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1? ' "THE COUNTY RECdk ?' f Pnbliihed Er?rj Thtirsdaj * ?AT? 1IHOBTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?81? 0. W. WOLFE & 41 tor and Proprietor. PRESIDENT VISITS HIS SICK SON firs. Roosevelt at bis Bedside?Trip to Charleston Exposition Abandoned. Groton, Mass? Special.?Mrs. Roose- i *elt and maid reacued here Just alter 10 o'clock baturuay. At the school Mr8. Kooaeveit vas received by President Eeabody and a tew moments later was at her boy's bedside. Subsequently an attempt was iuu>ao j to obtain from Mrs. Roosevelt a statu- J ?nent lor publication regarding tne ; filuess of young Theouore, but, 1 through President Pcabody, .she declined to depart from the course approved by President Itoosevelt. According to this plan, ail necessary information concerning the lad s condition will be transmuted to President Roosevelt, who will determine what news shall be mad3 public. It wa:? iearned late this afternoon that young Theodore was a little bet,er? today than yesterday. His temperature this | morning' was 10.?, but during the at-| toruoon R dropped to 103. 'the pre.s- j -ende of Mrs. Roosevelt, had a beneficial effect upon the lad, and ho has j brightened considerably smco her j coming. President Roosevelt and Secretary [ Corteiyou lett wasnin&iuu i?i muiou, . Mass., Saturday night at 12:24 on a | special car attached to the regular train on the Pennsylvania. Just before leaving the President received a telegram saying that his son Theodore had slept ail the evening and that his condition appeared quite favorable. The train left Washington 11 minutes late. It is due to Jersey C.'vy at 6:52 a. m. A special train will ho la waiting in New York to take the President to Boston. Late Saturday evening tho President determined to disregard the re quest of his son's physician and to go to his boy's bedside. It was stated that the President folt that his presence would be a comfort to Mrs. Roosevelt and that as the critical pe riod covers the next three days ho J -1 * ' ^ " ""n Tf {o nla/k 1 VUUU1U be UCUI Ilia ouu, 11 ? stated that the trip to Massachusetts Is iakens on the President's own initiative and is cot duo to any alarming news which has reached him con- J ccrning his son's condition. There Is absolutely no change in tho condition of Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.. tonight say the physicians in at, tendance, and there are no new developments in connection with the boy's Illness and the closing of the Croton school. It in stated thct the President has no plans for returning to Washington his futnre movements depending upon i the condition of his sou. Advices receivod early this evening at the White House, say that Theodore. Jr., Is doing 'well. He is suffering from a treacherous form of pneumonia. bnt Is not considered In immediate dancer. Owing to the request of the phvsicians, the President has abandoned liis trip to Charleston. Saturday n Big Day for C< turab'a. Columbia, (Special.)?Columbia has had to assemble within her borders In the last few weeks the Methodist conference, the Southern Educational association, the Good Roads convention, and now comes the Young Men's Christian Association convention? last bnt by no means least A few of the delegates came In Friday night bu? most arrive Saturday. Saturday the presidents of tho college Y. M. C. A.'s were in conference with the college secretary, Mr. Wilson. That night supper was served by the ladies auxiliary. Pre/. E. S. Dreher, president of the last convention. called the convention to order, and It will be In session until Tuesday night. Mr. C. L. Gates, of Atlanta, one of the most experienced and capable secretaries of the international committee aad formerly State secretary of Alabama, will be here aaisting in j me' convention^ Mr. L. A. Cculter. of Richmond. !s state secretary of Virginia, fie came specially to address the mammoth men's meeting in the new Columbia theatre at 4 p. m. Sunday afternoon. theme was "Chains that Bind," and was heard by almost every man 4a Columbia. Atlanta Ha* a Population of 135,735* Atlanta, Special.?According to the ?lty directory published by Thoinas J. Maloney, the advance sheets of which have just been issued from the press. Atlanta. Including its Immediate vicinity, has a population of *55.735. Atlanta and all suburbs Included fcas a population of 148.940, which is an increase of more than 5,000 with to a year. Atlanta's financial growth, as told *y the records of the clearing house. I 4a shown In the following table, which <overs a period of nine years past: *895 .. 65.31<v254.71 1F9G.. GO 026.033.17 1897.. V. 72.005,161.52 1893 71.9G4.P09.01 189 9 81.015.297.11 190 0 96.275.251.22 1 1901 111,733,849.GS CJoiman cxpert.3 have ascertained ' ' fhat railway rallb deteriorate sooner in tunic's than elsewhere because of the cXfoct of injurious gase3. v . J'TWO GENTL1 Ey SEWARD \ tCopjririit, by Bobeet boxner.'* boxaj CHAPTER XXVL j CONTINUED. Ton are right, Tom. Ton Trill hnvo lo know it, ami keeping it froui you only aggravates the distress. Your good old uncle is?dead." "Dead! Unclo Tom dead? It cannot be possible!" i "It is not oniy possible, bnt a painful fact. The day you were brought ] here raving about \v'iunie and tue lava ; and the priests, Uncle Tom gave way nuder the shock. He tried to do wiiat he could for you, but was compelled to take to his bed. The next morning, as his attendant went to rouse him, lie was found dead, lie had passed quietly away in the night. "Dead!" I murmured, as I Jay back on my pillow ami sighed wearily, "triunio dead, Uncle Tom dead, aud that hateful priestess alive! I must get well soon, Tilling. I'll tear that she-wolf from her hiding-place and slay her. Ah, what u cruel wretch sho is!" | Again there was a peculiar look enehauged bctwoen Tilling and Gordon. "But yoar words regarding this ?I -nr. d J ! t. TV h j 1 A Vd'J pricatusa ?aig ?v?^ ^ were ravin-;," said Gordon, watching me intently, and evidently moved greatly. In my own grief I almost forgot that he, loving my sister as he had told mo he did, must have felt the loss poignantly. "You were continually calling her 'beautiful Kunmai,' and telling her that you loved her." I raised my hand deprecatingly. "Don't tell mo auy more, Gordon. 1 Let the bright vision that once en- ! thralled me siuk behind the cloud ol hate that followed. Yes, I had began to love her. Ah, Gordon, you could i not blame mo if you had se^a her one ; day as I saw her, melted to tears, a womanly woman instead of a heartless j priestess. Yes, I loved her, Gordon. ! I3ut when I saw that horrible sight? that awful?ah, T can't buar to repeat : it!?tho love I felt for Kaurnai turae J ' to bate, and the former passion only ' inteusiiiod that bate. I mast ki;l ber!" | We were ell silent n few moments. | A lialf-choked sob cam a fru.n Gordon. ' Ho looked away acro*3 the valley at tho distant mountains, niul dashed a . tear froia bis eye. In his a^ita'. ion be ; rose from bis chair and tramped back *<id forth on the porch. This was always Gordon's way whoa under ex- ^ jitement. "I think the time has come for an ? ' 4l~- WAM rr/\t lml/1 nf . txpiftllituuu Vi uuu ^vu ^v* ? me," I saiil. "It is all so inexplica- J bio. I fell on the rocks. I knew that. Bat from that moment until the day 1 woke with yon and Tilling standing over me. I do not remember a thing. It is all a blauk. I do not ?en know how long ago it was." Gordon sat down again, and recovered bis composure by an evident effort of the will. "There is so much to bo said?sc muoh to explain? .11 around that we hardly know how to begin," he said. "You do not even ask how long ago yoar uncle died, or if he is buried?" "Time seems to be a thing that is beyond me," I replied. "Until I know how long I bavo been hero sick, I cannot form any conception of time." "Yen have been jnst two weeks in yoar bed," said Doctor Tilling. "Then, of couise, Undo Tom is f buried. Yon attended to it properly, did yon not?" "Yes," said Gordon, sadly. "We did all we could. You know voa are ? * i j. * tin.- ,i? li is sola lieir aau mas'.erui j.uo D07." "Never mind that," I Enid. "My Inheritance is not of so much moment as my revenge." "Wlion you are sufficiently strong," put in Doctor Tilliug, who had been quietly watching me, while ho smoked a cigar, '-there are sundry papers and documents that must be attended to. Berkton has the will and a few other papers." , "Berkton cnu be trusted," I raid; "they will ktep. I want to hear how Gordon found ms, nnd what had bec :ie of liim the day he sent for me." Gordon ihevr rearer to me, aud the elank of his sword seemed like music, >o dear was this soldier to me in my afflictions. "Yon remember the letter I wrote you, to meet mo si Saacamp'a lxotcl?" he asked. "Yes, perfectly." "I chanced to overhear a conversation between two natives connected with the grounds et the government house. They were workmen on the place, and were enjoying a smoke behind somo shrubbery, hidden completely from view. I wai strolling about and heard o^o of them mention j yo.ur name. I orcpt closo to lh.i I shrubbery and listened. They wor.l | evidently members of a secret order I cul'oJ Kaaiuuloukaniliatawai, depted | EMEN ? )F HAWAII. ? ($% V. HOPKINS. fTV the worship of Rome heathen deity. They fpoko about your sister; and from what they Raid, I could tell tunl she was to be made a sacrifice to theiz idolatrous forms. They did not mention any place, and I hurried to the office ami wrote that letter to you. As 1 jot up from the shrubbery, I thought I sax a person?another native?who jeemed to have been watching me, bnt thinking I was safe from them, I paiJ so attention to him. "Later in the afternoon, I rode out toward Pearl Harbor, and very foolishly, I went alone. About midway between llonoiuin and l'earl Harbor, I was overtaken by a squad of about ten natives, who surrounded me and succeeded in securing me. I killed two of them, but they were too many lor mo. I was taken into a thick woods and held prisoner over night. I think their intention was to pnt me to death through some religious ceremony, for they had plenty of opportunity to kill mo then. "The next day, the entire army was out looking for me, and a company came upon us in the woods. The pesky natives wouldn't give up eveu then, utitiljbey were all shot. They ?ve very devils for persistency and recklessness. When I got back to Honolulu. I found vou were gone to Molokai. Dole told me what jou had said to him, and your ancle eaid the same thing. But I knew perfectly well that you would never go off in that way, so suddenly, .sin: ply to see about that monument. Anyhow, I knew yon would not go, leaving my fate iu doubt, unless there was a rightfully stronger tall on your affections, such as I knew a clue to Winnie's whereabouts would be. "IJdidn't believo tho Molokai yam al all, save that tho shin was going there. I conclude 1 you had learned something, and ha l started out to run the clue down. I got hol.l of Millianki, who is about the most decent native in the place, and told him that to mj tuind. your life was in dauger. lit was greatly ahtrrael, and promised tc learu wuat ne coma an i isn me. "Well, he mel nil lm arts on tha daughter of old Lowai, who, it appears, gave yo.i seme iuformatioa whilo he was slying. "Well, he coald not got anything definite out of her, although I believe if she had known anything she would have told. But he managed to learn that she had overheard you and T.onari tft!!:in?r tbont Lianai and Putua. the : fisherman, at Kammkakia, and the inference was thai you hal gone to Molokai to get Patua to take you to JLanai. There was nothing delinite about it, but it was batter to follow up a slight trace than to remain inactive. I took twenty soldiers, an! in the steamer belonging to the Department went to Kannakakai. Inquiries i*or Tatua, the fisherman, elicited the fact that ho was not there. This much seemed to point to the truth of my surmises. We then then steamed to LanaL We ha l a rough tinrjof it landing, not knowing the coast. We wandered about striking oil in new directions, and I sent scouts out to hunt for traces of you. One of them climbed to the top of Kapatoli and discovered traces of life down in the crater. He hurried to report to me, and I followed him there with what force I had?about eight men. When we reached the top, o horrible sight met us. The volcano was just springing info life. Yon wore lying on the ledge of rock stretching around the crater, and a dozen or so crazy priests were dancinp around you. We fired into them, ano made our way down to you as fast ai we coald. We had no time to lose. Aoy minute might be our last, for tha old volcano waa rumbling at a tremendous rate. We picked yon up. carried you out of the crater?whicli was not an easy task?and took yon to the steamer. You were in need of medical attendance, so we hurried home. That is all. We have beet hanging over you ever since, waiting for yon to get well an! explain yoar presence in that strange place." I had listened 'breathlessly to Gor l.? t/,14 in ? ClOU 9 iiarraiirr, n utiu uo iviu au ? voica soiaetimM tookeu with amotiou. "Ah! Hal you come but a moment aooner," I said, "you might have saved poor Winnie. Tluy had just?just?oh, Gordon, I cannot real, ize it even though I saw the horrible thing with my own eyes. Oh, if you had come a little sooner!" "I wish to God I had," replioJ Gordon, with a tremor in his voice. "And did you not aoe Kaumai?" I asked. "No. I saw nothing of any priestess or woman. There were a few priests, as I tf'd you. That is all." "?h. you know whether the eruption oi juapatoli woo a violent one or not?" "No. The indications were that it was going to be a violent one, and we got oat of the way as soon as posj sible. We conltl see nothing of it from the steamer after we left the ! island." 'Were yoa able to learn from what I said in my fever anything of the scenes throngu which I had been?" 1 asked. "In a me^nre,"" said Gordon, gloomily. "With what I saw and what yoa have since said in yom ravings, it was possible to form an idea of what yon had been through, and the awful fate that poor Winni? met." Here Gordon's emotions overcame him, and he again paced to and fro on the porch. Doctor Tilling was evidently getting nervous. The excitement was, in his judgment, too much for me. i'e had raised his hand waruiugly, and was about to say something, when a carriage rolled luto the big gate and toward the house, j "Here comes Dole," said Gordon, stepping into the house and bringing ant a coinfotlablo chair for the pre* aident. Mr. Dole cane at onco and shook hands with me. "I a:n sincerely glad, Warringford, that yon nro bo much improved," ha said, taking tho seat proffered by Gordon, near ine. "It was exceed* ingly good uews when G< rdon told ine von were to be allowed tho lnxnry of the porch to-day. I concluded that > _ i- ii.. i I | 11 Tun were even su jut on me ruua | ' toward convalescence, it could do no ; harm to drop in and see you. Waa ! my conclusion correct, Doctor Ti> ling?" "Quite so, Mr. Dole," replied doctor. ; And, in fact, Tilling seemed relieved. 1 Dole was so calm, and hia manner of talking was so soothing and ea^y that it had the effect of undoing the 1 j excitement brought on by my talk | with Cordon. "Of cour.-c, Too, yon know all about your uncle's death?" said Mr. Dole. "It was a Bad blow to all of _ if Q3. "Gordon and Tilling have just told me," I replisd. "It makes me feel i still worse, bLt the gvief I was already in seeme 1 to exhaust my nervous force. I could feel no more." Dole bowo 1 his head, as if lie wished to signify that he understood. J But he looked inquiringly at Doctor I Tilling. He evidently had' not been ! tol l of the fateof Winnie, as disclosed ! L?v my mild ravings. "Tom will buvo bii hands fall j now," said Gordon, "with The Corals an l all Mr. Warring'ord's wealth." I A cloud rested on Dole's face. "Yes," bo replied, with a slight hesitation. "Yes, bat there is something to bo said about that. Something that you do not understand ?anv of you. But it wiil not do to talk about it now. Tom is not yet strong enough. In a week, perhaps, at Berkton's oGce, we will talk it over." After a short chat Dole left, and I was hustled back to bed. Tilling said he had been very lenient. That I had had a good day of it, and he feared I had overdouo it But if there were no ill results, I might continue aach day to bo out more. CHAPTER XXVII. A week later I was so mnch improved as to be able, so Tilling said, to paddle my own canoe. The week had dragged slowly, so impatient was I to set out in search of the perhdions priestess and bring her to pun- j ishment. I was also anions to settle ' * " TT?aU nvv nnri* iui' UUUIC XVTiU o Ituu J w.?. | osify bad been excited by what Dolo bad eaid about my heirship. During the week of convalescence Gordpn had been with ins almost constantly. Doctor Warren had been out to soo mo onco, but the journey was getting a little long for him; ago was telling on hirn to that extent. Jollroy Seacamp bad been to sec mo several times. This good-natured, sympathetic fellow sat with tears i.i bis eyes while I told him what I had seen. He was especially moved by my recital of the hopes that had been aroused in me by Kaumai's words, aud the utter desolation that followed the discovery that she was false to me and true to Tele, her goddess. "I tell you what, Warringford," he said, "there's only one thing for you to do; Find .her. if she's alive. Per haps she met well-merited punish* ment in the volcauo. But, if not, you most find her. Tear her in pieces. Slow death, torture and all that. And the prieatsl Kill them! Buru them alivet These blamed natives never were any good, and never will be. I tell you the the soomer you kill every member of the darned old Ka nmilou* kauilmawai the sooner yon will con* fer a favor on thia country and humanity in general. Yes, sir. Do it. If you want m* to go along and help you, I'll go, as sure as my name is Seacamp. I *11 pile 'em onto a fire and prod 'em with a stick while they nro roasting. Cuss 'em! That beau* tiful girl to meet a death like that! Gordon, I conjure you a.-ul lay it upon you as a sacred duty to lin I that cruel priestess and her gang of fa oat-J ics, if it takes th j whole army to -do I It. Kili 'em, I say, kill 'em!" . .Gordon's lipa wore compressed aadi h i his face pale." "They shall be punished,V ha said primly, "if they are alive and can be found. '* When the week wus up, I gave myself into the hands of Lawyer Berkton. It had been arranged that I should go to his oiHce with Gordon and Doctor Tilling and that President Dole should meet us there. I did not know what Dole had to do with my ancle's affairs, unless as executor or something of that kind. The weather in?, and for my benefit it was honied that the meeting should take place at Tii e Corals. So we gathered in the library to read some important papers left hy Uncle Tom. Lawyer Berkton was quite an old man. He stooped considerably 'and ipoke in a slow, hesitating way. Bufc ie was the best lawyer in Honclnln. President Doie, Berkton, Gordon, TiliiJUg and myself formed the grouja (To be continued.) llechanicnl Lflter 8ru)?r. An 'employee or tbo Treasury Dapartmeut at Washington, who, knowing the enormous amount of mail seufr out daily, coucaived the idea of a machine that would seal envelopes antomatfcally. To conceive aud theu to execute is the order of the American inventor, and soon the machine was I completed and in operation. It is a | simple affair, something on the order of a printing presc, the envelopes being fed in. Tne sealer moistens, folds md seals the envelopes automatically, ?nd lias developed a capacity of oret 15,000 an hour. Telegraphic Sparks. Asbevllle (Special)?A large textile mill is to be established just below Asheville on the French Broad river. At a meeting here today the new company was formally organized and operations are expected to begin at an earlydate. Both cotton and Woolen go ode will be manufactnred. The new plant will be located near the W. T. Weaver Power Company. Washington. Special.?Rear Admiral and Mrs. Schley arrived In Washington today from their Southern trip au-1 went at once to their apartments in the Richmond. The severe cold from which the admiral has been suffering has been greatly improved. Two Killed By Mob. Wheeling. W. Va., Special.?Tuesday night at Glen Jean, a mining town in Fayette county, thi3 State, a mob weut to the home of T. Williams, a colored herb doctor, called him to j the door and sbot h'm to death. Moso ! Allen, colored, was found a short distance away shot through the stomach. He died 4bls afternoon. In a post mortem statement he said he was passing along the road and was struck by a stray bullet Williams was a ra j rent arrival from Tennessee ana Ignorant negroes believed him to be t conjurer. Will Cut No Figure. Washington. Special.?Hen. Whitelaw Reld has invited Miss Alice Rocve velt, oldest daughter of the President, to accompany him to London as kift guest when be goes to attend the coronation of King Edward. It is the present expectation of Miss Roosevelt to avail herself of this opportunity to see London, but if she does so, she will have no status save that simply of a young American girl, and will not figure in the coronation coremonies in anv manner. Desers Hanged. Washington, Special.?T*o soldiers were undoubtedly hanged in the Philippines Friday, in the execution of a?ntences imposed by military commissions by which they were tried and convicted of deserting to the enemy. Their names were Edmund A. Dubose and Lee Roesell, atvd both were attached to Company E. of the Ninth Cavalry, a negro regiment. While company was operating against the insurgents in the province of Albay, in. August last, the two men deserted Four Children Burn?d. Cumberland, Md., Special.?At I .o'clock Saturday morning, the farm house of Wm. P. Robertson, about miles east of here, on the Maryland 31U9 Ul lilt; i'Uivmac nwi destroyed by fire, and four of tho Robertson children, Pearl, Owen, Effle and Joseph, the eldest aged 10 and tha youngest 4 years, were cremated. The Are, which is thought to have started from sparks from an open hearth, spread so rapidly that Mt. and Mrs. Robertson found all means of escape gone for the children, who were in the second story. -* Walked on River Danube. Vienna, Special.?Capt. Orossmau started on Thursday from Llnz for Vienna, a distance of 100 miles, walking on the surface of the River Danube on shoes invented b7 himself. H? covered twenty miles on Thursday, towing his wife in a boat Ha wai therefore unbale to make anywhere near the speed he expected. It is stated that the peasants along tho banks were terrihed by the strange spectacle. Nearly c-ne-tnlf cf tho students at Switzerland's universities last summer ?1,090 out of 4,040?were foreigners. A.