ORPHANS’ FRIEND.
■ Wednesday, April 4, 1877.
ITOO HAKD ON THE MASOKS.
Zion's Landmark is an ably
edited paper, and often deeply
interesting ; but ^we respectfully
submit that its recent attacks on
the Masons are without suflicient
])rovocatioti. It would be better
to allow more good nien to join
Masonic Lodges and so ))rovent
any wrong that others- might be
disposed to do. It all good peo
ple should ^withdraw from Ma
sonry, an ancient and honorable
institution would be left in unholy
hands. If such men as Elder
Grold, Hassell and Respes.s, would
act as chaplains ot Masonic
Lodges they would often find
opportunities of doing good which
cannot be presented in any other
position. Elder Gold alluding to
Masonic Lodges, sa}’s:
“No man can triitlifully pretend tliat
Jesus establislicd any secret society,
ortliat any of tlio apostles did so.
Then why should Baptists he wanting
to be linked in with such organiza
tions ?
We might"also assert that Je
sus did not establisli any “Asso
ciations” and we might ask “why
should Baptists be wanting to be
linked in with such organizations.”
For in the saure paper Elder Res-
pess says:
Pergamos and Thyatira were not
dropped by any associations. Because
I think it highly probable that there
was no such institution, precisely,
as an Association of these days ; and
had there been and they were conduc
ted as some have irossibly been con-
. ducted in these days, I think -it very
likely that Pergamos and Thyatira
would have been dropped long before
Christ dropped tiiem.
The Wtlminyton Star kindly
compliments and copies oiir arti
cle oa cotton factories and says ,-
“Now if our friend would supplement
this with a statement of the number
of spindles in each factor}-, and how
many thousandi-pounds of cotton each
factory consumes annually,he will have
furnished us with the precise statistics
we need. One good turn deserves an
other, he will remember. Having done
so much for our readers, let him in
crease his favors still further.”
We are sorry that our informa
tion will not justify an attempt to
comply with a reasonable request.
But we will say that several saw-
' millsin ourstateare nowfurnishing
Northern markets with vast quan
tities of blocks for spools and
shuttles, and that many of the
factories are enlarging their build
ings and their operations. Many
thousands of new spindles will
commence iheir rapid revolution
during the present month. North
Carolina yarn and North Carolina
cloth find ready sale at home and
abroad. Many of our most
intelligent men and women are
wearing jeans, gingham and lin
en-finish domestic, spun and
woven by our own people. This
is true independence, arid this
encouragement of home enterprise
is giving us the respect of the
Northern people. It also explains
■ one cause of dull times with those
merchants who buy every thing
in New York and ignore our own
nidls and factories.
Emerson- says :—“Economy
cousists in a-wise expeuditure of money
It is not spending none at ail. It is
not economy to have a poor scliool-
iiouse; it is not economy to liave no
suitable books or apparatusand it is
the poorest economy of all to have a
poor teacher. One -with large acipiire-
ments is more economical than one
with narrow attainments; one witli
ekiUiis-inar-c economic..1 than a raw
lu.unl.
ORPHAN ENTERTAINMENTS.
With the hope of exciting increased
interest in the Oi'i.lian Work, and for
the j)nrpoHe of visiting orphans by the
wayside, I imrj)Ose to go with a Chap
ter of Orplians from the Orphan House
at Oxford, and give
FBEB ENTEBTAINMENTS
at tlie following times and places :
Oxford, Monday, April 9, at 7 p. m.
Ivitti’ell, Tuesihvy, “ 10, at 7 p. in.
lleiidersou, Wednesday, Aiiril 11, at
7 p. in.
Nnfbush,Tliur.sday, Aiiril 12, at 11 a. m.
Sassafras Fork, Friday, Airril 13, at
11 a. in.
Jlill Creek, Person, Saturday, April
14, at 3 p. 111.
Oak G-rove, Monday, April IG, at 11
Yarbrough’s Mill, Caswell, Tuesday,
2\.pril 17, at 11 a. m.
Danville, Va., Wednesday, April 18,
at 7 p. 111.
Kufliii, Thursday, April 19, M 7 p. m.
Leaksville, Friday, “ 20, at 7 p. m.
Wentworth, Saturday, April 21, at 7
p. m.
Madison, Monday, April 23, at 7 p. m.
Danbury, Tuesday, “ 24, at 7 pi m.
Walnut Cove, Wednesday, April 2o,
at 11 a. 111.
Germanton, Wednesday, April 25, at
7 p. ni.
East Bend, Thursday, April 26, at 7
p. m.
Mt. Airy, Friday, April 27, at 7 p. m.
Dobson, Saturday, “ 28, at 7 p. m.
Yadkinville, Monday, April 30, at 11
a. in.
Jonesville, Tuesday, May 1, at 7 p. in.
Trap Hill, Wednesday, May 2, at 11
a. in.
Wilkesboro, Thursday, May 3, at 11
a. m.
Elkville, Friday, May 1, at 11 a. m.
Lenoir, Saturday, “ 5, at 7 p. m.
Taylorsville, Monday, May 7, at 7 p. m.
Snow Creek, Tuesday, “ 8, at 3 p. m.
Zion, Wednesday, May 9, at 11 a. m.
Farniington, Thursday, May 10, at 11
a. m.
Mocksville, Friday, May 11, at 7 p. m.
Lexington, Saturday, May 12, at 7 p.,
in.
As gcograpliy can not bo known by
instinct and we have no correct map
of the State, tliere may be errors and
impossibilities in these appointments.
Friends may tlierefore ciiange tlie times
and places, provided I am duly uoti-
fled, and tiiore is no interference with
the general schedule.
The party all need the usual meals,
and food for thi'ee mules. Where there
are cominittees on the Orplian Asy
lum, they will be relied on to make all
needed aiTimgements. In the absence
of committees, other friends are re
quested to do so. A church, or a
large hall, should always be preferred
for the eiitertaiiiineiits, that the peo
ple may be comfortably seated, and
perfect order preserved.
J. H. Mills, Supt.
THE RALEIGH REGISTER.
ADDRESSES ON EDUCATION.
The Constitution and the Era
are dead, and the new Republi
can paper-is the Raleigh Register.
Mr. J. C. Logan Harris is editor
and proprietor. If the hundred
and ten thousand men who voted
for Judge Settle expect to keep
up their organization, they will
need an organ, and ought to sup
port it. The Democrats also will
be more cautious if kept under
the lash of an able opposition
paper. If tlie Register can avoid
the burden of its party’.s record,
and conduct its discussions with
truth, dignity and courtesy, it
will prove useful to the country
and will merit and receive a lib
eral patronage.
A married man had blue glass
put in his wife's sitting-room to
match her eyes, he said. She
returned the compliment by hav
ing red glass put in her husband's
library—to mutch his nose, she
said. He didn’t seem to appre
ciate the compliment.
AVe are glad to learn that Gov.
Vance, Judge Fowle, Gen Ciiug-
man, Dr. Reuben Jones, Rev. H.
A. Brown, and other accomplished
speakers will deliver addresses at
the commencements of the vari
ous colleges during the approach
ing summer. AVe hope these
speeclies will be serious and
tboiiglitful discourses on topics
connected witli education, and
that a great impulse will be given
to tlie work of the schools, and to
the increase of knowledge among
our people.
A DAT OF PRIVILEGES.
Last Sunday -was a day of gospel
privileges in Oxford. Easter was cel
ebrated and two good sermons were de
livered at tlie Episcopal CbnrcU. llev.
F. R. Underwood preached (inoniiug
and evening) two excellent sermons at
the Baptist Olinrcli. Rev. D. E. Jor
dan at the Presbyterian church iireach-
edwith nim.snal unction and administer
tered the communion. In the afternoon
he preached to the Children, and
faithfully warned them not to touch
any unclean thing. Rev. Thouias
Ogburii, of the Methodist Protestant
church, preached in the Chapel of the
Orphan Asylum, at 3 m. A solemn
and impressive sermon.. The oiqilians
heard three sermons on Sunday. The
present writer heard four, and now
alas, he knows better than he can do.
A CHEAP INSTRUMENT.
The plea of economy is used
to destroy the schools, but it
might be more effectively urged
against ignorance. Ignorance,
vice and intemperance . are the
costly tilings of this world;
virture, knowledge and temper
ance are cheap. AA^hen a man
pays a tax of a dollar it is distrib
uted about in this way: 40 cents
for crime, 30 cents for pauperism,
10 cents for insanity, 15 cents for
the general good, and 5 cents for
education. And vet economising
on education is talked of and act
ed on, and paupers, vagabonds,
thieves and iieuitentiary-birds are
tlie results of this economy. It
would be bard indeed to find a
man wlio would own that he was
opposed to education; but by
refusing his support he is virtu
ally crushing it. To girdle a
tree will as surely kill it as to cut
it dotvn.
GOLD.
All the gold that has ever been
dug, is is said, would not fill a room
24x24 and 16 feet high. An ex
ceedingly small portion when the
sacrifice of human life and hap
piness to gain it is taken into ac
count, for the record of the crime
and wretchedness it has been the
cause of would cover this area a
dozen times over. Strange it is
that the least useful metal should
be the most highly prized. At-
liraetive,it was the first discovered,
first mentioned metal, but it has
been of little use in the arts and
always a source of contention.
Nations differ in politics, cus
toms, manners and dress; but
they all agree on gold.
A correspondent of The School
Journal on a visit to North Caro
lina, speaks of some of our city
schools as “old rookeries” and
adds:
In some of the large villages, no
schools are kept, because the people
say, we have no money to support
them. But I find instead, the Bar
rooms open and well patronized.—Yes,
so it i.s ; the Bar-rooms open all over
the laud, and the school hou.ses dosed;
—“ Wc are very poor”—^is echoed on my
car wlierevor I go.—“There are none
so blind as theyihat milnot seed'
HARD AVORK.
'What is your secret V’ asked a lady
of Turner, the distiiigiiislicd painter.
He replied, ‘1 have no secret, madam,
but hard woik.’ Says Dr. Arnold,
‘The difference between one man and
another is not so iinicli in talant as in
energy.’ ‘NcUiing,’ says Reynolds, ‘is
denied well directed labor, and nothing
is to be iittiiined without it.’ ‘Excel,
leiice ill any depiirtinent,’says Johnson,
‘can now be obtained by the labor of a
lifetime, but it is not to be piircliased
at a lesser price.’ ‘Tliere is but one
method:,’ says Sidney Smith, ‘and that
is hard labor; and a man who will not
pay tliat price for distinetion had bet
ter at once dedicate himself to the
pursuit of the fox.’ ‘Step by step,’
reads the French proverb, ‘one goes
very far.’ ‘nothing,’ says Miraboaii,
‘is impossible to a man who can w ill.
Tliis is the only law of success.’ ‘Have
you ever entered a cottage, ever trav
eled ill a coach, ever talked with a
peasant in tlie field, or loitered with a
mecliaiiic at the loom,’ asked Sir Ed-
wanl Biihver Iiyttonr, ‘and not found
that each of these men had a talent
youhad not, knew something you knew
not V The most useless creature that
ever yawned at a club, or idled in rags
under the siiiis of Calabria, lias no ex
cuse for want of intellect. What men
want is, not talent, butpnriiose; in
other words, not tlie power to achieve,
but the ■will to labor.—Christian Utan-
dard.
THE OLIVE TREE.
The common olive is one of
the earliest trees mentioned in
antiquity ; probable it was a na
tive of Palestine, and perhaps of
Greece, and it was introduced in
to other countries at a very early
day ; it is largely cultivated in
southern Europe, western Asia,
and northern Africa; it was brought
to South America and Mexico
more tliaii two hundred years ago,
and in various parts of California
it was planted at the mission es
tablishments, where some of the
old groves still reuiain, notably
that of San Diego, wliich is stiii
in good bearing, and other plan
tations have recently been iiiadi-
there. In the Atlantic States the
olive was introdiieed before the
Revolution, and at several times
since ; it is perfectly hardy iiiid
fruitful in South Carolina ; the
chief obstacles to its cultivation
seems to be tlie fact that its crop
matures just at the time when all
the labor is needed to secure the
cotton, 'riie French enumerate
over twenty varieties, differing in
the size and color of their leaves
and fruits. Olive-oil is obtained
from the ripe fruit, the pulp of
which contains about 70 per cent
of oil. Italy produces annually
about 33,000,000 gallons, while
the production of France is only
about 7,000,000.—Selected.
GER.M.iN COMPLEXIONS.
It appears that the Germans
have been engaged in the deter
mination of the relative frequenc}
ol blue eyes and fair hair as com
pared witli brown eyes and dark
hair. On a certain day a census
was taken in every school in Prus
sia, and the number of children
counted under fourteen years of
age was 4,127,766. In the re
sult, the blue eyes exceeded the
brown by two to one, and tho.'e
having fair hair by three to one.
Only one and one eighth have
black tresses, and less than seven
in a hundred of Prussian beauties
are brunettes.
It was an eminently characteris
tic idea of the German mind to
insist upon this census, but we
understand that tlie exact oppo
site was expected to be the result,
and those who promoted the idea
are more than annoyed that the
Gallic type has made so little
progress among the GLi-iian
masses.—School Journal.
—FEacuEL says —ri'Lhe object
of the Kindergarten is to take the
oversiglit of children before they
are ready for scliool-life ; to ex
ert an influence over their w'hole
being in correspondence with its
nature; to exercise their senses;
to employ the awaking mind; to
make them thoroughly acquaint
ed with the world of nature and
of man; to guide their hearts
and souls in a right direction, and
to lead them to the origin of all
life and to union wltli Him.”
'I'here is no ‘ primary school ’
about this; it is no ‘infant class’
to wliich children are to be car
ried to get them out of the wav.
It is no School at all that he pro-
po.ses, and here is the great
stumbling-block that stand so
much in the 'way of those who
have been accustomed ‘to drill’
knowledge into tlie lieads of the
little ones. And here to, is the
objection the American mother
makes to it. ‘ My child,’ she
says, in all innocence, ‘ went to
the kindergarten, and did not
learn a single thing. He did not
read or spell; it was a waste of
time, and I took him out’
CLOCKS.
The time of the introduction of
wheel clocks moved by weights
cannot be fixed with airt* certain
ty. From tlie time of Archimedes,
220 B. c., to that of Robert AVal-
lingford, abbot of St. Albans, in
1326, many ingenious men have
been credited with tlie iriventioii.
To Beetliius (a. d. 510) has been
accorded the honor, notwithstani’-
ing that it has been disputed
whether it was a water or a
wheel-and-weiglit clock whidi
Pacificus of A^eroiia, who lived
nearly four centuries later, coti-
structed, on the ground that the
date was t.io early for such au
inveiitiaii. As, liowever, Ger-
bert, wiio became pope as Bvl-
vester II,, did uiuloiiLtedlv (•('ut-
struct a wheel-aiid-weight clock
at Magdeburg, in 'J98. wlieii he
was archbisiiop, the lielief that
Pacificus might also hifve made
one a little more than a centiirv'
earlier is not uiireasonahle. But,
iiowever much the earlier history
of clocks may be involved iu
doubt, it is certain tluit clocks
driven by weights were in use in
monasteries of Kurope in the
eleventh century, 'i’he Catholic
clergy are credited with the in
troduction of clocks into England,
'Phey possessed much wealth, and
had leisure to cultivate many of
the arts, and were probably led
to the cultivation of horology
from the desirableness of having
some means of regulating tlieir
religious services. The first AFest-
minster clock is said to have been
erected from the proceeds of a
fine which was imposed upon a
chief-justice of the King’s Bench
about 1290.
It don’t pay to have poor teach
ers in the schools,—^but only the
best.
It don’t pay to save money
from education and lavish it on .a
vast political sv’stem that only
plunges the country deeper and
deeper in debt year by year.
It don’t pay to let the smart,
active and intelligent boys, grow
up to be thieves, and vagabonds
It don’t pay to suppose yon can
get more than }’ou pay for in ed
ucation any more than in other
things.
“AFhen I die,” said a married
man, “I want to go where there
is no snow to shovel.” His wife
sail she presumed he would.