Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-17
Sum Verses to snaik, by Binks.

famlly sheeking round thru the tall
| Grass i'll Africa, eetin up little greesy
! Niggers. and wishcn they war bigger,
You arc the saim miserable dcvvle,
| III bet, that put rcdicklus noshuns
Into the he'd of Eve, on his unklc,
Don't know which.
| wonder how big you was when yu
Was inpbant about fetc long?
! Expcc yu was purity good size and
| Lived on phrogs, and lizzcrds and poly
! Wogs and sutch like.
You are havn nice time now, ennyhow-
Don't hav nothin to do but lay oph
| And cite kats and rabbits and site
| Out yure tung and twist yurc tale.
I wundcr if you ever swallowed n man
Without taken oph his bu,cs. If thar wur
Brass buttons on his kotc. sposc
| Yu had ter swollor lot of buttn-
| Wholes. and shu-hammor to knock
| The soals opi the boots aud drvvo iii
The tax, so that they wouldn't kut yure
| Stummick. l wunder if vitilcs taste
| Good all the way down. i eXpcc So
| At least for OIL fctc.
You so almitcy long, shud thynk
If yurc tale was kold, yurc he'd
Woodent no it till the next day.
But it is hard tn tell snaix is snaks
"Tr's WHAT You SPEND It's
what thee'll spend, my SON" said sage
old Quaker, "not what thee II make, which
will decide whether thcc's to be rich or
not. This was only Franklin's advice in
another form Take care of the pennies,
and the pounds Will take care of thcmsel
yes. A contemporary remarks: Men are
continually indulging in small expenses
saying to themselves that it is only triflc,
yet forgetting that theaggregatc is serious,
that even the sca-shore is ma ac up of prct-
ty grains of sand. Ten cents day, even,
is thirty-sx dollars and half year, and
that is the interest of capital of six hun
dred dollars.
"The man that saves ten cents day
only is so much richer than him who does
not, as if he owned a life estate in house
worth six hundred dollars. Every sixteen
years ten cents day becomes to six hundred
dollars; and, if invested quarterly, docs not
take half that time. Buttcn cents day is
child's play, some will cxclaim. Well,
then, John Jacob Astor used to say that
when man, who wishes to be rich, has
saved ten thousand dollars, he has won
half the battle. Not that Astor thought
ten thousand dollars much. But he knew
that, in making such a sum, a man acquir-
ed habits ofprudcnt economy, which would
constantly keep him advancing in wealth.
How many, however, spend ten thousand
in few years in extra expenses, and when,
on looking back, cannct tell, as they say,
where the money went to. To save is the
golden rule to get rich. TO squandcr, even
in small sums, is the first step towards the
poor-housc.
RELIGIoN.-Bclicvc no individual on
earth, who tells you that religion is gloo-
my thing, and that its possession tends to
melancholy. Should you Look at pi-
GUS person, and notice a tingo of gloom
upon his countcnance, think not that it is
| religion that darkcns the aspect of the fea-
lures; it sobcrs the mind, but does not
sour it. Religion cnlightcns the soul, con-
sequcntly cannot obscure the light which
should always beam in the Christians eye
1t checks the wild mlrth of fools, which,
in Scripture, is compared to the cracking
of thorns under pot" but it confers
chccrfulncss to the heart, which will cause
the face to slime. 1t gives mildncss,
complacency to the feelings, which occa-
sion gentle, cheerful manners. Itcrcatcs
tractive in youth, and produces that open,
frank -hcartcdncss, and benevolent friend
illness of dcmcanor so lovely in all ages
We must rccollcct that divine grace, al
though it renews the heart, and swcctens
the temper, does not change the constitu-
tion of our physical being, from defects, in
which melancholy and gloom, in religious
characters, frequently arise, and if indulg-
ed, darkness will be produced but religion
makes every sin hateful to the soul Be
assured, in every trial and vicissitude of
life, that it is religion only that can make
you happy, and that can give you cheerful
ness of heart. Happiness is sober feel
ing of the mind, We shouldnever, then,
permit an idea that the great God is &C.
we're, gloomy being, who delights in mise
ry, but habtualy think of Him as the
kindest friend we have, who admits MS to
converse with him. Yes, the great j eho-
yah delights to listen to the prayers of all
His children; from the mouths of "habes
and sucklngs" he can perfect praise. He
| attends to all our wants. Let us, then go
to Him with humble confidence, and pray
that He would be the guide of our youth,
the strength Of our manhood, and tho hope
of old age; and that he would give us
that wisdom which alone comes from above,
and which is of itself sufficient to make us
"wise unto salvation"
Pray, madam, what do you charge
for recovering an umbrella" said Michael
OFlaherty, from Tippcrary, the other day,
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