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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30,1874.
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T. li. tiA.VIT, Editor mul Prop.
- MAKE UP WITH HEE.”
BY M. QUAD.
Wo 01l follows have all been there,
and we can remembof all about it. We
loved her—guess we did ! —and we knew
that she loved in return. But one day
she gave Sam Tompkins a smile, or she
lot Tom Watkins walk home with her
under an umbrella, or she did some oth
er simple thing, and we got huffy. We
loved her all the time, but we sat down
and wrote her a letter, dating it at mid
night,-saying that we wanted all those
letters and that ring and that photo
graph back. We hoped she wouldn’t re
turn ’em, but we felt a malicious pleas
ure in punishing her. The letter was
sent, or handed to her personally, and
wo met her with a cold “good morning,”
as she came to school, but bestowed our
best smile on Lavina Wedge, the home
liest girl in the town.
Our heart ached when we looked
across the desks and saw her slyly read
ing the letter and trying to keep back
tears ; but we went over to the third girl
behind to borrow a geography, and to
the second girl in front to borrow a
grammar, and we were entirely uncon
scious of the presence of the girl we
loved. We stood beside her in the class
as straight as a pole, never letting on
we saw her, and the mutual agreement
that if one missed the other should do
the same in order to keep together, was
broken. We tried to feel maliciously
glad when we went to the head and left
her near the foot, but we couldn’t do it.
It went on this way for three or four
days. Once in a while we caught her
looking at us with a sad, sweet smile, as
if she were some poor orphan with no
friend in the world ; and her note said
that she couldn’t part with the letters
and the keepsakes. We held out bravely
until it began to hurt us the most, and
then we got ready to “make up.” It
couldn’t be done suddenly, that would
be acknowledging our wrong, We wait
ed until noontime, and then as she eat
her dinner in her scat we began looking
for a lost book. We thought it was un
der the seat next to hers, and while we
were looking for it she spoke again.
Then we coldly replied, but sat down
near by and asked if “she had those let
ters with her.” She said no, and we
moved nearer. She said it wasn’t her
fault, and wc said it wasn’t ours, and
somehow our fingers toucheu.
No one knew what a burden of anxiety
was rolled away in five minutes, and how
much clearer the afternoon sun shone
for it. She seemed dearer than ever be
fore, and when the brown eyes cleared
the tears away, and the merry dimples
came back, we wondered how we could
have been such an unfeeling wretch;
and yet it was the same thing over in
less than six weeks.
Ah, 'me! Those lovers who have had a
smooth path, and married without hav
ing quarrels, and make-ups and jealous
ies will never know what true love is.
A Much Named Family. —There is
a family of thirteen children in Georgia,
and these are their names. Mr. J. F.
Cheney, of this place, vouches for the
truth of the same, as he “ taught some of
the young ideas how to shoot.” Catch
your breath and go to reading :
1. Mary Ann Elizabeth Rabun.
2. Cornelia Ann Miranda Jane Rabun.
3. Effic Ann Savannah Rabun.
4. Sarah Ann Mollisso Vandusan lan
thiee Rabun.
5. Drucilla Ann Frances Rena Rabun.
0. Lany Lucinda Eliza Willie Ann
Alice Rabun.
7. Roxa Ann Areliiba Margaret Ama
zon Rabun.
8. Mazie Gerucia Ann Silvira Rabun.
9. Annginctte Sefronia Martha Ann i
Erast us Rabun.
10. Eldora Matilda Louisa Ann Pil- 1
cher Raban.
11. (The only son) Pilcher Belcher
Wieher Brinson Franklin Lee Beaure
gard Jackson Swain Estes Rabun.
12. Ella Ann Sansil Virginia Theodo
sia Milanta Eugenia Gibson Rabun.
13. Lovie Ann Estellaville Caladonis
Desalonda Lucrecia Borgia Neal Rabun.
The Bible contains 3,586,489 letters .
773,692 words; 31,173 verses; 1,197
chapters, and 66 books. The word and
occurs 46,277 times. The word Lord oc
curs 1855 times. The word reverend oc
curs but once, which is in the 9tli verse
of the 111th Psalm. The middle verse
is the Bth verse of the 118th Psalm.
The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra
contains all the letters of the alphebet
except the letter j. The finest chapter
to read is the 26tli chapter of the Acts of
the Apostles. The 14th chapter of 2d
Kings and the 37tli chapter of Isaiah are
alike. The longest verse is the 9th
verse of the Esther. Shortest verse is
the 35th verse of the 11th chapter of
St. John. The Bth, 15th, 21st and
31st verses of the 105th Psalm are alike.
Each verse of tbe 136th Psalm ends
alike. There are no or names of
more than six t.
Take your 9
DEALING IN TIGERS.
Two dealers, Mr. Jamrach, in Loudon,
and Herr Hagenbeck, in Hamburg, have
almost a monopoly of the trade in wild
1 animals. The former recently gave some
of his experiences with tigers. He
says: “ When the young tigers are ac
customed to intercourse with men they
are always tame, but you must not go
near them at feeding time. My assistant
took a large tiger, two years old, to
London in a sailing vessel from Calcutta ;
he played with every one on board, and
was only shut up in his cage at night.
His friend was a dog, a rat-catcher, and
they were taken together in the same
cage to America. I have often tried to
bring up tigers with other animals, and
have succeeded best with the common
Indian jackal; I believe the scent of the
animal prevents the tiger from attacking
it. The tiger’s greatest enemies, next to
mau, are monkeys. It is interesting to
see the courage and dexterity of a mon
key when he cannot escape an encoun
ter. I once put a great baboon with a
nearly full-grown tiger. The baboon
leaped upon the tiger’s back and took
firm hold with his teeth. The tiger
could not shake him off, and it was with
great difficulty that we took the baboon
out of the cage. He seized the tiger by
the neck through the bars, and vented
his rage by biting them. I never made
the experiment again.
“ I had great difficulty in getting ti
gers between the years 1865 and 1867, as
the Indian jewelers would give five or
six rupees apiece for claws, which were
used for ornaments. The shikarees,
therefore found it better to shoot tigers
than to capture them. A good skin is
worth two or three times as much in In
dia as it is in Europe. You may get
from one hundred and twenty to one
hundred and fifty rupees for a hand
somely marked skin. There is now but
little demand for living tigers, so that the
shikarees devote themselves chiefly to
killing them. And, although hundreds
are killed every year, there is still an
immense number of them. It is almost
incredible how many human beings are
annually devoured by them. A tiger
generally only becomes a man-eater
when other food fails ; but when lie has
ouce taken to killing men he keeps at it.
I believe that all the tigers in Singapore
are man-eaters, for there is no other food
for them. It has been proven that one
Chinese woodcutter disappears on an
average every day. I have seen many
tigers from Singapore, old and young,
but there were none of them tame. At
Madras, on board a steamer, my assis
tant was frightened out of his berth one
night by a tiger having gnawed through
the roof of his cabin. This was one
from Singapore. Before the opening of
the Suez canal there was a great difficulty
about the transport of tigers. I once
had seven tigers on board a ship, and
twenty-two oxen for food, of which sev
enteen died in one week of a pestilence.
The tigers had to content themselves*
with two pounds of meat per day until
more could be procured at Cape Town.
There have been many cress-breeds
betweeu lions and tigers in English
menageries, but the cubs are never
reared.”
The Elections.— -The following is
the Democratic pyramid thus far in
1874 of the State elections, according to
their majorities :
OHIO
OREGON
GEORGIA
INDIAN A
MONT A N A
DELAW A II E
COLO R A D O
ARKA N S A S
KENT U C K Y
TEN N E S S E E
CONNECTICUT
W E S T VIRGINIA
NEW H A M P S H I R E
NORTH CAROLINA
The following is the Republican pyr
amid :
IOWA
OMAHA
MAI N E
VERM O NT
RHODE ISLAND
GusAlng. —An lowa editor who at
tended a party, was smitten with the
charms of a fair damsel who wore a rose
on he forward, and thus gushed about it:
Above her nose
There is a rose:
Below that rose
There is a nose.
Rose, nose,
Nose, rose,
Sweet rose,
Dear nose.
Whereupon a rival editor thus apos
trophises the lowa chap :
Above the stool
There is a fool;
Below the fool
There is a stool.
Stool, fool,
Fool, stool,
Olcl stool,
Pamphool!
Lip Salve.
Equal quantities of mutton suet and
glycerine melted together; add a few
drops of camphor, or perfume with ottar
of rose.
VALUABLE RECIPES.
Diptheria.
We hear that this dreadful disease is
prevailing to a large extent in upper
Georgia, and to those who have seen the
terrible sufferings of the victims who
have been afflicted with it any remedy
will seem a boon; but we offer one that
comes from a high authority and is the
result of extended experience. We
have been handed the receipt by a gen
tleman who received it direct from the
field of its testing, and whose character
places the experiment beyond any doubt.
It is called the “sulphuric acid cure for
diptheria.”
For a grown person, four drops of
sulphuric acid diluted in three-quarters
of a tumbler of water; with a smaller
dose for children. The effect is said to
be instantaneous ; the acid at once de
stroying the parasites, and the patient
coughing up the obstructions. The
disease is declared by Mr. Greathead,
of Hamilton, South Australia, to be of
hydated growth, and that the germs of
it floating about in the atmosphere are
inhaled by human beings.
I would suppose if the action was as
asserted, that a smaller amount applied
with a swab to the affected parts
would have a better effect and be free
from its effect on the general system.
I would fear taking four drops diluted
only by three-quarters of a tumbler of
water would have perhaps a very
serious effect on the system. It is
possible that a certain amount should be
swallowed to produce its effect through
out the mucous membrane, all of which
would be best known to a physician.
Recipe to Make Good Bacon.
Have well fatted pork, and after one
night to cool, smoothly cut, and liams
rounded, use for each hundred pounds of
hams about Bto 10 pounds salt, 2 pounds
brown sugar, 2ounces salt-petre, (nitrate
of potash,) and 1 ounce red pepper.
These ingredients well dissolved and in 4
or 5 gallons of water to each 100 pounds,
or just enough water to cover the meat
when placed in a hogshead closely. If
there is room, shoulders and middlings
could all be put in brine to advantage.
The brine should be strong enough to
bear an egg, floating it high in the water.
After five or six weeks take out of brine,
hangup by the skin at the end of the leg
below the knee, and the bones connecting
the hams cut oft smoothly. Early in
March, or before any balmy days start
flics in a warm house, taken down and
envelope each in a newspaper and place
in a rough bag, only deep and wide
enough to go in, hock downwards.
Remedy for Burns.
According to the Boston Journal of
Chemistry, the white of an egg has pro
ved of late the most efficacious remedy for
burns. Seven or eight successive appli
cations of this substance stfdthe the pain
and effectually exclude the burn from the
air. This simple remedy seems prefer
able to collodion, or even cotton. Ex
traordinary stories are told of the healing
properties of anew oil which is easily
made from the yolks of hens’ eggs. The
eggs are first boiled hard, the yolks are
then removed, crushed, and placed over
a fire, where they are carefully stirred
until the whole substance is just on the
point of catching fire, when the oil sep
arates and may be poured off. It is in
general use among the colonists of
Southern Russia as a means of curing
cuts, bruises, and scratches.
Antidote for Poison by Oak, Ivy, Etc.,
is to take a handful of quick-lime, dis
solve it in water, let it stand half an hour,
then paint the poisoned parts with it.
Three or four applications will never
fail to cure the most aggravated ease.
Poison from bees, hornets, spider bites,
etc., is instantly arrested by the appli
cation of equal parts of common salt and
bi-carbonate of soda, well rubbed in on
the place bitten or stung.
Rice Pudding.
Four eggs and 4 spoonsful of sugar
beaten together. Let a quart of fresh
milk come to a boil, and pour on the
eggs and sugar, stirring rapidly. Add a
cup of boiled rice and bake. Eat with
cream sauce.
Stained Table Linen.
Table linen which has been repeatedly
stained with tea and codec finally be
comes dingy, and can be made white
and clean again by wetting and laying
on the grass in the sun a day or so.
Lice on Cattle.
The simplest and best of the many
remedies for killing lice on cattle is to
wash the cattle two or three times with
mackerel brine, and every louse will
leave and no harm be done.
Ginger Snaps.
One cup of syrup and one of sugar,
halt pound of butter and three esrgs ;
table spoonful of pounded cloves and
half nutmeg, enough flour to form a
dough. Roll thin and bake crisp.
To Kill Nut Grass.
Cultivate the land in cotton and put
geese on as soon as the grass comes up.
Do this for 2 years, and you will have no
nut grass.
Thousands of poor men are spending
as much for newspapers as would buv
them a good drink of whiskey every dav
Administrator's Sale.
QTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
O COUNTY. By virtue of an order from
the Court of Ordinary of said county, will be
sold, before the Court House door in the town
of Lexington, in said countv, on the FIRST
TUESDAY IN DECEMBER next, 1874, the
following described LANDS, belonging to the
estate of John Sims, late of said county, de
ceased, to-wit:
Tract No. 1 contains Seven Hundred and
Ninety-one (791) Acres, more or less —one
acre reserved, enclosing grave yard. This
tract lies on the waters of ‘ Beaverdam
creek, adjoining lands of William Fleeman.
and other tracts belonging to said estate, and
is known as the Home Place, and is in every
respect a well improved place. The improve
ments consists of a commodious dwelling and
all necessary outbuildings, all of which are in
thorough repair.
Tract No. 2 contains Three Hundred and
Sixty-two (362) Acres, more or less, lying in
Madison county, known as the Old Widow
Spratling Dower, adjoining the lands of Math
ews, Widow Eberliart, estate of James Mar
tin, and the lands of the estate of John Sims.
Tract No. 3 contains Four Hundred and
Thirty-one (431) Acres, more or less, adjoin
ing the lands of the estate on the east and
west, north by Epps, and south by Fleeman.
Said piece contains some twenty-five or thirty
acres of Fresh Lands, some fifteen or twenty
acres of Bottom Lands, in a state of cultiva
tion, and someone hundred and fifty or some
one hundred and seventy-five in tlie woods ;
also a Tennants’ House.
Tract No. 4 contains One Hundred and
Eighty-six (186) Acres, more or less, and lies
on the waters ot the home fork of Beaverdam
creek, and is bounded on all sides by other
tracts belonging to said estate. On this tract
is a dwelling and all necessary out-buildiugs.
Tract No. 5 contains One Hundred and
Forty-seven (147) Acres, more or less, and
adjoins lands of Fleeman, Eberliart, and
other lands of said estate. On this tract is an
excellent mill seat.
Tract No. 6 contains Ninety-one (91) Acres,
more or less, and adjoins lands of David Bar
nett and other tracts belonging to said estate.
Tract No. 7 contains One Hundred and
Twenty and One-half v 1201) Acres, more or
less, and adjoins lands of M. Edwards, J. Bol
ton, and others.
—ALSO—
Lot No. 240, 17th District, Ist section, in
Union county, in said State, containing One
Hundred and Sixty (160) Acres, more or less.
All of the lands lying on the waters of
Beaverdam creek.
All sold as the property of John Sims, de
ceased, for the purpose of distribution.
Terms—One-half cash, the balance in
twelve, months. Bonds given for titles. Plats
of the above lands may be seen at the office of
the Ordinary of Oglethorpe county, at Lex
ington. ‘ G. R. & C. \V. SIMS,
Administrators of John Sims, deceased.
oct23-td
BY VIRTUE OF POWER OF ATTOR
NEY from the administratrix of Isham
J. Sims, will be sold before the Court Hottse
door in Lexington, in Oglethorpe countv, on
the FIRST TUESDAY IN DECEMBER
next, Twenty-seven (27) Shares of Capital
Stock in the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company. Terms cash. No legatees to bid,
nor agents for them.
ASSCILLA M. SIMS, Admin’x.
G. R. SIMS, Agent.
A CARD.
HAVING DETERMINED TO LOCATE
permanently in Augusta, 1 have this dav
retired from the PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
in Oglethorpe county. I embrace this occa
sion to return my warmest acknowledgments
to my friends for the liberal support and gen
erous confidence extended to me for many
years, and recommend my successor,
DR. W. M. WILLINGHAM,
to their confidence and support. Dr. WIL
LINGHAM is a gentleman of ability, fresh
from a thorough training in the best Medical
Schools of America.
W. H. FOSTER, M. D.
October 19, 1874. oct23-lt
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