Tnii; ORi’H Ans’ . i-'uies i).
WelHCsdiB.y, Jmbic Oh,
Our Living AND Oi:it I^kAd.—
The June intiubei’ is received. It
is equal to the preceding’ num
bers, and Superior to a majority
of tlie magazines of the day. Ly
Nortli Carolinians it ought to be
np[)reciated and well patronized.
AVo presume many of tlie serials
of the Atagazine will be publisli-
od ill book form—^they ought to
amUnado.it fast with a belt. Thorc be, especially the hislorieal pa-
\\ni nr> viirioty iu liia stylo, nor cliaii.i^e in liis *' ^
ST. JOHN TJHE BApTlsl'i.
Hasons usunlly colobratetbo Twcnty-fourlli
bf Juno ill lidiior uf that pocnliar jiroachor
\vIk> “baino neitlicr eating nov drinking.” lie
avoided great dinings atul ]>h'asaut ('vening
parties. Ke wore a coat of caniel-liair cloth
eubjeets of discussion. Ilia constant tlieino
was, TCjicnt of. your sins and forsake your
icicked ways: he (]Oodan(l do yood. His life
of holy consecration made the people hear
liiin gladly, and they wore r‘ady to Sfoitd any
who denUI ills title to the honors of a jirojih-
c-t. Yt!l litt lost his liberty and liis life f.tr his
bold rebuke.s of royal sinners. His nnseltish
devotion to his work, his fearless denuneinUon
of wrong, his blameless life, iiis cnu'l and un-
i'lierlted death, all combine tt> make it meet
that on -one day in tlio year his name ami ex-
hiiiple should be mentioned with the honor
due to his memory. And the Twenty-fourtli
bf June should he to all good [)eoplo ami to
all religious and benevolent societie.s a day of
li'ieral ofl'erings to those who suffer and are in
v/aiil. .Let not the ]ioor ami promising or-
piiaus be forgotten on that day. And iu or
der that the jieople may kuoAv in»re of wliat
has been don‘, and of wliat still remains for
them to do, wo ask the friends of the orphan
AVork to send, at least, one thousand snbscri-
,bcrs to the Orphans’ FutENn, on or before
the Twenty fourth of June; Alive weekly
pajier, full of instruction and entertainment for
the ehiidren Is sHfely wortli one dollar a year
to every'family in our land.
OU5£ ITiOUKTABNs.
A fcAv weeks ago, tliC vidf- down the ico-
b.ound iSwamianoa was made moih gloomy liy
the apparently lifeless forests which covered
tlie foOKy sides of tlie ma.ssive niountains.
Now the waters are fre(“, and the swift and
ahiiiing Swamianoa darts dowh the flowery
Valley and displays a soft silver shoeii as it
leaps ■ gracefully • over it^ fails and into its
jioid.H, find then seem to liUtty away to batln
in the beautiful, bosom of the solemn ami
grand French Broail. The mountain.^ too
arc clmngcd. Tlie trees are waving with tlie
ficjid?t and every old unsightly ftht-tib
IS loaded witli'ffag’iknt tlowers. Thh Tfoiiey*
suckle, the ivy, the myrtle, and many others
•iviiicli n low-hu'iUcr never saw iK'fore, ado>'n
hver'y iandscKpc until beauty and bftrch'h' Ovb-.
ry breere witli the most delicious odors. Aaid
. Ifien, at night, tlio lightning-bugs illuminate
flic troe-top.K till you imagine that a liundri-d
(■ngiiies are tiiroAviag up sparks, before you.
Ih-autifiil beyond de.scriptioii by day, and sub
limely grand .at night. Go and .sec them;
ST. JOHN’S 5>AY.
1
^h'le 2lth nist. tc dtTebraftd at tlieOr--
phait Asylum by Tuscarora' Lodge, ami the
/ither'LmlgC's of the county, with ail alhliat‘d
Masons, invited to parthdpate. There will be
a procession, one or tAvo orations, and music
by the children of the Asylum. The ciinncr
will be ^tiv-n in a ‘'pic-nicken sense”—that is,
every body Avill be expected to bring a biusket,
and take it as they do in the country at pro-
fracted meetings.
Tlie cemmittop appointed by Tuscarora
Lodge has not yet made out the })rngiauimo
* fully. It will be.publislied in duo time.
Grand Master lllmiot, of Wilson, and Dr.
Grissom, of Kaleigh, have agreed to do the
sjieakiug on the oeCaslol!« Dr. Gflssom will
probably deliv'ef his lecture ofi Out llffrstrious
Insan'C'--'^ fftbi'ary treat worth ^bhig many
inifes tt^hesf.-
A fime is bspe’rted; let every body
comd atfd enjoy ft.-
body f
/:
Lost ani» Founi>.—The right of property
in articles found astray, suggests the Noav
York Jovrnal of Commerce, is one that needs
a belter definition than that M'hich seems to
bo ( oinniouly accepted. It is not tlie thief
alone avIio asserts this title. A pickpocket
Avho is not taken in the act will always ex
cuse his possession of the stolen pfoporty by
the stale plea that he found it-.- JLitmauy
very respectable peoplb' a'ccpiire the liesbts of
another by ineang'atnAist as^qtiestibnhbibj-and
retain* tbb' ab'quikftioii without a blush of
shanib;- The finder of a purse or'other'valua-
lilo iiirtlre street will often ehrtcli k ivs eagerly
aS if it were really his by right of oidginal dis
covery, and Avill take no pahis whatever to
trace the OAViier. Tliis is little befteUtliaii ab-
i^ilute theft; and yet the retention of such as*
trays* is so* common that to'have Tomid’ an
miele'of wiluo and to have earned its eqniva-
M'etit-by honest enterprise or labor arc consid-
^-ed-by inany'as'uiqhally honorable, entitling-
the holder'to'an'uiRlisturb(Hl‘eiij.oyintiit of the'
iknefit. Tile' proper' course is' alir.iys- to'
p.^mptly advertise such £i.-v’.iugs. -
pers.
A Hardy In.si-x'I'.—The com
mon bod-bug (^Cimex) i« not only
a tronblesomo insect, but lie has
some very queer characteristics.
Goeze kept one six years without
food, at the end of which ho Avas
not only alive, but as lively as if
he had feasted on a hotel lodger
the ])revious night. He will stand
a temperature of li^’e degrees be
low zero and “live and do wol].”
The female deposits two hundred
and fifty eggs at a time, (weliojic
she don’t “deposit” often) whidi
take three weeks to hatch. They
have better noses for smelling out
theii* prey than a fox hound, and
will travel all round a bed room
after tbeii’ victim wlio may try to
get away from them.
iVlASONiu.—There are in ^Hortli
Carolina, two hundred and twen
ty-nine active saliordiiiate lodges
working Under tlio jurisdiction of
the Masonic Grand Lodge of the
State, containing a meniliondiip
of twelve tliousitiid', two hundred
and sixteen. Master ilasons. In
the United,States there arc eight
thou.sand, .si^ hundred and fifty-
four lodges, with a membership of
five hundred and forty-throe
thousand, fOiir hundi’od and sev
enty-four. And these ifil speak
one language.
Arab Boys.
Ti-arelers are . so intent upon
des;ribini>' t!ie men ami women,
tlie-hills and rivers, the moun
tains and plains, and so forth,
that they very seldom condeseem!
to tell us about the boys and
,^irls of the straiit^c lands they
visit. Here, liowever, is a sketch
from the portfolio of one recent
wanderer to the Levant, whicli
will interest and amuse the rea
der f
It is very curious to go to the
Syrian schovl-h.ouses and see the
piles of shoes at'the door. There
are now bright-red slides, and
old tattered shoes, and kob-kobs
and black shoes, and sometimes
3’ellow slices. Tiie kob-kobs are
wooden clogs, made to I'aiits- the
feet out of the initd and water,
having a little strap over the toe
to keep it on the foot.
Yoft will often see little bo}'S
and girls ruuuing dow'U steps and
paved streets on these dangerous
kob-kobs. Sometimes they slip,
and then down they go on tlieir
noses, and the kob-kobs fly otf
iiud go rattling over tlie stones,
and little AH or Yuse, or what
ever his name is, begins to shout
“Ya Imme ! Yalmine !” (“0, m\'
mother !”) and cries just as little
children in other countries.
Hu-t the'.fauKiest part is to see
the boys wdien they come out of
school and try to find their shoes.
There w-ill be fifty boys, and of
course a lAuudred shoes all mixed
together in one pilo. AYlien
school is out the boys, make a
rusli for the door. Then comes
the Wtg of war. A dozen b'0)-s
are standing and slmflling on the
pile of shoes, lookiia-g down and
kicking away the other shoes,
ninniiig their toes into tlieir own,
stumbling over the kob-kobs, and
then making a dash to got out of
the oroiyd.- kknnotimes shines-
will- be k-iclvou and- hair puHedj-
niuf tafiriobskos tlirov-n 'jS, and a-
gre'at Bcreaniiug fiilloiv Ivhifch \vifl
only cease -n-lien the tba'eher
omiies with “Asa;” pr a stick; and
quells the rict; That pile df
Slices will have to aus-wer for a
good mail)" scliool-boy fig-lits, and
brnised noses, a-iid hard feelings
iu Byria.
You will wonder ho\y they can
tell their own slices. So do I.
And the boys often wear ofl’ each
otlier’s shoes hy mistake or on
purpose, and theii )'0U will see
Selim ninuing witli one shoe on
and one of Ibrahim’s iu his liand,
shouting and cursing Ibrahim’s
father and grandfather until he
gets his lost property.
Clfli-es tor Fats.
Foy a Fit of Fas.non,—AYalk out
in the open air; you may speak
your mind to the wlitds- evithout
hurting any one, or proclaiming
Tourself a simpleton. -
For a Fit of Idleness.—Count
the ticking of a clock ; do this for
one hour; and you will ho glad
to jnill of your coat the next and
work like a herd;
For a Fit of Fxtram/jance and
Fo’hj.—Goto the worklionse or
speak with the inmates of a jail,
and yon will bo convinced—
^Vlio rtiRkos his b(!(i ofhrier liiul thonq
Must bo ciiitont ti lie forlorn.
For a Fit of Ambition.—Go in
to a church-yard and read the
gravestones; they will tell )'ou
the end of ambition. Tlie grave
will soon bo your bedebamber,
the earth your pillow-, corruption
yom- father, and the worm j^our
motJier and sister.
For a Fit of despondency.-—Look
on the good things which God
has gi\ en you in tliis w-orld, and
to tliose which he has promised
His foliowere in tiio - next, He
who goes into liis garde.i to look
for cobwebs and spiders, will no
doubt find them ;■ while he wild
looks for a flower may I'etiini in
to his house -with one blooming in
his bosom.
For all Fits of Doubt, Perplexity
and Fear.—AVbetlie-r they resiiect
tlie body or the mind ; whetlier
tley are a load to the shouh!er.s,
the head, or the heart, the follow
ing is a radicakcure which may
be relied on, for I had it from
the Great I’lnotici.-ni: ‘Cast thy
Imrden on the Lord and He will
sustain flie’e.’
For a Fit of Itephnng:—ho6k
about for the halt and the blind;
and visit the bedridden, and the
afflicted and deranged ; and they
will make you asliamed of com
plaining'' in your lighter afflic
tions.
COXTKIllUTIOXS 'i/I fllH
■ AsyiniM Fnojr,jL';\E itt- tujuxe
8fll JXCLUSIVE.
IN CASH.
Fiild ^2.5.00; DK Elv^btih (Irissom.
8:25; Clmw'rt iit. Ubllciri.-itd ili-
etitiito, tlirotigli J. A; Ib-aso.
‘‘ • 5:00 c.-ich, Rev. L. K. A Frloiul.
'4'.5(l, Oi’pliiUia’ Fricml.
" 25 fonts t'aoli, KobodcH E. Jaiuos, John
Jl. Jtuiibs, Annie E. Jnmes, Lot.-
RiirJ i’; jjuiK's, Frank 8. Jauios.
IN KIND.
T. D: CrnAvford & Co;, 1 box caiullos.
A. Lhhtliij, Ji’i, lot gii'Ii*’ luits, let of beans.
Mrs. A. Landis, 8r., I bbl. tioul’.
laaHb N. Dajq coiibterpanb, 1 pair slides, sohj I
Kulcrt Sl.iilglilbTi Hiliho.
The folloM’ing pcrsdiiS lid^b jihiil Lr The
Oui’iiANis' Friend for ouo year froin tliis
(late :
Ed W Eaton, Miss Mattie M:iyo, 11 "Wilson,
A II A 'Williams.
For six nioiiths, Mrs Mary Ann Parish.
A KeisiinlsccMcc.
A native Scotclmian in North
Carolina, who has a large plan
tation and “turpentine orchard,”
recently invited to liis house a
iiiissioary of the American Bun-
da)" Scliool Union, and in conver
sation gave him this fact: “Forty
years ago,” said he, “I helped- to
saw the lumber for a meeting
house near Raft H-svamp, iu Robe
son county. In that house the
Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, then a
miss'oeary of tlie American Sun
day School Union, organized a
Union Sunday scliool; and about
the same time a Presb)’terian
Church was organized called An
tioch, under the Rev. Hector Mc
Lean. The Sunday School has
been kept up ever since, even du
ring tlie ivar ; and the cliurch still
enjoys the regular semi-monthly
services of its first and only pas
tor ; and such a moral influence
lias becn-exerted all over that
neighborhood of Scotch fai-mers,
that a wicked or mean man can
not be found there nor probably
a lock on one corn-orib or smoke
house. There is no use there for
locks or law-suits.”—lix.
‘,Waiite4!, :i Boy to Attend Bar.”
The paper dropped from my
hand as I read this advertise
ment. It seemed as though I
read, “Wanted,, a bqy^ to go to
perdition.’* .
I fanoicA I sa-iv a bright, earn
est boy going to a bal'-i-bom, seek
ing a living by tliat fearful trade
of selling wine and ruin,- I eovfld
imagine how, one by one, all the
good impulses he liad in the be
ginning, fell before the evil infln-
enee of the dram-shop ; hotv he
learned to drink, to sivear, and
to steal; liow bad eoimipanioiis
came round him and- helped him
on to ruin.-
And, my lad,* or' tyhoover you
are, -vvlio- nia)" be tenqited by
such a call, let mo tell you that
you had better work in the field
or at the forge, or digging ditches
—^aiiything lionest—than to de
grade yourself by selling death to'
others. No matter how" hard you
ivork, no matter if it soils- your
hands or clothes,- as long- as it
leaves- voUf koart pure.—-'Foil.'?//
CbAtlan..
—Tlio following is from tlio
pen of Quarles, an old Englisli
poet, -whoso works are about to
be rejiublished :
Our life is but a gloomy tvinters’
day I
Some only breakfast and then
haste away !
Others to dinner stay, and are
full fed:
The oldest man but sups and
goes to bed 1
Large is the debt who lingers
through tlie da)";
Who goes the soonest has the
least to- pay !
To Itlalrc a Ctoocl Servant.
Let the mistress of tlie' house
take two poiin'ds' of the very best
self control,' a pound and a- half
of patience, a pound and a half of
justice, a jioiuid of consideration,
and a pound of discipline. Lot
this be S-tveeetened with charity,
let it simmer rvell, and let ft be
taken in daily or (in extreme ca
ses) in hour!)" closes—and be kept
ahvays on hand. .Then the clo-
mestio , -wheels tvill run quite
smoothly.—IFoniew’s Journal.
A little Chinese girl about
eight years old, • and horn in Cal
ifornia, has been admitted to one
of the primary schools of tlie eity
of Sacramento. Application for
her admission was made in the
usual way to the superintendent
of public schools ; but he referred
the-matter to the hoard of educa---
t-ion. This is the first fime that
a Chines parent has made aj-spli-
cation for. the admission of a child
to-the-public seboOls ;*but the ex
ample cvil-l- doubtless be folloiv-
ed;
TSae Fii-c T(*;»t 01.1 WacK Bililt.
Iniemperancc—X'lAi is tllfe' fii'8
that olil Nick built; , ,
Modemte Jhinldtiij—'VXJi fliS
fuel, that feSd.s the fife that bid
Nick biiilb
Itum Selling—^This iS the ax
tliat cuts the w ood that fdedil thd
tiro that old Nick built,
Love of jlfoKcv/—This is thd
.stone that grinds the ax that b.itfS
the wood that feeds the li’d that
old .Nick built; . , , ,
I’lib/k OpiiiioK—Tlii^ i§ tlifl
slodgb -trilli its facB Bf steel thfi-t
batters the stone that grinds Hie’
ax that cuts tjip .wood, thtif fefeilii
the fife that old Nick .built: , ,
yl Temperance. Meeting—¥\iii iij
one of the hlow,s, that eye quietlY
(leal to fa.shjoii the sleflgb with its!
edge of steel that batters tlio stohd
that grinds the iix tliat fcuts, thd
wood that feeds the fire thal bid
Nick built.
Tsmperdne'e This is thd
smiili that works with a-ivill fd
give force to the blb-iv that Wd
quietly deal to fashion the sledgd
with its face of steel that batters
the stone that grinds the ax that
cuts the y Bod that fecids the flrb'
that old Nick built: . .
Eternal Truth—This is the Sj-jirif
so geiitlo and Stiij that Hef-yes the
smith to wof-k w ith a -lyill to give
force to tlie blow that we quietly,
(leal to fashion the sledge with its"
face of steel that batters the stone
that grinds tlm ax that Bitts tl.d
wood .that feeds the fire that bid
Nick boilti . _( ;
.Blai-tS lo 'TraiKt
Ladies take tq., Ifabits of po’lijd
society by a Kind of intiiitioii,
but they often hate "a.hiifd titsfc
in training brothers and husbaiidsi
to observe them. The. I.letfBif
Free Prcis gives,-an illustfatioii;
Amoflg the cro,wdV',are-a,nd-the
hotel dinner-fable lat(-ly, 'fyer'jiV
husb-ind and a.-(vife.ffo-.n’.Wiscp'irt
sin, going East on the 'night Iraih;
Sh(? -was much .the younger, aiid
fasltkVnahie -(vifh-al,- v,-hile he ivas*
like an pid bear. As they saf
down, she ivas lieard to whisper,
‘Remomb.or notv to eat -ivitll yb’ar'
lie' started off all fight; bitf*
pfett); f'oon she caught hiqi feed'
mg his mouth -with bis knife,'.aAd
she nudged him and -whispered)
you have forgotten;' use ytiiii’
fork.’
He com-me-nced again ; bfft , i#
■wasn’t two minutes before ^he hAd
to prompt him once more. Hef
made still anotli^r stayt dnd am
other failure, and, as she whispef-
ed to him,- he thre-w down kn-rfe’
and fork, and growled,— , ,
‘Now, site here, Mary,’ it’s'
twelve shillings whether -vye' Bat
or g'O hungry, and I’m going 'to'
©a|; six shillings evorth if.I losA a"
wliole sot of case-knives.dd'-fi'u foy
throat!’ She had nBtfimg thore’
to' sa)".
Tlse EngSssU Liiiiguag:©;
Iforcig-ners find tliB' E'figlSlf
lan'gnag'B hard fo master.- lit#
mystbriBs of spelling and pronun’-''
eiation baffle them.' The fplXfoV-:
ing good story iS toM- of
taire: . ,, .
'While leavning" tHB' English
language'' (fvhich hB'Aid ifoti lo-ve),-
finclfng that t'lfo w‘6i‘d' plague,
with sis letters, -was ilfo.nosyliable,
and afiie, with only the' last fqi-r'
letters oi plague, dys'Syl’lahic, he
expressed a wish tlisiGlie plague
might take oirefflklf of the En
glish language, and the ague the'
other.- ■ ..
lYfiting'-on the subject of 2iul-
jjit Blocution,’ Mr. Spurgeon sa.)"S
—“IS natural is the best note -for'
a preacher, hut this we cauniot exj..
’pcct from A. elat.”