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* cruel" THE GRAVE; I __ ii?n f n w Tiie secret or minraven Castle. BY ANNIE ASHMORE, ji&uthor of "Faithful Margaret," Etc., Eto CHAPTER VI Continued. The very fact of Diva's presence here proved that Lord Inchcape held his wife guiltless of any fault worthy of this ?hame and seclnsion. /Now yon are weary of talk," said tflva in her frank, friendly way, "you j shall have some music to refresh yon." He yielded his chafinp spirit to her | gentle spell again, and sank back witb a deep sense of relief in lotting all go but ihg joy of being with Ulva. i j3e hoped she was going to sing or play to him, but no: she went to the open window and took in a gilded cage and set it on the table, and out flow a little brown lark, straight into her bosom, where it nestled, quite concealed by her lovely hand, all but its tiny head and one shining round eye, which last it kept shyly fastened upon Edgar. 1? "Where did I find this not uncommon songster, yon want to ask?" laughed tilva noticing his surprise. "It was cast, like yon, a waif on the storm into my hands. The blast dashed it against my window, I picked it up quite stunned; I thought it would die, but it not And when it got quite strong and well, I !opened the window and bade it ro free, but the grateful little heart came back next morning and flewstraight into my breast again, and would not accept it? liberty. So I gave it a house of its own, and it has lived in it ever since, witk ** ~ J ~ ?? ? ? mm* If foIra I IQO aooropua US > uu 3d.-, iuav lua; IV vatvu its flights when ft pleases; and I like it better than the rarest captive bird, because I know it is happy. And that'8 *11." i, Here she gently peeped under her hand fct the lark, which uttered a bird-scream of merriment, and darted at her lips With its tiny beak outstretched and little wings flattering; fhen lit UDon her lifted linger, set it3 dainty head aside, mnd poured forth its delicious warble with its wholo happy heart. ' Oh, what a picture! And how her artless words had stirred the deep watera of Edgar's heart He, too, had been cast by the storm into her llfo, and saved by her; he, too, rejected the freedom that meant parting from Ulva; oh, that she would also take him into her sweet heart! He gazed intoxicated with love, at Ulva, but she was not looking at him, nor yet At her pet; her sweet eye3 had changed io light on the facc of Lady Dunraven, end all tno smile aiea out ox mem, iu?y filled with pain. r. Her little story had stirred Lady Danraven's sad heart, too; for wa3 not she a captive who would never be free? She had turned slightly from the others and was crazing across the sea with a hungering and thirsting look, while she gnawed her pallid lips in sickcning impatience. Again that tug at Edgar's heartstrings. "I must speak to her," he thought in desperation. ' I feel like a craven in the presence of such unmerited grief." The lark's carol finished, it flew from tJlva's finger to perch itself upon a Seftch. of which there was a luscious asketful upon a table near, and while It drove its little bill into the velvet side It kept up a sly scrutiny of Edgar, until at last to his pleased surprise it came topping, hopping across the table ami from fhair hack to chair back, until it xeached the end of the sofa close by his head, whon it timidly pecked at hia ; curls, as if willing to be better acquainted. "How strange!" exclaimed Ulva, evidently gratified. "What spell have ynu Jmt upon my bird? He would not allow anybody else to go near him; and airways hides In my sleeve or neck all the time Mr. Sircombe i3 in the room." Lady Dunraven looked round with a disdainful curve of the delicate lip. "Instinct is often more reliable than jreason," said she. J-he watched with earnest face the dainty motions of the bird, as it took hair by hair in Its polished bill, preening and arranging them 'as it would have plumed its owu feathers, with chirps of gentle satisfaction, Edgar scarcely breathing lest he might startle It away; till, finally growing iardy, It hopped upon his head, dropped Its wings gracefully, and burst into a melting bird-song of triumph over Its new conquest. I Edgar's eyes encountered Lady Incn cape's; hers were full of an ineffable trust "I think you would make a true friend," said she, involuntarily uttering tho thought that was in her heart i His eyes looked yearningly into hers. "'ies, I would," he answered, simply, hut no eloquence could havo carried greater conviction with It than did the quiet, fervent acquiescence i "Fortunate are those who may claim j your friendship," said Lady Inchcape, | sighing. "I wish I might dare to offer it to one ! who needs a faithful knight" murmured j Edgar. { She started, looking wildly at him with her frail hand on Iter heart, and a deep, burning blush suffused her whole face and throat Ulva, busy with her ; bird which had flown back to her fing?r, j kipped apart among the flowers by the | winHnw SliA wnc lmnri>55nrt hv ?v4uuv>f? w'"v "*%4V- ?~ J nor pet's Instinctive trust in this handsome stranger, and by her step-mother's recognition of it: and sno recalled Kentaore's boding prophecy with a little Btnile of defiance. But hor innocent heart was not touched by Edgar yet?only circumBtances made her think about him a great deal. She could not hear what her stepmother and ho were saying, but she saw that Lady Dunravcn was interested in him, and she was peculiarly grati?ed, although she could not qnito account for this feeling. It wa3 well that poor Mamma Engelonde's mysterious sorrow should bo llgbtenel by an elogant and noble-minded man liko Mr. Edgar; but for the rest?Ulva veutuvedon no dceuer analysis. She stolo to her piano ar.d played a measure delicate and sweet as the brierroscs and white heather she had tossed upon the instrument. Meanwhile Lady Dunraven and Edgar crossed the barriers which had kept their thoughts from meeting. - ... - i "l tninK you are a crave <tuu nuo man," murmured the lady, her vivid eye3 upon his face. "And I think you have need of such," return?4 ho, entreatingly. "Could you not trust me, Ludv Dunraven? Think of it. I owe my life to you and yours, and I have grown to revere you above 11 women." -v She was iltmt for a little while, still tePttSf eVQe-SiJace, Th?u she spoke, and In a tono or unutterable Joy. "I said, 'he has a noble soul and a pare heart' At the very first, when you lay unconscious, I read It In your face. I said, 'he has a good face, a loyal, fearless heart; if mortal could help me, here would be my knight' " "Let mo be your knight, Lady Dunraven. I Implore it as a boon," he whispered "1 have seen your sorrow. Ah, forgive me, but love has divining eyes! If thoro bo a chance to restore you to happiness, teach me how to use it." The toars stood in his eyes, his langonr and weakness fled; he rose and stood before her, tall and strong, a truo knight as any that fought for the helpless and the oppressed in olden days. "Forgeji that I am a stranerer." he pleaded; "-only remember that I long Unwm nntor) wrtnf cnrrnm nnH tf? help you. Trust me; indeed you may. Never yet have I betrayed my honor." Her face was like snow, her large, mournful eyes were fixed on vacancy; she was thinking deeply. Ulva's music rippled on: she was ex-, pressing her own loosened maiden fan-' cies, and had forgotten the others. Lady Dunraven drow a long sigh, rose, and held out both hands to Edfrar. "I will trust you as I would trust God," said she, solemnly. He pressed his lips to theso fragile hand3 which had been wrung in anguish so often, and held them closely, firmly. "Oh, you will never regret this!" cried ho. "I here devote myself to yonr service. It shall be the aim of my life to restore you to happiness." She led him further from the piano. "One condition I must make before 1 confide my story to you," she said, "and that is, to spare that sweet child all knowledge of the cause of my wretchedness." He promised this, earnestly. "Whether you can help mo or not I cannot tell," continued she. "It may bo that yonr fresh intellect may catch a clue which has always eluded mino, op pressed as I have been with misery. I dare not tell you my story in words. There is one under this roof whom I cannot trust, and mine Is a confidence which not ono woman out of a hundred would humiliate herself to make. But I love my lord as a true wife should, and if there is one chance on the earth for me to vindicate myself in his oycs I will grasp it. I shall put my story in yoar hands, Mr. Edgar. I have spent many an hour in writing it which might otherwise have goaded me to dospair. Read it; then tell me whether thore is any hope on earth for me." That night, a few minutes after Edgar had entered his room, he reopened the door to a faint knoctf, and a small white burning hand passed through tho aperture a roll of manuscripts and vanished, without one word. He tore off the wrapper, and began to read: "My Lady's Story." CHAPTER VH. ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR. "I expect to hear a good deal about Colonel Accrington before old age makes me deaf," graciously observed her grace til* Duchess ?f Carisbrooko to that fair nneen of mode. Mrs. Dellamere. on the occasion of a garden party held at her villa in Salford a few weeks after the Crecy Festival "Ee is such a sad dog, thoy tell me, a real vaurien," pursued the dowager; Ubut what of that? an attache must be all things to all men, and he is a born diplomatist. I can see that he intends to carry that borough over young Arden's head?he had better return from his wanderings if he moans to represent Salford. That would be a hard hit again9t the monastic Inchcape, for he has set his heart upon Edgar's election. Well, to the victor belong the spoils?I care not which wins!" Mrs. Dellamore, who was supporting the tottering steps of her hostess through the bright parterres of autumn flowers, crowded with brilliant guests, drank in this eulogy of her old-time lover with a proudly swelling heart; her tread grew statelier, her glance swept around the gay scene more confidently. Alas, for woman's too constant heart! The Duchess' villa was a mere dollhouse, as befitted her lone and loru condition of widowhood, she said: but it was surrounded by tine old gardens, the pride of Salford, and there she was fond or boldtng grand reviews 01 me oeauiy and fashion of the neighborhood. Today all our friends had assembled?the Crecys, Dellameres, mother and daughter?and not until they wero some timo there, and no escape possible without a scene, did Colonel Accrington saunter in among them on tho arm of his uncle and present host, Iiear Admiral Archerfield, with his admirer Lucius Ilchcster in close attendance. Mrs. Crecy's pleasure was gone: tbe wraith of wronged EnRcloiido Inchcape ever stood between her and Richard Accrinston; but as she only snspected him, and had no proof against him. sha had not even opened her mind to her husband, who accordingly ran to greet their old acquaintance with beaming cordiality. Auberon Crecy aud Loveday Dellamere, who had been engrossed with their gay companions in some of the amusements provided, bocame awaro of his presence by a subtlo magnetism tho moment he approached, and followed his every movcme'nt with reluctant consciousnoss. "A^UIUUOl ^CCrill^tUil ttllULU3 mo OlUgU' larly." whispered Auberon 1n Loveday's dainty sea-shell ear, "what do you think of him?" "I don't know what, but I think a great deal about him, and I don't know why," returned she. with an Impatient little frown.' "Nobody ought to have so much power over others, it is a dangerous gift." | Au);eron gazed earnestly upon the fairy creature, so artless and so ignorant, and said, Imperiously: "Ueautifui llttlo leopards aro not proper objects for girls' romantic dreams?I won't have you going within reach ot his velvet-sheathed claws." ' The only way to prevent It is to be more fascinating yourself," said LoveCay. moving away with a challenging smile. Meanwhile the Duchess was pursuing her conversation with Mrs. Dcllamcre with hsr usual malico prepensa "Do you know why l nave taken up Richard Aecrlngton?" UI dare not conjecture, If it 19 not from amiable courtesy to a stranger," replied Mrs. DeUumore, placidly. "lia, ba! I don't do tuings ior noinj lug. I have Mcrrion Ilac staying with i a>o this summer; sho wants Auberan j (.'rccy. but I intend l>im for?hem?for j somebody else. Merrion Rao's a fine | girl, good blood, beauty, no money?sho ' shall have Richard Accrington, eh?" I She looked round at Mrs. Dollamere'3 startled face, but caught nothinz moro ! interesting than that lirst. twitch of suppressed anguish, succccdcd by a complacent brow. "An excellent match, I should say," observed slio, with all the congealing grace of a finished manner: "let us hope the lady will prove docile." "No lear or that, onco Auberon Crccy's booked for tho other girl," chuckled the ancient cynic. "I hear Accrington is buying that line old place, Sheldraik Castle, near Archerfield's barracks. 'Twas in the family generations auo, you know, and was squ andered away by a clever scoundrel just like Dick. I'm going to have him restore it, furnish it splendidly, and take his wife home. He shall have tho Rae. she's tha handsomest thing of the season?everybody's daughters accepted, o( course!* added ner grace, witfe a court bow? century old. "He has returned with wealth then?" said Mrs. Dellamore, languidly Interested. "Cartloads of wealth; trust a man with a face like his for that! He did something somewhere, and got & cut at the secret service fund, and so?he's able to buy an ancestral castle and a borough." Thus tho old gosslD prattled on, and even she, suspicious as she was, could not half comprehend the feverish interest with which Laura Dellamere liuened to tho splendid fortunes of this " "i rtV?an,iva man wVinm had marilt betrayed In her fatal ambition to wed with Dellamere, tho old, cold, brutal husband who wa9 dead. She had broken Accrington's hear! (or thought she had) as ruthlessly as she had broken her own; and had borne proudly al? the disgusts and bitternesses of life since; aye, even during that sickening time when tho man she had loved seemed to come back to her with timid and tender adoration?only to fly like a madman from England for love of Lady Inchcapo. But he has come once more, ah, why? She i3 so weary of regret, so famished for a true love, that sho dreams bewildering dreams where all seems possible, and almost believes in the mystical fulfillment of her life's unacknowledged hope. Tis the third time of his comingFortune has a special blessing for Number Three! I rAlnn/il AnorfnrffAn Viod nnfiKoon Mid VWiVUWl IllgbVU UMW UV/W VVVM during these few woeks since his re turn. He scon comprehended the conditions of Lord Inchcape's existence, how seldom he was to be met In public life, and how frigidly he kept aloof from all that went on In the neighborhood. He ceased to fear him as a forbidden presence forever intruding on his hourl of pleasure or ambition; he felt that Inchcapo's prido would prevent hfs seeking occasions to fihow his scorn of himself?a little care might save any future future repetition of that scene which had burned Into Accrlngton's consciousness like a shameful brand, discovering his own helpless cowardice to himself, and rousing & passionate desire for vengchnce. No hate so vindictive as that which the injurer bears the injured?until penitcncc and restitution wipe off the score. Accrington could not repair the wrong he had done Lord Inchcapo without exposing himself to the heads of political power a3 a false man, and base, whom to advance would be to disgrace themselves. And he Intended to advance; the eager ambition of manhood's prime was upon him; he had proved his powers and seen them recognized; and he now longed to grasp the prizes that hung highest on the political course. He would enter Parliament, that waa firot cUn TTn liuH nnf, dpA!imi>r1 nf Salford as a possibie arena for his abilities whfn he came to England; the mere presence of Incheape would have been enough to darken that sccnc; but the radiant vision of Loveday Dellamere had dawned upon him like a new revelation of happiness; her beauty was much, but her unutterable joyousness chained him to her with a fascination as strong as | that which draws a man perishing with thirst to the delicious sparkling fountain. Ho was very thirsty for a deep draupii! of happiness, untinged by any taint of sin or regret; and a llfo witn Loveday | seemed sure to bo as bright and care-free as herself. Love and vengeance twined a cord strong enough to hold him fast in Salford; and here he was. the admired lion of a rashionable fete, ana cne acknowledged antagonist of Edgar Arden, in tha approaching election for Salford. The member for Salford, one of the neighboring landowners, had very recently died; and the Earl of Im-hcape had been telegraphing in every direction for his heir to return, as ho wished him to stand for election; but Accrington was first on the ground, and, supported by his kinsman Archerfield. and by his lavish expenditure, he was already a foe ta be dreaded, btlli tne Jncncape inceresi was strong, and his side the popular one; Arden's return might compiotely overthrow Accrington. Ho had taken pains to meet Miss Del: lamero as frequently as he dared: he had joined Mrs. Dellamcrc and her daughter in their morning walks?had sat near tlicin in church, his dark, distinguished face like a woli-cut camco, bent devoutly over his prayer-book, and his gentle, lingering glances stealing toward the Dellamero pew at patient intervals. It was as a favored friend that he now offered his arm to Mrs. Dellamero for a promenade among the guests, after paying his devoirs to tho duchess. "Come, fair friend, I want to tell von about my success, said he, with softest seriousness. "Can you spare licr to mo, madam? Wo are old-time con lidaDts.'1 "Assuredly," nodded tho old dowager, maliciously. "Every man Is tho better fee a feminino friend whori ho doesn't watlti LU CUllIb, sua HYimca uio u?k?>v savagery. I bellovo in friendship, 'tia love without love's wings." She moved away laughing wickedly. "And without love's roses," said Mrs. Dellaincro carelessly, as she placed hct beautiful hand lightly upon his arm, and followed his guidance into a laurel alley, whore they wore to all intents and puf> poses alone. "Oh, do not say so!" murmured AOerington, looking at her; "our friendship | should be crowned with flowers, if it were only with forget-me-nots!" "A bad selection," returnod the lady, calmly; "that flowor belongs to the loyal and the happy, not to those who havo Injured each other. * "True, fair oracle!" said Aocringtoi^ pressing her hand; "yet even to such it is given to repent and to make reparation. " She startled, but forced a flippant smile. "Contrition Is out of fashion, and all snch sr'lf-mortifications. But l?>t m not generalize thus, lot us talk of a more fascinating theme?yourself, for instance. What of those successes?" "They per tain to the election, a woet scorncr. and before we discuss them I wotiiQ oeseecn your co-upurcuum iu another matter, also an election, but not political." "I have no influence, sir." "On the contrary, yon are the sole sovereign of tho situation, aud an appeal to you is a settlement of the question. sit here, dear divinity, and listen to my prayer." KOh, a prayer, is it? I fear you may find your d vinity to be of ratlier a dark and capricious type." .she sat down, however, on tho marble seat by a pretty ornamental drinking fountain, and looked at him with inward agitation and outward amusement, while no solemnly lllled the two silver ISacrons that hun? by the fountain, and put ono in her hand. uYon will drink t;> my success, my oldtimo friend?" *aid he, with beseeching tenderness. She drank to bis success with laughing effusion. "And now, sweet mistress o? a beauty Indestructible," said be, poising bis owr flagon aloft, "lot me drink to our friend ship?which once was love." and ht drained the cup with an ineffable glance She bowed low, smiling graciously; but she could not control this burniuic blush that flamed her cheek, nor the pallor that succeeded it. It seemed as if ho had sacrilegiously disturbed the bones of the sacred dead when he lightly jested about that earlj / \ [ love. uq threw Himself at her aide, ant lounging forward whore he could watc 1 overy flitting expression of her face, re marked in a confidential tone: "How old is that affair between yo , and me, ma belle?" i "Very old," said she, calmly; "so oli i that I have forgotten the details." i "What unworldly innocents we wer i In those days," breathed ho, with tende amusement. "At least I was, for yo I were very wise, even then, I remembei I and did not in the least believe in Mov among the roses'?on a cottage wall." i Chilled and humiliated by this pers i flage, Mrs. Dellamero found no roply. ' "And how I persisted in claiming a [ my own this beautiful hand" (taking I I delicately In his finger-tips), though had not so much as a diamond ring t ? -i? _ J Uam T nolo I aecK us ioveunessi auu uu? x l after my fair cold Lady Moon, quite or i able to give up gracefully to the beat i tudes she had soared to! But now," b went on, intent on torturing her lnt [ submission; "now I fully perceivo you wisdom. Had we married then, whe > yonr whole dower was beauty and mln ' true love, how obscure our exlstenc migbt'have beenl To be sure we migli 1 have been happy and pare?but what 1 primitive condition to live in!" "Rathor crude for our embryo diplc , mate!" laughed she?and what anguis thrilled in her laughter! "I don't in tb 1 least believe you could have done it. lr deed I know that 'affair,' as you just! ? name it, was but an amusing episode i pour life. Something as ephemeral a that grand passion of which tou rave i in a certain grassy lane between Mr: Dellamere's Pavilion and Iuchape Foss< five years ago." In her agony she bad turned at las' 1 and she knew where to strike. His fac 1 darkened, there was ferocity as well a nnU ?r* If Qn/1 ft. flfLm auuueu quiYCiiLJg (yam >u >v, wuM of quick bate leaped oat at her in hi 1 flashing glance. 1 "That was a brief aberration, soon rc ' pented of," said he, bitterly, "a momei ' tary madness which a mnre fortanat 1 first love would have made imposslbh 1 That, too, I lay to your account, swei lady. Ah! what do you not owe me b ' way of reparation." He hung over her, marking the effe< of these stings r.s she shrank and pale( exerting her social traiaing to concei 1 her pafn; and his eye sparkled wit ' malicious joy. "Eh bien! We have'strayed far froi t your election which Is not politica ' Suppose we return to that subject?" ' "Very good, and very apropos of tt > reparation you owe me," laughed h< "But it is a prayer I have to make; an you ara the divinity I must pray to." ' She would have vehemently decline the part, but she dared not show hli i the power ho had to torture her. t "Proceed, then, but do not ask amiss, i said she, faintly. Ho fastened his bright cruel eyes upo hers threateningly, as tf he would dai * ? * -* ? will t%r\A Knn>An inH iiur lu icaiou ui3 t>ui, uruu. ud^au ttiv mock solemnity: 1 "Fair goddess, hear my prayera want a happy home." | "You shall have it?If you make It, replied she, forcing herself to respon to his trifling humor. ' "I want a loyal supporter.* "Be you loyal." "I want a wife." 1 To this she only bowed. "Fair goddess, I desire her at you hands. She gazed at him as If petrified. Dare she believe her ears? No, nc thfs man's heart was indurated, h could mock at and insult that beautifu love which had been theirs when the! spirits were pure; he was only tfryin his power over her, hoping to betray he into some self-revelation at which h would laugh. "Fair goddess, havo yo forgotten your role?" he insinuated, hi gaze morcilessly probing hor. "Proceed, proccedl" faltered she, pas! Intr her perfumed handkerchief acros her lips as if to cover an arch smile, bu holding it there to hido their quivorln pain. "Do rou grant my petition?" "Truly you have great faith In th 1 efficacy of prayer, 'Sir devotee! Hoi shall I promise you a wife whose nam I know not?" "Dare I name her?" almost whlspore he, seizing her trembling hand an crushing it in hie own, all unconsclou of his violence. "Laura, Laura! wha amends you owe mo!" Palo as death she returned his flerc compelling gaze. What was he about t say? "Once more ray happlnoss Is In you hands?and now I am no love-sick la to be crushed by a cruel woman's naj To you I owe a desolate life, with all it pitiful deviations in search of tho felk icy of which you once robbed me. Thi i? tho reparation you owe me?to glv me now, late though It be, the home an hfinritinsq with tliA wnman of mv choic which you should have given mo then I demand It of you; lb Is my right.* [to bi continued, j | TEMPERANCE. yoo'o walrep. dpimc. Now, what do you tliiuU : Young Walter Brink t Ec had in his eyo ft colleg:? He hated a tool, > Su hi5 wont to wehooi. And filled his hcaO /.-iifi krovriedgo. Bat hi- si)H.w Jftti-* Was sc terribly vain Thatsho grew u<> weak aii'i .-implcj Hho twisted her oioutii 'Way round to Lli?- south I . To show off her ;>r"tty Young Walter Brink Oft took a drink Trom t)if wayside wl\ Quitt? handy; So lii? brain vra-i rlewr, Por no R'ino or be-v Tmnk hi;, or gin, or broady. ?Mrs. 41. A. Kidder, in Temperance Lannei AX0T7EE SIXCIEB'8 T&iTlMDSY. ' Mr. W. Kuhe, the veteran pianist and mil 1 sical manager, has lived to see a great chang in the accepted notioas a-i to thi> efTect i stimulants upon the voice of a public singei l Formerly all singers had, in obedience t medical advice, to indulg..- greatly in stoul and plenty of port was also recommended fo the voice. Stimulants w^re, in fact, orders ' lavishly. Nowaday?, on the other hand, it i an accepted article of belief that spirit harden the tone. Port is out of date as ? medicine, and lemons have become the fa?h ion for these who wish to |>r;\serw purity o intonation and keep their i>ovrjr ul audtair i iug high i. jtcs. A IiKM.TII\ PCn.IC SENTIMENT. T.eferriug to the great temperance nieelin held in Chicago recently, the Herald of tin , ci1 v .-ays: '"After ail. behind the liquor traffic is tii liquor drinker. Without him tlie imsmt.could not llourinii. Substantial reform, ther 1 fori-, must begin with him. If tin* tempci nsn'B movement means anything it mean [ precisely tin; education of th?' people up t the standard outlined by Hi-shop Waterso! all good in"ii and womr-u must unite to ovei come til': hideous social s-ourg'j of moder > times. "It is idle to talk of lii? enforcement f law without a healthy public M-ntlment I" liiud it. The saloons can ouly be closed who the dominant sense of the community <1* mamls they shall be closed. Anil when thsi 1 demand is made they will be closed wh"th< there is a law authorizing it on the statut > book or not. When the pejplc will it the are as lawless in enforcing good morals as i ; tolerating bad. r "One may deplore the existeuee of so man [ distilleries, so maDy breweries, and so man saloons, but he has only to look back a ft" r years to see that they are not as strong i many way9 as they once were. Above a ^ they have act the moral suoport thev one 'I had." . * i SABBATH SCHOOL i n INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MARCH 3. i Lesson Text: " The Raising of Laz? arus," John xt., 30-45?Goldu en Text: John xiM 25? f, Commentary, a i 30. It is probable that all the event? recorded in Luke x.. 17, to xvlii, 43, and al*o iu John x.. come between the last lesson and - nus, anu luiiu oeaux 10 uuw uu mo naj iu 't Jerusalem, shortly before the last passover. I While Ho was beyond Jordan Lazarus took 0 sick, and the sisters sent Him word, but ind stead of hastening to him Ho tarried two days in the same place, and not till Lazarus 1 was dead and buried did He set forth to " awake him out of sleep (verse 11). Wlieu 10 Martha heard that He was coming, she went 0 forth out of the town to meet Him, and afir terward calling Mary secretly she, too. went n forth ont of tho town, Jesus tarrying where e Martha had met Him. e 31. When the people in the house who had . come together to comfort Martha and Mary saw Mary go forth hastily, not knowing that a her sister had called her, they supposed she had gone to tho grave to weep there. They must have been poor comforters, for they b knew not the comfort of I Thess. iv., 16-18. ,e Kow few seem to know it even now, for even j. at the funeral of a believer we have often - heard a portion of the context, but seldom ' these words wherein the comfort lies, which assure us that any hour our departed loved ^ ones in Christ may join us, and together we d meet the Lord In the air. 3. 32. Mary.'coming where Jesus was, fell i, down at His feet, uttering the very same words which her sister had used (verse 21). t Now If, as some teach us, the coming of the 6. t -?i ? ?rw1 Monr cihmilri LiUlU UluaiiO ucaiu, iuiubuu uuv? ^u>j !e have said, Lord, we are so glad You came lS when our brother died, hut they say that If i? Ho had cotno Lazarus would not have died, is 33. He would not bo troubled without a cause, and when we hear Him twice groans. ing in spirit in this lesson (see verse 38)' we . may be sure the cause was very great. What * could it bo? His dear friends whom He loved ,e wore in deep sorrow, and He felt sorry for 5- them. -t 84. His inquiry, "Whorohave ye laid him?" y confirms us in the thought that it was the work of death upon this dear friend whom ?t Jesus loved (verse 8), which was in part at j least the cause of the Saviour's groaning, J and while He knew that Ho would surely ~ raise up and restore Lazarus to his sisters. " yet He ielt deeply the work of the enemy ana saw it in all its terrors and horrors from Abel m to the very end. L 35. "Jesus wept." Shortest verse in the Bible, but who ean tell its breadth and length ie and depth and height? On three different occasions Jesus is said to have wept Seo ' Luke xix., 31; Heb. v., 7. In the former toxt " we see His sorrow for those who, by their un belief, were bringing untoia sunenngs uuuu d themselves, but Into the meaning of the latin ter wo cannot pretend to enter. 36. "Behold how He loved him." God ia ? love, and all the love of Jesus was the manifestation of the love of God. ''In this was manifested the lovo of God toward us, ben cause that God sent His only begotten Son e into the world that we might live through h Him" (I John iv., 9). 37. They have not forgotten the unheard j of wonder of the opened eye3 of the'man who was born blind. Possibly they had hoard of ? the two resurrections in tho north country, of the little girl and tho widow's son. Like d Martha and Mary, they feel that, if Jesus had only been present, He might have prevented Lazarus from dying, but it is too late now. for he is dead and buried, and neither of tho others had been buried. 38. They aro now at the grave, or cave, ir with a stone upon it, and again He groans within Himself. We are reminded of the words in Rom. viii., 23, "Ourselves, also, which have the first fruits of the spirit, even >' we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting e for the adoption?to wit, the redemption of il our body." <?? Tho irf-nnA la hftkwfl(>n Him and the dead g body of His dear friend, and that they can ? take away. It is ours to take away everything that may be between Jesus and the ? ^ul that Is doad In sins. No matter who u may object, because of the scorning impossis bilities of the case, let us get away all the obstacles and bring the sinner face to face with i- Jesus. is 40. The greatest of all hindrances is unbe^ lief. In one place He could beoause of this do no - mighty works, and it is unbelief ? that both keo^s sinners under condemnation and keeps saints from entering into rest, (John iii., 18; Hob. iii., 19). In spite of feele iiigs or circumstances or all that our oyes can iv ,see we must believe God. To the man whoso e ;little girl had just died, Jesus said, "Be not iafraid, only believe" (Mark v., 36). in the j 'storm at sea. when it seemed as If the vessel . must go down with all on board, and there ;was nothing to rest upon but the word of tho 19 ^messenger, Paul said, "I believe God." 41. The stone being taken away, Jesus ; glorified His Father by acknowledging Him 6 'as the one who was about to work, and He 0 !thanks Him beforehand for the answer. Hear Him also thanking the Father in Math, xi.. 25; Luko x., 21. He ever made it mani* '.feet that tho words and works were not His, d J but those of the Father who sent Him. He r. -would have us to believe and make it mani19 fest to all that "It is God who worketh in us 'both to will and to do of His good pleasure" i8 (Phil, ii., 13). a j 42. He always pleased the Father, the : TTntho-r n l wnv? hoard Him. because He sought' ^ lioniy the Father's will and glory (John vi.,' ? '38; viii., 29, 50). It is our privilege to be l |well pleasing in His sight, ana so to abide in Him that we may ask what we will and re'ceive it (Heb. xiii., 21). . J 4S. The same voice that said in the beginning, "Let there be light;"' that spoke to ;Israel from out of the mist of the Are on the 'mount; that spoke and it was done, com;manded, and it stood fast; that same voice now cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" J 44. "The mighty word gave life, and suddenly he that had been dead stood at the mouth of the cave alive and well. What a word It was! What a word it is! There is nothing like it on earth. Oodisinit. The Bible, the word of God, 'not Only was inspired, but is inspired. It is rforever settled in heaven, It is true from the beginning, and it shall stand forever (Ps. cxix., 89,160; Isa. xl., 8). 45. Many will still believe on Jesus when they see real life and liberty in those who bear the name of Jesus, but a mere name to live where there is no real life will never |honor Christ nor win people to Him. But as ;in the context this miracle stirred up the .hatred of those who were merely religious I 'without any reality we may De pore mac reai I life will work just that way s. ?Lesson Helper. A Mare is a Hors*. Among the cases decided by the Supreme' Court of Arkansas, at Little Rock, waa one' from Crawford County. Charles Goode was! indicted for stealing a horse. At the trial! i? the proof showed the animal was a mare.i e The court held that Goode having been in-j if dlted for stealing a horse he should not be ; convicted of stealing a mare. Goode was' 0 acquitted, but the State appealed. Associate Justice Riddick rendered an opinion that the; r word horse is a generic term and Indicates* 1 both mare and gelding, and that a charge of s stealing a horse, if supported by proof, is that .s cither a stallion, mare or gelding was stolen. 1 The Corps? Exploded. ? At the burial of L. P. Dunn, of Trigg County, Kentucky, who died of paralysis several days ago. a great commotion, followed by a stampede of the crowd attending the obsequies, was caused by the cofiin being suddenly burst open, just as it was being lowg ored into the grave, by an explosion caused by the accumulation of gas within the eorDse. e ... First Shipment of Southern Slioop. Tin? (irst shipment of shwp ever made to Europe from a Southern port left Norfolk, is Va., by tiie r-te:un^liip Lamberts Point for o Liverpool. The eargo was 12500 head and they i: I'anii! from CJijeago. Tin: I.ain'>i*rt> Point is r- a now .steamer running iu connection with the u Norfolk ?V Western Kail road. 11 Ua?lK??s Instead of Commutation Tickets. " Badges worn in the buttonhole have taken the plaoe of commutation tickets in Belgium, J where the new system of fortnightly season ticket! good on the railroads over the whole #t Oovernuient system has greatly increased y the number of commuters. u -. Talr.ingo Draws Crowd*. y Tal male's sermons at the Academy of Musio >" in New York City draw such erowds that it v was necessary last Sunday to lock the doors Jj half an hour "before the hour set for the be11 ginning of the service to prevent the plaoe * being overcrowded. INCOME TAX AMENDMENTS. A Senate Committee Beport?Taxed Dividends of Corporations. Tho Senate Committee on Finance authorized a favorable report on the House concurrent resolution extending the time for making retnrns under the Income Tax law from March 1 to April 15, with the following additions: "Be it further resolved, that in computing Incomes under said acts, the amounts necessarily paid for fire insurance premiums and for ordinary repairs upon any real estate shall be deducted from the rents accrued or received from such real estate. "And also resolved, That in computing incomes under said act the' amounts received as dividends upon the stock of any corporation, company or association shall not be included. in case such dividends are also liable to the tax of two per oent. upon the net profits of sai<l corporation, company or association, although such tax may not have been actually mid hv said corooration. etc.. at the time of making returns by the persona, corporations or associations receiving such dividends. "Be it further resolved, That no taxpayer shall be required in his or her annual return under said act to answer any interrogatories except as specifically provided in said act." The resolution as amended was afterward reported to the Sonate. STATE RECORDS BURNED. Destruction of Pennsylvania's Pnbllc Print* In? House at Harrlsbur;. The printing offlce of Clarence ST. Buscli. at Harriaburg, Penn., has been wholly destroyed by Are. The printing house, where all State work is done, with a loss on the contents of about 850.000, on which there is an insurance of 438.000. It will be difficult to replace some of the more important documents destroyed. None of the reports of the departments for 1894 had been printed, but all but that of the Secretary of the Common* wealth were In various stages of completion. Among those destroyed were the reports of the Auditor General, State Treasurer, Adjutant Genera). Attorney General, Factory Inspector, Insurance Departq,v1s14awi? uuuut, iyupui buit-ut UL uiuuiuia vipuom Schools, State Board of Agriculture and others. The Superintendent of Public Printing is required by law to have his office in the building where the State printing is done, but all of his records, etc., were saved. One of the worst losses are the stereotype plates for "Smull's Handbook," the official .legislative handbook, as far as completed, Over 30,000 copies of the report of the State Board of Agriculture were ready-for delivery ; many copies of the last column of State archives and the plates and outs for the report of the State College were lost in the Are. SWEPT OVER THE LIGHTHOUSE. A Great Tidal Wave on the Northeast Coast of Cape Breton. A terrible gale with snow and a tidal wave swept over the northeast coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, doing damage to property on St. Paul's Island. The tide gauge was swept away and thirty-three feet taken off the boat house by the sea. All telegraphic communication was so completely cut off that it is only now particulars are coming to hand. The sea went completely over the Northeast lighthouse and the keeper's dwelling, and flooded the buildings, the occupants being compelled to bail constantly from 9 a.m. till 3 p. m. Boat houses, stores, and fish houses, with their contents, were swept away at New Haven, Green Cove, Ingonish and Middlehead. At South Bay there is a total loss of all property. Every wharf and establishment with its contents and every boat are washed off the beach. A mile of wire and poles was carried away on Ingonish beach. DIED WITH HER CHILDREN. Mrs. Selbert Walked a Mile to a Hole in the Ice to Commit the Crime. Mrs. Amelia Seibert, wife of William Selbert, of Coropolis, Ohio, was drowned to- ' gether with her two children, a girl and a boy, aged respectively five years and nine months. The Coroner's jury decided that instead of an accident as at first reported the 'Calamity was murder and suicide. Tbestory revealed at the Inquest Is that Mrs. Seibert, while laboring under temporary aberration of mind, took ner infant in her arms and her little girl by the hand and went to the river, walking over a mile through the snow and Ice before she found a hole in the ice at the lower end of Neville Island. AN AUSTRALIAN BUTCHERr. Gold Seeker* Charged With Massacring an Entire Native Tribe. A dispatch from Perth, West Australia, jays that seven, men have been arrested in Coolgardie for massacring an entire native tribe, inoluding womon and children. The men had gone out gold seeking, and were ancamped near the village of the tribe which they are accused of exterminating. They jay'they acted in self-defense, as the natives menaced their lives. ( Debt Paid With Heavy Interest. Dr. Allan N. Leete, of Scranton, Penn.,, formerly an editor of the New York Tribune, bas been bequeathed $50,000 by Henry B. Carey, of Los Angeles, Cal., in consideration of $500 which Carey borrowed from Dr. Leete at Newark, N. J., in 1862. Carey afterwards became a land owner at Los Angeles, and died in January worth $7,000,000. Helpless Nebraska Farmers. The Rev. H. E. Bobbins, of Nebraska, is in Chicago in the interest of the drought sufferers of his State. In Custer County, with an area of nearly 3000 square miles, there are. he says, 15,000 helpless farmers, who will starve unless money is provided for the pur' chase of seed grain to be used next spring. Will Tax Bicycles ?3 Each. In the Chicago City Council it was ordered that the Corporation Counsel prepare an ordinance taxing every owner of a bicycle in Chicago $2 per annum. Over 10,000 bicycles are owned in the city. Dealers and riders threaten to carry the matter to the courts. Noway Gleanings. Roller skating is being revived. The house tax in Greece brings $400,000 a yeur. Tt.T-ITnr.t-oc T.noiclntiirn hft? marlfi hflttincr a felony. The Missouri River is now less than 150 feet wide at Atchison. Kan. "Nat" Herreshoff has agreed to take command of the Iselin syndicate America's cup defender in her early races. Some Missouri fnrmer3 now have to drive their cattle live miles to water. The election in Buenos Ayres resulted ia great victories for the Radicals. The Cincinnati papers are appealing for aid for the starving poor of that city. Colonel Waring, New York's new Street Cleaning Commissioner, is cleaning the streets. Emperor William h;-> expressed his approval of the project to make Berlin an in land port. The good effects of anti-toxine in New York City are shown in the reduced mortality from diphtheria. .' A Skve terrier was the only survivor of the crow of the steatusmo uiucoru, wrecKta oc Lake Michigan. Last year there were 404 rear-end collisions in this country, 311 head collisions and eighty-nim- at crossings. ;Gbeen Oooos" dealers are flooding Illinois and Iadinna with circulars telling how ro swuru $10,003 for jliO!!?. The English people';.re afraid of American oysters, because of a suspicion that they contain typhoid lever germs. To float an American loan in Loudon the Statist deelared the rate of interest must be higher than three per cent. Last year the Berlin municipality spent nearly 61.400,000 in excess of the income assigned la charitable relief. Oreat Britain, France and Russia are said Ito have instructed their Ministers to advise I China and Japan to $ooae to terms. I HOUSEHOLD MATTERS, BOUNCE OF SWEEPING* ' f The trae science of sweeping Qt& ,/ % moat untidy room is to doit witkfll p stout parlor broom and raise not warmuch as "a sneeze of dust." No mat* Js ter whether a carpet or matting or ? nice wood mosaic ia the floor cover ing, the work can be accomplished with absolute neatness and despatch by laying a bend of well-dampened . ^ sawdust along one side of the floor and i;n0 sweeping this over and over clear across the apartment. The sawdust . quickly licks up every mote and bit ' ? of lint which the broom sets stirring before it has time to float off into the " *?& air, and so protects furniture and the V| sweeper as welL Such a process can ijbe carried on in a sick room without ...-V the least inoonvenisnce to the invalid* and in this event, or where nurseries or sohool rooms are cleaned, it is wise, to sprinkle a little disinfectant in the -.? sawdust. When the work is done . 1 carefully gather it all ia adust-pan and toes it into the kitohen fire, burn- ^ ing it between meals.?New York Press. HOUSEKEEPING WISDOM. Medicine stains can be taken olT --Sj silver spoons, when polishing powder -s fails, by rubbing them with a cloth dipped in sulphuric acid and after- .AuS ward washing the spoons in soapsuds. When ink stains appear on any whits surface wet the spots with milk, rnb in some salt and allow it to remain on* It sometimes requires several applicae tions before the ink will be removed* If the material be colored, dissolve a ' )? teaspoonful of oxalic acid in a teacup- ;'' fal of boiling water and rub the v|S stained part well with the solation. The splashes which come on mahogany writing tables or inkstands can be washed off with spirits of salts or by q rubbing the spots with a cork which |j| has been dipped in aquafortis. When - ';1fl the stainB are gone wash the spot wity -M soap and water and polish. Strong 'i muriatic acid or spirits of salts will make an old floor look like new, and $8 chloride of lime mixed to a paste with water will be found a capital thing with which to olean silver standi which have become marked with ink, >' Chloride of lime can also be converted into a capital ink eraser, and will not damage the paper. Pat a drachm of citric acid in a wineglass with a teaspoonfnl of chloride of limS, then . "%?? nearly fill the glass with water and effervescence will ensue. Boll soma soft linen round the finger, dip it in the solation, touch the ink spots witk < If? f.inti/in <t M r? thaT Will His. V2B3l ^CUIIlO AX IWlV/Uf MMV* ?MV^ I appear. Marking ink oan be takes ' oat of linen by using a saturated : solution of cyanuret of potassium, ap- :^jg plied with a earners hairibrush. When ',; the marking ink has disappeared the linen should be well rinsed in cold v water.?New York Recorder. SOUPS WITHOUT MEAT. Whether or not the later decree of physicians to the effect that sonp con- . vf| tains little if any nourishment be m -J| wise one, it is a most delectable dish. It may not supply food, but it certainly does carry comfort in its wake, ' and no one who has tested the dinner - ( dfj with and the dinner without its appetizing influenoe is at all prepared to accept any argument against its use. The one drawbaok in the mind of the housewife is the time the 7 " proper making consumes. "Whoa stock can be made in quanity, even. ' 'k that does not hold, but- in iheaa ' ' Mb days of gas stoves, of small apart*ments and of limited stowing spaoe ; 'j the good old stock pot is not always ai hand. Then the soap without meat ~..-Vjffl becomes a boon. It requires far leas ' \i% cooking. It can be added to the din- $1 ner, if need be, at only a few minutea* notice, and withal it is, when rightly made, so delicious as to become its own excuse for being. The reoipe* ' . given below are all good. All ar? tried and all can be trusted. As will . be seen at a glance some few require only fifteen minutes' cooking and no v one over an hour:. Tnmato Soud?Pat in a etew pan one quart can of tomatoes and one V/$j pint of cold water. In a frving paa / i-'J put one tablespoonful of butter, and ' fa when warm add one large onion eat ],& fine. When the onion is colored stir ^ into the butter one tablespoonful of flour and add all to the tomatoe*. ''*fm Season with one tablespoonful of sugar, one teaspoonfnl ?f salt and on? "\ f saltspoonful of pepper. Put the stew, pan on the lire and let oontents boil ;}f& slowly for twenty minutes. Color with a little burned sugar, strain. <.?j through a fine sieve and serve with vja bread cut into dice and fried a crisp brown. HH Mock Bisque?Stew one-half can of tomatoes until soft enough to strain : easily; then stir into them one-half saltspoonful of baking soda dissolved in a little hot water. Put one quart . *j|| of milk in a double boiler; eook to gether one tablespoonfal of water and one of cornstarch; add enough of tha : hot milk to make it poar easily; then I stir carefully into the remainder of tha milk and boil for ten minutes. Add the remainder of one-third of a cup of butter, one tcaspoonfal of salt and half a saltspoonful of white pepper. Then stir in the strained tomatoes and serve very hot. Puree of Celery?Wash and scrapa one head of celery, and cut it into half inch pieces. Put it into on* pint of water and cook till very soft. Mash in the water in which it is boiled. Chop line one tablespoonful of onion . aud cook it in one pint of milk for ten minutes; then add the milk to tha celery. Pass all through a fine strainer and return to tho fire. Cook together one tablespo jnful of butter and one ol flour until smooth but not brownStir it into the boiling soup, season with salt and pepper, strain into the tureen and serve. Puree of Green Pens?Soak one quart of dried peas over night, pnt them in one pint of boiling water and pnnk until soft. Mash them in the f water 111 which they were boiled and run through u strainer, gradually adding one pint of hot water, which will help to separate the pulp from thl skin*. Return to the fire to boil again, Cook together one tablespoonful ol butter and one of flour until smooth but not brown. Stir into the boiling soup, then add half a teaspoonfal ol salt, one-quarter of a saltepuonful of ' pepper, half a teaspoonful of sagar and one pint of hot miik or cream. 8ervt boiling hot.?New York Herald. M j; ... .