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, BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 51.
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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
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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
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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
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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 ,
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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
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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"
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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
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> 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.
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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.
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