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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO A FABMEB’B 80HG. Wt envy not the princely man, In city or in town, Who wonders whether pumpkin vine* Ron up the hill or down; We' care not for his marble halls, Nor yet his heaps of gold, We would not own his sordid heart For all his wealth thrice told. We are the favored ones of earth, We breathe pure air each morn, We sow—we reap the golden grain— We gather in the corn ; We toil—wc live on what we earn, And more than this we do— We hear of starving millions round, And gladly feed them too. The lawyer lives on princely feet, Yet drags a wean’ life, He never knows a peaceful hour— His atmosphere is strife. The merchant thumbs his yardstick o'er, Grows ragged at his toil— He’s not the man God meant him for — Why don’t you till the soil ? The doctor plods through storm and cold, Plods at his patient’s will, W hen dead and gone he plods again To get his lengthy bill. The printer (bless his noble soul!) He grasps the mighty earth, And stamps it on our weekly sheet, To cheer the farmer’s hearth. We sing the honor of the plow, And honor to the press, Two noble instruments of toil, With each a power to bless. The bone—the nerve of this fast age True wealth of human kind— One tills the ever generous earth, The other tills the mind. BLACK-AND-TAN. Chalk and ivory ! heels and shins I Fain bo’s glory now begins! Go ’way, white man, you don’t know How to wote right—dat is so. Yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw! De happiest day I eber saw ! Whar’s de tickets? fotch ’em straight! I wotes early—l wotes late! I wotes often—l wotes right! I’se no ignoramus white 1 Man and brudder —equal born 1 Oe Maker’s image (in a horn)! T>e glory ub de rLsin’ day! De cullud cuss from Africa! Oh! kinky, minky, stinky, oh! If dis ain’t glory, tell me so! THE MAD STONE. In Mississippi, there is, it is alleged, a certain cure for hydrophobia called a “ mad stone.” The stone is about half the size of a hen’s egg, an irregular roun ded cube of whitish gray color, marked with small radiated discs like rough coral or resembling pits of small-pox. Under the microscope the stone discover a .great number of minute pores, and has nothing iike the weight or solidity of coral. It is broken into five pieces which are bound together with wire. It was brought from China about seventy years ago by a Dr. Parker, and purcha sed from him by Mr. Milman, the father of its present possessor, and two other gentlemen, Mr. Milman afterwards be coming its sole proprietor. Eleven hun dred applications of the stone have been made to mad dog and snake wounds without a single failure. Two hundred and fifty of these applications have been made by Mr. Benjamin Milman, to whom the stone was bequeathed by his late father. The latest cure the stone has effected is that of a Dr. Hudgins, of whose case there is a long report in the Winona Advance. Dr. Hudgins was bit ten on the 20th of May last by a mad dog while attempting to destroy it, and received a slight wound in the left wrist. He was some months later seized with hydrophobia, and the case appearing hopeicss, Mr. Milman was telegraphed for on the 11th ult., and shortly after wards appeared with the “ mad stoae.” The wound had cicatrized, but the skin was pared by Drs. Holman and Trotter, and the stone bound on. After an hour the bandage was removed and the stone firmly adhered, so that considerable pressure was required to disengage it. The application was made at eight p. m., and the stone dropped off at four a. m. It was immersed in hot w ater for an hoar, dried and again applied. Three Applications were made, and Dr. Hud gins is now perfectly well, and not only free from any symptoms of hydrophobia, but also from the terrible fear and anx iety' which before oppressed him. “ The Doors Have Been Open.”— When the Rev. Mr. Hallock was settled in Plainfield it was his custom to col lect his own salary', for w’hieh every vo ter in the town was assessed. Calling upon Mr. D., the blacksmith, one day, he tad,- “I have a small bill against you.” "And for what?” ‘For preaching,” said Mr. D. "I ha- e heard none of your preaching.” “ The fault is your own,” raid Mr. H., “ the doors have been open and you might have come’in.’* Not long after, as Mr. H. was one day passing the blacksmith shop, Mr. D., hailing him, said: “ I have a small bill against you.” "And for what?” said Mr. H. “For shoeing your horse T* u l have had no horse shod here,” said Mr. HL “ The fault is your own,” replied Mr. D.; “ the 'eiTT. been open, and you might Mr. H. paid ths hill. THE FAIR SEX. - - Gentlemen arc requested not to read this column. Miss-construction—Whale-bone, paint and wadding. The greatest object of curiosity to a woman is the dress of another woman. The old-fashioned women’s crusade— A boy’s head and a fine-toothed comb. Why is a ship designated as she ? Be cause she always keeps a man on the look-out. The young lady whose feelings were “ all worked up,” has ordered a fresh supply. An Ohio housewife suicided the other day because her kettle of soft soap wouldn’t make. We give the women nothing to think about but dress, and abuse them for thinking of that. He went back on his own true love, because she ate onions, and the jury gave her $3,200 damages. A Greene county girl lias just rejected a suiter because his arms wasn’t long enough to go around her. A man in New Orleans warned his wife not to light the (ire with kerosene. Her clothes fit his second wife remarkably well. Nevada is proud of a woman resident who, when the stealthy savage approached her, just pulled olf her hair and gave it to him. The lady who remarked that the Prince of Wales was born with a crown on his head was not aware that all children were so born. A New Hampshire woman, when dy ing, made her husband swear on the Bible that he would never marry a woman with a sharp nose. Western mothers are grumbling be cause the fairs don’t give twelve months’ notice when they are going to offer a premium for the finest baby. An Athens young lady entered a drug store and wanted to see the papers for a week back, and George Tilley showed her a roll of sticking plaster. An exchange says that a Michigan man dreamed recently that his aunt was dead. He tried the same dream on his mother-in law, but it didn’t work. A Delaware man thrashed his wife almost to death because their baby didn’t get a prize at a baby show, and then offered to trade the baby for a pig. A lady in a circus being asked why she so closely scanned the elephant through her glasses, replied that she was “ looking for the keyhole of his trunk.” A widower compares marriage to a be sieged fortress. Those who are outside would like to be within, and those who are inside would like to be without. “ Woman is a delusion, madam!” ex claimed a crasty old bachelor to a witty young lady. ** And man is always hugging some de lusion or other,” was the quick retort. To deny women the elective franchise because they cannot bear arms would not be one whit more unreasonable than to deny men the ballot because they cannot bear children. Athens thought she had a case wherein a young girl died of a broken heart, but it turned out that her corset-strings were too tight, and one stroke of a jack-knife revived her. An old lady in Augusta recently re fused a gift of wood struck by lightning, through fear that some of the fluid might re main in the wood and cause disaster to her stove. A Crawford lady was reproved by her husband, who requested her to keep her tongue in her mouth. “My dear,” she said, “ it’s against the law to carry concealed weapons. “Fifteen cents per gal!” exclaimed Mrs. Partington, looking over the price cur rent. “ Why, bless me! what is the world coming to when the gals are valued at only fifteen cent* ?” A lady, who painted very highly, in quired of a gentleman, under plea of indiepo eition, how he thought she looked. “ I really cannot tell madtime,” he replied, “ unless you uncover your face.” A young lady, recently married to a farmer, otto day visited the cow-house, when she thus interrogated the milkmaid: “ By the-by, Mary, which of these cows is if that gives the buttermilk ?” “ They say a woman can’t keep a se cret,'” remarked a Lexington woman to her husband, “ but Mary told me in confi dence last night that she is going to he mar ried soon, and 1 haven’t even told you.” A romantic Elbert county girl thought to Maud Mullerize and “rake the meadows sweet with hay.” She stood over a yellow jacket’s nest as she swung her little rake. First jump from score, U feet. Distance to the house, half a mile. Time, 2 minutes. Not many years ago a Hartford man was drowned, and friends brought home the dead body to Kmi afflicted wife. As they eauie to the front door with the corpse, die new made widow appeared and sadly remarked : “ I guess you had better take kina around to the hack d00r,%0 he won’t drip on the ear pets.” A voting lady in this village put a piece of wedding cake under her pillow, and went to bed with the happy belief that she would dream of seeiug her future husband. That evening, however, she had eaten two plates of ice cream, about a pint of strawber ries, several sweet cakes, and two large pick les. She now says she had rather remain angle all her life than marry the man she saw in her dream. A newspaper has been started in Idaho called the Idaho Vindicator. It is edited by two female*, and it advocates woman’s rights With a vewpeaaeiti. la the salntatory it says : “We shall have a fellow feeling in our bo soms for all struggling and oppressed human ity everywhere.” This assurance will be hopefully and gratefully received, but we are dying to know who-the thunder the “ fellow” will be. BURIED ALIVE. A Bride that Awoke in the Tomb—Seconds that Were Centuries. Two years since a family in Marseilles married their daughter, who kad just turned sixteen, to a young man in Salon, J u town not far from their residence. Alter the wedding festivities, the bridal ! pair set out for Salon, which they made their home. In the usual course of time, a child made its appearance. The moth er seemed in a lair way of recovery, when a violent hemorrhage supervened. A physician could not be immediately procured. The loss of blood had produ ced a swoon. When the doctor did at last come, lie could only declare that the patient had passed away beyond pro fessional skill. These incidents hap pened in August. The weather was un usually sultry, even for that month and latitude. The medical men urged the family to have the body interred as speedily as possible. Six hours after her death, the young mother was laid in her grave. Recently, the widower acquainted his mother-in-law and her family, that he proposed to marry again. JShe insisted that her daughter’s body be delivered to her, to be buried at Marseilles. He con sented. The mother-in-law came over to Salon, to superintend personally, the exhumation. When the door of the family vault at Salon was opened, a heart-rending spectacle was seen. Her daughter’s corpse lay in the middle of of the vault. The coffin’s top had been wrenched off; top and coffin lay on one side of the vault floor. The floor of the vault was strewn with the hair of the corpse, the grave clothes torn to shreds, the hands half eaten. The unhappy young mother had been buried alive, had recovered consciousness in the vault, had burst the coffin lid, and made superhu man efforts to escape from hgr fearful prison, or to attract attention to her. All of them had failed, and she had died of terror, of starvation, of exhaustion, a living death, whose seconds seemed cen turies. The mother has been a raving maniac ever since. A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. A correspondent of the Chicago Times gives to the curator of the Battle Creek High School Museum the credit of tell ing a very remarkable story about a re cent discovery of human remains in Barry couuty, Mich. Last fall a Mr. Cartwright was breaking up anew piece of land for wheat, and was somewhat surprised in turning a furrow to see seven skeletons decapitated by his plow, and the seven ghastly skulls rolling be fore him. Mr. Cartwright at once began digging on the spot of his unexpected discovery, and succeeded in unearthing twenty-two skeletons, sitting upright, face to face, in a circle. A number of arrow heads, stone pipes, and hatchets were found with the skeletons; also, a silver breast plate covered with curious inscriptions. This plate was sold for $lO to a young man who has moved away and has never since been heard from. The most remarkable part of the story is the assertion that all the skeletons were those of giants, averaging from seven to eight feet in height. Unfortunately they have been buried again, but they are to be exhumed shortly, and if they are found to be the remains of persons as large as represented, they will possess great interest for ethnologists, while “ the silver breast plate covered- with curious inscriptions” will be*fi treasure if it can only be found. The Inman mounds which abound in the West were frequently, if not always, places of sepul ture, and there is nothing wonderful in the discovery of skeletons. It is the size of the bones —or the story—which is cal culated to excite wonder. DISAPPOINTED IN CALIFORNIA. At a meeting of the Western Farmers 1 Club, 3d of June last, a Mr. Culvert, who had been travelling extensively in that Btate, was called upon to give his impressions of California. Mr. Culvert stated that he was really disappointed iu California. It was not so much of a farming State as he had lieen led to suppose, and it was very poorly adapted to grazing. Not one acre in twenty is tillable. One crop of wheat in lour fails. They raise no crops with out irrigation. They give their flocks and herds great range. It takes Leu acres to keep a cow. Grass will grow only by irrigation. Thicks there is more, grass in 100 acres in New York State than on 10,000 in California. Have dry rivers, only filled with the snow, always visible on the mountain tops, melts and flows down into the val leys. When a farmer can dam up this snow water, and keep it for irrigation, he raises large crops. Some of the valley* are very rieh. Had seen where they were washed out to the dejffh of sixteen feet, and the black mould extended to that depth. They plow thert l with gang plows, and only to the depth of about three inches. But very little timber, and that in the northern part. California wine is flat, and, like Caii&rnu fruits, lacks flavor. Everybody subscribe for the Ogle- j thorpe Echo. A PORTRAIT OF MY LANDLADY. BY M. QUAD. I board now, and I think I have one of the kindest landladies in the world. She seems to think a great deal of me, and I sometimes almost decide that 1 should weep if any harm came to her. She is very particular about her boarders. Before she would take me in I was compelled to get a certificate from three clergymen, two bankers and a lawyer, stating that I had never been hung for murder or sent to State prison for horse stealing. I bargained for a front room looking out on the campus martius, and it was understood that I was to have the room alone. On the third night I went home and found a stranger in bed, and when I began to raise a row, Mrs. Dolby caught my arm and whispered : “ There now', be a good, dear man, and say no more. He’s a preacher, and, as he is going away on to-morrow I thought you wouldn’t mind just one night.” At the end of the w’eck she beckoned me aside, and smiling like a load of fresh hay, she wanted to know if I would i do hei a favor which would place her un der many obligations to me. I replied that I would die for her, and then she asked me to give up the room looking out upou the grand square and take one looking out upon the grand alley, full of ash barrels and oyster cans. She had a new' boarder coming who was awful par ticular, and she knew’ that I would do anything to accommodate her. I made the change, and the grateful look she gave me was enough to melt a vest button. I had only got fairiy set tled when I was told that she wanted to see me in the parlor after dinner. I found her in tears. She said a very nice man and his very nice wife wanted to come and board with her, but she had no room, and it grieved her to think that she must turn them away when she wuvs so hard pushed to get along. I told her that If I had a hundred lives I would lay them all down for her and then borrow a hundred more and add to the pile, and she seized my hand and said that heaven would surely re ward me for being good to a fatherless orphan. I moved into the garret, and the awful particular man moved into my room, and the very nice man and his very nice Wife moved into the front room. In another week Mrs. Dolby whis pered to me and wanted to know if 1 had a snake in my stomach. She said that she had observed that I was a very hearty eater, and she didn’t know but I had a snake. I set her right, and when I promised to take free lunches down towm and urge all the other boarders to do the same, she put her hand on my shoulder and remarked that Heaven had a place for me. That night my bed was made without sheets, and when I went to raise a row she took me by the hand and said that her experience went to show that it was healthier to sleep without sheets. I was going to argue the question, when tears came to her eyes, and she hoped I wouldn’t say anything to hurt a poor, lone widow, whose life had been one long struggle with poverty. The next night the feather bed and one of the pil lows went, but I didn’t sav anything. Then she wanted to borrow my tooth brush for a boarder who hadn’t any, and she took my stove to use in the lower hall. I didn’t say a word until :he wan ted to know if I couldn’t spare the old rag carpet off the floor, and if I wouldn’t set the other hoarders an example by drinking nothing but water, and not take the second biscuit. Then I told her that I was going to leave the house and try to tear her image from my heart. She seized both my hands, tears rolled down her cheeks, and asked: “ Mr. Quad, will you deliberately plot to kill a lonesome widow, who is working her life out to make your position here comfortable, happy and luxurious?” I couldn’t go. Pm there yet. I sleep on the floor, put up with cold bites, and use the bootjack for a chair when I have company. I wish I wasn’t so tender hearted, hut I can’t bear to think of hurting Mrs. Dolby’s feelings by looking up another place. Artificial Incubation.— A lady re siding in Patterson, N. Y., kept a half dozen or more hens, and has been aston ished at the manner in which a nest full of eggs were hatched. A quantity of manure had been thrown from the sta ble, and lately the children heard young ehickens in this pile. They at ouee called the attention of their mother to the fact, who, to solve the mystery, directed that the heap be pulled down. When this was done, a short distance from the surface a cavity was discovered, in which were nine little ehicks. The hen had managed to make her neat in a cavity in the heap, and after laying eleven eggs, the opening had been closed by the stable-man. piling on more of the cleaning* from the stable. "The warmth generated in the heap had incubated the eggs, and nine of the eleven had hatched out. This may be a discovery which | come one may turn to account. VALUABLE RECIPES. How to Do Dp Bhirt Boaoms. Wc have often been requested by lady correspondents to state how the process ; on new linens, shirt bosoms, etc., is pro- I duced, and in order to gratify them, we j subjoin the following recipe : Take two ounces of fine white gum arabic powder; put it in a pitch and pour on a pint or more ot boiling water, according to the degree of strength you desire, and then, having covered it, let it stand all night, i In the morning pour carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork and keep ! it tor use. A table spoonful of gum water stirred in a pint of starch made iu the usual manner will give to the lawn, either white or printed, a look of new ness, when nothing else can restore them after they had been washed. Yeast. Grate twelve large potatoes, pour over them three quarts of boiling water, let it stand on the stove until thoroughly scalded, stir to prevent burning, boil a handful hops in a pint of water, strain into the above, when taken from the stove add two-thirds of a cup of salt, two tliirds of a cup of sugar, one tablespoon ful of ginger; when nearly cool put in some yeast to raise it, let it stand where it is warm until it is light, then put it in a stone jar and place it in the cellar; stir well before taking out to use. This yeast will keep good four or five weeks in the summer. How to Get Bid of Bats and Mioe. We get rid of rats by putting potash in their holes and runs. The poor wretches get it on their feet, and over their fur, then they lick it, and don’t like the taste of it; it burns them somewhat, and the more they see of it, the less they like it; so they clear out almost as soon as the application is made. To get rid of mice, we use tart arm iinnth mingled with any favorite food; they take it, take sick, and take their leave. Cure for Toothache. A correspondent writes to the Scien entific American that the worst toothache or neuralgia coming from the teeth, may be speedily and delightfully ended by the application of a small bit of clean cotton, saturated in a strong solution of ammonia, to the defective teeth. Some times the late sufferer is prompted to momentary nervous laughter by the ap plication, buftke pain has disappeared. To Boil Eggs. When you select eggs for boiling, test their freshness by putting them in a pan of cold water. Those that sink are the best. Always let the water boil before putting your eggs in. Three minutes will boil them soft; four minutes the whites will be completely done, and in six minutes they will be sufficiently hard for garnishing salads and dishes requir ing them. Cura for Felons and Boils. The London Lancet tells how to cure a felon. As soon as the disease is felt, put directly over the spot a fly-blister about the size of your thumb-nail, and let it remain for six hours, at the expi ration of which time, directly under the surface of the blister, can be. seen the felon, which can be instantly taken out with the point of a needle or a lancet. For Making Black Ink. Take a clean kettle and put in it five quarts of rain water; put it on the fire and let it come to a boil; then add three ounces extract of logwood; stir it till it dissolves; then add one-eighth of an ounce of the bichromate of potash; when it is dissolved it is fit for use. Soot. Soot is a most valuable mauure either for grass or for turnips, as it quickly forces the plants into leaf, and, if scat tered over young plants, it prevents the j fly from committing its ravages. It is j also excellent for destroying the grub in ■ onion beds. Pickled Cucumbers. Take small cucumbers; soak in salt water over night beat the brine and j pour over; then drain it off; soak the , pickles in fresh water if too salt; put [ into vinegar with spices, and heat thor- j ougbly. Put into jars and seal tight. To Keep Butter Sweet No better plan has ever been devised than to put it into elean jars and cover it with strong brine. No kind of vessel, catflr or tub will answer as weH as the sweet for twelve months. Fnrit Cake. One eup of butter, 2 of sugar, 3* lbs. of flour, white of three eggs, the whole of one, 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 2 of cream of tartar, over one enp of raisins. . j New Bern Calm. If new-born calves are troubled with bleed mg at the naval, it may generally be Mopped by fastening a string around the eord which hangs suspended from it. Bloody Milk im Gows. Give one tablespoonful of sulphur in a little bran once a day. If a very bad case, give twice a day; indtv bran, of i course. t j A House Full of Rattlesnakes. j A recent number of the Athens ! (Tennessee) Post relates a story in ref i erence to a man named Jones, of Shnokv ' Mountain, who for some years past has | been doing an illicit business in whiskey ! manufacturing. He had been hunted from place to place until finally he loca ted securely in a mountain recess four ; miles from his residence, visiting his family once a fortnight. Overstaying : the time of his periodical visit, his wife, ! with some of his neighbors, visited tho secret locality of his distillery. On reaching the building the door was found | bolted, and no sign of Jones or any one could be seen. But upon attempting to force an entrance they were greeted with those peculiar notes of warning which the ear of the East Tennessee moun taineer never fails to recognize. The door was at once broken down, and a sight met them that caused all to start with fright and horror. The form of the ! distiller lay upon the floor, with eyes | starting from their sockets, the features ; horribly distorted, and body swollen to | twice its usual 1 proportions, while the | whole interior of the building was alive. | with rattlesnakes, some in coil and ready | for battle, but the larger proportion stu pid and inert, as though they had been imbibing liberally of the illicit fruit of the still. As it was impossible to rescue the body of Jones without in curring fearful risk, it was determined to reclose the entrance and other aper tures, and lire the building, which was done. A Docile Bull.— A Cornwall farm er told us his cattle were so gentle and kind that they followed him all over the farm, and in passing a hay-stack they | would often call him, upon which he ob ligingly gave each one a lock of hay. The traits referred to are not uncommon among domesticated animals. Wc were visiting a family last week in the vicin ity of Goshen, and, having occasion to cross a field where a male cow was gra zing, when he followed us to the gate | with an eager expression, and, lifting j the gate off its hinges, he took after us at full s]>ced. No doubt he would have called when we passed a haystack, but the folks were waiting dinner for us and we couldn’t stop. So we left nur coat tail and a portion of our pants on the gentle creature’s horns, and wetlt into the house. An Editor Tight. —We believe it h rare that editors indulge in a drop, but when they do their readers are sure to find them out. A Syracuse (N. Y.) co temporary was called upon to record a melancholy event At a time when his head was heavy, and did it up after tho following manner: “ Yesterday morn ing, at 4 o’clock p. m., a man with a heel in the hole of his stocking, committed arsenic by swallowing a dose of suicide. The inquest of a verdict returned a jury that the deceased came to the fact, in ae cordance with his death. He leaves a child and six small wives to lament tho end of his untimely loss. *ln death wc are in the midst of life !’ ” A Dangerous Seminary.—There is ! in Liverpool a building well knowu to the police, occupied by thieves and rob bers, which is a thieves’ college, where thieves of both sexes arc systematically trained in all the various arts of thiev ing. The teachers attend daily at the the police courts, whose proceedings and decisions they watch with the most st rive interest, to see how they and their pupils may be able to escape the clutches of the law. Voices from Texas. —First voice— “ Don’t come to Texas unless you have money.” Second voice—“lf you have money and want to keep it, don’t come to Texas. Texas is a mighty bad place to keep money in, or rather no place at all, for you can’t keep money here.” A Pig Sucks a Cow.— A pig belong ing to Mr. Robert Bern', a tenant on the farm of Rev. R. C. Walker, of this coun ty, sucks his cow. At first tho pig could only do so when the cow was lying down, but it now tears up and sucks the cow whilst standing.— Spectator. ♦ m* Change of Diet. — A Georgia church has sent two lady missionaries to the Fejee Islands. This is very considerate. No doubt the cannibals will prefer this sort to the tough old gentlemen who arc usually thrust upon the market. Size of Wagon Wheels.—Experi ments recently made in England indi cate that wagons are most easily drawn, on all kinds of roads, when the fore and hind wheels are of the same size, and when the pole lies lower than the axle. He Accepts.— “ Mike, will you come in and take a drink ?” Mike looked at the nan for the space of a half a minute, and then rolling his eyes upward, very softly said : "I thought it was an angel sphaking to me.” i Engaging Candor.— “ And pray, sir, what do you intend to settle on my daughter, and how do yon mean to live?” “Intend! I intend, sir, to settle myself your daughter, and to live on you Make home happy by taking the Echo.