THE ORPHANS’ FRIEND.
tf^efiliesday, September 29. IS’J'S.
' TME NINETY AND NINE.
There were ninety and nine that safely lay
la the shelter of the fold,
Blit one had wandered far a way,
In the desert so lone and cold ;
A way on the inountaius wild, and bare,,
A way frinii the Shepherd’s tender care}
tender care.
Shepherd, hast thou not here thy ninety and
nine;
Are they not enough for thee ?
But the Shepherd replies, “This one of
mine,
Has wandered away from me;
The way may be M'ild and rough and steep,
I go to the desert to find my sheep.”
But none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters erossetl,
Nor how dark was the night the Lord pass
ed through
Ere he found the sheep that was lost.
Away in the desert he heard its cry,
So feeble and helpless and ready to die.
And afar up the mountain, thunder riven,
And along the rock steep,
There ar* se the glad song of joy to heaven,
“Rejoice, I have found my sheep !”
And the angels echoed around the throne,
“Rejoice, tor the Lord brings back his
THE PICTEBE ON MY WAEE.
BY HENRY A. CHITTENDEN, JR.
It isa trifle, even here.
Where trifles rule and show is small,
Bearer to me than aught more dear—
The picture on iny wall.
It came there years and years ago,
It stays there: that is all
There is to make me love it so—
The picture on my wall.
There’s little beauty in the linos,
The scetidi you might not call
Divine. Perhaps ’tis memory refines
The picture on my wall.
When hours are sad, it meets my mood
With sweetnesvs magical;
It wind* my thoughts from themes more rude—
The picture on niy waU.
It moite me when I feel most strong.
Its powers most inthrall
When I am gay with ivine and song—
The picture ou my wall*
I mind me of the form that graced
My room, my life, my all:
I think »f the dear hainls that placed
This picture ou my wall.
I think of the blithe laugh and fun
That rang hro’ house and hall,
Of the bright face that beamed upon
The picture ou my wall.
That face is vanished, dust tliat liand,
The voice iu vain I call;
And touch no more, by smile or Wand,
The picture on my wall.
There’s beauty still may claim my eyes,
And coarser senses ’thrall,
My heart within that picture lies—
The picture on my wall.
Mother’s Eovc.
A touching illustration of the
power of a mother’s love is con
tained in the following incident
of the recent floods in France :
At Castelzarrazin a young
mother took her two infants
(twins at the hreast), tied them
together, and placed them in a
large wooden trough used for
kneading bread, and committed
it to the waves, hoping it would
save her children’s lives, as she
felt that her house was about to
fall. The improvised boat swam
safely for a time, but soon after
ward the current dashed it against
the trunk of a tree, where it was
broken. The poor woman, to
whom maternal love gave a su
perhuman force, succeeded in
seizing a branch and climbing in
to a tree. But it was too weak,
and began to crack oniinousi)..
She then rapidly tied tlie infants
to a braucli, kissed tliem, made
the sign of tlie cross, and leaped
into tlie waves, fl’he two little
twins were saved, hut tlie devot
ed mother was drowned.
CUltlOSITY IN CHIliDREN.
“ You are too inquisitive!”
“Don’t bother me !” “Little boys
must not ask so many question !”
and numerous other like expres
sions of impatience at the curios
ity of ciiildren, are continually
heard in every household. The
little ones are from day to day—
in fact, from hour to hour—ad-
monished that an awful, inde
scribable sometlilng called pro
priety—in simplicity they sup
pose it to he some terrible crea
ture not ot human form, proba
bly a wild beast—wars against
tlieir expression of a very natural
and essential feeling. Parents,
have j'ou ever considered what it
is you arc thus repressing 1 Has
it ever occurred to you that, in
rooting out curiosity from your
children’s minds, you are pluck
ing up by tlie roots tlie tree that
is eventually to hear the beauti
ful flowers and sweet fruits ot
knoivledge ? Your child’s mind
is in tliat elastic condition whicli
makes it spring forward to catcli
the smallest fact. Tlie storehouse
of knowledge is empty, and those
busy little liarvesters, tlie percep
tions, are running wild over the
fields of his observation iu searcli
of grain that may he gathered in.
He finds a new object unlike
any tiling he has ever seen or felt
before. He can learn notliing of
it except from you, and with
toucliing, confiding faitli in you
comes running up for information.
You liave some more important
matter iu mind ; you are busy,
and not to be hotliered, and so,
crestfallen, lie goes away witli
wounded ambition, and perhaps a
wliit less aflection for you. One
of tlie little liarvesters returns
liome empty-handed. One slieaf
lias been lost to tlie granary.
Worse tlian all, your cliild lias
lost an opportunity—a precious
tiling in tlie brief season of life—
and lias received a check which
may operate to restrain liiin
from seizing future opportunities.
'I’liink of , it! You may liave
forged tlie first link in a cliain of
circumstances tliat will make him
a failure in life.
This may appear to be an ex
aggerated statement of tlie case.
It may be contended, for instance,
that parents generally show a
reasonable disposition to satisfy
the curiosity of their children ;
that to the question, “What is
this, papa f” an explanatory an
swer is, in tlie great majority of
cases, promptly and clieerfully
given ; and tliat it is only wlien
the questions are multiplied to an
unreasonable extent tliat impa
tience and refusal to answer' fol
low. But this raises the question,
“Can tliere be a limit to inquiryl”
and tlie answer is, “None !” The
desire to know as.mucli as can he
known of any tiling Is a perfect
ly rational and praiseworthy ono.
In fact, it is a liiglily-important
one—I liad almost said tlie most
important one. It is tlie entering
wedge tliat lias split tlie rocky
wall of ignorance, and enabled
tlie axe of observation to hew
open the broad avenues of science
into tlie very lieart of tlie myste
ries of nature.
But tins objection rests on the
supposition that it is all-sufficient
to answer the first few questions,
tlie remainder being considered
as relating to unimportant details.
Now, tho fact of the case is just
tlie reverse. Tlie rejected por
tion of tlie question are, as a rule,
tlie most important. To per
ceive tins fact, observe tlie nature
of tlie questions tlie cliild invarl-
alily asks, and the order in wliicli
lie nuts tliciii. He begins by ask
ing of a thing, “Wliat is it ?”
Tlien, “Is it good to eat ?” If
not, “Is it poisonous ?” If it is,
“Wliat does it taste like ?” If it
is a fruit, “Where” (that is, h iw,)
“does it grow ?” If anotlicr oh-
ejot, “How is it made?” and so
on indefinitely. Here we discern
a progression—rougli and irreg
ular at intervals, it may be, but
still a progession—from the more
general to the less general. If
you answer the first two or three,
and tlirow out tlie balance, you
acquaint him with tlie genral facts,
and leave him Ignorant of the par
ticular facts. Now, consider tliat
tlirougliout tlie domain of knowl
edge, be it of literature, science,
or art, tlie particular facts are the
most important to he known. In
science, lie wlio knows only tlie
most general facts is a mere tyro.
In truth, science is the organiza
tion of particular facts, and rve
cannot acquire a respectable
knowledge of it witliout engrav
ing these upon our minds. And
so it is witli all other subjects,
any knowledge becomes profound
in proportion as we extend our
acquisition of particular facts.
See, then, tlio great error involv
ed in your course ; you are giv
ing tlie child chaff wliile you throw
away the wheat.
But at this early stage the pro
cess demands more consideration
tlian to product. Tlie knowledge
gained by tliis rough, nnsyteniat-
ic questioning may be small—at
most, it is usually vague and in
definite—nevertlieless, it is un
questionably of some value. Tlie
process, liowever, s tlio earliest
expression of tlie spirit of scientif
ic investigation, wlilcli was once
as feeble and erratic in tlie race
as it now in }-our cliild, but wliicli,
by gradual development in tlie
slow lapse of centuries, at leugtli
bccaino strong enongli to rear tlie
maguifioeut structure of exact
science. Tlie eoriosity wliicli in
duces tliose (piostioiis will develop
or dwindle according as circuin-
stauces favor tlio one teiideroy or
tlie otlier. Encouraged and in
telligently directed, it will devel
op into a systematic inquiry after
trutli, ending perliaps iu making
its possessors a compee of New
ton or Kant. But, under liabita-
al rejiressioii, it degenerates into
mere impertinent inquisitiveness,
the qualification of an idle tale
bearer. Tlio desideratum is to
make tlie cliild from a liabit of
penetrating to the root of all
tilings.
OOINCi TO TAW.
BIG TIES MISTAKEN FOB WIT.
We have gathered tlie follow
ing from our state papers;
A Missouri man tried to ride a
mule acrooss a creek thirty feet
deep. The man was drowned,
hut the mule crossed in safety,
walking on tlio bottom and breath
ing tlirongh his ears.
A lazy fellow falling a distance
of fifty feet, and escaping with
only a few scratclies, a bystander
remarked that lie was “too slow
to fall fast enough to hurt liim-
self.”
An exchange, commenting on
tlie morality of its neiglibors, says
they wear tlieir pants out at the
knees, in Winter, in getting reli
gion, and the seats of tlieir trow-
sers out, in tlie Summer, in back
sliding.
Beothekly Love.—A wliole
Psalm,—tlie one hundred and
thirty-tliird ; a wliolo Cliapter,—
First Corintliians, thirteenth chap
ter ; a wliole Book,—First Jolni,
liave been written to commend
brotherly love.
A farmer cut down a tree
wliich stood so near tlie bounda
ry line of his farm tliat it was
doubtful whether it belonged to
liim or his iieiglibor, Tlie neigli-
bor, however, claimed tlie tree,
and prosecuted tlie man who cut
it, for damages, Tlie case was
continued from court to court.
Time and money were wasted,
temper soured and temper lost,
but tlie case was gained by the
prosecutor. Tlio last of tlio trans
action was, the man wlio gained
the cause came to a lawyer to ex
ecute tlie deed of liis wliole farm,
wliicli lie Iiad been compelled to
sell to pay ids costs. Tlien house
less and liomeless, he could thrust
ids hands into his pockets, and
triumpluiutly exclaim, T’vo beaten
him!’
This reminds us of a little story.
Forty-three years ago a young
man was teaching a country
school. He liad not been in tlie
place one quarter before he had
acquired a reputatio.i for know
ing more tlian lie did know, but
lie was wise enoiigli to take no
pains to disabuse tlie popular
mind of tlie favorable impression.
If there was one study tliat he
was more deficient in tlian anotli-
er, it was surveying. But he
tanglit it as well as lie could, and
his pupils learned. Two farmers
liad a clironic dispute as to tlie
line between tlieir lands, and for
many years tliey liad contended
as to tlie right of possession in a
little strip. Botli of them were
warmly interested in tlie young
scliool teaclier, and in a happy
moment it occurred to tlieiii to
ask him to examine tlieir titles
and maps, and to decide as to tlie
true running of tlieir dividing line.
He took tlie papers, gave “liis
wliole mind” to the question,
made a map with tlie line where
he believed it should be; hot
parties accepted it, set tlieir fence
according to it, lived iu jieace,
I and to tliis day, after tlie lapse ot
nearly half a century, the scliool-
master's line is undisturbed,
though the lands have changed
hands frequently. Tho line will
doubtless never be disturbed.
How much better is this than to
go to law, consume their ]iroper
ty in vevatious litigation, alienate
families, fret theinstlves, and be
queath a feud to successive gen
erations. Both tho farmers have
long since gone to sleep with
their fathers, Init tlie young
schoolmaster, who judgedbetween
them, lives to make tliis the first
record of his decision.—A. Y. Oh-
liotmole, 3(13, li. W. Diuiicl, E. M. Hicks,
W, T. Kpo.
Mt. (Mice, 203—Jesse T Allrt itton, JdcI Lt>f'
tin, D M M Justice.
Berea, 204—W H Reams, F M Meadows, R
W Hobgo(jl, E C Allen, A Sherman.
Lebamn, No. 207.—Jno. H. Suimnersett,
Wm. Merritt, W. S. Frin.k
McCormicJc, 223, A. Dalrymple' Nathan Dau
gall, W 0 Thomas.
Lenoir, 233, Benja S Grady, John S Bizzell,
S B Pakerr, John il Aldridge, Jacob P
Harper.
Wiccacon, 240, Norman L. SliUM*, Matthew
Brewer, Wm E. Peel.
Bountrec, 243.—.\U(m Jtdinstoii, Samuel
Quinccley, Wm I) Tiiclcer, W T Mose
ley, F ^1 Pittman, Henry F Brooks.
Nextihern, 24.1, JE We d, T Powers, E Iliihhs.
Catawba Lodge, JSo. 248.—R. P. Rienhardt
J. N. Long, D. W. Ramsour.
Shiloh, 2.50, W. IJ. Gregory, Rev E. Hines,
T. J. I’ittm-d.
Farmington, —L. G. Hunt, W G
Jolmstoii, Vr. F. Fiu*ches..
Watauga, 273.—J. W. Council, J. Harding,
L. L. Green.
Ncic iteemon 314, Samuel Williams, John
Jacobs, W il Spence.
Jerusalem, 315—John H Davis, Geo B Earn
hardt, Thomas M Bessent.
Mattamuskeet, 328—S S Baer, J C McCloud
Fayettcoillc, 320, A S ileidc, W M, B R
Sedberry, S W, and George P McNeill
J W.
ML Moriah, IT D., J W Powell, J B Phil
lips, W P liiucs.
server.
Committees of Subordinate Eo«l;{:es
Appointed under Besolutiou of
tbe firi'ainl Eodg^c, to raise Con
tributions for tlie Opliau Asylumst
American George Lodge, No 17—Dr 0 L
Campbell, IL C. Maddry (i. W. Siieucer.
Davie, il*), Thomas J. Pugh, Joseph Cottei
Geo. A. Tally.
Hiram, 40.—J. C. R. Little, T W
Blake, A. H. Winston.
Concord 58, W G Lewis, John W Cotton
Joseph P. Suggs.
Scotland Neck, 68, A. B. Hill, W E. Whil-
Toore, G- L. Hyman.
Eagle, 71--James R Gattis, Charles C Tayori
Isaac K Strayhorn.
Orr, 104—J F Randol\)h, 1’ J Cannalt, Rich
ard Granger.
Clinton, 107, N. M. Roan, J. C. Griffith, C
Watson.
St Albans I^odge, No. 114—Ed. McQueen
Clinton, No. 124.— Thos. White, R Y
Yarhro, G. S. Baker, J. G. King.
H. T. Pitman and Neill Townsend.
ML Lebanon, No. 117.—James W Lancaster,
A. J. Brown, S. B. Waters.
Tuscarora, 122, M B Jones, W S Grandy, W
R Tumor.
FmnMin, 109. Wm. M. Tliompson, F B
Mace, B Lowtuiherg.
ML Energy, 140—J B Floyd, H Haley, W
E Bulloi^k.
Rolesmlle, 156, C H Horton, I II Scarboro;
A R Young.
Buffalo Lodge, 172.—A. A. Mclver, A A
Harrington, B. G. Cole, A. 51. Wiekei
and R. M. Browu.m
Cary, 108, A D Blucwokod, V A Sorreh R
U J(^ncs.
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