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| TWO GENTL ** ' * ^ By SEWARD " [Copyright. by Robebt Boxseb'? Soxs. CHAPTER X. CONTINUED. One, a high-priest, stood out before them, painted anil adorned most hideously, and led the ceremonies "with contortions aud chanting more violent mnd weird tban tbe others. His Ions brown arm would outstretch toward ? portion of the semicircle, and that see inn nf it would throw themselves upon the ground and beat themselves, calling aloud the name of Liliuokalanj. It was evidently an invocation to the gods to resorethe queen. The priest made a detour of the worshiping line, touching first one, then another upon the head, all the while emitting horrible cries,groans,shrieks, to the chant they kept up constantly. Those so touched arose and followed him, throwing their arms about, rolling their eyes and mimicking their leader and, if possible, outdoing him in awful noises. Gradually this procession increased and the excitement of the crowd increased also. The leadei atruck into a wild, fantastic dance,and those following took it up. Then they who still remained in the semicircle beat the air with their hands, smote their palms together and emitted stran^o cries. Larger and larger grew the circle W?d fiercer grew their passion. Suddenly, the dancing column havinc crown to over half the number of ??o o? ? worshipers, it came to a pause. The followers of the priest stood trembling, quaking with excitement, their feverish thirst for religious extremes shown in their bloodshot eyes and panting bosoms. Apart from them was a tent. To this tent the priest danced slowly, his worshipers keeping up the chant and standing expectantly, as if something desirable were to come. The priest emerged from the tent, carrying a small white kid. He took up his old position near the fo/iinrr 1,ia >iord? ftf fanatics. illO) ouu xav4Md ?w -? ? , . he chanted solemnly over the Then, putting it on tho- "ground, he drew a I iiUn i mTiil n throat, catchiagj^^rtupthe blood that flowed from ^-^--^faestricken innocent. The kid gave a bleat and fell over?dead. Now the fervor was at its highest. The priest took the cup of blood, and dipping his finger into it, anointed his followers on the forehead, as he danced along the line. They howled, ahrieked and groaned most horribly. The women, losing all control of themselves and casting aside their reserve, threw themselves out from the circle and perfermed wonderful feats of writhing, twisting and suggestive contortions. . All the time the subject of their chant, the sole idea in their shrieks and dries, was the restoration of Queen Liliuokalani. The sacrifice to the gods was to propitiate them and make them smile npon the deposed qaeen. I felt a sensation of chilly horror when I looked at these fanatics. If their bloodletting sacrifices stopped short of human blood it would be a gratifying surprise, so ferocious did they look. The danoe began again, more fervid than before. The priest stooped down and picked up the dead kid. He chanted a prayer, and threw the carcass oa the fire, saying as he did so: "This is but the offering before the feast," and kept on his way. The smell of roasted flesh filled the air, jand seemed to enhance the ardor of the fanatics. Again the dancing procession stopped, and again the priest waltzed off toward the tent. This time he took another with him. They were in the tent some few minutes, and then emerged, caryiug between them a burden. This burden wasooveredby a large white cloth, bat it seemed to be a human body on a litter. . . . Now there was a surprise for us. Behind the two- natives walked Captain Pericles Jobbs, solemn, sternlooking, dressed in the uniform of the rank he had once held. "Jobbs!" whispered Gordon. "What can it mean?" "St?" I said. "We will loon see." The priest and his helper were greeted with louder chants than ever. They laid down their burden and the priest commenced the dance again. The crowd were now insane with their consuming passion. They filled the air with cries for Liliuokalani. Jobbs stood stolidly looking on, but even in his eyes there was a loo* of insanity. The priest waved his long knife in the air and exhorted his followers to farther efforts in dancing. This was necessary, for .some were even now dropping from exhaustion. * Then the fierce-looking priest made several passes over the covered body, and, stooping down, raised the clothr EMEN S OF. HAWAII. ? W. HOPKINS. .un?.? "Great Hpavens!" ejaculated Gordon, seizing his sword. "Can it be Winnie?" I cried, my throat parched and my tongue almost refusing to act. "See! He will kill her!" "Forward. men!', shouted Gordon. | "Xo life there is sacred but the girl's!" A soldier stopped, raised his riflf and took aim. We could not reach the priest befor? he had committed his act. He turned and saw us. With a tierce cry hi made a sweeo downward with his cruel nife, his lace working with passion "Fire!" shouted Gordon, forging ahead. CHAPTER XT. At Gordon's command, a dozei i rifles sent their destructive tire into the group. The soldier who had been first to him was first to fire. His aim wa 1 sure. The priest fell dead beside his intended victim. I darted to the litter. The girl was not Winnie. Iu the moonlight, making the scene more wild and weird tnan it would have been in daylight, bur imaginations had become so distorted that both Gordon and I had thought it was Winnie on the altar ol the Gods. It was Mr. Seldon's French servaut, unconscious from fright, bul who was restored to her employei safely. We had to fight for it. At the first volley many of the natives fled into the woods. Others?bi far the majority of them?maddened by their fanatical worship and the loss of their priest, set upon us, and in tana nf AH seeuieu icnucos tu i.uu 'uw ? ? armed force. Tliey shrieked and howled and danced around us, regardless of the fact that the riCes continually poured a deadly fire into tkcijj* Jobba with a wa9 armed with x^0*&ta/as, of course, was Gordon. Seeing his commander attacked, one of the soldiers ra\sml bis rifle and aimed at Jobbs. jPut Gordon, who was as cool as a Stoic, saw the act, and bade Lira not fire. He did nol want Jobbs killed by any unfair advantage of arms. So these two fought a duel, the fiercest I have ever seen? the American, cool, calm, yet inexperienced; tho Englishman, a bettei swordsman, but iu his frenzy not a match for Gordon's strength. The enraged natives pressed them on all sides. Jobbs was wounded and fell lo the ground. We bad our bands i full to take care of ourselves, and could give him no attention, so he bled to death. I had got away from the soldiers, and was having a severe time of it, armed only with a revolver. I had psed all the chambers of the pistol, and was engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with a native. The fellow was more powerful than I. I struck him leveral times, and knocked him dowr once, but he seemed to be wilder and stronger after each blow. He seized ne around the neck. There was < naniaeal light in his eyes. I coulc "eel his hot breath in my face. Hi; oit into my cheek. The pain was intense, but the horror was worse. Ai ae drew so near me, I saw the scale; of the curse on him. My soul turned sick. I had beeu bitten by a leper. But there was no time to thinl ibout it then. A soldier came to raj rescue. The fight lasted a short tirm longer, and the fanatics, seeing thai the soldiers would eventually annihi late them if they persisted fled. Gordor patched up my cheek, and .ve started home. The excitement in Honolulu, already great enough, was heightened by the story we told. It became evident that the Provisional Governmenl must resort to extreme measures tc prevent an outbreak. The part that Job'os played in the affair was made clear by tho confession of a native. Jobbs had become insane, brooding Dver the deposition of the queen and dis own fancied wrongs. He joined the native fanatics and inflamed their passions and helped worh up the religious frenzy, under the pretense that if the gods were propitiated by a sacrifice the queen would be restoied. By thus working on :heir natures, always ready for the re;urn to idolatrous practices, he no ioubt hoped to organize au army ol fanatics, who would follow him blindly, ?nd lead by his own unreasoning hate, retake the Government House and re* itore the queen to her possessiona CHAPTER XII. The longer Minister Willis re mained in Honolulu and defied th? I will of the majority the larger anc stronger that majority became. The cawe oyer to a mafu Many EnglisB sympathizers of the queen lost their admiration and turned their sympathies with the Provisional Government, which, under the calm guidance of Polo and Uncle Tom; carefully refrained from any act of violence toward the queen or her party. Business remained practically suspended. The peculiar attitdue of the American minister kept us wondering whether we would be blown out of Existence by the warships in our baror or whether he would, after all his bluff and bluster, finally leave us alone to work out our own salvation, which would be an easy matter, once we could rid ourselves of his menacing Iront. One day he would seem to be on friendly terms with Dole's government and Americans would take heart. Then again would come a menace that the queen would be restored by force if necessarv. Then our peoplu would look askance at the frown in-j pun-boats under bis command, an-,' their fears would be redoubled. The Irue condition of things seemed to be that Willis came to Honolulu with a false impression of the nitu.v tion and with instructions to perform services that could not be performed. If his instructions fell short of having authority to use force against his own. countrymen in the interest of a rotten throne, be sought to make the omission impalpable to us and tried to give us the impression that it needed but a word from him to bring the iron from the mouths of the big guns on his warships into our very houses. But his policy of intimidation did not work. That is, it did not deter Dole and the gallant men about him from ! marching on in the strict perform* anee of their duty, true to themselves, true to their own manhood, their consciences and their fellow-men. &nd Willis remained a btuinbliugblock in the way of progress, and his policy a rejiroacli to the United States. Gradually the circle of the malcontents became smaller. Disorder did not entirely cease, for the disorderly element was against the Provisional Government and sought'to worry the Liberals by unlawful acts. But evildoer# were brought to j>unkL*? ind, out of the inptrnfT wrought by Willis^D^l-^'h'i his cabinet begau n i> rTT7Tii|i|ii inn bin era of order. 1 Gordon and I plunged again into ihe search for Winnie. With soldiers at' our back we went over to the Island of Oaliu, seeking for other jcamps of fanatics or some cluc to the mystery. But we found nothing. Thete was an evident hatred toward is among the natives, and if they held my information about my missing sister, they carefully concealed the fact. Th9 government took a hand and instituted a search, but had uo better success than we ka^t Never had an abduction been so skillfully managed. It seemed as if Winnie had been taken up into the air and dissolved. No one could understand it. Everybody gave up the idea of ever finding her, except Gordon and myself. Almost without hope, and certainly without any foundation for hope, we kept up the search. Jollroy Seacamp's new American Flotel became the rendezvous for the Linerals. He kept his word, and a picture of the ex-President, his secretary of state and Minister Stevens jonld be seen in the windows. But .Tollroy was not talking so much about being au American, these days. He seemed to think that being au American under the present condition of affairs was not so much tc the glory nf <vn individual as it had been be fore. And not only Seacamp, but other pronounced Annexationists begau to waver. Politically, things were going from bad to worse. The nerves of the people were at concert pitch. They were tuned up for anything. They expected the worst* President Dole remained calm, picking his way among the rocks cautiously and sagaciously. And in the dawn of the anti-annexation feeling among the Liberals, he found Uncle Tom of great assistance to him, for my uncle tiad never flinched from expressing ais opinion lirmly for an independent government. He was the leader of the right wing, which stood out for the building-up of a country standing ilone. They saw that in the political lutonomv of Hawaii lay her only chance for future greatness. As Seacamp said one day to a party >f us at the American Hotel: "There's no use beating about the bush any longer. The present administration of the United States government doesn't want us. It prefers a 1 Uo Jrl/sn nf monarcuy. xuuu o no ium w* racy. I suppose. Well, why should we care? We have every resource for making a successful country, independent of .any other. It is oue thing to want annexation under .a Republican administration that upheld the principles of a republic and looked out for the interests of Americans. But who wants to danglo at tho belt of au ad? ministration that refuses to listen to reason, aud thinks only of reducing this country to a state of immorality and degradation, ic restore.? corrupt DR. FEI Family IN/I Cough Honey. J Kidney - Backache CURE. 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And the Royalists, cheered by the dissensions among tho Liberals, looked on hopefully, thinking to regain their power and ascendeucy when the Provisional Government had become weakened by internal struggle and controversy. The campaign was pushed with vigor on both sides. The election day came, and we all waited anxiously for the result. ~1 ~ ~ * * ?/%. /I**-** cjlinttrarl a llnrwl. X lit; VlUSCUl IUC lluj OU\S.,?u .. ? some majority for the right wing. The future of Hawaii was no? secure. She might unfurl her dag before the world as a republic, youug but strong, dauntless and sure to wiD. (To bo continued.) Official Reception of a Do;. The (log muzzltng.order adopted recently in London necessitates a deal of red tape at times. A woman was anxious to bring a favorite collie to London from the Continent. The corporation committee responsible called a special meeting for the purpose, a formal order had to be obtained from the Home Office, and when all the preliminaries had been concluded it became necessary for an inspector to be sent down to the (looks in order to receive the animal and deliver it safely to its destincSouFor many years the French have bctn J endeavoring to devise seme means of bringing the oases of the desert of Sahara into such communication with the rest of the world as to admit of their cultivation. Camel trains are too slow and uncertain, and railways are impracticable. At last a suitable means of transportation has apparently been found. It is the automobile. The new vehicle, therefore, otters anouier means of carrying civilization into Africa. Automobile trips across the hitherto pathless desert may become in the near future one of the things which every tourist will undertake as a part of this Old World travel. 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I6TON & CO., \l A RE. - - oiiflflflttwirt) ^fl!?florthat reason we are better lents of the trade than anyone. r HA f^TQ'Nv Plows, They have no equal. PRESIDENT FOR A DAY. David R. Atchison For One Day Was Su* preme in the United States. Few people are aware and few histories record the fact that the Lnited States ever had a President of a day. Fewer people still know that his birthplace was in Fayette County, but a tew miles from Lexington, Ky., and that he was a citizen of Missouri. The man Wi.o enjoyed this unique distinction was David R. Atchison. The little brick cottage is still standing where David R. Atchison was born. It is about four miles from Lexington, near the little I country place of Kirklevington. His father was William Atchison, who had settled there the latter part of the eighteenth century, and had built the small brick house that is now pointed out as the birthplace of a President. David Atchison attended law school at the famous old Tran.-ylvania University, and after graduation moved to Missouri, where he was signally honortd in a political way. After serving in several other political offices he was elected to the United States Senate. From 1843, when he was first elected, he served continuously until 1855. During a large portion of this term of service he acted as President pro tempore of the Senate. It was while in the Senate that the honor of being President of the republic for a day was thrust up-r? him. ? - * r t> J ^ T"? _ I f _ l ne administration 01 rrcsiacni rviK closed at noon on Sunday, March 4. 1S49. His successor. Gen. Zachary Taylor, was inaugurated and took the oath of office at noon on Monday. March 5. Vice-President George M. Dallas could not serve, as his term had expired with that of President Polk. In this dilemma Mr. Atchison, who was -o often President pro tempore of the nation, by right of succession, as it were, dropped into the Presidential chair for twenty-four hours. Mr. Atchison never married. He died about eighteen months ago at Nashville, Tenn. The house is a very plain, two-room, one-story brick structure, still in a good state of repair. A much more pretentious home has been built upon the land, lite ntlf nf fhp HlflfU of the Atchison family, and the Atchison home is now used as servants' quarters.?New Orleans Times-Democrat. And now some iconoclast has discovered that there is no such thing as a Turkish bath in Turkey. We expect ta hear next that there are no Frenchfried potatoes in France.