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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
An American Girl In Zu1ulnnd.

A few years ago the daughter of IN
American missionary made tour
Zululand with an English
party. They had Il messenger from the
Secretary for Native Affairs to Introduce
them to King Cetywayo. The first day
he would not grant an audience, rs he
was undergoing some ceremonies for
purification because his father had died,
but the next day they were called and
ushered into the royal hut Great was
their surprise to see an uncommonly
handsome face, with most benevolent
expression, his manners courtly, his
voice very pleasant and his physique
noble. The sketch Of him in the illus
trated papers is q caricature. The
American daughter asked him why he
had refused to Lear the great news that
the missionaries had brought to his peO-
ple. He replied that he could not listen
to low, common people, but if Colenso,
the king of missionaries, would come to
live with him, he would become be-
lever. This lady sought opportunities
to learn all that she could Of life in that
land, and it was a sud story -... she
heard. Indeed, the very air seemed
filled with gloom; the voices of the peo-
pie seemed hushed. She gained the con-
fidence of an interesting looking young
woman, and she asked her the cause of
the silence. She replied that two young
girls, great fivorites, had been strangled
that morning because they had vexed
the king. She inquired the reason, and
learned that one of the doctors" had
declared that a certain man was an evil
siller, and the king ordered him to BE-
strangled. The girl was see to cry, for
she loved him, and had re arked that
they knew he was innocent The king
was informed, and he ordere her to be
choked at once. Her friend, another
young girl, remarked, "Oh to think for
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
Interesting Facts About the Blind.

The organ of vision is considered the
most delicate organization of the human
frame; yet many who have been born
blind have been enabled to see by,surgi-
cal operations, and the following is an
interesting fact concerning one of that
class: A youth had become thirteen
years of age when his eyes were touched
by a surgeon. He thought scarlet the
most beautiful color; black was painful.
He fancied every object touched him,
and he could not distinguish by sight
what he perfectly well knew by feeling;
for instance, the cat and dog. When his
second eye was touched, he remarked
that the objects were not SO large in ap-
pearance to this as to the one opened Mt
first. Pictures he considered only part
ly-colored surfaces, and miniature ab-
solutely astonished him, seeming to him
like putting bushel into pint. Stanly,
the organist, and many blind musicians,
have been the best performers of their
time; and schoolmistress in England
could discover that the boys were play
ing in distant corner of the room in
stead of studying, although a person
using his eyes could not detect the slight
est sound. Professor Sanderson, who was
blind, could, in few minutes, tell how
many persons were in a mixed company,
and of each sex. A blind French lady
could dance in figure dances, sew, and
thread her own needle. A blind man in
Derbyshire, England, has actually been a
surveyor and planner of roads, his ear
guiding him as to distance rs accurately
as the eye to others; and the late Justice
Fielding, who was blind, on walking into
a room for the first time, after speaking a
few words, said: "This room is twenty
two feet long, eighteen wide, and twelve
high" all of which was true.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
The Girl Of the Period.

She has nothing else to do, poor girl,
but dress. 1t takes two-thirds of her
time. The rest is devoted to shopping,
sleep and company. There's not a trace
of wear or neglect about her from the
tips of her heels to the end of that last
new ostrich feather. It's all spick and
span new, glossy bright, and just out of
the bandboXes. 1t costs pa. good round
sum yearly. There isn't an hour of the
day but some portion Of that dress de-
mands her attention. Monday'she was
looking at spring materials; Tuesday, the
same; Wednesday was the day of final
selection; Thursday she hunted for the
trimmings; Friday she bought them
and the days mission for Saturday was
with the dressmaker. There are two
days more of trying on and fitting, at
least. Recollect this is but one article of
that fearful, wonderful andadmirble a
makeup. There are shoes, corsets, bon
nets, hats and gloves all the time on the
stocks or being looked after as built by
contract. Jennie June He'0 York
G,.nnhic
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
Making a Newspaper at Sea.

A new feature has been added to the
sixteen months cruise Of the Woodruff
scientific excursionists. In a certain
convenient portion of that space which
nautically known rs "'tween decks is
to be established on board the steam
ship Werder an editorial sanctum with
pressroom adjoining. From this per-
ambulating newspaper office there will
be issued each week during the long
voyage a journal with the appropriate
title Of .Arou,ad the World. Professor
w. S. Clark himself will be the chief
editor, and certainly from q ship-load
of student tourists will be able to gath
er ample editorial assistance. 4 speci-
men copy Of A7ou'ad the World, as it
will be, has been published and proves
to be a neat four-page paper. In its
prospectus it very truthfully observes:
"The peripatetic editors of Arou'.d
the World will possess at least one ad-
vantage-and a decidedly novel adyant-
age-over their stationary, esteemed
contemporaries on shore, in the fact
that instead of being obliged to depend
on cables, telegraphs, correspondents
and news associations for news, the
editors of the travelling journal will 60
themselves in quest of news and take
their entire establishment along with
them"
A hand-press of the most approved
design is being constructed for the ship,
and elbow winds, come rocks" the
paper, it is said, will always appear on
ime.-NeW York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
Artistic SayageS.

The curious development OF art in
stincts and art capacity in the Busllmen
of South Africa and their failure to grow
toward civilization in other respects, IS
sharply presented in Il recently-published
work on that country: How strange 1t
is that these creatures, so low IN the So
cial scale, should have possessed artistic
skill superior to most savhges! Ihey
have portrayed on the rough rocks scenes
of the chase and of native customs with
such vigor, with few colors Of so per-
manent character, that the spectator
might take them ipr rough, first sketches,
by some unframed artist, executed onlya
short while since. Each animal Is char
acteristically rendered, and the manner
of chasing and securing it, with the flg-
ures of those who assisted in running 1t
down, are faithfully shown. Possessing
such admirable talents in so high i de.
gree, these people were yet incapable OF
attempting the erection of any dcScllp-
tion of house, but sheltered themselves III
such caverns and rocky inches rs natur"
happened to provide. Some of thcs'
drawings include forty or fifty figure
correctly representing the chase OF I'd"
lion. the Gland, the rhinoceroS, the Snr'
the blesbok and many other Wild am.
mails, all vigorously drawn and coiorcd
in species of distemper. These little
people are described as wonderful hunt
ers, their sense of sight being scarcely
surpassed by that of the eagle, or their
sense of hearing by that of the wolf.
Their hardihood and endurance far sur
passed that of any animal in the field,
while their cunning and adroitness was
only equaled by the fox"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
S0ap as q Board Of Health.

Those who are at all afraid of epidemic
disease may feel comforted on hearing
that one of the best protective measures
they can resort to is very simple one
the use of soap and water. An eminent
physician says:
= ut is worth while for common people
to learn $4,000 typhus germs will thrive
in the circumference of q pin-head or a
visible globule. 1t is worth while for
them to note that these germs may be
dessicated and be borne, like thistle seeds,
everywhere, and like demonical posses
sions, may Jump noiselessly down any
throat. But there are certain things
spores cannot stand, according to the
latest ascertained results of science. A
water temperature of l2O degrees boils
them to death, and soap chemically poi
sons them. Here sanitary and micro
scopic science come together. Spores
thrive in low ground and under low con-
ditions of life. For redemption, fly to
hot water and soap, ye who live in
danger of malarial poisoning. Hot water
is sanitary. Soap is more sanitary.
Fight typhus, smallpox, yellow fever and
ague with soap. Soap is hoard OF
health.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
Muscle In America.

Who would have thought twenty years
ago that Americans would have ever be-
come people so devoted to athletic
sports as they seem to be now? Then
rowing was in it's infancy. An annual
boat race between Harvard and Yale was
about all the country had in the line of
aquatic contests Since that time how
the love of this sport has increased until
rowing matches of great interest occur
almost each week as long as the tempera-
ture will permit every year. Wrestling
matches are of comparatively later orr
gin, but now experts at this physical
sport are as thick as fleas in the proverb-
ial localities. Base ball is the rage"
and seems to grow in. popularity with
each succeeding 6 year. Pedestrianism has
almost taken the country off its feet, and
every four corners this summer will have
its walking matches. 1t can no longer
be charged with truthfulness that we as
a people are afraid to use our muscle or
to enter into athletic contests with our
neighbors, The season that has just
opened promises to surpass all others in
the past in the number and Importance
of its athletic matches. Intense activity
prevails among the rowing clubs of the
country, while all the champion rowers
are challenging right and left.-7roy (N
~ Budget.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
To q Little Maiden.

Sweet little maiden,
Modest little maiden,
Blushing little maiden, .....
Thirteen!
There's an airy spell about you, ~.
There's dainty charm about you,
There's modest grace about you,
Would You know wherein the spell lies, little
maiden?
Do You ask wherein the charm lies, little
maiden?
Shall tell wherein the grace lies, little maiden
Nay, nay
For were to tell,
Indeed, know full well
It would surely break the spell,
Little maiden.
But IN whisper in your ear
A word Tor you to hear;
Just hint--nevcr fear,
Little maiden.
Be always bright and ready,
Press onward strong and steady.
Ever help the poor and needy,
Little maiden;
And the charm and the grace a o., .t
That are scaled on thy tace
Will never loose their place,
Little maiden. y"
-.. -Boaon Transcript.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
The Prisoner of Rochelle.

Here is o scene from the vaudeville of
the Prisoner of Rochelle Corporal
Cartouch amuses himself by going
through the manual, while Leza, seated
ut her workable, abstractedly questions
him concerning matrimony.
Leza. If a girl were to. fall in love with
you, corporal, what would you do?
Cartouch. Present arms!
l.. She would doubtless look to you
for q
G.. Support!
L. And then what heavy burden you
would haveto-
G. Garry!
l.. Your butcher and baker would have
C. Charge!
L. Your prospects of course would
G.. Advance!
l.. And you would have to
c.. Bout face! ....
L. And never have any
c.. Rest!
L. Now, corporal, pray give me your
G. Attention!
l.. A man Of your age isn't able to bear
such "a
G. Load!
l.. But you are not in your
C.. Prime!
J.. Your wife may
c.. Bout!
L. Leave you, but she will soon
G.. Return!
L. And then you'll have to bear on all
your
G.. Shoulder!
L. Would you be-
C. Ready!
L. think you have some other
G. Aim!
l.. And you would throw all your
cpistles into the
c.. Fire! (FSres the nauSket.)
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
BY HUGH WILSON AND W. G. BENET.

"But don't you see"-and smile sue
ceeded the tear" that that would never
do? I could never plead for my child
as the wife of Captain Hottop. 1t must
be as the widow Of Montgomery Mon
tague." -. ),
"Blessed if you amt rightw exclaimed
the captain, looking at her admiringly.
"Well, promise to marry me when you
return. Do, Lillian. No one could love
you better than l."
"When I return?"
Eyes, for surely my promised wife can
accept part of the fortune that will be
all hers when she is really my wife, with
out anybody Nobody need know.
Will you, Lilian?"
"I WILL" she said.
"Will what, my preciousp" he asked,
smiling.
"E1erything," she answered; and
turned and fed like a bashfal girl, after
he had clasped her in his arms and given
her a kiss in true sailor fashion.
And by the very next steamer Mrs.
Montgomery Montague started for Eng
land, with valuable solitaire diamond
engagement ring glittering on her pretty
hand. a check for five hundred dollars in
her silver portemonnaie, and many use
full and ornamental farewell gifts from
the ladies of the Spooner household. The
ladies felt all their old interest in her re-
viye, now that she had gone away indeed,
as Mrs. Dusenberry informed the eighty
year-old grandfather of the youth who
famed her on the afternoon of Mrs. Mon
taeue's arrival. "She was much too
lovely, and made me quite jealous of you,
you false man."
And Miss Isabella Spooner hung the
picture of young Montgomery, "that
babelet fair, in the parlor, and wreathed
it with daisies. Heaven grant that we
may see the darling himself soon" she
said, with pious emphasis. -.
But they never did. For, a couple of
weeks after the widows departure, Wei
lington Octoper burst in among them all
as they were playing croquet on the lawn,
scattering the balls in every direction.
"Sold, by gracious!" shouted he.
"What?n asked Miss Spooner, drop
ping her mallet.
" "A million tierces of lard and twice as
many pigs, I suppose" murmured Mrs.
Dusenberry, leaning in an unconscious
manner against the shoulder OF her part
ner.
"She's fraud! Yes-s," continued the
pork merchant.
:" Who?" they all cried this time.
1.-The widow, Mrs. Montgomery Mon
tague, that is, Mrs. Maria j. Thompson.
Yes-s." ...
I" A fraud, sir! What do you mean,
sir?-what do you mean?" beloved
Captain Hottop, as though through
speaking-trumpet, flush overspreading
his weather-bronzedf face.
'Just what I say, captain. Yes-s,"
answered the pork merchant. thought
to be the. first of April-it ought.for, BY
lingo, there never aDas such a sell! The
only truth she told was when she said she
was widow. So she is. Yes-s. The
widow of Jack Thompson, celebrated
mince and punkin pie maker in Chicago.
I met his brother on the street to-day.
He's 4 pork merchant. And she never
had any children"
mot a bluereyed boy?" gasped the
captain. -.
mot even blue-eyed boy. Yes-sm
said Wellington Octoper.-Harper's
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Kanr Traits.

We make an extract from work on
South Africa by General Cunynghame,
mt one time commander Of the British
forces in that region. The kafiirs are
true savages in their capacity for enor-
nous eating on the one hand, and for
enduring famine on the other. We
reagE;, .;.,. oe ,o,+ ,,,n;oh , K,e,r
can devour is miraculous. Pound after
pound vanishes before him, nor does he
appear torpid or less active in conse-
quence. It is by no means uncommon
for couple of men to finish q small
sheep in twenty-four hours. They are
not at all particular what part of the ami
NAL they eat. Pieces which we should
consider revolving meet from them the
most ready appreciation, and apparently
every portion is as digestible as it is pala-
table. Twas told that a bullock that had
been left by transport rider was bitten
in the tongue by an adder while grazing.
The OK, feeling the stinging pain, elected
the snake from it's mouth, and an hour
afterward was dead. 1t was skinned by
nativs and the meat eaten by them.
Strange to say, none of the Kaffirs suffer-
ed any i'll effects. They are possessed Of
stomachs of extraordinary capacity, and
apparently invulnerable. The Kaffirs,
although ready to eat enormous guam
titles Of meat when they can procure it,
are frequently compelled to suffer from
famine. In this extremity they tie
leather rims round their stomachs. They
call this the girdle of famine, and they fill
the vacuum by drinking watey."
Ofonebf the chiefs we read as follows:
Umthonthlo is always accompanied by
six followers, excellent shots, and armed
with Winchester rifles, each loaded with
their charges. He not unfrequently uses
these weapons against his own subjects
when they displease him. A few months
ago he was informed that a young man of
his tribe had been presenting snuff to one
of his wives. He summoned the lady.
accused her of accepting the pinch of
snuff, and added that unless she gave up
the name of the man he would put her to
death. His body-guard stood with load
ed rifles, ready to put the sentence in
execution. Thus frightened. she gave up
the name of the man who had paid her
this trinins attention. Umthonthlo
summoned him to his presence, and de-
manded his reason for presenting snuff to
his wife. The excuse not being satisfac-
tory, he called for q Winchester, and,
aiming at the chest of the young man.
shot him. His sister upbraided him for
his rashness; he gave this remarkable
answer: "Do not blame me, but rather
the man that told me of it; he is the per-
son in fault"
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The following American ladies have
been married to British peers or the
sons of peers since 1926: In 1895, Mrs:
Patterson, eldest daughter of Richard
Cation, of Maryland, to the Marquis of
Wellesley lin 1923, Louisa, third daughter
of Richard Cation and widow Of Sir
FELTON, Bathurst Hervey, bart.,I to the
Duke of Leeds; in 1886, Louisa, second
daughter -of Richard Cation, ~ Lord
Stafford; in IS45, Mary, daughter Of
John McTavish, of Baltimore, to the
Hon. Henry John Rowland, brother of
the late Earl of Carlisle and the Ouch
ess of Sutherland; in 1850, Elizabeth,
sister to the late Gen. Wadsworth, Of
Geneseo, to the Hon. Sir Charles Au-
gustus Murray, son of the Earl of Dun
more; in 1852, Ellen, daughter of Ed
mund Dwight, of Boston, to the Hon.
Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton, son
of Lord Saye and Sele; in 1874, Miss
Jerome, daughter of Leonard jerome,
of New York, to Lord Randolph
Churchill, son of the Duke of Marl-
borough; in 1876, Miss Consuelo "
naga, of New York, to Yiscount Man.
deville, heir apparent Of the Duke OF
Manchester; and in 1877, Sophia,
daughter of S. Wells Williams, of New
Haven, to the Hon. Thomas George
Grosvenor, son of Lord Ebury. If to
these should be added the names or
American ladies' welded to grandSons
of peers, baronets or knights, the list
would be considerably extended.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
Greater than a mountain,
Stronger than an elephant.
News and Notes for Women.

Cincinnati women give pinalore par
ties, at which all the guests wear paper
pinafores.
The original "Grecian bend" came
from Japan, and is found in many
their pictures. ...,...' ,..-
San Francisco has female painter
named Strong, who sells portraits of a
dog for $780,, ar r... e. .a...r
TSCharlotte Thompson, the actress, owns
one of the finest plantations in the South
1900 acres-near Montgomery, Ala.
A London chemist has named his
five daughters respectively Glycerine,
Pepsine, Ethyl, Methyl and Morphia.
He calls their mother Dynamite.
Some of the new parasols have their
handles tipped with pheasants' heads
on which the plumage is carved, gilded
and colored so as to initiate nature.
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Mnc. Musard.

Lucy Hooper,, writing from Paris,
says: One Of the jeweled celebrities of
Paris has, it is said, suddenly become
insane. This celebrated parsonage is
none other than the ..well-known Nine:
Musard, whose parure of opals and
diamonds was the most magnificent
one of its kind in the world. Years
ago her jewels, her equipages, and the
sumptuosity of her dress, her hotel,
and her servants, made her the talk of
Paris. She used to drive out to the
Bois in an open landau, driving her
four spirited horses herself with skill
that would have done honor to pro-
fessional charioteer. She was always
to be seen in her box at Les 1taliens,
magnificently dressed and blazing with
jewels. An American by birth, and
originally, I believe, from New Eng
land, her story reads like strange and
wild romance. She came to Paris with
NJ. Musard nearly twenty years ago.
She was then in the first luster of her
singular and spirituelle beauty, and
created an immense sensation among q
certain set in Paris. The King Of Hol-
land next came upon the tapis, and his
gift of IN estate in Galicia, upon which
petroleum was soon after discovered,
made her one of the richest women in
the world. Her hotel was miracle
Of luxury. and was crowded with OBJ
iects of art. She entertained magnifi-
Gently, her guests being, of course, all
of the male sex. but including many of
the artistic and social lights of Paris.
Some years ago she was attacked with
Il paralysis of the muscles of one side
Of her face, which caused one eyelid to
droop in q very unpleasant manner,
and also seriously affected her sight.
She became gloomy and morose, and
for some time past has dwelt in seclu-
sion. The last time that she was seen
in public was at the opening of the
Exhibition. Clad in q simple suit OF
woolen plaid that set off the perfect
outlines of her still exquisite figure,
she fingered on the balcony Of the Pal
ace of the Trocadero, looking vaguely
abroad over the scene. The other day,
on entering her superb dining room:
she was seized with sudden fit Of
fury, and, snatching the crystal candel-
abra from the table, she hurled them
against the. opposite wall: Force was
found necessary to keep her from in
uring herself or those about her, and
DR.. Blanche, the great doctor for the
insane, on being called in declared
that her case was 4 hopeless one. So
ends that strange, checkered, romantic
career. 1t almost seems as though the
legend which makes the opal fatal
gem to the wearer was proven true in
her case.