Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-01-12
JAKE COOK AFTER THE GIRLS.
Digging Storm Pit for His Own and
Neighbours Protection,

.
1t seems that our little article writ
ten for The Courier recently in re-
gard to the bad condition of public
roads, and the apparent neglect OF
duty on the part of road officials, has
stirred up hornets nest and put the
ladies' away over In Rabun county,
Georgia.. on their metal. Now, ladies,
we have no quarrel to make with you,
God bless you. But we are not
much afraid, simply because we know
that If you start down here with all
the shotguns and Carrie Nation
hatchets in Rabun county you can
never get here until your father
works out the road, and If he con
tinues his usual move we will have
ample time to dig storm pit big
enough to hold ourselves and all the
nefghbors who have ever said any
thing about the public roads. Then,
too, we know your father would never
allow his girl children to travel our
roads In their present condition for
rear OF bodily harm. Hence | am not
afraid.
We place no blame or ;ou, ladies.
From the fact that you sign your
article Daughters" we suppose YOU
are not subject to road duty, unless
you happen to be daughters with
beard on your faces. In this case
they might press you into service;
or II you succeed in the future to get
your daddy's breeches on, that may
cause people to think that you were
liable to road duty. We will ask you
IN this case to be careful, as you in
structed me to be careful, though we
don't think you will succeed in your
efforts. Your daddy'S breeches are
probably several numbers too little
for either one of you.
We have nothing personal against
any official of our county. Our criti-
cism In the past has only been di-
rected against the public road system
and the apparent neglect Of duty of
the county officials. Nor do we think
we are the only one complaining
about the bad condition of the roads.
1t seems that Clemson College, one
OF the finest schools in our State,
with its whole district, is making a
strong effort to be annexed to Ander-
son county, simply because they can
not get their roads repaired by Oco-
nee officials; and we have been told
that their roads are now a hundred
per cent better than the roads in our
vicinity. Now, Daughters, suppose
you write an article and tell the pres
1dent and trustees Of Clemson Col
lege to stop their hot air explosions
over there. Do you suppose they
would pay any attention to you at
all? They think they have reason
for their course. We also notice an
article written for The Courier from
Mount Pleasant, stating that the
roads in that section are in bad con-
dition, and that they have not been
worked in over year. This CORES
pondent also states that there have
been both money and labor paid in
that the road has not received Won
der what those Georgia daughters
think OF that correspondent? Sup
pose they think he is full OF hot air
because he don't want his vicinity i'm
posed on by our county officials.
Now, Daughters, we know your
father well; we voted for him; we
did what little we could to elect him
to the office he now holds we think
now that he Is all honorable and
truthful man. But, unfortunately for
him and for our county, nature seems
to have bestowed, in some mysteri-
Gus manner, all the hot air of that
whole rare family upon the two
daughters, and when they aaw that
their father would be elected they
knew just what kind of condition the
roads would be in pretty soon, and
they emigrated to Georgia before the
roads got SO bad that they couldn't
get away, and Of course they took all
the hot air with them, and our coun-
W seems to have been left with an
officer in charge of public roads who
seems to be cold as an iron wedge.
.iSh hal
air. Thank God we have gus hot air
IN us. When man Is cold he is
usually dead, and If he is not dead
he might just as well be. Did Won
know that, Daughters? We think any
citizen of our county has a perfect
right to complain of all public mat
ters as regards county government,
etc., when he thinks they are not
what they should be.
Now, dear Daughters, you think we
stand in need Of the mercies of God.
That is the truth, thank you, and we
are not alone in the matter. All the
people In our neighborhood need the
mcrcies Of God. If there is a Chris
tian in our whole vicinity it's man
who never tries to travel the roads.
we don't see how you can expect a
man to travel the roads in their pres
ent condition and remain Christian.
Now, dear Daughters, we will go
out and look after gang of hands
we have digging our storm pit. We
want to finish 1T before this letter Is
published, and get in and shut the
door,. so that If there Happens to come
storm we will be safe. But ! am
going to leave little hole open above
the door, just big enough TO let the
not air out, and we can quarrel
through this hole when you come
with your hatchets and shotguns. We
now raise our hat to you, ladies, and
make the humblest bow we can nm