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gjjjjjjSBM 1I« SCHOOL DAYS' In the following poem, written by one of the best American po ets, John Greenleaf AVhittier, tliero is much that is tender and simple and beautiluL It appear ed in a Northern child’s magazine called Young Folks ; Still sits the scliool liousc by the roatl, A rasgecl beggar .sinniiiig: Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackbery vines are running. THE EXACT TKl'TH. Within the master’s desk is seen, Deep-scarred by rap.s otiicial; The warping door, the battered seats, The jack-knife’s carved initial. The charcoal frescoes on the wall; Its door’s worn sill, betraying The feet that, ereeinng slow to school. Went storming out to playing! Long years ago a setting sun Shone over it at setting: Lit up its western window-panes,- And low caves’ icy fretting. It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the schools were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled ; His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shanio were min gled. Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left ho lingered; As restlessly her tiny hands The blue checked apron lingered. He saw her lift lier eyes; he felt The soft hand’s light caressing. And hoard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing. “ I’m sorry that I si>clt the word: 1 hate to go above you, Because,”—the brown eyes lower fell— “ Because, you see, I love you!” Two yoniig masons were build ing a brick wall—the front wall of a liigb house. One of them, in placing a brick, discovered that it was a little thicker on one side than on the other. His companion advised him to throw' it out. “ It will make your wall untrue, Ben,” said lie. “ i’ooh !” answered Ben ; “what difference will such a trifle as that makel You’re too particular.” “ My mother,” replied he, “taught me that ‘truth is truth,’ and over so little an untruth is a lie, and a lie is no triflle.” “ 0,” said Ben, “ that’s all very well; but I am not lying, and have no intention of lying.” “Very true, but y^ou make your wall tell a lie, and I have read that a lie in one’s work is like a lie in his character; it will show itself sooner or later, and bring harm, if not ruin.” “ I’ll risk it in this case,” an swered Ben; and he worked away, laying more bricks, and carrying the wall up higher, till the close of the day, when they quitted work and went homo. The next morning they went to resume their work, when, be hold the lie had wrought out the result of all lies ! The wall, get ting a little slant from the untrue brick, had got more and moi'e untrue as it got higher, and at last in the night had toppled over obliging the masons to do all their work over again. Just so with ever so little an untruth in your character; it grows more and more untrue if you permit it to remain, till it brings sorrow and ruin. Toll act, and live the exact truth al ways. well as New Guinea, while over the greater part of the Australian continents are to bo found many species of an allied genus of shrub which Mueller thinks will be found to possess the same quali ties. The schenkeas of South America, he thinks, will also prove similarly’ qualified to act stimulants. Central Austra lians, he says, use the duboisia hopvvoodii, just as it was asserted, during a famous pedestrian con test a shoj't time ago, that the Chilians and Peruvians employ the leaves of the cocoa to sustain their strength during forced onrneys through the desert. Those living near the Barcoo,” he adds, “ travel many days’ journey to obtain this, to them, precious foliage, which is carried always about by them broken nto small fragments and tied up Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet ehild-faec is showing, Dear girl! the grasses on lier grave Have forty years been growing! Ho lives to learn, in life’s hard scliool. How few who pass above him. Lament their triumph and his loss. Like her,—because they love him. THE STUENfiTH OF A KIND WOKD. HOW TO «AIN' FltlENDS. “ Well,” said a straight-backed straight-logged chair to a cosy Some people are very apt to use harsh, angry words, perhaps because they think they will be obeyed more promptly. They talk loudly and vehemently, though after all they arc often only°lauglied at; their orders are forgotten, and their ill-temper only is remembered. llow strange is a kind word ! It will do wliat the harsh word, or even a blow, cannot do; it will subdue’ the stubborn will relax the frown, and work wonders. Even the dog, the cat, or the horse, though they do not know what you say, can tell when you speak a kind word to them. A man was one day driving a cart along the street. The horse was drawing a heavy load, and did not turn as the man wished him. The man was in an ill- temper, and heat the horee; the horse reared and plunged, but he either did not or would not go the right way. Another man, who was with the cart, went up to the horse and patted him on the neck, and called him kindly by Ills name. The horse turned his head, and fixed his large eyes on the man, as though he would say, “I will do any thing for you, because j ou are kind to me and bending liis broad chest against the load, turned the cart down the narrow lane, and trot ted on briskly, as though Hie load were a plaything. Oh, how strong is a kind word !—lliqjliist Family MagaFiuc. little rocking chair by w’hoso side it had chanced to be placed, “ be fore I would bo such a drudge as you are I would be a stool, or, if possible, sometliing still more in significant. People are not con tent with making you nurse every person, big or little, but you must also continually be rocking them to and fro.” “ To bo sure,” answered the little rocking chair pleasantly, “ I am always on the go for the grat ification of others, but thereby have I won for myself many friends, and appear to bo a great favorite with ail. This well I'e pays me for my trouble.” And so it is witli little girls, and little boys, and other people Those who cheerfully and will ingly do for others are the ones who gain for themselves many and lasting friends. INTOXICATING SHKEBS. Baron Von Mueller has been examining a bush from which the natives of Australia derive an in toxicant. It is said that it is cap able of exciting the warrior to a frenzy of courage rather terrible in the savage, but which, in what is sometimes called civilized war fare, would probably tend very materially to reduce the casualties of war to a minimum. The shrub referred to is the duboisia bop woodii, and is to bo found in the region extending from the Darlinj^ river and Barcoo to West Austra lia, though nowhere growing very plentifully. A second species of duboisia, and one which in all probability possesses the same into-xicoting power, is to be found in forest land from near Sydney to near Cape York, and is known to extend over New Caledonia as in little bags.” “It is not probable,” concludes the writer, that a new and perhaps import ant medicinal plantis thusgained.” The world has already got intox icants enough, but there are many of the ills to which flesh is heir, for which as yet no remedy has been found, and the herb or shrub which has proved itself capable of inspiring martial ardor may in skillful hands prove of inestimable value in the great struggle be tween life and disease. We probably know but little as yet of what the botanical world is capable of yielding to our medi cal resources, and every added fact is fraught with interest.—N. Y. Observer. FOKM OF APFLIC-4TION FOIS THE ADMISSION OE HALF OKPIIANS. N. c., .,1877. THE Orphans’ Friend. This is to certify that is a half orphan, sound in body and mind, and with out any estate. H.... father died m 18 I being h.... mother, hereby make application for /«.... admission to the Orphan Asylum at Oxford, and I also relinquish and convey to the officers thereof the en tire management and control of said orphan till the .... day of ,(thut being the day on which .... will be fourteen years of age,) in order that .. -. may be trained and educated according to the regu lations prescribed by the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. I also promise not to annoy the Orphan Asylum, and not to encourage the said orphan to leave ivithout the approval of the Superintendent. ALIVE AND LIVELY WEEKLY! OmAN OF TUB OnniAN WOJRS ENTERTAININa AND IN STRUCTIVE TO THE YOUNG, POLITENESS. Manv a man, raised from pov erty and obscurity to wealth and honor, can trace his rise to civil ity ; it is sure to reproduce itself in others, and ho who is always polite will bo sure to get, at least, as much as lie gives. AVe be lieve it was Macauhi)' who de fined politeness to bo benevo lence in small things. Tlie French, who are nothing unless satirical declare politeness to be the zero of friendship’s thermom eter. A ZEALOBSPIIIEND AUD ADVOCATE OF EBFCATIOIY. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION AND POSTAGE ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR OFFICE IN THE OMFIIAN BUILDING, AT OXFORD. Approved by. W. M. of... FORM OF APPEICATION FOR THE ADMISSION OF ORPHANS. .N. C., GIGANTIC ROSE. In the mild eliiniitc of Ciilifoniia and it.s rich soils rose.s grow to a largo .size. The San Francisco E-mniny Post gives the following account of one: “Its measuremcnl wa.s six indies in diair.- eter, making it of course eighteen indi es ill cii'ciiniferencc. AVe believe it to be the old cabbage species, and such it Avas considered by some of onr pro fessional llorists. They also stated that it was the largest rose they had ever met with. AVo are informed by tlie owner that the bush is now full of similar specimens. Its color was about a medium shade ot x’iiik, with purplish pink edges on some of the outer petals.” FORM OF APPEIC.iTION FOR A BOY. My residence is in County, and my occupation My family consists of. I wish to employ a boy. years of age,and (Here give description and qualities desired.) Ho will be required to and allowed to. will furnish - hnd pay him a month. A. B. Recommended by -0- , 1877. > This is io certify that is an orphan, sound in body and mind, and without es tate. //.... father died 18...., h mother died in 18.-... I, being h , hereby make application foi'-h. . .admission into the Orphan Asylum at Oxford, and I also relinquish and convey to the officers thereof the entire man agement and control of said orphan till the.... day of. , 18 -.. .,(that Veiny the day on which .... luill be fonrieen years of age,) in order that mag be trained and educated according to the regu lations prescribed by the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. ADVERTISEMENTS. Tell cents a line for one insertion. Five cents a line each week for ttiofe than one and less than twelve insertions. One column, tliree months, sl-^ty dollars. Half column, three months, forty dollars, quarter column, three months, tu'e.nty dollars. Present circulation, fourteen hundred and orty papers eaoli week. Address ORPHANS’ FRIEND, OXFOliD, N. 0. r. 15. LYoN, Jll. F.. I)AL1\Y {Late of ^^jhiUnj PuJJV’) LYON, DALBY & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF U. JI. LyOJ THE DURHAM "AROMA PUFF,” TOBACCO. KINO Diil'ham, N. C. Orders solicited—Af'Ciits wanted—ToVaeccr guaranteed. March l7th—Tl-2m. Approved by... W. M. of. II. A. HKAMS & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF .Lodge. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR A GIRE. Our residence is in. County, and our occupation ...... Our family consists of. We wish to employ a girl years of age, and (Here give description and qualities desired). She will be re- quired to and allowed to She will spend her evenings in — and will sleep in We will furnish and %mU pay a month. A. B., Mrs. A. B. Recommended by REAMS’ DURHAM BOOT AND SHOE POLISH. Warranted to excel all others, ov momf Refunded. The onlj Blacking that will polish on. oilfed surface. It is guaranteed to preserve leather and make it;pliaut, requiring less quantity and time to produce a perfect gloss than any other^ the hrush to he applied imm'ediatei'y after put ting on the Blacking.. A perfect gloss froi» this will not soil even wliite cl*othes-. We guarantee it as represented, and as for pat- ro-nage, stri-ctly on its merits-. • H. A, RE-AMS & CO-r Manufacturersy Durham, N-. C> This Blacking Is recommended in the high est terms, after trial,, bv Geo. F. Brown, J. Howard Warner, hiew York; the Presided and' Professors of Wake Forest College; and a large number id gentlemen in and around Durham, whoso certificates have been fur nished the Manufacturers. Orders solicited and promptly filled. March 3rd, 3675. 9-ti
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