Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-08-14

dollars if undos ono hundred, dollars, five
Ioents; IT over ono hundred dollars, five cents
on each additional ono hundred dollars or
part thereof All receipts for any amount
without limit over twenty dollars, two cents I;
if twenty dollars or under nothing. All decds
aud deods of trust, fifty conts on each five
hundred dollars in valuo Of tho property con-
veyoa or tho amount secured whom a deed
Of trust is fully stamped, the noto secured
must not be; but thoy should,bo endorsed to
show tho reason why. Mortgage bonds nced
not DO stamped II stamps arc affixed to the
mortgage. All appraiaomonts, Of estates or
estrays, ave cents on each sheet or pieoe Of
paper. Affidavits Of every description are
exempt from stamp duties. Acknowledge.
ments to deods, cto., aro also exempt. Con-
tracts and agreements, fivo cents, except for
rents; whom for rent, fifty oonts for each sew.
on hundred dollars Of ront or less, if not over
three hundred dollars fifty cents for two hun.
drod dollars. Any person istorestod can affix
and Oanool stamps
a WONDERFUL DoMH.--Tho domo OF tho
Capitol at Washington is tho most ambitious
structure in America, It Is hundred aud
eight feet higher than tho Washington Mon.
! umcnt at Baltimore, sixty-cight feet higher
than that of Bunker Hill, and twenty.throo
feet higher than the Trinity Church spiro of
Now York. 1t is a vast hollow spcro of iron
weighing 100000 pounds. How much is
thaty Moro than four thousand tons, or
about tho weight Of seventy thousand full
grown people; or about equal to q thousand
laden coal cars, which, holding four tons
apiece, would roaoh two miles and half
Directly over your head is figure in bronze,
"Amo''ea," weighing 1885 pounds. The
pressure of the iron domc upon its piers and
pillars is l3,477 pounds to the square foot.
st Peters presses nearly 10000 pounds moro
to the square foot and ST. Goncyevo, at Paris,
$4,000 pounds moro. It would require to
crush tho supports of our dome pressure Of
775,2SO pounds to the square foot The cost
was about 81, 100000. Tho new wings cost
about s6,5O0,000. Tho architect has plan
for rebuilding the old central part of the Cap
itol and charging the Park, which will cost
about SO, 100000.
THE LITTLE ONES Fortunate arc those
parents who have learned to respect tho indi.
viduality of their ohildron. Who arc not
madly bont upon planting thom in tho family
garden in sct rows, aud 30 closely that their
| branches havo no room to strotch out into
the fair sunlight. WHO arc forever on hand
with the pruning-knifo or hoo, to lop off that
which if left, would develop into sweet buds
or flowers; or to dig tho earth promaturely
from roots which woro bottcr loft safely hid
den till their natural potiod Of vigorous ap-
pcaring. A gardener who should be guilty
of suoh folly would DO laughing stock. What
if all his fowors woro Of ono color? What
if overy twig aud loaf woro of tho same size
How weary should wo bo of this monotony
How we should long for tho delicate pink of
tho rose, and tho royal purple of tho violet,
and tho pure snow Of the lilly, and the dis
tinctivo aroma of each. Why not in this res,
poet take lesson from Nature, which is at
oncc so bountful and so wise?
| FALLING GYES.-HorS0nS suffering from
dyspepsia, or any other malady, must tako care
of their eycs. Any disease impairs the
strength, and tho nervous system is depressed !;
and when laboring under this form of
depression tho cyo is particularly liable to be-
como weak. Tho reason Of this is, that "of
tho ten nerves which 20 off from the brain,
six arc distributed wholly, and tho other four
partially, to tho oyo." Through tho great
sympathetic norvo tho disturbed stomach, or
livcr, or intestinos, communicate with tole-
graphic spcod with tho brain, and so with
tho eye. The first advice to be given with
reference to the comfortable uso of the eyes
undoubtedly is, to keep tho intcstinos and
liver and stomach in a healthy condition, in
othcr words, do everything to confirm tho gen
oral health. If this be impaired, do not read,
and especially do not write long without Civ.
ing the oyo rcst The great remedy for an
eyo whose disease depends upon tho nervo and
not tho muscle, is Rost Rest ! Rost !ll
LovELINEss.- is not your neat dress,
your expensive shawl, or pretty fingers that
! attract tho attention of mon Of sonso. Thoy
look beyond these. 1t is truo lovliness of
your nature that wins and continues to retain
thn, frookso, &c IL