Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-05-11

had speut oil his advance subscriptions
Keeping up his rents, in huyiny his dried
apples, his turnips and his herriugs, in pays
ing tor the maicrul and other cost of run
ming his paper and iE feeding, clothing the
devil. On this morning, rs the editor sut
in bis sanctum, he wus completely bauk-
ruptcd That is, he was not con- rlctcly
bankrupted-hc had fifteen cents left.
But all his turnips were gnne, and bc only
had four pounds Of dried apples and nine
hcrriugs remaining 10 his larder. Tho
editor took his pencil and made oalcnla-
ton. These four pounds of apples, he
calculated, when boi ed would amount to
just four bushels. Allowing himself to
| cut peck, these four bushels would last
him Just thirly-two days. But as it took
him herring Il day the uinc hcrrings
would only 'ast him niue days This was
u gloomy outlook. The editor glanced at
his feet and saw thYt his toes were hcgin-
ming to show aud US he thought Of the
cold weather, remembered that he ought
to bnve new pair of shoes, another pair
of stockings and an ulster overcoat. AS
the editor thought upon these things, his
mind grew spcratc. Ho jumprd up
from his scat, struck thcptrical attitude,
shut one eye aud shook his fist at the devil
This scared the devil almost to death, for
he thought the editor had discovered
another typographical error 10 the last
issue. But when he found tho editor was
ouly about to make u speech, he stood
aud listened, just as a well conducted devil
should.
Said the editor, "Ilave I not worked
Faithfully during the past year to collect
/ "a ~ nn,S .,f In ,,.A 10,
dense into brief form tho principal news
re,dcrs?"
The devil said, "To the best Of my
knowledge and hcici. you have"
"And tinaiiy." said the editor. "hnve |
not during this cold aud slccty weather
stood upon the street corner with my pencil!
in one hand aud note hook iu the other
and have not watched tho bcnn',fal,
beautiful dnmscls the airy, dainty damscIs,
the rol!Iuk,ng, jova J'mses, as they
jauntiy trpked over the icy pavrmcuts.
And when the dainty heals of these jovial
dau.seIs ahd flown up into the air and
these beautiful dnmseis come down hard
upon the pavement, have [ not given
tp'r,nr,sqnc and minute occount Of tho
scrnr?"
The devil was so much impressed with
This prrt of the speech that he called the
jnurncymcn aud got the editor to say it
over aealn. The editor said it over again
word fnY wo,d, and the devil aud the
! jonrnrymrn said il waa the finest piece Of
ri"qu"ncr they had ryer listened to They
fur'h IN, r. said that they would swear
beior" COURT aud jury that it was every
w"rd true
This served to calm dawn the editor very
c"rSdrr, bly, aud he again took his seat
I'D eng. d in The o 'len'patiou of his
~ err ton hiiis. There were y great many
fur on'y Que year. aud these were 50.
There were a number fnr two years aud
In, 81 81 aud some had even run ior three
yrars aud ,hey amounted to Sc 6--tllt is
suYIosing that in all of these cases ouly
advance rates werr charged. Then he cast
his eye over his book aud noted those
lcs~c3 subscribers who had paid in advance.
| Fhcsr he f"nnd tu lie uarc than twice as
many ~ all the others together; hut, as we
have before remarked. the editor had
already spcnt these 1hou4h he gave
them the best affections of his heart, he
fu ly appreciated that 80 con'd not look to
them for his supply Of dried apples aud
turni ps through the coming year
Now comes the taeic pa,t Of ou story
| The editor. after working o-cr his bills all
day, went h'me to supper. It WAS nine
O'Clock when he sat down to his evening
meal. hls w.s his usual time for supping.
as we have SAID bcior" his turnips were oll
gone aud he had eaten his days herring
i"r dinner, SO ihnt he only had three unnrts
OF dried apples fur supper. These he
! p,nc, fully anu srrcucy ate