Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-22
a Farmers Song.

The lawyer lives on princcly fees,
Yet drags weary life;
He never knows n peaceful hour
His atmosphere is strife.
Tho merchant thumbs his yard-stick DER
Grows haSgard at his tolls
Hes not the man God meant h1u for
Why don't he till the soil?
Tho doctor plods through storm and cold,
Plods ut his patients will;
When dead and gone he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer, (blcss his nobln soul)
lie grasps the mighty earth.
And stamps IL on Our welcome sheet,
To cheer the farmers hearth.
We sing the honor Of the plow,
And honor OF tho press
TWO noble instruments of toll,
With each power to bless,
The bone and nerve OF this fast age,
True wealth of human kind
One til's the ever generous earth,
The other tills the mind.
TIE NEWsPAPER.-There is no book
80 instructive as the newspaper; no kuowl-
edge so necessary to be acquired rs that
which may be CLEANED FROM its columns.
1t is not only the vehicle of the cheapest,
but the most innocent aud least cloyng
source of happiness a newspaper in
family, is sure every week to be the means
of interesting, informing, or pleasing al.
most every member of the family, where
they live in the country, and see and hear
but little that is new. In the course of
year, well conducted paper conveys in
formation on almost every subject, or at
least cXcitcs curiosity and inquiry on all
subjects. To know what is nearest us in
time and space, ismost necessary, most
pleasing and most instructive; and this
kind of knowledge can only be obtained
from newspapers We would venture to
affirm that there never was, and never will
be in country situation, an ignorant FAM
lily who take Il newspaper, as it is impossi
bic that family should not become in
time well informed provided they live
sufficiently secluded to be thrown upon the
paper rs a source of amusement The
duIlest child who hates book will, in
rainy weather, steal up to II newspaper
read marriage notice and am advertise
mcnt or two, and then put it down The
next time probably he will become holder
and get through 'An anccdotea about Wash
ington." Soon he will read short tales Of
fiction; then, news of general interest, as
we'll as foreign intelligence
by this time his curiosity on most sub
jects is excited and ovcrcomcs his aversion
and fear of books, and he is lurcd on to
become reading and well informed man.
1t is strange that any family, as measure
of economy, should be without newspaper.
Children see the world cheaply at home,
in ii newspaper, without the danger of bad
association OF the expense of travel.
RESPECT TO THE AaED.-Bow low the
head, boy. Do reverence to the old man.
Once like you, vicissitudes of life have
sivcrcd the hair, aud changed the round,
merry face to the worn visage before you
| Once that heart beat with incidents co.
equal to any you have ever felt; aspira-
tions crushed by disappointment, as per-
haps yours are destined to be.
Once that form moved proudly through
the gay scenes of life now the hand of
Time that withers the flowers of yesterday
has warped the figure and destroyed the
noble carriage.
Once at your age he possessed the
thoughts that pass through your brain,
now wishing to accomplish deeds worthy
i va a. uOOh ii IIiC u
dream, that the sooner he awokc from the
better. The time to awake is now very
near at handj yet his eye kindles at noble
deeds of daringand the hand makes frmer
grasp of the staff.
Bow low your head, boy, as you would
in your old age be revcrcnced. "
A Coon Pun John, while recently
engaged in splitting wood, struck n false
blow, causing the stick to fly up. 1t struck
him on the jaw and knocked out front
tooth. Ah," 3aid Bill, meeting him
soon after, "you've had a dental operation
performed, ] gee" +" Yes" replied the
sufferer, " a1e-i-aentdl,"
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"LAwKs" exclaimed Mrs Partington,
"what monstersthese master builders must
/ be! 1 am tcld some on 'em have as many
as hundred hands"
LIFE appears to be too short to be spent
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