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Administrator's Wot ice*..i.$0 00 Contract Advertiaement? inserted upon the inost liberal terms. ?:o:? MARRLVQE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding one Square, inserted without charge. Terms Cosh in Advance, '?a feb 28 o * ly POETRY. My Old Woman and I. DV JOHN BBOrailltAM. V* have crossed the bridge o'rr the middle of life, My old woman and 1, Taking our share in the cairn and the strife. With the travelers passing by, And though en our pathway the shadow* arc rife, There's a light in the western sky. Some losses and crosses, of course, we've had My eld woman and ! , But, bless you! wo never found time to be sail, And a very good reason why. We were busy as bees, and we weren't so mad As to slop in our work to cry. On our changeable road as we journeyed along, My eld woman and I, The kindly companions we met in the throng ( - Made our lives like a vision fly ; Aad therefore the few that imagined us wrong BcrmMy oast us a slnglo sigh. The weak and the weary we've striven to cheer, My old woman and I; For we each of us thought that our duty while here Was to do as we'd be done by, la the hope to exhibit a balance clear When the reckoning day is uigk. Any business is more respectable that what is termed loafing. A young man bad better Bell clams by the pailful than hang around public resorts, murderiug time and his own reputation. A person who was recently c died into court for the purpose of proving the correctuo?s of a .doctor's bill, was asked whether "the doctor did not make several visits after the patient was out of danger ?" "No," replied the witness. "I considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued his visits." Men often lose opportunities by want of self confidence. Doubts and fears in the minds of some rise up over every event, and they fear to attempt what most probably will be success ful, through mero timorousncs*, while a brave, active man will, with perhaps half the ability, carry the enterprise to a prosperous termina tion. An eigbt-hour-a-day man, iu going home one evening for his supper, found his wife sit ting in her best clothes, reading a volume of j travels. ' How is this'/" he exclaimed ??Where's my supper ?" '*! don't know," re plied his wife, "I began to get breakfast at six o'clock this morning, and my eight hours end ?d at two I*. M." A Canada editor says he hus '*a keen rapb r to prick all fools and knaves." His friends, if they are prudent, will take it from him. He might commit suicide. The following scutimeut is attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte: "A haudsome woman pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the heart. Tho one is a jewel?tho other a treos aire." When a gentleman steps on a lady's train, the huly should turn rouud and say, politely : "I beg your pardon, air." The gontluman should how, and say : ?I accept your apology, madam." A lady advertises for sale one baboon, three tabby eats and a parrot. She states that, bo iag now married, she has no further use for them, for the reason that their umitible quali ties are all combined in her husband. It is said that when a Russian husband ne glects to boat his wife for a mouth or two, she begins to get alarmed at his indifference. An indignant orator at a recent political sweeting, iu refuting tin opponent thundered: '?Jlr. Chairman, I scorn the allegation, and 1 defy the allegator." The Humboldt monument at New York is receiving oon r'fi* ?rfj j ^ri st front all parts of the jountry. [WRlTTSS FOR TUR OHAXOKDl'HO NKW.1.] OUR WAGER - or with MISS ILDEKTON. ?o We agreed to have a "a flirtation," n nico one, where each would thoroughly understand that it would be nothing more than n flirtation, ami the one who was so ridiculous as to fall in love or anything of that sort. was to bo hearti ly laughed at and to forfeit and pay the price of Hie wager?a valuable present. Miss Lucy Udert on and myself entered into such an agreement, during the third or fourth evening of our acquaintance, as a delightful way of passing the few months that wo would l>o together iu the village. As \ bade her adieu on tho occasion of our enter ing upou the arranged flirtation, I asked her to walk with me tho nest afternoon, to which she assented. The next afternoon, a delightful spring af ternoon, at about five o'clock, we descended the steps of her father's residence fur our walk. She looked stylish and fashionable in her walking dress, and I Was duing my best to make the walk as agreeable to her, R? I knew it would he to myself. We issued out of the gate, and then hesita ted as to which way to go. ''She looked at me mid would have said. 'Where nwny ?" 1 anticipated and proposed,''Not a 'dress parade' through the village, hut a shady walk in the woods, aud perhaps a scat on a log." She agreed and we turned to" ards tho woods not to pick jessamines, or artthing ro mantic and tiresome, but to avoid the inter ruption of nccting acquaintances nud to pre vent the village gossip from interfering with our arraugemenU. We chatted until out of the village without at all mcutioning our proposed flirtation, p As soon as wc entered n little lonesome piece ?..* woods, I said : :,M:sa Hdcrton, you remember our arrange meut of lust night, do you ?" '?Oh ! yes ! certainly. I? it to go into ope ration at once ?" ,;I Mipposc so. Did you not understand ii so?" "Oh ! yes proceed." And our flirtation began. ''Miss Hdcrton, do you know that I think that this arrangement will not prove as pleas ant as I thought when I first proposed it. I thought of it last night after I got home, aud have been thinking of it all the morning. I think that it is really trifliug with fccliugs that are too pure and sacred to be made toys and playthings of?that it is counterfeiting emo tions that the 'higher law' of our nature con demns as unlawful aud dangerous. I really think that the counterfeiting ot these the noblest and holiest instincts of our nature, if indulged in, will produce as great a state of moral confusion in the heart, in depreciating and rendering totally worthless, the media through which the expression of its grandest sentiments finds a currency to the outer world ?a confusion and a depreciation, I say, as com plete and total aW that which would be pro duced iu the financial world, if the counterfeit ing of the currency were not strictly forbidden and severely punished. 1 think that it is like tin; impious monarch who held unholy festi val and reveled and rioted with the silver ves sels and service of the temple of GimI. I look upon it as a species of profanit)?'a taking iu vain' of instincts and sentiments, and emo tions, 'for which wo would not be held guilt I* *t ess. Imagine if_you can her surprise at this ora tion ol mine. At first she laughed as though she thought it u ruse, ot e of the cards in our new game, as I proceeded the smile faded into a look of intense curiosity, us if porfectly at a loss to understand me. and before I had con cluded, she looked more serious und conscious than I thought her fushiouable, happy face could look. She did look appreciative and serious as she replied : '*! ugrco with you fully. It is wrong. I never thought ot it iu that light. I shall never thus trifle with those feelings which are the grandest uud holiest of my nature." I hud struck the right chord?it vibrated and responded to thu touch. I had played a trump curd ; wus about winning the gamu by tricks, certainly not by honors. 1 saw her whole hand?her heart ! I continued to say : "Besides, Min* Lucy, after having "acted a part' like this; after having mutually trifled with our own and each other's feelings, how could cither of us ever indulge those feeling* in their true and real action and spontaneous expression '.' How could we ever love euch uther? stay, how respect ounifeg dLha.t.2 Such an arrangement would d >onj us to mutual sns picion?would forever prevent our hearts from trusting nnd loving." I paused, looked at her to soo the effect of my words. I could hardly believe my eyes. There sho was, pale, actually paio ?her cyca suddenly averted as I turned to her, her lip slightly quivorcd. Sho felt I tho cold, fashionable "woman of the world," felt. "Hero is a nice seat: let us rest!" I said pointing to a log a few yards from the road. She accompanied me, and wc sat down upon our improvised seat. I was at a loss now how to proceed. I hesi tated to follow up my advantage. Indeed, what W?S I tu du ? Tell her I ioved her nnd then break the spell nnd remind her that it was a pre-arranged flirtation ? Or must I really fall in love, lose the wager and win her? Suppose?and the thought startled me?sup pose that she was acting a part bemeif and playing even a deeper game than I was. Sup pose my declaration of impassioned ami ro mantic love should be greeted with n peal of merry ringing laughter, proclaiming "victory." 1 was puzvlcd?in a dilemma ! I had got beyond my depth, had played too deep u game to know how to continue it. Tho next step might be a blunder, and lose all. I looked nt her and mused for a few mo uicnts, when suddenly a suggestion presented itself, which 1 put into immediate effect. Looking carelessly around. I said : '?This is delightful weather, Miss Lucy; I do enjoy the spring very much. It is the season most eougeuiul to my indolent nature. I like the music and thj fragrance, of course. Everybody does. But the lazy iucrtia of my mittlre enjoys now its high carnival. I in dulge now iu revels not to Bacchus, but to Soiuuus. I am iu love with everything, and care for nothing in Spring. This is the only season of tho year iu which I can appreciate and sympathize with the Italian's (folce for ?irnfr. I am always in love in spring. I love the idea of beauty?pcrsouificd in flowers or I iu woman. I love woman; then, not any one in particular, but the ideal just as one loves Spring, not any oue Spring iu particular?but every Spring, every year as she conies, iu her^ beauty, her fra^anco, nnd her music. 1?but you think it is time to return." **' "Yce ! if you have coucltided your oration, for which you certainly possess a talent, and of which you have kindly given uic several specimens, to my great-" '?Weariness! you would s.iy. Yes! 1 have certainly wearied you this evening." Wc slowly returned to her home, aud I con tinued : '?I duubt very touch whether I will have another chance to exact your audience of my speeches, under pretence of taking a watk." -Shall I ?" "I shall certainly not take another walk with you, until I understand you better." "You mean my speeches, you perhaps could sec no sense in them." '?They are the causes of my inability to un derstand you." "Well, Miss Lucy, since they are the means of my being misunderstood, I am totally at a loss to know bow ever to be understood by 'you." "I entirely despair of ever understanding you." "A misunderstanding certainly exists be tween us. It seems I am fated to be misun derstood. Did you ever hear the story of the soldier, who, when bis Colonel, riding in front of the regiment awaiting the onset of the ene my, told them 'Now. men, strike for your homes,' misunderstood him and struck out for his home V "No ! nor do I care to hear any more ridicu lous stories or speeches this evening. 1 think that 1 begin to understand you, now, sir and -." "Then you will walk with nie tgain, Miss Lucy." "Never, sir, nor speak to you until you have explained and atoned for your conduct this evening " "I nm ready to apologize, at once, Miss Lucy, if I have really offended you by toy thoughtless prattle." '?Thoughtie s, indeed, cvory word has boon a studied insult to my feelings 1 Prate about fine feelings and then exhibit your total want of them iu yourself?while you invoke them in others only to ruthlessly trample upon them. Excuse my not inviting you in this evening. 1 will bid you good uight, here !" And, although she was uot within several huudred yards of* her gate, she darted aw.iy boluro 1 could reply, leaving mo utterly be wildered aud uot a little uneasy. I hesitated whethor to pursue nnd overtake aud inako my peace with her beforo she reached her home, or to follow her rod insist upon an interview that evening Musing, wondering, astounded, I walked ulong, re: clicd her gate, paused, looked in, saw tho light iu the sitting-room, woudercd whether to cuter or not, and, at length strolled je?. . Before I kucw it, 1 had reached home. ??? '" ''^XF^^ " " ? Tiiat night 1? lay awake on niy bed and thought over oir. evening walk audits iuci deuta. I thought cf her conduct, her words, her manner, h$r* locV as sho bade me "good night." bhe certainly loved me, had been de ceived by my studied scheme, expected me to say I loved her und was cruelly disappointed, terribly mocked, humiliated. Her eyes, brijpte with tear glitters, flashing with unrestrained Fury, haunted me there in the dark night. and her terrible words rung in my cars through its stilly and silent watches. Tho formend face of that wohlan, in her outraged und'insulted, but really towering nud majestic, sensibility stood before me, and frightened sleep from my rcstleBS pillow. The exhibition of such elevated and high-toned cmotious, wbdeh I had called forth only to i rifle with and mock, quelled my sei I-conceit, disconcerted *S?y self-complacency. TTer m?u1 in all its t ruth and greatness, shone in her eyes, spoke iu lu r burning indignation, nctcd and lived ia her'expressive depart ure ami in my contemptuous dismissal. In a word, I hated myself, I loved ber. She knew it not, but I had lost the wager and bad lost her. Then came the thought, **tho unkiudest cut of all," that she hived me, believed me, and then found her love mocked, "the pearl trampled upon," found me guilty of such base, deep hypocrisy. Oh. bow she must bate mo, as now I hated myself. Then came the remorse, deep and terrible, the repentance, the humiliation of my self-re spect, and the high, noble resolution to ?tone for my insult to her, to retrieve my lost and sullied purity of thought, the resolution to re gain her, her mocked but now priceless love. With' the good thougnt of atonement and prayer wafted upon the breezes of the night for her forgiveness, came "balmy sleep." and dreams of a mind conscious again to ?tsclf of | right, dreams reconciled und beautiful, yes ! far more beautiful since now I knew her? dreams, which only the morning sun dissipated and bade mc realize. Tho next evening I called at her bouse, and after some delay, saw her enter the room. ' ** "I Aavc pcrhops compromised myself," she said ^u seeing you this evening. It is only that I expect sntuc atonement for yesterday's exhibition of "fine feeling' that I do consent to see you." "That is the object of 1113- call, Miss Lucy My heart has dictated what was due to you and to itself. Miss Lucy, believe me, 1 have just learned you. Knowing you as I now do, I feel how you must despise me. I hate and loathe myself. My nature enn atone to itself for its degraded self respect only by acknowl edging its own hypocrisy. "This is the only way I can ever forgive myself. Oh ! that I knew how I might ob tain your forgiveness?how I might re gain that love which I believe ywu would have bestowed upon me, had I not mocked, scorned it. Oh ! say one word of forgiveness, one word of love to inc. Was it only by this cursed ordeal by which 1 should forever lose you, that it was destined that I should know you. "Miss Hdcrton, Heaven itself forgives after such repentance. My heart knows how it has repented, and my conscience whispers Forgiven. Will you not forgive? I know you now? I appreciate yon. in your beauty and your worth. I love you as I love the ideal enshrined iu my heart of moral beauty and worth. "I know I talk wildly, but 1 fear, I shudder to think, perhaps?you will not forgive." I paused as she remarked : "Not at all wild arc your words?they arc very fine?you arc treating me to a dra matic performance. I really like it. is it origi nal ? J>id 1 not already know what a con summate hypocrite and counterfeiter you arc, I would be astonished ut your histrionic per formance." "I expected this, take any revenge you plcu.se, only say yon ore satisfied, and that I have atoned, ami I will be content. Miss Lucy, prolong not this scene, for God's sake. 1 am unequal to it. Believe mc, hear me, and then strike me to earth with your blighting scorn. 1 love you as men love uot women but as angels love and adore the crowned monarch of Heaven." "That is very fine," sho exclaimed in ap plause, "had wo never token that walk, 1 would really have thought you wero in love with mo." "Before (iod, I worship you," I almost shrieked in my madness, and threw myself upon my knees before her,? She looked down at mc, smiled plousuntly, und asked : "Do you really love mo ?" "How? How can I provo it more. Hear me, see mc, and kuow that these Words, this attitude arc cold, are tame to express my heart's wild adoring love 1" Her smilo brightened und grew more merry, until she said, placing her baud in mine and bursting into a siioui of sitycy laughter, "Get up then, and don't bo so ridiculous. I will believe thut I havo woo the wager without all this tableau." . How must I have looked ! She continued to say: "I assure you T was not at all offended with you yesterday evening, nnd hope you will fur give my rudeness. I had to assume that part , to win the game, und will expect a very hand some pre cut for my trouble. Sit down, now, und talk. Arc you going to the hop at the Hotel to-morrow evening. Don't look so fooh ish and ridiculous 1 I shall never tell any one of our pre-arranged flirtation." I felt as if I were disappearing?evaporat ing?merging into surrouudiog space with ac celeratiug velocity. I felt as though there were a chemical affinity between the nothing ness, into which I had sunk, and the floating atmosphere into which I would soon be entire ly fused and merged. I would certainly have made some sort of "chemical disappearance," but for one palliat ing eircuujaiauce iu my situation. At one time, as I icit that I was rapidly evaporating, I reached out and caught her band as though for a mute farewell, before I ceased to be a human being and became a float ing globule of air, drilling about upon the at mosphere, and perhaps go down somebody's throat! . She withdrew her baud with an impatient movement. T groaned in my torture something about "a last farewell, forever!" But she replied?and as she did, I saw the silver-lined circumstance of my position?the ray of hope in my despnir?I saw u gleam of the dearest, sweetest kindness in her eye ! That expression was the brightest thing I have ever seen on earth. Its starry brightness rained an influence of light and cheer down from its ?'height of heaven." into my depth of humilia tion and despair. She replied: "Don't think of going until you have spnkcnof the wager?what is my present to be ? It must be something very handsome, desirable and expensive ! I shall be satisfied with nothing else, for all my trouble to win." There was something* bewitching?Bcrephic in her eye. as she looked at mo. That look, which her eyes expressed, but which no words can, almost muldcncd tue. I arose in a deli rium and wildly suhl: "Oh '. Miss Ildciton. you must hear mo, you I must know the grand iuccuse of luve that rises from the holy altar of my heart for thee, for thee I" "Is that the present you offer me as the re compense "f my trouble?that the wager I have so gloriously won ? Well ! well! But I Bup posc 1 will have to accept it, and be content!" I instantly evaporated, became a globule of ?:r nnd floated up?up among the stars, up into the elysium of inconceived happiness ! Summers have passed since that evening's walk, aud sometimes my peerless wife says in I her radiant merriness, aud with an exquisite archness "I think, dear, you might have given me a better present for winning thejwager." -?~mm?mmm> ? - - mm? ? A TnrtEK Months' Baby Talks.?"We find in the St. Charles, Minnesota Herald, of the 10th inst., a letter from Dr. Suddutb, a respectable physician ofthat place, who says: I was called upon a few days ago to attend a sick child, daughter of "William and Mary Jane Hearsay, living in the southwestern part of St. Charles township. I found the child, aged a few days under five months, very ill. After cdaninistCring medicine to the child, I was startled to hoar it say very distinctly, "Mamma, baby don't want any more." Com pletely nonplussed. I inquired of the mother how long the babe had talked. As though it wero no uousual occurrence. ' she coolly said it commenced talking a few days before it was threo months old! Deeply impressed with this unheard of and premature development, I watched the child with the deepest interest. It docs not prattle, aa is usual with infants when first trying to talk, stumbling upon and .-training nt words. It speaks clearly and cohorently, a regular rcn tence that clearly exp~esses its thoughts and ideas. It seems to think, and then expresses its thoughts calmly and clearly. It seems to note the nnxicty and wishes of others. A littlo four year old brother. was out of the house, several members of the family inquired where ho was. He soon came in, when the baby seeing him, said to the mother: "Otty has come home." It will lie quietly in the cradlo while its mother is at work, and when it is hungry will say, -baby wants dinner," Or "mamma tako baby up," as plainly as a child of five or six years of ago. I may as well mention the fact that another'of tho children commenced tajk i?g Weight rhouths ofd. 1 Altogether I con sider it a phenomohon worthy^ of public rc eoi5 Nor do I \bm& it ?-.ny the to? iaS?m^we? hcnsiblc that the talking wbudcr hVa girl. i;fw i'.i dto sr*r. ?? ?.? ed 4 tx>oai?r) Sv? .q j AgftlClT L T ?^^/f<^ Don't Come to the Citji^ Wt i-t ?? ? M V "!?.??*rx;J:? adj Jne*9? UT* Stay away from tho city, young mall. Why?' Mn**n* ?*??? Because yott are not Wanted '^atMi 'ttJ^ many young men already are there?^too tamaf? struggling for the fortune that never comc*f and acquiring, instead, tastes and habits which lead to perdition. , . . . _ . _ mot Are you a farmer s son ; Be a farmer's son?one of the "bdu? ";&B& sinew of the land? Don't look etukia?fl that equipage as it rolls past, bearing that rieb merchant to his three months' siesta at bia "country scat." You are as iodcpeuden^^aai he, and fur more happy. If he lives to ace fifty, it will bo a wonder, while it will be a wonder if you don't live to see seventy. If he has gold and soft raiment, you have more ?you have that consicousness of owocrshifll in the soil which makes you a very lord iu the manor aud though that manor, be but a lev acres, it is enough for your happiness, if con tent, industry and intelligent use of time rufe your ways. Are you a young mechanic ? Remain iu tho neighborhood where you are known, and where your services are required j or if a broader field is necessary, don't come to the over-crowded Jcity, but go to the west, where every energy, every talent, h> in <fe* mand, and every man ie reckoned el Ira? trUe* worth. Thousands of mechanics in the great cities struggle for years fur a simple livelihood, and never hope to obtain a competence, be* cause tbey see that it is of impossrofe' acqtfoi-' tion. Can yotf, too, hazard that result to all your young energies and well grounded ambi tion ? Are you a studeut ? Stay- away from the city as from an evil genius! Hero arc libraries aud societies and learned men, it is true; but these are hard to reach and enjoy ; the learned men are busy an<f reserved ; the societies are either very exeluV sivc or very common; the libraries are of practically little value, save to mere readers. A email library in a country town, with the encouragement and aid^which a studious young man always there receives from the ministers and doctors and lawyers, ia far more sure of reward than any influence whicV tl promise. If the city is the place where men of talent rise to the surface, it is equally true that there men of mediocrity go down; and also true that not one in a hundred is successful hV db~ taining just the powitHnf fo? which he *? fitted. Competition is so strong and persistent that few men even among those who are deemed1 successful, but have changed their business of calling many times?compelled as they hate been to avert disasters by abandoning what aC first seemed promising enterprises. To come to the [city i% to encounter odds against your industry and ability which do not exist anywhere else?the odds of capital, of combination, of aggregated numbers, of superior talent; while haunting your footsteps and dogging your very shadow, arc Influences and temptations before which even the stoutest of principles- quail. What nrO these influ ences? Let the records of ten thousand wrecked lives tell?wrecked though clear of head and firm of heart, because the tempter assumes so many shapes and forms than they grew weary of combatting him. : Stay iu the country then ! Or?w, expand, flourish there, sure of becoming Ont- of ibt leading men of the village, County, town, or district, if you really have merit and worth. You might succeed in acquiring a competency after years of straggle in the city, but tiln odds are so heavily against suOh success*, that it is painful to witness atry attempt to achieve it. Be content and happy in the country, al ways doing your best, and the result will prove the wisdom of your cotfrae.??m?wm'v Rural Mewngtrr. A Cskful Tabtlb.?To aid farmers in war* riving at accuracy in estimating the amount of land in different fields under cultivation, the following table is given by an agricultural eon* temporary : ? Five yards wide by 978 yards long contain* 1 acre. Ten yards wide by 484 yards long eonomfou * *ore? boa wan Twenty yards wido by 242 yards long con tains 1 aero. Forty yards wide by 121 yards long ooafcun* 1 aero. Eighty yards wido by 10J yards krageoo? tains 1 acre. Seventy yards wido by 69 J yards long con tains 1 aore. Two hundred and (Twenty foot %ide by }0S feet long contains 1 acre. Four hundred and forty feet wide by 90 Jb?* long contains 1 acre. ? Eleven feet wjde.,b& 393 feet lotig contains 1 aore. , Sixty feet wido by 726 feet long oouteaae 1 l*^qo n?ndred irrj'? twett? Witt* Oy 363 feet long contains 1 nero, 'tlXHPt* :?4r^;*fr?ft%>a' '*id? J*|.?*?f feet long contains 1 acre<