> Cii'ou'in^ OUl.
BY NIXON 1*. CLINOMAN.
Twice thirty yc'ars tli“ir sluulows weave,
My inotlier, r(miul tliy hrovv,
And iu the frlonniing of life’s eve
Thy foot, e b tre t c now ;
And tlma tlie waning cycles wheel
Their meteor Hishts away,
Till Hge doth ou the jtilgnin steal,
As iiight-tinie doth the day.
And yet the rosy si'Hsotis seem
I5nt brief, whose sands are told,
Since nt thy knee I knelt to dream
That thou could’st not grow tdd;
Hut ah ! like iris tints that hraiti
There streaks ou suimner's sky,
Our wreaths (if ha{»e are only lain
On shrines we love, to die.
Tho’ still thy tones from those dead days,
Hike hyiniia that blend ndth j»rayor.
Are whispered in iny heart always
And strike their peaiis there;
And oft again I wander hack
Far in the realms of yore,
To gaze thro’ tear.s u])(ui that track
Thy feet aiiali jiress no inoiv*.
Golfliboro, N. C., May 22, lS7o.
The Pea Plant aind Wlint it Did.
Once upon a time there lived a
little boy in one of the totvns of
Germany. I do not know his
name; but tliat does not matter,
as it is not about him that my
story is to be told. All I have to
say about him is that he had a
pop'^in. One day lie went and
{fathered a pod ef peas , then he
opened it, and inside were live
jieas, ranged side by side as pe«"\s
are found.
‘Now for my pop-gun/ said the
boy ; ‘here goes, follow who can
and one after another off went all
the peas. What became of tlie
etlier four is of no consequence to
IIS; but tlie fifth pea was shot up
Idgh in the air, and then it came
down and lodged in a little criv-
ice filled up with moss, just under
the great window. There it lay,
embedded in that green moss. G od
knew where tho tiny seed la}',
»nd he had a special work for it to
do.
If you coTiltl have looked inside
tliat gaiTet window you would
liave seen a small huni'blo room;
very comfortless you would have
thought it, with its sloping roof
and bare floor ; but it was very
clean and tidy for all that. A
widow woman lived there, who
earned her living by ciitting up
wood for ovens ; but she was ve
ry poor, and had to work hard,
going out at early dawn and not
coining back till evening.
All day long, Avhilo slie was
away, her one child, Gretehen,
hiy sick iqTon her little bed. Site
had had a little sister once, but
slie had died about a year ago,
and over since that Gretclien had
been losing her appetite and her
strength, till at last she had
grown so weak she could not rise
friun her hod. Her poor motlicr
began to fear she would be loft
altogether childless. She did not
know tliuit pent up in that small
close i*oom, her child was pining
for fire.‘>h air and sunshine, ami
&he would say, ‘Ah ! she is going
to her sister in lieaveu ; vshe can
not ho Inqipy apart, and vso God
will take her too; but 1 would
like to keep her with me if I
might/
Yet still the little girl lived on.
I do not kuow what she tUoiii>‘ht
about all those long hours wliilo
her mother was. away k whether
s-he thought of tlie-blue sky and
the greciii fields wliere merry
cihldren were pl-^yiaig,, or wlxeth-
cv she had ever been, to Bvuulay
school, and could say h}'mns and
texts to herself to beguile the
time ; but 1 think the-y nuistj have
been liapjiy thought»>, or she
wouhl not have lain there s.) qui
etly and peaci'tull}'.. iShe looked
sucli a pale, })atieut little croatiiro,
you would iiave loved her if you
had seen her.
One line sjiring morning, when
tier mother, as usual, was stirring
early, and the sunsliiuo was get
ting as much of itstdf as it could
through tho narrow window,
Gretclien turned her head weaii-
ly tovards it, and as she did so
something caiiglit her eye. ‘Moth
er,’ she said, T see something
green peeping in at tlie window.
Look ! it moves in tho wind; what
is it ?’
Her mother wont to the win
dow and opened it. ‘Sure enough,
it is something green,’ she said.
‘Why, it is a little pea plant,
springing out of a crack iu the
window ledge where there is a
bit of soft earth. How could it
have got there ?’
We know how it was so we
are not so surpiiseil as they were.
‘Here is a tiny garden for }'ou
to tend, ni}' child,’ she continued ;
and then she drew the sick
daughter’s bed close under the
window, where slie might see the
jdant; and away she went to her
daily work.
‘Mother,’ said Gretclien, in the
evening, ‘do yon know 1 feel bet
ter ? 1 have been watching the
little plant all day enjoying the
sunshine-, and I think 1 shall get
well and be able to lie in the sun
shine too.’
‘God grant it, my cliild,’ said
the mother; and she tlianked God
in lier lieart lor sending tlie plant
to put such a'hopo in her child’s
heart; but she did not hope her
self. Yet, she put a little stick to
support tho plant, and she tied a
piece of thread across the window
for its temhi's to twine round;
and this was for Gretclien’s sak(-.
Gretclien day after day lay at
tlie window, eagerly watching the
plant as it grew and thrived in
tlie balmy air, till by degrees the
anxious mother could not but see
the child was stronger ; yes, she
was certainly strongei*. Oh how
anxiously she watched lest the im
provement should not continue,
‘Well, who would liave thought
it f she cried one morning, when
s^lie went as usual to look at the
seedling ; ‘there is a blossom upon
it. It will soon be a flower;’
and Gretclien clapped her little
hands with deliglit. A week af
ter this slie sat np for the first
time a whole hour. The window
was open, the warm sunshine
streamed in, and in full blossom
outside stood the tender flow
er.
‘God has given thee back tliy
life, and has given me hojio and
joy, my blessed child,’ said the
thankful mother. And, while
the maiden bent down and kissed
tlie tender leaves, the flower
seemed to smile liack lovinglv
upon hei', as if it knew that God
had sent it. It was a happy day
in that humble home. And be
fore the flower had faded, Gretch-
en stood at the garret wirulow
with beaming eyes, the roses
blooming upon her once pale
cheeks; and as slie spread licr
gentle hands over it she thanked
God wlio had gived the fragile
plant to restore her to health and
life.
Now as you liave read this
pretty story, I think one thought
must have risen up in your minds,
‘Who would supposed such a
small lowly plant could have been
HO useful V and that is just what I
Avanted you to tliink, for that will
lead us oiv to anotlier thought,
namely, that not one of you is
too small or too low]}- to be a
•help to. others. lam sure if tho
plant a voice i.t would
have said, AVliat eaii / do I. a
poor, weak, clinging tiling ; Avhy,
1 cannot even stand up by my
self; how is it possible that 1 can
even help anybody else f And
do you know you ai-e just like
tlie pea plant, jiisf as Aveak and
helpless : but for all that, God
(;au make you useful to others,
and he Avill sIiova^ you how, if
you Avill only ask him.
We liope the sad and sudden
insanity of iiobert Dale Owen
will have this good effect at least,
that it Avill put a clieck to the cra
zy and dangerous rhapsodies of
the spiritualists. It may fairly
be doubted Avliether any man ever
embraced that doctrine who did
not have some kind of bee in his
bonnet; and that a spiritualistic
belief is rather the evidence than
the cause of madness, in a ma
jority of cases. Hut Mi’. Owen
Avas undoubtedly a man of brains,
although he Avas ahvays of eccen-
ti’ic temper ; and Imt for his vag
aries of creed and conduct, might
luiA^e risen to higli distinction in
the public service. His lunacy is
clearly to be attributed to the
operation of s])iritual extrava
gancies on an excited mind, and
to the mortification that attened
his collection with a very glaring
instance of spiritualistic imposture.
Sensible people Avill hereafter
unite, Ave trust, in the exclusion
of tliis perilous subject from the
attention of society, and espe
cially from the thoughts of the
A'oung. There seems to be some
fascination about it whicli works
no good result, and tlie end of
which has been, in the case of
the foremost spiritualist in this
country, the sad tragedy of hope
less madness.—Petersburg Index-
Appeal,
Modesty.—'riiero was once to
be a inoetiug of tlio flowers, and
thejudge wastoaAvarda prize to the
one pronounced the most beauti
ful. ‘Who shall have tlie prize V
said the rose, stalking forth iu all
tlic consciousness of beauty.
‘Who shall have the prize f said
the other floAvers, advancing, each
Avitli conscious ])ride, and each
imagining it would be herself. ‘I
Avill take a peep at those beauties,’
thought the violet, as slie lay iu
her humble bed not presuming to
attend the meeting. ‘I Avill see
tliem as they pass.’ But as she
raised lier loAAdy head to peep out
of her liiding place, she Avas ol)-
sorved by the judge, avIio imme
diately ])ronouuced her tho most
beautiful because the most mod
est.
How lo Obey.
L to be
Bo it ai once. Never wai
told a second time.
J)o just tvhat you are told to do.
Do not try to have your oaaui
way, even in jiart.
I)o it cheerfulty. Do not go
about it in a surly, cross, peevish
AA'ay. Don’t fret, and grumble,
and talk back. Only cheerful obe
dience can bo pleasant to God
and man.
Hurrah for Daddy !—“Ocli!’
says Dadd}', ‘I’ll never be able to
put on tltese boots until I’ve worn
them a day or tAvo.’
Happiness is a perfume' that
one cannot shed over anotlier,
Avithout a foAv drops falling on
one’s self.
Tlie faculty of imagination is
the great spring of Imman activi
ty, and the principal source of
human improvement.
TI IE H EN-PECKED H UvS B AND’s
Consolation.—The great beaut}'
of a Avife is, that if slie abuses you
h.er.selfv she. AA':on’t let any one eLe
abuse vou.
Last .season there Avero shipped
from Salem, North Carolina, to
Chicago and other points, over
tliree million pounds of black
berries, for whicli the shippers
received an average of fifteen
cents per pound, or nearly u half
million dullars-'~-or as much as
they would have received for
G,0b0 bales of cotton at fifteen
cents per pound.—Patriot.
Churclies should be careful of
the character of the entertain
ments they frequently giAm. It
is said that the Cincinnati lottery
dealer vdioso business Avas recent-
Iv interfered Avitli by flie Posl-
OfKce department, which forliade
the delivery to him of any money
orders, first got his idea of a lot
tery from a gift enterprise given
for his benefit by the church to
Avhich he belonged. This man,
Avho is totally blind, Avas a few
years since in absolute Avant, and
the church gave an entertainment
of tho kind named, for his relief,
Avhich netted several hundred
dollar.s. The beneficiary thought
if the church could make such an
enterprise a success he Avould do
sometliing in tliat line himself.
His success Avill be understood
by stating that Ins Avealth to-day
as estimated all the AA^ay from
one-quarter to three-quarters of
a million. It would scarcely do,
hoAvever, to hold up his example
for emulation to tlie youth of the
, country.—-Petersburg Daily Neivs^
Committees of Subordinate Lodgres,
Appointed under Resolution of
tSie Orand ljodg;e, to raise Con*
tribiitionsfor the Oplian Asylums:
Amcrienn George Lodge, No 17—Dr C L
Ciinipbi-ll, H. C. MatWryG. W. Sp’iior,
I Davie, JS), Tiuniias J. Pugh, Joseph Cotton,
Goo. A. Tallv.
Hiram, No. 40.—J. C- li. Littlo, T W
lUaho, A. II. Winston.
Concord 58, W G Lowis, John W Cotton
Jos‘ph P. Siigga.
Scotland Nech,C>S,X. li. Iliil, W E. Wliti
inoro, G. L. Hyman.
Eagle, 71—JamosIiGattis, Charles C Taylor,
Isajic R Htrayhorn.
Orr, 104—J F Randolph, T J Cannalt, Rich-
avii Grangor.
Cluiton, 107, X. M. Roan, J. C. Griffith, C.
Watson.
St. Alhaiifi Lodge. No. I !4--F,{. MeQno(?n,
11. T. Pitman and Xoill Townsend.
3It. Lebanon, jVo. ] 17.—James W Lancaster.
A. J. Prown, .S. J?. Water.s.
Tmearorn, 122, M B JonoH, W S G randy, W
R Turner.
Clinton, No. 124.—'I'ho.®. R Y
Yavi.ro, (.L S. Baher, J. G- King.
Frayi-lilin, 100. AVin. M. Thompson, F B
Mace, 15 Loweuliorg.
ML Ettergi/r 140--J B Floyd, il Haley, AV
K Builock.
Ilolesville, I.'IG, 0 II Horton, I II Scarhovo,
A Ji Young.
Buffalo Lodge, 172.—A. A. Mulvor, A A
' Harrington. B. (}. Cole, A. M. AViclcci
and R. M. Brown.
Carg, P)3, A D Bhic.kwood, P A Sorrel, R
II Jones.
Mt. Olive, 203—.Jesse. T Albritton, Joel Lof-
tiu, D M M Justice.
Berea, 204—AV H Reams, F M ATeildo^vs; R
AA’ Hobgood, E C Allen, A Sherman.
Lebanon, No. 207.—Jno. II. Summorsett,
AA''in. Merritt, AA’'. S. Frink,
McCoimich, 228, A. .Dalryinplo' Natba» Dau-
gali, AV 0 Thomas.
Lenoir, 233, Benja S Grady, John S Bizzell,
S B Palairr, John H Aldridge^ Jacob P
Harper.
Wiccacon, 240, N'ortrmrb L. Siiaw,. Matthew
Brewer, AVm E. Peel..
243.—Allen Johnston', Sa-nwret
Quiiiceleyr Win D Tucker^, AY T Moso
ley,, F M Pittman, Hom-y F Brooks-.-
A'cw;^er«;.24r), J E \Vest,-T Pwvcrs, F> li-Rbbs.
Catawba Lodge, No. 2*18.—R. P. Rienhardt
J, N. I>oiig.r D. AV.. Ramsou-r.
Shiloh,. 250, AAL H. Gregory, Rev' E.. Hines,
T. J- PUtard.
Farmingt/n, 2Go.—L. G. Hunt, W G
Johustfin, AV. F. Furcl-kesv
Wata^ega, 273.—J. AV. Council,- J. Harding,
L. L. Green.
Neio LbeanonSamuel AA'illiam.s, John
Jacobs, AA’ M Speii‘o.
JerusaJem,.\Mo.—Jolin H Davis, GeoEBarn-
har.xlt.'Thomas M Bessent.
Maltfunuskcet, - S vS B'.iet;, J C'J(Ic.Clond
Fagetter.ille, 321.>, A S Ilinde, AV M. B E
Si-.ll.erry, S W, and George McNeill,
J AA’,
Mt. Moriah, IT D., J AV'Powell, J B Phii; .
lips, AV P hinea.
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