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"ORPHANS’ FRIEND. Wednesday, June 13. ISY^. TEMPEKAI^CE. Our State has Avitnessed some strange phases of the Temperance question, 'fhe Legislature eclipsed absurdity itself by passing a_ bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicat ing liquors in two miles of Gran ville Court House, provided the same should not apply to the town of Oxford. Wo first supposed the bill was intended as a joke, till a solemn Senator assured us that it could not have passed in any other shape, though that shape ■ was worse than no shape at all. Eiit the government of Granville county has been controlled by ignorant negroes and scheming liquor-dealers till rve have ceased to expect any improvement in “the powers that be.” We have therefore determined to obey the laws in peace, and resist the Devil whenever we can. Last week several towns in the State voted to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors. Among these are Greensboro, Jamestown, Ashe ville, Shoe Heel, Beaufort, and Trenton. In Kaleigh the Tem- ■ perance cause was supposed to be strong. Two papers, two or ganizations, and a very large membership. Able orators made speeches to large audiences, and gifted writers discussed the sub ject in the papers. Some months ago we heard a tvhisky drummer say the whole-sale dealers of the North could easily afford to send money enough to control the vote in Kaleigh. So when a strong man was imported from Maine to advocate prohibition at $50 a night, a strong appeal could also be made to the liquor-dealers for additional funds. When an able article appeared in a daily paper, more money was ready to vote down its suggestions. How then can prohibition succeed where • so many ignorant and vicious voters are for sale ? Here is an argument for education. Without it good government is simply impossible. It makes no difference which party is in power. When a man goes to a quiet vil lage and tempts and ruins the young, and brings soitoav and poverty upon all classes, it makes no difference to us whether he is a “red-mouthed Radical” or “dirty Democrat.” His work and his influence are equally bad, and his political platform is a matter of insignificance. The great and crying need of our country is not more money, more factories, more enterprise, nor more immigration ; but better men and better women, and more of them. We have preachers enough—we wish they were foAver and better. We have church-members e n o u g h—ten times too many unless aa'O had more good examples among them. Just think of a man (and his name can be given) Avho has kept a grog-shop for thirty years voting to excommunicate a brother for going to a circus ! Just think of a drowsy, drunken deacon, (his name is also known) running a large distillery and ruining the peace of his neighborhood, and then arraigning a timid girl be fore a church for shaking her foot to the sound of a fiddle ! We are not advocating the jewel, consistency—Ave have no fondness for jewelry. Yet even those, who fear not God, ought love their country and feel some sympathy for humanity. But those who desolate our laud, besot the young, and degrade the hu man race, are living for them selves alone, and dying for the Devil. We are glad that the sale of liquor is prohibited in the vi cinity of our most important schools. We are also sorry that in so many places grog-shops have made prosperous schools an impossibility, and hundreds of promising children are doomed to vice and ignorance. SUCCESS. A REM-UKKABLE ADDRESS. ReA’. S. Henry Bell has deliA’ered, and the Magnolia Record has pub lished, a 3'emarkable address. The speaker is opposed to temperance societies and to incendiarism. He condemns indigestion and tobac co. He is in favor of education. egg-nog and syllabub. But we heartily concur with him on one point. "" Near the close of his ad dress, he says: “I Iiave treated, in a cursory and superficial manner, a subject aa'1’'.c1i merits the most carofe' handling.” We expect to Avatch brother Bell, because Ave are anxious to knoAV on Avhich side of the fence he will finally flounder. James Monroe, for many years a Xirominciit lueniber of St. Mai-k’s Lntlr erau church, of Philadelphia, ha.s left to the Lutheran Theological Seminary in this city $1,000, and to the Orx)haus’ Home at (fermantOAA'n, $1,000.—S. T. Observer, We Avant all good men to live a long time. But they must die, soon or late. Will some good men or Avomen in North Carolina remember the orphans in making their wills? Several men have done so; but they have put so Qiany IFS in the way that not oven a Avild antelope (and much less a poor orphan) Avill ever be able to jump over them. I shall succeed,” exclaims the youth as he leaA^es the home of his child-hood to begin life’s bat tle alone. He is young and strong, and hope “reigns supreme” in bis bosom, for he has never been discouraged by the trials Avliich haA'e clouded the lives ot older men. He does not see the many difficulties and bitter dis appointments Avhich block up his Avay. Success seems easy. Fail ure, almost impossible. Will this feeling-last? Will become off conquerer in all the battles? We do not know, but let us hope that he Avill. No, young man has ever started out in life yet who did not think he Avould succeed. But how many fail almost at the out-set! And why ? Simply because they have not strength of purpose and application enough. No boy ever mastered a hard lesson Avithout study. And no man can master ter the lessons of life, and profit by them, Avithout the will and determination to do so. Did you caYi' know a man to succeed avIio trusted to chance for everything, and never tried to help himself? Such men generally do no good in this Avorld, either to themselves or any one else, and are soon for gotten. Their lives are a failure in every Avay. Now 11 you really Avant to succeed, don’t sit still and wait for success to come to you, for it Avill not come ; but get right up and go to it by hard Avork. —At the ThornAvell Orphan age, a boy gets twenty-five de merits for kissing a girl. Here Ave “ apply the hair of the dog to cure the bite.” When a boy kisses a girl, tAvelve veiy ugly boys stand in a row on the rostrum in the Chapel, and the offender is required to kiss them all, and kiss them well. The girl also, if she Avas willing to be kissed by the boy, is required to kiss a dozen ugly girls. This ceremony draws ii full house, and has never failed to cure. IIo.NUY-HAK VEST.—For a number of years a swarm of bees liaA’C occupied the dome of the Orphan Asylum. On Tluu'sday last tlie dome aauas entered and at)ont 100 lbs. of honey Avas taken. ■Torch-LUjht. The bees Avere in one of the turrets, not in the “ dome.” Sorry YOU did not tell by AA'hom the “ honey Avas taken.” —The Avar between Turkey and Russia progresses sloAvly. So far the small battles have resulted in favor of the Turks. Russia has generally failed in the be ginning of a war; but never fails to Avhip out all enemies, if invaded in the-Avinter. —The Coffey Brothers, on Watauga RiA'er, offer 2000 bush els of corn at 50 cents a bushel. In Luck.—The Editor of the Milton Chronicle is invited to eat “ sheep and shoat, at Purley ” on the 16 inst. -The Charlotte Democrat (al ways'sensible) endorses our views I Avisli my boy to go into the Avorld, informed. I know Avliat he Avill meet there, and I want him put on a better vantage- grouud for all these meetings. How can I better get at the ed ucation I Avish him to have than by considering what he ought to have AA'hen he comes to need it? Let us consider Avhat he will have need of; he Avill meet— (1) Temptations. These every father thinks of, first. How can he be guarded against them ? I Avould have him taught Morality, not in theory only, but Avith that deep enthusiasm for The Right, The True, The Good, The Beau tiful, without Avhich no virtue is safe and no success complete. I want him to be religious Avithout being theological, pious Avithout being hypocritical, and zealous Avithout being fanatical. I want him to have faith Avithout super stition and religion Avithout big otrv. You remark that all this is as much the Avork of the parent as of the instructor. And yet I don’t Avant to send my boy to a teacher avIio lacks all this ; do I ? Mind; I do not ask ^ my boy’s teacher Avliat he believes; it is not the creed, but the life I am looking for in the person of the instructor of my son. (2) Selfishness. This is the great present and coming curse. The days of chivalry and religious and knightly self-forgetfulness are gone: the days of trade and greed are full up’on us. It is one wild scramble for office and money Avith scarcely a disguised profession of patriotism, honesty or philanthropy. Men steal, and unless detected, count it no evil of Normal Schools. —President Hayes is making a very unusual experiment—tryr ing to run both political parties. The result is a problem of easy solution. tsTot a single apiAlicant for retail li cense AA'as before the Commissioners last Monday. There are only tovo re tail liquor shops in the county at pres ent, and it is hoped that they will not long continue.—Dunbunj liejtorter. How can I fortify my boy against this current ? The example and AA'ords of bis teacher should do much ; every teacher should be to his every pupil a hero and a god. There is no danger of too great Avorship. But to this I AA'ant to see added such a teaching of history as shall bring out into glorious knighthood grim old Oliver Cromwell, and gentle Philip Sidney, manly Bayard and glorious Washiugton. I believe in Biography I'ather than in His tory. Give" us the Avarm life of noble men and not mummies, nor statistics, nor facts. Do you knoAV of any school where they so teach history ? (3) He Avill meet disease, acci dents and dangers. The best way to meet these is not a policy in an accidental insurance com pany, but an education _ which shall insure presence of mind. A fcAV rules and principles impress ed on the mind will cause otre to act the hero iu moments that try men’s souls. I do not knoAv why physicians should monopolize all that education which tends to re lieve or prevent pain, disease, or if so be, death. At any r-ato, I Avant my son to knoAv enough aboirt all this to be able to act the man Avhen be shall be called. I want him taught physiology, hygiene and anatomy, not from a text-book, but by the more sensible uiethodof the dissecting- room—or, if this is impossible, from the manikins Avliicli can be got so well made from Paris, from the skeleton and the study ot the anatomy of the lower animals. Those things relating to anatomy, as differing in the sexes, and the principal facts of generative phy siology, I took pains to teach him long ago; I don’t Avant my son to learn these things from any lips less pure and dear than mine. Often, since, he has made me his confidant, Avhere I know other boys would have been lured to evil. Noav, do you knoAV Avhere that wise man teaches, Avho will wisely, with microscope and skel eton and dissection teach my boy a practical physiology and hy giene, and such a knowledge of remedies as will make him ot some use in an emergency 1 (4) He will meet men socially Those gifts which make an eve ning enjoyable,—music, and the ability-to talk, should be cultiva ted. He. Avill meet them in i business Avay (i. e. seifishl}')- ^6 must learn to control his tongue, his face, his temper and his thoughts. He must know the technicalities of business, and broader than that, the laAVS ot trade and the science of political economy. He Avill meet them associatedly. He must know parliamentary rules and be skilled in quarreling by rule—able to preside—and content to go Avitl out office. As a Christian he must do his part unselfishly in, and towards, that ohuich he at tends. (5) He will OAve duties to ins country. I Avould have him taught the principles of govern ment and of common law, and the necessity for, and the mean ing and abuse of such terms “loyalty” and “patriotism.” (6) HeAvillmeettliings. Briefly (pedanticallAq if }’OU Avill) all thought comes from things. We see things: Ave &re thinned; i. e. Ave think. I don’t Avant my boy to go through the world Avith his eyes shut. Who discoA'ered at traction of gravitation ? Who the phosphates under our own soil ? Who invented the steam engine, or the telegraph? Plainly, some body AA'ho was able to think and did think, and Avho thought be cause he observed things. Yes; I want my boy to know some thing about things. The Science of things or so much of it as we technically include in the branches of geology, mineralogy, chemis try, and natural philosophy, holds almost the first place in my idea of the importance of the sciences my boy must knoAV. (7) He will need to know how to judge. Faraday says that a deficiency of judgment is the most common intellectual fault. A clear judgment Avill cause a man to be looked up to, Avhen office and money Avon’t. I Jg not know Avhat better sateguards can be tliroAvn about a boy than to beget in him a keen enthusiasm and a sound judgment to direct it. To be sure, much of the stuff we make a sound judgment of must be born in us. But I con clude that the Aveakest of us might have been a better judge if he bad had that faculty earlier trained. Already he has been taught to distinguish color, dis tance, form, Avelght and size; these he has been taught by his mother. What I Avant now is a teacher Avho, Avill carry on Avhat she has begun. (8) He Avill meet occasions. Who is the statesman ? Simply he who has Avit enough to know when an opportunity is come and has knoAvledge and speech to meet it. To every raau, great and small, come these chances Avhich make or mar his future and which break or make the happi ness of others. I am thinking now of ability to speak. I Avant him to knoAv hoAV to use Avords. Mere grammar is dry husks, but words, — swift, terse, burning words, he must learn to store and use. I Avant a teacher who Avill teach speech, and not the gram mar of it merely.—National Teach ers’ Monthly. —If, in his inscrutable Avisdom, the Author of Being has given to a fool the honor of parentage, should he be permitted to prac tice his foolishness on his cliild and make him tenfold njore fool ish than himself? Is it not the duty of the state to step in and prescribe how such a child should i be brought up? The good of I the country demands it. No so ciety, or association whatever, acting in any capacity, however apparently benevolent, has any right to nurture ignorance. We have enough of it alreadAq much more Avill be our nation’s ruin. The state must see to its safety. By all the force it can comuuuid, t should say to every jjareiit, ‘You must educate your child,” and if be Avill not, and stubbornly sets himself against the very best good of the country, let the law judge liim incapable, and let the child be taken from Ids control, to the extent that it shall be edu cated, and placed upon a higher level of living.—National Teach ers’ Monthly. —What shall 1 teach my child! Teach him that it is better to die than to lie; that it is better to starve than to steal; that it is bettor to be a scavenger or wood- | chopper than to be an idler and dead-beat; that it is just as crim- . inal, and more repreliensible, to Avaste Monday as to desecrate Sunday; that labor is the price of all iiouest possessions; that no, one is exempt from the obligation to labor Avith head, or hands, or, heart; that “an honest man ist the noblest Avork of God;” that knowledge is poAver; that labor is worship, and idleness is sin; that it is better to eat the crust of independent poverty than to lux uriate amidst the richest viands as a dependent. Teach him theso facts till they are woven into lii* being and regulate bis life, and Ave Avill insure his success, though the heavens tali.—Church UuM- A drygoods merchant was ash ed hoAv he spent his evenings. His reply Avas, “ At night I stoK iny mind, and during the day 1 mind my store.”
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