Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-07-03
Curious RHYMES.

What Is earth, sexton? a place to dig graves
What is earth, rich man2 \ place to work slaves;
What is certh, gray-bcard A place to 6, ow old;
What is earth, misorg A place TO dig gold;
What is earth, school-boyg A place formy play;
What is earth maiden A place 20 be gay;
What iseNrth, soamstrcss? place whore weep;
what is earth, sluggard; a good place to sleep;
What is earth, soldier A place for battle;
What is earth, herdsmam! A place toraisc cattle;
What is earth, widow: A place of true sorrow;
What isearth, tradcsman? rntcn you tomorrow;
What is earth, sick man? lis nothing to me;
What is earth, sailor! My home is the sea-
What is earth, statesman! \ place to win fame
What is earth. authorY III write theremy name;
WHAT'S earth, monarch? For my realm It's givcni
What is earth, monarch! The gateway Heaven.
BEAUTIFUL CoMpARISoN.-At the re-
cent anniversary of Baptist Publication So
cicty, the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Baltimore
made most felicitous speech. Abiding
to the books, tracts, &c, of the Society, and
to show what their publications were to ac-
complish, lie related the following as an H.
luStration
| a man once stood beneath tree, and in
Its branches above saw two birds, which,
| from their actions, seemed to be in great
distress. He presently discovered nest,
| from which the heads of several little birds
were protruding with open mouths, to re
ccivc their accustomed nourishment. A
snake was vending it way slowly towards
this little family, and just as it had APP
preached so near as to whet its tongue a
moment before pouncing upon its prey, one
of the parent birds came soaring on rapid
wing, bearing in its beak a leaf, which it
quickly deposited across its young, and then
flew to its mate upon an adjacent limb,
whore the two sat with apparent unconcern
The leaf, as the speaker said every farmer
knew, was poison to the snake; but the
bird and the snake knew this by instinct
and no sooner had the latter discovered the
leaf than it rcccdcd from the murdcrous
design with all possible haste.
The point of natural history involved in
this, is in itself worth repeating; the ap-
! plication of the anecdotc was simply this ::
We, it was said, had tens of thousands
of littlo birds all around us exposed to the
snakes of temptation, and the leaves of the
books which our society is publishing, were
the antidotc recommended to shield them
from the dangers with which they were
constantly threatened.
MEN who make II profession of religion arc
watched with closer eyes than they imagine.
1t is every word true, what q certain preach
CT said in one ofhis sermons:
" The world is very kecn-sightcd it looks
through the excitement of your religious
meetings, quietly watches the zcst of your
scandal, scans your conscicntiousncss, and
the question which the world keeps putting,
pcrtinociously, is, Are these men in carncstY
Is it any marvel if Christian unrcnity is the
subject of SCOTS and bitter ronv?"
No, 1T is not any marycl aud protesting
Christians have only themselves to blame tha;
it is so.
IIE FEMALE SLAVES OF LONDON
The London Weekly Times says that the
young mllincrs and dress-makcrs of that
city arc condemned to sixteen, seventeen
OF eighteen hours of toll ont of the twenty
four in each day and night Their work
Is carried on in crowded, unventilatcd rooms
where their frames are kept bent at thcil
labor until their eyes ache and their limb,
refuse to perform their duty They have
, a short and painful life and an early grave
, In recent speech, Lord Shaftosbury sale
that many of these young women had beer
trained gently and tendcrly, in delicate anc
happy homes, possessing all the virtues
; and tenderness that belong to the femal,
sex, and rendered by those very character
istics more obcdicnt, more unmurmurinc
more slayishly subject to the authority anC
tyranny of those who are put over them
His lordship adds that they have no alter
native between submission and the stree
t door, and then asks, sis the condition O
c such young woman one whit better thar
! the condition of the most wrctchcd slave il
!! the Southern States of America ?" 4
. question to be asked.
BREAKING on A WnEEL.-This horri
: mode of execution was originated in Ger
? many about the fourteenth century, whcnc
!, it was introduced into France, but was con
fined to the punishment of the most afro
cious criminals. In Germany the malcfac
/! tor was bound upon cart wheel and hi
$ limbs fractured by the cxccutioncr with a
f iron bar. But in France the criminal be
= ing bound to st. Andrews cross, an
: his limbs broken, if still alive, was place
. upon small wheel, with his face upward
and his legs and arms bent under him, an
there left, in agony, to expire. Sometimes
! however, the exccutioncr, after breaking
: : was permitted to kill him by blow on til
e breast, thence called a coup de grace.
: ANCIENT SmoEs.-The shoes found i
i tho sepulcllral chamber of the Mummy, dix
, covered in the Short Cave, neighbor {
+ the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky in 1915
$ were made of wrought bark, reseinbln
: South Sea Island cloth. The needles use
= in the making of these shoes. which wor