Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-08-14

EThs is your note for S75. Give me
$5 and you can have w"
"i'ivc dollars! No, sill. No. sir! ! havo
no money to throw away, sir"
"l}ut this is your own note"
"fruc, sir, very true, but I'm not such
an idiot as to throw away money on worth
less securities, no matter who s!gn lhcui.
deal ony in lirstclass paper, sir, and when
that notc has negotiable value | vii. be
pleased to discount it. Good day, sir
looks like settled weather"
How TIE SEA IS SALrED. Many pco-
pie Imagine that ocean water is naturally
salt, aud will be surprised to know that the
salt comes from the rocks, aud is washed
into the sea. The sea- depends on tic dis.
inteSration Of rocks on land for its saltns5&
| 1t does not originate in oceans and seas.
Rains wash it aud hold it in solution us
PARTICLES arc liberated by violence, dccompo
sition, aud gradual action Of many natu--
| raj forces. All streamcts and rivers, there.
fore, aSo constantly transporting salt to the
| sea. Ii there is more than can be held in
solution, then it accumulates in masses at
very deep poiuts, which Ia tho ieyolutiou
to which matter is subject, may again be "
stratum of Galt somewhere remote from
where tho MACS was formed. Thus The
saitmines Of Portugal, and the vast horizon
tai bed Of pure salt in Texas, as well as that
moutain of rock salt in Domingo, was col
lectcd a. the bottom of ancient seas, which
are now dry land, remote from water
There are places in Africa where tho pro-
cess of dsintcgration Of suit from water is
| ,ln,l I,,t 4 %
power enough to force it onward to the sea.
llcncc, tho particles are spread abroad and
mixcd up with soil
SCARE HIM -"Jack," said pretty
gill to her brother tho other day, "I want
you to do something for mc-tha,'s good
fcllow''
"What is it?' growlcd Jack, who is a
boy of the period.
"Why, you know that wig and lnoustachc
you used in the tbcatricals up at tho Fca,h
crly's?"
"Wcll?'
"Wcil won't you just put them on and
20 to the concert Tonight? Augustus and
| will be there, and, Jack, | want YOU to
stare at me the whole evening through your
glass"
"What! you want me to do tEat?"
'Ycs, and as wo como out you stand in
tho door and try to slip mo note--takc
care that Gus secs you, too"
"Wcll, | declared"
''Bccause, you sec, Jack Gus likes me,
know, but then hos awful slow, and he's
well of, and lots of other girls arc after him
and, and--hc's got to be hurried up little
as it were"
Bat Jack very brutaly declined, which
shows how precious little sympathy girls
get from their own brothers nowadays.
Adversely is the balance to weigh friends
lgnorance is subject for pity; not
laughter.
A Knowledge Of mankind is necessary to
acquire prudence.
Choose those companions who administer
to your Improvement.
I Truth is hid by great depths, aud tho
way to it docs not appear to all tho world.
Conversational powers are susceptible Of
The tricna aships of youth arc founded on
sentiment; the discussions Of age result from
opinion.
Flowers swcotcn the air, rooico the eye,
lux us with nature and innocence ani arc
something to love.
Tho business OF life is to 20 forward; he
who secs evil in prospect meets it OH the way;
but he who catches it by rctrospcc:ion turns
back to find it.
Affections, like sping flowers, break
through the frozen ground at last, aud TIC
} heart, which seeks but for another heart to
make it happy will never seek in vain