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I ?1?? THE COUNTY RECORD. Published Every Thursday ?AT? UNQBTBEE. 80UTH CAROLINA. ?BT ? * C. W. WOLFE . Kdltor and Proprietor. Japan does not yet su~er from the plutocracy trouble. Reports gathered by a leading newspaper showed that only 441 persons in the whole empire hare amassed fortunes amounting to $250,000 or over. The population is about 41,000,000. ' The proposed new Constitution of 'Alabama makes llie Governor of the State ineligible to re-election to the office and forbids bis accepting any elective or appointive office in the 01~? '3 "Van Olo St/ltPK RPT1 OUtie, duu cnu nit vu.iv? - -? atorehip, for at least one yew after Ills term of office as Gover yjr ends. An antiquarian at Greenwich, Conn., denies that General Futnani took that famous equestrian leap on "HorseBeck" Hill In 1779. "Old Put" has the double advantage of being on the spot and of having got bis story in first We must stand by our heroes i:i this day when the iconoclasts would flot leave one historic legend upon another. ________________^ Habibullah Khan, the new Ameer of Afghanistan, has begun his reign with two dangerous experiments. He has Invested his near relatives with Important official positions, and has sent out letters of amnesty to political refugees. Whether Habibullah be a man of unusual force of character or of unusual weakness only the event can determine. He has taken great risks. . Automobiles and bicycles have been Hie cause of serious accidents involving life and limb; they undoubtedly are the noiseless terrors of the roadway: Let they are also the heralds and preachers of the gospel of good roads. Coed roads are the visible proof of high civilization, and of such economy of force as br.ngs the largest result from the least labor. Since from the day of Adam it has been deemed not good for man to be alone, it is obvious that instrumentalities promoting easier and quicker intercommunication are among the necessities of Christian living. But the auto-bi-ers should be merciful and not invite repression by' slaughter on the highways, where all comers and goers have equal right to cone and go In safety. Electric street railway consolidation, whether as a business proposition or a speculative scheme, has taken a strong hold upon the promoters of such enterprises m tn? aiiacie \\ cst, and some huge combinations are impending in that quarter. Tbe latest proposed eynd! ate covers territory extending from Cleveland, Ohio, to Port Hunron, Mich., with branches extending into Indiana and West Virginia. Such a combination, controlling over a thousand miles of track and ? kla /vn a />AnQwloi?nVkln froIcrlit amu us uiujr V" a vvuaiuciuwiti * and express business, would introduce. If successful, a new and but little understood element into the field of interstate commerce. The problems <of transportation which a coming generation must study anil solve already promise to be far more Intricate aud important than any that have as yet confronted the sovereign people. What is said to be the earliest of recorded yacht races took place on OetoI her 1,1661. John Evelyn, in his dairy of that date, mentions that he sailed with his majesty (Charles II.) In one of his pleasure boats or yachts, "vessels not known amongst us until the Dutch East India Company presented that curious piece to the King, being very- excellent sailing vessels." "It was on a match between this and tbe ? UAA4 If viiitL utw uuai, luiinuuoi jutciju, "built frigate-like, and one of the Duke of York's, tk*? wager of ?100, and tbe race from Greenwich to i * Cravesend and back, the King lost ?t going down, the wind being contrary, but saved stakes in returning." The word "yacht" is itself Dutch, but the vessels which the Merry Monarch ?. aailed were little similar to the racers Sj-* * -of tbe present day. Mention is made oi other yachts and races, but the details are very meagre. | TWO GENTL ^ Dy SEWARD luopyngni, oy uodf.rt uoxxer s oo>s.j CHAPTER XIX. CONTINUED. So back to the tomple I was led. Kaumai was resting ou her throne, and as she moved easily to note wha< tho tumult might be that was cominj j ' toward her, I thought again that shi | was the most superbly beautiful creaj ture I had ever seen. Every line 01 : her form, showing through the thin j white robes she wore, was a line ol beauty. Every motion was a poemf every breath she drew made hei bosom rise and fall with a majestic rhythm. When tho high priests, leading mt in their midst, came beforo Kaumai'i throne, they knelt upon their kneel and bowed low before her. I did th< same. There was a great contrast between this bow and the one I hai given in the Temple of the Glistening Rock at Nimolan's bidding. Thai seemed farcical. I laughed at it. Bui mere was nu minu ICIi IU IUO uuw. The daugers and horrors of the situation stood out before me iu awful dis tinctness. "Why do you thus disturb me?' asked the priestess severely, rising t< her feet and standing impassively be fo e U3. "We have come, oh, priestess, tolaj before you the question of thii priest'! j fate." "Have I not already said that hi ! should be put in the dnngeon, am there await the judgment?" she asked "True, oh, priestess, wise and goo? Kaumai, said the leader of the high j priests, "and we hastened to do you) j bidding. We carried him to the dun 1 geon. While on our way wo though ' to please you, oh, priestess, and t< J please the goddess Pele by makim I this erring priest assist in the sacrilic: , of the sacred one, w^,en Pele demand u. "Well?" she asked, as the hign priest paused. | "lie agreed," continued the high priest, "and as we were about to leave i him he offered a straugo supposition j to us. He said there might have bees j two new priests received to-day ini stead of oue. That both might havi i desecrated the temple by laying hanch j on the sacred one, and both might be condemned to the dungeon. Tlieu, j oh, priestess, he said that we might I have made the pi?oposition to assist ic the sacrifice to both of them, and he would agree, and the other pries! would refuse. Then, oh, priestess, the other priest wonld be sent to the dungeon to await his doom, and what would be done with this priest?" "But the dungeon is empty." Kanmai said this'with a peculiar in flection. Sue was looking at me intently. My mask was gone and she was studying my features. And under the glance of those ravishing eyes my pulse beat more quickly and my heart throbbed strangely. What fore* j might not lay in the magnetism of this great loveliness. "True, the dungeon is empty, oh, priestess," said the leader, "but w( will let the successor of Lowai speali for himself." "Speak!" said Kaumai, softly. "Oh, priestess.you who are so beautiful," I began, "must be also noble. I came here as a priest, having beer . made the successor of old liowai id Oahn. I saw at jour feet, awaitinj sacrifice, one whom I loved. I forgot my orders. I forgot reason. You know what I did. You do not forgivo. These high-priests suggested to m? that I assist at the sacrifice of this being whom I loved, and then, as a reward, become-one of themselves. I act oepted. Now, 0 Priestess, in the case that ha3 been placed before yon, i! the other priest had refused, he would go to the dungeon. I, having accepted, do not deserve so harsh a treatment." A gleam came into the eyes of Kaumai, but it was there one instant only. 'What the priest says is true," sh? aaid. "What, then, is your desire?" "To be allowed my freedom until the lime for the sacnnce has come. " "Let the successor of Lowai be allowed the freedom of the temple. Let him sleep, however, in the dungeon, without bolting the door. Let him eat Vith the common priests in their hall. Bat let lain not escape," said Kanmai. "Thank yon, 0 Priestess!" I said. "I shall be ever ready to do yonr bidding." With a low bow, the high-priests tnrned away, leaving me free to walk where I would, but with a certaintj that I would be watched. Kaumai swept past me, audi therr was something strangely fasciuatiag in the glance she gave me. There was a suspicion of exultation in her slight ! smile. ?Her brilliant eyes beamed upon me. Her half-parted lip? showed IffO^pwa 2! Xfluifiite ^e?p]y teeHi. $?@0900M ,EMEN I OF HAWAII. 0 I ?<> W. HOPKINS. ^ I Her neck, white as alabaster and fallronniled us that of Venus, was sliglitlj bent as she passed me. The odor ot incense cu.uo from lier robes. Her verj presence was iu.o\.'hating. "You have chosen wc.l," she whispered, and the low, trembling voici sounded in mj ears long after sue ha-' left the temple. CHATTER XX. The temple of Pele was nothing more or less than a huge grotto form is '.ho lava-stone of K?"nto'i. Tt wn< .nam ana unrnmlshed save for ttu throne of Ivanraai and the chair at thi altar where Winnie had sat when i made the reckless break that seeme} likely to be a fatal error. The floo? of the temple was worn smooth bj many years of the restless tread o: worshipers. The huge grotto wai overhung with inverted cones liki stalactites, which were of the same lava-stone as the entire mountain seemed composed of. There were great recesses reaching away into tha mountain-side, from which came load jchocs of footsteps or the talking of people in the temple. finding myself free and alone, I wanlered about the gloomy place, making oeculiar noises to hear the uncanny schoes that seemed to come from every side. T .1 :iL -.-i! xuuruiuuj mm wiiu cauuuii e.\uiuined the walls of the place where it was light enough for rae to see, hoping to find some door through which I might reach Winnie or find where she was being kept. But the gruesome nlace was lighted only from a square aperture in the roof, high above me, and the light so fell as to be centered around the throne, leaving the cavern>us recesses at the sides in total dark* jess. I remembered that when Winnie was led away she was taken behind the throne, and I looked there for another dungeon: but I found none. If L there were any doors in the parts ol the wall that I could examine, they were so carefully and skillfully mado a'* to defy detection by one not in the Bocret of their construction. I felt at first, when the high-priests departed, a sense of exhilaration at having gained my purpose in so far as to be left free, instead of confined to a dungeon, and Kaumai's glance and saiile had stimnlated me with a peculiar thrill. But after I had heeu in the temple a few hours I began to feel the overwhelming solitude of iha place. I began to feel the dangeiv to realize the horrors of my situation. I knew there was nothing to expect from the high priests but the worst. They wore merciless in their fanaticism, and their delusious brooked no opposition. The other priests I did not fear so much, yet they vere no doubt completely under the control of the highs. But about Kaumai?my heart beat more rapidly when I thought of her. 80 lovelyl So magnificent in her transcendent beantyl Could she be so cruel as to consign my sister to a horrible death, and compel me to assist in the soul-sickening ceremony! The more I thought of this, the worse I felt. The main door of the temple stood open. I knew where it led. 1 had r.oticed when I came in the barren ledge of rock and the sluggish lake of molten lava below it. Having spent so much time in a futile endeavor to find a hidden door, I finally resolved to go oat into the air and see how tho strange priests lived and acted when they were not engaged in their horrible worship of Pele. I had reached the ledge of rock, and stood looking across the great crater, overoome with a new sense of lonelinoaa on/1 insierni fif-nnz-o Vnl an. uwao HMM *** J V. - ? other person oonld be seen. There vera evidently other grottoes than the one used as a temple. While I stood thus spriest appeared from some aperture in the rock and came toward me. "Successor of Lowai, the priests oi iPele are not to sit before the daily | feast. You will follow me." He returned to the apot from which he came into sight. Half hidden bj bntging rock, a small opening led into a grotto much like the temple, aare that it was better lighted. A long table was spread in the center, and around it sat about a hundred priesta. These were the ordinary or common priests,-and had thrown aside their masks and outlandish costumes, the better to enjoy the meal. Among these I was welcome, for 1 was one of their order. They cared nothing?or knew nothing?of the greater or less sin against Pele, as judged I by the high-priests. They bad seen me snatch Winnie t< tny breast and kiss her, but they had seen me taken away to be punished. As they were probably punished for misdemeanors more or less great, they felt rather with me than against ma , M account jgf my criijae.. ."WMls 1 % V i ' 1 divined this in a few minutes' talk, ] *lso made certain that when it came to a question of taking sides against the authority of th? high-priests, they could not bo relied upon at all. Every man seemed to be crazy in his infatuated worship of Pele. There was a place for me at one side cf the rude table, and at the sign froii my guide I took it. "You are welcomo here, successoi of Lowai," said an aged fool who sal ti; the head of tho table. "Pele has many worshipers of your color, i'ou will be a great priest." "I am glad you think bo," I replied in the native tongue. "I shall endeavor to please Pele. But why am | always called the successor of Lowai? Do I have no name?" "X >t for a year," replied he whq seemed to be the chief among these lower priests. "For one year you are on trial. During that time you are known to us only as the successor o! Lowai, who was a good and true priest, although he speut but little time bore. After the year, if you have proven faithfal, Jlanm&i and the high-priests accept you, you will receive a name. Xou may keep the oue yon bad in Honolulu or may take a new one." "Great is Pelo!" said one of the "brethren." ' "Will yoa have somo "poi?" There were no spoons nor forks among the priests, so 1 dipped into the great dish of taro-root with my hands and gulped down the stuff the best I could. It was nauseating, eating in this way; but it was that or starve, and a man will do a great many nnpleasaut things rather than die. Then we had cocoa in rude, wooden mugs, without milk, but with plenty of BUgar. And the center of the table was piled high withbauanas. "Where do you obtain supplies?" I isked, drinking from my wooden how'. "We have many ways," replied a priest near me. "One of ns may ai inv time be sent to Kannakakai to buy food. Then we have priests a ho, like Lowai, do not live here, but Some tit regular times to worship Pele lad bring offerings from the people." "Have wo any followers of Pelewhc ire not priests?" T asked. The brother who sat next to ine ipeuod his eyos wide in surprise at ny gross ignorance. "The worshipers of Pole are many, mil reach around the world," he (aid. "True, Lowai told me that," I said, id ding a lit! le untruth to what the old rillain had really told me; "but he did not say how'many. Hew many people in the world worship Pele?" "A hundred million," solemnly re?v*tr Iialrrlilini* ttf flirt fpftqf I nearly smiled at the figures. Had f done do, the act might have bs3n jital. By plunging my nose iuto my Lig cocoa cup and swallowing the black mixture, I concealed the look of incredulity that came into my face in ipite of me. "How do you get to Kannakakai rhen you are sent after food?" J isked. "We wait forPatua, the fisherman, to come for us in his boat." "Is Patua a priest?" "He is a member of Eammilouk* iniliuawai." "So, then, he is one of us?" * i * it All 1 J tl "Via you noi snow ur as&eu ius jhief among them fiercely. "Else bow did you come among Ha?" I was on dangerous ground and hastened to' right rayseiL "True, Patua is a true follower, for bis ring met mine, and the spirit oI Pele was felt in me." Thus confidence was restored, and re finished the "feast," . Before wo left the table the aslembled priests went through a form >f praise to Pele, consisting of much bowing and groaning, and wo were !ree for the time to go where we would. [ was stiff from sitting on the rough, rooden benches that served for chairs, ind when I got into the air again I ralked rapidly up and down the ledge to get the kinks oat of my joints. Seeing a fellow-priest standing done, gazing into the lake, I spoke to lim. { "When is the great sacrifice to be?" tasked. He looked at me sharply and, with i scowl, said: "Do you not know that we must' sot talk of these things except before Kanmai?" Then he turned and strode najestically away. Here was discipline with a purpose, rt was no wonder we never epuldi learn anything about Winnie. If the! triaata t\C Pa]a in tho Tfinr center of! ihe hideous worship, could not speak >f the viotims of their fanaticism, then tow doubly certain it was that they would not speak of them to others when inquiries were being carried on. Musing upon the strange beings who xmtrolled this band of maniics, 1 rent again into the temple. Here, I thought, I would be more likely te learn something. If anything of importance?that had auy bearing on '.he fate of Winnie or myself?should transpire, it would most likely be in the temple. So I wandered about the gloomy grotto, listening to the echoes 9( my own footsteps. It was drawing toward the evening, t time at which I might eipect the ievoteos of Pele to show themselves & the1 tempio in a'still mqre ridicu> % 4 , i w H tons performance.?x naa recovered ^ my mask and pat it on, with some ill- ' lefined idea that it was better on than off. I had not been in the temple long, ocfore one of the high-priests eame in (vitk come candles. He set two of these near Kaumai's throne, and scattered the others nearby. Then with a taper he went from one to the jther chanting a weird song to Pele, ind lighting the temple for evening worship. Shortly auerwaru me am? other high-priests came in aud formed i sami-circle before the throne, standing in an expectant attitude^ Then Eanmai came. "Why wps it that I seemad to grow warm and the blood flowed more quickly through my veins when this strange, wild sorceress came befora me. She stood in matchless pose peering into the gloom of the dark- 1 sess beyond the candles, and seemed J to be looking for some one. Having ' taken her place on the throne, one of '.he high-priests uttered a loud call. There was the tramping of feet, and the hundred common pviesks came in.' They arranged themselves 'behind tha aigh-priests, and knelt upon the atona loor of the temple. (To be continued.) A well-known society woman ot London has nr album containing photo graphs of all her costumes for the part ten years. A beech tree twelve feet in height is growing on the tower of the church at Fishtoft, Lincolnshire, England, Croker To Remain in Country. French Lick Springs, In<}., Speciih? Richard Croker, of New York, who la here, said: "There Is no truth in the report that I will give up polices. New York city is my home and there I will continue to reside, doing all in my power to further the cause of Democracy. Nothing can or will separate ma from Tammany Hall. English life is all right in its way, but I am ah American and an American I wiP always remain. As long as possible I will giva v Vow York politics my assistance in an endeavor to make it stronger and mora nowerful than ever." Mine Workers indicted. Madlsonville, Ky., SpoclaL?The Webster county grand jury? In session at Dixon, returned indictments against Jame3 D. Wood, president of tht United Mine Workers of America of the twenty-third district; Kittrcdge Barnaby, vice president, and W. B. Kissinger, a member of the' official board, charging them as accessories before the fact for wilful murder. The indictments are a result of an investigation of the facts connected with tho attack made at he Providence Mines by union men five weeks ago. John Morcly, pointing to the fact that the British taxpayers load has been increased by $160,000,000 a year during thelast ten years, declares there is "real danger ahead of the country." ==?=== 1 Skin Diseases. For the speedy and permanent core at tetter, salt rheum and eczema, Chamberlain's Eye and 8kin Ointment ia without an equals It relieves the itching and smarting almost instantly and .ts continued use effects a permanent mre. It also cures itch, barber's itch, scald head, sore nipples, itching piles, chapped hands, chronic sore eyes and granulated lids. / Dr. Cndj's Condition Powders for horses are the best tonic, blood purifies ' and vermifuge Price. Scents. Sold by Knrlnl Iivwwa Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids Nature in strengthening and reconstructing the exhausted digestive organs. It is the latest discovered digestant and tonic. No other preparation pan approach it in efficiency. It ii* stently relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Fiatulenoe, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache,Gastraigla,Cr&mps,an? all other results of imperfect digestion. Prepared by E. C. n?witt ACo_ cElcaao. Registration Notice. . i The offloe of the Supervisor of tfsf- ietration Will be opened on the Aral \ Monday in every month for the pur" ' 1 -- n# .n* lUMftm pose 01 I us rcgigwnug vi muj rv. ? who ia qualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident of the State for two year*, and of the county one year and of the polling precint in which the elector offer* te rote font month* before theday ofeleotion.and shall have paid.six month* be> ?or? any poll tax then doe and payable, and who oan both read and write any section of the Constitution of 189ft i-nbmitted to him by the euperrisora, of registration, or cap show that h# owns, and ha* paid all t<xes collectable taring the-present year on property in Hi* State assessed at three hundred lollar* or more. J. J. EADDY, Clerk of Board.