Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-02-14

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| What 1t Costs to Syrlte SYcl,.
Excellence is not matured in day, and
the cost Of it is an old story The beginning g
OF Plato's "Republio," it is said, was found 10
an old tabletwritten over in q variety of ways.
Adison, we are told, wore out tho patience
of his printer; frequently, when nearly a
whole impression of the Spectator was
worked of, he would stop tho press to insert
somo new proposition Lambs most spor-
tive essays wore tho result OF most intense
brain labor; he used to spend week ut q
time III celebrating single humorous letter
to friend. Teuayson is sreported to have
written Come Into the Garden, Ma.d,'
more than fifty times over before it pleased
him; and "Looksley Hall, the 6rst drought
OF which Was written 10 two days, lie spout
tho better part Of six wcoka, for eight hours
day in altering and polishing. Dickens,
when he intended to write a Christuts
story, shut himself up for'six wooks, living
tho lifo Of hermit, and oamo out as bag
Fgard as a murderer. i9ii' ta !
Balzac, after he thought out thoroughly ono
Of his philosophical romances, and amasscd
his materials in most laborious manner,
retired to his study, and from that time un,
tillhis book went to press society saw him no
more. When he appeared among his friends
he leokod, ,,said his, publisber, in the popular
phrase, ike his'oHn ghost. The manuscript
| wps- aiteraard altered and copied, when it
! passed ioto the hands Of. the; pfinter,I from
| whose slips The book was re- written Sthe
third time! 'EAgsin it wont into the hands
! of the printer two, threo, aud sometimes
four separate proofs being required before
1 The authors leave could bo got to send the
perpotua(ly ro-written book to press at. last
to have it done. Ho was literally the ter
ror Of all the prinsers and editors. .y,
! Moore thought it quick worS if ho wrote
seventy lines Of sLalla I,ookh" in u week.
Kingake's "Eothep," we arc told, was re-
written five or six times, and was kept in
the authors writing desk alnossSas long as
Wadsworth kopt "Whi.o Doe Of Rylsome,"
and kept like that, to DO taken Gut for re-
view aud 0 c,rreotioh overy days Buifon's
"s,ory of Nature" cost him fifty years of
labor before hc sent it to the printer. "Ic
composed it in singular manner, writing
on n large sized paper, in which, os in a
ledger, five distinct columns wero ruled
In The frs. column ho wrote down tho first
thoughts; in the second he corrected, enlarg
cd and pruned it; and 80 on until he reached
the fifth column, within which hc fpaly
wrote tho results of his labor. But even
after this he would compose sentence twenty
times, and once dc7otcd fourteen hours to
fuding the proper word to round off a peri
od." John Foster often spont hours on o
single sentence. Ten years elapsed between
Goldsmith's "Eravelcr'' and its sopplcton
La Rochcfoucauld spent fifteen yea,s in
preparing his little book of maxms--atcr-
ing some ,of thom, Scgaris says, nearly
thirty times. We all know how Sheridan
polished his wit and finished his jokes, tho
same things being found on different bits of
paper, differently expressed. Rogers tliow.
ed Crabbe Robinson note to his "Italy,"
which no SAID took him two weeks to write.
1t consists Of q very few lines.
| COMFY A PRINTER In lecture re-,
Gently, Mrs. Beavers took occasion to remark
| that amonfRher acquaintances was man
who is printer. Hohas travelled through
different countries, had been q public
speaker, and people (includiDg Mrs. By
wondered that he was only printer! Only
a printer, indeed! Perhaps Mrs. Beavers
thinks that the printing business is below
her standard Of intellectual greatness. Yes,
he was "only printer" Who was the
Earl of Stanhopc? Ie was only printer.
Who was Prince Frederick William Omar
ried to the Princess Royal of England?)
Who was Wm. Croxson, one of tho framcrs
of Eugsh litcraturc7 IIc was only q
printer Who wore Greeley, G. p. Morris,
Southern, James Harktr, N. p. Willis,
Bayard Taylor, Charles Dickens, Theirs,
Douglas Jcrrold, George D. Prcntiss, Dix,
Cameron, Miles, Coifax and Bonner2 Only
printers Who was Bonjamn Franklnl
He wss only "a .pntcr. d Who was James
Buchanan? He was only, a printer. ali
requires brains,to be. .oplyi a printer"
I A patent for COMPRISING tea was
lately brought to the notice of the exhibi4
ton Of sanitary appliances in, Manchester
England 1t oomprosses tho loose leaves
of ten into one third of their original bulk,
and ia. breaking up tho fibre Of tho leaves
opens the small cells which have been clos
cd by the process Of drying, and which arc
| not thoroughly opened when pcroly infused
1 in boiling water. Thefesultis a gaing oi