SERMONS BY EMINENT DIVES
GOSPEL MESSAGES.
Mubject: “Making the Best of Things”—
Advice About Looking on the Bright
Side—Blessings in MMsfortune’s Guise—
7 Bereavements Fortify Oar Spirit.
/ Tex: “And now men see not the bright
light whicl is in the clouds.”—Job xxxvii.,
1.
“ Wind east. Barometer falling. Storm-
signals out. Ship reefing maintopsaill
Awnings taken in. Prophecies of foul
weather everywhere. The clouds’congre-
gate around the sun, proposing to abolish
him. ‘But after awhile he assails the flanks
of the clouds with flying artillery of light,
and here and there is a sign of clearing
weather. Many do not observe it. Many
do not realize it. ‘“‘And now men see not
the bright light which is in the clouds.” In
other words, there are a hundred men look-
ing for storm, where there is one man look-
ing for sunshine. My object is to get you
and myself into the delightful habit of
making the best of everything.
You may have wondered at the statistics
that jn India, in the year 1875, there were
over nineteen thousand people slain by
wild beasts, and that in the year 1876 there
were in India over twenty thousand peo-
ple destroyed by wild animals. But there
is a monster in odr own land which is year
by year destroying more than that. It is
the old bear of melancholy, and with Gos-
pel weapons I propose to chase it back to
"its midnight caverns. I méan to do two
sums—a sum in subtraction and a ‘sum in
addition—a subtraction from your days
of depression and an addition to your days
of joy. If God will helpme I will compel
you to see the bright light that there isin
the clouds, and compel you to make the
pest of everything.
In the first place, you ought to make the
very best of all your financial misfortunes.
During the panic years ago, or the long
years of financial’depression, you all lost
money. Some of you lost itin most unac-
countable ways. For the question, “How
many thousands of dollars shall I put aside
this year?” you substituted the question,
“How shall I pay my butcher; and baker,
and clothier, and landlord?’ You had the
sensation of rowing hard with two oars,
and vet all the time going down stream.
¢ You did not say much about it because
it was not politic to speak much of finan-
cial embarrassment; but your wife knew.
Less variety of wardrobe, more economy
at the table, self-denial in art and tap-
estry. Compression; retrenchment. Who
did not feel the necessity of it? My friend,
did you make the best of this? Are you
aware of how narrow an escape you made?
Suppose you had reached the fortune to-
ward which you were rapidly going? What
then? You would have been as proud as
Lucifer.
1 ‘How few men have succeeded largely in
a~flnancial sense and yet maintained their
simplicity and religious consecration! Not
one man out of a hundred. There are glori-
ous exceptions, but the general rule is that
in proportion as a man gets well off for this
world he gets poorly off for the next. He
loses his sense of dependence on God. He
gets a distaste for prayer meetings. With
plenty of bank stocks and plenty of Gov-
ernment securities, what does that man
know of the prayer, ‘Give me this day my
daily bread?” How few men largely sue-
cessful in this world are bringing souls to
Christ, or showing self-denial for others,or
are eminent for plety? You, car count
them’'gll upon your eight fingers and two
thumbs.
y One of the old covetous souls, when he
was sick, and sick unto death, used to
have a basic brought tn—a basin filled
with gold, and his only amusement and
the only relief he got for his inflamed
hands was running them down through
the gold and turning it up in the basin.
Oh, what infatuation and what destroying
power money has for many a man! Now,
you were sailing at thirty knots the hour
toward these vortices of worldliness—what
a mercy it was, that honest defalcation!
The same divine hand that crushed your
store-house, your bank, your office, your
insurance company, lifted you out of de-
struction. The day you honestly sus-
pended in business made your fortune for .
eternity.
“Oh,” you say, “I could get along very
well myself, but I am so disappointed that
I cannot leave a competence for my ¢hil-
dren.” My brother, the same financial mis-
fortune that is going to save your soul will
save your children. With the anticipation
of large fortune, how much industry would
your children have?—without which habit
of industry there is no safety. The young
man would say, “Well, there’s no need of
my working; my father will soon step out,
and then I'll have just what I want.” You
cannot hide from him how much you are
worth. You think you are hiding it; he
knows all about it. He can tell you almost
to a dollar. Perhaps he has been to the
county office and searched the records of
deeds and mortgages, and he has added it
all up, and he has made an estimate of how
long you will probably stay in this world,
and is not as much worried about your
rheumatism and shortness of breath as you
are. The only fortune worth anything
that you can give your child is the fortune
you put in his head and heart, Of all the
young men who¥started life with seventy
thousand dollars’ capital, how many turned
out well? I'do not know half a dozen. #
The best inheritance a youug man can
have is the feeling that he has to flght his
own battle, and that life is a struggle into
which he must throw body, mind and soul,
or be disgracefully worsted. Where are
the burial places of the men who started
life with a fortune? Some of them in the
potter’s fleld; some in the suicide’s grave.
But few of these men reached thirty-five
years of age. They drank, they smoked,
they gambled. In them the beast de-
stroyed the man. Some of them lived long
enough to get their fortunes. and went
through them. The vast majority of them
did not live to get theirinheritance. From
the gin-shop or house of infamy they were
brought home to their father’s house, and
in delirium began to pick off loathsome
reptiles from the embroidered pillow, to
fight back imaginary devils. And then
they were laid out in bighly upholstered
parlor, the casket covered with flowers by
indulgent parents—flowers suggestiveof a
resurrection with no hope.
As you sat this morning at your break-
fast table, and looked into the faces of your
children, perhaps you said within yourself,
“Poor things! How I, wish I could start
them in life with a competence! How I
have been disappointed in all my expecta-
tions of what I would do for them!” Upon
that scene of pathos F break with a pman
of congratulation, that by your financial
losses your own prospects for heaven and
the prospect for heaven of yourjchildren are
mightily improved. You may have lost'a
toy, but you have won a palace. Let me
here say, in passing, do not fut much stress
on the treasures of this world. You cannot
take them along with you. At any rate,
you cannot take them more than'two or
three miles; you will have to leave them at
the cemetery. Attila had three coffins. So
fond was he cf thislifethat he decreed that
first he should beburied in a cofin’of gold,
and that : hon that should be inclosed in a
coffin of silv«r, and that should be inclosed
in A coffin of iron, and then a large amount
_ of treasure should be thrown, in over his
body. -And so he was buried, and the men
who buried kim were slain, so that no one
might know where hejwas buried, and no one
_ might there interfere with his treasures.
Oh, men of the world, who want to take
your money with you, better have three
coffins.
Again, I remark, you ought to make the
very best of your bereavements. The whole
tendency is to brood over these separations
and to give much time to the handling of
mementoes of the departed, and to make
long visitations to the cemetery, and to say,
“Oh, I can never look up again; my hope is
gone; my courage is gone; my religion is
gone; my faith in God is gone! Oh, the
wear and. tear and exhaustion of this lone-
liness!” The most frequent bereavement is
the loss of children. If your departed child
had lived as long as you have lived, do you
not suppose that he weuld have had about
the same amount of trouble and trial that
you have had? If you could make a cltoioe
for your child between forty yearsof an-
noyance, loss, vexation, exasperation, and
bereavements, and forty years in heaven,
would you take the responsibility of choos-
ing the former? Would you snatch away
the cup of eternal bliss and put into that
child’s hands the cup of many be-
reavements? Instead fof the com-
plete safety into which that child has been
lifted, would you like to hold it down to
the risks of this thoral state? Would you
like to keep it out on a sea in which there
have been more shipwrecks than safe voy-
ages? Is it not a comfort to you to know
that that child, instead of being besoiled
and flung into the mire of sin, is swung
clear into the skies? Are not those chil-
dren to be congratulated that the point of
celestial bliss which you expect to reach
by a pilgrimage of fifty or sixty or seventy
years they reached at a flash? : If the last
10,000 children who ,had entered heaven
had gone through the average of human
life on earth, are you sure all those 10,000
children would have finally reached -the
blissful terminus? Besides that, my friends,
you are to look at this matter as a self-de-
nial on your part for their benefit. If your
children want to go off in a May-day party;
if your children want to goon a flowery
and musical excursion, you consent. You
might prefer to have them with you, but
their jubilant absence satisfles you. Well,
your departed children have only gone out
in a May-day party, amid flowery and
musical entertainment, amid joys and
hilarities forever. That ought to quell
some of your grief, thethought of their glee.
So it ought to be that you could make
the best of all bereavements. The fact that
you have so many friends in heaven will
make your own departure very cheerful.
When you are going on a voyage, every-
thing depends upon where your friendsare
—if they are on the wharf that you leave,
or onthe wharf toward which you are go-
ing to sail. In other words, the more
friends you have in heaven the easier it
will be to get away from this world, The
more friends here, the more bitter good-
byes; the more friends there the more
glorious welcomes. Some of you have so
many brothers, sisters, children, friends in
heaven, that I do not know hardly how
you are going to crowd through. When
the vessel came from foreign lands, and
brought a Prince to New York harbor, the
ships were covered with bunting, and you
remember how the men-of-war thundered
broadsides; but there was no joy there
compared with the joy which shall be
demonstrated when you sail up the broad
bay of heavenly salutation. The more
friends you have there, the easier your own
transit. What is death to a mother whose
children are in heaven? Why, there is no
more grief in it than there is in her going
into a nursery amid the romp and laughter
of her household. Though all around may
be dark, see you not the bright light in the
clouds—that light the irritated faces of
your glorified kindred?
So also, my friends, I would have you
make the best of your sicknesses. When
you see one move off with elastic step and
in full physical vigor, sometimes you be-
come impatient with your lame foot. When
aman describes an object a mile off, and
you cannot see it at all, you become im-
patient of your dim eye. When you hear
of a well man making a great achievement
you becom® impatient with your depressed
nervous system or your dilapidated heglth.
I will tell you how you can make the worst
of it. Brood over it; brood over all these
illnesses, and your nerves will become more
‘twitchy, and your dyspepsia more aggra-
vated, and your weakness more appalling.
But that is the devil’s work,to tell you how
to make the worst of it; it is my work to
show you a bright light in the clouds.
Which of the Bible men most attract your
attention? You say, Mosgs, Job, David,
Jeremiah, Paul. Why, what a strange thing
it is that you have chosen those who were
physically disordered! Moses—I know he
was nervous from the blow he gave the
Egyptian. Job---his blood was vitiated and
diseased, and his gin distressfully erup-
tive. David---he had a running sore, which
he speaks of when he says: ‘My sore ran
in the night and.ceased not.” Jeremiah
had enlargement of the spleen. Who-can
doubt it who read Lamentations? Paul---
he had lifetime sickness which the com-
mentators have bedn guessing about for
years, not knowing exactly: what the
apostle meant by ‘“a thorn in the flesh.” I
do not know either; but it was something
sharp, something that stuck him. I gather
from all this that physical disorder may be
the means of grace to the soul. You say
you have so many temptations from bodily
ailments, and if you were only well you
think you could be a good Christian.
While your temptations may be different;
theyare no more those of the mam who
has an appetite three times a day, and
sleeps eight hours every night. :
From what}I have heard I judge that
invalids have a more rapturous vidw of the
next world than well people, and will have
a higher renown in heaven. The best view
of the delectable mountains is through the
lattice of the sick room. There are trains
running every hour between pillow and
throne, between hospital and mansion,
between bandages and robes, between
crutch and palm branch. Oh, I wish some
of you people who are compelled to cry,
“My head, my head! My foot, my foot!
My back, my back!” would try some of
the Lord’s medicine! You are going to be
well’ anyhow before long. Heaven is an
old city, but has never yet reported one
case of sickness or one bill of mortality.
No ophthalmia for the eye. No pneumonia
for the lungs. No pleurisy for the side.
No neuralgia for the nerves. No rhreuma-
tism for the muscles. The inhabitants
shall never say, “I am sick.” ‘‘There shall
be no more pain.”
Again, you ought to make the best of
life’s finality. Now, you think I have a
very tough subject. You do not see how I
am to strike a spark of light out of the
flint of the tombstone. There are many
people who have an idea that death is the
submergence of everything pleasant by
everything doleful. If my subject could
close in the upsetting of all such precon-
ceived notions, it would close well. Who
can judge best of the features of. a man—
those who are close by him, or those who
are afar off? “Oh,” you gay, ‘those can
judge best of the features of a man who
are close by him!”
Now, my friends, who shall judge of the
features of death—whether they are lovely
or whether they are repulsive? You? You
are too far off. If I wantto get a judg-
ment as to what really the features of
death are, I will not ask you; I will ask
those who have been within a month of
death, or a week of death, or an hqur of
death, or a minute of death. They stand
so near the features, they can tell.
They give unanimous testimony, if they
are Christian people, that death, instead
of being demoniac, is cherubic. Of all the
carried through the gates of the cemetery,
gather up their dying experiences, and you
will find they nearly all bordered on a
jubilate. How often you have seen a dy-
ing man join in the psalm being sung
around his bedside, the middle of the verse
opening to let his ransomed spirit free!—
long after the lips could not Speak, he
looking and pointing upward.
Some of you talk as though God had ex-
hausted Himself in building this world,
and that all the rich curtains He ever made
He hung around this planet, and all the
flowers He ever grew He has woven Into
the carpet of our daisied meadows. No.
This world is not the best thing God can
do; this world is not the best thing that
God has done.
One week of our year is called blossom
week-—called so all through the land be-
cause there are more blossoms in that
week than in any other week of the year.
Blossom weéek! And thatis whatthe future
world is to which the Christian is invited
—plossom week forever. It is as far ahead
thousands of Christians who have been |
of this world as Paradise is ahead of Dry
Tortugas, and yet here we stand trembling
and fearing to go out, and we want to stay
on the dry sand, and amid the stormy
etrels, when we are invited to-arbors of
Pein and birds of paradise.
One season I had two springtimes. I
went to New Orleans in April, and I marked
the differences between going toward New
Orleans and then coming back. As I went
on down toward New Orleans, the verdure,
the foliage, became thicker and more
beautiful. When I came back, the further
I came toward home the less the foliage,
and less it became until there was hardly
any. Now, it all depends upon the direc-
tion in which you travel. If a spirit from
heaven should come toward our world, he
is traveling from June toward December,
from radiance toward darkness, from hang-
ing gardens toward icebergs. And one
would not be very much surprised if a
spirit of God sent forth from heaven to-
ward our world should be slow to come.
But how strange it is that we dread going
out toward that world when going is from
December toward June—from the snow of
earthly storm to the snow of Edenio blos-
som—from the arctics of trouble toward the
tropics of eternal joy.
Oh, what an ado about dying! We get so
attached to the malarial marsh in which
we live that we are afraid to go up and
live on the hilltop. We are alarmed be-
cause vacation is coming. Best programme
of celestial minstrels and hallelujah, no in-
ducement. Let us stay here and keep ig-
norant and sinful and weak. Do not in-
troduce us to Elijah, and John Milton and
Bourdalone. Keep our feet on the sharp
cobblestones of earth instead of planting
them on the bank of amaranth in heaven.
Give us this small Island of a leprous world.
instead of the immensities of splendor and
delight. Keep our hands full of nettles,
and our shoulder under the burden, and
our neck in the yoke, and hopples on our
ankles, and handcuffs on our wrists.
“Dear Lord,” we seen to say, ‘keep us
down here where we have to suffer, instead
of letting us up where we might live and
reign and rejoice.”
We are like persons standing on the cold
steps of the national picture gallery in
London, under umbrella in the rain, afraid
to go in amid the Turners and the Titians,
and the Raphaels.’2I come to them and
say, “Why don’t you go inside the gal-
lery?’’ ‘‘Oh,” they say, ‘“we don’t know
whether we can get in.” I say: “Don’t
you see the door is open?” 4Yes,” they
say; ‘but we have been so long on these
cold steps, we are so attached to them we
don’t like to leave.” “But,” I Say, “it is
much brighter and more beautiful in the
gallery, you had better go in.” ¢No,”
they say, ‘we know exactly how it is out
here, but we don’t know exactly how it is
inside.” :
So we stick to thie world as though we
preferred cold, drizzle to warm habitation,
discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal pur-
ple—as though we preferred a piano with
four or flve of the keysout of tune to an in-
strument fully attuned—as though earth
and heaven had exchanged apparel, and
earth had taken on bridal array and
heaven had gone into’deep mourning,” all
its waters stagnant, all{its harps broken,
all chalices cracked at the dry wells, all
the lawns sloping to the river plowed with
graves with dead angels under the furrow.
I am amazed at myself and at yourself
for this infatuation under which we all
rest. Men you would suppose would get
frightened at having to stay in this world
instead of getting frightened at having to
go toward heaven. This world is as bright
to me as to any living man, butI congrat-
ulate anybody who has a right to die. By
that I mean through sickness you cannot
avert, or througn accident you cannot
avold—your work consummated. ‘Where
did they bury Lily?” said one little child
to another. “Oh,” she replied, ‘they
buried her in the ground.” ‘What! inthe
cold ground?” “Oh, no, no; not in the cold
ground, but in the warm ground, where
ugly seeds become beautiful flowers.”
“But,” says some one, ‘‘it pains me so
much to think that I muet lose the body
with which my soul has so long compan-
ioned.” You do not loge it, You no more
lose your body by death than you lose your
watch when you send it to have it repaired,
or your jewel when you send it to have it
reset, or the faded picture when you send
it to have it touched up, orthe photograph
of a friend when you have it put in a new
locket. You do not lose your body. Paul
will go to Rome to get his, Payson will go
to Portland to get his, President Edwards
will go to Princeton to get his, George
Cookman will go to the bottom of the At-
lantie to get his, and we will go to the vil-
lage churchyards and the-city cemeteries
to get outs; and when wé have our perfect
spirit rejoined to our perfect body,then we
“will be the kind of men and women that
the resurrection morning will make pos-
sible.
So you see you have not made out any
doleful story yet. What have you proved
about death? What is the case you have
made out? You have made out just this—
that death allows us to have a perfect
body, free of all aches, united forever with
a perfect soul free from all sin. Correct
your theology. What does it all mean?
Why, it means that moving-day is coming,
and that you are going to quit cramped
apartments and be mansioned forever.
The horse that stands at the gate will not
be the one lathered and bespattered,. car-
rying bad news, but it will be the horse
that St§John saw in Apocalyptic vision—
the white horse on which the King comes
to the banquet. The ground around the
palace will quake with the tires and hoofs
of celestial zquipage, and those Christians
who in this wrold lost thelr friends, and
lost their property, and lost their health,
and lost their life, will find out that God
was. always kind, and that adl things
worked together fer their good, and that
those were the wisest people on earth who
made the best of everything. See you not
now the bright light in the clouds?
WAR COST TO DATE.
Abont $3,000,000 a Day the Average
Expense of Fitting Army and Navy.
WasHINGTON, D. C. (Special).—The first
twenty-nine days of the war which the
United States is waging against the king-
dom of Spain cost this country about $80,-
000,000, or nearly %3,000,000 a day.
The cost of operation§ in the future will
probably not beso great, as quite one-half
of the expenditures so far have been in
the way of preparation, the acquirement
of warships, guns and equipments. The
ordinary «ost should run about $1,000,000
aday. It is estimated that more than
200,000 persons ars actively employed
helping the nation’s land and sea forces to
get into fighting trim.
The persons who derive the most profit
from contracts with the Government are
those that have ships, guns, commissary
supplies, boots, shoes, uniforms, tents, cut-
lery, tinware and flannels to sell, and the
railway companies,
FORCED MARCHES AT MOBILE.
The Regulars Put Through a Ten-Mile
Trip Every Day.
MoeiLe, Ala. (Special).—The four regi-
ments of infantry at Camp Coppinger are
now more acclimatized.
The troops are getting some fine Cuban
practice by forced marches of ten miles a
day, with advance and rear guards
out and ambulances following to pick
up those who may fall by the
wayside. These practice marches are most
severe, the men carrying full outflts and
200 rounds of ammunition, but they stand
the test well, and few have been overcome
by the heat. At the volunteer camp the
troops are rapidly becoming efficient under
the unceasing instructions of army and
volunteer officers, the men drilling at least
eight hours a day. ~~
Killed Wlrile at Prayer.
Sarah Jane Phillips, age twenty-two
years, whileat prayer in her home in Au-
denried, Penn., was killed by u bolt of
lightning. She was near the chimney wher
the flash struck the house. -
CONGRESS.
- ' Benate.
That feature of the war revenue
measure placing a tax of one quarter
of one per centum upon the gross re-
ceipts of corporations was under dis-
cussion in the Senate throughout Tues-
day’s session.
My. Platt (Conn.), a member of the
finance committee, declared that the
corporation tax, he believed, was un-
constitutional. The bill, he thought,
would raise a sufficient amount with-
out the corporation tax. Mr. Platt
thought the bond feature fair. It wase
proper that the burdens of the war
should be distributed over a period of
years.
Mr. Lindsay (Ky.), said it was im-
possible for the Government to levy
taxes of the corporation feature ex-
cept on consumption and on industry.
Mr. Lindsay held the corporation tax
provision an unnecessary and officious
interference with State taxation by the
Federal Government. He further
maintained that by the proposed issue
of legal tender notes the Democrats in
favor of such issue were simply plac-
ing more power in the hands of specu-
lators to raid the gold reserve of the
Government.
Mr. Allison (Ia.), in charge of the
war revenue bill in the Senate, endeav-
ored Wednesday to secure unanimous
consent that a final vote be taken Sat-
urday. Mr. Daniel (Va.) sounded the
first note of delay by announcing that
if certain provisions were not agreed
to he would offer some amendrhents to
cause debate.
The opponents of Hawaiian an-
nexation in the Senate, it is learned,
agreed to the arrangement for daily
sessions of the Senate, beginning at 11
o’clock, only after an understanding
with a number of Republican senators
that the Hawaiian question should not
be earnestly pressed in. the Senate in
any form at this session. These as-
surances, Democratic senators hostile
to annexation say, are sufficiently
numerous to warrant them in believing
an adjournment of Congress will be
taken without action by the Senate on
Hawaii.
In the Senate Thursday Mr. White
(Dem,, Cal.) drew out the fact that an
anrendment is to be offered to the war
revenue bill by Mr. Gorman (Dem.,
Md.) placing a tax of one-half of 1 per
cent upon corporations owning rail-
roads, street railroads, sleeping cars,
steamboats, express vehicles, telephone
or telegraph lines, gas, electric light or
power, steam heating plants, refining
petroleum or sugar, etc.
Mr. White said it had been whisper-
ed that the great financial interests
which had contributed largely to a
campaign fund were demanding, as
compensation for their liberality, that
the burdens of the war should not be
thrust upon them. He did not believe,
however, that any senator on either
side of the chamber would be infilu-
enced by a demand so sordid and sel-
fish.
A notable speech on the war revenue
measure wi delivered in the Senate
Friday by Mr. Gorman. In the course
of an argument in support of a tax on
corporations, he denounced as ‘in-
famous the decision of the Supreme
Court declaring the income tax law of
1894 as unconstitutional.” The warn-
ing sounded by some Senators, that if
{a tax be placed upon corporations it
| would be pronounced unconstitutional
| by the Supreme Court, hag, he said, no
| effect upon him. A decision against
| such an enactment would not destroy
| our financial structure, but it would
destroy the court which should hand it
down.
Mr. Gorman took decided issue with
i the majority of his fellow Democrats
‘sipon their propgsition to coin the silver
| seigniorage and to issue legal tender
| notes, and made a powerful argument
In favor of the issuance of bonds to
raise funds with which to prosecute
the war.
| The Hawaiian annexation question,
| which has been the subject of no little
! concern about the senate for the past
| few days, assumed definite shape in
i the senate Friday, when Senators
| Lodge and, Morgan offered amend-
| ments to the war revenue bill bearing
| directly upon the subject. Senator
| Lodge's amendment is in the words of
| the Newlands resolution, and provides
in direct terms for the annexation of
the islands. Senator Lodge was seen
. immediately after he had sent his
amendment to the desk, and announc-
lad it to be his purpose to press the
amendment to the end. “Henceforth,”
said he, ‘the two measures must
travel together. Both are equally im-
portant, and under the circumstances
i it would be foolhardy for us to forego
{ our advantages in Hawaii.”
House.
The Republican caucus of the House
! on the Hawaiian annexation has been
| indefinitely deferred. Ome cannot be
{ held now until the middle of next week.
{ Meantime the leaders are hopeful a
| break in the ranks on that issue may
| be averted. No assurance of a rule for
| the treaty’s consideration has been
i given by the committee on rules.
JOY AT SANTIAGO.
| Great Enthusiasm Displayed When the Span-
ish Ships Enter the Harbor.
A dispatch has been published at
| Madrid giving details of the arrival of
| Admiral Cervera’s. squadron at Sant-
| jago de Cuba. It says:
{ “At 8 o'clock on the morning of May
| 19, the Infanta Maria Teresa entered
{ the port of Santiago de Cuba flying the
| flag of Admiral Cervera. She was fol-
i lowed almost immediately by the Viz-
I caya, the Almirante Oquendo, the Cris-
i tobal Colon, and the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Pluton. Soon afterward the
torpedo boat destroyer Furor, which
had been reconnoitering arrived.
‘The inhabitants swarmed to the
shores of the bay, displaying the ut-
most joy and enthusiasm. All the ves-
sels in the port were dressed in gala
array. On Sunday night there was an
imposing demonstration in honor of
the officers and crews. . The bands of
the city played patriotic airs; there
were brilliant illuminations and the
people paraded the streets singing pat-
riotic songs.
“Admiral Cervera and his officers
were given a banquet at the Casino,
where loyal toasts Were honored, the
principal speeches being by Admiral
Cervera and Monsignor Saenz de
Urturi y Crespo, archbishop of Santi-
ago de Cuba, the latter of whom ex-
claimed: ‘It is not sufficient to be
victorious on the sea. The Spanish flag
must float on the capitol.’
A Reason for Delayed Cuban Invasion.
As for myself, says Gen. Miles, I have
only to say that no oflicer is fit to com-
mand troops who from any motive
whatever would needlessly risk the life
of a single soldier, either from disease
or the bullets of the enemy. I have
never sacrificed the lives of men under
my command and'I do not propose to
subject them to any unnecessary risks
in the present: campaign.”
Chicago Benefits by the War.
Between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000 will
be spent by the government in Chicago
during May in payment for provisions
to be used in feeding soldiers.
BITTERNESS TONARDS OLD GLORY.
AN OLD RAG
1s What the Stars and Stripes are Termed
In the Spanish Senate—America Can
not Seize the Philippines
in the senate at Madrid last Friday
Marskhad Primo de Rivera, former cap-
tain general of the Philippines, defend-
ed his administration of the colony. He
said he could not believe his ears when
he was told of the disaster at Cavite,
adding:
“That rag called the American flag
shall never float over the walls of
Manila.”
The Philippines, he continued, had
not had adequate means of defense.
He appealed to the government to sup-
ply them, but the government answer-
ed that the pope had intervened and
that there was no fear of a rupture.
The naval committee at Manila exam-
ined into the position carefully and
reached the conclusion that it was
quite impossible to offer battle to the
Americans.
“The Yankees are deceiving them-
selves,” Marshal de Rivera declared,
“as to the situation at the Philippines.
It is absolutely impossible that they
should become masters of the islands,
for the natives, to an immense major-
ity, are determined to defend the terri-
tory to the last and to maintain Span-
ish sovereignty.”
Capt. Aunon, minister of marine, said
it was inopportune to discuss the war
at present. He had neither approval
nor disapproval to express of Marshal
de Rivera's administration, but he con-
sidered it necessary to exercise a cer-
tain reserve in the interest of the coun-
try.
TONS OF HEAVY ARMOR.
New Battleships to be Supplied by Two Penn-
sylvania Companies.
Bids were opened the other day for
supplying the armor for the three bat-
tleships, Illinois, Alabama and Wis-
consin, now in course of construction.
This is the second time that the gov-
ernment has endeavored to secure bids
for supplying the armor for - these
ships. The first effort was made about
a year ago, and was unsuccessful be-
cause Congress had made the mimi-
mum cost per ton for the armor at a
figure below the cost of production.
The present naval appropriation bill
having increased the price allowed to
$400 a ton, the effort was successful.
For the Illinois, the two armor com-
panies, Bethlehem and Carnegie, di-
vided their bids, one taking the lighter
armor and the other the heavier. For
the Alabama, the Bethlehem Company
bid $1,022,504, while the Carnegie did
not bid. For the Wisconsin, the Car-
negie Company bid $1, 504.
in each case was $400 a ton
flat for
bolts and armor, the maximum amount |
allowed by Congress.
The Bethlehem company undertakes
to begin deliveries of armor within
seven months after contract, and to
supply 300 tons monthly. The Carnegie
company will begin December 1, and
supply the same amount monthly.
HORRIBLE DEATHS.
American Missicnaries Murdered at Sierra
Leone on the West Coast of Africa.
A letter received in London from
Sierra Leone, west coast of Africa,
says that a Mendina native who was
with the American missionaries at
otufunk when they were massacred
by the insurgents, but who made his
escape by resuming his native garb,
furnishes the following account of the
“tragedy:
“We started to walk to Sierra Leone,
but had only gone half a mile when we
met war boys, who blocked the way.
Rev... Mr. Caintried “toidrighten. them
by firing ‘a. revolver over their heads;
but seeing they were determined to do
mischief, he cast his revolver away
and said he would not have anybody’s
blood on his hands. The war boys then
seized the party, including Misses Hat-
field, Archer and Kent (Shenk),
stripped them of their clothing,
dragged them back to the mission
house, in front of which the war boys
cut d6wn Rev. Mr. Cain and hacked
him to death, and then treated Miss
Archer and Miss Kent (Shenk) in the
same way. Miss Hatfield, who was
very ill, was thrown cn a barbed wire
netting, and finally her throat was cut.
Mrs. Cain escaped to the bush with a
native girl, but the war boys went out
seeking for them and they were afte:-
wards killed.”
Other Nations Suffer.
Third parties have begun te suffer
from the war, according to reports re-
ceived from United States corosul Ay-
me, at Guadaloupe, and it may be that
other West Indian islands are to share
in the burdens imposed upon Guada-
loupe by the existence of hostilities.
He reports that there is a scarcity of
flour and other provisions, and also of
lumber, owing to the cessation of ar-
rival of vessels from the United States.
Probably these do not care to venture
the chance of capture of their cargoes
by Spanish warships.
Mammoth Ship Building Concern.
By a deal, made public Wednesday,
the Cramp Shipbuilding Company, of
Philadelphia, will become one of the
greatest corporations of its kind in the !
be- |
made
Sons
is to be
and Vickers’
world. An alliance
tween the Cramps
land. The Cramps’ capital stock is to
be increased from $5,000,000 to $10,000,-
000 and will be supplied by the English
Company.
TELEGRAMS TERSELY TOLD.
shot his
TL, cand
Bailey Decker,
white wife at Tottenville,
killed himself.
Alfred Lambla, a Frenchman, shot
and killed his wife at San Diego, Cal.,
and committed suicide.
Robbers at Albuquerque, N.-M.,
threw the safe out of an express car.
After exploding it they escaped with
the contents.
County Treasurer Krohn, of Madera,
Cal., was terribly beaten by robbers
and the safe of the county rifled of its
contents, a few hundred dollars.
a negro,
S
England is pleased over the numer-
ous celebrations held in the United
States last Tuesday in honor of Vic-
toria’s birthday. She may reciprocate
by celebrating the Fourth.
Two American girls and a Mexican
girl were drowned near Cuero, Tex., a
few days ago. They were bathing in
the Guadaloupe river and got into deep"
water. Their bodies were recovered.
Joseph Smith discovered a natural
gas leak which he was looking for with
a lighted match, at Huntington, Ind.
The entire building ws wrecked and
Smith cannot recover as a result of the
explosion.
The rate |
|
fovery
& Maxim, of Barrow-in-Furness, Eng- |
{
MARKETS
PITT3BURG.
Grain, Xiour and reed
WHEAT—No. 1red $127@ 1728
No3red................ viens XO 3 4
CORN-—No. 2 yellow, ear
No. 2 yellow, shelled
Mixed ear
OATS—No. 2 white.
Jo 3 white
HAY—No. 1 timothy
Clover, No. 1
Hay, from wagons
FEED—No. 1 White Md., ton..
Brown middlings
Bran, bulk
STRAW—Wkeat .....
Oat :
SEEDS—Ciover, 60 Ibs,
Timothy, prime
Dairy Products.
BUTTER—EIgin Creamery....$
Ohio creamery.
Fancy country roll
CHEESE—Ohio, new
New York, new.
Fruits and Vegetables.
BEANS—Green, # bw
POTATOES—White, per pu...
CABBAGE—Per crate
ONIONS—New Southern, bbl.
00
125
40) 425
Poultry, Etc
CHICKENS, @ pair small
TURKEYS, # Ib
EGGS—Pa. and Ohio, fresh... ..
CINCINNATI
65
16
11
60@
15
10
60
80
55
38
30
EGGS
BUTT
ER—Ohio creamery
PHILADELPHIA.
WHEAT—No. 2red
CORN—No. 2 mixed.
OATS—No. 2 white
BUTTER—Creamery, oxtra....
EGGS—Pa. firsts
NEW YORK
FLOUR—Patents....
WHEAT—No. 2 red
CORN—No. 2
OATS—White Western. ....... -
BUTTER— Creamery
EGGS—state of Penn
LIVE STOCK.
CENTRAL STOCK YARDS, EAST LIBERTY, PAe
CATTLE.
Prime, 1,300 to 1,400 Ibs
Good, 1,200 to 1,800 Ibs
Tidy, 1,000 to 1,150 Ibs. . ...
Fair ligut steers, 900 to 1000
Common, 700 to 900 lbs
HOGS.
Medium: .. 5... RR RE
Heavy
a.
Prime, 95 to 105 tbs, wethers...8 4
Good, 85to WU bs... .............
Fair, 70 to 80 Ibs
10@
415
TRADE REVIEW.
Outgo of Wheat and Corn Continue to Stim
ulate Business.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade reports as follows for last week:
The nation faces war with reviving
volume of business. The West is doing
its part and more, but at the east also
the volume of business is now expand-
ing. Without abatement in any im-
portant line, the great outgo of wheat
and corn continues to stimulate busi-
ness at the west and railroad earnings
show an increase over last year of 15.1
per cent. in trunk lines, 8.8 per cent, in
granger roads, and in the other west-
ern roads, 14.6 per cent., while east-
bound shipments from (‘hicago in three
weeks have been 388,808 tons, against
150,812:-Jast year and “164923 tons in
89x
This is largely because of the enorm-
ous movement of breadstuffs. Atlantic
exports of wheat, flour included, have
been 3,726,442 bushels for the week,
against 1,536,607 last year, though Pa-
cific exports were only 92,184 bushels
against 314,955 last year. Wheat re-
ceipts at the west do not diminish, but
run far beyond those of a year ago—
for the week, 4,625 3} bushels against
against 2,969,173 ‘last year. In four
weeks exports from both coasts have
been 13,691,874 bushels, against 5,704,334
last year. The marvel is still the enor-
mous foreign buying of corn, exports
having reached 5,550,595 bushels for the
week, against 1,584,511 last year, and in
four weeks the exports have been 20,-
288,097 bushels, against 9,360,091 last
year. Yet corn closes 3.37 cents lower
for the week, although wheat, after
rising from $156 to $166 for May, fell
to $146 on Friday, while July options
fell 114 cents. Official and all other ac-
counts agree in estimating that the
wheat yield will be remarkably large
this year in spite of the fact that the
California, crop has been much dam-
aged by want of rain.
Starting this month with the greatest
consumption ever known, the iron in-
dustry has made surprising progress in
new orders, which reach about 100,000
tons placed at Chicago and 15,000 at
Wheeling, mainly, resulting from the
extraordinary demand for agricultural
implements. Heavy contracts for
structural work, including some from
New York, which have depended on
action of the city government, amount
during the week to at least 15,000 tons,
with others reported at many western
cities. Plate contracts, outside of the
heavy demand for the government, are
large, and include 5,600 tons for
ship yards in Glasgow and Belfast.
Many structural and bridge contracts
at the west are pending, with probabil-
ity of large orders during the coming
week. A better demand appears for
textile goods with slight advance in
print cloths and a substantial gain in
sales of staples. -
Wool sales during the week hve been
only 3,748,100 pounds, of which 2,489,100
were domestic, against 6,842,400 a year
ago and 4,211,000 in the same week of
1892. The manufacturers are largely
supplied with materials, although some
who have heavy government contracts
are obliged to buy different grades of
wool than those they have in hand.
Activity in the mrket is prevented by
the fact that western holders almost
universally believe in higher prices
than can yet be realized in eastern
markets, so that purchasing is very
light. The silk mills are all busy, and
the caming linen manufacture is mak-
ing a good récord for itself.
Failures for the week have been 245
in the United States, against 214 last
year, and 21 in Canada, against 22 last
year.
Tremendous Food Supplies.
The work of unloading and
49 cars of provisions which arrived
Tuesday at Chickamauga was com-
pleted up to date. The quartermaster’s
department has received $295,000 worth
of provisions for the volunteers. The
value of the clothing and equipments
storing
i already received amounts to almost as
much. The quartermaster’'s depart-
ment is doing remarkably well