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THE MAUI NEWS-
-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER U, 1905,
X,
sUncle 'Terry
... By...
v f CHARLES CLARK MUNN
Copyright, 1900, by Lee A Bhepard
. SYNOPSIS
" t'ChaptCM l ntul I! Uncle Terry is tin
"" keeper of the Cape light on SoulhMrl
t' Rlanl. He lias an adopted daughter
' Telly. (Etelka,) grown to womanhood,
, ' who was rescued when a babe from the
wreck of the Norwegian ship Peterson.
' ;C. lII-trAlbert and Alice Tage are two or
phans with a heritage of debt, living in
.V 'lithe village of Sandgate. Albert is a col
. .1 lege graduate, and through the influence
; ,';iof his chum, Frank Nason, gets a posi
i (tion in the law office of "Old Nick" Frye
,, id Boston.
c. IV Ftye Is a scpundrel and is the at
, torney for Frank's father, a wealthy Bos
. ton merchant. He wants Albert to keep
,up .his intimacy with Frank, who has a
X . yacht, plenty of money and nothing to
do but amuse himself . - C. V. Inaneven
jng's. outing wjth Frank, Albert fritters
: ;vway f 20. At the same time Alice is
.! walking four miles a day to teach school
'.' ... and supporting herself and Aunt Susan'.
1' ' C. VI. At the same time Alice i9 walk
iug four miles a day to teach school and
supporting herself and Aunt Susan. Frye
N increases Albert's pay from $75 to 175 a
tnnnth as a bribe to snv upon the Nasons.
C. VII and VIII. Allert tells Frank of
his debts, Alice's struggles and his dislike
of emptisive follies. Frank confesses his
'' disgust with an idle life and induces his
! father to make Albert his attorney in
l place of Frye. IX and X Albert has
' $2,500 a year to attend to Nason's affairs.
He takes Frank to his village home for
Christmas, with an inevitable result that
,. his friend is smitten with Alice. XII
; Frank is .delighted with the country holi
'. day of sleighrides aud skating. Alice
keeps him at a distance and tells her
' brother that his chum ought to work for
1; a living. XIII and XIV A notice ap
: .(peT9 in the papers calling for the heirs
rf Eric i Peterson of Stockholm, whose
,,' aa end hi wife and child were wrecked
on the Maine coast. Frye is the attorney.
' Uncle Terry goes to Boston and after tell
- 'ing his story in full gives Frye 200 to
recover the estate for Telly. XV. and
-, XVI. Frank takes a hint from Alice and
studies law.
chum. Alice resolves not to fall in love
with the citv chap according to the plot-
XVII and XVIII Alice avoid nieetinga
' Frank alone. However, he scatters tips
so freely among the villagers that gossips
. setnim down as a millionaire courting
the pretty schoolma:am. XIX and XX
'Frank's yacht, Gypsy, lands on South
port island. Albert gets lost and the
yacht sails without him. He falls in with
Uncle Terry, meets Telly, of course, and
learns the story ot uie innemance,
iXXI. Albert returns to the Yacht, con
. fessing that he has fallen in love with a
beach girl. XXII. He goes back to the
: Cape and sketches Telly in the pose he
first saw her. XXIV Frye gets all the
proofs in Telly's case and calls for more
money. Albert takes the matter in hand,
- meanwhile losing his heart hopelessly to
Telly. XXV to XXVIII Frauk aban
dons the yachting party to join his
mother ana sisters in tne mountains
Frve loses monev in speculation and de
mands (100 from Uncle Te'rry. Frank
brines his sister Blanche to Sandgate,
and she at once beeomes a warm admirer
of Alice. n spite of the girl 's coyness
Frank half gains tne Dauie. 29 10 34
Frank oroceeds to win his aristocratic
mother over. Frye loses all and takes
his own life. Uncle Terry and Albert
, discover the tragedy at Fro's. Telly's
fortune intact- Albert secures Telly's
inheritance, but she thinks it should go
to Uncle Terrv.
XXXV and xxxvi With Uncle Terry's
permission to win Telly, Albert makes
oroeress in a sentimental way. iiivu
and XXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
iLAXCH'buJ.litpt In V.:r:
B
nnd literally t:i!:cr. p ;::;rts.
of li-T Lew friend tin. I i.
stalled hef in the fro est roo:
of tne Nason residence. To !i talii:i 1
hand, as it were, by n ruh'.v.v t :
.weuUiijvj'wunjj Uuly, uiul lu luvr .1 !
erWd au'd obsequious voacliuuu on i.u.
to convey them anywhere .uU ie.-.
where was a new experience. It w.i
Mt'loag ere. Alice began to feel her
telf jjolte at'hotue In the N 11 so n fauiil
nd to "notice that Mrs. Nuson tivute.i
her lo a motherly way.
"I see that you are fond of your lit
tie charges," she said, after Alice bad
described her school and some of the
peculiarities of her pupils who wore
outgrown roundabouts or calico pina
fores, "and I suppose they grow fond
of you as well."
"I try to make them," replied Alice,
"and I find that Is the easiest way to
govern them. I seldom have to punish
any one. In a way, children are like
grown people, and a little tact and a
few words said In the right way are
more potent than fear of punishment,
"And do you sot find life in so small
k .ptaee rather monotonous" asked
'Mrs. Nason.
"Oh, yes," replied Alice, "It is not
r much like, city life. It Is delightful to
have "theaters and the excitement of
social duties, as I Imagine you have
all the time, and yet I am not sure I
should like It. I fancy once In awhile
I should sigh for a shady spot in the
woods In summer where I could reu
ibook or hear the birds sing. It Is
only In winter that X should like to live
to the city."
Allce's-titay- In Boston passed rapidly
until only two days were left, when
Blanch said to her, "I have invited
few of my friends here to meet you to
night, and I want you to sing for me,
"Ob, plesae do not ask that." replied
Alice hastily. "I do not sing well
enough."
"But you sing in church, and that Is
much harder."
That Is nothing," answered Alice,
(smiling. "Not one iu ten of those
country people know one note from au
other. Here all your friends hear the
finest operatic singers, and I would cut
a sorry figure In contrast"
"t will not promise. I will see how
ninny are bore and how my courage
holds out."
When, thnt evening camo Blanch
waited until Alice hnd become some
what acquainted with the little gather-
nj? and the reserve had worn away,
when ulie went to hor and, putting one
arm around her waist, whispered,
Come, now, dear, just one little song;
only one to plenso me." At first Alice
thought to refuse, but her pride came to
the rescue, and the feeling that she
would show hr friend Hint slu wmh
not a timid country nirl gave her the
needed courage, and she arose and
stepped across the room to the grand
piano that stood in one corner. Her
cheeks were flushed, nnd a delimit curl
wos on her lips, nnd then without a
moment's hesitation she seated herself
and sang "The Last Uose of Summer."
She hud sung It many, many times be
fore, and every trill and exquisite quiv
er of its pathos was as familiar to her
as the music of the brook where she
had played in childhood. She sang as
she never hnd before, nnd to an au
dience that listened entranced. When
the Inst sweet note bad passed her red
lips, she arose quickly and returned to
her sent. Two little tears stole out of
Mrs. Nason's eyes, to bo quickly brush
ed away with a priceless bit of lnce.
Sweet Alice, the motherless little coun
try girl, had from that moment enter
ed the henrt of Mrs. Nuson. When the
nppluuse bad subsided, it was Frank
that next pleaded.
"Won't you sing one for me now,
Miss Pnge?" ho asked. "I bought the
song I wanted today. And, going to
the piano, he unrolled nnd spread upon
the music rnck "Ben Bolt!"
"But I ouly consented to sing once
for Blanch," Alice replied, "and there
are others here who I am sure can do
much better."
'Come, please," he said conxlngly,
"just this one for me." And once more
Alice touched the keys.
Back to a simply furnished parlor
In Sandgate, with its lamp on the
piano and open Are burning brightly
as It bad one year ago, went two of
that company In thought, and maybe
others there, whose youth had been
among country scenes, were carried
back to them by the singer's voice and
saw a bywny schoolhouse "nnd a shad
ed nook by a running brook" In fancy,
or perhaps' a little white stone in some
grass grown corner, where, "obscure
and alone," lay a boyhood's sweet
heart! All the pathos of our lost youth
trilled In the voice of Alice Page as she
song that old, old song. Not one in
that little audience but was enthralled
by the winsome witchery of her voice
and for the moment was young again
In thought and feeling. When the
guests had departed Mrs. Nason turned
to Alice and, tuking her face in her
bands, exclaimed, "I want to kiss the
Hps that have brought tears to my
eyes tonight"
The last evening of her visit Blie de-
elded to spend with her brother, and
when she came to bid adieu to her
hostess that much dreaded haughty
mother had resolved herself Into a
charming lady.
"It is odd, Bertie," she said to her
brother that evening when they were
alone together, "how different people
seem when one comes to know them.
From one or two things which you have
said and an admission that Frank
made a year ago I felt I should be sure
to hate his mother, and now I think
she is perfectly lovely."
"So she Is to those she likes," an
swered Albert. "You carried her heart
by storm last evening as well as the
rest of the company. I never beard
you sing so well."
"I am glad I didn't breok down, any
wuy," she replied, "for when I touched
the piano my heart seemed In my
mouth."
For an hour they discussed the Na
sons, while Albert noticed his sister
avoided any mention of Frank, and
then he said: "Well, sis, which of the
places we have looked at do you think
I best engage, nnd when will you be
ready to move?"
Alice pursed her lips and looked at
the shipwreck scene near her as If It
contained a revelation.
"I am not so sure," she answered
finally, "that we should make the
change at present. It I were certain
your beautiful waif of the sea -would
" vcunt to kfss the lis Unit hnve brvuijhi
Uar to my tym.
adhere to her filial resolution, it would
bo different. - If you secure this legacy
for ber that you told me about and she
donates It to those old people, as you say
she Intends to, the next thing will be
an invitation to my dear brother's wed
ding. That Is one reason why I hesl
tute to make this change. Another is
that I do nut think it would bo good
for Aunt Susan. Shu says she is will
Ing, but when she has left all the us
socnitiutis of her life behind she w
"My dear sister, hnve you consid
ered Frank In your calculations?"
Alice's blue eyes assumed an ex
pression like unto a pnnsy and her
face the placidity of a mill pond as
she answered, "I had quite forgotten
his existence!"
CHAPTER XL.
niCN on the morning of her
departure from Boston Alice
stood beside the train ex
changing the UBUOl goodby
w
woriis with her brother, she was sur
prised ot being Joined by Blanch and
Frank. The former brought ber a
basket of lunch, sent with her mother's
compliments, nnd the latter an elabo
rate bouquet of flowers.
"I wont to kiss you goodby, said
Blanch, and when the two hud em
braced, Alice kissed her brother nnd
took her seat. No one apparently no
ticed that Frank was not on the plat
form when the train started, and when
it was well under way Alice was as
tonished to see him enter the. cur.
You will not object to my company
borne, will you?" be asked. "I thought
you might be lonesome, nnd as I have
not hud a chance to talk to you since
you came to Boston I decided to go up
with you. I can come back on the
night train, or if you prefer to rldo
alone I can got off nt the next stntlou."
"Oh, no; I am very glad of your
compnny," she replied, "and it was
good of you to think of It It Is a long
ride, and I have bad such a nice time
should have been disconsolate. You
did not know," she added archly, "that
one reason I came to Boston was to
look at flats. Bert wants us to come
here nnd keep house for him Aunt
Susan and me."
"And are you going to do it? I hope
so, for that would give me a chance to
take you to the theaters."
"No, the plan is off for the present,"
she answered. "NoP but that I would
like to, but we think it is not best for
Aunt Susan."
For an hour they trundled along
through the snow clod country, chnt-
tlng commonplaces, and then Alice
sold, "Did you meet the Island girl
Inst summer that you told me Bert had
fallen In love with?"
"Only once. Bert invited her and
the old lady on board the Gypsy and
introduced them. They remained only
long enough to look the yacht over. I
left that day."
"What did you think of this girl?"
asked Alice hastily. "Tell me what
she looks like."
"She has a beautiful figure and eyes
like yours, which you know are what
I admire, only they are not so full of
mischief. They have a faraway look
that makes you think her thoughts are
a thousand miles away."
"How WWB she dressed?"
"Oh, I haven't the least idea," was
the answer. "She might have worn
calico for all I could tell. The only
thing I can remember Is that her dress
was tight fitting and very plain."
Alice smiled.
"Those faraway eyes must have en.
tranced you, your description Is so
lucid," she replied sarcastically. "How
long did Bert stay there after you came
away?"
"Only a few days. I never asked
him. I told him to keep and use the
Gypsy as long as he wanted, and then
I cut stick for Blanch and Sandgate."
ne seemed to dwell upon the little
outing, and Alice, noticing this, fought
sby of the subject.
'Well, how do you like my haughty
mother now," he asked, "if that is a
fulr question?"
"I think she is the most gracefully
charming hostess I ever met, and you
(To be continued.)
Indian Affairs.
It is recognized that emigration.
can seldom act as a complete remedy
for the excessive growth of popula
tion. Its effects in this direction
vary greatly from country to county
according to its proportion to the
total population, but it never equals,
and rarely approaches, the percent
age of the excess of the birth-rate
over the death-rate. In India its
effect is infinitesimal ou the vast
population which finds itself in a sort
of cul de sac whence there is no going
backwards towards the north or
vest, aurt the only escape is by sea
There is still room for relief of con'
gested districts by Internal migration
though, so far, the pressure of
short food supply has not yet reach
ed a severity sufficient to overcome
the innate inclination of almost all
Indians to ftay at home. Religious
objections to movement beyond sea
may have operated to some extent
but the real cause checking emigra
tion is the conservative nature of
the people end their love of the
locality in which ?they and their au
cestors have lived and ploughed, o
worked, for generations past.
It is true that Indian merchants
are found far afield, in Zanzibar or
Mauritius, in Hongkong and Aus
traha, but their numbers are com
paratively few and they generally
belong to th more enterprising class
es, such as the Parseesor the Khojas
of Bombay. Emigration to Ceylcn
or the Straits Settlements can hardly
be counted true iroigration, for these
countries are almost part of Indi
itself, and those who go to them
generally only do so temporarily
Iu the self governing Colonies of th
er, receives no encouragement, and
very scant courtesy or justice.
uslralasiii looks askat.ee on liitn;
atal hampers him with restrictions
nd insults which are a scandal. In
le Transvaal and Orange River
colonies he is actually worse oil now,
under British irule, than be was in
the days of Krrger and Steyn. He
asks nothing but a fair field and no
favour; unlike the Uitlanders of the
end of last century, lie has no political
spirations. It ,is hardly euprising
that the respectable Indian merchant
objects to being classed with African
savages, to being required to live in
location on an exact level with
them, or to herd, with the common -
est of his fellow-countrymen. Here-
sents being driven off the sidewalks
in the public streets, and protests
against other similar insults and in
conveniences to which he is subjected
in South Africa. So far neither the
Indian Government nor the Colonial
Office has succeeded in doing an'-
thing to miturate the condition of
the so called "free" Indians in our
South African colonies. The Indian
ovenmetit still holds a powerful
eapon, against Natal nt any rate,
hich it has openly reserved its
ight to use. This weapon consists
in the power of the Govenment to
eslrict the supply of indeutureu
coolies whom Natal demands, and is
willing to treat well, oecause sne
requires them. Unless the colony
sees its way to a better treatment
of Indians not under contract, it
must expect (to Dnd itself deprived India. The adult etxigrauts who re
of the labour ot indentured coolies, turned to India in 1900 had 14 aniene
Labourers to the number of 10,000
were wanted for railway work in the
Transvaal and Orange River colouies,
but, the Colouial authorities not see- are averages, and a certaiu propor
ing lit to pay for them by better tion of the emigrants return home
reatment of other Indian residents,
the negotiations were broken off by
India Ro strong is this unreasonable
rejudice against a hardworking,
lawabiding, unpretentious race that
t must be doubtful whether it will be
overcome even by the ui-gency of the
demand for cheap and good labour.
In his power to restrict the emigra
tion of indentured labour the Viceroys
is unfettered.
The general position which has been
assumed b the Govenment of India,
for many years past, in respeet of
coolie emigration is based upon Acts
of the Legislature and rules framed
under them. The recruitment of
labourers, argricultural usually but
sometimes miners, is allowed only in
the case of those countries which
satisfy the Indian Govenment that
proper arrangements will be made
for the protection of the labourers on
arrival, for the payment of fair rate
of waze, for the provision of quartets
and medical attendance, and for the
free return home of the coolies, should
they desire it, on expiration of their
term of engagement. The utmost
vigilance has been exercised, and
where it has been found that the
conditions are broken or evaded, a
remedy has been applied be with
drawal of the permission to recruit.
It is nearly 20 years since coolie
emigration lo the French colonies
was prohibited in consequenca of bad
treatment in them, especially in
Reunion. Unfortunately, the remedy
nnmo into in Enmn Pnapc. for ninnv
t .-ii n4 n..t
inuiansarebuuics.ucut ...
uuaaeioupe, anu Martinique, wuuse
unhappy condition is indicated by the
mnll nmniint. of their savings os
compared with those of coolies in
British colonies and in DutchGuiana,
thfronly non-British country to which
emigration is still permitted. When
a country has been authorized to
receive emigrants, it U permitted to
entertain an agent in India who with
the recruiters whom he recommends
for licences, is nnder the general
supervision of the Protector of Emi-
ciants aDDointed by India. The
terra of eugagement, rates of wage,
and other matters have already been
settled with the country concerned
and laid down in it local ordinances
or laws. The actual recruiter, a
native of India, of course, af he
collects his recruits, brings them for
registration before the local magis
trate, who does his best to satisfy
bimsell that the understand clearly
their destination and the exact terms
offered." Whatever the English ma
gistrate may telll him, the recruit,
as a rule, probably places more faith
in the picture drawn by the recruiter,
himself generally ignoiant, and of teu
unscrupulous. Nothiug will peasuude
the coolie that Demerara is not an
island, and the situation has probably
been vaguely represented by the ro-
eruiter as "over there across the
river." Anv direct allusion to
. , .
mignt scare away ws nesuauug
Kone too far to rfcede. Terharps
little harm is done, for emigrant
ships are well manged now a-days,
ane after the first few days of sea
sickness the coolie finds himself in
luxury, according to his ideas. He
has ample food, nothing to do but
bosk in the sun and sleep unless an
energetic medical officer in charge
of the ship makes him take some
physical exerccise for the sake of
his health. He has probably given
up nothing at home, for it is only
when life there is impossible that the
villager thinks of emigrating, in the
desperate hope that something may
, turn up. He generally finds his hopes
moae then realized. Between re-
gistration and em bare a tion he is
usually well treated, since the re
cruder cennot afford to risk losing
him by desertion. On the voyage he
is well cared foa under tne direction
of an European medical officer,
whose fees are based on the number
of emigrants reaching their destina
tion in sound health. Arriving at,
say, Demerara or Trinidad, he finds
himself in a climate and surroundings
not very different from those he is
accustomed to. H s own countrymen
from one-tbird of the population. He
hs set down, perhaps, to suvar cul
tivation , which is nothing new to him;
he is, by his own standard, comforta-
bly housed, and if he has brought
u family with him he is not separated
from them. His wages enable him
to save sums undreamed of In the old
days of .hand to-mouth existence in
jn savings. The Natal men brought
1Q; even those from Reunion and
Guadeloupe had 9. .These, of course.
os poor as thev left it. In the far
west the coolie's troubles are few.
Clothing is almost less of a diffcultv
than at home, his food is cheap, and
his wages good. Occasionally an un-
popular or tyrannical manager is
found, and the coolies get into trouble
for rioting and revenging themselves
0n him. The proportion of coolie
womee being small, jealously some-
time9 leads to crimes of violence.
With theso excepoions, the coolie is
recognized as the most peaceable and
law-abiding of citizens, a man to
whom it is worth while to offer an
inducement to re-engage or to settle
down as an agriculturist. He is far
more useful ana neasily controlled
than the lazy aud conceited negro,
wto affects to look down on the
Indian coolie and is, with much better
reason, despised and disliked by the
Eastern- That the coolies like the
colony is shown by the fact that many
0 them, after a fretrip to India,
emigrate again. In Natal, on the
0ther hand, the colonists are only too
anxious to get rid of their cooliea
0nce they become "free." As long
rs the indenture lasts the coolie is
enough on; bis troubles begin
wnen tie proposes te settle down on
his own account, as he is encouraged
to do in Guiana and Trinidad. He
must, iu Natal, pay tor a licence to
trade, he must live In a location, and
suffer other inconveniences. Yet
Natal has in teu years attracted
more coolies than any other colony,
a fact doubtles due to the possibility
of saving larger sums out of a higher
wage. British Guiana and Trinidad
come next In order of popularity,
. .hn8t Mauritiui shows the largest
rssident Indian population of all, due,
co doubt, to the extensive employ
ment ot Indians domestic service
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