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i|' - THE LIGHT OF LIFE. DR. TALMAGE PORTRAYS THE BLESSINGS OF MiSFORT UNE. People Wto a*e BJicd tl c Bright L'.ght in the Clocda-Ea tbly Bereavements EwenUftl to HexvtnJy Welcome GIo:y Sccceeda Glcazc. This sermcn cf Dr. Talmage -will have a tendency to take the gloom out of many lives and stir up a spirit of healthful anticipation; text, Job xxxvii, 21, *'And now men see rot the bright light which is in the clouds." Wind east. Barometer falling. Storm signals cut. Ship reefing maintopsail. Awnings taken in. Prophe cies of fcul weainer everywhere. The clouds congregate around the sun, i_:? "D,,*. proposicg LO &.'J'JliSll liiLU* Jl>Ub (ki awhile he assails the flacks cf the clouds with flying artillery of light, and here and ihere is a sign of clearing weather. Many do net observe it. Many do not realize it "Ard now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds." In other words, there are one hundred men looking for storm where there is one man looking j for sunshine. My obj ct will be to j get you andmyself into the delight-! v ful habit cf making the best cf every- j thing. Ycu may have wondered at the sta-1 tistics that in India in the year 1875 there were over 19.CC0 people slain by wild beasts, and that in the year 1876 there were in India.ever 20,COO people destroyed by wild animals. Bui there is a monster in our own land which is vear by year destroying mere than that. ~ It is the old bear m? lancholy, and with cos~?l weapons I propose to chssa it back to its midnight caserns. I mean 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 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 the fh-st place,you ought to make the very best of all your financial misfortunes. During the panic a few years ago ycu all lost money. Seme of you lest it in most unaccountable, 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 Ycu had the sensation of rowing hard with two oars and yet all the time going down stream. You did not say much about it because it was not politic to speak much of financial embarrassment, but your wife knew. Less variety of wardrobe, flAAWAWW iVio to K?0> coif XUUIO CUUJUVUUJ 6*v bUO in art and lapestry. Compression, retrencliinent. Who did not feel the necessity of it? My friend, did jou make the beat of this? Are you aware of how narrow an escape you made?" . Suppose yoa had reached the fortune toward which you were rapidly going?/ What then? You would have teen as j proud as Lucifer. . _ How few men have succeeded largely in a financial sense and yet maintained their simplicity and religious consecration. Not one man out of 100. There are glorious 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 A# KOmIT ofn/iVe iilCCblU^d* IT ibii u: QM^Ad and plenty of Government securities, what dees that man know of the prayer, "Give me this day my daily bread!'' How few men largely successful in this world are bringing "oouls to Christ or showing self denial for others or are eminent for piety? You can count them all upon your eight fingers and two thumbs. One of the old covetous souls, when he was s:ck and sick unto death, used to have a basin brought in, 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 SO knots the hour toward these vortices of worldliness? what a mercy it was, that honest de falcation. lhe same divine hand that crushed Tftur storehouse, tout bank. your office, your insurance company, lifted you cut of destruction. The day you honestly suspended in business made jour fortune fcr eternity. "Oh," you say, "I cculd get along very well myself, but I am so disappointed that I canno: leave a competence for my children.'' My brother, 4 the same financial misfortune that is going to save your soul wiil 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 c3ice and searched the records and mortea ges, 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 ?40,000 capital, how many turned out well? I do not know half a dozsn. The best inheritance a young man can have is the feeling that he has to fight 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 field, some in the suicide's grave. But few ot these men reached 35 years of age. They drank, they smosed, tnsy gamoiea. in tnera the beast destroyed the man. Ssme of them lived long enough to ge) their fortunes and went through them. The vast majority of thsm did not live to get their inheritance. From the ginshop 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 and 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 hops. "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God 1" i.iTi ?: ? 1 4. i_ xi is easier iur a eauiei iu go tarougn i a needle's eye than for a rich, man to enter the kingdom of heaven. What does that mean? It means that the grandest blessing God ever bestowed upon you was to take jour money away from you. Letme'here say, in passing, do not put 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 cemetsrv. Attila bad three ccffin?. So'or.d vras he of j / this Jife thai i.e dccretd tb.st first he | SSit^-v.% -J-S- - - i- - should fca buried in s, coina of ?oId, j onrl fh<it thoT> fhet hfl inclosed I Id a coffin or silver, and that should b8 inclosed in accffia of iron, and then a large amount of treasure should be thrown in over his body. Acd so he was buried, and the men who buried him were slain so that no ere might know where Le ^as buried and no one might there interfere with his treasure. 0 men of the world who want to take ycur money with you, better have three coffins! Again, I remark jcu ought i.omake the very best of your bereavements. The whole tendency is to brood over separations', ard to give much time to the handlirg of mementos of the de parted, and to make lcng visitations to I tjie cemetery, and to F>y: "Oh, I can {never Icok up again! My hope is gone. My courage is gone. My religion is gone. My faith in G-ca is gone. Oh, the wear and tear and exhaustion of this loneliness!" The most frequent bereavement is the loss of children. If you? departed child had lived as long as you have lived, do you not suppose t>at he would havo had about the same amcuat of trouble and trial that you have had? If you could make a choice for your child between 40 years of annoyance, loss, vexation, exasperation and bereavements and 40 years in heaven, would you take the responsibility of choosing tie former? Would you .snatch away the cup of eternal bliss and put into that child's bands ma cup of many bereavements? Instead of the complete safety into which that child has be in lifted, would you like to hold it down to the risks of this mcrtal state ? Would ycu like to keep it out on a jea in which there have been more shipwrecks than safe voyages? 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 these children to be congratulated ih?t the point of celestial bliss which you expect to reach by a pilgramage of 50 or 60 or 70 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 30,000 children would hare finally reached the blissful terminus? Besides that, my friends, you are to look at this matter as a self denial on your pari for tiieir benefit. If your children want to go off in a May day party, if your children want to go on flowery and musical excursion, you consent. You might prefer to have them with you, but their jubilant absence satisfies you. Well, your departed children have only gone out in May day party, amid flowery and musicil entertainment, amid joys and hilarities forever. That ought to quell some of j your grief, the thought of theii^glee. So it ought to be that you cou'd 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, everything depends upon where ycur friends are?if they are on the -wharf , that you leave or on the wharf to TirrVii??Vi it/vii ova nrniniy <rt coil Tn I TTiiiVU. JVKiV i other words, the more feiencs you have in heaven the easier it wlI be to [ get away from this world. The more friends you have here the more i bitter gcodbjs. The more friends there the more glorious welcomes. Some of ycu 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 foreig n lands and brought a prince to ous harbor, the ships were covered with bunting, and you remember how the men ofwar 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 hive their the easier your own transit. What is death to a mother whose children are in heaven ? 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 daik, see you not the bright light in the clouds, that light the irradiated faces of your glorified kindred? So also, my iriends, I would hare you make the best of your sicknesses. When you see one move off with elastic step and in full physical vigor, sometimes you became impatient with your lame foot. When a man describes an object a mile off and you cannot see itataH, you become impatient of your dim eye. When you hear of a well man making a great achievement you become very impatient with your depressed nervous system or your dilapidated health. 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 on/4 rmm /^ucnoncift MT T XbVUJ j JWKU more aggravated, 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 Moses, Job, David, Jeremiah, PauL Why, what a strange thing it is that you have chosen tho0e who were physically disordered! Moses?I know he was nervous from the clip he gave the Egyptian. Job?his blood was vitiated and diseased and his skin distres3luliy eruptive. 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 reads Lamentation? Paul?he hud a lifetime sickness which the commentators have been guessing ahm-it fni? upqi-o nnt lrnnwinff it what the apostle meant by "a thorn in the flesn." I do not know either, but it was something that stuck him. I gather from all this that physical order 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, From my observation, I judge that invalids have a more rapturous view of the next world than well people and will have higher renown in heavec. The besi vi w of the delectable moun tains is through the lattice of the sick room. They are transits running everv hour between trillnw and throne, between hospital and mansion, between bandages and robes, between crutch and palm branch. 0 j, I wish seme of your people who are compelled to cry: "My head, my head! My foot, my foot! My back, my back P would try some of the Lord's medicine. Ycu 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 opthalmia for the eyes. No pneumonia for tb?" lungs. No pleurisy for the side, No neuralgia for the nerves. No rheumatism for the mus cles. "The inhabitants shall never say, lam sick." "There shall be no more pain." Again, you ought to make the best of life s finality, wow, you think I have a very tough subject. You do not see how I am to strike a spark of light out of the fiinto! the tombstone. There are many people who have an idea that deaih is the submergence of everything pleasant by everything doleful. If my subject could close in the upsetting of all such preconceived notions, it would close well. Who can judge best cf the features of a man?those who are dose by him or these -who are afar elf? ' Oh," you say, "these can judge test of the fea turfs of a man who are close by him !'' Now, my friends, who shall judje of the features of death?whether they are lovely or whethfr trey are repul sive! You? You are too for clL If IwaDttoget a judgment as to what reallx the features of death are, I will not ask you. I Trill ask those who have been within a month of death, or a week of death, or an hour of death, era minute of death. They stand so near the features, :hey can tell. They give unanimous testimony, if they are Christian people, that death, instead of being demoniac, is cherubic. 01 all the thousands cf Christians whe have beer, 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 fcave seen a dying man join in the psalm being sung around his bedside, the middle of the verse open ing to let hh ransomed spirit free, long after the lips could not speak looking and pointirg upward. Some of ycu talk as though God had exhausted himself in building t&is world, ana that aJl the rich curtains he ever made he hung around this planpt, and all the flowers he ever grew he has woven into the carpet of our dais:ed meadows No. This world is not the bast thing God can do. This world is not the best thing that God has cone. One week of the yoar is ealled bios som week?called so all through the land because there ara more blossoms in that week than in any other week of the jear. Blossom week! And that is what the future world is to which the Christian is invited?blossom week forever. It is as far ahead of this world as paradise is ahead of Dry Tortugas, and yet here ws stand shivering and fearing to go out, and we want to stay oil tie dry sana ana amid the stormy petrels when we are invited to arbors of jasmine and birds of paradise. One season I had two springtimes. I went to New Orleans in April, and I marked the difference batwees, going toward New Orleans and then coming back. As I went on down toward N&w Orleans the verdure, the foliage, became thicker and more beautiful. When I came back, the farther I came toward heme the less the foliage and less and less it became until there was hardly any. Now, it all depends upon the direction in which you travel. If a spirit from heaven should come toward nnr world, lie is traveling from June toward December, from radiance toward darkness, from hanging gardens toward icebsrgs. And one would not be very much surprised if a spirit oi G-cd seat forth from heaven toward our world should be slow to come. Bat how strange it ia that we dreid going out toward that world when going xis from. December toward June, from the snow of earthly storm to tha snow cf Edenic blossom, from the arctics of trouble ioward the trcpics of eternal joy! 6J, what an sdo about dyinj; 1 We j get so attached to the malarial marsh irrh4f?h rxra fViof am afraid tn I go up and live on the hilltop. We are alarmed beccauss vacation is corning. Eternal sunlight and best programme of celestial minstrels and halleluiah, no inducement. Let us stay here and keep CDld and ignorant and weak. Do not introduce us to Elijah and John Milton and Bourdaloue. Keep our feet on the sharp cobblestones of earth instead of planting them on the bank of amaranth in heaven. Give us this email island of a leprou3 world instead I - t i-t- - -j.: e ?i i? Ut me ui ajjicuuui auu ?o- | light. Keep our hands full of nettles | and our shoulder uuder the burden and pur neck in the yoke and hopples on our ankles and handcuffs on our wrists. "Daar Lord,"we seem to say, "keep us down here where we have to suffer instead cf letting us up where we might live and reign and rejoica." I am amazed at myself and atyourt self for this infatuation under which we all rest. Men you would suppose would get frightened at having"/io stay in this world instead of getting frightened at having to go toward heaven. I congratulate anybody who has a right to die. By that I mean through sickness you cannot avert or through accident you cannot avoid?your work consummated. "Where did they bury Lily V said one little child to another. "03." she replied, "chev buried her in the ground." "What! In the cold groundV "Ob, -no, no; not it the cold ground, but in the warm ground, where u^ly seeds become beautiful flowers '"But," says soma one, ':it pains me so much to think that I must lose the body with which my soul has so long companioned." You do not lose 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, or the photograph of a friend when you have it put in a new lccket. 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 ro to Princeton to get his, George Cookman will go to tiie bottom of the Atlantic to get his, and we will go to the village churchyards and the city cemeteries to get ours, and when we have our perfect spirit rejoined to cur per feet body then we will be the kind of men and women thai the resurrection morning will make possible. So you see you have not made out any doleful story yet. What have you proved about death ? W h at is the case you have made out? You have made out just this?that deatti 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 daes it all mean? Why, it means that moving day is coming and that you are going to quit cramped apartments and bs mansioned lorever. xne norse teat stanas at ine gate will not be the one lathered and bespattered, carrying bad news, butit will be the horse that Si. John saw in Apocalyptic vision?the white horse on which the King comes to the bin quet The ground around the palace will quake with the tires and hoofs of c lestial equipage, and those Christians who in this world lost their friends and lost their property and lost their health and lost their life will find out that God was always kind, acd that all things worked together for 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? Guarding Oar Ccast. The strategic board is very apprehensive that 3pain may at an early date begin the bombardment of the American coast ciiies. The greatest fear is that they may begin the bombardment of the small cities which have little or no protection ard that bombardment may begin at the extreme North Atlantic coast or the extreme Southern. To warn the government of approaching danger a portion of the flying squadron is scouring the northern coast and small but rapid scouting vessels are patrolling the Southern and Middle sections of the coast. At the first re port of an enemy's fleet the flyiag squadron will be disp&'ched to the threatened' point to give battle to t,*e SD?niar('s, i fiRftP ('ftNT)ITIftNS. \J J.V V JL. Wik<JL/A A J.v*< VTHE WEtK.Y BULLETIN OF j"HE ! PRESENT SEASON A Glance at lie We trie1 A.:so ? Rbtt the S?ro:ta From tie U. S. Obstivera All Over tie State show a i to Existing Coad.ticns. Columbia. S C , April 26. The mean temperature !cr tbe week was normal bat ove- tha western, noitfcern, and northwestern counties the nights were loo ccol for the growth o! crops, while the day temperatures were sufficiently high to warm the grouid and bring up seed recently planted. Tne mean temperature for the veek was 65 which is also the nor mal for the same period. There was a wide rsn?e of temperature between iha western ar.d eastern portions, v:z; between 91 on tie 20th at GillisoBviile and 36 on the 21st at Greenville. Light frosts were observ ed on the mornings of the 20th and 2Lsl in Pickens, Greenville, Saluda, Uuion, Newberry, Lexington, York, Chester and Lancaster counties but nothing was injured. The rainfall for the week was heavy and well distributed, sni ov,?r the A O IWAA -M greater uui iiJii u1 wuc uiauc rtc& uccu- ] ed and will prove beneficial, while over limited areas in the west central counties the ground was previously too wet and farm work will be further delayed. 0?er the scuth eastern eastern, ana northeastern counties the rain was timely for cats and for putting the soil ia condition for trans" planting tobacco. Twenty fiveplaces, representing all portions of the State, reported amounts of rainfall of one inch or more, four of which had over two inches, with escesiiva falls of 4.73 and4,25 at St. Paul and Ella respectively! Th3 average of all reports is 1.19 and the normal for the same :?> ? : .a or, t:.h penuu izi u oo. uigui ! hail fell on the' 23i at Govan and uheraw but did no^damage. The sunshine varied greatly over the State but averaged 86 per oant. of the possible. High winds accompani ed the thunder storms over Newberry county destroying fruit trees and blowing down fences. The weather on the whole was favorable for farm work, which pro gressad rapidly and is now well advanced. Corn planting made fair progress and upland corn in most counties is nearly all planted, some bottom lands have been planted. Complaints of poor stands of corn are general and include all portions of the State. Some of the earliest planted has bsen plowed up and re nlant^d. whila renlantinc Ik ne^essarv in many places owing to cut and bud worms and the poor germination of seed. Early corn that was cut down by frost is coming cut slowly. In general the nights have been too cool for corn to grow well. Early corn, in placss, is large enough to plov?. The bujk of tfce cotton grop was planted during the week, and only in the extreme northwestern counties does any considerable area, remain to be planted. Early planting is coming up to irregular stands while later planting is coming up nicely. No le nas betn chopped out yet. In the northeastern counties rain was needed bat has been copiously supplied. Oats are small and backward in Barnwell, Hampton and Beaufort counties owing to the dry winter, but the recent rains will banefit them. In other pQrtions of the State oats are very promising and are hoading. The rains of the week will assure a full crop. The work or transplanting tobacco made rapid progress, although the ground was too dry in places during the first of the week, but the weather conditions were generally favorable. In the lower rice districts planting is nearing completion and good stands are the rule throughout the entire nc3 raising sections. Irish potatoes are being dug in Charleston and Beaufort counties, but the yields are poor; later planting look more promising. Potato bugs have appeared in Charleston county. Sweet potato slips are coming up nicely in most places, althongh a few complaints are received of their not growing well. Musk melons are coming up poorly and are later than usual. Water melons have poor stands in EigefieJd, Barnwell, Orangeburg, Florencs ana Williamsburg counties. More corn and ether food crops, than usual being planted in Spartan burg county. Farmers are well up with their work except in portions of Laurens and Saluda counti9S where it has bean delayed by too much rain. WATCH THE RASCM.S. A Halo Ins; Formed to Fl?eci tbe Government. Whenever the government i3 under the necessity of laying in large sup plies in a short time there is always danger of combinations to swindle. It appears that a game of this sort has recently been attempted by mule dealers in the west. The quartermaster general advertised for 4,000 mules. Bids were received from St. Louis, Cincianati and Kansas City. The quartermaster general was astounded when he read these bids. He has ascertained that the prices of firstclass mules in the cities named had ranged just at the time of his adverfioow* Awf {''7A +A <*OA Q /v /\ tt ljl3cj-uchu iiuui fii\J iyj q>0\j0 jliio fcuy eminent was asked to pay from $130 to $163. The uniformity of the increased prices in the bids convinced the quartermaster general that a combination had been made by the men who control the mule trade in the west After scoring the bidders severely for their "unpatriotic conduct," the quartermaster general indignantly rejected all their offers and advertised in the south for mules. It will b9 fortunate for the government if all who haye the making of contracts for war supplies shall ba as watchful and as strict in the performance cf their duty as was the quartermaster general in this instance. Lockout for the rascals wbo are scheming to swindle the go\ernment in war contracts. General Rosser, in a letter which we find in the Baltimore Sun, does not enthuse over the value of old soldiers in the war with Spain. He says ' young men for officers, soldiers, and seamen are what we need, and not rheumatic, deaf, and blind mapr ger> era's, who know nothing of modern weapons, who cannot drill a squad without a prompter or mount a horse without a ladder." This is putting it rather savagely, but there is a heap of truth in what General Rosser says. And the veterans, with all their good patriotism, know it. Spain has no first class battleships in course of construction, while the United States have five. Two of the five, the Kentucky and the Kearsage, In 11 1 Un 4a frr\ YY 111 UC ICttUJ tU HLvU VVULlUUlOaiUU. JJ-l about three months, and three others will be ready for s?rvice in about twice that leag^i of lime. * fLr, -1 ? I U' . .Ujm LKU'"*1!. NATJONA'u VS'-UNTFE* Res*i"*3 Wilts t' Est?bU'li if'-'jralt'EC g??tl029. Major Lipscomb-rrcnvsd a It tier frcm theNitiorial "Vo-uctcer reserve yesterday a:-kia? him to open a recruitiEg: station in Columbia for the enlistment of volunteers. Mayor Lipscomb will reply that he does not see the necessity of such a step, as the governor will have all the volunteers that can be bar died from this state at present. Amorg ctV-er things the letter says; "The volunteer reserve is intended to be a lermanent institution. It will forever put aside the shadow cf sec tionalism, strengthen the president's bands and declare the firmness and loyalty of the people to the nation, and weld together publicly ard anew north, south, east and west. "As chief magistrate of ore of our cities your aid is sought, and we believe it will be most cordially and energetically given in behalf of this movement, and we most respectfully suggest that you appoint a '-Mayor's National Volunteer iijserve Earollmg Committee," consisting of one or eco*e prominent members from each patriotic, labor, fraternal and veteran organizations (in your city and vicintj) and in fact a representative from every organised body adding to said committee prominant business men, ard with yoursslf as chairman, as n11 rr oc r\r?cciKla aaH a j 00 pucoitAiu, van ulxjs vvLuuiifcfcU together, establish headquarters in one or more of your public buildings, and open the school houses, lodge rooms and meeting places of the various organisations each evening for a weok or 10 days for the purpose of encouraging and receiving enrollments in the National Voluatee reserve. Should tentatire military companies aires d 7 have been enrolled, they should j un the National Volunteer reserve in a body, as sto;4d Qihers desiring to form." The letter also contained the foliowizig interesting comparative statement of ihe armies of the world. heaee War footing footing ftussia 743,244 5,008,284 Germany 607,30S 5,166,592 France 559,2G0 4,849,572 Italy 21C,235 2,181,790 Austria ^277,192 1,767,08? Turkey 228,574 1,061,862 oso 107 i sio tot VJ yam . .? J^y Lsj I ji,vi-,xa/ Belgium 54,839 170,939 Netherlands 101,534 231,194 Denmark 27,720 117,186 Greece 23,964 297 964 Sweeden & Norway 40,440 225,440 Japan 73,941 S49,u41 I Mexico 51,427 165,427 Chili 22,334 95,714 Great Britain 220,199 G37,863 United States 27,532 140,492 *FTER SPANISH SHjP3, The United States Sends Oat Thres Crack Oralnrii A dispatch from Washington says it is entirely probable that ihe opera: tions o: tne American iieet in uuoan waters in the matter of seising Spanish vessels as prises will be soon completely eclipsed by the performance of the swift ocean greyhounds recently bought by the government from the American line. These vessels, St. Louis, SL Paul and Harvard, have been fitted with armor protection over all ihair exposed machinery and have already received good batteries. It was the intention of the department to considerably supplemant these batter iesat the navy yards. But owing probably to 4he receipt of information from abreid of the movements of some very richly laden Spanish vessels the department does not consider that time remains 10 complete 1113 wor* in the ordinary manner at ihe navy yards, now over whelmed with other work, so the transformed liners are to be rushed to sea and it is rumored that they will carry in their hold3 some guns of heavy calibre which will be mounted when they are in blue water. No cffiL-' cial statement can be secured as to the destination of these splendid auxiliary cruisers, bat it is rumored that they are to head directly for the coast of Sp lie, where they will lie in wait for tne Spanish prizes. Unless the small observation force of the Spanish in the Mediterranean, composed of torpedo boats and destroyers, is reinforced before the liners reach these waters they are likely to fall easy victims to the"gunner3 of the cruisers. Eoglaiid aid America. As showing the trend of AngleSaxon sentiment throughout the world, the following expressions of Hon, Jaoce3 R. Gowan, of Barrie, a member of the Dominion senate and : one of Canada's foremost public men, will be found interes'ing: "The pec- : pie ol Canada appreciate fully the sit uation now canfronting your govern ment, and commend, unreservedly the course that President McKinley < has taken. In putting an end to the i dreadful condition of things in Cuba- . the United S:ates is performing a glo- ; rious service for humanity and civili- i sation, Englishmen everywhere are j in sympathy with this country, and applaud the determination to aid an < oppressed people struggling for their i freedom. I believe in peace?in peace i and honor?and this, I take it, is the j sentiment actuating the vast body of < the American people. It seems to me i that there ougnt to be a closer union i between the two great nations of the 1 world, which can, by acting in uni- < son, dictate to all other governments. ] For j ears I have favored an Anglo- i Saxon alliance, by which England I and the United States can render in 1 estimable service to their own citi- < zees, through the establishment of < x l 'i. Cl U ^ perpatuiu amny, ouca a cumpaui would be so powerful that all the nations combined would be forced to re- ( spect it, and it would make for univer- < sai peace. This sentti ment I know to he ] very strong in Eagland, and I believe < it is growing in America. It seems in i line with manifest destiny, and all 3 considerations of national welfare and s common reason srd on its side."- i Sooner or later what is now a dream ( will be a reality. In our present trou- ] ble with Spain England has given us i unmistakable evidence of her friend- i ship, which will deter any other Eu- 1 ropsan nation from giving Spain the < least assistance. Wnen a union is < formed between the English speaking i people of the world it will be done in ' the interest of iustica and humanitv. i and'will mean tie advancement of 1 Anglo-Saxon civilization in all parts ? of the world. God speed the day when ; England and America will be one in a j common purpose to do the right. ; ( Ecglsxd'a Petition. | The London Spectator risss to remark: "The Continental Powers do not love the American republic, bat we cannot imagine that they would 1 b3 so mad as to risk a war with the 1 whole Anglo-Saxon race, for that is the risk. If America were really attacked by a great continental coali- ' tion, England would b3 at her side in 1 twenty-four hours." Te Bombftitj^Oar Cltlo. According to a letter ju3t received from Madrid, dated from the Spanish ] capital on Tuesday, a Spanish squad- 1 ron, consisting of four ironclads and l three tornedo boat destrovers. sailed < for the United States. It was rumored i that the squadron was to steam direct 1 across the Atlantic and bombard nor- f ihern ports of the United States., ] she vwsa.ft it/man. Admiral SHISpsox/a First Otiie f Jtipp >e>a VpaoUh 'Wi:?'sbJp The blcckadiug squadron off lhc of Cuba is kept quiie busy. Sunday mnrnirt /> *Vio '~1-' : IUS u UUC1 VlU^lUUdU was seen on the eastern horizon, the smoke pouring from hsr funnels. She had been headed for Mantanzas and evidently had turned back to chase some vessel. The object of her pursuit was soon made out, standing well in toward the coasts. The ilagship. tbe Marblehead and the gunboat Wilmington immediately turned out of course to head the warship off. The remainder of the squadron proceeded to the westward. S^oke poured from our ships. The ilagship was makiDg 18 knots, the whole vessel threonine with the vibrations of her screws. The little Wilmington steamed up in splendid style, and the fast crnis'er Marblehead kept nearly abreast. The formidable trio bore down upon the warship. Then a sbout went up "She is a Spaniard*." For the next 10 minutes the excite . * :a - mL. 1-. uicrib was iciiiuu JLUC UiSUiliCe WHICH separated the vessels rendered it im possible to make out the warship's identity. She was thought to be tne Yisssya or the Almirante Oqusndo, heading hard for Habana. The men at the guns shouted with giee. The stokers off duty fc?Jow cheered vociferously and begged to be allowed to go on deck to help shoot at the first armed enemy met. The officers crowded on the q iarter deck as elated as the men, tnough under better control The bugler blew ^'general quarters." All hands flew to their posts. Down came the shrouds with a rattle. The life lines vanished from the deck. Rear Admiral Sampson, standing on the bridge, said deliberately to Captain Chadwiek, "Yes, the Qquendo or the Viz^ava." and then aAaoA xtT like to bag tbena both." Tbenitwas seen that the ehss3 was fljing an Italian Hag, but this was no proof tbat behind hsr still invisible guns Spaniards were not concealed, ready to shoot under advantage of subterfuge. All tbe suns on the New York's portside and in the forward and after turrets were trained, on the stranger. A few minutes latir when about 1,500 yards separated the New York from her target, thr American flag was run up by the warship, and then it was known she was not a Spani&id. A puff of smoke issued from bar sides, and the boom of a gu? aeund d a:ross the waters. It was only a salute, t)ut at ilrst many on board thought Rear Admiral Sampson had been deceived. Bat the warship fijed 15 guns as a salute, which also flsw ths Italian f? isr- The stranger was then made out to be the Giovani Bausan, a, powerful cruiser. Without further formalities she pursued her course and entered Habana harbor. Thus an ezcitisg incident ended in disappointment, but it serre4 to show how anxiour al} hands are for a real fight ana how splendid the discipline is when a contingency seems imminent. B'cht or Wrong, Oar Country. "There may be, and there ara, two opinions as to the justification and righteousness of the war with - Spain upon which the United States has now practically "ntered," s$ys the Charleston Critic. "Iheye al waj s is a conservative sentiment which questions the moral j istification of any war. There were men in the crenei-alkm which preceded us who held tiae war of secession udjustifiable. In fact, there never was, since' the world began, and never will be unanimity of opinion on any issua of such magnitude as to involve the issue of way. Oar fathers and centeir poraries who opened fire on Fort Sumter may have blundered in 1861. Congress may have committted a similar blunder now. These are questions which admit of argument. Bat there is one question which is res ad judicata in the domain of patriotism and of sentiments of national pride and honor? which we h^ve not yet grown wi*e or calculating enough to disregard as unmeaning claptrap?and that is, that once war is declared by the duly authorized representatives of our government, rightly or wrongly, individ, ual opinion of its wisdom or justification must be suspended and give way, for the time, to the united purpose of of Americans every where to maintain the cause and make-good tre pretensions lo which we have baen committed. E?ery other consideration must be swallowed up, for the time being, in the honor of our country. We may meet with disaster and defeat. We do not anticipate such possibility. Yet these may coma. The war may ha an individual and a national sin for which we shall yet have to account to , G-ocL But if there is any meaning in 1 the term patriotism; in love for and J fidelity to one's native country and ' jealousy of her honor, these are the ! things with which we now have to do. : Disaster and defeat we cin sustain ] with honor unimpaired, if the proper 1 sourage, faith and manliness of our 5 people are not impeached. But sow- 1 Lng the seeds of dissension and disaf- ' feciion among the people in the face 1 rf a foreign w^r; assiduously disparaging the country's cause, slurring its ] actions and taking pleasure in its an- < ;icipat ddLscomnture is not commen ] lable, as it certainly is not either dig- r aified or in good taste. Many of the t generals who led the armies of the < south and znost signally illustrated : ;he manhood and glory of our people 3id not believe in the wisdom of our iivil war," Seems as if all the things we, like j lisagree with us, and all the things we i ion't like, agree with us. Dyspepsia \ lurks in most of the good things we ?t, and indigestion follows the grati- J ication of appetite. Of course it isn't 1 NJofn^e foil If* Vafnva /?AOO 4VIO Vioaf ike can, and if man will only help her i little bit at the right time, he may ;at what he likes snd as much as he [ikes. Dr. Pierce's Plessant Pellets ire for people who are troubled with ^digestion. Particularly for those in whom it manifests itself in the form )f constipation. The "Pellets" are juick and easy in their action. Ihey ire in perfect harmony with Nature. Fhey effect a permanent cure. You need take them regularly only a little while. After that, use them occasionally when you need them?when pou have eaten anything that disagrees with you. They may be taken < |ust as freely as you would tase water 1 >r any'other necessity of life. Once y ised they are al^ajs ia faTo;. ' \ t The opinion seems to prevail among . :he naval officers that Havana will aot be bombarded; but will only be J jlcckaded for the present. It is said to j do the desire cf the administration to , ;ake the city with as little bloodshed i md destruction of property as possible. ' But all this, of course, is subject to 5 speedy change. < . According to the Sad:.1&c Center, i Mich., Republican, a big majority of 1 ,he cit:z;ns of that place favor an im- ' nediate war with Spain but a careful , ;stimate of the number of recruitj \ billing to help drive Spain from the 1 Western Hemisphere placcs tin totsl j it two. And Sanilac is not the Oily , ) ?.; ?? fKic nwcTrailo ^ I A M IIV.I V kU?4 VVMUiklV/U V Y ?J j iasgg^vnwuBjy^ a as '.i-, wi,y rivfl',,vrv.fr tcterrfcss . F.R3r3?AftJS?gHC>T, ^ nrn Un.r f Di < >;* v*~ ? _ * *? , - ?w vv uwvi Ui JL> V inj ih? T?i arof. Tie United. Slatfa iorpfde boat Foo-e, Lieutei>arr?4 -It. W. Sodgers commanding*. has the honor of havicg been the targes for the first shct fired by the Spaniards- at the American flag curing the just begun. The firing occurredHaetween 5 and 6o'clock on Saturday a?t?B'ocn -while the torpedo boat warteki^souadir-es in tfce harbor cff Mairiarzis. She was within tf?o or ibf^jeiraadred yards of the shore. Sadden3yr"a Spanish masked battery on the sast'sidfe of the harbor and. net yery far distant from the Foote, fired three shots at the torpedo Doat. Tiiey ail went Tride of their mark ?ni the Foote returned leisurely to the Cincinnati where she reported the result of-htr soundings and then announced she had been fired upon. The Cincinnati w^s anxious to steam instantly and reducj the Spanish batteries, but she was not permit ted to do so. T or tie E o iortf fe St ?te The Charleston Cii,:csays "be'tween them, the officious action of th2 editor of the News and Couritr and r.f the Washington correspondent cf that paper, has put South Carolina in a very unenviable light before the country at this delicate juncture. The editor wired his correspondent: "State militia willing to fight, tut do not wis'i to fight in Cuba or outside the S'ate." This was Ihe personal opinion of the editor and it had been furnished his correspoi d nt merely as private information it would have; been all right. Bat the. correspcniient seenrs to have exhibited the telegram around as an authoritative statement of the atlicude of the militia of this Stat*, and the New York Tribune and other pa pars got hold of it with the eff act to unnecessarily give this State a black eye in the eyes cf the country. Among others, the caatents cf the editor's telegram were communicated to Sena tor Tillman and the latter telegraphed to the general in c ammand of the Fourth Brigade in Charleston to this effect: 'The News and Courier wires here the statement that the South Carolina militia nfuse to fight outside of the State. For t&3 honor of the State d^n't allow any such. action. It will 1 L -t A. ? - - ^ <? a s>weei morsei 10 ner enemies ana disgrace the State." Tae answer was wired Senator Tallin an : <"l\o action has been taken by the commands as jet. Tcey simply await criers and will do their duty." Thus a little fire will give rise to a great smoke and give the enemies of Bouth Carolina an excu39 to sneer at her for yea?3 to come. Senator Teller has on more than one occasion proved that he is the brain ie&t, broadest and most patriotic statesman in the United States Senate! Nowhere has the attitude of this country towards Spain bean more tersely stated or the real American id?a more clearly set forth than in Senator Teller's speech when he said: "This war. upon which we are entering can bring us no material gain. It will result in t ha loss of millions to our commerce. It will sweep our ships from the sea and wa will leave thousands of our yomg men dead from fever3 and dis ease in the tropics. All this must ba eounted in advance ard wa have counted it. I believe tha d*y of Cuban freedom has come, but when we have achieved the victory there will be no territory to indemnify us for our sacriSces, because we do not want territory . There will be no money to indemnify us, because Spain is bank rupt. We mu3t find our suprema sat t* m Li._a j a lsiaciion lor our Diooa ana treasures in relieving the cry of suffering and the cause of humanity. This war must be fought, because in the eyfe of the world we stand as the sentinel of liberty on the western hemisphere, and because, if we fail to lisle 1 to tbe voice of the suffering and downtroi dan, we will be untrue to the principles upon which this government is founded as upon a rock." At the suggestion of Morris K. Jessup and J. L. M. Currv, the trustees of the "John F. Slater Fund for Negro Education," at a meeting heJd in New York city, voted unanimously to employ Booker T. Washington and his wi'e, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, at Tuskegee, Ala , for six months, to go through the South in all the large centres of negro, population to speak to tV.A ? a wnm n/? WQ uv ? I wco TVlkU A Vicn b'J them to the importance of reforming and improving the educational, moral, physical and industrial onditions. Considerable apprehension has been felt for our squadron in the Pasific. 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