Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-29

Makes every man look like n beari
But FANNY, who no thought can ictter,
Blurts out, "thc more like bears the better,
Because" her pretty shoulders Struggling,
Bears arc such glorious Chaps for orhugging.",
TRUsTING TO PRovIDENcE.--Onc; of
those stitf-nockcd puritanical missionaries,
who sometimes wandcrawa ''down South"
and take sly chances of endeavoringto to en-
tighten the bcnighted darkics of that re-
glon, was riding along one Sunday morning
III the neighborhood of a wealthy planters
negro quarters, when to his horror he spied
Cudjo hooing small potato patch. Stop
ping his horse at the fence, he addressed
him thus:
only poor unfortunate colored brother, is
it possibl that your cruel master compcls
you to labor on the Lords holy day."
"Oh, no, massa stranger, my massa's
good man; he glib niggcr far chance glib
him garden for hisscf Dis all mine !"
looking around with importance upon his
little property.
"Worsc and worsc" exclaimed the 9th
cr rollingup his eyes "Thc ignorance of
Egyptian bondage. Has he never taught
you the sinfulness of working on the S&b-
bath p
"Ncll, you sec, massa stranger, nobbcr
know fore twas sin fur niggcr to hoe his
own taters Sunday" said Cudjo, scratching
his head.
"a great sin, my colorcd brother; how
can you expect the Lord to bless YOU. if
you break his commandments ?"
"What nigger gwine to do for tatcrs,
dcn'?' asked Guido, somewhat puzzled.
Trust to P;ovidcncc, my unfortunate
friend"
"Dar! dar YOU done made mistake dat
time, massa stranger Dat Providence is
dclazicst nggor ON splantaton he don't
obor hoe his own 'tatcr patch Yah YAH.
yah Providence, ch p
The missionary rode off in disgust, the
more promptly, perhaps, as he spied some
gentlemen coming down the road
a WOMAN has no natural grace more be-
wltchng than sweet laugh. 1t leaps
from her heart in a clear sparkling rill and
the heart that hears it feels bathed in the
cNhllaroting spring. 1t turns the prose of
her life into poetry; it filings flowers of
sunshine over the daTksomc wood in which
we are travelling; it touches with light even
our sleep, which is no more the image of
death, but is consumed with dreams that
are shadows ofimmortality.
Why are sheep the most dissipatcd and
unfortunate of animals? Because they
gambol in their youth, frequent the turf,
are very often blacklcgs, and arc universal
ly hccccd.
TIE fellow who put the thing in a nut
shell, found it cracked day or two after
wards.
GENTITLTY is said to be eating meat
with silver fork when the butcher has not
been paid
a GOOD action is never thrown away,and
perhaps that is the reason why we find so
few of them.
\ Thrifty housewife thinks men ought
to be useful-thcy might as we'll be smo-
king hams as smoking cigars.
CcRTAINtN no beings ever yet lived the life
nature intended them to live, nor had fair
play for heart and mind, who contriycd, by
hook or by crook-to marry the wrong per-
son!
DaOP by drop falls into the clear we'll
spring Of youth the bitter water of expert
cncc, and there is no filter this side of the
crave that can restore the OIL nnrity.
y STRONG man without q sight, rich man
without generosity, and talented man with
out honesty, and a handsome woman without
prudence, must make good men sad
THERE never was an unhappy old maid vet
who would not have been equally unhappy
as wifc-and more guilty, for she would
have made two people miserable stead Of
one.
THE best line to lead a man with, is said
to be Crino-linc.
SOME landlords are in the habit of laying
an extra fork across the plates of their dclin-
4ucnt boarders, as much as to say I" fork
over" In
The Cashiers Valley Turnpike.