Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-25
Tlne Now Yenl.,a -NleIlf.
FROM THE GERMAN OF JEAN PAUL
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AN old man STOOD IN the New
Years midnight by window, and
gazed with a look of deep despair
upon The unskaken, ever-blooming
Heavens, and down upon The still
pure, white earth, whereon now was
no one SO ioyless and sleepless as he.
His grave stood close by him con-
cealed only by the slowsof age, and
not by the green of youth; and he
brought with him from the whole of
long life nothing but error, sin and
disease, a worn out body, a desolute
soul, a breast full Of poison, and an
old age full of sorrow.
The bright days of his youth re-
turned like spectres, and carried him
back TO that fair morning when his
father first placed him upon the cross
way of life, where the right leads
| through the eunny path of virtue into
a wide and peaceful land, full slight
and angel forms but the left CON
ducts down through the mole-path of
vice into a dread abyss, full of drip
ping venom, full OF fdarting snakes
and of dismal, suffocating damps.
Alas! the serEents were hanging
upon his breast, and the poison drots
were on his tongue, and he knew now
Where he was.
I Senseless with unulterable grief
he cried aloud to Heaven-"Give me
my youth againl Place me once
more, Q father, upon the crossway of
life that may make a better choice
But his father and his youth were
| far away. He saw wandering fires
dance along the marsh, and lose
themselves in the grave yard, and he
lpa'd-"There are my wasted days"
He saw n star shoot from Heaven,
and sparkling as il fell, vanish upon
the carte. "Such am l." said his
bleedlng heart, aud the serpent teeth
ofremorse dug deeper intheir wound.
| His glowing fancy showed TO him
spectres stealing along the roofs;
windmill raised its arms threatening
10 crush him, and a deserted mask in
the empty charnal house gradually
| assumed his own features. @
Suddenly, in the midst Of this con
! f1ict, the music OF the New Year
| floated down from the church tower
like a far off anthem. His soul be-
came more calm. He looked around
the horizon and over the broad earth.
and he thought Of the friends of his
youth, who now, hetter and more
blest than he,r were teachers in the
Earth, were happy men andthe faith
ers Of happy children, and he said:
go, might also, like you, had ]
chosen, nave siumbered on fms New
| Years's night with fearless eyes,
Alas! | might have been happy, we
blessed parents. had but followed
your counsels and your New Years
wishes" aja
Amid these feverish recollections of
his youth, the mask with his features
| in the charnel house, seemed to rise
| up before him, until by means of that
| Superstition which on New Year
night sees apparitions and future
events il became at length a living
youth IS ~, 3 lA@
He could look no longer He COW
cred his eyes, and a tho1sand scald-
ling tears streamed down, vanishing
in the snow. Distracted and com
lfortless he could only moan forth in
a low voice, Come back my youth,
10 come backln 3'i'1 ll3i
And at came back, for he had only
been dreaming so fearfully, that New
| Years night. He was still a young
man, only his errings were no.dIeam.
4 But he thanked God that ne, still
| Young, could retrace his steps in the
4 filthy track of vice, and restore him
self to that sunny path which leads
/ into the pure land of harvest,
! Return with him, young reader,
lif thou art like him in the paths of
error. This fearful dream viii one
Eday be thy Judge, and when in The
/ depths of anguish thou shalt cry,
Come back Bright youth it will
| not then come back. q
Bite az a HeattEeaaaIke.
/ In lhe year 1850, a slave ia South
4 Carolina dlscoYerd a renledy for the
bite ofthe rattle make, for Which the
\ liesisIsitife of the State obtained his
sreeuQF0 ,and Gfallleu nun one hundred
/ poundsin money His remedy was
asfollows:- Take 81 roots OF f,ldtitaae
or hoarlsotitid, (and leaves ii SUM
mer,) . sufficient quantity, bfolise
Iiheni "a Il mortar and squeeze out The
Juice, ofWhich give, as soonas possible
one large spoonfuls if he IS swelIed,
4 You nlnsl force il down his tlIfoat.