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i ~JlCjSKBweg-y«> 'fHK ORI’llANS’ FRIKN'I). ^^rliu BIAKS iJIS>S> ASl'I-lUBI. ■ Most of our roiulers have lieard of Mr. Pease, the famous li’efin'iii- er of (^liiKIreu at five j (.>iuts, New York. Several years ago, being ill feeble liealtli, lie moved to Asheville and imvoliased valu able propert)'; but he has been so modest and (piiet that very few of our citizens knew that he lived ill the State. Recently he has taken an in terest ill the orphan nork, and desired to see the iMars llill Asy lum moved to Asheville. I o this end he has oliered the tiact of land whereon ho now resiiles, reserving the use of the house and garden during his life. ISot knowing exactly what turn al- fairs might fake, the Grand Lodge, at its late Coiniiiunication, cov ered the ground rvitli the tollow- ine- resolution ; "Resolml, Tliat if any riigitlu propPUJ' sViould, bdVire the next Ansuiil Coi.nmimKi- ti.m, 1)0 offoroil to tlie ttnuiil Loilsc lor thr more cfflcloiit oou.liu't of tlio orr'lii" tho (inuot -Mrintor is horol.j rMpicstoa to ne- M-pt tl.i) sauio and iustrurt llin SnpcnuWnd- er.t ill regard to tire use and maiiagoiuimt tliereof.” Mr. Moore, tho Steward of the Asylum at (Jxford, went to Ashe ville and Mars Hill to collier with Mr. Pease and arrange the preliminaries. Mr. Pease prompt.} put his ])ropositi))n in dehmte slia-pe, and the citixeiis oi Asiie-/ ville promised liberal subrcai/- tions for the erection of buildup's and .tor the support of the ivork '■ Uio future. '■Vitii iiicoc, facts heforo tliein tiie Grand Master and ether offi cers of the Grand Lodge, mot in Raleigh, and tifter free consulta tion, agreed that Grand Master Blount, De])iity Grand Master Grissom, Past Grand Master Nichols, Grand Chaplain Reid, and perhaps others should start to Asheville on Friday, January ,th, and formally accept the nropertv, conler with the eitizons of Asho'villo, and giyil directions ■ r the future management of tlie v airk. Meanwhile Mr. Moore .succeeds .Mr. Sams and looks after the or phans in the 'VV^c^t. FOItMUK ASSOCaA'l'K.S. Near the close of the year we m,(.u.-ally look back ami think of ilioso who liave labored witd in tlie orpliiui work. First is Rev. A. 1). Cohen, who toiled faitlirully for one year at a time ivlien toil was not so cheered w'itli lie is a good man calling, his heart will still be with the orplians, ami we shall leave Ills very zealous cO()])eratiou. Our former house-keepers at Oxford, Mrs. Montgomery, Miss McLean, and Idrs. Stanly, merit houorahle mention. In one re spect at lea.st they obeyed the Bible they fed tlie Jiungry, and generally fed us well. May they all enjoy aii everlasting Ohristnuis! liojKi as now. , and a hard w'orker; but be felt oppressed by bin Cidl to tho min istry, iind he is now a r-ojailar ]-)astor at Kaeuton and Winihor. ilo umlerstands the ori>lian work and if' 'I'or ready to liol}) it wiri ron}*-u(', pen, and purse. V; chjri; ‘ ol' U vras \vi;h us. Mrs. V.;askins, Mr-s. Sampsim Mrs. Peace, Miss Long, Aliss ; ilewell, Mis.s ISarrison, Miss Moore, iiliss Leete, land otlieis who ;c onU . ) .iianv t ,i)ivs"ami nights when he T!tE S€IS«>®8.S. Tdr. James 11. Homer A. M. and Rev. F. J. Horner liave de- ciderl to rebiioii the famous Ipr- ner School in Oxford. \ ery fortunate is any young inaii wliose privelege it is to enjoy tiieir iusti'uctioii and bo trained by such gifted ami experienced teachers. A father may be grate ful tliat his son is sound in body and iniml; liut he shoulil aiso be grateful that his son was born in the days of the Horners and oilier conipotoiit and judicious educa tors. Mr Fetter, knonui as a very efficient instructor, will contiuue his school for bo}'S. Mrs. Stradley, remarkabl}- sensible and reliable, has had a successful career as teacher ami will coutiuiio her scliool. Mr/. Hays, a scholarly and mayuglng -woiiian will open school ill tho' Female Academy. ,,/ie will be aided by Miss Hattie ousins, ivell kiioivn as a lirst- elasB teacher. Tliese schools will open punc- ually at the hour named in ym advertisements. \Yo close wis article with a few suggostioW lo parents: i 1. See that your chihlrejy are entered on tlio first day (ij the session. A good start ooth se- oiires the victory in a racc./H orscs intended for leaders slpdd not be trained to trot slowl/ bohind. 2. Encourage the teaiher wdtli a payment of tuition ii advance. If you owe auytliing on former sessions, square up atonce. The teachers may not be partial ; but they are liuinan, and prompt [)a}’ments arc veryinspiring. 3. Be sure to a’ii, and not (ih- struct, the enforcmieiit ot discip line. Jjet ilie teichcrs name tlie hours of study ami then deteud your chiidren a.;'aiiist all interrup tions. ffomotuios tho teachers ivill make mbtukes, ami some- timestlie}'W'i!) be unjustly accused mil suspected. Wbiit till bat- urda\'; Tliou semi tor tno ofteiid- iug leacheraiid talk the trouble over, W'itli 1 fat and smoking tur- iroy lictwcen }'Ou. 4. Have a good desk and a bright light in, a quiet room tor students, and let them have reg;n- lar sleep and early meals. Let them also feel that you anxiously desire their rapid improveiucnN Thou keep at a di.slaiiee all that tends to (listract oi' even divert attention. d’liese siiggestior.s are certe.iiil}' worth a trial. limber-ja.ck was used as a pattern and others were soon manufiic- tured and ]Hit in lively ojicration. A barrel of excellent ap])les, sev eral boxes ot raisins, and some other articles from Norfolk in creased tlie joys of the occasion. On Sunday imirning-tlie chil dren attomled tlieir fonnday schoohs ami heard a sermon from Mr. Jordan at tlie Proshj'tenan church. In the afternoon Rme F^ R.. Underwood proacliodjin the chapel of the A.syliim. At night w'B had another sermon hr Rev. R, P. Michaux, MondaW morn ing found ns all at ivoik Is usual The Ghristmas of 1875 A’as gon forever. SiOOB SAAES'l'M^iATS. Persons with snp/ralmmlant incomes compiaiii ol the difficul ty in securing saJ'e ai/l profitable investments. This ijfay account for tho high prices/obtained in hard times for ccrtjgn articles of luxur}-. Buyers /an he found greatly increased with goods to come to the help of tho.se noble Christian onteiqirises that are the ifiory of the ago and nation. There arc no investments l e'.tir than these, for in them wo do not lay up treasure for ourseb'es but iieconio rich toward God.—A. Y. Ohscriier. VICO ; coma ■f'litur alined for a bri'..i season i-i dered very etUcioiitser- 1 many nleasant veminis- lustei'a.'ound their names. mars IliT Mr. J. R. Bams ili-s) b. S. Greene, have pio die work, ami have, to t. iit, oiiened tlie w-’ay for m" ss. Tlieir labors lun e namit and severe. Miss C1-) s to enjoy a season of ■ lii ■ Sams retires becau.se i )Umus and exact- .as been our and tlioeg'.i some utlui" iuL'. Very pi tttaEiJSTMASi wm'ii 'ffSSK OI£- i‘SSAlHfS IS On I'l'idav evening eacli Form first spelled for 25 cents; then the I'drst and iSecoiid Forms spoileii for 10 cents each, the Jdiird I'orm sjiciled for 25 cents and tho J-’ourtli h’onii for 50 cents. The Teachers also di.s- tributed prizes and made presents to the cliildreu of tlieir forms. Oil iSaturday a dozen lat tur- kes's biii'ileiied our falile.s ; but they did not burden thorn long. On Saturday niglit a huge box of presents from the children ot Fayetteville High School came jii.st ill time for distribution, and ti.o oiqilians were delighted. One only among the i'i/!i, and tho rich are on tho watcl/for opportuni ties to bestow th/ir goods. Fa mous painters a/d diamond bro kers may tlievetpro flourish even ill a time of s/eat financial de pression. Six/' thousand dollars was recently pid by a Now York merehant Ibi/ a French picture. /leiLvis declined to sell his )iic- '.ures when /le became rich. He painted on/' to give away, d’liis aiici-ent nu/ster had no commiser ation fur Mis wealthy patrons who did not /now what to do' with their ino/iey. His only fear was lest lie might live to find himself ill their predicament. Tliis fear will never agitate a modern pain ter who is said to have helped himself by a liint from the suc cess of Zeuxis ill deceiving tlie birds by his fioiit painting. Poor as he was ambitious, ho devoted himself to a work which ho called “Tho Death ot the Poo dle.” Every day ho brought in his dog and gave liim a beating before tho picture of tlie dying net. Invited visitors arrive to view till! finished work, the pain ter’s dog soon alter enters, and seeing tiie wcli-reniembered jiic- tiiro, Miegins to liowl plteousiy ; the conqiany is profoundly im pressed witli iiie wonderons real ism that deceives the brute crea tion ; the jiicture is di.sposed of at ail excellent ligure, and tiie grati tude of tiie artist is divided lio- tween Ids dog and Zeuxis. So far are we from regretting, that large sums are paid for works oi art, tliat wo greatly regret that any artist should ever lie so re duced as to resort to sueli an ar- tilieo as this. But there are other investments now waiting for snrjilus tlious- aiids, better tluin Works of a.rt or jewels. Because much is inisa])- projiriatcd in lienevolcnce and charity, we must not conclude tliat tilers are not good iiivost- nients. Intelligoiit care can put capita! on corners where the mcr- id and spiritual results can never be estimated b_y any worldly arithmetic. His tatlier lelt a cit izen a fortune of many millions. He did not wrap ln.s talents in a najikin, hut had great faith in tho increasing value of the houses and land in tlio city wliero lie dwelt. This eitizen left his sons four times as many millions as were lei't him hv his father. Dur ing these vmars in which these iveP.-invested millions have boon inuh'iplying, invested thousands ill houses and lands devoted to tlio training of immortal souls for tills world and the next, have been yielding an incalculable re turn of imperisliahle riches. Now is the time for those who arc I AS'OIilSS iMAS.'CUE-iA'S'SiS.y USED. The following pra-gaiihs arc ta ken from “Words and tiieir U.ses,” by Richard Grant White. Acjgk.wate—Tliis -word should never be employed in reference to persons, as it moans merely to add iveight to—to make and evil more oppressive ; injuiy is aggra vated by insult. It is sometimes iiiiproperl'V used in tlio sense cf irritate, as ‘1 was much aggra vated by his conduct.’ Bai.ance, in the scnco of rest, remainder, residue, remnaiit, is an abomination. Balance is nieta- phorically the ditlerence betwein two sides of an account—the amount ivhich is iieoess.iry to make one equal to the other. Yet wo continually hear of the balance of a congregation or of an army. Bountiiu.'I. is applicable only to persons. A giver may lie bounti ful, but his gift can not—it should be called a plentiful or large ; ‘a bountiful slice’ is absurd, P'E'rcii oxjii'esscs a double mo tion—first from and tlieii toward tho speaker ; it is ex.ictly equiva lent to ‘go and bring, and ought not to be used in the sense of bring alone. CALCtjL.ATK, besides its sectional misuse fur think or purpose, is soitietimes put for likely or apt: ‘That nomination is calculated to injure the party.’ It is calculated (designed) to do no such thing, though it may be likely to. Citizen sliould not be used ex- I copt when the possG.ssion of pol- 1' ical rights is meant to be im- })Ued. News’paper reporters have a bad haiiit of bringing it out on ail occasions, wlieii ‘per son,’ ‘man' or ‘bvi'-iandei'' would e.\}iress tiieir nieauijigmuchbettcr. {iori'i,E applies to two tilings wliicii are bound together or uni ted ill some wav. ‘A couple of anples is not correct—two apples i.s what is meant. Diet means tilth, ami is not svnonvmous with eartli or soih Vet peo])le sometimes speak of a dirt road or of packiiig-dii't around tiie roots of trees tlicyare setting. T’hey mean earth. Execute—When a murderer is hanged his seiitcnco is executed, tho man is not. A man can not lie executed—that is folioivod out or performed. hixi'EOT looks always to the future. You cannot expect that anything has liappenod or is hap pening, but only that it ivill hap pen. Get means to obtain, not pos sess. Have }'U1 got good molas ses I ‘'I'liey have got had man ners.’ Why well people persist in introducing tho word in such sontences as those, where it is so evidently superiiuons ? Hei.v''Mkkt—An absurd nse of these tivo ivoi'ds, as if tlieir to gether were the name of one filing—a wife—is too common. The sentence in Genesis : I ivill make liim an help meet for iiini —i. e., a lielp fit for liini. There is no such word as liolp-meet. Li e—L.av—Persons not grossly ignorant somotlmos say they wiH' lav (meaning lie) down, and they have lay (lain) an hour, or tliat tlie hammer is laying (lying) liy the lacks. Lie means to recline ; its p-'St tense lay—‘1 lay tliereall niglif,’its participles, li mg and lain, l.ay (ui od of present time) means to put something dowi —■ one lavs a carpet; its past is li id —‘1 laid it myself;’its participles, laying and laid—‘I wa.s interupt- ed wliile laying it, and it was not laud till night.’ Love rules the heart, not the stomach. You love your ivifo, or ought to ; but favorite articles of food you like. OnsEKVE should not be used for say, as in tlio oft —heard senj tence, ‘What did you observe V 'i'ME Eos'i’ ssm*. Wliy was the ship lost? It was a staunch vessel, w^ell built, and well manned, when no ene my was near to beguiie tlie creiv. It was in early sjiiing. There was ice floating in Imge islands of crystal. At midnight, when the steady, clear-lieaded captain was iqion the bowsprit, looking out for tliese ice-islands so as to avoil them, the first mate fell on dick, thrown by liis wary enemy, and utterly iielpless to steer tho ship aright, blio struck the ice with such force tliat slie immedi ately began to sink. What a fearful position ! In a wild se.a, with a drunken pilot and leaking sliip. The vessel began to fill immediately. Life-boats wore brought up, but in less than one hour, of the seventy-two wlio the day before were joyfully looking forward to home greetings, ail but twenty-seven were sleeping at the bottom of the sea. Oi e entire famili", a father and nine cliildren, went down together I'linong this fatal luimber. This is a true stori'. Children were loft fatherless by this wreck; they cam:' in aftor years to gaze upon the waters which had swal lowed un so many lives, and think and sai', “Not the treaebe- roiis sea, but an onomy hatli done this !’’ Ami that enemy was strong drink. BBSJEVC’iEE.'i.'e'E. A bimevolent man is a iiajqiy man ; lie cannot bo otherwise, for it is a universal law of nature to bo made happy by making i-thei's so. Those evil jiassi'iiis, siicli as envy, hatred, malice, pride a'ld like, do not exist in tiio licart of a boiievoleiit man. Tiiese m.ilign [lassioiis are found within tlio heart of the seliish man, vvhieli load him to deception, fraud, murder, or other crimo.s of tlio most heinous nature. Yea, the very worst elements of such a on«’s nature are in activity against hiiii. The benevolent man has a hcfirt cleansed fi'om ail those evil passions that would have a ten dency to cause him to commit an act of injustice. lie lives to make otlicrs happy, for their happiness is his, and he tluis realizes the verity of tlio Divine assertion, ‘It is more blessed to give than re ceive.’ Buiii-an once put tiic fol lowing riddle into his own pecu liar verse ; ''Ihcro was a tnuii, thougli »ome did count liiiu mad, Tlie more ho ft-avo aAvay tho more he lind.’’ The Imnevoleiit man has no dilicultydn finding it,s solution, I'o:- he has already learned that for every act of liberality he has received a rich reward ; and if net in like, ivhich is often the case, it has been in th‘o true en- j lyment of doing good, and mak ing others liapi)}i by ten-fold. Conclusively every benevolent man, bi’ exjierience, has foui d that acts of benevolence bring home to his heart happiness and j .}■ which tlio cares of this ivorlil Clin neither give ii-ir take a'vay, --C!iris:ia:i Advocato-
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