The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-02
Honesty Tie Best Policy.
A STORY OF THE NORTH OF GERMANY.

Before the castle of Grun:ngen, upon
the Bodc, one clear summer evening
the bishop Henry Of Habcrstadt was
seated with Il foreign prcl,te who had
been his guest for a month. ] he possct
drink stood before them in two mighty
flagons. They had been discoursin5
from ten o'clock in the morning, VIII en-
they set down to dinner, about the huge
wine tun which bishop on the Rhine
had just got constructed, and were
agreed in the opinion that it became
very ectt, sast;cal prince, who would
confer becoming Splendor ON his court
to pnss SIS similar tun. The atFair was
quite settled by both of them, cxccpt.ns
to its execution; and their c,nvcrs,tion
began now to be interrupted by yawns,
and to flas on in mono >yllabIrs.
1t CHANGED, as good i"rtune w,ull
have it that the shepard Cnnrad passed
by, driving his well washed flock acrns ;
the castle yard whcrr bishop Henry II c |
to review them every evening. Il
salute you, my lord bishop Good
evening, Conrad; but whc.c is Harm 2
Conrad whistled, and beautiful large
ram bounded up first to the shepherd
aud then to the bishop, who carressed
the animal and fed him with some
crumbs which he had kept for him
The bishop exchanged few words with
the shepherd md inquired IF his wed
ding day was at ha4tta ha4tta1r Gonrad shrug
sel his shoulders and passed on with
his flock.
Bishop Henry now extollcl the beau
tiful ram VIII CHI he declared he would
not part with for anything in the xorll
aud then he turned his eulogiu IL on the
good Conrad, who he Said, was haueSty
itself. The foreign bishop laughed
aloud, Tor travel into distant countr cS
aud frequent stay at foreign courts
had filled linn with universal dist rus,
of man. He aycrrrd that it WIS mp,s
>iblc to iin1 thoroughly honest Scrv as
and ca,t Of all 1T the court OF blsh 20
| They were ALL he said combn I'll t +,
cheat their masters, and ali more or lis:
mgues. Bishop Henry eagerly di>pu- ed
his assertion; aud cxtollcd the virtues
IF the good people over whom he sway
ed the crrsicr and above ALL his .lep
| hrc Courad, who, as he said, had never
told lie Or deceived any p.rspn in his
| whole lifetime. -5a
'Nev,r told a lie! Never deceived
! his master!' repeated the stranyer-bshop
| in a tone of irany. NO! answered
Bishop Henry; 'hc never has; and never
WILL Never" rcechoed the foreign
ecclesiastic, what will you bet?' Alter
| several propositions, the two bishops
agreed upon these conditions: first, that
the stake should be an immense tun,
capable of containing one hundred an
fifty barrels Of wine-and, secondly. that
| Conrad, without being made aware OF
the wager, should be put to the tria
within three days. The two dignitaries
then parted for the night, right glad to
Lave found something to amuse them
Tor two or three days to come
| T. Lf4F
The foreign bishop, before he went to
bed, held, us his custom was, . consulea
ton with his confdant, Peter, who was
nominaily his servent. and occasionally
his fool but in tact possessed trucr
claim to the title Of his privy clun.ilpr,
than many Others enjoying higher titles
and places Peter had always some
shlcwd advice to give i'll every rm,r zen
cy, whether temporal or spiritual. IT,
was accustomed to hear, to So, an,
sometimes even to think fm his :,las C
vi h"ut any one knowin;it ifet.ash ,
done so on this occasion; but he scemn,
little disposed to talk this evening, TO,
the word ''g"r, which had escapi 81.
masters lis during the invcrsation JUS
narrated, had pat him III bad 'hrin,or,
and it was lnly by The promise Of lfcv
scarlet cap. il the event of the VA
ger being won, t!at his master got hin
to "psn his lips. Altcr some satirica
remarks on the enormous cost OF u wine
iun which should contain one hnudrc,
and fifty barrels-iit ,toasexhaust lmor,
than halfthc revenues Of ,bisltopric :
lie undertook TO find out how d ri,
might be set for the new PHOENIX Of. hon
csty, Coural