VOLUME II.
SPEAK NAE ILE.
OXIORI), N. C., WEUXESDAY, MAY 17, 1876.
Other pco])lo have their faults,
And so have ye as well,
Kut all ye chance to see or hear,
Ye have no right to tell.
If ye caiiiia speak o’good,
Take care, and see and feel,
Earth has all to much o,\voe
And not enouiih o’weal.
Be carefulthat ye make nae strife
Wi’ meddling tongue and braia,
For ye will find enough to do
If ye but look athame.
If ye canna speak o'good,
Oh, do not speak at all,
For there is grief and woe enougli
On this terrestrial ball.
If ye should feel like picking haws.
Ye better go, I ween.
And read the book that tells ye all,
About the mote and beam.
Dinna lend a ready ear
To gossip or to strife,
Or, perhaps, '■tv^•ill make for ye
Nae funny things o’life.
Oh, dinna add to others’ woe,
Nor mock it with your mirth.
But give ye kindly sympathy
To suffering ones of earth.
025SAR£> COLl,IEGa3 FOR OR-
FHAi’lES, PS$Sl^A©EXfi*55SA.
This noble charity is the result
of the beueficonce and wisdom of
one man, the late Stephen Girard,
of Philadelphia, wlio by tlietei-ni.s
of his will, becpicadied the sum of
$2,000,000, together with such
other amounts from the interest
on the residue of his estate as
might be necessary, to maintain
and educate as many poor white
male orphans as should be in need
thereof, and could bo accommo
dated on the block of ground on
which the buildings are located.
It is intended that the benefi
ciaries of this charity shall be
limited to veiy poor, white male
orphans, all children who Iiave
lost their fathes being considered
orphans. The express design
of the founder was to take those
boys whose education must oth
erwise be neglected, and train
them in practical knowledge.
They were to be taught facts and
stance, the chang-o in the appren
ticeship system, wliich has taken
place during the last quarter of a
century, rendered it difficult to
find people willing to receive
hoys as apprentices who were
unacquainted rvith labor, and thus
it was found advisable toiutroduce
industries in the college. Eurther,
it was found that some of the
boys, n liile they seemed to lack
the mental capacity and taste for
the pursuits, of the higher studios,
succeeded well in their industrial
pursuits, and these were appren
ticed as opportunity offered.
Thus it may be stated, that tlie
Girard College for Orphans, is a
home where the pupils are taught
and trained, as far as their capac
ities admit, for thoir duties and
destiny in life. They receive
such intellectual education as they
are mentalhr qualified to acquire
and such instructions in practical
handicraft as is best suited to
their usefulness and of benefit to
themselves. It embraces tlio
home, the college, and the work
shop, in which these essential
quantities, as well as cultivated
capacities of mind, morals, and
muscles, are developed and edu
cated.
The boys after entering tlie
college, are, for about two year.s,
when out of school, under the
care of live governesses, eacli one
being in charge of a section of
about 40 boys. An intellivfent
NUMliEJi 20.
31 besides other charities, left
the $2,000,000 above mentioned
for the erection of a college and
tlie necessary out-buildings for
the residence and accommodation
of at least 300 white male orphan
scholars, besides providing for
its extention, should that ever be
necessary. The corner-stone of
the college was laid on the 4th
of Jul)' 1833, and in the main
edifice and out buildings were
completed on the 13th of Xovem-
ber, 1847, and on the 1st of
January, 1848, it was opened
with a class of 100 orphans.—Bu
reau of Education.
INFESJEKCE NATtllKAE
SCEKEKAa
BY H. n. TUCKER, D. 1).
supervising governess, also assists
things, rather tlian words or signs.
1 borough training in the com
mon and higher English branch
es, and also in Erench and Span
ish, is prescribed by the will.
The addition of Latin and Greek
is permitted, but not advised.
Mr. Girard forbade sectarian in
struction to the boys, but desired
“that all the instructors and
teachers in the college shall take
the pains to instill into the minds
of the scholars, the purest princi
ples of morality, so that, on their
entrance into active life, tliev'
may, from inclination and habit,
evince benevolence towards their
fellow-creatures and a love of
truth, sobriety, and iiidustrjn”
He desired also, especially, “tliat
by every proper means a
attachment to our republican in
stitutions, and to the sacred rights
of conscience, as guaranteed by
our happy Constitutio.n, shall be
formed and fostered in the minds
of the scholars.” Mr. Girard’s
plan contemplated the apprentice
ship of the boys to some useful
trade or calling, after they should
have pursued to its close the pre
scribed curriculum of studies, but
Various circumstances liavo nec
essitated the modifioatiou of such
plans to some extent. I'ur iu-
iii eradicating the evil habits of
the boys, and in giving them re
ligious instruction, moral training,
and good manuci-s. Five pre
fects, aided by an experienced
suporvisiiig prefect, have charg-e
of the larger boys wdien out of
school, and do what they can to
guide tli.ein ariglit, as well as to
restrain them from wrong-doing.
Twelve rvomen give pai-t of their
time to instruction in reading and
elocution and in the French and
Spanish languages, and two men
teach vocal and instrumental mu
sic. The band attaclied to the
battalion of College Cadets is so
efficient, that their services are
treqiienth’ souglit for outside, but
it is deemed uiuvise often to grant
these requests.
The drill of the College Cadets
was found to bo so beneficial to
the health and manly bearing' of
the boo's, and to the discipline of
tlie institution, that a preparatory
course of calisthenics lias been
established.
As soon as the question of
opening streets through tlie col
lege-grounds is settled, additional
buidilngs will be erected and as
large a number of orphans ad
mitted as the permanent income
of the'estate will support, proba
bly 500 additional to the 550 at
present in the institution. There
lire now near!}' 100 applicants
awaiting admission, and some of
them will be excluded by becom
ing 10 years old before their
names are reached, as in every
instance admission is strictly in
accordance with the order of ap
plication.
The founder of the institution,
Stephen Girard, was bom in
Bordeaux, France, in 1750, and
died in 1831, in tiie city of I’liil-
adelphia, where he had lived for
more tiiaii fifty years. His last
will and codicils, dated in 1830-
Place lias wonderful effect on
human feelings and human ac
tions. The original injiabitants
of Scotland and Switzerland, and
those of the sterile plains of Ara
bia, ivere s.avages alike, the latter
having, however, the advantage
of letters, whicli the former had
not. But tlie former, though
savage, were romantic, poetic, pa
triotic, and human; while the
latter were sensual, selfish, thiev
ish, nomadic, and Arab. How
comes it, that when the natural
scenery is jiiotiiresque there is in
human character something to
correspond, and that where Na-
fiu'o spreads out her sandy plains,
unrelieved by gi-owth or verdure,
humau nature, too, seems barren
of every outgrowth of beauty.
These things illustrate the well-
worn maxim that the mind, be
comes wiiat it contemplates. Im
pressioiis made on the retina are
really made on the soul Nay,
rather, they are the mould 'in
which tlio soul is cast and takes
shape. Nay, more, tney not on
ly give shape, but complexion.
Nay, more, they not only give
color to the superfices, they per
vade the interior, the)' are infused
into the substance; they amalo-a-
mate with tiie essence, so tlnat a
man is not only like what lie sees,
but in a certain sense, he is what
lie sees. The noble old High
lander has mountains in his soul
whose towering peaks point hea
venward, and lakes in his bosom
whose glassy surfaces reflect the
skies, and foaming cataracts in
his heart to beautify the moun
tain side and irrigate the vale,
and ever-greon firs and mountain
pines, that show life and verdure,
even under winter skies, and by a
rock-bound coast.
The wandering nomad has a
desert in liis heart; its dead level
reflects heat and hate, but not
goodness and beauty; no danc
ing wave of joy, no gushing riv
ulet of love, no verdant hope—a
sullen, barren plain, that stretches
over earth and hugs it, but never
heaves up to lieaven. Oh. give
me descent from mountain-born
sires, or from green and happy
England, or patriotic Switzerland,
or from, the glorious old banks
of the llhine ! But if there be iu
me a drop of that nomadic taint
—of that ostrich blood, that has
no liouse and loves no home, and
sees only straight forward and
never looks lip—oh, open the vein
and let it out!
It is an interesting fact in the
history of our race, that those
who live in countries where tlie
natural scenery inspires the soul,
and where tlio necessities of life
bind to a permanent homo, are
alwaj’s patriotic and higii-minded,
and those who dwell in the desert
are always pusillanimous and
groveling.
In the providence of God, but
a small portion of our eartli is
barren of educational power.
Over two-thirds of it, rolls the
majesty of waters.
And as for the remainder, its
Alps and its Andes,, its fertile
fields .and flower-dro&sed vales
and woody glens, embracing ev
ery variety of scene, from the
wildest riot of Nature, to the more
plastic soil, wliere nature yields to
Art, all bespeak the wisdom and
beucvolonoe whicli has surround
ed' us with objects calculated to
Ro jC C8!!Jissg-S.
elevate our thoughts and refine
our sensibilities. ''If the inhabi
tants of such a world as this are
not a noble race, it is not because
tlieir Creator has not supplied
them with teachers, but because
they lack the spirit which
I iuds tongues iu trees, books in the niuuing
brooks,
Scriuons in stones, and good in everything.’’
Max Klose, an experienced
gardener, says; Tu.stead of tlirow-
i ig my pruiiings away last spring
I used them as cuttings—jiut a
whole lot of them, about a dozen
or more, in a mannulado jar filled
with coarse sand and water, with
sufficient of the latter to be about
a quarter of an inch or so above
the sand. I then jiiung'ed the jar.s
into a sliglit liof-bed, and let the
cuttings have all the liglit and
sun possible—never shaded once.’
After eight weeks lie examined
the jars and found tlio roots to
fill them, and tlie slioots in the
healthiest condition. Nothing
could be more so. Ho adds'!
Out of about 120 cuttings of
three dozen kinds of roses, I on
ly missed striking fifteen, which
1 ,think is a very encourag'inr
result; anyhow, 1 sliall consider
it the road royal, and experiment
ag-ain in a similar manner in sum
mer, when 1 siiall pay more at
tention to the preparing of tiie
cuttings and the way they will
strike the readiest.
of tlic Word MumiSsHg.
Among the many issues of base
coin which from time to time
were made in Ireland, there was
none to be compared in wortliless-
ness to that made by James II.,
at the Dublin mint. It ivas com
posed of any thing on whicli he
could lay his hands, such as lead,
pewter, copper and brass, and so
low was its intrinsic value, that
twenty shillings of it was only
worth two pence sterling. Wil
liam III., a few days after the
battle of Boyne, ordered that the
cro wn-j)ieoe and half-crown should
be taken as one-penny and one-
half penny, respectively. The
soft mixed metal of which that
worthless coin was composed, was
known among the Irish as Ulm
bog, pronounced Oem bug, i. e.,
soft copper, i. e,, worthless mon
ey ; and in course of their deal
ings the modern use of the word
humbug took its rise, as in the
phrases, “Tliat’s a piece of tiim-
bog.” , “Don’t think to pass off
your uimbog on me.” Hence the
word humbug came to bo applied
to anything that had a specious
appearance, but which was iu re
ality spurious. It is curious to
note tliat the very opposite of
humbug, i. e., false metal, is the
word sterling, whicli is also talcen
from a term applied to the true
coinage of Great Britian, as ster
ling coin, sterling wortli, &c.
iSisstgrer oi Kccjjjng Fiowors and
Fi'uits in Slecjiiag: Kootjis.
The Chicago Medical Journal
and Examiner cautions its readers
as to tile danger of keeping
flowers and fruits in sleeping
rooms. It mentions several in
stances, reported by Dr. Bretter,
illustrating the fatal results ot the
piactice, -which, as a precaution
to our readers, we publish ;
A gentleman liad the unliap-
py idea of making, of tlie branoli-
sof aniL'ander, some kind of
alcove in which to sleep; next morn
ing he was found dead. A grocer
and his dork went to sleep in a
room in whicli throe boxes of or
anges stood, and they were
dead by the next morning. A
clerk in a store, who v/as to watch
at night, laid down with a bag of
sassafras under his head; he'like
wise was dead in the morning.
Another gentleman having some
hyacinths in his room, got tlio
most violent headache and felt so
drowsy that he could hardly re
frain from sleeping. Ho at once
put the flowers out of the room,
opened the windows, and soon
felt easier.”
Help One Another.—This lit
tle sentence should be written on
every heart and stamped on eve
ry memory. It should be the gol
den rule practiced, not only in ev
ery household, but througliout the
world. By helping one another
we not only remove thorns from
the jiatliway, and anxiety from
the mind, but wo feel a sense of
pleasure in o'U’ hearts, knowing
we are doing a duty to fellow
creatures. A helping hand or .an
encouraging word is no loss to us,
yet it is a benefit to others.
A venerable man of eiij-hty
having been asked, Which is tlie
happiest season of life t thus an
swered the question; WJien
spring comes, and under the in
fluence of tlie gentle warmtii of
tuo atmosphere, the buds coni-
rneiice to show themselves and to
turn into fiower.s, 1 think in my
self, Oh, ivhat a beautiful season
is spring ! Then when summer
comes and covers the trees with
thick toiiage, wlien the birds are
so hajipy in singing their pretty
songs, I say to myself, 0 simi-
mei is a fine thing! Then when
autumn arrives, I see tlie same
trees laden with the finest and
most tempting friiit;;, I cry out,
Oh, liow magnificent is autumn !
And, finally, when the ruclo and
Iiard winter makes its aiipoarauce,
and there are neither leai'es nor
fruits on the trees, then, through
their naked brandies 1 look Tip
and perceive, better tlian 1 could
ever do before, the si.lendid stars
that glitter iu the sky.
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