Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-07-02
How Small Expenditures Count,

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it would buy coffee or sugar. for a whole fam.
lily. 1895 . year. And this amount in.
vested ID q savings bank at tho end Of each
year, and the interest thereon at six por cent.
computed annually, would in twelve years
amount tomore than 8670. Enough, to buy
q good farm in the West. 10 ~.a3an14 aH
d Five cents before breakfast, dinner, and
supperj you'd hardly miss it, yet IT'S fifteen
cents a day; Sl.05 per week. Enough to
buy q wife or daughter q dress. s54l6Oya
year. Enough to buy q small library of books.
Invest this as. beforc, and in twenty years you
would have over $4,000! ,lQaite enough TO
buy a good house and lot. WIG aa!t.r. or1gd
Ten cents each morning ; hardly worth a
second thought; yet With it you can buy a
paper Of pins OF aspool of thread. Seventy
cents por week !, d,twould; buy several yards of
muslin. $1,000 in ono year. Deposit this
amount as before, and you would have $3.50
Ia twenty years; quite d tsnnag little fortune.
Ten cents before each Breakfast. dinner, and
snpper-thirty conts b day! It would buy q
book for the children 80, 10 a week; enough
topay for q years subscription to a good news.
paper. $1,000 per year. ! With 1t you
could buy q good melodeonlon which your
wife or daughter could produce sweet music
to pleasantly while the evening hours away.
Aud this amount, invested as before, would
in forty years produce the desirable amour t
$4,000. a gt5aa7 Il
Boys, learn q lesson. If you would DO a
happy youth, lead a sober life, and be a
wealthy and Influential ,man-instead Of
s%quandering your extra change, invest in a Ii.
brary or a savings bank
If you would be a miserable youth, lead a
drunken life, abnse your children, grieye
your wife, be q wretched and despicable be.
aaaa Sh|ls Sssa s alEst a4a Il ysa T. extra shs5se
and invest it in adrinking saloon. A
,AN -%---- }u t,r,t& 49,
GIVE Your Guild A LOCAL PArER.-A
child beginning to read becomes delighted
with a newspaper, because he reads the names
of persons and things which are very familiar,
and will mako progress accordingly. Anews-
paper in one yeas is worth a Quarters school
ing to a child, anu every father must consider
that substantial information is connected with
advancement The motheK ofla family being
one of the head, and having NJ more immedi.
ate c~hargeloff children, should herself be- in-
structed. A mind occupied, becomes forti-
fed against the ills of life, and is braced
against any emergency. Children, amused
py reading or study, are OF course more .eop-
siderate and mora easily governed. How
many parents who have not twenty dollars for
books for their families would have given
hundreds TO reclaim a son OF daughter who
had ignorantly or thoughtiessly fallen into
temptations. 'aD pt." ts ~ ii'
M.MY DEAR NATIyEiLAER.n-,At the Con.
,%yyention, in. Macon, We met 9 South Carolinlsa
who now lives 10, apother State, and while we
were sstlll shaking hands, he remarked, "South
Carolina is like an old leaky boat every body
wishes 70 leave Der that can get off into q
better" An old gray headed man standing
Esar, q stFengsffse rs both, said, CasSeuthi Car
oliiEnaa isa glorious old State. ! have been
syssysl from her for thirty years !; but she IL
still ~precious---she is my dean native land.
Her sons are found in, every State of tho
South, and s4s e N JAoaos:.s :. q then aaa sAey
70 her wherever they go.'"st These words did
sstgsssed. ID We hare not, sssn, tho day, ia
which, We would exchange South Carolina for
anypther State.
South Carolina is the mother Of great men
:undying principles and noble plans She
seems now, changed and fallen, but Tho ,houht
draws near when her grateful sons, will 10.
store to her weeping brow, the Iaurels Of glo.
~. Let as cling to the land of our birth.
net US love still che very dustin which lhor
Drown lies. Shall the t~ime.konored, mopu
mont on which the golden lettera of Her glory
so long shone ID splsnddr,ya be forsaken, and
the cold, damp nofth.winasbe allowed 10 dash
thesands d adversityi overt them till they be
seen mo uofefl N~olSnSvsr!Ia BY we'll direot.
ed industry her children Sansspair her vast
places and make her Wilderness bloom ass' thu
,sose. Work, asorIy oiswhat We nesdal Let
the sons and daaghtsrss Of South Carolina,
Jby virtue intelligence Audesntorpriso, hasten
ID saiae aur dear mother Stats, from Tho dust.
sAndsnay God send prosperity throughout all
,her, bofdersa g3@@F off Isl etai ,fsat48Mab
Ws Hor4im5a Gfsyiass;iaM
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