davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04

Our 5n3tiH1 cohHiiia ilayG II fashion
able ~ five os p YIIlioll lis bess
comint exeeesiyels flie e 81 legant tfsiIlg IS q
in Iionss Tho sst Is ie,f
manu q,
gathering, which only nece ssitates the
production Of more cups and saucers to
supplement the hostess's usual ante.
prandial rejection second, the meeting
of ten or twelve guests invited specially
to meet each other third, the larger
assembly, when the lady announces on
her invitation card that she will be sat
Home" for certain number of days;
fourth, the tea devoted to "Amateur
Music )" and, lastly, the tea which is
merely n day instead of night recep-
ton. For the casual five O'Clock tea
but little or no preparation is required.
Intimate friends find the lady with her
two -tiered tea table by her side, the up
per shelf bearing the silver teapot,
cream Jug, sugar basin, hot water ket-
tie, aud one or two cups and snucers :
the lower shelf has plate of thin bread
and butter; cake, and the reserve
cups. A harlequin set is considered
prettier than one of which all the cups
are alike; those saucers which have q
sort of fan shaped addition for holding
a. piCGc VI Cthc OF DTGau ana Duttof
when convenient. The second enter
toinment differs somewhat; the scene is
changed from. the boudoir to the draw
ing room, and tn. tea is placed on
larger table. If the hostess has no
daughters, she generally gets some
young lady to preside over the tea
table, go as to leave her at liberty to
entertain guests. The use of white
tableclotb, though not absolutely un-.
known, is decidedly unusual. The
tables which have flaps that fold down
SO that when not in use they stand al
most fiat against the wall, are the most
CONVEX lent for the purpose, as it obvi
ates the trouble of moving the things
off table in ordinary use. For the
third there are two methods; one like
the preceding, only using larger
table and having two or three young
ladies to assist in dispensing the tea, or
else to have a long narrow table across
the end of the back drawing-room, and
let two maids be in attendance behind
it. This snpposes larger party, and
therefore ices and claret cup should be
provided. In summer, of course, straw
berries and cream find most appro.
pirate place on The tea table.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
PawDbrOkers.

Few OF our readers are probably
aware OF the immense extent TO which
the poor in this city make use Of loans
from the pawnbrokers' shops. There
are in New York and Brooklyn some
400 OF these, and in Jersey City and
Hoboken sixty. They advance to the
poor during each year some $4,000. 600.
These loans are usually for Thirty days,
and the rate of interest is from eight
to twenty per cent. per month. The
article pledged for the loan is usually
three times the value of the sum lent,
and is often never redeemed, owing to
the distress or poverty of the person
borrowing. If the interest is from
eight to ten per cent. per month, it will
be seen that the pawnbrokers make
some hundred per cent. on their loans,
or about fonr millions annually from
the poor and it 3 not improbable they
get as much more from the sale of the
articles pawned. .--NesU York Times.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Women in Old Times.

Old John Aubrey, in the collection
OF trAditionary memoranda which ne
mad about the middle of the seven.
teentli century, thus describes female
educgkion in the pre- e-raf ormati ton times: z
H Tho young women had their educ alton
in; the nunneries, Rheyees = they hey learned
needlk.work, confe ectionery, surgery,
physib (apothecariesIa sIand surge on5 be!
ing then rare), writing, drawing, etc.
That crest class of young ladies VINO
receive the benefits of our highest
schoois and ssminsries spend their;
whole childhood and youth in receiyft
ing What is called an education, and
then the YasS rini 0Tisy o5Inu furth pro-
Ifouhdly Ignorant of 6wliat they most
need TO know. AS to the !. science and
practice of domestic. economy, they are
|, far better instructed in political econ-
omyi pr even in navigation or survey,
ing. And as to the skno wledge that
would qualify them TO ttaks charge of, q,
Young infant, the cat or 'sneep would be
altogether their hpetiors I'M the care of
the the ypnng of ths;. =
must, however, in Justice, allow that on
one Important point We are now very
much wiser than our forefathefs were
for we look rather to love than fear as
!, VIC H9WSI-t Ny WHICH ,5SutluTcu.a HISSto
lbe Influenced. I'm the present day, when
,perhaYs we make too little use of correc-
tive dsscipline, our feelings are shocked
when !Ge read In Aubrey's memoranda :;
!; : Thenhifd perfectly loathed the sight
OF the parent, as the slave the torture
The daughters, ,swell grown women, were
to sstsad at the cuphn sid g during
the whole time OF the proud mothers;
visita s3IOIaepy d thu fool, xpa a
was desired forsooth thatjia cushion
ahould be given; them, to kneel on, after!
they had done sufficient penance in
standilig The 6 gen t!esaen Had ifs,rodig-
ious faas like that instrument which is
used tp drive feathers, and it had q ham
die at least one. hall as; long, with which.
their Saughtera were corrected. Sir
Edwin Coke, lord chief Justice, told me
he was an eye Witness of issit. Tho earl
OF Mes eslchester also used such afan;
but fasp hers and mothers slashed their
daugEass in The time of their bosom
diacipl me when they iiwere perfect Hog
men l3s{ si
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04

such things, which belong to his wife,
osfall back upon, This is the secret of
very much OF the extravag agance that is
seen in 9 the public places of stthe city.
The poor feel tie hard times, and thoBe
supposed to be rich may also, but the
latter don't show 1t If Z they do. The
theatres are filed nightly; the parties
we're never more bril liant or expensive.
OF course smashes without numb will
OCCUR bat they are having o good time
while they can. This is the YerY center
of Vanity Fair. S s &c So ig. z
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
I'll I ke sll-at any price - impa-s
Eently EXCLAIMED the banker 3tJaL if4t

qhs Cash down 2aJo 2RJo 5. .laa 3ilsiilfj ! n
y 8 Yes anything, every thing only
come oas Of this cfoa#d.. I75 e 9
q. SO Mr.gand Mrs! Gates went home !;
and thstIeYeping the banker, agreed to
make his. wife q REGULAR allowance Of
go much psf week, 80 60 be paid down
eyerysM ndas1 morning atiithe4 break
s e Bas f W9ssii 9sii havesi no more sailing
fatraTberfies,s'l.said Mr.. iGatesY Y1'ners
.yonslv-. = ,,t,,,
II5 10 be sure :noe, am said RIiiiy.. Ali
I wanted @as difitble fm1hey OF my,
owni?hi aaiM on Il s9gt:s4lfD Ilad i.un
10 h4u INF. ISaucIlHe UKIeS respected
his wife all the more because she had
him in fair battle.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Conversation, ,fas } an Art.

We,aIl ,convetss 81, iii in Other words,
talk with each other 4unless ferbidd den
BY unkindly nature, hsa Lin theIlease of
deaf nantes, or,,cOmpellsd yby arbitrary
force to, maintain q ailence we. abhor.
I'VE oceasio iolallY read OF, people who in
tit of caprice, resolve never to bestow
upon their fellow. treasures the BENEFIT
of their discourse. But such people
may be called phenomenal. Men and
women may be. taciturn, just as men
and women may be ,loquacious, gbnt.
voluntary silence is never to be expected
of any humanI being possessed of the
ordinary desire to secure information
supposed to be looked mp in tile bosom
of another, of any one gifted with
eommon anxiety to- impart iinformaion
to others. Tong ues were made for vocal
purposes, and humanity'is aptto regard
them, in it's own case, as made for
speech. Whether the inferior orders of
creation enter tain each other with con-
yersatlon or not is question we leave
to scholastic disputaGtts but that no
two Of the human family will long re-
main silent if placed within sight and
hearing of each other, is m accepted
fact. It they can think, as strangers,
Of no other copgenial point of interest,
they will dilate upon the weather, and
the way to mutual discourse thus openel
upon neutral ground, the path to So
ciabill!y becomes one of facility.
But, ,=efter lsll mere speech is not con :
-vershtion i'll the stricter sense, and of
those with whom rwe7 talk every day,
how few really converse wei III how few
of them SO interest ns6with theirscon
versation that we, listen to what they
utter with qualification, aud in their
absence long to listen to them again.
M d II S. SsStuyn
we know Ito be natural gift but is
conversation itself the kind of CONVEX
sation that fitst wins and then fasri-
mates our attention. gift only acl
quired by tuition and experience? The
French think go, we presume, for q we'll
known professor in Paris aavertises to
"give lessons in the art Of conyersa.
ton; aud if professors teach ladiey, in
youth, how to walk gracefully, why not
how talk in the same manner? For,
although everybody walks and talks,
not more than one in a hundred
do either, without instruction, in q
manner calculated to earn ON honest
compliment. The art of conversation
is realized as such in q moment by a
person unaccustomed to society, if sud
denly introduced to gathering of in
tellect. However fluent in speech and
self, possessed in manner upon ordinary
occasions, even the boldest feel dis
mayed upon entering sphere pervaded
by an atmosphere of mental culture
They are at once conscious of their in
ability to rise to the level of their sur
roundings. They have language, and
they may have assurance, but they lack
the buoyaucy inspired by familiarity
with the art OF conyersation-just rs the
untaught founderer in deep water sinks
because, with hands aud feet like his
neighbor, he lacks knowledge of the
art of swimming.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Anonymous sBenefaetioiB,.

One seccrst WIS we'll kept for a long
time, even inI4ond don.l The aeeret was:
Who was the anonymous donor Of thoae
sums of 81 900, who from time to time
glade ddei1sd The. hearts ynf the managers
of deserving charities. as 1t was general
tly observed that the initials given were
thoselof the charity which was benefit
ted, although that was not always the;
case. Conf jecture. was rife as TO: who
could be the giver. Wealthy he must
1.zl 6dTn t0eai uf MI neuo dunu-
itons amounted to figure considerable
enough to be in itself "a fortune; that,
he was benevolent was equally certain
from the fact of his dofai ions;;s and
that he gave without any desire for re.
turn in the way of personal distinction:
was evident from the pains that he took,
to keep himself hidden-pains greater.
than those which some spend in making
themselves known, But the secret is
now revealed. The death Of Mr.. Benia-
min Atwood, !, of Chestnut. Z drew back
the vail of sconcealment.,, He had the
satisfaction of seeing that some good
was done with the money which he gave.
He has given away upward Of e9z5, 11n. /.
Nor has he been negl eetful of those who
had claims of relations for among
tho66 m0fa or less CLOSELY connected
with him ghe has distributed nearly q,
million sterling. The money thus.
charitabIy employ ed consisted partly of
MIR. Atwood private fortuneand part
IL of that bequeathed TO him some years,
ago by the late Matti Mattttihifi5 Woiveriy Att. 81 :.
woed, u 1; e. &
tile sge eof eighty y cars, Mas unIn arried,.
md lived very qnies ly. thoqgh 80 rich.
His E[ tnxury Vas that Of doing good
one he thoroughly enie ed. Each man
woods benevolent feeliug though fawi
have such apnpie means of graft tying
hem. Tlffs sYssitt tSi is better ~ aiich
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Boar Hunting.

Hunting the wild boar, as carried out
in India, is sport S,ti generis, for it
can be compared to no other. III stag
or fox hunting man plays but a second
ary part in the game, as the hounds
find, follow and kill; but in wild boar
hunting it is widely different. The
hunter himself searches for his quarry:
he snrambles among rocks and ravines
clothed with dense Jungle to track ND
the boar, and when it is reared and
fairly started he has n perilons pursuit
before him over an unknown country
abounding with holes, rocks, stones,
steep precipiccs and ragged mountains.
After. he has surmounted these OBJ
stacles, and by hard riding comes up to
close quarters with the boar, he has to
depend solely upon his GOODNESS and
skill in managing his horse, 10 prevel. t
it being ripped, as we'll as upon his
dexterity in handling the spear, SO to
kill the enraged and desperate animal,
who shows fight to the last gasp, and
who is never conquered until slain.
thoroughly trained horse is q sine
qua non in boar hunting, and high
mettled Arab stud makes the best hun
ter, MS he is the most courageous, en-
during and sagactous of the Indian
breeds of horses, and is consequently
the most easily trained.
The Deccan hunts have for many
years maintained very high prestige
in boar hunting, and the various gather
ings that have taken place Mt Ponnh,
Ormiabad, Hydrabad, Jalnah, Elich.
pore, Sholopore, and Nagpore have been
we'll attended, and have produced most
brilliant sport.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04

The late vast accession of bonanza
wealth which San Francisco has en-.
ioyed has led 10 the construction, by a
banking company, of safe or vault
thirty feet long, twenty. i've feet wide,
and nine feet high, in which to deposit
bonanza drippings. The lot on, which
this monster treasury standscost $780,
600, and the safe $3.50, 900. II required
81 train Of forty cars to transport the
safe from Canton, Ohio, to San Fran.
cisco.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04

A KANSAS hypoohondriac, meditating
upon the death Of dog-fancier in his
neighborhood, gives vent to the mourn.
full thought: "Our great mon are pc.
teiine ont SOFT o. rapid like these times.
Whisky kills most of 'em; some tum-
BILE overheard, and 'casionally one gets
hung"
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04


straw berries ?" rang out her clear,
shrill voice, rs she walked along
lightly balancing the weight on her
arm, and enjoying the impromptu
masquerade. as only a spirited young
woman can do.
Mrs. Prowler bought four quarts for
preserving, at twenty-five cents per
quart.
Wild berries has such O flavor"
said the old lady, nrehectively, and
tain't often you get 'em in the city. I
s'pose you don't come round regular.
young woman ?'' rgs - g q
'''No, don't, ma'am."' s%
9 Because you might get some good
customers" said Mrs. Prowler. -
Miss Seninthia Hall, who keeps
boarders, puichased two quarts, Airs.
Capt. Carhury took one, and then
Mislicent jumped ontho cars aud rode
verify down town.
81 We got dollar and seventy.fve
cents of my own, ut all events" she
said to hr elf. a st
"S.raHperries Nice, ripe, wild
strawberries Buy my strawberries /"
Her sweet voice resounded through
the halls OF the great marble building,
on whose first fioorSthe great bank was
situated. I.A5
1t CHANGED to be dull interval of
business just tnen, and the cashier
looked mp with yawn.
I" l say, Bill James" said he, to the
youngest clerk, &c / have an idea that q
few Strawberries wouldn't go badly.
Gall in the woman.
stool with pen behind each ear. and
aoannara1 off in to tho ho11 ...
So Milly sold another quart.
AS she was giving change for the
cashiers dollar bill, the president him.
self came III, bus.iing md BRISK as
usual.
"Eh? What2 Howe barked out
Mr.. Radcliffe Gates. Strawberries :?
Well, I don't care if I take few my
self. Here, young woman, how do j on
sell them ?"
Milly pushed back her sun. bonnet,
and executed sweeping courtesy.
"Twenty-five cents quart, sir, if
you please" purred she, with much
humility.
Mrs. Gates !" he calculated.
"My name, sir" MiIlicent.
May venture to inquire"
go, yes" said Miily. "You may
inquire as much as you please. 1
needed little money, and T am earning
it. See how much l have already |"
and she !triumphantly displayed her
roll OF crumpled stamps. "The straw
berries were all my own, sent to me
this morning by old Mrs. Peabody, aud
Tin selling Them to get an income of
my own"
/" You, ma'am, selling strawberries
THROUGH the Btrests I"
Milly made second courtesy.
Extreme necessities justify extreme
measures, Mr.. Gates. said she, saucily.
81 earned my own living before I saw
you, and ! can again"
Mr.. Radcliffe Gates looked uneasily
around at the crowd of gaping clerks.
James," said he, "call me o hack.
My dear, let mo take you home"
Not until have sold tho rest Of
my stra~berrics, saucily retorted the
young wife.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
SO the verbal passage as arms ended,
and ,..aH Milly felt fhat fqF, Fhss ;Was

She watched Mr., Gal es drive OF; in
an elegant open fbafO fOilShe,s s drawn aIby
two long. tailed ohest nhS horses, all in q
glitter OF plated bharnas ,aalid turned
away, almost Wishing that she was NIL
licent Hanghton oncs agsin3 behind M her
desk in the, little red SCHOOL house.
She looked dlaronpd lat the inlaid furn-
iture, Aubusson carpets, and satin win
dow draperies and thought with "a pas.
sionate pang, how TT tlei all this ayaile,dl
!" It's SO provoking of Radciife, She 8
murmured. I've half q mind to go
out to servies,fa ( i: 81 s. y sSIassrT
thing-for Z must have money of MY
own, and I vi d.
Just then ~ segYanb knocked at the
door.with q basket ,apd q, note.
An old lsadl in al Shak kefls 10 onmeH D and
a one horse wagon left it, said the girl,
with scarce1y dis gdisea aotittefsoas She
her." - - ~ ~ - = LIZ LIZ i - -
in i q stifi, old. fashgbned f Ssligfspby. ID II
the pen were an uIWonte ed implement
in the writer's hand: O. d
sDEAn M1LLY-TRe strawberries in the south
medder lot arc SitisE fipo, where YOU nsed jto(
pick em where yoh &SSrs 4 little GIRL; SO Pehe-'
tRea 4es Psssa so ye RoSi @ sSs G
Araminia is going, to the city tomorrow. We
hope you will like them! AGectionately, Your
friend, sgs NJ ARIA AM. PEABODY"
The tears spark1ed ia the brides eyes.
For an instant it seemed to, her as If
she were merry child again picking
strawberries I'M Tho golden rain of ~
July sunshine, with the scent of wild
roses in the mir and the gurgle OF the
little trout stream Close. By. Aud = as
she lifted the lid of the great basket of
crimson, luscious fruit and inhaled the
delicious perfume, q eudden idea started
into her head. ~ 4 slG3l,BttI
".Now will have money of my own!"
sheicrIod out, money that I will earn
myself, and thus be independent!nr
Half an hour after 4 tafdJ Il Mri3s. Gates4
came down stairs, to the infinite amaze
ment of Rachel, theS chhnab berlaaidr and
Louisa, the parlor.ma in brown
gingham dress, a white pique sun.bon-
net. and q basket on, her arm, sq,-- r.r
Won't you have the carriage,
ma'am p asked the latter, as Mrs.
Gates bcckoned to o passing omnibus.
$ No, won't ri said &hea bankef's
lady
When within the city limits she
ialighted and sast to work IA good earn;
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
TIE Rnalisll .Flge 90 Clock, Telial..

Our 5nitish coas filss lia ss; Il fashion
able e i've p which lis be55
comm xeeesiyel ftllie g 81 legant tfsiIlg', g',s
in Iio sssis Tina 3s,f
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04

Ont 9Palpe % Dessvoted 30 ]


URG, SOUTH oIINA, ITHURsDAY, MARCH 4 1870
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-08-12

A Decorah man got mad at the ed.
itor and stopped bus paper. The next
week he sold all his old corn foul
cents below the marke, price; then
his place was sold for taxes because
he didn't know they were due; he
lost the nomination for Supervisor be-
cause he only heard of the convention
three days after il adjourned; he lost
ten dollars by betting on Columbia
two DAYS after Cornell bad won both
races: be was arrested and fined eight
dollars for going hunting on SUNDAY, .
and hr raid three hundr d d"llar~ for
a IL, II forged roles that had been
adver. iSed, and the public can'iun' d
uo, 10 negotiate them, two weeks.-
Theu he paid great big lrishmsn.
with leg like derrick. three dol
lars 10 kick him all the way TO The
newspaper office: WHERE he paid fou.
years subscription in advance, and
made the editor sign and sver TO =
written agreement 10 knock him down
and rob him II he ever ordered his
paper stopped again
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-08-12

To all whom ii may concern:
The com Missioner appointed TO locate
highway commencing forty rods north OF
the southwest corner Of southeast quarter,
section ~, township 81, range 4, III Cedar
county, running thence east sixty I've rods
thence southeast TO the east line VI The south
west quarter southeast quarter OF said sec
ton, thence east one rod and eight feet
thence on a direct line TO point on tue
south line of said section nine and half
rods east Of the SOU heast corner of south
west quarter southeast quarter OF said sec
ton %, thence east on the section line TO the
southeast corner of the section. Also to va
cate so much of the Washington erry an
Johnson county road as Is located on south
half southwest quarter southeast quarter,
section 30 township 81. range 4, has reported
in favor OF the establishment and vacation
thereof and ali objections therefor claims
for damages must be filed in the Auditor 9
Office on or before noon Of the Ith day OF
Sept, a. d. ISIS, or such highway viii be To-
Gated and vacated without reference there
to.
sawl MoREAC CARROLL. Co. Auditor.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-08-12

In ls49, Harmon Jones, with ffteer
or twenty citizens OF New Orleans
started for California in search Of
gold. The vessel they sailed in ha.
never been heard from. Recently,
however, Mrs. Jones' attention was
called to an account in an English pa.
per Of the discovery of an unknown
island in the Pacific. In the list OF
persons found there was the name OF
Harmon Jones. from New Orleans
The men refused to leave the island.
saying that the old family ties were
probably broken, and they did not
propose to furnish . whole ship load
# new Enoch Ardeps.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-08-12

The FAST Mail TRAIS.-The de.
tails of that fast mail train between
the East and the West have been ar
ranged. The train will begin running
about the first Of October, and it is
expected the time occupied between
New York and Chicago will not ex-
coed twenty-six hours. There will be
four large postal cars of improved
construction, capable carrying thirty.
five tons of matter, and it il thought
by the department that the amount
to be carried will reach forty.five
tons before the expiration of six
months. The greater part of the work
of distribution will be done on the
cars. Newspapers will be taken in
by the bundle and folded and distrib-
uted en- route. Relays Of clerks will
be stationed at Syracuse, Buffalo and
Toledo. This enterprise will not cos,
one cent additional expense, the rail-
roads having met the government in
the most generous spirit.