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> ? V ' THE^COUNTY RECORD. Pablithed Every Thursday ?AT? 5L1N08TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BT ? 0. W. WOLFE ; *\ Editor and Proprietor. ^Fhe Frenchman who claims to have Invented a method of seeing by wire Kill probably be kind enough to explain just what a person will see when die wires become crossed. The Nation has long ceased to be tfraid of the Man on Horseback. But It has become necessary for the private ;itizen to keep a sharp outlook for the Man on the Automobile. V The United States are reasonably rell supplied with railroad lines, but luring 1901 there were constructed K)57 miles of additional track. This ixceeds the new mileage of any year tince 1890. In Georgia, New Mexico ind Texas the newt track laid in each State was more than 200 miles. In Bj^flBpklakoma 427 miles were built. Bw ' The soil of Argentina is wonderfully Jertlle, its rivers giving unequalled lacllities for transportation, its woods ire choice, its vast plains are covered with herds of cattle and sheep, and vegetable products abound. What Argentina lacks is diversified industry, ind easy and cheap commuuicuwuu Tor men and commodities. The experiences of the Spanish war ind the war in South Africa have >rought home to us the necessity for letter military instruction in sanitary ind hygienic matters, that our officers, idmirably instructed as they may L*e in UI that is necessary to teach those unf ler them everything which may help to destroy or disable an enemy, may ilso be capable of keeping their men well?a matter which has been neglected, and yet is of great importance, thinks the New York Sun. It is a curious fact that the present lession of Congress contains no negro member. With the exception of a , brief period from 1SS7 to 1889, this is the first session in thirty-two years when this has been the case. The first colored man to be sent to Congress was I. Willis Menard, of New Orleans, who was elected to fill a vacancy in 1S6S. In 1870 Hiram R. Revells took his seat In the Senate, the first negro to be leated in that body. Blanche K. Bruce was the only other negro to enter the Senate. In the Forty-fourth Congress, which sat from 1875 to 1877, there were eight colored members. Harper's Weekly observes that, coming as Mr. Marconi's successful experimentation does at the end of this first year of the new century, we may entertain the notion that 1901 has set a pace for the years that are to follow which they will find it difficult to surpass or even maintain. M. Bantos-Dumont has mastered the heavens; Mr. Holland has imperilled the Becrets of the sea; Professor Pupin has won fame and fortune by his discoveries and inventions in submarine telephony, and now Mr. Marconi caps the climax of the scientific achievements of the year by projecting the letter "S" from one pole to another v. through 2000 miles of space, thereby establishing the practical utility of his wonderful theories. It Is undeniable that men will exercise only the organs whose operations are essential to life. Every step in human progress has had its origin in the selfish aspirations of an individual, philosophizes the Philadelphia Record. When men can achieve results without personal exertion they will natural? ly sink into a condition of slothful ease. It is idle to predicate a great physical development on the increasing interest In nthlptins. As n mntfpr nf f.ipf th* main body of mankind are spectators, while professionals are the skiiled and paid performers. Baseball and othei games which were formerly played by everybody are monopolized by experts who are paid. So physically indolent are all whose daily bread does not de pend on muscular exertion that thej rely on massage for sufficient exercist to keep the bodily organs active enougl to evade fatal maladies. - ..'.i.. 13 -.V"\ k: ;w_/. % ' | TWO GENTL ^ By SEWARD iCopjrisjkit. by Rodert Bossck'j Soss.l CHAPTER XXVIL CONTINUED. "Now, Mr. Warriugford," saiJ i Lawyer Berkton, in bis slow style, ! looking at Dole as if for encourage- ! ment, "there is a secret connected i with your uncle's life of which you : know nothing. The only two who are j now living, perhaps, who do kuow it j are President Dole and myself. We j were boon companions of your uncle j in younger days, and understand the j full circumstances of the case. I say I perhaps we are the only ones living. There were others, but we have lost all trace of hem. Now, that you may fully understand what is before you, you will please read this communication which your uncle placed in my keeping the very day that you were brought homo ill, and. of course, as you have learned, the day upon which he died. You had better read this before any of the others, as it stands largely in the light of a will and exacts certain conditions coincident with those existing in the will. The will, however, was made out a short time after your sister disappeared. And this document was written on the day your uncle gave it to me. I need say nothinsr further. The document makei everything clear. "I would request, Mr. Berkton," ) replied, "that if the document is s long one, you will be kind enough tc allow Gordon to read it aloud. As iny nearest friend, I would naturally turn to him for advice, if any were needed, and there seems no necessity for a double reading. I am not equal quite to readiug at length aloud; so, if you and Mr. Dole agree, Gordon will read it." "It makes no difference," said EcrkI ton, banding the paper to Gordon. Gordon cleared his throat, and, spreading the paper on a table before him, read as follows: "At the Cobals, on* the Iseantj or Oaeu (Date.) "To mv executor or my uepbe.v, Thomas Warrlngford, If he should recover from bis alarming Illness, and I, in the moantime, should die: "It- is with the falling vision and tho trembling of nn old man who feels his end approaching that I write this last letter, in which I make a disclosure to my nephew, should he survive, and in which I leave dl r^civons ioriaereparnuua iusuiuouibuuvi, It not too late, of a wrong wbiob has been done a child, first by direct abduction by others and since by neglect by myself. "Assuming that my dear nephew shall recover, I shall write this as a direct communication to him, as in case I survive him, I I shall be able to replace this with documents better fitting the needs of the case. "To begin, then, dear Tom, although I have been known as a bachelor to you and your dear parents, I was married twenty years ago. "In the town of Wailuku, on the Island of Maui, there resided, twenty years ago, a family of French settlers, composed of Jean Chicot, his wife Marie and their daughter Annette. Annette was about twenty-five years of age, very fascinating and of a wildly romantio nature. This was no doubt due to her father's disposition, which was fanciful and given .to vagaries of a most striking nature. "At this time I held possessions In Maul near Wailuku, and spent a considerable j portion of my time on a plantation called, 'Sugar Head.' Jeau Chicot worked for me and assisted me in the clerical work, act| lug as an overseer and sort of paymaster; , for with all his vagaries and wbim9 he was, i .iuk.i a: ? ? ~~a a t I at mat uuiu, a uiusi uusinvi^u; iuuu( a I did not like his wife. There was somo1 thing about her that repelled me?something of a serpent-like element In her nature. But I met Annette and fell In love with her. Of course, the Chicots were more 'than willing that their daughter should marry a wealthy planter, and Annette became my wife. We lived at 'Sugar Head,' and at first the promise of happiness was very great. But after a few months, Jean Chicot began to assert an evil influence over his daughter (my wife), and the first estrangement took place. "This sort of thing kept up continually, until my wife gave birth to a child?a daughter. Wheu the child was but one month old, my wife left me under pressure of her father's Influence?left me. She disappeared from '3ugar Head' one day while I was out among my men and took the child with her. I have not seen my wife her child since. I have reason to believe that my wife died some three or four years *go. "When Annette left me so cruelly, without a shadow of provocation, I shut my heart against her, and did not in any way attempt to llnd her, or win her back. Foi j venrs I smarted under the wrongs that old Jean Chicot had done me. I sold 'Sugai Head,' and have never been on the island of Maui since. As for the child. I do not know what they did with her. They were 1 r\t nrora nonflKlfl r\9 I I 0 UJJ jvtijyuj IVi, WUV4 nv*w vu^wwiv V* ??I?J thing in the line of oddity. I do not thins she was harmed, even though the parents of my wife hated me most heartily. I have since had cause to believe that this hatred and their action was the result of maohinations of natives. Whatever was the cause, the effect was to break up my home and ' cause me many heartburnings. I have never forgiven my wife. Were she to be found to-day, I wish it to be distinctly understood that nothing in this document tends to undo the decree of the court which freed me from the tie. I obtained a divorce soon after she left me. "But now to the purpbse of this letter: My little child was entirely innocent?a babe?as much sinned against as myself, While I could never bring myself to trace her and look upon the daughter of the false woman who wreoked my hnppiness, yet I feel that there is some ting due the child in the way of reparatir ft As she was In no wise to ulame for f Btlon of her mother- there in eo _cp carry.the , im ,EMEN 1 ; OF HAWAII. ? ! W. HOPKINS. ||) ; ffhtrod ana punisnmenc or ncgiect rurther Cliaii my deatb. 'i'lieroforo, I leava It Incumbent upon you. Tom, my nep'tew and heir, to find ray cuild it she bo now living, , and settle upon hor, it she be proven worth} of the endowment, one-third of my estate. If she be provon unfit to handle o fortune or disinclined to leave her present associations, if they be bad, then she is to be provided only with an income sufficient to keep her from want. "The child's natae was Helene. "I knew of no mark to assist in the identification of Helene save a small red mark, heart-shaped, which appeared on her left shoulder. Of course this may have disappeared in later years. "I feel no love for the daughter whose destiny I leave to your care. All love wr* destroyed when her mother'deserted me fo$ reasons known only to herself. But a sense of justice bids me, in my last days, to provide for my flesh and blood, as befits her present capability for an intelligent use and apprecf.itlon of the Inheritance. "This is all, except, that, as a help 1l this work that J leave to you, it may be well for you to knew that Annette took with her "when she disappeared", our marriage certificate, and that this certificate had her portrait and mine in tho two uppei corners, a faehion of those days In Hawaii, "I sign myself, dear Tom, ' your* affectionate uncle, "Thomas Warbinofobd." hint....... (svxfobp B. Dole, roa.. , Witnesses, j H Behktos." [Seal.] "When Gordon had finished reading this remarkable document, l lay badB in my chair entirely exhausted. The thing seemed to me to be so preposterous, so unlike Uncle Tom, that ] scarcely believed wnac i neara. x>ui there was 110 mistaking either the signature of my uncle or of the witnesses, "This is a strange matter," I said, "and one that will requiro careful research. It demands immediate attention." "I don't see what you can do but go it it as soon as yon are able and bunt up this mysterious cousin. Still it is a good bit of money to lose." "Gordon," I said, "thatisunworth] of you. It is not what xou would sa> were yon placed in my circumstances. You would do just what I am going to do." "That, of course, is what your uncle demands." "More." "I don't see what more yon can do." "If Unol,o Tom has a daughter living, no matter whether she be among high or low associations, she is heiress to his eutire estate and must have it." "No, oh, no," said President Dole. "Tliara ia nnf. tlia laaqf nppd to CTfi AMW*W *" - - ? ? O _ further than your uncle's wishes in the matter. One-third of his estate is a large amount, and tho girl, if found,1 will no doubt be perfectly satisfied rith tbat portion." "It is not what will satisfy her, but me," I replied. "If there is a living heir, I do not want a penny of Uncle Tom's money." "He is right," said Mr. Berkton With a sigh. "Much as we may regret the necessity, Warringford is quite right. I do not say he is in duty bound to do this, but morally. The Corals and everything else belong to Helene Warringford, if she be alive." Dole shifted uneasily in his chair. "Well, do as you think is best," he said, "But you will find her, no doubt, among the ignorant French, Pni-fn(mo?fl and natives in Wailuku: wallowing in superstition and idolatry, if not worse." "Let us hope not," said Gordon. "Let us hope for the best." "Of course, you are familiar with the former provisions of your uncle's wiil," said Mr. Berkton. "Yes," I replied. "I understood that after a few bequests, the estate was to be divided between my sister Winifred and myself, if Winifred was recovered. If her death was proved, I was to have the whole." "That is true. But on the day your uncle gave me the paper that General Gordon has just read, he added a codicil to the will, providing for the division of his estate into thirds, one for his daughter Helene, and leaving the other two-thirds under the Bame conditions that formerly governed all." "Very well," I said, with a shudder at my horrible recollection. "The - ? _ ai_ i ; tact ol my sister a aeaia ueiug pmufully certain to me, having witnessed it myself, I am now, with the exception of a few minor bequests, joint legatee with Helene Warringford." "Correct," said Mr. Berkton. "Then I have power to withdraw from the heirship and give the twothirds to her." "If you so elect," replied the law yer. "I do," I replied. "Are you going to read the will?" asked Dole. "There is no need now," I said. "Before anything can be done, Helene Warringford must be found, and must act in her own behalf." "Quite right. Quite right," said Lawyer Berkton. "It is the proper thing to do." "Then we are done for to-day," said iha President. J 'I _ have a meeting ivith Willis ariil the Secretary o 1 c Foreign Affairs,and will bill you R.lieu. a [ioiclon, pray consider yourself at t liberty to omit all departmental ser- a rice and assist IVarriugford in his efforts to find his cousin." i "Thank you, sir," said Gordon. "I j was about to make that request." t After Berkton had gone, Gordon I took up the document of Uncle Tom's a which the lawyer had loft and scanned t it again carefully. i .lug ursi tuiug we ve go to uo is 10 l Quel that beast of a Chicot, if he is alive or his wife. They must bo pretty Did, but if the old a.lage, 'The good (lie young,' is to be applied geometrically, this old animal will live to be t several hundred years old." j "I hope he is alive," I replied. "II ? will be so much easier to find the > heiress of The Corals." ? "It will," he said. "It willl Hang ? the heiress of The Corals!" ( ' ' ' CHAPTER XXVIIL < My eagerness to accomplish the errand which had become my solemn ' duty by the last testament of Uncle ' Tom?to find his daughter Heleno, and restore to her her proper inherit- ] ance?and the still greater eagerness, , amounting almost to blood-thirstiness, ( which consumed me, to reach the ( hateful and false priestess Kanmai j and punish her for my poor sister's death, hastened my recovery. My will asserted itself, and I rapidly irn proved, so that before a week longer * t -r A* L a j?' jiaa passea x was in xo unuei tunc mc ( journey either to Lanai, to find the | priestess, or to Wailuku to hunt up the wicked Jean Chicot or his descendants, if he had any living, and 1 wrest from them the knowledge of mj cousin Helene's present whereabouts. Gordon had so arranged his official matters that he could leave his next highest officer in command, and devote his entire time to my assistance. But Gordon went into the search for the heiress to The Corals with far less | sense of duty than I did. In fact, he , often said that it would be no more j than right to let the thing go by default, and keep the estate myself. He claimed that the daughter of Annette Chicot, and the granddaughter of the wicked Jean and his equally wicked wife, would, by this time, have imbibed their views and grown up in their ways, whicn would render her an unfit custodian of so vast an estate. But Gordon's views were warped by his affection for me. I 1 knew perfectly well that had he been placed in the same circumstances, he 1 i 1 1.? tvouiu not leave a ovjuc uuvumcu uuvu he had found the rightful owner and ' placed her in possession of everything that belonged to her. i And there was another reason for Gordon's* disinclination to pursue this i search?at once. He had become somewhat stern and forbidding?al- | most morose?the change dating principally from the day I proved to him , on the porch that what he had learned to fear from my utterances while in the fever was only too true. He had felt all the time great sorrow over the unfortunate lossjof my sister, but had ' plnnged into the search for her, and had carried the search on months after month with an energy and hope born only of love. This hope had sue tained his equanimity to a certain ex* 1 tent. But now that he had learned of Winnie's death, and the horrible ' manner in which it was brought about, he was simply mad with the one idea to find the murderers and their priestess and bring them all to punishment. Now that I was well out of danger, the thought of revenge was uppermost in his mind, and ' crowded and dwarfed every other thought. I was as eager to find the murderers of Winnie as ho was, but I felt that I owed it to Uucle Tom to attend to his affairs first. I was forced to swallow my sorrow and look at the question philosophically. Winnie was dead. No matter whut we did, or how much we hurried, we could do her no good. Had it been otherwise, I would have been on the way to the island of Lanai before I was able to walk without assistance. But I knew that my poor sister's beautiful form lay imbedded in tVio lava Rnmnwliprfl on KaDatoli. and ' all my haste would he of no avail in her behalf. And my revenge could wait. It would be sweeter when it came. No matter if years elapsed. I would, when I found Kaumai, delight in watching her death struggles. So Gordon and I argued the question, but as it was really my affair either way, ho finally came around so far as to agree to go to Wailuku first, aad if we found but little difficulty in tracing the Chicots and my uncle's daughter, to pursue that errand first. But he stipulated that if we found difficulties in our way, or the search promised to be a long one, we were to go to Lanui, dispatch the priests that had escaped the volcano, and deal with Kaumai as she deserved, if she, too, had escaped the eruption. So, with twenty soldiers from the garrison at Honolulu, we started for Wailuku. There was attached to the war department a little steamer, purchased to convey officers of that de- ] partment or others high in authority j to and fro among the islands. j It was a splendid little sea-going j ] vessel, under an efficient crew, well I < officered, and afforded M good jwt> < :ota modotions as any ship t &at touched it Honolulu. And in this steamer, he Aumo, we set out on our journey aid search. Jollroy Seacamp had been so much nterested in my affairs that it seemed xirfectly natural for him to be one of be party. He sat on the deck of the Limoand smoked his blackest cigars, ,nd cheered us with his rattling ongue, which was ready to respond, 10 matter what might bo the subject mder discussion. (To be continued.) Massace roi' the Blind. Dr. Arthur Y. Bennett recentlyreact i paper before the New York Stateiledical Association upon "Massage is an Occupation for the Blind," in vliich he called attention to the large- . ind increasing number of. blind perions, most of whom are dependent up)n others for their support, and said. ;hat the estimated number in thi# jountry is 56,000, of which 4398 are ,n this State. In order that many of :hese may become self-supporting, he idvocates that they be taught massage^ in the State institutions, being trained in the anatomy and physiology of the body before they learn the practical tvork. He considers that the peculiar delicacy of touch which the blind possess makes them especially fit for thi* kind of work. One of Marshall Field's three-dollar :ash boys asked him for a raise. "I Dnly got $3 per week at your age,"' said the millionaire. "Well," said thfr boy, quick as a flash, "may be you weren't worth any more." He waspromotecL RAM'S HORN BLASTS. * * i nr. H-E easy path leads I nowhere. A license is an inY/f?\jffldorsemeut. * Results are the ruVrvTL best rewards. / upOwl Calmness is the Jiark of true cour\\k \e E d u c a tion is |(\P * | yU^\ s1"63161* than *n* struction. Salvation is not 3 mat" A * J ' r\f QhlKh/>loth ? O ^ CC1 Vii WMIMMW4V.?. Godliness is true and eternal greatness. A conspiracy of silence is usually one of sin. With God Egypt is preliminary to Canaan. Vice is never so vicious as when ar rayed as virtue. Truth is not made false because we ioubt her. Dark days make a good background for bright lives. Only those whom the cap fits wilk criticize its cut. You cannot make a live church out of dead people. The source of lust is as low as that, of love is high. Daily Drdgery may be the door to di viuc UCU5UIO. Some people forgive by forgetting, but the true way Is to forget by forgiving. When the heart is full of faith the hands will be filled with good works. When the heart of the church lawith her Lord her hands will be with His lost The drunkard carries the disregarded danger signal half way between his; lustful eyes and his devouring mouth. The life of the saloon depends on thedeath of souls. God's forgiveness does not depend om His forgetfulness. A world struggling with its problems needs more than pilgrim Christians. Many take their business into the house of God who are afraid to take Him into their house of business. Curing the Stammering Habit A new method of curing the stammering habit is being advocated. It is based upon the alleged fact that stammerers rarely if ever show any Impediment of speech when talking in a whisper. What may be called the "whisper cure" is a3 follows: For the first ten days the stuttering person is not allowed to speak at all. This allows rest for the vocal cords and i& the first stage in the cure * After ten solid days of absolute silence the patient is allowed to speak, but only in a. whisper. He generally is kept in this second stage for a space of fifteen Jays, sometimes more, sometimes less, according to the severity of his case. After the whisper period is passed, the patient is allowed gradually to increase the tone of his voice until a conversational one is reached. This is the most critical period of the cure, and the transition from the whisper to the conversational tone must be rery gradual. There is certainly one thing to be said for the new cure; it loes not cost anything, and any stammerer can try it for himself without calling in a medical adviser. The jnly objection might be that the preliminary ten days of silence might nterfere with the patient's prosecutng his usual business. He might, lowever, try it when on his next vacation.