Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-04-28
DEBT.

Living beyond .hcir incomes is the ruin
OF many of my neighbors; they can hardly
afford to keep rutbit, and must need
drive pony nnd ohasc. I am afraid
extravagance is the common disease of the
times, and many protesting Christians have
caught it to their shame and sorrow. Good
cotton or snuff gowns arc not good enough
nowadays, girls must have silk and satin,
and then there is bill at the dressolakcr'
as long as winters night and quite as
dismal. Show and style and smartness run
away with mans means, keep tho family
poor, and tho fathers hose as grindstone.
Frogs try to look as big as bulls and burst
themselves. A pound week epes i've
hundred year and comes to the country
oourt. Men burn the candle ut both euds,
and then say they are unfortuoate-why
don't they put the saddle on the right horse
and say they are extravaganza ECONOMY
is half the battle in life; it is not holt SO
hard to earn money as to spend it we'll
Hundreds would have never known want if
they had not first known waste. If all
poor mems wives knew how to cook, haw
far little might go2 Our minister says:
The French and Germans beat us all
hollow in nice cheap cookery; wish they
would seud us missionaries over to couvertour
gcssipiug women into good managers; this
is II French fashion which would be deals
more useful than those fine pictures ia Mrs.
FIippcry's window, with Iodies rugged out
10 new style every month. Dear me!
some people are much too fine nowadays to
eat what their fathers were thankful to see
on the table, and so they please the palacs
with costly feeding, como to the work.
house and expect everybody to pity them.
They turned up their noses at bread and
butter and came to eat raw turDips atolen
out of fields. They who live like fighting
cocks at other mems cost will get their
combs cut or perhaps get roasted for it one
of these days. If you have great store of
peas you may put the more in the soup;
but everybody should fare according to their
earnings. He is both fool and knave
who has shilling coming in and on tho
strength of it spends n pound which does
not belong to him. Cut your coat accord
ing to your cloth is sound advice; but cut
ting other peoples cloth by running into
debt is as like thjoving Us four four pence is
like goat.
Debtors can hardly help being liara, for
they promise to pay when they know thov
cannot, aud whom they have made. up lot
Of false excuses they promise again, and 80
they lilo as fust as horse can trot.
Now, if owing leads to lying, who shall
say that it is not most OWL thing. OF
course thero are exceptions, and l do not
want to bear hard upon on honest man who
is brought down by sickDcss or losses; but
take the rule as rule and you will find
debt to DO great dismal swamp, huge
mud-holc, dirty ditch; happy is the mao
who gots out after ouoe tumbling 10, but tho
happiest of all 10 he who has been by Gods
goodness kept out of the miro altogether
If you onoe ask tho devil to dinner it will
be hard to get him out Of the house again;
bettcr have nothing to do with him
Whore hen has laid an egg sho is very
likely to lay aiother; whom man is once
10 debt no is likely to got into It again; b,t4
ter keep clear Of it from the first. Never
owe farthiog and you will mover owe a
guinea.
NV motto Ia nav as vou m and kenr fror,