Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-12-07
Advice to a Young Man.

Auu Wtltlo YOU aSOlu OueuSiVo OluntncSS,
my boy, it is welt to cultivate habit of
f1nkness. BE straightforward When
you see anything you want ask for it like a
man. If you want to borrowx five
dollars of map, or if you only went to
marry his daughtcr--it amounts to the
same thing 10 tho end-don't sidle up to
q nun and hang on to your hat and talk
politics and religion and weather; don't
tell old, stale stories whereof you havo
forgotten the point, and fat, unprofitablo
jokes that never had any, until you worry
che tho poor old man into fit of nervous
irritation. Go at him with a Full head of
steam 90 and your bow ports Open, like
gunboat pulling FOR shore battery. Snort
and paw, if you feel like, no matter if you
do astooish him. Better to sstonsh man
any timo than bore him. Mako dash at
his affections or his pockctbooE, or both,
like brndle bull, with curl in his fore.
head, head set, eyes on fro, tuii up and tho
dust a>Ayug Then you'll fetch him. Or,
possibly. be may fetch you Blu. never
mind, you'll accomplish something, and
you'll show him that you have something
to say and are not afraid to say it, and say
it in plain United States.
And take Oft your coat early in the fight,
my son. Don't be afraid of hard work.
1t cant hurt you. Ten o'clock isn't too
late to knock IF, and five O'clock doesn't
come so very early in tho morning to .
young man. 1t docsu't come so early ns
three by two hours, and yet how often do
you go to bed at three? No? I'm glad to
hear you cay it, because, while three q clock
Is very early hour ut which TO rise, it is
mar oHf,y all t.,k
60 to bed. ln order to be up with the
lark in the morning. Telemachus, It isn't
at oil necessary to sit up with him all night
But If you aro at work tho midnight oil
won't hurt you. 1t will do you good,
because the hard workers are long livcrs.
You'll never work yourself to death, my
boy. Now, there's your sister, she is more
liable to overwork herself than any man
you ever knew. believe the ceascless,
monotanous round of old IIurycea's house
hold dutie6 aud domestic obrea, or Young
Nauslcaas worry over the laundry, would
XII the oldest man in America 10 week
1t is true that ~omap's work goes on for
ever, but thu, bless your SOUL fair Her.
m'onc, duu't let that worry you. You
don't 60 on forever to do it all. Aud
you d"n't have nil Of it to do, even while
you live Mans work COCA on forever,
too; aud l'm glad of il. But I'm not
going to stay here to do it all, and shan't
do any more Of my own while I do stny
than have to. Don't fret because wox
mans work goes on forever You will
have shirts to make and socks to dam for
Neoptoelmus not more than sixty scat,
anyhow. And as for you, Tclcnachus. it
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Its the intervals thut kill. It's the reIaxa-
tlon that hurts. Some time you may wake
III the morning with tho worst heud upoD
you that ever made you sigh for death
AID you weren't sitting up until 2 o'clock
a. NJ either. You will know there isn't
q line of Virgil or unit Of mathematics,
or one stroke of honest hard work 10 that
headache that is going to throw ono more
wasted day into your bright young life. If
you had burned the midnight oil over the
work bench, at the forge or on the desk or
ut tho lathe, it would never have manufac.
,urcd such headache as thut 1t might,
it would send you to bed tired as shadow
ot death, but you would opcu your eyes
next morning Oh au honest world Of hope
aud sunshine aud manly ambition without
blush of shame in NIL its rndnnce. You'll
never work yourself to death, my boy.
| The hardc! Yot work the less mischief aud
trouble you will get into Burinyion
HowheYe.
GRowTH OF THE MANURE HEAP =
Most of the pruducts of tho Iarm haze
been gathered for The year. but tho manure
heap should now begin ii rapid aud health
iul growth. The manure crop il perhaps
the most important one of tho winter sea
son; If not of the whole year. Upon its
size aud quality the success of the farm
operations very largely depend. 1t should
be the dith of every one who has ucres to
piogs o;f hfaS iaf%a iafq%analsa.9f gssssd crops. to
that is used to shsorb their urine and keep
them neat and clean. The best manure
IN nnde under cover and tie gtcatest loss
OF fcrtiiz'ng materials ls when the manure
is permitted to dccompose 30 rapidly ns to
give off lrrge quantities Of a,hnutiia; or
when drrmched viii! rains which wash
away dark golden streams OF the richest,
best aud most costly Of plant f"nds The
manure that every f,rncr should plan to
make is well rnfIed t" be- quickly nvalable
! for tnc eluwin" crop, ana h,s not sustained
| the shripus loss lhi CONES from water uas
slug through it here is no doubt that
IT would pay many farmers who now feed
in large nprn ynriS to build ahcdd, nnaer
whi'h the manure may be protected.
There are other points IN farm economy
gained by she'd or stable feeding. 1t t,kes
lrJs food To keep the upmnls warm and
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