Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-05
DecidedlY Cool.

months ago lived fair widow, possess .. of
those shining qualities thatlaQst dazzle and
charm the young bachelor She was young,
handsome and very wealthy. Mrs Jack
son took an eastern tour last summer and
was beset by many suitors, ardent and anx-
ious lovers among whom was n Kentucky
lawyer, quite promising man; but so en-
amored did he become of his fair widow,
that he left n lucrative practice at home
and followed her through the entire route
of fashionable travel He met her at Bal
timorc, Philadelphia and New York he
danced with her at Saratoga and Newport;
and when the season was drawing to close,
he happened to be with her at Niagara and
on the Ohio river, and even at st. Louis
when she was almost home He was al
ways pleading professional business as the
reason of excursions here and there; but
he managed to plead his own suit of court
when counting the widow, though he saw no
evidence ola verdict coming in his favor.
At length Mrs. Jackson stepped aboard of
a boat at st. Louis to go up the Missouri to
her own residence, when to her surprise
the udcfatigable advocate presented him
solf, az fresh as a May morning. The wild
ow exclaimed as she met him,
"Why, Mr. Jones, / thought you were
going to return to Louisvilc~
"Alrs. Jackson, my dear madam" re-
piled the lawyer, al am here to renew the
offer Of my hand and to beg your acccp-
tance."
"Rcally, sir, think have been sufi-
cicntly explicit, and that you had no en-
coumgcment to pursue the matter"
"But hoped, madam, that my devotion
"a, 4 |,
ed"
"Do you mean, then" said the widow,
evidently softcned, chat you really had no
other business in going this journey with
me than to prosecute this suit ?'
"Nonc in the world, but the hope of win
ming you"
"Thcn you shall be rewarded" she re-
piled, with merry twinkle in her roguish
beautiful eyes, which the lawyer mistook
for a swectcr passion ''then my dear sir,
! you shall be rewarded. Tell me now as u
! gentleman, how much money have you spent
! on-this totr ~
| "Do you really wish TO know %
"Certainly i do"
| Mr. Jones took out his note book, and
soon reported that he had spent five hun
/ drod dollars
"Wcll," said the lovely widow, ~ do not
wish amy one TO lose by me, extending her
purse to the lawyer.
"Why, what do mean, Mrs. Jackson 2"
! 81 mean what ] say; take it, and pay
yourself for your summers work on my ac-
| count, and let us be quits"
Aud he did take it and the widow had to-
borrow money to get home The widow
was taken abacl by the lawyers cool ac-
ccptmcc of the gold; but he consocd him
self with the idea that if she would not be
his bride, she VAS at least fair game.
MANS DESTINY The appearance of
man upon the scene of being constitutes u
new era in creation; the operators of new
instinct come III phly--that instinct which
anticipates life after the grave and imposes
implicit faith upon God alike Just and
good, who is the pledged t'rewardcr of all
who diligently seek Him And in look
ing along the line of bcng--cvcr rising in
the scale higher toyct cthighermanifcstatio
or abroad OH the lower animals, whom in
stinct never dcceivcs-can we hold that
man, immcrsurably higher in his hopes and
! aspirations than ali that ever went before
him, should be, notwithstanding, the one
grand error in creation painful worker,
IN the midst of present troubles, for state
| INTO which he canscnter-the befooed ex-
pcctant of happy future which he is nov
er to see Assmedly no. He who keeps
faith @itli his humble creatmcs-whogiy giyes
even the bee and the dormouse the winter
for which they prcpare-will to a certainty
not break faith with man--with man, IL
like the dcputed lord of the present creation,
and the chosen heir of all the future. We
have been looking abroad on the geologic
bulying grounds, and deciphcring the
strange inscriptions on their tombs, but
there are burying grounds, and other toinbs
solitary church-yards among the hills,
whore the dust of martyrs lie, aud tombs
+ that rise over the ashes ofthewisc and good :,
nor are wanting, on even the monuments
OF the persisted race, frequent heroglyphics
and symbols of high meaning, which dark
ly intimate to us, that while their burial
yard contain but the debris of the past, we
arc to regard the others az charged with tho
S0wn seed of the future. - Ha9h Mi1ter.
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INDCsrRY.--Eyory young man should
remember that the world has and always
will honor industry. The vulgar and use
less idler, whose energies of body and mind
are rusting forwqntof eNcrcise--the mis-
taken bciug who purSues amusement as a
relief to his cnervated muscles, OF engages
IN exercises that produce no useful end,
I l.. l. ~ II