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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
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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
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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
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ait] or os
one day this tribe of Indians
came in sight of the Scotch regiments from