Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-11-12
On Strawberries


The strawberry is one Nv natures sweet
pets. She makes them worth fifty cents, the
furst she makes, and never allows them tew
be sold at mean price.
The cutler Nv the strawberry il like the sit.
ting sun under thin cloud, with docate
dash up the rainbo in it; its fragrance IL like
the breath Nv baby when it furst begins to
eat wintcrgreen Iozzingers; its flavor is like
the nectar which an old. fashioned goddess
used to have in the bottom Nv the tumbler
when Jupiter stood treat on Mount Ida.
There is many breeds of this dcliteful vego.
table, but not mean one in the hui lot.
think heve stole them, lying around
loos, without any pedigree, in somebody's tall
grass when wuz lazy schoolboy, that eat
dreadful easy, without any white sugar on
them, and even bug occasionally mixed with
em in the hurry ov tho moment. Cherrys il
good, but they are too much life suckin' a
marble with a handle tew it. Peaches is
good, if you don't git onny ov the pin feuth.
ers intcw your lips. Watermillions will suite
ennybody that iz sitisfed with halfswcetened
drink; but the man who ken eat strawbcrrys,
besprinkled with crushed sugar and bespat
tered with kream, Cat somebody clscs ex-
pensc,) and not lay hiz hand on hiz stummuck.
and thank the author ov strawberrys and
stummuok, and the phelow who pays for tho
strawberrys, IL a man with wornout con.
scence-a man whose mouth tastes like a holo
in the ground, and don't care what goes down
it.-Josh Billings.
THEsNorthern papers give details Of the
terrible disaster on the Mississippi river last
week. A steamer with large number of
passengers was set on fire through the negli-
gence of number of gamblers, who were
playing cards by oandle.light near bale of
hay. The fire was communicated from the
hay to the steamer, and in few minutes she
was fairly ablaze. Over two hundred pas
sengers were either burned or drowned. In
this appalling calamity there is another illus.
tration of the fearful scourge which follows
the gamblers presence
The grand jury of Helena, Montana Ter
ritory, have made out a bill against the Black.
feet Indians, charging them with ma,doring
nine or tou white men within three months
and stealing number of horses The pre.
sentiment is forwarded to Secretary Cox, and
the jury in their report say that these Black.
feet have moved their families North~ard frf.
to the British possessions, where thew have
been supplied with ammunition and arms.
The grand jury ask protection Of the General
Government. ''
The GREATEST BLESSING. .--Thorc is no
greater blessing for man than to have ac.
quired that healthy and happy instinct Viii h
leadsfhim to take delight ia his work for his
works sake, not slurrihg it over, not think
ing how soon it will be done and cot rid ,f
not troubling himself greatly about what men
say OF it when it is done but putting his
whole heat and mind into It, feeling that he,
is master of its~feeIing the thing that he has
turned OUT be ite legal argument, Or book,
or picture, or anything else, is conscienti
ousy aud honestly perfected to the best Of h;s
power.
The poor devil whom Mrs. Elizabeth Ca.
dy Stanton married, and nov leaves at home
to take Saro Of the children. Shneahd makes
cffeap monkey show Of keraelf n the s.leo.
tore field is described as "a quiet, thought.
fu' little man, with plenty Of busy, dark l,air,
and an inoffensiys manner,
The Mills Hon'o 10 Charleston was opened
on Monday. .lfJg I.l