Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-09
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An Object Lesson.

20 wad some power the giftie gle us,
10 see ourselves as others see us!
1t wad frae monte blunder free us
And foolish notion"
So sang Robert Burns, and the words
are never brought more forcibly to our
minds than when we are Watching a
drunken man going shuffiing, stumbling,
staggering along the sidewalk. He
thinks every part of the parsment is his
by right of possession, and he wonders
why the fences on one side and the
lamp posts on the other are always get
ting jast whore he wants to walk. It is
very inconsiderate of them, but it is a
way they have of doing sometimes.
He thinks, too, that the children have
so little sense-they just give one star
tied glance at him when they turn the
corner and then go hurrying across the
street as fast as they can go, looking
back over their shoulders to see If he is
coming, as If they never saw man
before.
What pity he cannot walk behind his
own manly form short distance and see
himself as those children have seen him
there is nothing but snake or a mad
dog that the average child is more afraid
of than drunken man. He should take
a good look at his face, too, and watch
it in the different stages of inebriation,
from the time when he has just taken
enough to make it beam with maudlin
sickly smile, and he feels full of love and
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to put his arm around every man he
meets, and tell him that he is his very
best friend-to the time when all his
worst passions are aroused by the fiery
stuff and he hates everybody, even his
best friends, and his eyes CLEAN with
malice and revenge and he is ready for
any desperate deed of cruelty and wick
edness. Then he should see himself a
little later when he begins to be overcome
by the contents of his bottle and look
into his bleared, blood-shot eyes-the
same eyes, though you could hardly be-
lieve it, that his mother used to gaze into
when he was little boy, and thought
were so pretty-and notice the look of
utter stupidity in them. Any animals
eyes that you could think of would ap-
pear more human and intelligent and
look more like God intended a mans
eyes should than his, just before he
sinks down in corner to be dragged off
by his friends to place Of safety.
Surely If man could see himself in
this condition once it would cure him of
all desire to have the performance re-
peated. 1t would positively be his last
appearance" in public in that plight
He would be like the little girl who was
dying, and, after singing few lines of
hymn, told her friends that If they
wanted any more sung they would have
to sing it themselves.
We heard of young man who gave
up drinking because one of his friends
took down in shorthand all of his bril-
liant remarks while he was "on spree"
and read the paper to him when he was
in his right mind again. He was aston
ished to find that he had used such
coarse, vulgar, profane language and it
made him blush to think of it, and had
divulged secrets confided to him that he
would not have told for anything, be-
sides talking lightly and fippantly of
1.-THE dearest, sweetest, purest girl in the
world"
Is it not Shakespeare who says, 30
that man should put an enemy in his
mouth to steal away his brainsp"
w. c. t. U.