TALMAGE’S SERMON. . ______ "THE BREAD Q’JETSTTON'” EAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT, Vrum the Te*t 'An# the T*«t»n< ! Broa|4it liim Brfud mii«I llfili hi I lie | NornhiK. anil HtmiI hihI FJ**ii aa tell you who told them at what eg*# tu swoop ikd I ua tell you who Introduced rate* to prophet aad prophet to ra«*« Hod Thera la on# passage t will whisper la your ear, for I would But wsai to utter H stood, tea* sum* was should drop duwa «a4*r its powvr If say mao shall tahe susy from the word* of tha ovgfemh* ‘d 'hi* heap, tiwl shall tahe iway? h»« part out cfT O f book ctylife ; knd Aiut >ff the TJuly City '' lYhlle, then, if wr.teh Phe ''ravens feeding Elijah, let the swift dove of God's spirit sweep 8 »wn the shy with divine food, -and •m* outsp.rvad wing pause at fhe lip dl every *oul hunger ing for comfort. , On the banks of what, rivers have been the great ‘battles of the world? While you are looking over the map of the worte to answ«er that, 'I will tell you that the great eonfllet to-day ts on the Potomac, on the Hudson, on the Mississippi,'on the Thames, on the Savannah, 'on the Rhine, on the Nile, on the Ganges, on the Hoang-Ho. It Is a battle, that has been going on for six thousand years. The troops en gaged in It are sixteen hundred mil lions, and those who have fallen by the way are vaster In number than those wdio march. It is a battle for bread. Sentimentalists sit in a cushioned •chair, hi their pictured study, with their slippered feet on a damask otto man, and say that this world is a great scene of avarice and greed. It does not seem so to me. If it wero not for the absolute necessities of the cases, nine-tenths of the stores, facto ries, shops, banking houses of the land would be closed to-morrow. Who is that man delving In the Colorado hills? or toiling In a New England factory? or going through a roll of bills In the bank? or measuring a fabric on the counter? He Is a champion sent forth in behalf of some home-circle that has to be cared for. In behalf of some church of God that has to be sup ported, in behalf of some asylum of inorcy that has to be sustained. Who is that womarf bending over the sew ing machine, or carrying the bundle, or sweeping the room, or mending the garment, or sweltering at the wash tub? That Is Deborah, one of the lord's heroines, battling against Amalekltlsh want, which comes down with Iron chariot to crush her and hers. The great question with the vast majority of people to-day Is not “home rule," but whether there shall be any home 1 a rule; not one of tariff, but whether there shall be anything to tax. The great question with the vast ma jority of people is, "How shall I sup port'my family? How shall I meet my notes? How shall I pay my rent? How shall I give food, clothing and -education to those who are dependent upon me?" Oh, if God would help me to-day to assist you in the solution of that problem the happiest man in this house would be your preacher! I have gone out on a cold morning with ex pert sportsmen to hunt for pigeons; I have gone out on the meadows to hunt for quail; I have gone out on the marsh to hunt for reed birds; but to-day I am out for ravens. Notice, in the first place In the story of my text, that these winged caterers came to Elijah direct from God. "I have commanded the ravens that they feed thee," we find God saying In an adjoining passage. They did not come out of some other cava. They did not just happen to alight there. God freighted them, God launched them, and God told them by what cave to swoop. That Is the same God that is going to supply you. He is your Father. You would have to make an elaborate calculation before you could tell me bow many pounds of food and how many yards of clothing would be necessary for you and your family; but God knows without any calcula tion. You have a plate at His table, and you are going to be waited upon, unless you act like a naughty child, and kick, and scramble, and pound saucily the plate and try to upset things. God is infinite in resource. When the city of Rochelle was beseiged and the Inhabitants were dying of the fam ine the tides washed up on the beach as never before and as never since, enough shellfish to feed the whole city. God is good. There Is no mistake about that. History tells U3 that In 1655 in England there was a great drought. The crops failed; but in Es sex, on the rocks. In a place where they had neither sown nor cultured, a great crop of peas grew until they filled a hundred measures; and there were blossoming vines enough, promising as much more. But why go so far? I can give you a family incident. Some generations back there was a great drought in Con necticut, New England The water disappeared from the hills, and the farmers living on the hills drove their cattle toward the valleys, and had (hum vimnlliwl u t t Ku urollx tains of the neighbors. But these after awhile began to fail, and the neighbors said to Mr. Birdseye, of whom 1 shall speak. "You must not send your flocks and herds down here any more: our | wells are giving out." Mr. Birdseye the old Christian man. gathered hi* ( family at the altar, and with his fam ily be gathered the slaves of the house hold -for bondage was then in vogue in Connecticut aud on their knees be fore Uod they cried for water, and the family story Is. that there was ween lng and great eobbtng at that altar that the family might not perish for lark of water, end that the herds and flocks might not perish The family r>>ae from the altar. Mr tiirdaeyv. the old man. took hit staff and walked out over the hills and In a place where he had bees score* of time* without noticing anything par ticular, he saw the ground wae very dark, and he took hie staff and turned up the ground, and water started, and he beckunsd to hta servauta. and they came and brought paita and buckets until all the family and all the flocks and ’he herds were fared for, aad then they mad# troughs reaching from that plafe duwa to the house and bnrn and the water flowed, end list living foams.n to due Now I call that obi grandfather Mityah. and I c%|| that brook that he •as to roll then and la rolling etui, the brook Cherith. and the leaaon to m* and to all who bear U ta, when you ate in great vires* of clrcum stance*, pray and dtR. dig and pray, and pray and dig. .How does that pas sage go? "Th» mountains shall de part and the hills be .removed, but my loving kindness shall not rail.” If your merchandise, it your mechanism, if your husbandry 'Tall, look out for ra ven*. If you have In your desponden cy put God on trial and condemned Him as guilty of cruelty, I move to day for a new trial. IT the biography of your life i* ever written. 1 will tell | you what the first chapter, and the middle chapter, and the last chapter will be about, if it is written ac curately. The first chapter about mercy, the middle chapter about mer cy, the last chapter about mercy. Tho mercy that hovered over your cradle. The mercy that will hover over your grave. The mercy that will cover all between. Again, this *tory of (he text im presses me that relief came to this I prophet with the most nnexpeeied and i with sprrotngly impossible conveyance. if It had been a robin-redbreast, or | a musical lark, or a meek turtledove ! or a sublime albatross that had brought the food to Elijah. It would not have been so surprising. But, no. ; It wat a bird so fierce and inausplcate that we have fashioned one of our most forceful and repulsive words out of It ! ravenous. That bird has a passion | for picking out the eyes of men and of animals. It loves to maul the sick and the dying. It swallows with vul ] tnrous guzzle everything it ran pul I Its beak on; and yet all the food Elijah gets for six months or a year I* from | raven*. So your supply I* going to J come from an unexpected source. You think some great-hearted, gen erous man will come along and give yon hi* name on the back of your note or he will go security for you In tome great enterprise. No, he will not. God will open the heart of some Shy lock toward you. Your relief will come from the most unexpected quarter. The providence which seemed ominous will be to you more than that which seemed auspicious. It will not he a chaffinch with breast and wing dashed with white and brown and chestnut; It will be a black raven. Here is where we all make our mis take. and that Is in regard to the col or of God's providence. A white prov idence come* to us, and we say, "Oh. It Is mercy!” Then a black providence comes toward us. and we say, "Oh, that Is disaster!" The white providence comes to you. and you have great business success, and you have a bun rirpr! Ihmm.inrl rlnllnru nnrl vmi (At \ proud, and you get Independent ot God, and you begin to feel that the prayer, "Give me this day my dally bread," Is Inappropriate for you, fot you have made provision for a hundred years. Then a black providence comes j and It sweeps everything away, and | then you begin to pray, and you be gin to feel your dependence, and be gin to be humble before God, and you cry out for treasures In heaven. Tht black providence brought you salva tion. The white providence brought you ruin. That which seemed to be harsh and fierce and dissonant was your greatest mercy. It was a raven There was a child born In your bouse All your friends congratulated you The other children of the family stood amazed looking at the new-comer, and asked a great many questions, gen ealogical and chronological. You said—and you said truthfully—that s white angel flew through the room and left the little one there. That little one stood with its two feet in the very sanctuary of your affection, and with Its two hands it took hold of the altar of your soul. But one day there came one of the three scourges of chil dren—scarlet fever, or croup, or diph theria—and all that bright scene van ished. The chattering, tho strange 1 questions, the pulling at the dresses as you crossed the floor—all ceased. Mrs. Jane Pithey, of Chicago, a well known Christian woman, was left by | her husband a widow with one half ! dollar and a cottage. She was palsied, and had a mother ninety years of age to support. The widowed soul every day asked God for all that was needed in the household, and the servant even war astonished at the precision with which God answered the prayers of that woman, item by item. Item by item. One day, rising from the fam ily aRar, the servant said, "You have not asked for coal, and the coal is out.” Then they stood and prayed for the coal. One hour after that the servant threw open the door and said, "The coal has come.” A generous man. wnuae name i coma give you, had sent —as never before and never since—a supply of coal. You cannot understand It. 1 do. Ravens! Ravens! •lapauree la Hawaii. The little republic of Hawaii is etn liarassed by su extraordinary influx of Japanese Immigrants, stimulated by Immigration societies working with the encouragement If not actually aa agents of the government of Japan. The Ja panese in the islands already are more numerous than the people uf any other nationality, except the native Hawaii ans. Various forms of restriction lot poesd by the Hawaiian government wsre evaded by the immigrants, until at .set the government forbade the land ing uf a ship load uf Jepaaeae. and or dered them seat back Japan claims ike privileges of free immigration un der an old treaty, and appears to lie uatag them to tarry out a plan uf vir tual • utilisation t tseatle Hiai “Nl#* dog' Haw y»u taught him any trtchs sinUUI V MV TT MVi V VMMM W * V»» V» corn. On most farms more corn can be raised by keeping them one-third of the time in clover and some farms will pro duce more corn by keeping them half of the time In clover than to keep them all the time in corn. In the past dry season clover did best disked In, In a wet season It In best harrowed in. One piece disked in, on which came a heavy rain, and the ground baked and the clover could not get up. Clover in growing corn does not kill in a dry hot summer, but as it does In oats. When a heavy crop of oats is cut off, it Is I cheaper to raise clover to get nitrogen from the atmosphere than It is to buy fertilizer. The Spread manure liberally over the orchards and in small fruit plantations. Manure Is what Is wanted, and If It ex ists In abundance In the neighborhood of the roots of plants, ft ts generally safe to expect good things. Trees need pruning. No doubt about that; but there must he reason in every cut. The great secret of successful pruning lies In doing the work early and removing surpljis shoots and branches while yet small. There can surely be no wisdom in permitting the twig and small shoot to develop into a mighty limb beforo removal is made, when the same never should have been allowed to grow at all. The head of a tree needs to be fairly open to admit nun and uir for full growth perfection of fruit. Further more. a moderately low head on a tree is desirable inasmuch as It favors the economical gathering of the crop of rruit. it IB considered a good plan to occasionally put on trees a coat of strong soft soap during a warm spell In winter. It aids In destruction of In sects and parasites that are harbored In the back of the trunk and larger branches. Of course the soap will eventually be washed off by rains. The eggs of the tent caterpillar are now to be found readily upon the naked branches of the appletree. They appear l-i bands glued on near the ends of small twigs. Cut off the twigs and burn them, thus making sure of the de struction of the eggs. How many orch ards appear, especially among our older settlements, that are really Improflt able and useless. The trees are starved, run out, and show but a poor, mean scraggly growth. Manure liberally and urune severely and ofttimes theee seemingly worn trees will tie luduced to take upon themselves a new lease of Ilfs. Tillage, manure, rare, are all Im portant with an orchard. A man can- | not espect to receive paylug crop# if he does not work and labor and striva and plan for the same I h> not heal- I late to glv# the orchard at least as i much attention as you would a crop of corn and potatoes Not only ts It wise lo take care of what tr»*s a farmer amy have, hut It etll usually be p, outside tu set out new orchards. The tuaa who makes a boaiutoa of onliafdtna and uses all modern appliances lu aid hint ip nit work practiced, follows tke Utt idea In spr-tying care of trees market tug fruits etc , and studies mod era pap* i* and books oh hortnwtture. will, we think. Itnd he has aw industry that year ta and )ear out will yield as *» t d r*turns tt shy branch of attic ul* lure. W »• I'crkih* *v set feed t« *• wut b con T .114 norm in the Soil. In plant growth there are mechanical manipulations as well as chemical. The mechanical conditions pertain largely to the soil, its supply of plant food and moisture. A correspondent of Rural , World sayg the active agents In pro ducing growth are nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen (air and water), phosphoric acid, potash and sunshine. Few plants j gro% well in the shade. A most valu able agent Is humus—the straw-maker. The great straws!acks of our country : are mainly bumus; ditto haystacks and cornstalks. These are the gross products of annual plant growth. What | remains of a rotted down straw pile or I its ashes Is humus. This element must | exist In the soil or be supplied if plant j growth Is to be produced. The tneehan I ieal action of humus In the soil Is fa I vornble to large plant growth. It ab sorbs water and holds It like a sponge. ! For this reason a straw mulch Is good on all sandy solls- on nil soils where | drouth is usual. Sandy soils can use i profitably a vast total of straw, if It Is J worked under before the rains are over I in spring, or If spread on the surface I as a plant rnulch. Even dry tlraw, or 1 leaves lying upon the surface, serve-t lo maintain the needed supply of moist ure. and does much toward cumulating plant growth. The large growth of plants or grass, reeds, canes or weeds on alluvial soil Is due as rnueh to the abundant presence of humus as to wa ter. Low grounds get not only the hu j mus they produce annually, but much of that washed from -tplnnds. It Is j very Important that lands be so plowed as to prevent washing, as It Is the mosl valuable particles which the water car ries away. Fpr this reason many slopes near streams should rarely, If ever, be plowed. The frozen lands of the north are much less subjeet to loss from I In action of winter ruins than those far ther south. When the plant has formed the neeeesnry elements to its growth, and has approached the season for seed production, It requires limn, ratine mat ter and the grasses above named to perfect, stiffen and enable It to com plete the work of reproduction. If these are lacking In the soil, the plant will be a failure -will be barren, seed less. Every funner boy should under stand these underlying principles of plant growth. They exist In every plant's life, as In every animal's, and must be supplied to the plant, where R stands, as It cunnot make a Journey dally to the springs for water or to the marsh for humus. Nnitall I nrniM. I have always been an advocate of comparatively smull farms, believing them (o be the Ideal farms, says a writ er In the New Knglund Farmer, and 1 have found that a great deal of pro duce can be grown on a small farm when managed right. To Illustrate: I have grown the past season on four teen square rods of land, twelve bush els of strawberries, selling to the amount of twenty-nine dollars and sev enty-five cents: besides using all we wanted In the family of four persons; some were also given away. From five rows of cabbages, fifteen rods long, we had all we wanted to use, stored some for winter, sold to the amount of ten dollars and forty-six cents, besides some waste and small heads fed out. Nine rows of onions, fifteen rods long, produced twenty-three bushels of tine onions. Oats yielded fifty-six bushels to the acre. In 181)5 they did a little better—slxty-one and one-half to the acre. Onions also did better that year. From a piece of ground 27x64 feet, 1 harvested forty-three bushels. Now who will say, In the face of such facts, that a small farm cannot be mudu to support a family In good shupe. In deed, I am certutn that if properly managed a very few acres will support a family well; and If 1 was a young man again, I would purchuse a piece of land somewhere, even If It were but two acres, and build up a home there on; then If more land was needed, add to it afterwurds as opportunity offered. 1 have a great deal of faith In well en riched and properly managed soil. 1 like the term "Intensive farming;” and the more we apply It to our farming operations, the better It will be for us. OlitrilllK I uuiaiu sjccub,— » anu a u^ai l>ox, pry the bottom loose a little to let out the water, fill with ulce soft dirt, place the s$ed juBt where you want them, and cover oue bait Inch. I generally push them Into the dirt With a match. Soak It with hot water —not hot enough to sculd the seed but warm enough to warm up the dirt, liox and all. Now. to keep the surface wet and to keep them warm fold a news paper and tie over the top of the box. Place the box on an Iron muntel shelf In the family room, kitchen or some place to keep the heat up pretty regu lar, and don't forget to take a look at them the fourth day after pluuttug. If you wait mauy hours longer you will be apt to find your plauts long and leggy. Set the box In a sunny win dow or where they will get good strong plants and In transplanting be careful nut to break the small fibrous roots.— Ka. Clover llay.—Clover hay la much better appreciated than It used to be. While must boreemsn la eitlea are still shy of It. the farmers know, as they always hava dune, that In nutritious value tt far surpasses timothy or other grass** H contains mure nitrogen oua nutrition than the grasses. This Is what makes It hard te cure without i turning dark colored, but Ibe lata cle ver crop, wbl-'b la always aearly black when get mtu the ham, Pi tor sheep, ! cpwa and calves tbo best bay of all— Ka. ■.... i Per thousands of years the farmer j baa been sorbing with bis bands and I other# bate te a loo great extent reaped tbo reward lor hi# toll Now no la begiantng te sorb with bis brain, sub the reault of reaping tbo teeard bimaoll A fr*sh iff has a Utticlihs surface to it# ahtll T1IE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON VII. SECOND QUARTER SUNDAY, MAY 16. f.nlrien Text: *‘l Hate Ret Thee to He » Mght of the CJentIlex'* Aft* 111:47 — Paul X'renrtilng to the (icotiivt at \.y* Rtr» and iJerbe. N order to fully com prehend to-day * lex *on It l* n*c*x*ary to r»»ad Act* 13. 44 * and 14 24. To-day'a )***on In full in clude* veraea 11 to 22. Act* II. aa fol low*: 11. And when thn pie xuw whin Paul had done, they lift ed up their voice*. Haying In the xj»**cl4 of Lycaonla. Tho God* ure come down to ti* In the llkene** t)f men 12 They called Itarrmhux Jupiter and Paul M*r eurlll*. Ix-cNUaf* he wmn the chief xpeak • r. 13 Then the prlext of Jupiter, which wax before their city, brought oxen and cat land* unto Ihe galea, and would ha VO done aacrlflce with the people II Which when the apoxlle*. Ilarnaha.* and Paul, beard of, they rent their clothe*, arid ran 111 among the people, crying out. If*. And eaylng, Hiix, why do ye the** things? Wo also are men of like passion* with you, and preach ttnlo you that ye xhould turn from thexe vmiiIMm* unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and th« *cn, and all thing* that tire therein: 14. Who In time* pant auffered nil nation* to walk In their own way*. 17. Nev*rth«l*a* he left not hlni*e|f without wltliex*. In. that tie did good, and gave u* rain from heaven, and fruitful aeaaofia. Idling our heart* with food and gladn***. I*. And with thexe Maying* scarce featrained they the people, that they had not done xacrl llce unto them. 19. And i here came hith er certain Jew* from Antioch and Iconlum, who perxuaded the people mid. having "toned Paul, drew him out »f the r|ty, *oppo*lrig h«- hart been dead. 20. How bell, a* the djxelple* *tood round about him, he rn*e up, and came Into the city: find the next day he departed with liar nxbaa fo IVrhe. 21. And when they had preached the goxpel to that dty. and had taught many, they returned again to-Lya ira, and to Iconlum. and Antioch, 22. <'onfirming the moijI* of llie disciple*. and Il/.rt llllr I Ii,.In Inn,. ft. ihl. fulfil anil (hat *i- must through much tribu lation ijili r Into (lie kingdom of Uod. / Time,-A, l). 1(|. 4 Places. I.ystni, Lycaonla, In which! this heathen city lay. won u district ex tending from lhe ridge of Mount Taurua on the border of t'lllcla on the south to • he Cappadocian hills on I In* north. Ib Is, perhaps, the largest plain in Asia Minor. There Is reason to believe that l.ystra was at the place known us Blri Mr Klllsseh, "the thousand and om* churches,” a mass of ruins In the Kara I nigh or Muck Mountain. 2. l»#rbe, a city In the same prov,. *». and twenty miles distant from Lyzfru. ft Is supposed lo he represented hy the modern villain* of Iilvle. 3. Iconliim, it large illy slxly miles east of Antioch, and now known aa Konleh. In (he Middle Ages It was th* capital of a powerful Moliutumciluii king dom. Lesson Preview.—Paul und Itarnabas present the Gospel to the simple-hearted peasantry of Lyslra. In the'crowd there Is a boy named Timothy, whose mind, al ready trained by a gaily mu'her. accepts the Havlor as preached by Paul. In tho crowd there Is also a deformed man who has all his life sat upon lbs (lavement as a beggar As he hears the story of Ihs mighty Master who went about doing good, faith leaps from his heart to his eys, and the apostles recognize Ills claim lo the promts*. At Paul's command tin* beggar Is made whole, while the villagers shout, "The gods have com* to earth again!" It would seem that Paul dinl Kurnubus did not understand the barbar ous dialect of the Lystrans: for, beforw their silly udonalldn could he checked, they hud In gun to slay ogen In suer I fleer to the two sirangers whom thev mistook, for Immortal gods! Heading their clothes In horror, Paul and Barnabas rushed among llie crowd, staying the uplifted knife, and with word and gesture repel ling the superstitious adoration, and di recting their llioughl lo the Invisible Ood, whose praise nature slugs In betiding hats vests on ttic earth and gentle rain from heaven. Hut before long Jews came from Antioch with hatred In their hearts, and stirred up these Ignorant Idolaters of Lystru to stone Paul, lie was wo Injured that both friends mid foew thought him dead; but he recovered, und after a brief departure returned to Lystru and nelgh Isirlng places, ‘'conltrmlug the souls of the disciples.” * Primitive Incense. In anelegt dayit sweet odors were obtained by burning aromatic gum* and woods; hence the word perfume, which Is from the Latin, per, through futmis, smoke or vapor. From ibis arose the idea of incense In primitive woiship. It was used by the orientals long before It became known to the western world. People of th*1 oust util ized It for sacrifice in their temples. At feasts It enhanced the pleasure of the senses. At funerals It was a bribe to appease the manes of the dead, and luter In theaters a disinfectant against the unpleasant odors of a crowded building. Pliny ussures us that Incense was not employed In sacrlltcn until nun un • wood* were applied to give an agree able smell. In an undent magical moBUucrlpt It I* <11"acted that three grain* *hou!d be takeu, with three Ht) ger*. und placed under the threahold to keep away evil *plrlt* which might nonn in the form of offen*lve odor*.—» I .on dun Society. nmri U>* suit Merc*. Conude »hy*elf with 111* word of gt*««, And i r»*e thy wall of woe. Kor III* mercy never an equal hath, And 111* love no bound* can know. l.*nn.>do*« unto Hlin In faith and hop#; How m*ny line thee have found In libit * *belter and home of peace, U) tile ncrcy com pixel round! John tlrreuhmf Whit liar Muaemg mw Moatin'* m«o Kan • herald*' college ha* die ov* eie*l that the Uawheee di Kudint, the Itnlton piemtev ha* no right to in* title, which belong* to another oranrh of hr* family He ta property only dig, Antonio s*»r.ii*tH» “Uchango Mr.* II *« |NlM*e Mudgi oh, yea. w* had a real live ly time s n.n.on* and I |i «*mt on •irany I IViueli* V*« | w Simmon* thte morning and ha sold me he »i**m Mi Invltenawolia l.mrarl