Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-09

IMPORTANT TO YOUNG LADIEs.--All girls
who would be happy wives, and beloved and
respected mothers, be real, be earnest in ev.
erything; lot your principles be true, tolerate
no sham, and tho superstruoture you shall
build thereon shall be animate with your spir.
it when you nave laid down this life and ia.
ken up removed existence in another world.
In marriage, who would not rather take to
HE heart a reasoning, thinking spirit, tolera.
ting no self.infuenco but that Of uprightness,
having reliant faith, loving sympathy, and &C.
tive usefulness, as tho only Weapons for the
daily warfare Of CROSSES, perplexities, and On.
durancea, rather than a aippant, idle, ignorant
girl, who, sooner than help her mother to
lightcn her burden Of care and anxiety, is
just tho mako-woight to pull hor to the earth,
and keep hor there, for the mother silently
thinks "Who will marry her 2"
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HOME SUNsHINE.-Many a child goes as.
tray, not because there is want Of prayer or
virtue at homo, but simply because, home
lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much
as Howors need sunbcams. Children look lit.
tic beyond tho present moment. II a thing
pleases; they arc apt to seek it; if it dis.
pleascs, they arc promo to avoid it. If homo
is the place whore faces are sour and words
harsh, and fault-fnding is ever in the asoon-
dant, they will spend as many hours rs posi-
bic elsewhere. Let every father and mother
then try to be happy. Lot them talk to their
children, especially tho little ones, in such q
way as to make them happy.
A YOUNG man asked IN old man for his
daughter in marriage. The answer wis
go into tho orchard and bring in a number
of apples. Give mo ono half Of the whole
number and tho mother half of the balance
aud half an apple over, and to the daughter
ono half Of tho remainder aud half an apple,
and have ono left for yourself, without out
ting an apple and then, if she is willing, you
can have her." He solved the question:
How many did he bring?
CnARITY.-The "Rome Courier says at
has reliable information that the Masons Of
Cherokee Lodge No. 66 have undertaken to
educate all the INDECENT orphan children of
Mssons within their jurisdiction. They now
have twenty-one or twenty-five children in
the different schools Of this city and vicinity,
and arrangements have already been made to
educate eight or ten more. Comment is neo
essary." .
An example worthy of imitation. For
there is "Faith, Hope, and Charity, but the
greatest of these is oharity."-Ananta Intel.
ligencer.
MOST Of tho miseries and most of tho ioys
of life are imaginary, and whether a man is
happy or miserable, depends almost entirely
upon his moods. The distance between hell
and heaven cam, in many cases, be SPAWNED
by a dream. 10 get out of torment most
people have only to brush away tho fancics
that fostoon and film the brain.
THE Inauguration ball was q great affair,
but there wasn't as much as one man and
brother present. A fow thousand, negroes
wcre in the procession that escorted Grant
down to the Capitol, md were considered
quito an ornamont there, but no ono was al-
lowed to enter the ball room. Call you this
Equal Rights ?-Meyopoltan Record.
IVY
AT Lynn, Mass, a school teacher asked q
little gi,l who the first man was. She an
swercd that sho did not know. The question
was put to the next, an Irish child, who answer.
cd loudly, "Adam, Sir" with apparent salts.
faction. claw" said the first scholar, "you
needn't feol SO prowd about it, he wasn't On
Irishman."
Up Train N Down TRAM" What
do you moan by an up train 2" inquired q ru.
raj passenger.
"a train whose engine explodes and blows
up the whole concern, of COURSE" replied
the conductor.
"Then what do you mean by a sdown
train?' inquired verdant.
"What else could it be but a train whose
engine gets off the track and pluuges down
the bank or into the river, with tho carriages
after it?"
"To which of the two does this 'ere bo.
long
We can answer no such question in ad.
vance,"
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