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VOLUME 8.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1875.
NUMBER 52* *
I Have No Wife.
UT AN OLD MKMIM'.l! OF THE BACHELORSOLUD.
I haTe.no wijfa I Young girls aro fair,
~ But how.it i?, I cannot toll,
No'tooncr hre they weil than their
Enchantments bid them ull farewell.
The girlB, God bless them, make us yearn
( ; To risk all odds and ttiko a 'vifo?
To cling to one ni d not to turn
Ten thousand in the dance tf lifo.
I havo no wife ! W ho'd have this noso
Forever tied !o one lone flower,
E'en though that flower should be a rose,
J Pluck'd with light hand from fairy bower
Oh 1 better far tho bright bouquet
Of floWers of every ?lime and hue
By turns to charm the mind away,
And fragrance in the heart renew.
I have fto wife! I now can chango
From grave to gay, from light to sad, |
And in my freedom wide can range?
l Frei foi* a While, and then be glad. .
I now can heed a sircn'B tongue.
And now that, eyes glance not in vain;
Make lovo apaoo, and being 'fluug,'
Get up and try my luck again.
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1 have no wifo; and I can dream
Of girls who'ro worth their weight in
gold; .
Can baak'my heart In love's broad beam,
And dance to think it yet unsold.
Or I can gaze upon a brow
?Which mind (and beauty both enhance;
Go o the shrine and talto thy vow,
And thank the fates I havo a chance.
1 have no Wife and like a wave,
Can float to any land
Cut up and kiss, or gently lave,
The FWcctcPt flowers that are at hand
A pilgrim, I can bend before
E Tho shrine which heart and mind approve
Or, Persian like, 1 can adoro
. Each star that gems tho heaven of love
-".it
I have ho wife ! Tn Heaven, they say,
Buch things as weddings are not known,
Unyoked the blissful spirit a stray.
O'er fields where care no shadu has thrown;
Then why not havo a heaven below,
And let fair Hymen hence bo bo sent ?
2t would be fine; but as things go,
Unwodded folks won't be couteut?
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A COMMONPLACE ROMANCE.
BY BELLE FAIR IE.
'But what is your objectiou, my
flear V
f 'Simply thot I do not love him.'
'Hal ha! ha!' tho little matron's
laugh rang out, like a chime of fairy
bellB, making the French roses in her
bonnet tremble,' the dainty plumes
flutter, and all tho beads and bugles
that went to make her costume a la
mode Blinke*, as if in accordance with
her glee. 'Pardon, my dear child,' she
added, ns^I flushed up in rather indig
tonnt surprise, 'but I really canuot help
laughing, the absurdity is so extreme]
Refuse a bon jp'arli because you do not
love him!'
As I reviewed our relative positions,
I felt compelled to acknowledge that
Eva's view of tho case was the most
sensible one. Why.should I not follow
her example, and marry a fortune ?
Her husband was old euough to be her
father, and Mr. Grovillc?the gontleman
whoso cause sho Tfospleadiug?was a
man in his prime. Then, too, my life
^ob so dreary and entirely ploasuroless;
- and nt eighteen, one rebels at such an
existence more than when some little of
the bloom has been brushed from lifo.
"Why should I cast aside the chance
te escape? And, when onco I began to
consider tho Bubjeof, good reasons why
I should conBidor it favorably came to
me by the score; and when Eva Phidor
drove aw?yy iu . her softly ctishionod
phncton, with its snowy ponies, she had
my consent to bring Mr. Grevillo to
call on mo.
?'Dear Fannie : Will you bo at
home this evening, at eight V
I had replied to Eva Phidor's pen
oiled card of inquiry in tho nffirumtivo,
and having made my toilot--whioh
seme remnant of sensibility pre/euled
my making any more elaborate than
usual?i'?eated myself in tho protty
French parlor,, with its intonsoly artili
eial attrroundings, and thought seriously
of the future I hod resolved to shnpo
for myself. Rut my wayward thoughts
strayed rcbclliously to tho past, and the
vision of an old farm-house, in Jersey,
usurped tho placo of the Parisian man
siou which my nicrceuary heart co
veted.
An unpretending old Btono house?
its gray walls half-hidden by clinging
ivy and swiet-F.ccuted honeysuckle?
came to me with intoxicatiug sweetness;
and through tho suit haze of a Septem
her evening, Harry Staunton came
striding toward me, bis brown curls
tossed by the wind all about his hand
some, sun-browued faco.
Harry was very handsome, and his
big brown eyes were very truthful and
earnest, aud shadowed in them every,
emotion of his heart. I knew he was
very fond of mc, but that was a privil
ego a rcmoto cou;m:was cutitlcd to, aud
ho had madcmy vlsii ttf auht'Stauuton
unexceptionably pleasant: but when,
that evening, as we strolled down tho
moonlit walk to a sheltered rustic scat
?my favorite haunt?ho asked mc to be
his wife, I gave him au unequivocal
N?.
Life must surely hold something
better lor me, so 1 reasoned to myself,
iu my girlish egotism, as T laughed at
poor Harry's grieved lace. 1 laughed
then, but 1 felt strangely like crying
now.
'In a deep reverie ! Who is the happy
subject of it, Fannie ?'
Eva Phidor's laughiug tones roused
mo from my reverie with an unpleasant
shock; and followiug giugnrly in her
footsteps, came Mr. Greville. I oan
describe him . in a single word?prim.
There was no originality about liim. I
have oitcutimes secu models in the show
winders of fashionable tailoring establish
meuts that had quite as much exprcs
bion and '^*nnnnt- '"^^^'?"?^y, ?
His clothes were of the fiucst mater
inl, cut in the latest style; his linen spot
leas, and aggressively shiniug; inded,
prim propriety was evident from the top
of his bald head to the toe of his patent
leather boot.
He glanced at me with satisfied appro
val, as I rose, iu blushing coufusion, to
greet him.
An hour after he was introduced to
me, he alluded to Mrs. Phidor's kind
ncsa iu his behalf, and seemed to cou
eider his right and proprietorship of me
quite a matter of course.
'My dear Fannie,' Eva whispered to
me, as they were leaviug, 'that blusliin g
confusion displayed at meeting has won
the day for you.'
Again the hot, indignant blood
mounted to my cheeks, but I repressed
the indignant dental that rose to my
lips.
I had consented to barter myself fur
wealth; I had no right to shrink from a
merceuary construction beiug put on
my actious.
* Mr. Greville was a model lover; he
was attentive and not exacting. I could
lind no fault with the prim propriety of
his conduct in every respect.
Our engagement was to be a shoit
one. In six months wo were to b
married.
1 often heard Mr. Greville speak of
tho smart Yankee clerk he had iu his
office.
One afternoon we were to tnko a
drirc together, whena mcssongor from
his ofllco was announced.
'Will you allow my clerk to come in
here for a moment, Miss Fannie V said
my proper lover.
I had scarcely bowed my consent,
when a familiar tread echoed on the
stairs, and as I turned in surprise to the
door, Harry Sfaunton presented him
self to my astonished gaze.
'Harry !' [
'Fannie!'
- Mr. Grevillc's surprised glanco ro
called my confused thoughts, and I then
explained to him that this Yankee clerk
of his whs a distant cousin of mine.
Harry and I oftou met after this, and
somehow I found out that, after all, I
had something more than mere cousinly
regard for him?I ibuud . him such a ,
delightful contrast to my affianced bus
band.
Not until my wedding-day was only a
month distant, did Harry forget tho
respect due his employer, and make love
to me again; and ho would not havo
done so then, as lie has often since told
ine, but he hated to see dear oki Mr.
Greville sacrificed to mo. And I ?well
I told htm I did care for him a great
deal, but I was bound in honor to Mr.
Greville, but that I would ask him to
release nie.
I was quite prepared to go through a
scene with the man who, in one short
month, I had promised to marry, when
iu response to a uotc from mc, he came
to me aud I confessed the true state of
my afTectious. Imagine my surprise,
and I must con (ess to a little disappoint
moot, when he received the Information
with a smile of ineffable relief.
'To be cqualiy candid with you, Miss
Faunie,' be said, rubbing his hands
together cheerfully, 'I really?well, I
am indeed obliged to you. 1 don't mean
that 1 am obliged to you cither?that
is hardly the proper expression; but 1
think wu will boih be happier apart I
have my own set bachelor ways, aud I
have bcon grieving at the thought of
substituting new ones.'
A few more polite speeches and ho
was gone, and 1?minus a considerable
portion of my girlish egotism?am the
happy wife of Harry sta?nt?h, and
would not exchange places with an em
press.
One Cause of Southern Poverty.
First, then, T assign as one of the rea
sons of our continued poverty and want
of progress the fact, that we do not pro
duee enough of what we cat or weir, and
Ouy teo much on a credit. To present
an elaborate argument iu defence of this
po.-itiou would require a volume. One
or two practical facts will suffice to
^^fr1?,r|ffT W*,^"""' TapSlSfij
That every farmer will give when apply
ing the idea 4u hisow.i case will corrob
orate llic^c lac's.
In 1S59, the South produced over five
million bales of cotton, of four hundred
pounds each, which sold at average o f
eleven cents per potfud realizing Ujs.s
than $200,01)0,000.
Iu 18G1), the cotton crop of the South
was lets than three and a half millions
of bales, four hundred pounds each, and
sold for tin average of twenty two cents
per pound, realizing over 8^00,000,000.
The cotton crop of 1ST.'! reached cou
sidcrubly beyond four millions of bales,
und sold lor le=s than $275,000,000.
Aud this has been the history of our
crops annually in the past; have we any
reason to anticipate that similar effects
will not follow the same coarse in the
future? Then if the all cotton policy
or a large cotton crop h as actually tend
cd to impoverish us as a people, wh >
will usscrt that the same policy will not
have similar effects upon iudi.'iduals ?
On paper it can be easily proven, that
cotton, ai a crop, will pay better than
any or all other products I Jut these
figures are far more unreliable than ih
oft-abused labor of tho country. There
is no question but ihat individual lar
niers, having lands peculiarly adapted
to the grow th of cotton, can net more
money growing cotton and buying their
bread stuffs and provender than by ctllti
vatitig a diversity of crops. Hut it is
an egregious error to think, that be
cause A, B, or C, can do so, therefore
every Southern farmer can pursue tho
same course, anticipating the same
result.
Through a scries of years, regardless
of the juice ofcoUon, (I reit erat here
what I have often asserted before iu
these pages), on iiiuely-tiino out ol every
bundled Southern farms, it is cheaper
tu grow oats for plough animals than to
haul corn from the nearest depot, bC
cause oats will follow cotton with no
cost but the seed and harvesting, both
of which can be paid lor every winter in
tho mutton that can be fatted on the
growing crops; it is cheaper to raise all
the pork the farmer's family can cou
Mime annually than to buy bacon at ten
cents per pound; it is cheaper to grow
a pound of wool, up to a certain number j
of pounds, than tho same number of
pounds of cotton; aud it is cheaper to
grow anything that can possibly be
grown upon tho farm than to buy it on a
audit.
Few farmers understand properly
what is meant by 'buying on a credit.'
They kncjiv they get the article and pay
more f'ory't thanmFthey 'pa'd the cash,
b?t tlicy-jiiovpr onco calculate tho prom
iuui or jiM-ccu'.igc thoy aro paying for
this privifjCge of getting time or'ere lit.'
Let tnc illustrate. The average fanner
may ruis.f' meat enough to do him till
the 1st April. By that time ho has to
buy, but j haying no cash, though good
credit, httj 'goes to the store' and buys
bacon at ; 15 cents per pound, payable
1st November following, lie learns
the cash .mice is 12jj cents per pound,
but neccsndy compels him to buy on a
credit. I?^.- ths pays 2i cents per pouud
for the privilege of buyiug on a credit,
or one-six lb the price to bo paid, which
is simply ?> 1GH per cent, per annum for
the use id" noney. But he buys in April,
and has So pay 1st November, only
eight months' credit, and thus pays
twenty jilic\ per cent. jicr annum lor the
uro of mdiVcyWhat (armor can afford
to do thii and live';' What is app li
cable to bacon is equally so to com, hay,
flour, implements, mules, au 1 every
article the ''inner buys ou a credit.
It is estimated that the average iu
crease of (lie ngiicultural wealth of the
United StVes is about four per.cent,
per annum. The avcrago increase of
agricultural* wealth in any S >u theru
State, nun. ally, since the war has not
been one pofr cent. Indeed, some of the
StaUs have travelled the other road, and
are now but in the wilderness ol debt;
and there 13 no more potent cause for
this conditlou of things than that of
buying ou a* credit the necessaries of lilo
to enable tljoui to grow cotton, and this,
too, vary "equently at a cost that cx
eeeds its Market value. There is an
infatuation about this /cultivation of
cotton tbatT.nounts loan hallucination.
w'i' 'UllllWlTliOTtf**^,1 cured lo so fur i
d is pel It ^Tlo induce tnc fctrnTiieru' rafj
mcr to live more within himself and less '
at the mercy of the Shy locks of the
land 7 .
Cot.. i>. Wv.vtt Aikkx. in It urn I
Carolinian fur February.
A Pleasant Old .Man.
The lato Alvah Crocker, member oT
Congress from Massachusetts, married
some two years ag i a v i." / v ? t t ; t -i d
lovely girl. He was seventy one years
old at the time, 1 luring the holidays
he went home, and while there cau'ht
cold and died. A correspondent .-ays
that the only speech of any inonent It'1
in the house was a great ?-ueeess. This
occured during the back pay debate.
I t seems that at the close of the session
of Congress that raised the sabinot of
Congressmen he went b un.! an 1 w is
afflicted with serious illness. II? was
sick for a long time, an 1 s> missed all
th*J spicy newspaper artic'.-s upon tho
subject of the back p ty tili ;v who ha 1
not returned their extra pay to the treas
ury. When Alvih got well he found
no end of letters addreSiod to liiui, call
iug him a thief aud the like. All of
his woes Crocker recited iu his speech
to Congress. His funny twang ami
strong ucecnt, combined with a real hu
mor collected a large erowil of moiilbcrs
about, who cheered and laughed at the
old man iu his first speech at if ho was
one tho lir.t speakers of tho House. Ho
will be missed by those who love his
genial ways and droll manner of talk
ing.
Short Weight.
Tho American CS rocer has opened a
vigorous warfare upon tho system of
swindling known as short weights, au d
which consists of putting less into a
package I hail tho marks on the outside
represent
.1 he Ullitlitatcd public have a little
idea ol the extent to which this is done.
Everything that is put iu packages is
cut short?so short, in the ease of dys
tcrs, that ouo packer, in No.v York con
losses that it is quito common to put
up sis, fiive or oven four ounces for a
pound. Ail canned go ids arc put up
iu the Ktine way aud the publio get
about hall the quantity of goods they
bargain aud pay for, and tako tho bal
auco in water.
A faithful friend is the medicine of
Fight it Out Like Psi and Ma Do
A story is (old ot':i daughter of n
proiniucnt person now iu the lecture
field, which is peculiarly suggestive of
unconscious wisdom. A gentleman wus
invited to tho lecturer's Iiousj to tea.
Immediately on being seated at the La
hie the little girl astonished tho Family
circle and the guest by the abrupt quos
tie u.
?Whore is your wile'i"
Now the gentleman having been re
cently separated from the partner of his
life, was taken so completely by sur
prise that he 'stammered forth tha
truth.
'I don't know.'
'Don't know,' replied tho infant terri
ble, 'why don't you know ?'
Finding that the child persisted in
her interrogatories despite the mild re
proof of her parents, he concluded to
make u clean breast of the matter and
have it over at once. So ho said, with
a calmness which was the result of in
ward expletives :
'Well we don't live together, wo think
as we can't agree we had better u ?t.'
-lie stifled a groan as the child began
again, and darted an exasperated look
at her parents. Hut the little torment
would not be quiit until s!i3 exclaimed:
'Don't agree Then why dou't you
light it out as pa an 1 in i d > ?'
'Vengcuco is mine.' laughlingl/ retor
ted the visitor,'afteripa' and 'ma* ex
changed looks ol holy borrow followed
by tho inevitable roar.
The man that laughs heartily iss n
doctor without a diploma. His fac?
does more good in a sickroom than a
bushel, of powders or a gallon of bitter.
t-v r Uli"-'iti*' !fc?iiH?BBB?l^tvs ?''Li^vii
sec him. 'Hetruauus atsWfeivoiy 1go"
half way out to meet his grasp, while
they turh involuntarily from the clam
my touch of the dyspeptic who speaks
in the groaning key. S ieh a one laughs
ytiu out of jour !::u'ts, while you never
dream of being offended with him; and
you ucver know what a pleasant world
you live in until he points out the sun
ny streaks on its pathway.
? - ? -esrs
A n odd cqnestri.iu wager has been
wou by a H uogariuu officer lie under
look tv ride hi- horse from Yion.ii to
Paris?as the crow {lies, .n distance of
over five huudrod miles ? within a fort
night. Ile accomplished the task with
two hours and a quarter to spare, al
though he hud been delayed some hours
by an accident to his horse.
Th>> most expensively dressed man I
saw, writes a captain in the British na
vy, was an African chief on the Quid
! Coast. His wives hud aunoiutel him
thorougly with palm oil, aud then now
I de red him from head to foot with g?jd
dust. You never saw iu your life a
man got up s> utterly regardless of ex
pen so.
Dyed feathers should never bo worn
out doors in rainy weather. The color
goes off on its owu aocouut, aud leave*
stains on bonnet and basque that cuu
not be cradiotatcdi The same miy be
said of f ?ail er trimming, much of what
is sold nowadays being twice dyed, aud
very poorly too.
A curious scientist has lately been
making a calculation ? which is, that a
man talks, on an average, til res hours a
day, at tho rate oT about twenty nine
aetavo pages an liour This would
tnako eighty seven pagos a day, about
six hundred a week, which would
amount to fifty two-good siz ,d volumes
every year!
The contemplation of distress softens
'the mind of man, and makes tho ho irt
hotter. It extinguishes the e.eds of
envy and ill-will toward niaukiu I, cor
rects the prido of prosperity, and beats
down all that ticicences and insolence
which uro apt to get the minds of the
daring aud the fortune.
The name of tho sherilf of White
County, ill., is Hail Storms. His lath
er was an oeontric gcutlctnan, an 1 he
had three sons, whom he named respect
ively Hail Storms, Kuiu Storms and
Snow Storms.
iltcnis. j_
Beauty is tho flowering of virtue.
Rocklcs&youth makci rueful age.
Sorrows best antidote is^mplbyrnont.
Confidence is the companion of see
cess. ?*?>' '
Silent deeds aro better than unpro
[liable words. .t'-iA
Indolence is the rait of mind aad tke
inlet of vice. . ? , i
As you so* in the Spring ja.,tfp?
Autumu you'll reap. -
Gccsc having feathers t? shed should
not prepare to shod thorn now.
if.
Troubles arc liko dogs; the smaller
they are the more they annoy you.
Great works' aro performed mare
through perseverance than strength; UJ
Young folks grow mast when in lo'vol
I It increases their sighs wonderfully, bus
A good namo will wear out; a bad one
may be turne. .1; a nickname lasts forofas.
Surnames first began in Egypt. and
Florid i has just seat oat fifty tons of
sponges.
New Haven has been shipping trees
io Constantinople.
A Sau Francisco bride received one
m illion dollars from her father as a Wel
ding present. ?? ? ? 1
What was never seen-1?The iniproi
sion of a kiss undo by a printer on his
girls sweet lips.
Peru has moro dogs tiip.u any. ether
country of its size. Hence tho Peruvian
bark. "
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A waggish editor says that thestggofe
of one of the western cities are'tobt*
] 'i^hted with r0C^'"iea^^y^^^^^^BH
over oucsix th of the babitA globe. .
A Kreuch la ly, who held in her band
a glass of cold water, caid: 'Oh! if it
were ouly wickc 1 to drink this, hbif
nice it would be V
When we sec a young man thai
spends all he earns we are inclined to
suspect tint ho doos not always earn all
he speuds l
Two important objects?Tho diacov
cry of what is true, and the practice of
what is good, aro tho two most imps:
tant objects of life.
A Fitchburg (Mass.) druggist has di
monstrated that it takes forty-eight
thousand house fiios to weigh one
pound.
One of the latest discoveries in this
excavation at Home is a magaifioent
bast, in p in'eet coa lition?-hi E nproJi
Flotiua, wile of Traj.in.
* Hfl uaul.
Warmth, rest, cleanlinesi aud pare
air mere effectual as preventive^, aud of
ten as curatives, of disease than all the
medioines in the world.
The making of doll' shoos has grown
within the past six or eight years iato
a business of sufficient importasea la 00
cupy several tuaanfaeteriee.
The city of Liverpoel is staking dt>
rang emeu ts to have a baadsamcly fay.
nished mansion where gaaats eflkt eitrjr
will be appropirately domiciled daring
their sojouro there.
The extravagances of young ra?S of
tho present day seen ae nothing beeide
old time wastefulness. During t) o
reign i f Louis XIV, tho laces necessa
ry for a gentleman's costume costs $13,?
000.
Baby shows are bslievea to be aa
American invention, but it waa left io
Australia to get up a no<o shov? Eighty
persons eompoted for the., prize offered
for tho mo?t extraordinary promincnoe
in form, size and color.
A Boston lady recently met with a
singular accident While walking in
the street, a man came suddenly around
a corner with a lighted cigar in hif
mouth, and the cigar struck her in the
eye, loiviug a mark wh'nh she will car
ry all her lifo.
At the Sontheim end of Lake Nyaasa,
a missionary aud coinmercial settlement
is to be established, bearing the narao
ol Doctor Livingsf6ne. One special ob
jeet designed }6 be accomplished by it
is the suppression of the slavo trade in
that part of Africa.
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