Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-08-21

Eyes, we 60 our bottom nickel on cotton.
Sendin'git up to Massachusetts to get
oarded, spun and wove Time'll come
when we'll send it thero to be ginnod, then
we'll be happy. Monstrous sight of trouble
running these gins"
"That would be rather expensive, sending
cotton in seed"
"No moro 80 than them Western fellers
pays when they send corn l. IT apd get a
dollara buahsl apd pay six bits freight.
Besides, as I said before, what is the use
OF paying for railroads 'thout we use the
road2"
"You seem to appreciate the value Of
railroads."
~ think We ought-we pay enough for
'em."
II reckon you fatten your own porkY"
swell, you reckon wrong, stranger. /
get thom Illinoy fellers to do that for me.
It's mighty convenient toe, monstrous eight
of trouble toting big basketfull of corn
three times day to hogs in pen, especi.
ally when you hain't got none to toto it to-"
II should tEiuk go"
"There's one thing luoking though to
make the business complete"
"What's that5"
'.They ought to send them hogs roady
cooked. Cuttin' and proparin' wood for
cookin', takes up heap Of time that ought
by rights to DO employed in the cotton
patch. | was sayin' to my old woman the
other day, if we Mississippi folks got our
cookin' and washin' done up North aud
sent by express, we'd be as happy as Office
holders"
"Your horse in the lead thoro seems to
be lame"
ayes, needs shoein'. If no wasn't the
only horse I've got, and can't spare him,
I'D send him up where they mako the horse
shoes and nails and get him shod. Can't
get suoh thing done in our parts. Por-
haps oan at the depot"
"How do you manage to live in your
parts, my old friend?'
"Why, we raise cotton. My road turns
Oft hero, stranger. Gee, Ball, back, Brandy,
I'm glad [ seed you, stranger"
KINDNESS. Kindness is as cheap as it
is beautiful. 1t may be given in word or
a look, without diminishing aught Of our
wealth. With courtesies alone wo may
illumino our pathway, aud pluck down
blessings which no gold could purchase.
10 be brotherly, to befricnd and cheer and
console as far % in us lie, these arc the
browning graoes of humanity oil these
are born of kindness. 1t is anger, breed
ing hato aud contumely, that has filled the
earth with misery and ruin. Anger be-
tween kindred aud races, before which all
that is beautiful in man vanishes, leaving
only the wild, fierce animal of his being.
Families divided, friopds parted, communi-
ties at feud, and nation warning against
nation--taese are tho fruits of anger. 1t
has begottca tho foulcst of crimes. But
Kindness, in proportion as this has been the
ruling spirit among men, brings peace aud
happiness. The homo-hcarth has been the
centre of n paradise, and tho community
fratornal Elysium. Verify, "Better is
dry crust and quietness Herewith, than u
house full Of sacrifice with strifo." Jet
us study aud strive to be kind, no matter
how seemingly trivial the occasion nor how
small tho promised fruit. 1t is the ouly
language Of our nature that is universal
and irresistible. In tho language of the
poet:
"Ilow softly OIL tho bruised heart
word Of kindness falls,
And to the dry aud parched soul
The moistening tear-drop calls:
On, if they knew, who walk the earth
Mid sorrow, grief and pain,
The power word of kindness hath,
wwero Paradise again"
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NEDUCED TO FIGURES.-The annual
crop of the tobacco leaf is about 42O ,OO0,-
O00 pounds, two-thirds Of which is cx-
ported.
The trifiao in eggs in this country is es.
timated to equal $2,0OO,OOO per annum;
100000 dozens are exported from tho
country every year.
Tho average yield of wheat por aero is 81
bushclP in Russia, IL in the United States,
l23 in Austria, 81 in Franco, 2o3 in Great
Britain.
The world averages an annual product of
6Sl 100000 pounds of tea, China produo
ing 900 100000, Japan 40,00O,O00, India
35O00,000 and Java 100000.
England has 35,000,000 shoep, from
which sho realizes an annual product of
Sl50,000,000. Tho United States has, in
round numbers. 86,000,OOO of shoop, over
G,ho0, 900, being owned in California,
which ranks as tho first wool PRODUCING
States in tho Union.
Cotton brings to this country more than
S20O,O00,OOO per year. Breadsnffs, last
year, brought 8l81, 1,777,S4l from abroad,
aud since 1866 has brought an average of
slOO,O00,O 600 per year. Our animal pro
ducts, cattle, hogs, cto., rank next in i'm
portance to our export trade, amounting
last year to $183, ,232,575.
FENCE ADvERTIsINo.- The Bingham
ION IN. Y) Republican says: As an in
stance of the value of "fenco advertising"
it may be mentioned that of fifteen firms
whose advertisements appear on tho fences