Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-10-28

from silver bell, the voice ripped oyor the
/ common.
"Thut's MOTHER" cried one of the bows, and
he instantly threw down his bat, and picked
up his jacket and cap
"Don't 90 yet p "IIavc it out p "Finish
this game" "Try it again |" cried tho play.
ers, in noisy chorus
"l must go-right of'-this very minute
told her Id come whenever she called"
"Make believe you didn't hear!" they all
exclaimed.
"But did heart"
"She don't know you did,
"But know it, and
"lct him CO." said bystander. "You
cant do anything with him. He's tied to
! his mothers apron strings"
"Thats so!' said Charlie; "and its to
what every bny ought to be tied; and in
hard knot, too"
"But wouldn't be such baby as to run
the minute she called" said one.
"l don't call it babysh to keep ones word
to his mother" answered the obedicnt boy, a
beautiful light glowing in his blue eyes. 81
call that manly; and the boy who don't keep
his word to her will never keep it to any one
clse-you 500 if he does y and he hurried
away to his cottage homo.
Thirty years have passed since those BOYS
played on the common. Charles G rev is now
II prosperous business man in great city and
his mercantile friends say of him that "his
word is MS good as bond
We asked him how he acquired such a ro
putatiou
81 never broke my word when boy, no
matter how great the temptation, and the
habit formed then clung to me through life.
Es- At a cost of 100000 St. Louis has
bored into the earth distance of 3,S43A
feet in search Of water. Almost every varie.
ty OF strata known to geology has been passed
through, und the engineer very correctly re.
marks that good opportunity is offered of
exploring hitherto unknown region of the
earth. A remarkable fact is noted ia the
temperature of the well. At three thousand
feet the temperature was l06 degrees Fahrcn.
heit' This indicated pretty rapid approach
to tho region of perpetual flame. But at
thirty eight hundred feet the temperature
fell of degree, the thermometer only indi-
eating los degrees This will, of course, set
gcologists to philcsophzing, and we leave the
phenomenon with them. 1t ought to be
stated that water was not found, and the we'll
was abandoned.
EoUAL1TY.-Aftcr all that can be said
about the advantages one man has over an
other, there is still wonderful equality in
human fortunes If t1e heircss has booty
for her dover, the pennilcss have beauty for
theirs; if one man has cash, the other has
credit; if one boasts of his income, the other
oan of his influence. No one is 80 miserable
but that his neighbor wants something he
possesses; and no one so mighty but that he
wants anothcr's aid. There is no fortune so
good but it may be reversed and none so
bad but it may be bcttered The sun that
rises in clouds may set in splendor; and that
which rises in splcndor may set in gloom
TAMpERING WITH VoTEs-The following
paragraph is published for the information of
the voters and others:
"Under the Act of July ii, 1870, any
person voting twice, will be arrested by the
United States Marshal, and tho person SO
offending is liable to arrest, and not less than
twelve months Imprisonment Any person
who tampcrs with, or attempts to tampcr
with, or threatens to tampcr with the ballot
boxes, is liable to tho same penalty"
nsa- The anthracite coal deposits of Penn
syvana undcric four hundred and seventy
square miles of mountain and valley. More
than forty million dollars have been absorbed
in mining capital, about the same sum in ca
nal, and seventy millions in railroads. con-
structed almost solely AZ means of transpor-
taton for coal Sixteen million tons were
sent to market during the past year
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