The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-02


7 A STORY orFTnEa NORTH OF GERMANY
"s@S q ere LaSSz9n zs tz1a h%tIlaa
Before the castle of Grun:ngen, upon
4 the, Bode, one clear summer evening
the bishop Henry of Ilalbcrstadt was
seated with foreign prclate who had
been his guest for a month. ] he possct
drink stood before them in two mighty
fagons. They had been discoursius
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
every ecclesiastical prince, who would
confer becoming splendor on his court
to possess similar tun. The affair was
quite settled by both of Them, cxccpt-,s
to its execution; and their vers,ti,ll
began now to be interrupted by yawns,
and to flas OH in mono >yllablcs
f. 1t CHANGED, as good furtune w,ulI
have it that the shepard Conrad passed
by, driving his well washed flock acrns 5
the castle yard wherr bishop Henry II |
to review them every evening. Il
salute you, my lord bishopH Good
evening, Conrad; but where is Harm p
Conrad whistled, and a,beautiful large
ram bounded up first to the shepherd
and then to the bishop, who carressed
the animal aud .. fed him with some
crumbs which he. had kept for him
The bishop exchanged few words with
the shepherd md inquired IF his wed
diog day was at hata hatHal, Conrad shrYg
ged his shoulders and passed on with
his flock. & IA -e
| Bishop Henry now extolled the beau
tiful ram whiohs he sdeclared he would
not part with for anything in the world,
and then heturhed his 'eulogiu on the
good Conrad, who he Said, was honesty
itself. The foreign bishop laughed
aloud, Tor travel into distant countr cs,
aud IL frequent stay at foreign courts
had filled lin with universal dist rust
of man. He aycrrrd that it W rs inp,s
>iblc to fnl II thoroughly honest scrv.n
| and ca,t,o allut the court, ,oi u bishpp
They were all, . ho issail, co;nbin III t ,
cheat their masters, and all more or l,e.
lngues. Bishop Henry eagerly di-pu' ed
his asselticn; aud extolled the virtues
Of the good people over whom he sway
ed the cr"sier, and abpye all, his shep;
| 1lene Courad, who, as he slid, had never
told lie or deceived any zp.rsun in his
whole lifetime. -p4oaaaq ,qssy a 4sirt.1
'Nev,r told d lie! Never deceived
| hisSmaster! repeated the Sstranyer-bishop
in tone Of irany. No +! 5answefcd
| Bishop Henry; 'hc never has; and never
will Never! reechoed the foreign
ecclesinstic, what awill,you betY After
| several propositions, the two bishops
hgreed upon these conditions: first, that
the stake should be dh immense tun,
capable Of containing one Hundred AMI
fifty barrels Of wine 2zaiid, secondly, ttat
! Conrad, without being made aware Of
the wager, should be Ppt,tos the { tria
within three days lThetwo sdignitariss
then parted forithe mghterght ,slad,to
have found Something to smuss a,them
Flor two or three days tocome.t s aaIca
The foreign bbiiishoPs before he vent GO
beds s5held, as his custom, was, asconsplta
tion with his confidant, = Peter,r who was
uoniinaily his servent. and Occasionally
his fool but in Iact possessed truer
claim to the title ofEhis' 'privyAc ,uncilnr,
than many Others eenj"ymy,Efigl,crs titles
aud PLACES Peter hads always SOME
shrewd advice to give il every eniSar? ZEN "a
cy, wh' thcr tenporal or spiritnal TTt
was nccps!oAeal :"sslpl'sl 70 ]. hear, 70 sc", a"t
some,n'es even tp fllink f1llliink 10Y his gus g.
wi h"ut any one knowinsit He.ssh !
done so .ongthis occasions but,4he scenn,l
little akposed'to stalk tlrisssevening;Ho,
tho word ~ghr, whieR hati'tescap ID ~.
masters Iils during ,hc'Taaersatioi7 Just
narrated, had pat him III "bdIaa ahifhssr,
and it was .a,n,ls byl'hesRsspn'jSse of q Sew
scarlet c"p,aiinga the See event s,snt of the wa
ger being w"p, wnmp9,,tt'..aa ,t'.at his master got hin
to "psgpa BIZ Dps osfl1 Alter sohle satirica
5rsnn'rks epS The ellgaFnalpHs. alH.S4 cost of3a,winc
tun which should contain Que hnpdre,
ffada fifty barftlsss-lit stoseex exhaust amor.
thnn halfthe revenues Of a ..bisltdhrin ,