Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-03-05
Josh Billings In the Ed.sor's Chair.
HIS ANSWERS TO coRREspoNDnnrs.

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''ther if you ma go home with her from .
rice; get the gala end ,rscmont, and 90 in
Is proper enough to ask her to take yuro
nut you ha'nt got no rite TO- put yure
! II around her waste, unless yu meet a Bear
1.-THE rode, and then yu arc bound to take
IRE arm away jest as soon as the Bear gifts
'fnly by.
Whip-you arc ritc mules live to q lonla
ye; lv'e known them myself. to live one
'uodred yeer, aud not half tri. You are also
Ute about their being sure. footed I've known
them to kick u boy twice in = second, ten
feet oph.
Gertrude--Yurc inquiry stumps INC The
more think on Ii, the more | can't tell. As
near NJ | can rekolek now I think I don't
know. Much mite be oed both ways, and
neither way DO rite. Upon the whole, i rath.
er think ! wud, or I wuldnont, jist as l though
best or otherwise.
Plutark-Yu're mistaken; che Shakers
don't marry. If young Shakers fall in luv
tina arc sot to wedding onions, and it kures
them forthwithly. I kant toll yu now how
much it dus kost To- jiuc tho Shakers. but i
believe the expaaze used to DO, including
having yuro hair cat and farming how to DAME,
about $65. ! s ,
srortsman-Yuro inquiry is not ~cgznctly
in mi line, but | haste to rnpli, as follers. to
wit: The rite length to cut oph u dog 8 tail
has never yet becnl fully discovered, bu. is
undoubtedly somewhere ,bak ov his cars, pro
vidcd you get the dogs consent. N. b. 1t
aint absolutely necessary the dogs consent
should be in writeing.
H~NHApP1NEss IN MARRIED L,rE-The
last number of the New York Ledger has an
editorial article on this subject. We quote a
paragraph which the unhappy can accept or
reject according to their pleasure:
1t is almost incredible from what a variety
OF circumstances marriages may prove unhup-
Ply; but it is found. in by fur the majority of
cases, that Tho husband is somewhat or other
the cause of the evil. Domestic felicity is |
seldom marred by the woman it is her EN-.
p're,'"nd she is no more likely to destroy it
than no bird is to pull her own nest to pieces.
She stands by home as a principle, and it is
her nature to seek to render it as agreeable rs
possible to her husband. She has also a more
Intense sense than s synsr' s. the decenoies of
..c--is more anxious to have all duties prop
erly "bserved-to nave crcditablo appearance
before neighbors in short, us she says, to
have everything right. Men-even sensible.
well educated men-arc often rebels against
many Of the proprietics, but woman very
rarely"
MISUNDERSTANDING is the wish of
all; the good, while pursuing the track Of
v'rtuo--thc great, while following tho
-t'r of glory-nnd the little. while creeping
in the stycs Of dissipation, sigh for tranquili-
~ and mike it the great object which they nj.
%'imately hope to attain. How anxiously does
the sailor. on The high and giddy mast. when
M te'"pcstuon' seas. cast his eyes ovdr the
''n'ning pillows and anticipate the cain, secu.
r'ty he hopes to enjoy when he reaches the
wished for shore! Even the exalted grow
weary of their splendid slavery and sicken
under increasing dignities.
All. in fact, feel less delight in the actual
"j"ymcnt Of worldly pursuits, however great
and honorable they may be thun in tho idea
of their being able to %rclinquisi, them and re.
tire to
"somo oalm sequestered spot.
Tho world forgetting. by the world forgot"
A JOKE Is old of a preacher in Nebraska.
who had dined with a friend just before after.
noon services. As it happened this friend
occasionally luxurinted in n smile, Of the ar
dent. and sometimes carried a morocco. covered
flask 10 his overcoat pocket. BY mistake the
'.inister took the friends ovcrcoat on his de.
parture, and walking into the pulpit, began
the exercises without dofiug the garment, it
being rather chilly in the room.
Looking very ministerial over his congre-
CATION from behind his spectaoles, he began
drawing from his pocket as he supposed, his
hymn book with the introductory remark that
the congregation would sing from a particular
page which he had selected beforehand. The
minister held tho supposed book up in full
sight Of the congregation, and attempt ed to
open it sideways. but it was no 90. The nit.
uation was realized in a moment, but alas !
too late. q
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