Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-15
Cholera, Religion, Tobacco and
7Khiskey.

DEAR COURIER: we nave "0.nlHg
newsy or spicy for your bright columns
this week and we will have to draw on
our composition for local.
The weather is extremely dry. The
wind has been from the East almost IN
cesaotly for quite a time. We predict
that it will end in an equinoctial gale,
food of rain, or Asiatic cholera. Eve,
since we read the history of the "Eas1
wind and the quails'' we dread an Eas'
wind.
The newspaper world is greatly exer
cised over this cholera business just al
this particular jroncture and it seems like
this continuous East wind has tendency
to drive this epidemic through the States
Many precautions have been mentioned
but the best is cleanliness. Especially
should all towns and cities and even the
country should police the streets, the
back yards, privy vaults, and contami
mated wells. Pure food, pure water anc
-pars air are prerequisites to health
Let everybody raise brisk fire in thu
parlor. There are many foul accumula
tons that make their way to the fire
place in the shape of constant sweepings,
and, am sorry to say, too often fou
tobacco spit and cigar and cigarette
stubs help to make receptacle that il
ominous of many foul emanations o.
fungus and germs of death. The best
thing in the universe to purge the fire
place is brisk, glowing bed of Goals
Don't neglect this. If you want youl
nice guests and nice palor furniture t.
keep pace with pleasantness, don't suffer
the fireplace to shock the a!factorie'
with foul stenches; and in all Offices ant
store rooms fre-places would be greatl.
improved by this precaution.
am glad to see Rev. S. J. Cowan Il
again in the Palmetto State. He car
manipulate and chain the attention O.
his congregation and stir up religion:
cause if anybody can, and when he fail.
you may say, "Ephram is joined to hi
idols" We like his style of preaching be
cause it is evolution, progressive ane
thorough. It is true some will say
'This fellow is turning the world upside
down." but that is just what the worlc
needs as long as our premises are wrong
for as long as man sins he is fool ane
a liar and the truth is not in him, if hi
claims he is right. He that is wrong il
the least is guilty of the whole" Ther
if we do not ego on to perfection" what
can we claim we have gained by renounc
ing sin? We have never claimed perfec
ton. but our belief is on this line anc
we believe in Rev. Cowan's doctrine. W.
joined the Baptist church IS years age
and after fighting tobacco II years, with
out the mastery, we have never wanted
to smoke the detestible poison since, anc
there are other sins that we have not
committed since. and those that attene
the tent meeting at Seneca will heal
much said against the use Of tobacco ano
you will hear men and women testifyins
for Jesus that they have been delivered
from whiskev and tobacco among theil
u 14.e, Is 1t1e huIilal
"heie 10 ''i0 Ai"A''A
so lost to gratitude that cannot rise ant
shout for JOY that others, seeing ou
good works, may go and do likewise
These two depravities are the devif'
twin brothers and scientists see it
mooted question, which does the mos
harm. whiskey or tobacco? And In be
half of Bro. Cowan's meeting we say here
boldly and above board that the cburcl
cot us out of these unseemly inconsls
te,.c;~s and now we would leave the visi
Bile March before we would act th'
"sow'' and go back u their use! Nay
we would give up Tugaloo Home affftaa al
of our homes, yes, our right hand, ano
after we had made all these sacrifices We
would plead with An Allwise Creator fol
a pure breath, pure blood and pure
thoughts and acts. and how can map ex
pect these-with nicotine and alcoho
reeking through his veins, both of which
are placed by analysis as deadly poisons
sob. eaasifssteeSscy,tb thou art a jewel
We believe in a practical religion. We
believe in progressive evolution. We
evolve into these troubles and why mo-
evolve out by the same rule? Arulethat
does not work both ways is no rule at all
We burned up half the pine-knots OF
Tugaloo Home writing in favor OF the
stock law. 1t was claimed we would ge
no more butter, beef or milk. Itwas no
two years before butter was utilized az
soap grease, and now beef is dull at two
cents gross and many enterprisins
stock farms and fine improved breed!
have been the result, and but one argu
ment ought to have been sufficient t
have convinced the most inevitable ole
fogy in favor of this most equitable O
all laws. When the stock would not fence
the crop, orhy fence the stock! And
might say I burned the other half of m!
pine-knots writing locals against whiskey
and now, thank high heaven, prohibition
has become law, and soon the peopl
will be convinced of the grand improve
ment resulting and ten times more from
this than they were from the stock law
the one effecting only financial progres
sion, while the other covers this groun'
and gives US moral, mental, physica
and spiritual improvement. Oh. W
begin to feel life is worth living and w
pray to see the public tide solidly agains
the use of tobacco. Why, boys, we ha'
rather risk Asiatic cholera, that can b
cured, and if we were to die it woald b
providential; but thousands of sta.lwar
men say they can't quit the use of tn
most universal outrage the world eve
knew, the use of tobacco. Ah, reader
we quit on religious principles. Twenty
eight years ago we were as etfectuau
cured as Naaman was of his leprosy. ant
our ''flesh came again as little child
Let everybody go down to the big ten
meeting at Seneca and dip seven time
in the River of Jordan. Perhaps one dil
may cure you.
We were over at Tugaloo Home yes
terday. We had the pleasure of meetinl
here J. r. Keese, DR.. Webb, with Mrs