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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-06-05
PLAT1'S q BEATTY
CELEBRATED
GOLDEN TONGUE
ParlOr Or ans +!

A RE RANKED BY EMINENT MUSI-
N clans and distinguished men Of honor
throughout the world as the leaaing Par
Tor Organs now in use We challenge any
| maker to equal them For Church. Sab
bath Schools, Lodges, as well as the Par
Tor, they hare no equal. Testimonials and
cards OF honor are constantly being receiv-
ed in their favor An offer. Where we
have no agents, we will allow any one
wishing to purchase one of our organs.
the agents discount, also to any RESPONSE
bic party wishing to purchase one Of our
organs from distance, and prefer to see
and examine it before paying for it, The
same will be granted them by sending us a
recommendation from the cashier of their
nearest bank, or some prominent man in
their vicinity, in proof of their response
bllity, and II the organ is not just as repre-
sented, they have the liberty to return the
same at our expense, we pay the freight
both avs. It is with pleasure we intro
duce the GOLDEN TONGUE, know
ing that it will give universal satisfaction.
as 1t possesses many advantages over ali
others. The tone excels in fullness, and
the deep vibration of sounds, an evidence
that 1t stands first as to merit of all musi-
cal instruments now in use.
Send for oul price list and a list of testi-
monials, as we have them from persons
who have been using our organs from the
past SIX months to seventeen years. Adj
dress.
BEATTY az PLOTTS.
WASHINGTON,
WARREN Co., N. j.
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God Loves Beauty.

/ do not think we realize, any of
us, how much worship there is in
the mere act of creating beauty -
not only the beauty of loving looks
and deeds, but beauty Of form and
color and proportion. God loves
beauty. Every star that shines,
every flower that blooms, every
dew-drop that glistens in the sun,
proves this; and / believe that ev-
cry woman who strives 10 make
her own home and her own life
beautiful. serves God in this as
truly as she serves him upon bend
ed knees or in the holy services of
the sanctuary. And in just SO far
as she fails of making that home
and that life as beautiful as she
can, in just so far docs she fail of
her duty to God and man.
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Everett House !
CORNER QUEEN AND BURKE STREETS.
VIM. Rutledge, Proprietor

This popular House has been thorough
~ renovated, and the present proprie
tor who assumed charge on the LIST
April, is now prepared to accommodate
guests in the most comfortable and sat-
isfactory manner The House contains
"a chambers, all of which have been
handsomely furnished with new furni-
ture.
THE TABLE will be well supplied
with the best the market affords, pre-
pared by experienced cooks. Charges
moderate.
THE BAR will be supplied with a.
choice variety of Pure Wines and
Liquors.
Abundant Stable room, with atten-
tive Ostlers.
My old patrons and the general pub
lie are invited to give me call.
April 7,-1y.-W.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Literary Composition.

Byron wrote "The Corsair" in ten days,
at the rate of two hundred lines day,
and sent it to the press as it was writ
ten, published it with hardly correc-
tion. Lope de Vega wrote three hun.
dred dramas for the stage in one hun
dred days. The average amount of his
work was nine hundred lines day.
Voitaire wrote "Zaire, in three weeks,
and "Olympie" in six days; Dryden
wrote his 'Ode te st. Cecilia" at a sit
ting. The finest OK Elizabeth Barrett
Prowning's poems, "The Lady Geral-
dimes Courtship," was the work Of
twelve honrs. It was written to com.
plete the original two volumes of her
poetry, and to send out with her proofs
to America. Shakespeare was not one of
these siap-dash workers; and Shaks.
peare, with his thirty. four plays, has
conquered the world. Dickens, when
ho intended to write Christmas story,
shnt himeelf up for six wee ks, lived the
life of hermit, and came out lookic G
as haggard as murderer. Tom Moore,
with all his eHervescence and sparkle,
thought it qu ok work if he added sew
enty lines to "Lalla Rtkh" in week,
although living out of the world in a
writing box in the peak. Planehe pro-
dnced his hnrles1ne nj m equally slow
rate, thinking ten or dozen lines day
good work. The author of "Caste",
and "School" was one of the slowest OF
workmen. Even Albany Floublanque
often wrote his articles in the Examiner
six times over before he thought them
fit to go to press-it is said he wrote and
rewrote his "Two Queens" hit times
That exquisite trihe of Kinglake's,
Eothen," was rewritten five or six
times, and kept in his desk almost as
long rs Wordsworth kept "The White
Doe of RSlstone."
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Fashion i'm New York.

Despite all the croaI1ing about hard
times, says correspondent, New York
is very gorgeous this winter. The
turnouts on the avenue and in the park
arc M brilliant as ever, and even more
so. Sales OF extravagantly costly furni-
ture are as frequent as ever, and the
great jewelers. aud expensive dress peo-
pie are doing mole than their usual
business: The fact is, the nociety
woman in New York refuses to recog-
nize the existence OF hard times. She
considers it the duty of the man who
undertakes the contract of supporting
her to furnish her with what she wants
Just as freely one year as another. Ii
the poor fellow pleads embarrassment
and bad business. she answers, "What
is that to me? I know nothing about
your horrid stocks. l do know that
want that diamond necklace, and will
have it." And she generally gets it,
for several reasons. A man always
stands in awe of very handsome aud
very fashionable woman, and besides a
great many New Workers. have ,liscov-
cred that it is a very good thing to have
$50 900 or 100000 diamonds and
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
K CfaAIsu1ING III N woman.

A charming woman, Two heard It said =
BY other women an light as she; a.
But all in vain puzzled my head
TO fiud wherein tho charm may be.
Her face, indeed, Is pretty enough,
And her form ID quito as good rs the best,
Wnere nature has given the bony stun,
And clever milliuer all the rest.
Intelligent yes-in certain way,
With the feminine gift OF ready speech,
And knows very well what not to say
Whenever tho theme transcends her reach.
But turn the topic on things to wear,
From an opera cloak to II robe de nutt-
Tosee how 1uent the lady can be.
Her laugh is hardly thing to please;
For an honest laugh must always start
From gleesome mood, like sudden breeze,
And bers 10 purely matter Of att
muscular form made to show
What nature designed to lie beneath
Tho tlnor mouth but what can sho do,
If that is ruined to show the teeth?
To her scat in chUrch-a good half mile
Wien tho day iB fine she is sure to go,
ArraSed, Yr course. In the latest style
La D,0tte dc Paris has got TO show,
And she nuts her. hands on; tho velvet pew
iGaii WiIitu nave taint or Sin ~
Aud thinks--how her prayer-book's tint OF blue
stharmoniZe with her milky skin
Ah what shall wo say Of ono who walks
In fields OF flowers to choose the weeds?
Reads authors of whom she mover talks,
And talks OF authors che neve.
she's charming woman, Two heard 1t i'd
By other wonltn ns light Rs she:
But all III vain puzzle my head
10 hnd wherein tho charm may be.
1t John &. Stare.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Anonymous aBsnefaetions. d

One secret was we'll kant f,,r. "a lone,
time, even in London. Theseeret was:
Who was the anonymous donor of those
sums of G1,000, who from time to time
glad ddened the hearts Hof the managers
Of deserving charities. atIt was general.
ly observed that the initials given were
thoseiof the charity which was benefit
ted, although that was not always the
case. Conjecture. was rife as to who
could be tine giver. Wealthy he must
be; for the sum total of all these dona-
tions amounted to o figure considerable
enough to be in itself q fortune; that
he was benevolent was equally certain
from the fact of his donations; and
that he gave without any desire for re-.
turn in the way OF personal distinction
was evident from the pains that he took
I, to keep himself hidden-pains greater
than those which some spend in making,
themselves known. But the secret is
|! !powrevealed. The death of Mr.. Benja-
min Atwood, of Cheshunt. drew back
the vail of ,concenlment. He had the
satisfaction of seeing that some good
was done with the money which ne gave.
He has given away upward Of .f375, 900.
Nor has he been neglectful of those who
had claims of relations !; for among
those more or less closely connected
with him sheg has distributed nearly q
million sterling. The D. money thus
charitably employed consisted partly of
IL Of that bsqueathed TO him some years
ago by the late Matthias Wolver1y Att:
wood, nj. p. MIR. Atwood had reached
lilo age eiof2eightS years, was unmarried, !,
and and "a eTy quietly. though so rich.
His nSuiir:yy. ii:y was that 81 Goi1g good
quietly, ,fahd we have mo- doubt itlwas
one he thoroughly enioyed Each man
has his own mode of enjoyment, and
there. are many who share in MR. TT
wood benevolent feeling though few
have such alnpie means of gratifying
( sstiahi The Fc5fI ID is better cl
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04

A member of Major Powell's expedi-
ton, which has been engaged in the
territories, furnished the Tribune some
interesting notes of the discoveries
made in the origin of Indian names.
It seems that each tribe or primary or
ganization of Indians, rarely including
more than two hundred souls, ia, in
'obediance to the additional laws OF these
people, attached to some well-defined
territory or district, and the tribe takes
the name of such district. Thus the
U.intas, known to white men as
branch of the Utes, belonged to the
Uintah valley. U.imp is the name for
pine too meap, for land or country
U-im-too. .meap, pine lard; but this has
been contracted to U.in tab, and the
tribe inhabiting the valley were called
U-in tats. U is the term signifying ar
row U-too. meap, arrow land. The re-
gion OF the country bordering on Utah
lake is called y too-menp becauee of tho
great number of reeds growing there from
which their AFRO w-s hats were made. Tho
tribe formerly iphabiting Utah valley
was called Utah ats, which has been
corrupted into the name Uto by tie
white people of the country. The name
U,tah,ats belonged only to small
tribe living in the vicinity OF the lake,
but it has been extended SO as t. in.
clude the greater part of the Indians Of
Utah and Colorado. Another general
name used by white men is Piutes. A
tribe of U-tah-ats being defeated and
driven away by stronger tribe, who
occupied their country and took their
name, were obliged to take new name
corresponding to the new home in which
they settled themselves. But they also
called themselves Pal Utah ats or true
U-tah-ats. The corrupted name Piutes
is now applied to the Indians of largo
section of country. Several of these
tribes have numerous names, and in
this way the number of individual
tribes has probably been much oyerasti-
mated,
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
women in Old Times.

Old John Aubrey, in the collection
of tr9ditionary memoranda which. he
made about the middle of the seven
teenth century, thus describes female
education in the pre-reformation times:
=" The young women had their educ alton
in: the nunneries, where. they learned
needla-work, confectionery, surgery,
physib othecariesI surgeons be-
ing then rare), writing, drawing, etc.
Thatgreat class of young ladies who
Teo5iHe the benefits. of our highest
schools and semineries spend their
whole childhood and youth in receiy-
ing What is called an education, and
then the vast majority come forth pro-
fouhdly ignorant OF what they most
need to know Asito the i science and
practice of domestic economy, they are
far better instructed in political econ
'omyi Or even in navigation orr survey
ing. fAhd as to the @kno owledge that
would. d.qaalify them TO take charge of a
young infant, the cat or sheep would be
altogether their snrsfifoTs IN ii tho Care Of
the young of their own species. We
must, however, in justice, allow that on
one important point We are now very
muchsWiser than our forefathers were !;
for we look rather to love than fear as
the power by which children are to
ihe influenced. In the present day, when
perhaps we make too little use of correc-
tive discipline, our feelings are shocked
when iGe read in Aubrey's memoranda !:
=. TheInhild perfectly loathed the sight
OF theparent, as the slave the torture.I
The daughters, we'll I-grown women, were
to sstaad at the cupboard side during
the Whole time Of the prond mothers
visits, unless, as the fashion was, leave
wes desired forsooth that a cushion
should dlbe given them to kneel on, after
they had done sufficient penance in
standing. The gentlemen had prodig-
ious fasas like that instrument which is
used tss drive feathers, and it had han
die at least onehalf as long, with which
their Sang hters were; corrected. Sir
Edwin Joke, lord chief Justice, told me
he wss mn eye witness of it. Tho earl
of Msslchester also used such q fan;
but fa.hers and lmothers slashed their
daughi Ass The time ii;i
diseipl me when they iWere perfect woa
f,,n
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04

OUR 1sEitish cou6nia have ID fashion
able g Eve o clock ten which is be,
comm eeesiYelS the 20 elegant thing,
in LoiE dsta. no 4; as oil II; iiiat isss of
manu . ;ss.sa
gathering, which only nece estates 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 "At
Home" for certain number of days
fourth, the tea devoted TO Amateur
Music" ;" and, lastly, tho tea which is
merely n day instead Of night recep-
tion. 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, and one or two cups and snucers :;
tho lower shelf has plate of thin bread
and butter, u cake, and the reserve
cups. A harlequin set is considered
prettier than one of which all the cups
are alike those saucers which have n
sort OF fan shaped addition for holding
a piece OF cake or bread and butter
when convenient. The second enter
tsinment differs somewhat the scene is
changed from. the boudoir to the draw
ing room, and tn, ten is placed on
larger table. If the hostess has no
daughters, she generally gets some
young lady to preside over tho tea
table, go as to leava 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 i'll dispensing the tea, or
else to have long narrow table across
the end of the back drawing-room, and
let two maids be in attendance behind
it. This snpposes Il larger party. and
therefore ices and c'aret cup should be
provided. In summer, of course, straw
berries and cream find most appro.
pirate place OH The tea table.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
Boar Hunting.

Hunting the wild boar, as carried ont
in India, is sport SUI generis, for it
can be compared to no other. In stag
or fox hunting man plays but 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 up
the boar, and when it is reared and
fairly started he has q 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 tho boar, he has to
depend solely upon his GOODNESS and
skill in managing his horse, to preveht
it bsing ripped, rs we'll as upon his
dexterity in handling the spear, so as to
kill the enraged and desperate animal,
who shows fight to the last gasp, and
who is never conquered until slain.
A thoroughly trained horse is sine
I"G non in boar hunting, and a high
mettled Arab stud makes the best hnp-
ter, rs he is the most courageous, en-
during and sagacious 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 shat have taken place ut Ponah
Ormjabad. 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
PaWnbrOhers.

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. 900.
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. II the interest is from
eight to ten per cent. per month, it will
bs seen that the pawnbrokers make
some hundred per cont. on their loans,
or about fonr millions annually from
the poor and it g not improbable they
get rs much more from the taIe of the
articles pawned. --NeW York Times.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-03-04
! lConEersation ,as ) am Art.r

We,a1 converse in other words,
talk with each 9other4unless forbidden
by unkindly nature, as4in itheI case tof
deaf mutes, Or compelled by arbitrary
force to maintain o silence We ebhor.
1--WE occasionally read Of people who in
O fit of caprice, resolve never to bestow
upon their fellow. creatures the beneft
OF their discourse. But such people
may be called phenomenal. Men md
women may be- taciturn, just as men
and women may be ,ioquacious, Ebut
voluntary silence is never to be expected
of any human being possessed of the
ordinary desire to secure information
supposed to be locked up in the bosom
of another, of any one gifted with q
com mon anxiety to impart nformation
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-
versation or not is question we leave
to scholastic disputants but that no
two Of the human family will long re-
main silent if placed within sight and
hearing of each other, is an accepted
fact. If they can think, as strangers,
Of no other congenial point of interest,
they will dilate upon the weather, and
tho way to mutual discourse thus openc
upon neutral ground, the-path to So
ciability becomes one of facility.
But, afterlall, mere speech is not con
versation in the strictcr sense, and of
those with whom -we-talk every day,
how few really converse we'll how few
of them 80 interest usEwith theirNcon
versation that we listen to what they
utter with qualification, and in their
absence long. to listen to them again,
3 sEi la S pc uCn
We know 70 be natural gift; but is
conversation itself-th kind OF CONVEX
sation that titst wins and then fas,i-
mates our attention. gift only nc!
quired by tuition and experience? The
French think go, we presume, for we'll
known professor in Paris advertises to
"give lessons in tho art OF conversa.
ton )" aud if professors teach ladiey, in
youth. how to walk gracefully, why not
how t > talk in the same manner? For,
although everybody walks and talks,
not more than Que in hundred
DO either, without instruction, in q
manner calculated to earn an honest
compliment. The art of conversation
is realized rs such in moment by n
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 IN atmosphere of mental culture
They are ut 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 conversation-just as 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
I'll t Ike all-at any price!" impa-
4 tiently exclaimed the baiker.TDAEL 1851

HentIy Iexcla1med the ,banker.i D.i"A I'Nl
come oat 81 oanash'es shis oeo#d sssfs'R'ngT0nly
I So MIR. and Mrs! Gates went home /;
nd ma s as rssRa4 Rinhs sfsa e
go nuoh1 per week, to be paid down
eyery.M Monday morning atiithe break
''s % f Bas wassii wiassiiFhma lave no more selling
Issrawberffes,n Mr. irGates3T ner-
K9HsT!Ss y Be sTissa529 SURE a59 gsaa said idaI aIly
I wanted 5wds di1ittle imoney of my
own '1i hsiH or Ii s9pt,49uo u!sd l>ua
10 And Mr.. Radcliffe Gates respected
his wife all the more because she had
conquered him in fair battle.
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. five feet wide,
and nine feet high, in which to deposit
bonanza drippings. The lot on which
this monster treasury stands cost $780,
600, ard the safe $l5O,0OG. 1t required
II train of forty cars to transport the
safo 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.
fnl thought :" Onr great men are pe
teline ont SOFT O. rapid like these timep.
Whisky kills most of 'em some tum.
bile overheard, and 'casionally one gets
hung