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p^pj " BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 52. . ::M ??.. - ...... MtganK/EJ^EMuiLii.i mi B?aaa?g??g?am?g?^ IMKMMMBBgaW3B?MMWMMPqapg3egP<aFagCgPB^gWBgy THE PEOPI o havs The greatest as possible. -E in the Latest Styles, b from $8 to $30, complete line of Alpac Undoubtedly tl The njost beautii T7S7'? No W 8 alwa< i Even the smallest Pu] pleasure in showing eve The Xante Above Every Name. Tliore is a name I love to hoar, I love to sprak its worth; It sounds like music in mine car, The sweetest name on oar Mi. U tells me of a Saviour's love, Wtio died to set me tree ; I.., A ' ll'IID 1I1U I'l lllf ..i w..rv? The sinner's perfect plea. IL tells of One whose loving heart Can feel my deepest \vj<\ Who in my sorrow bears a part That none Ciin bear below. Jesus! the name I love so well. The name 1 love to hear! No saint on e.irtli its worth can tell, No heart conceive how dear. This name shall shed its fragrance still Along this thorny road ; Shall sweetly smooth the rugged hill That leads me up to (.Sod. And there, with ail tho binod-bnuglit throng, From sin and sorrow free. I'll sin<r tlie new eternal song Of Jesus' love to me. AN EVENING IN SAMOA. A Xntlve Siip;?er--Siie5iii?"s Fhio Aj?|>etlte--Exehnii;je a I' I'oiMl?I>aiiib<M? IMIIouv-Kninonii <'i:;nrelies? I'.-isully I'Mjors-Sucinn's Accomplishisien In?K veiling !*? ?{ lines?' 'B'oljj.** Apia, Samoax Islands, March <i, 1ss!). An evening's stroll through Apia and vicinity jnoltably adonis one :t better insi?rl?t of Sanimn homo-life than any other means. It isa frequent and favorite pastime of mine, ami a narrative of mv observations m:ty t?e of more interest than the sanguinary tale of war so usual at this time and place. f dropped in at 1'tie's house about dusk yesterday, and found his wife, -Htti, and daughter, Sueina. preparing the evening meal,?whieh is. by-the- j way, the principal repast of the day. i Une was away in the camp with Mil- i lietoa, but his wife presided over the' household most graciously and with j becoming diirni'y. Sueina laid a number of native mats I upon t he floor and hade me be seated. Kot a very easy behest for a novice to ' obey, but'some prac; ice enabled me to j sit down with tolerable ea?e and suc-j cess, "Faa Samoa." (in the Samoa 11 fashion.) This fashion is to sit with the legs compactly folded under the body. Alauy Si g<><?<? ian:j;i Iiuve i heard and shared at (lie expense of a foreigner, (often this very writer) (swing to his awkwardness in performing so simple a feat. More mats were spread down, and supper was brought in, consisting of a small roast pig, quantities of taro and yams, haminas. bread-fruit and cocoanuts. Everything was served in the cooking utensils, which are invariably the large green leaves of the l>;maiiu tree, as are also the substitutes for plates. When all was ready for the onslaught, Sui bowed her head humbly and asked a blessing upon the food. "Ponetoa turn" were all the viands, and choic-\ indeed, were they. The absence of knives and forks occasioned me n<> inconvenience, owing to many similar experiences with fingers and teeth in Samoa. When 1 had eaten far more than T ought, and commenced to "slack up," Sueina observ- * fm> wi!ri'i>inlr>r mill t'U 111JV , toM me I must not stoj>, for she hud not oaten half enough. This dismayed me considerably, as I knew ?tnito well my holding eaparity was already somewhat taxed with the evening's tar go. However, when I told her I could eat no more, and would far ra iE OF ABBS O 3VE S ! to Offer Oil j I li e <P care has been taken ir Remember that we are ] ut unexcelled as the be A large line of Prir cas. Serges, Flannels, a .ie Largest Stoi IjEIS? xil line of Gent's Furnisi -s-a * ?srr?^-g"i JLJLJL JBL * one can fail to appre fs have on hand an j rchase is always appre >ry one through our stoc i ther watch her gallant attack to the j hitter end, and let her enjoy the victo-1 rv single-handed, she was appeased, | ami "set to'' with renewed energy, j Nearly all thing* have an end, and so hud iSueiuu's supper, though not of her [ own will, l?ut by the decision of her I mother that she could not hold more J and live. Poor Sueina! She afterwards told me, very unhappily, that her mother would never allow her to have as much as site wanted to eat. | Her exceptionally large appetite is not that of a gourmand altogether, but j rather is owing to her rapid growth, for, j although only a lit^ over twelve . years old, she is above the usual j height and size of a well developed ; American woman. I must not forget to mention an es- ] tablished custom regarding the meals in Samoa : at almost every spread the j nearest neighbor sends in*a dish fi. e. a banana leafi of her food to her friend , near oy, una me recipient urmi'hi a-, turns the compliment from her own [ board either during ihe same <>r the j following meal. The exchange is of- i tentimos much the same in fortune us ? a "grab-bag"?t hut disgusting feature! of so many humbug church fairs?at. one meal sending your neighbor aj choice bit of a delicate fish, and at the ; next receiving an ordinary yum. The remaius of supper removed, all i reclined at ease upon our mats, resting 1 our heads upon either bamboo or cot ton pillows. I have not yet developed | a liking for the native article, us it is j merely a large joint of bum boo cane I mounted upon short legs, resembling very much a miniature carpenter's j horse, and affording a steady, ratheri than a luxurious repose, for one's head.! imt while I have been expatiating! upon the Samoan pillow, good old j friend Sui has rolled me a native ci-j tarette. Were the American dudes| obliged to smoke these South Sea Ts-j Ian 1 products, I opine some essential I part of their nondescript "get up"' would he eschewed. The tobacco used ! is still in the leaf, and, owing to the ; prevailing rainy reason at present, it is , nearly always damp, and requires to ' be dried over a lamp chimney he lb re it j is rolled up in a scrap of dried banana leaf. This done, my hostess puffed j away upon it until it was well a-liirht, land then transferred it to my lips. | One gets used to many little in nova-1 ! tious down here, and soon ceases to re- j ; gard them as at all unpleasant,?ehew' imr second-mouth gum from tlie dark j fair ones, for example. When at last the first round of cigarettes was finished, Sui motioned the company to sit up, and Sueina ex- i plsiined to ujo tluit they were "goiuy: ' j to make their prayers." Sui, a kind, ! fnfi'd jind intelliirellt woman of ahout . forty, 11 it'll read a chapter in Iht native j tongue from 1 he Samoan Bible. "Ma-i na finagnlo pese mo Atna," (we will sing for (!od) and at once the sweet melody of a Saiuouu hymn filled tlie room, and touched niv heart as only soil, sweet singing ean; although thousands of miles and several years lay between me and t lie dear home in Carolina, I was carried hack in memory to the family circle hon ing in evening woiship, with which my earliest recolketioiis in life are blended very tenderly. Following the singing, Sui ode red an humble and fervent prayer. I regret that I cannot recall it word for word and translate it into English, for, at the time, it 111 tide a deep impression 1VILLE 0U! rtmenl KT Z> SEI r Immense \<>S Very Lowes tlj? ft/ lilttlf 6 lea.it fh.e l selecting our Stock s< positively HEADQUA ist fitting and best goo( Lee Albert Suits, very ,nd Seersuckers. ;k of STRAW vjy&gjk.isr ts tiing Goods, Shirts, Cu; ciate our elegant Sto Enormous Quantity dated by us, and we k. | upon me, so full was^it of true devotion, loving trustfulness ami deep eonrt n-4ic flmtnf mil fnmnroliori llillWll. jl l (H?g iiuviiv uiim sive, taking in all the minor trials of everyday life, ami asking guidance and strength for meeting the vicissitudes of the troublous times now lowering over fair, yet battle-scarred Samoa. I have listened to the prayers of many men in many countries, have heard the flowery aspirations of doctors of dogma, the violent pleadings of enthusiastic preachers, yet never have I felt more sensibly the earnest sincerity and loving "humility of u suppliant than this .Sanioan woman. More cigarettes were rolled and lighted, and once more I was about to seek repose, when Sueina asked me to give her an arithmetic sum lo do. I set a simple one in addition, not knowing her familiarity with more difficult work; she performed it quickly and correctly, and asked for more of another kind; these 1 gave her, ami wiih the same result. When the lust was finished she asked for something in l.'Sicrli<li mrmev?nnmwls sbillinirs ""b""" x j u and pence. I was much surprised to see how thoroughly she understood it, and how quickly it was completed, although the operation was a long one and involved considerable reduction. She took iny surprise good naturally, evidently thinking that with her accomplishments she could well all'ord to overlook the ill-suppressed amazement of a white man, Later, she exhibited specimens of her writing, which, byt he-way, would do credit to any one;) but the crowning wonder of all was reserved for the last: without a moment's warningshestruek up thcairof a Spanish song?"The Cavalier"?and rendered the sentimental ballad remarkably well. I asked where she! had learned it, and was informed that she had "na ona nono mai lo'n" (merely borrowed from me.) Afterwards 1 found that she had copied it from a - - - - * * ' ^' 1 i ! Spanish UooK l tuui iorgouen ;uiu iciii in her house on a previous visit. Knowing nothing of the language, but, like all South Sea people, having: a natural faculty for Spanish, she had j simply followed the words carefully| until committed to memory, and lmtlj then mastered the lime very easily. | While I was being thus interested! and instructed, the other inmates of! the house were engaged in various pur-i suits. One was making "kava;" (a; slightly bitter drink made from the grated roots of a bush of the same name) another was making tortoise j shell rings inlaid with silver; anoth-i or, fancy baskets for sale to foreigners while several were playing "s weepy" | ?called "casino" in America. Others j being drowsy, ami feeling no restraint > because of a visitor, bad stretched out j upon their mats and were enjoying, <|uietnaps; the only change between j day and night apparel beingaditlcrent: i..v, " i,-if ,t!i reuehimr from the i wai>i to within three or four Indies toi the knew) uml tlio covering used, a slu f't of "lappa," which is made from l tho tihre ??t' a tree, and is susceptible* of' much ornamentation in the way ofi paints mid d.yes. Many very'fine sheets arc often seen, evincing really | arii.-tieskil1 in iheir adornment. With heaity "tolas" (farewells) and "nice k-ieis" (sleep well) ringing in my ears, 1 hade my tSanioan friends ?ood-nifrht, as 1 now hid you, dear Nr.icticoi:. K. 'I'. Hitow NK. fTY ARE IN1 t Filler 3 je9 o JEt Steek ?f Sf fVw & |i??f Pri ft j as TO PLACE TH .RTERS FOR CLOT Is that can be bought. Stylish. An im HATS Ever B iar-cr?-rt? a nm EEs, Collars, Neckwear, ! 3*t Slioes fc ck of Dry Goods. of Groceries, Hardy shall always endeavor ROS] If there were 110 other reason why .ill tviif> nliilftnthrrmiats should favor the prohibition movement, the follow; iny:, which is copied from the New | York World, would be sufficient: | "There will sail from this port this i week a vessel carrying 1,400 packages jof New England rum. This is the | largest cargo of the kind ever shipped | from here to the African coast. From j the 1st of May, 1887, to the same time the present year, there were sent out from Boston to the 'dark' continent 8,18S packages of New England rum, or S49,569 gallons. This, multiplied by four, gives 3,818,276 quarts, or 6,336,552 pints. As there are sixteen ounces in a pint, and two ounces muke a fair i drink, the aggregate of the shipments i was equal to 500,924,416 tipples. As six tipples of this size make one drunk, i it will be seen that there were facilities ottered for frescoing the town 8,348,736 times." Read that, and think of the wretchedness and ruin, the devastation and death thus caused among an already J debased and degraded people?none more so on the face of the earth?and i this from Boston! Germany and England are helping on the ruinous work! And all these call themselves Christian people, a people whose profession is supreme love to God and universal love to man ! Was there ever a 11 more glaring inconsistency ! 1 Not long since, an English officer, 1 whose olTicial duties called him to ' spend some time on the coast of Africa, 1 returned to England, and at a public ' meeting made a statement as to what 1 he had seen, as the effects of liquor j (hereon the people ; and among other ' filings said he had seen scores and " hundreds of men, women and children 1 in almost, or ?|iiite entire nudity, lying < around the places where liquors were 1 sold, and so drunk as to be partially or ' wholly unconscious; and these he saw day after day, and night after night, in j' all the insensibility and beastliness 1 -i i h lll?ll uruilKtllllt'm t'iiu |/iuu uuv? Tin- .speaker further expressed thei i opinion that it was useless to send Christian missionaries to the we9t coast of Africa so long as the rum traf- j fie is kept up ; and of course while the trade is kept up there, it will sooner or later, find its way to the central parts, it was not, if we recollect rightly, in i Liberia t hose tli i ngs were seen. i The speaker's opinion was that the tribes of which be spake had contracted such a taste for, and love of, rum, that they could not, restrain themselves from it, while it was to be had. To procure it at present, they would part with anything they had, and they are n?.c likely to be deprived of it while Germany, England, Holland, th<! United Slates and perhaps some other countries are so ready to furnish it. Carljic's Wife. "My father was very anxious for a hoy. He was disappointed that I was born a girl. However, lie brought me up as much as possible as a boy. I was taught as a boy. When my mother remonstrated, he would say, 'at | eighteen T will hand her over to you, and you can teach her all a girl ou^ht ; [to know.' JJut Carlysle came and it i was forgotten. I did not know how to i j tack on a button when I got married, : j but I could write Latin. Whenwegot ! married he took me to a furm-house, I ar from the busy liauuts of men. A ITITED TO If MEE i Wit] YOURS mag aad j? cos. 8A?t :e best goods c 'hing-. oui We have Diag mense lot of extra Pan rought to Abbe UAL VAI Hosiery and Underwes ?r the Leas Farmers especia / are, and Tobacco al to make it your interes E2NBE] strapping, red-armed wencli waited on I us. 'Itis marketday to-day,' said she to me one day, bobbing in an uncouth courtesy. 'I am going to market; what meat shall I get?' I was reading at the timo. 'O, anything you like,' was my reply. 'No, ma'am, not as I like, as you like.' Well, we decided on something. But the cooking was execrable. Day after day our dinner was uneatable. 'My dear,' said Carly le gravely to me at length, 'I am a philosopher, but I must have KiifnVioi-lo rnoof nrnnorlu nnnlrprl for uulvt"-' a ? ? I dinner.' I bad a good cry after that. I Then getting a cookery book I abut myself up with ray pots and pans and soon mastered the details of practical cookery. In the same way with sewing. C'arlyle was away from home, and I made him a waistcoat. It fitted him perfectly. I was very proud of it. 'You want praise for it,' said he, 'but this is only wbat every woman ought to be able to do. You do not want praise for doing your duty." But I did, though. Now I am happy to say I can bake bread, cook a dinner, or make a shirt with any one." [Mrs. C'arlyle. The Human Manufactory. A man may eat aud drink heartily ill day. and sit and lounge about doing nothing, in one sense of the word [>ut his body must work hard all the Lime or it will die. Suppose the stomxch refused to work within ten minutes lfter a meal, the man would die of convulsions in a few hours ; or cholera or 3ramp colic would rack aud wreck lira. Supposing the pores of the skin ?meaning thereby the glandular apparatus with which they are connected?should go on a "strike,"4ie would 11 an hour be burning with a fever, )ppression would weigh upon the sysem and soon become insupportable. Suppose the liver became mulish, the ippetite would be annihilated, food ivould be loathed, sharp pains would nvade the small of the back, and the linn/i wnnlil nr>hf> tr> burstiner. Sunuose the kidneys should shut up shop, tlan-1 ger most imminent, suffering unbeara-1 ble, aud death more certain ; would be the speedy and most unenviable result. If the little work-shops of the eye should close, in an hour he could not shut nor open them without physical i force, and in another hour he would be blind, or if those of the tongue should close, it would become dry as a bone and stiff as steel. To keep such a complication of machinery in working order for a life time is a miracle of wisdom ; but to work them by the pleasures of eating and drinking is a miracle of beneficence. Hope for Better Things.?Mr. Lincoln was an early settler in Springfield, 111., and used to tell some spicy 1 i??i: stones aoout. pioueer me in iiiuL uwuiity. He paid there were at first in that flourishing town three regular orthodox churches, a Methodist, a Baptist, and a Presbyterian, and all were getting along swimmingly when suddenly a Uuiversalist preacher made his appearance upon the scene and held his meetings in the court house. He was I a young man of talent, and soon made j such progress in winning people over | to his views aa to alarm the regular ministers, who in view of the danger j held a consultation, and agreed to take I turns in preaching the Universalist' fellow down. It fell to the lot of thej rSPECT OUR i Barg E3 3L.V21S. % v*>> )N THE MARKET j * Plain and Cassimere i ;onel Suits in all Styles .ts at G-reat Bargaias iville, at.Twen JUE. tr, in all styles and gra st Money. ,lly should not forget t Rock Bottom Price; it to deal with us. on jQ* LV*JT , Methodist brother to open the war, and a large congregation, was assembled to hear what he had to say. lie began his discourse in (he usual ofthand way by announcing that the moral condition of Springfield was good, and that religion was prospering there; but of late there had come among them, in the ^uis'e of a preacher of the gospel, one who openly taught that there is no hell, and that all men are to be saved. "But, my ! brethren," said he, "let us hope I'oY I better things." A rather singular incident occurred in t>aviess County, Indiana, a few days since, much to the disgust of the lawyers. A wealthy citizen died, leaving an estate of about 8100,000, but no will. His widow and eight grown children .concluded they would settle the estate without "lawing" about, it, so they1 met at the old homestead, and, in the presence of trusted frieuds for witnesses, proceeded to do it. The children united in giving the widow the home place and all that was on it, together with ?3,000 cash. Each heir shared the remainder of the estate equally, the assets being mainly in cash and title deeds to land. Two of the heirs declined to take the full amount awarded them, on the ground that they h'id received an advance duriug the lifetime of the father, and therefore were not entitled to so much.! This was equalized, the division pro-1 ceeded, and the whole business wasj settled at one sitting, without a word of, disagreement or the intervention of a! lawyer.?Ama'ican. What Saved Him. une Ulinsimas morning, many jvarssi ago, a young reporter on a daily paper had occasion to call with a message at the oflice of one of the foremost editors and publishers in the country. The younger man was a sickly country lad of keen sensibility and nervous temperament, who, finding himself homeless and friendless in a great city, had yielded to temptation, and had j fallen into the habit of drinking and gambling. The publisher, as he listened to the message, noted the lines which dissipation had alii^ady left on the boy's face. He was a man who made it his work in the world to help others. No man touched his hand in passing who did not gain from him new courage and hope in life. He answered the message which the reporter brought, and then, holding out his lianct cordially, said, ' i,et me wish you a merry Christmas, my lad." He took from a shelf a book, containing sketches of the lives of the greatest English, French and German authors, with extracts from their works. "Here," said he, "are some friends j for the new year. When you spend an i hour with them, you will have noble J company." The surprise of the gift and the un- i expected kindness from the man whom j he regarded with awe had a powerful effect upon the lad. He spent all ol'his j leisure poring over the book. It kin-j died his latent scholarly tastes. He j saved his money to buy the complete! works first of this author, and then of j that; he worked harder to earn more j money to buy them. After a few j^ars he began to gather and to study' rare and curious books, and to write short papers upon obscure literary subjects. Men of similar tastes sought him out; STOCK OP 8 )S. -J| ?ains. m '3m 4s at th? if for as little money Suits are not only 3, ranging in price Also, a , n|| ty Per Cent. -'1 ' SaSS des. .-Jl that >^aB s. :m : :M We shall take /dm iOTiH i Co. A ';5 MM | ~tsi he numbered some of the foremost , scholars and thinkers of the country among his friends, but he never forgot the lonely, friendless lad who had been sinking into a gambler and a drunkard until a kind hand drew him back, and he in his turn sought out other lonely, friendless boys in the great city, and gave them a helpful hand out of the gulf. ? ^ . 1 s so, year uy year, 1113 me wiaenea and deepened into a strong current. from which many drew comfort ana help. He died last winter. The sale of his library gathered all the collectors of rare books in the seaboard cities. During his illness, the newspapers spoke. of him with a sudden appreciation of the worth which had so long been hid . in obscurity. "A profound scholar, with the heart of a child "A journalist who never wrote a word to subserve a base end," they said. He read these eulogies with a quiet smile. The actor who has left the stage forever cares little for the faint plaudits of the crowd in the dis* tance. . 'K One day he put into the bands of a friend an old, dingy volume. "When I am gone," he said, "take this to Mr. , and tell him whatever of good - -1 1 ? - II#. or useiuiness mere nas oeen in my m? I owe to him, and this Christmas gift of his thirty years ago." The little story is absolutely true. We venture to tell it because there is no one living whom it can hurt, while there are many whom it may help to hold out friendly hands to their brothers who have stumbled into darker paths in life than they. ion. Youth's Coinpan ? Mahoney the Irish wit, known aa [ "Father Prout," once called on a literary lady, whom he found conversing with a gentleman whose manners indicated his familiarity with good society, I but whose apparel betrayed his slovenliness. "Did you not notice his wellbred ease and courtly tone? asked the lady of Mahoney, alter the gentleman had left the room. "Yes growled the cynical wit; your friend can well afford o put some polish in his manners, for he keeps none for his boots." Youth's Companion. God is Alpha and Omega in the great world ; endeavour to make him so In the little world; make him thy evening epilogue, and thy morning prologue, practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest; and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thv fancv be sanctified in the niarht. and thy understanding rectified in the day, so shall thyj-est be peaceful, thy labours prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious. Chocolate Float.?One quart of milk, four eggs, oue large tablespoon* ful of corn-starch, four large tablespooufuls of chocolate. Heat the milk in a double boiler, dissolve the chocolate well before putting it in the boiling milk, add the well-beaten yolks, half a cup of sugor, and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Boil about as long as cornstarch custard. But on the ice to cool, and when ready to serve pour into a glass dish, heaping on top the wellbeaten whites. A debt of gratitude is too often compromised at about ten cents on a dollar. ?