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V -:)i: - . THE ffilTISH CaL? Gladstone's Now Ministers Officiary Announced. Sketches of the Careers of the New Members, The new British cabinet has been officially ?nnounced as follows: Mr. Gladstone, prime minister and first lord of the treasury. Sir Farror H^rs hell, lord high chancellor. Karl Spender, lord president of tho council. H. C. H. Childci's, home secretary. E;irl Rosobery, secretary for foreign affairs. Earl Granville, secretary for the colonies, i Earl Kimberljy, secretary for Imiia. H. Campbell Bannennan, secretary for war. Sir William Vernon-Harcoui t, chancellor of the exchequer. The Marquis of Ripon, first lord of the admirality. Joseph Chamberlain, president of the local government board. (4. O. Trevelvan, secretary for Scotland. I A. J. Mundella, president of tho board of tradeJohn Morlev, chief secretary for Ireland. The composition of the new cabinet has caused groat surprise. It is thought to show . marks of compromise. Sketches of the New Ministers. This is the third cabinet Mr. Gladstone has ' formed; thy first having conducted the gov- ! ernment from December 9,18T>8, to February 21, 1874, and the second from April 28, 1880, to Juna 2:5, 18S5. Most of the members of the latter enter the new one, though in several eases occupying new positions. Sir Farrar Herschel, selected for lord high ohanrallor. and heneo presiding officer of the house of lords, is a lawyer, aud was Mr. Gladstones solicitor general, holding that office five years. .Karl becomes lord president of ' the council for thr; second time, having j served as such from 1880 to 1883. Though I only fifty-one years of age, he is a veteran in ffovernm jntal "service, having also been lord Seutenant of Ireland from 18t>S to 1874, and again from March 10,1S8.S, to June 528, 1885. Mr. Chdders has held several cabinet offices before. He was one of the junior lords of theadmiralty in 1864-5, then financial secretary of the treasury, and from 1808 to 1874 lirst lord of the admiralty. In the last liberal cabinet he was at first secretary of state for war, and later chancelor of the exchecflier. Earl Roseberry, age thirty-nine, is one of the younger and nower ministers. This rich Scottish peer, husband of a Rothschild, a devoted lover of horses, and a fine scholar, is eminently demucrat.c in his ideas, and has of late been regarded one of the most promising of liberal statesmen. His ri-e to the office of secretary for foreign affairs has been rapid. Earl Granville, next to Mr. Gladstone, is the oldest member of the new ministry in years. His age is seveuty-one, cr six years less than that of the premier. As early as 1851-52 he was secretary of foreign affairs. and held the same office again in the first an<l second G.adstone cabineis. He has also, at various times, been lord president of the council, cliancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster and so rotary for the colonies, which last office he now resumes. Earl Kimbeily. another veteran in ministerial service, aged sixty, is the only member of Mr. Gladstone's second cabinet who takes up the same portfolio he laid down last June, bssido his present office of secretary for India, he has twice held that of secretary of state lor the Colonies, and has been lord privy sea!, lord lieutenant of Ireland and ho has been in the diplomatic service. Hfnry Campbell Bannernnnn, age fifty, has sat in pania uent ior Siii 1 ug, Scotland, over since t>ut his expe.-.enco in executive office is comparatively brief. Sir William Vernon Harcourt. who hasbeen made chancellor of the exchequer instead of homo secretary, held the latter office in the last liberal caoinet. He had previously btv?n professor of international law at Cambridge. a?? 1 wax solicitor-general in iy<o-74. His ago is fifty-nine. Th - .aui'iia 114 xiipon, who takes the office of first lord of the admiralty, has hold war and lndiau jKutfolios and served as lord resident of the council in former cabinets. His latest office was that of viceroy of India, which he tilled with marked ability from ISikJ to October. 1*S4. He is a Catholic, and his age is fifty-nine. Joseph Chamberlain, who takes the presidency of the lo-.-al government board \vh:i b Sir Charles Duke ha I in the last cabinet, wai from 1nS?) to 1*V> p:evident of the board of bade. He hail U'eu <. hk?fiy couspicuous as a radical champion of laad reform, representing the ''three aires and a cow" iuea. He was mayor of Birmingham from 1S74 to 1876, and is one of tho members of par] a ment from tiiat borough. His age is fiftyone. G. O. Trevelyan. secretary for Scotland, is a son of Macaiilay s nephew and biogra,jhjr, was one of the nn I -r secretaries for the ad miralty from Isus to 1S70. and again from 38S0 to ltvSL'. Ho t!u*fi lx>?arne chiei' sec retarv for Ireland, but s.im&d irod thut of lice to bocome channellor of the Duchv of Lancaster * in October. 1X>*J. Mr. Maudelia, the new president of the board oi trade, was the vice-president of the committee of the council for education under the last cabinet He has sat for Sheffield sinco ISO* aimo t continuously, and has lectured an 1 wr.ttv'u extensively on capital, labor and education. John Aiorley, s-?? rotary for Ireland, is new to mim?teH<i' car^-r > literary rather Utfin political. me wrote dio. graphies of Cob leu, liurke and Voltaire, and edited the Fortnightly, Pall MaU Gazette (before Mr. Stead) and Macmillan. He is a devote 1 supporter of Mr. Chamberlain, and, except the premier, is the onlv member of the cabinet openly committed to home rule. GLADSTONE'S TRIUMPa Called upon bv Qneen Victoria to Form a New Ministry. A London dispatch of the 2flth says: The queen accepted the resignation of Salisbury and his cabinet with many misgivings, and, it is believed, at his own solicitation. The tory leader's fixed opinion that home rule, in its naked simplicity, will never be accepted by the British voter, is probably slian.d ! by her majesty in its fullest sense, j The queen this evening summoned Mr. Gladstone for a consu'tatiou. Previous to Mr. /Gladstone being summoned it was reported that the queen hesitated between the ex-premier and Lord Hartington, and had ordered the ministers not to surrender their seals of Office until Monday. The deadlock between Mr. Gladstone and Lord Halting ton continues, the latter holding that the repression of disorders in Ireland is primarily necessary. The summoning of Gladstone, however distasteful to the queen, was a necessary viudica tion of til? constitution, as well as an act of royal submission to the popular will. The sovereign has no |>olitics, out the sovereign is a woman, and while she may technically perform the task according to precedent and the Unwritten law. it raunot be doubted that she faces the hydra-headed spectre of liberalism, radicalism and Purnellism with a feelingakin to horror. There was marked activity during the day among the whigs, whoss chances of coming into power have lieen greatly magnified by *ho flxtraordiiiarv political situation. Sir William Vernon rfarcuirt, the late liberal home secretary, undertook: the character of peacemaker, and spout an bour this morning arguing with Lord Hartington in the vain attempt to bring about a reconcilation between him and Mr. Gladstone. I/>rd Hartington is implacable, however, in his determination to oppose both home rule and its advocates to the bitter end. Mr. Goschen, Ix>rd Hartington's chief associate in partial revolt, has spent the day jn earnest consultation with the moderates. He also had several interviews with Hartington, and it was evident that the whigs were hard at "work on a computation of the amount of strength which they could show i \ the event ct their coming into power. The government hasarranged to largely reinforce the troops in Irelan 1 in view of tho po ssible renewal of the Coercion act. It is known that at leastone regimont now stationed in Egypt is uuder orders to proceed to Queenstown. The Duke of Westminister has retracted his recent charge against Parnellites of squandering Irish donations in debauchery. He says he ia unable positively to prove tho charge. DL TAtfflAGE'S SE11 HUSBAND AND WIFE IN HARMONY. The subject of the Rev. Dr. Talmale's fourth sermon of the series upon the "Marriage Ring" was entitled: 'Husband and Wife in Harmony or Out of Tune." The text was chosen from Amos, iii.,"Can two I walk together except they be agreed?" No, Amos, they cannot! They will either | be tripping each other up, or pushing each ! other down. Under such circumstances the marriajio relation will be the sounding of an everlasting war-whoop. In this course of ser ..mL. ** ... I mons w&U'ii i am preacning t>u xue marriage Ring," I want this morning to discuss the mutual duties of husbands and wives, leaving to other sermons the discussion of their individual duties. A church within a ehurch, a republic within a republic, a world within a woi'ld, is a word spelled by four letters: "H-o-m-o!" It things 50 right there, they go ri?;ht everywhere. If things go wrong there they go wrong everywhere. The doorsill is the foundation of church and stato. A man never gets higher than his own garret, or lower than his own cellar. In other words, domestic life overreaches and undergirds all other life. The highest house of Congrces is I the domestic circle, aud the rocking chair is j higher than the throne. George Washington | commanded the forces of the United States, but Mary Washington commanded George. Chrysostom's mother made his pen for him. If a man start out aud rim for seventy years ir. a straight line he cannot get out "from under the shadow of his own mantlepiece. It is, therefore, a subject of infinite and eternal moment that I present to you this morning when I talk to you about your homes. As individuals wo are only fragments. God makes the race in parts, then gradually puts us together. What you lark I make up, what I lack you make up, and our surpluses and deficits of character are the cogwheels in the great social mechanism. God gives to one, courage; to another, patience,: to another, placidity; to another, enthusiasm; and what one lacks th3 other makes up, or they all make up. Buffaloes in * j_ M? I herds, grouse in uroous, qiuuis m uuuk^. uuu i the human race in family circles. So all these things are beautifully arranged. That I conservative balances that radical. I have no more right to complain of another man because he thinks differently from myself than a drive wheel has a right to complain of the iron shaft thad holds it to the centre. A ship must have mast and cutwater and taffrail and ballast, and society is made up of a great many different parts if it is going to prosper at all. I thank God for Princeton, and I thank Him for Andover, just tho opposite?. John Wesley balances Calvin's Institutes. All these varieties divinely arranged and divinely directed. The trouble is that we are not contented to stay where God puts us, and the water wheel wants to come inside the mill and grind the grist, and the hopper wants to go outside and dabble in the water. Our happiness, our success, our prosperity depends upon staying just where God puts us.* The cold theologian makes the bones of theology for Scotland, but Thomas Chalmers and Thomas Guthrie clothed those bones with throbbing heart and warm flesh. So we are all in one great community, and God arranged it so and arranged it beautifully. Then for purposes of compactness and greater usefulness we are brought into smaller circles and into the home group. There you find the samo -1 - c>?it. priBCipiW. Dl UlUCi^ auitJio, lauucio^ of all different in temperament and tastes. If the husband be all impulse, the wife must be all prudence. If our sister have sanguine temperament, the other sister must have lymphatic temperament. Wary and Martha are necessities. There will be no dinner for Christ if there be uo Martha and there will be 110 audience for Christ if there be no Mary. All is divinely arranged. Eden is gone, the bowers are all down, the animals that came up for Adam to stroke as he gave them their names on that famous morning, have thrust forth sting and tusk, or growled panther at panther, and mid sicy with tLeii* beaks have plunged until with tjrn wing and eyeless sockets they came whirling down from under the sun in blood and fire. Eden is gone. There is only one fragment or it left, and that is the marriage institution That floated out on the waters of the Hiddekel from paradise. Instead of as then being the taking away of one rib, it is the addition of many ribs. This institution of marriage has been defamed in cur time, and there are influences abroad to turn this nation into a Turkish harem, or a ^reat Salt l<ako City. While for the most part tho pulpits are silent on these subjects, novels, their cheapness only equaled by their nastiness, propose to eduee.te this nation in regard to the subject of holy marriage which makes or breaks for time and for eternity. Ah! it is not a mere question of wardrobe or 01 residence; nu u quesuuu ui. ni^aum; joy or gigantic sorrow. Alas! for this new dispen.-Natiou of George Sand. Alas I forthi3 mingling of the nightshade with the marriage garlands. Alas! for the venom of adders spit into the tankards. Alas! for the white frosts of eternal death that kill the orange blossoms. The whole attempt is to change marriage into a commercial enterprise, an exchange Jof house and land and equip.ige, a partnership of two stuffed with stories of romance and knight errantry and unfaithfulness and feminine angelhood. After a while the twain wake up to find that instead of being a paradise it is a van Amburgh's menagerie filled with tigers and wild cats. The whole influence abroad to-day is to destroy or belittle the marriage institution. E::ghty thousand divorces in Paris m one year preceded the worst revolution that France ever saw, and th.-?re is not an intelligent man or woman In this house to-day but knows right well -that wrong notions about the marriage relations are the foundations of the worst outrages of our time. There are here many who have been in the conjugal relation. There are othei-s 1 --.I- - I 4-1? .4 uero wuu uu* e ivwuujr sco up tucu uuui?, and only for a few months or a few years have lived together. There are others in this house who will after a while establish their own dwellings, and I confront them in the name of God, asking the divine help, while as your religious teacher, I say some very important things. Ii. tho first place, I charge you, in your new home have the Lord Jesus Christ. The guest of the Bethany sisters?let Him be your piest Take Him into your plans, hopes",ambitions and expectations. Have on your hand | the mirria^e ring of the divine affection. If t one ol you be a Christian, let that one tako the Bible at the even tide and read a few passages, and then kneel down and commend yourself to Him who settetli the solitary in families. If the husband will not pray tho wife must pray: If tho wife will not pray the husband" must pray. I tell you that the destroying angel goes past and does not enter the home, the do >rposts of which are sprinkled with the blood of the everlasting covenent. I have noticed that young people who start with God end in heaven. Why is it that in some families there are perturbation and annc ante and controversy perpetual? You have seen it. I have noticed it. I have come to tliis couclusion in regard to all such people. They did not start right. Iheu in other homes, though there may be mauy trials and many privations and many hardships, and some things that need explanation, yet they get along smoothly and well. Why/ They started riglit. I tell you that what you want in your home more than anythiug else,what I want in my home more than anything else is more Vi. tliU pi cochvt VI U ^iuviviw v?v?. I charge you also, that in your now home, as far as possible and to" the utrpost extent, you exercise the grace of forbearance. Prayer cannot do everything. Some of the best people are very hard to get along with. Inere aro men who in prayer-meeting pray like angels, and at home they are uncompromising and cranky. You cannot have it all your own way. Sometimes it will, be the duty of the husband to yield. Some times it will be th? duty of the wife to yield. But you stand punctilious in your rights and I promise you a Waterloo with no Blucher coming up at nightfall to decide the destiny. I do not like people who are always standing on their rights. There are partnerships which imply surrender and compromise. Neither be ashamed to apologize for any domestic inaccuracy. A man that does not know how to apologize is not a man. A woman who does not know how to ajwlogize is not a woman. I made up my mind that in the home circle aud in the church and hi the state, what is very much wauted is a spirit of a^)o!ogy. The best thing I ever heard about my grandfather, whom I never saw. was that he once had unrighteously rebuked one of his children, had himself lost his patience, perhaps having been misinformed in repai d to the child's conduct, and he found out his mistake, and on the evening of the same day he gathered his family together and said: "Now 1 have called you together to make an explanation. I wish to say one thing. Thomas, I unrighteously rebuked you this morning. X am very sorry for it, and as I rebuked you in the presence of the whole family circle, I now ask your forgiveness in the presence of all of them." Could you do that? Not many of you. There are required grace and courage of a very large kind and of the very best kind. Yet it was right. We all see it was j right. Find out what are the points, and if I | may say, the weak points of your companion, and then do not carry the lire of your temper too near the guupowder. If the wife be easily fretted by disorder in the household, let the husband be careful where ho throws his slippers. If the husband comes home from business or from work all j worn out, body, mind and soul, do not let the i wife cross his temper. William Casper put it veiy pleasantly and very beautifully when he said L'inrlocf nnrl VtnrtnTOct. nnil* Will lind occasion to forbear,% And something every uay they live To pity and perhajis forgive." I charge you also, my friends, that you make your chief pleasures circle around the home. It is a very bad sign when a man likes any "place on earth better than his own home. It is a very bail sign when a woman likes any place on earth better than her own home. 'If a man spends the most of his evenings away by choice and not by necessity, he is not the head of the household; he is it's cashier. If a woman put the cares of the children, the cares of tho household in the lap of servants, and then go otr and h'peud five nights of the week at tiie opera or the theatre, though she may clothe those children with satins and silks, and ribbons until it is enough to confound a French milliner, the}' are orphans. It is a sad thing when children at night have not anyone by whom they can kneel down and say their prayers because the mother is off at the opera or the theatre. That is occurring manv nights. I saw a mother in grief at the death of a child that she ha<l neglected. It was not so much that the child was dead as that she had neglected it. She said: "Oh, if I . U..J ?,1 T I iiutii.'xuj nauuuuu auu v-ai cu jlui i>uav ? believe God would have spared it.1' But there were no tears. It was a dry, hot tempest of sorrow, a scorching sirocco of the desert When she wrung her hands it seemed as if she would twist the lingers from the sockets. When she seized her hair it seemed as if she took the coils of a serpent in her grasp. But no teal's. The comrades of the little one came in and wept on the coffin. The neighbors . came in and at the first sight of the still face the shower broke. But no tears for her. God gives tears as the summer rain upon the Sirched heart. But the hardest, driest, most as ted and most consumed thing on earth is a mother's heart when her child is dead and she has neglected it. God may forgive her. She will never forgive herself. Her memory will sink the eyes deeper into the sockets and Einch the face and whiten the air and eat up the heart with vultures that are never satisfied, plunging deeper and deej>er their iron beaks. Ah, woman neglectful of your home, go back to your duty. I tell you this day, that the sweetest flowers that grow on earth are in the gardens of the domestic circle or chamber over the porch of a Christian home. Have any of us escay^ed from such influences of kindness and love and mercy in the early home? What ha* been the influence that has kept you and has kept me many times from going astray? Ah! was it not a Christian memory? Was it not father and mother on their knees before God in family prayer? Next to the strong arm of the Lord God Almighty in my life has been my mother's arm to keep mo from passing off into 6in and keep me in paths of rectitude and peace. Oh, we never get away from those influences, and it is not a good thing for me to say this morning in the presence of this multitude of homes here represented?bring your children to God, yourselves first going to Him, and consecrate everything about your household to the Lord who made you and the Lord who redeemed you! I charge you, also, to cultivate sympathy -' Qln fomAt- TVf/tlv>fAon r\v\a r\t UL UL'VU^aMUU. k_HI uaJiiuo iU^AUiAyoii, vsuv v* the most eminent and elegent men that ever lived, while at the height of his prosperity and fame, standing amid a group of philosophers one day, said: "Gentlemen, my wife made me." And how much some of us have been helped and strengthened in the home circle God knows and you know. The wife ought to be the advising partner in every enterprise. Sho ought to know, she has a right to know everything. Your interests, your defeats, your victories, your successes, your losses, your pangs?they are hers. She has a right to know. Tell her everything. If a man is going into a business enterprise and he dare not tell his wife, he is either on his way to bankruptcy or moral, ruin. There may be things that he does not want to trouble his wife with, but if he dare not tell her he is on the way to discomfiture. Men often say: "Oh, if I had only taken my wife's advice." She came by a flash ot' intuition to see what was best You went by a roundabout way of evil experience to find out what would have been tho best, and blessed is that man who does not at the close of such experience say: "I told you so!" Then let t.he husband be sympathetic with the occuj>atioii of the wife. It is a hard thing to keep house. There are thousands of martyrs of the kitc-hen. What an annoying thing, whaa trying thing il; is for a man to come home at night, not knowing what the wife has suffered in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the nursery, in the drawingroom, and have her state something that occurred during the day that has annoyed her very much, and have him say: "Oh, you don't know anything about trouble; you ought to be ove r in the store half an hour!" Sympathy of occupation. If the husband's work covers him with soot of furnaces, or the odors of leather or the soap factory, do not let the wife be too easily disgusted by the grimy hands or unsavory exhalements. Lay hold the work ol! life together, oh, man, oh, woman. Four arms to fight the battle of life, four eves to see the danger, four shoulders to bear tho burdens. It is a sad thing for a painter when his w ife does not like pictures. It is a sad thins: for a. pianiste when her husband does not 1 ke music. It is a sod thing when the wife thinks her husband has not a genteel business. A genteel business, as near as I can understand, Is something to which a man goes at 1C o'clock in the morning and comes home from at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and ^etsa large amount of salary ior uoing noming: mans a genteei dusiness,aud there t as be(;n many a woman ruined by wanting to get her husband into some genteel business, turning his back on the tanning of the hides, or the building of the wall, or the turning of the banisters to get somewhere where ho could do nothing but smoke the best cigar; or drink the best wines, or get habits on him which ruined him, taking his wife and children down with him in the same maelstrom. If your husband has an honest busin ?ss bo satisfied with it. From earth to destruction there are long trains running all the time-?trains that start every hour of the da> and every hour of the night ?running from earth to destruction. There are the freight trains and they go very slowly and they are very heavily laden. There are the accommodation trains and they stop ever and anon to let a man get off when ho wants to. But gent:;el idleness is the express train of which Sat-ati is the stoker and Death the engineer, and though you go out in front and wave the red fla^ of danger, or swing the lantern of God s word, it goes like a shot to perdition with wail and shout and shriek tumbliiag over* the embankments, crash, crash, crash! There are two classes of men sure to bo destroyed. First, those who ha?re nothing to do. Secondly, those who havo something to do, but are tx>1 proud or too lazy to do it. Again, I charge you, in your new hom>.have love preside. When your behavior in the home circle is a matter oi' cold calculation, when the cares is merely a result of your deliberate study as to what is proper, domestic happiness lies .stark dead on the hearthstone. W uen a man maintains his position in the household by fire of temper and loudness of voice and strength of arm, the republic of domestic bliss is turned into a depotism which neither God nor man can abide. Oil, yo who pledged love at the altar, how dare you commit jterjury? Let no shadow fall on your affection. It is easier to kill that flower than to make it grow again. The blast from hell that puts out that light, leaves us in the blackness of darkness forever. A man and wife resolve they will have a home. That is the only thiag that they are agreed in. They quarrel about everything elso, but they are going to havo a homo. They resolve to build a splendid house, and think that if they have a splendid house they will have a home. The architects make the plans and the mechanics execute them. The house costs $10i),0UU. The work is done. The carpets are laid. The chandeliers are swung. The cards are sent out Horses iu gold plated harness |iaw at the gates. Guests come in. Flute sounds. Dancers go up and down the floor, and in one grand wnirl the wealth and the pomp and the fashion of the city wheel amid the pictured walls. Ah! hero is happiness. Float it on t the smoking viands. Flagfc ft in the chandeliers. Cast It on the white snow of the sculpture. Send it up the broad stair1 way. "Here is happiness!'' Let us build a throne for the Queen of Happiness right amid the parlor floor, and j let ail the guests as they come in throw their j flowers and their pearls and their diamonds on , this pyramid, and then let the queen of hapI piness come in and mount that throne, and I then let us all stand around with uplifted chalices, crying: "Drink! oh, queen, live forever." But now the guests have aeparted. The flutes are breathless, the last clash of the impatient hoofs is heard in the distance and the twain come to mid parlor floor to find the Queen of Happiness on the throne, end lo! the flowers have all wilted, ; and lo! instead of the Queen of Hap| piness on the throne there is the gaunt form of Anguish with bitten lip and sunken eye and ashes in her hair. The romping of the feet of dancers seems thundering yet on the rumbling of the floors and the thundering across the room that makes the glasses clash and clatter rim to rim. The wreathes of flowers have become wriggling serpents. The spilled wine has become blood. 1 he terroi-s have caught in the canopy over the couch. A strong stout breeze blows through nau ana oeu cnamuur uuu uravnug iwm, and all the lights are dead. And then the lips of the wine beakers whisper: "Happiness is not in us." Ana then the arches reply: "Happiness is not in us!" Then the instalment of music, played on by invisible fingers, say: "Happiness is not in us!" Then the frozen lips 01 Anguishjbreak open, and seated on the throne of wilted flowers she claps her bony hands together and groans: "It is not in me!" That same night a young man on $1,000 a year salary, $1,000 only, goes to his home that ne set up three months ago, just after the marriage day. Love meets him at the door. Love sits with him at the table. Love talks over all the toils of the day. Love takes down the Bible and reads of Him who came our souls to save. Then the twain kneel and while they are kneeling the angels of God come to build a throne on that plain carpet in that plain room under that plain ceiling? not a throne built out of flowers that faded, but out of garlands of heaven, wreath on the top of \iTeath, amaranth on the top of amaranth, until the the throne is done. Then the harps of God sounded and there bounded in one who mounted the throne, so bright of eye, so fair of brow that when the twain saw her they knew it was Christian love. And as they knelt before her throne she bent over them and put this band on the one head and that hand on the other head and said: "Happiness is with me!" And that throne of heavenly flowers withered not, and that Queen of Christian love left not that throne until ono day the twain well stricken in years, felt themselves called away and knew not which way to go, and then the queen dismounted the throne and said: "Follow me, follow me, and I'll | lead you to the realm of everlasting love." And so they went up to sing songs of love and to walk on pavements of love, and to live together in mansions of love, ana to rejoice forever in the truth that God is love I TEMPERANCE "DEPARTMENT. Strong Drink. Old water is the strongest drink, Cold water, pure and free; God knew just what was best, I think, For you, my friends, and me. The horse drinks only water clear, And he is strong, Pm sure; The camel, in the desert drear, How much he can endure! Birds fly o'er many aud many a league Of land and stormy sea, And scarcely seem to know fatigue? How strong they all must be! "Where do they get their strength, I pray? Not from the liory stuff Mou drink, and (all so good to-day; I call it bud enough. They get it from the water bright God gives with lavish hand To leap and sparkle in the light, And bless each clime and land. ?L. T. Lurkin, in Temperance Banner. Big Ben. Sonic years ago there flourished in London a drayman of huge proportions, a regular beer bibber, known by the name of "Big Ben." Ben was reckoned one of the strongest men within the bills of mortality, and he was occasionally seen showing off as second in those prize lxtxing matches which are the great delight of high-toned human bruisers. When stripped of his upper garments and en. gaged in the attitudes of this brutalizing sport, seldom or never had there been exhibited a frame so robust or one which promised better to endure the shocks which might assail it. There he stands like an invulnerable giant. Death will find it a hard tussle to level hirn. But for all this apparent strength Ben was brought down by an injury which would not have hurt a child. One day his hand received a slight graze from the wheel of a passing carriage on a crowded street? the skin was only ruffled. B^n wiped away the starting blood and thought no more about the matter. In one week thereafter Big Ben was in his grave. Here is the secret. These London draymen have free use of the liquor vats and often drink from two to . four gallons of beer or porter a day. To outward ap. pearance they are pictures of health, giants in massive forms. But as worms puncture the tree and leave it a rotten mas3, so alcohol has poisoned tneir wnoie system, and the slightest scratch endangers their lives. Their blood is so poisoned it will not heal a splinter wound, and amputation of the hand or death soon i follows. Boys, learn a lesson from Big Ben and do not begin- to drink. Be temperance mun Unclc Billy's Story. Here is what he said: 4'When I was a drunkard I could never get my barn more than 1 a!f-full. The first year after I signed the pledge I filled my barn; the second year I filled my barn, and had two stacks; this year I filled my b:irn, and have four stacks. "When I was a drunkard I owned only one poor oil cow, and I think she must have btien ashamed of me, for >ho wis red in her face; now I own five gco.l cows, and T own three as gool horses as ever locked through a c dlar. When I was a drunkard I tn:d.;e 1 from place to place on foot; now I can ri 1<* in a carriage of my own. When I was a drunkard I was thic; hundred dolltrs in debt; sire31 signed the total abstinence pledge I have paid the debt, and hive purcla^ed two hundred acres of wild land, and I have the deed in my posse sion; two of my sons, who are teetotalers, are "living on that lot. When I was a drunkard I used to swear; I have ceased to be profane. The List year of my drunkenness my doctor's bill amounted to th'rty dollars; since I signed the pledge, I have not been called upon to expend a cent for medicine."? Pioneer. The Washington American says: "The temperance question will not down in Congress. The doctors are having a hard time in prescribing for their patient." Another Tear. I know not what the year may bring, Nor know I what the year may take, But take or bring whate'er it may, i I know that there can come no day In which I may not trust and sing "The Lord, my soul, will not forsake.w His promise stands forever sure, 'Mid changing scenes unchanging, He; Whatever el>e may jmlss away, Upon his word my faith ITi stay; His mercy must for aye endure, And that is iov enough for me. Should care bo mine or loss of health. Or poverty or loss of friends, Since the dear Lord of all is mine, My soul shall never more repine; For happiness comes not of wealth, Nor joy on eurtlily source depends. With God's forgiveness for the prist And with his grace for days in store, Though short or long those days may bo. The future hath no dread for ine; He will be with me to the last, His love bo mine for evermore. Come bane or blessing, good or ill, All things are under his control; The boundless universe his rare, I none the less his mercy share, And all things serve to work his will For the best welfare of my soul. So will I start the year with song, And bless God's name from day to day; Sing when the sky is clear and bright, Sing 'mid the darkness of the night: Through all I will his praise prolong, , And praising pass from earth away. -11. M. Offord. RELIGIOUS READING. At tlir I>ooi. Upon A bright beautiful day, looking I tip towards the* welcome sun, this thought came into my miud: Yonder sun is 'ninety-two millions of miles away. These rays of light have traveled all that stu- 1 pendous distance, and yet I have only to drop the curtain of my eyelid and 1 am left in total darkness. There might as well be no sun as to have his rays shut out at this last instant from this little | doorway of my eye. Even so has the j Lord Jesus Christ come from His infinite far away throne on His errand of mercy to a sinner's soul. Tliat sinner has but ! to close up his heart's door and keep it 1 bolted, and for him there might as well have been no redemption and no Redeemer. Eternal life is refused; eternal death is chosen at that very spot, the door of the human heart. AVhen an anxious inquirer came into my study for conversation to-day I reminded her of tuis illustration of all the bright and blessed sunlight of Heaven being shut out by the drop of an eyelid. I said to her The decisive battle for your salvation is to be waged right at the door , of your heart Just as the decisive con- 1 flic t of Gettysburg turned upon the fifteen minutes'struggle at the stone wall on the I last afternoon, so the destiny of your soul turns upon opening your heart's door to Jesus, or holding it barred against Him. Jesus has come ail the way from Heaven with the offer of eternal life. He is now knocking at tiie door; He has come to the door but as a free agent you still j keep Him outside. There is no salvation I lor you unui ne enters, jjisicn 10 me knock and the tender accents: ;,If thou wilt hear My voic e, and open to Me the door, I will come in and sup with thcc." j What I said to that earnest inquirer (for j whom Jesus Himself was inquiring with j all Ilis tender compassion) I would say to every one who honestly desires to be saved. Your heart is a house, with many rooms; one apartment is decorated for the occupancy of Pride; in another one Covctousness may keep its iron safe"; on the walls of another perhaps Sensuality has hung some pictures that, if Christ enter, must be pulled down. Unbelief has chilled and darkened the whole house. Satan has a mortgage on the whole of it, and by-and-by will foreclose it. An enormous amount of sin has accumulated in every room and closet, for you have never had a "housc-clcaning" smcc you were born. To that dwelling-place of sin, which may yet become a dwelling-place of endless anguish, my loving Savioui has come again If you will stop the turmoil of business, or the noise of merriment long cnoiiirh to listen, von will hear a marvel lously sweet voice outside "Behold, I stand here und knock; if thou wilt open this door I will come in." Christ without means guilt; Christ within means pardon. Christ without means condemnation; Christ within means salvation Christ shut out means hell; Christ admitted is the first instalment of Heaven. Vet you keep the door bolted. How often has He knocked 1 Sometimes by a powerful sermon that rang like thunder through the house and started slumbering conscience to its feet. Felix heard such a knock as that, and the poor fool only said in his fright: "Go away this once, and when I am ready I will send for Thee." Sometimes Christ knocks with the loving voice of a mother or a wife; I have even known the broken heart of a parent to yield to the knock of the little hand of a departed darling child. By scorcs of methods the Saviour knocks at the doors of unconverted souls. How much longer lie will consent to let thoeshut Him out, my friend, no one can tell. Remember that Jesus ?ives last knocks. This one may be the last; and tnc next sound at thut door may be the hand of death bursting in, despite all the puny bolts and bars. Then you may look out of the window and call with ever so loud and agonizing importunity for the Saviour, and He will have vanished. When death gets possession probation is nvr. Your house will be left to you desolates. Open, then, that door with eager haste. Welcome as a friend Him who will be your Judge. It is only a moment's work if you arc in earnest. Admit Him, for the human breast Ne'er entertained so sweet a guest; Admit Him, and you won't exjK'l. For where He comes, He comes to dwell. ?Rex*Theo.L.Ciujlei\in Christian at Work. Were search made by the angels throughout this nation for the man dearn i > ii !..i. 1. 1.1 est to iron, wuerc iuiuk yuu nu wuuiu most likoly be found ? Very possibly not nt the hcud of armies, or in the mansions of the rich and the mighty and the noble, or in the halls of learning, or in the chair of state, o&in the resounding pulpit; but quite jus probable, I think even more probably, remote from the crowd and struggles of ambition, in solitude, perhaps in tears, in some humble cottage of the poor, or in an asylum of charity. "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones."?Lillie. Rev. Joseph Cook says: "The truths about alcohol are all so well known that you can't get a life insurance company anywhere to put you, if you are a modcrationist, into the same class with a total abstainer." The "Washington American says: "The temperance question will not down in Congress. The doctors are having a hard J time in prescribing for their patient." .V- ' -,v: ;vvT':--v^ li 3r>> "< bIjrnmthedeaix I ??? BURIAL PRACTICES OF THE ALASKAN NATIVES. Cremating the Bodies and Preserving the Calcined Remains in Miniature Houses?An Alaskan Funeral Described. I [ On the Alaska coast the reputable dead are usually cremated, and the bones col! lected into a box and preserved. The I calcined remains are carefully placed in j miniature houses like the shaman's (the i native medicine man); but, instead of | being isolated from each other, the j houses are grouped in a common cemetery, as in civilized communities. The sites are chosen with respect to picturesque attraction on grassy islands,shapely ridges of land, and curves of the shore. On a burial island near Methlakatia the Indians have fashioned a number of fir trees into very artistic patterns. At Sitka there is a long ridge Lined with several score of these mortuary receptacles painted in gaudy colors and arranged in parallel rows, interspersed with fanciful totem poles in quaint dej vices, on the apex of each one of which i is a bear, a raven, or an eagle, denoting the clan to which the deceased belonged. These houses arc seldom more than , five or six feet cube, with a pyramidal roof, sometimes surmounted by a carved image and are very creditable bits of architecture, considering that the boards have been split with an ax and smoothed with an adze. There are cemeteries else | where which are enclosed with neat whitewashed palings, and you often sec small jackstaffs with pennants of white and colored cotton cloth standing by the graves. This is where the method of interment has been adopted from the ! whites, the bodies being placed in the earth and carved slabs set up in lieu of headstones. There are no less than three other modes of sepulture in Alaska?burial in tents and in canoes raised on staddies out of reach of animals, aquatic burial beneath the waves, and in canoes turned adrift. With so many various methods in vogue in the same region, ODe hesitates to lay as much stress as some ethnologists do upon the assumed significance of mortuary rites and burial as indicating the religious belief of those who practice them, It depends much upon circumstances ""'J nAntrnwi nnn.i n a TlTfill fid nuu picauui/ LUUIUUIVIIVV, C40 1TVU i*vj the liability to subsequent disturbance, ! how Indians, or any other people, bury their dead. However, it may be said with regard to cremation, which has Ion;? been the popular form in Alaska, that. [ the natives believe that the souls of those who are cremated enter into heaven. The raven is consequently a sacred bird all over the country, and is never molested. He is known as ''tilacum (friend) and it is considered a good omen when one of the dismal ereatures is in attendance at a cremation. In Sitka, the presence of ravens is as common as of buzzards in some Southern cities, so that the people have no lack of family associations. The wel; fare of those who are not cremated is not so positively vouched for. There was a death and obsequies when I was in Sitka, and I walked one morning down to the end of the Indian "ranch," as it is called, which constitutes the outskirts of every white settlement on the coast, to examine the remains of the funeral pile where the cremation had taken place. I found nothing bnt a small quantity of charred coals. The unconsumcd brands had all been carefully carried away, while the bones of the corpse had been picked out and wrapped in a mat and laid away in a dear! house. Some of these houses have compartments, i and are the receptacles of as many as a dozen separate bundles of bones. There is very little ceremony now at a cremation, but in earlier times a bereaved i widow was subjected to a good deal of [ cruelty, being repeatedly thrown upon | the pyre by sympathizing friends or demonstrative mourners, and seldom escaping without serious burns. Very few had courage to inflict the srtcrificial torture upon themselves. Other near relatives displayed their sincerity of grief by various barbarous mutilations. Previous to the cremation there is a good deal of formality at the house of mourning. In Alaskan houses a dais or platform runs around the four sides of the interior, which is a single apartment or reception room, opening into small staterooms on the side opposite the entrance. A brick or flagged hearth occupies the centre of the quadrangle, the smoke from the fire escaping through a flatl cupola in the roof, there being no chimneys. Four totem poles of fantastic carving and color, showing the genealogy of the deceased and the clan to wnich he belonged, are set up at the four corners of the court. They are kept covered while the body sits in state, for the -3 ? ,3 T?^3rln!/l r>nf rm ft liipr Hllf uu;i.u iiiuiuii io uui Miu uu? i/uu , is set up on the dais opposite the entrance, with his face painted red, a fanciful crown on his head, and a blanket over his shoulders, as if living. The wall behind him is appropriately draped and sometimes festooned with small American flags. On the evening of the day before the funeral the totem poles arc uncovered , and the wailing begins. Tnc whole | space between the dais and the ccntral ' fire is crowded with mourners of both I sexes, clad in their best blankets, who i beat the ground with sticks in time with ! a doleful chant. This lugubrious singing and shaking of I rattles and beating of the floor with long staffs is kept up all night. "When the hour of cremation comes the body is hoisted out through the roof and carried to the funeral pile. A corpse is never taken out of the door of a house. It would be "bad medicine," and defile the temple. Some tribes of Indians burn the bark or skin lodge whose inmate dies, or they set up the lodge apart from habitations and place the dead body in it, as is jilso done in Alaska in some instances. But this practice would be expensive whore the houses are substantial and hard to build, as is the case with most of the winter residences in Alaska. The funeral pile is made of resinous spruce poles of the proper length, built up in cob-house fashion, with fat pine sticks placed inside of the crib, on which the body is laid wrapped in its blanket. Logs are then added above the body, crossing other logs at the corners, and then the whole is set on fire. An intense heat and conflagration results, and a few of the Indians remain to keep the lire alive with their long poles, while a bevy of sad women contemplate the ghastly procedure from their seats on the grass | not far away. When everything is consumed the relations will cull out the | whitened bones and level the ashes de! r>nrniislv Thorn is no odor, and everv thing is done silently, decently and in order. It is customary to place the dead man's property beside the bundle of bones, which represents all that he was corporeally, and occasionally his canoe is brought up beside the tomb, allegor- * ; ically to continne the voyage of life, but Vj^ in fact to remain until it falls to decay. Of late years inquisitive visitors, as well as avaricious vandals, have robbed the v._v^ dead houses of all their contents, and even despoiled them of their bOnes. r\d The canoes have been cut up or stolen, ^ and the sepulchres otherwise shamefully desecrated. Grass and weeds have M grown up inside to their very roofs, and &t'M if a chance stranger attempts to explore the violated precincts, he finds a satisfactory inspection prevented by an almost -. impenetrable jungle of undergrowth, whose luxuriance is everywhere noticcable on the Pacific coast. And all this neglect and disorder is done and suffered c*t clie i;aj'itui ui tnu icnuu;^ auu vm>*w seems to he no official authority to inter- v^^S diet or protest.?New York Sun. % Bald Heads. TVe arc asked to answer these three v||| questions "for the benefit of a vast number of the readers of the Sun" and we can understand why so many of our -vj| friends have a great interest in the sub- " ;^aj ject to which our attention is called: "Is there any way, either by a course of . : diet or the application of a preparation, by , " which the hair can be prevented from fall- ' /? & iug out? "Is there any way to strengthen the hair M and make it thick? ' Why is it that the majority of men are ' ; either bald or partially bald?", { ;.v vSS There are multitudes of preparations offered for the cure of baldness, but either they do not work infallibly or a vVjjl great part of the men are so little dis- yp. turbed by their bald heads that they fail ^ to give them a fair trial. In every assem- f ^ blage of men bald pates are numerous, . , and many of those which show the least hair belong to comparatively young fel- 'M lows?of thirty and forty. We infer from this fact that it is not ' easy to start a new crop of hair when the I A?llAn mif fnt* onr nfKai* than a . . "ill uluo laiiuu um xvu auj viuvi vuu?u %m merely temporary reason, because young men especially most dislike to go about with heads almost as bald as those of babies, and we do not doubt that they spare no pains to make .imzM the hair grow again, and only desist from ' $. the effort when they find it hopeless. Instead of seeing fresh hair coming, they JiM may find that they only make their pates v. w the shinier by rubbing them with the preparations. And yet it is probably in- ; r * disputable that some men have been able ' to thicken their hair by the use of the hair restoratives so frequently advertised; '/! but perhaps they were nor of the kind doomed to early baldness. For the majority of men are either bald or partially bald, according to recent L&& scientific authority, because the human race is to lose the hair on its head, and r\ijS they are only the forerunners of the uni- T ^ versal baldness which is to be. The bald heads of this dav may, therefore, 1 _ xi 1 K pnae mcnist'ivt's un uciu<* iuhuu awug in the development of man than the men who glory in their luxuriant locks. The theory is that men will be bora without hair roots on their heads, or with. . ^' Only a very temporary supply of hair, which they will lose when they mature as they lose other features of the child. Of }{ $ course, if that is sound, there is no use in. trying to oppose the general tendency with hair invigorators.?New York Sun. Feminine Influence at Washington* 'J|j A great many outsiders have laughed Jfy-M at the announcements which frequently % appear in the society papers, says a Wash- . o ington correspondent in the San Francisco Post, that "Mrs. Jones of the army will receive on Wednesdays in January," -?t or that "Mrs. Smith of the navy will give a tea party on Tuesday," but perhaps " Mrs. Jones" and "Mrs. Smith" have really more to say in relation to some of the most important matters concern- . ing the service than their husbands. Women are matchless iu the management of the hundreds of intrigues which abound everywhere at the capital, and (\ which have for their object the advancement of one officer or the humiliation of - - * j another. Strange to say, some of the ' --?| most poweriui i;iu_y otucmcts ?? ljl?& wives of retired officers of the army and navy. If one of these elderly dames vr&K? happens to have an eligible daughter the young officer on duty here must be very sure of his ground before attempting either to win or avoid licr. If his conduct is not satisfactory he will suddenly. find himself ordered away with a celerity that will stop his breath. It may be that j he will not be able to understand how it ; was accomplished and the reason therefor, but he will at least realize that he knows who received the blow. An instance of . this kind happened here only a short time < ; ago. A young officer connected with yj the naval establishment, and who has ^ been on duty here for some months, began paying the most assiduous attention to the fair daughter of a lady who is a power in the ring. He was poor, but proud; handsome, but impecunious. As a brilliant alliance is expected by th? old lady, she made up her mind to put an end to the affair, which really had not progressed very fur. One fine day this , ', :J officer received an official document ordering him to a station about 3,000 miles , .! away. While he was making the necessary preparations the young lady was sent out of town " to spend the holidays" with some friends. Her whereabouts was unknown to the officer, so he was obliged to take his departure without the painful pleasure of a sweet parting. Some I of the officer's friends have ascertained .-1-5 I that the mother actually secured the ! orders. The Easy Life of Wealthy Brazilians. Botofogo is that quarter of Rio in which are the palaces of the great and wealthy. And they are verltible palaces. There are galleries of paintings, immense salons and elaborate banquet halls in | these palaces and a large retinue of slaves I and servants keep them in perfect order. But it is on his plantation or "facicndo" that the wealthy Brazilian lives in the most baronial style. There he is an absolute autocrat, and over all the broad acres, white with coffee blossoms, he is the load and seigneur. His hundreds of slaves regard the will of their master as .. ; paramount to everything, and when later on the barons and counts leave Petropolis to pay a visit to their estates in the country their retainers will welcome them with fireworks and feasting. Altogether the life of a Brazilian gentleman runs in pleasant channels, and if he is not in debt to the colfee brokers of Rio or harassed by wondering what he shall do for labor 011 his plantation when slavery is finally ended, he is about as happy as it is possible for mortal to be.?New York Tribune. Paper Railroads. I The paper rail seems about to become a practical reality, a large establishment for the manufacture of rails of compressed paper being projected at St. Petersburg. Among the advantages claimed for this material are extreme durability, a cost about one-third as great as steel, lightness, greater adhesion to the drivingwheels of the engine, and a reduction in the wear and tear of both the road and the rolling stock.