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I mm ORPHANS’ FRIEND. —Mk, J. H. D. Henderson, who has lived twcnty-i'our years near the Indian reservation, and who also served in Congress on the Connnittee on Indian affairs, says the Indians are badly treated and is opposed to turning tliein over to the army. He says: “Jt is well inulerstooil tliiit to save the liuliaiia they iimst not only be settled u]ion roservatlons, but nmst be taiif^ht the arts of agricultiu'e and gen eral husbandry. And of these, the army and army oflicers arc generally almost wholly ignorant—eonseiiuently, unfit to teach and train Indians in those arts and industries so essential to their well-being and general pros perity. Again, as a. general rule army men are not patterns of morality. Comnion soldiers are mostly inclined to dissipa tion and idleness, while a large per centage of the officers are licentious and general immoral. I am glad to admit that there are exceptions to this rnle. Some army officers are model men, and would be ornaments to soci ety in any station in life, lint these exceptions prove the truth of the rule. Should the Indian llnreau be put in the keeping of the War Department, it will then become nece.ssary to es tablish a military post in the vicinity of every Indian reservation, ami it is ]iot difficult to foresee rvhat the ettects of such assotiiations will be upon the Indians. Often the welfare of the en tire establishment—Indians, soldiers, and all—is placed under the manage ment and control of a green and inex perienced lieutenant, who is almost wholly destitute of the necessary qual- ilicati'on. It can not reasonably be expected that the Indians will rise in the scale of morals above that ot the wiiites with which they are associated. Idleness, gambling, drunkenness, and general debauchery, are the results that may be expected from such con nexions.' This is no fancy sketch, but a transcript of real facts. Some years back the physician to a reservation' of Indians in the immediate vicinity of a military post in the Yamhill Valley, informed me that the authorities ot the re.servation employed an aceoiu- ]>Ushed female teacher to take charge of a female school for the benefit of the Indian girls of the reservation, who for a time with zeal and energy fnltilled the duties of her station. But when she saw that so soon as she had tanglit a girl to make her own dresses, wasli herself, comb her hair, etc., some officer or soldier of the adjoining post would go to the father of the young squaw and ptirc/iase her, by the pay ment of an Indian pony, a red blanket, or some other article of Indian goods, and that henceforth the girl became the conenbine ot such officer, she (the teacher) became disheartened and dis gusted, and abandoned lier school, considering that it was a cni'se instead of a blessing to train these Indian-girls to be i/i istresses for military officers in stead of toives for men of their own race.” The v^Jiole world lieth in wich- cdness''^BMe. THE BEST GOVEKNBIEIVT THE WOBED EVEK SAW. ILLUSTRATION NO. 1. Dbadwood, July 27.—There is to be a mass meeting to organize for .self defence. The county coiumlssioneis otter $250 for every Indian killed in the county.. ILLUSTRATIGN Na 2. The stations and jaihs arc overrun ning with prisoners, aaid it 1ms been found necessa.ry to let most of the thieves and murderers arrested go on payment of fines and the return of the jiroperty, as there is no place to keep them, for trial. The first is a paragraph by the Assooiated Press. Tlie second is a dispatch from Pittsburg. The “‘Strong government” of Victoria Regina, Empress of In dia, protects the people as follows : PBKPEAnlCEEAK. From the Raleigh Ohserver re port of the Jlethodist Conference in Henderson we copy tha iol- owing: T!ev. .7. I’. Woore introduced toe fol lowing resolution. liexuiecil, That is the .sense of this Conference that the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liiuors as a bever- iigeis’a gj-eatevil, and is by no means to l)e tolerated in tlie ehnicli, but tbe offender must bo ent off if he will not reform after pro])er admonition. The, rosolntion was unanimou.sly adopted. Wi,sh we had been there to say, “Amen.” An English paper says that tlie Iving of Dahomey,,in cimsequenee of having, to pav a lieavy indemnity to Hnglaiid, intends sacrificing 5(10 hu man beings as.a fetish offering, hoping, to induce the deities to iiitei fere ami prevent the English from enforcing payment. And yet wo talk about “moral ideas,” “ higher planes of' piety,” the mel’oiJiiiiim, and glory-halle hijah. Several of our Orplians have been for some time afflicted with sore eyes and ears. On last Friday Hr. Gr. W. Graham met tliem at Henderson, and after a careful examination, jiresoribed remedies which have already made marked improvement, and promise a complete cure of the diseased organs. The kind-heart ed Doctor never cliarges our Or phans for his services, and Major Winder gave free transportation. May the Lord reward them. Mr. T. H. Briggs, of Raleigh, gave the Orphans a very agreea ble entertainment last Eridat' evening. Ills exhibition includ ed Bible scenes and such pic tures as illustrate and elucidate Sunday School studies. On Sunday afternoon he enter tained tliem 'vith songs and ser mons (very short) and impressed gospel truth in an interesting and forceful manner. The Orphans are always glad to see Mr. Briggs. ■—The Orphan Entertainment, given in the Baptist church of Oxford on last Monday evening, was largely' attended, 'flie pas tor, Kev. E. R Underwood, prat'ed for the children and took a collec tion. Hope we may always meet such pastors. THE GUOWTH OF FHILDKEA. —Col. Hoik’s First Quarterly Report contains a summary of his work and preparations for work. It looks like business. His Department promises prompt returns for the investment, and many permanent benefits and improvements in our agricultural operations. We have already advised the people to persecute him with inquiries of every kind. lion. J. C. Scarborough, S'upt. of Public Instruction, expects to attend our Orphan Entertain ments at Reidsville, Salisbury, Tliomasville, High Point and oth er places, if the business- of his office will allow. He will briefly address the people on education and confer with the Committees and friends of Public Schools.- Sassafras Fork has been left out of our appointments, by re quest. If the people living near any other appointment wish the Orphans to pass them by, they will please inform us at once. Mr. S. L. Venable, a high-toned gentleman and an excellent tea cher, died recently at Cascade Va. He taught many -who are now excellent citizens of our .state. —The Economist says Dhre Co. claims tlie oldest woman in the United States. Her name is-Mrs. Rebecca Haymas, she resides on Roanoke Island and is 115'vears old. The growth of children has been made the subject of very ingenious and original researches throughout some 25 000 measure^ ments of the children in the pub lic schools of this city, by Prof. Bowditch, of the Harvard Medi cal School, and published by the State Board of Health. His sum mary of tlie most important re sults he has obtained is as follows : The growth of cliildren takes place in such a way tliat until tbe ago of 11 or 12 years boys are botli taller and heavier tlian girls of the same age, but at this period of life girls begin to grow very rapidly, and for the next two or three years surpass hoj’S of tlie same age in both heigiit and weight. Boys then acquire and retain a size stiperior to that of girls, w'ho have now nearly completed their full growth. Children born of American-born parents are in Massachusetts tall er and heavier than children of foreign-born parents, a superior ity wliicii seems to depend partly on the greater average comfort in which such children live and grow up, and partly ujion differ ence of race or stock. Pupils of American parentage at the pub lic Latin school and otlier higher schools are (apparently for tlie same reason) superior in lieiglit and weight to the generality of boys of American parentage in the public schools and tlie English boys of the non-laboring class at tending public schools and uni versities, the superiority in weight being as a rule more marked than that in height. It will be seen that several popular delusions of long stand- are dispelled, and tlie regulation of physical and mental training so iniicii tlie better guided. The value and importance of the con clusion, liowover, are dimiiiisliod by the very fact lluit they are unique, and other communities have as j'et no similar statistics. When siicli basis ot comparison lias been supplied, the iiitiuoiioe of geoDraphioal and elinratie con dition on growing children may be discovered, the number of generations in whicli climatic clianges are aecomplislied the ef fect, if any, of the season of the year, the comparative effect of city and country life, &o.—Bos ton Transcript. —When a young lady begins to look at the clock and keeps up a steady fusilade of yawnsj it is time-for-'the young man either to- put on his hat or quit talking about politics and come right down to buBiness. BO.\’T BE BISCOFSt.lGEO. —Confucius was once address ed by his own son as follows; “ 1 apply myself with diligence to every kind of study, and neglect nothing that could render me clever and ingenious ; but still I do not advance.” “Omit some of your pursuits,” replied Con fucius-, “'and you will get on bet ter. Among those who travel constantly on foot, have you ever observed'any who- run? It is essential to do everything in or der, and only grasp that which is within reacli of your arm; for otherwise you give yourself use less trouble. Those who, like yourself, desire to do everything in one day,, do nothing to the end of their lives; while others, who steadily adhere to- one pursuit, find they have acconqilished- their purpose. Me. Longfellow, the poet, it is S'aid, cannot be allured into making an afterdinner speech. This-remark is attributed to him: “I wouldn’t touch a toast list with a pair of tongs.” Don’t be discouraged if in the outset of life things do not seem to go on as smoothly as they should. It seldom happens tliat tlie hopes we cherish of the future are realized. The path of life in the prospect appears smooth and level enough, but wlien we begin to travel it we find it all up hill and generall}’ rough enouglh Tlie journey is a laborious one, and wlietlier poor or wealtliy, liigli or low, we shall find it so to our disappointment, if we have built on any other calculation. To endure what is to be endured with as much cheerfulness as possible, and to elbow oui way as easily as we can through the crowd, hoping for little, yet striv ing for much, is, perhaps, the true plan. Don’t be discouraged, though occasionally yon slip down by the way and your neighbors tread ovei you a little; accidents will happen,miscalculations will some times be made, things will turn out differently from our expecta tions, and we may be sufferers. It is wortli wliile to remember that prospects are like the eikies in April, though clear, soon over clouded. As it would be folly to despair of again seeing the sun because to-day is stormy, so it is unwise to sink into despondency when fortune frowns, since, in tlie common course of things, she may he surely expected to shine again. Don’t be discourged under any circumstances, Co steadily for- wiird; rather consult yonr own conscience than tlie opinions ol men, though the least are not to be disregarded. Samoa petitions Queen Victo ria for a Britisli protectorate, and asks the United States to join with Great Britain in estahlish- OE AM S' S A A SEI i EF T S: SSES. The whole of the great Temple of Zens, at Olympia, is now cleared from soil, and important additions are being made every week to tlie museums of sculpt ure and inscriptions. A corres pondent of the Aeademy de scribes these Olympian sculpt ures as possessing neitlier tlie grace nor the careful fiiiisli of the Parthenon statues. “It is ea sy to point out faults in them, and in many respects they give a shock to the notions of art wliich we liave formed from tlio works of the sculptures who rejiresent the orthodox line of decent. But lire originality and Loldiiess- of execution produce first surprise and next delight, and finally a feeling that Gieek art is a vrider thing tlian we had supposed.” The fragments of the Eastern and Western pediments are de scribed in detail. All these sculpt ures, the works of tlie contempo raries Phidias, were elaborately sketched by I'ausanias. He made one mistake. In describing the sculptured group on the Eastern pediment, he pints a helmet on the head- of CEnomaus, one of tlie priucipial figures in the chariot WOHDS OF WISHOMi race. The Germair diggers have discovered that it was Pelops who had the helmet and that (Enoma- us wore a band around his head. Pausanias seems to have been,- on the whole, a tolerably accurate reporter as well as an intelligent ti'aveller, and this little slip was [irobably an instance of hete- rophemy.---ie«oir Topic. —A youth refused to take a pill. His crafty mother thereupon secretly pilaced the pill in a pre served pear and gave it to him. Presently she asked : “Tom, have you eaten the pear ?” He replied : “Yes, mother; all hut the seed.” Ho man shall he a judge in his own cause. To a man full of questions, make no answer. What men are deficient i,"! rea son, tlioy usually make up in rage. ifife is a duty, and one ought to desire its ])reservation. Wil- fully to let it decay would he a .sin. Solon being asked wlipq among his laws tliere was not one against piersonal affronts, replied that lie cauld not helievo the world so fantastical as to regrrd them. Wlioever sincerely endeavors to do all the good ho can, will jirobably do much more than lie imagines or will ever know to the day of judgement, when the secrets of all hearts shall be made manifest. Honor and justice, reason and equality, go a great way' in pre-' curing prosperity to tlioso wlie use them ;- and in case of failure, tliey secure tlie best retreat and the most lioiiorable consolation. The skill should be, so to or der the time of recreation that it may relax, jind refrosli the part tliat has boen exercised and is tired, and yet do sometliilig wliicli, besides the present delight and ease, may produce what will afterwards be profitable. A passionate temper renders a man unfit for advice, deprives him of his reason, robs him of all tliat is great and noble in his iiaturo, makes liim unfit for con versation, destroys friendship, changes justice into cruelty, and turns all order into confusion. The fountain of content must spring uj) in flio n.ind ; and he who lias so little knowledge ot liurnuii nature as to sock luqipi- ness by changing aiD tliing but- his own disposition, will wasle his life' ii-t fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he pur poses to remove. The governor may b'o deceived; he bearotli th.o sword, and may strike witli it iiupro|ierly. But if, to reified'y an occasional iu-' convetfienee of this sort, you dis- soivo goveriiraont,- what will be the consequence? More misclfef wiil be done by the peojile llius let loose in a montli, than would be done bj' the government in half a eenturv.—linanoke News. 4 MOOEItN JASOA DKAWA KA GEESE. According to recent London- advices,- the- uiana-gcr of Sanger’s Amphitlieatre was drawn on June' 9 in a tub by four geese from Battersea to Westminster bridge.- He was dressed in a naval cap tain’s attire, and made his start on ebb tide to a salute of four' guns,- being piloted by Gosling,- and- convoyed by about half a- dozen boats to' clear the wayi The geese' were ha-rnessed- to the' pole of the tub, and satisfactory progress was made dow'ii the river, past Vauxhall bridge, ar riving at Westminster bridge' about 3 o’clock, the trip having been- accomplished in- an hour' and twenty minutes. —^John Smith-wants tO' know how he shall sign his name to’ prevent getting mixed' up- With o-lliers of that ilk. Some' people adopt the plan of adding “2d,” “3d,” etc.'; but the right appen dix for Mr. Smith would be “ '1,634,781- l-2th,”or thereabouts,- and even then he would run some risk of being mistaken for another John Smith. —Mean souls, like mean pic tures, are often found in good- looking frames.
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