Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-10
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a veteran scholium hath it, that " igno-
rance Is the parent of credulty;" yet it is
also not infrequently the prolific mother of
obstinate unbclief The King of Siam could
not tolerate the story of ice, because he had
never seen it with his own eyes, and had not
the knowledge to understand how it mirht
be. Yet the King of Siam could easily be-
leve in other things of much more pre-
posterous character. AS with him. 80 it is
with many human intclligences of higher
grade and superior cultivation Up and
down the world on this side and that, in high
life and low life, in ignorance and in cnlight
enment, men (and women too) are still We.
rlfying the scriptural charge, of swallowing
camcls while straining at gnats The Simon
purest illustration of this idea, is the follow
ing good un which we give Just as we find
it-where we find it dcponont sayeth not,
except that it smacks pretty strongly of Mar
ryatt. But to our tale:
GA lad, who had been some years at sea,
returned home to his aged grandmother, who
was naturally curious to hear his adventures.
Now, Jack" said the old woman, tell me
all you've seen, and tell me the most wonder
full things first"
DWELL granny, when we were in the Red
Sea we anchored close to the shore, and
when we hove the anchor up, there was a
chariot wheel hanging to it."
"Oh Jack Pharaoh and his host were
drowned in the Red Sea, you know; that
proves that the Bible is all true. We'll Jack,
and what else did you scc?"
why, granny, when | was in the West
Indies | saw whole mountains OF sugar, and
the rivers between them were all nun"
"Truc, true" said the old woman, smack
ont t1,a 4
from there, you know Pray, Jack, did you
ever see mermaid 2"
"Why no, mother, but have seen ncr
man"
WE'LL lets hear, Jack"
Why, mother, when VIC anchored to the
northward of St. Kits ono Sunday morninr.
voice called us from alongside, and when
we looked over, there was norman lust come
to the top OF the water; he stroked down his
hair and touched it, as we do our hats. to
the captain, and told him that he would feel
much obliged to him to trip his anchor, as it
had been let go just before the door of his
house below, which they could not open in
consequence, and his wife would be too late
to go to church."
God bless me-" says the old woman;
"why thcyr Christians, do declare And
now, Jack, tell me something more"
Jack, whose invention was probably cx-
hau-ted, then told her that lie had seen
hundreds of fish flying in the air"
Come come, jack said the old woman,
now you re banning mc-don't attempt
10 pnt such stories off on your old granny
Inc Chariot wheel | can believe, because it's
likely the sugar aud rum know to be true
and also the norman, for have seen pictures
OF them. But as for fish flying in the air. Jack
that's lie"
The lloosTER AND THE YANKEE" Wal,
now stranger" said the Yankee, "suppose
you tell us about your own country; you're
the only man ever saw from the West that
ddn, die of fever naguc"
Well, old Yankee I'll Just tell YOU all
about It, 1T farmer in our country plants
his ground with corn, and takes first rate care
OF it, he'll get seventy five bushels to the acre !;
IT he don't plant at all, he'll get fifty. The
bcets grow so large that it takes three yoke of
oxen opull a full sized one and then it leaves
a hole so large, that | once knew family of
live children, who all tumbled in beet hole
once, before it got filed up, and the earth
cayed in upon them, and they all perished.
The trees grow so large tliat once knew
man who commenced cutting one down, and
"hcn he llad cuO away on one side for about
ten days, he thought he'd take look ON the
other side, he found man who had seen cut
ting at it for three weeks and they never heard
one another's axes
L have heard tell, yet somewhat doubt that
story, that Ohio parsnipo have sometimes
grown clean through the earth, and have been
pulled through by the people on tother side I"
Wal now" says the Yankee, / rather
guess as how you've told enough, stranger,
for the present. How do you like to trade
for some clocks to sell out west2"
Never use 'em--we keep time altogether
with pumpkin vines. You know they grow
inst five feet an hour, and that's an inch a
nld ys6. Don't use clocks at all It's no use
The YanESSe can't trade, no how"
cleared out. no beat and suddenly
HIGHER. -Higherl 1t is a word OF ~
meaning---the inspiration of all great decds-
the sympathetic that leads, link by link, Til,
impassioned soul to its zenith of glory, anc
' still holds its mysterious object standing anc
glittering among the stars.
Higher lisps' the infant that clasps il
mothers knees, and makes its feeble essay h
rise from the loor-it is the first inspiration
of childhood - to burst the narrow confines o
the cradle in which its sweetest moments hay
passed forever.
Higher kmghs the proud schoolboy at hi
swing; oros he climbs the tallest tree Of th
Forest that he may look down on his less as
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