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/ ii, Tfili: I^ITTIwE OLEAi^ER. “ May T follow your reapers, master, Anti glean in your lields to-day ? The sickles are cutting the golden grain— Let the little gleaner stay; For my mother is old and feeble. And she cannot earn oar bread ; And 13)lly is simple, you know, mastcr» And iather has long been dead; And I saw your fields of waving corn, Yellow as shining gold, And knew you would let the maiden come To glean from its wealth untold. I’ll fill my sacks with the scattered giuin, And bind me some pretty sheaves Of the nodding stalks, that the reapers drop Amid the glistening leaves.^^ So the master said to the maiden young, “ Go glean in my fields to-day, And gather whatever the reapers leave. And carry it all away.” And at evening the gleaner maiden, With her sack of golden grain, And a little sheaf on her shoulder laid) To the master came again ; And she said, in her low, sweet accents, “ May the Lord be kind to thee In the day of thy need, oh, noble master, As thy heart has been to me,” And then in the dewy evening time, And bearing her burden bright— The sack of grain aud the golden sheaf— Came the gleaner home that night And the mother opened the Bible, And read her the story true Of the beautiful Ruth, the gleaner fair (The tale that is ever new), Who gleaned in the fields of Bethlehem In the barley harvest time, And the honer of her noble kinsman sbowed- All told in the Book Divine. And from Ruth and lier noble kinsman Did David's line descend. And from thence came our Saviour, Jesus Christ, Whoso kingdom has no end. May the lord bless our gleaner maiden, And fill her with heavenly love, Aud gather her in at the Harvest Time With tho golden sheaves above. BOBBY. Bobby was to stay with Bridget, That was decided upon, and all Bobby’s tears and entreaties were useless. So he contented himself by sitting on. the top stair, and stamping as bard as he could with his chubby foot. His shrill screams, ending in doleful howls, soon reached mamma’s sick cham her, and the nurse, seeing how restless it made her, went down into the kitchen to tell Bridget to carry Bobby away. “ Ocli, Bobb}^, darlint, coom down an’ bev some merlassos and brid, that’s a dear by,” said Bridg et’s voice at the foot of the stairs. At the words ‘ merlasses and brid,’ Bobby’s head, with its tum bled hair, was lifted for a mo ment, but be made no answer. Bridget waited a moment. “ Bobby, yer naughty by; if you don’t coom down now, yer shan’t bev anny,” and Bridget slammed the dining-room door. Bobby wiped his eyes with his clean pink frock, and forgot all about the pic-nio at the thoughts of bread and molasses. “ I dess I’ll go down,” said he softly, and he crept down into the kitchen where Bridget was put ting the pies into the oven. Gimme my bread and mer- lasses, Biddy,”' said lie. “ When you can saj^ plaze, and not bafore, Robert Prescott,” said Bridget, severely. Now Bobby bated to say please, and be went round the table pok ing his fat finger into the newly- covered pies to see which was mince and which was apple. At last the thoughts of the nice bread and molasses conquorod Bobby, and he said, “ Bridget Maloney, jj/ea-se gimme what I want.” She handed down the thick slice of bread she had prepared some time before, and seating Bobby in bis chair at the table. she ran out to speak to her cous in, John Carson, the butcher boy, who was driving by. Bobby, left to hiftiself, was in liigli glee. He managed to slip down from his chair, and taking a large iron spoon from the table, he dipped alternately from the jars which held the apple and mince for the pies, until each jar contained about equal parts of each preparation. Tiring of this, he caught sight of the dish of eggs on the table. Alas ! for the eggs. One after another was rolled across the clean white floor until the ^hole dozen were smashed. Another ten minutes passed, and Bridget did not return. Bob by climbed to the mantel and took down the match safe. “ I dess I’ll twy and light one,” said he, as he rubbed his tiny hand across the card of matches. One moment more, and the dear child’s thin frock was all ablaze, and Bridget, rushing in, uttered a piercing shriek and caught him in the folds of her shawl. Bobby was terribly burned, and as he lay day after day in his crib, suffering so much, he said over aud over he would never meddle with the things mamma had forbidden him to touch. Mamma was now quite recov ered from her illness, and would come and sit for hours by her little boy’s bed-side, telling him stories from that dearest and best of books, our Holy Bible, and trying to show him how grieved the blessed Jesus is when any of His little ones are naughty and disobedient. Bobbjq gazing at bis pretty mamma from bis crib, would ask her to kiss him and then whisper softly, “ I’se so sorry, mamma. Ask Jesus to help Bobby to be a dood boy, and mind you” TKUTHFSJJL AND OBEDIENT. EIIIEDKEN DOINO CiOOD. “ Charley ! Charley !” Clear and sweet the voice rang out over the common. “ That’s mother,” cried one of the boys, instantly throwing down his bat, and picking up bis cap and jacket. “ Don’t go yet!” “ Have it out!” “Just finish the game!” cried the players, in noisy choru.', “I must go, right off, this min ute—I told mother I’d come whenever she called.” “Make believe you didn’t bear, they exclaimed. “ But I did hear.” “ She’ll never know you did not.” “ But I know it, and “ Let him go,” said a bystand er. “ You can do nothing with him. He is tied to his mother’s apron strings.” “Yes,” said Charley, “and there- is where every boy ought to be tied; and in a bard knot, too.” “ But I wouldn’t be such a baby to run the minute she call ed,” cried one. I don’t call it babyish to keep one’s word,” said the obedient boy, a beautiful light glowing in his eyes. “ I call it manly for a fellow to keep bis word with bis mother; and if be doesn’t keep his word to her, you see if be keeps it to any one else.—Zion's Advocate. I am sure you will find out ways of showing kindness if you lookfor them. One strong lad I saw the other day carrying a heavy bas ket up a bill for a little tired girl. Another dear lad I met leading a blind man who had lost his faith ful dog. An old lady, sitting in her arm chair by the tire, once said, “ My dear little grand-daugirter, there, is hands, feet and eyes to me.” “ How so ?” “ Why, she runs about so nim bly to do the work of the house, she brings me so willingly what ever I want, and when she has done she sits down and reads to me so nicel-v a chapter in the Bi ble.” One day a little girl came home from school quite happy to think that she had been useful. For there was a school-fellow there in great troul^le about the death of a baby l)rotlier. “And I put my cheek against hers,” said her companion “ and I cried, too, because I was sorry for her; and after a little while she left off crying, and said I bad done her good.” “THE EITTEE FOXES THAT SPOIE THE VINES ! ” One little fox is “By-and bv.” If you track him you come to his hole—Never. Another little fox is “ I Can't.” You had better set on him an ac tive, plucky little thing, “ I Can” by name. It does wonders. A third little fox is, “ No Use in Tiying.” He has spoiled more vines, and hindered the growth of more fruit, than many a worse looking enemj^ A fourth little fox is “ I For got.” He is very provoking. He is a great cheat. He slips through your fingers like time. He is sel doni caught up with. Fifth little tox is “ Don’t Care/’ 0, the mischief it has done ! Sixth little fox is “No Matter.” It is matter whether your life is spoiled by small faults.—Good Neivs. FOKM OF APPEICATION FOii THE ADMISSION OF HAEF OKPIIANS. N.C.,'i ,1877. ) This is to certify that is a half orphan, sound in lody and mind, and loith- out any estate. II.... father died iw 18 I being h. mother, hereby mahe application for h .. . . 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 ,(that being the ddy on which — i ivill be fourteen years of age,) in order that ... may he 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 without the approval of the Superintendent. Tlllti A plate of apples was being passed to some children, -when a little girl took a fine large red one. “ How greedy you are to take the biggest!” said a compan ion ; “ I meant to have had tliafi mvselfi”' Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts ev erything of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all man ner of fruits.—Fenclon. . BOSS AND GIKES. We have on hand about a dozen boys and girls, small and spright ly, just such as childless couples might properly adopt. Persons wishing to adopt children are invited to come and see them, or correspond with us. tf FOKM OF APPEICATION FOIS A BOY. My residence is in County, and my occupation ts My family consists of. I wish to employ a boy . —years of age,and (Here give description and qualities desired.) He will be required to and allowed to J 'mill furnish and pay him .a month. A.B. li'ecommendcd by Approved by.. W.M.of.... FOKM OF APPEICATION FOR THE ADMISSION OF ©KPIIANSi ...N.C.,'i .., 1877. > This is io certify that., - - is an orphan, sound in body and mind, and without es tate. H. — father died 18. , h....mother died in 18 I, being h hereby make application for 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.. -., f that being the day on which loill be fonrteen years of age,) in order that .... may be trained and educated according to the regu lations prescribed by the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. Orphans’ Friend. ALIVE AND LIVELY WEEKLY! ORGAN OF THE ORPHAN WORK ENTEaTAmKiia MB IN STRUCTIVE TO THE YOUNG. A ZEALOUS FRIEND AND ADVOCATE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, SUBSCRIPTION AND POSTAGE ONLY ONE OOLLAfil A YEAR OFFICE IN THE ORPHAN BUILDING, AT OXFORD. -0- AOVE21TSSEKIEJVTS. Ten cents a line for one insertion. Fiv^ cents a line each week for more than one and less than twelve insertions. One column) three months, sixty dollars. Half coluinnj three months, forty dollars, quarter column; three months, twenty dollars. Present circulation, fourteen hundred aud orty papers each week. Address ORPHANS’ FRIEND, OXFORD, N. a T. B. LYoN, JR. E. JlALBY. E. II. LYOll {Late of ^^Dalby LYON, DALBY & CO., M.4XUFACTUEEES OP AROMA UFF,’ KINO Approved by....., W.M.O:f. - Lodge. FOKM OF APPEICATION FOK A GIKE. Our residence is in........ County, and our occupation ...... Our family consists o/- We wish to employ a girl..... .years of age, and (Here give description and qualities desired). She will be re quired to and allowed io She will spend her evenings in and will sleep in We luill furnish and will pay a month. A. B., Mrs. A. B. Becommended by TOISACC®. Durham, N. C. Orders solicited—Aleuts wanted-^Tubaeoo guaranteed. March 17th— if. A. CO., MASUFACTUEEES OF ■L » REAMS’ DURHAM BOOT AND SHOE POLISH. Warranted to excel all otliers^^ or money Itefunded. The onlj Blacking that will polish, on oUed surface. It is guaranteed to preserve leather and make it pliant,, requiring Isss quantity and time to produce a perfect gloss than any other* the brush to be applied immediately after put ting on the Blacking. A perfect gloss from this will not soil even white clothes. We guarantee it as represented, and as for pat ronage, strictly on its merits. H. A. REAMS & CO., Manufacturers, Durham, N. G. This Blacking is recommended in the high est terms, after trial, bv Geo. F. Brown, J. Howard Warner, New York; the President and Professors of Wake Forest College; and a large number of gentlemen in and around Durham, wdiose certificates have been fur- nisliod tho Manufacturers. Orders solicited aud promptly filled. JIarchyid, 1S75, y.(j
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