The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, October 23, 1890, Image 4

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l EEV. 1TAIME. W The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: "My First Day tit Palestine." r>r. Talmnge his begun n scries of sermons *>n his recent trip to t he Holy Land. The follow inn's the first sermon of the series: Text: "The half uas not told me."?I Eings x., 7. This is the first sermon in a course of Sab"hath morning sermons on ".My Recent Journey Through tho Holy Land and Neighboring Countries: AVh.it 1 Saw anil What I Learned." Out of tho sixty-four millions of our present American population and tho millions of our past only about five thousand have ever visited the Holy Land. Of all those who cross to Europe less than five per cent, ever get as far as Rome, ard less than two per cent, ever get to Athens, and less then a quarter of one per cent, ever get to Palestine. Of the less than a quarter of one per cent, who do go to the Holy Laud some see nnthinc lint the tinTions insect* and the filth of the Oriental cities, auri corao back wishing they had never gone. 01 those who Bee much o? interest and come home only a small portion can tell what they have seen, the tongue unable to roport the eye. The rarity of a successful, intelligent and baj.py journey through the Holy Land is very marked, Put the time approaches when a journey to Palestine will bo common. Thousands will go where now there are 6cores. Two locomotives were recently sent up from Joppa to Jerusalem, and milroads 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!" "Change ears for Tyre!" ' Grand Trunk Junction for Ninevah." "Alt out for Damascus!" 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 awhile, without crossing the ocean, you or your children will visit the Holy Laud. A company of capitalists have gone up to Benring Straits, where the American aud Asiatic continents come within thirty-six miles of meeting. These capitalists or others wiil build a bridge across these straits, for midway are three islands called "TI19 Diomedes," and the water is not deep and is never disturbed with icebergs. Trains of cars will run frojn Aiu:rica across that bridge aud on down through Siberia, bringing under mora immediate observation tue Russian outrages against exiles and consequently abolishing them; and there arc persons here to-dav, who, without one qualm of sea-sickness, will visit that wonderful land where the Christlike, Abrahauiie, Mosaic, Davidic, Solo monic and Herodic histories overlap each other with such power that by tho time I took my feet out of tho stirrups a: the close of the journey I felt so wrung out with emotion that it seemed nothing else could ever absorb iny feelings again. The chief hindrance for going to Palestine with many is tho dreadful sea, and though I have crossed it ten times it is more dreadful every time, and I l'ully sympathize with what was said one night when Mr. Beecher and I went over to speak in New York at tho anniversary of tho Seamen's Friend Society, and the clergyman making tho opening prayer quoted from St. John. "There shall be no more sea," nial Mr. Beecher, seated beside rae, in memory of a recent ocean voyage said, "Amen; lam giad of that." By the partial abolition of the Atlantic Ocean and the putting down of rail tracks across every couutry in all the world, the most sacred land on earth will come under the observation of so many people who will bo ready to toll of what they saw that infidelity wifl bo pronounced only another form of insanity, for no honest man can visit the Holy Land and remain an infidel. mis i5U'ie irom wmcu 1 preacu nas a i most fallen apart, for I read from it the most of the events in it recorded on the very places where they occurred. And some of the leaves got wet as the waves dashed over our boat on Lake Galilee, and tho book was jostled in the saddle lags for many week? but it is a new book to me, newer than any book thut yesterday came out of any of our great printing houses. All my life I had heard of Palestine, and I had read about it, * and talked about it, and preached about it, and suug about it, and dreamed about it, and prayed about it, uutil my anticipations were piled upiuto something liko Himalayan proportions, and yet I have to cry out, as did the Queen of iSheba when she first visited the Holy Land, "The half was not told me." In order to make tho more accurate ar d vivid.a book I have been writing, a life of Christ, entitled "From Manger to Throne," I left home last October, and on the last night of November we were walking tho decks of the Senegal, a Mediterranean steamer. It was a ship of immense proportions. There were but few passengers, for it is generally rough at that tirno of year, nnd pleasurists are not apt to be voyagers there and then. The stars were all out that night. Those armies of light seemed to havo had their shields notvlv hnrnichhfl Wa vrolL-twl tha rwiliclioH deck. Not much was said, for in all our hearts was the dominant word "to-morrow." Somehow the Acropolis, which a few days before had thrilled us at Athens, now in our minds lessened in the height of its columns and the glory of its temples. And the Egyptian pyramids in our memory lessened their wonders ot obsolete masonry, and the Coliseum of Rome was not so vast a ruin as it a few weeks before had seemed to be. And all that we had seen and heari dwindled in importance, for to-morrow, tomorrow we shall sec the Holy Land. "Captain, what, time will wo come In sight of Palestine?" "Well," he said, "if tho 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, anj'how. I pulled aside the curtain from the porthole of my stateroom, so that the first hint of dawn would waken me. But St was a useless precaution. Sleep was among the impossibilities. Who could be so 6tupid as to slumber when any moment there might start out within sight of the ship the land where the most stupendous scenes of ail time and all eternity were enacted?laud of ruin and redemption, land where was fought the battle that ma le our 1. vven possible, land of Godfrey and Saladin, of Joshua and Jesus? ; Will the night ever be gone? Yes, it is fn-ntvinrr ifnrl tli.i Vtririvrtn tit*.fa is something like a bank of clouds, and as a watchman paces the deck I say to him, "What is that out yonder!*" "That inland, sir," said the sailor. "The land!" I cried, and 6oon all our friends wore arrou^eil from sleep wnd the shore began more clearlv to reveal itself. With roar an l rattle anil bang the anchor dropped in the roadstead a half mile from land, for though Joppu is the only harbor of Palestine it is the worst harbor on nil the coasts. Sometimes for weeks no shins stop there. Between rocks about seventyfive feet apart a small boat must take the passengers ashore. The depths ar.* strewn (With the skeletons of those who have attempted to land or attempted to embark. Twenty-seven pilgrims perished with ?m Icrash of a boat aguinst the rocks. Whole fleets of Crusaders, of Romans, of Syrians, of Egyptians have gene to splinters there. A writer eight htindr?-' ' cars ago said he stood on the beach in a storm at Joppa, and out of thirty ships all but seven went to pieces on the r.jcks, and a thousand of the dead were wasucu asnore. Strange that with n f-'w blasts of powder like that which shattered our American Hell Gate those rocks have riot been uprooted and the way cleared, so that great ships, instead of anchoring far out from land, might sweep up to the wharf for passengers and freight. Hut you must remcmeber that land is under the Turk, and what the Turk touches he withers. Mohammedanism is against easy wharves, ngainst steamers, against rail trains, ngainst printing presses, against civilization. Darkness is always opposed to light. The owl hates tho morn "I^eave t hose rocks where they are," practically cries tho Turkish Government; "wo want no people of other religions and other habits to land there; if the salt seas wash over them let it be a warning to other invaders;away with your nineteenth century, with its free thought and its modern inventions." That Turkish Government ought to be blotted from tho face of the earth, and it will be. Of many of the inhabitants ol' Palestine I asked the question, "Has the Sultan of Turkey ever been hereV Answer, "No." "Why don't ho come, when it be'ongs to his dominion?" And, after the man interrogate I looked this way and that, so as to know bo fc would not be lvnorteJ, tho nn-wer would inj|flk variably be. "He dare not come." I believed it. If the Sultan of Turkey attempted to B* visit Jerusalem he would never get back W again. All Palestine hates him. I saw lrin go ? to the mosque for prayer? in bis own city of c " Constantinople, and saw seven thousand armed men riding out to protect him. Expensive prayers! Of course that Government wants no bettor harbor at Joppa. May Go t remove that curse i?f nations, t Ji.it- obi hap of the centuries, the Turkish Government! For its everlasting insult to Go I nnl worn in lot itporisli! Anrl so those rocks at the harbor remain the jaws of repeated destruction. As we descended thr narrow steps at tin sldo of tho ship we beard the clamor and quarrel and swearing fifteen or sixteen different raoes of mou of nil feature?, and nil colors and all vernaculars; nil different in nppearauce, but nil r.liko in desire to pet our baggage and ourselves ot exorbitant prices. Twenty boats and only ten passengers to go nshcre. Tho man having charge of us pushes aside some, and strikes with a heavy stick others, and by violences that would not bo tolerated in our country, lr.it which seem to d? cne omj*manner or making any impression there, clears our way into one of tho boata, which heads for tho shore. Wo ura within fifteen minutes of tho Christ inn i. Now wc hear shouting from tho beach, and in live minutes wo will be lauded. Tho prow of the boat is caught by men who wade cut to help us in. We aro tremulous with suppressed excitement, our breath is quick, and from the side of the boat we spring to tlie shore, and Sunday morniu.r, December 1, 1$r!\ about eight o clock, our feet touch rn.ostme. forever tome mil niino will thnt day nnd hour ho commemorate I for that pre-eminent mercy. Let it be mentioned in prayer by my children an l children's children after wo are gone, that morning wo were permitted to enter that land xuid g^zo upon those hoiv hills and feel the emotions that rise and fall and weep and laugh and sing and triumph at such a disembarkation. On tbo back of tho hills one hundred and fifty foot high Joppa is lifted toward tho skies. It is as picturesque as it is quaint, an d as much unlike nny city we hnve over seen, as though it were built in that star Mars, where a few nights ago this very September astronomers,through unparalleled telescopes, saw a snow storm raging. Kow gla l we were to be iu Joppa t Why, this is the city where Dorcas, that queen of tho needle, lived and died and was resurrected. You remember that the poor pernio came around the deed body of this benefactress, and brought specimens of her kind needlework and said: "Dorcas made this," "Dorcas sewed that," "Dorcas cut nnd fitted this," "Dorcas hemmed that." According to Ligblfoot, the commentator, they laid her out in state in a public room, and the poor wruug their hands and cried and sent for Pctpr, who performed a miracle by which the good woman came back to life and resumed her benefactions. An especial resurrection day for one woman! She was the mo le! by which many women of our day have fashioned their lives, and at the first blast of the horn of wintry tempest there appear ten thousand Dorcases?Doroas"s of | Brooklyn. Dorcases of New York, Dorcases of London, Dorcases of nil the neighborhoods and towns and cit'esof Christendom?just as good as tho Dorcas of Joppa which I visited. Thank Cod for tho ever increasing skill and sharpness and speed and generosity of Dcrcas's needle. "What is that, man doing?" I said to the dragoman in the streets of Joppa. "Oh, lie is carrying his bod." Multitudes of people sIppii out of door.-, nnd that is the wnv so many iu those lauds become blind. It is from the dew of the night foiling on thecyelicR As a result ot' this, "in Eg.ipt every twentieth person is totally blind. In Oriental lauds the h?d is made of a thin, small mattress. a blanket and a pillow, and when the man risers in toe morning ho just ties up the three into a bundle and shoulders it and takes it away. It was to that, the Saviour referre i w'usu He said to tin sick man: "Take up thy be 1 and walk." An American couch or an Eng-ish couch would require at least four men to carry It, but one Uriental can easily manage his slumber equipment. Br.t I inhale some of the odors of the largo ' tanueries around Joppa. It is there to this j day, s prosperous business, this tanning of .hides. Aud that reminds mo of Simon, tho tanner, who live.'1 at Joppa and was tho host of Peter, tho apov v>. 1* suppose the olfactories of Peter were as easily lnsulte 1 by the odors of a tannery as others. But the Bibla says, "He lodged with ono Simon, tho tan- i ner."1 People who go out to do reformatory < and missionary and Christian work must not i bo too sensitive. Simon no doubt brought to his homestead every night tho malodors ? of the calfskins and ox hides in his tannery, ' but Peter lodged ia that home, not only be- 1 cause ho may not have been invited to the ' houses of merchant princes, surrounded by I redolent gardens, but to teach all men and ' womeu engaged in trying to make the world i better that thev must not bo squeamish and ' fastidious and finical and over particular in doing tho work of the world. The church of God is dying of fastidiousness. We cry over tho sufferings of tho world in hundred dollar pocket handkerchief^ and then put a cent in tho poor l?ox. There are many willing to do Christian work among the cleanly, and the refined, and the elegant, and tho educated, but excuse them jfrom taking a loaf of bread down a dirty alle", excuso them from teaching a mission school among the uncombed and the unwashed, excuse thorn from touching the hand of one whoso finger nails aro in mourning for ^departed soap. Such rcligiouJ precisionists can toil in atmospheres ladeu with honeysuckle and rosemary, but not in air float ing up from the malodorous vats. No, no, no! Excuso them from living with onoSimoD.the tanner. During the last war there wero in Virginia some sixty or seventy wounded soldiers in a barn, on the second floor, so near tho roof that the heat of the August sun was almost insupportable. The men were dying from sheer exhaustion and suffocation. A distinguished member of the Christian commission said to the nurse who stood there, "Wash the faces and feet of these men and it wili revive them." "No," said the nurse, "Ididn'tcome Into tbo army to wash anybody's feet." "Well," said the distinguished memberof tho ' commission, "bring me water and a towel: I will be very glad to wash their feet." One was the spirit of the devil, the other the spirit of Christ. But reference to Pctor reminds me that we must go to tho housetop in Jopoa where ho was taught the democracy of religion. That was about the queerest t ling that ever happened. On oar way \ip to that housetop wo ( passed an old well where the great stones were worn deep with tlio ropes of the buckets. and it must bo a well many centuries old. and 1 think Peter drank out of it. Four or five goat or calfskins filled with water lay , about the yard. We soon got up the steps and o;n the housetop. It was in such a place in Joppa that Peter one noon while he was | j waiting for dinner had a hungry fit and ; fainted away, and hnd a vision or dream or trance. I said to my family and friends on J that housetop, "Listen while I read about J what happened here." And opening the : Bible we had the whole story. It seems that Peter 011 the housetop dreamed that a great blanket was let down 8 out of h'*avea, and in it were sheep and goats s and cattle and mules and pigeons and buz- J zards and snakes and all manner of creatures ' that fly t le air, or walk the field, or crawl ' the earth, and in the dream a voice told him ' us uo vvus ivur^yy aim lit* miu, iuuu* not eat things unclean." Three times lio 1 dream e 1 it . There was then heard a knock- 1 iugatthe gate of the house on the top of J which Peter lav in a trance, and three men j asked, "Is Pet-r here?" Peter, while yet 1 wondering what his dreatn meant, descends n \ the stairs and meets tteso strangers at t he p gate, and they tell him that a good man by r the name of Cornelius, in the city of Cu?sarea, c has also had a dream and has sent them for p Peter and to ask him to come and preach. fl At that call Peter left Joppn for Ctesarea. j The dream ho had just hail prepared him to j, preach, for Peter learned by it to rej'ict no g people as unclean, an l whereas he previously p thought lie must preach only to the Jews, now he goes to preach to the Gentiles, who were considered unclean. j. Notice how the two dreams meet?Peter's dream ou the housetop, Cornelius dream at p Ctesarea. So I have noticed providences t meet, distant events meet, dreams meet, v Every dream is hunting up some other dream, t and every event is searching for soma other c event, fn t'ao Fifteenth century (141*2) the i great event was the discovery of America, o The art of printing, born in the samo century, h goes out to meet that discovery and make j the New World au intelligent world. The n Declaration of Independence, announcing ? equal rights, meets Robert Burns's A in ui'i a man for a' that. n Tho United States was getting too large to n be managed by oue Government, and tele- K praphv-wasinvented to compress within an 0 hour the whole continent. Armies in the 8 Civil War wore to be fitted out with clothing, v and the sewing machine invention came out to make it possible. Immense farming acreage is presented in this country, etough to support millions of our native born and u raillwns of loreigners; but the t l 1 style of ] plow and scythe and reaper and thresher a cannot do tho work, niri there como steam , plows, steam harrows, steam reapers, steam I rakes, steam threshers, uud the work is accomplished. The forests of the earth fail to ' afTord sufficient fiiel, uud so the coal mines ' surrender a sufficiency. The cotton crops were luxuriant, but of comparatively little value, for they could not be managed; and ! so, at just the right time. Hargreaves cama with his invention of the spinning jenny, i then Arkwright with his roller, and Whitney I with bis cotton gin. The world, after pot- ! tering along with tallow caudles and whalo I oil, was crying for better light and more of I it, and the hill of Pennsylvania poured out I rivers of oil, and kerosene illumined the na- j t ons. But the oil wells began to fail, and j then tho electric light comes forth to turn night iuto day. So all events aro woven together, and the world is magnificently governed, because it i is divinely governed. Wo criticise things 1 and think the 'divine machinery is going | wrong, and put our fingers amid tbo wheels only to get them crushed. But I say, hands off! Things aro coming out gloriously. Cornelius may be in Ciesarca, and Peter in Joppa, but their dreams meet. It is one hand that is managing tho world, and that is God's band; and one mind that is planniug all things for good, aud that 1> Goers mind: * and one heart that, is filled with love ana J pardon aud sympathy, and that is God's '""" i Hova tnifch in Ilini. Fret about notli- , rig. Things are not at loose ends. There ! are no accidents. All will come out right in your history and in the world. As you aro ! wahing from one dream up stairs an ex- ' planatory dream will bo knockiug at the gate down stairs. Standing hero in Joppa I remember that whera we this morning disembarked the prophet Jonah embarked. For tho first time in my life I fully understood that story, j God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, but the | prophet declined that call and camo hero to ( Joppa. I was for weeks, while in the Holy j Land, consulting with tourist companies as ! to how I could take Nineveh in my'journov. | They did not encourage the undertaking. It , is a most tedious ride to Nineveh amid a ' deserc. Now I see an additional reason why j Jonah diil not want to go to Niuoveh. Ho 1 not only revolted because it was u long way j and tough, and bandit infested, so he camo ! here to Joppa and took ship. But, alas, for J the disastrous voj-age! Ho'paid his full fare i for the whole voyage, but tho ship company did not fill their part oi' the contract. To this day they havo not paid back that passage money. Why people should doubt the story of Jonah anil tho whale is more of a mystery than tho Bible event itself. I do not need the fact that Pliny, the historian, records that tho skeleton o? a whale fortv feet long, and with n 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 times. Tho Lord always has y. whale outside tho hnbor for n man who starts in the wrong direction. Recreant Jonah! I do not wonder that even tho whale was s ck of him. This prophet was put in the Bib'.e not as an example, but as a warning, because the world not only needs lighthouses, but buoys, to show where the rocks are. Tho Bi ale story of him euds by showing the prophet ilia fit of the sulks. He -J Mn-icnnt' r1r*;f.mv?rJ was juan ucwuuoc i.?uiv?vu ?, and then he went out to pout, an I sat under a big leaf, using it for snade from the tropical sun. and when a worm disturbed tllat leaf, aud it withered, and the sun smote Jouah. he llew into a great ratfe, and said: "It is netttrfor nio to die than to live." A prophet in a rage because he had lost his umbrella 1 Beware of petulance! But stauding here on the housetop at Joppa, I look off upon the sands near the beach, and I almost expected to lind them crimsoned and incarnadined. But no; the rains long ago washed away tbo last sign of the Napoleonic massacre. Napoleon was marching on through the coasts. He had here at Joppa four "thousand AJbauians, who had been surrendered as prisoners of war, and under a promise of protection. What shall he do with thorn? ft 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 be difficult for the man who broke the heart of lovely Josephine, and who, when asked if the great 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 ?ggs if you want to make an omelet''?I say it will not bo difficult for him to decide. The prisoners of war by his order are taken >ut. on tbo sands and put to death?one thou- ! >atul of them, two thousand of them, three thousand of them, four thousand of them, massacred. A.,i th;> blood pours down into the sea, the red of thoono mingling with the blue of the other, and making an awful maroon which neither God nor nation can ver forget. Ye who are fond of vivid contrasts put the two scenes of Joppa side by side. Dorcas with her needle, and tho immortal butcher with hin knife. But standing on this Joppa house top I ookoffon the Mediterranean, and'what is j that strange sight I see? Tho waters are slack, seemingly for miles. There seems to I * J- .it 1 ^ I jo u great multitude 01 iugs lasioncu w- . iothcr. Oil. .yes, it if a great raft of timbers, riiey aro cedars of Lebanon, which King Hiram is furnishiug King Solomon in ex- t :hongo for 20,000 men ures of wheat, '20,000 I baths of oil and 20,000 baths of wine. These j :edars have been cut down and trimmed in :bo mountains of Lebanon by tho 70,000 axnen engaged there, and with great withes ?nd iron bolts aro fastened together,and they ire floating down to Jcppa to be taken across die land for Salomon's temple, now building j it Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold of die Nineteenth century aud aro clear back iu t ie ages. The rafts of cedar are guided into what is failed the Moon Pool, an old harbor south jl'Joppa, now filled with sand aud useless. With long nikes the timber is pushed this tvay and that in the water, then with divers and manv a loud, long "Io, heave!" as the carters get their shoulder under the great weight, the timber is fastened to the wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked to the load, aud tho procession of teams moves on with crack of whip and drawled out words which, translated, I suppose would correspond with tho "Whoa. "haw, gee!" of modern teamsters, toward Jerusalem, which is thirty miles away over mountainous distances which for huudreds of years defied ill engineering. And those rough cedars shall become carved pillars and beautiful ilt&rs, and rounded baunisters, and trucjrie.l panels, and sublime ceiling, and ex luisite harps and kingly chariots. As tho wagon train moves out from Joppa )ver the plain of Sharon toward Jerusalem I say to myself, what vast numbers of peoplo telped build that tcinple of Solomon, and ivhat vast numbers of neople are now engaged in building the wider, higher, grander :omplo of righteousness rising In 1 he earthJur Christian ancestry toiled at it, amid uveat and tears, and hundreds of the generaions of the good, and tho long train of Jbristiou workers still moves on; and us in ho construction of .Solomon's temple some lewod with the ax in the far away Lebanon, uid some drovo a wedge, and some twisted i withe, and some trod the wet and slippery afts ou tho sea, and some yoked he ox, and some pulled at tho load, ind some shoved the plan?, and some itted the joints, anl some heaved ip the rafters, but all helped build tlie tcm- 1 lie, though soine of these never saw it, so 1 low letns all put our hands, and out* suoul- j lers, and our hearts to tho work of building he temple of righteousness, which is to till ho earth; and one will bind u wound, nnd mother will wipe away a tear, nn l nnothei vill teach a class, and another will speak the ncouraging word, and all of us will be eady to pull and lift, nnd in sum? way help in the work until tho millenial morn shall pld tho pinnacle of that finished temple, an 1 it its shining gates the world shall put down ts last burden, and in its lavers wash o.T its aststrain, and at its altars tho last wanderer hall kneel. At the dedication of that tern- < do all tho armies of earth and heaven will j 'shoulder arms" and "present ar.nV an I j 'ground arms," for "behold! a greater than | ioiomon is here." | Rut mv first day in tho Holy Lanl ?s j i n'u_ ... > 1?: ! liULM. lll f &UII ??* UllCUUV ^ III* tf lUi . ho night. I stand oil the balcony of a hotel i rhich was bi ought to Joppa in piec.'s iro n ho State of Maine by some fanatic* who ame here expecting to see Christ reappear | a Palestine. My room here was nee occupied by that Christian iero of the centuries?English, Chinese, Egyptian, world-wide General Gordon, a aan mighty for God as well ns for the world's pacification. Although the first of )ecember and winter, tho air is full of fra;rance from gardens all a-hloom, and under ny window are acacia and tamarisk and aulberry and centm-y plants and orange roves and oleander. From the drowsiness f the air and the fatigues of tho day I feel ; loopy. Good night! To-morrow morning j re start for Jerusalem. It is stated f at "Hick" Tide, Kentucky's I cf.iulti'ig ir-liMircr, is located in Honduras j ml is as-ioi rated in business with Major i hirke, i skillfull manipulator of Louisj. J iiu's bonds. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. | A IllCn APPLE CUATII.OTTK. I Stew some cored and peeled apples till quite tender with a piece of thinly cut lemon rind, a very little water and sugar to taste. When quite to a pulp let it stand till cold. Then heat up n couple of eggs till light and mix them with the applca together with an equal quantity of fresh buttered and broken bread. Have ready a buttered mold, sprinkle it very thickly with baked bread crumbs, fill up with the apples, etc., and then add a fine U.yer of bread crumbs. B ike iu a Blow oven, turn out carefully and servo sprinkled with pulverized sugar, if liked, cream or a plain custard.? Washington Star. CHEESECAKES. Tho real old-fashionecl cheesecake.- require the curd of milk for a basis. They arc great favorites with tho Jewish people and are liked by mauy Americans as well. Tho recipe given here is from a. Jewish lady famous for her cookery of many national dishes. Rub the curd from one gallon of milk in a coarse cloth until free from whey; work into it six ounces of butter, one and a half soda crackers rolled fine and an equal quantity of bread crumbs; add half a teaspoonful of cinnamon and a little salt, the yelks of five eggs and the whites of three; six ounces of fine sugar, a tablespoonful of brandy and half a pint of cream. Mix these ingredients thoroughly and rub through a coarse sieve before adding half a pound of washed and dried currants :lud half an ounce of citron minced very fine. Line pic dishes or patty pans with rich paste, fill with the mixture and bake in a rather brisk oven. Twenty minutes should suflice.?American Aariculturiat. PUREE OF GREEN* TEAS. Shell enough green peas to fill a twoquart measure. Sift them through a colander with holes large enough to allo.w ail the small ones to pass through. Of these save a pint, Of even size, layiug them in cold water. Put nil the rest into Uimo niinrfa r>f lmilinrr w.itfir nnn- I ...... ........ ~ O ? taining two tableipoonfuls of salt and boil them fast uutil they are tender, drain them in a colander, wash them well, and lay them in cold water. Put the pint first selected from the others into a quart of boiling water with a teaspoonful of salt; boil them until tender, drain them, wash them in cold water aud let them stand in it. As soou us you put them on to boil begin to make the soup by stirring over the fire two teaspoonfuls each of butter and flour, and when they are quite smooth adding gradually one quart of hot milk aud stirring constantly until it i3 free from lumps. Then add one quart of boiling water, season with pepper and nutmeg, but do not add any salt until after all tho peas are in. Set it where it will keep hot without burning. Rub the peas first boiled through a fine sieve with a potato mashev, stir them into the soup, add the pint of small peas whole, a little salt if it is required, and serve at once.? Chicago News. IIOU3ETIOLD 1ITNT8. Burned camphor will drive away mosquitoes. One tablespoonful of liquid makes one-half ounce. Roasted coffee is one of the most powerful disinfectants. White cloves, it is said, will exterminate the moth. T.firrl mav hp mndft r>prfeotlv sweet bv boiling a pared potato in it. Jelly bags should be made of flannel and pudding bags of liucn. Cistern water may be purified by charcoal put in a bag aud hung in the water. Fruit picked just at maturity will keep much better than when picked sooner or later. Salt will remove the stain from silver caused by eggs, when applied dry with a soft cloth. A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will greatly aid the whitening process. Hot, dry flannel applied to the faco and neck is a very effective remedy for a jumping toothache. , To beat the white of eggs stiff with ease they should be cold, with a very small pinch of salt added. Lunch baskets to be used in traveling should have a cheap cotton lining to protect the lunch from dust. When acid of any kind gets on clothing spirits of ammonia will kill it. Apply fn rnctnrr* tVin r?nlnr - Fruit or rust stains on tabic linen or J other white clothes may be removed by soaking in a weak solution of oxalic acid. Do not put soap in the water with which you clean a mirror;' it is almost impossible to polish the glass if soap is used. Cold ham may be so carved as to attract or repel, and there is real art in carving tho slices in the most artistic mauner. Milk porridge, carefully prepared nud almost as thick as a custard, is a delicacy when properly sweetened ami flavored, enjoyed alike by invalids and the robust. For croup use kerosene oil. Wet a piece of flannel and apply. It gives almost instnut relief. Hctnovo when the skin becomes very red, or it will blister. Water which contains impurities will turn milky white when nitrate of silver is dissolved iu it. If "chemically pure" ^herc will be but a trifling discoloration. It is a fallacy to suppose that the cravings of a patient arc mere whims, which should be denied. The stomach often needs, craves and digests articles not found in auy dietary. "When it is necessary to take charcoal medicinally put it in a wide-mouthed bottle, pour it iu an inch of water, cork it and shake it thoroughly. A few seconds will suffice to mix the charcoal and water. To Wash Fancy Hosiery?Dissolve ! some borax in the water, a teaspuonful to two quarts, soak the goods in this half 1 an hour or more, *hen add soap to the ' water till good suds is made. Fancy silk handkerchiefs and neckties may be washed in the same way. Cantcloupes should not be kept in a refrigerator. They impart bad odors to au otherwise sweet compartment and tend to make milk aud cream musty. The best way to give fresh u ess to the breakfast oantcloupo is to hide it. away on the grass plot over night. The dews which fall even in town seem to give to it remarkable freshness aud crispness. ONE ON BILLY FLORENCE. A. Joke ttiut Wai Played on tlio Genial Actor. "While poker is considered n national game I must confess," said Billy Florence, the actor, "that I have seen it played chiefly in an international way, i. e., on board British steamships carrying American passengers. I only play cards enroute to Europo to pass away time?nothing else, and then I do not gamble. Once, somo years ago, I was playing a theatrical engagement in Louisville, Ky., and I was invited to visit and participate in a late supper aftor the performance was over. Among those who were to be at a supper was Henry Watterson. The theatrical performance was very long and it was near midnight when I reached the bachelor apartments. I had no sooner arrived than I noticed some little excitement among the gentleraon present. It seems that a game of draw had ended and a count was being made of moneys. I had no alternative but to wait developments, and thov came soon enough. A big dispute arose across the table, and ? :?i i. \\7-ii .. ?... i,;? f,.?f JU tux liioiuub uiiuifluu wuo uu uio ioov, pistol in hand, and trying to aim at bis antagonist, a well-known gentleman. I knew that blood was going to be shed right tuore, so I jumped up and threw my arms around the editor. Others caught his arm and kept it up so if the pistol were discharged it would only damage the ceiling. The other gentleman was ferocious and, although ke was held by strong men, I thought he would break loose every second and fire right into us. Great beads of perspiration stood out upon my forehead. I pleaded with the Kentuckian not to shoot; that he would regretit. The more I pleaded and tried to keop his pistol arm up tlio more he attempted to break away. Every instant I expected to hear the crack, crnck of revolvers and to see the reeling form of a man perforated with a largo bullet. I pictured tho direful consequences and tho blamo. The latter would partially, at least, rest upon me, because I was tho guest of the evening and the gathering was in my honor. In our struggle to keep the two meu apart tables were overturned, chairs wore knocked down and the money on tbe lable somehow disappeared like magic. Finally I caught Watterson's pistol iiji my hand; and then tho lamentable truth flashod like an electric shock through mo, to-wit: I was being guyed and the whole fight was concocted to fool me. The pistol was nothing but a bootjack, one that is small and when folded resembles tbe ebape of a pistol. I was completely taken in, and I need scarcely say that the 'smiles' were on me. That was the most exciting game of poker that I ever indulged in." A Perplexed Fnthor. I hnve recontly acquired a brand-now ???1 *1 T f io n T f ilm vnii n ct gill llliuguiui. ib ao i* mm. ** iiiv minx continues healthy there is a probability of her swolling the ranks ?fthe fair sex when she grows up. My wife says she is a little dear, aud I believe her. in fact, she is altogether too dear. She is. like all other babies, the prettiest baby in the world, according to her mother, though 1 confess she struck ine as painfully plain in features. It is tho most helpless looking apology for a human being I evor saw. It can't talk worth a cent, though my wife maintains an imaginary conversation with it all day long and far into the recesses of the night. Any kind of a hideous squall tho baby exudes is readily interpreted by my wife to mean something intensely witty or profoundly interesting. Fortunately I am ignorant of the lnnguage ? English or United States is good euough for me. I think it would be a great convenience to business men if j babies could be born when they ate about four years old, about which time it begins to be safe for men to bandlo them. Wo should thus avoid much noise aud nonsense, not to speak of sitting up nights in the capacity of deputy-assistant nurse. The Legislature ought to consider this quostion. Not knowing anything about babies, and being somewhat proud of my igno ranee, I liail expected to be presented with oiio of those ready-mruTo artful little toddlers who cling to the lowei fringe oi their mother's skirts in the park, stare at strangers with big, round, blue eyes, and lisp in wonder, "I ia papn's girl," should anybody make inquiries as to their identity. I had anticipated a perfectly equipped, neatly dressed little girl with hair in curls, whoso interesting prattle would cheer up my Spirits when I reached home in the evening, but when I saw that diminutive, apopletic looking aggregation of helplessness, lying in stalo upon e square foot of canton flannel, the visionary picture which I had framed in my mind faded away like the thick end of a beautiful dream. Timber, Mineral, I-'nrin Panda and Ranches In Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought uud sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo. "You seem to think I'm nn idiot." "What a mind-reader you art!" FITS stopped free by Da. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Ills after first tlay'a use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and S'-' trial bjttlo free. ])r. Kline, S31 Arch St., l'liila., I'a. The youth of friendship is better than its o'd age. Guaranteed Ave year eight per cent. First Mortgages on Kansas City property, interest payable ovory six months; principal ami interest collected when due ami remitted without expense to lender. For sale by J. 11. Bauerlein & Co., Kansas City, Mo. \> rite tor particulars It is impossible to 1 u i at nn altitude of 17, ObO fc t above tlie sea. For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Malaria, Neuinlgin, Indigestion and Biliousness. take Brown's Iron Hitters? it gives t-trenigtn. | muklnig old persons feci young?and young Iiersons strong; pleasant to take. A good man Is kinder to Ills enemy than laid men are to their friends. OklahomaNuido Hook and Mansentanv whora on receiptorfXJcts.Tyler <& Co.,Kansas Llty.Jlo. In learning by ?xpor;enco one must not count tbe in stak's. A Fair Trial Of Hood's Sir* parllla for serofu'a, silt rheum or any affect I in cans -d i?y Ini'iurj olood, li sufllelent to convince any i>u" of th; sit crlor and f ocular cunt ve p iivnrs of ihis medlt, u\ Tbe foil.win; Ktntcnie.it Is rl ;lit to the |m Int: "My d lighter Mary was a (71 let a I with scr'fuloua she l?ccamo fiytvirs of n;{}. limps tor in'' I In lior neck, nil I one of them, i.ftor prowln,j to (lie size of n |ilre it's exu. berime .1 ruinlnj sore for or r Ih eo years. We save |n?r llooil s s irs ipirlila, wh'ti the I imp an I II Indie tl >ns of scrofula ent/roly illxappo ret."'?J. S. Cauule, XniirlRht, X.J. Hood's Sarsaoarilla Sold by all dnURlsts. {1; six for $5. Prepared only liy C. I. HOOD .t CO., Lowell, Mass. LOO DosesOno Dollar E I prescrlbo and fn'lyondorse Dig C as tin only /fly -hrrMln specific forthecarUl.-Curo flfflFl TO & DaTS.^B of this disease. Ir rgavvnaUtAvei ?| Q. H.I>'UHA HAM,; f. D., f $3 "***Swlc'"Irtt" Amsterdam, N. Y. urdeoijbyths Wo have *old ? 'or w.?. fli many years and it baa t slr^ f17"1 the "e8t ?' aBtl* \|A Otoclnnati,BHye faction. Ohio. jf? D. R. i)TCfIR ft CO.. > \1 Cbloaco, 111. Sold by Dxoffiita, It* Excellent Qualities Commend to public approval tho California liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. It is pleasing to tho eye, and to tho tnsto and by gently acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, it cleanses tlio system effectually, thereby promoting the health and comfort of ali who use it, A mountain of alabaster is supposed to have been discovered about 159 miles south of Jen re r, Co'. One Tbonsnnd Dollars, * I will forfeit the above amount, if 1 fall to prove that Fioraplcxion Is tho best medicine in existence for Dyspepsia,Indigestion or Biliousness. It is a certain cure, and affords immediate relief,In coses of Kidney and Liver Complaint, Nervous Debility and Consumption. Fioraplcxion builds up the weak system and cures where other remedies fail. Ask your druggist for it and get well. \ ulnablo book "Thing Worth Knowing," also, samplo bottle sent free; all charges prepaid. Address franklin Hart, 83 Warrch street. New York. A ltusslnn < flicer claims to have ditcovcred in eggs an oil from which can he made a powei fu exp os vc. Leo Wa's Chinese Ucadacbo Cure. Harmless In effect, quick and positive in action. Sent prepaid on receipt of 81 l^r bottle. A.l?l..r Ar f'.. ri&iWvaniiiit test..Kansas City,Mo Doern'1 app -ar In good health?Slcknca'. Tho saving in clothing where Dobbins's Electric Soap is used, is twentu times the soap bill. It Is no new experiment, but has been for sold 24 years. To-day Just as pure us in ltoj. lry it. 5. our grocer has it or will order it Kinds words are flowers that any one can glow without owning a foot ol land. Money invested In oholce one hundred dollar building lots In suborbsof Kansas City will pay from Ave hundred to one thousand |?sr Cent, the next few years under our pitiu. cash and & "> per month without interest eoutrols a desirable lot. Particulars on applicaUua. J. 1L Bauerlem it Co., Kansas City, .do. Sdf-wll Is so ardent and active that it will break a wor d to pieces to make a stool to sit on. I>n You Ever Speculate 1 Any person sonding us their name and address will receive information that will lead t<> a fortune. Benj. I/ewls it Cp., Security Building, Kansas City, Me. "Dd your husband d e happl'y?" "Yes, he died, happily." Dr. T,. Gorsuch, Toledo, 0., says: " I have practiced medicine for forty years, have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with so much con (Mews of success as lean Hall's Catarrh Cure." Sold by Druggists, 75c. No matter I ow bard silence falls, it does not break. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach disorders, use Brown's Iron Bitters. The Best Tonic, it rebuilds the system, clean< fhi Blood and strengthens the musulos. A spleud.d tonic for weak and deuilitatud persons. Enit.li 1 as noerenter joy than thedlscovrry of a quarter in n enst-oit ve't. Woman, her diseases and their treatment. 72 pago-1. illustrated; price 50c. Sent upon receipt of 10r, cost of malliag.etc. Address Prof. 11.11. Kmnk, M.D.. 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. They that govern mosi make the least noise. If ?fll ct- d with 'oreeyes use Dr Isaac Thompson's Eye Water.Drurgists sell at 25c per bottle Win n free from inlK, we in wisdom rise. jJ 3 cofi.Q nit j*a" ACHES PROMPTLY YOUNG MAN! YOUNGLAPT! chance to make 87> to?1 ?>0 I'Ktt MONTH Irom now tUl sprlog. For particulars, address, a', once, V. A. AUSTIN its CO.. t i P.O. Ave., Baltimore, Md. A I a PI ^ WANTKD In every Town 10 will 1/115? WOMAN'S IIAND BOOH. LHu# 9 Just Issued. Quick Sales. lib: Fay at JTorrfe. Clre'lrs Free. K. R TREAT, Pub., .New York. Ft 00 in A I' A "tM for sale. $10 per acre, 13C IUn acres, VOcleared and feuced. House, Stable, Susrnr Mill, Evaporator, Fruit Trees. P.O. and Depot. 1^'mhca W. B. Grant. San Pablo,PI a. Her? it ?s! Want to Ifarn *11 about i A4 Rone r How to Pick Out a A _ Good One? Knowlmpcr'ee ?x'\ V 1 lions and bo Guard against \ - ^ fraud ? Detect Disease and XT' " 7 \ Effect a Care when same I < / \ / V pou.Dla ? Tell the age by J \. J \ beTeeth? WhAt to call/h; Different Pajrt* of the Animal? How to Shoe a llorse Properly' All thtl and other Va.nable Information can be obtained bi reading our 100-1'A UK II,T,USTBATKI) IlllRSE HOOK, which we w.ll forwarJ, r?;fc pa.d, on receipt of only 'ii cents in atainpi, BOOK PUB. HOUSE. J34 Leonard St.. Hsw York Cltj7. IP IJ < W WORTH A G For BILIOUS &NERV! > Sick Headache, Wea > Digestion, Constipation ? ACTING LIKE MAGIC on the 1 ( muscular system, and arousii t The Whole Physical Encr C Beecham's Pills, taken as i ( FEMALES to complete health. < SOLD BY ALL ) Price, 25 ce / Frcpared only by THOS. BEECHA S P. F. AT.T.EX CO.. Sole Afieiit* for f \ For/.*, irho (if your dnififfiet does not k I receipt of price?hut Inquire fl 0.V?OSVV fHohey in MONtY IN CHICKENS ?s\n . ?IF YOU? vunriT ttaw Sl/il aiiu vv xxv ?w - * |in ,i To keep them, bnt it is fl ^ wronj: to let the poor things ' ! !/ Sillier nrid Die of ilie vu- ftt\. . n rintis Maladies which afflict fcl \\^Nv-'>V\ fit them wlien In a majority of M\Aa c"^-\ V^W f. SL cam's a Cure cou'd lm\o iwmV \jV\t v been effected had (he on licr v possessed a litlle knmvledge. such as can be procured from the *3? HT~~ due hundred *\lja page boo* iia " ? offer, embracing Iho ?"%i?|r P ' TII'AI. KXPBRIKNCM Of g* Firry dollars ro Ml PALiVIS BUSI 111 jLS 1709 Chostnut St., PHIL ADA., P, w ^ 3 to 4 uios. Best bguipped. Ift slC'i Brimful of confidence in it?the manufacturers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It's a faith that means business, too?it's backed up by money. This is what they offer: $500 reward for a case of Catarrh which they cannot cure. They mean it. They're willing to take the risk?they know their medicine. By its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties, it produces perfect and permanent cures of the worst cases of chronic Catarrh in the Head. It's doing it every day, where everything else has failed. No matter how bad your case, or of how long standing, you can be cured. You're sure of that? or of $500. You can't have both, but you'll have one or the other. For Coughs ^ Colds ESEiSlSSsi Thcro U no Medicine like p?| OR.SCHENCK'S 111 PULMONIC l"w2 Hi h nifniin iSIJI" S*nur'BJ 63 " Id i' pleasant to tho taste and asifiojs (lei's not contain a particle of iiSSSKQSi i\ opium oranjrihlng Injurious. It ;^y*a5s?"5.-* 2 lithe Best Cough Medici no lit the r World. KorSalebjall Druggists, Price, ?1.00 per bottle. Dr. Schenck's Book on ''otinuniiition and its t,'ure. umlhd free. Address " T tt ^ohorrJc & Son, Philadelphia. "We retail at the lotK* mAJmal,/arteryFRPF fe t O.mn W O^'- vCtllrTWflk T0 M,B,t" M *4Pj*for 9**^. ^v**^/ly7*?r?ctAL sua loguo. /Tama jooJj doirtxi. V->Z DIUTtll, UiUDKO HPS. oe, 145 n. nth et, mi?u_r? Fit Cfll I/O r HI rULivObs .s lug, no tuconvonlecce. Conflden la*, tend 6c. for c.rcul>:rs and testimonials. Addro * UK. O. W. K. SNYDER, 213 SI a to ft., Chicago, III. DEWOIfiMQ o-tPENSION Bill I tltOlUNuisPassed^^r en and Fathers ars emtitled to 512 a mo. Fee 110 when you get your money, blanks fruo. JOSKI'U 1L UllKTkU, aui, Wultaetee, Ik I, FRAZERe^ UKST IN THE WORLD U It LftOb " I OsA?l..naniilnA RnM FrAPTWhfM. BJF UOk U1V UVUUIUWI a-_ "nil WHISKEY HABHlH OB B 1 TOrtl ITS cared at home withipjb _ b. m. woollky. k. a tUp ATlAIITL 6a. Office 60* WktUfcaliSt! nriicinno 0,'d claims hettleu rrNMIINiS tNDEIt NEW LAW. Lll vlUIll# pr,;dlers. Widows Parents *oad tor blank applications nun Information. Patuox O't'ARitKU, Pension Agent, Washington, D. C. ilsfe- Make Your Own Rugs. ItIcc List of Rus Machine*, Rng ' Patterns, Yarns, etc., FREE. A items Wanted. K. ROSS A HO.. Toledo, Ohio. MOTHERS. SK? per package, sent po*t-pald. with fltli lu->fructlou*. Cu> cular? and oMlliinnt.ils for Or stami>?. Address OR. SNYDER, Lock Box 401, Cliiutffo. EL 18 fl IIC I) Y. L'ook-keeploR, Business Forma rUUIC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand,etc, H? thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circular* free. Hermit'* Coliece, do7 Plain St., Buffalo, K. V bITuii LLS e l3 rTTTM"R A A -ROX.-W ( DUS DISORDERS sash \ k Stomach, Impaired ( , Disordered liver, etc., ; Mtal organs, strengthening the q ig with the rosebud of health ( gy of the Human Frame. C Hrectod, will quickly RESTORE \ . DRUCCISTS. S nts per Box. ) M, St. Helens, Lancashire, England. ( 'nitfd States, 303 it 307 Canal St., \eiv ) cvp them) will mail Reecham's I'll Is on S (Mention this paper.) \ ISTANTLY. 1 St., New York. Price SO cts.HK__-?5??J Chickens. , a man who devoted 25 yoara /Tl?v of hie life to CONDUCTING 'V \ A POULTRY YARD AS A \ BUSINESS, not as a paa* \ time. As the livine of him tself and family depended on it. he gave the subject such attention as only a need ot bread will command. and the result was a grand success. after he had spent much money and lost hundreds of valuable chickens in experimenting. What be learned in all these year j is embodied In this book, which we send |io.:*oaid for 25 cents in stamps. It teaehc* you how toD.-tect and ('lire Diseases, how ?o Feed for Eges and also for Fattening, wnich Fowls to Save for breeding Pur|:o8cs and everything. Indeed, you should know on this subject. ROOK PFB. HOUSE. 1.14 Ix-onard St.. N. Y. City. n LIFE SCJTOLA If SIT TP IN ESS COLLEGE A, 'B.nh Sexes.) Position lor (trndllutCN. Timo juroool Study. Circulars free if you namu this paper. . -t- . . .-?r.A