Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-09-16
VOLUME XNXI. NO. ii.

tho advice of an old man who has titled tho
soil for forty years
am on old man, upwards of thrco score
years, during two scores OF which have
been ,i!lcr o! the soil cannot say that
| an now, but have been rich, and have
oil need, do not owe dollar, have given
my children good education, aud when
am called away will leave them enough TO
Keep tho wolf from tho door. My export
once has taught mo chat.
! l. One acre of land woll prepared and
well oul,iTatea, produced mv,c than, two
which received only the same amount of
labor used on one
2. Ono horse, COW, mule, sheep or hog
we'll led, is moro profitable than two kept
on the amount necessary to keep one we'll.
3. One acre Of clover or grass is worth
moro than two of cotton whore no grass or
clover is raised.
4. No farmer who buys oats, corn,
Wheat, fodder aud hay, as n rule for ten
years, can keep tho sheriff away from the
door in tho end.
5. The farmer who never reads the pa
pcrs aud snecrs at book farming and i'm.
provements always has caky roof, poor
stock, broken down fences, and complains
of bad "scasons'
6. Tho farmer who is above his bus
ness and cntrusts it to another to manacc,
soon has no business to attend to-
! I. The farmer whose habitual beverage
is cold water, is healthier, wcalthicr and
wiser than him who does not refuse tc
drink
MARRIAGE. Tho foundation of every
good government is the family. Tho best
and most prosperous country is that which
has the grentcst number Of happy trcsidcs.
The holcst institution among men is marri.
agc 1t has taken tho raco Of countless
ages to come up to tho condition Of marriage.
Without it there would be no civilization, no
human Advancement, no life worth living
for Life is failure to any woman who has
not securcdthc love and alteration of somo
good man. Lifo is mockcry 10 any man,
no matter whether he be mcndican, or mon
arch, who has not won tho hcurt of some
worthy woman. Without love and marri-
age, all tho priceless joys Of this life would
be aS ashes on the lips of the children Of
men.
"You had better be the emperor of
some loving and tender heart, and she en-.
won tho love of one good woman in
tho ditch, a bcggar, his life has been q
success.
There is q hcathon book which says:
"Nlan is strength woman is beauty; man is
courage, woman is love" When tho one
man loves the one woman, and the one wo-
man loves that one man. the very angels
leave heaven and como and sit in the house,
und sing for JOY.
The reduction OF the public
debt during the month Of August
is stated to be something over
twelve million dollars, or at the
rate ofabout $3.50, 100000 year.
Congress will be called upon next
winter to decide whether this rate
Of taxation shal! be maintained,
or whether tho payment Of the
debt shall be borne i'll part by the
next generation. If the current
volume Of customs receipts could
be maintained, the wiloic Internal
revenue system could be abolished
without cndangcring The support
Of the government OF tho payment
OF the interest Oh the public debt.
How SOME BOYS lave you not
heard aomc boys always brog about what
thoy arc intending to do? They are always
going to do wonders.
"You just wait" say they, "and VIC
will show you some day what We can do
Now is your chance, VIC would say to
you. You arc old enough now, and yon
will never have better time Better he
gin now; We are anxious to see your first
effort. Let us at once sec you animated by
tho practical purpose of doing--not by the
drcam-and then VIC will compute your
future for you
Make an effort. Even if you shall fai!
the first tme---a hundred timcs-stll con
tinue to try. The result is inevitable.
1t is only those who faltcr that come to
grief
The law OF tic harvest is to
reap moro than You SOW. Sow
an act and YOU reap habit; SOW
habit and YOU reap a cbarac--
tcT SOW a character and YOU reap
a destiny.
The work that is TO tell in
heaven must be that which is
done on purpose for heaven.
The work that is done for earth