The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-26
GLOW long was this tower iii build

ing 2" fa'
! Give years and four months.
"What do you men find to employ
your minds and hands with, and keep
time from hanging too heavily upon
your"
ooh, we manage to keep busy We
make almost everything from an cxten.
sion table to clothes pin. Then for
sport and to supply or table we fish
We don't have to go fishing. We are
already there. All we have to do is to
heavc linc from the door, and in a
minute we have our dinner by the nose
Then we have reading and writing and
sewing to do"
BY this time dinner is finished, and up
we 90. The next room is bedroom.
We notice that the rooms arc all of one
size, twelve feet in diameter. and six or
seven i'll height. Overhead in this first
bedroom is long piece of joist, which
can be put out Of the window and used
for raising up heavy objects Here is
an iron bcdstead, table on which lies n
register for the names of visitors, a ward
robe, a marble wasl-bowl and water
closet. Up again, and We come to the
oil room. There is one water tank in
this room also a work bench and box
of glass for the lantern There arc here
an oil measure. a tool chest andea spare
lamp. Another Of the steep narrow
Stalrways brings us to the watch room
sitting room of the tower Here is a
table. an arm chair. stove books. pa
pcrs. few pictures aud the machine for
ringing the fog bell From this room we
may now since the storm has ceased to
seud the waves so high, pass out on the
balcnny that su rounds it. Well for us
that the iron railing is so strong. There :.
nnw you've no choice but to 90 home
bare-headcd. Why did you not cling to
your hat aud wig? This wind is enough
to take hair out by tie roots, even if it
leaves the head itself. What scene !.
-,y:sas II i1sseisc We cannot describe il
Let lis 20 on. Que more fight and VIC
are iii the light room. Here is the .b-
Jcct Tor whose elevation and cont inuancc
all this masonry WAS made-all this skill
and labor called forth ".lnd the light
is the life oi men Thus we render it.
At sunset the lamp is lit, and till sunrise
1t shines on in the darknss-.. beacon
and Il warning to all who sail on that
dangerous sea. The lamp has three con
centric wicks. and is in the centre of a
lens four feet in diameter and ten feet
high. Step within and look at your
friends through these prisms-how do
Jon like the looks Of faces three feet
long This ma@nities the power Of the
light, and the lass walls of this room
probably have the same effect. There is
another walk and balcony without, but
w "'' nv VI H. IL 10 oliy Oh callll,
clear evenings that being out there is
agreeable. But within, not all the cold
and frost and storms of winter, at its
worst, can effect ones bodily comfort.
One is rs thoroughly protected as if he
was in his tomb. Wonder if these keep
crs ever have nervous fancy that they
are cntombcd 1t would not be strange
On the first balcony, about three feet
wide, we should have seen the fosbcll
could we have seen anything for the
wind aud spray. 1t weighs 500 pounds,
and is hung up against the wall Of the
towcr,-M y. Jowual Of Commerce..
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