Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-11-01

Coles great show has como and COMO Up
wards Of three thousand people wcro in the
largo canvass. and it is estimated that this
mammoth show with its side shows, gambling
dcns, &c., has carried away from tho county
from 81 500 to $4,000 net profit. II matters
not whether tho show WIS good ono or not, It
carried away tho money. Tho sido shows
especially threo-card monte, attracted conside-
rablc attention and in tcrcstcd some of our people
to tho tune Of few tens, and between the light
seeing md tho blind not seeing VIC are 81, 500
poorer aud mono tho wiser, though perhaps a
little jollier. Wo never cry over spilled milk,
and hence feel very little like reading our people
moral lecture on the dissipation Of Monday.
Wo feel just like wc would do tho same thing
every six months if opportunity offered and be
mono The poorer and not whit less moral. "a
little folly now and then is rclishcd by the wiscsL
men," and We belicye there is health and in
struction rs well as pleasure and amusement in
an occasional visit to tho cir Gus and mcnaecrie.
If man makes his money why should lie not
enjoy it1 Can We not gather the wheat and Let
the ohaif alone? Because VIC see gambling going
on VIC need not take hand in it; in fact, one
who is familiar with it is likely to shun it. SO
no one need be polluted by the circus, and as to
tho money, why not pay fifty cents for good
laugh now and then rather than for pint of
pop skull whiskcy? Oh! but they impovorisl
the country by taking out Of it so much money.
Well, now, my friend, if you would work hard
at your calling all tho year, make your own
corn and meat, your own -four and lard, your
| own fcrtilzers and tools, then you would keep
hundreds Of thousands of dollars in tho country
| which nrc now sent North for these things; then,
too, you would feel like little harmless rccrca-
ton vas pleasant and not expensive ut fifty
cents day; then, too, in the general wealth and
prosperity of the State you would regard ST 200
or $1,000 Of no consequence. Oh you that
strain at n gnat and swallow camel, spend your
fifty cents for couple of axe handles, that came
from the North, aud then rage ut the circus and
circus going people for npovcrishing the coun-
try. Give us tho liberal and jolly soul that
loves a good laugh and when his pleasure is
over lets TO work with new zeal and energy.
Oh you, that save at the spilc and leak at the
bung, you can spend your fifty cents towards
getting n few wagon hubs or spokcs or o patent
plow stock from the North, but give us the
liberal soul who reads his county paper and is
| not afraid nor ashamed to invest fifty cents in
good laugh in circus once in two or three years
There is no danger that our people will ever be
| impoverished by money spent in amusemonts
| Will! us they come too few and far between TO
have any apprcciablc effect OH our prosperity.
Look to the great causes of our impovcrishmcnt
| and correct them, and all will be we'll. Strive
to become sclfsusaining at home. Let every
farm supply its tenants and owners with all the
the ncccssarics Of life, and soon peace and
plenty will abound in the land the circus to
| TIC contrary Notwithstanding.