Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-01-29
My sunday-By Fanny Fern.

/ "iVlI uO"h III vi cSSluS gown ana Shippers
and sip their coffee without danger of cho-
king. They have time to look round and
sec how tall the children are growing, and
that nothing in this world is so beautiful as
a rosy baby fresh from slumber Mother,
too, has the old girlish smile that comes not
ottcn ON weekday, OF If it does, father
has not time to notice it, and that, perhaps,
after all, is the reason it comes so seldom.
1t is pleasant after eggs and coffee, to sit
comfortably down by the fire, the centre of
a ring of happy faces, and hear the church
bells chime. Time enough yet to 90, for
this is the first bell.
Church bells are not to my car an i'm
rcrincucc. One is free agent ] am
free to go which like to do; you are free
to stay ifyou prefer; though may think
you make mistake. don't say that [
should go every Sunday to hear a man who
was always binding doctrines together like
bundles of dry sticks, and thrusting them
at his yawning hearers. [ want to hear
sermon that any poor soul who struggles
INTO church, from any by-lanc or alley, can
understand, and carry home with him to
his cellar or garrett and sermon that
comes not on chariot wheels, but afoot, and
with warm, life-like grasp for every hon
est-ayo, and dshoncst-hand in the as
scmbly, defaultcr or Magdalen, for who
babe you slam Heaven IS gate in their faces ?
! want II human sermon. don't care
what MelchiSidek, or Icrubbabcl, ofKer-
enhappuk did, ages ago; want to know
what am to do, and [ want somebody
besides theological bookworm to tell
mc-somebody who is sometimes tempted
and tried, and is not too digniied to own
it, somebody likome, who is always SHINING
and repenting; somebody who is glad and
sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and
drinks, and wants to fight when they are
troddcn on-and don't That's the minis
ter for me. | don't want spiritual abb
straction, with stony eyes and pctrcficd fin
gers, and no blood to battle with. What
credit is it to him to be proper? How can
he understand me? Were there only such
ministers in the pulpit, wouldn't go to
church either, because my inpatient feet
would only beat a tattoo on the pew floor
till service was over but ,nank God there
are and while they preach shall 90 to
hear them, and come home better and hap
pier for having done it.
So pray you don't abolish my Sunday,
whatever you may do with yours. Don't
take away my blessed Sunday breakfast,
when we all have time to love one another.
Don't take away the Sabbath bells, which +
SO love to hear Don't take away my hui
man minister, whose God is no tyrant, and
is better pleased to see us 90 smiling home
from church, than bowling our heads like
burush, and groaning back to our din
ners till all you anti-Sabbatarians arc made
to abolish Sunday-and no wonder.-N. Y.
Lcdgcr
A Coon IDEA,-Under the head of GLOW
to Get Cuba" tho Richmond Dispatch
publishes the followipg We hope a bonus,
to induce New England to sell herself. may
be offered her by Congress-and that Mr..
Buchanan be authorized to appoint some
shrewd Yankee to enter upon negotiations.
vi course, the Inducements of making u
good thing out of it" must be extended;
Under this head, the Cleveland Plain Dca-
ler has an article recommending to "swap
New England offfor Cuba. we 0ftho West"
says the Plain Dealer ''nre Sufficiently Yan-
keelsed to get along without any farther
help from that
Land of big onions and white beans,
OF short but sweetest kind of grass.
Ofh"ids who they raaoh their teens
Can make the best of pumpkin sass"
The South has had enough of her. too
much in the shape of Abolition lectures, anti
slavery agitators running off her niggcrs, dis
turbng her peace and spelling her temper.
She is ripe for trade, and inasmuch as New
England has twice tried to get out of the Tn
ion, once 10y Hartford Convention and lat
| tcrly 10y resolution, " Let 'er slide" we saw.
Old Spain needs her. She is in tho last sta
Scs OF chronic consumption, and little New
England yeast would make her rise. and per-
haps leaven the whole lump. This is the
best disposition that can DE made of Yankee
| doodlcdom"
| The Medical World has an occasional
touch of keen satire that is quite refreshing.
Describing what it calls national disease,
it says:
"Throughout North America the univcr-
sal morbid appetite for patent medicines is q
regularly constituted disease. 1t is probably
transmitted from parent to child. as INSANITY.
and nervous affections, descend through fam
HES, 10 see Il man or woman who never
purchased box of Brand eth's Pills. or n
bottle of the Balm of .Nery Fine Flowers.
would be equivalent to seeing fifth wheel of
a coach.
No such phenomenon exists. Mothers
usullay commence with Sherman's Vermif-
.ugo Lozcnges. Whether theysshavc worms
or not, 1T is sjudicious to commence drucginp
the little creatures early, by way ofaccustn
ing them to more potent articles when their
strength Will fear them. Spring physic us-
naliy follows. IL is n divine ari to keon off
sickness by seasonable doses of sometime
that is good forthe blood, Atfourteen youn.e
persons begin to purchase for themselves %
The latest Advertisements should always bo
the nuide in the sele,tion nf no t,~t - AZ go