Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-12

Cnc ulIleTeuG SeaSOuS VI oPl.uS, ouna-
mer, autumn and winter are but
milestones in this transitory life,
which serve as pointers, directing
these frail barks of humanity to ano-
ther and better country?
Climate: The climate here is both
delightful and healthy. During the
summer months pleasant breeze is
always stirring; the water is pure
and clear as crystal; the little pes
tiferous housefy makes himself
unfrequent; gnats are nowhere to be
found, and doctors are as scarce as
hens teeth. OF course, we mean no
reflection on the doctors, but as the
absence of teeth among the feathery
tribe denotes that they have other
organs of nature which provide for
their physical wants and necessities,
so the absence Of physicians amongst
us is proof Sufficient, to say the least
of it, that nature has sufficiently pro-
vided for us, whereby our physical
wants and necessities may be ab1n-
dainty supplied without necessarily
resortinc to the aid of a physician.
Towns and cities may spend hun
dreds cf dollars in booming up the
health of their localities and sur
roundings in general, but these
are advertisements "pencilled by
natures own hand" which will ever
remain paramount to all others, and
though rugged in their nature are
sufficient to restore lost energy, renew
vigor and gives devouring appetite
to all those who make themselves
frequent amongst US.
Manners and customs of the people:
After all the crops are harvested,
in the earlier part of winter, them
comes regular jubilee time of corn
sbuckings; and to have good time,
and especially to get something good
to eat, one has only to go to an old
time mountain corn shucking Still
further, if fellow don't want to be
toted he had better shuck his own
corn. To those who have never seen
the like perhaps we had better
explain. After the corn is all shucked
and the shucks put away, you may
see parcel of men and boys giving
each other the wink. Their object
is to get hold of the man who gave
the shucking and carry him to his
dwelling just as you would wounded
man or one entirely dead; but when
ti;ey start off in the direction of the
house they soon find that he is neither
dead nor wounded either, so far as
kicking propensities are concerned.
After knocking, kicking, humping
and pulling for some time their pris-
oner, who is "much the worse for the
wear is landed in the house and
given respectable seat on the floor.
The boys up here call this fun, but
we think it's shy way they have Of
shaking themselves up, or down ii
YOU wish to call it, in order that they
may be better prepared to do full
Justice at the dinner table.
Fattening hogs are put up sepa-
rately in pens, which rest on forks
about two feet from the ground, and
the pens are generally SO small that
If the pig fatte;.s very fast he will
soon outgrow his pigship. However,
about this time he begins to push the
rails sideways and endways. On
account of his hogology he is deprived
of his hoganity and the better part
of his hogship transferred to the hog
house, place where hogs seldom
grow larger.
The people here are plain, self
supporting, unassumirg, believe in
living at home, feed man when he
is hungry, adhere, in great meas
ure, to old-time ways. The cards,
reel, spinning wheel and the old-fash-
ioned loom still have their respective
corners, and they are not rusty for
want OF use either; pasturage is
plentiful, poultry and cattle are raised
in abundance, and, above all, the
people are not derelict in regard to
education.
But another step pin rogress
and the flying steam engine will
send his shrill notes throughout
these lonesome hollows; then these
rocks viii begin to move themselves
one upon another; these forests will
be turned into merchantahle lumber
these waterfalls will drive millions Of
Spindles, and these mountains that
are full CT lime rock will be pulled
down and converted into fertilizers,
which will stimu.ate the vegetable
growth OF our own virgin soil. The
dead realities now existing will then
become living realities, and then
could we not welcome back with
pride to the place that gave him birth
Joseph f. Brown, of Georgia? And
who can tell but that the closing
years Of the nineteenth century will
mark an era of progress in our his
tory that will be as a tlme-honored
monument, permeating and breath
ing new life and progress in all those
who may come after us? N. C.. B.
Long Creek, S. c., Dec. 19, 1892.
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