be sure to have your one life right. There is in this assembly, I wot not, for we are made up of all sections of this land and from many lands, some young man who has gone away from home and, perhaps ander some little spite or evil persuasion of another, I I DT Io a he is. My son, go home! Do not go to sea! Don’t go to-night where you may be tempted to ge. Go home! Your father will be glad to see you; and your mother I need not tell you how she feels. How I would like to make your parents a present of their wayward boy, repentant and in his right sind. I would like to write them a letter, and you to carry the letter, saying: ‘By the blessing of God on my ser- mon I introduce to you one whom you have never seen before, for he has become a new creature in Christ Jesus.” My boy, go home and put your tired head on t bosom that nursed you so tenderly in your childhood years. . “A young Scotchman was in battle taken captive by a band of Indians, anl he learned their language and adopied their habits. Years passed on, but the old Indian chieftain never forgot that he had in his possession a Joung man who did not belong to him. Well, whom this young man had been captured, and the old Indian chieftain said: ‘I'lost my son in battle, and I know how a father = feels at the loss of a son. Do you think your father is yet alive?” The young man said: ‘I am the only son of my father, and I hope he is still alive.” Then saidthe In- dian chieftain: ‘Because of theloss of myson this world is a desert. Yougo free. BR to your countrymen. Revisit your captive of waywardness el et for you. Your sisters waiting od is waiting for Wisconsin, and was about 58 y s old. “things we would i al ait] or os one day this tribe of Indians came in sight of the Scotch regiments from
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