Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-03-27
Stick to your Business.


thing if you wish success, perseverance, will
overcome. Let every man feel proud ofshis
calling, provided it is an honorable one !; nor
honest occupation ever disgraccd any one.the
point to preserve is, that you do not disgrace
your occupation. 1t is common thing now
days to here men complain thinking tiena-
selves unfortunate because compelled 70 la
Dor from necessity. There is not profes.
sion that has not its peculiar cares and vexa-
tions. The labor of the mind is more severe
than that of the body. While to all appear
ances the mental laborer enjoys life with casa
and comfort, let us assure, that his happiness
is not to be compared to that of the physical
laborer. The mind Of the lawyer, doctor and
merchant, are ever pressed with the cares OF
the future; not SO with the farmer and me-
chanic. Another thingequaly true is, that
all cannot be professional men and merchants.
We need mechanics, we need farmers, and
God has ondowned us with the requisite ca
pacites to fill each these several callings. LET
no shame of manual labor lead youfrom the
path of duty; the till.. of the soil has ever
been regarded the prototype Of honesty.
Don't desert the plow handle; stick to your
business. 1t is the very wantoncss of folly
for man to search out the frets and burdens
of his calling, and give his mind every day
to consideration Of them. They belong to
human life. They are inevitable. On, the
other hand, man has power given to him t.
shed beauty and pleasure upon the homeliest
toll, ifhe is wise. Let q man adopt his bnsis
ness and identify it with his life, and cover ist
with pleasant associations; for God has given
imagination not alone to make some poets, but
to enable all men to bcautify homely things.
Heart varnish will cover up innu.. iefable evils,
and defects. Look at the good things. Ac-
cept your lot as man does piece Of rugged
ground, and begin to get out the rocks and
roots, to deepen and mellow the SOIL to enrich
and plant it, There is something in the most
forbidding avocation around which man
may twinc pleasant fancies-out of which he
may develop an honest pride. -Lancasscr
ledger
Labor Honorable and 1dleness Dishonorable.
We copy the following from tho New Or
leans Picayune:
"Public sentiment e fast coming around
at tho South to a moro just appreciation, not
sonly of the dignity of labor, bit of the wont :
of dignity in idlcncss, whether it result from
pride or laziness.
1t is not enough that "wc should make
labor honorable" When has it been held
dishonorable, except with mcagre humber
OF rich mems sons, or children Of parvens,
who have soon sloughcd off with their i'll man
aged lavishness?
We must have something more than this.
We must have work to make man rcspecta-
BILE in society. But whas if man is ,riioh /;
must he work Yes, homust because he isa
man and should be useful, should set good
examples, should multiply she talents God
has given him, and should make happy others
arerud him, not so well off, by setting them
advantageously to work. But no man Who
brags of his strength in fight or wrestle,
or of his agility MS jumper or dancer, should
shirk work in the corn or potato field.
II is contemplate, in this day Of d1solas
ton aud poverty in the Souyh--when the, CRY
of starvation goes into Congress fir the benz
eft Of whites as we'll as nogroes---t thatiwh
men should haunt grog shops and street
corners, in city or country, or even hug the
caves of she houses, whom so much rich land
is growing up in brush and weed for tho want
of men totill it. They can got the use of it.
for next to nothing aud make therein q live.i-
hood for themselves and .!;sir sisters, ana
mothers, who now, perhaps, have to suppors
them out Of fsavings Of petty earnings. Haye
those mon no shame9 If they have not, let
the community put them to shame and spew
them out as worthless!
It is not only the idle negro who oursss the
South; it is the idlc white man, too. That
he curses the North also, chiefly its oit;tes
and towns, does not make It less true Of him
hore. There are few meh among us who
cannot work, by reason Of age .or ipdrlaity;
thoro are others, who being crippl led OF pthsrs
wise unfit for hard labor opia bsyo glltssa
Tor intellectual tasks spd who wsssk a6nsas
i eoagl md stead is null
i tito a tssose Who Afa
might A n