Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-01-08
The Rditor.

The glib tongue, nor tho fluent pom do not
constitute them; nor yet alouo tho deep
thinker or profound scholar. It il evident a
msa may bo apt in his roplies-yet ruin what
ne advances BY his total indisoretion he may
DO an erudite thinker, and yet may want that
grace and beauty Of uttesauoo which charm
and chain US; h0 may be an acknowledged
learned scholar, aud still may be without the
power to present the material ho hes, in that
manner which is pleasing and etfeotivo. An
editor should DO man above oil others, the
ministry alone excepted, who should bo free
from prejudice and passion. He should have
discretion without timidity-ooursgo without
rashness-aucncy without ioquaoiousnc,s-
depth without mysteriousness-pr profoundity
without ostentation. To accomplish all the
good he can, to fulhll his mission, to perform
his duty, he should be eminently practical
yet not prossio. He should avoid vain spec
ulationa, lest he be called orratic and his ad i.
vice be taken for naught-nor yet Is occasion
demands, should he be wanting in the grand,
eloquent, and tho sublime. Whom the pub
lilo mind needs or socks information, lie it is
whose duty is to bring forth from tho we'll.
Allied stores Of his mind, or from the secming
pages Of forgotten lore, those rich treasures
Of knowledge amt wisdom, polished by his
master hand, or present them in their chsste
loveliness, or iu their plain and homcly rug
gedness, and draw from thom those lessons of
veal which history and experience have
taught. He should be quick to discern these
stages Of tho public mind. When he presents
these fao;s aud opinions, he should place
thom before the disagreeing reader in such q
courteous style of we'll chosen language as to
demand his attcntion-his diotion should be
that which lulls and entrances the ear---and
his argument ought to be rendered with it's
points SO obvious and plain, as to thrust them
selves most poignantly and convincingly to
the mind, yet not emitting al elcgancies Of
STYLE s:yc and courtesy Of diqtiQu. In politeness
he should not be sycophantic in his selec
tions no should be chaste; in his arrangement
of matter he should be uniform and systcln-
alto; in his prunings he should be delicate
and discreet, yet decided. Qufck to discern
truth from falsehood, the genuine from tho
counterfeit, he should be ever ready to expose
the wrong and uphold the right. A "tink-
ling cymbai" should not deceive him. In
abuses, his eye should bo tho first unlooscd
He should be leader not follower of the
people. Conscious of the dignity Of his DO.
sition, he should loso no moment, By all that
is manly and good, to magnify aud exalt his
office. With celebrity should he weigh overy
proposition, with carefulness should he take
his position. His charity to failings and
frailties, to opinions and mon, should be deep
and kind-but no morbid scns;bility should
dctcr him from the condemnation of vice and
aud errors, crimes and criminals His paper
should be the reflex of himself, therefore, it
ought to DO consistcnt.-Me Calogrsm.
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YoUNa LADIES SUNDAY DREssEs..-
Floating among the papers, wo find thcso re-.
marks Of Mrs. Harriet Beocllor Stowo.
every estimablc, and, We trust, very rolig-
ious young women, sometimes entor the house
Of God in costume which makes tho act, of
devotion in the service seem almost a bur.
lesque. When brisk little creature comes
into pew with her hair frizzled till il stands
on end in most startling manner, rattliup
strings of beads and bits of tinso, sho NAV
look exceedingly pretty and piquaate; and if
she came thero for gamo Of oroquct or q
tableauparty, would be all in very good taste
but as she comes to confess that sho is a mis-.
erable sinner, that she has done tho things
she ought not to have done, and left undone
the things she ought to have done--as sho
takes upon her lips most solemn and tremen.
dous words, whose moaning runs far bevond
life into sublime oteroity--.thoro is dis.
crepancy which would bo ludicrous IL T. were
not melancholy"
A oIrIzEN Of Burlington, Vermont has
invented olook that runs by electricity, and
never requires aiding. It has onlv three
wheels, no weights or springs and ,t il olaim.
90. thatithas little friction, is not affected bv
heat, cold, 'dampnoss or jarriog. 4 s,iinale
clock and batteryca bo conneoted with anv
number Of dials and indicators, in the sa,no
building, or even along the whole line ofa
sa''s"y.sgs IT.. Il. 1;tss.az-