Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-30
A Sweet Philosophy.

ring the whole of one Sabbath day III the pub
lc, school, instructing the people. q During
his absence from tic house, his two sous died
both of them of uncommon beauty, and
enlightened in the law. His wife bore them
to her bed chamber, laid them upon the mar
riagc bea, aud spread white covering over
their bodies. In slo evening the Rabbi came
home.
She reached him goblet He praised tho
Lord at the going out Of the Sabbath, drank,
and asked:
"Where are my twD sons, that 7 may give
them my blessing? ] repeatedly looked round
the school, and | did not sec them there.
Where are my sons, that they, too, may drink
Of thc cup Of blessing?"
"lhcy will not be far" she said, and
placed food before him, that he might cat.
flc was IN gladsouc and genial mood;
and when he had said grace after the meal,
she thus addressed him.
"l<abbi, with thy permission would fain
propose to thee one question"
Ask it, then my love-" he replied
\ few days ago n person intruscd some
jewels to my custody; now he demanded them
agnin. Should give tAcm mp"
"1his is a question" said Rabbi Muir,
(Which my wife should nos have thought it
necessary to ask. What! wouldst thou hest
tate or be reluctant to restore to every 6nc his
own?"
"No," she replied "but yet thought it
best not to rcstor" them without acJuninting
thee herewith"
She then led him to the chambcr, and step
ped to the bed. took the white covering from,
the dead bodies
"Ah my sons, my sous" loudly lamcntcd
the father "My sons, the light Of my eyes,
and the Tight of my understanding. was
your father, but you were my teachers in the
law"
The mother turned away pnlwert bitterly.
vt length she took her husband by the hand
and said: Rabbi, didst thou not teach INC
that we should not I've reluctant to restore that
which was intrnst"d to our Keeping? See,
the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away,
and blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be the namc of the Lord! :" cell
oed Rabbi Mcir; "u,,d blessed be his uamc
for thy sake, too for well it is written -
Whose hath found virtuous wife hath ii
grcatcr treasure than costly pearls. She
opcncth her mouth with wisdom and her
tongue is the law of kindness" ="
REApIE,RAvCE or TliE sen SERPENT. =
dcrfo serpent whose percgrinatnns have fur
niscd food for millions Of credulous land lub
bcrs, and material for numbcrlcss yarns for old
salts, appeared in our waters some days ago
Tie was first seen in the bayou, at or near the
head Of Main street. Those who saw him rep
resent him as being twenty feet in length and
abouta foot in diameter, of Il copper color, some
thing like our cow snakes. How he got into
the bayou we have not as yet asccrtaincd -
Whether he is the same serpent that has been
seen By Nantucket and New Bedford wlmers
in the South Seas, by voyagcrs around the
Horn in the Gulf Stream, or in the nciyhLor-
hood OF She Azores, we can't say; but We do
know that his royal snakcship malo his ap.
pra,ancc in the bayou. near the Memphis and
Ohio Rnlroad, last Friday, ard killed BY some
OF the citizens of that vicinity
There is no hoax about the mnttcr. forwc have
hnr statement concerning it from Col James.
Superintendent Of the Memphis and Ohio
Road, Mr.. Woodruff and other gentlemen Of
trpthtu!ncss, In regard to the monsters ,limcn,
sions, which are given above.
The dccayed remains arc now lying in the
bayou, and can yet be seen This is certain
ly the largest reptile of>thc kind ever positive
ly known aS a native of this continent aud II
great mistake was made in the killing of it
when it might have been easily captured by
cutting off its passage back to the Mississippi.
. A.
y DECIDED impression was made upon the
guests at hotel table, at Meridian, NIssissip.
pi, few days since, by a Union soldier, who
rose from his seat and kindly waited upon
onc-armed Confederate soldier, who could not
help himself very we'll The attention was
naturally and delicatcly paid, and gratefully
received. The "Meridian Messenger" which
relates the incident, says: "Thc spirit of
that gray haired Federal soldier would do more
towards rcconciling North and South than
any spirit which has ever invaded the room
whero tho Committee of Fifteen hold their
sessions, and pump all sorts of stories out of
all sorts of witnesses"
TIE ART OF BEING PoiITE.-First and
foremost don't trv tO ~, nolito IL will cn,;I I,