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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
A WOMAN'S ANSWER.
Do yon know yoa have asked for the richest
thing
Ever made by the hand above?
A woman’s heart, a woman’s life,
And a woman’s wonderful love?
Do you know you have asked for thrs thing
Aa a child might ask for a tor ?
Demanding what others have died to win,
ilk the reckless dash of a bov ?
You have written my lesson of duty out—
Manlike have you questioned me?
Now stand jit the bar of my woman’s soul,
Until I shall question thee.
You may require your mutton always to be
boi,
Your socks am! your shirt to be whole ;
I require yonr heart to bo true as God’s stars,
And as pure as His heaven your soul.
You require a cook for your mutton and beef,
I require a far greater thing ;
A seamstress you’re wanting for sock* an*)
shirts,
I look for a man and a king ;
A king for the beautiful realm called home,
And a man that the Mak :•, God,
Shall look upon as he did on the first,
And say, “ It is very good.”
I am fair, and young, but the rose will fade
From my soft young cheek one day ;
ill you love me then ’mid the falling leaves
As you did ’niong the bloom of May?
Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep
I may launch my all on its tide ?
A loving woman finds a heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.
I require all things that are grand and true —
All things that a man should be ;
If you give this all, I would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.
"if you cannot be tins—a laundress and cook
. You can hire, and a little to pay ;
But a woman’s heart and woman’s life
Are not won in that way.
OLD GRANDPA’S SOLILOQUY.
It wasn’t so when I was young—
We used plain language then ;
We didn’t speak of “ them galloots,”
When in earn n’ boys or men.
When speak in of a nice hand-write,
Of Joe, or Tom, or Bill,
We did it plain-—we didh’t say,
“ He slings a nasty quill.”
An’ when we seen a gal we liked,
Who never failed to please,
We called lierpretty, neat, an’ goody
But not “ about the cheese.”
Well, when we met a good old friend,.
We hadn’t lately seen,
Wc greeted him, but didh’t say,
“ Hollo, you-old sardine!"
The boys sometimes got mad an’ fit;
We spoke of kicks and blows ;
But now they “whack him on the snoot,”
Or “paste him on the nose.”
Once when a youth was turned away
By her he held most dear,
He walked upon his feet—but now
• He “ walks off on his ear.”
We used to dance, wlion I was young,
Aud used to call it so ;
But now they don’t—they only “sling
The light, fantastic toe.”
Of death we spoke in- language plain,
That no one did perplex ■
But in these days one doesn’t die—
He “ passes in his cheeks.”
W c praised the man of common sense :
“ His judgment’s good,” we said;
But now they say, “ well, that old plum
Has got a level head!”
It’s rather sad the children now
Are Lamin’ all sieh talk ;
They’ve learned to “ chin” instead of chat,
And “ waltz” instead of walk.
To little Harry, yesterday—
Mv grandchild, aged two—
I said, “ \ ou love your grandpa ?” Said lie,
“ You bet your boots I do.!’
The children bowed to strangers once;
It is no longer so—
The little girls, as well as bovs,.
Now greet you with “Hello!”
Oh, give me back the good old days,
When both the old and voting
Conversed in plain, old-fashioned words,
And slang was never “slung!”
Probabilities*.
The following beats old Probabilities
out of sight:
When you see a man going home at
two o’eloek in the morning, and know
his wife is waiting up for him, it is like
ly to be stormy.
When a man receives a bill for goods
his wife bought unknown to him, you
can look out for thunder aed lightning.
When* a man goes home and finds
no supper- ready, the fire gone out and’
his wife crusading, it is likely to be
cloudy.
When a man promises to take his
wife to a party, and changes his mind
after she is dressed, you may expect a
shower.
When a man saves his cigar money
to buy h's wife anew bonnet and the
children new shoes, it indicates a spell
of sunshine.
When a man dies and leaves a nice
young widow with plenty of money,
and you. see her walking out with one
the executors on Sunday,, a change is
imminent.
- . m
A fashionable lady says her husband is
the latest thing out.
ADDRESS BY
MILES H. DILLARD,
Delivered before the Lodge at Crawford.
The human family is strangely con
nected. Each one of us form a link of
the great chain of life, bearing to each
i other a common relationship for good or
for evil; and until Providence sees fit,
in His wisdom, to here and there remove
a link front this chain, marr r s actions
have no effect upon it, howsoever civic
like he may be in his opinions, or how
ever strong his inclinations may be to
: withdraw from the rest of his race, and
in his cave of solitude drag out a wcarv
existence, where he fancies his actions
ceases to influence man, and that he is
' no longer his brother’s keeper. But how
j absurd. hen the Bible declares that
; * none of us liveth to himself, and no
man dicth to himself;” we may appar
ently, but really we do not. “We arc
! so bound by the laws of nature and mu
tual dependence, that every man is a
fountain ol influence, either good or bad,
to save or to destroy. Our manners,
habits, actions, all go to form the taste,
mould the mind, and shape the destiny
! of others throughout the end of time,
i Therefore we should ignore all selfishness
. and make it our whole aim to do good to
our fellow-man, for we are a part of the
great chain of human creatures, linked
together by the laws of nature, and every
effort at separation brands the under
taker a miser, a selfish, heartless wretch,
without natural affections or any redeem
ing traits of character.
Shakspeare has said, “ The world is a
stage, and men and women merely play
ers. They have their entrances and
their exits, and in time one man plays
many parts.”
The “ immortal bard ” brought up this
illustration to enforce one special truth,
and pointed and convincing is the effect
upon the mind. He represents each in
telligent being, as be springs from the
plastic hand of Deity, an earnest partici
pant in the great life drama going on
upon the earth. Like the dialogues, con
certs, and charades of the present day,
•each has its part to act, without which
the play is incomplete. And were it
possible, for man to withdraw his actions
and influence from the varying scenes
and heart-felt dramas of real life. The
great plans of creation would be changed
and the object of our Creator a failure.
Now, seeing our close connection with
the rest of mankind, and that we are re
sponsible to a certain extent for the ac
tions of others, let us, as rational beings,
consider for one moment and decide
where is the most useful field of action,
and in. i-ti apply our most strenuous
efforts.
The Church, of course, stands first in
our estimation, but even in it the young
member, feeling the responsibility of
tampering with eternal things, and a con
science burning with a sense of his own
unworthiness, shrinks involuntarily from
the duties which only a few of its mem
bers carry into action.
The grand and glorious institution of
Masonry, whose actions have resulted in
so much good, and has flourished behind
the veil of profound secrecy for more
tham three thousand years, mingles to
gether the moral with the immoral, the
Christian with the profane, the sober
minded with the drunkard, to accomplish
its indisputably great suits.
The Knights of Jericho, w ith useful
ness for its motto and temperance for its
watchword, though the association with
its. very name fills oar soul with legen
dary love, and carries us back through
the channels of history to those old days
of heroic acts and noble deeds wrought
by men whose lives were offered on the
altar of their country, after the expi
.ration of their pledge they leave the few
that they have reformed away out on the
surging billows of life, in an oarless bark
and destitute of even the friends that had
taken upon themselves a solemn obliga
tion to protect and defend such an one
in the hour of temptation. But now the
poor, weak, newly reformed wretch is
left again to drift into the porks of intem
perance.
Bat when we introduce the Independ
ent Order of Good its motto;,
its achievements, its aim, and its grand
and glorious destiny, we seek no further
for a field of usefulness, ami in it let us
direct our combined efforts to accomplish
our aim to reform drunkards, and suc
cess will certainly be our destiny, and
our motto strikes the fancy with a pleas
ing, soothing impression.
First is “Faith” —
M hen oppressed with heavy cares, ami
bruised with adversity and burthened j
with the weight of pain, Faith serves as j
eyes for the soul, ever looking upward in
its flight; and discerning objects remote, j
it lilts the soul above the grovelling
things of this earth, and fits it for the
contemplation of the Deity, and exist
ence in eternity. Or it may be applied
to that faith and constancy which we
have one for the other, and which we are
sworn to recognize and support..
Fext is “Hope” —
M hen despair anti misfortune broods
darkly around, laud the cloud of adver
sity thunders enr destruction ’tis Hope '
that savs
“ Be still, sad heart, and cease repining,
Behind the cloud is the sun still shining.”
And when darker grows the night, Hope
emits a brighter ray, and “ springs enter
nal in the human breast,” and gilds the
murky waves of the past, and throws
bright rays into the future to lead us on
ward and upward to glory and to God.
This, too, may be applied|to the I. 0. G.
T. in its infancy, when friends were few
and drunkards covered the land, and it
emerged from its muddy wave.
Last, but not least, i3 “Charity”—
The greatest of the Christian graces.
Pope says:
“ In Faith and nope the world may disagree,
But all mankind’s concerned in Charity.
All must be false that thwart this one great
end,
And all of God, that blessed mankind, or
mend ]"
When shining Charity adorns the zeal of
man he is moved by the noblest impulse,
and feels better to have dried one tear
than to shed a sea of blood,and when we
pour blessings of Charity around us, we
are pouring healing balm to our own sick
onls. Charity, too, may be considered
as the great driving wheel that moved
the I. 0. G. T. into operation.
Now, as good soldiers, enlisted under
the banner of “ Faith, Hope, rrid Char
ity,” Jet us live up to our mottos, and we
will ever have that case of conscience
that fills the big soul of the man who has
(lone his whole duty to his God and his fel
lou-man.
It is certain that we all have a work to
do, from the least to the greatest. The
influence of our most active members is
very perceptible everyday in our commu
nity, and the more reserved in manners
can, by their example, work wonders in
our order, and the otweure can, by giving
us their names, help us swell our num
ber, and make our cause attractive.
There is not one of us who may not
gladden many hearts between the rising
and setting of any sun. “ A cup of wet
ter given iu Christ’s name shall be re
warded.”
There is a great host of weary men and
women, toiling through life toward the
grave, who need cheering words and
hopeful ministeries. It costs but little
and is worth a great deal to the needy.
A bunch of flowers from a friend will
fill onr room with fragrance for a whole
week, a cheering letter, breathing the
spirit of love and gratitude, is like the
meal prepared for the old Prophet. We
can go on its blessed strength for many
days. An encouraging word, a warm
pressure of the hand, will make a lasting
impression on our minds, freeing from
this how ice enjoy these trifles that make
up the sum of human happiness, let us
remember that they will be more highly
appreciated by the poor inebriate (who
would give worlds for the power to re
form,) 1 and his unhappy family.
And these ministeries, properly direc
ted, help to strengthen our cause, and
helps to roll back the sin-blackened tide
of intoxicating liquids, that is sweeping,
with almost resistless fury, through our
midst, and many innocent flowers, dear
est to our hearts, who have perchance
lodged upon its banks, to watch the
dance of its sparkling bead, and the fan
tastic actions of its unhappy victims, are
swept from its banks by the swelling
tide, drifted into its rapids, and sinks be
neath its wave.
Let 15s, in “ Faith, Hope, and Charity,”
rescue such.
But the most important part of our
work is with the ladies of the Lodge.
For “woman can revolutionize the
world.” Woman is superior to man, but
not in actual achievements upon the
grand theater of fame, because her op
portunities are different from man’s, but
been perception, unfailing ingenuities,
and brilliant wit give her the victory in
every encounter, where the circumstan
ces conies fully under her observation
and within her investigation. While
she may not always soar to the highest
realms of sublimity, from which the mas
culine orator delights to hurl his thun
der, in the beautiful pathos of her ear
nest appeal, in her smiles and tears, she
Avields a power which does not sweep
with the wild fury of the storm, but like
the rosy warmth and gentle dews of bul-:
my spring, calls forth flowers clad in ;
beauty to ripen rarest fruits.
Her strength and influence is like that j
of the vine, that twines itself for support j
around the grant form of the forest oak, i
and extending its tendrils from branch
to surrounding objects,, form ties which, j
though tempest-tossed and thunder-riv- !
en, sustains the old oak still,
She can fill the soul with pure emo- j
tides, and lift it above drunkenness,
crime, and riee, prepare it for a higher
station on earth and existence in eter
nity.
And if Faith, Hope, Charity,and hum
ble obedience to the Divine will are at
tributes honored in Heaven, the brow of
woman, true to herself and race, true to
her dying Saviour, and first at the tomb
of her risen Lord, will glow with the Ce- j
lestial diadem, her hand shall sweep the
golden lyre, and her voice-shall-call as
ever —“Come up higher I”'
Thus we have seen that byherstrengtb
and influence she moulds the mind of
man and virtually rules the world—not
like the glaring sun of day, but like the \
palo empress of night, sweeping with
maiesfy and serene beauty through ceru
lean fields above. And when such influ
ence can be exerted, we entreat the la
dies of the Lodge to concentrate its pow
er, in one focal point, upon the drunk
ards and moderate dram-drinkers of our
country, and we shall henceforth expect,
from this great source of power, to suc
ceed in dethroning King Alcohol, and in
j banishing intoxication from our midst.
THE FAIR SEX,
S£aT“ Owing to the wag v.r were handled
last week by the fair ones, we are now under
the necessity of asking the Ladies not to
read this column.
“ The cause of woman suffrage”—Scar
city of husbands.
A stout old woman got mad, at the
j Glade, recently, because Hunter would
! not let her fan herself while she had her
I picture taken.
The longest name probably ever inflic
! ted upon a child in Massachusetts was
! “Aldebarontiphoscofornia,” twenty-three
letters. The girl afterwards became the
I wife of a Boston merchant.
Devout mother to young lady who is
burning up letters: “ What are you
doing there, my dear? Are you burning
incense? Young lady—“ Oh, no, ma ;
I’m only burning nonsense.”
When a Tennessee husband will horse
whip his wife for washing potatoes in
his Sunday plug hat, it is time to inquire
whether this generation of men isn’t get
ting to be too confounded high-toned for
| the age of the country.
A South Carolina clergyman knocked
j his sister down and sat on her. This is
| all the information that reaches us ; but
| if she had the spirit of a woman (and any
| pins) in her bosom, he won’t be able to
j sit on anything else for a goodly period.
“ What! you take your mother-in-law
j out shooting ?” says a French sportsman,
j in one of Cham’s pictures, to another
j sportsman. “ Yes,” is the reply, “ with
as3 gun that I have presented her;
there is no knowing what may happen.”
Mrs. Tracy, ofMissouri, had been sick
for a long time, and Tracy had her coffin
in the barn. When she died the coffin
was found four inches too short, and the
neighbors worfln’t even let him saw four
inches oft’the body to make it fit.
A young lady having promised her
grandmama that she would never marry
a certain young man “on the face of the
earth,” repaired with him, after the old
lady’s death, to the Mammoth Cave, in
Kentucky, and was there married under
ground.
A Georgia citizen has lately ta
ken to wheeling his baby around—as folks
suppose. A young- lady recently met
him and insisted on seeing the “ little
one.” She only discovered a jug of corn
whiskey, which he had taken this novel
way to get home.
It is reported that one of our peace
loving husbands, a few months ago,
agreed to give his wife $3 a week to
maintain comparative silence, deducting
one cent for each superfluous l word she
uttured. She now owes him nearly enough
o pay the national debt.
A Rhode Island clergyman says that !
meeting a good woman soon after a great j
railway horror, she exclaimed, “ Oh, Mr. j
- j
pened! The engine and cars on the 1
road collapsed, and before they
could execrate the passengers twenty
were sophisticated.”
“Haven’t I got a better {[undershirt
than tliis ? It’s split clear down the
back,” is what an Athens man snarled
at his wife Sunday morning. And when
the lady looked in and saw her indignant
huslyind standing with his arms rim
down the legs of his drawers and looking
for some place to put his head through,
she shrieked and ran out of the room to
conceal her emotion.
Sidney Smith was once visiting the
conservatory of a young lady who was
proud of her flowers, and used (not very
accurately) a profusion of botanical
names. ‘"Madame,” said he, “ have vow
the Septennis psoriasis?” “No,” she
said very innocently; “ I had it last win
ter, and gave it to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and i* came out beautifully
in the spring.” Septennis psoriasis is
the medical ivime of the seven-year
itch.
A fond mother in Kails county, Mo.,
has named her daughter Mazin Grace.
A neighbor inquired how she came to
select such a name. “ La,” savs she, “ I
got it out of the hymn book.” The neigh
bor expressed surprise, and said she had
never seen the name in any hymn book
she had used. “You haven’t,, said the
mother of Mazin Grace. “ Why don’t
you remember the familiar old hymn
commencing ‘ Mazin Grace,, how sweet
the sound V ”
An lowa paper has discovered a wo
man who will get up at 6 o’clock, kindle
the fire, get breakfast, route out the fam
ily, wash the dishes and six children,
sew a button on the neck of her hus
band’s shirt and hunt his- hat, go to a
mission Sunday school and teach a class,
attend church, rush home and- hanre din
ner over and the things cleared away in
time foe afternoon Sunday school, read
the Sunday school papers to the children,
and talk on her way home of Suuday as
a “ day of rest!”
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