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


small SCORES. Short reokonings are 5000
cleared. "Pay what you owe, and what
you're worth you'll know" Let the olook
tick but no click for me. Better 20 to led
without your supper than get up in debt.
Sins and debt are always more than wo
think them to be.
Little by little man gets over his head
aud ears. 1t is the petty expenses that
empty The purse. Money is round and
rolls away easily. Tom Thriftloss buys
what he don't want because it is great
bargain and is soon brought to sell what he
does want and find it very littly bargain.
lie cannot say mo- to his friend who wants
him to be his security; he gives grand
dinners, makes many holidays, keeps fat
table, let's his wife dress fne, never looks
after his servants, and by and by he is
quite surprised to find the quarter day
comes round 80 very fast and that his credi.
tors bark so loud. He has sownd his money in
the field of thoughtlsssueas, aud now he
wonders that he has to reap the harvest of
poverty. Still he hopes for something to
| turn up to help him out Of difficulty, and
40 nudd!es himself into more trouble, for
getting that pope and expectation are FOOLS
iucome. Being hard up, he goes to market
With empty pockets and buys at whatever
prices tradesmen like to charge him and 80
be pays them double and gets deeper into
tho miro. This leads him to scheming aud
trying little tricks and mean lodges;
for it is hard for an empty saok to stand up.
right. This is sure not to answer, for
schemers are like spiders webs which never
catch anything better than flies and are
soon swept away. AS well attempt to
mend your shoes with brown paper or stop
broken window with sheet Of ice, as to
try to patch up falling business with ma
neuvering and soheming. When the
schemcr is found out he is like dog in
church whom every body kicks at and like
barrel of powder which nobody wants for
q neighbor.
They say poverty is sixth sense, and it
had need be, for many debtors seem to
have lost the other five, or were born with
out common sense, for they appear to fancy
that you not only make debts, but pay them
BY borrowing. A man pnys Peter with what
he has borrowed of Paul and thinks he is get.
ting out of his difficulties when he is putting
one foot ibto the mud to pull the otherout. It
's hard to slave on egg or to pull hairs out of
a bald pate; but they ore both easier than
paying deot out OF on empty pocket. Sam
son was strong man but he could not pay
debts without money, and he is fool who
thinks he can do it by sohemipg. AS to
borrowing money of loan societies, it's like
drowning man catching at razors; Jews
and Gentiles, when they lend money,
generally pluck the goose as long as they
have any feathers. A man must cut down
bis outgoings and save his iucomipgs if he
wants to clear himself; you can't spend
your penny aud pay debts with it too.
Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare.
Don believe in any way of wiping out
debt except by paying hard cash. Promises
make debts and debts make promises; but
promises never pay dobts; promising is one
thing and performing is quite another. A
good mans word should be as binding az on
oathland he could nevor promise to pay unless
hos clear prospect Of doing so in due time;
those who stavo off payment By false
promises deserve no mercy. It's all very
well to say, "I'm very sorry;" but
A hundred years of regret
Pay not farthiDg of debt"
From John Ploughman's Talk; or Plain
Advice to Plain People, by G. II. Spur
geon.l