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My stock of Clothing for Men, Youths and Children was never better selected than this season. School Suits as a speci? alty will always be in front rank to sell my J goods at lower prices than any competitor. I have also secured the agency for tree distribution to rny customers only of Webster's Encyclopedia, a valuable book which ought not fail in reachiug every family in Lexington county. Publishers price $0. The above book will be given away to every purchaser who will give me their trade j For further particulars call or I appall.,,,.. pea????bb??? ??wFUST DAY IN PALESTINE i SERMON PREACHED BY DR. TAL- | MAGE 8UNDAY, SEPT. 28. i ' f The Celebrated Divine Paints a Wonderful Word Picture of the Beginning of His Memorable Journey to the Holy Land and Other Old World Regions. Brooklyn, Sept 28.?In the Brooklyn Academy of Music today Dr. Talma^e began a series of sermons on Ids reeent journey to the Holy Land. The subject of today's sermon was, "My First Day in Palestine." After appro VI noiv the congregation sang with great spirit: We praise thee, 0 God, for the Son of thy love, For Jesus who died and is now gone above. The terfc was I Kings x, 7: 4<The half was not told ine." This is the first sermon In a course of Sabbath morning sermons on "My Recent Journey Through the Holy Land and Neighboring Countries: What I Saw and What I Learned." Out of the sixty-four millions of our present American population and the millions of our past only about five thousand i have ever visited the Holy Land. Of all those who cross to Europe less than j 5 per cent ever get as far as Rome, and less than 2 per cent, ever get to Athens, and less than a quarter of 1 per cent ever get to Palestine. Of the less than a quarter of 1 per cent who do go to the Holy Land some see nothing but the noxious insects and the filth of the Oriental cities, and come back wishing they had never gone. Of those j who see much of interest and come home only a small portion can tell what they have seen, the tongue unablo to ret>ort the eve. ? The rarity of a successful, intelligent and happy journey through the Holy Land is very marked. But the time approaches when a journey to Palestine will be common. Thousands will go I where now there are scores. Two loco- ; motives were recently sent up from Joppa to Jerusalem, and railroads are about to begin in Palestine, and the day will come when the cry will be, "All out for Jerusalem!" "Twenty minutes for breakfast at Tiberias!" j "Changecars for Tyre!" "Grand Trunk j Junction for Nineveh'" "All out for I Damascus 1" Meanwhile the wet locks | of the Atlantic ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean seas are being shorn, and not only is the voyage shortened, but after a while, without crossing the ocean, you or your children will visit the Holy Land. A company of capitalists have gone up to Behring straits, where the American and Asiatic con- j j to-morrow we snail see me noiy muu. | "Captain, what time will we come in * t if o?* i signt 01 Palestine f vr ui, uw ?uu, 'if the wind and sea remain as they are, about daybreak." * Never was I so impatient for a night to pass. I could not see much use for that night, anyhow. I pulled aside the curtain from the portholo of my stateroom, so that the first hint of dawn would waken me. But It was a useless precaution. Sleep was among the impossibilities. Who could bo so stupid as to slumber when any moment there might start out within sight of the ship the land ; where the most stupendous scenes of j all time and all eternity were enacted? land of ruin and redemption, land ?1 ?? ? Kn+t-la mo/In wueru wits ii>ugui? wu iuoc our heaven possible, land of Godfrey and Saladin, of Joshua and Jesus? IT IS GROWING LIGHTER. Will^ie night ever be gone? Yes, it is growing lighter, and along the horizon there is something like a bank of j clouds, and as h watchman paces the ' deck I say to him, "What is that out ! yonder?" "That is hind, sir," said the ! sailor. "The land I" I cried, and soon all ! our friends were aroused from sleep and ! the shore began more clearly to reveal ! ftself. "With roar and rattle and bang I the anchor dropped in the roadstead a : half mile from land, for though "Joppa I is the only harbor of Palestine it is the j worst harbor on all the coasts. Sornei times for weeks no ship stops there. Between rocks about seventy-flve feet apart a small boat must take tlio passengers ashore. The depths are strewn with the skeletons of those who have attempted to land or attempted to cm: bark. Twenty-seven pilgrims perished j with one crash of a boat against tho | rocks. Whole fleets of Crusaders, of Romans, of Syrians, of Egyptians have 1 gone to splinters there. A writer eight 1 hundred years ago said ho stood on the beach in a storm at Joppa, and out of thirty ships all but seven went to pieces on the rocks, and a thousand of the dead were washed ashore. THE STUMBLrXO BLOCK OF .MOHAMMEDANISM. | Strange that with a few blasts of powder like that which shattered our American Hell Gate those rocks have nrtf. liAAn nnrnnted and the wav cleared. so that great ships, instead of anchoring far out from land, might sweep op to the wliarf for passengers and freight. But you must remember that laud is under the Turk, and what the Turk touches he withers. Mohammedanism is against easy wharves, against steamers, against rail trains, against printing pressses, against civilization. Darkness is always opposed to light. The owl hates the morn. "Leave those rocks where they are," practically cries the Turkish government^ "we want no 1?m 1:?m?a v,^n. ? g a public room, and tiie poor wrung | their hands and cried and sent for Peter, who performed a miracle by which j < the good woman came back to life and j resumed her benefactions. An especial ; resurrection day for one woman I She was the model by which many women j of our day have fashioned their lives, j and at the first bhist of the horn of j wintry tempest there appear ten thousand Dorcases--Dorcases of Brooklyn, Dorcases of New York, Dorcases of j London, Dorcases of all the neighborlioods and towns and cities of Christendom?just as good as the Dorcas of | Joppa which I visited. Thank God for I the ever increasing skill and sharpness and speed and generosity of Dorcas' needle. CARRYING HIS BED. "What Is that man doing?" I said to the dragoman in the streets of Joppa. "Oh. he is carrying his bed." Multitudes of people sleep out of doors, and that Is the way so many in those lands become blind. It is from the dew of the night falling on the eyelids. As a result of thts, in Egypt every twontieth _ person is totally blind. In. Orionfal binds Hie had is made e tliin smell i mattress, a blaxiket-'imd a pillow, and when the man rises in the morning ho Just three into a bundle and [ -shoulders it and takes it away. It was | to that the Saviour referred when he said to the sick man, "Take up thy bed I and walk." An American couch or an ! English couch would require at least four men to carry it, but one Oriental can easily manage his slumber equipment. THE TAJS^'ERIES OF JOPPA. But I inhale some of the odors of the large tanneries around Joppa. It is there to this day, a prosperous business, tliis tanning of hides. And that reminds me of Simon, the tanner, who lived at Joppa and was the host of Peter, the apostle. I suppose the ol I factories of Peter were as easily In; suited by the odors of a tannery as ! others. But the Bible says, "He lodged ! with one Simon, the tanner." Peoplo ; who go out to do reformatory and misj sionary and Christian work must not be ! too sensitive. Simon no doubt brought to his homestead every night the inal! odors of the calfskins and ox hides in ! his tannery, but Peter lodged in that : home, not only because ho ujay not ' have been invited to tlio houses of ; merchant princes surrounded by redo; lent gardens, but to teach all men and ; women engaged i n trying to make the i world better that they must not be ; squeamish and fastidious and finical I and over particular in doing the work j of the world. The church of God is dying of fasi tidiousness. We cry over the suffer; ings of the world in hundred dollar pocket handkercliiefs, and then put a cent injh^^^j|^ There are many W;; i,I \vor*x tuuviig uio { \ I and every event is searching for some ! ! other event In the Fifteenth century 1 (1492) tbo great event was the diseov- 1 cry of America. The art of printing, 1 born in the same century, goes out to ( meet that discovery and make the New ; ^nfnlHrrhnf THm 71 TY UiXU n V/4 iU? Jk XIV JL/ V. V laration of"~Ih dependence, announcing equal rigfits, meets Robert JB urns' A man's a man for a' that. ' I The United States was getting too l;irga to bo managed by one government, and telegraphy was invented to compress within on hour the whole ' continent Armies in the cival war ' were to b? fitted out with clothing, and tLe sewing machine invention came out to rank^tpossible. Immense fanning 1 acreage BKosentcd in tliis country, enough ^Jsupport millions of our 1 native boij^nd millions of foreigners; ' but the old sty'e of plow and scythe and thresher cannot do the worlfl^^Kthere come steam plows, steaii^^^Bws. steam reapers, steam rakes^^^V threshers, and the work is accouB^Wd. The forests of the earth fail-' sufficient fuel, and so the I ' coal mln f surrender a sufficiency. The cotton crhps were luxuriant, but of ' comparatively little value, for they could not be managed; and so, at Just the right time, Hargreaves came with his inven^on of the spinning jenny, J or.^ Arkwriffht with his roller, and 1 Whitney with his cotton gin. Tho world, after pottering along with tallow ' candles and whalo oil, was crying for better lhjht and more of it, and the hills of rennsylvania poured out rivers ' of o'l, and kerosene illumined the ' na^, jf But the oil wells began to fy* then the electric light comes ' forfhWturn night into day. 1 So r? events are woven together, and the worft is magnificently governed, 1 because it is divinely governed. We criticise tilings and think the divine ' machinery is going wrong, and put our 1 fingers ?id the wheels only to get ' them cri^^gd. But I say, hands off! I Things aWcoming out gloriously. Cor- 1 nelius n? be in Cflesarea, and Peter in 1 Joppa, t?t their dreams meet. It is 1 one hanc^that b managing tlie world, * and that is God's hand; and ono mind tliat is planning ail things for good, and ' that is God's mind; and one heart that is filled with love and pardon and sym- 1 pathy, and that is God's heart. Have 1 farth in jhim. Fret about nothing 1 Things jdb not at loose ends. There 1 are no afcdents. All will come out ' right in fUBk&tory and in the world. ' A8 you aifl|Kg from one dream up 1 stairs an dream will, be knockingBHMkdown stairs. ulier^^W^^MM^mbarkJl ::'H the first stand hould doubt the story of Jonah and the whale is more of a mystery than the Bible event itself. X do not need the fact tliat Pliny, tho historian, records that the skeleton of a whale forty feet long, and with a hide a foot and a half thick, was brought from Joppa to Rome. The event recorded in the book of Jonah has occurred a thousand,, tirriesrHie Lord alway&^has a wham outside the harbor for a mofiPwLo shirts in the wrong direction. Recreant Jonah I I Jo not wonder that even the whale was 3ick of him. This prophet was put in the Bible not as an example, but as a warning, because the world not only r.eeds lighthouses, but buoys, to show where the rocks are. The Bible story of him ends by showing the prophet in a. fit of the sulks. He was mad because Nineveh was not destroyed, and then lie went out to pout, and sat under a big leaf, using it for sliade from the l i i i i tropical sun, unu wneu a wurui uia:urbed that leaf, and it withered, and th3 sun smote Jonah, he flew into a r.eat rage, and said, "It Is better for me to die than to live." A prophet in a rage because he had lost his umbrella! Beware of petulance! VIVID CONTRASTS. But standing here on the housetop at Joppa, I look off upon the sands near the beach, and I almost expected to find them crimsoned and incarnadined. But no; the ratios long ago washed away the last sign of the Napoleonic massacre. Napoleon was marching on through the coasts. H> had here at Joppa four thousand Albanians, who had been surrendered as prisoners ->f war, and under a promise of protection. What shall ho do with them? It will be impossible for him to take them along, and he cannot afford to leave soldiers enough to guard them from escape. It will not bo difficult for the man who broke the heart of lovely Josepliine, and who, when asked if the ^reat losses of life in his battles were not too dear a price to pay for his victories, shrugged his shoulders mirthfully and said, "You must break the a?-rnra if vnn rronf frs malm on Atnnlof"? AX J VU nuaiv W UJI-b^V uii VtUVAVW [ say it will not be difficult for him to decide. The prisoners of war by his order ire taken out on the sands and put to death?one thousand of them, two thousand of them, three thousand of them, four thousand of them, massacred. And the blood pours down into the sea, the red of the one mingling with the blue of the other, and making an awful maroon wliich neither Grod nor nation can ever forget Ye who are fond of vivid oontrasts put the two scenes of Joppa side by side, Dorcas with her needle, and the im mortal butchor with his CEDARS OF LEBA:!^^^^ffi But star^ ^;" I An Old Time Ix>ndon Clipper. One of the old time London clipper i tea ships, the Mikado, is now lying in j the Erie basin. Slie was run into in ; the most stupid and unaccountable j manner by the big Pliiladelphia tug ; boat Kattler, and considerably damaged on the port side, and is being repaired at the Rattler's expense. The ^-Mikado is a handsome type of a line of vessete-ih&t have passed away. She is what is known as a composite shipthat is, the frames arc iron, with teak planking fastened with copper_bolts. These clippers were special ly^ built for the tea trade, and many a cafg(S the Mikado has discharged In New York. The figurehead is the mikado, saber in hand. On each side of the bow Is the Chinese dragon. Each side of the after cabin doors is decorated with carved figures of tliis emblem. The rig of the Mikado has been altered to a bark, as it requires less hands to man the vessel. The cabin is very handsome, the panels being painted with Chinese and Japanese scenes. The master, Oapt. W. Bunn; Mrs. Bunn and their two boys live aboard. Capt. Bunn lias quite a museum of curiosities ? petrified Jellyfish, boats made from the breastbone of the albatross, collections of dried flowers and leaves, including some from Pitcairn Island. The Mikado has been for years in the Chilian trade, and was once caught in an attacK made hy the Peruvian fleet when the latter attempted to cut out the vessels of the Chilians. ! Capt. Bunn has made ten trips around Capo Horn in the Mikado.?Brooklyn Eagle. Fifteen Cents for a Horse. Julius Smith, of Troy Corners, on the Utiea plank road, came to the city yesterday morning with a load of produce. He left his wagon in the eastern market and then put his horse in Victor Diedrich's barn. While disposing of Ills load in the market he was approached by three men, one of whom oolrn^ lilm if TrioViA/^ fimex Kam/ui UfliWU 1JULU U AiU f * UilVVi bV MOMC UViO^O, He replied that he had no such desire, and was asked what the horse was worth. To get rid of the men he jokingly replied, "fifteen cents." Immediately one of the men put fifteen cents in his hand with the remark, "the horse is mine." A moment afterward they disappeared. When Smith returned to the barn later on the horse was missing. He notified the police, and Patrolman Stuerwald was detailed to assist him in recovering the animaL The man who had given him the money was found near the barn, and locked up at the station- He gave his name as Robert B. Knowlton, aged 43, a farmer by occupation, and residing in Greenfield. MWMAowever, been stopping on Di Take Care cf the Manure. Thomas I) Balrd iu Southern Cultivator. It litis been said that manure was my politics. I am pleased to be so complimented, for polit'cal politics well followed is filled with reefs, dfs appo* ltments and ruin. iNot so with mr. .rre. The mo: ewe talk of it the more we think of it; the more we think of it the more interest we take in it; and the more interest we take iu it the more we will try to accumulate and save; and tte mo e we have the better crops we raise; and the ^better crops we raise the easie., better-times we have. Many farmers run wild over politics and reflect their frmisr th^'?4Qing^P^Ta]di^ cle never enters t? eir^Smids, their ^S>"w~S?v farms a. e ig ard almost yearly J the judgment is pas'-ed on some ^ poor field, "depart ye unprofitable .servart." One of the main reasons why fanning does not pay is the negect of making, saving and applying such manure. The first thing the fanner wants after raising in the morning is . xl- i "? ? someuimg 10 eat, ana ne would do but little through the day without food. Just so with your soil, it must be fed. before it should be expected to peform its labor of supporting a crop. The farmer forces his land to grow crops year after -year without food, and then complains that it does not pro- uce enough to pay for the co? clusio i. The fanner must remembe that for continuous successful arming the manure crop is the most important th_.t the fanner pro-, ducers, and should h^ve the most ca e and prompt attentio i. But in stead none is needlessly neglected and wasted. In fact the great majority of fanners do not consider t*ie manure pile as a crop. It is only tho incidental by product left from tho result of fann operations, and they are entitled to great c edit if they make profitable use of it. But is a crop susceptible of being worked and will grow both in bulk and quality, acco ding to the degree of labor and care bestowed upon it. In a general way farmers understand that a con'.rderable part of tie value of what they feed to stock goes to the mauve heap, but neither, the l ? -r j . T imporiu.'ce oi juuicious i ceding or good bedding, nor the means are appreciated as they should be. It requires study to leani how to make valuable manure profitable. High feeding wr*l not always do it, neither will keeping a large amount of stock do it. making iran re profitable, keep n<w ore stock on the farm than is needed to woik it, and v oun