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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-11-03
Whom God Hath Joined.


Glove is strong as death. * y
Many waters ounnot quonoh love, neither
oan the floods drown it."-Solomon.
Fair youth, too timid to lift your eyes
To the maiden with downcast look,
AS you mingc the gold aud brow OF your
curs
Together over book;
A futteriDg hope that she dare not name
Her trembling bosom heaves,
Aud your heart is thrilled when your fingers
meet
AS you softly turn tho leaves.
Porchance you two will walk alone
Next year at some sweet days close,
AS you likep her cheek to Il rose;
Aud thcn her face will flush and glow
With hopeful hnppy red,
OutbIushing all tho iluwers that grow
Anear iu the garden bed.
If you plead for hope, she uvy bashiul
drop
II er head on your shoulder low,
And you will DO lovers and sweethearts
then,
AS youths and mnideus go;
Lovers and swcclhcarts, dreaming dreams,
And seeing visions that please,
With never u though that lite IL madu
Of great realities!
That the chords of love must bo strong US
death,
If they hold aud keep heart;
Not daisy chains thar snap 10 the nreczr,
Or bceak with their weight upart!
For the pretty coiors Of youths sweet
Fndo out from tho no"ndoy sky;
And bushlpg loves III the roses roru,
Alus with the loses die!
But tho filth that whcn our mo,u is past
Tender and true survives,
Is the faith wo need to lean upon
In the crisis of our lives
The love that shines in the eye grow dim,
Jn tho voice that trembles speaks,
And sees the roses that years ago
Wlthercd and died in our chccks2
That sheds its halo round US still
Of soft immortal light,
When we change youths gold coropa
For crown Of silver white;
A love for sickness aud for health,
For rapture and for tears;
That will live for us, and bear with us,
Through all our mortal years.
And such there is-- thcro arc lovers here
On the brink Of ,he grave that stand,
Who shall cross TO the bills beyond and
walk
Forever hand in hand,
Pray, youth and muid, that your fate be
theirs,
Who are joined 10 more to part
For death comes not to tho living soul,
Nor Dgc to the loving heart!
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-11-03
~ office.

1'llE contract for the rebuilding of the Wal
L halla Methodist Church having been let out,
notice Is hereby given to oil persons who have
subscribed to the building Of said church to
come forward and pay up. AS tho rebuilding
will commence at once, money will be needed 10
pay the contractor as he proceeds with tho work
It is hoped that all will pay promptly without
further notice. JOHN q. MICKLEK
Chairman Building Committee
October 20, 1881 40.3t
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-11-03
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-11-03

T'hore is a great deal ofwcather
this year.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-11-03

Tho infant daughter Of Ophc--
lia Davenport, colorcd, near
DeadfalI, Nowberry County, was
fatally shot by brother eight
years old, while handling pistol
tcw days ago.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
FOR THE LADIES.
Roynl Rride,s Troussenu.

The New York Telegram says of the
trousseau belonging to the Princess
Stephanie, of Belgium, married to the
Grown Prince of Austria: 1t had been
exhibited at the royal palace at Brus-
sells, and the descriptions OF its fairy
like materials, and the exquisite works
of art in gold and silver embroidery and
laces of marvellous delicacy, were most
exciting. Amid all the bridal glories
one table in the middle of the hall was
heaped up with linen and household
goods, which attracted the attention of
the ladies. 1t may interest lady readers
to know that the chemises are fringed
with costly lace and with lovely bosoms
of artistic workmanship. Then there
were jackets, corsets, iupons, handker-
chiefs, fichus, cravatcs and other most
charming objects necessary to the femi-
nine toilet. Near these were costlier
presents of dresses and jewelry. The
bridal dress was of the traditional cloth
of silver, richly ornamented with en-
broidery designs representing oak,
laurel and rose branches, intertwiled
with bouquets of orange blossoms, the
whole, both for design and harmony of
color, forming a robe such as con1lo1s-
seurs declared was never seen before.
The waist and arms were decorated with
delicate silver lace, the train of the same
material as the robe and embroidered
to match. 1t was four meters long and
four wide. The bouquets and designs
in high relief on the train have occupied
many industrious hands for over three
months. The queen of the Belgians
uora q dress ot the weddinp which was
composed of azure velvet, the train,
with rich silver embroidery, falling
over a similarly embroidered under
dress of dead blue satin. 1t was very
tastefully decorated with silver lace,
and the draping and arrangements of
this matchless robe were such as to
send those who have seen it into ecsta-
sizes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26

Recent advices speak of the discovery
of a new gold field in the most inland
part of New South Wales, which is caus-
ing some excitement among the gold
mining community. The scene of the
find is the Grey Ranges, wild elevated
country in the extreme northwest of the
colony, and on the borders If South
Australia. Apart from the nature of the
deposits, which are said to be rich, the
discovery is interesting as a matter of
science, as being deviation from the
rule which has hitherto prevailed that
all of the mineral wealth, and especially
the gold deposits, in Australia have
been found within short distance from
the coast. The nearest village to the
Grey Ranges is Wilcannia, on the Oar
ling river, some 600 miles from Sidney,
and 200 miles from the gold field.
Water is scarce, and only to be met
with at distances of fifty miles apart, so
that intending prospectors will have to
encounter more than the usual amount
of difficulty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26

ness," said Robinson. I've been a
miserable meddler, and deserve to be
punished. Before heaven, Smith, it
was with the best intentions"
ct know it, Robinson"
a" But I'll never do it again-never
And now let's go after my wife you
and I can explain the thing to Mrs.
Page. I don't wonder she hates me,
Smith. Poor little Annie ! What a
life she has led wonder she remains
fond of me-"
"Well, 1 can vouch for that" I re-
piled, honestly enough; and Ipersuaded
him to stop at home and tidy up bit,
get shaved, and have some breakfast.
"That servant must co." said Robin
son, savagely.
Let your wife hire the next one,"
said. And just as I imagined, when we
reached Robinson's, there was the dear
little woman waiting for him. He fell
on his knees at her feet and began his
protestations. Thought it best to leave
them alone together; but how exceed
ingly lonely and forlorn my bachelor
chambers did look when reached
them !-Hd7peT'S Weehly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
Fashion Notes,

Scarf draperies grow in favor.
Vermicelli lace is out of fashion.
Colored Spanish lace is made into hats.
Steel lace bonnets are trimmed with
ostrich tips.
Tuscan cream is the name of new
color in lace.
Crosswise draperies are much used for
short skirts.
Triangular sticks are the newest for
sunshades.
Surah serge is trimmed with batiste
embroidery.
Soft thick ostrich feathers are put on
bonnets of steel lace.
The frills on summer silk dresses are
cut in points this season.
Wall flower tints reappear again in
flowers, ties and ribbons.
The Vatican is the favorite style for
Illuminated foulard dresses.
Paste jewels set in steel are used for
buttons on foulard gowns.
The pinkish white color of the new
laces is called baked earth.
Some of the summer piques have
designs like those of brocade.
Surah is made into blouse waists for
children's wear. 1t washes as we'll as
| linen.
Chenille dotted net is not tied when
used for bonnet strings, but caught by
| flower.
Flat collars to be worn on silk dresses
have point behind and point On each
shoulder.
Watered silk appears as panels in
skirts, and also as waistcoats in evening
costumes.
Black satin parasols are frequently
edged with plated satin ruffies of gold
color or scarlet.
Shirred cuffs edged with lace, accom-
pany shirred collarettes and fichus of the
same material.
The fastening used with surplice
waists is three buckles placed slant
wise at the waist.
Some of the light summer mantles
are trimmed all around with black lace
over white lace.
White pique bonnets in the poke
shape have muslin crowns which are
fastened on by buttons.
White waists under overdresses with
square neck and no sleeves are to be
worn by little children this summer.
Summer gowns for young girls have
skirts of thin wool, and waists of surah
with silk ruches and ruffles of choice
lace.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
How Women ShnmId Drcsa.

An American authority says; No lady
need be ashamed to dress plainly or
cheaply; she can, with the help of the
modern guides to dress, appear like a
lady on very little money. She can lay
down three rules for herself: Never to
pretend to anything, never to wear jew
elry, and, afirmatively, always to be
neat. A young girl with white mus
lin and fresh flower is dressed for
queens ball. A lady of maturer years,
with well-ftting dark silk, real jew
el1y or none, and her own hair-all the
better if it is white-is also dressed for
a ball. True womanhood include all
the delicate refnements that overflow
in the perfect glove, the well-titting
shoe, the pretty stocking, the neat
frills, the becoming bonnet. The
American woman, to do her only JUS
tice, is not creature by instinct, and if
she occasionally gives too much thought
to dress, she is still to be admired and
commended for her daintiness,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
Mexican Homes.

The Mexican ladies, writes a CORE
spondent, are the most loyable, charm
ing, amiable women in the world, and
domestic life in this country is worthy
the admiration of our people, and might
be initiated by Americans. AS there are
no summer or winter resorts, families
are not separated three or four months
of each year. The mother does not
urge her daughter to excel in the art of
dress for the purpose of attracting
attention or catching male butterflies.
Tie fashionable hotel or boarding-house
that pest, that curse of our land-is,
happily, unknown here. Each young
couple, when they marry, settle down
in their own little house, however
humble it may be, and their children
are brought up in the pure sunlight of
home. There are more marriages "for
love" here than in France and Spain
combined. Cupid holds frmer sway
than Plutus. / admit that Mexican
girls ought to have a more solid, liberal
education than they generally receive.
Not that it is at all necessary for them
to puzzle their brains over Euclid and
the exact sciences, but they ought to
burn their embroidery frames, stoI
making wax flowers ian absurdity in
this beautiful, fertile land), and study
modern history, natural philosophy and
mark the present course of events, and
take some interest in the political
status of the world. In the higher class
the ladies are generally accomplished
are good linguists and excellent musi
clans, but the great middle classes seen
to have no higher ambition for thei
daughters than to have them taught t.
read, write and sew. The fragile forms
sallow compilations, and the listlessnes
we observe among them, are mainly du
to their eternal stitching and want Q
exercise. Progress.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
High.Priced Beans.

Tom Watrous, commercial traveller,
stopped off at the Marshall, Mich, eat
ing house several years ago.
He was not very hungry, and called for
a plate of beans, which he received. He
inquired the price, and was informed
that it was seventy-five cents
"That's laundering price for beans, "
said Tom.
"That's the price," said the proprie-
tor.
The train was just starting; Tom
paid the bill, and the coaches bore him
and his indignation on toward Detroit.
This was on Saturday. On Monday,
Gilmore, the eating-house man, received
telegram, collect on delivery, S1.25,
which he paid, and read on opening it /;
ga laundering price for BEANS"
Thirty days from that date a neat
express package was handed in to Gill
more, G. O.. d., who paid ninety cents
for the privilege of opening it to dis
cover lot of sawdust, on the top of
which lay slip of paper with the caba-
listic symbols ga laundering price for
beans
Two months from this Gilmore was
summoned to Chicago to meet former
business partner, and the hotel clerk
handed him a letter conveying the
pleasant information "a laundering
price for beans !"
During Gilmore's absence his son
paid for two kilograms and one express
package, all bearing directly on the sub
| ject of seyenty-fve cents being ga
laundering price for beans!" Cost of
these articles, $3.50. A genuine tele-
gram from Gilmore's mining share
broker, advising him to sell, was re-
fused, and the loss of it entailed an
actual damage to Gilmore of 800.
A year rolled away. Gilmore order
ed case of Mackinac trout from De-
troit. They came G. o. D., $13.S3;
when opened he found every fish had
been removed from the ice and sawdust,
and shingle met his eyes marked with
blue lead pencil: GA laundering
price for beans !" Trouble arose be-
tween Gilmore and the Detroit fish
house, and they went to law, Gilmore
winning the suit, S25 damages, and all
at cost for the attorneys services OF
$500.
Gilmore grew detected. Life looked
gloomy. Letters poured in on every
one of his family at regular intervals
from all parts cf the world, bearing the
unpleasant information that it was "a
laundering price for beans"
At last Gilmore sold the Marshall
eating-house and moved to Chicago. He
carried his deep affiiction along with
him, gnawing like cancer at his vitals
The persecution never ceaed. Gilmore
dropped, faded and finally died. The
terribly afflicted family followed him tc
his last resting-place, and the widow
with what little money she had saved
from the expenses of bogus telegram'
and express packages, erected a plair
marble slab to the memory of the tor
tured Gilmore.
The following Sabbath the mourning
family went out to the cemetery to plan
some violets on Gilmore's grave. Ar
irving on the ground they observed il
silent horror that another legend ap
peared above the name of Gilmore, OF
the tombstone. 1t was chalked on {
small blackboard and read:
A LAUNDERING PRICE FOR BEANS.
- 6e,,t,.ol Ijfli He11
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS

There's no doubt about it that Robin
son was good fellow at heart, and
meant WE'LL but it's astonishing what
an amount of trouble a man may bring
upon himself by undertaking too much
for his fellow-creatures l don't sup
pose there was another man in our store
that took the interest Robinson did in
the different wardrobes of his fellow
clerks. If a man got new hat Robin
son noticed it right away; wanted to
know where it was bought, when and
why, and generally concluded by say
ing that if the purchaser had consulted
him he might have made better bar
gain. And I've no doubt he would.
Robinson would have made it point to
favor him with his influence and expe-
rience, both of which were considerable.
The same way with coats, or pants, or
boots, or anything! But, notwithstand-
ing all this, very few of our boys con-
suited Robinson in these matters; they
generally bought their articles with a
reckless indiscrimination that was pain
full to a man constituted as Robinson
was. 1t seemed hard, when man took
the interest in his fellow creatures that
Robinson did, that his motives should
be misconstrued and unappreciated. 1
remember when 1 bought that new ul-
ster of mine, disliked, for some reason
or other, to see Robinson. had O
ridiculous aversion to telling him just
where l got it, and when, and how much
it cost, and what l did with the other
one. 1t was a kindly sympathy on
Robinson's part, there's no doubt about
that; but it was wasted, so far as our
boys were concerned.
"Why don't the fellow mind his own
business ?" they said. "What does he
want to manage other peoples concerns
for?"
SoIwas gladwhen he toldme, ,confiden-
TALLY, that he was about to be married.
l felt then that his interest would be
so absorbed in the one object that it
would be impossible to diffuse it all
over the universe.
Robinson seemed to have found a
treasure. OF course everybody thinks
so but [ knew that Robinson would
know more, and see more, and be less
likely to be deceived, than other men,
and he had, as L supposed, gained the
confidence of the family into which he
proposed to marry. was afraid his
projected mother-in- law might object to
some of Robinson's ways, but he told
me he got on with her splendidly. 1
thought she was a remarkable woman,
not altogether because she got on so
well with Robinson, but from Robin
sons conversation imagined she must
be very clever.
"The fact is" said Robinson, "we
are mutually interested in the same
topics. We sit and talk about domestic
matters for hours together, while Annie
thums over her new piece on the piano,
and Mrs. Page has told me, time and
again, if there's one thing more than
another she admires in my character it's
the interest 1 take in little domestic
details that most men despise or hold in
utter Indifference. You see, Smith, mar
riage is sacred obligation"
"Undoubtedly, Robinson"
Sand requires study, Smith. ]
wouldn't have been a successful buyer
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26

Some time since letter was received
in New Orleans directed "to the Biggest
Fool in New Orleans" The postmaster
was absent, and ON his return one of the
youngest clerks in the Office informed
him of the letter. "And what became of
it2" inquired the postmaster. "Why,"
replied the clerk, at did not know who
the biggest fool in New Orleans was, and
so / opened the letter myselfW Sand
what did you find in it?" inquired the
postmaster. "Why," responded the
clerk, nothing but the words, Thou
art the mani"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
The Dead Child and the Mocking- Bird.

tThe following poem is in no sense mel
fancy On the contrary, the strange, pathet
incident it commentaries actually occurrt
not long ago in the neighborhood of jackson
vile, Florida.]
Once in a land of balm and flowers
OF rich fruit-laden trees,
Where the wild wreaths from jasmine bowe
Trail o'er Floridian seas,
We marked our Jeannie's footsteps run
Athwart the twinkling glade;
She seemed a Hebe in the sun,
Dryad in the shade.
And all day long her winsome song,
Her trebles and soft trilh
Would wave-like flow, or silvery low
Die down the whispering rills.
One morn midmost the foliage dim
A dark gray pinion stirs;
And bark along the vlne-clad limb
What strange voice blends with hers
1t blends with hers which soon is stilled-
Drawer the mock-bird's note
Than all the strains that ever filed
The quccnliest human throat
AS Jeannie heard, she loved the bird,
And sought thenceforth to share
With her new favorite, dawn by dawn,
Her daintiest morning cheer.
But ah a blight beyond our ken,
From some far feverous wild,
Brought that dark Shadow feared of men
Across the fated child.
1t chilled her dropping curls of brown,
1t dimmed her violet eyes,
And like an awful cloud crept down
From vague, mysterious skies.
AT last one day our JEANNE lay
All pulseless, pale, forlorn;
The sole sweet breath on lips ofdeath
The fluttering breath of morn;
When just beyond the o'er-curtained room
(How tender, yet how stronGD
Rose through the misty morning gloom
The mock birds sudden song.
Dear Christ those notes of golden peal
Seem caught from heavenly spheres,
Yet through their marvellous cadence steal
Tones soft as chastened tears
Is it an angels voice that throbs
Within the brown birds breast,
Whose rhythmic magic scars or sobs
Above our darlings rest
The fancy passed-but came once more
When, stolen from Jeannie's bed,
That eve, along the porchway floor
found ourminstrel-dead
The fire of that transcendent strain
His liie-chords burned apart,
And, merged in sorrows earthlier pain,
1t broke the o'erladen heart.
Maiden and bird the self-same grave
Their welded dust shall keep,
While the long low Floridian wave
Means around their place of sleep.
Paul H. Hayne, in Harpe,'S Magazine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26

George Morton, a Canadian cheese ex-
porter, will undertake scheme for a
great dairy colony in the Northwest.
There are to be 224 farms of 100 acres
each, stocked at the outset with thirty
COWS each. The novelty will be mar
rox-gauge railroad, with station on
each farm, so that milk can be carried
to central cheese factory twice day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

Extended crop reports recently pub
lished in the Chicago Times indicate
that the Northwest will more than make
up for the partial failure of the winter
wheat crop by an increased acreage and
assured yield of spring wheat. Mime
sofa and Dakota alone promise to make
good the deficit.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
Educating OYSTERS

Although it has been doubted that an
oyster had been so far subjugated as to
" follow it's master up and downstairs"
a consummation which might be ac-
cepted as positive progressive steps in
the rise toward ultimate civilization, at
least according to "Lewes Sea-sid
Studies," oysters are susceptible of
being educated to small extent. In
the great establishments on the coast of
Calvados the merchants teach oysters
to keep their shells closed when out of
the water, by which means the liquor
retained keeps their gills moist, and
they arrive lively in far distant Paris.
The process may be worthy of extensive
publicity; it is this: No sooner is an
oyster taken from the sea than it closes
its shells, and opens them after a GER
tain time-from fatigue, it is said, but
more probably because the shock it re-
ceived by removal into the air causing
its muscles to contract has passed away.
The Calvados men take advantage OF
this to exercise the oysters, and make
them accustomed to be out of the water
by leaving them daily in the atmosphere
for longer and longer periods. This has
the desired effect; the well-educatet
mollusk keeps its door closed at leas
for many consecutive hours, and so lonl
as the shell is closed its gills are KEEP
moist.-AH the Yedr Round.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26

A dangerous counterfeit of the stand
ard American silver dollar has made it's
appearance. They have the ring of the
genuine metal, the milling is perfect,
and there is an absence of that greasy
substance which is found by running the
thumb over the general run of base
coins. They are, however, too light,
and trife thicker than the genuine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26
Miss EVA 9. kinney has assumed edi

Miss Eva @. Kinney has assumed edi-
torial control of the Ellis (Kansas)
Headlight, and announces in her first
number that she is "a girl, with all a
girls love for fun, frolic and romance, ="
If editing doesn't take that love for fun,
etc., out of her we shall be mistaken.
1t has more SOLDERING effect than hus4
band could have.-7foy Times.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-26

Iris colors are the soft hues of the
az flower, and are becoming to young
irls with yellow hair,