Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-09-19

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From voiuest fancics-and most kindly wrought
On the affections which had else run wild,
Unframed by meet denial of their thirst
| What, though / held the yesterday accursed
believe me not the vain an erring child
Still to remember Christening by its pain,
More than its uses True that to my home
Thou hast brought grief, and often left it
gloom;
But, do not of thy deed complain,
Is proof that they havc done not bootloss part
Have hurt my house, pcrchancc, but hcp'd my
heart
ALWAYS FINDING FAULT.-There are
certain people who cannot live without find
ing fault. No matter what subject, orper-
son comes up in the course of conversation.
they start some frivolous objection, or make
some censorious remark. Instead of try
ing to be in charity with their neighbors,
they take malicious pleasure in speaking
evil about them. They obstiuatcly shut
their eyes to good qualities; while they
employ microscopes to discover aud magni-
fy evil ones; and afterwards they torture
language to exaggeratc what they have
seen, so as to depreciate as much as posi-
Bile. They do not, however, always speak
out boldly. But they deal in inuendoes,
in hints, and in ominious shakes of the
head. Instead offrankly assailing in front,
they aSsasSinatc behind the back Prac-
tically, they persuade others that all men
arc 50 evil, that there is not even a chance
of reform. Even in acts incontestibly
good, they pretend to find latent scl6shncss.
They spend their lives in defling human
nature, like the foul Yahoos whom the sa.
tirist has depicted. To believe them, there
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rest of mankind being knaves, brutcs or de-
wills.
The proverbial fault finder little thinks
that, in censuringso so maliciously and indis-
crlminately, he is only painting his own
portrait. 1T is a secret consciousness of his
dement's, gnawing rage at the superiority
of others, which is the real cause of his
want of charity, the principal inducement
to his abuse. His own heart is the mirror
from which he describes mankind The
best men have been those invariably who
spoke the most kindly of their race The
great type of all manhood, whose perfect
humanity is the admiration even of Pagans
and Atheists, never spoke in benignant
terms, having charity even for "publicans
and sinners" It's to his precept that we
hood. In the ideal of the fallen Lucifcr,
we have, on the contrary, the incarnation
of malice, hate, SANDER, ill-will and evil
speaking. AS the one is said to have como
to bring "peace and goodwill to men," so
the other first de6led the fair creation with
strife, and sowed "war among the hosts of
heaven" We never hear profcssed fault
finder, but our thoughts recur to his type
We never listen to the benefcent language
of one who is in charity with his race, with
out feeling that he is advancing more and
more to "thc perfect man"
New MILL.-We learn that gentle
man from Columbia has recently purchas-
ed lot near the spot selected for the depot
of the Blue II. Railroad, and intends to
erect thereon, in short time, a Steam
Flour and Grist Mill. Our District has
long needed something of the kind, and we
believe that the cntcrprising owner ofsuch
mill will be amply compensated for the
risk and expense ofits erection. The large
quantity of wheat now in the District is
more than can be ground for months TO
come by the mills now in operation. But
few days ago we were informed by the
owner of mill about six miles from this
place, that persons were hauling wheat to
his mill from all parts of the District and
that in many cases they had to take it away,
owing to the fact that they could not hope
to get it ground in reasonable time. A
good steam mill would soon remedy this
state of things, and We hope soon to sec it
in opcration.-4ndcrson CarOIint@.
OYsTERs.-The process by which oys-
tcrs make their shells is a singular phcnom
cnon in natural science a London oys
tcrman can tell the age of his flock to a
nicely The age of this biyalvc is not to
be found out by looking into his mouth
1t bears its years upon its back Every
body who has handled an oyster shell must
have observed that it seemed as if compos
ed of successive layers or plates overlapping
each other. These are technically called |
"shoots," and each of them make a years
growth, so that by counting them, tho year
when the creature came into the world can
at once be determined Up to the time
OF its maturity, the shoots are regular and
successive, but after that time they become
irregular, and are piled one over the other,
so that the shell becomes more thickened |
and bulky. Judging from the great thick
ness to which oyster shells have attained,
this molluse is capable, if left to it's natural
changes unmolested, of attaining patri-
archal longevity.
LOVE FOR THE DEAD.-The love that
survives the tomb says Irving, is one of
the mobiles, attributes of the sonI. Ifit has