Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-22

| About ten minutes after this Uncle Jerry
made the following sensible remark:
Why, bless nay soul we arc acting like
two foolsl''
The widow only smiled and seid--
:. Two very happy ones, amt woW
Bless my soui---we aroP'.
On The following day, Jack happened to
pass near the widows house, and he dropped
in. In few moments he was the happiest
fellow imaginable.
But" said Susan, earnestly, "don't mis-
understand me. have loved your uuclc4-r
and loved him welland truly, aud bolieve
he loved me, but dared not say so- Had lit
not been thus, | could not have done this. "A
would hare helped you dil5the same by SIM
| ply and fatty refusing ,yOu; bubd could mot
! have toye'l or trihcdYitir him. ) lie is good
man, Jac!i---a good man, e=r :; =
! o-,'' So he is" ropliedr.Tpnis. and thon he
1 went home,e. ;ls fr g -. -
The youtk, fonnJ his uncle IN theriibrafy
| with II book IA his hand-said book being
! bottom-ond up. lie oat down and pccptd
! SSicl5cGly out of the corners of his eyes, while
avery ilEmanncred smilekept playing around
the corners CT his mouth. - '''@.:
"What ere you winkifig and blinking, and
squirting and grinning atrSou young tlog?"
asked the old captain; with .trcnionaons fc
| rocity. - -
al WAS thinking Of story I once read,2p
returned Jack, quietly. Sc
ga story, ci. What isit, you scapograce?"a
N,'%I'A tell you unclcp said tho nephew,
With the srnile and the twinkle more wicked
| thar ever. cit was'a very 'fnny thmg-it
| the funniest thing overheard Of A man
once went TO set a trap in which to catch
very respectable and honorable young friend
ofhis. lie had got tlictrap all nicely set as
he supposed, when-Twhat DO you think ?',
bat, what, you graccless rNscal?"
z" why uncle, when the thing vas all fixed
there was tho funniest thing happened you
ever heard of. Instead. of catching Ei;s fes-
pcctable, high minded yopng, ,friemd, the old
fellow got .nabbcd himself, in fact ne got
cdngM m has Q,cn hapl- Wasn't it" So, -
ont i,E Gsf out & OF nS my house you young scamp
" But, uhclc-whcn come buck ihdYb'tI
bring Lizzie with me to sec and participate in
your new and deep felicity 2"
!" IT you'll be DECENT; you daring young
villain. YOU may bring the Queer of slatterns
herself; but beware how you offend me |! /
con'tboar everything | Won't put up
with it! Tll-Pll=Skick you out OF Ioors
you ungratcful traitor p,
After this cvotycsencc, Uncle Jorry's soul
settled down toaclcar, placid calm; and when
L'@ziG, brown finally Appeared before hun, he
actually kissed her, and said she wins lust
the girl for his .rlscollS nephew.
Anlin few weeks thereaftcr Uncle .Jor-
ry had "a, wedding party. lie was luurFied
irst and then sat down and saw Jack mar
rGd. -;
"There," said the happy old fellow. after
the thing was all over, asahe approached his
nephew aud handed him a paper, '+ Thnre is
something tomakeup, for the lose YOU haze
sustained in letting me rob you of the best
woman in the world;i :. =, ..-,' ~ f,
Jack 'opdned the missive, and read il with
tears inrhis eyes, for it was certified check
for twcnty 1--WE thousand dollars within a. lit
tlcnotc attached, saying that. if he behaved
himself might at.somcf future time have moro.
, a BEAUTIFUL, PARAGRAPik The man
who stands on .his own sod, whofecls that
by tho lawS "f !l% S;li, Il; ii w,ie.. nc lives
, by the law of civilized nptions-he is tic
rlgehtftu and exclusive owner o., thps soil lie
tlils, is By the constitution Of our nature
[ under wholesome influence not easily im.
bibed by any other source. He feels, 9th
! er things being equal, more strongly than
another, the character Of AMMAN as a lord of
the inahimate world, ofthis great and Won.
derfnl sphere which, Fashioned BY tue hand
Of Cod and ppheld by his power, is rolling
Z. through the heavens, a. part. ef llis7-his
from the centre to thesky. tits the space
, on which the gcnaratiou before moved in
its round of duties, and he feels himself
connected by q link with those who follow
/ him, and to whom he IS to tran$mita home.
Perhaps farm has, down to him, from
his tqtherS. They haye gone. to their last
! home! but he ,oan trace thoirfootsteps oter
thesscenes,of >hissdaily- labers. The roof
, which shelters him, was reared by those to
whom he owes his being, Some interesting
domestic tradition is connected .fith every eve y
enclosure phc! EyoFitc treeywas planted
: by his fathol's hand Tie spoitcd in boy
hood beside the brook, which still winds
! through the meadow Through the fields
/ lies sthe path to the village scb66l of earlier
days. Hc still hears from the. open window
t, the voice of the Sabbath bell which called
+. his father to hhe House, Of God; and near
at hand is the Place where his parents laid
down to rest, and, where, when his time
! shall come, he lsbalff 55 laid BY his children.
These are the feelings of the owner of tic
soil. Words eannobpaint tlenr; thcyfioNwy
!. out of the d" post fodptains Of tile heart (;
they arc thelife$pring Of, N fresh; healthy
and general national iohmac arl--s71sfuarT4
Ee0en. t '}'i't--s
Mr.. SKINPLINTs ,GoopNgssc-<A When
!, Mr.. Skihint, oflBeanSille, died, there WAS
,,s quite sensation In town about Il. J'Ro
bell was toilcd ana the only flag in town. -
! that which bclon0ed to tho Tavern. -a.,ras