Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-23
Don't be Discouraged.

bou F" w uioVOuIdScu, III III Jue outset OF
life things do not go smoothly, 1t seldom
happens that the hopes we cherish of the
future are realized. The path OF life, in
the prospect, appears smooth and level
enough; but when we come to travel it,
we find it up hill, and generally rough
The journey is laborious one, and wheth-
er poor or wealthy, high or low, we shall
dnd it so to our disappointment, five have
built upon any other calculation. To en-
durc chcerfully what must be, and to elbow
our way as easily as VIC can, hoping for lit
tie, yet striving for much, is perhaps the
plan. But don't be discouraged, if occa-
sionally you slip by the way, and your neigh
bors tread overyou little; in other words,
don't leta failure or two dishearten YOU
Accidents will happen, miscalcuations will
sometimes be made, things will often turn
out differently from our expectations and we
may be the sufferers 1t is worth while to
remember that fortune is like the skies in
April, sometimes cloudy, and sometimes
clear and favorable; and it would be folly
to despair of0gain seeing the sun, because
to-day is stormy; so it is equally anwisc to
sink into d2spondcncywhcn fortune irowns,
Isl,
may be surely expected to smile again.
And again don't be discouraged if YOU are
deceived in the people of the world. 1t
often happens that men wear borrowed
characters, as well as borrowed clothes, and
sometimes those who have long stood fair
before the world are rotten to the core
From sources such as these, you may be
most unexpectedly deceived, and vou will
naturally feel sore under such dcceptions-
but to these you must become used Ifyou
fare as most people do, they will lose their
novelty before you grow grey, and you will
learn to trust men cautiously, and examine
their character closely, before you allow
them opportunities to injure you. Don't
be discouraged under any circumstances
go steadily forward. Rather consult your
own conscience than the opinion of men,
though the last is not to be disrcgarded -
BE Industrious frugal-bo honest
deal iii perfect kindness with all who come
in your way, exercising a neighborly and
obliging spirit i'll your whole intercourse
and if you do not prosper as rapidly as your
ncighbors, depend upon it you will be as
h"ppy'-SAef6YoI1c Tenn Erpositor
CosT OF LUNURIEs.-ln all the villa
gcs of SaNony, men, women, and children
are engaged in making the beautiful lace
for which the country is famed and when
by the toll of the whole village, enough is
ready to make a pack, it is slung over
womans shoulders, who, poorly clad and
without shoes to her feet, takes it to the
merchants TO make their beautiful en-
"roidcry, poor women \ Saxony and Swift
zcrland arc employed by merchants and paid
three cents day, and many are cropping
in blindness who have wrought tllcir eyes
into these delicate mcshes.
AN INvETEARrE R-Davidson Col
lege, North Carolina, contributes good
story Ola man with avery bad habit AS
ills all about lying, The reader viii believe
it or not as he like:
In the old North State lives certain
John Long, who draws long bow when
ever he has anything to tell, and his char
actcr Tor truth and vcracty has been be-
low zero for many years Captain johnson
had been so taken in by one of Johns out
ragc6us stories that he said to him in pet
elf you make me believe one of your
lies again ina month III give you fifty
dollars"
"John pretended to be quite hutby the
offer, and went Oft. A few days afterwards
nc was riding by the captains, post haste,
on horseback, when the captain called out
to him:
/ say hello. johnny, stop and tell us
a lie or two this morning!'
10, Il
fully: No time for lying now brother
Jimmy has just been killed in the machine
and Pm going for the old folks" On he
went. Captain johnson ordered his horse
and rode over to see the dead man and offer
lis services, bat fc@nd him alive and wc!l,
ginning cotton, and in no danger of the
machine. just then John rode up and dc.
manded the fifty dollars. The captain de-
clarcd it was rascally trick, but lie would
have had to pay the money if John had
not let him off.
The Uses OF MoNEY.-Thc desire to
be rich is not an evil of itself. Its non
sense for man to stand up and diselaim
the desire for wealth, and urge upon the
world the idea that it should appear poor.
Money is neither an evil nor a good of it
self; it has not moral character ofits own.
1t is simply an agent, and whether it be
good or evil, depends upon the manner in
which it is used. 1t is like a sword
Whether the sword be in the hands of
BENEDICT Arnold, bathed in its country's
blood, or in the hands of Washington, WELD
ing it for justice and liberty, it is a sword
only, and has not character. Whether
it be an instrument of good or evil, de.