Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-04-24

NoiuSi AOIhtloW was ueIc, tueTe, eVery'
whore. He had become interested at last
in some magnificent stalaotities end his party
got ahead of him. He discovered this
and hurried after them, He could see
heir lights in the distance. When nearly
upSto them bis candle went out. He was
sauntsriug along until he, came within
hearing Of thetwo nearest him, and reoog-
nised his wife and Weston.
gYou canuot deny,"'3 Weston was Saying,
"t6at YOU ihavo encouraged meyto think
that you pared for me, Nellie, and, by
heaven! YOU shall not say. me nay"
| 81 confess to having done wrong. was
SO efraid 7 did not possess my husbapd's
whole heart, that J. determined to test
his, love for me by trying to make him
jealous" s.
aso you made cats paw Of mol Very
kind of you. May ask what prompted
you to select me2'
"Recause you were respectable enough in
the eyes Of the world to make it look right,
and you were unprincipled enough to max 0
it practicable, and hearlelss enough TO have
no feeling in the matter"
"Then you love your husband2" 81
Glove him2 / idoize him! would
give my life to oocury the place in his heart
l did asmonth ago love him SO well that
| cannot imugine how heaven can be heaven
to mo without himf'
}"That is enough, Mrs. Whitlow. be-
live that you will enjoy yourself more in his
company than in mine; 80 will step ahead
aud send him back to YOU"
Weston went on, wheo out of the dark
uess pair Of arms enoirolod her. Nellie
looked up terror-stricken, and saw the foce
of her husband, wearing SO different look,
that sho knew he had heard all.
"Nellie, darling, you are my own pure
darling wife after ai, but you were very,
very indiscreet"
81 was trying to moke you jealous"
"Ard you gu seeded with vengeance.
I never thought my love necded that triaI!'
"But you acted SO differently from what
you did before you were married"
"I was your lover then, Nellie"
"Yos, Lloyd," she said, as she clung
closer to him; Sand you nre Infinitely more
to me now-you are my husband"
81 believe understood you," he said,
with smile. "What you ask is easily
given; suppose I commence now" aud
Lloyd Whitlow claspcd his little wife to
his breast and nearly covered her with
kisses.
s'Thank God, Lloyd, that we once more
understand each other! | will repay you
the pain have cost you by lifetime Of
devotion.
(which I must encourage by little
petting now and then, eh?"
eyes, Lloyd, please"
That excursion party thought in the
morning that Mr.. and Mrs Whitlow were
the most matter-of-fact bride and groom
they ever saw; but concluded in the cven-
ing that they were tho most devoted.
Nolie's advice to newly married wives is
"don't test your husbands love-"
How To GET ALONG Don't stop tC
tell stories in business hnnrS
If you have ptar,. Vt business, be found
there when you nre wanted
No man can get rich by sitting around
stores or saloons.
Never iooi" in business hours.
Have order, SYSTEM, regularity and
promp,ness.
Do not mcddlc with business of which
you know nothing.
Do not kick every one in your path.
More miles can be made in ono day By
going steadily than by stopping.
Pay as you go.
A man of honor respects his word as he
does his bond.
Help others when you can, but never
give what you carpot afford to, .simpl,
because it is fashionable.
Learn to say no. No necessity Of snap
ping it out dog fashion, but say it firml,
and respectfully.
Learn to think and not for yourself.
Keep ahead Of, rather than behind thu
times.
Yonnc men. ut this ont, and if there il
any folly in the urgument, let US know
TIME ENouon TO 5ELLER.- da.
Billy, that's my brother, he and Sammy
Doppy was playin by mud hole, and Bill,
, be said:
"Now, Sammy. les pay we was barn
yard; you he The pig and lie down md vol
Ter, aud I'll be bull and beller like every
, thing"
! So they got down on their hans au'
knees. 2npd Sammy he went in the mud ant
wollered, while Billy bcllered like distan
thundcr... Bimeby Sammy he cum ou
muddy-you never seen such muddy littI
T feller--and he said
, "Now, you be- the pix an let me beller.
y J But Billy he sud:
IL amt very good pig fore dinner, an,
title be time 'nuff for you TO "eIler we" ,e
mother secs yer olosc.'
After Mr.. Aiken, of South Carolina, hnt
| vented his sr,leen at the in ifTerpnco shnWT