Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-02-19

WATCHING ONES SELr.-"When I was q
boy" said an old man, VIC had a schoolmaster
who had an odd way of catching idlo boys.
Ono day he called out to us:
''Boys, l must have closer attention to your
books. The first ono of you that secs a boy
idle, | want you to inform mo, and I will at.
tend to the case"
"Ah, thought L, there is Joe Simmons
that I don't like. I'll watch him, and if 1
sec him look off his book 1 we'll tell. 1t was
not long before I saw Joe look off his book,
aud Immediately | Informed the MASTER"
"Ipdecd," said he, chow did you know lie
was idle 2"
"I saw him." said I.
"You did and were your eyes on your
book when you saw him Z"
1 was caught, and never watched for idle
boys again.
If wo are sufficiently watchful over our
" conduct we will have no time to find
fault with the conduct Of others.
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T~YPodRApnlCAL FRA0lDITY.-We wish
to put on record an instance Of self.sacrifcing
devotion to business which occurred Just as
VIC were taking our pen to enlightcn the world
by another editorial cifulgencc.
A party presented himself at tho door Of
tho composing. room q moment ago in a state
of great mental excitcm cnt
els Joseph Ii. Jackson here ?"
The party named was engaged in setting
up our last editorial. He looked up on hear
ing his name. Tho excited party coutin.
ucd
"Your house is burned up and everything
in it," :
With q cool devotion to duty which will
bear comparison with the most brilliant his
torical examples, Mr.. Jackson continued to
pick up type.
81 tell you your house is burned up, and
everything in it!' exclaimed the now aston
ished as we'll rs excited stranger.
"Wcll-all right I can't leave now III
come round when the paper goes to press"
--New York Eocntng Mat.
"AND you have been married; Patrick
three times, havn't you?
/" Vas, indadc, sir
"And what do you say Of it? Which wife
did you like best?
"Wcll, Becky O'Bricn, that I married the
first time, was a good woman-too good for
me; 50 she got sick died, and, and the lord
took her"
Then [ got married to Bridget Flanagan
She was a bad woman; and she got sick aud
died too, and the devil took her"
Then, fool that l was, L got married to
M"ggcrty. Sho was worse, very bad-so bad
that neither the Lord nor the devil would have
her; so | have to keep her myself"
Tier is said to be a great similarity be-
tween a vain young lady and a confirmed
drunkard, in that neither Of them can never
get enough of the glass. She is only a side
issue.
8a" Quin told a lady that she looked
blooming as spring, but, rccollccting that the
season WIS not then very promising, he adj
dcd Would to Heaven the spring would
look like you.
OF THE OLDEST MASON.-IhC
erie On. W DISPATCH" states that Joseph
Metcalf, who died in that city on Wednesday
last, at the age of ninety four, was the Oldest
Mason in the United States.
ArFEcrIoN.-Iow sacred, how beautiful is
this feeling, in pure and g~uilclcss blossoms
The proud may snccr at it, tho fashionable
may call it fable, the selfish and dissipatod
may affect to despisc it; but the holy passion
is surely of Heaven, and is made evil by the
corruption of those whom it was sent to bless
and preserve.
a HEAD properly constituted can
date itself to whatever pillows the yicisitudes
of fortune may place under it.
AN editor became martial and was created
captain. Instead of "two PAGES in front
advance" he unconsciously bawlcd out, Cash
two dollars a ycar-advance.'
JOSH BILLINGs has written an essay upon
" ROSTERS" in which he remarks that they
"arc the husbands Of many wives. In Utah
it is considered a disgrace tcw speak disre-
spcckful of q rooster. Brigham Young's
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