Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-05-25

-ror an opIe O0dleu man to be caught q
third time begging was held crime de-
serving death, and the sentence was 10.
tended on fit occasions to be executed. The
poor mans advantages, which have esti--
mated at 80 high rate, were not purchased
without drawbacks. He might not ooange
master at his will or wander from place to
place. He might not keep his children at
home unless he could answer for their time.
II out Of employment, preferriug to be-
idle, he might be demanded for work BY
any master of the "oraft" to which he be-
longed and compelled to work whether he
would or no. If caught begging once, be-,
ing neither eyed nor inirm, he was whip.
ped at the oart's tail. If caught the
second time his ear was slit or bored
through with hot iron. If caught q third
time, being thereby proved to be of no use
upon this earth, but to live upon it to his
own hurt and that of others, he suffered
death as feon. So the law Of England
remained for sixty years. First drawn By
Henry, it continued unrepealed through
the roigns Of William and Mary, subsist-.
ing, therefore, with the deliberate approval
OF both the great parties between whom
the country was divided. Reconsidered
under Elizabeth, the same law was again
formally passed, aud it was therefore tho
expressed conviction Of the English nation
that it. was better for man to die than to
live worthless lifo. The vagaboud was a
sore spot upon the commonwealth, 10 be
healed By wholesome discipline, if the gan.r
creme was not incurabIe; to be cut away
with the knife if the milder treatment Of
the cartwhip failed to be Of profit.
BROTHER GARDNER ON MrNsTKErs. .-"I
hev bin axed," began Brother Garduer, of
the Lime Kiln Club, "what relashun de
negro minstrel troupe bars to de GUILD race.
10 return an of-hand answer, should say
dat 1t bars obout de same relAshun dat a
hasty puddiu' does to $l0,OOO paintin'..
II dar am any reastau whatever I hev
neber bin able to diskiver it, De Guild
may dance and sing, but he neber trabbels
on his ignorance, nor on dc jokes aud gogs,
of de pos generaohun. If twenty cnli'd
men should put on wigs an paint up to
resemble twenty white men, an sot down
befo' de public and ask why an elephant
was like gimlet, and what was dc differ
ence bewteen clam on de sand and sand
on clam, dey would be hooted off de
stage. Yet dc public will see white men
disguise deirselves as negroes an applaud
dc gags aud jokes an conundrms dat do
poorest Afrioan in Detroit would be ashamed
to acknowledge. If do public banker fer
such shows, an must hev 'em, let 'em 20
on, but don't let white folks deceive deir:
selves or be deceived. Continer Co oalr
EN- negro minstrel shows, but don't look
fur dc negro in 'em. He amt dar. He's
home in di bosum of his family, warmin'
his feet, learnin' de children to read an
tclln de old woman dat oil flesh am grass."
The INVESTOR OF THE WHEELBARRow.
1t takes great man to do little thing
sometimes. Who do you think invented
that very simple thing called the Wheel.
barrow2 Why, no less q man than Leo
narde da Vinci.
And who was he?
He was a musician, poet, painter, archie
tect, sculptor, Psychologist, engineer, natural
historian, botanist aud inventor, all in one.
He wasn't '.jsck at all trades and master
Of none," either. lie was real master Of
many arts and practical worker heBides.
When did he live?
Somewhere about che time Coumbue
discovered America.
And where was he born7
In the beautiful city Of Florence, In
Italy. Perhaps some of you may feel o
little bctter acquainted with lin when I
tell you that it was Leonardo da Vinoi who.
painted one of the grandest pictures in tire
world--"Tho Last Supper"--a picture
that has been copied many times and
engraved in several styles, so that almost
every one has an idea of the arrangement
and position at the table of the figures of
eur Lord aud his Disciples; though I am
told that without seeing the painting itself
no one can form notion Of how grand and
beautiful it is.
And only think of the thousands Of poor,
ha:d working Americans who really own,
in their wheelbarrow, an original ''work"
of Leonardo da Who'll
"Isn't the moon beautiful this evening7''
said Alonza, ae he smsggled his arm just
as close upon her as he could. "Y--ies,
but know another moon that is perfectly
eostatio 10 its loveliness." "Do you2 What
moon is thut, ducky2'' "It's the honey
moon, Alouza, and don't you think it is
about time to havo one2" The cards are
out.
TORONTO, May 16 "A oolored man
naued Alfred Jackson was appointed by
the government as letter carrier 10 the
post office here. The other fifty Ioarriere
refused to work if the oolorod man was
taken on. The postmaster assigned Jack.
son to other employment till the natter is
settled This is the first appointment here
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