The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-06-26
How long was this tower ihi Buiid-


ing? 2" ''a8'h e
| 'Fivc years and four moths. eH
"What do you men fina to employ
your minds and hands with and keep
time from hanging too heavily upon
your" ~ =" s."
ooh, we manage to keep busy. We
make almost everything, from an c$ten.
sion table to clothes pin. Then for
sport and to supply our table we fish
We don't have to go a fishing. We are
already there. All we have to do is to
heave line 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 are all of one
size, twelve feet in diameter, and six or
seven in 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. Hero is
an iron bcdstead, table on which lies n
register for the names of visitors, ward
robe, marble wash bowl and water
closet. Up again, and we come to the
oil room. There is one water tank i'm
this room also a work bench and boz.
of glass for the lantern. There are here
an oil measure, "A tool chest andsa snare
lamp. Another of the steep narrow
starways brings us to the watch-room-
sitting room of the tower. Here is a
table, an arm chair, n stove, books. pa
pcrs. a 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
balcony that surrounds it. Well for us
that the iron railing is so stron;, There .
now you've no choicc but to 90 home
bare-headed. Why did you not cling tu
Your hat aud wig! This wind is enough
to take hair out by the roots, even if it
leaves the head itself What scene
wss'ss,e ap;se'l. We scannot slascriao it
Let us 20 FOnc moro fight and VIC
arc i'll the light room Here is the Cb-
ject for whose elevation and continuance
all this masonry was made-all this skill
and labor called forth. ".And the li.lt
is the life of men" Thus we render it.
At sunset the lamp is lit, and till sunrise
1t shines ON III the darknl ss-a 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 III diameter aud ten feet
high. Step within and look at your
friends through these prisms--how do
sou like the looks Of faces three feet
long? This magnifes the power Of the
light, aud the glass walls of this room
probably have the same effect. There is
another walk and balcony without. but
we will not try it. 1t is only on calm
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 us thoroughly protected as if he
was i'll his tomb. Wonder if these keep
crs ever have nervous fancy that they
arc entombcd 1t would not be strange
On the first balcony, about three feet
wide, We should have seen the fogbcl
could VIC have seen anything for the
wind aud spray. it weighs 800 pounds
and is hung up against the wall of tn,
towcr.-M Y. Jownal Of Commerce..
a TOUCHING SToRY.-The Hon A
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