Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-23

for infaut s,fflrages TO stretch her feeble
arms, demanding her full share of the kind
fathers lovc-to look up wondering into
all those faces gathered round her cradle
bed, and claim them as brothers and sisters
Then was the newly-made mothers triumph
perfected was the band, her gentle
hands had woven, tried and ccmented The
tiny being that was rocked 10y throbs of
such tumutuous gl0dness, as it lay upon
her breast, was welcomed as no halt sister
in her step-children's love, but taken 1eholly
gladly to their unsealed hearts
And when another and other chcrub
girl was sent to swell the band of sisters,
each little hand soon forged new. and
shining link in that long golden chain, and
made it dearer as it made its circle wider.
And lips that could not frame the hallowed
word, when thou didst cross that thresh-
old, called thee "mother" now and felt il
vas no wrong to her in heaven!
AZ Z. Ledger.
DooRs TO TIE EARS AND HEARr.--A
ludlcious writer, wise, some will say in the
worlds ways, has said how profoundly
leave you to judge that, to employ his
own language, "there aretwo doors inside
his cars, right-hand door leading to the
heart, and left.hand 'oor, with Il broad
and steep passage out into the open air
This last door receives all ugliness, pro-
fanlty, vulgarity, misunderstanding, which
suddenly find themselves outside of him. ="
lie then continues e" Judieious teachers
and indulgent parents, save young urchins
a world of trouble by a convenieut deaf
ness. Bankers and brokers often are ex-
trcmely hard of hearing, when unsafe bor-
rowefS are importunate. [ never hear a
man who runs after me in the street, bawl-
ing my name at the top of his voice; nor
them that talk evil of those who are are
sent; nor those who give me unasked adj
vice about my affairs; nor those who talk
largely about things of which they are ig-
norant. If there are sounds of kindness,
OF mirth, of love, open fly my ears But
temper, or harshncss, or hatred, or vulgar
ity, or fattcry, shut them. If you Keep
yorr garden gate shut, your flowers and
fruit will be safe If you keep your door
closed, no thief will run off with your sill
yer; and if you keep your ears shut, your
heart will lose neither. It's Howers nor it's
treasures"
Is there not a vast deal of philosophy in
or all this? 1t teaches that tho heart and
the car should ever be open to the rccep-
ton of the good and the true, and closed
bermeticaly to all that is impure and sor-
did. Gould we all follow his advice, how
very soon would this world of men be trans
formed into a heaven fit for the residence
of angels.
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Nm, II l. n
Over the beauty of the plum and the apri-
cot, there grows bloom and Beauty more OK.
quisite than the fruit itSclf--a soft delicate
plush that overspreads its bluehing cheek =
Now you strike your hand over that, and
it is once gone, it is gone forever, f5r 4 never
grows but o!:cc. Take tho flower that hangs
In the morning impearled in dew--arrayed
as no queenly woman ever was arrayed With
jewels. Once shake it so that the beads will
roll off, and you may sprinkle water over 1t
as careiaiIy as you please, yet it can ncy er
he made again what it was when the dew
fell silently upon it from heaven! Ona fros
ty morning ycu may see the panes Of glass
covered Nth lands mountains, lakes.
trees, blondmg ir beauty, fantastic picture.
Now lay your land upon the glass, and l,y
the scratch ottgour finger, or by the warmth
of the your palml all the dclicat6tracerywill
be obliterated y So there is'in youth beau
ty and purity Of character which when once
touched and'defled, can never be restored :;
fringe more delicate than frost-work, and
which when torn or broken, will never be re-
embroidered. n man who has spotted and
spotted his garments in youth, thoughhe may
seek to make them white again, can never
wholly do 1t, even were he 70 wash them with
his tears. When a young manlcaves his fr.
theirs house, with the blessings of his moth
erS tears still wet upOn his forchcod If bc