Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-23
Speak a Good Word, or Say Nothing atAul


Your brother tho absent a brother is still;
Whercveryou he, or whute'er may bcfall.
Oh speak good word or say nothing at ALL
There are duties We owe when together we're
met. ~.
We arc all of us only too apt to forget;
Be blishe if you will, when the wine-cup is pres,
But plant not q wound in an innocent breast.
Rcbut the foul charge to the sIandercps 3 shame
Who, fend-like, would bIacken anothcr's fair
fame.
Love is sweeter tha,, ,honey-strife bitter os cal,
Then speak IL good word, or say nothing at all
MAJOR Moan on MARRIAGE.-The late
veteran of the press, NJ, NJ Noah, held n,
very racy pen, which threw. off SPARKLING
paragraphs with ny much case 'sas the lion
shakes the dew drops from his maneI'' The
following is one of them: :a.sf.
eve like short courtships. i'm this. Adam
acted like II sensible man--he fell .asleen n
baohelor and awoke to find himself a mar
red man. lie appears to have popped the
question almost immediately after mectinr
Md'ilc Eve, and she, without anv filtration
or shyncss, gave him akiss and her. elf. OF
that first Kiss in this world we have had, how
| ever, our own thoughts and sometimes, inn
poctcal mood, have wished wewerc the man
! what did it, But the deed is done; thc
chance was Adams, and he improved II -
we like the notion OF getting married in n
garden. 1t Is III good taste. We like a pri-
waite wedding. Adams was private. No
cnIious beauX was therc; no croakin,r old
maids no chatting aunts and grumbling
grand-mdthers. The birds of heaven were
mnstreis' and the glad sky flung its light
upon the scene.
"One thing about the first wedding brings
queer things to us, in spite of its Scriptural
truth. Adam and his wife were rather
& f,un 4
old, according to the sagest speculations of
/ t-theologlan$--merc babics--largcr but not
ohcr--wlthout Xperieuce--without q house
without npotor a allettlc--nothing but love
and Eden"
AN ARTLEss RGUMENT.--Naimbanna n
black prince, arrived in England from the
ncighborhood Of Sierra Leone. The gentle
man to whose care he was entrusted took
great pains to convince him that the Biblv is
the word of God, and he received it as such
with great reverence and simplicity. When
he was asked what it was that satisfied him
on this subject, he rcplicd ''When / found
all good men minding the Bible, and calling
tthe word of God, and all bad men dsre-
Salthngl 1T. L then was sure that the Bible
must be what good men call it, tho word of
God"
! GETTING ALL THE LAWYERS ON HIS
-SIpE-Oliyer Ii. Smith gives this incident
IN the early history of lndiana. At the
itush Circuit Court, my friend Judge Per
ry bargalned fora pony for twenty-five dol
lars, to be delivered the next day, on cred
it of six months The man came with the
pony, but required security of the judge
for twenty-five dollars. The Judge drew
the note at the top of sheet of foolscap,
and signed it. Isigncd it, James Barlden
signed it, and handed it on, and on it went
from lawyer to olawycr around the bar, till
some twenty ofus had signed it. L then
handed itup to the Court, and three Jud-
geS put their names to it, Judge Perry
presented it to the man he had bought the
pony OF, but he promptly refused it. "Do
you think L am fool, to let you get thc
Court and all the lawyers on your side .aI
see you intend to cheat inc out of my pony
Up he jumped and ran out of the court
house, mounted the pony and started for
home at full gallop.
On the 1stof August, at the negro eel
ebration, an Irishman stood listening to the
colored speaker expatating upon Govern
ment and Freedom, and as the orator came
on to period from one of tie highest,
most poctical flights, the Irishman said
"l}edad he spakes well for nagur didn't
he now y Somebody said "he isn't ne-
gro-he is only half negro" "Only half
nagur isit? Well, ifa half nagur can
talk in that style, I'm thinking tohole ma
CUR might bate the prophet Jeremiah, y
ETERNITY has no grey hairs. The flow
| ers fade, the heart withers, man grows old
and dies, the world lies down in the sepul.
chrc OF ages but time writes no wrinkles
! c: the bncw Of eternity Eternitv-stu.
pendous thoughts The ever-present, un-
born, undecaying and undying-the end
less chain, comprising the life of God-esthc
golden thread, entwining the destinies of
the universe
Earth has its beauty, but time shrouds
them for the grave it's honors, they are
but the sunshine of an hour; its palaces,
they are gilded sepulchres; its possessions,
they are toys of changing fortunes; it's
pleasures, they are but bursting bubblesk--
NoG so il TIC unsrled bourne In the
dwelling of the Almighty, can come no foot.
steps of decay. It's day will know NO dark.
ening eternal splcndors forbid the ap-
proach of night. It's fountains will never
fall they are fresh from the eternal thsone.
Its harmenies will never cease; exhaustless
love supplies the song. Its glory whitney,
er wane, for there is the ever present God!
4 ----s. -e--.s-A---. + - - - ~ y.
Why WonDsTN THE BIBLE ARE RRINrEp IN
lTALIos.-Those italic wordS generaIly con-
sIst OF the auxiliary verbs, a6 on, are, was.