Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-11-06
Prize Essay on Woman.


After man came woman.
And she has been after him ever since.
She is person Of free extraction, being
made of mun's rib.
don't know why Adam wanted to fool
away his ribs, but suppose he was not
accountable for all he did
1t costs more to keep woman than
three dogs and shotgun
But shc pays you back with interest
by giving you a house full of children to
keep you awakeat night and smear molasses
candy over your Sunday coat.
Besides, wife is very convenient
article to have around the house.
She is handy to swear at whenever you
cut yourself with razor aud dou't feel like
blaming yourself.
Woman is the superior being in Massa-
chusetls.
There arc about 10000 moro of her sex
than males in that State
This accounts for tho terrified, hunted
down expression of tho single mon who
emmigrate from the East.
Woman is not created perfect.
She has her fauits-such as falso hair,
false complexion, and SO on.
But she is great deal better than her
neighbor and she knows it,
Eve was woman.
She must have been model wife, too;
for it cost Adam nothing to keep her in
clothes.
Still don't think she was happy.
She couldn't so to sewing circles and
air her information about everybody she
knew, nor excite the envy of other ladies
by wearing her new winter bonnet 10
church.
Neither conld she hang ovor the back
fcncc and gossip with her neighbor.
All of these blessed privileges were de-
MED her
Poor Eve! she's dead.
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MoNEY-It heals the laccratcd honor,
satisfies justice and buys square meal.
Everything resolves itself into cash, from IL
"colncr" in corn to tho building of
churches. Children ask for pennies youth
aspires for dimes und quarters, manhood is
swaycd by the almighty dollar. The black
smith swings the slcdgc, the lawyer pleads
Tor his client, aud the judge decides the
question of life or d'ath for money. Money
makes tho man; therefore, man must make
tho money, if he would be respected. Our
old nclshbor, Ben Franklin once said:
acknowledge is power" Fogy idea. Mon,
cy is power. Money, with little feeble
help, shoves the world ahead and keeps busi
ness moving. Money buys Brussels carpets,
lace curtains, Stcinways, and builds marble
mansions. 1t drives US to church in
splendid "turnouG" it secures tho best
pews, and in some places it pays the purson.
1t buys Pailsey and rich satin for tho
madam, spendld silks, laccs and kcrchiefs
for Matilda Jane Anna. 1t communds the
respect OF gaping crowds and secures the
the most obscquious attention
Money is useful. 1t enables US to be
kind and charitable, to send tracts and
Bibles to the heather in the surrounding
cities. IL makes aud straightens railroads
and builds airline railways. Money is
big thing on salt wells. Money bids care
Danish. 1t is soother in sickness. Its
power stops short of nothing save the ugly
mouth OF the grim messenger, whose relcnt.
less hand spares no one, but levels all
earthly distinctions, and teaches poor
humanity that it is but dust. At the
brink of eternity money goes back on us.
The heggnr and the millionaire rest side by
side beneath the sod, to raise in equality
to respond to the final summons that awaits
all.
The Darlington Ne,cs says that nearly all
tho colorcd people in that county own
horses and cows, and many of them own
land, and that some Of the landowners no
longer depend on liens, but work their
lands with their own money, and pay for
their provisions in cash. Their moral as
well as their peeuniary condition is i'm.
proved. There is loss stealing, churches
orc numerous and we'll supported, and
newspapers and periodicals are literally
patronized.
Mobile, in few weeks, will mako the OK.
pertinent of overcoming her inefficient
shipping facilities by means of steamship,
which has been built with particular refer.
ence to shallow waters. If this steamer
proves success, of course, others will fol
low, and then the necessity of sending all
cotton for foreign ports by rail to Nes
Orleans will bo obviatsd. Mobile mcr-
chants ere also cxerting Themselves to got
appropriations to deepen their aarbor, 90
that all their wharvcs may become evaila.
bic for oil sorts of shipping. The rivalry
between the two cities of New Orleans and
Mobile is likely to stimulate both>to Q TO.
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