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"E'TT 4 TV'p ~l : IW1i ' SUPI I S' TWO OENTL By SEWARD ^ ^ " (Copyright, by Rodebt Bok*eb'? 8om. CHAPTER XIII. The effects of the result of that eleolion were made manifest at once. It was not an easy matter for the ?rdent Annexationists to accept the ultimatum of the majority vote, but manfully they had done it, and the intelligence of the reunited elements of the American League was turned toward the upbuilding of a country Tich in promise and already yielding fruitfully to their nourishing care. Sandford Dole was chosen president -of the republio without an opposing oandidate. The sagacity of the man, his patriotism, his unwavering adherence to the principles of' freedom, xnade him the ideal candidate. In the oonstrnction of his cabinet, he again urged upon my uncle to ac eept the office he had tilled since the revolution; hut Uncle Tom declined. He was not the man he was at that time. He was aging under the sorrow of Winnie's loss, and his mind seemed Always troubled. He was physically muoh enfeebled by what ho had gone through, and, laying aside the cares and responsibilities of office, he withdrew to The Corals to rest. Cordon still had the army. Never had a man been accepted as the Adopted son of a country with so muchj -affection as Gordon. He was looked wpon as the backbone of our military force, and with Gordon at the head, ?ur little army was twice as great as it Would be without him. The ex-queen, as Mrs. Donimis? her family namo?still lived in Honolulu, on Washington Square; but her followers, outside the ignorant natives, were few, and the Royalists had sunk to the level of political intriguers, without a cause and without Lope. The wisdom of the government was shown best when it looked to the' wisdom of other successful republics for aVtonf a mncf on VXMUipie 1U UilUgluK UUUUV a "w ?essful form of legislative influence; nd from the best bricks in the fabrics of other republics they gave to Hawaii *' substantial, indestructible rule of the people for their own good and under their own control. The election laws were simple, but they were safe. There was no ballot! box stuffing, no purchasing of votes. There was no rioting at the polls, for the rule of the majority was for the Tight, and by the rule of the majority the guardians of the peace were chosen. The electrio franchise, under a constitution framed by twelve of the ablest men of Hawaii and adopted by the people, was zealously guarded. Citijtenship was conferred upon those who were born in the country, or who,' after having resided there a certain number of years and had given evi-j denco of their intention, claim, citizenahip papers. But to beoome a voting citizen of Hawaii an oath of allegiance was necessary to the foreign-born, by which they were held always to sup port the constitution and uphold the | government against all others, and; J further, the naturalized voter must forswear all allegiance to any other power. Nor was this all. To vote well, a citizen must vote intelligently. Therefore, an ability to Tead and write must be proven before n examining-board before the wouldJ be citizen obtained the papers that entitled him to exercise his voice in the management of affairs or the eleclion of legislative officers. It has been noticed that during a long season of drought or the other extreme, overwhelming storms, all nature stunts. * It does not progress. Nothing thrives. Everything seems to go to the dogs. The blight removed, the cooling showers in the one instance, the warm breath of the suu-dried air in the other, bring about a change. Nature goes forward in leaps and plunges. It makes up for lost lime. The balance must be restored,1 the gap must bellied; and after u time, all traces of the former stagnation hre gone. So it was with us in Hawaii. vmce saieiy unuer iua new cuuaw "tution, Dole inaagarated, the govern-l merit and legislative offices filled, business went on with a rush. Everything boomed. Money that had been held with a view to getting it safely out of the country wis put into industrial ventures that employed men and brought trade and commerce to our chores. As out of the darkness of the night ?omes the dawn and after the dawn the brilliant light of day, so, out of the darkness into which Hawaii had been plunged by corruption, intrigue and'treachery, she came proudly into the light of freedom and the dawn of an era of prosperity. Where, under the old regime, there had been one ship in our harbor there were now ten. There were iron, tin, lead, silver and gold in the mountains, and upon the importation of the products o? , * ' -w?. * 4: 'LEMENT TO THEREi EMEN | )F HAWAII. ? XT rJADLTTXTC IV , iiVi fWll'Vwl* these there was a pruuuci s tariff. The stagnation and demoralization of business in the United States when her tariff was ia danger had been our object-lesson, and we builded wisely upon the plans laid down by the former administration. A peculiar fact began to impress itself upon me. It was a strange thing, and I attributed it to Uncle Tom's melancholy over Winnie's disappearance. He was almost (oo tender toward me. When he spoke to me there seemed to be in liis manner an evidence of anxiety over something*n anxiety tnat ne wished to* conceal, lie frequently sat with me on the [)orch, and as we smoked and chatted I often thought I saw him studying tne furtively. Yet the reason foi luch a course was absent, and I dismissed the thought as often as it occurred. But it came back to me with redoubled force. Mornings, when w? met, he scanned me carefully, and ] fancied once or twice that his voict faltered when he spoke to me. A + 4-Visa fima T vpoo v-ir?f foolinrf in mi ksual good health, but was not in any condition to render medical aid necessary, or to 'excite anxiety. A sense of nnmbness wonld at times come over me, and at others I felt a slight tingling sensation of pain. Bui I attributed my loss of health to my eonstaut worry and the anxiety I was twder. One day I sat on the porch, idly (ookiDg towards the mountains. 1 did not feel at all well that day, and When Uncle Tom had gone for a drive [ did not accompany him. I had taken abook.into the porch with me, but had thrown it aside, having no inclination to read. I had been sitting in the shade, but the sun was getting to the westward, and its rays soon fell on me. In the bright light my hands looked blue and thin. I smiled to myself as I looked at them. What frag that? On the fingers, around the nails, were some little blue-white icales. Heavens! The whole misery of the thing came upon me in an instant, like k thunderbolt My uncle's tremulons voice, nis strange anxiety, his tenderness, were clear enough now. How the blood in tna nlii'Mod! Wow mv heart throbbed. jumped, theu seemed stilled with horror! I was a leper! . I staggered into the honse and jhrew myself down on a couch with a groau. My mind was tortured with pictures of misery and woe that were enough to setfmy brain on fire. The reception hospital, the hateful fard, in which I would be stared at like a bnll to be butchered or a thing to be despised and feared. Then the leper-ship with its cargo of misery, taking me to Molokai, where, in the leper settlement, I must live out my days in pitiless misery, like the poor devils I had seen there, waiting, with torturing pains, for a sure and horrible death. There was no hope. The fate ol one leper was the fate of all. The law was inexorable. The high standing of my uncle or myself could not prevent the carrying out of the law. And now my tortured miud ran riotously into the future, and I saw myself horribly disfigured, member aftei member decaying under the foul disease and dropping off; my senses leaving me; no taste or desire for food i raging thirst; no sense of smell deafness following the loss of my ears, blindness; death! I lay with these horrors before mt when Uncle Tom came home. "Don't come near me!" I cried, springing up and warning him off bj a gesture. "I have discovered th< horrible secret you have so tenderly sought to shield me from. I know mj fate. I am a leper! There is no ust making feeble attempts to combai T miiof rrr\ owov from TOU all. 1 A j j . must leave?you?and " "Don't Tom, my boy, dear Tom!* cried my nncle, sinking into a cbaii and dropping his head into his hands. He sat there sobbing for some moments. Now and then a groan would come from him. He seemed to be struggling with himself. Suddenly he raised his head. "Did anybody know of your disfcovery?" he asked in a whisper, ex cidedly. "No," I replied wearily. "I hav? seen no one." "Dole knows. Oh, why did I tell Dole!" he cried, now rising from hi? chair and pacing to and fro. I could not see any reason why Do's should not know. The whole island would know in a day or two. "But Dole may not think," sai<^ (Jncle Tom. "Ah, I have it! Trust in Dole! He is my friend. But he is jo upright. He would enforce the law if the leper was his own. son!" "?ftfo?fl* the law!" J. said, . i?OJ v ' ; ' ' - * V/ 5 % ' I CORD, KINGSTREE, ;ourse, the law must be enforced.' What else? I cannot remain here, a menace to all of you. I must go to Molokai." Uncle Tom glanced furtively around. "No," he whispered. "Not Molokai, to hasten your death, where you will suffer and I cannot reach you. Not that, Tom, dear. There are the mountains, Tom. It has been done before. E had a friend once who had it. and thev bid him in the mountains and cared for him all through." "Until he died?" "Yes." "But he died, jnst the same, and Ihey risked their own lives." "Don't talk like that, Tom, my boy," said my uncle. "I can't see you go to Molokai. I can't do it. And yet, anyhow; you are so well and strong. How horrible to have you ofl there, where I can't see you. No, no!'! "It is a horrible thought, Uncle Tom," I said, gloomily. "If to you, much more so to n*?. But what good would it do to hide in the mountains? I would surely be discovered, and yoq would porhaps be punished for dis< obeying the law. And I am not well or strong. I am getting weaker all the time. At Molokai I would have care, as well as in the mouutains? more, for you could not be with me always. And there's another thing. Now I am the same in looks as ever. You know what I will be after a time. I prefer to take leave of you, Gordon pnd my other friends now, and have them remember me as I am." "Don't, Tom, ooy, don't," said my uncle, breaking down and sobbing. "If you go to Molokai I will go witii you and remain." ! "Not one step! . You will not run in any danger. There is "Winnie to think of. She may be found. Gordon will pursue the search. It seems hopeless, I know, but it may be all right yet." We sat sobbing, we two men. You who think you have known sorrow and think vour manhood is nrooi: against the weakness of tears, place yourself in the position of a leper abont to separate from all he holds dear, still with his faonlties and ener> gies, and to isolate himself among thi ^orrors and miseries of that settlement of which I have spoken before. With pay uncle's,double grief, my own heart* acne over Winnie,and now the thought of my own Bufferings, I was in the depths of woe. Gordon had to be told. I sent for him one day, and he came clattering up the valley, full of vigof and energy. He strode across the porch to where I sat?half reclining? raiting for him. Uncle Tom could oot stand the interview, and went in* tide. "Hello, Tom," hailed Gordon. ' What, off your feed? 111?" Ho p at ?ut his hand. "Keep away," I said. "Sit down aver there. Don't toueh me." "Why, what is the matter? You fook fit to drop." "I am. Gordon, I'm a leper." "No! No!" He sat and stared at pie. "You are mistaken, surely," he said in a moment. * i T ".>0 mistake aooui u. x u?to i>u? Inarks and the symptoms." "But for the love of heaven, To n, how could you get it?" "I got it from that fellow who bit pie the day we had the ?ght up the ralley." "True!" said Gordon. "I had forgotten that." "I am going to Molokai." "No! I say no!" he replied vehemently. "You shaltnot! We will hide you! Your uncle and I will keep your pecret." "No. It cannot be. You' would ?mply run a great risk yourselves,and would do me no good. We -hive talked all that over. To-morrow the leper ship leaves Honolulu for Molokai, and I am going. "Why not stay witb Warren awhile?" "Why prolong the agony of parting?" "Why. it is horrible!" said Gordon, getting up and pacing back and fo rth. His sword clanked at his heels. He jarred the porch at every step, so heavily did he send his heels into the wooden platform. "Yes, it is horrible enough," I said. "Before I go I want you to promise me two things." "I'll promise a hundred?a thonsand?a million!" he said. "Go on!" "I want you to always be a friend to Uncle Tom. This affletion will Ti-ill Vitrei TftlfA rare of him. He is getting old, and,now that he is to be left alone, will need you." "Don't fear; I'll see him every day ?every hour if you like." "And Winnie?keep up the search. Ah! If my poor sister were only safe, I would die more easily." "I'll do that, Tom, too. Not a day shall pass but I shall do all I can to find her." "And if she is found, Gordon?there is something else?I ean't quite say it as I'd like to, but yor. will understand me. She will be entirely alone when Uncle Tom dies. Friendless, almost, and not a relative. Take care of her, Gordon. I'd like to have her?marry you." He stood still before me. "Tom, old fellow, you htive taken > the words out of my mouth. I wanted j to say them?to ask you to consent to i that. I have ioved Winnie ever since the dar we met_pn h9?d the. Monowa^ 5. C., NOVEMBER 7. 19 F"amily IV Cough Honey. Kidney ?< Backachi CURE. Blood and Liver . to?*- Nerve Tonic Ore at Blood Cleanaing Remedy for Spring Headaches, Comtlpatlon, "Tired," Nervous Dyspepsia Curt Golden Reliel St. Vitus' Dance g Ask your druggist for Almanac for 1901 c Certificate* of the moat remarkab For Sale by Dr W. V. BKOC TTTTa/c nnin _Ja 1 la If IL L^K/K/ll HARP^ 29 L Trade Street We are leaders in. our business, I prepared to supply the requiren ijCTSiH We sell Syracuse Steel Beam I didnot know it until she disappeared, and then it was too late to speak. Bat Tom, dear, old fellow, if she is ilive in this woria, I'll nna ner ye*. And if she will have me, she will make me happy?as happy as I can be with* out yon, Tom." Gordon's voice now trembled as he spoke. It was to be our last night together. We ate a mournful supper, and sat long on the porch, Gordon, Uncle Tom and I, smoking. We communed with our thoughts, but said few words. Each of us was too full of bitterness and sadness to say much. In the morning they accompanied me to Doctor Warrfen's office in the Reception Hospital. The old mau knew at a glance what the trouble was. He had dealt too long with the dread disease to make any mistake. "Poor boy!" he said, offering me an easy chair. "Doctor, I am a candidate for Mo'.akai," I said, with a feeble effort to be calm, and even cheerful. "When does the ship sail?" "In two hours," he replied. "But why not remain here for a fortnight, hntil she sails again?" "No. Why prolong the misery ol the thing? I am doomed. Let me go at once to my last earthly residence." "Oh, Tom, I can't! I can't!" crio? .Uncle Tom, bursting into tears. ^AU uc t'UUUUUGU.; Although the flap of skin which covers an elephant's ear is of considerable size, the ear itself is very small in proportion. Oldest Bell In America. The oldest bell in America is in the little Catholic chapel In the village of St. Regis, on the St Lawrence river. The bell In that church, says the Norwich Aurora, was taken from Deerfield at the time of the French and Indian invasion of that place, and, It is said, was suspended on a pole and carried on the shoulders of the Indians through the wilderness to the place where it now hangs. It was originally purchased in France by the Church of St. Regis, and the vessei in which It was being taken to Quebec was captured by an English cruiser and taken into the port of Salem. The bell, as a pari of the cargo, was sold, and bought by the church in Deerfleld. The invaders ol Deerfleld were from St. Regis, and took special pride in recapturing and returning the bell. ^ : ?**** ^v. ' ;* 'J:*?, '" v 01. NNER'S Medicines. For Coughs, Colds, Grip, or "Cold" in ANY PART of body. Colman. Mich.. Sept. 27,1900. EV* A T A/N..1/4 .A ? am4 | 1'wi a nuuio jcai ituuiu uu uu wuia nuu I walked only by holding on to a chair. I doc* tored with four different physicians butre9 celved no relief. The use of two bottles of Dr. Fenner's Kidney and. Backache Cor* gave me a perfect cure. J. M. McKinnet. Geneva, Crawford Co., Pa.. June 18, 1900. Three years ago I had a severe attack of Erysipelas and blood poison, breaking out on my head and face. My physician attended me for several months without result. I then i took 3 bottles off Dr. Fenner's Blood and ' Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic and secured | a complete cure. Frank Bajikxak. ;. Middlebobo, Ky., Sept. 7.1900. i. My wife has suffered long with dyspepsia. ~ I tried all of the pepsin preparations and all of my own prescriptions without avail. 1 I finally prescribed Dr. Fenner's Dyspepsia I Cure and the use of It effected a cure. Many other similar cases that have come under my I observation have been cured by his Dye' pepslt* Cure. Dr. F. J. Lebanooqd. My Dear Dr. Fenner, Fredonla, N. Y. - I have used Dr. Fenner's Oolden Belief for many years for the diseases and accidents for which it is advertised and have found it i fully equal to all you claim for it. ! J. BOYD ESPY. Presiding Elder M. E. Church. Used for Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Old Sores, Sprains, Colds, Grip, Sore Throat, Colic, Dysentery, Bowel Troubles, It Is unfailing. Akron, Ohio, Jan. t, IMS. M. X. FENNER, Fredonla, N T. We hare told many dosent of yoor St. Vitus' Danes clflc and every esse liat been cuK-d by It. It hat proved leasing here." ALIttN-CLARK DRPO CO. ontalnina descrintlons of the Remedial and. le cureg~ever~ achieved by medicine. /KINGTON, Kingstree, S. C. J6TON & CO., iA/ARE. Charlotte, N. 6. and for that reason we are better lents of the trade than anyone* r*< T?? f f flows* 1 ney nave no cquau . TESTING PRECIOUS STONES How to Distinguish Between the Genuine end Spurious Article. Consul-Gcneral Guenther, of Frankfort, writes to the State Department ae follows: t. ' "In a lecture en precious stones, recently delivered before the Industrial Association of Berlin, Dr. Immanud Friedlaender said that the testing of diamonds is comparatively simple. The common test for hardness suffices. I? the stone resists strong attacks, it is certain to be genuine; if it does not, the I J.~?? i. ie rmlv an imi uauiagc 13 j tation has been destroyed. This test, however, is doubtful with rubies. If a ruby can be affected by a steel file or by quartz, it is surely not genuine; but such a test with a topaz is liable to injure a yaluable stone. V. "The test for hardness is of no avail with emeralds, as this stone is not much harder than quartz, and. in addition, possesses the quality cf cracking easily. "For examining rubies and emeralds the optical test is best. A glass magnifying about one hundred times suffices. Every expert knows that almost all precious stones have little flaws. Nearly every ruby and all emeralds have many defects, which are so characteristic that the genuineness of the stones is readily established. Such a test is very necessary with rubies, because the imitations are very deceiving. Their color is absolutely durable and often much finer than that of the genuine, although it may be stated that a somewhat yellow isli tint is always suspicious. "The only reliable way in which genu- i ine rubies can be told from imitations is by the minute air bubbles of the latter, which become clearly visible under the magnifying glass. These are not to be found in the na.Hral gem; on the other hand, the imitations lack certain defects characteristic of genuine rubies?certain vacuums, whose outlines are much more indistinct than those of the air bubbles in imitations. "True emeralds have similar characteristic defects, such as inclosures of liquids, and curious dendrites. Sapphires also, show peculiar netlike formations.'1?iVtw York Times. Cresceus' Costly Harness. The quarter boots cost about $10, shin boots $14. knee and arm extension, $25. The hind shin, speedy cut and hock extension, with curb joint protection, cost $50 a set. The two-minute harness of it elf costs but about $25, the main harness costs over $100. Cresceus* rein* cost at least $50 a pair ?Louisville Cou~ ricr-Journal. u