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WATER,
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WATER!
$1,500 WORTH
OF
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CLOTHING
Damaged by water, to be sold at 50 cents
on the Dollar at
i
L. EPSTIN'S
The recent heavy rains have flooded my
store and damaged" about fifteen hundred
dollars worth of choice fine Overcoats,
Boys' Soils, Coats and Vest, some Pants,
all of which will be sold at 50 cents from
original cost. These goods are slightly
damaged, they will be sold quickly. These
cnances ao not present. luemseives at, me
commencement of the season except in
rare instances.
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
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DAY IN PALESTINE
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SERMON PREACHED BY DR. TAL- |
MAGE 8UNDAY, SEPT. 28.
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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.
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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^ ^;"
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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