Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-02

cauEiit. But 10 and behold, the pot was
stronger than he was, and dragged him nil
across the room up to the window, and if
ne mad not lot go its leg, would surely have
flown off with him. 'Oh, we'll lust YOU
wait, my good pot, said the baron; you
haze got away this time; but you shall not
make a goose of me again
| "The next night. as soon as ever the pot
entered the room on its three copper legs,
and scrapcd togcthe~ the money, the baron,
who was a stout, heavy man, clapped him.
self down upon it, and bursting out laugh
ing, sad IN taunting tone, Now, my
lad, sec what you can do But the DOT
minded him no more than if he had been
feather, and, while the baron was fain TO
hold tight on by its sides, few out of the
window with him, over field and meadow.
over stock and stone, and did not stop un.
til 1T stood still below the widow chimney
piece.
60 Why what's come to the pot p cried
the widow it has brought the baron :
ana she and hcrson were terribly frichten-
ed when they saw the lord of the manor sit
ting there amongst the ashes AS soon as
the baron had recovered breath enough to
speak, he exclaimed, Oh, you wicked wo-
man, will have you and your son lun,.
and burnt Soft is your pot that has bccn
fobbing me every day, and breaking open
my, money box In vain the widow and
iloIgar protested they knew not where the
pot got the things it brought them. There
the baron sat, boiling with passion, and re-
iusing to listen toa word Hold him
fast, Pot said lIolgar, when he saw the
baron trying to get up; if you mean to
revenge yourself in that manner, YOU shall
SIT there forever No sooner had he said
1t than the baron found himself so tightly
glued to the pot that he could not, though
he tried with all his strength, gGt-frce of it.
lie tuggcd, and tuggcd, until he and the
pot both rolled over ON the floor together,
and Holgar and his mother stood by, LAUGH.
ing until their sides achcd When the ba-
ron found that all his strength was of no
use, he stopped rolling about, and said, set
me so, good people, and will not punish
you at all
t"' That will not do, said Holgar; Il
Will have the lease of my fathers former
house, and you must supply me with hor-
ses, and COWS, and sheep and all things ne.
ccssaiy for a farm.
No. no. !. roarcd the baron, writing
and twisting himself about as he SPOKE
No that | never will; will die first =
"' Ah F! WELL said lIolgar, never is
long day. You may sit there and think
about IT Sohe put on his hat, and went
out OF doors. But he had hardly been gone
above a quartcr,or an hour When his. moth
en- came running after him, and called him
nos fl,,,l I
he told him he would consent TO all lie ask
ed Then lIolgar sent for some of the neigh
bors, and put it all down on paper, and
made the baron sign it, and then told him
he might get up and go home as soon as he
pleased So he arose, and SUNK home,
quite ashamed OF himself grinding his teeth
for very anger, and vowing yenpeance.-t
However, he was so afraid of IIolgar and
his pot, that IL thought it best to keep his
word, anu let himand his mother alone for
the future. Perhaps, had he known the
truth, he might have behaved less well;
for the very day that he fulfilled his con,
tract, and put Ilolgar and his mothcr,in
possession of the farm, the copper pot, great
ly to Holgar's grief, Disappeared. But no
doubt h"was better Without it !, for odd
ways of getting things are generally wrong
ways, and the enchanted pot might not al
ways have been so discreet as to have taken
only what justly belonged to his mother,
and so might, in the end, have brought
them into sad trouble and disgrace"
DIvTsImIIrY OF MyrrER. This is a
property possessed by all bodies, and means
their capability to be separated into parts.
1t was formerlya qu stion, among philoso-
pliers. whether matter was capable OF be-
ing divided at infnitaD,, or whether there
was limit beyond which matter could not.
be divided. The questionis Incapable. of
direct solution, and fortunately science does
not require that it should be known; but
the extent to which subdivision has been
carried IN the arts is prodigious. In the
gliding buttons, fvc'grains ofgold, Which
is applied as an anlalGam with mercury, is
allowed to a gross so.thot the coatingle
must not be more than the one hundred
and ten thousandth part of an inch in thick
ness fla pcce'of ivory or White satin be
iuimer"od in asolation Of nitro-!nuriate of
gold, aud exposed to a current Of hydro
gen gas, it will be. covered with a surface
OF gold not,exoeetling the ten ,miMdnth of
an inchihthickness. a single grain of
blue vtriol will give am azure tint. to five
gallons Of water. Intlis case, tho copper
must be attenuated ten milton. times, and
yet there is sufficient. IN each drop of water
to give iteolor.s Orders are capable of still
further diffusionj a single grain Of musk
has been known to scent room for twenty
years Animal matter likewise exhibits