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

hlulhS Ill stage, snort time since
over the hills of Western Pennsylvania,
asked the privilege of riding out with the
driver. This, in pleasant weather, and in
a strange country, is my favoritc scat
Many consider it disgrace to sit with the
driver; but often find philosophy guiding
the horses of public stage. If n passen-
ger politely asks the privilege of riding out
with the driver, it viii be as politely grant
ed; and no situation is so favorable for
learning the local and most interesting his
tory of the country through which the trav-
cller is passing
That near horse" said l, ''is fine an
imal."
"Ycs," said he, "if [ had his mate,
money could not buy them How old do
YOU think he is ?'
Probably eight or nine" said I.
"Hc is twenty-four," said he 81 have
driven him nine years on this route His
mate was just like him they have grown
up together and stood in the same stable
NoperSon ever appeared to think more of
a friend or even child, than those horses
did of each other. If one was absent for u
night or day, the other whincd, and looked
and moved about the stable, calling for his
abscnttriend. "Lastwinter" said he, "his
mate died. Since then, he has been con
stntly mournful and unhappy. lie is
constantly calling for his mate, when in the
! stable; and he will not permit any other
horse to occupy the place of his companion
IN the stable. In all other places he is uui-
etand gentle, but will allow no one to be
compauionat the stable where o las so often
enjoyed the society of his companion. But
he is failing fast, . said my friend; che is
evidently pining away with grief; and poor
old Jim will soon Join his mate in another,
and | hope and believe, in higher state
of existence"
Why" said I, "do you suppose horse
has u conscious existence after death 2"
Certainly | do" said he, "I have the
same evidence of it have that | shall ex-
ist Have love? So has a horse. Have
affection, sympathy, memory, mind, rca-
son? SO has horse. Call it instinct, if
you please, L call it reason. True, horse
has not the organ of mathematical calcula-
ton but many human beings are as dcs-
tltute of them as the horse and certainly
they are not necessary for future exist
cnce. 1t is the moral faculties that will
survive the grave. In those" said he,
sold jim is prc-cmincnt. Does any one
strive to do his duty? jim is pattern of
dutlful obedience. Does any one rcmcm-
Der, and mourn for his lost loved ones {?
Poor old jim is going down sorrowng to
the grave for his loved mate"
Here my companion brushed tear from
his eye, as he rcincd up to the post office in
Mercer county, and delivered his mail.
Prairie Ftumcr.
DoEsTICKs IN BosToN.-Thc famous
"Doesticks' has furnished the New York
Pcayunc an account of his visit to Boston,
from which the following extracts are made /:
Nnety-ninc extra-sizcd anglc-worms To-
comoting at high-prcssure speed about
garden walk o. showcry afternoon, and
being gporpetually turned back when they
get to the edge, and compelled to cross
each others trail in innumcrable directions,
would, if the ground were soft and their
very footstep plainly visible, draw on the
grdcn-wall aforesaid tolerably accurate
map of the city of Boston. 1t is crookcder
than nine acrcs'of rams horns and has
more corners than a cord of cross cut saws.
You see your friend, and you call out,
" Jones, wait minute" and you start to
see Jones, thinking he is just across the
street.
Misguided man far-distant Jones! You
climb nine hills, and turn ninety corners
before you get within hailing distance of
Jones again.
The streets look as if they had been made
somewhere else, and dumped here in huge
tangle, and nobody had never taken the
trouble to straighten them out again. 1t
looks as if som ebody had been building a
lot of cities by contract and the Job hadn't
come out even, and he had thrown down
mis- remnants of streets and odd ends of al
cys, and little shipped off bits of lanes aud
avenues, and called it Boston. If any
street in the town should be cut straight
mile in any direction, it would 90 through
dozen private parlors and forty y-live public
music halls, La fact Boston looks as if
the frst-ratc material for an excellent city
had been melted and poured through soivc
on hill side and left to cool
IDroTs.-Idiocy is arrested develop
ment There is, in all cases, deficiency
of brain, a low physical organization. The
humane and accomplished Dr. Wilbur says,
that out of class Of twenty pupils only
three could count ten Their almost uni
vcrsai fault was gluttony. Their great
want is the want of attention. Many can
not talk; it often requires two or three
years to enable them to utter a single word
distinctly. In almost all cases home treat
mcnt only confirms the maady In three
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