Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-01

| Her checks ran tears, how pride was curst
The string she trusted, too. had burst
Her hoops lay on the floor.
| She gathered them up and ran as speedily as
pos'ib to the dressing room, and from there
| home, and for several weeks WAS seen no more.
The Mirror held up to U.s.
| With the Importance of understanding
ourselves as a nation-our foiblcs and def.
ciencics as well as our points of pride and
our real advantagcs-wo think it worth
while to copy, from one paper to another,
what may chance to be wisely said on the
subject. Here, for instance. arc some ex-
cellent remarks from "Dwight's Journal of
Music" suggested by the German Singing
| Festivals:
" Divided between money making and
politics OH the one hand, and religion with
out much Of "thc beauty of holiness on
the othcr-bctwccn barren puritanism
of correct d"portmcnt and its natunl alter
native of stupid bcStinl indulgcncc--wc
have somewhat AS a people, lost the art Of
free, spontaneous genuine, hppy life
We are an unhappy people; none the less
SD that we arc more prosperous than others
Prosperity is the bugbcar tyrant whom We
serve as anxious bondmen, fearing to call
one moment our own fearing to live, in our
unccasing, fevcrish pursuit of the means of
! living
We are cn anxious people, unc0mfort-
ably dcmonizcd and ridden, night-mnrc-likc,
by that which gives Us power We 60
ahead faster than others but it is by cen
taur-lke contrivancc, by allowing so much
Of our real vital, human self to be absorbed
into the lower animal, or the machine that
carries us. Soon we shall cease to be mon
ut all, we shall be so Z" fast" Your native
American live Yankee" w,stes his lie
in rivallinga steam engine he makes him
self mere machine for gathering power
power for what? And with whata solemn.
pious, lean, hard favored way he does it
With what quasi-religious reverence he
quotes his business maxims his rules of
principal and interest. and so forth How
he amalgnmNtes unworldly orthodoxy with
the most secular showmans cant in the adj
vcrising of bis wares How he practically
confounds religion with his own scifishness,
as gcnerali2ed into prudential maxi,ns.
Perhaps there arc no people who put
forth so much of will, SO much of rnultifa-
riouS power as wcj as there are certainly
none who have so much political freedom,
so much liberty and even liccns" of opinion
And yet we have. perhaps as little freedom
rs any other, We are the slav, Of orr
own fcverish enterprise, and OF barrcn
theory of life, which would fnin make rs
virtuous to fault, and substitute negative
abstinence for harmonious, positive living.
We arc sadly destitute of the Spontaneous
| clcmcut. We are afraid to give ourselves
N N tn hn frnn A.
natures All that is not business, or poll,
ties. or stndy, or religion, we count waste.
We have done 1t SO long, that now we arc
like little children, unfit to be left to our
selves to enjoy ourselves together. Pleas
ure becomes intemparance with us +; anusc-
ment untaught. uninspircd by higher SEN
timonts, runs into tho gross and sensual.
"Wc lack gcniality; nor do we MS a peo-
| pie understand the meaning of the word.
1t comes of the same root with the word
genius. Genius differs from tho other
ruling principals of life by the fact that it's
methods are spontaneous. Genius is the
spontaneous principal it is free and happy
in its work; it is Il practical reconcilement
Of the harticst pleasure with the highest
sense of duty, with the most holy, univer-
o"i Shu5 anu ScnlluncHU5 OI INc. SenluS,
as Beethoven gloriously illustrates in his
Symphony. finds the keynote and the So
luton of the problem of the highest state
of joy. Now, all may not be geniuses, in
the sense that we call Shakespeare, Mozart
and Raphael men of genius; but all should
be partakers of this spontaneous. free aud
happy method of genius; all should live
child-like, genial lives. and not wear the
marks of their unrelaxing business, or the
badge of party and profusion, in every line
and feature or their faces. ."--Hon,e Jour
nat
The MAD SToNE.-We have beard of the
. mad stone" ever since we were n child
AT first we had unwGvoring faith i'm it's per-
feet control over the deadly virus Of mad dngs
and with one in our pocket. would have
bravcd yard full of hydrnphbia. When
we grew to more mature age. we lostall con-
fidence. and believed that such thing M. the
mad stone" never existed. aud if it did
that it was grand humbug. But few days
ago ouy friond, Or. II. H. Ayres, of this coun.
! ty, bSonght one into our Office. that he has
had in use for many years, and performing
! the most wonderful enres--nerer failing in n
single instance tn extract poison and restore
the patient from the bite Of not only the msd
dug. but from that of every poisonous reptile
that mhv sink It's deadly fnngs into human
flesh. .--Jackson (Tenn.) why.
Dr. Ayres furnishes the Wig with an ac.
comt of this singulae stone. We give an