Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-02
Fruit Trees.

icuoh uoIerS VIII HoC 40 much damage
when stiff clay is heapcd up round the trce a
foot high.
Pear blight still puzzles the greatest men.
Tho best remedy known is to plant two for
every one that dies.
If you, don't know how to prunc, don't
hire q man from tho other side Of the sea that
knows less than you do.
Don't out of a big lower limb unless you
arc q %rontor, and don't care what becomes Of
the tree when your timo is out.
/ A tree with the limbs coming out near the
ground is worth two trccs trimmed up five
feet, and four trees trimmed up ten feet, and
SO on till they are not worth anything.
Trim down not up.
Shorten in, not lengthcn up.
If you had your arm out of, you would
feol it to tho heart, a tree will not feel, but
rot to tho hoart.
When anybody tolls you Of a gardener that
understands oil about horticulture aud agri-
culture, and that he oan DO hired, don't be.
licve a word of it, for there arc no such to
be hired. Such q man can mako moro than
you can afford to give him, and if no has
sense enough to understand the business, he
will also have enough to do this.
Massachusetts E~loughmas.
WEAR A SMILE.-Which will you d o.
smile and makes others happy, or be Grabbed
and make every body around you miserable ?
You can live among flowers and singing birds,
or in the mire surrounded by fogs and frogs,
The amount Of happiness which you. can pro
ducc is incalculablc, if you will only show a
smiling face, a kind heart and speak pleasant
words. On the other hand, by sour looks,
cross words, and a frctful disposition, you can
make hundreds unhappy almost beyond endu.
rance. Which will you do? Weay o pleas.
ant countcnance; let joy beam in you eye
and love glow on your forehead. THERE'S no
Joy SO great as that which springs from a kind
act or pleasant deed, and .you may feel it at
night whom you rest, and at morning when
you rise, and throughout the day when about
your daily business.
BEING AoREEABLE.-Thc art of being
agreeable is to appear we'll pleased with all
tho company; and rather seem we'll enter.
tainod with them than to bring entertainment
to them. A man thus disposed may not have
much learning nor much wit, but if he has
common sense, and something friendly in his
behavior, it co noiliatcs mems minds more
than tho brightest parts without this DISPOSE
ton and when a man of such a turn comes
to old age, he is almost sure to be treated
with respect. 1t is true, that we should not
disscmblc and fatter in company but nan
may be very agreeable, strictly consistent
with truth and sincerity, by prudent silence
when he cannot concur, and n passing assent
when lie can. Now and then you meet with
a person exactly formed to please, that no will
gain upon every one who hears or beholds
him this is not merely the gift of nature,
but frequently the effect of much knowledge
of the world and a command over tho pas.
sions.
LIFE LIKE A RIvER.-Bishop IIcrbcr,
upon departing for India, said in his farewell
sermon
Life bears us on like the stream of a
mighty river. Our boat at first goes down
the mighty channclt-hrough the playfulm
mnrings of the little brook, and tho willows
upon its grassy borders. Tho trees shcdthoir
blossoms over our young heads, the flowers on
the brink seem to offcr themselves to our young
hands we are happy in hope and grasp ca.
gerly at the beauties around us; the stream
hurrics on, and still our hands arc empty
Our course in youth and in manhood, is along
a wider, deeper food, and amid objects more
striking and magnificent. We arc animated
by the moving picture Of enjoyment and in
dustry passing US we aro excited by our
short.lived enjoyment. The stream bears us
on, and joys and griefs arc left behind US
We may be shipwrocked, but we cannot bo
delayed for, rough or smooth, the river has.
tens toward its home, till the roar of the ocean
is in our cars, and the waves beneath our feet.
and tho floods are lifted up around us, and wo
take our leave of earth and it's inhabitants,
until of our further voyage there il no Eit.
moss save tho Infinite and Eternal.
a BEAUTIFUL E~xTRAoT.-A naval officer
being at sea in dreadful storm, his wife,
who was sitting in the cabin near him, and
filled with alarm for the safety Of tho vessel,
was so surprised at his composure that she