Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-02-27

| scrape. But 1T ls better to tell the
truth. Tho truth is the thing-the
biggest thing ! know of. If I had q
great business that would give
employment to thousand boys, and
I had to go about and select them,
the first question ! would ask would
be, "Does he always tell the truth ?''
| wish the boys and girls could real
ize how much anxiety they give us
Here are 400 going to school in our
little town, and in a few years they
have got to take our places and make
our laws and do the business and
make up society and establish the
morals of the community, and upon
their conduct the happiness and
good Of the people will depend.
The young men of this generation
will have to solve the race problem
and all the other problems, and upon
them will depend the existence of
the government. We think about
this good deal, for it affects our
children. 1t troubles us to think
about wars and anarchy and rcvolu-
ton and about tyrants and bad men
getting into power and about the
rich getting richer and the poor
poorer. know that it will be all
right if the people will do right--if
the children grow up with good
morals and good principles. We
have got good schools almost every
where in the South. know we
have in Cartersville. l am proud of
the professors and the teachers and
the pupils. We are q long ways
ahead of Boston. There are no hip
pockets in our schools, no kicking of
teachers, no bands of forty thieves.
We have Christian teachers and the
moral training goes right along with
the school books. The boy or girl
who gets no more education than
can be had in our schools has the
foundation laid for any beginner in
life.
st. Valentines day has come
again and the good old fellow does
seem to have some influence upon
the bipcds, for the young people are
mating and marrying all around us.
That is all right, and we love to see
it going on, for it is according to
nature. Most everybody takes some
stock in the marriages Of the young
folks Even the old bachelors and
old maids wake up and smile and
bid them good speed. They are
taking great risk, we know, but it
is best to take it even if the venture
is failure. If it is failure it is
their fault. l never knew an
unhappy marriage that was not
made so by one or both of the par
ties. 1t is a sad thing to marry in
haste and repent at leisure. 1t don't
pay to marry by the month. |
never hear of hasty and inconsid-
crate marriages but what / think of
those sad and serious lines of Tom
Hood:
ooh very, very dreary is tho room
| IVhnro t;o II,
nestlcs;
But smitten by the common stroke OF
doom,
The corpse lies on the trcstlcs.
The corpse of conjugal low" is an
awful corpse. Not long ago a mar
ricd woman asked me for SiO. She
said her husband had money, but she
wouldn't ask him for dollar if she
never got any There is corpse in
that house. The husband is stingy
and tyrannical-the wife is proud
and sensitive and so love got sick
soon after the marriage and fingered
and languishcd and died. A man
ought not to force his wife to ask
him for money. 1t makes her fee
her helplcssness, her dependence
and smothcrs her equality. The
husband ought to anticipate hcl
wants if he is able. The money OF
the bank account ought to be at he,
|
disposal at all times, for she will
spend less Of it foolishly than he
will A very considcratc wife told
me that it was her greatest trial tc
ask her husband for money though
he was always kind and never re.
fused. And I suspect there is
many a good wife who is humiliatcd
in the same way. 1t is ST. Valcn.
tines season now, and fit time fol
the married folks to mate again and
renew their promises. What a pity
that love should get sick so soon and
turn into a corpse-a corpse that
cannot be buried but stays in the
house by day and by night. From
such q corpse, good Lord deliver us
BILL ARP.
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