Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-29
GA mother is a mother still
The holiest thing alive"

"a mOLner Is d InOIner SClil-
The holiest thing alive"
There are four queens nova
pretty good hand for poker. Maybe
four kings will come along and take
them by and bv aud I'LL be all
right. Girls are worth more than
boys anyhow. They are purer and
better and keep nearer to heaven.
1t is mighty well that up there they
neither marry nor are given in mar
riage, for if they did the girls
would have poor showing for
husbands. 1t would be wore than
Utah. There is more original
sin in one little boy than in four
little girls. Here is this Florida chap
who hadn't been on the lot an hour
before he had made friends with the
dog and was siccing him on the cats
and had them hiding under the house
He can turn a handspring and a cart
wheel and stand on his head and cut
the pigeon wing with a stone.l He
has Just finished reading the Young
Marooners that tells so many useful
and wonderful things, and now he
wants somebody to fall in the creek
and get almost drowned so that he
can bring him to, and he wants the
lightning to strike boy so that he
can throw water on him. ! had to
watch him on the train for he thinks
the platform on the hind car is the
best place for a boy to ride. But give
the little girls doll apiece and some
thing to make play house and they
are happy It's wonder to me that
girls love boys anyway. It's a won.
der that they will marry them and
bind themselves hand and foot to trou-
Bile and many a time to grief and
misery.
But our Florida boy and these little
girls are all right and keep things
lively. I love to have them around
Last night we had music and song
and a little dance, and even old Aunt
Ann, who was cleaning up the din
ING room was seen through the half
open door tripping and courtesyine
to the music on the sly and we caught
her at it and she was scared and APP
ologized and said the music was Sc
daney she couldn't help it. She
asked us not to tell Uncle Sam, OF
the preacher oad l won't. Then oul
big girls played little plays with the
children and sold pawns cline or very
fne,s and chow many miles to milel
brig ght," and made a Miss Betty out
of bolster and had good time al
round until bedtime We have tc
keep them in the house because Mrs
Arp said so, for one is running at the
nose, and another is croupy and the
room is so full of cut papers and pic.
ture books and balls and marbles thai
l can hardly get about. threater
to lick them sometimes, but they
have long since lost confidence in me
on that line. l used to make oul
children fear me, but as the parents
get older they become more indul
gent and when one by ono the chill
dren grow up and leave the famil.
freside the parents cling the close
to those Thc whc are left and rule then
with love instead of>sear. Old folk:
have to surrender to the inevitable
and it is best to do it gracefully; bur
there is many heartache suffered
that is never told | wouldent' minc
getting old If | could do SO without
losing sight and hearing and making
blunaers and putting others to trou-
BILE. laughed the other day at 81
old man until | vas tired. 1t was OF
the train and there was nice little
apartment at the end of the car anc
a water cooler and wash place anc
towel and sofa. There was lon:
narrow mirror III the petition next t'
| the cooler and as ! was reclining OF
the sofa the old ge6tleman came il
to get some water. The cup haC
been carried away to a sick lady a
the other end of the car. The ole
man looked around for it, then turn
ed the faucet and satisfied himsel
that there was water there. 1t wa
little dark in there and as he Va:
looking around for the cup he though
ne ,.eaother standing .
another Cooler close W ..ns. - .le ad
dressed him very politely and said
SWill you please lend me your cup:
The one that belongs here seems t.
be gone" Not receiving any reply
he bowed to him and said it a louder
one: 'I say, my friend, will you lei
me have your cup moment?' JuSt
then I discovered that he was talk
ing to his own shadow and | rose
forward laughing and explained tc
him and as the cup came back | drea
him some water, but he couldn't hardly
drink for laughing and as he sat down
by me remarked: 81 never was fooled
so bad in my life; fact is, thought
the old fellow in the glass was either
deaf or very impolite-I liked tc
have hurt my own feelings" He LEFT
me after few minutes, but as long
as observed him he continued to
smile. reckon that if he ever sees
this letter he will laugh again.
BILL ARP.