Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-11-04


mast.
The most manifest sign of wisdom is con.
tinucd ohecrfulness.
Better be in shame now than at tho day
Of judgment
The vanity of loving fino clothes and
fashions, and valuing ourselves by them, is
ono of the most childish pieces Of folly that
can be-
Good temper is, like summer day, the
sweetencr of toll and soother of disquictudo.
1t sheds brightness over everything.
lio who was never tempted, let him not
bo high minded, but fear, for ho may bo
surprised in that worry instant wherein ho
boastcth that he was never tempted at ALL
A farmer who has experimental with
poultry, we'll rottod COW manure, barn ma
nuro and bone dust for melons, reports
that the best yield was obtained when the
bone dust was applied
10 increase tho yield of rich milk give
COWS every day water slightly warm and
slightly saltcd, in which bran has been
stirred at the rate Of ono quart to two gal
Ions Of water
Snow drifts twelve feet deep
! in October seem most remarkable,
but sucA was the reported cond-
ton of things in parts of Dakota aud
Minnesota after the late severe storms.
Kindness is slowed away in the heart
like rose leaves in drawer, to swceten ev-.
cry object around them, aud bring hope to
the weary-hcartcd.
Life is a kind of chess, in which we have
| often points to gain, aud competitors or ad.
yorsarles to contend with, and in which
there is vast variety of good and ill events,
that are, i'll some degree, tho effects Of pru.
dcncc or the want of it.
"Just take bottle of nv medicine"
said quack doctor to a consumptive, "and
you'll never cough again" "ls it so fatal
at that Z" gaspcd the patient.
Whcn an Eastern man goes to Colorado,
ho Is called "tendcrfoot" until he has
been stabbed, shot at, engaged in FREQ
light, fallen down mine, kicked by mule,
and chased by vigilance committee. Thcn
they admit that he is getting used to tho
country, and when he kills his man he is
looked upon as q citizen.
"Any good shooting on your farm ?'
asked the hunter of tho farmer sSpIcn-
did, replied tho agriculturalst "there's
driven we'll man down in the clover
meadow, cloth peddlcr at the house, can.
dldatc ont in the barn. aud two tramps
down in the stock yard. Climb right over
tho fence, young man, load both barrels,
aud sail in.'
a bright little boy, who had been en-
gagged in fight with another boy, was re.
proved by his aunt, who told him that ho
ought always to wait until the other boy
''pitchcd upon him" "Wcll," exclaimed
the little hero, "but if wait for the other
boy to begin Pm afraid there won't bo any
fight"
| According to Prof. Grimmor, thore is
terrible seven years before us. From 1880
to 1887 there will be universal mortality.
Asia will be depopulated, and Europe will
| become almost desert. America will lose
fifteen million inhabitants. There will bo
tcmpcsts and inundations. No prophet
could possibly be grimmcr than this one.
! Mr.. Lewis Swift, shc astronomer, of
Rochester, writes 1.-THE new comet which
found on the lth of October promises to
be one Of tho most remarkable ones which
| have recently been seen in this country.
| LIS great size, its SLOW rate of motion, and
tho fact that its movement is nearly in di.
rect line toward the earth, all combine to
produce this result"
a couple of pcsants discuss the fertility Of
| their respective provinces. CAT Bordeaux"
said QUO, "lt you let match fall to tho
ground, the next year there will grow up
q forest" "At Marscics," cried the
other, trinmpnntly, "you let suspcndcr
button fal, and in eight days you will have
pair of pantaloons ready made.
Says an exchange: We cannot but
smile when man tells us he cannot take
his local paper because he wants a New
York paper llo might as well say that
he cannot afford bread because ho Intends
having sponge cake. Meanwhile he has to
ask his ncishbor about the local news and
notices, and the local paper goes on build.
ing up his place and business and serving
his convenience without his support.
y terrible tale has been brought from the
arctic regions by the revenue cutter, Cor.
win, that at ST. Lawrence island, in tho
Bchring Sea, 500 out of the 700 inhabt--
ants were fonnd dead from starvation. This
tragedy is believed to have been largely tho
result of liquor which had been supplied to
the natives by traders, the use Of which
caused them to neglect storing up their usu.
al supply Of provisions.
The translation of the Scriptures into tho
Iu'u language approaches completion.
Forty years ago there Herc threo converts