Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-09-11
Matrimony.

which man often puts to himself in tho pres.
ont day. Nothing can be visor than to make
tia question; but when man does he should
examine and weigh tho thing fairly and fully,
and not consider that he has found q solution
to it tho moment he meets with an objection
to contrayeno his wishes
1t is not his father or his mother, his friends
or bis books, that ho should yield to, in case
that is really too great for their decision.
| Hear them, or read thom, he may TO gather
their opinions; but if his own conscience
prove stongcr than their arguments, and that
his spirit still cries out marry" why, marry
no should, with due deferenoe to many sapient
| advisers.
! Is marriage desirable statoS This is the
| first question. Almost overy man and wo.
man will answer it in tho affirmative. When
should it bo entorcd into; il the next cues.
| ton.
10 this tho reply is, ~ soon ns o man !lay-
ing reached proper assc, Say twenty-five, is
abso to support wife. Thcn comes the
question of children A man, by pinohing
llttlo hero, and good deal there, can support
a wife; but the poor follow is afraid of having
family to feed, and olothe, and educate,
| without money enough to bear tho additional
expense.
This is tho tug. We believe few young
! men would bo such fools as to remain in
state of "singlc blesscdness +" if the image of
coming children did not haunt and bcwiIder
them But this apprehension s quite as
groundlcss as the othor. Children have hands
to work with, and may be rendered source
of profit to a prudent father who knows how
to rear them up.
DO not listen, therefore, young mon, to
these frivolous objections DO your friends
advise you against marriage? Look at their
own cases. You will find that most of them
got married thomsolYs, sooner or later. and
that they did very well in spite of the burden.
lfyou really do discover among them a few
who have lost their position, and become poor
sinoe their having taken to themselves wife,
in nine cases out of ten you will find, by sift.
ing the matter, that it was not the wife and
children who brought them down, but their
own oovctousncss, vanity, aud ambition. For
it 3 man will risk upon card or a die or
upon speculation equally hazardous all ho
possesses, in order to double his fortune, he
must bear the Consequences; and his example
should soryo to deter you against suoh Won.
lures, but bot against tnatrimony
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THs BIBLE IN a YEAR.--A correspondent
roocntly inquired how tho Biblo could bo
read through every year To accomplish
this it is necessary to read thrco chapters dali
ly, and each Sabbath two additional chapters
making fivo for that day Much tho easiest
way to do this, is to road two ohapt.ru IL tho
Old, and ono in tho New Testament daily,
and, on the Sabbath, two Psalms for tho ad-
ditional chaptcrss This will avoid i've long
chapters Oh tho Sabbath; which arc ant to
prove wearisomo and disoouragine, cppeoially
to tho young.
Three chapters daily, mud two additional
Or tho Sabbath, will amount to ], 100 chap.
terra in year. IN the Old Testament arc 92o
chapters, in Che New Testament 2GO chap
| tcrs making 1880 in ALL BY counting oach
two cxix Psalm as a chapter, VIC sllall ada
just Ton chaptcrs, making 1900; the exact
numbor needed for the years reading,
CHEAP PLEASURES. Did you over study
the chcapncss Of some p!oasurcs7 Do you
know low little it takes to make a multitude
happy1 Such tritlcs as y penny, word, os
smile do tho work. There arc two Q. three
boys passing aiong-givo thom each ol,os.
nut, and how smilingly they look -
they will not be GROSS for some time A poor
widow lives in ncighborhood who is the
mother of half dozen ohildron, send thom
half peck Of s"eet apples, and they wil ell
be happy. A child has lost his arrow-tho
world to him-and he mourns sadly; help
him to find it, or mako him another, and how
quickly will the sunshine play upon his face
a boy hayas much MS he can do to pile up q load
OF wood; assist him fer fio:|S noml.;;::-., sneak
e ricasanr word to him, and he forgcts his toll
and works away without minding it. Your
apprentice has broken mug, or cut tho vest
too large, or slightly injured piece of work,
say, you sooundrel,' and he feels misora.
BILE; but remark, "I am sorry" and he will
try to do better. You employ man-pay
him oheerfully, and speak pleasant word to
him and he loaves your house with oontcn.