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THE ORPHANS’ ERIEND. W'cluc«liiy, MiUcU I, 1S7«. AI> LIBITUM. We could not reply to tlie abu sive articlepublishedin the Reids- ville |)apors. The fourteen writers thereof acted very unfairly in us ing up all the vilifying- adjectives and not leaving us a single one ; but the Times wrote a courteous editorial and gave us a text, and now we intend to talk ‘ad libitum.’ LA LUTTE INEVITABLE. Napoldon says “la lutte inevi table” occurs in the history of every groat nation. In America, we call it, “the irrepressible con flict.” Now there is an irrepressi ble conflict between us and every entertainment given for tlie bene fit of the orphans, and yet leaving the orphans out in the cold, with out any benefit. Yes, we must forsake the interests of the or phans, or face “la lutte inevita ble.” VERY KIN». The ReidsviUe Times, in its first number, and anxious to make a good impression, was kind enough to “surrender the space intended for state and general news”- to fourteen persons who wished to abuse an article in the Oepiian’s Friend. Now would any one but a kind-hearted editor have made such a sacrifice of the inter ests of his friends.- Surely the editors are almost as good as the preachers. STATE AND GENERAL NEWS EXCLUDED. People inquire for the news. They' take papers for the news. Yet all the state and general news had to be excluded from the first number of The ReidsviUe Times to make room for a'-i article by four teen persons who abused us with out any other reason than that we insist on some benefit to the orphans from every two-dollar supper given for their benefit. ONE MISTAKE. In examining our editorial so much abused by' fourteen persons in ReidsviUe, we find only one mistake. We said the hog-drover w IS fiom Kentucky'. He was from Virginia. He oared nothing for the supper, nor for the dance, but he gave two dollars for the orphans !, Yet the orphans have . never seen it! CAKES AMD BEEF-'TONGUES. Wonder if cakes and beef- tongues will ever again taste good to those fourteeu writers in the ReidsviUe papers ! LIGHT AND EQUILIBRIUM. One day' the late Thomas Als ton, of Wake, had taken a heavy load of his scuppernong wine. He tottered out on the floor, spread forth his hands, and with a loud voice, deliberately said: “Let your light so shine that you may' preserve y'our equilibrium.” Good advice ! Instead of be ing offended at the abuse of the fourteen writers in the ReidsviUe papers, we enjoy the joke and preserve our equilibrium. So mote it be. JONESBORO DRAMATIC CLUB. The Jonesboro Dramatic Club have just sent 820.00 to the or phans, proceeds of an entertain ment given at Swan Station, in Moore Co. This is the second donation received from them in less than one month, and they Biiv' it is not the last time they shall be heard from. Another commendable feature of their contributions is that they send the full proceeds; no expenses arc deducted. “THE MASONS.’ The ReidsviUe Times speaks as if the Masonic Fraternity' con demned us for denouncing bene fits in the name of the orphans which do not benefit the orphans. That paper does not seem to know that we are acting in obe dience to Masonic orders. The Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina has written ns a letter on this subject. Hero is the closing paragraph : ‘‘Yohi* course has the ajiproval of the riijht- ininded all over the State, and the marked approbation you have received, with con sciousness of riglit, should be your warrant for eoutiuued well dijin^;. With sincere esteem, G. W. BLOUNT, G. M. THE DIFFERENCE. Warrenton Thespian Company gave an entertainment for the benefit of the orphans, charging 50 cents for grown people, and 25 cents for children. The or phans received 837.11. From the Festival at ReidsviUe, where the price of admission was 82, not a cent has been i-eceived. EOTTERIES AND FESTIVALS. The Oni'iiANs’ Friend de nounced lotteries while even some preachers were buying tick ets and drawing prizes : And lotteries are dead in North Caro lina. Now the same paper de nounces festivals given for the orphans which do not benefit the the orphans. Henceforth people shall be mfraid to receive, and never forward money collected in the name of the orphans. THE TDWER. Tiie Tower of Siloara fell upon eighteen si nners and crushed them. The burden of defending- the ReidsviUe Festival has fallen upon fourteen writer.'-, and may' the Lord have mercy' upon tliem. “ERRONEOUS IMPRESSIONS.” The Reidsvila Times speaks of our “erroneous impression.” Here they are: 1. A meeting in church and the people exhorted to attend tlie festival and jiay' 82 each for the benefit of the Orphans. 2. A supper, a dance, a crowd. 3. Not a cent for the Orphans. 'i'hese are our impressions, and we fail to discover any error in them. THOUGHTFUL KS.NDNESS. The Superintendent with four Orphans was ly'ing over in Salis bury last Friday' night. Fulton Lodge, No. 99, hoard of it, and sent a committee to the hotel and settled the bill. Such considerate attention shows the true heart of Masonry'. BOOK-KEEPING; OE, TIIE RICH MAN IN SPITE OP HIMSELF. In old times it was the custom of the merchants of the city of Now A”ork to keep their accounts in pounds, shillings and pence curreuc-v. About fifty years ago, a frugal, industrious Scotch mer chant, well known to the then small merchantile community of this city, had, by dint of fortune, commercial adventure and econo my' been able to save something like four thousand pounds, a con siderable sum of money at tliat period, and one which secured to its possessor an enviable degree of independence. His places of business and residence were, as was customary' at that time, un der tlie same roof. He had a clerk in liis employ'inent whose reputatiuu as au accountant in spired the utmost confidence of his master, whose frugal spirit he emulated in the true spirit and feeling of a genuine Caledonian. It was usual for the accountant to make an annual balance sheet for tlie inspection of his master, in order that he miglit see what had been the profits of his business the past year. On this occasion the balance sheet showed to the ci-edit of tlie business six thous and pounds, which somewhat as tonished the incredulous mer chant. ‘It canna be,’ said he. ‘You had better count up again. I dinna think I ha’ had sae profita ble a beesness as this represents.’ The clerk with his usual pa tience reexamined the statement,' and declared that it was ‘a’right,’ and that he was willing to wager his salary upon its correctness. The somewhat puzzled mer chant scratched his head with surprise, and commenced adding up both sides of the account for himself. It proved right. ‘I did na’ think,’ said he, ‘that I was worth over four thousand pounds ; but ye ha’ made me a much richer man. IVeol, weel, I may Iia’ been more successful than I had tlio’t and I’ll na’ quar rel wil’ mysel’ for being worth sax thousand instead.’ At early candle liglit the store was regularly shut by' the faith ful accountant; and as soon as he had gone, the sorely-perplexed and incredulous merchant com menced the painful task of going over and examining all the ac counts for himself. Night after night did ho labor in his solitary- counting-house alone, to look for tho error ; but every examination confirmed the correctness of the clerk, until the old Scotchman be gan to believe it possible that he was really worth ‘sax thousand pounds.’ Stimulated by' this ad dition to Ills wealth, he soon felt a desire to improve the condition of his household ; and with that \-iew, made purchase of now fur niture, carpets, and other elegan cies, consistent with possessing the lai-ge fortune of six thousand pounds. Painters and carpenteis were set at work to tear down and build up : and in a short time the gloomy'-looking residence in Stone Street was renovated to such a degree as to atttact the cu riosity and envy of all his neigh bors. The doubts of the old man, however, would still obtrude themselves upon his mind; and he determined once more to make a tliorough examination of his ac counts. On a dark and stormy night he commenced his labors witli the patient, investigating spirit of a man determined to probe the matter to its very bottom. It was past the hour of midnight, yet he had not been able to de tect a single error ; but still he went on. His heart beat high with hope, for he had nearly reached the end of his labor. A quick suspicion seized his mind as to one item in the account. Eureka I He liad found it. With the frenzy' of a mad man, he drew his broad brimmed white hat over, his ey'es, and rushed in to the street. The rain and storm were nothing to him. He hur ried to the residence of his clerk, in Wall Street; reached the door, and seized the handle of the huge knocker, with wliich he rapped until the neighborhood was arous ed witli the ‘loud alarm’ The unfortunate clerk poked his night-cap out an of upper window, and demanded, ‘Who’s there V ‘It’s me, yo scoundrel!’ said the frenzied mereliant; ye've add cd up the year of our Laird among the pounds !' Sucli was the fact. The addi tion of the’ year of our Lord among the items had swelled the fortune of the merchant some two thousand pounds beyond its act ual amount.—The Church Union. SDAP; ITS HISTORY AND MAN UFACTURE. The word ‘soap’ is found in two places in our ‘authorized version’ of the Bible ; namely, Jeremiah ii: 22, and Malaclii iii: 2. The exact meaning of the Hebrew word, liowever, is not known, and the best authorities suppose that what is meant by' it was, proba bly, the ashes of the glass-wort, a plant common in the dry parts of the East, and which may be used as a substitute for soap. Soap itself tire Jews at that time had not. There is no reason, Sir J. G. Wilkinson says, for believ ing tliat the ancient Egyptians, froni whom the Jews derived so much of their civilzation, knew or used it. Nitre, or a lye from the ashes of glass-wort and similar plants, or the juice of saponace ous plants, was used instead. So was fuller’s earth, and so was mere washing in water, accompa nied by rubbing or stamping. Soap, as we now know It, ap pears to Irave been a barbai'ous rather tlian a civilized invention, and to have been discovered by' the Gauls or Germans, or both, before the Christian Era. Soft soap was apparently' made before hard soap, as a potash ly'o from the ashes of trees was at fii st used, and not soda. From these barba rians tire Romans learned to make it, and from the Romans, the Greeks,—an order of introduction the reverse of that which com monly prevails. Some kind of soa]i—probably' a jri-etfy’ caustic kind of soft soap—was used bv the Roman ladies to dy'o theii' hair red or y'ellow. Soap wa.« found in one of the Ironses of Pompeii (destroy'ed A. D. 79;) so that it was pretty quickly' and g-enerally' adopted by the most civilized people of ancient times after they' became acquainted with it No records appear to be known of the continuance of the luami- facture of soap during the first seven centuries of the Christian Era, though it is exti-emely' prob able that it was constantly' made. There is, however, good authority' to prove the existence of soap manufactories in It-aly^ and Spain in the eighth century. About the twelfth tlie business was estab lished at Marseilles, that part of France affording olive oil and soda, two excellent materials, and soap has been made there ever since. Within two centuries af terwards the business was begun in England, and Bristol furnished most of that country with it for a long time, at a cost of one pen ny' a pound. In 1527 the first was made in London. It is a curious fact, that al though we know very well what soap i.s used for, and what it does, we do not know how it does it. The usual statement made on the subject is tliis : Soap, consis ting of fat and alkali, removes grease or other dirt by' surrender ing, when dissolved in water, part of its alkali, which thereupon proceeds to combine with the grease or dirt, forming a new ma terial, or additional portion of soapy matter, which water will remove. But if this were the case, tiro ‘part of tire alkali’ all alone would do the business. We do not send a kuudred men to bring a parcel, of whom one brings it, after all. Soap is a chemical compound and is, chemically' speaking, a ‘salt,’ resulting form the the com binations of an acid with an al kali. The acid is a “fatty acid,” namely, stearic, margaric, oleic etc.; the alkali is almost univer sally either soda, which makes hard soap, or potash, which rhakes soft soap. And soap-making is , simply conducting this combina tion of the acid and alkali. SI A few figures will show liow '| important the soap business is. At Marseilles alone not less than one hundred and thirty'-five mil lions of pounds of soap are made each year. In 1860 more than six million three hundred thou sand dollars were invested in soap and candle factories in the Uni ted States, turning out about eigh- - teen and a half millions of dollars’ worth annually of the manufac tured articles, without including in this total value a very great quantity of home-made soft soap. In 1852 there were made in only eighty towns of Great Britain (not including Ireland) more than one hundred and five millions of pounds of soap.—Great Industries of U. S. '■ FAUET-FINDING WITH CHIt- DREN. Children are more hurt by in discriminate, thoughtless fault- linding than by any other one thing. Often a child has all the sensitiveness and all the suscepti bility ot a grown person, added to the faults of childhood. Notli- ing about him is right as yet; he is immature and faulty' at all points, and everybody feels at perfect liberty to criticise him right and left, above and below, , till lie takes refuge in callous hardness or irritable moroseness. A bright, noisy boy ruslies in from school, eager to tell his mother something he has on his heart, and Number One cries out, ’Oh, you liave left the door open 1 1 do M’ish you wouldn’t always leave the door open 1 How many times must I tell you to wipe your feet 1” “Now, there you have thrown y'our cap on the sofa again. When will vou learn to hang it up I Don’t put your ■ slate there ; that is not the place for it.” “How dirty your hands are 1 what have you been doing! Don’t sit in that chair ; y'ou break the spring bouncing.” “Mercy 1 how y'our hair looks 1 Do go up sta’rs and comb it.” “There, if y'ou haven’t torn the braid all off your coat 1 Dear me, what a boy!” “Don’t speak so loud; y'our voice goes through my head.’ “I want to know, Jim, if it was you that broke up that barrel that I have been saving for brown flour.” “I believe it was you, Jim, that hacked the side of my razor.” “Jim’s been writing at myr desk, and blotted three sheets of the best paper.” Now, the question is, if any of the grown people of the family had to run the gaunlet of a string of criticisms on themselves equal ly true as those that salute un lucky Jim, would they he any better natured about it than he is ! No ; but they are grown up people; tiiey have rights that others are bound to respect. Ev- eiybody cannot tell them exactly what ho thinks about everything they do. If every' one did, would i there not be terrible reactions I— j. Ex. i
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