TALMAGES SERMON. •HANDWBITINO ON THE WALL" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. *m.* God WrltM Anything on tbo Wall a Man Had Rotter Bead It ae It Is"— Tbo Opening aad the Close of •la's Baagaet. ASHINOTON, D, 0., Nov, M.—Bloc# lit* coming t o Washington, Dr. Talmaga'a pulpit axperlenca baa bean a ramarkablo ona. Not only baa tba cburcb In which ba preaches bean filled, but tbs a u d I - encaa bava over 0owed Into US adjoining streets to an •xtant that baa randared them Impas sable. Similar scanea war* enacted at to-day’s aervlcaa whan tba preacher took tor bis subject: "Handwriting on the Wall," tbo text chosen being Dan. f: Id, "In that nlgbt was Belabaxzar, tba king of tba Chaldeans, slain." Nlgbt was about to coma down on Babylon. Tba shadow* of her two hun dred and fifty towers began to lengthen. Tba Euphrates rolled on, touched by tba fiery aplandora of tba netting sun; aad gates of brasu, burnished and glit tering, opened and abut Ilk* doora of flam*. Tba banging gardana of Baby lon, wat wltb tha heavy daw, begaa to pour, from uteri It flowers and dripping lasf, a fragrance for many miles around. Tbo atraata and squares ware lighted for dance and frolic and promenade. Tba theaters and galleries of art in vited the wealth, and pomp, and gran deur of tba city to rare entertainment*. 0c*ms of riot and wassail war# min gled la ovary street; and godlaaa mirth, aad outrageous excess and splendid wlckednese came to the king'* palace, a. a _ .1 s _ 4 w..a a J..L {110, A royal feast to night at tbo king’s palace! Rushing up to tbo gates are chariots, upholstered with precious cloths from Dedan, and drawn by IIre aped horses from Togarmab, that rear and aelgb la the grasp of the chariot eers, while a thousand lords dismount, sumI women, dressed In all the splen dors of Syrian emerald, and the color blending of agate, and the chastenesa of coral, and the sombre glory of Tyrian purple, and princely embroideries, jbrought from afar by camels across the 'desert, and by ships of Tarshlsb across the sea. Open wide the gates and let the guests come In. The chamberlains and cup-bearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the silks, and to the carol of the music! See the blaze of the jew els! Lift the banners. Fill the cups. Clap the cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let the night go by with song, and dance, and ovation; and let that Baby lonish tongue be palsied that will not gay. ‘‘0, King Belshazzar, live forever.’’ What is that on the plasteilng of the wall? Is It a spirit? Is it a phantom? Is it Ood? The music stops. The gob lets fall from the nerveless grasp. There is a thrill. There Is a start. There is a thousand-voiced shriek of horror. Let Daniel be brought In to read that writing. He comes In. He reads it; "Weighed In the balance and found wanting." Meanwhile the Mcdes, who for two pears bad been laying siege to that city, took advantage of that carousal and came in. I bear the feet of the conquerors on the palace stairs. Mas sacre rushes In with a thousand gleam ing knives. Death bursts upon the scene; and I shut the door of that ban queting ball, for I do not want to look. There Is nothing there but torn banners, and broken wreaths, and the slush of upset tankards, and the blood of mur dered women, and the kicked and tum bled carcass of a dead king. For "In that night woe Belshazzar, tho king of tbo Chaldeans, slairf." I go on to learn some lessons from «U this. I learn that when God writes anything on the wall, a man bad bet ter read It as it Is. Daniel did not mis interpret or modify the handwriting on the wall. It is all foolishness to ex pect a minister of the Gospel to preach always things that the people like, or the people choose. Young men of Washington, what shall I preach to you to-night? Shall I tell you of the dig nity of human nature? 8ball I tell you of the wonders that our race baa ac complished? “Ob, no;” you aay, “tell mo the message that came from Ood.” I will. If there Is any handwriting on the wall. It la this lesson: “Repent! Accept of Christ and be saved!" I might talk of a great many other thlnga; but that la the message, and so I declare It. Jesus never flattered those to whom he preached. He said to those who did wrong, and who were offensive In his sight, “Ye generation of | vipers! ya whited sepulchres! how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” I'aul the apostle preached before a man who waa not ready to hear him prea It What subject did he take? Did he aay, “Oh! you are a good man, a very flue mao, a very noble man"? No; he preached of righteousness to a man who waa unrighteous, of temperance to a man who was a victim of bad appe tites; of the Judgment to come to a man wbo was uaflt fur it. Ho we must al ways declare the message Ibat hap peas to come to ua. Daniel must read It as It la- A minister preached be fore James I. of Rngland, wbo waa James VI. of beat land What suhje t did be lake? The king was noted at! ever the world for bi-lag unsettled and wavering In bis ideas. W'nal did tbs minister prea. o about t« Ibis man wba waa James I. ef Ragland and James VI. •I grullaud? He took fwt hi* teat James drei end sink “He tbal wav er sib Is llhe • wave of the eoe driven with lbs wlad aad leased.'* Hugh Ul tmer effeaUsd tbs blag by a sermon he preached; and the king Mid. "Hugh Latimer, com* and apologize.” "I will," Mid Hugh Latimer. So the day waa appointed: and the king* chapel waa full of iorde, and dukea, and the j mighty men and women of the coun try, for Hugh Latimer waa to apolo j t\7M. He began hla sermon by saying, "Hugh letlrasr. bethink thee! Thou art In the preMnce of thine earthly king, who can deetroy thy body. But bethink thee, Hugh latlmer. that tbou art In the preMnce of the King of heaven and earth, who can deetroy both body and eoul In bell lire." Then be preach ed with appalling directness at the king's crimes. Here le a man who begins to read loose novels. "They are so charming," he says; "I will go out and ms for myself whether all these things sre so.” He opens tba gate of s sinful Ilfs. H# goes In. A alnful sprtta meets him with her wand. She waves her wand, and It Is all enchantment. Why, It seems as If the angels of Ood had poured out phials of perfunu In the atmosphere. As be walks on ha flnds the hills becoming more radiant with foliage, and tba ravines more reso nant with tha falling water. Oh, what a charming landscape he sees’ But that alnful sprite, with her wand, meets him again; but now she reverses the wand, and all the enchantment la gone. The cup la full of poison. The fruit turns to ashes. All tba leavM of tba bower are forked tongue* of hissing Mrpents. The flowing fountains fall back In a dead pool stenchful with cor ruption. The luring rung* become curses and scream* of demoniac laughter. Lost spirit* gather about him and fa*I for hla heart, and beckon blm on with "Hall, brother, hail, blasted spirit, hall!" He tries to get out. He comes to the front door where he en tered and trite to push It back, but the door turns egalnat him: and In the jar of that shutting door he hears these words: "This night Is Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." Hln may nnin hrirht aa the mornln*. It ends dark the night. I learn further from this subject that death sometimes break* In upon a banquet. Why did he not go down to tho prisons In Babylon? There were people there that would like to have died. I suppose there were men and women In torture In that city who would have welcomed death, but be come* to the palace; and just at tha time wben tbe mirth la dashing to the tiptop pitch, Death breaks In at the banquet. We have often seen the same thing illustrated. Here la a young man Juat come from college. He Is kind. He la loving. He la enthu slastic. He la eloquent. By one spring be may bound to heights toward which many mer have been struggling for years. A profession opens before him He is established in the law. Hla friends cheer him. After awhile you may see him etandlng In the Ameri can senate, or moving a popular assem blage by bis eloquence, as trees are moved In a whirlwind. Some night ho retires early. A fever Is on him. Delirium, like a reckless charioteer, seizes the reins of his Intellect, Fath er and mother stand by and see the tides of his life going out to the great ocean. The banquet la coming to an end. Tbe lights of thought, and mirth, and eloquence are being extinguished. The garlands are snatched from the brow. The vision Is gone. Death at tbe banquet! I have also to learn from the subject that the destruction of the vicious and of those who despise God, will be very sudden. The wave of mirth bad dashed to the highest point when the Invading army broke through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, almost always, comes the doom of those who despise God,and defy the laws of men. How was it at the deluge? Do you suppose It came through a long northeast storm, so that people for days before were sure It was coming? No; I suppose the morning was bright; that calmness brooded on tbe waters; that beauty sat enthroned on the hilla; when sudden ly the heavens burst, and the mount ains sank like anchors Into the sea that dashed clear over the Andes and the Himalaya*. The Red aea wan divided. The Egyp tians tried to cross It. There could be no danger. The Israelite* had Just gone through; where they bad gouv, why not the Egyptians? Oh. It wu» such a beautiful walking place! A pavement of tinged ebella and pearl*, and on elthar aide two great wall* of water— solid. There can be no dan ger. Forward, great host of the Egyp tians! Clap tba cymbals and blow the trumpet* of victory! After them! We will catch them yet, and they ahall be destroyed. Uut tbe wall* begin to tremble. They rock! They fell! The rushing water*! The »hrlek of drown ing men! The awlmralng of the war horses In vain for the shore! The strew lug of tbe great host on the bottom of tbe seu, or pitched by the sugry wave on the beach a battered, bruised, and loathsome wreck! Huddenly destruc- I tlon came. One half hour before they could not have believed It. Destroyed, and without remedy. I am Just setting forth s fact, which you have noticed ss well as I. A turn lit** comes to the Mimetic Tile Spoe tie esye: "Did you sell the land for mo much?** lie says, "Yes," It wac u lie . Iiesd! a* quick aa that Happhlta, htn wile, come* In "Did you sell the hind for so much?' "Yea." It was a lie. | and quick aa that she we* dead tied a Judgment* are upon those who despise Him sad defy Him, They tome sod- j deuly. Hktllsd aporumea do not like to »ho»‘ ' a bird standing on a spr'g near by. If they are skilled, they pride themselves ou taking It en tbe wing, and thty 1 wait till It atari* tiraib Is an ell •purlsmae, and hs lutes to take moa Ay tag under the - ry son lie love* to take tkstn on the wing Oh. lie* 'o Hod this night' If there be one In Ibis present# who has wandered far away Item Christ, though he tns) not have hoard tbe call of the Gospel for* a year. I Invite him now to cot be saved. Klee from thy aln! ) tbe atrongbold of the Gosjiel! f tbe accepted time; now la tba aalvatlon. Oood night, my young friendly you have roay sleep, guarded bu who oarer slumber*: Msy you In the morning strong and well oh! art thou a desplaer of God? thy last night on aartb? Hhouldi be awakened In tbe night by thing, tbou knoweet not whi there be shadows floating In thd and a handwriting on tha wall, at feel that your last hour la con| there be a fainting at the heart! tremor In the limb, and a catch the breath then thy doom wot but an echo of tbe words of tht "In that night was Belshazzar, tn of tha Chaldeans, slain," Oh! that my I/)rd Jesus wont maks Himself ho attractive to* souls that you cannot resist Ilia* If you have navar prayed before, o' not prayed since those days wbt‘ knelt down at your mother's th«-n that to-nlgbt you might' saying: I Just as I am. without one plea j Hut that thy blood was shed fot* And that thou hldst me come IS; O l a mb of God. I come! „ But If you cannot think of so prayer aa that, 1 will give you a er prayer that you can say: "ty( merciful to me, a sinner!" Or, | cannot think of so long a pis* that, 1 will give you a still shorty that you may utter; "l,ord, sai or 1 perish!" Or, If that be too prayer you need not make It. Ir word "Help!" Or, If that be to/ a word, you need not use any art all. Just look and live! • FLOATING FACTS, [ from ihc time of Holomon the*, nology of the Hebrews may b«, nected with that of Kgypt, Assyrl, Babylon, and comparative vlcwi sen ted. The peop'e of the t'nlted Stab on an average 12.000,000 postage * of alt kinds each and everv dav . year, or a total of 4,380,000,400 j» sum. The Greek year eonalat* of ( month* of twenty-nine an•. 23, 284 A. D. . The flr»t cabbage grown In Brltaln wa* rained on the ground a joining Ibc Abbey of Arbroath, hall been produced from wed* obtain from Artola. in France. — GLIMPSES. Jabcz Coppe, who taught *dio4 Hangamon county, 111., In 1810, i»f. alive. Now people any that a picture Della Fox can be dlatlnctly traced the moon. Doctors now say that the *»• of i andna wm lovitetl to step out by Armenians present and ss* u strwngttd by thsw. ARM AM) GARDEN. ATTERB OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. m« I p-l«-Irate Mtata tbnnt « lloa of tha doll an.l Yield# Tliere«f-— llorllrullnra, Vlll:oltnr« an.I EH.rl raltara. HK Illustration on this page I* Of Kchluin vulgar*, commonly known as Hill* weewt, blue Thlalle, or Hugloa*. Hugloa* I* formed from two Greek '■ word* equivalent to j bona lot) and i gloss a Itongu*) whh’h com bin** to bugloa* (ox-toiigua) Thla plant la a ember of ill* borage family, known Hunleslly aa Borraglnace** (hairy aved). Gray deacrlbea thla family na I rather largo family of Innocent mu laglnoua, and slightly hitter plant;:; io root of some species yielding a red yt." K> hlum la from edit# iGreek for vl it) and la dlalliigulwtied In the family y having the curolla funnel-form, un pially 6-lohed, and with stamens pro •udlng. The stem I* from two to three *et high, rough, hairy and leafy. The save* vary from lanceolate to linear, lie lower one* T, to H Inches long, ho ouilng shorter above, ih* uppermost raet-llka and shorter than the flower- \ rig raceme*. Like the stem they are , oughened with allff whitish hair*, 1 which have a stringing quality. The | pper part of the stem, sometime* for lore than half lla length, hears numer u* abort, axillary spike* or raw'-niea t flower*, The** racemes are one lo wo Inches long, and ato rolled hack ward In bud, hut straighten out aa they xpand. The flower* are rather erowd rh« development of the branch** **em» o keep pace with the development of be roota In the noil. Where tha aoll * rich and aoft the roota force their way eaally, and the growth of the tree ibove the ground I* amooth ami rapid, rhe limb* are long between jolnta and iverythlng bespeak# a luxuriant ex istence. _ _ The cactu* family arc remark able for heir power of wlthatandlB* drought, (rowing aa they do In a climate that la for a great part of the year almoa * ritute of water, and being found a* m y are on arid nolle and bar# rock* a»m> '' ihem are. notwlth*t*ndlng all thl». rep resented a* containing a ator# of whole Mime Juice of which both men and cat tle avail ihemaelve* Bat perhaps the mo»t remarkable of all I* a plant no properly a cactus, but lw some npecta similar, called the Agave o American Aloe; and another I »* the Mexican variety, or Maguey plant, being the an me a* cultivated I" our • m utlets, of which there are about four 1 i each flower, are small, roundish and ei ough, with a peculiar appearance, eirhieh has been likened to a vipers 1 This plant Is a native of Europe and «>sla but has become extensively nat ,m rallied along roadsides. In waste v| rounds and fields, principally In the ilddlc Atlantic State*. r t -- 6 'IrerM. t»u Boil* may be Indicated quite acctir tely by the trees that grow naturally * 1 pon them, stnee the native growth I. a’ he one that hai appeared there after vl euturies of contest for the •survival f the fittest.” Other trees would grow here It planted, tended and protected. iut the native tree Is the proprietor by itttural Mlactlon. Tbe common biifib flourlana* nn ■ w" Oil fairly moist and naturally jJnW' Mnes and chestnula choose a lighter *n ml often a sandy aoll. Oak, btohori Itl ,,,! poplar choose naturally a aoll that shell cleared, la very ap|.roprlaia fo l« vt,«»t. Holla that produce bench ami be 11Mule will also produce corn, polaloei i md barley. White oak chooae# « mod irately rich aoll. Pool *-h.«»•*■' «» lo ou a aoll that Is dry and ■ra*#liy ti, with It are found also Hpaulsh oak ,u I,),,,.!, oiik, scarlet oak. and dogwood liiaik walnut reuulres rich fairly dri .. «,u, such soil as will produce ale. honey locust, red mulberry, ah-l bar! ' hickory, black sugar mapls. back berry and red elm. e whit* maple aeOBta lo thrive beat at the bank* of atreams, where pure »» ' * urs flow over beds of gravel. There seems to be a sure Indei el b chars, ter of soil In the mauu.r of h ,U growth of trees It will be noticed tha ** In a hard day soil the trees .ro of .to. ** growth. Irregular and eitremel: u<* 6,1 .,.n in br-«d.e* Each yes. s growl • very small Pre«|u«nl»y •»« *ara following, h* foUlld ms orchard dwarfed and Iti (mil a maaa of undeveloped bulk* urn i ull** In Ihe ,iiiiiu.il be wuuld ban well understood the cause that titadi Hie offspring of even a ihnroughbr*. ' n scrub, but wheu seeking the rune. 1 „f decline In Me orchard, he apend M* time In depreciating the utifavur HI,),, hi-smiiis, the druuih*. froati am i storm*, forgetting that under prop. restrict Ion tbs vigor of the tree am potcucy of lit pollen, and M-altbfulne* * I nl It* plain* would lie equal to llisa > i eim rgeucle* It, M Kellogg. l I r Yacht women Over one thmiaau . ! ,stho-ita and ys'bta are owned an i sailed by young women on the anaat * * 1 Maine and Me»*a* hnsetta. They yar * aa much aa uirii in their manage wen ■tom* V dhg glow and cautious *u L I other* »w ift and reekU**. A. 8. UoMDroll, writing from Swlti rrland to American Bee Journal, say*: If the degree of civilisation of a na tion could be measured by Ita attention to bee-keeping, then Hwltserland talnly would take • foremost po«lll"n In the rank* of civilised nation*, to* de*tlny and welfare of the bee-keeping Induetry are directed and watched over by not Ie*« than four bae paper* (•»>* property of the vartoua bee-keeper* **' re lation*) of which two are published In the Orman, and one each In the French and Italian language*. rriOHl of the local newspaper*, especially tho*e treating on agricultural matter*, give numerous article* and hint* on bee keeping. The country I* well stocked with bee*, and according to a former■ census there were In Hwltserland 1W.000 cole nle* of bee*, or one colony to every fifteen Inhabitant*. The bee-keeper*' association* here are not only trade union*, or protective asKoclatlort*. but rather patriotic henev olent soclettea, whose object t* to en courage bee-keeping among the conn try people In order to rats* the nation a) prosperity and create a pleasant and ennobling pastime *nd home Industry for the professional man, the artisan and laborer, and their families, In their leisure hour*, Many of the countr > schools are supplied with bee house* and hive* for the use of the teacher*, and where the scholar* are also given practical Instruction* In the art of hand ling and managing her*. Home of the railway com ponies are also assisting their employes, smilon officer* and linemen to keep bee* a suitable point* along their lines, In or dor to Inerease their home comfort*, and are *upplylng hive*, building shed* and paying premium* to thorn, tilwUAfr.il/ I Uitftfli tiff r ©i'f*tV4WI t’OV . slderable attention In many parts of tb* country, the bee# being moved In the summer sf(*r the hay season, from tb*' lower plains to the Alpine heights, where myrlsds of Alpine rose* an the root crop le a very dtff< inot thing, aa regatda the animals' food, to the wa ter we draw from uor wells. Journal of Agriculture. I An exchange truly says that im cheap* «l food lor bogs that «« Un i raise la clover or gt a>* and In coin * e I have the best IimhI (or (aliening that I can he feuml