GOSPEL MESSAGES. Safclerti "Making the Unit of Things"' AdM About Looking on the Bright Ride Blessings In Hlufnrtnnt'i Gnlsi ' llereaveinent Fortify Oar Spirit. ' Tixt: "Ami now men see not the bright ugnt wnioa is in the olouds." Job xxxvll.. 81. Wind east, nnrnmeter fnllln ntnrm. signals out. Ship reefing mnlntopsall! Awnings taken in. Prophecies of foul Weather everywhere. The clnmls congre gate around the sun, proposing to nhollsh him, But after awhile he assails the ftnnks of the olouds with flying artillery of light, and here and there Is a sign of clenrtng weather. Many do not observe It. Many uo nix remise u. -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 tor sunshine. Mv ohlnct Is to net you and myself Into the delightful linult of making the tiest of everything. You may hare wondered at the statistics that In India, In the year 1H75, there were ovsr nineteen thousand people slain by wild beasts, and that In the year 1876 there were In India over twenty thousnnd peo ple destroyed by wild animals. Hut there Is a monster In our own bind which Is year by year destroying more thnn that. It Is the old bear of melancholy, and with Gos pel weapons I propose to chase It back to Its midnight oaverns. I mean to do two sums a sum In subtraction and a um In addition a subtraction from your davs of depression and an addition to your days of Joy. If God will help me I will compel you to see the bright light that there Is in the clouds, and compel you to make the best of everything. In tho first place, yoa ought to make the very best of all your financial misfortunes. During the panic years ago, or the long years of llnnnclardeprcsston, you nil lost money. Home of you lost It in most unac countable ways. For tho question, "How mnny 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 bnrd with two oars, and vet all the time going down stream. You did not sny much about it because It was not politic to speak much of finan cial embarrassment; but your wife know. 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. - How few men have succeeded largely In financial sense and yet matntaluod their simplicity and religious consocrutionl Not one man out of a hundred. There are glori ous exceptions, but the general ruin Is that In proportion as a man gets well off forthls world he gets poorly off for the next. He loses bis sense of dependence on God. He Rets a distaste for prayer meetings. With plenty of bnnk stoaks and plenty of Gov ernment securities, whnt docs that man know of tho prayer, "Give me this day my dally bread?'' How fow men largely suc cessful in this world are bringing souls to Christ, or showing aelf-donlal for others, or are eminent for piety? You can- count them all upon your eight fingers and two thumbs. One of tho old covetous souls, when be was sick, and sick unto death, used to fanva a basic brought in a basin filled With ffoUt. Anil htm Anlvimnuimant an.l the only relief ha got for his Inflamed bands was running them down through the gold and turning It up in the basin. Ob, what Infatuation and what destroying power money has for many a manl Now, vou weresailing at thirty knots the hour toward these vortices of worldllncss what a mercy it was, that honest defalcation! The same divine hand that crushed your tore-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 tor eternity. i "Oh' yon say, "I oould get along very Well myself, but I am so disappointed that I cannot leave a competence for my chil dren." My brothor, 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 suy, "Well, there's no need of my working; my father will soon step out, ani then I'll have Just what I want." You cannot bide from him bow much you are . worth. You think you are hiding it; he ..' knows nil about it. He can tell you almost to a dollar. Perhaps be bos been to the - county office and soarched the records of , deeds and mortgages, and be has added it ' all op, and he has made an estimate of bow long you will probably stay in this world, nd 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 bis bead and heart, Of all the young men wkofstarted life with seventy . thousand dollars' capital, how many turned out well? I do not know half a dozen. The best inheritance a young man can have Is the fooling that he has to fight his -"own battle, and that lite is a struggle into which he must throw body, mind and soul, or be dlsgrnoefully worsted. Where are the burial places of the men who started life with a fortune? gomo of them In the Setter's field; some In the suloide's grave, ut few of those men reached thirty-five years of age. They drauk, they smoked, - they gambled. In them the beast de stroyed the man. Home of them lived long enough to get their fortunes, and went through them. The vast majority of them did not llva to get their Inheritance. From the gin-shop or house of infamy they were brought home to their father's bouse, 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 highly upholstered parlor, the casket covered with flowers by Indulgent parents flowers suggestive of 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 tblngsl Howl wish I could start them In life with a eompeteneel How I bare been disappointed In all my expects . tlons of what I wonlc do for them!" Upon ' that scene of pathos I break with a pecan of eongratulation, that by your financial losses your own prospeots for heaven and tbs pros peat for heaven of yourlchlldren are mightily improved. You may have lost 'a toy, bat you bavs won a palace. Let ma bare say, In p" -ng, do not put muoh stress . on the treasures of this world. Yoa cannot ' taka them along with you. At any rate, ?on cannot take them mora than '.two or brae miles; you will bave to leave them at the cemetery. Attlla had three coffins. Ho fond was he of this life that he decreed that first be should be buried In a eofun'of gold, nd that "on that should be inclosed in a aoffla of sllv.', and that should be Inclosed In a oomn of Iron, and then a large amount of treasure should be thrown in over his fcoAy. And so be was burled, and the men who buried bim were slain, so that no one might know where heaa burled, and no one might there interfere witb bis treasures. Ou, men of the world, who want to taka your money with you, battier bave three oofllos. Agulu, I remark, you ought to make the very beat 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 ' ! visitations to the cemetery, and to say, 'Vu, I can aever look up again; my bope is Cvas; my teura is gun; my religion Is gone; my faith In Ood Is gone! Oh, the wear and tear and exhaustion of this lone llnessl" The most frequent bereavement Is the loss of children. If your departed child had lived as long as you have lived, do yon not suppose that he would have had about the same amount of trouble and trial that you have hsd? If you could make aclroloe for your child between forty years of 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 mnny be reavements? Instead fof the eom plete safety Into which that child has been lifted, would you like to bold It down to the risks of this moral state? Would you like to keep it out on a sea In which there have been more shipwrecks thnn safe voy ages? Is It not a comfort to you to know that thnt child, Instead of being besolled and flung Into the mire of sin. Is swung dear Into the skies? Are not tlioe chil dren to be congratulated thnt the point of aelostlnl bliss which yoa expect to reach by n pilgrimage of fifty or sixty or seventy years they reached at a Dash? It 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 roaohed the blissful terminus? Besides that, my friends, you are to look at this matter as a self-denial on your part for their benefit. If your children want to go off In a May-day party; If your children want to go on a flowery and musical excursion, you consent. You might prefer to hnve them with you, hut their lubllnnt nbsence satisfies you. Well, your departed children have only gone out In a May-day party, amid flowery ami musical entertainment, nmld joys and hilnrltlns forever. That ought to quell someof your grief, the thought of their glee. Ho It ought to be that you could make the best of all bereavements. The f net that you have so many friends tn heaven will niHke your own departure very cheerful. When you are going on a voynge, every thing depends upon where your friends are If they are on the whnrf that you leavo, or on the wharf toward which you are go ing to sail. In other words, the mora friends you have In heaven the easier It will be to get away from this world. The more friends hem, the more bitter good byes; the more friends there the more glorious welcomes. Home 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; hut there was no Joy there compared with the Joy which shall be demonstrated when you sail up the brond bay of heavenly salutation. The more friends yon have there, the easier your own transit. What Is death to a mother whoso children are In heaven? Why, there Is no more grief In It thnn there fa In her going Into a nursery nmld tho romp and laughter of her household. Though all around may be dark, see you not the bright light in the clouds thnt light the Irritated faces of your glorlllod kindred? Ho also, my friends, I would have yon make the best of your sicknesses. Whon you see one movo off with elastic step and In full physical vigor, sometimes you be come impatient with your lame foot. When a man describes an object a mile off, and you oannot see It at all, you become Im patient of your dim eye. When you hear of a well man making a great achievement you bocome lmpntlont with your-deprossnd nervous system or your dilapidated health. I will tell you bow you can make the worst of It. Brood over it; brood over all these Illnesses, and your nerves will become more twltohy, 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 mv work to show you a bright light in the clouds. nlcu or tho Bible men most attract your attention? You say. Moses. Job. David. Jeremiah, Paul. Why, whnt n strange thlug It is that you have chosen those who were physically dlsordorodl Moses I know bo was nervous rrom the blow he gave the Egyptian. Job his blood was vitiated and diseased, nnd bis skin distressfully erup tive. David he had a running sore, which lie speaks of when be says: "My sore ran In the night and censed not." Jeremiah had enlargement of the spleen. Who can doubt It who rend Lamentations? Paul- he had lifetime sickness which the aom- mentntors bave been guessing about for years, not knowing exactly whnt the apostle moant by "a thorn in the llesh." I do not know either; but It was something sharp, something that stuck blm. I gather from all this that physical disorder may be tbe 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 he different, they are no more those of the man who has an appetite three times a dav, and sleeps eight hours every night. From what I have beard I Judge that Invalids bave a more rapturous vfow of the next world thnn well people, nnd will have a higher renown In heaven. The best view of tbe delectable mountains is through the lattice of the slok room. There are trains running every hour between pillow and throne, between hospital and mansion, between bandages and robes, between crutch and palm branou. Oh, I wish some of you. people who are compelled to cry. -aiy nnau, my nenai my loot, my footl Mv back, my back!" would trv soma of the Lord's medlcinel You are going to be well anyhow before long. Heaven is an old city, but bas never yet reported one cose oi siosneas or one tun or mortality. No ophthalmia for tbe eye. No pneumonia for the lungs. No plourlsy for the side. No neuralgia tor the nerves. No rheuma tism for the muscles. Tbe inhabitants shall never sny, "I am sick." "Tbore shall be no more pain." Again, you ought to make the best of life's finality. Now, you think I hnve a very tough subject. Yon do not see how I am to strike a spark of light out of tbe Slnt of the tombstone. There are many people who bare an Idea that death is tbe submargenoe of everything pleasant by everything doleful. If my subject could close In the upsetting of all suoh preaon aelved notions. It would olose 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 say. "those can Judge best of the fouturos of a man who are oiose Dy mm!" Now, my friends, who shall Judge ot the fentures of death whether they are lovely or whether they are repulBlve? You? You are too far off. It I want to 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 month ot death, or a week of death, or an boar of death, or a minute of death. They stand so near tbe features, they . can tell. Tbey give unanimous testimony, If they are Christian people, that death, Instead of being demoniac, Is cherubic Of all the thousands of Christians who have been carried through tbe gates of the oemetery, gather up their dying experiences, and you will find tbey nearly all bordered on a Jubilate. How often yoa have seen a dy ing man Join In the psalm being sung around bis bedside, tbe middle of tbe verse opening to let bis ransomed spirit free I loug after tbe lips oould not speak, be looking and pointing upward. Home of you talk as though Ood bad ex hausted Himself In bulldlug tbls world. and that all the rich curtains He ever made He bung around this planet, and all the flowers lie ever grew He bos woven Into tbe carpet of our daisied meadows. No. ThlsVorld is not the best thing God can do; this world Is not tbe best thing that God bas done. - One week of our year Is called blossom Week called so all through tbe laud be cause tttere are more blossoms In that week than In any other week of tbe year. Blossom week! And that is what ths future world is to which tbe Christian is Invited blossom week forever. It U as far ahead of this world as ra radius Is ahead of Pry Tort ti gas. and yet hers wa stand trembling and fearing to go ont, and we want to stay on the dry sand, and amid the stormy petrels, whon we are Invited to' arbors ot Jessamine, nnd birds of pnradlsn. One season I had two springtime. I went to New Orleans In April, nnd I marked the differences between going toward New Orleans nnd 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, endless It became until there was hardly any. Now, It all depends upon the direc tion In which yoa 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 muoh surprised It a spirit ot 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 Edenlo blos somfrom the nrctlcsof trouble toward tbe tropics of eternal Joy. Oh. what an ado about dylngt We get so attached to the malarial marsh In whlen we live that wa are afraid to go up and live on the hilltop, We nre alnrmod be cause vacation Is coming. Best programme oi ceiesiiai minstreis anil nniieiiijan, no In ducement. Let us stny here and keep Ig norant and sinful and weak. Do not In- trod uce us to Elijah, nnd John Milton and Bourdnlone. Keep our feet on the sharp cobblestones ot earth distend of planting them on the bank of amaranth In heaven. Give us this smnll 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, nnd hopples on our ankles, and handcuffs on our wrists. 'Dear Lord." we seen to sav. "keen us down here where we hnve to suffer. Instead of letting us up where we might live and reign and rejoice." We are like persons standing on the aold steps of the national picture gallery In London, under umbrella In the i-nin, afraid to go In amid the Turners and the Titlnus, ana tun ltnphaels.I come to them nnd say, "Why don't you go Inside tbe gn lory?" "Oh," they sny, "we don't know whether1 we can get In." I sav: "Don't you see the door Is open?" "Yes," they say; "but wo havo been so long on theso cold steps, we are so attached to them we don't like to leave." "But." I sav. "It Is much brighter and more beautiful In the gallery, you bnd bettor go In." "No," they say, "wo know exactly how It Is out hern, but we don't know exactly how it is Inside." Ho we stick to this world as though we preferred cold drissle to warm habitation, discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal pur- no as iiiougu we prtuorreu a piano witn lour or live ot the keys out of tune to an in strument fully attuned ns though earth and hoaveu had exchanged npparnl, and earth had taken on bridal array and honven had gone Into'denp mourning, all Its wntors stagnant. All (Its harps broken, all chalices cracked at the dry wolls, all tho lawns sloping to the river plowed with grnves with dead angels under tho furrow. I am amazed at myself and at yourself for this infatuation under which we all rest. Men you would suppose would got frightened nt having to stnv In this world Instead of getting frightened nt having to go townrd heaven. This world Is ns bright to mo ns to any living man, but I congrat ulate anybody who has n right to din. By that I menu through sickness you cannot avert, or through accident you cannot avoid your work consummated. "Where did thny bury Lily?" said one llttlo child to another. "Oh," she- repllod, "they burled her In the ground." "What! In the cold ground?" "Oh, no, no; not In tho cold ground, but In tho warm ground, whore ugly sends become beautiful flowers." "Hut." says some one. "It nnlns me so much to think that I mur.t loso tho body with which my soul hns so long compan ioned." Yon do not lose It. You no more lose your body by dentb than you lose vour watch when you send It to have It repaired, or your Jowol when you tend It to have It reset, or tho faded picture whon you send it to hnve It touched up, orthe photograph of a friend when you have It put tn a new locket. You do not lose your body. Paul will go to Homo to get his. Pavson will go to Portland to get bis, President Edwards will go to 1'rlncetou to get his, George Cookmnu will go to tho bottom of tho At Inntlo to get bis. and we will goto the vil lage churchyards and tho city cemeteries to get ours: nnd when we have our perfect spirit rejoined to our porfect body, then we will be the kind of men and women that, the rusurroation morning will make pos- sioie. Ho you see yoa bave not made out any doleful story yet. What have you proved about death? What is the case you have made out? You bave made out just this thnt death allows us to have a perfect body, free of all actios, united forever with a perfect soul tree from nil sin. Correct your theology. What does it 'all mean? Why, it means that moving-day Is oomlng, and that yon aro going to quit cramped apartments and bo mnnsioned forever. The horse that stands at the gate will not be the one lathered ana bespattered, car rying bnd news, but it will be the horse that Ht.JJohn saw in Apocalyptic vision the white horse on which the King oomes to the bauquet. The ground around the palace will quake with the tires and hoofs of colestlal tqulpage, nnd those Christians wno in tnis wroni lost tlieir friends, nnd losttholr property, nnd lost their health, and lost their life, will find out that God was always kind, and that nil things worked together for their good, and that tboso were the wisest people on earth who made the best of everything. Hoe yoa not now me prigut ngut in tuo oiouas? WAR COST TO DATE. About 03,000,000 a Day the Average Expense of Fitting Arinv and Navy. Washington, D. C. (Special). Tho first twentv-ulno davs of the war whlsh the United Htntos Is waging against the king dom of Hpain oost this country about 30, 000.000, or nearly 43,000,000 a day. rue cost oi operations in the future will probably not beso great, as suite one-half of the expenditures so far bave been In tbe way ot preparation, the acquirement of warships, guns nnd equipments. The ordinary cost should run about $1,000,000 a day. It Is estimated that more than 200,000 persona are actively employed helping the nation's land audsea forces to get lntilghtlng trim. 'in persons wno derive tbe most profit from oontrnots with the Government are those that have ships, guns, commissary supplies, boots, shoes, uniforms, tents, cut lery, tinware ana nnanels to sell, ana ths railway companies. FORCED MARCHES AT MOBILE. The Itegulsrs rut Through a Tsn-Mlle Trip Kvery Day. MoniLS, Ala. (Hpeolul). The four regi ments of lnfuntry at Camp Coppluger are now more acclimatized. The troops are getting some One Cuban practice by forced marches of ten miles a day, with advance nnd rear guards out and ambulances following to pick up those who may fall; by tbe wayside. These practice marches are mast severe, the men carrying full outllts and 200 rounds of ammunition, but tbey stand the test well, and few bave boon overcome by the beat. At the volunteer oamp the troops are rapidly becoming efficient under the unceasing Instructions of army and volunteer otlluors, the uiuu drilling at leust eight hour a day, , Killed While at Prayer. Bnrab June Phillips, age twenty-two years, while at prayer in her home in Au denried, Peun,, was killed by a bolt of lightning. Hbe was near tbe chimney wbaa tbs Hash struck tbe nous. CONGRESS. tenets. That fenture 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. Mr. IMatt (Conn.), a member of the finance committee, declared thnt the corporation tax, he believed, was un constitutional. Tho bill, he thought, would raise a sufficient amount with out the corporation tax. Mr. Plntt thought the bond feature fair. It was 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 (In.), In charge of the war revenue bill In the Pennte, endeav ored Wednesday to secure unanimous consent that a final vote be taken Hut unlay. Mr. Dnnlcl (Va.) sounded the first note of delay by announcing thnt If certain provisions were not agreed to he would ofTer aome amendments to cause debate. The opponents of Hnwallnn an nexation In the Senate, It Is learned, agreed to the arrangement for dally sessions of the Henute, beginning nt 11 o'clock, only nfter an understanding with a number of Republican aenntora that the Hawaiian question should not be earnestly pressed In the Senate In nny form at this session. These as surances. Democratic senators hostile to annexation say, are sufficiently numerous to warrnnt them In believing an adjournment of Congress will be taken without action by the Senate on Hawaii.) In the Pennte Thursday Mr. White (Dem Cal.) drew out the fact that an amendment Is to be offered to the war revenue hill by Mr. Oorman (Dem., Md.) placing a tax of onc-hnlf of 1 per cent upon corporations owning rail roads, street railroads, sleeping cars, steamboats, express vehicles, telephone or telegraph lines, gns, electrlo light or power, steam heating plants, rellnlng 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. Ho did not believe, however, that any senator on either Hide of the chamber would be Influ enced by a demand so sordid nnd sel fish. A nutnble speech on the war revenue measure was delivered In the Senate Frlduy by Mr. Gorman. In the course of nn argument In support of a tax on corporations, he denounced ns "In famous the dpclsbin of the Supreme Court declaring the Income tax luw of 1!4 as unconstitutional." The warn ing sounded by some Senntors. that If a tnx be placed upon corporations it would be pronounced unconstitutional by tho Supreme Court, hns, he said, no effect upon him. A decision ngnlnnt such an enactment would not destroy our flnnnclnl structure, but It would destroy the court which should hand It down. Mr. Oorman took decided Issue with the majority of his fellow Democrats upon their proposition 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 thP war. ' The Hnwallnn annexation question, which hns been the subject of no little ?oncern about the senate for the past few days, assumed definite shape In the senate Friday, when Senntors Lodge and Morgan offered amend ments to the wnr revenue bill bearing directly upon the subject. Senator Lodge's amendment Is In the words of the Newlnnds resolution, nnd provides In direct terms for the annexation of the Islands. Senator Lodge was seen Immediately nfter he hnd sent his amendment to the desk, and announc ed It to be his purpose to press the nmendment to the jend. "Henceforth," said he, "the two measures must travel together. Both are equally Im portant, and under the circumstances 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 deterred. One 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 given by the committee on rules. JOT AT SANTIAGO. Ores thulium Displays! When ths 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 iago de Cuba. It says: "At 8 o'clock on the morning of May 19, the Infantu Maria Teresa entered the port of Santiago de Cuba Hying the Hag of Admiral Cervera. She was fol lowed almost Immediately by the Vlx caya, the Almlrante Oquendo, the Cris tobal Colon, and the torpedo boat de stroyer Pluton. Soon afterward the torpedo boat destroyer Furor, which had been reconnoiterlng 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 gula array. On Sunday night there was an imposing demonstration In honor of the officers and crews. The bands ot 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 Cuslno, where loyal toasts "Were honored, the principal speeches being by Admiral Cervera and Monslgnor Baens de Urturi y Crcspo, archbishop ot 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 Dslayed Cuban Invasion. As for myself, says Uen. Miles, I have only to say that no ofllcer Is fit to com mand troops who from any motive whatever would needlessly risk the life of a single soldier, either from disease or thp 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." CMoago Benefits by ths War. Between 11,000,000 and $1,600,000 will be spent by the government In Chicago during May In payment for prgvlslons to bs used in feeding soldiers. Biroisnmii old gim AN OLD RAG II W.irt ths Stan and Stripee arc Tarmed la ths Spanish Senate-America Caa not lolic ths PhlllDplnei tho senate at Madrid last Friday Marshal Prlmo do 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 Cavlte, adding: "That rag called the American flog 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 thnt the pope had Intervened and thnt there was no fear of a rupture. The nnvnl 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 islnnds, for the natives, to an Immense major ity, are determined to defend the terri tory to the Inst nnd to maintain Span ish sovereignty." Cnpt. Atinon. minister of marine, said It was Inopportune to discuss the war at present. He had neither approval nor disapproval to express of Murshnl 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 HEAVT ARMOR. Hew Battleships to be Supplies' 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 hns 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 inlml mum cost per ton for the armor nt a figure below the cost of production. The present navnl 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 nnd the other the heavier. For the Alabama, the Bethlehem Company bid Sl.022.o04. while the Carneglo did not bid. For the Wisconsin, the Car negie Company bid $l,023,f04. The rate In each case was $400 a ton flat for bolts and armor, the maximum amount allowed by Congress. The Iiethlchern 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. Ameroan Miaaicnaries Murdered at Sierra Laono on tbe Wait Coast of Afrioa. A letter received In London from Sierra Leone, west coast of Africa, says that a Mendlna nutlve who was with the American missionaries at Rotufunk 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 wnr boys, who blocked the way. Rev. Mr. Cnln tried to frighten them by firing a revolver over their heads; but, seeing they were determined to do mischief, he cust his revolver away find said he would not have anybody's blood on his hands. The war boys then seized tho 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 down 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 111, was thrown on a barbed wire netting, and finally her throat was cut. Mrs. Cnln escaped to the bush with a native girl, but the war boys went out seeking for them and they were aft wurds killed." . Other Hationa Suffer. Third parties have begun to suffer from the war. according to reports re ceived from United States consul Ay me, at Quadaloupe, and It may be that other West Indian Islands are to share In the burdens imposed upon Quada 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 world. An alliance Is to be made be tween the Cramps and Vtckers' Sons & Maxim, of Barrow-in-Furness, Kng lund. The Cramps' capital stock Is to be increased from $5,000,000 to $10,000, 000 and will be supplied by the English Company. TZLEORAltS TERSELY T0L& Bailey Decker, a negro, shot his white wife at Tottenvllle, S. I., and killed himself. Alfred Lambla, a Frenchman, shot and killed his wife at San Diego, Cal., and committed suicide. Robbers at Albuquerque, N. M., threw the safe out of an express car. After exploding it they escaped with the contents. County Treasurer Krohn, of Madera, Cat., was terribly beaten by robbers and the safe of the county rilled of its contents, a few hundred dollars England la pleased over the numer ous celebrations held In the United States last Tuesday tn honor of Vic toria's birthday. She may reciprocate by celebrating the Fourth. Two American girls and a Mexican girl were drowned near Cuero, Tex., a few days ago. They were bathing In the Quadaloupe river and got Into deep water. Their bodies were recovered. Joseph Smith discovered a natural gas leuk which ha was looking for with a lighted mutch, at Huntington, lnd. The entire building was wrecked and Smith cannot recover as a revuit of the explosion. MARKETS PITT3BUK9. Grain, Iriour anJ J'sed WHEAT No, ired 1 179 1 19 NoS red I 21 1 at COHN No. S yellow, ear 47 49 No. S yellow, shelled 42 49 Mixed ear 41 41 OA IB No. 2 wblie 8.) 84 No. A white 84 89 BYE No, 1 OS 67 iLOUIl Winter patents 6 90 1 Off Fancy straight winter 6 71 6 65 live Hour 4 60 4 H HAY No. 1 timothy... 10 60 It Oil Clover, No. 1 7 00 7 60 Hny, from wngons 11 00 11 60) FEEO No. 1 Wbite Md., ton.. 17 60 18 00 Drown miuaungs it ou la uu llrsn. bulk 14 60 16 00 BTHAW Wheat 6 25 6 60 Oat ft 26 S 60 BE EUH Cover, 6a lbs 8 600 8 75 Timothy, prime. 1 Si 1 65 Dairy Produots. BUTTER Elgin Creamery.... S 17 19 unio oresmnry. - is 10 Kaney country roll 12 IS CHEEmK Olilo, new 6 ft New York, new 6 Fruits and Vegetablaa DEANS Omen, uu. 0 1 25 1 CO ruiAiutB-wnite. per uu.... j tu CA lib AGE Per crate 1 Oil 1 24 ONlUNrt New Houthern, but. 4 01 4 25 Poultry, Eta CniCKKNS, V pair small 60$ 6 JliiatlH. 10 16 in EUUS fa. and Ouio, IresU.... 10 It CINCINNATI. FLOUR $ 6 80 5 69 WHEAT No. 2 red l is 180 BYE No. 2 66 COKN Mixed 80 89 OA'18 .. 80 EUOH 9 UUTTElt Ohio nreamery 17 IS PHILADELPHIA. FLOUlt 6 60 6 75 WHEAT No. ared 1 80 COKN No. 2 mixed 87 8!, OATH No. 2 wulte 83 87 HUTTEH Creamery, extra.... .. 16 EOOS Pa. firsts U NEW TOBK. FLOUR Patents $ 0 7b 7 25 WHEAT No. 2 red 144 COHN-No. 2 86 OA'l'rt While Western ,. 82 HU H EH Creamery 13 16 EGOS Slate of Peun. 12 19 LIVE STOCK. CIXTBAI, STOCK BDS, BAST LIBSBTT, Tim CATTLE. rrlme, 1,800 to 1,400 ths f 6 00 8 10 Good, 1,200 to 1,800 Itis 4 V0 5 00 Tidy, 1,000 to 1,160 ths 4 76 4 Fair Hunt stners, 900 to 1000 lb. 4 15 4 25 Common, 700 to 800 lbs 8 IK) 4 10 BOOS. Medium 4 25 4 80 Heavy 4 15 4 20 Houghs and stags 8 60 8 Hi SUEIP. Prime, 95 to 105 It's, wethers... 9 4 10 4 20 Good, 85 to 80 lbs. 415 4 30 Fair. 70 to 80 lbs 8 75 4 00 Common 8 01 8 65 Culls 1 60 a 67 Fair to good lambs 4 80 4;85 TRADE REVIEW. Outgo of Wheat and Corn Continue to tin ulate Busineaa. 4 R. O. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week: The nation faces war with reviving volume of business. The West la doing its part and more, but at the east also the volume of business is now expand ing. Without abatement in any Im portant ilne, the great outgo of wheat and corn continues to stimulate busi ness at the west and railroad earnings show an increase over Inst year of 16.1 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 Chicago In threa weeks have been 3S8.S08 tons, against 150.813 last year and 164,823 tons la 18512. This Is largely because of the enorm ous movement of breadstuffs. Atlantic exports of wheat. Hour included, have been 3.726.442 bushels for the week, against 1.63A.607 lust year, though Pa cific exports were only 82,184 bushels against 314, lust year. Wheat re ceipts at the west do not diminish, but run far beyond those of a year ago for the week, 4,625,253 bushels against agulnst 2.868,173 last year. In four weeks exports from both coasts have been 13,601,874 bushels, against 6.704,334 last year. The marvel Is still the enor mous foreign buying of corn, export having reached 6,550,696 bushels for the) week, against 1,584,611 last year, and in four weeks the exports have been 20,-21-8,097 bushels, against 9,360,081 last year. Tet corn closes 8.37 cents lower for the week, although wheat, after rising from $1 66 to $1 66 for May, fell to $1 46 on Friday, while July options fell 14 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 la 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. Piute contracts, outside of the heavy demand for the government, are very large, and Include 6,600 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 la sales of staples. Wool sales during the week hve been only 5,748,100 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 ars largely supplied with materials, although soma who hava 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 realised In eastern markets, so that purchasing Is very light. The silk mills are all busy, and the coming linen manufacture Is mak ing a good record for Itself. Failures for the week hava been 245 In the United States, against 214 last year, and 21 in Canada, against 23 last year. Tremendous Food Supplies. The work of unloading and storing 49 cars of provisions which arrived Tuesday ut Chlckamuuga was com pleted up to date. The quartermaster's department has received J-'Hi.OOO worth of provisions for the volunteers. The value ot the clothing and equipments already received amounts to almost as much. The quartermaster's depart ment is doing remarkably well r'
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