The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22

ground lying fallow, wasting or running
TO noxious weeds, in the negro. It il as
we'll to say it right here-despite their
many ignorances, their conceit and their
improvidence and inertness, the average
Liberian Is in most ways imrneasufably
superior to the average American negro.
and thoae at Sierra Leone are no far
above him in requirements az the clouds
are above the earth. In me social re-
finements the better classes Of. colored
people there seem perfect. In one
thing l con'd notice distinctly the
three degrees of progression, as illustra-
ted by the English Colony negro. the
Liberian negro, and che American
negro
THE OBsERvANCEs OF TABLE Ell
QUETTE.
This 10 a small matter at first sight.
but it tells story when looked into.
History will show that in pfoportion as
men have become civilized they have
paid more and more attention 10 the little
niceties and daintinesses that redeem the
taking of food from the uncleanlyI and
disgusting obedience to Necessity and cx-
'ercise Of gluttoDy Of the savage TO the
pleasurabls, graceful and cleanly indul.
gence Ia luxury of the we'll bred Euro.
pean or American. It is yeEyy we'll to
spout Harms, but even; this most fabii
universal eocial equality lunatic would
find 1t difficult to realize that the man
who sits opposite, WHO. makes of his
mouth an open sepulchre in which he
inteTs all of his feelings, sensibilities and
intellectual developments, ehovels in on
them huge and indiscriminata masses s0f
food with his knife and gulps his wine as
if it were dose of medicine, is a man
for o. that. Peoples style of eating is
generally fair Indication of their BRO.
gress in civilization. The Bushman eats
his fish half raw with his hands; the
Chinaman conveys it neatly and deftly
to his mouth with chopsticks; the Eng.
iishu an carefully, and as deity, "scoops"
it in nth silver fork. These are the
three degrees. I don't mean to say that
q man is uncivilized unless he eats his
fish with 8 bit of bread. and fork, but
the civilized oan, however he does han.
die his food, does it cleanly.) Tell not
in Gath, publish it not in the streets of
.Askalon, but almost every, meal took
while on. African soil was In company
with colorsd people. A man, and ee-
pecially g newspaper reporter, has, from
policy and decency both, to subordinate
his prejpdices and habits to politeness,
besides which
"We can live without knowledge; what is
knowledge but growing? sjfg
We can live without hope; what is hope
h... decaiving?
We can live without love; what Is love but
repinjng?
But where is the man who can, live without
dining P'
l can safely assoverate that he isn't in
my boots at any rate. The correctness
of the quotation is not vouched for. 4 fIt's
the only part of LUCILLE" If it Is stLu-
cille," that ever impressed me much.")
But the s;srra Leone people display o
spontaneous and unconscious scrupulous-
asss regarding ;.se tsi3sssvs.:s.eg oe Il,
points Of table etiquette, such aD is hard
iy seen In the best American houssholds,
to diligently recalling the precepts in
cuicated in his youth regarding the
proper manipulation of table furniture,
&c. The Liberians are apparently much
loss enlightened ION this subject, and
seemed, with one or TWO exceptions, to
pay L. tie attention TO It,. willis the Azor's
people had each their own original and
untrammelled style, the main object
seeming to be me consumption of the
greatest possible amount of food in the
least possible time. Almost everybody,
both in Sierra Leone and Liberia, had
claret at dinner, and there was usually q
glass Of sherry or Madeira tendered be-
fore Or after the meaE
TRADE WITH THE SOUTH.
But all this is wandering far away from
my friend Sharp, which is my last geo-
graphical point. He displayed feeling
which seems quite prevalent among q
large portion of the Liberians-a desire
to do his trading with the United States,
ifpossible with the South. More than
one repeated to me his, expressed senti.
ments, that sin spiteof everything" their
isympathies were with the land of their
birth, and they would like to deal with
her people. 1t is a fattering compli-
ment to the business men of that section,
that they seem to possess the confidence
of those who knew them years ago, in the
highest degree. One of the leadipg Ii.
berians said: 81 know the nen who gen
orally do business in South Carolina are
gentlemen, und that they are above q
dirty trick, or taking advantage of o, man
because he Is fay away" 1.-THE speaker is
2 Carnlinian.l This feeling aaerrla to ,be
generally entertained. It may PERHAPS
6si partly partly ;t..sssss7i:huted to the desire
escape from the monopoly held by q
New York house, who do much business
along the West Coast, and have. been
control Of the Liberian trade, which
uoo IN 1,a II I
most everything that is sold in Liberia
the Monrovian storekeepers replenishine
their stocks from the Eew Workers. ships
and paying, certainly. very good prices
1n produce.or money. This fs, i think
one of the obstacles to Liberian progress
Competition would enable them to sell
higher and buy cheaper, thus stimuIa.
ting trade, and necessarily increasing
prosperity. Various Dutch and English
s,rn,e here heer, es.a .l;slt cd fran, tina er
time, and, receiving their own goods "a
their own ships. have been enabled to
underscll and go away ahead of the Ii.
berian merchants, making fortunes while
they plod along in the same old ruts.
THE FIRST ORDER FOR CHARLESTON
= Jesse Sharp, who aecrass TO be.onelbl
those men always willing to back up hi
words by his acts, showed his sincerity
by sending cash order to q large
Charleston firm for aashes, timber, &c.
for his house, the goods to no brought by
the Azcr onlthe return trip. While OF
this subject | viii say that the new inn
migrants oil manifested the same feelings
To precede the narrative little, when
returned TO Monrovin, andsin answer x
questions told them what I had seen o.
ccssntry cottons exhibiting he samples
they generally and i6yfaily exclaimed
"Well, you bet the cotton makers are