Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-08

Beneath ths trees, half hiding, ~ 81 ~.
And wheeh dayts done the didtan. sovvonnihk kbeli &
bshs Fsesha
From the shadowy skies are peeping,
And gentle silence comes es9sls g!a g 2 a"ells
ALMOST A GHOST STORY.
"Did you ever see ghost ?" was the
epRka;a Vii. came dssuesa near 1, | oan
tell you, Rsaid young, Howard. . aiiJ.p
s.How near ?" cried the company,
It was in that Idesolate, God d-forsa-
ken part of New jersey" said Howard,
"near Barnegat iShoala.s What with
the nature of the soil there, it's barren
nesssand ssterility, the Jagged; Hing
grimness of the rocks, end the wild,
desolate infinity of thes waters, there's
something about Barnegat that breeds
Thers lad bse1 Ii a safsoI I 81 oeasiine
schooner in the vicinity, and although
The news didn't make much Of d sensa-
elton id the hewspapers,s ,sit Drought de-
spair and desolation to one heart at
least-thet of the younglmate's mother.
He was an old school-mate and warm
friend oftmy own, and . volunteered to
go down and see if the body could be
found and, brought home. tSrs TL
When L reached there the whole as.
pect of the place struck me as forbid
dinghy wild and lonely and when, to-
ward the y CLOSE of q stormy day,
poor old Jaek's body'was washed ashore,
aastark andastiA, land. distorted almost be-.
'yond recognition, 1 wasn't able to lend
the fellows down there @ helping, hand.
I was seized with R anervous chill and
! ped up with an artificial courage. Twentl
out again and found them hauling their
helpless burden toward fsherman's hut
closesby.T Theyihad flung it in an old
tarpaulins blank ct, ,sand u lcouldn't help
protesting inwardly5 against che rude
way in which they bumped it along
through the breakers and over the
rocks. ssx
"I thought .of that tender, womanlty
heart at home in the east, and the gem
tie reYerence that hedged. about even
herr every thought and feeling about
jack, and determined there and then
that he should be taken home to her in
some shape, that wouldn't app,all OF hor-
"Theys laughed OF. me whenI. spoke
of coffin, but nevertheless I resolved
upon getting one, if such thing could
be had for love or money. Not that q
collin is absolutely requisite in all cases.
1t wouldn't have. mattered pin to
either Jack or myself it, tied up in the
old tarpaulin, with a weight heavy as
destiny itself, weSwere forced TO the
bottom of the3sea.k Buteto "a IL woman,
an Soid chprch-ridden Conventional
wofnan, a victim to circumstance and
custom, coffin was the only thing that
could render the affair respectable, or
indeed bearable. fi'''f''I
of before daylight in search of an old
man that bore queer reputation about
there for appropriating any thing that
came inshore, and rendering it useful
or ornamental with rude knaok he had
in the carpenter Iline. The boys told
me there was q little Of everything in
his old rookery, and they hadn't the
least doubt II could find even coffin
there, or something that could be mod
eled into one.
plAzssss WAS s-a,s good league to his dwell
ing, and reached there with forebod-
ing that. my journey was for nothing {;
but upon broaohing the subject to him.
he statedihis realiness at once to com.
.plYwith my. demands.
HBptswhat will yousdo for materials
q ssffs. eHss .laslsG krim.ys and sopssniba !
door that led up to sort of loft, he
beckoned me to follow him. In that
loft there was wood readily adapted to-
build ship, house, theatre-any
thing and every thing that might, be de-
sired. Not common wood, mark YOU l
butwreckers' material--panels of French
walnut, exquisitely carved in bass-re-
lief, bits of preciousN ebony. of sandal
wood, of box, and some of that deli cate
white pine that exhaies delicious per-
fame. The boys had said that he was
very clever in the carpenter line. Twas
inspired with n sort OF trust I'M his ca
pacity. and his Willingness to undertake
the, Job was only equaled by his deter
mination to be paid we'll for doing It.
Don't YOU fret, young man. said
She old skeleton, 'Ili fix Il for Won h,
shape that IL suit. I'll have Il as
scrumptious as n nut-that is, ,,ef yor're
able to bear the heft Of the IexSenae
It's costly, yer know, to hev things nj
sJoda andp nice down tbissway 1--WE oaii't
oilers afford it; then the sea bein' han.
temptation TO saye time and
money &bnt ef the expense ain't counted
in
80. g.. Meyer mind the expense, pard.' T
IasokolsliiGed 50 Fypltdo the thing, do nicely
for me, and I'll see you through; but
it must be done at once; the body is
almost beyond saving now, and want