Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-29

looking up with wlshtui eyes to her dun
geon window, while many tears ran down
his cheeks.
go, save me, Rudolphus," she screeched.
/ would smash down those massive
pine doors," he answered. with one blow
of my stalwart fist, and snatch thee from
thy cruel captors, but am afraid thy faith
er's oxen will hook mo-" And he sank
upon the ground in the impotence of his
rage and despair, and hiding his face in the
burdock leaves, he howlcd aloud
Weep not, my Rudolphus," she said,
II will come to thee" SO saying, the
heroic girl descended to the stable, and
while the gnuts and mosquitoes thundcrcd
about her fair head, tearing up with her
tiny hands an oakcn plank from the floor,
she soon emerged in the COW yard. In an
instant the lovers were clasped in each 9TH
crs arms. The donkey of Rudolphus stood
near, and folding his lovely burden to his
breast, the youth sprang into the saddle,
aud murmuring in her car sweet tales of
love in foreign cline, they gallopcd away
like a streak of creased lightning.
TIE FATE OF SIR JonN FRANKLIN.-Th
mystery which has so long surrounded the
fate of Sir John Frauklin's third and last cx-
petition to the Arctic regions has been cleared
up by the roturn of the screw steamer Fox,
to England, This vessel, which was sent out
! through the perseverance, and energy of Lady
Franklin, found Mt Point William. on the
northwest coast otIiiug Williams Island.
record Of the Abandonment, in April, 1913,
Of the famous ErcbuS and Terror, by their
officers and crews. and of the departure of
the survivors Of the party, los in number, to
Great Fish River. Onc Of these vessels was
crushed in the ice and another driven or
shore; Sir John Franklin having died about
two months previous to the disaster.
Franklin sailed with his party of 1873 picked
men on the 18th of May, 1915; the last de-
spatch was dated Whalc!ish Island in July
following, and he was last seen about the
same time by a whalcr The ships were dc
serted it now appears. in 1878. and if the
story related by the ESquimnuX to Dir. Rae
can be considered reliable some of the SUR
vivors of the party were alive two years af-
forwards. Dir. Rae stated in his cunmunca-
ton to the Admiralty that some ESquimaux
on tho North Shore of King Williams Island,
had met, in the spring Of 1910, forty white
men travelling southwark over the ice, and
dragging boat after them. The men then
were in y destitute and ptiablc condition,
and later in the season the bodies of some
thirty-fve were discovered on the continent
and an adjacent island and DIR. Rae brought
home memorials from the spot which fully
| identified the party with the expedition.
While Lady Franklin, after years of noble
devotion and scli.Sacrtcc, has tho mc!an.
choly satisfaction of knowing the fate of her
husband, and that he died nearly year be-
| fore the failure and destruction of the cxpc-
dtion, tho interest which surrounds the fate
OF his survivors grows more sombre and in
tense. A portion of the party for two years
after the loss of the ships, must have been
wandering in the " thrilling regions of thick
ribbed ice" homeless comfortlcSS, and hone
less; and their final fate, after so long sus-
pcnsc of cold, exposure and starvation. is u
noble proof of the existence of that moral he
roism which in making their names famous,
/ elcvateS humanity also.
| \ NEW RY.-PATRIor-.A
stalking horse, brought by the people to
frightcn minister, and may be brought
by the minister to amusc the people.
| GENTLEMAN.-Anybody.
BLUsH.-Thc ambiguous livery worn
alike by nodesty and shame Ii is some
times only an index to the heart of vol
uptuous woman.
GRATIrUDE.-Th art of forgetting ia
! vors.
INonAr1rupE,--A quality which VIC
So" u all mcn-exccpt ourselves.
| OwL.-A species of bird it is frequent
ly called common councilman.
DUEL.-An interview between two fools
AboNis.-Thc reflection of n dandy, in
looking glass
MISUNDERSTANDING rid of one sur.
felt to make room for another.
ABsuRD.-Anything done or said diff
fcrcnt from what we ourselves should do
or say.
ADcNDANCE.4-"An An imaginary quantity,
of which every man thinks lis ncighbor
possessed, and himself deprived
ABUsE.-Unwrlcomc truths.
AccoMMoDATIoy,-Obliging friend in
order to serve ourselves.
REAsoN.-Thc faculty by which man
always justfes his own conduct Some
vain theorists have supposed, that it was
given to regulate and direct our actions !;
but the uniform practice of mankind has
proyad THAI It Is Of 10 uso hu! to yind;cnte
wh9t we do.
IoNEsTY.-A commodity which every
man has to dispose Of and is willing to sell
till he is a bankrupt.
BuLtY.-A coward who strives to frigh-
ten away fear.
SwINDLER.-A gentleman who lives by
his wits; but often finds himself at his
wits ends how to live
VERY CoNcLUsIvE.--' john" inquir-
ed dominic of hopeful pupil "what is