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    TALMA RE’S SERMON
•‘PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST
THEIR WAY," THE SUBJECT.
1m im f.i n. XXI. II>. »h I'oliciirfl: “Ami
(ioi! O|ion»*d ifpr Hjp* am] Slip Sun u
Wrll of W *<<t iiml Mii Wpnt at»1 I HIpiI
Itic ISottU* .* ill (lave flip l.iil a Drink/
Mom ins breaks upon Beersheba.
There Is a . early stir in the house of
d(l Abraham. There has been trouble
among thi d imestlcs. Huger, uu as
sistant in th > household, and her son,
a brisk lad of sixteen years, have be
come impudent and insolent, and Su
rah, the mistress of the household,
puts her f wt down very hard and
says that tit ty will have to leave the
premises. They are packing up now.
Abrahrm, knowing that the Journey
befor- hla aei vant and her bou will be
very long at: 1 across desolate places,
in the kindac-s of his heart sets about
putting up some bread and a bottle
with water in It. It Is a very plain
lunch that A Valiant provides, but I
warrant you there would have been
enough of ' had they not lost their
way, "God be with you!” said old
Abraham as he gave the lunch to Ha
gar and a good many charges as to
Dow sue u conduct me J •
Ishinu* I, the boy, I suppose, bounded
away in the morning light- Hoys al
ways !ik<• a rh uigc. foot Ishmael! He
has no idea, c,f the disasters tliat are
ahead of him Hagar gives one long,
lingering look on the familiar place
where fie had spent so many happy
davs. • 'h ., no associated with the
pride and joy of her beait, young lsh
mael.
The scorching norm comes on. The
air is li'Miig and moves across the
desert wit h insufferable stiff n ation.
^ Ishmael, the hoy, begins to complain
and H- :• down, but Hagar rouses him
up, saying nothing about lier own
wearire-tw i the sweltering heat: for
niottK:? can endure anything. Trudge,
trudge, trudge. Crossing the dead lev
el of the desert, how wearily and slow
ly the miles ip lay! A tamarind that
seemed hours ago to stand only just
a little ahead, inviting the travelers to
come under lt-< shadow, now is as far
off as ever, or seemingly so- Night,
drops upon the desert, and the travelers
are pillowless. Ishmael, very weary,
1 suppose. Instantly fell asleep. Hu
gar, as the shadows of the night be
gin to lap over each other— Hagar hugs
her w ary boy to her bosom and thinks
of the fact that it is her fault that they
are in the desert, A tear looks out, and
every falling tear it kisses with a spar
kle. A wing of wind comes over the
hot earth and lifts the locks from the
fevered brow of the boy. Hagar sleep
fitfully, and in her dreams travels over
the weary day. and half awakes her
son by crying out in her sleep, ‘Tsh
niaei! bhrnael!"
And .o they go on day after day and
night after night, for they have lost
their way. No path in the shifting
Kind no signs in the burning sky.
The sack empty of the flour; the water
gone from the bottle. What shall she
do? As she puts her fainting Ishmael
under a stunted shrub of th • arid plain,
she secs the blood-shot eye, and feels
th - hot hand, and watches the blood
bursting from the cracked tongue, and
there is a shriek in the desert of lleer
slieba, "We ball die! We shall die!”
Now. no mother was ever made strong
enough to bear her son cry in vain for
a drink. Heretofore she had cheered
h t hoy by promising a speedy end of
tlie journey, and even smiled upon him
when she felt desperately enough. Now
there is nothing to do but place him
under a shrub and lei him die. She
had thought that r.he would sit there
and watch until the spirit of her boy
would co aw// forever and then she
would i.re uu.i- leu iici ’Nil im’ oil 11].s
silent I'.i c.r-; but as the boy begins to
claw hi: -oiigue in agony of thirst anil
struggle in distortion, and begs his
mother to day him, she cannot endure
the s; tack-. She puts him under a
shrub and goes off a bow-shot, and be
gins to weep until all the desert seems
sobbing, and iter cry strikes clear
through the heavens; and an angel of
Coil c< this out on a cloud, and looks
down upon tile appalling grief and
cries: llagar. what alleth thee?" She
looks ;> and the sees the angel point
ing to i well of water, where she tills
the bottle for the lad. Thank (ioiil
Thank God’
r I Ira.n from this Oriental scene, in
the Ur.-t place, what a sail thing it |,
when jwople do not know their place,
and get too proud for their business!
Il iuur was au aaaUtunl in that house
bold. but ub ■ wanted to rule there, She
ridicul'd and ..red until hot t„n. | ,h
marl, got the same trick- She dashed
out her own happiness, and threw Sa
rah Into a #r»-ut fret; and If she had
stated much longer In that household
*he wttnlil have upset caiin Abraham'*
I*t|l!l|l| l orn My friends one half of
'he tr Hit' in the world t.*liy routes
front tlio fi t ’hat people do not know
i he tr place or, Saillu* their plat' will
l I s.4> lit it When w • ate Into the
world 'k ,<■ It always a pint ready fo
tt» V (..o' fo. Ui.ili.im \ pin,- f»,f
Satuh t plate for It tear. A pia>
f'k atari A plo e to. you ,a I a
pi t * for a -
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God raised him to stand in the en- j
chanted realm of a painter. The shoe- j
maker's bench held Bloomfield for a i
little while; but God raised hint to sit
in the chair of a philosopher ami a
Christian scholar. The soap-boiler of j
Loudon could not keep his son in that !
business, for God had decided that j
Hawley was to be one of the greatest ,
astronomers of England.
On the other hand we may be born
In a sphere a little higher than that
for which God intends us. Wc may be |
born in a castle, and play In a costly 1
conservatory, and feed high-bred point
er, and angle for gold-fish in artificial J
ponds, and be familiar with princes;
yet God may better have fitted us for a
carpenter's shop, or dentists's forceps,
or a weaver's shuttle, or a blacksmith's
forge. The great tiling is to find just
the sphere for which God Intended us,
and then to occupy that sphere, and oc
cupy it forever. Hen is a man God
fashioned to make a plow. There is a
man God fashioned to make a consti
tution. The man who makes the plow
is Just as honorable as the man who
makes the constitution. There is a
woman who was made to fashion a
robe, and yonder Is one intended to be
a queen anil wear it. It seems to nn
that in the one case Ir. the other, God
appoints the sphere, and the needle Is
Just as respectable in his sight as the
sceptre, i do not know but that the
world would long ago have been saved
if some of the men out of the ministry
were in it, and some of those who are
in It were out of It. 1 really think that
. _ ... .1.1 \r Ik. ilivillt (1 illtO
two quarters those who have not
found their sphere, and those who, hav
ing found It, are not willing to stay
there. How many are struggling for a
position a little higher than that whb'h
God Intended for them. The bonds
woman wants to lie mistress- Hagai
keeps crowding Sarah. The smail
wheel of a watch which beautifully
went treading its golden pathway
wants to he the balance-wheel, and the
sparrow with chagrin drops Into the
brook because it cannot, like the eagle,
cut a circle under the sun.
In the Lord's army we all want to
bo brigadier-generals! I be sloop says.
"More mast, more tonnage, more can
vas. Ob, that I were a topsail schoon
er, or a full-rigged brig, or a Cunard
steamer!” And so the world Is filled
with cries of discontent, because we are
not willing to stay in the place where
God put us and intended us to be. My
friends, be not too proud to do any
thing God tells you to do; for the lack
of a right disposition In this respect the
world is strewn with wandering Hagars
and Uhmaels. God lias given each one
of us a work to do. You carry a
gcuttle of coal up that dark alley. You
distribute that Christian tract. You
give $10,000 to the missionary cause.
You for fifteen years sit with chronic
rheumatism, displaying the beauty of
Christian submission. Whatever God
calls you to, whether it win hissing or
huzza; whether to walk under tri
umphal arch or lift the sot out of the
ditch; whether it be to preach on a
Pentecost or tell some wanderer of the
street, of the mercy of the Christ of
Mary Magdalene; whether It be to
weave a garland for a laughing child
on a spring morning and call her a
May Queen, or to comb out the tangled
locks of a waif of the street, and cut
up one of your old dresses to fit her
cut for the sanctuary—do it, and do It
right away. Whether it be a crown
or yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting
honors upon those who do their work,
and do their whole work, and are con
tented in the sphere in which God has
put them; while there i3 wandering,
and exile, and desolation, and wilder
ness for discontented Hagar and Isb
rnael.
Who is that boy at Sutton Pool, Ply
mouth, England, barefooted, wading
down into the slush and slime, until
his bare foot comes upon u piece of
"lass and he lifts it, bleeding and pain
struck? That wound in the foot de
cides that he lie sedentary in Ins life,
decides tHat he lie a student. That
wound by the glass in the foot decides
that lie shall he John Kitto, who shall
provide the best religious encyclopedia
the world has ever nail provided, and
with ids other writings as well, throw
ing a light upon tHe Word of Uod sueh
as has come from no other man in this
century. <> mother, mother, that little
hand t hat wanders over your fare nu.v
yet lie lifted to hurl thunder-bolts of
war or drop benedictions! That little
voice may tilusphciue Mod in the grog
shop or cry "Korward!" to the Lord's
hosts at they go out for their last vic
tory. My mind this morning leans
’hlrty years ahead, and I see u mer
bant prince of New York. One stroke
of his |ieu brings a ship out of Cunt an.
knottier stroke of his pen brings a
ship Into Madia Me U mighty in ail
the money markets of the world Who
is he’ Me sits on Sabbath- beside you
In rhun h My mind leaps thirty years
forward from this time and I find my
self in a relief a so-tattoo k gre it
multitude of Christian women have
mot together for a gmerous purpose
There is one worn ;r» tu that crowd wh 1
seems to hate the t ot| tl. tc lace of a I i the
Others, at.il they all look lip to her
fur her •ostial and f her priy* •
Who is <h-‘ Thu 4U* n».4*n yutt Vklit
rtti«i lt*r in ifev At* ’mUi u li ki* «h>t*
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I !**!•« WH# is* ♦## t*rv 4 f4<M tl| a
Oriental r.erne. and tliat la, that every
wilderness has a well in it. Hagar and
Ishmael gave tip to die. llagar's heart
sank within her as she heard her child
crying: “Water! water! water!" "Ah!"
she says, "my darling, there is no
water. This is a desert." And then
God's angel said from the elotid: “What
allflth thee. llgnar? And she
looked up and saw him pointing to a
well of water, where she filled the bot
tle for the lad. Messed lie God .that
there is in every wilderness a well. If
you only know how to find It foun
tains for ail these thirsty soul3. On
that last day. on that great day of the
feast, Jesus stood and cried: “If any
man thirst, let him come to me and
drink." All the.™ other fountains you
find are mere mirages of the desert.
Paracelsus, you know, spent his time
in trying to find out the elixir of life
a liquid, which. If taken, would keep
one perpetually young in this world,
and would change the aged back again
to youth. Of course he was disap
pointed; he found not the elixir. Hut
here 1 tell you of the elixir of everlast
ing life bursting front the "Rock of
Ages," and that drinking that water
you shall never get old. and you will
never lie nick, and you will never die.
“Ilo, every one that thlrsteth, come ye
to the waters.” Ah! here Is a man
who says: "I have been looking for
that fountain a great while, hut cun t
find It." And here Is some one else
who says: "1 believe all you say, hut
I have been trudging along In lhe wil
derness and can't find the fountain.
Do you know the reason? I will tell
you. You never looked In the right
direction. “Oh," you say, "1 have look
ed everywhere. I have looked north,
south, past and west, and I haven t
found the fountain." Why, you ure not
looking In the right direction at all.
Rook up. where Hagar looked She
never would have found the fountain at
all, but when she heard the voice of
the angel sin looked up, and she saw
the finger pointing to the supply. And,
O Hcttl, if today with one earnest, in
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to Christ, ho would point you down to
the supply In the wilderness. “I/ook
unto me, all ye end* of the earth, and
bo ye saved; for 1 ant God, and there
is none else!" Look! .Look, as llagar
looked!
Yes, there Is a well for every desert
of bereavement. Looking over any an
(lienee I notice signs of mourning and
woe. Have you found consolation?
Oh, man bereft, oh. woman bereft, have
you found consolation? Hearse after
hearse. We step from one grave hil
lock to another grave hillock. We fol
low corpses, ourselves soon to he like
them. The world is In mourning for
Its dead. Every heart has become the
sepulchre of some burled Joy. But sing
ye to God; every wilderness ha.> a well
In it; and I come to that well today,
ar.d I begin to draw water for you
from that well.
If you have lived in the country you
have sometimes taken hold of the rope
of the old well-sweep, and you know
how the bucket came up, dripping with
bright, cool water. Ar.d I lay bold of
the rope of God's mercy and 1 begin to
draw on that Gospel well-sweep, and I
see the buckets coming up. Thirsty
soul! Here is one bucket of life! Come
and drink of it. "Whosoever will, let
him come and take of the water of
life freely.” I pull away again at the
rope, and another '.tucket comes up. It
is this promise: "Weeping may en
dure for a night, but Joy cometh in the
morning.” I lay hold of the rope
again, and I pull away with all my
strength, and the bucket comes up,
bright, and beautiful, and cool. Here
is the promise: "Come unto me, all
ye who are weary and heavy laden, and
I will give yon rest.”
LINK FOUND TOO LATH.
'filin' of <ir:irc Allowed the Heirs Hud
Kla
Tt was one; of those big English os
tales which was to make a great many
people rich if nil the links in the long
... wv.t
the New York Times. The legatees
In this country lmd twenty-one years
In whhli to prove their claim before
the property would revert to the < ruwn.
Everything possible had been done and
one link was still missing, This was
an old family lllble containing c ertain
n<‘. essnry records. It was supposed to
have been burned at the time- of the
Itcerfleld massacre, hut, notwithstand
ing, every effort had been made to hnd
it if by nny possibility It was In *x
Istenre; but without success und the*
time expired. Two years later one of
the legatees, a New York woman,
chanced to see In a paper the adver
tisement of a woman who wanted work
The advertiser hud signed her name
and It was a family name of the wo
tnan who was one of the claimants
for the Hngl'sh estate, It was perhaps
the |h tslsteut fasc ination whi te (he
e cc ne-i searcher Into geneatogn ul re.
..ids n« vei loses, and th>- for. e of habit
f»rm«Hl in many years ear. h for pre
etc.us d,.-umeuU, whic h Inter-' .fad her
,.t once. <h** answered the adtsftls*
iceiit to person, found that the we.wan
h d ha the wife of a member? of he?
family wo had died leaving her in
tlnattc *»t a.rads which ha.l fcr.el her
to advertise far MOiichln* to |.> to
| If ttut i .•*s ind
n leant;. ; »c of lb- < •■'? w ts that
among ‘1*4 hvMhk *u.l paper* »hhh
. | Veep fcviUhs I a having heehatgerd
t h< P Sc* the « .... hi I in*
pt tittif* h its ryghsl.i of blr>h* .nd
d 4ih. the- - pty U ih that he I neap
, I .| u ifeuta the toil e*» itg, and
now that II *n* itsi late It wa. taccsd
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I LACK OP DESTROY ERS.
NAVY IN NEED OF TORPEDO
COAT WRECKERS.
F tain Well Knppllnl run !■««<■ r.f Tnjijr
trum llntr.ll It Alma I Aamircil—K«
porti''I sail* i»f flm \ itii*it ,iy liitiy in
(lie Kliini It Drilled.
The purchase of the torpedo boat de
stroyer Tupy from the Brazilian gov
ernment Is now practically assured.
Tlic Tupy. with two sister craft. Is be
lli.'? built at the Armstrong works at
Elswlck, England, where the Amazonas
and her counterpart were constructed,
find not at Kiel, Germany, as previous
ly Htated. Much gratification is felt by
lie naval admillislration over the pros
pect of securing the Tupy and others
of her class, for torpedo boat destroy
ers are needed badly. A number of
torpedo boats have been added to the
effective force of tile navy. Imt not one
destroyer has been built or contracted
for.
ll;i* Torpedo royi*r«.
Spain Is fairly well supplied with
these terrible water witches, which ure
dangerous alike to (hi big battleship
a ad the little torpedo-boat They have
attained a speed of more than thirty
knots. The Spanish flotilla now held
at the Canaries, pending the adjust
ment of the diplomatic question relat
ing to its assignment to waters adja
cent to the Ctilted States, Includes some
of these destroyers. They arc more
feared by naval officers than battle
ship.-, and armored cruisers, and every
energy Is being shown to get some of
them ready made abroad to ofi'set the
Spanish contingent.
nf Ariiifirfd CriilMM*.
It was pointed out the other day
that the naval administration wanted
more battleships, armored crui: "in. tor
pedo bout destroyers and torpid i boats.
This was the conclusion reached by
the war board, of which Assistant Sec
retary Roosevelt Is chairman As no
more armor-duds excr pt the Carlo Al
berto. owned by Italy, appear to be
CItL'ISER VE-SUVlirS. THE HOLIEST FIGHTER IN Ot R NAVY.
definitely in the market, the v/ar board
is doing all that ran be done to secure
torpedo-boat destroyers. Its members
believe that this class of vessel will
augment the vessels now under Ad
miral Sicard to such an extent that no
force Spain can gather would be ef
fective againHt the American fleet. A
denial is made here of the statement
that Spain has bought the Italian ar
mor-clad Varese.
l'lttct at Hampton ICoait*.
The announcement that the Massa
chusetts and the Texas had been with
drawn from the squadron at Key West
and sent to Hampton Roads was the
subject of an inquiry at the cabinet
meeting, and the most positive assur
ances were given by Secretary l.ong
that the orders to these ships were not
due to any suggestion from Spain.
There was no intention, it was ex- 1
plained, to detach the North Atlantic
squadron front Florida waters to satis
fy Spain's qualms In the pending enter- j
gency. The establishment ci a see .
ond division of the North Atlantic
squadron. Secretary Long said, was a j
' strategical move, and the Ma.-sachu
setts and the Texas have been de
■ tached to form part of the force to in1
isuonbled at Hampton Roads. ('til
ts- . i’billp of the Massachusetts vili
1 cuiiwnaud tlie second division i ;r til ‘
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CAOO
tI.iip No rommanditui < r of
ihr nr* formation ha* Iwm «rl*-.unl.
?<<- ml in I'mir llrotil*
Th" roinlUlm of \ilmlrtl So aril'*
health ha» (Ivan tlii* iiavj department
a great ileal of iiiin'arii. anil li It prob
■ able that b* atil ha detained from ii.<*
oimnian I of lb** North A I an* **|ua
<lton If btMlIIIIIni should i■*'*■ nr »ei>
Hma aa It la ta!hir<l that it * la not
phyai* altv able i*> manage a Ida rt *et in
an *r»KJ8*’iM**ni M hat bran |ir»< t|< li
It ibn W that Captain William S
HaMtMon ■* the bat t o *hl|i l«» i 'It
ynilibNI of i hr Malar man <»f IB
nori *lll <rlt#n \*ln*lr*l II* if*l If
the k * tllH of th*’ l,|Hitun n n liii
I Ota *111# f,«l>h of tha * UoiBiot tii n
ta h*'t pinin'a *a pool h-».I«mIb *« all I
ability ia p* H«i • and h* *ii! in a I
rtoMbilM<r r**etAe a i-M rash If tear
it it** tatvii
rntHlia fur lrl*<*< P*
Tb» 4# R|#f tlMklt lltilM lAlk#S| (l> ill4
! nan? and en<ttpp*>4 a* antti’tt? h i
an Bill br ti petite* led veentin, an t
m I4U4B4 «•* ««‘J t In ipta/ ,
of tae unprntn .nl ships now with Ad
miral Slcard. It has been determined
to armor the larger of these vessels
with a hand of steel extending around
the sides and near the water line, for
the protection of the vitals, machinery
and magazines to be Improvised This
armor will consist of two Inches of
nickel steel, and will be four inches
less in thickness than on the armored
cruisers New York and Brooklyn. It
is equal to the protection afforded the
machinery by protective decks on some
cruisers, and would render the vessels
fairly safe from six pounders and light
tire guns.
I'.nglnirrii I rpftl to llnrrv.
Orders turn* boon IhrihmI to many of
the army engineers In charge of coast
fortifications to hurry the work now In
progress. Preparations nre olrendy un
der way for placing in position the new
coast defense guns purchased in Eng
land. It Is expected that they will he
delivered at New York within ten days.
The guns are thirty-two In number,
and are of I fie latest rapid lire pattern.
The new pieces are fully mounted, and
are provided with about Hurt rounds of
ammunition. They are of compara
tively short range, and will he used
lu harbors and channels, on the north
ern coast principally. Contracts were
made by the wur department Saturday
for the delivery of a large quantity of
armor piercing and deck piercing steel
projectiles of large caliber.
KIlipa fur A.nllliirv I'lret.
Ily order of the secretary of the navy
Meutenant Commander Iteeder, tom
m.gjtler of the school ship St. Mary's,
and Passed Assistant Engineer Dun
forl.li. assigned to duty at the Brooklyn
navy yard, sat the other day as mem
bers of lilt' hoard of auxiliary cruisers.
These additions wire made to the
board because it had been reported to
Secretary Long that the hoard was not
large enough to do the work expected
of them speedily enough. The steam
ships Orizaba. Seneca, Saratoga and
Yumuri. of the Ward line, were care
full' Inspected. Unofficial Information
v.as to the effect that all four of these
vi -ids would lie recommended for
1 m. c as auxiliary cruisers, should an
emergency require the acquisition of
commerce destroyers. Two schooners
and several yachts, offered by their
owners, were inspected today. Among
them were the Conqueror, owned by
!■'. W. Vanderbilt: the Atalunta, by
George Gould, ami the Corsair, by I’lcr
pont Morgan.
CmilritH for £.000 IIoimp*.
The Blank Ililis ranges are being
scoured by the United States agents
for horses suitable for the cavalry. A
contract has been made with one large
hone company near Fort Meade to fur
nish 2,000 horses ns soon as they can
lie brought in from I lie range. Negoti
ations are also being made by the gov
ernment agent there for several hun
dred more horse* from other ranches.
The army officers think these horses
are to be shipped south, and from the
hurried orders, and (he fact that the
animals are not up to the army stand
ard, that it means war.
tnivernal \pmcI Doktroyt'r.
M. M. Ormsby of Mapie Park, Kano
county. III., claims to have- perfected
an invention by which everything
alloat in every port could he destroyed
without the loss of t man, and at a
cost of only $5,000,000. The navy de
partment has wrilti n him for details.
WEST IN CONTROL.
4'onjir*** (mi lit* i)«'|M'nti< «i i poii.
One of 1 he curious development* In
congress is the way In which the con
ttol of n.fairs relating to v.-ar seem*
to lit* gradually drifting into the hands
of western men who represent a sen'I
m‘tit distinctly different from that in
New Kugland. Of late day* money
bill* in congress are made the medium
of a vast amount of Impuitattt legisla
tion. and besides that the voting of
supplies is tilt essential to tile conduct
o! war. It is worthy of notice there
fore that the two great appropriations
committees are headed hv Senator Ailt
>on of Iowa and Representative Can
non of Illinois. The direct work of
•quipping the atiuv falls upon the mill
tary cop. nut tee of the house, at the
head of ehteh Is ttenv-ral Hull of Iowa,
while the util Ills committee in the
same tivdv. which in the rase of war
would <m> almost equally Important. Is
tu ittag tl hr c-dou* I Mush til Illinois.
I ttlvrs luUuetur* Sal I rsot
TV naval coni mu tew* uf the ho i*e
and sc vale wrre »• v. cptlcM* to ihe wen
ral r de hoih twtug In control uf old
n -iitiien fruttt l*t" stale of Maine
Chairman MouteUe on the house .ids
. h‘. face With > uriooa persistence
against and preparations for war. and
the result was that the tanwitits tan
aw tl ftom him. and inserted in the ap
• >ptUituns t»Ht a propostttua to haihl
three new battleships and twelve tap.
pc do ball tip the senate side the
naval rommittee has been praiicvlii
reorganised owing la Ihe nbwsac* wf
Mi Hale, abate poioj htc been Meal'
leal with that of RouteHe. and the pv
utt is that Senator Perkins of Califop"
ilia, a praettea! ship owner and sailed,
has been placed in charge.
Hauler I« Pm riot l«*.
The only eastern man at the preseni
time actively at the head of a commit
tee which has directly to do with war
matters is Senator Hawley of Connec
ticut, who, fortunately for the coun
try. is progressive and patriotic, hav
ing been the first one to take a step to
strengthen the army by providing for
two new artillery regiments. To cap
the climax of western Influence In the
present crisis, It Is worth noting that
tiip two committees on foreign affairs
which supervise the diplomatic nego
tiations leading up to hostilities and
which would have direct control of a
proposition lo declare war are under
the leadership of Senator Cushman 1C.
Davis of Minnesota and Representative
Hitt of Illinois.
Took tlerii'rnl I.Aitvli-i*.
The return of thp cruiser Montgom
ery to Key West has caused much spe
culation, which tile authorities have
declined to end by giving reasons. The
real reasons are interesting, and show
how grave the situation Is. The accu
racy of this statement cannot lie ques
tioned. The Montgomery was ordered
to return from Havana harbor at the
suggestion of Consul General I-cp. Ho
pointed out to the authorities that the
retention of the cruiser In Havana
harbor was tlir* source of circulation
of rumors, and a menace rather than
a protection In ease of an outbreak.
She could not land sufficient force to
he much, if any protection to American
Interests, while she was not sufficiently
powerful to cope with Hie guns of the
torts and the Spanish warships, In case
of ;i sudden declare!Ion of hostilities.
In view of these circumstances General
I,ee recommended the withdrawal of
ihe Montgomery and the substitution
of the l-’crn. or some other vessel of
i lie same character. The i'ern can per
form equally good services as the
.Montgomery In the event that General
|,oo or other Americans have to leave
Havana In a hurry, and the Kern
stands In Ices danger of being fired on
than would a vessel of war.
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Why the Iowa Wa» Held Back.
General l.ee recommended the send
ing of the Iowa to Havana to bring
hack the court of Inquiry. It will be,,
r. membered that a rumor was printed
that the administration had derided to
send the Iowa to Havana to impress
the Spaniards with the power of our
navy. This was at General I/’e’g sug
gestion. He told the government that
the Spaniards could not be made to be
lieve that we bad a formidable navy
unless they bad an ocular demonstra
tion of the fact. The Spaniards, he re
ported, believed the Maine wun the
finest ship in the American navy and
that her destruction made It Impossible
for the United States to think about
fighting Spain. To correct this impres
sion General Lee suggested that the
Iowa should go to Havana harbor, take
the court of Inquiry on board, and
speed out again, an operation which
would give the1 Spaniards some mater
ial for sober reflection. When the fart
of this recommendation came to the
knowledge of a very high naval officer,
who is familiar with every word of
evidence brought out by the court of
inquiry, be made a vigorous protest,
and objected most strenuously to the
government's taking any risks In send
ing the finest battleship of the navy
Into Havana harbor. He gave reasons
for making this protest, and pointed
out the dangers that might be incurred.
The details would not be proper. It
Is only necessary to add that the ar
buments advanced by this distinguish
ed naval officer were so urgeni ‘.hat
I III’ lUWll mu nvni iiuiuho.
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Hilarity at tin* Banquet.
The brillluntly lighted banquet-room
was a scene of wild tumult in an in
stant. The joyous cheers of the emo
tional Spanish officers could be heard
far beyond the guard lines, which lield
the approaches to the palace against
uninvited guests for a block on each
side. There were cries: "To the
memory of Maximilian' Neither Aus
tria nor Spain t an forget bin fate, and
vTi stand together against those
whttaf uttju.lttied threats of inter* n>
tlon brought about ills cruel und tin*
timely ctul."
The Austrian "Jackin'*" are getting
I jo)uu*ly driiuk in the water from ra
! tea ur li e expert o' of t he Spanish Heel.
| It Is a case of the Kussida reception
i in the Havre and Calais again on a
i small scale The only people who
j have mi port In me general toy sr*
j the editor* of the ilavuna paper* aud
| the (orrespoudenta of the JooruaSa of
Madrid They were mu Invited In the
i (rasl. and every vlurt has been trxade
: to keep secret the event of the tsvtoiu i
linit v"una lit»H " >-Krt tpundenl if
kit Imp* fetal of Madrid was present.
At a member of the governor « family
tie was there aa a mailer of voorinsy.
t the other editors hebl an inige-isum
Itveet lug ami not one *t I ha paper* Wen
ti med the ham* wet In any way in ihetr
! new* voluma# Inspired bradeta tn >be
tfpsnish moral eg paper* instat that
tuetrts liettoany and I'rsace *dt
I .tand wuh dpw>n in in* event of war «t
i«p» setae** and annexation of » aba.