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" ' ' " ' 1''" ; ' "V' . " ' ^ *;C*. ? "' 'J , BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 51. _ _ ?i??????? ?????a THE PEOPI Every Wt hm The greatest as possible. E in the Latest Styles, b from $8 to $30, complete line of Alpac mm n _h__ 11 uncLouDieaiy u The most beautil We w No We alwa1 i Even the smallest Pu: pleasure in showing ev( A WnniAti's Reulv. I Do you know you have asked the costlieBt thing Ever wade by the hand above? A woman's heart and a woman's life, And a woman's wonderful love? Do you know you have asked for t: lis priceless thing As a child might ask for a toy ! Demanding what others have died to win, With the reckless dash of a boy ? You have written my le<son of duty out, Man-like, you have questioned mo; Now, stand at the bar of my woman s soul Until I shall question thee! You require that your mutton shall always be hot, Your socks and your shirts shall be whole; I require your heart to be true as God's word, And pure as Heaven your suul. You require a cook for your mutton and beef, I require a far better thing: A seamstress you're wanting for stockings and shirts; I look for a man and a king. A king for a beautiful realm called "home," And a man that the maker, (iod, Shall look upon as he did the liist, And say: "It is very good." I am fair and young, but the rose will fade , From my soft young cheek, one dayWill you love me then, 'mid the faliing leaves. Ao vah /iwl in tho Itlnnm nf Mnv ? Jfi Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep M 1 may launch my all on its tide? I A loving woman finds Heaven or hell I On the day she is made a briile. * I require all things that are grand and true, i All things that a man should beIf you give this all, I would stake my life To be all that you dreamed of me. If you cannot be this, a laundress and cook I You eau hire with a little pay; Hut a woman's heart, and a woman's life ^ . Art* not to he won that way. SHIPWRECKS IN SAMOA. SI* Jlen-of.War iiihI Miic Mcrcliant Vessel* Wreeked in Harbor?IIS J.ive* Lost? Terrible <?alc in tlio South 1'aeilie. Apia, Samoa, March 2-i, 188!). Dear Neighbor: The news of the gale in Samoa, and its attendant shipwrecks and casual ities has, no doubt, reached almost every one in the United States,?still, an account of the terrible calamity by one of the "saved" will be of interest to most readers. Apia, with its adjoining towns of Matuutu, on the east, and Matafele and Mulime on tlie west, is located on the water lrom, lornung a ueep nanmoou line around tlie harbor, bailing directions warn mariners as to the dangers of the harbor, especially (hiring this (therainy) season of the year. These dangers consist in the harbor being very "open," i. e. unprotected from gales by extending coast lines at eitherend, and in the many treacherous corai reefs lying all over the bay. These reefs, in many Instances, are observable at low water; but the greater dangers exist in those lying further down ; some of them have nearly perpendicular walls for a considerable depth, then breaking off into abrupt caverns under the sea. The melody of that charming old strain, "Coral Caves," comes to mind in striking conItrast with the cruel reality of coral caverns that have so lately become the death chambers of scores of gallant mariners. On the morning of Friday, the loth of March, Mr. H. J. Moors, an old resident of the place, and an intelligent and observant gentleman, called my attention to the barometer, which had begun falling. Later in the day, he showed nie the instrument again, which, by that time, had fallen to ; at the same time lie said that he ,E OF ABBI IING Depa: O 3\/? ?2 -A. : i Hp fj| p; care has been taken ir 'emember that we are ; nt unexcelled as the be A large line of Prir seas. Serges, Flannels, a tie Largest Stoi HjESJIS fill line of Gent's Furnis. ill Sell Y < one can fail to appre ys have on hand an i rchase is always appre ;ry one through our stoc anticipated the hardest blow of the season, the falling glass warranting his prognostication. Thereupon he closed his store and braced doors and windows for a hard storn). At four P. M., the surf was being beat upon the shore very heavily by a steadily increasing sea, and no boats were to be had by myself or two other ofiicers in which to return to the ship, j The men-of-war iu port were sending j down their top-masts, and securing j everything on board for a hard blow, j which, indeed, had already set in. I, and my two companions "turned j in" at my cottage about ten o'clock, having been obliged, just previously , to cut down a large bread-fruit tree j near by in order to save the house | from being crushed iu. At 4:30 the next morning, March 16, i I was aroused from a troubled sleep by i my friend, Mr. Moors, who was calling I for helpers 011 the beach, saying that ' either the "Eber" (German) or the , j "2sipsie" (U. a.) was connug asnore. , | I was with him in two or three min- ! ; utes, and found his alarm all too true. | The "Eber," a stauuch little iron gun- | boat, was being rapidly driven towards j the most dangerous reef in the harbor, ' allowing not a shadow of hope for her safety, although not three hundred yards from shore. The gale was terrific, the rain and surf blinding, almost, and it was hard to make out the different ships in harbor, however near they were. On shore, trees were being I blown down, wharves and bridges I j washed away, and wreckage of all I sorts washed up iu the road. | At 5:2-3 a. in., the "Eber" struck the j reef, bounded up straight, then fell up| on her side and disappeared forever! I The awful horror of that moment will never leave my mind: scores of fellow-nien perishing in call, yet I was i powerless to help them. However, we I did the best we could,?plunged into the surf with lines to rescue any who might be washed ashore. In three or four minutes (they seemed hours at that time) we picked up two men almost exhausted, and one poor fellow already dead. Waiting a reasonable time for any other living bodies to come ashore, I left the surf, gathered in a few Samoans, and ran to a point in Matafele, opposite which 1 had judged that the German frigate "Ad| Jcr" would soon be lost. Alas! too true: the "Adler" struck ! u'hpro I exnected she wouid at 6:20 a. m. Taking in the situation and the possibilities for saving those washed ashore, I ran to the store of a venerable looking and well-to-do white man, (I regret to say he is an Englishman) where I found him and his son nailing strips of tin over eracks in the door to keep out rain. I quickly begged him for a line of rope to save life with as lie hesitated I offered him a twenty dollar gold piece I had put in my pocket. in case of need, oefore leaving home. (This was quite tweuty times the value of the rope I asked for.) Tt seems past belief that a human being (?) could refuse aid in such a time,? but I was refused, and by the leading man in the white church of Apia, the man who occupies the chief seat in the synagogue, and boasts the loudest of tiie blessedness of Christianity, and what it has done for the .Samoans. It has doubtless done so much for the uatives that this old scoundrel has been shared out. .Some one has since told me that it was probably the old man's Iiiii4!!! i selecting our Stock s< positively HE AD Q ist fitting and best gooi ice Albert Suits, very md Seersuckers. :k of STRAW THAN T] hing Goods, Shirts, Cu 3xx tlie Bei ciate our elegant Stc a I a tinormous Quantity iciated by us, and we k. P. hatred of the Germans that caused his refusal. Worse yet: if people of another nation?one that is just now very bitter against Germany?can risk their all to save their enemies, surely a Christian non-combatant can sella little impersonal assistance. But to leave that accursed tradesman to the retribution that will probably be visited upon him ere many days, and return to the wreck. Failing to pet the rope, I ran back to the beach, for, as the Adler was lifted clear out of the water and crushed down upon her side on top of a reef within five hundred yards of shore, I had no time for further quest. Forming a line with the natives we waded out as far as pos sible to catch the bodies before tliey could crush upou the rock-bound beach. The storm was steadily increasing, and at times one could not see further than twenty yards ahead, hence our work was more difficult, and less liable to be successful. However, we picked up nine men and one officer alive, and three dead bodies. While this was being done I saw that the good ship Nipoic was going ashore in Apia, and was, of course, obliged to go to the rescue of my own ship-mates. TheiWpsic was badly used up; during the night the German ship Oh/a had gotten adrift and rammed the N'qmc three times, 011 one occasion cutting oft' our main yard, and the smoke-stack (weighing 2A tons) as if it were tin ; 011 another, carrying away a boat astern, and the last time clearing the port side of all its boats, including steam-launch, and driving in the hammock-mils. During these collisions our anchors were lost, and we were obliged to steam ahead to maintain our berth, and while doing so, cut the trading schooner Lihj in two pieces amid-ships, causing the lives of two men to be lost. One was a white mormon and the other a Sandwich Islander; another party 011 the schooner was Capt. Douglass, the American and English pilot of Apia, who, after Istruggling nearly two hours in thewa' ter succeeded in catching a rope hanging from the Olf/a and was hauled aboard that vessel and saved. It was the purpose of Capt. Mullan to keep the S'ip^ic afloat until daylight una men "ueaen ' tier us saieiy us possible on the sand. In obedience to these orders Ensign H. P.Jones, Jr., ollicer of the deck, bandied the ship in admirable style. While the Olya was colliding with her, and scattering debris everywhere, he and the Captain stood shoulder to shoulder, never budging from their position, though obliged to cling desperately to the rail for support. In momentary danger from tailing spars, and other wreckage, and from the sinking of the ship, these two men proved their manhood and became heroes in the truest sense j of the word. To the orders of the' Captain, and their execution by Ensign Jones, are due the preservation of nearly every soul atoard the Xipsic, for, had she gone down when rammed bv the Olf/a. scarcely a man would have lived to tell the tale. At 7:2U a. 111. the JVijjaic was beached in beautiful form within sixty yards of the shore at high water, and fifteen at low. However elose she was, a tremendous current from the Vaisiago ltiver swept between her and the beach, rendering swimming or rowing a boat quite impossible; added to this were the awful seas constantly break IVILLE coin AND rtmenl 1ST ID SEI o-Oo *TY ARE IN1 t Fille< 3 1?" O JBrS. iSlO'fik ol' Sj it iMag Pri Ktrt ""I: ' \asfessty w < .rii o as TO PLACE TH lRTERS FOR CLOT is that can be bought. Stylish. An im: HATS Ever B E1EIR ACT ffs, Collars, Neckwear,. st Shoes fc ick of Dry Goods. of G-roceries, Hardv shall always endeavor ROS] ing over her and threatening destruction to the vessel eypn then. At last a line was gotten to the ship, to which a hawser was made fast, and when it was hauled taut by hundreds of natives and whites ashore, the crew and officers escaped by climbing down the rope "hand over hand." A sad wreck the old Ninsic looked?piled up on the beach, with masts splintered, yards gone, sinolre-siuck cut off, and rigging and sails to'-n and Happing over the sides. Two boats were lowered on the 1 starboard side, but only one reached ! the shore, it being washed high on the beach by a powerful sea, the oars proving utterly useless. The other was J capsized as soon as she struck tho wa- ' ter, and seven of the crew were swept 1 out to sea on the current of the Vai- . siago and drowned. A painful sight, J indeed, to see them lost, and not a 1 chance 01 tueir rescue: yet so it was, 1 and seven stout sailors fouud watery ' graves in the angry sea close to the laud where their fellows stood powerless to save. When all had left the < ship and the hawser was clear again, ' it became my duty to go aboard aud i secure the money and papers of the I pay department. What a miserable sight was the once trim aud handsome * ship when I climbed over the side and ' went aft to the safe! Tying the payroll aud other valuable papers on my 1 back and making fast the money in ' the "treasure belt," I fastened it < around my waist, and slowly went ' "hand over hand" across the hawser (agaiu ; before 1 had gotten to the beach, however, two stout Samoan friends I waded out in the water and pulled me < oft" the rope and shouldered me ashore, i It was a great relief, for $20,000.00 in j gold is no trifling burden to carry i while climbing a hawser over a resist- 1 f less river. < The United States ship Viinilalia j lost her anchors, and was run into by the Olya, and att):30a. m.f she struck < on a reef about two hundred yards fur- 1 tlier out to sea than the flijwia. Her1 jpoop-deck was torn away, and she was badly damaged in many other respects. Where she struck, the heavy seas had a clean sweep at her, and washed over the ship almost every minute. Heavy guns were torn from their carriages, and for a while it seemed as if she would go to pieces in a few hours; meanwhile the gale continued | to increase, seas rose higher, aud hope went lower for the two hundred men aboard, for nothing could be done from shore for their rescue. Thousands of 1 dollars were ottered to any on who succeeded in getting a line to her, and many elibrts were made, in which two men lost their lives, but all to no avail, i Frequently we could see men washed overboard from her when heavy seas * i.iilu nun nr two , U1V3 r?I J ? | /, uut UUIJ W..V W. bodies were picked up, and in them every spark of life was extinct. One tremendous sea struck her, crushing her considerably, s? that she seltled , j deeper in the water, and loosened her ma*ts; at the same time a gun got J adrift and struck the Captain, wound- j ' ing him severely, after which he was (washed overboard and drowned. All ( i hands were obliged to take to the rig- j Iging alwut noon, as by this time, the!, Iship was below decks in water. It ] I was heart-rending to see them clinging j grimly to their last hope, and it a fast ; failing one,?and, still, no hand to ' save; Unable to hold on longer, or j their grasp lieing loosened by the del ITITED TO I] MER i Wit] Y OURS mag m& | W0. H&ifoMI :e best goods < HING-. On We have Dia mense lot of extra Pa: rought to Abb UAL VAI Hosiery and Underwe ?r tlie Lea Farmers espeei: rare, and Tobacco a to make it your intere ENBE. uging seas that broke over them, a few would drop from the rigging to the water, from time to time; most o] them being lost, only four or five being thrown upon the beach alive. But, the best of all in harbor, the United States ship Trenton, was making heavy weather all this time ; fires put out by overwhelming seas flooding Ler, anchors all gone?and at 4 p. m., fust drifting towards the reef where the Eber lay buried. The howling oi the gale and the roaring of the sea added to the horror of the hour. Again did the Olga collide with an American man-of-war,?this time ramming the Trenton astern, carrying away propeller and rudder and tearing open the admiral's cabin. Alas! the poor Trenton?the pride of the navy tor many years,?a palatial war-ship? this blow settled her fate, and all that could be do:tie was to give her a snug berth to die in. This was done by working her alongside the sunken Vcmclcilia, and settling her down as easily as possible. A master-piece of seamanship,?for, to "bring her round" - / ..?2 1 Knf no nr\iin /inn 1 /I II Silli W US UCCllUU) uuu ao uuuw wuiu be set, the meu were ordered to tlie rigging, where they packed themselves closely together uutil the wind ivas caught and the ship veered properly. Her position near the Vandalia kvas the salvatiou of the latter's people, js they were able to climb to the Tren'o/t'.s rigging, thence to her decks, and secure comparative comfort and safety. The night of the sixteenth of March was an horrible one, and never Lo be forgotten by any of us. It was lark before the Trenton struck, and many of those in the Vandalia's rigjing would not try to make the other jhips, preferring to stay where they were and take their chances. All but me mast gave way before midnight, uid it was a dismal sight to watch hose still remaining in the fore-rig yinc. Some became exhausted and Iropped oft and were lost; others nade a leap for life, some of them successfully, some not. All night we patrolled the beach, picking up live and dead bodies as they came ashore. Death in many horrible phases became familiar to me, and soon I could drag a cold, swollen corpse from the surl without a shudder running through me as Had been the case earlier in the day. llolling men on barrels to get the water out of them became almost hourly work, sometimes resulting in resuscitation. Frequently men just picked up from the water begged piteously not to be moved,?only to be allowed to die at ouce. The Olya was beached near us about five p. m. fcshe suffered considerable J am age, but altogether she behaved in beautiful style, although, unfortuuately, she certainly occasioned the wreck uf the JVipsic, and probably of the Trenton, also. The following is a list of the lost of ficers and men from the United States ships: J\'ipsie?Hen ry Pont seel, John Gill, Geo. \V. Callan, Joshua Heap, AVilliam Watson, David P. Kelleher, Thoa. Johnson. Vandalia?Captain C. N. Schooniiaker, Paymaster Frank H. Arms, Pay Clerk, John Roche, Lieutenant of Marines, F. E. Sutton. Crew?George Merrage, E. M. Hammer, M. Craigin, William Brown, F. G. Downey, B. F. Davis, M. H. Joseph, N. B. Green, H. P. Slallman, C. H. Hawkins, \V. Bris ASPECT OUR GOOI ti Barg SELVES. i lit?, $ & h' ON THE MARKET: r Plain and Oassimere gonel Suits in all Style: tits at Great Bargaias. 11* .1 T, wViiie, at i wen L.TJEJ. iar, in all styles and gra st Money. ally should not forget X Rock Bottom Price jst to deal with us. RGr & f bane. C. E. G. Stanford. J. Griffin, ? Thos. Kelly, M. Ericksen, William f Howat, C. P. Kratzer, Thos. Riley, r John Kelly, H. Baker, G. Gorman, Yee Hor, Ah Hean, Ah Pack, Pen . Tang, J. Hanchett, F. Lessman, M. ! Cashen, N. Knisella, H. C. Gehring, i A. Goldner, F. Jones, G. Jordan, F. r Williford, H. Winsted, A. Montgom' erie, J. Sims, G. H. Wells, F. Kranse. . Trenton?Joseph Hewlett. > The recapitulation of lives lost, in, eluding those of the German ships, is as follows: i Nipsic?Crew, 7. Vandalia?Officers, 4; Crew, 39. Trenton?Crew, 1. Eber? Officers, 4; Crew, 71. I Adler?Crew, 20. Total, Officers, 8; Crew, 138 ; grand . total, 146. H. M. S. Calliope was in great danger for several hours, both from striking upon reefs and colliding with the Olga and Vandalia, but finally she | succeeded in clearing them all and steaming straight out to sea. As she passed the Trenton her American cousins cheered her to the echo. Siuce tlifi cale has abated the Calliope has re , turned in comparatively good condition, having only lost all her boats, and . I have^been told by some of her officers that the hearty cheering from the Trenton did more to encourage the English sailors than ought else during their terrible experience. The Nipsic was so finely beached that it was with little difficulty she was floated into deep water again on the 19th instaut. All possible repairs are being made upon her now, in or-, der that she may go to Auckland, N. Z., for complete restoration. The Trenton and Vandalia are total wrecks, and all tbat can be done is strip the former, and sell both hulks at public outcry. The Eber is out of sight ami . reach, but much of the Adler can be [ stripped and saved. Orders have been sent to Sydney for steam tugs to assist in floating the Olya and towiug her to . a dock-yard in the Colonies. rrl- ~ nf fho iliffnr. 1 Lie SLIlptt icuacu vivno v* i.i?v vii^v. eut ships are quartered in tents and j warehouses in Apia and Mulime, aud will be sent home at the earliset oppor' tunity. Admiral Kimberly will remain here with his staff until orders from the Navy Department are received. By the Admiral's order all liquor saloons have been closed, to prevent disorder among the large number of sailors now on shore. All the merchant shipping in port suffered severelv. The following is a summary of its losses : Total wrecksbark, Godeffroi; barkentine, Agur; schooners, Lily, Upolu, Tafua; cutter, Fitnan; partial wrecks?schooners, Utumapu, Vaiteleand Nukuuono. Memorial services in German were held on the ittrd instant, and in English on the 2otb. I cannot sneak too highly of the eonduct of the Samoans during the gale. They labored incessantly uay unu night helping to save lives, and when the shipwrecked officers and crews were brought ashore, the native houses were thrown open most hospitably. S. T. Bkowne. ) One secret act of self-denial, oiie sae1 I rifice of inclination to duty, is worth 1 all the mere good thoughts, warm feeli ings of passionate prayers in which | idle people indulge themselves. STOCK OF 1 5S. i ains. J /'jj 4s nt ite# .. -i ' ' M j jj *' . . Va for as little money Suits are not only 3, ranging in price Also, a ,ty Per Cent % des. V that S. 'J - ^SB We shall take i ; Co. I ?1 ? :>3 ' Pointers Abont.the Brain. New York, Oct. 26.?The lecture room of the Industrial Education Association Building in University Place was crowded with young ladies yesterday afternoon long before the time Bet for Dr. William A. Hammond to deliver his address, the third of the series of lectures arranged by the association. The young ladies were teachers connected with the public and private schools of this city, and they were present to listen to what Dr. Ham mond bad to say about "The Use and the Abuse of the Brain." When the Doctor, in the course of his remarks said, "Anxiety causes more brain disorders than any other agency I know of unless it be love," the young ladies looked as though they would much - ; prefer the latter if it ever became necessary for them to have brain trouble. "Manv iokes are made about the gray matter of the brain," said Dr. Ham mond, "but I will eay right here tbat I have a great respect for the gray matter of the brain. There is no higher organism than that. It is the grandest organ in man, and were I ever to worship anything it would be a portion of the gray matter of the brain. It is well for us to know that the emotions cause more unhappiness and crime than any other function of the brain. Human beings are governed by their emotions, and it is well that they should l>e; though it is the emotions that wear away the braiu, and not honest intellectual work. Very few people suffer from intellectual work, and if my memory serves me I do not recollect ever having a mathematician for a patient. It is not intellectual work that causes uervous dyspepsia, but the emotions, such as anxiety, fear, sorrow and love. I consider that eight hours are sufficient for a man to use his brain, because if he exceeds that time he be -1 e ?f..l comes nervous auu lreuui, uuu an exhausted brain is an irritable brain. You may not feel the evil effects of the stress of brain work at the time but you will sooner or later, when it will be too late. The men that work at night with their brains are the ones that expose themselves to danger and death which will surely come unless the great strain on the mind is lightened." Uuwavering faith in the power olf the gospel is the first requisite for a genuine revival. Don't expect to take a second step until you have takeu this first one. I believe that just as to the intellectually strong and teachable there come revelations of larger knowledge about material things, so to the spirituallyminded a:id open-hearted there comes in a similar way a deeper insight into the spiritual life. Many of us persuade ourselves?all of us have probably at one time yield etl to me opinion?tnai rejruiuuun is necessary for the sake of uecfulness. Every hour, I think, will show us more and more that the concern about reputation is the great hinderance to usefulness; that, if we desire to be useful, we must struggle against it night and day. Don't wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take what the gond God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away; for it but a temporary supply for a temporary need." Never suffer your goods to beI come your God. i i i