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VOL. VII.
IN THE CHINA SEA
A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE.
By SEWARD YF. HOPKINS.
(COPYT.IGHT 1839 BY ItODKr.T BONNER’S
CBAPTEB V.
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"No!” I replied, noting the tima.
"You had better keep it. It is now
two o’clock. If Oha Fong does not
arrive before night I shall be v«;y im
pr.tieut. Don’t forget to wind your
watoh, for we may want it to-morrow.”
"I will not forget.”
We went into the temple aud ate
■ome rice from the golden bowl.
"Do be careful, Mr. Crickmore,”
Miss Arnold said, “You must not
give Cba Fong any advantage. He is
no ordinary Chinaman.”
"Do not fear. I shall be prudent,”
I replied. “Now I think I will go on
deck aud reconnoiter.”
“Ou deok?” sho said, smiling.
"Well, what would you call the top
of this thing? How does ‘roof’ strike
you? By the way, is this the tenth of
January?" *
"No—this is the eleventh.”
"Then I spent all day of the tenth
in stupor, as a result of meddling with
Cha Fong’s tobacco. No wonder 1
was hungry when I got into this world
ag^ain. Well, Ealston and Langston
are surely on shore by this time.
We went through the garden and
out into the pit. Wo climbed up to
the horizon top, and to see I carefully^scanned if Cha -Dong s yacht tbs
■was coming. It was not in sight, nor
was any other vessel. I led her to a
spot that was somewhat screened from
view—topreventanyprying glass from
ooming suddonly upon- us, aud we sat
down on the rock.
“Tbis is refreshing! exclaimed
Miss Arnold, drawing the invigorating
ail-into her lungs. “I did not know
the atmosphere down there was so
olosc. But it is grand here.’
"It is,” I replied. ‘This is _
an
ideal place for a residence, but one
rfBttv”* 64 * ?: UW “ h
?and " ° mftlD
“I don’t think I would ever wish
to see this place again,” she said
with a shudder, "if I only leave it
•lire.”
it "Probably not. But yon will leave
alive. Dou’t worry any more about
that. How far do you think we are
from Hong Kong?”
“I oanaot even imagine. I wa 3 oon
fined in • stateroom in the yacht
when we came here, and could not
•ee how fast we came or the direction
we took.”
The mention of Hong Kong brought
|0 her mind her father’s anxiety foi
Iter lafety. Her face saddened.
"My poor father!" she said. "H«
i* no doubt frantic with grief and
Worry "Then over my disappearance."
he will be frantic with joy
in a few hours, when you are restored
to him," I replied.
We sat there some time, talking.
Aside from the fact that her life and
beginning mine depended upon my efforts, I wai
to take a more than ordinary
interest in the girl who had been sc
tion. miraculously She thrown under my protec¬
was very winsome. 1
wondered if our acquaintance would
continue after Miss Arnold had re¬
sumed her place among the friends
from whom she had been taken,
I was musing thus when sho spoke:
"I think I see a speck coming this
way, Dootor Crick mor.i."
I followed the pointing of bei
finger,
"You are right. That is a sail, and
if I am not greatly mistaken it is Cha
Fong's yacht. It will be some time
before he can reach here, as there is
very little wind stirring. But it will
not do for us to remain here. He
might see us, and it would put him on
his guard.”
We carefully made our way into the
pit and down the long flight of rough
hewn steps. I led Miss Arnold into
the garden.
“Have you noticed the beauties of
this plaoe?” I asked her.
“No, I did not pay much attention
to it when we went out,” she replied.
"It is indeed a beautiful place. How
musical the fountains are!"
Afl the .time passed, I noticed my
companion was becoming nervous, al¬
though she was evidently laboring
hard to remain calm. After a time I
went out to see where the yacht was.
It was slowly coming toward the rock.
I did not show myself, but cautious];
peered from behind the ledge, i
judged that in half an hour she would
be in the inlet.
I returned to Miss Arnold. There
were traces of tears on her face. It
was a trying ordeal for me. What
must it have been to this gentle girl'
X strove to encourage her, and soor
had the pleasure of seeing her smile
again. think it
"I is time we made a move,’
I said, after a time. . “You take this
know what to do."
'Can’t I help you if I remain witb
Mi?” she asked.
#‘No . I pr efer t o have you out oi
*
THE RECORD.
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF JOHNSON COUNTY AND MIDDLE GEORGIA.
WRLGHTSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1900.
“«>il it I. over."
4 ‘very well—I will go.
j p U tiier do w u iu th e trap and closed
it. I told her to be perfectly calm and
no t to fear the result. I did not fee)
sure of it niysell, but no barm could
O ome from encouraging her. I care
fully ■'evidence' rearranged the rugs, and removed
a n that any one had been
there. I took up the knife and put it
j n my pocket. Then w ith the riib
clasped fondly in big my idol hand, the I went temple, tc
the rear of the in
a jpj entered it by way of an aperture
used no doubt to fill the lamp inside,
I took my position to one side of the
lamp, where I could look through the
hideous mouth between the rows of
priceless tectli. The air was suffoeat
but I did not dare put out the
lamp. I knew the absence of the light
in the idol would attract tlio attention
of Cha Foug at once. Iso I breatketl
the hot aud stilling perfume 'and
waited.
The m ; nt , tes SQeme(J like hours. My
position was cramped, and it was with
difficulty that I remain id quiet. And
j clU8e d Oha Fong for being so long
lrl coming—when it might have been
more to tue purpose to curao him for
coming at all.
notwithstanding my belief to
t ; le CO ntiaiy, time passed,
j could hear footsteps approaching
; n tko garden, tlio heavy tread of rnili
t avy boots and the softer step of a
ge; , ou d person. I could hear* loud
vo j ea3 angry argument. Thj lan
guago was a queer mixture. Now and
then I could catch a word or a sen
t euoe that I could understand; but it
wns moa tly Chinese,
X felt a queer sensation at the start
ing ) y familiar SO uud of one of the
voices. It sounded unmistakably like
tlm voice of a poraon •whom I Lx»d c*une
to remember, and whom I would be
Sind to meet unha.
favorable to myself. My blood grew
hot, my fingers tinglad as they rested
upon the rifle in my grasp.
The angry speakers advanced and
came into the temple.
I bent a little lower that X might
look up through the idol's mouth aud
see the faces of the newcomers.
They stopped before the idol.
One was the gigantic Cha Fong,
dressed as I had seen him before, in
full military costume and evidently in
a towering rage. The other was Mr.
Gambok Snell.
How I longed to empty the rifle in¬
to Mr. Snell’s snake-like carcaBsl
With what joy, I thought, would I see
him writhing in dying agonies before
me! But it was not yat time for me
to act. There was so much that I de¬
sired to learn. I thought perhaps by
remaining quiet I could catch enough
from their heated conversation to tell
me of my friends, Ealston and Langs¬
ton.
I gathered from the bits of their
gibberish that I could understand that
Glia Fong was accusing Mr. Snell of a
breach of trust. It appeared that?
the*# two precious rogues alone pos¬
sessed the seorot of the hidden spring
by which entranes to the island could
be affeoted. Hence it was plain
Fong that Mr. Snoli was the person
who had been there in his absonce,
and upon departing had left open the
rolling doors. This was evidently n
serious matter in the estimation of
Cha Fong, for he was greatly excited
and wrought up.
Mr. Gambok Snell way apparently
engaged in a frantic endeavor to dis¬
abuse the mind of Cha Foug of his
error. He seemed to be telling him
that he had not had time since the ar¬
rival of the City of Rio de Janeiro at
Hong Kong to visit the island and re¬
turn to Hong Kong again. However
patent this fact may have been to Mr.
Snell, it was a difficult task to thrust
it down the yellow throat of his mas¬
ter.
But the vehemence and earnestness
of Mr. Snell made at least a little im¬
pression on Cha Fong, for he switched
the question of Mr. Snell’s infidelity
from the intrusive presence of himself
iu the submarine palace to the still
greater crime of divulging the secret of
the place to a third person,
In reply to this awful charge Mr.
Snell grew perfectly wild in his protes¬
tations of innocence, and seemed to be
the wrath of the idol, inside
which I knelt, upon himself if he
was not telling the truth. I chuckled
iuaudibly to myself and patted my
fondly. The wrath of the idol
come sure enough if they only
with patience.'
I heard the name of "America" and
"girl;” and from the ugliness of Cha
Mr. JFconcluded Snell that he was accus¬
of playing-him false in
another respect. I also heard
Ketoto mentioned. Putting this
that together, I judged the accu
against Mr. Snell to be the seiz¬
for his awn ends, of the girl who
had been sought and abducted by
Cha Fong’s agents for Cha Fong’s
own purpose. I had no doubt that
Annie Ealston had been taken from
her home to be the victim of Cha
Fong, and that Gambok Snell had ap¬
propriated her himself, and now was
trying to hoodwink the Chinaman
into believing something else.
So far as the fortunes-of the girl
were concerned, I could not see that
it made any difference whether she
was the wile of one or the other of
these scoundrels.
While the two were engaged in
their wordy war, I was calmly and de¬
liberately shaping my course. I was
not naturally of a murderous disposi¬
tion. In fnct, it had always been my
boast that I was almost womanlike in
my gentleness in the practice of my
profession. Even the most simple
operation in minor surgery called up
the utmost sympathy within me for
the sufferer. But there was no room
for sentiment here. I was wide
awako to the fact that whatever I did
must be done boldly and quickly.
It was the lives of Cha Fong and
Gambok Sueli os against the lives of
Grace Arnold and myself.
Miss Arnold was, no doubt, at that
moment shivering with fear in the
vault to which I had sent her. If I
failed in what I'undertook now, her
fate was plain. My own would be
death; hers worse than death. I did
not know the extent of Cha Fong’s ac¬
complishments in the way of crime. 1
did know that Gambok Snell was, so
far ns his knowledge and intentions
a cold blooded murderer.
I had no doubt that both these emi¬
nent gentlemen would regard the sec¬
ond effort to kill me a mere pleasantry.
Existence had, as I have stated be¬
fore, always been very aweet to me; oi
and since my mishap at the hands
Gambok Snell, resulting in the sud¬
den acquaintance and friendship of
the beautiful English girl, whom I was
now called upon to rescue, existence
had become sweeter than ever to me.
My love of life and my resolve
to save Grace Arnold had be¬
come now my motive to act; and, as I
laid, it was the lives of Cha Fong and
Gambok Snell as against the lives of
Miss Arnold and myself.
The argument’ of my two enemies
waxed hotter and louder. Cha Fong
pointed to the despoiled rioe-bowl be¬
fore the idol in support of his accusa
lions. Gambok Snell shouted his
uigry denials and shook his fist in the
face of his Mantchoo master.
As Cha Fong, with a gesture of rage,
turned from Mr. Snell and was about
to leave the temple for the room in
which he had left Miss Arnold, I
cramped myself still more in my suf¬
focating hidingpiace and took good
f.im at his breast, whore, if he had
gny, his heart was located.
Carefully sighting along the barrel,
I fired.
The report of the rifle awoke a thou¬
sand reverberations which thundered
around the rocky cavern,
Cha Fong fell prone upqn the floor
■—dead!
j-*Mr. Gambok Snell became panic
stricken. His face became lived. He
trembled and seemed to lose his head,
Mr, Snell, perhaps, was a brave
suough man in open warfare or in th«
face of known and palpable danger,
but when idols dealt out death, and
flio with very the walls of of the temple rolled
terrible reports cannon, he was not
as a warrior, He turned and
fled.
This was not according to my plan.
I did not fear the result if Mr, Snell
[ame back with reinforcements, but
jie would on the do nothing and if of he the gained kind. the He
was run,
jkrnold yacht aud and made I would off be with it, Miss
no better off
fhan before.
I have always entertained a hearty
contempt for an assassin. To shoot a
pan in the back was, in my estima¬
tion, a cowardly thing to do. But it
was Snell or Crickmore, and I had no
choioe.
Before the retreating'figure got out
pf my sight I fired again.
Mr. Snell shrieked with pain and
sank to the floor.
I made a hasty exit from my hiding
place and went to tire side of Mr. Snell.
As I stood over him, my rifle still
grasped tightly in my hand, he rolled
liis eyes up at me. He recognized
Die, and with a howl of terror he
gasped and fainted.
If it had been to my advantage be¬
fore to shoot Mr. Snell, it was equally
to my advantage now to keep him
(iliye. sntt, if I seriously questioned the re
I, with Miss Arnold, should
ittempt to board the yacht, and the
two priests of Bn Foo fail to appear.
I had no means of giving orders to the
sailors, and as they were no doubt
faithful adherents of Cha Fong, they
would unquestionably be inquisitive
enough to spoil things. Hence, Mr.
3noll, wounded, but alive and sub¬
missive to my will, was just then a
valuable adjunct to our escape.
I rushed to the bedroom, kicked
aside the rug that covered the trap
and pulled it up.
“You can come out now," I called
to Miss Arnold.
"Is it all right now?” she asked,
emerging from behind a pile of silks.
"Are we safe?”
"So far we are safe,” I replied. "I
have killed Cha Fong and wounded
(GatnbokjSnell. I want to prevent his
dying, if I can, until we get away from
here.”
“Gambok Snell!” she exclaimed.
“Why, that is the name of the man
who threw you overboard."
“Yes, and this is the man,” I re¬
plied.
“He is not a Chinaman, is he?”
she asked, shuddering.
“No. I dou’t know what he is.
But I know what he will be if I don’t
hurry up. He’ll be a dead man.”
I hurried back to the wounded Mr.
Snell, leaving Miss Arnold to follow
at will. She soon joined me, and I
was delighted at the coolness and
courage with which she took hold and
helped me in my attentions to the un¬
conscious man.
She had wits, she had tact, she had
a mind.
“By Jovel” I exclaimed, approv¬
ingly, after we had succeeded in get¬
ting Sir. Snell’s eyes open in con¬
sciousness agaiu. “You would make
a capital nurse or physician, or— er—
er—a physician’s wife.”
She smiled slightly and blushed.
I succeeded in getting Mr. Snell
laid out on two or three rugs, and
plied him with restoratives. I was
not so very particular about the
gentleman’s comfort, but I was eager
to get him where he would not bleed
to death.
With Miss Arnold’s assistance I
stanched the blood from his wound
and bandaged it.
He lay for some time with his eyes
fastened upon me. In them there
were wonder, surprise and the fire of
hate.
Pretty soon his curiosity overcame
him. I heard his voice.
[to bb continued. 1
It seems that wo shall have to
abandon ul! hope of securing a living
specimen of that interesting antedilu¬
vian monster, the mylodon, where¬
with to enrich our modern zoological
collections, A year or so ago Bailor
Ameghino excited the scientific world
by declaring that a bit of skin dis¬
covered in Patagonia indicated that a
member of this gigantic family was
still lingering superfluous upon earth.
A few mouths later Dr. Moreno,
showed, at a meeting of the Zoolog¬
ical Society, another piece of skin,
taken from a cave near Last Hope In¬
let, Patagonia, and expressed his
opinion that it belonged to an extinct
ground sloth. This piece of skin was
critically \l examined liy Mr. Smith
oodward, who thought it must have
belonged to an animal nearly, if not
quite, as large as the giaut ground
sloth whose skeleton is exhibited in
the British Museum. Expeditions
were sent from England iu the hope
of procuring g living specimen, and
another was dispatched by Dr, Mo¬
reno to, the cave whore his fragment
of skin was obtained, with the result
that nearly all the important parts of
I he skeleton have beeu found, evi¬
dently with broken by man, and associated
relics of man in the shape of cut
fodder and ornamental boms. The
remains were lying in a cave which
seems to have been used as a stable,
and were evidently those of an ani¬
mal long extinct. In a quest of this
sort the death of P. T. Barnum is se¬
riously felt, Ha would ut least have
discovered the petrified carcass.
Requirements for public-school
teachers in Alabama are very simple.
Applicants for third-grade certificates,
which allow the holder to tench for
two years, are obliged to be examined
in arithmetic only through fractions,
and iu geography only through tlio
primary grade.
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GOOD HOADS NOTES.
Cost of Highways.
With all the advance of thought in
the direction of better highways, there
nre still many who believe that their
cost must necessarily fall upon the
agriculturist. Just as the farmer was
the pioneer settler in most of the
States, so he has been the pioneer road
builder. At his town meetings lie lias
detei mined where new roads should
be laid out, which of them should be
“worked” and improved, aud how
much of a tax should be expended
upon each improvement. As it was
left to him to plau this important,
work, so its expanse has rested almost
entirely upon liis shoulders. Now,
that the civ for macadamized high¬
ways is to be heard iu this city and
country alike, farmers believe, as a
rule, that they are to be called upon
to build them.
This is wrong. Farmers have
euough in the way of taxes to pay,
without undertaking the building of
elaborate gravel and stoue roads. It
is unfair that such a burden should be
added to their already heavy load.
Whatever may be undertaken iu the
way of constructing permanent high¬
ways, should be done at the expense
of those who are to reap its benefits.
True it is that the savings in the cost
of hauling crops would be considera¬
ble, and that this saving would result
almost entirely to the farmer. But
that is no reason for asking him to
pay the cost of building such roads.
He is not the only oue to use them.
They serve to bring city people and
city products into the country, as
much as they serve to briug country
people and country products into the
city. Tlio merchant who has business
with the farmer is as much benefited
through a good road to travel over, as
is the farmer who comes to town on
business of auy kind. Neither is the
use of roads limited to those living in
the vicinity, aud travelers from a dis¬
tance share the benefits resulting from
their improvement. It would be the
height of injustice, therefore, to ask
the farmer alone to stand lire cost of
good roads.
The proper division of the cost of
good roads has been accomplished
through State aid. This is the syst em
by which the stone roads of New Jer¬
sey have been built. The farmers in
that State are so enthusiastically
favorable to the extension of the State
aid system, that it deserves to be de¬
scribed, In the first place, under
the working of the State aid system,
no improvement is undertaken except
upon the petition of those residing
upon the road to be improved. When
such a petition has been duly signed,
it is presented to the County Board,
who proceed to have the necessary
drawings aud specifications made.
These are then presented to the State
Highway Commissioner for approval.
Upon their return by the State Com¬
missioner to the county officers, they
proceed to advertise for proposals to
build the road. When the contracts
are let, a copy of each contract must
be filed with the State Commissioner,
who thereupon appoints a Supervisor
of Construction, upon the recom¬
mendation of the property holders
who have petitioned for the improve¬
ment. This Supervisor must give his
whole time to the work, and see that
the conditions of the specifications
and contract are carried out.
Under this State aid system, the
cost of improvements is divided be¬
tween the State, the county and the
adjoining property, the State paying
one-third, the owners of the property
adjoining the improvement paying
one-tenth, and the county paying t the
remainder.
This system of building improved
roads is highly popular, because no
work is undertaken except upon the
petition of thoso to be benefited.
Gootl Roads For Cuba.
Second only in importance, in Cuba,
to the perfection of a form of civil
government by the United States
which shall serve as a guide aud in¬
spiration for complete self-government
by the Cubaus, we estimate the crea¬
tion aud maintenance of good roads.
Cuba has never had really good roads,
in the American interpretation of the
term, while roads that were fairly
good have been limited in number and
have recently been practically impassa¬
ble, save at great inconvenience, be¬
cause of neglect and a lack of use in¬
cidental to the protracted rebellion
against Spain. Capital stands ready
to enter liberally upon the labor of
agriculture, but an essential of ade¬
quate returns is the creation of new
and the improvement of old roads
leading to the chief markets in each
province. This work, we note with
satisfaction, is now being undertaken
by order o! the War Department, ope¬
rating through the various military
governors. Its completion will mark
a prompt upward bound of the agri¬
cultural production of the island.—
New York Mail and Express.
Women to Improve Highways.
The women of East Hampton, Long
Islaud, who are organized under the
name of the “Ladies’Village Improve¬
ment Society,” have already raised
more than $1000 for improviug the
roads. On the advice of the civil
engineer consulted they will first
build narrow macadam roads through
NO,
the town, and widen them as occasion
demauds. Politicians and town of¬
ficials are watching with interest the
outcome of this project devised by the
women.
“Hough Doing.**
There are soma words in the lau
uago of Northern Maine that have not
yet found their way into any diction¬
ary. For instance, a Maine exchange
this week reports; “Bough doiug is
the main topic Now of conversation in this
section.” it might puzzle some
people who know only English to tell
what the people up there are talking
about; but “doing” iu the lexicon of
the Moosehead region means the con¬
dition of the roads.—Lewiston Jour¬
nal.
Free Delivery and Hoads.
A free delivery of the mail goes far
to destroying the isolation of farm
life. It will do much also to improve
the roads of the rural districts, and
in this way will have a marked effect
in lessening the hardships of life on
the farm and in increasing alike its
pleasures and its profits.
LAWS SUBSCRIBERS SHOULD KNOW.
Court Decisions of Particular Interest to
Header* of Newspapers.
The papers are widely publishing
the recent decision of Justice Guthrie,
of Logansport, Iml., in the case of
the Journal company against Thomas
Reed for a subscription account, aud
some of them, says the Journal, are
badly informed on the subject. In
bolding that Reed owed the Journal
$10.75, the court decided that he had
never given the publishers proper
notice of his desire to have the paper
stopped. While Eeed testified that
he had ordered the carrier to stop the
paper, the boy swore tkathehad never
received any such notice. On this
point the court held that even if it
were proven that Reed had told the
boy to stop, this would not be sufli
oient notice unless it were shown that
the boy was the agent of the publisher
to the exteut of receiving orders for
discontinuing subscriptions. The de¬
cision is of considerable importance
to newspaper publishers, as it will
compel subscribers to use proper busi¬
ness care in ordering their papers dis¬
continued, and failing to do so will
be held liable for tbeir subscription.
Keceivetl th© Paper and Ha<l to Pay.
A case of interest to newspaper pub¬
lishers occurred recently at West¬
brook, N. Y., wherein a firm of news¬
paper publishers brought suit, and
obtained judgment for $!) aud costs,
on account of subscription charges.
The publishers admitted that the de¬
fendant never ordered the paper.
The facts were not disputed that
wlieu they bought iu the list of an¬
other paper in the town, this man’s
name was on the list, hut without his
orders. The new management wrote
to all whose names were on the list
they had bought, offering to stop the
papers of all who did not expect to
pay. The defendant did not answer
this notiee, but kept on taking the
paper, and then refused to pay on the
ground that he never subscribed. Th«
plaintiffs argued that the general rule
of law, that a man must pay for what
he receives and uses, applies to news¬
papers as well as other things, aud
the court sustained that view.
Arrearages Must Be Paid.
The publishers of the Anoka Herald
recently sued a delinquent subscriber
and recovered judgment for seven
years’ subscription and costs that
amounted to $20. The paper had
been ordered stopped and returned
from the postoffice as refused, but the
subscriber had not paid up the ar¬
rearages and his name continued on
the books and the paper was regularly
mailed to his address, The decision
of the court was, a subscriber could
be held for subscription until ar¬
rearages were paid.
Old Map of the United States.
State Librarian Galbreath has just
secured another valuable addition to
the collection of relics at the library,
a map of the United States, made in
the year 179G. The map was found
in au old book shop at Philadelphia,
and was formerly the property of a
gentleman who was for years in the
employ of the Federal Government.
It is made from copper plates and is
mounted on heavy linen. On the
chart Ohio is a territory with rather
vague outlines. Cleveland is not to
be found, aud Cincinnati is designated
as Fort Washington. Sandusky is
the only city of auy great prominence.
The Eastern States are shown with
substantially the same boundaries as
they have to-day. Georgia extends
as far West as the Mississippi River,
and the Southern portion of Florida
is apparently unknown. Lake Michi¬
gan is much too narrow and Lake
Huron is far too broad. At the lower
corner is a curious picture of Niagara
Falls. Mr. Galbreath has discovered
another chart of the United States,
drawn in 1774, and it will soon be
sent to Columbus.—Columbus Jour¬
nal.
Pure Logic,
"After all,” remarked the philoso¬
pher, "the armless wonder is better
off' than some of us. He grasps, de¬
spite that liis affliction, every opportunity
comes to him, because nothing
ever slips through his fingers.”—Har¬
per’s Bazar.