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V THE C0U.1TY RECORD. Pabliihed Every Tburtday ?AT? VINaBTEEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?EX? e: w. wolfe . Bditor and Proprietor. iifa?i - ? From* has a national debt of &ix- - trillions of dollars, and is increasing St at the rate of a hundred millions & year. This is the world'S record, and . It strikes us as the most radiant case. V'i ' of financial optimism history has ever known, comments the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. The American Agriculturist thinks that the telephone is not appreciated fcy farmers in closely settled commit-* nltlcs as much us it should be. Put it is rapidly coming into favor and the lines are l>eing extended farther and farther out Into farming districts. The value o? it Is great for keeping in touch with market conditions, of saving a trip to town for the doctor and in many other ways. There has been recovered from the waters of Lake Chainplain ten thousand sovereigns which were intended to pay the soldiers of tieneral Burffoyue's army. Of course England lias no claim upon them, but it would lie a fine thing if our Government should redeem these gold pieces and send tliera to the British Government as a token that the war is over, observes the Christian Register. One of the Rubjects recently considered by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor is the comparative cost of focd cooked at hoin'e and that cooked outride. Bread furnished by the baker, for instance, costs about one cent a pound less than that baked at home, but on meat cooked at home there is a saving of about one-third. The saving is still greater on entire dinners cooked at home. In one case it was found that a family dinner cooked In the home kitchen cost an average of sixteen cents for each persou, but a similar dinner, when cooked outside and sent iu, cost twenty-five cents for each person. The object of this investigation was to benefit families living in cities, where, in late years, facilities for getting outsidecooked meals have been abundantly provided. Among recent arrival from Europe i Is a mau who weut thither In response ! to a cable message which notified him i that his sister was dying. That was j some idiot's idea of a funny practical j joke, as the woman was not ill. The victim of such a cruel and wicked joae is ready to urge legislation which will impose on the practical joker penalties but little less severe than those which are provided for cases of as- I sault^nd injury to the body. He maintains that no bodily harm which is not permanent can be worse than the distress of mind which lie has been made to suffer. There are other practical jokes which result iii wounded elf-esteem or in a feeling or humiliation, and which hurt more than any bodily bruise. It was a French critic of penetration who said that man's best satisfaction is in not being Q dupe. No one, however, cuu always protect himself against the ingenuity of the practical joker. The question whether the advance of civilization brings with it a corresponding decrease la crime is one of perennial interest to society. Statistics can proverbially be made to prove anything, and it Is open to argument whether the amount of crime In the United Kingdom at any particular time corresponds directly with the number of prisoners convicted. But the total number of convictions represents, at any rate, the nearest approach to exactness that we are likely to attaiu. So far. then, as statistics go. the prison report of the past year shows that crime is decreasing very perceptibly in proportion to the population. During tl e past foriy years the rati* per 200.00) of serious crime lias decreased frcr.i 13.4 to 3.3. This rase it is undoubtedly encouraging, ami f.ccuis to show that education and the elker disciplinary influences of society are slowly but surely doing their work, reflects the Loudon Chronicle. I I TWO OENTI By SEWARD " (Copyright, by Ronrsr Bo**kb'? horn. CHAPTER XVIL COS-TINTED. I would have known he was a fisherman, even if the title had not been part of his name. He smellelflt The odor of fish was everywhere aboat the place. I judged Patua to be not more cleanly than the average Kanaka. Patua's house was a large one for Kannakakai. It had two rooms; most f the houses had one. Patua himself was a leathery, wizened, old man, who might have been eighty or a hundred and eighty years old. He had small, sharp eyes, thai looked straight into you when yon were talking to him, as if to see if yon were speaking the truth. But when he was speaking to you, Patua's evef looked toward the ground. Patua was mending a fishing-boat when I reached him. "How are you to-day, Patua, the fisherman?" I said, byway ofbreaking the ice. "Oh, I amtho same every day!" li? said, bending over his work and paying me little attention. Some of the natives b8g;n a sentence, or at least preface their remarks, with "Oh!" "Won't yon shake hands wiih ine, Patua, the fisherman?" The old fellow straightened kiraaell np and gave me a piercing look. Thee his glance sought my baud, which I was holding out in a manner to euable him to see the ring. A pnzzled look earn* over his face, but evidently the power of the ring was not overestimated. He held out his brown hand, upou the finger of which was a ring similar to mine. I clasped his baud, taking care that the rings touched. A peculiar prioking sensation was felt in my arm and hand. "I wish to bo taken to the island of Lanai," I said. "To-night?" he said in reply. "It is nearly night. I will return at dark." ' Yes." So I left Patua aud went back to the Bteamer-laudiug, where there was a small eating-house kept by a Chinaman. I ate a supper that drove awaj my hanger, even if it did not satisfy it. The average Chinaman does not cook to suit the Caucasian stomach. Still, he had good bread aud cocoa, and that was something. A fortunate thought struck mo while I was eatiug. I remembered old Lowai's words, that if the one-eyed guide was not at the glistening rock when I arrived, I must wait thero until he came. Lowai had not said how VimrvlAi* Ka in iv> ftlf i n liia IUI;^ iiimuiuu iui^ui i/o a/1 muntu^ uu appearance. I concluded it would be a wise plan to take some food along, for if Niwolan, the one-eyed, was very long absent, I would bo hungry. So I had my Chinese host make nio up a lunch of sandwiches, and, putting some bananas in my jweket, I sauntered back to Patua's big house, smoking a cigar, a good supply of which I had brought with me. CHAPTER XVIII. The night was calm aud beautiful. The air was comfortably cool. The atmosphero of this climate is u3iiallj clear, and I have never seen it more markedly clear than on this night. The starry heavens above us were resplendent. Under the great sparkling dome the world seemed full ol weird romance and fanciful theories. Nothing seemed real to me, so vivid an impression had been made upon me by the strange situation into which I had been led by Lowai's story. Yet the obedience of Patua, the fisherman, to the mystic ring was real enough, foi iu the gathering darkness he had bees silently making preparations to convej me across Pailolo Strait to the island of Lanai. I stood watching him as, with the assieiauce of a brawny youth, perhapn his sou, he pushed u boat into the w QbUl Otiu ptauou lu iv vain, a nawi* jar and other necessaries for a long row. "I am ready," he raid, beckoning for ine to step into the boat. The island of Lanai could not be seen from the shores of 3folokai, yel Patua needed no chart to enable hiru to find his way thither. He took the oars in his musonlai hands and sent the boat through the water at a rapid rate, the waves bubbling and sputtering under the bowi as she sped on. I sat silently in the stern, thinking. I wondered what would be the outcome of this adventure. And I fell dissatisfied with myself for bavin: kept the secret to myself. Why Uv.l I not told President Pole the wuole story? He, surely, would not liavi betrayed me to an ene-.ny, and in case I did not return within a reasonable time ho would set out, a search for mo. lh.it searching-parties were not oJ mm^SmST LEMEN I .OF HAWAII. | @ W. HOPKINS MMMM# mriCQ tCCDitni in nawiii. iuvn wuu ? were not initiated into the mysteries of th^ secret orders and fanatical rites of the place'were hot shrewd ettoiigb to discover thein. And those who did know all about them were quite shrewd 1 inongh to. mislead those who were searching and-render their efforts use' less. After Patna had plied his oars for a ' tew hoars, I learned how he was en1 abled to go from Molokai to Lanat without a chart, Rowing straight in im one to i tlie oILer, before ue was ont of sight i of Molokai tiio rocky eminences of Lanai could bo seen. The distance was considerable, yet Patua seemed nevor to feel fatigue, i His muscles were like iron. He chewed tobacco while he rowed and squinted at me as if trying to read some of my thoughts. It was, no doubt, au unusual thing to see an i American in possession of the mystic ' ring of the Kammilonkmuli-iawai^but Patua did not give any fvidence ol ! surprise. Yet, instinctively, I knew the fellow was on the lookout for treachery, and any sigu of enmity toward nis ortfe?^ woura result In raj finding myself overboard, with the cliauqes of returning to Honolulu verj | slim: It; was nearly morning when we landed on Lauai's lava shores. Patuu i had rested but once during the long , row, and then for only a few minutes. I had smoked uutil my tongue felt j blistered. It was with a combined J sense of relief and danger that I felt the keel of the boat grate over the > smooth rock and come to a standstill, i with her nose well out of water. "We are here," said Patua, pulling me oars into ine ooar. I stepped onto the land. "Ale yon not coining also, Patna?" I asked. "No. I rest here?get some sleep and return at night." "But you must eat." "t tthall eat." "Have you brought food with you?" "I shall have plenty to eat. Do i you know your way?" "I have Lowai's directions. There is a path here. "Lowai is great. Lowai's soul will be with Pelo in Haleakala, for he ie her faithful servant." "Just so. And yon are Pole's faithful servant, are you not, Patna?" "Pele knows how faitLful. You , had better go. The path is there, ! whore you see the openings in the I head-lands." The shores of Lauai were high anu ! jagged. But in the direction shown I by Patua, there was a rift. I went , ' tOWHU'U mat, Caruiuuy plotting injr 'toj I along a narrow ledge of rock down bj I the water's edge. I carried my gripsack in iny hand. Upon reaching the rift, I found-it t< i bo the entranco to a deep ravine oj chasm, running into the island ami getting deeper farther away from th? shore. Along the bottom was what j might be called a path, bat had 1' :iot known i>; was so used, I would :iot have called it oue. The walking was laborious and slow, as I had to picli my way over fallen pieces of rock and tdamber arouud the edge of deep holes, j which, in the darkness, were exeeeu- j i ingly dangerous. By the time I bad traveller a mile ' of this path, it was daylight. And I j yet, bo high and overhanging were the j j walls of the chasm, that at#the bottom, i j where I was, it was as dark as night. | I toiled on, frequently tempted to | : rest, hut spurred to renewed exertion i by my hope of soon seeing my sister'* face. At last I reached the white rock. Here the sides of the chasm widened from each other, and the character of the plaee seemed to undergo a change. The bottom spread ont into a basin* I like place, covering, perhaps, half an acre. The walls were high, perpendicular and smooth. Apparently, the i only exit was through the ravine wheuee I had come. I could get no further, even had Lowai not given me ! strict injunctions to wait at the rock. I feared I had made a mistake, for 1 ; could see no possible way for Nimof ? "* -** A MAA/IIL A ntil<\aa Ua mHi vuc ^uiuC| ?%j icauu me, UJJiu^o u| ! followed me ia by way of tbechaaoior let himself down from the top by i means of a rope. Bat I had so-far done just what Lowai had told me to ' do, and I hud found everything as he i had said I would find it. So here was the white, glistoning rock, standing i liko a sentinel at the end of the path, gleaming iiko alabaster onit3 polished surface. I examined the rock. Jtwas ! evidently polished by hand, an l the ! 1 sides were ground to a wonderful ;! smoothness. It was a large rock, prob1 I ib!v thirty feet high, yet it seemed as nothing compared to the superior i height of the wall of rock around it. Nimolau was not to be found. "Wondering if my adventure had ended in failure, as the hundred others I had had*, all with hojmrpose and ho^e gi Gnulhg YTiunfe, had ended, I sat flown , on a stone t? eat my lnnch. I wa( very hungry, uiu T^ile I waited foi Jfimolan, I could satisfy .ny hunge; tvith the lunch the Chinese host had put up for me. Stone does uot make a comfortable seat, but there v.-as nothing but stone jrA!in/l mo I spread my coat ou the stone for ?) jushion, and rolled another near itfoi t sort of table. Upon this I put my lunch, and with my knife I cut the thick sandwiche: into squares and went at then heart* Uy. So interested was I in my repast, that I did not notice the advent of becond person. "What are you doing here?" asked a voico near me. I sprang to my feet An ordinary looking native stood not. far from me, looking at me with an evident distrust. Ho was o-small, wiry individual, and was armed with a gun. He wore a ring similar to mine, and I knew that my visitor was Ximolau. "I came to meet yon," I said, offering him my hand in salutation. He did not take it. "Who are you. that you know me?" asked the guide to Kauraai. "I am the successor of Lowai, ol Wit li U| IUC pilPrtV Ul ivauiUiiivunauiii mI replied. "Lowai is dead." "If you are a priest of Pele, why do yon profane the Temple of the Glistening Rock by eating in it?" "Because X was hungry," I replied, still munching on a sandwich. "X could not move the rock uor the temple. Neither could I get away without missing you, so I ate here. There's no harm in it, I eat to the great glory of Pele. Is that a sin?" , "It is > a sin, but it can be atoned. "That are you eating?" "Sandwiches." "Give me a saudwich." N'imolau took a sandwich and de? ,-oureil it. I never have seen a man pin with so much relish as when he ate that sandwich. "Let me greet yon," he said, holding out his hand for the first time. I siezed his hand And rubbed the rings together. He wore his upou the same finger as all others that I had ?en wearing them. I felt the same pricking sensation as when I had greeted Patna. "If yon are the successor of Lowai, the priest, you have something beside the riDg to show," eaid Nimolau. "I have." "Come with me." I followe'd Nimolan, and he led me across the basin. I offered him a banana, which he ale. I also ate one iae I followed him. He paused before a perpendicular wall of rock. "?5ow beiore reie, tue moai nign, he said. I bowed, wondering what I waa bowing to. Nimolau touched a spot in the wall, *nd a small aperture appeared. He reached in and found a small lamp. He lighted this and handed it to me. Iheu he put his hand in the opening of the rock and opened a space wide mough for me to enter. ''Enter here," he said, ''and if you ?re a true priest and tho successor ol Low&i, appear before me as one." Quaking a little, but realizing that there was more danger in disobedi3tice than in following directions, J passed through the doov. ';When you are ready, cal1 me," laid Nimolau. I was in a small room hollowed out of the rock. It was empty save ioz an old stool, a crushed mirror aud a water bottle. What I had to do could quite as well have been done outside. I quickly arrayed myself in the strango garb givea me by Lowai aud called Nimolau. "You speak the truth," said Nimolau, when he let me out. "You are the successor of Lowai." I felt very queerly, rigged out in that outlaqdish way, uiy features completely hidden. "What you order me to do I will do," saiil Nimolau. "I am ready." Nimolau's manner as well as his dress indicated that while he was in a position of confidential relationship with whatever truth lay in Lowai'a story, he was not a person of rank or importance. Had ha been, he would not have used the word "order" when speaking of my desires. "I desire to be taken into the pres* ence of the priestess Kauinai," I said. "Lowai, whose successor I am, told me to await yon here at the glistening rock, tell you what I wanted and hade mo follow your directions mo9t closely." Nimolau waved his hand ip the air. "Lowai's words are wise," ho said, "hut he said too many. Every man who enters this temple wishes to he led into the presence of Kauraai. And if by chance one got here who did not, he would be led there anyway. So it's all the same." "True. But I am to 302s a priest, therefore as a welcome guest, am J not?" I asked. "All guests ere welcome," replied Nimolou; "but you do not go as a. guest. You are one of the priests of Pele, therefore are rightfully here. I am surprised that Lowai did not tell you all this." "He told me all he could. lie died before ho made mo acquainted with the secrets of this island." "He would not do that Xolhina but the course to pursue could Lowai tell you. But if he told you to follow my instructions, it is quite as well." "To begin, I notice you call this place a temple. What temple is it?" "The Temple of the Glistening; Rock. That is plain enough for anyone," said Nimolau. "I called it that."1 "Yes, so you did. Where did you some from when you appeared while T was eating my lunch?" "I name from the air." "AQl" It was evident that Nimelan was a liar. Bat my experience with natives had shown me that it never served any purpose to question the truth of their statements, so IjaUowed Niiaolan to rest in the security that I was a believer. "This is the phuse where priests of the Kaaimiloukanilimawai begin worship of Pele," said Ximolau. "I thought they worshiped Pele at Wff all times." "In a way. But here they must make some offering before entering farther toward the presence of Kan* oiai, Pele's priestess." "Tell me what to do, and I will da it." "Pele demands an offering from that which pleases yon best. If yon love money, Pele demands money. If ' ' - T>1 you IOYB UlUttCUU, X CIO ucuiauu.. If you love good wine, Pele demands . an ofFeriug of wine." A glimmer of light broke npon me. "I am very fond of cigars, Nimolau,'* I said, "and have some to offer." (To be continued.) Wants Government to Build Ships. Washington, Special.?There 13 a systematic and wellorgauized movement among the various labor organizations of the country looking to legislation at the coming session of Congress for the construction at government navy yards of some of the war- ships as authorized by Congress. The tions and resulutlons of labor union* In that direction from all quarters." navy is being overwhelmed with pH!, A Cashier in Trouble. Montgomery. Ala., Special.?An la dictment was found against E. R. Young, cashier of the Eufaula (Ala.) National bank, by the United States grand jury. Col. Young, accompanied by his attorneys and F. W. Jennings of Eufaula, his bondsman, later surrendered to the federal authorities and Judge Jone3 fixed tho bond at $7.SC0l Mr. Young was held responsible In the ndictment for all the alleged violation of the banking laws by the officers of he Eufaula National bank. Presh Outrages. Constantinople, Special.?Reports received nerc irom ;.msu tuv u/ u>c effect that Andranik, a leader of Armenian bandits' has again occupied an Armenian monastery In the reigh- V borfceod of Mush, where his force# f are surrounded for a second time by ? Turkish troops. Fresh Turkish outrages on Armenians are reported from the Mush, Sassnn and Bitlis districts. Briefa. J. H. Burkholder of Ashland City. Ky., has purchased some valuable timber lands in that sectloln, and he3 removed his two saw-milla to his new purchase in the second district of Boyd eounty for active operations. A half-million feet of lumber, with one probale exception the largest cargo nf lumber ever brought to DOrt. ar rived at Baltimore last week In the Iron barge Pocahontas, consigned to Thomas A. Charhu & Bro. Posse After Mcfle\ , Rome, Oa.. Special.?A posse of it men, accompanied by blood hounds, left Cave Spring Thursday morning in pursuit of John B.McCrbee, who shot and instantly killed Frank L. Miller, in Floyd county. Roth men- are wcli known and Miiler was a Confederate veteran McGhee, it is said, accused Miller of shooting at his children, but this he denied. McGbec is known as a desperate man, and the posse expects, that he will fight before being taken. Tombstones* a Wedding Gift. Danville, Ky.. Special?Mr. and VrsL John Williams, th9 aged sextoiu of the Baptist church, celebrated tbe'r golden wedding. One of the gifts yj* a $50 tombstone from a marble dealer in the city which is prized very highly by the couple. Tbcy are preparing to vj have it erected on their lot in tfco ce:n- ^ etery. Irish Patriot Dead. Chicago, Special.?Martin Hogan, the Irish patrol, who has been lying at the connty hospital for oomo daya, died Tuesday, agod 93. Hogan, together ,v/ith others interested in the Fenian movement, were convicted of treason !n 1SG5 and transported to the English peiul colony in Australia, la 1SGD Hogan and his companions, cxcoptinap John Boyle O'Relily, who had previously escaped, were rescued by R boat which had been fitted otit for the purpose by Irish sympathisers. ' * i \ '