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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23,1874,
T. Ij. WIXTT, Dili tor and I*rop.
THE TBAMP
PY IjON hodino.
On a morn in dreary winter
Catnc a worn and weary printer,
With his bundle on a splinter
O'er his back ;
Travel-stained, he was, and needy,
And his appetite was greedy
For a “ snack.’’
For the printing office steering
Till within the door appearing,
Where he bowed, as one revering,
When he spoke,
faying, th a voice as solemn
a gratis Burhu column,
“lam broke!
In your city I’m a stranger,
Dusty, seedy as a Granger—
For I slumbered in a manger
Of a barn—
I desire a small donation
And some easy transposition
For my corn.
Boat? I tried to work my passage,
Moving freight and rough expressage—
Living on bologna sausage,
Dry and poor—
But they found I waa a printer
And they hustles:! me Instanter
To the shore.
Then I sadly recollected
Days when printers were respected
For their skill. Now Fra rejected
Fore and aft,
J&ct because sonic have been drinking
Bet the steam-boat then to sinking
All the craft.
Thus do sober workmen suffer
By the vices of the loafer,
Till indeed where’er I go for
Work I shrink
Lest, another imposition
Throws on mo a foul suspicion
That I drink.
Deeply does it wound and grieve me
When a man will not believe me
But, dear sir, if you will give me
Fifty cents,
.1 will, by its proper using,
Bhow yon I’m above abusiug
Confidence.”
By his doleful conversation
Housed him our commiseration,
And we made a “ small donation,”
Which lie sunk ;
But while going to our dinner
We observed that hardened sinner
Beastly drunk!
Thus do sober workmen sutler
By the vices of the loafer—
Basest coin will often go for
Purest stamp.
Kindest ones who must have trusted
Are most thoroughly disgusted
With the Tramp.
WATCHWORDS OF UFF.
Hope,
While there’s a hand to strike !
Dare,
While there’s a voumr heart, brave!
Toil,
While there’s a task linwrought!
Trust,
While there’s a God to save !
Learn,
That there’s a work for each!
Feel,
That there’s a strength in God!
Know,
That there’s a crown reserved !
Wait,
Though breath cloud and rod !
Love,
When there’s a foe that wrongs !
Help,
When thre’s a brother’s need!
Watch,
When there’s a tempter near !
I*ray,
Both in word and deed!
Courting in Church.
A young gentleman happening to sit
at church in a pew adjoining one in
which sat a young lady for whom he con
ceived a sudden and violent passion, was
desirous of entering into a courtship on
the spot, but the place not being suitable
for a formal declaration, the case sug
gested the following plan:
He politely handed his fair neighbor a
Hi hie opened, with a pin stuck in the fid
lowing text:
Second Epistle of John, verse fi—“And
now l beseech thee, not as though 1
wrote anew commandment unto thee,
but that we love one another.”
She returned it, pointing to the sec
ond chapter of Ruth, verse 10 :
“ Then she fell on her face and bowed
herself to the ground and said to him :
‘ Why have I found grace in thine eyes,
seeing I am a stranger ?' ”
He returned the book pointing to the
13th verse of the third Episiie of John—
“ Having many things to write unto
you. I would not write with pen and ink.
but \ trust shortly to come unto you,
and speak face to face, that our joy may
be full.”
Fmm the above interview a marriage
took place, the ensuing week.
A v*ry fat man, for the purpose of
quizzing his doctor, asked him to pre
scribe fora complaint, which he declared
was sleeping with his mouth open.
“‘Sir,’’ said the disease is
incurable. Your dp short, *-o
that wbf"t youol^|r* ame Tr:l3f purmouth
MULES AND WOMEN.
Some unknown party writes me its
follows:
“ Mr. M. quad pleas advise me in your
next column wHat to do with a kicking
mual—Shell i pound him or not.
“my wife is alLso trecherous as the
mual i believe her tongue is hung on the
middle and flies at both ends.
“ L. L. P.”
No, sir, don't pound your mule. I
know it is customary for owners of mules
to commence on the animal at sunrise
with a crowbar and pound him until
bedtime, but I have always found kind
ness more successful. Seek to gain the
friendship of your mule, and as soon as
* you succeed you can do anything with
him. When you go into the barn in the
morning, have a kind word for him, in
stead of knocking him down with the
neck-poke. Ask after the health of his
family—show him that you are interes
: ted in his welfare—be civil and yet dig
: nified. As soon as that mule finds out that
someone in this cold world loves him
he will be a different mule.
All mules kick, my dear sir, just as all
men love to hold a fat olliee, but there’s
a remedy for it. Get an old stove boiler,
fill it with bricks, and hang it by a rope
so that it will just swing against the ani
mal’s heels. Every time he kicks it will
; back, like the pendulum of a clock, and
the patience of the most enduring mule
will, in time, wear out. 1 tried this once,
and the mule kicked twenty-four days
: and nights before he surrendered, but now
you might run a steamboat on his heels,
and he wouldn’t raise a hoof.
Feed your mule well. 1 know of far
-1 mers who throw a keg of nails or an old
j sap-pan into the manger, and expect a
mule to grow fat on such forage, but it
embitters their feelings and makes ’em
more set in their ways. Of course I
don’t say that you must feed a mule on
fried eggs, currant jelly, raisin cake,
and the like of that, but don’t expect he
can feed on rails and feel enthusiastic all
the time.
About your wife. Don’t try to stop
her from talking unless yon want to kill
her. It’s natural for a } woman to talk,
sir. My first wife used to nearly kill
me, but I now remember with strict
grief how I deliberately planned her
death. I bet $lO that she couldn’t keep
right on talking for three weeks, and she
commenced. I had to go away from
home, but she was a woman that
wouldn’t lie, and I trusted to her honor.
I returned home at the end of three ;
weeks. There was no one around the
house, but on a chair where I left mv
* j
dear wife sitting, was a corset, a dress, a
dozen buttons and a back-comb—the last
sad relicts of my loving partner. She
had talked herself to death, and as I ;
began to weep the corset spoke up and
said :
“ Come down with that little ten dol
lars, if you please.” M. Quad.
Mon monism on the Wane.— Some
very interesting details of the situation
at Salt Lake City are given by a gentle
man who has just returned from a sum
mer’s sojourn in that locality. He de
| scribes the power of Brigham Young and
i Mo rmondom as on the wane, its great
: sources of opposition being the presence
j of Joseph Smith, who does not believe in
I polygamy or tithes, and the recent great
. accession to the Gentile population. This
year it is hoped that the law requiring
i each voter to fix his name to his ballot
will be repealed, and then it is eonfi
i dently predicted that enough of the Mor
mon vote can be secured to overthrow
Brigham’s power and make the Territory
respectable. The creation of Cam})
Douglas, a military post of the United
1 States, which commands the city, has
| done away with the terrorism which for
merly prevailed, and men are allowed
the libertv of their own consciences.
A Rampant Black. —Here is what a
negro speaker said in Thomas county: .
“The negro is better than tl*£ poor
white man now, and we mean to be put
equal with any white man. We mean
. to gel into the biggest hotels and the best
railroad cars, \\ itli the white men and
women ; we mean to Ji.v the late so that
‘ any blank man ran fake any white woman
for wife w/au he loves her and wants her;
we mean that the laws shall say there
shall he no saparateschools lor the white
and black men’s children, and it won't
be long before they will not know there
ever was any difference between white
and colored. It will make you mighty
sick at first, (refering to the few whites
present,! as ’mancipation made you
sick, but you’ll eome it mighty pretty
when you find that you 'can’t help your
selves.”
Measuring Corn. —The following is
a very short and accurate method of th-e
measurement of corn :
Multiply the length, width, and the
depth, in inches, together, and divide
tire product by 21b, cutting off two places
from the right hand ofthe product. The
result will show the quantity in barrels
and hundredth of a barrel of shelled
corn. Multiply the decimal by five for
the bushels, cutting off two places as be
fore ; and this last by four for ti e pecks.
Subscribe lor the (Oglethorpe Echo.
A < urion* liiri*s
There is a bird in New Guinea called
the megapodius, which, in the size of its
eggs and its manner of hatching them,
must be considered extraordinary It is
not larger than one of our ordinarv
fowls, but its eggs are three inches long
by two and a half in diameter. It does
not attempt to sit on them. A colony of
birds lay their eggs together in a large
mound, in the hottest part of the year,
from Sept, to March, and leave them to
be hatched by the sun. The mound is
made of sand, loose earth, and sticks and
leaves, which latter by their decay in
crease the heat. The mounds are won
derfully large, being 10 feet high and
about 00 feet in circumference at the
base. The young birds come out at a
hole in the top. The mother birds wait
on the trees around till their chicks are
hatched, and then each leads off her own
brood. How each knows its own is a
mystery. The eggs are much relished by
the natives, but not at all by Europeans.
A native of Cape York ventured oue day
into a nest for eggs, and while he was
exploring the hidden riches of the large
mound the upper part fell in and he was
smothered He was afterward found in
the very of digging—buried alive in a
bird’s nest.
Au Interesting Local.
A local editor in Pekin, 111., introduced
himself to the public a few days ago as
follows: “Sensational, distressing de
tails of revolting murders and shocking
suicides respectfully solicited. Bible
class presentations and ministerial dona
tion parties will be £ done,’ with prompt
ness and dispatch. Keuo banks and
their operations made a specialty. Ac
curate reports of Sunday-school anni
versaries guaranteed. The local will
cheerfully walk seventeen miles after
Sunday-school to see and report a prize
fight. Funerals and all other melan
choly occasions written up in a manner
to challenge admiration. Horse-races re
ported in the highest style of the repor
torial art. Domestic broils and conju
gal infelicities sought for with untiring
avidity. Police court proceedings and
sermons reported in a manner well cal
culated to astonish the prisoner, magis
trate, and preacher. Prompt-paying
subscribers and good advertisers, when
stricken with mortal illness, will be
cheerfully interviewed when lying at
death’s door with a view to obtaining
obituary items, and the greatest pleas
ure will be taken in exposing your pri
vate affairs to the critical gaze of an in
terested public.”
Strange. —'There are twin sisters in
South Bethlehem, Pa. They were mar
ried on the same day. Their names are
Mrs. Carroll and Airs. Ford. They are
peopling their section of the Keystone
State well with Carrolls und Fords, each
having given their country three pairs of
twins. •The first pair of cousins were
born the same month, the second the
same week, and the third, whose advent
has just taken place, the. same hour.
The sisters look alike and are becoming
more and more alike in their habits.
Their children all look alike, and when
they are turned loose together there is
some difficulty in distinguishing the
members of each flock; only the mothers
can separate them and pick out her own
with certainty. Carroll and Ford are
overwhelmed with astonishment at their
effect upon the census, and the families
arc objects of admiring curiosity to the
people of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania.
Another Substitute for Steam.—
An invention is now on exhibition in
Liverpool by which oil or glycerine is
made to perform the functions of steam,
by the same means —application of
heat —which expands the oil placed in
small cylinders, from which it is claimed
a pressure of 10,000 pounds per square
inch may be obtained without the dan
gers of steam explosion, which prevent
using a pressure of more than 200 pounds
to the square inch generally. In this
case an explosion would only crack the
cylinder containing the oil, it is claimed.
The application of this process has been
made to a printing press, and a punching
and riveting machiue, which are on ex
hibition.
A Snake Story. —One of the latest
is told by a man in Delaware. He was
attacked by one of these reptiles, some
time ago, in Sussex county, he says, and
in order to escape jumped behind a tree.
Thereupon the snake, in its rage, struck
at the tree, and in ?>0 minutes a dullness
in the leaves were perceptible. In an
other hour the leaves began to fall off,
and now nothing is left save a withered,
naked trunk.
Do It Himself— Here is another
sample of Chicago’s meanness: A young
man broke off his engagement with a
young lady because he observed her
scratching her back on the edge of a
door. If that young man had possessed
a spark of gallantry he would have kept
his engagement and offered, as Chester
field would have done, to do the scratch
ing himself.
An ardent lover, pouring out his pas
sionate devotion in verse, spoke of that
night when, “he kissed her under the
silent stars.” The [winter made him
say, lie “ kicked her under the cellar
stair-.”
VALUABLE RECIPES.
How to Manage a Fractious Horse.
A beautiful and high-spirited horse
would never allow a shoe to be put on
his feet or any person to handle his feet.
In an attempt to shoe such a horse re
cently he resisted all efforts, kicked
aside everything but an anvil, and came
near killing himself against that, and
finally was brought back to his stable
unshod. This defect was just on the eve
of consigning him to the plow, where he
might walk barefoot, when an officer in
our service, lately returned from Mexico,
took a cord about the size of a common
bedcord, put it into the mouth of the
horse like a bit. and tied it tightly on the
animal s head, passing his left ear under
the string, not painfully tight, but tight
enough to keep the ear down and the
e, o rd in place. This done, lie patted the
horse gently on the side of the head, and
commanded him to follow ; and instantly
the horse obeyed, perfectly subdued and
as gentle and obedient as a dog, suffering
his feet to be lifted with entire impunity,
and acting m all respects like ;ui old
stager. The gentleman who thus fur
nished this exceedingly simple means of
subduing a very dangerous propensity
intimated that it is practiced in Mexico,
and South America in the management
of wild horses.
Rheumatism.
I send you the receipt fbr two pre
scriptions. The first is invaluable. I
got it at Nashville, and it cured me of
rheumatism in 1851. Since that time it
has been extensively used fbr nervous
pains. I have no doubt I have given
two or three dozen receipts. My wife
used it extensively for neuralgia, and it
cured two ladies so quickly of sick
headache they got scared; thought per
haps it would do chem some serious in
jury : I oz. Oil Yoseniarv, 1 oz. Spts.
turpentine, 1 oz. spts. ammonia, 1 oz.
tincture cantharides, 1 c tt. alcohol.
Mix in a light glass stopper bottle, and
shake them up when used. Heat a
saucer on embers, poor a little in the
saucer, and rub it on the part affected,
with your hand, previously warmed by
the fire, so as to encourage absorption.
Get pure articles, a specific measure of
each; do not let druggists guess, as
usual. For rheumatism, neuralgia, pain
in the jaw, sick headache, (nervous) and
in fact for all nervous pains it is inval
uable. Try it, all you unfortunate
nervous pain sufferers. It stops sick
headache in twenty minutes; do not be
alarmed.
How to Keep and Cook Mackerel.
The following suggestions with regard
to keeping and preparing pickled mack
erel and other salt fish are condensed
from an article on the subject by Mr.
Isaac Hale, of Newburvport, Mass., who
has more than a merely local reputation
as a packer of and as an “expert” on all
matters thereto pertaining: To keep
nice, and prevent rusting, be sure that
they are kept under the pickle. If the
pickle should get below the fish, fill up
with more, made by putting salt in cold
water. The cellar, or some place in
which you have no fire and an even
temperature, is the best place to keep all
kinds of pickled fish.
For boiling, soak twenty-four hours;
for broiling or for baking, soak forty
eight hours. In the latter case, cream
or milk can be used for cooking them in.
To avoid the unpleasant rising up in the
throat after eating, which many persons
experience, skin the mackerel before
cooking, and a white pulpy substance
will lie found, which adheres to the skin,
and which causes this strong taste. —
Journal of Chemistry.
Cure for Consumption,
Anew cure for consumption lias been
discovered by a Russian physician, Dr.
Portuikoff, of Samara, on the Volga.
Having observed that consumption and
its cognate disorders are unknown among
the Tartar tribes, who habitually drink
koumis, a fermented mare’s milk, both
as a beverage and as a portion of their
daily food, it occurred to him that kou
mis might possess medical properties.
He accordingly started a koumis estab
lishment at Samara, and tried the mares’
milk with consumptive patients with
highly beneficial results.
Food for Chickens.
As the manure of the hen-house is the
best for onions, so onions chopped fine
and mixed with Indian meal are occa
sionally the best food for chickens. It
: should be given once or twice a week,
and wid prevent gaps, and all inflaina
tion of cue throat and eyes.
Remedy for Colic in Horses.
Take a ping of tobacco, shave off about
one or one and one-half inches into three
pints of water, put in about one quart, or
a common fire shovel full of ashes in the
water, let it stand about five minutes,
strain off the water, and then drench the
horse with it.
Remedy for Hog Cholera.
Bum your corn in the ear until it is
black on the ends >f the grains, then
feed to them as you would other corn.
The remedy should be used as the symp
toms make their appearance.
Pound Cake,
One lb. butter. 1 Ib. Hour, 1 doz. eggs.
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