——————■ HEAVEN IS LOOKING. t>R TALMAGE PREACHES HIS FIRST WASHINGTON SERMON. Ilk* ramnoa Taaaaga from Ha M Haring W« Ar# Atao Corn About with ■# llraat a Claud mt Wlta.a.aa " N this, my opening sermon In the na tional capital I glvo Christian saluta tion. I bethink my self of the privilege of standing In this historic church, so long presided over by one of the most remarkable men of (be century. There are plenty of good sainislers beside Or. Sunderland, but 1 do not know of any man except him self with enough brain to have stood successfully and triumphantly forty (bree years In this conspicuous pulpit. JiOng distant be the year when that Gospel chieftain shall put down the sli ver trumpet with which ho has mar shaled the hosts of Israel, or abeatho (be cword with whtrh ho has struck such mighty blows for God and right eousness. I come to you with the same Gospel that he has preached and to join you In all kinds of work for making the world belter, and I hope to seo you all In your own homes and have you all come and see me, but don’t all come at once, and without uny preliminary dis courses as to what I propose to do. I begin here anti now to cheer you with (be thought that all heaven Is sym pathetically looking on. “Seeing we aiso are compassed auoui wun so great • cloud of witnesses." Crossing the Alps by the Mont Cents pass, or through the Mont Cents tun nel, you are In a few hours sot down at Verona, Italy, and In a few minutes be gin examining one of the grandest ruins of the old world—the Amphitheater. The whole building sweeps around you ia a circle. You atand In the arena where the combat waa once fought or tbs race run, and on all aides the seats rise, tier above tier, until you count 40 elevations, or galleries, as I shall see fit Co call them, in which sat the senators, Che kings, and the twenty-flve thou sand excited spectators. At the sides of Che arena, and under the galleries, are Che cages In which the Hons and tigers are kept without food, until, frenzied with hunger and thlrxt, they are let out upon some poor victim, who, with bis sword and alone, is condemned to meet them. 1 think that Paul himself once stood In such a place, and that it was not only figuratively, but literally. Chat he had "fought with beasts at Ephesus." * The gala day baa come. From all the world the people are pouring Into Vero na. Men, women and children, orators and senators, great men and small, Chouaands upon thousands come, until Che first gallery Is full, and the second, Che third, the fourth, the fifth—all the way up to the twentieth, all the way up Co the thirtieth, all the way up to the fortieth. E««ry place is filled, lmmensl Cy of audience sweeping the great cir cle. Bllencc! The time for the contest bas come. A Roman official leads forth Che victim into the arena. Let him get bis sword, with firm grip. Into his right band. The twenty-flve thousand sit breathlessly watching. I hear the door ■t the side of the arena creak open. Out plunges the half-starved lion, his ; tongue athirst for blood. aDd, wltn a ! roar that brings all the galleries to 1 their feet, be rushes against the sword 1 of the combatant. Do you know how ; strong a stroke a man will strike when tola life depends upon the first thrust of his blade? The wild beast, lame and bleeding, slinks hack toward the side of the arena; then, rallying his wasting strength, he comes up with fiercer eye ard more terrible roar thuu ever, only to be driven back with a fatal wound, ■while the combatant comes in with 1 stroke after stroke, until the monster Is deid at his feet, and the twenty-five thousand people clap their hands and utter a shout that makes tbe city trem ble. To an amphitheatrlcal audience Paul refers when he says: "We are com passed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." The fact Is, that every Christian man baa a lion to light. Yours Is a bad tem per. The gates of the arena have been opened, and this tiger hat come out to destroy your soul. It has lacerated you with many a wound. You have been thrown by It time and again, but !u the strength of liod you have arisen to drive It back. I verily believe you will conquer. 1 Ibtnk that the temptation Is gelling weaker end weaker You have given It so many wounds that the prua poet Is that It will die. and you shall Its victor, through ''brief. Courage, brother! Do sot let the sands of the arena drink tke blood of your soul! Your lion Is tbe paeatun for strong drink V oo may have contended ■gainst It twenty years; hut It Is stroug »r body and thirsty of tongue You have tried to light It bach with brakes but* tie or empty wine flask Nay* that la got the weapon With one humble roar he o|,| eels# thee by the throat and read thee limb from limb Take this weapon, eherp and keen reach up and gat It from tied a armory tke daord ml the hptrlt With that thuu ma>e*t drive him bach and .onquer! Hut Why Specify, a hen every man ■ad woman has a Uua I > hgnt If there ha the here ana he* mu ma 1st him speak tot. for him have I of tMide ‘ If you hsve not (ought the lion It ta b* vase rot. hate let the Hot eat paw up. I hi* very m*""nei the canieal gaaa aa. f he Trajan •icbratiua where Sea thoug*»d giadiaiura fought, and eleven tlea, 1 eild beasts were alala, maa gat aa forrifl a struggle aa that •huh at tfcia moment goes ea in many a aoul. Tuat combat waa for tho Ufa of the body; thla la for the Ufa of the aoul. That waa with wild beasts from ths jungle; this la with the roaring lion of hell. Men think, when they contend agalnat an evil habit, that they have to fight It all alone. No! They aland In the center of an Immense circle of sym pathy. Paul had been reciting the names of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham. Sarah, Isaac, Joseph, Oldeon and Bar ak, and then says; "Being compassed about with so great a cloud of wit nesses." Before I get through I will show you that you fight In an area, around which circle. In gallerlea above each other, all the kindling eyes and all tho sympa thetic hearts of the ages; and at every victory gained there cornea down the thundering applause of a great multi tude that no man can number. "Being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.” On the first elevation of the ancient amphitheater, on Hie day of a celebra tion, sat Tiberius, or Augustus, or the reigning king. So, In the greut arena of spectators that watch our struggle'* and In the first divine gallery, as 1 shall call It, sits our King, one Jesus. On his head are many crowns! The Roman emperor got his place by cold-blooded conquests, but our King hath come to his place by the broken hearts healed and the tears wiped away and the souls redeemed. The Roman emperor sat, with folded arms. Indifferent an to whether the ewordsman or the lion beat; but our King's sympathies are all with us. Nay, unheard-of condescen sions! I sec him come down from the gallery Into the arena to help us In the fight, shouting, until all up and down his voice Is heard: "Fear not! I will help thee! I will strengthen thee by the right hand of my power!" They gave to the men In the arena, In the olden time, food to thicken their blood, so that It would flow alowly, and that for a longer time the peoplo might gloat over the acene. But our King has no pleasure In our wounds, for we are bone of hi* bono, flesh of bis flesh, blood of bis blood. In all tbe anguish of our heart. The Man of Sorrows bore a part. Once, In the ancient amphitheater, a Hon with one paw caught the combat ant’s aword, and with his other paw caught his shield. The man took his knife from bis girdle and slew the beast. The king, sitting in the gallery, said: “That was not fair; the Hon must be slain by a sword." Other lions were turned out, and the poor victim fell. You cry, "Shame! shame!” at such meanness. But the King In this case Is our brother and he will see that we have fair play. He will forbid tbe rush ing out of more lions than we can meet; lie will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able. Thank God! The King is In the gallery! His eyes arc on us. His heart Is with us. Hla hand will deliver us. “Blessed are all they who put trust In him!” 1 look again, and I see the angelic gallery. There they are; the angel that swung the sword at the gate of Eden, the same that Ezekiel saw upholding the throne of God. and from which I look away, for tbe splendor is insuffer able. Here are the guardian angels. That one watched a patriarch; this one protected a child. That one has been pulling a soul out of temptation! All these are messengers of light! Those drove the Spanish Armada on the rocks. This turned Sennacherib's living hosts Into a heap of one hundred and elghty flve thousand corpses. Those yonder, chanted the Christmas carol over Beth lehem, until the chant awoke the shep nereis, IUcd*', Ul mauuu, fnuuu 114 inv balcony ot heaven, and serenaded the new born world wrapped In twaddling clothes of light. And there, holler and mightier than all. is Michael, the arch angel. To command an earthly host gives dignity; but this one Is leader of the twenty thousand chariots of clod, and of the ten thousand times ten thousand angels. 1 think Hod gives command to the archangel and the archangel to the seraphim, and the ser aphim to the cherubim, until all the lower orders of heaven hear the com mand and go forth on the high behest. Now, bring on your lions’ Who can fear? All the spectators In the angelic gallery are our friends. "He shall give his angels charge oter thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou ahalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shall tbou trample under foot." Though the areua be crowded with temptations, we sha I. with the augello help, strike them dnwu In the name of oar llotl and leap on their fallen car casses’ Oh, bending throug of bright, angelic fares, and swift wings, and lightning foot! I hall yon. today, from the dust and struggle of the arena. I look again, and I see the gallery of the prophets and apostles. Who are those mighty ones up yonder? llosea, and Jeremiah, and Daniel, and laniah, and I’aol. and peter, and John, and James. Theta sits Noah, waiting for all the world to come Into tbs ark. and M«*e*, walling till the last H*d H*a .halt divide, and Jeremiah, waiting for ths Jews to ra 1 turn; and John, of the Apor'aly p*». wolfing tor the swearing of the nngel I that Time shall he no longer. Hlorioua spirits! Ye were howled at; >• were stoned, ye were spit upon! They have I berk Id the nghi themselves, aud they art nil with ns. Dantet knows ait about \ Hon* Paul fought with bruiata at ; Kuhe.tr*. In tho one tent amphitheatre, the i people got so netted that they would I about from the pallatise to the men In I me erenw "At It again!” ••forward*** j "One more atiok..look nut!** "fall hath!" ’ Itussa' bused!" Me In that gallery, prepnette and npeelolte, they cannot heap thali peace Davit I tries out. "Thy tied mil deliver thee frem the meotn ef the Huns'" David *»• claims: "He will not aulfer thy foot to be moved!" Iealah rail* out: "Fear not! I am with thee! Be not dismayed!" Paul exclaim*: “Victory through our Lord Jeaua Christ!" That throng of prophet* and apostles cannot keep still. They make the welkin ring with shouting and hallelujahs. I look again, and I see the gallery of the martyra. Who Is that? Hugh I-at Imor, aura enough! He would not apol ogise for the truth preached; and ao he died, the night before swinging from the bed-post In perfect glee at the thought of emancipation. Who aro that army of alx thousand alx hundred and sixty? They are the Theban I feot high with plnnately compound leaves 2-5 times pinnate; the leaves have long petioles, the coarsely ser ial* leaflet* are lanceolate to oblong lanceolate 1-6 Inches long. Walk of the urabellets numerous and unequal. Flowers white, fruit broadly ovate to oval, I mall, Wt lines long. Grows In Cow*am* (Ciruta nuicuhit' ), showing leave*, flower* uad fruit. (From the U. 8. Dc pLot Agriculture, divition ot Hot an/, tthghtijr re duced. marshes and In low grounds. The stems spring from thick, fleshy under ground roots that taper at the lower end. These usually number from three to fire, but single specimens are also met with. On cutting the roots a sharp pungent odor Is given off, Intensified by boiling. Mistaken for Parsnips. Public opinion, in the west at least, has answered this question In the affirmative. There is a diversity of opinion concerning the plant which causes the poisoning. The majority of people attribute the cause to the par snip running wild, and this belief Is Indeed very wide spread. Ho wide spread Is this belief thin It seems quite 9 « In tlUp«ll It front ilr minis uf torn* |n«|iip I h*»» t>*'it ytrlkii Urly furtunotu In lb* mum which *r* h*r* r«wunl*«l tu iiltnilfy IN* »|n>« linen In g**ry e*** which uu«il ihu poluon imj nntl w>r«««»r. t burn «!«> in ult*r gootl nvlit*Men Ibnt lb* ctilmnivtl |i«tr *nlp rtinning *114 4««>* n«>i .on** pui* onlng Tbn will# «t»rc»*l btlkf of lh« »m*I«»*i out liltlt* nf lb* cntll*nlc>| |UM«l|t • unging wilt) u *uit*ruiu*4 b> « Ur** it it in In f uf people. »b4 tint in mump •»< u>nt by ih* mi'itl *1 frulnnuy A l*» )««i* *go. ft of l*i*4«rkh it l*uwnr, uf k>, No* Jorooy. on.I on* uf hi* ptt plln, Mr i T IknntU, un4*rtooh *un»* • tporlntonu In intomlno whether lb* ntltitnuttl purtnlp tunuing wtl«| h«4 I guy toil* properil**, Mr U< nn»u f*lk«l tc 4*t*»t tb« pt«* core of any poisonous principle In tho root of the true wild parsnip (Paatlnaca •atlva), and when the boiled roots were fed. In considerable amounts to a cat, no symptoms of poisoning were mani fest. We may add as a further testi mony, that Prof. Power reports that bla associate, Ur. Cramer, Insisted up on eating one-half of tha raw roots from Mr. Rynulng. of West Halem. WIs., which wero supposed to cause cases of the poisoning. Ur. Cramer re ports no III effect whatever. One of the largeat of the fresh raw roots weighing three und one-half ounces avoirdupois, was chopped flue, mixed with some raw meat and fed to a small dog. The anlmul ale It greedily and without disturbance. There worn no symptoms whatever of any poisonous action. I have on different occasions eaten the wild parsnip, I'asilnaca sa liva, without any III effect, so that the nbovn results am corroborated. I will admit that I had some hesitancy at. first, and that Mr. Hexton, the foreman of the agricultural department, did not expect to mo me alive by evening, I must confess also that the roots were somewhat woody und not vory palat able, Ur. J .1. Hrown, Sheboygan. WIs., ns rjuotnd by Ur. Power, slates that lie had prepared and dug enough wild parsnips for u good dinner, which he ale, and can testify that he can discover hut llltln difference, cooked or raw, from cultivated parsnips and those which had run wild for about fifty years. The cases reported by I’rof. Power, the writer und others urn Instructive ns showing that In nearly all cases where It was attributed to parsnips running wild, (he roots sent with spei • Inicns Indicated that Cowhane had been eaten. {Experimentally no better evidence Is needed than these where persona have eaten the wild parsnip and no III effects have followed. Peo ple should therefore become familiar with the deadly plant described above and throw aside superstitious belief. In this very common belief wc have an other evidence that writers who have attributed the poisoning to cultivated parsnips running wild have not Inves tigated for themselves, they have as sumed that the plant is poisonous. The Manana Trade. The New Or leans Times-Democrat says: California and the eastern fruit have played havoc with the banuna trade of New Orleans. Nearly all the steumuhlp lines plying between tills port and the Central American bununa ports have reduced the number of vessels In service, and the banana trade Is set down as diniln Ishlng 5o per cent from the last spring trade. The California crop of fruit ha.* been an exceptionally large uric this summer, and has Hooded northern, eastern and western markets to the detriment even of the local fruit In those sections, and |>Mch«* are ubout 50 cents a bos there and apples m low ns $1 50 tier barrel. Ilauuua* being an all year crop have bruu brought In com petition with this seasons! fruit, and they can be bought i beeper III the localities mentioned than in New Or lM«a Pigeons Out of all the bird* that 1 may be called domestic th« pigeon holds the Hrst place The dove that weal forth from the ark to search the stats of the earth hoc developed many specie* during the ages. No bird cm be •‘crossed mare easily than the pig eon, These bird* are more carefully classified than au» others, an>| another thing In their favor la that they nave realty more intelligente Ilian an. of th» , feathered Hot k Pigeons are a tic (ion j nig creature# and ate always read> to 1 show (Heir appreciation of guy kind | ness shown in ihem The "carrier I elans uf pigeons has utti many varieties j but they have quits a ttlerntuie of their , awn A thoroughbred pigeon * an wing II at mo rate of about M mile# an k nit I That Is the average rate of apeed, but j in the Prawn Herman war, during ttt« i siege uf I'arls, that was frequently el | ceded t V Twenty five years age men (bought i II Impossible to overdo the horse bust j pit.# lh« unexpected happened t lismitM n» Crop. The Minneapolis Market Record says: “The movement of the new crop of flax f date* from about three weeka ago, when receipts at Mlnneapolla Jumped from little or nothing to aa high aa 81,000 buahela In a day. These heavy receipt! began about a week earlier than In 1894, 1893 or 1892, and about two weeka earlier than lit 1891. Hut taking the flrat three weeks’ move ments of all yeara on record, thla year outdoea them all, ao far aa receipts ut this market are concerned. In 1891. the year conceded to have brought forth the heaviest crop yet harvested, the receipts at Mlnneapolla during the flrat three week* of the movement of that crop were 19,820 bushels, hut later the arrivals became heavier, and con tinued very heavy until the next August, In 1892 the first three weeks of the new crop saw 30,192 bushels received on this market, or nearly twice aa much a* In 1891, but receipt* fell off much earlier that season, and for the crop year they were much lighter. In 189:1 the re eelpts during the first three weeks of the movement were 24,220 bushels. This year they dropped off soon after j January 1, and continued small te the m close of the crop year, Last year, 1894, (he receipt* during the corresponding period wero 86,010 bushels, hut this year during tbo same time they have been 109,240 bushels, or nearly twice those of any previous year, and about ten times us much as was received dur ing the came period In the memorable year of 1891, The yield thla year prom ise* to exceed that of any year since 1891, so that In three states a harvest fully an great as lhaf. of 1891 might reasonably bo expected.” This Is one of our very barsllest crops, and seed cun be sowed very^arly In spring, and again In September for late fall and winter crops, and In Octo ber for winter and spring crop. Tbo differences between the leading varle tIfs are slight, tang Htandlng Hummer Spinach, especially for spring planting Is best. How seed with tbo drill. The Indicator will tell you how to set It for sowing this seed. Don't rulse more than yott urn reasonably sure you can sell. If demand and prices urn good when the lilnrils have made some, hut not their full growth, It may In soma ease* pay to thin them, leaving tho remaining ones three or four Inches apart to corns to full size, anil selling thinnings. We use ordinary ten-quart peach basket* In which to put up the crop for market. Or the plants may be put In bushel crate* or barrels, and sold by the peck or other measure, or by the barrel to retailers. Usually wo cut the whole rows down as fast ns the crop is needed for sale, pushing a sharp and bright "crescent" hoe under (he plants Just on top of the ground, thus cutting the plants off and leav ing them ready for gathering, washing and putting up for market. Applica tion* of nllrate of soda often have a wonderful effect on this crop. If wo are crowded for room, we sow u row of spinach between each two rows of early cabbages. The spinach has to be taken v off tn good season, when all the space ' is needed for cabbages.—Ux. Hut or ftry food#. ^ Prom a strictly theoretical standpoint wo are taught that these foods should be given dry that the animal will cat It slowly, giving ample time for the salivary secretions to form, as does man t when eating crackers, etc. Hut Is this true? My experience says no. Our horses and cattle are a little lower down In the animal scale than man, and their animal natures are not controlled by mental faculty as that of man is or j should bn. riaco food In reach of tbA hungry animal and the one object is to swallow It as quickly as possible. Again, let a man attempt to make a ■ ••Slot I I will nti ■< '*1 J 1‘IIU 1. x; a glass of water n very satisfactory ac- ■ companlment. Probably it suits our V taste* better In litis way than to have It ground and made Into a niusb, but the fl animal docu not object to It so, and the •: Holds thus taken answer the same pur- » pose. Furthermore the salivary secre tions In both horse and ox have been rS found by chemical analysis to contain 3 little or nothing of a digestive nature K farther than emulsification.— Ex. l*r«v«ntlng relate Nrali. A bulletin of the Indiana experiment -‘.jH Mtution says: ,flrH 1. I’otato scuh is caused by the at- ^B tack of u mlliute vegetable p.uWite, us 'H was (list demonstrated at thla siatlou. 3j| if. It chiefly attacks the crop JHj ihrough infected seed material. ;t. The seed material may be dlsin- r.j feded by Immersion lu a buih of cor- j 1 roslve sublimate. Jl S 4 The corrosive sublimate solution should be of the strength of one pro ff| in11le 12 ox lu 16 gal. of water). l i 5. The bath should b« about an hour 11 and a half lung, although ooum vai ls- s 1 tlon iu lime Is liuiuaterlal. VI dug and pluuitug is dona ns SI usual. H T. The result of tb« treatmeut Is a II i rup eMentlally free from surface bkw I I lubes, and of greater market value |fl x. puiuetliue* a considerable In- fl crease In yield result* from the treat- U menl. fJ a. The method Is easily and i kcaplv rl a| piled, and worthy of exteuded • ial, [fl Turnip* as a Hoed Crop HW B moo I>lea that growing a cron with lit. H tl* labor makes It t beeper ttut whs** ■ the turnip* or* drllleg sod »ultlv*t.t*f H this extra labor u more lbs a repaid by H iui reared prodm I ibos making the H drilled tut nipt «m| l*«* per bushel than H those mw a broadcast Then la a fur* B tbtr *<*v vuMge In the let that lb# col* B tlxated turnip may be kept free from B weed*, thus Mtlag labor la future H crop* ).'• ■ c