Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-07-14

b"lo" laHhil' i DelleVc L VIII have
myself made a Jorrow
DOW JR,S CREED.
Dow, Jr., in late discourse, in the
N. Y. Saturday Mercury, gives the arti-
clcs of his creed, and concludes with:
al believe the most industrious are the
most contented and happy. Idlcncss is
an incubus upon the bosom of endowment.
It's the hardest work in the world to do
nothing by the month, and have nothing
to do it with.
| believe that kicking against custom,
and splitting in the face of fashion, is a
futile and foolish endeavor. Both may
need coirection,-but they must and will
have their own way.
| believe that girls are like kittens
gently smooth them the right way; and
they rub and purr most affectionatcly:
but give them the contrary brush and
their back is up in the most disdainful
manner, They like to be kissed, but
sham delicacy about the operation.
| believe that human flesh is hard to
digest. Jonah did't sit easy upon the
SNOih'Sh VI VIC WIulC.
1 believe that simple honesty, the
naked truth, pure virtue, and straight,
up-and- down way Of dealing with the
world have as mucl advantage over vice,
tricks and stratagcm, in the long run, as
a good square trotting horse has over a
pacing poncy or raoker that goes his
mile OF. two like the mischief, and is done
for the rest of the journey.
Thus rs LIFE.-If we die to-day, the
sun will shine as brightly and the birds
sing as swcetly tomorrow. Business
will not be suspended for a moment, and
the great mass will not bestow a thought
to our memories. "Is he dead?" will be
the solemn inquiry of few, as they pass
to their pleasure or their work But no
one will miss us, except our immediate
connections ; and even in short time
they will forget us, and laugh as merrily
as when we sat beside them.
Thus shall we all, now in active life.
pass away. Our children crowd close be-
hind us, and they will soon be gone. In
a few years not a living being can say 81
remember him." We live in another
age, and did business with those who
have long since slumbered in the tomb.
This is life. How rapidly it passes? o
blessed are they who are held in ever
lasting remembrance!
SUDDEN MADNEss.-O One of those
frightful and startling incidents which
seem to happen in Paris more often than
elsewhere as if to now and then recall che
artificial and hollow world in which we
live to sense of the vanity and nothing
ness of its pursuits, occurred a short time
since, and has helped to sober us for a
while. The Apollo Belvidere of Paris,
the glass of fashion for some years past,
the observed of all observers, who was
married only u week ago to an English
lady of immense wealth, while riding in
the forest of ST. Germain, with his bride,
was suddenl y seized with fit Of raging
madness from which he is not yet recov-
cred, and which the doctors declare must
terminate either in death or confirmed
idiocy. The event has caused universal
CONSERVATION in lie world of fashion,
and every ball and party announced for
some time to come has been countermand
ed in consequence.-PariS correspondent
Of the 1tlaS.
SEVERE REToRT.--A man who marries
q rich wife must expect occasionally to
have it flung in his teeth. We have
heard report, however, which we think
must have silcnced such thrusts. A gen
ticman vino had the nisffor tune to marry
a fortune, was once exhibiting the fine
points of his horse to friend.
"My hor.S, if you please" said the
wife, my money bought that horse"
Eyes, madam, replied the husband,
bowing, "and yoar money bought me-"
ADsEEcE.-A fashionable Doctor late.
ly informed his friends in q large company
that he had been I.assing eight days in
the country. ~ fA
eYcs,V said one Of gi,c party, ut has
been announced in one of the iournals.'' .
"Ah,H said the Doctor, stretching his
neck very Importantly, "pray in what
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