Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-11
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| had prayed SO long to see %as there before
me. Inevef knew the meaning of happi4
uess till that ipomcnt calne.
Many years have passed since that happy
night, aud the hair that WAS dark and CLOS
sy then is fast turning gray. am grow
ing to be an old man, aud can look back to
q long, happy, and | hope well spentlife
And yet, sweet as it has been, Il would not
recall single day, for the love that made
my maohood SO bright, shines also upon
my white hairs.
An old man. Can this be so. AT heart
| am as young as ever. And Mary, with
her blight hair parted smoothly from
brow tina mas slight furrow upon it, and
still the Mary Of my early days. To me
she can never grow old, nor change. The
heart that hold her in the flush and beauty
of womanhood, can never cast her out till
life Shall cease to warm it Not even then
for love still lives there.
THE GRAVE OF Henry CLAY.-The ed
itor of the Presbyterian being on visit to
Kentucky, thus writes to his paper concern.
ing the grave of the lamenled Clay:
From the spot where Henry Clay lived
| 1T is natural to pass 10 the resting place of
his mortal remains. On an eminencv. n
short distance from Lexington, in beautiful
cemetery, adorned with that exquisite wood.
land aud verdue which characte rises this
region, rest the honored dust. Here after
that memorable and imposing funeral march
through mourning towns and cities from the
Federal Capitol where he breathed his last
TO the home where he was accustomed TO
repose from the toll and strife of public af.
fairs, hlsmortal remains were laid to sleep
the long sleep when the work of life was
done. Al present the spot is only marked
| by the turfed hillock which covers the grave:
but his old friends and neighbors are about
erecting noble monumental shaft, which
will be alike crediiable 10 their liberality,
patriotism and good taste, and appropriate
TO the office for which il is reared.
1t is to be Of Kentucky stone, one bun
dred and twenty five feet high, surmouutpd
by statue Of the deceased and provided
with vault at the base, in which will be
placed a sarcophagus, containing the ~.
mains On such spot ms this, one can
scarcely help moralising on the transitory
and evanescent nature of all human disinc-
tions and allearthly fame Yonder in front
OF that court house, in the adjacent city, is
| where assembled mutitudes were first cleo.
trted by that lofty and graceful oratory,
which was destined to entrance a nation.-
| In the years which intervened between that
frst unfolding of his gifts and the hour
when his voice was hushed in death, what
honor and renown were won And vet,
bright as may be the halo which these earth
y achievements cast around his memory,
what is al the glitter of this worlds glory
to the eye that is sealed in death How
unspeakably more important the glory that
never fades away!
COOP Common SENsH--A New Eng,
land lady thus discourses on down.trod
den women"
Believe me, we (women) are not so much
| slaves to the tyranny of husbands, dinners,
children and servants as 10 ourselves and
false social customs. We are afraid Of each
other, We don't live in reference to com.
fort, or to our own means, but to what peo-
Pile say Of us or think of us, and to overlop
this one or the other have seen and
known women, fitted to adorn auy soc ty
IN this country or any other, that did their
own work, took care Of their own children,
kept bright hearth stones and happy hus
bands, and found time to keep up with the
current literature, write memorandum and
copy poetry. 1t not necessary, but arti-
ticiAl labor that makes our women drudpes.
Eternal house cleaning, beginning in March
and lasting till May-again in September,
and lasting till Thanksgiving. 1t is pride
of appearance, of being thought good livers
and crack house keepers-for, let woman
say what they will, they are as jealous OF
this as poets or politicians of each other.
RISING IN THE WORLD. You should
bear constantly in mind that nine ,enths of
us are, from the very nature and necessities
OF the world, born to gain our livelihood by
the sweat of the brow. What reason have
we, then, to presume that our children are
MOTTO do The same? lfthey be, as now
and then one will be, endowed with extra
ordinary powers Of mind, those powers may
have an opportunity, the harm is not very
great to us or to them. Nor does il hence
follow that the descendants of laborers are
always TO be laborers. The path upward
is steep and long, TO be sure. Industry,
care, skill, excellence, in the present parent,
lay tile foundation OF n rise, under more fa-
vorabIe circumstances, for the cbiluren.-
The children of these lake another rise and
by and by the descendants of the present
laborer become gentlemen. This is the
natural progress. 1t is by attempting to
reach the top at a single leap that SO much
misery is produced in the world ; and the
propensity to make such an attempt has
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