Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-23
Getting Used to it by Degrees.

| "Somewhcre about here writes a'South.
| ern correspondent, "lpesu small farmer of
such Social habits, that his comirg home in !.
toSicnted was once no unusual thing" His
/ wife urged him in vain to sign the pledge.
"Why, you see, lie would say, "Ill sign
it after awhile, tutI don't ike to break off
right at once it ain I wholesome. The
best way is to get used to n thing by de-
| grees, you know" 81.
Every well, old man." his hepmate
would rjoin, "sce now il you don't fall in
hole one of these days, while you can't
take care of yourself, and nobody near to
help. you Git"
Sure enough, as If to verify the prophe.
cy, MS he returned home drunk one 'duv, he
| ellipio shallow well, md after a deal of
useless scrambng, he shouted for the
light of his eyes to come and help him out
e" Didn't tell you so 2" said the good
soul, showing her cap fiill over the edge of
the parapeti you've got into a hole al last,
and lis only lucky I'm in hearing. or you
might have drowned. Well, she coutinu-
ed, after pause, letting down the bucket,
"tHke hold" And up he came, higher at
| each turn Of the windlass, until the old hdy's
grasp slipping from the handle, down he
went 10 the bottom again. This occurring
more than once, made the temporary occu.
pant Of the well suspicious
Look here" he screamed in a fury, at
the last splash, you're doing that on pur.
pose--l kaow youare II tl- -.
"We'l, now I'M, )" responded his old wo-
man, TRANQUILITY, while winding him up once
! more, Don't you remember telling me
It's best 10 get used 10 a Thing by degrees I?
I'm afraid if b,ing you up right of sud.
den, you wouldn't find it wholesomew
The old fellow could not help chuckiing
at the application Of his principle, and pro,
tested he would sign the pledge on the in
stant, If she would lift him.fAirlS out This
she did, and packed him off to sign the
pledge, wet as he was.
"For you see. she added, very emphat,
ically, you ever fall in the ditch again, I'll
lcaOe you thar will p Kniche,Jocker.
TnE BLESSED HOME. Homel 70 be at
home is the wish ofthe seaman on stormy
seas and lonely watch. Home is the wish
of the soldier, and tender vision mingle with
the troubled dreHms of trench and tented
| field. Where I he palm tree waves its grnee-
ful plumes, and brides Of jewvlled (lustre
flash and flicker among gorgeous flowers
The exile sits staring upon vacancy; q far
| away home lies upon his heart, and borne
upon ne wings OF fancy over intervening
seas and lands, he has gone away home, and
hears the lark singing above his fathers
fields, and sees his fair haired brother, with
light foot and chldhood's glee, chasing the
butterfly by his native stream And in his
best hours home, his own sinless home, a
home with his Father above that starry skv.
will be the wish of every Christian man.
| He looks around hm-the world is full Of
suffering he is distressed by its sorrows
and vexed with its sins He looks wilbn
hini--he finds much in bis own corruptions
to glicve for In the language of heart
rePelied, gricyed, vexed, he often turns his
eyes upward, saying. :" would not live al
ways" No, not for all the gold of the
worlds mines-not for the pearls Of her
seas not for all the pleasures of her fashv,
frothy cup-not for all the. crowns of her
kingdoms would live here always" Like
"a bird about to migrate TO those sunny lands
where no winter sheds ersnows or strips
the grove, or buds the dancing streams, ho
will often in spirit be plnming his wing for
The hour OF bis, flight to glory Guthrie.
A NtGE young. woman, very genteelly
dressed, left tract, the other day, at tho
honse'ofyaninfdel. who. upon hring asked
| i he would read it. replied Z" Certainly.
madam, with The &, eatest pleasure; but, :"
added he, al am sorry TO see you in such
| business as this-~tho tracts that you carry
to the poor, though donhtless well meant
on your part, cannot relieve their wants and
necessities in this winter weather; but II,
instead Of carrying them such things, you
would only furnish them with bread. or The
means to get ii, you would indeed bean
angel of mercy" 81 don't want none of
your mfdcl doctrines preached to mel" an
swered 'tlie Chrislit,n charlner, as she
slammed the door in HE face,rl ., .'e,'
/ = WHAT is the matter, Uncle Jerry p
said MI -------, as old Jeremiah X. was pass
ing By. gtowlipg most fcrocipuSlg. 4" Mat.
Ter, said the old man; !" I've been luggin'
water all the morpin for Or. C.'s wife TO
wash with, and what dye 'spose got for
it?" - bout, ninepence." :" ~ Ninepence
She told me the doctor would pull a tooth
! for me sometme!' "'t'
Passive through the quiet little village
OF Sa!iop, intlndiana. fellow passenger
pointed out a weather beaten house of wor
ship, as the place where he once heard, on
q rainy occasion, the following prayer from
the Staid preacher: Z" We tha6k thee for
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