Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-17


more tell you why, than we can tell you why
you smile involuut,rily to listen to the first
blue-bird of the season, among the maple
blossoms, or to meet a knot of yellow eyed
dandcons in the crack of city pave-stonc
We only know that it is so.
Oh, these happy women! how often their
slender shoulders bear the weight Of bur
dens that would smite men to the ground |.
how often their little hands guide the pom
dcrouS machinery of life with an almost in
visible touch how we look forward, through
the weary day, to their liresde smiles how
often their cheerful eyes see c0ieur dc rose
where We only behold thundcr-churgcd
clouds No one knows, no one ever will
know, until the day of Judgment, how much
we owe to those helpful, hopeful, uncomplaiu-
ing women
KEEPING CooL ALpuABErIcALLY.-
good rules and resolutions (said one of the
speakers before the night school Of the Me-
chanics lnstitute) cannot always be obscrv-
cd yet perseverance, may enable us to keep
them, under all the cxcitemcnts to which we
may generally be exposed.
Whenever you find your daudcr rising"
said New England deacon to his cholcric
son " be sure to say the Lords prayer, my
son, or the alphabet clean through; and
long before you get to the end ont you II be
as cool as cucumber or an ice berg Prom
Use me faithfully, my SON"
Yes, daddy, | promise." OF trulgcd
Jonathan to school carrying his bread and
meat, with small bottle of molasscs in his
jacket pocket, and his late promise uppcrmost
in his mind
a boy who bore the lad an old grudge,
met him, and after calling him "youug dca-
con" and many scurrious names, caught
him off his guard and threw Him to the
ground, tearing his jacket and breaking his
molasscs bottle This double injury made
Jonathans eyes wolish and his lips white
with rage, and he did not forget it ; but pro-
ceeded to swallow, as well as his anger would
allow, his alphabetical pills. thus:
A, Is, C,-youve tore my jacket-D, T.,
F,-you'vc split my lasscs-G, II, I, j, X,
you re a mean fellow, NJ, N, 0, p, Q,
I'll learn you better manners, you scamp,
you old wall,cye *, Y, Il, amparmnd.-
Now I'll pound your eyes out O. you, you en-.
croaching villain"
Even the repetition of the alphabet could
not allay the fiery temper which had been
aroused by the tearing of the iacket and the
loss of the 'lasscs; but our young readers,
when angercd by less provocation, may save
themselves unpleasant feelings, when irrita-
ted by their playmates, if they will but fol-
low Jonathan's advice and rehearsc the en-
tire alphabet before giving blow
Richmond Dispatch
AT tho breaking of the ground for the
commcncemcnt of the Lynchburg and Ten
ncssee railroad, at Lynchburg, clergyman
so!emnly and slowly read manuscript prayer,
at the conclusion of which an old negro man,
who had been resting with one foot on his
spade, and his arms on the handle, looking
intenty in the chaplan's face, straightencd
himself up and remarked very audibly:
Well, reckon dat's do fust time dc Lords
cher been writ to on de subject of railroads"
AFFECTING SCENE Remarkable Recog,,2ion
/ Of an Eehumed Body.--" Not many years
since" says Fraser's Magazine. certain minors
working FAR underground, came upon the body
Of a poor. fellow who had perished in the suf-
locating pit forty years before. Some chcmicnl
agent to which the body had been subjected
an agent prepared in the laboratory Of nature
had elfectnnlly arrested the r~ncress of decay.
They brought it to the surface. and for while
till 1T crumbled away through exposure to the
atmosphere. it lay there, the image of a fine.
sturdy young man No convulson had passed
over the face in death--te features were tram
quill the hair black as jet. No ono recognized
the tacc--a generation had grown up since tho
minor went down on his shaft for the last time.
But a tottering old woman, who had hurried
| from her cot on hearing the news came up and
she knew again the face which, through nll
these years. she had never quite forgot. The
poor miner was to have been her husband the
day after that on which he died They were
rough people. Of course, who were lOukine ON
"a liberal education and refined feeling are
20. deemed essential to the man whose work il
is to get up Goals, or even tin; but there were
no dry eyes there, when the grey.headed old
pilgrim, cast herself upon the Youthful cornse
and poured out TO its deaf ear many words of
endearment unused for forty years. 1t was
touching contrast--the one so old, the other 60
young. They had both been young those long
years ago. But time had gone on with the Iy
lng' and stood etill with the dead.
A VERY respectable old lady of wealth has
committed suicide at Paris, in order that her
nephew might the earlier realize the hand.
some property that would thus fall to him.
She left note behind her addressed 10 him
in which she says You see a.n o GOOD.
hearted creature. Show yourself worthy of
so kind an aunt"
TAxIHa. Lady Caterit, wife of the Lieu.
tenant OF Ireland inSwift's time, said to him
one day, " The DIR of this country Is ycry
good" Swift fell on his knees and said,
Fer Gods sake, Meds.., den't saw so IN
: Enslond--they will most certainly tax It,"