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t I THE COUNTY RECORD. ?g== ? Published Every Thnr?day ?AT? ttNGBTBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BY? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. Reports to the Marine Hospital Service from many parts of the world show a continuous spread of the bubonic plague in various sections. Siu<<? its outbreak in the Bombay presidi :icy, over three years ago. it lias 1h>cu extremely virulent in India, subsiding somewhat at times, then reasserting itself with fresh destructivencss CT. I! i. The hymn. "Xearer, My tied i<? unee," wnicn x'resiuem .uii\iui!-,? murmured in his dying hour. was written by Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, who was boru in 1 SO.". It was a record of her own religious experience, and was written as a memorial of answered praj'er, probably without auy expectation that it Avould be of public service. It was furnished, with thirteen othcz hymns, to Charles Fox's "Collection of Hymns and Anthems," published iu , London in 1841. ' I United States Consul Ilayues, of j I Rouen, says that the metric system is tc-day compulsory in twenty countries, , representing more than 300-.<tdd.00t) iu- | habitants ? (Jeruiauy, Austria-IIun gary, Belgium. Spain, France. <Jrecce. T4a1W A.1 o rtrl a 1 ] ', j! _ ' xiaij, *^i-iuLiiauuc<, i vun^.u, i?v*. mania, Sorvia, Norway, Sweden. j Switzerland, Argentine Itepublir. Bra- ( zil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Veuc- ' zuela?and advises American export- J ers in dealing with any of those eoun- : tries to adopt the system, ] | Hope springs eternal in the broasis < of many visionaries, who imagine that they may get possession some j day of enormous estates in England, j The latest delusion of that sort is 1 Inspired by a ridiculous fable to the ! effect that in the British Court of J Chancery property amounting in value : to more than ?200,000,000 is awaiting i proofs or deseeut to be suomiucu ny American lielrs, who base their claims on a lineage going back to an English , ancestor dead some two hundred years. How wild and fantastic mo the dreams of such Americans: ?===!^ : 1 There is in successful operation in Lynn, Mass., a "Friendly Inn," the , object of which is to provide a clean. 1 respectable place where the poor may obtain their meals and lodging at the 1 J lowest possible cost compatible with ! j decent service. The record, just made j puDiic, ior tue past iweive mourns j > shows that" within that period Lynn's j "Friendly Inn" lias served ineals to j 00,812 persons, an average of 104 a ] day, at an average eost of 01.1 cents a 1 meal, and has provided beds, witli ac- j companying toilet facilities, for mure than 5000 lodgers, at an average cost \ of a trifle less than fourteen cents a ; -? night. ] .\n "Er?r>Ush r-ritlr? wrtttni* im the ^ | TWO OENTI (||| By SEWARD [Copyright. l>y Bodzkt Boxneh's Soss.? CHAPTER XVL CONTESTED. "Oh, Pele, thou great and good goddess, omnipotent, wise and kind, I am from this day thy faithful follower and worshiper, aud do take upon me the vows of the Kammiloukanilimawai. I will place my life at the bidding of your priestesses, and will obey you in all things. By the light of the sun and the glory of thy crown, Pele, I swear these things!" "You are now one of us,"saidLowai, when I had finished. "What am I to do with the ring?" I asked. "Keep your business a secret from everybody. Even your undo must not know it." "I promise again,"Isaid, impatiently "You must take that pack and gc with the ring I have given you to the nsnermau, jraina, iu xvuuuhi^ukui, uii the coast of Molokai, and present vourself to him. He will offer you Lis hand in salutation. Upon the middle finger of his hand is a ring Bimilar to yours. When yon clasp his hand the rings must touch each other. You will feel a peculiar sensation, and will know by that token that Pele lives and that you are her follower, and Patua will recognize yon, and will take you by night to the island oi Lanai. You will land on the east coast of Lanai, and will proceed at r?i?r?o inland Yon will find a roucrh path leading along the bottom of a deep gulf. Iu rainy seasons there is water there, bijt now it is dry. Follow that path until you come to a large, white stone?a huge stone?of glistening whiteness. If there is no one there yon must wait. Nimolnu will come. You will know Nimolan because he has a ring like this. Aud he will offer you his hand in the same manner as Patua, aud you must take it. Nimolau is the guide to the priestess Kaumai. Tell him you are the successor to poor old Lowai. aud you wish to be led into the presence of Kaumai. He will know, when you have obeyed his orders, whether you have told the truth. Then he will conduct you to the temple of Kaumai, and you must bow before her. NjmDlau will tell you what to do. You must obey every word he says, or yon are lost. Toward the last, the words of old Lowai came painfully and slowly. "What more?" I asked, as he paused. "Nothing." "Nothing! You have not told me a tvord of my sister. Where is she? Why do you not tell mo that?" "She is there. I have told yon die is held bv Kanmai to be sacrificed [o Pele when the volcano spits up its tire." "But how can I seo her, anil how :an I get her away from there?" The old man lookeil_at me vacautlj n moment. "I do not know," he replied, feebly. "I have made you a priest ol the Kammiloukanilimawai anil have told you how to reach the presence ol tvaumai, the priestess of . Pele it Lanai. Your sister is there. I cat tell you no more. I know of no waj (tou can get a victim away from Pele when once she has been chosen. !ron must take the course you thiulj best." "It is horrible! Who stole Winnie?" "Tlio rmrlilouc PaIa dr>A1 Tint tf?ll til nortals whom she semis to seize het j victims. Nor does the priestess ] Kaumei. They would curse me il I they knew I told you this. But you i have been very kind to old Lowai, and Lowai does not forget." Saying this, the old chief ley back upon his pillow, exhausted. I was so unnerved by what I had heard and so torn with my belief and unbelief, that I sat like a man o! done. The horrible possibilities-conlured up in my brain by jLowai's dory chilled and frightened me. Mj 5rst impulse was to rush to the authorities and make them acquainted vith facts as I had learned them, aud ?~ r, f f rw?l_- O fUU + OQQ Tvnil. I IttVO i? AW1 uvvuvn vmw |/?.yvwvvu mmu . nai and release my sister. But ij | Lowai's story was true, no doubt bis idvice was good. If Winnie was on ;he island of Lanai, she must be resmed by strategy alone. So I resolved, controlled, seemingly, jy an impulse emanating from th< thrnnken figure on the bed, to abidt >y Lowai's advice and visit Kaumai. Malliauki came in with Doctor Tiling. The doctor bent over old Lowai. "He is dead," be said. "Literallj lied of age." I waited until the doctor hod gone, rnd then told Lowai's daughter thai te !had given me-the leather pack. "I know."_"he o-iid. ami hunt. novel of the future, suggests that its j most salient characteristic may bo "the relegation of the element of sex 3 love to a secondary place." Accurate j persons will suggest at once that the ^ result would be, not a noval. but a ro- ] mance. For the conveqtional love J story leading up to the wedding inarch, the wedding breakfast and the 1 bridal tour, even if these things are ] cut out at the last moment, is as essen- 1 tially a part of our novels as it is of 7 our plays. An American or English ^ novel is expected to end with wedding j bells, just as a French one begins j with them. No matter what digres- 1 sjuiis irniy i?e imruuuceu, me msiory of the love affair of tile heroine and ] hero is the string upon which the t whole narrative is strung. Even in 1 the historical novels, princes, principalities and powers, great statesmen ^ and great soldiers, circulate around f the two modest figures whose liappi- 1 ness is at stake. Ilcnce the custom, common with many feminine readers, 1 of turning to the last pages, ufter reading the first chapter, to satisfy their c very characteristic curiosity as to whether or uot the tale has a happy J ending, remarks the Now York Evening Sou. \ UEMEN "*' | .OF HAWAII. @ W. HOPKINS. , weeping, over the corpse of her aged i father. A servant came from the honse a ad i jet me as I was returning from Lo- I i wni'ft nnttftCA. Ha hanrlAd niA a letter. "A messenger has just come with this. He says it is important. Youi uncle had me bring it to yon at once." I eagerly opened the letter, recognizing Gordon's handwriting. The note was short, and evidently written j in a Jiurry. "Deab Tom/' ?5 ran, " meet mc without fall at the American to-night. I have | learned something about Winnie, and w? must act at once. Do not breathe a word ! OTfMstoa living soul. Even now, rr?\it .trouble. Be cautious,and act as if nothing j nas happened. Above all, trust nobody. "Yours, Abtkck." I impatiently waited for night to rome. Hefore dark 1 was at Seacainp's | hotel. . "Did Gordon say lie would be here to-night:" I asked Seacamp. i t l?o vn iiaI conn i'n A iiU 1 v iiVH OtLU VIU1UUM 114 Jays." I waited for hours but Gordon did not appear. I grew anxious and apprehensive of danger. I resolved to hunt him up. I rode to President Dole's house. "Have you seen Uordon?" I asked him. "I was to meet him to-night but he failed to keep the appointment." "No," replied Dole; "I thought he was with you at The Corals. I had irranged a meeting between him and :be Secretary of the Interior to-day at ave o'clock, but he did not come. What can have happened him?" Yes, what? What might not have happened to Gordon, with the myster- 1 ies thickening around us? I bade Dole 1 good night, and hurried home with an aching head or tyeart. I fully expected iny turn would come next. I would be prepared fo;r it when it came. CHAPTER XVII. That night I passed sleeplesslv,pondering over the strange events of the day. It -was clearly my duty to place , in the possession o! President Dole j such facts as I knew that would assisl : iiim in his search for Gordon. Gor- j Ion's disappearance would make a ?reat disturbance. He had become a \ marked factor in Hawaiian affairs. ! The commander of an army cannot be ' spirited away without making a stir, j feut while I proposed to make Dole I icquainted with the object of the meet- { ing which was tto have taken place be-' Iween Gordon and me at the Aineriran Hotel, and even to give him Gordon's letter to me, I was equally firm in my resolve to say nothiug about the ! strange taie ot tne oiu cmei, juowai. ; { In fact, liad it not been for the new ' I mystery,the disappearance of Gordon, ' just when he had discovered some i clue to the w hereabouts of my Bister ! i Winnie, I should have doubted the wild story of the priestess Kauwai, in ?very detail. But it was evident thai ve were surrounced by a mysterious power that had spies in our very aouseholds, watching for every act )f suspicion or any move that might :ead to their discovery. The more I reasoned the more man! ifest it became to me that I must seek J Winnie alone and on the plan partly i laid down by Lowai. If i attempted j :o tell any one else of the mysterious | Knmmilonkunilimawai, I would either be laughed at or would create so pro- j 1 r i; J 1._ 1. i IUUUU ii uensuuuii uuu luafte uu uiucu * of a stir that I would be snatched away j bodily myself. Indeed, as I stated in the foregoing chapter, I actually feared md half expected that at any moment I might be seized by pome uncanny though powerful hand and spirited iway through space. Having reached a conclusion op these lines, I made haste to put my plans into operation. Early the next morning I was at Dole's house. The president was at breakfast, but, being well iu his favor, no ceremony ever obstructed my visits. I was ( sondncted into his presence. "President Dole, you will, I j>re- i Imnie, institute a search for Gordon?" I said. "Why. certainly so. if he does not . appear. But I cannot understand why 3 he should be in hiding. He is a most j trustworthy young mau." , "True. Your confidence in him reflects credit upon yourself. He is not \ roluntarily in hiding. You recollect lhat last night I told you that Gordon ind I were to have a meeting at the American." ; "I remember your saying that," re- | plied the president, looking at me | sharply. ' "Here is a note I received from j Gordon yesterday." I handed Gor- j Ion's letter to him. He read it over | larefully. f "There is some devilment back oi i all this. We are not yet free from the 3 superstitious practices or the vindictive hate of some of the natives. This J f demands onr inimed'iala attention j 1 1 What are yon going to do to-ciay?" "I am going to prepare for a trip \o Molokai." "Molokail What takes you there just'nowV" "I am anxious to begin the monument to Warren, and must choose the 3ite. The ship sails to-morrow, and I 3hall go in her." President Dole studied me carefully k moment. His shrewd eyes seemed to pierce the armor of assumed ease I had put on. But all he said was: ''Very well." | , I knew that Dole did not believe me. Yet, my resolve to pursue my search alone, with Lowai's secret untold, was strong, and I risked Dole's displeasure rather than failure. For I knew that even had Dole given credence to the story of the priestes9, md sent a force to intercept her, WinDie would be killed in revenge before ve could rescue her. My part with Dole was done and, leaving him with Gordon's letter in his hand, I returned to The Corals. I had not as yet examined the leather pack bequeathed to me by Lowai, nor had I moro than casually noted the ring. Upon examining this ornament, 1 found it to he a peculiar combination of metals woven together. Zinc and copper seemed to he prominent in its inake-np. I had seen similar rings worn by people in the islands, but as they were given to nil sorts of odd jewelry and ornaments, the imculiai rings had never aronsfjd any curiosity or excited my attention. It was plain that, if Lowni's story was true, aur the Kammiloukanilitnawai really en> isted, it had many priests in Oahu. some of them of considerable politics, importance. In the privacy of my cram room examined the pack. The contents of it certainly gave a coloring of reality to what Lowai haa .1 X _ 1. - xl- _ X Xl maimed 10 oe me irum. I found a long robe, which completcv '.y enveloped me. v This robe was ornamented with various stones found in abundance in ihe mountains; some of them, if pre jcrly cut and finished, perhaps valuible. And there were hideous heads ind figures, idols no doubt, cut from the lava-stone, the workmanship lomewhat clumsy, but the character if the figures showing fully the idea. There was a girdle of leather about three inches wide, studded with silver aail-heads, which fastened about my .vaist with a huge silver buckle. There vas also a mask, whch concealed my 'eat urea. Arrayed in these garments, I stood aefore the glass, wondering if the aiysteries of which I had heard and of .vliich I was now a part could really jxist in a land that hail made such vast strides in tho direction of publio mlightenment and liberal Go vera' nent. But I had 110 time to waste in co1 tation. The ship left Ilonolnlu for itrolokal >n the following morning, and' I had not yet informed Unch: Tom that I was going. I had feared that the task of getting iway from him would be a severe one. But the excuse I had given Dole itrnck me as being the best I could ise. Everybody knew of my projected monument to Warren, and it nust be plain that I would need to risit the spot before having any of the vork begun. It happened to be at ihe time of 'car when there was little to do, comtaratively, and I could more easily be spared. When I told Uncle Tom of my inentiou to visit Molok&i, much to my igreeable surprise, he offered no objection. "Goon, my boy," he said. "I can lttend to things while yon are away. I know how you feel about Warren, and rou are no more in earnest than I am. Hurry the thing along, and see that ;he tribute is worthy of the grandest nan alive." ( So I hurried to put in my gripsack snot- fpw tliiurmi as were indispensable ,,v" *w r?" - ? . o 1110, as well us the contents of the . eather pack. The rest of the clay I spent on the lorch with Uncle Tom, except, of ' ourse, the time devoted to onr meals, 1 end an hour toward evening when we Irove up the valley a few miles and ' jack, a enstom of Uncle Tom's, which ( le had followed for years. , And tho next day Uncle Tom drove i nae to the wharf, ftud saw me embark i or Afolokai. It did not take long to get to Kan- '' inkakai. It is a small town on the .oath coast of Molokai, and of no mportanee as a port. Still, it was the ] lest harbor on that island, and plans ; lmnn oirinoTKil hv the envermnent I > o improve the anchorage anil landing acilities. The place is inhabited almost enirely by natives, who gain their livng by fishing anil raising taro. Everything at Fanimkakai was poor md primitive. Until recently, the >eople had lived in grass huts, and rith no furniture save a few mate to | leep on, and a hige pot for the prepration of poi. In each hut was a I ire-place?rude, clumsy, but serviceable in a climate where a fire is used nly for cooking. i The first person I saw in the town j ras a small individual, who sat in the 1 hade of a naka-tree, resting himself, ? vy , . oot that he was weary from labor. ^ But it is part of tho ehai acter of the na- A live of Hawaii to he always resting. |J "Do you know Patua, the fisher- 9 man?" I asked him, iu the native 1 tongue in which I had become profi:ient. "Oh, yes, I know Patua, the fisher?aian," he said. "Do you know where he lives?" "Oh, yes, I know where Patua, the fisherman, lives." "Well, where?" "How much?" I had forgotten something. The true Kanaka, as the natives are improperly called, never give up any desired information for nothing. I threw him a coin. , "Pr.tua lives in the big house Over on the point," he said, stretching his M arm and pointing toward a strip of A land covered with trees, reaching out into the water. Big houses are comparative. While Patua's might be a big house to my informant, I did not expect to find it eery great in size. I started on :oward the place indicated. I have said that tbo natives were improperly called Kanakas. The word actually means, in their language, "a aiau," not necessarily a man of their Kiif o mnti Pllf fltA TAVIA aas been indiscriminately employed fo designate this peculiar race; and ?s they are fast dying out, it is not worth the trouble to invent a ne\r onine. I found Patna. (To be continued.) Web to the length of two and a quarter miles has beeu drawn from the bodjr oi a single spiderPOWERFUL MEN OF THE EAST. An Interesting Explanation of their Unusual Strength. The Secret of their Marvelous Vitality and jServc Force Jealousy Guarded. Women of the Ilarem Coin pound a Potion Whose Rejuvenating effects are Almost Miraculous and Astonished the Most Skeptical, The fondest hopes of ancient or modern seekers after the fountain of perpetual youth, can scarcely have aimed higher than the results achieved by the marvelous compound, known throughout the East as EL MOKJilR. Travellers returning to Europe havp, from time to time, brought astonishing tales of the rejuvenating effects produced bv this Wonder of the Orient. Crudely compounded by the Women of the Harem, from formulas handed flown orallv from generation to gener ation, the secret of this preparation thus jealousy guarded and known only to the inmates of the harem and the court physician-, EL SOKBIR has oeeu practically unobtainable, excepting by the favored ones for whom it was intended. Recently, however, a prominent native Arabian Physician, banished from his country for political offense, and deprived of liis vast possessions, has availed himself of his knowledge, to cam a livelihood befitting his station, | by supplying this marvellous conapound, I EL MOKOIR. to the nobility aud | waalthier classes of all Europe, who have cheerfully paid him large fees iu return for tho benefits received. Content with the latge income derived from this practice, this aged physician has repeatedly refused very liberal oilers mails to him f<?r the formula of hi> remedy, but, lie has finally agreed with the importing house or Tiik XoVES-I'YLLI K ( SMPAfc'Y, of Philadelphia, to put it op in convenient form for salt- exclusively in the United Urates'and this lirm having the eXclnvivc agdicv, now offers it for tho. first time to tne American public. This Remedy must not be confounded with the numerous nervous exhaustion. lost manhood, and self abuse remedies which ate advertised.under a variety ol names, as there is absolutely nothing which scientific chemistry has been able to produce, which can oven approach the peerless EI. MOKlHtt. a purely vegetable compound, extracted from rare tropica! roots and herbs. EL MOKKIE is a remedy for ouo specific purpose, which is to strengthen, the vital force and prevent decay in men, its marvellous effects in arresting decay of ilie vital prim*.'pies, especially in the male, being unparalleled and never-failing. and as its 0-e is universal all over the East, where strong, ( virile nun with large families of de- a scendaitts :tre the rule, there must lx; I no doubt, either as to its efficiency or I benefit to the general system. 1 While if is an absolute specific and positively guaranteed to euro the worst ase of nervous debility, lost manhood, jr similar weiknesH'S tine to excesses >r youthful errors' it is also used with the greatest >ueecs>asa vitalizes, giving power to all we..?k parts, and d<? ve loping and maintaining the full ? ; ? natural vtjjor tu It is ;>ni up for J lie American trade i in tafoh?" form, and though extremely I powerful. ifisperfectly haimles* and . A .'fljify taken, one tablet bring a do.se a intl doing (lie work at once, an/1 so- W ividcntly as to leave no doubt in the mind of ilic patient It will cure you m :0 as to stay cured. <3 Every package i< opened and rare Tolly examined by the importers w hen received, and is then remind ynder 1 their seal ahd imsitlve' guarantee to \ jure. Jt will he sent prepaid, under plain cover, with full ond complete iirections. on receipt of the priee, $1.01 per package, or six packages for $5.i?0. Add res> T11K XoYEs- FtLKER ( 'om I'A x v, Market and 24th Sts.. Philadelphia. In place of wedding cake in Holland^^H vedding sweets are given?"bri^^^HK ankers," they are called. They^^HR^H landed round by children, an^RH^^E ;erved in flower-frimitned ba^dfl 9