Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-18
A Calendar Of Flreside Saints.

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excellent persons very pleasantly, who,
however, are oftener heard of than seen
ST. BETsEY.---St Betscy was wedded to
a knight who sailed with Raleigh and
brought home tobacco, and tlic knight
smoked, But he thought Betscy like other
fine ladies in the court, would fain that he
should smoke out of doors, nor taint with
tobacco the tapestry, Whercpon, the
knight would seek his garden, his orchard
and in any weather smoke sub love. Now,
it Glanced MS the knight smoked, st! Bet
sey came To him and said: My Lord, pray
We come into the house; and the knight
went with St, Bctsey, who took him into a
newly cedared room, and said / pray, my
Lord, henccfortl, smoke here, for is it not
shame that you, who are the chief prop
of your house, should have no place to put
your head into and smoke? Amidst. Bet
Scy led him to a chair, and with her own
fingers filled him pipe; and from that
time the knight sat in the cedar chamber
and smoked his weed
ST. SALIN.--St, Sally, from her child
! hood, was known for her innermost love of
truth. 1t was said of her that her heart
was crystal shrine, and that all the world
might see it, Now, once when other wo-
men denied, or strove to hide their age, st.
Sally said / am five and thirty. Where
nj N, next birthday, st. Sally's husband,
at feast of all their friends, gave her a
necklace of six and thirty opal beadsj and
ON every birthday added bead, until the
beads amounted to four score and one
And the beads seemed to act as "A charm;
for ST. Sally wearing thcsu of her age
about her neck, age never appeared in her
face. Such in the olden time was the re-
ward of simplicity and truth.
ST. PnILLrs.-St. Phiilis was a virgin
of noble parcntagc, but withal as simple as
n shcphcrdess of .curds and cream. She
married Lord and had much pin money
But when other ladies wore diamonds and
lpcarls, st. Phillis only wore red rose in
her hair Yet hcrpin money bought the
best jowelry in the happy eyes of the poor
about her ST. Phillis was rewarded. She
lived until four score, and still carried the
red and white rose in her face, and felt their
fragrance in her memory.
ST. PuGBE.-St. Phoebe was married ear
/ ly to wilful, but withal good hearted hus-
band, He was merchant and would come
nOll0 sour anu StlllCII llOlH w uCES-
upon aftcrmuoh pondcring, St Phoebe, i'm her
patience set to work, and praying the while,
made of dyed lambs wool, a door mat
And it chanced from that time forth, that
never did the husband touch that mat, that
he didn't clean his temper and his shoes,
and he sat down by his Phoebe as mild as
the lamb whose wool he had trod upon
Thus gcntlencss makes miraculous door
mats.
4 ST. LrLLY-St Lilly was the wife of a
poor man, who tried to support his family
and his children were many-by writing
books In those days it was not so easy for
a man to find publisher as to say bis Pa
4 tcrnoster. Many were the books tliatNcro
written by tho husband of st. Lilly, but to
every book St Lilly gave at least two ba-
bics, However, blithe as cricket was the
spirit that ruled about the hearth of st.
lilly And how she helped her holpmate
She smiled sunbeems into his ink bottle,
and turned his goose pen to the quill of a
doyel She made the paper he wrote on as
white as her name and as fragrant as hcl
soul. And when folks wondered how St
Lilly managed so lightly with fortunes trou
blcs, she answered that she never needed
them, for, troubles were like babies, and
only grew bigger BY nursing
PmLosoPnY OF RAIN.-To understand
the philosophy OF this beautiful and Otter
sublime phenomenon, so often witnessed
since the creation Of the world, and so es
sential to the very existence of plants aDd
animals, few facts derived from obscrya
tion and long train Of experiments mus
be remembered
J. Were the atmosphere everywhere, a
all times of uniform temperature, W.
). should never have any rain, or hail, %
; snow. The water absorbed by it in eyapo
ration from the sea andthe earth's surface
would descend in an inperceptible vapor
or cease to be absorbed by the air when i
, was once fully saturated ,..3 ~
2. The absorbing power Of the almos
pbere, and consequently its capacity to re
r tain humidity, is,proportionately greater il
9 warm than cold air.
f The air near the surface Of the earth j
warmer than it is in the region OF, th
Clouds The higher we ascend from tn
earth, the colder do we fiud the atmos
Q phere. Hence the perpetual snow on yer,
' high mountains IN the hottest. climate.
Now, when, from continued evaporation
0 The air is highly saturated with vapo!
though it be Invisible and the sky cloudless
G. its temperature is suddenly reduced by coll
0 currents descending from, above, orrushipi
l.. from, q higher to a.cooler latitude, its ca