Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-23
TheorY and practioa. 5.

Oh, n there is an earthly bliss, ----s~, :
More precious,than anothertsh b
It's when, with delight, you kiss hpfetty girl
when she scmds g certain Individual out of
the room, on tho important err NId of seq
ing what houris indicated by til. hand of
4 tho family time piece down stairs--'
Certain individual being lcr brother.
While mpsing thus, one Summer eye, :.
- As by my fair ,ono's side L sat, .S.s5
! Tho time was near at haud to leave So stealing
s my arm around her waist, i drew her gcn-
b., Gyto me, and, when in the act Of applying
| my lips to hers f'hedoor was softly opened
| and her respected "Ma", appear ed, armed
| was,
4 was knocked into cooked nat. q
Not a Drop More 'Tbout It's sweetened
| We meet this tale on its rounds. We
are not 80 sure we have notlseen it before
BUTT will bearrepetition, it isso old.
Twenty years ago, twas tho custom in
northwestern Georgia, as indeed it was
throughout the southwest, for dry goods
dealers to keep barrel of ''sperits" in the
hack room, and to treat liberal customers
to aglass whenever desired. tAH
T.. Hlleus and Dewberry were such dealers
in one of the small towns indicated; /. aud
they had fora customer a clever, frollick-
ing old. fellow, named Joe Denny, who
drank whlskey in preference to water al
ways, and whose wifeawas " Hcsh of his
flesh = IN that particular. The old couple
would come in town, trade quite freely,
and as freely mbibe the spirits in the back
room of the dealers we have named
| On one occasion both the old man md
old woman continued their potations inor-
otnlyr ,,l 4 \ Al. 1
goods went better tho druuber the old wo-
man became, he pressed her to drink
At last she refused, unless he would
sweeten it with a little store g sugar. g
Fllens ipdnlged her rapdwhentbc old people
startedfiomeint theeveuing late, the oldman
couidscurcely nouhthis horse, and the good
twitehad actually to be lifted and placed onthc
pillion behind him, Happily, she leaned
one way and her husband the other; so
that the gravitatimg point was between
them; as she clung to him instinctively,
they passed out of the village safely.
Before reaching their h6mc, however
they had to cross small creok,. and when
their horse stepped in, to, drink, the old
| lady, having reached INCONSISTENCIES, re-
leased her hold and quietly ylapsed into the
stream, below. -
Occupied with his thoughts the, old
man did not perceive his loss, but logged
slowly 'hotne%ard. Z Arrived there, the
children anxiously inquired for "maumy,"
but the old man could only say that She
had been on the. critter," and /" the crit
ter hadn't kicked up nary time; so. he
couldn't say where she mout be;' and
threw himself stupid upou tho bed. &.
Girls and boys few along, the road the
old man bad come, yelling NANNY J nam,
my but of course no nanny responded
When they arrived at. the creek, the
oldest girl shouted s.,r ,
s." Yonder shois, sitting down in the creek %
And there she,was seated comfortable in
the water which came nearly up Ito her
mouth. as she sgayed back and forth, now
yielding to- the -impetu0sity, of the stream,
and now resisting it with some success. tile
muddy fluid would occasionally wet her lips,
and each time il did so she would family ex.
claim, With n grim effort to smile: 49,
r." Nota drop more Mr. Fillens, 'thopt it's
sweetened."
ADD it is to this romantic little Incident in
the life of the venerable Mrs. Joe. Denny, that
we arc indebted for one Of our most popular
colloquaI phrases. VIZ S}r.'@
I A Pretty CoNcEr. I'VE saw in the par
lor Of "a fsienda very beautiful conceit. 1t
| IS. OF course, the fancy ola lady, and consists
| ofthe burr Of y pine tree placed in q wine
! glass halffull of water, and from between
the different layers OF the burr arc shooting
forth green tblpdesy bright, beautiful, refresh.
ing. For a little thing, we have seen moth
| ing that so pleased us with its beauty aud
novelty. And the secret is thiss-Ftho burr
was found dried and opened; the different
! circles were sprinkled with glass seed, and
! it was placed in a wine glass with @dter In
as above. In few days the moisture and
nourishmcnt gave the bud life and health,
the different circles closed, and buried within
themselves the grass seed, and a. few days
more gaze to the seed also life. sprout. aud
growth, and now q, pyramid of living, grcen.
beautifalIIy relieved BY the sombre hue Of the
burr, is theresult 7ras pretty and novel n
pnrlour ornament as We have For q long
while soep. We do not Know whether the
! idea was original with the .lady, but We do
! know that its success is beautiful. = TFog
| Times. gz feH nsFa =
ttMY son. said a-doting father, who was
/ about taking his son into. business, !" What
ssholl>be the style Of the now frni ?2 "-Well,
fookingup to find an answer, 81 d ut know.
| Father" "s' ~ 'Sa"-'' ~ :si.'st
MISS hoNo, a girl tof quick and fearless
wit asked Moses il he knew q certain Young
man. KNOW him? Oh, yes! / ought to
know aim. i raised him from q pup" "Ah!'
saiG, Miss hong,"i didn't know you were
50 old acer." Moses wiited.
! oLD BLGzzakp.4 Everybody abhut Mont
| goncry knows sold BlizzaFd.' - Of Pike conn