Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-12-01

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tie niggers out of their senses. The noise
brung the wimmen to the door,
Don't look, Miss Nancy hornets Wo!
ketch him shouted the unclad Nippers,
as, with spent breath, he wont dashin
out of the gate agin, with the dogs still
after him, and his horses tail switchin' in
eveery direction like young hurrycane.
Miss Nancy got one glimpse of her forlorn
lover, and before she could get her apron
to her eyes, she tainted at the awful sight,
while his fast recedin' voice, cryin' 'Hor-
nets stop him: hornets still rung in her
ears.
TALENT AND INDusrRY.-Aore is to
be expected from laborious mcdiocrity
than from the erratic efforts of wayward
genius. There may be harlequin in
mind as well as in body; and always
consider him to have been of this charac-
ter who boasted that he could throw off
a hundred verses while standing on one
leg it is not to such source as this we
are indebted for good poetry. Demons
themes elaborated sentence after sentence;
and Newton rose to the heavens by the
steps of geometry, and said, at the close
of his career that it was only in the habit
of patient thinking he was conscious of
differing from other men.
1t is generally thought that men are
signalised more by talent than by indus
try; it is felt to be a vulgarizing Of genius
to attribute it to any thing but direct inspi-
ration from heaven they overlooked the
stea y and perseveiing devotion Of mind
to one subject. There are higher and
lower walks in scholarship; bat the high
est is the walk of labor. We are often
led into contrary opinion, by looking at
the magnitude of the object to its finished
statc-such as the Principia of Newton,
and the pyramids of Egypt-without re-
flecting on the gradual, continuous, year,
almost creeping progress, by which they
grew into objects of the greatest magniG-
cence in the literary and physical world.
In the one case, indeed, we may fancy
the chisel which wrought each successive
stone, but in the other we cannot trace
the process by which the philosopher was
raised from one landing place to another,
till he scared to his towering elevation
it seems as if the work was produced at
the bidding Of a magician, But Newton
has left as a legacy the assurance, that he
did not attain his elevation by dint of
heaven-bon inspiration, out of the reach
of many, but by dint of q homely virtue
within the reach of all.
ORIGIN OF WARs.-The history of ev-
cry war is very like scene once saw in
Nithsdalc. Two boys from different
schools met one fine day upon the ice.
They eyed each other with rather Jealous
and indignant looks, and with defiance on
each brow.
What are We glowrin' at, Billy Q
Whats that to you? I'll look where I
have mind, an hinder me if you daur.
A hearty blow was the response to this,
and then such battle began. 1t being
Saturday, all the boys Of both schools
were on the ice; and the fight instantly
became general and desperate.
asked one Of the parties what they
were pelting the others for?
%, neathing at a. man we Just want to
gle 'em a good thrashin'.'
After fightinh till they were quite ex-
hausted, one of the principle heroes step
ped forth between, covered with blood,
and his clothes in tatters, and addressed
the beligerant parties thus
'Weel, I'll tell we what wen do wi ye-
ifyell let us alane, Wen let ye alsne.'
There was no more of it; the war was
at an end. and the boys scattered away
tc their play. I thought at the time, and
have often thought since, that that travail
affray was the best epitome of war in gen
eral have ever seen. Kings and minis
tiers Of state are just set of grown up
children, exactly like the children, speak
of, with only this material difference, that
instead of fighting out the needless quar-
rels they have raised, they sit in safety
and look on, send out their innocent but
servile subjects to battle, and then, after
waste of blood and treasure, are glad to
make the boys conditions, IF yell let us
alane.'
The WoRsr IsM.-'Harry,' enquired
our friend Jim, addressing a friend the
other day, which do you consider ine
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