Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-01-23

| SAoH ~ pittiopSt VIZ tiO way lhNSoV
Tic summer drought does not cause
us to hold up much; and when the
harvest is gathered and the profits
do not balance expenses we go off
murmuring about the short crops,
and that we had just as well not try
to make anything in this country.
OUR. .BXTRAvAGANCE.
There is no. use ina mans being
wasteful simply because he has plenty.
Take the case where Christ fed the
multitude. They cared nothing for
what remained. They did not think
they would get hungry again, and
Christ had to command, "Gathcr up
the fragments that remain, that
nothing be lost" and when they
were gathered twelve baskets were
filled. Now if we will only stop be-
ing extravagant the crops will i'm
prove by large per cent. l can tell
some of you men how to make two
bales of cotton,
Suppose you leave off your one
drink day, make ten cents, in one
year there are $3G.50, one bale of
cotton. Then suppose you leave off
your cigars, ten cents more day,
one more bale year. l do not
blame the farmers for boycotting the
merchants who sell goods for more
than they are worth. l only wish
they would go on in their boycotting
and boycott some of these bar-rooms.
| tell you that is a business that. Lam
caster county can well afford to do
without. If some of our people
would only remember that the money
with which they buy their whiskcy,
tobacco, fine cloths, ETC., belongs to
the men who have been furnishing
them with lard and meat, it would
not be long before they arc "squarc
with the world"
Another great expense which gen
orally results in dishonesty is the
thing of trying to keep up appear
anccs. 1t is curse to our country.
Some people have not learned to ac-
cept the condition of affairs which
the war left them in. They wish to
live high and work little. We have
people who were once rich, now as
poor as poverty, yet they try to hide
it from the world. And then there
arc some, thank God not many, who
never did have anything and never
will, but try TO ape those who are
rich. Now the men who feel all this
the most are tho creditors. Some of
you people would be thundcrstruck
if you could only sec the accounts
that merchants have against this
class who try to keep up appear
anccs. 1t was a happy hit when
some one called them broken down
hypocrites. There would he Il
mighty revolution in society if the
dishonesty of some people was cx-
posed. | have had some of your
merchants to tell me that there are
people who make large accounts and
never try to settle them, and yet
they claim to be respectable. Now,
while there Is no special virtue in
poverty, it is no sin to be poor. And
when a man meets with a business
o"'"'ni.,, il ne viii only adapt him
self TO Ills circumstances nc will
soon rise again. Moreover, he will
have the sympathy of all honest
people. lie can afford to lose them.
Again, man in debt loses his
self respect. Espccially.is this true
at this time of the year. Every
time you meet the man you owe
you think about that debt. I expect
there are men in our county who do
not come to town on that account.
And perhaps there arc mon in our
town who do not like to 90 down
street for the same reason.
a great deal depends moreover on
tho way the affairs are conducted.
1T matters not how much money is
made if there is not economy there,
sooner or later credit will be lost. A
man should think before he marrics.
Young man, il you are poor and
work for your living you had better
let these parlor girls alone. They
are too nice to go into the kitchen,
the keys are turned over to the
servants, and things are wasted. BE
sure you get woman who will enter
into your plans and not waste more
money in year than you can make
in ten. a woman who cannot live
on her husbands salary is not fit to
be wife. | We d not have YOU
try to stint yo.. selves and make
your homes unhappy. But the hap