Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-09-04
DO not keep old sheep. Four sets Of
lambs are oil ewc should boar; this will
bring her to five yours, and this brings her
to an ago whom, with little extra care, sho
will round up to good carcass.
w oman's "No."
ALLEGED DEcLINATIoN OF OFFERS OF
MARRIAGE.

tho best letter, the subject to be tho refusal
OF an offer of marriage. The result was an
lnundation nearly filing the editors office.
Here arc the samples:
DEAR MIR. CALIBAN-In declining tho
honor of an offer of marriage from you am
constrained to own in justice to my iudg.
mont, that only refuse suoh an one
because Lave accepted such another.
MIRANDA:
Friend ever, husband mover. A. S. p.
No, thank you. SWEET PEA.
DEAR Mr.. -: Take back your offer.
[ cannot send refusal to you, the friend 1
30 valuo and esteem. LANARK.
No, dear; mother says mustn't.
POOR POLLY.
DEAR SiR-1n declining proposal
which trust you will believe I appreciate
as the highest compliment you could possi-.
bly have paid me, beg to assure you in all
sincerity, that upon review of my own
dcmcrits it is my belief that my refusal of
your offer of marriage Is tho best and most
unsclfish return can make you. Believe
PINK DOMINO.
MY DEAR EDwIN-Thoro is nothing in
the world | value moro than your friendship:
You suggest to mo the adoption of course
by which | should most certainly lose it.
How cruel! how unkindl But tho strength
of my regard makes mo invulnerablo to
temptation. am too much your friend to
marry you, and such I hopo always to
remain. Ever your sincere friend,
ANGELINA.
DEAR SlR-You chancod to state acci.
dcntally in recent conversation that youf
digestion was not good This being the
case, fcel 1t would be unwso for mo to
accept the proposal you have just made, for
amiability of temper aud chronic dyspepsia,
as know too we'll from my dear father's
case, orc utterly incompatible ono with tho
other A man with bad digestion can;
alas! never make good husband. Yours,
sympathcticaly, SARAH ACTON.
TALMAGE ON NEWSPAPERS Ono Of
tho greatest trials of the newspaper profess
sion is that its mcmbers arc compelled to
SEQ moro shams of the world than any
other profession. Through every newspaper
office, day after day, 60 all the Weaknesses
of the world, all the vnnltics that want to
be puifcd, all the rcvengcs that want to bo
rcapcd, all the mistakes that want to bo
corrected, all tho dull speakers that want to
be thought eloquent, all the mcanness that
wants to get its wares noticed in tho edito-
rial columns, all tho men who want to be
set right, all the crack Drained philosophers
with stories as long as their hair and as
gloomy rs their finger nails in mourning
because bcrcft of soap, all tho boys who
como to stay about five minutes but talk ivo
hours Through tho editorial and repoto-
rial rooms all the follics and shams of tho
world are seen day after day, and tho temp
tation is to believe in neither God, man nor
woman. 1t is no surprise to me that in this
profession there arc somo skcptical men;
only wonder journalists believe.
TIE YAzoo TRAoEDY-The Vioksbura
(Nliss) Herald, Democratic paper, thus
comments on the killing of Dixon by Barks.
dale at Yazoo City; "Buildczing has borno
its legitimate fruit. Tuesday in Yasoo
County, Horny Dixon was shot to death.
Twist it as We may, this terrible deed which
leaves a widow and futhcrlcss children to
life's stern struggle was brought about by
intolerance in politics. We arc not at this
the deed, but the circumstances that led to
| 1V aio AuoTu, aoo tuCJ "atlanl Us III aSSCrtd
ing that the days Of tho Democratic party
of Mississippi arc numbered unless its
leaders at once meet tho responsibility that
rests on them. The white voters Of Miss
sissippi must by their course mako future
affairs OF this kind an impossbility. Tho
silent, powerful ballot is the court that
must try this fearful evil of bulldozing and
pass scntonco on it, by sweeping its advo-.
Gates from all the channels that lead to
power"
Mr.. TILDEN ON TIE issue IN $780,,
To recent interview with corrcspon.
don't Of tho Cincinnati Enquirer on tho
political situation, Mr.. Tildcn is reported
as having expressed himself as follows;
'"The differences in the Democratic party in
| tho United States arc transitory and oyanes.
cent, and will disappear in tho presence Of
Inevitable events. Tho principles upon
which the great mass of tho Democratic
party orc agreed on arc fundamental and