Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-06-05
Chat Blythe Way.

Luck is good thing, but ono oannot
always wait for it. Pluck is better
thing, because it is always ready to begin.
Somebody says very beautifully, "a good
life is visible philosophy"
'phe best armor against temptation is to
keep out Of the range of it's guns.
1t.pays better MOTTO do a wrong than to
do it and then repent.
No man over lived who had only ono
fault. A single fault has both sexes in
itself, and is sure to beget large family.
It is'a fact worth remembering that it
does not take half as long to make wound
as to heal one.,o,i r,
1t is curious fact, and one which has
not been made as prominent as it's impor-
tance deserved, that the parlor is the place
in which most of our matches are made.
There is hardly any quadruped which
can travel faster than an ordinary boy when
he is insthe midst Of an afternoons 8 fun and
is making home run on the baseball
ground. Ho could hardly mako better
time if hc were centipede. But such is
the dependence of human nature on its
moods, that the Same boy, though doing
his utmost, can hardly catch up with an
ambitious and pluoky snail when his
grandmother asks him to 80 out to the
wood pile and bring in an armful of kind
ling, II. ludriY4u
Il is said that tho passion for archery
which is being developed among the young
is likely to produce great moral reform,
because all tho properties of archery belong
to the straight and arrow way.
That little girl must have touched very
'sc.der p!aosin hor mothers heart when
she said, after she had been punished,
SNOW, mamma, wish you would sing me
nice song" "And what shall sing2'
her mother queried. The child looked
through her tears and replied, swell, nam.
ma,i think 'Rest for tho Weary would be
,appropriate,in; u
yt,, It is popularity Of all human actions
that they leave some footprints behind by
which they can BIO traced. There is a
cortain logic 10, life which is Irresistible.
When sp alligator was disseoted the other
day four watches wcro found in his stomach
and the operator was morally certain that
whon1th they were first swallowed four men
went In with them. i0i, e.I vi uaf
,N'>'The pickpocket recognizes one element
of sucoess which is apt to be forgotten by
other and perhaps more moral people. He
knows that it is impossible to accomplish
.unf3JShlpb uuSii HC BCto Hio uuuu lus
al IA man onoe lont a balky horse to 9
minister who had an engagement in g
Q neighboring parish. The grateful clergy
'1manJ bestrode tho brute aud oanterod gayly
along for an hour, when all ut once there
4 was q shy and tho horse found himself on
+ one sido of tho road while the minister
a;gsthored himself together on tho other
hrElho owner, when he hoard Of the accident
Il Remarked that it was the only time 10 his
life When ho succeeded in spreading the
Gospel. Aftoq looking over tho result o
tho Presbyterian trial in Brooklyn We have
arrived, at tho conclusion that nearly every
minister composing tho court has beon taxi
i ing just such a ride and has mot with .
Il similar experience o6gl ,.I,,If If 1
A cheerful way of looking at things is Q
great boon, to any man, and there is a oheor
h ful outlook fol. every ono who seeks for it
These vcrsosl may bo reduced to, q pbiloso-
ply which will bo ho'pful to any condition
eioflifo: UIi. aI1. q ( G,qb 7
: 5aBesidoa etraw stack aat a itramp---
a jolly tramp and wise 1t.or
WHO, while, ,ho patched his tattorcd coat
zaa4a, Did thus soliloquize:
1T seems sow sad that my loan life
Doth over downward tend,