Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-10-15
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The oldest City in the World.

Damascus is the Oldest city in the world
Tytoaa and sidon have crumbled on the shore
BaalpooI il a}ruie; Pslbyri il buried insd
desert; Nincsch and Babylon have disap.
.pearea from the irigris and EuplrateS.l I Da.
nlascls remains whur it was before the days
of Abraham--a contre of trade and travel
q an island cf ycrdure in the desert--'a presi.
dcntial capital with martial and sacred asso.
cations extending through thirty centuries.
i. WIS near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw
itho light above the brightness Of the sun
g tho street which is cuied Strait. in which it
was said he prayed still runs through the
city. The cavaran comes and goes as it did
a thousand years ago, there is still the shelk,
J the ass, and the water wheel, the merchants
Z Of tho Euphrates and the Mediterranean still
J, occupy these with tho multitude of their
4 wares The city which Mahomet surveyed
from ncighboring height, and was afraid to
onter 'bccauso it was given to ulan to have
but one paradise, aud for his part he was re-
solved not u havc it in this world is to, day
what Julian called tho 'eye of the East as
it was in the time of Isaiah, the head of
Syria
From Damascus came the Damson, our,blue
p!ums and tho delicious apricot Of Portugal,
called damasco, danask, our beautiful fabric
OF cotton and silk, with vines and flowers,
raised upon smooth, brigbS ground the
danask rose, introduced in England in the
timo Of Henry Will, the Damascus blade, so
famous the world over for its keen edge und
wonderful elasticity, tho secret Of whose man
ntac;ure was lost when Tamerance carried
oil the artist into Persia and that beautiful
ait inlhyipg wood and steel with silver and
gold, kind Of moriac engraving and sculp.
tnral uutod-- called danaskening
which boxes, bureaus, swords and guns are
ornamentcd. tits still "A city Of flowers aud
bright waters; the streams of Lebanon and
the silk Of gold still mu,mur aud sparkle in
the wilderness Of the Syrian gardcns.
AN AFrEcTIoNATE SrIRIT.--We some.
times meet with mcn who seem to think that
any indulgence in sffcctionate feelings is u
weakness. They will return from journey
and greet their families with distant digni
ty. and move among their children with the
cold aud lofty spendor ofan iceberg, surroun.
ded with its broken fragments There is
hardly moro unnatural sight on earth than
one OF those families without hearts,: A fatl.
or had better cxtinguish his son 3 eyes ,ha,
take away his heart. Who that has expert
'icnced the joys of friendship, and knows tn,
worth Of affection, would not rather lrse al
that is beautiful in natures scenery, than h,
rottcd Of the hidden treasures Of his heart
who would not rather bury his wife than bur,
his love for her? Who would not rathc
follow his child to the grave than enton.b hi
parental affection !? Cherish, then, your bes
affections Indulge in the warm emotions o
tili0l, parental, fraternal love- Think it no
a"eakness. God is love. Teach your chill
dren to love to love the flowers, to love tn
birds, to love their parcnts-to love their G cd
Let it pc the studied object Of your domesti
culture to give them warm hearts und arden
affections You cannot make tho cords O
love too strong; and be assured that in nur
turing tho principles of affection, you are nur
turing the principles of virtue
Tue RELIGION OF WoMAN.--fom oma
seems to be more religious by nature thai
man She is more susceptible to spir,tua
impression. more receptive of spiritual influ
cnccs, and she feels more of the attractiv
power of Infinite Goodness than her colder
more rcsistivc, active brother Woman's 10
and experience ave more religions in thei
discipline and influence than the rough ster
schooling of tho world into which man
plunged, to be tossed on the billows buffettr
by the storms, borne down by the tempest
very often, though now and then to ride
triumph over the waves, In the CT, endar
saints therc are five Marys to ono john
Were not women more religious than me,
we should have few churches or charities.
1t is mostly woman's deep and earnest fait
that renTs these Christian temples, woman
holy aspirations that point these gracef
spires to heaven, woman's fervor that kcr,
alive the fire upon the sacred altars, and Il
incense of woman's soul that fills the sanct
aries with the spirit of praise. Man pays Il
bill; woman loves and wowhips Man h
more OF the moraI element, woman more of Il