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CRUEL iTTTF OD/n/r. mL UMKL, OS ? The Secret of Dunraven Castle. c BY ANNIE ASHMORE, ' Author of "Faithful Margaret/' Etc., Eto CHAPTER IV?(Continued.") Miles Dellamere hulked at her side rubbing his hands and chuckling to see his defeated rival?a wretched little frizzled ape with the vanity and assumtion of a clown. Accrington bowed low and mockingly; then seized the unhappy lady's band? raising it by the wedding-ring which he * ' * * * - 3 A.* U ?.A4 caa Deiween nis nnger anu iuumu?uuu even grasping her skin Jn bis overwhelming scorn, and affecting to be admiring the lovely band with a rough ?oldier'8 gallantry, he said in a tone perfectly audible to those who stood about: t K "Madam, yon promised this to me; ehall I use my sword to secure my property? But faith! I bel'eve you knew best?'twas not worth the giving." And with that be left her. ! She never saw him again until she had been ten years a widow, when he came to Inchcape Fosse the summer Lord Inchcape's second wife was there, t Laura Dellamere was then an exquisitely preserved beauty of twenty-nine. ; He amused himself by deceiving her ?s to his feelings, and left her heartwrung with grief and shame. i He went abroad again, to the East this time; performed ably some special (Service for the Government, sold out nd entered diplomatic service; and at last has returned to England, hand fcomely pensioned In recognition of nis tisefulness. He intends to make a home for himself in his own land; ho is tired of exile, perhaps weary of sad memories of England, and eager to exorcise them' by fresh and, perhaps, brighter experi-. ences. ! He had at first no settled plan; no| preference of one spot above another; he was never a lover of his father's home, and will certainly not choose that locality for his future residence. ; I But Salford called him by its crowding memories?he resolved to pay a flying visit to it and look round upon the old faces, and perhaps hear a word or two about the old tragic romance. Hi9 uncle Archerfield would be his excuse, knd would give him a bed. He had long known of Lord Inchcape's withdrawal from society, and his hermit existence; he had no fear of encountering him. "When nearing Salford he chanced to hear of the entertainment at Dorimant given in honor of the son; he smiled dryly as Le thought of a certain unique curiosity he had packed into his case Along with hi9 sporting gear: although I fear he had intended it for a far different person?one whom it might be comfortable to conciliate?It would do excellently for young Crecy, and would be a graceful gift to a transcendental poet . With this in his hands wherewith to purchase a favorable reception, he arrived at the Dorimant portal, was Informed where the assembly were amusing themselves, and allowed to place his gift in a suitable manner among the grand, array which already awaited young Auberon's acceptance. Then he made his way into the theater, and wa9 stunned by tho presence of the one man above the earth whom he feared with a mortal dread?the one man who could call him liar. From that brief encounter Accrington had emerged a different creature. He came to Salford a man without a purpose?he had found his purpose now? *y, with a vengeance! A group of exquisites clustered around the ex-attache, each eager to renew or commence an acquaintance with one who, 6t was whispered In diplomatic circles, had risen to such importance abroad that he wielded no little indu-, nee at home. In political England statecraft is for the most able to engage in, and those who succeed are men to be courted by tho noblest of the laDd, for their hands | ho!9 the keys of office, and their good word sometimes is enough to secure the. portfolio for the anxious candidate. In conciliating Accrington, these men, younger sous of noble houses, t and lords near the bottom of their exchequer, had an eye to the future, and paid him marked attention, conTenlently smothering any suspicions they might have had of him from that passing glimpse of Inchcape's imperious' disdain. ; He was besieged with questions about/ his residence abroad, and his intentions lor the future, all of which he answered trith the discretion of the attache. "And where do you quarter yourself?", asked Lucius Ilchester, a fashionable sporting man, near the end of his patrimony. . Accrington's smile was non-commltaL' "With me," chuckled Archerfield, "unless I've been too late, and Hal Crecy's ecured him." a "No, you're ahead*of me; but let's leave It to himself," said the hospitable Crecy. ! Accrlngton threw an involuntary {flanco toward the two great easy chairs n which Mrs. Crecy and Mrs. Dellamere1 &ad been sitting; and next instant had the mortification of perceiving old Archer-' flold's red face expand in a grin of ex-: traordinary significance. i Every body hung expectantly upon his next utterance. "Tir thoCA mlffhtr nnn tnrHnn a c\ f aih googhty Triton's countenance, we may hops ror something recherche," remark-1, fed Lucius llchester; "come, sir, ieiievo: your mind?I shall protect you from the consequences." ! Tho speaker was a slim, girlish, ex-: qntsito, with an air of elegant apathy;; and the rear-admiral wa3 a burly giantwith a hoarse voico. Stealing aglance at Accrlngton's frigid; lace, his uncle complied. "Stow that, ye ribald crew," said hoi <acff/'oll mva cVirmlH Sli?qh fnr tho profligacy of your ideas. The expression1 which Luce presumes to describe by the! .offensive word -hideous' was aspontane-' ous tribute to the power of the fair. I; know that if there was any choice be-' twcen my bachelor den and Dorlmant wtth Its fascinating hostess?not to speak of its proximity to a place called the Pavilion " "Oh, as for that, yon are quite retaken!" hastily interposed Accrington, his bright eyes emitting a flash which might well have intimidated the audacious jester. "I am scarcely a fit guest for ladles' silken boudoirs; I shall with all PU heart accept your kindness, admiral, , for a lew days?thanking you all the same, squire, for your hospitable offer." This matter arranged, the gentlemen Joined the rest of the company, who were now strolling about the long suite of reception rooms. i Auberon's gifts _wfire ftrranged^Jn_a pretty little cabinet-chamber, brilliantly Illuminated and decked with flowers. Conspicuous among them was Colonel Accrington's offering. This was a curious specimen of Japanese art?a small dais or stand, goldlacquered and pearl-inlaid, supported by a beetling crag with ocean waves foaming around Its base, wrought In glistening ?ilv?r; tad o* tke topmost pinnacle of" the crag poised a stormy petrol cut out of mother-of-pearl, holding in its claws a rock-crystal ball as large as an apple, and polished to such a splendid luster that the eye could scarce endure to gaze upon It. A crystal drawer in the face of the stand held a handful of these same rock crystals, varying in size from a pea W a pigeon's egg, as round and lucid as drops of dew. An open fan of elaborate Japanese design and largest size was set up behind the silver rock, with an explanation of the whole work written upon It In golden fluid by a priest of a Bhuddlst temple; for the rock-crystal occupies high ground In Japanese mythology. As Crecy, Accrington and the others approached, they found Mrs. Crecy, with her son Auberon and Loveday Deliamere, standing before it lost In admiring wonder. "Who could have sent such a superb gift?" Loveday was exclaiming. "It UIU3U novo UDCii *? givuw v?M>v.v., ? w. where could he have picked up such a curio except in Japan? It must have been a mystic, ror who erse would have thought of presenting to Auberon a number of men's souls to eke-out his own? Traveler?mystic?and millionaire; who is all that, Mrs. Crecy?" Mrs. Crecy did not answer; she looked disagreeably startled. Auberon wa9 busy deciphering the inscription on >,he face, which, being written in Japanese Court-English, was somewhat obscure. Accrington joined the group, a faint glow on his tawny check. "Miss Dellamere has not quite forgotton Colonel Accrington, who used to teach her how to manage her fiery pony five years ago?" said he, with softest, gentlest courtesy. She started, this pure-hearted, innocent girl, who knew no evil, and raised her winsome eyes fearlessly to his, wondering at the earnestness she saw there. Gravely and kindly she gave him her hand?ho was in no hurry to relinquish It. Colonel Accrington was feeling that, much as he bad loved in the past, he had never met a woman whom to love would be such a triumph over the past, with -11 ix- J rruia ttu i inure a Liu joujuioo. jlliio gm was pure, joyous, and free; to win her whole love?what unmixed felicity! And how weary he was of remorse and of vindictive anperl For five years a grievous memory had isolated his heart from women?the barrier was removed when he met this radiant Loveday's winsome eyes and held her dainty hand. "I shall marry this girl," he swore In his heart; and the fixed gaze of his black eyes awoke her fezninine consciousness for the first time. She would think of him agaia She recalled his former visit to Salford rather dubiously; she owned that she u3ed to feel profound awe toward him in those days, when he rode over from Inchcape Fosse to walk with her mamma and her in the gardens around their home. She was theT a heedless spirit of twelve, bound up in her playmate Auberon, and very shy of the gallant officer who so often strode by without a glance at her. MAnd -von. Monsieur Anberon: have you any remembrance of me?" smiled Accrington, with unconscious condescension. AuDeron bad little to say, his mild eyes were searching out the spirit of this dark being very seriously; he never felt more unresponsive. Mrs. Crecy drew attention to the foreign bit of virtu before which they were standing. "Am I mistaken in guessing Co'onel Accrington to be the donor of this magnificent gift?" demanded sho. haughtily. He bowed with a humble and deprecating air. "Madam, may you never know the melancholy of the exile," said he, in sad, mourntul tones, which impressed Loveday like some heart-touching minor air. "There is no sorrow so subduing, 60 lingering. Then one learns the meaning of sleepless nights, when the whole heart turns back to Eugland with inextinguishable regret, when the faces we have left behind us hover forever before our eyes, and the faults?the omissions we may have been guilty of?are repented of with strong crying and tears. In such a mood 1 entered a Bhuddist temple in Japan, aDd saw inese uawiess crystals?they called them jewels. 'Tis a wild conceit; may I rehearse it to these children?* Who could resist him? His eyes were humid, his air was gentle and depressed; and nothing could be more wistfully sweet than the glance and the tone with which he named thgm "children." Mrs. Crecy, utterly unimpressed, however, gave him the permission he sought by an impatient wave of the hand. "It is part of the Japanese religion," said Accrington, delighted with the opportunity of posing before all Salford as the deeply interesting friend of the popular Mrs. Crecy, "to believe that a good man's spirit passes in death into a rcckcrystal, the comparative purity of which depends upon the sanctity of the man's life. Thus, when a saint dies, and his body has been consumed (for they pracflno AfamoflAn^ a rnoV.rtrvctol norfaot VIVV VIOUiHVIVU^ W t V* J dVUiy r * * V v s> ly flawless, Is found in the ashes. That crystal Is the saintly soul. The princi-fial globe there Is the cast-off soul of the llustrlous Bin O, martyr and priest. The smaller stones in the drawer are the ghosts of a now extinct house; they were sold by the heir-at-law." Loveday and Auberon were Immensely amused with this odd conceit, and made several jests apropos of it. Even the appearance of such amity between her family and Colonel Ac* crington was as vinegar to Mrs. Crecy's teeth. Her frigid demeanor cost the Colonel decided anxiety; what If she should reject his gift in the presence of ail these people? "When I saw that flawless star," continned he, Indicating the ball in the petrel's claws, "my homesick fancy went back to a place where I had seen, everal pure spirits?to Salford: and I thought, 'some day young Auberon will be twenty-one, or will celebrate his wedding day,' and I provided myself with this souvenir. My chance to present it came much sooner than I expected though." Auberon, disturbed by his mother's repressed agitation, expressed his thanks more gracefully than effusively; but Loveday, charmed at all this appreciation of Auberon and its melancholy romance, beamed radiantly. Suddenly Mrs. Crecy put an end to this scene by saying: "Colonel Accrington, I request your attention tor a few minutes; will you accompany me?" He started, and looked amazedly al her. Was the lamb coing to turn upon the lion? But he acauiesed blandly and offered his arm, whicfwith "a faint bow she declined. Tn silprwn fchnv walked side by side through one salon after another until sho bad conduced him to the long picture gallery, which was not illuminated, and was therefore unoccupied. The pallid moonshine poured in through the long side window, and lay across the polished floor in bars of black shadows. Que portrait at the extreme end was completely framed with white roses; a 6ilver lamp burned on a pedestal In Irofit fii it -Thi8_ was &ab$rpn's por* J trait; It bad been decorated for the oo casion by Loveday and her companion nymphs. Mrs. Crec7 led the way to this spot, and when they both stood within the the small circle of light she tamed and faced her companion. Then he saw that the lamb had tamed upon the lion. She was pale as her own white robe, and her gentle eyes glowed with the great wrath of her noble spirit. "Sir, I make no preamble," said she sternly; "your conscience tells you what I have to ask you. Where Is Engelonde Inchcape?" Her accusing eyes pierced his very soul; her thrilling voice froze the blood In his veins. Overwhelmed, he gazed at her and oould not speak. "iou came oere uvo yeara uku uiju found Lord Inchcape and his young wife as bappy in each other as perfect love could make them?when you left, you fled as a-baffled wretch whose mad love had been Bccrnfully repulsed. But you met them abroad not many months after* ward?and Lord Inchcape returned without his wife?a ruined man. Richard Accrington, I ask you?where ii Engelonde Inchcape?" Her anger and grief tore at his heartstrings; the flood of tragic memories she had unloosed beat down all pride and brazen defiance; he buried his face in his hands with a groan of agony. Engelonde Inchcape! How fair, how Immaculate, how happy she h%d been when nrst be saw nerl A new love lor him? What blasphemy to hope it! No ?no?no! Loveday Dellamere belonged to the honorable and good?not to guilty Richard Accrington! "An: you nave notnmg w> answer," Alice Crecy wont on. "Nothing but shame and tears. And yet you dare to come back here, as if she had never been ?as if you had quite forgotton her, and were ready for a fresh love!" Ob, whal angui.-h lurked beneath those breaking tones! "For a moment I thought when I saw you to-night?'He has come back to vindicate her to her husband, remorse has driven him to make late reparation!' But no, you hare only come to view the desolation of that once happy home; and to outface the two harmless women who suspect you, with the base effrontry of (m nnnlfw W lUi JSUUJ UJ? He raised his face, all dazed and pale. "Is it possib'e that you thought all these years she was with me?" asked he slowly. Mrs Crecy uttered a cry of repulsion. ""With you!" 6he echoed with indescribable scorn. "Never! I Dever doubted her. I knew her heart. Oh, she was a 'flawless soul* If ever such was on this earth. But I believed that her Innocence had not saved her from her husband's jealous misconception; that yon had traded on his jealousy until he believed her guilty, and repudiated her; She then fled in shame and despair from ootn ntisD&ca and persecutor; 'and that you caused him to believe her with you ever since. Is not this true?" "Madam, as God lives, the last time I ever beheld Lady Inchcape, I left her at her husband's side," said Accrington. Mrs. Crecy sc&nnod his face in "wild incredulity. "Is this possible?" she gasped. "How can I believe you? No, no, I cannot. She never came back to England. Oh, sir, I beseech you, confess it, is she not in hiding somewhere to which you could give us the clue?" He turned from her bitterly. "I know nothing of her," muttered he with white lips, "but I believe that shf is dead." CHAPTER V. THE TWO "WARNINGS. Kenmore, I tell you there's something on your mind?you can't deceive me. I read dissatisfaction In the very back of your neck as you bend there stubbornly grubbing away among your weeds. What's the matter, Kenmore?* "Ye hae eagle-o'jn, Lady Oolava, an' they can gaze at the sun, but can they see the pitfall that lies at your feet?" Fair Ulva was In her flower-garden, watching the old Highlander as he raked the beds In the early morning; and Edgar Arden, lying In the stately guestchamber above, with a square of the lozenge-paned window alar for the healing salt breeze, heard the colloquy, and eagerly lent his ear to catch every sweet Inflection of the maiden's voice. For his fever was passed, he was con* valescing finely, and his secret was yet his own- He had begged them to fetch his mate to his bedside in his first lucid moment that next morning, and Lady Dunraven having given orders that they should be left alone, Edgar was able to make such arrangements with the faithful, incurious fellow, that when he and his mate left Sleat-na-Vrecken for the mainland In the first fishing boat they could hail, nobody had heard any other name lor their young master than "Captain Edgar," as they were wont to call him among tfcemselves. As Kenmore Vinrl noufir floltrnnH t.n malfd anv pn. quiries concerning his employer while on hoard the Mergauser. and his saturnine air checked freedom of speech in his presence, he had no knowledge of Arden's identity with his revered Lord Inchcape's heir; so that upon his recovery he was quite unable to answer Director Sircombe's searching questions concerning the too young and personable stranger who had penetrated into my lady's seclusion. Edgar had not seen Ulva in his room Blnce the first night, but he had grown very familiar with her lovely voice as she talked or sung in the old tower garden, and had fed his eyes many, many times upon her maiden form as she flitted to and fro among her flowers, or in the broad stone balconieB that ran under the second-story windows across the rjurt from his own. He rose now, hearing the voice he had come to thrill at as the dearest music on earth, and folding his invalid gown about his rather attenuated frame, tottered over to the window and threw iinnn t.hfi hrnad windnw-se&t. to see her, trembling with emotion as much as with weakness. Oh, Ulva, beautiful Princess of the Sea! Each time he looks he deems her grown fairer, and his heart is less hia ownl She was standing on the top step of an ancient sun-dial, carelessly dressed in a long, filmy white robe of many folds, with "angel sleeves," from which her exquisite arms stretched forth, offerins: crumbs to a cloud of sea-birds which bad followed her up from the shore; whither it was evident she bad gone for her morninsr bath, for her hair streamed over her dress in endless ripples, and her upraised face was fresh and rosy, and brin'lul of animation. Old Ken more, standing below her on the gar.len walk, leaning on his rake, with his broad bonnet in his hand, eyed her wlTh a mixture Of proud affection and dogged resolution. "I see no pitfall at my feet, Kenmore,* cried Ulvai looking at him wonderingly; "but I have noticed that ever since yoa caine home you have not been like your own old self. What i9 vexing you, Kenmore? Not I, I hope?" .She tossed the lastof'her crumbs upon the broad slab at her feet, and was instantly the center of a fluttering, hustling, white-winged cloud of birds, who pecked and quarreled with each other quite confidingly. Ulva crossed her soft warm arms upon the gray lichened stone, and leaning there, showered all the gentle beauty of her eyes upon her old servant. "It is not my Lady Oolava that could vex Kenmore," said he solemnly; "but the weird that is laid upyn her?that will break his heart." "Sow, Kenmore!" she held up herBn< ger with a laughing menace, "I knew something supernatural is coming, You're going to prophesy bad fortun* for me." "God forbid!" exclaimed he, fervently. "An' the doom will pass if ye will bul heed in time." "Well, speak, Oracle, I listen." "Laugh an ye will, my lady, I'm youi own to laugh at?only heed the word! I'll make bold to speak." He sunk hii voice to a more impressive Key, and drew himself up to a more imposing attitude. "It's not for naughtT that I've lived fo] eighty years within bearing of the voice! of the sea. There's many a true wore uttered by those who have hearkened tc the waves. It has been said that who ever faves a man from drowning, thai __mi i_* ?mi? man win ue uisuursu. jus *u viu i*n, that, my lady, but well known to be s true one." Ulva received this dark utterance witt astonishment, and dawning indignation [to be continued.] __ ~ TEMPERANCE. what if? What if the rivers were filled with gin Instead of the water clear? "Why, none of the fishes could live therein. And we'd have none to eat. Oh, dear 1" What if the cows gave only wfne Instead of the miJk bo pure? ' Why, poor little children would fret and pine; They would never grow up, I'm sure!" What if the chickens laid brandy eggs. And the fountains and streams flowec beer? KOTU,. 4-1,* owona nnrl thfl rlneks couldn't stand on their legs, Quite 'drunk and disorderly, dear! "What if in place of the rain and dew There fell on the earth vile drink? "There'd be no more flowers, no grain, n< Trait, And we'd all give up living, I think ! ?Mrs. M. A. Kidder, in Temperance Banner JOHN BURNS ON TEHPEBANCE. The irrenter part and more interesting par1 of my hour's talk with John Burns, the Eng lish labor agitator, was on the relation o: the temperaneH movement, wiites Charles B. Spahr in the Outlook. We had just beer Talkine of the new attitude of the churct toward social questions, and here I found him somewhat indifferent, plainly regarding the change as more important to the church than to the labor movement. When, however, the conversation lurned to the progress of the temperance movement in the ranks ol labor he suddenly became enthusiastic, nol only upon this subject itself but on the social reform work of the churches in connection with it. Nothing could have exceeded his Draise of what the Salvation Army, in particular. is doing for the spread of temperance in England. Its success in reclaiming drunkards seemed to him the most wonderful thing in recent religious history. Mr. Burns has not only been n lifelong total abstainer but a lifelong: temperance agitator, and, despite his secularism, he recognized the religious work of reclaiming lost drunkards as something beyond the scope ol "municipal statesmanship." Nevertheless, municipal statesmanship and temperance reform seemed to him to have so many-sided n connection as to be essentially one. "Hostility to public-houses," he said (I quote from memory), "runs through our labor movement. Nearly every leader of the 'new unionism' is a teetoatler, and among the leaders in the old unions total abstinence 1? gaining an altogether disproportionate hold. Even the men in the unions who drinkthemselves and growl at the unsociability of those who don't wiil vote nearly every time for a temperance man to conduct the business ol the nnion. This accounts for the disproportionate teetotalism among the leaders, but tempernnce is spreading among the rank and file. During my boyhood, and I am hardly middle-aged, it used to be charged that this, that, or the other labor leader bad been paid ?5, ?10, or even ?20 to'changBthemeetingplace ot the union from the Horse and Dragon to the Pig and 'Whistle. Nowadays the ownei of a'pub'would rather pay to get rid of a trade un'on than to have it meet at his rooms. As a matter of fact, we are not meeting at i^n l<.nn mn haln Anwalrao ^uuiit-uvuoco uuiCD3 rvuwnu luoi^vutocitcoi Sometimes we meet in rooms belonging to churches, often in those belonging to cooperative societies, and, whenever we can, in rooms connected with town halls. Nearly every man who is prominent in the labor movement is opposed to the public-houses. The 168 officers of labor unions who Bigned the petition Inst year for the looal veto (local option) bill included' practically the whole brains and power of the labor movement. Not nearly all of them were teetotalers, but they had all got that far, at any rate. They all know that drink is the.cbiel cause of poverty. "At th i same time they all believe that poverty is the chief cause of drink. Most of our labor-reform measures aim to reduce drunkenness by making healthier living pos sible. This is true not only of the larger measures, such as the shortening of the hours of labor, but it is even more directly true of our municipal refornft. We believe that the construction of municipal halls accessible for public meetings in all parts of the cities is a dire? blow at the publichouses. We believe that all our London county council measures providing public play grounds, gymnasiums, reading-rooms, and the like are temperance measures. We have now in London 500 free tennis couris. The city luruishes the courts and the framework to support the nets. The players, of course, furnish their own rackets. Almost af?a?inAnn T*AI1 mow OQU Trthn Burn9 and his wife on one of these courts. I balieve it is the healthy way to live, and the young; people who have these healthy recreations are not so apt to crave the 'pub1 c.' There are now so many of the courts that it is rarely difficult to get a ohance to piny. For the middle-aged men who don't care for tennis we have provided quoits, and lor the old fellows we are about to lay out several bowline green?." TEMPEBANCE HEWS AND NOTES. In 1893 1,202,182,074 gallons of beer were made in Germany. "Indiana women cannot hold a license to sell intoxicating drinks," says the Supreme Court of the State. Beer placed in dishes near flower pots will tempt ail the snails in the vicinity, and the next morning they will be found lying alongside dead. Tho frfol onr*rvnT*f r\1 hoor /Iront in frVlA world during 189S Is estimated by a German statistician at 4,500,000,000 gallons?enough to float a navy. It is altogether a mistake to believe that even a moderate use of Intoxicating drink is at all useful to the human constitution.? Hon. B. Whitworth, in British Parliament. The profits of the British syndicates which control beer breweries at Chicago at Milwaukee rose from 8659,270 In 1892 to $1,587,930 in 1893, and to ?940,020 in the presenj year. I And that alcoholic drinks give no strength. No, on the contrary. Drink builds up no muscle, but destroys its power and makes it less active for work.?Dr. B. W. Richardson. The Woman's Council of Indianapolis, which Is composed ot forty-nine societies representing eight thousand women of the city, is working actively for the passage of a blil suppressing wine room=. A Wllkesbarre (Pean.) man. overcome by the craving for drink, and having exhausted all his resources for nrocurinir more rum. emptied the ashes of his wife's first hustani out of a silver urn and sold thit. President Cannon, of the First National Bank in New York, in an address at the meeting ot the Clearing House Association, said: "No one who drinks or gambles, or whose private life outside the bank is open to suspicion, should be eligible to a position in a bank." In the local option bill before the New Zealand Legislature, there is a clause providing that everyone convicted of being an habitual drunkard shall bo photographed at his own expense and every saloon-keeper in the district in which ho lives must be supplied with a copy. The Committee on Temperance and Morals of the United Presbyterian Church. England, has issued a circular letter to the membership citing testimonials of emineut men of all classes concerning the casual relation of intemperance to crime, Immobility ; insanity and poverty, and recommending mora earnest personal effort to promote tem >er' ance by social custom, education and legislation. ; I TURNING TURTLES. * CAPTURING TURTLES BY NIGH OFF LOGGERHEAD KEY. \ Green and Loggerhead Turtl p Abound In the Season?How They j Hide Their Eggs?Turtles ) Corralled Till Wanted, r "y ? J HE inoffensive sea turtle lea: | I ing against the walls of a re I _l taurant, with the ominoi > sign "To Be Served Th Day" hung about its neck, but fain fc ly suggests the excitement and seri< ? of adventures that have often led i k its capture and humiliation, or the a tivity and life that characterize i movements in its natural element, sai the Chicago Times. It happened that the writer wi once on a reef in the Mexican gn dnring the tnrtle season, and one da the beef in our larder having give ont and fish being monotonous as regular diet, a turtle hunt was pr< posed. It was a little e?vy in th season, but our cook and ^eneral fu ' totum had seen "signs'" so it was bi lieved that a night or two would t productive in sport as well as meal ^ Four kinds of marine turtles are foun in these waters?the green and loj gerhead "to the manor born," and a taining a weight of from 700 to 100 I pounds; the hawk^bill, that rarely a tained a weight of over twenty, an the big leather or ocean turtle, see only on rare occasions. These, wit ii.. i : : 1 ? ? ^ Liu? uuffuwmg gupiier on some 01 in keys, constituted the representative y of the tribe. The green and loggerhead turtle were the objects of our search, an ' one clear, moonlight night foand c rowing to Loggerhead Key, about fii t miles away, the oars of the big boe - bending beneath the powerful stroke of the black crew, who sang a curiot [ song that accorded well with tfc i sound of the oars and the sparkle an I flash of the waters. Loggerhead is a narrow strip' ( . sand, about two and a half miles i i length, that reaches out toward luci f tan from the Florida peninsula. On i [ is the tallest light in the United Statei l a shaft that rises like a Cleopati i needle out of a desert of sand, cacti k the turtle with a man on its back. and bay cedar. As the boat crnnche , on the sands the keeper came dow and gave ns welcome. After enjoying the hospitality of th , keeper, we betook ourselves to th beach, that was a pure white sand belt extending around the entire isl and to a width of about fifty feel when began the bay cedars and caotu that constituted the trees of the isl and and served as a protection to in numerable sand and soldier crabs, gull and their young. Along the beach we took out sta tions in parties of twos about 2001 feet apart, and scraping out places ii ' the coraline sand, that was still ho from the baking sun, began the wait oach one taking turns every half hou; in patrolling the interventing 1001 feet, so that th* entire beach wa guarded. My watch fell with thi TURNING keeper, who regaled me with many a yam about the island and the strange things that had happened there. Suddenly my companion touched my arm and silently pointed seaward. The moon was full and cast a brilliant silvery beam across the smooth waters, and directly in it on the shore, where the waves foil musically on the sand, I saw a glistening object. It gradually increased in size until the broad back of a turtle came in sight and it began its labored ascent up the beach. It was about 100 feet below us, and we could distinctly see its movements. On leaving the water it raised its head, uttering a loud hiss and gazed about for several moments, evidently to see if the coast was clear, and then began to ascend the slight incline, making but slow headway. ?'inalJy it reacnea our jevej, wnere we were crouchiiig low, and began to dig, evidently using its hind flippers. In twenty minutes it had excavated a hole and had begun to deposit its eggs. It was then that we made our ru6h, springing from our hot beds of sand and reaching the turtle before it realized what was the trouble, aud then, either stupefied with surprise or because it was laying, it did not moye until we had laid violent hands upoi it, when it began to scramble for th< water. T It was a green turtle, of the large? size, a good lift for two men, anc while it straggled and threw its flip eg pers about it was almost impossible t* hold it. I ran at it and lifted it i foot or more, but a sweeping blov from one of the fore flippers forcec me to drop it. Then we rallied anc lifted together, and had the anima n- almost on edge when it deftly lifted ( s- flipper full of sand and drove us from is the field. is Each repulse of this kind brought t- the turtle nearer the water, for whict es it was headed. Finally our shouts, to ? ots TO d . * ? A TURTLE WALKING OFF 1 -e it partly of laughter, partly for help, >s brought aid from the net parties, and is while one man headed off the huge te animal, prying it bacfc with an oar, d three seized it, lifting on one side, and one on the other, and after eever>f al attempts, during which the turtle n left its marks on its enemies, it was i- rolled over on its back, having made it a gallant fight, and only gave up when a, six feet from the water. a The turtle was manaeled by cutting is holes in its flippers and tying them _ together, and after it had been hauled up into the bush line we took up oui places as before, and began anothei wait. Every few minutes one of the party would go down to water lint , ind follow along to the next station, ! rtn/1 nr?o iVinac T nn+ino/1 nuu uunu^ uuo ui vuoo? vx i|yg jl. aavsvavswvj tracks, 'which looked an though some one had .crawled up to the beach on all fours. Following them up on the run ] came upon a loggerhead, just over c depression in the sand, fairly falling upon it, whereupon it turned with s loud hiss and began to scamble ovei the back track. -My efforts to turn it were brushed aside, and in desperation I seized the reptile by the shield at the back of the neck and held and shouted, while being dragged at no snail's pace toward the water. I waa fairly on the animal's back and suddenly, with an inspiration, threw myself astride of its back, placing my ' feet againdt the sand, and so brought it up for a moment to a standstill. This was for the time a success, but - seeing my boots conveniently near ite d head the turtle made a vicious snap at n them, and the next moment 1 was dragged into the water, thrown vioe lently from my steed, a long wake in e the moonlight telling the story to the y little group who had gathered too [ late on the sands. ;, In the course of the night five turs ties were captured by turning, and - several escaped. The difference be tween the green And loggerhead turs ties is mainly one of appearance, the green turtle being the one commonly seen in the markets. The next day 0 was spent in hunting the nests of the a turtles, the trails or tracks of the anit mals being followed up to the nests, , when from 100 to 200 eggs would be r found, about as large in diameter as ) a hen's egg, but round with a single s depression. Cunning would hardly be b looked for in so clumsy an animal, A TURTLE. l but every nest showed evidence of it. t In following up a track the neat would naturally be looked for at the end, 1 but such was not the case, the track in every instance being a blind one. i The turtle would deposit its eggs, tnen spend some time destroying all traces 01 me QfiST, men irnveuuy iwuuy tuc beach for forty or fifty feet before returning to the water, so that we had to sound the sand with a pointed stick all along the beach, between the going up find coming down trail. From a dozen or more nests we carried off" nearly 1000 eggs. The captured turties were taken to a corral?a fenced enclosure in shallow water?and released, to be recaptured when needed for the camp table. At such times it was our custom to go into the corral and round ! up the animals single-handed?an op- ! eration that was far more exciting | fl-iun f-.Vir* nricinal r?n.r>t.iire_ ah .>>? fur. ties were in their natural element and j niude a vigorous hunt necessary, , which illustrated better than anything j else the power and speed possessed by ! these animals. I had heard of turtle- i riding on the open reef, and having ! had a taste of it on dry land I volun- { tewed my services when the next j : '>' KT-' *-v't I*?1 j i green turtle was needed, and the cook,; 9 in no wise disposed to retain this per-: qnisite, readily allowed me the prir-i t ilege. The morning in question the i entire camp gathered on the 'fence toi - see, as I afterward learned, the turtle' ) "do me up." In light swimming cos-, i tame 1 moanted the fence and slipped: r into the big corral The'water at 1 high tide was about eight feet deep,! jV 1 and all over the white, sandy bottom! 1 could be seen the black forms of the! i turtles that passed the time sleeping l on the bottom, occasionally rising tot ; : the surface for air. I had been given ; the "tip" by a friendly oolored man,! 1 l and diving I swam down to the near-; , est turtle, approaching from behind,; 'A s * ^ liis VTTH A WOULD-BE TUBNEB. and when directly over it seized it by: the baok of the shell just over the; ; head. I was unprepared for the pe^;\ culiar antics of this carious steed. stead of starting ahead the xninate the , animal felt my hands, it ponnded the i sandy bottom witha succession of quick! ' ; : i blows that sent it to the surface so i quickly that I almost lost my hold| , and my wind. The turtle gave 'a.' J quick puff and dived, and I had, just ; time to follow suit and strengthen my; . i grip when the animal dived again,and i I with a rush dashed away through the! water, its flippers moving up andj , down like flails. A second more andj > I should have ignominiously given up, i i when the turtle, having gone the length of the corral, dashed to the surL face to breathe, and I filled my lungs ; ^ i just in time, as I was jerked down . again by the terrified creature and ' ^ towed away, now under water, now [ out, while the other turtles, alarmed -T?ji i, at the noise, were racing up and down* ; adding to the general confusion and l stirring up the sand and mud. It was evidently a trial of enctur- .. ;>L'J ; ance, and spurred on bv the applause ' of the andienoe on tie iqnce, I clung, t&u [ to the shell desperately. Finally the r 'M : turtle showed signs of weariness, and I found by drawing up my knees I ; i could bring it to the surface. "That's what you should have dona in the first place," said one of the experts, who now that I had caught my game, offered to display his skill. Diving into the water he soon cap- : tured a fresh turtle, and at once had \ the animal at his meroy. At first ho rode it around the corral, stretching; ' i out behind and' holding on by one hand, while with the other he seized; the lower part of the shell, and by ' using his knees he was able to make the animal rise or fall. He stopped it ' h almost immediately, kept it beneath M&5 the water until it was ready to give ,'^J in; in fact, had it under complete control. During these performances r-| liuc KUiblco uiu uuv nviouiyv w v*vo v^; ' , ^ "rr defend themselves other than by striking with the flipper or throwing and. , The tJrateiul Dor.. Two black-and-tan dogi were taken || to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, the other day by their youthlnl owners, the one suffering from a broken leg aild the other from a dis- j located shoulder. The dogs were " kindly treated by the medical'staff,: were bandaged aud walked away. Two days afterward the one with the broken leg walked into the institution alone. In the surgery it lay down while the doctor unfastened the splints and re- 'S dressed the injured limb. After th? .</ *$ operation had been performed the dog gratefully licked the doctor's hand and departed.?La lies' Kennel Journal. v'Ajj Making Tea by Electricity. Now that electrioity is becoming a V: i faotor in the economic arrangements oi every household, endeavors are being made to subvert this powerful element to every requirement The latest adaptation is in the form of an electric heater. The old idea ' that the familiar incandescent lamp I evolved no heat has long since been exploded, and if proof were wanting, the dainty apparatus which, with the aid of a fifty-candle-power lamp will . ,'j 1 boil two and one-half pints of cold ~ fl water in twenty-five minutes will con vinced the most sceptical. There are afternoon tea-kettles, hot water and coffee jug6 electrically fitted, which are instantly put in action by a simple attachment to the the nearest existing fitting. The advantages of this method of keeping hat the water ~ TEA BY ELECTRICITY. for afternoon tea and other purposes over the old-fashioned and dangerous spirit lamps will be generally apparent. Of course, to use the heaters re- * quires an electric plant or service in the house. So they will not become very common for a while. The Mexican Government has made a formal demand nijcn Guatemala for indemnitv, the total amount of which is $1,868*434. : - \i