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"REVISION OF CREED." THE SUBJECi'OF D2. TALMAGE'. DISCOURSE. Though:sIwptaLed L uma the !mviue bs a Vimt to the sPot Waere Luazaru'. Lvcd md Died. At the Tabernacle Sunday morning the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. D. D., said he thought the new Brooklyn taber nacle would be dedicatea in Sepieuber. a The su.bject of his discourse was "Re- I vision of Creeds," aid he took for his text John xi., 44: "Loose him, and let him go." Dr. Talmtge said: My Bible is, at the pisce of this text. written aAl over .i.ith the lead pencil mar K made last December at Bet bany on the ruins of the hc-use of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dismouuted from ou horses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead Sea. Betliany was the summer evening retreat of Jesus. After spend ing the day in the hot city of Jerusalem he would come out there almost every evening to the house of his three friend Ithink the occupants of the house wete orphaus, for the father and mother were not mentioned. But the son and two daughters must have inherited property for it :nust have been, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Laz rus, the brother, was now the head ;' the household, and his sisters dependec on him and were proud of him, for he was very popular and everybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girls. Martha, a first-rate housekeeper, and Mary, a spirituelle, somewhat dreamy but dectionate, and as good a girl a could be found ia all Palestine. But one day Lazarus got sicir. The eisters were in consternation. Father gone and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. How the girls hung over fiis pillow! Not much sleep aboui that house, no sleep at all. From the characteristics otherwise developed, I judge that Martha prepared the medi cines and made tempting dishe. of food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worae and worse gets Lazarus, until the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that went up from that household whes the last breath had been drawn and the two sisters were being led .by sympathizdrs into the adjoining room, all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why was not Jesus there as be so often had beent Far away in the country district: preaching,:healing other sick. How un fortunate that this omnipotent doctor had not been at that domestic crisis in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived it. Bethany Lazarus had been buried four days and dissolution had taken place. In that climate the breathless body die integrates more rapidly than in ours 1., immediately after decease, that V: . had been awakened into life, unbel -. era might have said that he was only : a comatose state, or in a sort of tarC. and by some vigorous manipulation or powerful stimulant vitality had beet renewed. No! Four days dead. Az the door of the sepulchre is a crowd of people, but the three must memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sisters. We went into the traditional tomb in December. and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, bu the day talked of in the Bible the:e was present an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do. He orders the door of the grave removed, and then he be gins to descend the steps, aMary and Martha close after them. Deeper down ~inoshadows and deeper! The ho; ~f~ass roll over his cheeks and upphn~ n the backs of his hands. Were ever so m~ay.So):ZQws compressed if so small a place as in that gi-np pre s~aj on down after Christ, all the timo be-f moaning that he had not come beforef Now all ashe whispering and a:1 the cry-j ing and all the sonds of shuffling .'.: ar tpped. It is the silence of ex pectancy. Death had conquered, bu'! now the vanquisher of death e:. p""d the scene. Amid the awful bnsh of the tomb the familiar name which Christ had often had upon his lips in the hos pitalities of the village home came back to his tongue and with a pathos and an almightiness of which the resurrection of the last day shall be only an echo: lhe cries: "Lazarus! come forth!" The eyes of the slumberer open and with great~gdifficulty he begins to ascend for the cerenments of the tomb are yet on him and his feet are fast and his hands are -fast and the impediments to all his move ments are so great that Jesus commands: "Take off these cerements; remove these hindrances; us fasten these grave clothes: loose him and let him go!1" Oh, I am so glad that after the Lord raised Laza rus he went on and commanded the loosening of the cords that bound his feet so that he could walk, and the -breaking off the cerement that bound his hands so that he could stretch .out his arms in salutation, and the tearing off the bandage from around his jaws so that he could speak. What ~would re surrected life have been to Lazarus if he had not been freed from all those crip plements of his body? I am glad that Christ commanded his complete emanci pation, saying: "Loose him, and let him go." The unfortunate thing no w is that so many Christians are only half liberated. - They have been raised from the death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but tlrey yet have the grave clothes on them. They are like Lazarus, hobbling up the stairs of the tomb, bound haind and foot, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their soul, and I shall try to obey the Master's command *that comes to me and comes to every -minister of religion. "Loose him, an*' let -him go." First, many are bound M.: and foot by religious creeds. L-' na uta misinterpret me as antagonaz - & I have eight or ten of thetc ; r. creed about religion, a creed about ar, a creed abous social life, a creed about government, and so on. A creed is sor thing that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The Presbyterian church is now agitated about its creec. Some good men in it are for keeping it because it was framed from :he belief of John Calvin. Other good men is t wan-t revision. I am with neither party. Instead of revision I want substitution. -I was sorry to have the question distur b ed at all. The creed dii not hiuder us from offering the pardon and the com fort of the Gospel to all men, and the Westminster Confession has not inter fered with mc one minute. But now that the electric lights have been turned on the imperfections of that creed- and everything that man fashions is imper fect-let us put the old creed respec-1 fully aside and get a brand new one. It is impossible that people who lived hundreds of years ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died three hundred and twenty-six years ago. The best centuries of Bible study have come since then, and explorers have done their work, and you might as welli have the world go baclk and stick to -what Robert Fulton knew about steam boats and reject the subsequaent improve ments ininavigation; and go back to JoMt Gaueuerg, the inventor of the art of printing, and reject all moden newspaper presses, and go back to t-e time when telegraph was the elevatrg i: of signals or the burning of bonfires on the hilltops and reject the magnetic wire which is the tongue of nations, as igndre alithe exegetists and the philolo gstsaid the thenlogians of the last 32G W-n* put your iLdd .rnde.. -e, ve the -,WU o a: x een-a cr.turv dc^ 7 I . -i .11 rha n es of tw4 sy [ vinlg Pa o n rocs. rs )f rega ,ha co .d r .i:': a Ottr r:eed t.n 4: c vn.Tae ieine. -er .j cernIy aot - - to be c-01--d to ia. ihe feet o "But," you say, "it is the same old 'ible, and John Caivin had that as well s the present student of the scriptu:es." es, so it is the -atwe old sun it the eavens. but in our times it has gcne to iaking daguerreotypes and photogi aphs. t is the same old water, tut in ou cen ary it has gone to running steant cn ines. E is tne sam= old electricit, ,but 2 our time it has become a lightning jotel errawd boy. So it is the oil B - e, iu nw apLAcations, new uses, .w ;nterpretations. You must re-nem ic that during the last th ee huidred ears wordq have changed their raean jv ;.ud some of them now mean more nu some less. I do not think that John aviu believed,, as some say he did, irn he damnation of infan:s, aithough some f the recent hot disputes would seem to ply that there is such a thing as the lamnation of infants. A man who believes in the drn.iition f infants himself deserves to lose ieaven. I do not think iny good man ould admit such a pos-ibiility. What ;brist will do with al the babies in the ext world I conclude from what he did vith the vabies in Pales ine when he ugged them and kissed them. When oiLe of you grown e.p g, out of this orld your doubtful IestinT vil, ge an mbarrassment to ministe-. ; mniarng t your obsequies, who i-i:)i e to be rautious so as not to hurt surviving riends. But when the darling children o there are no "ifs" or "buts" or gues es. We must remember that pod John Calvin was a logician and met iphysician and by the proclivities of his 3ature put some things in an unfortunate ay. Logic has its use and meta'>hycics as its use, but they are not good at. ukiug Liec s. A garde:.er hads you blooming rose, dowy fresh, but: severe ootanist comes to you with a rose and iays: --I wilL show you the structure o' nis roi And be proceeds to take it apart and pui:s off the leaves and he says: There are the petdas," a-.d he takes out -be anthers, and he says: "Just i'ok a! -he wonderful structure of thest fl.ril pillars," aad then be cts the s%'m tO Ljw you the juices of the plait. S lgicor metapbysics takes the a-otnatit rose of the Christian religion and : ".I will just show you how this rose o religion was fashioned;" and it pul's off of it a piece and says: "Tnat is tOe hu man will," and another piece and says: "This is God's will," and another piece and says: ".is i. savereignty," and another pi.'ce and says: "This is free 'ency," this is this a:d that is that d while I stand looking at the frag mets of the rose pulledl apart, one whon lhe Marvs took for a gardenerccoes in and presents me with a crimf.ou rose. red as blood, and says: "Inhale the sweetness of this, wear it on your heart and wetr it forever." I must confe~s that I prefer the rose in full bloom to the rose pulled apart. What a time v:e have had with the dogmiatics, t0 apologetics and the hermeneutics. The dtkfect in some of the cree-% is that they try to tell us all about the decrees of God. Now, the only human being that was ever com petent t-> handle that subject was Paul, nd he would not have been competent ad he not been inspired. I be-ieve in the sovereignty of Goi and I bel-eve in .n's free agency, but no c:c cn har monize the two. It. is not n--cessary that ne harmoniz' them. Every ser mon th-a I have ever heard that ettempt. ed such harmonization was to me as clear as a Lodon fog, as clear as mud. My bro:hr of the niseteenth century, my Lther of the sixteenth century, g-ve us as statement and leave out yrtr own. Bmtter one chapter of Paul on that sub ~than a f M~ ad4 ho,est and mighty as they are. Do not try te' measure either the throne of God or thie thunderbolts of God with your little stee! pen. What do von know tout the decrees? You cannrot _pry open the docr of God's eternal councils. You onot explain the mysteries of God's overnment now, much less the mysteries tf his government five hundred quintilhi :>n of years ago. I move for a creed ior ll our denominations mnadc out of Scrip ture quotations pure and simple. That would take the earth for God. fTat would be imp: egnable against intidelity ad Apollyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. The denomi nation, whatever its namne f.e, that can rise u' to that will be the church of the :ilen'ium, will swallow up all other :enomiations and be the one that will be the bride when the Bridegroom ::meth. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the king :lom of God. Do not hinder people by the idea that they may not have been elected. Do not tag on to the essential >f faith in Christ any of the innumerable :ionessentials. A man heartily who accepts Dhrist is a Christian and the man who ioes not aCcept Him is not a Christian, snd that is all there is o.f it. He need 20t believe in election oc reprobation. Re need not believe in the eternal gen statit a of thc Son. He need not behieve a verlasting punishment. He need iot believe in plenary inspiration raitb o Christ is the criterion, in the test, Is he pivot, is the indispensable. But there ire those wn would add urnto t ie tests rather than subtract from them. There Le thousands who would not aecept >ersons into church membership if they Irink wine, or if they smoke cigars, or if hey attend the theatre, or ii they play :ards, or if they drive a fast hors?. Now, :do not drick wine or smoke or attend he theatre, never played a game of cards mdnddo not drive a fast h',rse, although I vould if I owned orne. But do not sub titute tests which the Bible does not stablish. There it one passage of scrip ure wide enough to let all in who ought o enter and to keep out all who ought o be kept out: "Believe in the Lord resus Christ and thou shalt be savei" let a jaan's heart right and his life will >e right. But now that the old creeds iave been put under punlic tcrutiny )mething radical must be done. Some Tould split them, s->me would carte them, ome would elourgata them, some wo~uld .bbreviate them. At the present :noment nd in the present shape they are a hin Irance. Lazarue is alive, but bumpered vith the old grave clothes. If y.iu want >.me glorious church free and unencum >ered take off the ceremnents of old ec :lesiastical vocabulary. Loose her, and md let her go! Aain there are Christians wh. are inder sea'ulchral shadows aad b:indered Lad bobbled oy doubts and fears and in long ag:> repnted of. Wh~at they ieed is 'to uzderc:and the liberty of the r of God. Toey spend more time muder the shadotv of Sinai than at toe >tre of Calvary. They have been sing n the only poor hymn that Newton vee wrote: 'Tis apoint I long to know, Oft it causes me anxious thought - Do' I ove the Lord or no Am I his or am I not? Lng to know, do you? Why do ycrn mot find out? Go to work for God an: rou will very soon find out. The mant vho~all the time feeli-g of his pulse and ooing at his tongue to see whether it e coated, is morbid. and cannoth >hyscally well. The do"-:; till say:; -G out into fr:- air and into active ife, and stop tL'nking of your.t, and cnu wlll get well and strorng." S-i there areep::ople watchicn r spiritual iympmoms, and they call it s-:lf-examina :ion, and they get weaker j.ud sicklier in :heir faith all the time. Go out and do xcr-tu. ar,, thon ext~rirt'e yourself. anA "st.d of Newton's saurni'e ai,d bil iJus hym th'e I tirst quoteC, you will io Newton's otrer hycan: Arnaza;; grace, how sweet the sound That wvdc a wretch like mie! Once I w;.z lost, but now I'm found; Was blind; Lut now I see. What many of you Christians nCd is o get your grave clothes off I rejoice hat you have been brought from the iea'i of sin to the life of the gospel, but ou need to get your hands loose and your eet loose and your tongue loose and our soul loose. There is no in that he Bible so arraigns and punctures and agellates as the sin of unbelhef, and bat is what is th. matter with you. Oh," you say. -if you knew what I Ance was and bow many tir..s I have rievously strayed, you would under stand wby I do not come out brighter." l'henI thik yon wili call yourself the bh'ef of sinners. I am glad you hic upon hr. term, for Ihwve a prom:je that fits awo your case as the cogs in one wheel et .vecn the cogs of another wheel or as the kry fits into the latyrin'th of a lock, .. man who was once called Saul but af terr.4rds Paul deciared: "Tais ii a faith:ol saying and wo;Luty of all ac'e' tati-n, that Christ Jesus came into the .verld to save sinners, of whom I am chief." Mirk t!t-'of whom I am chis-f." "Put down ytur overcars and hats and I ";ill takce care of them wbile you kill Steube"-so Saul said to the .toners of the first martyr-"I do not care tw excit yself mueb, bur I wlil guard your surplus apparel whi!e you do themurder." TNae Nw Testament, ac count says: "rhe witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet wno1se name was Saul." Nj wonder he sa-o: "Sinners, of whom Iam chief." Caiet is used to climbing. He climbed to the top of the te:nple. He climbed to the top of Mount Olivet. He climbed to the top f the c'iffs abour Nazaretb. Ie cli-n'ed to toe top of G.rgotta And to the top of the hilia and the mountains Or your ravrersqos and be is ready to c!imb with pardon for every one of you. The groan of Calvary is mightier than the thunder of Sinai. Full r eceipt is overed for all *otir in deedness. If oae throws a stone at midigat into a buzh where the hedge bird roosts, it immediatey bfiaz to sing; &ad i!nto the midnight hedges of your desp wdency Lhese words I burl, hoping to awaken you to atLnem. Droip the tules incne minor key and take the mijr. Do you think it pleases the Lord for you to be corrying azound wih you the debris and carcasses of old transgressions? You make me think of some ship that has had a teapestuous tine at sea, and aow that. it proposes a::ther voyage, kceps on zts davits the danged iifeioats.,and the splinters of a shivered ma;t, and the broken glass of a smashed skylight. My advice is: Clear the decks, over board with ill the daw' aged rigging. brigbtrn up th- salte smokstacks, open a new lg book, haul in the planks, lay out a new course, and set sari or heven. You have had the spiritual dumps long e:tough. You wil please the Lrd more by oeiug "'apps than by bbing miserable. Have you not sometimes started out in the ain wito your umbrella and were busy thinking and you di not notice that the rain had sopped, and though it had clearcd ofI vu still had your umbrella up, aud ;.en v(;,, discovered wha-. y-u were do ing you feit silly enough? That is wha souwe of you are doing in religious thisr.. Y u have got so used to cad ness th:at tnughm the rain has stopped you still bave your umblrella up. Co~me out of the ~adow. Asc-i the s'airs of you. sepulcre. Step out irnto the brou'i iht of noonday. We come around yoe to help you remove your gzrave clothesi, and a voice from the heavens, tremugou5 bt omnipotent, commants "L 'o'e him, anet hitM go." Heaven is ninety-five per ceut. b~etter than this we~rld, a thousand per cent. better, a million pec cent. iLet ter. Take te gladdest, brightest, mos' jubi!aiit days you ever had on earth an-i com press t temn into one hour, and that hour would be a requiem, a fast day, a glo -m, a horror, as compared with the po~rest hour they have had in heave:' since its first tower was built, or its rrst gt: swung or its first song caroled. "Oh, you say, "that may ben true, but I am so afraid of crossing over from this world to the next, and I fear the snapping of the cord between soul and body." Well, all tbe surgeons and 1.hysicrans anid sctentists declare that there is no pang at the parting of the body and soul, and all th'i.soeming restlessness at the clow ig hour of life i.s invcluutary and no distress at all. And I agre'e with the doctors, for what they say is confirmed by the fact th-it persons who were drowned or were submerged until all consciousness departed and were after wards resuscitated,declare. that the sensa tin of passing into uncon ciousness was pleasurable rather than distressful. The cage of the body has a door on easy bin ges, and when that door of the physical cage openi the soul sitnply puts out its wings and soars. "But," you say, "I fear t' go because the future is so full of mystery." Well, I will tell you how to treat the mysteries. The mysteries have eased bothering me, for I di as the judges of your courts often do. They hear all the argument in the case anti then say: "I will take these papers and save you my decision next week." S" I have heard all the argument in regard to te nex.. world, and somfe things are un certain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve uutil the next world my d-:cision about tacm. I can there studya all the misteries to bet ter advntage, for the iignt will ne bet ter and my faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christian philosophers, who have L:ad all the advantages of heaven for enturies, to help me, and I may be pr anitted myself to humbly ask the Lord, and I think there will be only one mys tery left, and that will be how one so un worthy as myself got into such an ern raptured place. Come up out of the sepul :mral shaaows. If you are not Carns tians by faith i2 Christ come up iuto the light; and if you are already like Laza rus, reanimated, but srill have your grave clothes on, get rid of them The :smmand is "Loose him, and let him ;o." The oniy part of my recent jour aey that really dreaded. -.-ough I did tit say much about : he~ . caand, was .he lading at J1 ->.i. Ta .t i, the port of otrace t" the H~oly L .1a, and there re many rocks, arnd in aovgh weather poople c'annot innd at ali. -The boats aking the people from tt e steamer to h docks must run t"tw en reefs that okd to me to be about rilty feet apar', d a one mis-troke of an &tarmai or ut peed wave has somne~ime-- ir-eu fa a, and hu:rreds have 'erished along '-se refs. Besides that, as we lefr Pt d t evening before a.n old rvel said' "The wind is just right " ve you a rough latnding at Jopa; need I think you will nort be abe to and a all." The fact was that when ur Mediterranean steamer dropped an yhor near oppa and we put out for hore in the all boat,tho water was as tll as though it had been sound asleep hundred years, and we landed as casily ts came on tuis p'atforan. Well, your earsihave tsicured for you an appallint. t::al at the end of your voya;;e of life, and they sty ;bat the seas vili rnon high and that the brearsers will swallow you ip, or that if you rech Cvo.n at ail it ili be a ver., rougha !andi-:i. Ta: very ,pposite tvill be true if you have the turnal God for your prorti an Your ilsembarkation fcr the promi.-ed land rnll be as smooth as was rurs a-t Pales ilst December. Chris oim meet y-u 'ar out I e-, -M y~o I:t ti comle'.e 1fet v Vou wili IuC wit h a hasnawn (M ' oCi.: 00 ;nd i-( leluj*?h in te ot'he "Land ahlead!", P:: *,-n:tq :m, w.v"ing O'er t he huits q.i !:W e ;reou, And ;,e Hvir - W. erb -vig Sni.':Cs voCro Ai c xm_ are beenj. Rocks and btorras 11 fear no more. Wheu on that eternal r-hore; Drop Lhe auchor! rrl the s.ai s I am safe wittiiu the veil! --,- - Ic r THE FASHIONS. y f'emC New Hats a%,1 k'urapm for Street and E.veninz Wear. As the siring op-as the Thibet-linted opera cloak wil giv way to fancy wraps, 1 tome of which ire excedingly piquaut t and graceful thi; seas(n, as well as gor genus of tone avd gsiere," sth.e fahion writer in au c h:Lrmfe exaress it. kome are made ofde!!cre plush, or of soft brocade] clotb, a::d are either C lined wvM. satin or ernilne, or with Nor e egian eidr-duck far-borders r-f 2Ltgyar galloon. or Chirste lamb, with t Valois co!lar of the sa:!e. being much favored. Ai! kzds of tr;mming made of cstrich feathers are ,lso fauzhionable for wraps as they have been for evening gowns. ['flese wraps are appearing more gen '-rally upon the street a? spring advan ces, and very refresbing change they present to the ever-present shoulder atpe. Shr'uldercapeq and tonues have h:d a long reign, and it surely cannot he because either one may be caled a thing of beauty or ., jo? forever. e The toque is a shapelegs form of bead gear, and must o-ve its populnrity to th*c .act that it is a hybrid between a bont:et and a hat. The former always seemed 1 slightly abrupt in the angle formed just c acore the ear, wi-ich is rounded off in ( the toque aad leaves the effect of a cap x at the back. The shape of a bonnet is I jauntier, however, and the toque is only piquant when trimmed effectively. Oae x of black French lace, for example, edged with a vine of huttercups or jessamine. c interspersed with greer leaves, with I quellings of the lae standi-g high i aboye a cluster of flowers, is pretty. An- i ocher, with high jet coronet, is attrac- I tive. Those wade of folds of velvet i --out the coronet are called the "Ray I 31as." Oue of the prettiett hats of the sea sm) is broad-bummed, low-ctowned -1lthough crowns are taller than they have been-with one smoothly curveal bead over the left brow, as it hang, over the face. High trimmitg finishes :ae crown, and within the curve the ( hair shows artistically. To reture to tue toque-there is one made with the ,rout upraised above the hair and dent # d ia two plaxes. With suitable trim ming this isgraccful,for it has the broad fect of the round bonnet shape. The first mention we find :i past annals con- I ,ersing the toque wts in the early part -f this century, when fashionable lad:es referred to to this article of headdress in their correspondeunce, One of the prettiest evening bonnets is an ethereal affair, almost a mer0 -vreatb of lowers, for in lieu of crown the coiffure is revealed. Coronets ara worn over the front of eveni-g -bonnets, .t2d the present Marie Stuart bonni-t is very highly arched, and the curving orims faced with rich Oriental passe rnenteric and oblique. The bandeaux for the coronets are freqiently made in the Greek pattern. The Spanish bat, or tor reador, is quite the tage at present, as, in fact, are many features of this pictur --sque costume. A cap-a slight departure from the Tam O'Shanter, yet akin to it-is worn, -nd very jaunty it is. It is made of vel vet or satin, pulled~ slightly into a rope, ike a band of lhrge, globular Deads. Directly in front the flat, puffed crown is raised by a fan bow aad aigrette. After all the big pokes and the Gains borough of a fews years since were thbe ones which gave a pictutesque tone to our street costumes. Does not every one recall the many bright faces which peered forth from thos.e quaint, big The headgear which forms a circle around the face has alt'ays had a cer rain charm, se-tming, as it does, to frame and smoomi our contonts. The little bonnet worn by little childrten some time away back duriug the'50r. (fashion plates show them to us). which formed a complete circlet to below the ears, and which was wreathed between the hair and the brim with rosebuds and r-uch delicate flowers, served to deck their roseate little faces as with an aureole, and, though quaint in the-back, was not so cumbrous as are many of these clumsy articles of dress worn by children today. The dainty dress gathered in at the( waist with a sash, the fulled skirts, gave a child an elfin aippearance quite lost in the Mother Hubaard construction of to day. ' With the coming of spring we see again the circular cloak of lhght cloth called last year the connemara, latterly the Hanguenot. One of the prettiesta aloaks of the season-one which has giv eu that kind of a garment but little show-is that of Russian design, trim med with jagged fur, and worn withr onae end flung across the opposite shoul .er, Spanish fashion. The princess red ingote, with Valois collar, bigh sleeves, and revers and cuffs heavily trimmed with applique-the collar and cuffs, of castor and beaver fur, which trimming uually alse Eini'hes the long front-ia 1 quite fashionable. GENERAL NEWS ITEMIS. Facts of Interest Gathered from Vari ons Sources. -Lord Tennyson continues to im prove. --United States Minister Lincoln's son died at London on Wednesday morning. -The Rev. Sam Small will be or daied to the Episcopal ministry int Atla,ta, on the 15th of June. -Several Nihilists have been arrested I near the Ani.cnnoti palace, where the cztr and his family are stayi-:g. 1 -The Senate has coafirmned the nomi-5 nation of ex-Gav. Henry W. Warmtuth f Louisiana, to ise collector of cus tos. -William B. Allison has been re e~lected United States snator from Iowa' c ceiving every Republican vote in both i Houses. -Featherstone. the Republican con- t tesant for the seat of Mr. Cate. of Ar anss, has been seated by a vote of 145 o: to 135. a: --D. G. Peach, a shoemaker, com nitted suicide at Kershaw, S. C., Taes- 0 lay by taking ain overdose of morphine. 1 No reason is assig ned. -It is said that Mr. Cleveland's gur anteed income from the law tirm withe which he is connected as special coon el is $:35,000 a year. -A fire in New York on Tuesd-av Jestroyed several who le-ale dry goods b tores, involvingt a loss of $350,000. Ten it firemen were s-eriously hurt, a-nd several j, narrowly escaped death. t -Willie Pharr, the four-year-old son of Chalmers Pharr, who lives near Mooreville, N. C., was burned to death a everal days ag >, by hia clothing catching on fire while his mother was out of the room. -Keely, of motor fame, who wva sent to jail six months ago for con-| ti erpt of court because he refused to jite reveal his secret in c-ompliance with mn the order oi the court, has been re leed, the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania refusing to sustain the lower IOUTH AEOLINA THE PLACE. i*Wat Has Been nind Can fle Done In the IA Pahaietto State. s Acrace Greeley said, "G:> West, omug er:n," and that aying has been kn yieraly by thousands. This it Lther ofjournalism in America spoke w guratively w'hen he used that expres- u] on and meant, have confidenjt in rc ourself; go where you must jave the ti, ofildence, and go, too, where there is c( Wom natd opportunity to develop tu mrself. d( Thou.ands of youDg men, and old ti 1-1, too, have gone West, where e: any have tiriven, but where many vi '"re have succumbed to Ihe too rongh t! ,f . Of the firmier we have heard, of b4 s Ilat;er we have not. p Su:ct-ss comes to those who deserve n, and hard work and strict attention it business will bring its fruit. There ni 3 such a thing as luck, but it seldem mnes, and he who waits for it wil be adly disappointed. We must exert Lrselves v. herever we may be to gain he golden fruit. Many young men feel that South A arolina is a poor State to live in. All <iMit i abiudance of her rescurces, ut dar-y the abit.tv to develop them. F w, we wish to tell of a man who has nad a fortune here, with disadvant- r ,es to creoie which few have. It s simply of his success in the business vorld ara what he has done in it that p ve will write. J,;hn L. Mimnaugh landed in New tonk in 1S73. lie came from the north Y f Ireland, where his folks are well-to- 1 !0. But. he came to this country with a rily a nominal sum in his pocket and tl ,ich the hope of fortune-making in d .is inind. He had no friends in thisd ountry save an uncle, Mr. James A. 0 Yray, iu Augusta, Ga., one of the ited merchants of that city. With b im Mr. blimnaugh spent the succeed ng fre year,; and got his first ideas of t nercantile life. In 1878, with less than $1,000 to his i :edir, he went to Winnsboro and b6- i an business alone. Investing his a noney judiciously, he went to work md coon buit up a large business. He :ept his eye open for bargains and ade several good trades, from which v il malized much, while in the town l imong the red clay nills. s In 1883 he sol _ out his business in finn-boro ond came to Columbia All z if us know the rest. From a business s onducted in one store room, he has a ymilt up a mercantile business second a :o nene in the whole State. He re- a ently bought the Agnew block, which s 2e has had compietely renovated. f Both floors of this building are now : axed to their limit to accommodate t he tr-ae that is conducted therein, a md the hale, hearty, jovial, energetic t nan whom you sae watching every a >art of that business, has built it up t ntirely by his own pluck and push. i No h elp has he received from out-- r dde sources, and many are the diffi- a :ulries he has overcome, but he has t ooked them all in the face and been t iscouragd at nothing. Now he can c ..y he iwesno man, and tothe writer's ersond knowledge his ledgers show 1 L : slance in bis favor over the amount >f $125,000. In 1S78 he was worth $1,000, and in t M9O, $125,000. Is that making money I ast e.nough? For the Agnew block he I aid over $25,00, and every dollar he I am paid in Cash. From th-t showing can ore say e is nu lif in our State, that no d ncney can be ma'de here? We give e a a an example of what can be Icoue in one of the most hazardous rndes known, one in which over 95 per ceat. of those who engage ini it annotsuccee'l. There are many others that have lone as well as Mr. Mimnaugh, but here are few syho have done as much vith as little extraneous aid.wW hat ie has done should be a great stimulus tudJ encouragement to the young ien of our S;ate. That they can live ni this beautiful, God-blessed landt tong those who have kindred sym- 1 'athies and .vet feel that the chancest or success ar~e a~s great here as any here else in this land.-Columbia TO JOIN THEIR FORCES. I t me Plan of Union Htetween the Indepen den~a and the Rtepublicans ofSeuth Uaro The foilowing addreas has been is ued by the independents of South r ~arlina: HEADQUARTE~Rs INDEFENDBNT-I b EPUBLICAN STATE CoMMITTEE, Co0 .UMBIA, 5. 0. February 28, 1890. a lo Mr, E. M. Brayton, Chairman, and the Officers and Members of the Re pu'olia State Committee: ta Gentlemen-It being desirable that e ,l the elements in South Carolina J hich are opposed to bourbon Democ- n acy should be united, and. working o armoniously together in an effort to a sake one effective and reliable Re- t >ublican party in the State, therefore t is proposed that the chairman of he ludependent-Republican State C ommittee and chairman of the Re- ~ >ublican State central committee con er with each other for the purpose of ' rying to effect a union of their c tregth for future efforts, upon the s ollowing basis:0 That each chairman call a meeting f his committee, to take place on Lay-, 1890, in Columbia and thatc s fairness~ and honesty, prompted by c ptriotism and loyalty to RSulia >rinlcipes should prevail, it is propos- h d that cash committee. when assem led as above suggested, shall choose hre of its owrn members5, or other uitable perseas, who shall from the line of their election constitute r'or a wo years an executive committee of e s he Republican party of the State. s Trha', this committee shall be en- e irged into a State central commit tee I s provided for below. Ire i'bat the chairman and secretary of |T M new committe be chosen by the w nlependent Republican committee, eo nd t hat the vice chairman of t!eccin- ., ittee and members of the nationali omittee be chosen by the present epublican committee, or vice versa. That to csoplete this State commit e it shall be the duty of the chair an to app~oinlt as speedily as possidle ne good and true mua in e-sch county d that such selection shedll be made I bject to the approval of taeamjority' it the exceutive committee. and1 Ihe sl ate oftim.e their ser1ice sha!! con-I o nue shall he two years frc.n the fjr- A mao~u of .he executive co'umnittee. h: It ti-hall further be the duty of the v iairmrtan to apptoint a county chair- g ~n U each county, whoso .-eiecdo N l s be subject to the approva: rf tI le eutive committee, and it shal vt the duity ol the county chairmen to, W Stu, appoint township chairmen, ~ tat thec time of service of cunuty anid tI >wnsiio chairmen is not to continuie P ter the county and townnip orgadi. tl ~tions are effected, the obje ct of their gpontent being for the purpo-e iy of e~ecting an organiz tion of ithe tyt in all parts of State, e~nd it shall d the~ ml, y ofsuchi county nd town p cmrm- to clieet as f:-st a.s pos eii emy x n owd~.'nship 'rgawiia , m 3le Cle rni, as may he pre X ryz redpectily. HaIX McLANm. Chairman. Chicago Begging ror Money. At least $15,000,000 will be needed. third Lhereof ina- be said to be in e ;ht. The subscipion list may be creased and perhaps another $5,000, 'O may be raised by bonds, but the o,;iem would he greatly simrliiied if E e government of the United States 0 suld advance $10,000,000 conditioned I >on repayment in full. The bill as " ported contemplates no appropria- a yi other than $1,500,000 to cover the b st of a government exhibit, and the Y r'her sum of $100,000 to be expen- s d o -all purposes connected with t . adaission of foreign goods for the t :position. There i3 no clause pro d'ng for other governmeut aid to .e project. Whether or not any will made will develop presently. The 'b -ospect is that it wili be greatly 3aded in the preparatory stages. If a must bo had the time to ask for it is >w.-Chicago Times. The Mississippi Colloe. Cal Bowen, of Pickens, a member v 'the board of trustees of the Clemson gricultural College of South Carolina. c as just returned from Starkville, and ys that there are know at the Missis ppi Agricultural Coliegn 250students. I rotn what he saw of tba institution I ad from his eon versatiou with Presi- I eut Lee, he was convince i that there as no doubt of the college being a I iccess. It had been seriously ham g ered in the past by orpposition in the a tate and it3 aperations had! in late 1 ea-rs been pinched by small appro riations Last year, however, the t ppropriation had been liberal enough > put the college en a better footing I ir ever before. Another serious ra t ack had been dos'ruction by fire f a number of t he college buildings a t ear ago. The barnas and stables were urned, which had recessitated the ile of a number of the cattle and the I 1mporary limitation of some of the i ractical farm operations included in a college course. Temporary build igs were now occupied in place of agse burned. -Greenville News. A Breathin.r Cave. In the range of mountains in the estern portion of Norih Carolina nown as the. "Fork Range," a most ngular phenomenon exists Iz is the Breathing Cavb ' In tic summer ionths a current o f air comes from it o rtrongly thst a person. cannot walk gainst it. while in winter the rush of ir inward is just as great. The cool ir from the cave in sumimer is felt ometimes for miles in a dire ,t line com the mouth of the cave. At times most unpleasaut odor is emitted upon he current from animals sucked in ad killed by coming in violent con act with the walls. The loss of cattle nd other stock in that section during he winter months is always great and accounted for it in this way: They ange too near the month of the cave ,nd the current carries them in. At imes when the change from inhala ion to exhalation begins the air is fill d with hairs of the various animals. (ot infreque:.tly small dry bones have een carried for over a mile from the 3auth of the cave, as thougli shot from H air-gun. The air has been known D change quite suddenly during ex alation from cold to quite hot, accom anied by a terrific roaring and gurg ng sound Many scientific men have isited the place, but the phenomenon till remains unexplained. The presi eat o" that section fear a volcanic ruption. Determined to Find Them Out. The young men of this city will no .oubt be wvily grieved t'o L.ar that mir oung la:3:s are? secretly orgtanizing, a ociety which in to be c neductedI on this trircie: I: shall be the duty of every temii-r to) ascertain the conut of the :)posite sex, anti any m'mrber guilty of reating an~y youna maa the least ad icted to dist:pa:ion with even common ivility will be subject to dismissal from he orgamtzstion. Any young mani who as heretofore been~ in good standing in b~e estimation of the society, and who ball com-nit an~ act unbecoinrg moral rsh'AI be pla.ced upea the black list nd no: accorded any rurther courtee:es r recog nniun by any member 'f the ociety. Any member cf the society tho, shall continue to display regard or ICeetion to aty black-listed male shall; edisbonnrably discharged and consid red eternallon disgraced by the organiza vn-Reanoke (Va.) Eve'ning World. -George Francis Trm left Boston at ~idnight Sunday night for his trip round the wvorid, which he expects to amplete in si xty days. New York was is first stopping place. From there he ill go directly to Tacoma, and thence cross the Pacific Ocean to Cina. -The Rev. Sam Jones preached a:. Dal >n, Ga , on Suinday. He took occasion > deny that he intendied to) move to :entucky and farm. Saiid he: "I am taking more money than any ten bish ps in the Met~hodist Church, and it 'ould be foolish for me to go into~ any -ing like an experiment." -At the evening session of the Florida hautauqua, Tuesday, Dr. JT. W. Lee, of tlanta, delivered a lketurc on Henryv 7. Grady as edirtor, enrator and man. he amphitheatre was filled to its utm~ost pacity and the audience was held ell bound! while Dr. Lee delivered his' ration. -Press repo.ts emanating from To. aka conceroing an alleged scheme to >lonize Oklahoma and make it a negro rate, have greath- aroused tbe settlers :Downs. A secre-t orgnsulz-.tion there ms decided to drive out te few negroes, id allow no more of that race to beeome ittlers. -Fire broke out in death Wilkesbarre ine Monday night, which cut off the cape of (ightt miners. It was at first ipposed that they could beaiyres ted :brou~th thec S-atntn mine adjoin g, but this hope is norr abandoned. A scuing party from the Stanto'n mine eday found the tm'i of the men hon ines- a 'ttht to savn, tbut en trace the menn. Th:ey became be-wildered d ;aindere! di rec' y lz'to danlger. and !e~ burted 1 ito h.( Why Vinegar Is Sharp. The question has been propounded, hat makes vinegar sharp? Now, if had been asked, Whyli is vinegar not arp? the ainswer would be, The want pure applle or grape jtuice. George darus in 1747 said that some p~eople tre imiagined that the sharpness of negar is occasioned by the little eels bien inhabit it striking theoir tails ~ainst the tongue and palate. Btt e Scienti/ic American says that it is ry certaim that the veryv soturest vine- 1 r has none of the little eels so comi on in vinegar- of a low-er grade, and at its p~imgency is entirely- due to the wintedl Iigture of salts which fioatst ereini.t Old Chair-s. Two chairs that have been handed wn fout-generations go to help outt the furniture tised in the late Abram mpsons house in Coleman, Mich. t oldlest one was bought in Boston, iss.. in 1749,and hasi now reached the y old age of 140u years. They also ye a flour barrel in the house that Ls boughit in New York in 1&39, hase eni in twelve different states, and is A SOURCE OF WONDER. ow a Newsp. er Correspondent Aston- T1 Ished a C mpany of Cossacks. A A newspaper correspondent, David It er, travelin in central Asia, came i 1e evening upon a Cossack camp. ires were glazng. and round them ere stretched the men, resting' after hard day's march. The traveler had een long on the road, and with his bite Russian forage cap and travel- . ained clothing looked so much like ie Cossacks themselves that he en red the camp quite unnoticed. Then S< e sat down on a stone and took out a L blored map of the country, knowing ell that the strange sight would T ring the men about him immediately. s "So it proved. I suddenly became ware of a gaunt, sallow, gray-mus Lehed visage-so criss-crossed with iber scars as to ook like a' railway iap-peering ove. 7 my shoulder. Then other and a-iother came edgig iz 11 I was cbmpletely surrounded by' ild figures and grim faces. '"Whats that picture, father? We an't quite make it out.' "It's not a picture at all. brothers ;s a plan that shows me the very way y which You have come here from oly Russia and all the places you have assed through. "Then, seeming not to notice the oks of unbelief and the meanino Tin, with which my hearers receivea rhat they considered to be a most out ageous lie, I went on: "'Up here, at Orenburg, you passed he Ural river and then marched east rard to Orsk, where you crossed the rontier and turned to the southeast.' 'So we did, comrades!' shouted half , dozen voicos at once. -He speaks the ruth-so we did.' '"Then you passed Fort Kara Butak, :rossed the Kara Koum desert, and ialted here and here and here,'-nam ng and describino- the various posts. "The Cossacksistened open-mouth A to the familiar names, and the ex ited clamor was followed by a silence )f utter amazement. Then one said: "'Father, can you show us the very )lace where we are now?" "'To be sure I can, my lad. See, ;hat black spot is the village yonder; here's the river twisting and winding; d here is your camp.' "There was another pause of blank bewilderment, and then the scarred reteran with the gray mustache asked in awe-stricken whisper: 'But, father, tell me, for the love of eaven, if we've marched a thousand m1iles since leaving holy Russia, how -an it all go into a little scrap of paper ao bigger than an Easter cake?"' STATISTICS OF OLD ACE. n Analysis of Returns Respecting Fifty Two English Centenarians. Prof. Murray Humphry has just brought together a remarkable book on "Old Age," says the Pall Mall Gazette. [t is based upon the results of an in guiry conducted by the collective in restigation committee of the British iedical association. In a portion of it the analysis of the returns respecting 52 centenarianssare given; of tlhese 16 were males and 36 females. Eleven of these were sigle (10 being females), 5 were married, ud 36 were widowed. Out of 50 re urns 3 only were in affluent circum tances, 28 were comfortable, and 19 poor; of these 9 were fat (8 being fe males), 20 were spare, and 18 of average condition. Twenty-five were erect in igure and 25 were bent. Out of 33 returns 28 used glasses, 7 lid not; out of these 4 were poor, 6 had sed glasses for 40 to 50 years, 5 for 30 to 3, 4 for 10 to 20, 2 for 4 to 6 years, 5 for "many years," 2 for a few years. From among these 1 had used specta :les for many years, but for the last 12 years had been ale to read without Ehem; another had not used them for 12 years, another "IL,.ifor many years," but I can not now get them strong enough. Out of 47 returns 40 had a good di estion. SOut of 48, 36 had good appetites, 2 bad, and ten moderate. Of 47, 25 were moderate eaters. 9 small, and 12 large. [n regard to alet ho!, 15 took none, 24 . little, 6 were moderates, and 1 was ised to a good deal of beer. Of ani ral food 3 took rone, 10 moderate, 25 ittle, 2 very little, and 1 much. Of 'perients, ~22 took them rarely, 14 lever, and 6 frequently. Out of 39, 26 could say that their emory was good. 6 bad,' and 7 moder mte. Of 45, 7 smoked much (4 being women), 2 little (one a woman), 3 oderately (one a woman.) Out of 40, 37 did not take snuff. As :o sleep out of 40, 32 were good sleep rs, 5 bad and 7 moderate. From 35 returns the average time of ~oing to bed was 9 o'clock; but 1 re :ires at 12, and 1 at 14, 5 at 7; 7 are bedridden. The average time of rising vas about 8 o'clock, but 6 rose at 6 elock, 1 at 5, 9 at 10, 1 at 11, and 1 at Out of 42 returns 25 had no teeth, md from 28 returns but 4 had artificial :eeth; vet in men about 80 the average iumbe'ir of teeth is only 6 and in romen 3. In 12 returns the average age when narried aiong the males was 23 and he females 25; the average number of ~hildren is, from the returns received, Bargaining in Algiers. You select your goods with slow de iberation, pile them together casually .n a little heap, eye them askance with m inquiring glance, and take a con ~emplative pull or two at the inspiring veed in solemn silence. says a writer the Gentleman's Magazine. Mo ianuned Ali responds with a puff from is cigarette in grave concert. Then rou walk once or twice up and down he piazza slowly, and, jerking youz 1ead with careless ease in the direction f your selected pile, you inquire, as if or abstract reasons merely, in ano und tone, your Moslem friend's lowest ash quotation for the lot as it stands. Two hundred francs is the smallest1 >rice. Mohiammed Ali paid far more han that himself for them. He sells imply for occupation it would seem. ook at the work, monsieur. All aven brass, not mere repousse metal, 1 r' real old chain-stitch, alike on both ides-none of your 'wretched, com aon-place, miodern, machine-made em troiderv. You simile incredulously, and remarkt ria wise nod that your Moslem eiend must surely' be in error. A mis 'ike of thet press:. For 200 francs read 0) francs. M oaned Ali assumes an expres ive' attitudec of virtuous indignation ndl rsumes his tobacco. Fifty francst >r all that lot! Monsieur jests. He ows himiiself a very poor judge. in-r e'd, of values. b Half an hour's debate and ten sue essive abatements reduce the lot at inst to a fair average price of 70 francs. s lohamed Ali declares you have rob ed him of his profit, andl pockets hist ?sh with inarticulate grumlhings in b e Arab tongue. Next day you see inb ie tue r b-Azzoun that you have paid i at least 30i francs too much for our supposedl bargrain. ,h In Vienna practical philanthropy c kes the shape of cheap eating houses e r poor ple). There are ten cook- | ekitchens throughout the city that tr lan avrg of 1,000 people each s id rery day. The average cost of a i uner is S eenuts, and of a supper is 4 :t nts, both meals comuprising about the irieties the common eating houses i rnis. |in A Legend. iere has comon my mind a legend, a thing I ad whether read it or dreamed it, ah well, it matter,; not. is said th:st In Heaven, at twilight, a great bell softly swings nd man miy'listen and hearken to the won derful muv~ic th:t r.ng'-. lie put from his boart's ivner chamber all the passion. pain. and s i fe. tartache and weary longing 11at throb inthe pulses of I fe lie thrust from his soil all hatred, all thougits of wicked thinss. e can hear in the bioiy twijight how the bell of the angels rings. nd I think there lies in this legend.if we open our eyes to see. mewhat of an inner meaning, my friend, to you and tomen. t us look In our hearts and question, can pure thoughlts enter in D a roul if it he already the dwelling of thoughts of sin? , then, le, us ponder a little-let us look in our hearts and see the twilight hell of the angels could ring for us->vu and me. --Ro-e Osborne. STORIES TOLD ABOUT SHEEP. What Came of Two Band' That Fersisted in "Following the Leader." Several "sheep men" from the Inland mpire were gathered around the tove at one of the hotels recently dis ussing the prospects for mutton this inter and at last they got to telling tories about sheep, says the Fortlana ?regonian. One told about the captain of a chooner who had a band of sheep on he deck of his vessel. As he was turn ng and twisting the wheel to keep the chooner on her course, the old ram tho headed the flock, taking umbrage t his motions. came up behind him nd at one full swoop butted him over he wheel. The enraged captain seized is woolly assailant and threw him over >ard, when, presto! away went the hole flock, popping over the rail, one iter another, into the sea. Boats rere lowered, and with much labor a >ortion of the flock was saved. Another told a story which illus rated the same follow-my-leader trait n the character of sheep. At a port on he sound one evening just after the leck hands had got all the freight towed away there came down 500 iheep to be put -n board. All hands were vexed because of the delay and ;rouble connected with shipping them; but finally a pen was made of hurdles etween decks and a gangway rigged, mnd in the dusk all was ready to take ;he sheep on board and they were itarted down the gangway. The first me, as he struck the deck, saw an >pening in the other side of the boat wcross which a hurdle had been placed. [nstead of going along to the corral ?repared this sheep made a runnig ump, cleared the hurdle and landed in 1e salt ehuck alongside. Every one f the band followed suit and in a short ime 500 sheep were struggling in the water. The captain, having seen the Ast one go down the plank, yelled out, "All right down there?" An answer iame back, "All right, sir; send 'em lown." "Send'em down," roared the :aptain; "haven't you the sheep down :here?" "Not a sheep, sir," was the reply, and investigation showed that there was not a sheep on the boat. The :aptain could not delay any longer id so steamed away, and only a small number of the sheep ever got ashore. The Hardest Worker in Jamaje. Everywhere, where the water is quiet in bays and harbors, one sees the man grove at its silent, ceaseless work. The parent trunk, growing from a little pink stem, shoots up into a low shrub with wide-spreading branches, clothed perpetually with glossy green leaves. From these branches long slender roots drop into the water beneath, where, in the muddy soil at the bottom, they themselves take root, and in turn be come trunks and trees. And every where under the snake-like net-work of roots which rise out of the muddy soil, and in a tangle of branches above, life is pulsing andl rustling. Innumerable erabs, with long red legs and black bodies peppered with white spots, scurry and crawl in and out upon the rank mud beneath the arching roots, and droll hermit-crabs draw them selves with a click into the burrowed houses-strange-looking shells with ong spines, curious spirals, mottled with blue and gray and yellow. In the days of the Spaniards vessels used to sail up the Rio Cobra to Spanish Town; now it is wellih hoked with the wash of centuries. To nter it you pass around a long spur of and that stretches far out into the bay, a roosting-place for sleepy pelicans ~esting from their fishing--old Joes," ts the islanders call them. The channel, barely deep enough for the light canoes f the fishermen, is tortuous and wind ng, and further up along its course is early roofed in by overarching trees, md bordered by impenetrable thickets ;hat now forever shut out the life that ised to come and go between the har yor and San Jago de la Vega.-Howard Pyle, in Harper's Alagazine. Can We Change Climate. It has been maintained that the mild weather of this winter thus far and of the entire period of last winter is ow [g to a deflection of the gulf stream. f this is so, why could it not be de ected some more and make New En-. rand tropical and raise~ oranges in ['ew Hampshire and pineapples in faine? We believe that certain auda :ious engineers have offered to do this, provided capital enough is furnished Eor the undertaking. To a limited extent, even now, it is n admitted fact that a man can make dis own climate. The meteorological ~onditions of the West have been great lv modified since it was first settled. erhaps New Englanders may decide some day that, instead "of changing >ur fannels every win-ter, it will be :heaper in the long run to change our climate. Of course it sounds preposterous to idvocate the deflection of the gulf stream, but many preposterous things ive happened in the nineteenth cen :ury, and who shall say that any cheme which is proposed for the :wentiethm century is chimerical? After ve have married' the Orient and the )ccident by a bridge across Behring's trait, and arc ab~le to go to Europe ia Siberia iu a Pullman car, we may :urn our attention serious.y to the gulf tream. A Badly Frightened Horse. I had the opportunity of observing e effect on a horse when ridden near - mountain lion, says a writer in. 'ambrs Magazine. It was late one night in autumn. I a riding along a loaely mountain oad, and when only about two miles om the town or mining camp I heard ec cry of the mountain lion. My horse at once showetd fear and ?fused to move forward. His trem ling was so intense that he fairly lok me in the saddle. To whip and )ur he paid no attention. Indeed it wa only by the strongest fort that I could prevent him from .rning and bolting in the direction we td come from. A crashing in the ush a short distance in advance of me creased the horse's fear and restive ss to such an extent as almost to un >rse me. We both knew full well what that ashing meant, but I also was well tisfied that the beast would not puble us becatuse I knew that only a ort istance across the lill was a ughter house. wh ther I judged the rror o mountains was journeymig. Although quite at cold night, 1 found y horse swveatingr as freely because of fright as if I had ridden on a dead