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THE ORPHANS’ FRIEND. Wj;laLvsl:iy, Octabur 18, ISTG. BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ DEPARTMENT. IM THE NEST. Gilther them close to your loving heart— Cradle them on your breast; They will soon eiiougli leave your brooding care Soon enough mount youth’stopmost .ftair— Little ones in the nest. Fret not that the children’s hearts are gay, That their restless feet will i-un ; There may come a time in the by-aud-by When you’ll sit in yf)ur lonely room and sigh For a sound t»f childi.sh tun ; When you’ll long for a repetition sweet, That sounded through each room. Of “Mother ! Mother !” the dear love calls That echo long iu ihe silent halls, And add to their stately gloom. There may come a time «’hen you’ll long to hear The eager, hoyish tread, The tuneless whistle, the clear, shrill shout, The busy bu.stle in and out, And pattering over head. When the boys and girls ai'e all grown up And scattered far and wide, Or gone to the nndi.'icoverGd shore Where youth and age come nevermore, You will miss them from your side. Then gather them close to your loving heart, Cradle tli'uii on your brcixst, i i.'-y u ill st*ou eij.iugh leave your brooding care S«>ou eiiongli mount youth’s topmost stair— Little ones in the nest. TKIJE>SE’S POCKET. Grandma could not help smil ing’ as she shook out the little frock and saw the bulging pocket so crowded that the top layers of doll’s waterproof stuck out .at the top in a little frill of black and blue plaid. She pushed back tlie smile, and turned a grave face towards tlie bed, where Trudie hastily shut her eyes, that she might seem to be asleep. “ One, two, three—nine articles in youi pocket, Gertrude, and vour dress-skirt torn down three inches in consequence.” “ Yesim,” said Trudie, meekly, as grandma pulled out the doll’s cape, a nilibled cookey, a ball of red worsted and a square of can vass, a piece of chewed rubber, a box of heads, half an apple, a bundle of patchwork calico, and three sticks of cinnamon in a pa per. “ And no pocket liaiidkerclilef,” said grandma, severely. “It was on top. May be it fell out,” suggested Trudie. “ I don’t know what I had bet ter do, Gertrude, I have spoken to you so many times, and you never remember.” “ You may have two pockets in my dress, and then twouln’t he so crowded,” said Trudie, lirightening up a little. “ I am more inclined to sew up this one, and let you have none,” said grandma, taking away the little frock to be mended, while d’rudie turned over in bed with a groan of dismay. , She was a very careless little ifirl. Grandma tried hard to teach lier to keep things in their proper jilaces, hut Trudie found her pocket so convenient! And into it went tlie queerest things that ■ er .1 po ,ket held. Sc.; ’ ■ the next morning, a..ioiil('d ihe clean frock ■iwaiting her bv tiie bed, with an anxious lieart: hut apparently graudii.a luul decided to try her again, for her pocket was not sewed up; and Trudie plunged iu her hand, rejoicing. “ I mean to he just as careful to-day,” she said to hei-self. And she did mean it. Hut when slie was running a race with Fide, her prett}' new scarlet hair-ribbon blew off, and as she could not tie uji the thick hr,wii locks herself, she tucked the ribbon into her pocket, think- ihg,—_ “ It is only until I go into the liouse.” However, she did not return at once, for Nannie Jewell called to her to come across the street and play tag. So aivay rushed Trii- die. It was vacation, and she and Nannie had standing permis sion to visit across when no tasks were set for them at home. Tag wSs a great frolic, and when tliey were tired of it, they sat together in the swing in the old barn and rested. “ Cropple-crown lias laid an egg,” said Nannie, as a compla cent cackle was heard on the mow above their heads. “ Come and get it. I haven’t counted any eggs to-day, either, .=o there will be others. But Cropple is my hen.” The little girls poked about in the hay, crept under beams and groped in barrels, gatheiing up seven eggs, of which niiniher Trudie found four. You wouldn’t believe she would put two of them in her pocket, of course ; but she did. And then slie and Nannieclimb- ed down the beam to the barn floor. What alwaj’s happens when children are careless ? Mischief. In this case the mischief was that Tnidie’s pocket came next to the beam, and when she gave a filial jump to the floor, a queer, yellowish damp spot appeared on her clean frock, and the sticky trickle of eggs ran down her skirt's. “ What a mess !” cried Nannie ; and Trudie ruefully agreed, as she turned her pockets inside out, and saw its contents. Tliere was always something belonging to lier doll in Tnidie’s pocket, and now it was Blanclie’s best silk mantilla that was ruined along with the new hair-ribbon. “ Very well,” said grandma, as Trudie walked slowly in and ex plained matters. “ Very well; you can wear yoiir faded hair- ribbon for another month, and you know I never let you have more than a clean frock every other dav. ’ “Oh, dear!” groaned Trudie, who, for all her carelessness, hated to look shabby and soiled. “ If I was a girl in a book, I should be cured now, and never use any pocket so again ; but I am dread fully afraid I shan’t remember. I mean to try,—only pockets are such convenient things.”—Ycuth’s Companion. CAN’T HEEE IT. That was what Bert alwavs said when any one blamed him for Ills careless wavs. Susie came in one morning. ‘0 Bert I’ she sobbed, “when you fed the rabbits you left tho door un latched, and they came out and ran all over rny garden, and they have ruined my best plants.” “ Did they f” he said ; “ I am real sorry Sue ; but I can’t help it; I meant to shut the door, and I thonglit I did.” But poor Sue started for school with a very tearful face. “ Bert!” called his tnothetf’^f- he had caught the rabbits, “tlJlIS' is a very stormy-looking clo'ud in the south ; you and Susie ’had better stay this noon ; v’our lugch is in front of the pantry wind^v.” So Bert put it in a-tin-pail('and ho.w nice it did look, to be sure ; biscuit and cold toirgue, and sponge cake, and two litMjjijjplo turnovei's. “ Here comes Bert, just in time to pitch for us,” cried the ball players as he neared the school- house. He set the pail on the ground, and ran to his place. “ Hadn’t von better leave it on the fence I” suggested one of the boys. “ No ; it’s all right,” he said; but a hungry dog came up be hind them, and when the bell rang, nothing was left but the inside of the turnovers ; for Bert had hurried away in the morning witliout waiting for the cover. “ Won’t Sue be provoked, though?” he said to liimself, “but I can’t help it. Mr. Maloney ought not starve his dog so.” 'i'lie rain came, and at niglit he went into the kitchen to change Ills muddy shoes. He kicked them off, and one flew across the room into a basket of clean cloths just folded for ironing. Every article it touched would have to be washed over. “ 0 dear ! that’s too bad, Brid get,” he said ; but I can’t help it; I never once thought of its flying so far.” “ Can’t lielp it!” muttered the indignant Bridget; “you mean that you don’t want to help it.”— Congrcgationlist. WHAT AIEEH A PIEEOW. While Annie was saving her prayers, Nell trifled with a shad ow picture on the wall. Not sat isfied with playing alone, she would talk to Annie—that mite of a figure in gold and white— golden curls and snowy gown— by the bedside. ‘Now, Annie, watch I’ ‘Annie, just see I’ ‘0 Annie, do look,’ she said over and over again. Annie, who was not to be jter- suaded, finished her prayer, and crept into bed, tvliither her thoughtless sister followed, as the light must be out in so many minutes. Presently Nell took to floundering, punchin, and ‘ 0- dearing.’ Then she lay quiet a while, only to begin vvitii renewed energy. ‘My pillow P tossing, thump ing, kneading. ‘It’s as flat as a board, and as hard as a stone—1 can’t tliink what ails it.’ ‘1 know,’ answered Annie in her sweet, serious way. ‘What V ‘There’s is no prayer in it.’ Eor a second or a two Nell was as still as a mouse ; then she scrambled out on the floor—with a shiver, it is true, but she was determined never afterward to sleep on a prayerless pillow. ‘That must have been what ailed it,’ she wlii.spered soon after getting into the bed again ; ‘It’s all right now.’ 1 think that is what ails a great many piillows on which restless heads, both little and big’, ni.jhtly toss and turn: there are no prayers iu tlieui. Nell’s remedy was the best—tho only one. Prayer made the pillow soft, and she sank to rest as under a shel tering wing. .4 E.4DV «N EADIES. Women hnve their own place both in nature and society ; a place beautiful, important, enno bling and delightful, if they would but think so, if they would but care to make it so. But with the curse of discor.tent resting on them from the beginning, they prefer to spoil the work of men rather than try and perfect their own. Say, of their own special work, what is perfected to such a high degree of excellence as war rants their leaving it to take care of itself while they go to manipu late something else ? The ser vant question in all its branches annoN S and harrasses everyone, blit- this is cssentiallv a woman’s question, a clroiunstanee of that part of life which is organized, administered, and for the larger proportion fulfilled by women, is confessedly in a state of chaos and disorder, paralleled by none other of our social arrangements. Tlie extravagance of living, of dress, of appointments, which is one part of the servant disorder —because maids, being women, will trick themselves out in finery to attract as much admiration as their mistresses ; and, men, being animals, will gorge where their masters feast—wlience do these come save troiu women, rulers of society, regulators of modes and fashions, as they are ? Do the husbands order the dinners or de cide on the length of the train and fashion of the dress? If the ladies of England choose that the rule of life should be one of no ble simpliciyq beautifnl, artistic, full of meaning and delight, the false ornament and meretricious excess with which we are over weighed would fall from ns, and the servant question among othe s would get itself put straight. It is a matter of fashion, not necessi ty, and the mot d’ordre comes above. But where is the spirit of organization, the resolution to meet difficulties, the courage of self-control, through which alone great movements are made and great reforms led ? Tlie women who want to influence the coun cils of the empire, to have a choice in the making of laws which are to touch and reconcile contending interests, to help in the elucidation of difficult points, the administration of doubtful oases, see the servants standing in a disorganized mob at the gates ot the social temple, and are un able to sLig-gest anything wl.erj- by they may be reduced to order and content. But at the same time the women who complain of their own stunted lives, and who demand leave to share the lives and privileges of men, deiy- the right of their maids to live up to a higher standard so far as they themselves are concerned, and hold the faith that service sliould mean practically servitude.—3Iis. Lynn Linton in the Belgravia Mag azine. An old lady from the rural dis tricts astonished a clerk in one of the stories, a few days ago, by inquiring if he had any “valler developments, such as they did up letters in.” THE EEGSSEATEKE AND THE ORPHANS. Correspondents so often ask what tlie Legislature has done for the oi’phans, that we fina itneces- sai'}’ to keep a standing answer to the inquiry. Tlie Constitution of North Carolina sa3’s : ‘There shall also, as soon as practicable, be measures devised by the State for the establishment of one or more Orphan blouses, where destitute orphans m.ay be cared for, educated and taught some business or trade.’ Every member of the Legisla ture, before taking his seat, sol emnly swears, “that he will sup port the Constitution and laws of the United States, and tlie Consti tution of the State of North Caro lina, and will faithfully discharge his duty as a member of the Sen ate, or House of Representatives.” Both political parties have been in power since the present Con stitution was adopted, and the only appropriation made to tlie orphan work was the gift of the crape used at the fuuend of Gov ernor Caldwell. 10-tf. TIIE Orphans’ Friend, A LIVE m LIVELY WEEKLY! OJRGAN OF THE ORPHAN WORK ENTERTAINING AND IN STRUCTIVE TO THE YOUNG. OF EOUCATIOIV. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION AND POSTAGE OlVEY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR BUILDING, AT OXFORD. “0- ADVERTISEMENTS. Ten cents a line for one insertion. Five cents a line each week for more than one and less than twelve insertions. One column, three montlis, sixty (h)llar.. Half column, thre; months, forty dollars, quarter column, three immths, twenty dollars. Present circulation, fourteen hundred and forty papers each week. Address ORPHANS’ FRIEND, OXFOllD. N. C. T. B. LYoN, JR. E. DALBY. E. H. LYON [Late of PvffT) LYON, DALBY & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF “AROMA PUFF,” KINO Durham, N. C. Ordei’g solicited—Agents wanted—Tobacco guai-antccd March 17th—11-2m. II. A. IlEAyiS & CO., M..VNUFACTTIREKS OF REAMS’ DURHAM BOOT AND SHOE POLISH. Warranted to excel all others, or money A ZEALOUS FRIEND AND ADVOCATE OFFICE IN THE OBPHAX Refunded. The only Blacking that will poli.sh on oiled surface. It is guaranteed to presen’e leather and make it pliant, requiring less quantity and time to produce a perfect gloss than any other, tlie brush to he applied immediately after put ting on the Blacking. A perfect gloss from this will not soil even white clothes. We guarantee it as represented, and as for pat ronage, strictly on its mcritSv H. A. REAMS & CO., Manufacturers, Durham, N. 0. This Blacking is recommended m the high est terms, after trial, bYGeO. F. Brown, J- Howard Warner, Ne« York; ".he Presideisi auf. Pi’otessoi's of Wake Forest College; anti a large number of gentlemen >a anl anmnd Durham, whose eertih>ates have been fur- wished’ the ^lanutacturers. Orders solicited and promptly filled. March 3id, ]S7o. y-ti
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