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VOL. Ill OXFORD, N. C,, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1877. NO. 48. TUB L.OST SHEEP. There were illiiety-niiie that sai'ely lay Ill the shelter (if the fold, But a heedless sheeii had soiie astray, III hiiiig'er and thirst and cold, Away on the iiiouutaiii wild and bare, Away from the tender sheiiherd’s care. “Lord, thou hast liete thy ninety and nine, Are they not enongli for thee !” But the Shepherd answered, “This of mine Has wandered away from ino, And though the road be rugged and steep, . I go to the mountain to find my sheep.” Yet none of the ransom’d ever knew, How deep were the waters cross’d, How dark the night the Shepherd passed through To lind the shoe]) that was lost. Out on the mountain he heard its cry, T'aint and helpless and ready to die. And all through the forest thuuder- riv’n. And up from the rocky steep, There rose a shout to the gate of heaven; “llejoice, I have found my sheep,” And the angels echoed around the throne, “Bejoice, for the Lord brings back his own.” Xorthern man a double price for 'ii.s select fruit. One apple man, Captain Neii, of Yancey county, who had on exliibition at tlie State Fair tlie linest apples I have ever seen anywhere—including even tlie great world’s display, last year at the Centennial—“told me that by careful management he sold ap ples regularly every May at three dollars per bushel. What he has done others can do also. People will always buy fine apples that are well kept, and that look clean and nice and tempting. One part of Captain Neil’s secret is in careful hand work. When our people learn to do their work exactly right, tliey will realize double what they are now doing for their butter and tbeir'apples.—Lenoir Topic. OEB BET'J’EK AND APPLES- WHAT we: lose. Recently while in Raleigh saw Nortliein butter selling for tbirtv-tive cents per pound, and at the same time . the best price that could be obtained for that shipped from our mountains was ouiv eighteen cents. These are DOING GOOD. A BAGGED SCHOOL. ONE HENDKEO YEARS AGO. tile prices that one ot the leading grocers of that city assured me ruled in the city. Why the dif ference I It was simply in the preparation of it tor market. Good batter is good butter any where in the world ; and is well known that as good butter can be made iii the mountains of Nortli Carolina as in any country on eartli. But our people do not take tlie proper pains in putting their butter into a marketable condition; and the retail grocer cannot depend on always getting a good supply ot an honest at ti de for his trade in buying moun tain butter. It is full ot water, salt, and streaks of different col ors, and (qualities of so-called but ter, and with other objectmnable qualities. ’Northern dairymen send their butter to market in such a condition that as soon as you see the package yttu know exactly what you are getting even without running the sampler down through tlie mass to test it. Bo with our apples. Western North Carolina can certaitily com plete fairly with any section ^ ol the country in tlie way ot tine apples. Yet, even in less than one hundred miles ot our moun tains, the best ot our dealers hud it to their and tlieir customers in terest to buy Northern apples, Whyl Tlie Northern grower picks witli the hand every apple he barrels, and carefully sorts, so that when tiie package is opened the top fairly represents the whole. More than half the time our people shake off their fruit into the dirt and filth, and then throvv into wagons and boxes as if handling ear-corn ; and the consequence is when the apples ■reach our Fastern and Southern markets, the purchaser does_ not know how many faulty, bruised, and otherwise unsound apples he will find in the package, and so no wonder he prefers to pay the One hundred years ago not a pound of coal, not a cubic foot of illuminating gas had been burned in tills country. No iron stoves were used, and no contrivances for economizing heat were em ployed until Dr. Franklin invent ed the iron framed fire place, which still bears his name. All the cooking and warming in town and country were done bj' the aid of fire, kindled in the brick oven or on the hearth. Pine knots ot tallow candles furnished the light for the long Winter nights, and sanded floors supplied the place of rugs and carpets. The water used for houseiiold purposes was drawn from deep wells by the creaking “sweep.” No form of pump was used in this country so far as we can letirn, until after the commencement of the present century. Tiiere were no friction matches in those early days, by the aid of which a fire could be easily kindled ; and if the fire “went out” upon the hearth over night, and the timber was damp so tliat the spark would not catch, the alternative remained of wad ing through the snow a mile or so to borrow a brand of a neigh bor. Only one room in any house was warm, unless some of the family were ill; in all the rest the temperature was at zero many nights in the Winter. The men and women of a hundred years ago undressed and went to their beds in a temperature colder than that of our modern barns and wood-sheds, and they never com plained,—Selected. “Every good act,” said Mo-- hammed, “is a charity.” It was a cliarily for humble Susan to spend her holiday after noon at the liouse of a still poorer neiglibor, amusing her children and caring for the baby, wliile the mothet finished and took home a piece of work, which bought them a week’s fooii. With* out that timely help, she said, she did not know when she sliould have been able to complete it. Susy bad helped to provide them with food for a week, yet she had not a penny of her own in '*the world. A smiling recognition and a few kind words from a lady' who sometimes employ'ed her, sent a poor sewing-girl to her daily task at the shop with a lighter heart and a brighter eye than common. She worked better for that small charity of a smile and a bright word, and won more favor from those who employed her. “I shall be obliged to drop oft some of our workers,” said the manager to her privately', “but y'ou are becoming so handy and use ful, Margaret, we can’t spare you.” The good word of the morning liad lielped her more than she knew to keep her situation.—Ear ly Dew. Charles Dickens visited the scene, and this is his account of it:—“I found my first ragged school in an obscure place culled West Street, Saffron Hill, pitifully struggling for life under every dDadvantage. It had no means, it had no suitable rooms, it de rived no power or protection from being recognized by any authori ty ; attracted within its wretch ed walls a fluctuating swarm of faces—vdnng in years, but youth ful in nothing else—-that scowled hope out ot countenance. It was held in a low-roofed den, in a sickening atmosphere, in the midst of taint and dirt, and pesti lence; with all the deadly sins let loose, howling and shrieking at the door. Zeal did not supply the place of method and training; the teacliers knew little of theii office; the pupils, with an evil Teachers when outside the school-room should be like all other good men and wometi. W0 do not like teacherislt teachers and ministerish ministers who car ry the cant of their professions into tho store and railway car. Let a teacher do just wliat every body else does, as far as it is riglit; go into society, drive a good horse, play all good games, laugh, teach in the Sunday school, and lead the pray'er-meetingif he wants to—in tact be a liearty' member of society; but by' all means avoid being known as a teacher by any outward mark, cliaracteristic or sign, by any cut of the coat or tone of the voice. A teacher in the school-room is all right; but a teaclier out of the school-room is an insufferable bore.—“Rfirwes’ Educational 3Ionth' ________ A VERY L'NJEST CESTDIII. “What we need in adversity'is an idea, as part of our being, in tertwined witli our feeling, that God is just as much revealed in trials as in blessings; that his goodness is shown in putting our moral fibre to hard tasks that will make it athletic, and so make us nobler, as the teacher’s frletidship is shown in putting the scholar to tough lesson that makes the sharpness, found them out, got the better of them, derided them, made blasphemous answers to scriptural questions, sang, fouglit, danced, robbed each other— seemed possessed by legions of devils. The place was stormed and carried, over and over again ; the lights were blown out, the books strewn in tlie gutters, and tlie female scholars carried off triumphantly to their old wick edness.” Zeal, however, did prevail; it soon produced the requisite “method and training,” and the hold which the Ragged School teacher eventually gained upon the hearts of the roughest classes of the metropolis may be re garded as one of the grandest triumphs of Christian love. OUR LARES. STARTING IN THE WOBLH. Many an unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly all his life for tlie purpose of leaving enough to give his children a start in tlie world, as it is called. Set ting a young man afloat with monev left him by his relations is like tying bladders under the arnis of one who can not swim; ten chances to one he will lose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach him to swim, and he vt’ill never heed the bladders. Give your child a sound education, and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man, and you have given him what will be of more value than all the wealth of the Indies. mind sinewy and wise. Witli that principle as part of out spiritual constitution, we triumpli over adversities, because the soul lives with God. When evil seems to gain wider sway, we can be calm and strong if we have the idea, as a broad rich light around us, that God is stronger than evil, and is unspeakably more opposed to it than we are, and completely committed, now and forever, to the good. When our friends die, and wnen death is beginning to mix its shadows with our own air, we are thrice armed against it, we utterly conquer it, by seeing that there is no death if we have the Christian principle in out- souls that this life is the thresh- hold of a great future. A man without ideas like these, destitute of principles that give a cheering hue to life, and which are part of the substance of his soul, doomed to face the dark problems of Providence at some time, and meeting them only with a soul in eclipse—what difference does it make in his condition to say he has gold, he has a fine house, he has a luxurious table, he has a great name, he has civil power? He is to be pitied ; angels see how sad his lot is ; Christ mourns for him; God yearns over him, because he is poor, penniless, in his immortal nature, because be does not hold to anything with his mind and heart, because he does not own anything in his personal right, for the gain and excellency of which he counts all other things as loss.”—Thomas \ Starr Kiny. The only bodies of fresh water in the State which attain to the dignity of lakes are in the eastern section. They are 16 in number. The largest is Mattamuskeet, in Hyde county, which has an area of nearly 100 square miles. Its form is "elliptical, and its dimen sions 15 miles by 5 to 7. This and three others, Phelps Lake, Alligator Lake and Pungo Lake, are situated in the great swamp between Albemarle and Pamlico sounds. Phelps Lake has about one-third of the area of Matta- miiskeet, and the others are of much smaller dimensions. In the White Oak swamp of Jones and Carteret counties is a group of small oval lakes only a few miles apart and connected by canals partly natural and partly artificial. The largest of these, North West Lake, has an area of 10 to 12 miles. In the Green Swamp of Brunswick county, oc curs another lake of the same form and character, 8 miles long by 5 wide. These lakes are all situated in the highest part of the swamps in which they are found, and have sandy bottoms, for the most part, and a depth of 4 or 5, to 8 or 10 feet, and occasionally more. There are five other small lakes in Bladen county, about half way between Wilminton and Fayetteville, between Cape Feat- river and South river. Their average area is probably not more than 2 siiuare miles. The aggregate lake surface of the State is more than 200 square miles.—iVo/, Kerr's Report. “James is naturally smart, and we are going to give him an edu cation, perhaps make a lawyer or minister of him.” “George don’t seem to get along well with his books—is rather dull—and we shall make a farmer of him.” We have heard talk just like this, and the majority of people act upon this principle. It is rank cruelty —rank injustice, at any rate. It is giving to the rich, and with holding from tho poor. If through the fault of his parents, or other wise, George is less endowed with Intellectual gifts,, he should have all the more done for him to make up any natural defect, by culture, by discipline, by exer cise of the mind, and thus place him upon a par with his more gifted brother. If a youth dis likes arithmetic, or any particular branch of study or thinking, it shows a deficiency in that faculty', which culture and study should make up, and thus produce a well balanced mind. We abomi nate the whole system of “elective studies,” now so popular in some schools and colleges, which al lows a scholar to mainly cultivate those mental powers, in which he is already most proficient. A rigid course of diverse study, planned to develope uniformly the various faculties of the mind, is the one which will turn out the best and most useful men. After a good general ground-work is thus laid, and the thinking facul ties are well and uniformly de veloped, the final study may be directed to some specific line, that will be required in a particular business, or professional life.— American Agriculturist. Lord Shaftesbury tells a tale of a ragged school teacher, who, having announced his intention of conducting an open air service in one of the most demoralized regions of the metropolis, was somewhat alarmed, on his arrival, at finding himself surrounded by a gang of notorious rufSans Tho men, however, remained perfect ly quiet and attentive throughout the service. At the conclusion the preacher expressed his sur prise at their presence, and still more at their conduct, when one of them replied: “The fact is, sir, rve came to protect you. You are the gentleman who is hind to the children, and we didn’t mean i to let you be interfered with.” . Il:
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