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THE OHPIIAXS’ FRIEND.
WiMSuM'Jsday, 'I?a;as'5ii 1, IN'3'0.
Cff.l>U3>S WiTJaSlI^V^aiLlKIAGS.
15Y MAllY COLBY.
There’s never a day so sunny
lint a little cloud appears ;
There’s never a life so happy
But has had its time of tears ;
'\'et the sun shines out the hvi^jiiter
Wiicn i'le stormy tempest clears,
'J'hcre’s never a garden growing
With roses ill every plot;
Tm've’s never a heart so hardened
But it has one tender spot;
"We have only to pursue the border
To liiid the forget-me-uot.
There’s never a cup so pleasant
But has hittcu' with the S’.ve"[;
There’s never a path so rugged ‘
Tl) t hears not the print of feet;
Ami wo have a Helper promised
For the trials we may meet.
There’s never a sun that rises
But wc know it.will set at night;
T!ie tints that gleam in the moriilng
At evening are just as bright;
And the hour that is the sweetest
Is between the dark and light.
There’s never a dream that’s happy
But the waking makes us sad;
There’s never a dream of sorrow
But the waking makes ns glad;
We shall look some day with wonder
At the troubles wc have had.
Thci'e's never a way so narrow
But the eutrance is made straight;
Tiiere’s always a guide to point us
To the ‘little wicket gate;’
And the angels will be nearest
To a soul that is desolate.
There’s never a heart so haughty
But will some day bow and kneel;
There’s never a heart so wounded
That the Savior cannot heal;
There’s many a lowly forehead
That is bearing the hidden seal.
—Ex.
AW 5Ci:iiAWi>EiS IW SCOTEAXD.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
One niglit, when Jon awoke,
lie missed the usual sounds of
waves against the vessel’s side
and the cries of the sailors on
deck—every tiling seemed strange
ly quiet; but he was too good a
sleeper to puzzle his head about
it, so merely turned over on his
pillow. ■ When he arose the quiet
was still there. lie dressed in
haste and went on deck. The
yacht lay' at anchor in front of
buildings larger than a liundred
Rejkiaviks put togeather.
“This is Leith,” said Mr. Lome,
ccniing up to him.
“Leith t'” Jon exclaimed ; “it
seems like Rome or Jerusalem!
Those must be the king’s palaces.”
“No, my boy,” Mr. Lome an
swered, “they are only ware-
liouses.”
“ But v.'liat are those queer green
hills behind the houses 1 They
are so steep and round that I
don’t see how anybody could
climb up.”
“Hills f’ exclaimed Mr. Lome.
“Oil, ] see now! Why, Jon,
those are trees.”
Jon was silent. He dare not
doubt his friend’s wmrd, but he
could not yet wholly believe it.
When they had landed, and he
saw the great trunks, the spread
ing boughs, and the millions of
green leaves, such a feeling of
awe and admiration came over
him tliat he began to tremble. A
Aviud was blowing,, and the long,
flexible bouglis of the elms sway
ed up and down.
“Ub, Mr. Lome!” he cried.
“See ! they aro praying 1 Let us
wait awhile; they’ aro sayJng
something—I hear their voice.
Is it English ?—can y’ou under
stand it f ’
Mr. Lome took him by the
band, and said ; “It is praise, not
prayer. They speak the same
language all over iLe world, but
no one can uaderstaud all they
s ,y.'
There is one rough little cart in
Rejkiavik, and that is the only'
vehicle in Iceland. What, then,
must have been Jon’s feelings
when he saw hundreds of elegant
carriages dashing to and fro, and
great wagons drawn by' giant
horses ? When they got into a
cab, it seemed to him like sitting
on a moving throne. He had
read and heard of all these things,
and thought he had a clear idea of
what they' were ; but he was not
prepared for the reality'. He w'as
so excited, as they drove uj) the
long street to Edinburg, that Mr.
Lome, sitting beside him, could
feel the beating of his heart. Tlie
new wonders never ceased: there
was an apple-tree, with fruit;
rose-bushes in bloom ; whole beds
of geraniums in the little gardens ;
windows filled w'itli fruit, or bril
liant silks, or silver-ware ; towers
that seem to touch the clouds, and
endless multitudes of people 1 As
they reached the hotel, all he
could say, in a faltering voice,
was : “Poor old Iceland 1”
The next day they took the
train for Lanark, in the neighbor
hood of which Mr. Lome had an
estate. When Jon saw the bare,
heather-covered mountains, and
swift brooks that came leaping
down their glens, he laughed and
said:
‘Oh, you have a little of Ice
land even here ! If there were
trees along the Thiorva, it would
look like yonder valley.”
‘I have some moorland of rny'
oivn,’ Mr. Lome remarked ; “and
if y'ou ever get home-sick, I’ll
send you out upon it, to recover.”
But when Jon reached the
house, and was so cordially' wel
comed by Mrs. Lome, and saw
the park and gardens where he
hoped to become familiar with
trees and flowers, he thought
there would be as mudi likeli
hood of being liome'-sick in hea
ven as in such a place.—St. Nich
olas for March.
THE BC'KN!.fV« ®r MOSCOW.
The burning of Moscow, in
1812, is one of the most noted
conflagrations on record, not only
on account of its magnitude, but
for its historical importance. The
French entered tire city Septem
ber 14, Napoleon proposing to
make it his winter quarters. On
that very day' several fires broke
out, but little attention was paid
to them by' the invading army nn
til the next two days, when they
had acquired great headway. On
the 17th a high wind arose, and
the flames spread rapidly' in ev
ery direction ; by the 18th the
whole city appeared a sea of
flame, and by the evening of the
20th nine-tenths of it was reduced
to ashes. The total number of
buildings destroyed is stated at
between 13,000 and 15,000. The
Russians at the time, in order to
cast odium on the French, attrib
uted this conflagration to the or
ders of Napoleon. It is now,
however, generally acknowledged
that the fires were the work of the
Russians themselves, and that
they' were kindled by the orders
of the Governor, Rostoptebin,
acting beyond all doubt under
the sanction of the Empeor Alex
ander, without which it is hardly
conceivable that the Governor
would have ventured on such a
step. The object was to deprive
the French army of shelter from
the winter. Ample precautions
had been taken to insure the en
tire destruction of the city. In
flammable materials were placed
in deserted mansion^ in every
quarter, aud the torch was apjji-
ed simultaneously all over the
city. In burning the French o. t
of their proposed winter quarters,
no provision had been made for
tlie safety of tire inhabitants, who
were driven to seek shelter in the
surrounding woods ; and it is af
firmed that more than 20,000 sick
and wounded i)eri8hed in the
flames. The direct loss to the
French is put down at 40,000;
aud beyond this, it in the end in
volved the retreat in tlie dead of
winter, and tlie almost complete
amiihilation of the great French
army. This act, which the Rus
sians at the time repudiated, is
now considered by' them as their
highest glory', the greatest exam
ple iu history of national self-sac
rifice for the destruction of an in
vader.—Appleton’s American Cy
clopedia.
A KEW DEPAit'Jt'EUE OF GEASS.
The discovery' of tempered or
unbreakable glass, bids fair to
become the most practically use
ful invention of the present cen
tury'. The increased strength
whicli is given to ordinary glass
by M. De la Bastle’s oleaginous
bath will make it avaible for
water-pipes, vats, and many other
receptacles of liquids where ves
sels have thus far been used,
very often most unsatisfactoilal.
Tlie toughness of the tempered
glass is so great, that a plate can
be thrown with violence on the
floor without breaking-. A jiiece
one eighth of an inch in thickness
will bear the weight of a man,
and the chimneys of gas-burners
and lamps are not affected by the
heat, which rarely' fails to break
common ones. The resistance of
the prepared material to frost has
not yet been thorouglily tested,
but it is pretty certain that in
need only be one-fourtli the tliick-
ness of ordinary plate glass, to
resist any possible amount of
lateral pressure. It can bo en-
ambled so as to resemble ordinary
crockery', and, being unbreak
able, will be a great saving to
families v/liere th.e servants are
clumsy, or the children young or
numerous. The exact process of
making it is. yet a secret. It is
known that the bath in which it
is plunged is composed of differ
ent fatty substances; but their
proportions and the degree of
lieat applied are kept private.
The temperature is a very high
one,—the glass being heated to
the point of softening, and likely
to set the fat on fire. JhL is
prevented by excluding air from
the bath, and the shock of the
fall—for the glass is too hot to be
Iiandled carefully —is avoided by
interposing a sheet of v, ire gauze
or asbestos cloth. The inventor
had to overcome many difficulties
at first; and though he appears to
have surmounted them, his dis
covery' is probably in its infancy'.
The ancients are said to have
made malleable glass, and if per
fect elasticity can be given to the
new or re-invention, it will be
bard to say where its usefulness
will end. At present it is en
couraging to know that the day's
of broken cliina and broken win
dows are near their end.—Cin
cinnati Gazette.
Commiiiticutsisy^ tiifoi'iiiatioii.
A remarkable ability to com
municate information is shown in
bees being able to inform the
whole family where a supply of
honey is to be obtained. For in
stance, take a comb of honey to a
place where not ten bees in a
week would be liable to be found,
aud let a single bee find it, and
in one hour thousands would be
rushing there to obtain the honey.
The first imparts the information
to two or thr, e, and these in tuin
t) others, till tlie entire family is
informed where the treasure is.
A notable instance of this power
to give information as to the lo
cality of honey', says a writer,
occurred in my' own case. One
night a thief came to my hives
and carried away' about a doz'jii
small boxes of boiioy', about six
pounds each, and Lid the n in a
mass of bushes near the road,
about one Iruudred rods from my
apiary, intending to carry them
off tho next night. These boxes
had no bees iu them, but the next
day some stray bee happened to
discover the treasure iu the
bushes, the boxes having holes iu
them to admit bees, and in a lew
hours not an ounce of honey re
mained in them, it all having
been carried back to my apiary
by my own bees and stored up as
food for winter. My' attention
was called to the fact by a per
son who saw the bees in count
less thousands flying over the
bushes where the honey was hid
den.—HJx.
Somebody' has made the calcu
lation that each acre of a coal
seam in England, four feet in
thickness, and yielding one y'ard
net of jiure fuel, is equivalent to
about five thousand tons, and
possesses, therefore, a reserve of
mechanical strength in its fuel
equal to the life-labor of more than
sixteen hundred men. Each
square mile of one such single
coal bed contains eight millions
tons of fuel, equivalent to one
million of men laboring tlii-ough
twenty y'ears of their ripe strength.
Assuming, for calculation, that
ten million tons out of the present
annual products of the British
coal mines—namely', sixty-five
millions—are applied to tlie pro
duction of mechanical power,
England may' be said to annually
summon to her aid between three
and four million fresh men,
pledged to exert their fullest
strength for twenty' yeai’s. Her
actual annual expenditure of
power, then, is represented, then
by' 66,000,000 of able-bodied
laborers.
ISOW CHJEBini'Y’ Ait!E^A»M.lT-
TEH.
Very' often the Superintendent
hunts up poor and promising or
iJians aud informs them of the
advantages offered at the Orphan
Houses, and induces them to re
turn with him. Generally it is
best that he should see them be
fore they start. When this is
impracticable, a formal applica
tion should be made by some
friend. Here is one in proper
form :
Edenton, N. C., )
June 2d, 1875. y
This is to certify that Susan N.
Bradshaw is an orphan, without es
tate, sound in body and mind, and
ten years of aye. Her father died in
1873 ; her mother in 1867. Iheing
her Aunt, hereby make application
for her admission into the Asylum
at Oxford. I also relinquish and
convey to the. officers of the Asylum
the management and control of the
said orphan for four years, in order
that she may be trained and educa
ted according to the regulations pre
scribed by the Grand Lodge of North
Carolina. Martha Scott.
Approved by
John Thompson, IF. M.
of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7.
The application should be sent
to the Superintendent and he will
either go for the children, or pro
vide for their transportation. In
no case should a community take
up a collection to send a man
with the children, nor send the
children before the Superintendent
has been consulted. 4-12t.
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