Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-02-07
Proverbs Tor subcsrIbers.

A wise son maketh q glad father, aud o
prompt paying subscriber oauseth an editor
Folly is joy that is destitute of wisdom,
but delinquente subscriber causeth suffer-.
ing 10 the. house of newspaper maker.
All the ways OF man are clear, in his
own eyes, except the way delinquent sub.
soriber hath In not payiuy for his news
paper.
Better 10 a little with righteousness than
q thousand subscribers who faileth to poy
what they owe.
A just weight aud balance are the Lords,
but that which is due upon your newspaper
is the publishers thereof
| Better is dry morsel aud quietuess
therowith than long list Of subscribers
who cheateth the printer.
"Better is poor man that walketh in
Integrity" aud psyeth his subscription than
the rich man who continually tolleth tho
"devi" to call again.
Judgment is prepared for the soorners,
stripes for tho backs of fools," and everlast
ing punishment for him who payeth not for
his newspaper.
"Hope deferred makes tho heart sick," is
o proverb sadly realized by the publisher
who sendeth out bills
"a righteous man hateth lying" hence an
editor waxcth wroth against tho subscriber
who promises to coll and settle on tho NOR
row, yet calleth not to settle.
"It biteth like q serpent end stiugeth
like on adder" when the. adder gets through
adding up the amounts due from his sub
soriberibors.
OATMEAL AS AN ARTICLE OF DIEr.-It
is surprising how enormously tho consump-
ton of oatmeal has increased in our cities
within the past few yours; but we suspect
that its merits as choap and highly nntri.
tlous food arc not so generally appreciated
in tho country. Every one knows how
generally it is eaten in Scotland, and 10
some parts Of England it is equally popular
as an article of diet A correspondent of
on English paper suJs:
"In West Cumberland, Wcstmorcland
and North Lancashire, especially in tho
rural parts, it forms the staple of our food.
not only among the laboripg classes, but
also in tho families Of tradcsmen apd tho
well.to do; the children of most of them
have porridge at least once day. For the
past forty yoars have made my breakfast
of pint Of oatmeal porridge, with very
rare exceptions, and, nothing else, fasting
for four hours afterwards #, however, 1
take any other form of breakfast, I find
myself very hungry before the next meal.
which is mover tho case when [ have had
my porridgo. I feel assured that il tho
laborers of tho Southern Counties, with
their children, would but take basin of
oatmeal and milk po,ridge night and morn
ing, with such other food as they can
procure in the interval, we should have o
much stronger and healthier race of men
and women than now exist. A fow yoars
ago | had Devonshirc girl living with nc
as servaot. The girl was willing enough
to work, but had not the stamina to perform
it. This found on questioning her, arose
from the deficient and ill advised diet on
which she had been reared. She shortly
began to take her porridge night and morn
ing, and this, with daily mid day moal of
meat, enabled her to perform her duties
with caso"-N. Y. OJserver.
ADVANTAGES OF EDUCATION When
schools we're established in tho South for
education Of the negro. they were eagerly
patro ized by the colorcd folks of all ages.
Coy maidens of thirty and bashful lnds
equally old, eayly trudgcd to school with
diminutive primers in their hands, while
the smaller fry swarmed in tho school
houses, and were enthusiastic on the cduca.
tional question. Of Pete, the subject of
our aneedote, it might be truly written that
''ne'er did pencil trace q whitcr eve or
biackcr face" Ills former Muster, DR..
II, had taken great pains with him,
iustructiuy him daily in reading and writing.
In the fall Pete was to 20 to- school, and
anxiously looked forward to it. This was
in 1869, when tho sun was to bo in total
| eclipse 10 August. There were all sorts of
rumors among the colored people about
calemities which would happen at the time
of this phenomenon. A few days before it
occurred, the following conversation took
place between Pete and friends:
"Pcte, did you know dar vas gwineto be
Eclipse Of dc sun ncxt week?"
eyes" said Pete, II heard do folks
tslkin' it,"
"Poto, I hear dat awful things is gwino
to happen when it comes. Dey say that the
world is gwine to come to ON cnd.''
Curling his lips in scorn, and fixing his
big white eyes on him, Pete answered with
contempt:
$50 way, niggah! Don't you know dat
school opens in September How, den,
can dc world come to an end in August7"
[Harper's Magazine.
CANT SLEEp.-It is probable that many
who cannot sleep during the fore part of the