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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. PROSPECTUS OF THE ECHO. , EVERY FAMILY IN I OGLETHORRE COUNTY SHOULD SUBSCRIBE FOK THE OGLETHORPE ECHO! ALREADY PRONOUNCED THE BE S T WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IS TIIE COrXTKY. 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It need no longer trouble you, for it is settled beyond all controversy that McMahan & Maly’s is the place. You will find there EVERY THING usually kept in a FIRST-CLASS RETAIL STORE! And you will MISS a good chance if you leave Crawford without visiting their store’. Articles are too numerous to mention, but rest assured that you will find WHATEVER YOU WANT | (if they have it.) They will be found in the House Foimerlf Occupied hy Martin & Cos. ft-ir- BE SURE A XI) (’ALU OX THEM BEFORE PURCHASIXG ELSEWHERE. oetb-tf AS NATURAL AS LIFE! The National Copying Cos. TV. T. IIANUK K. Agent. CRAWFORD, GA., 4 RE PREPARED TO ENLARGE ALT, i’Y kinds of PICTI RES—Photographs, Am brotypes, Fcreotvpes, Miniatures, etc., etc. We guarantee a true copy of the Picture sent us to enlarge, and a return of tlie same small picture. Our Pictures will be either FRAMED or not, Colored, and given a life-like expression not to he found in any Photograph. We also give \\ A TER and O'lL PICTURES, life size if desired. Prices Extremely Low. T. C" AGENTS wanted, tit whom a liberal commission will be allowed. Apply to W. T. HANCOCK, Agent, Crawford, Ga. P. S.- W ill also REPAIR all kinds of Jew elry, Watches, Clocks, etc. All work war ranted. I W. SIIOTIAS. ATTORNEY AT IJ. LAW, Athens, Ga. Office with Judge A. M. Jackson, Ordinary of Clark county. Strict attention given to all business entrusted. Collections and searching of records a specialty. JOB WORK EXECUTED WITH Neatness and Dispatch AT THE ECHO JOB OFFICE. The American Printer. A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY, CON TAINING complete instructions for be ginners, as well as practical directions for managing all departments of a Printing Office. With several useful Tables, Schemes for im posing Forms in every variety, Hints to Au thors and Publishers, Instructions in Proof reading, Extensive Tables of Abbreviations and of Foreign Phrases, etc. Bv Thomas McKej.lar. BAG pp. I2nm. Price, #1.50. 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We sell our TWO-HORSE. A\ AGONS at from to S*tl 'AH. and eve rything else LOW in proportion. octb-tf LUCKIE & YANCEY, DKAI.J.Ius IS AND CEI’AIKKKS OF Hatches, Jewelry, Etc. No. J* ISronri St., it hens, net!'—lV