Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-01-12

such step will be unavoidable, sooner or
later.
What can be found in Dictionary,
b. T. Taylor says, in his lecture on b" The
words we use" ! turn over its pages much
rs Sinbad the sailor, looked about him in
the Valley Of Diamonds -bcwillcrcd to think
how rich it is. Within those lids are the
hucs that Milton gave to Paradise; the liv-
ing colors that lent reality to Sbakspcarc's
people, as, by the miracle of his mind, they
swcllcd the census of ull timc-colors that
lapse of years can not wear away and tho
touch of death can not fade. There, are the
words of cloqucncc that thrilled the world,
and wait anothcr's saying; there, tho ward
robe Of the giants of the elder time yet meet
for later warming Old loves were
brcathcd, old VOWS were said, old songs wore
sung in these same words Old war cries
arc on tie same pages; Sylabrs for the
living and dying; words for the glowing lips
of prophetic voice; utterancc for all truth
1t is to the world of mind-thc dictionary
what the pie clements the chemist g,thers
in his hand, sometimes are to the world of
matter; and we shall never be done won
dcring how myriad forms of strength and
beauty are forever evolved from words; how
the Blind Bard of England found therein
co. p;"I,,., iI'I' ~ "'' ~ I'' '''c"
'o' +" ""u 'n' "o''S '"i oP'c'H'
n"I MOWERS OF lahcy~-what truths with
hcAr'S oi "aK-Sprlng from those lnHy words .
what monuments are built of them, what bat.
dement's of strength How firmly they io
anchored like mountain cu,rr;os ;r ,ho
l.lros 81 tho ,. - rI., u
n,l ,l;. -,. -. III ~
:P'.," I"o" u'my WHY'S 'tMu , 'hc niorh'hG'
III 'nc "yihG OF inc song. Nhlt cllmcs are
wanting to be rung; what blades arc want
ing for the yielding hand what Gilcad
balm for the wounded heart Trumpcts to
be blown for liberty: zcpbvrs 10 he brc,thcd
for love; and these are onIv wordS of yS;,h
VIC arc speaking in that volume
whose pages are trampIcd thick with prints
OF bnrctoot thought, waiting to be sandal"d,
and to go forth with rcsounding tread
over the iron threshold Of the press forth in,
to the world as went the diuvion dove, never
to return.
Why, the compIctncss Of orr Republic
depends not so much on the Fourth of July, as
upon the dictionary There is oneness Of
word; common language is the dear rcposi-
tory of common past, and those who have
the same SyIlablcS for " home and "moth
er, for hearth and heaven" can new
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"a NEW ARFsr?cRArIc oHDmR.--in China they
%"s rr "his'I h;s ht h"ft''crISy nne Emperor alone
m,nJar;r "'T t, "nu,n I" '.rsr pearl; Amp"S me
ing MT to rank. The dra 51n which the Emperor
W. ~ H." LIS "s"'S, ~ lur"heI win h'cc claws
hroidercI on his cnnt nnJnr nav" aGr '"
The yellow color is another imnerinj sirn and
g., So"c'n,cS ; worn w 'nami"r'ns ,rI ns reward
,yai.t ho,, !. ,s,, @ ,,. ,h hn! !G,.'w orange
lateral line from the founder Of tho mrc'cm, 1,'
y"S.S ",' t''eSS , men are "Iton so poor ana so
conducS:ng nlow "' ''''l"'"'y '' ''""'
BOARD OUT w GSr.--Travclar dismounts
lodgings here to NIGHT ?"
Landlord =" NJ, sir, every rom i, tho
house is engaged"
lravcIcrI" Cant you even give me
olahkct ana bunch OF shav'ngs for pillow,
III your oar room
Landlord" No sir there's not Sullrc
,ooV OF space unoccuplci anywhere in the
housc'
Traveller" Then I'll thank you, sir, to
shove pole out of your second floor window.
and I'll roost on that"