Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-03-20

NIoRE Conn, LESS CorToN.-Wo again
warn our farmers not to plant 80 much
cotton. A diversity of crops is tho only
thing that will savo this country. Tho
price OF cotton is now no excuse for per-
sistenco in tho suicidal folly that has con-
troled tho planters for number of years
buck and brought misery and poverty in its
train. 1t must bo plain to every ono that
planting cotton to such an extent is losing
business Our soil is suited to provision
crops aud we should first look to tho ncocsi
ties Of life and produce these at home. As
matters have been managed the farmers
have made themselves servants to tho mid.
do men. After toiling oil year and sup,
porting themselves on a lien they gather
their cotton and when thcy offer it for sale
they are compelled to take anything they
can get. Somebody else fixes tho prico Of
their productions. Having nothing to cat
of their own raising thcy have to submit or
starvc. On tho other hand thoy are in the
same pitiabo state of dependence when it
comes to buying provisions. They do not
have to pay tho worth of the goods only
but orc neccsitated to buy at q fictitious
value placed upon them by spectators
sometimes moro and sometimes less as it
may DO the will of some ono thousand
miles away who expects to make fortune
at once by tho rise or fall Of certain articles
of present necessity. The condition Of tho
farmer must bo deplorabie indeed when he
has both to buy and sell at fixed prico by
some one elsc He is not free to make an
advantageous trade of any kind and the
longer hc pursucs tho same line Of policy
he will become worse and worse. The
farmers can takc it to be truo that nothing
will save them unless they raise their own
provisions. Tho lien law won't save them.
No legislation will help tho matter and if
tho farmers stick to cotton they will be
ruined foaevcr. Ab6cvWe Medium.
Go WEST, YoNNa MAN-Thc Burlipg-
ton Ha,cheyc is doing it's best to encourage
young men to go Woet and grew up with
the country. This is the advice it gives
them: eyes, son, yes, yce; go out West
aud buy farm. There is no life 80 indie
pendent as that of the farmer. Do not be
discouraged if tho work is little hard at
first. The grasshopper will eat up oil your
first planting, but they will devour it SO
early in the season that you can plant o
second time. They wont cut that planting
until just about three days before harvest
Then you will have nothing to do all fall and
winter, and you cum put in all your time
starving. The next years crop will be
destroyed by constant rain and floods. Thc
third year u drought will burn up every
thing that has root or leaf within ten
miles of yonr farm. The fourth year, how
ovor will so well. You will raiso bloom
ing crop, get it all in and safely housed
and sit down happy and contcnted, waiting
for the market to rise. Then prairie fire,
as big as the butend of the universe, will
come a'oug and burn up everything you
have in the world except tho clothes you
have on. Buy furm! a young man is
negcctful of his best interests and most
solemn duties who does not buy farm
right away"
"a SMART 'UN."--Ono of our friends
has bright little boy who behaves for all
tho world like other childrcn-which in q
c};Id is virtue, not vice. Tho other
afternoon no played so hard that ho fell
asleep, and was put to bed without his sup
per. Tho next morning Harry got up
very much refreshed by his long rest, and
canlo down to his breakfast as smiling and
happy as could be. "You was good boy
last night, Harry" said lady: "you went
to bed without your supper" Harry
looked at her a moment in painful surprise
and then all of q sudden tho clouds gath
cred upon his face, and he asked tho nurse
"Did | 60 to sleep without my supper las,
night? EYES," said tho nurse. "Wcll,
said he between his tears, "I want my last