F
OEPHANS’ FRIEND.
Wodiiesday, February 28, isyr.
BFBBLE8.
All! baby on the windoiy-sill,
With liuigliiiig lips and eyes,
Making tliy tiny worlds at will,
In gay and glad suiprise.
Thy pretty trade my heart appalls,
Its shallow is so dread ;
So bright, so frail, thy tender toys.
So swiftly made—and lied !
Allheavenisin those glittering spheres,
And all the world below;
AWiat fair and liiient sheen and shade
Across tiiem come and go!
Tlien, dream-like still, at once they die;
(lone imt in middle air:
Lost to the mazed and grieving eye.
The baby’s fond despair.
Would that my lesson were unlearned;
Would 1 could still believe
The bubbles that delight mine eye
My heart would never grieve !
Alas, the rote is more than read,
The apple eaten long:
Life’s later page isi)itiless.
It notes no siren song.
O Barth, how bitter .are thy fruits !
How salt thy sweetest springs !
Through the S( f, concerts of thy flutes
What subtile discord rings!
Beneath thy sharp, relentless touch
Our bubbles break and die ;
And we.—thy bubbles—sail and fade
Into Eternity!
BAB ARID THE WASPS.
“Bab Jones is always in some
mischief.” So said one of the
neighbors, and it was as true as
anything could be.
‘Who,was Bab Jones?’ Why,
he was ‘tinker’ Jones’s son. Don’t
you remember old ‘tinker’ Jones,
who used to travel about with his
l^l^le kettle of charcoal, and his
leather bag full of rosin and old
pieces of lead, and nails and
screws and all soils of bits; and
how he used to mend up all the
old, leaky tin dishes, and wash
basins, and tin tea-kettles; and
the old tubs and pails that had
lost their hoops ; and solder up
the brass kettles? Why every
body knew ‘tinker’ Jones, and
they gave him that title because
tinkering was his business.
He was an honest, kind-heart
ed, simple-minded man, and
alw.avsindustrious. Babson Jones
was his real name, and he had
one son who was named for him;
but all the boys, and every one
else for that matter, called him
‘Bab,’ it was so much easier; and
it seemed to fit the boy too.
Now Bab was not one bit like
his father, for he would neither
work nor study, and he necessa-
rially had a bad master to serve ;
for you know, as well as I, who
is master to sucli idle boys.
The neighbors used to tell
‘tinker’ Jones how troublesome
Bab was, and then they would
threaten to liave him sent to the
‘Keform School’ if he didn’t be
have ; whereupon the poor, old
man wpuld be overcome with
sorrow, and say that lie would
talk with Betty about it, and per
haps she could coax the- lad to do
better.
Betty, you must know was
Bab’s mother ; and a good woman
she was. She spent many an
anxious, tearful night over the
bad conduct of her wayward bo3n
She would talk with him, and
prav over him, and try to induce
liim to -work; for Betty well
knew that one great cause of
Bab's misconduct was his idlenes.».
The energies that were not spent
in work, would be spent in mis
chief It was just as true then as
now, that
“Satan finds some mischief stiU
For idle-bauds to do.”
Some of the villagers said that
Bab wasn’t veiy bright; but oth
ers said he was bright enough to
be around at meal times to get
all he wanted to eat, and bright
enough to be ‘ugly.’ Poor Bet
ty, in her anxiety for her boy,
would often say to him ; ‘Ah !
Bab, YOU will find one of these
days if \mu are not careful, that
Satan will treat \’OU just as he
does eveiy one else who serves
liim. lie will get j'ou into trou
ble, but he won’t gat you out,”
And so it proved. One da\' Bah
was strolling off through tlie field
with his hands in his pockets, and
whistling a tune to his dog Nip,
wlio was frolicking by ids side.
Suddenly- it occurred to him that
he’d have a little fun with Nip.
Cruel ! cruel boy ! Poor, un
conscious dog! But Bab was
well punished, as we shall see.
A few rods awaj- from him,
just under the stone wall, in among
some raspberry bushes, there
was a vellow wasp’s nest. Now,
thouglit Bab there is a chance for
some fun. So lie picked up a
stone and spat upon it, and threw
it square into the wasp’s nest and
then sent Nip after it. Away
bounded the dog in search of the
stone, when, the instant he reach
ed the bushes, he was attacked
by a swarm of the inturiated
wasps, so suddenly routed from
their home.
Poor Nip yelled and howled
with pain and terror, while the
wicked boy was convulsed with
laughter. But just here was the
time when Bab’s master, Satan,
left him to the merej' of the dog,
wliicb in his pain ran back, of
course, to Ms master for help.
No sooner did he reach Bab, than
he rubbed violently against his
legs, only increasing the fury of
the wasps, which at once set upon
Bab in great numbers, stinging
him mercilessly wherever they
could. It was Bab’s turn now
to howl, and. most lustily he did
it; but no one heard him, and lie
was obliged to fight bis battle
alone.
When boy and dog readied
the village, not long i fter, they
were botli in a sorry plight. Poor
Nip was in such great suffering
that he was immediatel}' shot;
but as Bab couldn’t so well be
shot, he was helped home to his
mother; for he could by this time
scarcely walk or see. For two
weeks he was very sick, and so
swolen from the poison of the
stings that he looked very unlike
Bab Jones. The doctor did not
think he could get well. But a
kind Heavenly Father spared his
life, giving him another opportu
nity to become a good boy.
Betty Jones ever after believed
in the reputation whidi Satan
Iiad always had, of being a bad
master; and with greater energy
tlian ever, she cautioned Bab to
beware how he served him. What
became of Bab I cannot tell. I
hope he became a better boy ; if
he did not I am sure there was
little hope for him when he be
came a man; and if be is still
living, I should expect to find
him in gaol or prison, or some
other bad place.
TFBKEV IM ASIA.
MAMiHA’S PAKIS HAT.
“Oil, mamma, see ! the baliy’s
Dot pretty fiotvers for oo;
He Didn’t (let ’em in the fields,
' STor in the garden too.
“An’ he (lot ’ittle (leaded bird;
He can’t fy wif bis wings;
Hasn’t dot any nest nor eggs;
And can’t sing any sings.”
“Oh, -what has mamma’s baby done?
What has that child been at'?
My bonnet that was never on!
Jlv lovely rarishat!” ■
The population of Turkey in
Asia is estimated at 16,000,000,
of whom about one-fourtli are
Christians. They, however, are
divided into a number of distinct,
and in some cases, unfortunately,
hostile races and sects. The
Armenians are the most numer
ous and influential. They were
once a powerful, independent na
tion, occupying the whole up
land region between the Black
Sea, the Caspian, and the plain of
Mesopotamia. They w(;re con
quered. the Moliammedans in
the eleventh centuiy, and subse
quent! their countiy was divided
between the Turks and the Per
sians. Since the beginning of
the pre.sent centuiy tlie aggress
ions of Russia have placed about
a quarter of a million of Armen
ians undertheruleof thoCzar. In
tlie Turkish provinces (Fyalat)of
Frzeroum and Kharput the}- con
stitute a very large proportion of
the ])opulation, and many villages
are exclusively occupied by them.
But the}’ are not confined to
those provinces. Like the Jews,
they are a scattered people. Col
onies are found in every city of
Turkey; and as bankers, mer
chants, manufacturers and skilled
artisans, they are among the most
successful and influential citizens.
They are destined to play a
leading part in the future of
Turkey. Their number in the
Asiatic provinces is about 2,000,-
000, and in the European 400,-
000. They are rapidly increas
ing in wealth, education, and
political influence ; and as they
have prosperous communities in
the great cities of Europe and
British India, they have very
special claims upon Christian
nations. The adherents of the
Greek Church rank next, num
bering about 1,500,000. They are
not, however, of one raett, nearly
a Iialf being Greeks, and the
rest natives of Asia Minor and
Syria. There is no province or
section of Asiatic Turkey in
which they are in a majority,
except two or three of the islands.
They live in detached communi
ties, chiefly in the cities and
villages near the coast, and are
principally engaged in commerce
and manufacture, though many
cultivate the soil. Within the
past half century they have
made great advances in education.
The Latins, who number at least
100,000, are converts from the
other churches to Catholicism,
and reside almost exclusively in
large cities, such as Damascus,
Jerusalem, Beyrout, Aleppo, and
Smyrna, where they well-endow
ed convents and educational es
tablishments. The Maronites are
confined to Mount Lebanon,
whose rugged sides and sublime
glens they have converted into a
paradise. They want the com
mercial acuteness ot the Greek
and the financial genius of the
Armenian, but in preserving in
dustry, manly independence and
courage, they (ixcel all the other
Christian sects. They number
about 250,000. Besides these,
there are some 70,000 connected
with the ancient Jacobite Church,
and 50,000 Nestorians, scattered
over the northeastern parts of
Syria and the highlands of Mes
opotamia and Kurdistan. They
are peaceable, thrifty, and ener
getic peasants—Professor Porter of
Belfast.
•—-I have one great principle
which I never lose sight of: to
insist strongly on the difference
between Christian and non-Ciiris-
tian, and to sink into nothing the
differences between Cliristian and
Christian.—Dr. Arnold.
Boy’s Marbles.— Where do
they all come from—those mar
bles, big and little, handsome and
ugly? Almost all of those in
America come from Germany.
At a place called Obersteiii there
are large agate quarries and
mills, and the fragments of the
stone are made into marbles.
Tills is the way it is done : The
agate chips are hammered till
nearly round, and then are fin
ished upon large grindstones.
The workmen must be very skill
ful to make them perfectly round.
In Saxony there are mills where
miables are made in this way :
The stone is broken into small
blocks which are shoveled into
the hopper 100 or 150 at a time.
The mill has for its bed a stone
cut into grooves in circles, one
out side of aiiotlier. Above is a
“runner” of hard wood with a
smooth surface on the lower side
which touches the blocks. The
grooves of the bed stone ara
made wet, the runner revolves,
and ill about fifteen minutes the
marbles are finished. One of
these mills will turn out 20,000
marbles a week. Whew! That
must be the reason that the boys
never seem to be without a pock
etful or a bag full in “marble
time.”
Dr. R. Southey, in a recent
lecture on health said : “Health
and longevity are not synony
mous ; neither are health and
muscularity. The most musclar
men, great prize-fighters, men
wiio could fell an ox with theki
fist, have been known to be al
ways ailing and complaining
about themselves. The state of
perfect training, regarded bv
those who know little of it as a
condition of most perfect health,
is rather one of morbid immi
nence. Longevity, like lieight, is
a race attribute, but it fees not
signify healtli. The tliree oldest
people I ever knew—women
who reached respeolively 89, 98
and 100—were valetudinarians,
and liad been so nearly all their
lives.”
HOW CIin.OUEN AHE AHMaT.
TED.
THE
Very often tlie Superintendent
hunts up poor and promising or
phans and 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-
foi’e they start. When this is im
practicable, a formal application
should be made by some friend.
Here is one in proper form :
Edenton, N. C., }
June 2d, 1876. }
TMs is to certify that Susan N.
Bradshaiv is an orphan, loitlwut es
tate, sound in body and mind, and
ten years of age. Her father died in
1873 ; her mother in 1867. Ihe-
ing her Aunt, herehg make applica
tion for her admission into the Asy
lum at Oxford. I also relinquish
and convey to the officers of the Asy
lum the management and control of
the said orphan for four years, in
order that she may he trained and
educated according to the regulations
prescribed bg the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina. Martha Scott.
Approved bg
John Thompson, W. 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 Superintend
ent has beeiL consulted.
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