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
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