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I' REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN* DtVtSES Sl'NDAY SERMON. .Subject: "Wifely Ambition, Good and Bad." Text: "Arise and eat bread, and let thine J heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard I of Xaboth."?I Kings, xxi., 7. One day King Ahab, looking out of the i window of his palace at Jezreel, said to his wife Jezebel: "We ought to have these royal j gardens enlarged. If we could only get that i fellow Naboth, who owns that vineyard out there, to trade or sell we could make it a kitchen garden for our palace. "Fetch in Naboth," said the king to one of his servants. The plain gardener, wondering why he 1 should be called into the presence of His Majesty, comes in, a little downcast in his i Imoaesty ana wicn very ousequiuus uuuiun , bows to the King. The King says: "Ifaboth, I want to trade vineyards with you. I want your vineyard j for a kitchen garden, and I will give a groat ] deal better vineyard in place of it, or, if you ' prefer money for it, I will give you cash." I "Oh, no," says Naboth, "I cannot trade off my little place, nor can I sell it. It is the old homestead. I got it of my father and he of his father, and I cannot let the old place go out of my hands." In a great state of petulancy King Ahab went into the house and flung himself on the < bed, and turned his face to the wall in a great | , . . _u I 1113 wne jezooei comos in anu su? ?u. "Whatis tho matter with you? Are you sickr" I "Oh," he says, " I feel very blue. I have set my h< art on getting that kitchen garden and >aboth will neither trade nor sell, and to be defeated by a common gardener is more than I can stand." "Oh, pshaw," says Jezebel, "don't go 011 that way. Get up and eat your dinner and stop moping. I will get for you that kitchen garden.'' Then Jezebel borrowed her husband's signet ring or seal, for then, as now, in those lands kings never signed their names, but bad a ring with the royal name engraved 011 it ana that impressed on a royal letter or document wm tho siimature. She stamDed her husband's name on a proclamation which resulted in getting Naboth tried for treason against the king, and two perjured witnesses swore their souls away with the life of , Naboth, and he was stoned to death, and his property came to the crown, and so Jezebel : got for her husband and hersol? the kitchen j garden. But while the wild street dogs were rend- ! ing the dead body of poor Naooth, Elijah, the prophet, tells them of other canines that wijl after a while have a free banquet, saying: "Where dogs lick the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." And, sure enough, three years after, Ahab, wounded in battle, his chariot dripping with the carnage, dog sstood under it lapping his 1 life's blood. Ana a little afterward his wife, j Jezebel, who had been his chief adviser in j crime, stands at her palace window and sees | Jehu, the enemy, approaching to take possession of the palace. And to make herself look as attractive as possible and quesnly to the " very last, she decorated her person and, according to Oriental custom, closed her eyes and ran a brush dipped in the black powder along the long eyelashes, and then from the window she glared her indignation upon T~u.. a ? i? ? ti?t,;. I UOUU. A3 LiO I UUC \AJ l/UC XIX Liio t*UUiXUl> ha shouted to the slaves in her room: j "Throw her down!" But no doubt the slaves halted a moment from such work of . assassination, yet knowing Queen Jezebel j could be no more to them and the conqueror I Jehu would be everything, as he shouted j again: "Throw her down, they seized her ' and bore her struggling and cursing to the window casement and hurled her forth till she came tumbling to the earth, striking it just in time to let Jehu's horses trample lier and the chariot wheels roll over her. While j Jehu is inside at the table refreshing himself after the excitement he orders his servants to go out and bury the dead queon. But the wild street dogs had for the third time appeared on the scene, and they removed all her Dody except those parts which in all ages dogs are by a strange instinct or brutal superstition kept from touching after death? : fcha nnlme nf t.lha hnnrla fcnA qaIp.q nf t.hft feet All this appalling scene of ancient hisiory ! waa the result of a wife's bad advice to a husband, of a wife's struggle to advance her husband's interests by unlawful means. Ahab and Jezebel got the kitchen garden of Naboth, but the dogs got them. The trouble all began when the mistaken wife aroused her husband out of his melancholy by the j words of the text: "Arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry; I will give thee ! the vineyard of Naboth." The influence suggested by this subject is an influence you never before heard discourse 1 on and may never hear again, but a most potent and semi-omnipotent influence; and decides the course of individuals fami- j lies, nations, centuries and eternities. I speak of wifely ambition, good and bad. How important that every wife have her ambition, an elevated, righteous and divinely approved ambition. , And here let me say, that what I am most < anxious for is that woman, not waiting for the rights denied her or postponed, promptly and decisively employ the rights she already has in possession. Some says she will be in a fair way to get all rights when she gets the right to the ballot box. I wish that the experiment might be tried and settled. I would like to see all women vote, and then watch the result. I do not know that it would change anything for the better. Most wives and daughters and sisters would vote as their husbands and fathers and brothers voted. Nearly all the families that I know are solidly Republican or Democratic or Prohibition. Those families all voting would make more votes, but no difference in the result. Besides that, as now at the poles men are bought up by the thousands, women would be bought up by the thousands. The more voters, the more opportunity for political corruption. We have several million more . voters now than are for public good. We are told that female suffrage would correct two evils?the rum business and the insufficiency of woman's wages. About the j nun business I have to say that multitudes j Of women drink, and it is no unusual thing ! to see them in the restaurants so overpowered with wine and beer that they can , hardly sit up, while there are many so j calledrespectable restaurants where they can j go and take their champagne and hot toddy | nil alone. Mighty temperance voters those women would make! Besides that, the | wives or tne rum setiers wouiu na-ve \a> dm; in the interests of their husbands' business, O'bave a time the inverse of felicitious. Be- I sides that, millions of respectable and rc 1 fined women in American would not vote at all, because they did not care to go to the polls, and, on the other hand, womanly roughs would all go to the polls, and that might make more woman's vote on ( the wrong side. There is not, in my mind, j much prospect of the expulsion of drunken- I ness by female suffrage. As to woman's wages to be corrected by ; woman's vote, I have not much faith in that. Women are har.ier on women than men are. Masculine employers are mean enough in treatment of women, but if you want to hear beating down of prices an<t wages in perfection, listen how some women treat washerwomen and dressmakers and femule servants. Mrs. Shylock is more merciless than Mr. j Shvlock. Women, I fear, will never get j righteous wages through woman's vote, and as to unfortunate womanhood, woman are far more cruel and unforgiving than m?n are. After a wonftm has made shipwreok of j her character men generally drop her, but women do not so much drop her as hurl her with the force of a catapult clear out and off aud down and under. I have not much faith that women will ever get merciful consideration and justice through woman suffrage, yet 1 like exj>eriments.an 1 some of my friends in whose judgment I have confidence are so certain that alleviation would come by such process that 1 would, if I had the power, put in every woman's hand the vote. I cannot see what f werVi* vi.%x hi,va imake a woman Day V J V,*.. .w .. taxes on her property to help support city, State arvl national government, and yet dt*ny her the opportunity of helping to decide who shall be mayor, governor or president. But let every wife, not waiting for the vote she may never get, or, getting it. find it outbalanced by some other vote not fit to l>e cast, arise now in the might of the eternal God and wield the power of the sanctified wifelv ambition for a good approximating the infinite. No one can so inspire a man to noble purposes as a noble woman, and no one so thoroughly degrade a man as a wife of unworthy tendencies. While in my text we have illustration of wifely ambition employed in the wrong direction, fociety and history are full I of instances of wifely ambition gtoriou.*./ triumphant in right directions. All that was worth admiration in the character of Henry VI. was a reflection of the heroic in b:s wife Marg??ret. William, Prince of Orange, was restored to the rikjht path bv the grand qualities of his wife Mary. Justinian, the I Koman Emperor, confesses that hi* wise laws i were the suggestion of his wife Theo.lora. j Andrew Jackson, the warrior and president, ! had his mightiest re-enforcement in his plain wife, whose inartistic attire was the amusement of the elegant circles in which she was invited. Washington, who broke the chain that lnld America in foreign vassalage, wore for forty years a chain around his own neck, that chain holding the minature likeness of j her who had been his greatest inspiration, j whether among the snows at Valley Forpeor i amid the honors of the presidential cliair. Pliny's pen was driven through all its poetic and historical dominions by his wife Calpurnia, who sang his stanzas to the sound of flute and sat among audiences enraptured j at her husbands genius, herself the most | enraptured. Pericles said he got all his j eloquence and statesmanship from his wife. ! The wife of Grotius rescued him from j long imprisonment at Lovestein by means of j a bookcase that went in and out, carrying j books to and fro, and lie was transported. | hidden amid the folios: ami the women of j besieged "Weinsberg, getting permission from j the victorious army to t ?ko with them so j much of their valuables as they could carry, j under cover of the promise shouldered and took with them as the most imj>ortant valua- | bles their husbands?both achievements in i a literal way illustrated what thousands of j times has been done in a figurative way, that j wifely ambition has been tho salvation of , men. I PeTocqueville. whose writings will be po- | tential and quoted while the world lasts. | ascribes his success to his wife, and says: "Of all the blessings wliicn i*o l nas given to mp, \ the greatest of all in my eyes is to have j lighted on Maria Motley." Martin Luther ' says of his wife: "I would not exchange my j poverty with her for all the riches of Cro-sus { without her." Isabella of Spain, by her su- | perior faith in Columbus, put into the hand ; of Ferdinand, her husband. America. John Adams, president of the United States, said of his wife: " She never, by word or look, discouraged me from running all hazards for the salvation of my country's liberties." Thomas Carlyle spent the last twenty years of his life in trying by his pen to' atone | for the fact that during his wife's life he never appreciated her influ- . ence on his career and destiny. Alas, that having taken her from a beautiful home and a brilliant career, he should have buried , her in the home of a recluse and scolded her j in sucn language as only a dyspeptic genin3 | could manage, until one day, while in her in- i validism riding in Hyde Park, her pet dog j got run over, and under the excitement the i coachman found her dead. Then the liter- | ary giant woke from his conjugal injustice , and wrote the lamentations of Craigen-Put- | tock and Cheyne Row. The elegant and ful- j some epitaphs that husbands put upon tneir | wives' tombstones are often an attempt to ; make up for lack of appreciative words that i should have been uttered in the ears of the ( living. A whole Greenwood of monumental i inscriptions will not do a wife so much good after she has quit the world, as one plain sen- i tence like that which Tom Hood.wrote to his living wife when he said: "I never was any- j thing till I knew you." Oh, woman, what is your wifely ambition, noble or ignoble? Is it high social position! I That will then probab'y direct your husband, | and he will climb and scramble and slip and fall and rise and tumble, and on what level : or in what depth or on what height he will after a while be found I cannot even guess. , The contest for social position is the most unsatisfactory contest in all the world, because J it is so uncertain about your getting it, and j so insecure a possession after you have ob- ! tained it, ana so unsatisfactory even if you j keep it. The whisk of a lady's fan may blow j it out The growl of one bear or the bellowing of one bull on Wall street may scatter it. I Is the wife's ambition the political prefer- j ment of her husband? Then that will prob- ' ably direct hira. What a God forsaken j ?-"????? nnli^ino fV?rvfrv Kaef. bnAllf ! return is muci iuau vuvoo wow nuv< who have dabbled in them. After they have j assessed a man who is a candidate for office ! which he does not get, or assessed him for j some office attained, and>he has been whirled j round and round and round and round among | the drinking, smoking, swearing crowd who ' often get control of public affairs, all that is left of his self-respect or moral stamina would find plenty of room on a geometrical Eoint, which is said to have neither length, readth nor thickness. Many a wife has not ! been satisfied till her husband went into politics, but would afterward have given all the possessed to get him out. I knew a highly moral man, useful in the church and possessor of a bright home. He had a useful and prosperous business, but his wife did not think it genteel enough. There were odors about the business and sometimes they would adhere to his garments when he returned at night. She insisted on his doing something more elegant, although he was qualified for no business except that in which he was engaged. To please her he change 1 his business, and in order to get on faster abandoned church attendance, saying that after he had made a certain number of hunHiwk of thousands of dollars he would return j to the church nnd its services. Where is j that family to-day? Obliterated. Although i succeeding in business for which he was j qualified, he undertook a style of merchan-1 aise for which he had no qualification and I soon went into bankruptcy. His new style i of business put him into evil association. He lost his morals as well as his money. He broke up not only his own home, but broke up another man's home, and from being a kind, pure, generous, moral man as any of you who sit here to-day, has become a home less, penniless libertine. His wife's ambition j for a more genteel business destroyed him j and disgraced her and blighted their only { child. But suppose now there be in our homes, as ! thank God there are in hundreds of homes | here represented, on the wifely throne one ivho says not only by ner woras out more I powerfully by her actions: "My husband, our ! lestinies are united; let us see where industry, honesty, common sense and faith in God will put us. I am with you in all your enterprises. I cannot be with you in person as pou go to your daily business, but 1 will be with you in my prayers. i^eu us see nu?? I ;an achieve l>y having God in our hearts, and Sod in our lives, and God in our homes. Be on the side of everything good. Go ahead and do your best, and though everything should turn out different from what we j have calculated, you may always count on i two who are going to help you, and God is I one and 1 am the other." That man may have j feeble health, and may meet with many | obstacles ana business trials, but he is j :oming gloriously through, for he is reBnforced, and inspired, aud spurred on by a woman's voice, as much as was Barak by j Deborah, when Sisera , with '.tOOiron chariots, same on to crush him and his army, and Deborah shouted in the ear of Barak: "Up! for this is the day in which the Lord hath I delivered Sisera into thine hands.'' And the enemy fell back, and Sisera's chariot not getting along fast enough in the retreat, the general jumped out and took it afoot,and ran till he came to a placo where a woman first | gave him a drink of milk, and then sent a j spike through his skull, nailing him to the I floor. Some of us could tell of what influence j upon us has been a wifely ambition con- j secrated to riglit otisness. As my wile is out of town and will not shake her head because I say it in public, I will state that in my own professional ltfo I have often been called of God, as I thought, to run into the very teeth of public opinion, and all outsiders with whom I advised told me I had better not, it would ruin me and ruin niy church, ami at the same time I was receiving nice little letters threatening me with dirk and pistol and poi>on if I persisted in attacking certain evils of tho day, until tho commissioner of police j considered it his duty to take his place ! in our Sabbath services, with forty olli- j cers scattered through tho house for the I ! preservation of order; but in my home there ! has always been one voice to say: "Go ahead i i and diverge not an inch from the straight line. Who cares, if only God is on our sidef And though sometimes it seemed as if 1 was going out against i'00 iron chariots, I went ahead cheered by the domestic voice: "Up! for this is the day in which tho Lord hath deliyered Sisera into thine hands." A man is no better than his wife will let i him be. Oh, wives of America, swin? your | scepters of wifely influence for God and good ] homes! Do not urge your nusuanus to annex Naboth's vineyard to your nalace of sue- j cess, whether right or wroag, lest the do^s : thut come out to destroy Naboth come out also to devour you. Righteousness will pay I best in life, will pay best in death, will pay ; best in the judgment, will pay best through all eternity. In our effort to have the mother of every household appreciate her influence over her children we are apt to forget the wife's influneace over the husband. In many households the inSuence upon the husband is the only home influence. In a great multitude of the best and most important and most talented families of the earth there have ] Deen no descendants. There is not ft I child or a gran Ichild or any rarmte dewendj u-nt of Washington, or Charles .Sum ior, or | Sha Ve^Pcare' or Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or i Lord iA *lson, or Cow;?i*,or Pope,or Addison, or Johnson or Lord Chatham, or .Swift, or j Locke,or UiW?n or Walpo'e. or Canning, or I Dryden.or Moore' or Chaucer ,or Lord Byron, or Walter Scott, or .?iiver Cromwoll, or Gar! rick,or Hogarth,or Jos.x,u.a Reynolds,or Spencer, or Lord Bacon, or M,""cau'ey- Multitudes of the finest families of the eJ*' ^ iire extenct. As though tliey had done en^uKh for the world by their genius or wit or patriotism j or invention or consecration, God V'ithdrew them. In multitudes of eases all wo*11?11'5 opportunity for usefulness is with her Contemporaries. How important that it be a.")j improved opportunity! While the French warriors on their way to Rheims bad about concluded to give up attacking the castle at Troyes because it was so 1 Tnn? r\f A t%/l Anf.tKJ/} fVlA liuavuy ^uuiavucu, uuan ui .uv, room and told them they would he inside the castle in three days. 44 We would willingly wait six days," said one of the leaders. 4'Six!" she cried out, 4lyou shall be in it to-morrow," and under her leadership on the morrow they entered. On a smaller scale every man has garrisons to subdue and obstacles to level, and every wife may be an inspired Joan of Am to her husband. What a noble, wifely ambition, the determination, God helping, to accompany her companion across the stormy sea or this life, and together gain the wharf of the celestial city! Coax him along with you! You can not drive him there. You cannot na<: him there, but you can coax him there. That is God's plan. He coaxes us all the way? coaxes us out of our sins, coaxes us to accept oardon, coaxes us to heaven. If we reach that blessed place it will be through a prolonged and divine coaxing. By the same process take your companion, and then you will get there as well, and all your household. Do just the opposite to your neighbor. Her wifely ambition is all for this world, and a disappointed and vexed and unhappy creature she will be all the way. Her residence may be better than yours for the few years of earthly stay, but she will move out of it as to her body into a house about five and a Hair reec ions ana i about three feet wide and two feet high, and ! concerning her soul's destiny vo:i can make j your own prognostication. Her husband, and her sons and daughters, who all, like her, live for this world, will have about the same destiny for the boJy and soul. You. having had a sanctified and divinely ennobled wifely ambition, will pass up into palaces, and what becomes of your body is ot no importance, for it is only a scaffolding, pul ed down now tbat your temple is done. You will stand in the everlasting rest and see your husband come in, and see your children come in, if they have not preceded you. Glorified Christian wife! Pick up any crown you choose from off the king's footstool and wear it; it was promised you long ago, and with it cover up all the sc ars of your earthly conflict. Sixtoen miles from Petersburg, Russia, was one of the royal palaces, and there one night Catherine, the Empress, entertained Prince Henry. It was severe winter and , deep snow, and the Empress and the Prince rode in a magnificent sleigh, and robe and canopy never surpassed, followed by 2,(XX) sleighs laden with the first people of Russia, the whole length of the distance illumined by lamps and dazzling temples built for that one night, and imitations of mosques and Egyptian pyramids: and people of all nations, in all styles of costume, standing on platforms along the way, and watching the blaze of the pyrotechnics. At the palace the luxuries of kingdoms were gathered and spread, and at the table the guests had but to touch the centre of a plate, and by magical in i hinery it dropped, and another plate came u < lo.ided with still richer viands. But all that scene of the long ago shall be eclipsed by the greater splendors that will be gathered at the banquet made by the heavenly king for those cons ecrated women who come in out of tlse wintry and snowy chill of their earthly existence into the warm and illumined palaces of Heaven. With the king himself and all the potentates, yourself robed and crowned, you will sit at a table compared with which all the fea-its at ICenilworth and St. Cloud.and the Alhambra were a beggar's crust. And the platter of one royal satisfaction touched at the center shall disappear only to make room for a beggar's crust, and the golden nlate of one royal satisfaction, touched at the center, shall disappear only to make room for the coming up of some richer and grander regalement. Plaint from the Congo. The deputation from the Queen of Amatonga waited upon the Archbishop of Canter bury a few days since and described the harm inflicted upon the natives by the liquor traffic. Mi\ Grantham, the Queen's adviser, who was one of the speakers, described the degradation into whicn this most intelligent race of Kaffirs had fallen until the native Queen had forbidden the sale of liquor by her own subjects. Fathers, he said, were constantly pledging their daughters on security for debts for liquor. Thn wn? rinw nlmnst eniiivlv in the hands of the Portuguese, and the Queen wanted to know whether the English, like the Portugut se, were desirous of destroying them with tneir poison. She feared such was the case, cne of her Induncs hiving recently been killed by drinking spirits given him by an Englishman. The Archbishop assured the deputation of the sympathy of all in England who had the welfare of the native races at heart with the efforts now being made by the Queen of Amatonga and her people to rid themselves of the dangers, moral and physical, which threatened them through the unchecked libuor traffic.?New York Evangelist. Astounding *ieures. A Western paper give3 the following astounding figures: "It is said that tho laboring men of the United States pay $00,000,000 a year for liquor, and that the entire banking capital of the country is $617,000,000. It follows that if the laboring men would stop drinking intoxicating liquors for one year and save the money which they annually pay lor this, they would accumulate enoueh in one year to buy out all the banks in the country, with SS",000,000 over to start a fund to buy up all the gold and silver miners in tho country next year. It is easy to see how liquor men become so wealthy, and poor men make them so. Tomperancc News and Notes. The cup to the lip causes many a slip. It is the man who will get in front of bars who eventually gets behind them. The Danish temperance movement musters an army of 35,000 total abstainers. Mb. J. Malins states that in all Spain there is no teetotal society. ' The Spanish speaking people of the Argentine Republic have constituted a Good Templar Lodge at Buenos Aryes." It may be of some interest to the gentlemen who are fond these cold days of taking a drink of what they fondly suppose is good, smoky, old "Scotch'1 whisky, to know that the liquid they are swallowing is a manufactured compound composed of rectified spu its. acetic acid, creosote and sugar ayrup. The same compound, save that acetic acid is added, also does duty for "Irish" whisky. The drink vice and mammon worship, says Canon Farrar, are bringing about by natural laws their ow# inevitable retribution, and unless remedies be found in our earnestness and in our self-denial, and in our promotion by every possible means of the common good of all, then the Huns aud \ anuais wuo snau smpwrecx our civilization are being bred, not in the steppos of Asia, but in the slums of great cities. W. H. Meeker, an old member of the profession, becoming tired of tho life of an actor, is now lecturing on temperance, having {'eined the Women's Temperance Union at I few Roche] le. N. Y. Philip Moses, a native of Australia, has j l>een appointed by Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt organizer of the W. C. T. U. in his coun- | try. He intends to visit Ameraca soon to ! study our methods of temperance work. A Gouyerneur (N. Y.) physician delivered a short but striking temperance lecture a few days since, when in filling out a death certificate tho cause of death was given thus: "Chief and determining, pleuro-pneumouia and delirium tremens; consecutive and contributing, whisky." The petition of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, translated into Tamil and Singhalese, has been circu- I lated in Ceylon bv native pastors, catechists, j teachers and Bible women, *ho have secured sixteen thousand signatures in six weeks. ur> n .-j l.'kl. IT A| Baiu ntvitJ i/viiuju#yt tcauuci 1a thinking about promoting me." '"How do you know?" "From what she said to-day." "And what was that?" "She said that if I kept on I'd belong to the criminal class."?Merchant Traveler. When a man attempts to warm his hands over a hotel register it is high time to inquire into his mental condition.? Hotel Mail TEMPERANCE. The of ,hC JUR' t , -* and small, 'I m Otlly a jug, din^ -ortb aotloe at all; An object, ]>erkaps, not \. " might well be Yet my age it is such that i . gray, in fliy i And many strange sights have I seen .. ' j day. "When young I was owned by a man of the sea, Who, wherever he went, was sure to take me; No matter what port we chanced to be in, I alwa3rs was lilled with the best of old gin. "I was always in fear, for wherever he went Jly master made strife and on mischief was bent. At last he fell overboard?I stayed behind, And met with a master mocn more to my mind. I 'Va lA??fli. T nnol'o in foor fnr mV life. 4W X IfUUnV' I** *>-? J J For I find my new master no lover of strife. The reason is plain; you may guess if you can, Or I'll tell you?I'm owned by a temperance man." ?Jenny L. Eno, in Temperance Banner. The Custom of "Treating" and What It Leads to. The following facts with reference to the "treating" habit are furnished the Voice by a well known newspaper man of Brooklyn, whose business and social relations have given him a clear insight into the relations of this pernicious social custom to the wide prevalence of inebriety: One must know the facts about the "treating" habit in order to know what an important element it is :in the matter of excessive drinking. Lot us go to the famous Hoffman House bar. We will sit at a table and drink a bottle of lemon soda as an excuse for being there. In one hour we have seen fifty men drink at the bar; four of them drank alone, i Thirty were accompanied by from one to tnree lrienas. r.acn man treated. sixteen came in parties of two or three, and each member of the party treated. Down town, at Xnsh <fc Crook's, we see few men come in singly. In half an hour, while sitting at the i lunch counter, we have seen fifteen parties, ranging from two to five persons each, stand up at the bar. In most cases each man has treated and in nine cases out of ten these nwn have been joined by other men, some one of whom has been acquainted with some one in the party, and introductions and reciprocal drinks'have taken place all round. You may say this doesn't prove much, and that it only happened so. But 1 claim that i the "treating " nabit is responsible for most of the excessive drinking. This is not a pet theory, but is based on personal acquainanceship with a large number of men who haye suffered from the drink habit?men whom I i have met while holding official position in both the State" and National Government, ] and in a wide acquaintance with men generally, from a very early ape. ] Let us take a report of 000 cases of inebrieety in the Kings County (N. Y.) inebriate Asylum. Of these 600 cases, 458 became inebriates from association, i. e., from going with drinking men and indulging in the habit of treating. Among other causes given are melancholia, injury, business,disease,trouble, being in the army (meaning, probably, the fatigues and exposure of military life), and heredity. As to heredity the specialist in dipsomania does not believe that because a man's l father or grandfather was a drunkard he ] must of necessity be one. What he says is 1 that a man so situated as to relationship will ] have a standing tendency toward the exces- i sive use of liquor, and that he should not use ) it at all. The specialist says that there are < very few men who really like the taste of al- i coholic drink, but there are many men, in ] our present state of civilization, the condi- 1 tion of whose nervous system is such that i they cannot escape becoming inebriates if l they drink at all. t Many an inebriate, morally speaking, would < like to stop the habit, but he drinks from what he believes to be? a physical necessity, j Hence it is that a man who has once been [ committed to the inebriate asylum can never drink with safety on his release. A distinguished artist was lately found ; dead iu a liquor saloon. Three years ago he | told me of the great excesses in which he was j indulging, and asked me how he could stop. I told him the first thing to be done was, as I Falstaff says, forswear " villainons good I company." No man could ever break the habit as long as his companions, during social hours, were men as badly off as himself. A year ago two of his quondam companions died from excessive drinking. Sooo after this the artist voluntarily went to an inebriate asylum, was cured, and for a time ; did well. The doctor of the institution met him, and his former patient said he drank beer at his dinner. "You mast stop that," said the physician; "you can drink abkdutely nothing intoxicating." The artist failed to heed the order; sure enough, he relapsed into i his old habits and died. 1 The methods of carrying on business re- f sorted to by some firms in the mercantile < world lead many men to become excessive 1 drinkers. More than one-half of the "drum- \ mers,'' or commercial travelers, in the United 1 States make it a matter of business to treat i their customers to liquor and cigars. It is 1 not aosoiuteiy necessary 10 pursuo tuu | i custom in order to get trade, and men who j are thoroughly businesslike refuse to use any j outside inducements. But the more ordinary ] class of "drummers'1 do a large amount of i "treating," as they believe it helps along trade. i The expense of "treating" goes on their j expense account and is rarely questioned. ] Some travelers make a gross charge for their ' expenses; others, in the sm'aller houses, have < an itemized expense book, with the various { items of expense printed, and a blank space i to put in the amount. When they "treat," ] the expense is put down to that account. j At certain times of the year the c ountry , merchant comes to New York to make pur- , chases and to see the styles. The drummer ] meets him at the store and treats him while , he is in the city to dinners and plenty of , liquid refreshment. In former times some ] houses were in the habit of employing a special man, whose duty it was" to meet the , merchants, to take them out and show them ( the city. ^ A nAimfwTT come years ago vuei o nuo a iuum., ? ycv.- , , dler who, in his travels, had made tne ac- | J quaintance of a large number of business men. He came to Isew York and was era- , ployed by a big mercantile house, though he i knew nothing about the business carried on , in the establishment. His duty was to in- " duce his fr.'ends to patronize the establish- ? ment. "Whenever tney came to the city he would meet them and "entortain" them roy- * ally at the expense of his employers. With such methods prevailing in certain 1 portions of the mercantile world it is not 1 surprising that many business men contract 1 the drinking habit and, sooner or later.be- ' come excessive drinkers. Of the six hundred j inebriates in the Kings County Asylum ' above spoken about, nearly two hundred < were merchants, clerks, and salesmen. < l Alcoholism in France. 1 Even a paper like the Paris Figaro, which 1 has never been accused of taking too sombre ' a view of life, has roused to the increasing 1 seriousness of the effects of alcoholism on national lifa In a long and able article on ' "Alcohol and Madmen," it is shown that at the beginning of the presc-nt century the j 1 French were a very temperate people, drink- j ing but little, and that little a pure wine of ' but trifling alcoholic strength. It was in 1 1800 that the practice begun of distilling brandy from wines, corn and potatoes, and since then spirit drinking and its deplorable eiFects have steadily increased, insanity being tnncf-. tii.-ii'lccd as well most deplora Me of these effects To such an extent lias this been the case that while the population of the department of Seine has increased but twofold the number of the insane has been tenfold increased. In the years 1S70-S7, inclusive, the lunatics of that department have increased from 0,1,00 in the earlier year to 10,00!) in the later. In 1S04 the amount of liquor drank }>erhead was only about a quarter of a p'nt. In 1530 the amount had risen to more than a quart, in 1S80 to more than three quarts, and by 1.^87 to nearly five quarts. The suicides in France also have kept step with the growing alcoholism. In I the four veais 1S20-30 the.te were cases | of self destruction, while from I*ST(? to 18M) there we: e In view of the facts a lending physician has said: "If the evil continues to prow you may infinitely multiply charitable societies, hospitals, mutuai aid societies, benevolent associations, all the charitable efforts you can make, all the miracles of private kindness, all the foresight of economists, and all the wisdom of statesmen, but all will be fatally swallowed up in the flood of alcoholism."?Toronto Olole. The recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the Constitutional right of any State to forbid the manufacture and sale of intoxicants without incurring any liability for damages has been received in Iowa by all temperance people with ^reat satisfaction, and by all brewers and distillers and saloonists with rage and I dismay. RELIGIOUS BEADING. O I'ood of Pllgrimi lowl/! 0 food of pilgrims lowly I 0 bread of angels holy! 0 manna heavenly! Thou with refreshment flllesfc. And with contentment stillest, i Hearts fainting wearily. ?L.W5ii* ?7" brM"! Let us, i waters drinki/jg', With thin, ?n(1 hunger sinking- * , Weary, thi'?u8? them And rest. Jesus, thy face co'tlc0a'ed, As by thy word re\"?-iled, In form of bread w "*,See; Grant that the veil upi.'^eitl, We, with glad vision gitt'^i Mav see the onenlv. ?[From Corolla Hymnorum b,%crorum? A Convincing' Argument. Dr. Vincent says that ho never denou^tt&V people for playing at cards, dancing tWd' theatre-going, because they are not absolute;but relative wrongs. But he leaves the adop * i tion of these amusements to the judgment of the young people in the churches in tnis way: "I draw a picture of the Rev. Dr. John Hall, Bishop Matthew Simpson, and D. L, Moody sitting down together and shuffling cards for an evening, dancing themselves red with half-dressed women, or going to the theatre. They always seem shocked at the nwr?mention of such conduct by such Christians. But I ask them if they don't want as good a place in Heaven as a bishop shall have. And then I tell them that, if they can approve these amusements in church leaders, then, of course, they may ask the leaders to approve the same in them; otherwise, not." It is a good putting of the issue." ^ ^ ww ?rr mm .'aimii IVI I There was once a minister of tbo gospel who never built a church. Who never preached in one. Who never proposed a church fair to bny the church a new carpet. Who never founded any sect. Who frequented public bouses and drank wine with sinners. Who never received a salary. Who never asked for one. Who never wore a black suit or a white necktie. Who never used a prayer-book. Or a hymn book. Or wrote a sermon. Who never hired a cornet soloist to draw souls to hear the "Word." Who never even took a text for his sermons. j Who never went through a coarse of theo- , logical study. Who was never ordained. Who was never even "converted." Who never went to conference. i Who wa3 be? Christ.?[Hartford Re!. Herald. Tlx- SliiMl of Cirut. Henceforth, earth may no more knowChrist after the flesh. But has Ho left no representative of Himself? Is His image- to fade away from the earth? No; He died to restore the lost image of God to man. While ; in Heaven, He represents man; Ho leaves man here to represent Him. "As He was, 1 jven so are we in this world." His very < imprints He hath left indelibly marked; and < now, if we say we abide in Him, we must | walk even as He walked. Do you wonder, , when I say that the responsibilities of the 1 Christian seem to my mind so high, that my spirit labors for power to express its weighty conceptions? Little daughter said to me a few days since: "Ma," what is it to have the mind I ;hat is in christ?" 1 replied: "If your mind, i were in me I should act just as you act, and if the mind of Christ is in us, we shall act just as Christ acted, if placed in circumitances similar to ours, for it is the mind that ' noves to action." Were all who are called 1 yy the namo of Christ actually to possess j Eiis mind, and reflect His image, and to exhibit their living realization of that faith which says, UI can do all things through J Christ which strengthened roe," it would be in every-day sight to see one chase a thousand, 1 ind two put ten thousand to flight. And if ?~ ~ ""An lr of AVO llino* of flhria. " ty LUCkJf IUUO opwn w* vuv v. -w ? ? ;ians, where shall we find words to speak of ;heir responsibilities??[Mrs. Phoebe Paltnor. i loHowlng; and nililn^. Following comes before fishing. Wo aro ' aot ready for the Master's work until we are i ;he Master's disoiplos. Loving precedes j lervmg. We ought not to forget this. Un jarth one may serve a master one dislikes, 3ut it is not so in Christ's kingdom. "Lovest 1 ;hou me?" must be answered affirmatively J iefore the commission can be given, "Feed < ny sheep, feed my lambs." People some;imea talk about a "passion for souls," aut there must be a passion for Christ before there can be a passion for souls. Zin-. tendorfs motto is better, " I have only one 1 passion and that is He!" All service must ] spring from this. This is a vitally important truth to be realized by those who are doiDg any work for the Master, Sometimes our zeal seems to have flagged. We have not the old ardor. I-his may be from weariness?not weariness jf, but weariness in the service. The Wrongest of us get tired. Even Jesus grew weary and slept in the wild storm. Nature needs rest that the emptied life fountains may be refilled. But in the waning of our earnestness and enthusiasm we need to be very honest with ourselves; perhaps we are losing our love for Christ, rerhaps we are iot working well because we are not loving well. To work better we must seek, then, to love more. Only in following can wo be made fishers >f men. The Master nevor makes fishers of iny who do not come after him. What then Is following? It is loving. Christ orbs himself into such beauty and splendor before the iyes that all other beauty and other spleniors fade out, as stars fade from the sky in the brightness of the sun's rising. Then lovo aegets faith. We are ready to commit ourselves forever to him who stands before us in such glory and cans us co iouow aim. ruw leads to consecration. Other objects 5f possession, hitherto prized and ;lung to with fondness, appear insignificant in comparison with the richer and more glorious things that Christ offers. If a child's hand is lull of pebbles and bits of tinsel and it is offeree! bright gold lud silver, it will instantly drop the worthless things to take tbe better. So it is that earth's things are given up by us older children when we perceive the real va'ue of the riches of grace. People sometimes talk dolefully of the sacrifices tho Christian has to make to follow Christ. Is it sacrifice when :>ne loses tinsel to got gold, or sin's pleasures to get the deep joy of the Lord/ Following implies also union with personal attachment to Christ. We enter his family. We livo with him ever after. We get our life directly from him and take our lessons from his lips. Where he goes we go; where he leads we follow. People forget sometimes that at the centre, the heart of all Christian life, must be Christ uimsolf. We are Christians not because we accept a creed, because we unite with a church, but bccauso we accept Christ and are united to him. After the following conies the fishing, yet ' 1? - nf' ononnrncement I tB6 aiasier uua ? nun ? which we should not overlook. "Follow me," he says, "and I will make you fishers of men." Good Christian people ofton speak distrustingly of tbeir ability to do Christ's work. Truly of ourselvos wo aro not able to catch <-ouls. But Christ nowhere says wo are; j indeed lie most omphatically teaches that wo ; aro not, until ho has taught us and trained j us. He kept bis first disciples a long timo in j preparation bofore he sen; them out finally | witn their great commission. So we are to ! follow Christ, thus putting ourselves under j his lipids and by his graco he will make us I fishers of men.?[Philadelphia Presbyterian, 1 RESENTMENT. I'm envious of the roses? The flowers that she loves best? Whene'er she takes them from the thorns ! To bloom upon her breast! It fills me with resentment (A strange thing to aver) To think that soulless creatures Should be so near to her. While I, with ceaseless effort, Have never gained the art To pass with love triumphantly The threshold of her heart! ?William H. Hayne, in Ptmorest, HOUSEHOLD MATTEBS. Fried Potatoes. Slice cold boiled potatoes very thin, and season the slices well with salt and a little pepper. For one quart of potato slices put a tablespoonful of butter into a warm frying pan, and when the butter begins to melt add the slices of potato. Place over a hot fire and stir with a fork, frequently tossing up the slices. When hot, they will be ltoht.dry and delicious. Serve very hot. The slicing and seasoning may be done the previous night. Fancy Duster Bag. Take on#-i^,rd of a yard of fclt> any ^ * desired, ana ^ il in the ?enter Widths; cut - j;.".0 tcn inches wide twenty-four JneheS Iflflg -this is for t^0 b.ack and cut ???*' -?- ? j.?1~ "* inches lono- arffl tttn rtUULUCI UJCl'C twelve - , c inches wide; cut bo e ^0DS an^ short strip at the ends, bP.M *? ^onn a point, and embroider the 8ti*0,J. one a.n? one end of the long one. a. with &:itin or silk the part of the long* ^rjp thh't lias been ornamented and sew'tLe shott part and plain part of long one togather so as to l'orm a sack; slip the pa lioed'with satin through a brass or eel- , luloid ring; fasten ornaments to the flap and1 bottom of the bag and tie a ribbon to tfite ring to hang it ujp by.?Detroit Free Press. Lamb Pie. For ai delicious iamb pie: Take some cutlets from the upper portion of a leg of lamb, and cut them into pietree about three inches long and wide; season slightly wish salt and pepper. Let them slew in a very little waller for half an ! hour. In the meantime prepare a delicate pa3te, allowing a pouaid of buttor to a pound of fiour, adding water gradu- j ally enough to make a dough: when in ; readiness, the upper crust should be the ] thickest. Put in the stewed lamb with its gravy, intersperse some blades of mace, add a few sliced potatoes and boiled turnips, cover the meat lightly i with some chopped boiled celery and pieces of butter, or for the eeiory boiled; ; cuuliflower may be substituted,, seasoned with nutmeg.?Neu> York Poet. |i Directions for Corntnj? Beef. !, Let the beef for corning be well 1 soaked in weak salt water to draw out the blood, then pack in a sweet barrel Put a layer of salt over the bottom*; then j make a pickle of four gallons of water, : one quart of molasses, two ounces of saltpetre, eight pounds- of coarse salt; -j boil well and skim off all impurities. , When perfectly cold poui over the beef, and it will be sweet, nice and tender. The comfort of a family depends so : much upon having meats cured properly ; that one can afford to take some extra ; pains in preparing them, and then there 13 no danger of their heating if you are ; careful to keep the flies away, which of ' course, housewives know, requires con- ' 3tant watchfulness and care. These amImaa Itnnrt 4oofa/l nOOwltT LCUI^CIT iiavc UCCU IWICU AVI iViuj years) and not improved upon. Learn to Carve. Carving is a very graceful and useful accomplishment, and everybody should 1 *tudy to know how to dissect a fowl, i A. turkey in the hands of an artist can be j made to furnish a large number at a table, but a clumsy butcher can make it m inconvenient bird?too much for two and not enough for four. Mrs. Muhl- j bach, in one of her instructive and inter- j esting historical novels, shows how en- ( tirely the mistress of a house is depend- , ent upon the skill or temper of the butler. If he chooses he can carve the j fowl so as to serve a number of guests, jj but if he is ruffled he will cut it in such j; hunks as that it will not suffice to go j around the table. Every Southern man, ( nearly, prefers to do his own carving, ] and the skill displayed in the perform- , ance raises it to the dignity of the fine i arts. Skill in carving is one or tne necessary requisites for every gentleman of the house, and without it the sum of , bis domestic accomplishments is inconmlete. Carrots. This rather plebeian vegetable has the merit of being exceedingly nutritious, ! particularly when made into a soup. The ! proper way to make it is to remove the fat from a piece of fresh beef, seasoned with a very little salt and pepper, allowing a small quart of water to each pound. Grate half a dozen or more large ! carrots on a coarse grater, and put them to boil in the soup with some other carrots; perhaps three will be sufficient; j cut into two-inch-long pieces. When the beef is boiled to rags, and has left the bone, pour off the soup from the sediment, transferring it to a tureen, and sending it to table with bread cut into it. A simpler manner is to use carrots in winter, boiled and forced into a pulp through a sieve into some good, not too strong stock. It must be remembered that carrots need more boiling than any other vegetable. * Small young carrots need half an hour, largo ones from one to two hours. These are also j considered a very pleasant accessory to the table sliced thin after boiling, put 1 into a saucepan with bits of butter, 1 dredged with flour, seasoned with pepper and stewed soft with water. 1 Co fl ee. There are many ways of making coffee, ' says Miss Maria Parloa in the Youth's . Companion, and most of them have good , points. To have coffee strong there should be one teaspoonful of dry burnt ; and ground coffee to every three pints of water. Should it be preferred weaker, j use half the quantity given of coffee with , the three pints of water. Always use ouc-third of Mocha to two- ' thirds of Java. When you are sure that ' you can buv the pure article, burnt and 1 - ' hi 1 ground, it is pernaps as wen iu yuauaco it, at least burnt, because the burning is not always well done even at home. The flavor of the prepared coffee is im{jroved if the dry coffee is heated very lot before the water is added to it. Here are two simple methods for making good coffee. Coffee Xo. 1?One teaspoonful of coffee, an egg, three pints of boiliug water, one cupful of cold water. Break the egg into the collce-pot upon the dry | coffee, and inix then with a spoon. Then pour in the boiling water. Boil i , live or ten minutes from the moment j when the boiling has begun in the coffeepot. Add the cup of cold water and set the not back where the coffee will keep hot, but not boil, for ten minutes, or until it is needed. Coffee No. 2?Make a small flannel bag, having a string to draw the mouth together. Put oue or two teacups of ground coffee in the bag,and after placing the bag in the pot, pour boiling water upon it. Then put the pot in a saucepan of boiling water and boil half an hour; or have the pot made to fit into the tea-kettle. When you do not have cream, use boiled milk instead of cold, for it i3 much richer, and has the additional merit of not making the coffee cold before you begin to drink it. Waldeck, Germany, has a law which forbids drunkeugU to marry. ' X; ' -.Hi . ' > WORDS OF WISDOM. Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. j To wait and be patient soothes many v ;j a pang. * ;>*; The man lives twice who lives the first life well. No man can ever rise above that at which he aims. s He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, can never hit it. There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhvmed or unrhvmed. There is a native light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and "?vil. I *'Th "'--nsof cultured men \ icuuui (Otau. * it is but seladrii that deed3 can sau? for words or atone fdr offences &f speechThe iruiu who has not aflything to boast of but his j'Jlustrious ancestofs ii lik6 a potato?the oizly good belonging to him is under ground. Men are moral alchemists; it resW#ith: themselves to change their moments into golden hours or to let them burn out tha i,'lags in a furnace. ^Confession of a fault works mora effectually than any mere act of penitence, and is always followed by forgiveness at-vl.a love feasi" v To socare a contented spirit, measurd your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by jour desires. The characters of men placed i& lo-wet' Btations of life'are more useful 39 being imitable by greater members. No age is content with its1 own estate, *nd the age of children is the happiest it they only had the wisdom to understand it. poetry is music iiP words, anflfmusicl* poetry in sound; bo?h excellent' sauce^ but thev have lived and died poor that- ? . .*1 - xl x-L mace mem tueir meat, Hope is the great reformer; weinust instil) this into men's minds if we wish* to cultivate their virtues-or enable-them to overcome their vices. Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on> the strings to stop their vibrations as in* twanging them to bring out their music. Many examples may be put of theforce of custom, both upon mind and? body; therefore, since custom is- the* principal magistrate of man's - life, let' men by all means endeavor to- obtain' good customs. To find one who has passed through Life without sorrow, you must find one^ incapable of love or hatred, of hope or fear?one who has no memory of the past or thought of the future?one whohas no sympathy with humanity, and nofeeling in common with the rest of hi? ipecies. There is no greater mistake than that made by the man who is selfishly seekinganykind of happiness at the expense of others. If he search for it throughbia whole life, he will never find it. T?' diminish the welfare of his neighbors will add no mite to his own store. On the contrary, happiness increases as it is jnarea ana cumtnisnes as it is semsuij ^sped. _ Cheese Poisoning. Cheese," says a New York merchant. in the Mail and Erprem causes as much illness in this country as salted fish and' sausages do in Germany. The subject of cheese poisoning is being investigated by analysts. Whether it arises from the milk used is not yet fully determined, but it seems probable that it does. It la most likely that the poisoning agent is in the milk before it becomes cheese. Of course, every cheese minufacturer has bis theory as to the cause of poisonous cheese, but there is no unanimity among them.*' " What is your theory?" <4Cneese poison is called tyrotoxicon, ?nd investigations have shown that th?toxic agent is in the milk, owing to im- _V nroner management of the same, the milk not being cooled until some hours after milking. You have only to raise the lid of a can of fresh milk that has stood for some time without cooling, and the odor will certainly not impress you pleasantly. Great care is required in handling all foods of animal origin, and although man? ufac'iurers tell.you that they "exerciso great care and invite inspectors to their factories, yet you see by such a little thingas letting milk cool improperly poison gets into cheese, and all articles in the <. manufacture of which milk is used. | -'$4 A cauromia unniate. Summers and winters are so nearly^ - .' > alike that one is puzzled to choose between them. There is no summer day on which the mercury passes 80 degreesFahrenheit, yet few in winter when it does not reach 70 degrees. The surf that beneath the bright, sky and gentle breeze rolls so lazily in long miles of snowy foam changes its temperature scarcely 4 degrees from summer to winter. * con luithincf almost an every iunuwi.w.~ 0 day possibility; and one may bathe either in the surf or the still waters of the bay, the two being 100 yards apart at the bath houses. Upon the higher parts of the peninsula even hoar frost is unknown, and on the low parts is seen only once or twice in occassional years, find then is gone with the sunrise. As frost can occur in this section only on perfectly clear nights, the following day is sure to be bright and warm. At this season, too, the sea breeze has fallen away to a mere breath of air; so. that the greater part of the winter day differs slightly in temperature from the average summer day. Grass, trees and flowers, and even the tropical plants grow in midwinter with a vigor unknown upon most of the low parts of the mainland, where the temperature falls too much by night. ? Overland. White House News by Way of Paris New York, Jan. 8.?The Governmen ot New South Wales has offered a re ward of 8,12-5,000 lrancs 10 me lUTCUtVt of practical means to annihilate the rabbits who ravage Australia and NewZealand, and it is a serious question in Washington to submit to Congress a bill with ihe object to equally offer an honest reward to the one who will find the means to rid the White House of the rats, who are all over the White House, and who make life in there very disagreeable. Thus, Mrs. Clevelaud recently talking to one of the most intimate friends, has confided to her most secretly that the * 11 - C + .t + Ao noocp^ President or me mum half of his nights in chasing the rats. The secret, as it seems, has not been well guarded. Besides, it is known for a long time that this indiscreet race of gnawers threatened to take hold of the Chief of the White House. Under the Presidency of Mr. Aithur the tats pushed their audacity so far that they were present at most of the meetings of the Ministers (Secretaries). President Arthur declared war toward them, but, same as Mr. Cleveland, never succeeded ia getting ri^gif Figaro,