Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-08
Good Night and Pleasant Dreams.

When evening lays its misty hand,
On dowy fowrs and prattling streams
How sweet to hear from lips we love,
Good night good night and pleasant dreams.
How sweet to hear from lips we love,
Good night, good night, and pleasont dreams,
o bitter isthes sexile's fate, s. ~.
Who@auders from his peaceful cot;
Ne gentle WisK or soothing word, 5..S.,.
Can miugle in lislonely lot, ~.
On some still bank of moss Apd aowrs
Beneath the. stars incohstapt beams,
How sweet TO hear from lips we love- y -.
Good night good night and pleasant dreams,
How sweet te. hear from lips we love, ;..'
Good night good night, and pleasant flFeqps.
Losing Aha Family Scene,
There is something exceedingly tender,
as we'll as instptctiye,.n the following,
which we take from the Ghild's paper. :
A.few days ago, a merchant faded hi 4
business. Ife went homo one evening, iuI
great agitation. f'What is the Inatter2'N
asked his,wifcy ~ amsiuined :. / am betr-
CARED j have lost.my alls!R he. e&claim-
ed, pressing his hand upon his forehead us
| ifhis brain were in whirl.
"Alll" said his wife sIs am LEFT. ~
''all, papa~ said his eide boy; ohore
am kP ''And l, too, papa, said his little
| Sirb running up and putting her arms
around his neck. "I not lost; papa,, y re-
pcated little Eddie. "And you have your'
health left, said his wife y"&nd your two
hands torwork WITH papa," said, his eldest,
''andsI eouAclp you" "AndyouE two feet,
papa, to carry you about" "And your
two eyes to see with, pppa,P said Iitte Ed,
! die. s - ,r.,,. 81,
"And you have Gods promises" said
grandmother. ~ s' - .v.,H ,. A."
''And ygood eod;,' said his wife.---
"And heaven to go to" said his little girl.
"And Jesus who camo to fetch us there"
| saidihis eldest s. Il
FtfSod forgive me,p said the poor NOR
chant, bursting into tears. 81 have not
| lost my ALL What are the few thousands
which / have called my all; to these more
precious things which God has left me p,
| and he claspod his, family to his bosom, and
he kissed his wife and children, with n
thankful heart .~ n
All no, there are many things more pre-
. cious than gold and bank stocks, valuable
as they may bein their place When the
! Central America was foundcring at sea,
\ bags and purses of gold were strewn about
the deck as worthless as Che mercst rubbish
life, life p was the prayer 70 some of
1 the wretched survivors, "Water water %
was the, cry "Bread, bread p it wis
worth its weight. in gold, If gold could have
bought it.
Tie loss Of GOLD mustno cloud the mind
with a wicked forgetfulnesS of the greater
blessings which are left behind No man
should despair for no man has lost his all
until he has lost his integrity, lost the mer-
| Gy of God, and lost his, hope Of heaven at
( last. ~" 1t
NOBLE SEETIMENrs,- ,--Cqndcmn.no man
! for not thinking as. you think. Let every
one enjoy the fall and free liberty OF think
ing, for himself. Let every man use his
! own Judgment, since every man must give
an account of himself to Cod sAbhor'ev-
! cry approach, in any kind of degree, to the
/ spirit,of prosecutions, Ifyou cannot reason
or persuade man into the truth, never at
tempt to force Hin intoit. Iflo4e will not
compel him, leave him to God, the Judge
Of aIl,-Jote W:s@!y. 80
/ ANsold topper WAS induced to sign the tenn,
/ peranoe pledge, which he kept religiously for
! some weeks. AT last he got decidedly balhty
| and oHe Of his friends renibnstrated with him
for his faithlessness to his obligatioue He
| ahSNtIcu' Ff1o5Dc' sure, 1SlSD ed tho pledge,
but wastremondously dry and alIsiyps fail
| in dry time" "..,, 81; :. - ,-,.. ,, ,r,
| TnE ordinary ratosof speed is: 0fatlcbtor
1 with sheriff Mt his heels. II miles per hour.
| Osa teapot; at anoid maids soirce; l5 Of
] y bottle, at copyiYal meeting, 81, OF n scan
dal, going the .circnit Of q small country town,
DO, =
+ S,AGooDiWIFNEss,-r ~" Did the.defendant
knock tho. plaintiff down with malice. pre-
penSe2" .Ho, ;sirj he knocked him down.
with, a$Aat. iron.". "Yo,l misunderstood,
4 me, ny friend;l Iwant to know whether lie /
attacked him with anyevil INTENT "Oh,
no, sir; it was outside the tent" ttNo, mo,
wish you to tell-me whether the attack
was at all a pree0ncerted affair."f stSo,
sirj t@as not free concert affair ia 10 40 7,i d
| circuspa ,.aa eat0A ~ * \
/ 5.ApYERsITY,-rAh, Sam, so you've scen
troubles eli? eyes, Jem, yes" "Woll, /
! well, cheer up, man, adyersity tries us and
| shows up our better 9uali6es.p ~Ah,
| but aayersity didn't try me !; it was tho
county Judge, and he showed up my worst
! points"
BE CONTENTS T-a'' / never coinplaihed Of
my condition; ''ssays the Persian poet Sadi,
'Fbut once, when my feet were bare, and /
| had no money to buy shoes; but met a.
man without feet, and became content & .Sh
| my lot" ct =
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