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The Orphans’ Friend. WEDNESDAY, JANUAEY - - 24, 1883. Piiblished emry Wednesday at one dollar per annum, invariably in advance PRESENT ORGA.NIZATION OF ORPHAN ASYLUM. J. S. MILLS, Superintendent. Miss GATUABINE McBOUG^ ALL), Teacher of First Form^ Girls. Miss MABY SHOLAB, Teacher of First Form, Boys. Miss MALY C. BOLD, Teacher of Second Form, Girls. Miss ALICE FLEMING, Teach er of Second Form, Boys. Miss S. B. BUBWELL, Teacher of Third Form, Girls. Mrs. ANNA HABBISON, Teache^r of Third Form, Boys. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ORPHAN .4STLXTM FROM JANUARY 15th to JANUARY 22d, 1883. IN CASH. , B. B. Watson, Jonesboro, $ 2 00 Bocky Hock Baptist church, Rev. B. B. Williams, pastor, 18 00 Centre Presbyterian church, R«be- son, additional, 27 IN KIND. Ladies of Scotland Neck—20 yards worsted, 70 yds. calico, 3 prs. half hose, 6 muffs, 11 h’k’fs, 1 box darning cotton, 7 boys’ hats and caps, 4 prs. shoes, 5 prs. cuffs, 3 col lars, 3 combs, 2 scarfs, 20 yds. plaids, 25 yds. domestic, 48 yds. dress lining, 1 shawl, 2 comforts, 4 doz. spools cotton, 7 prs. stockings, 2 boxes buttons. Box from Greensboro containing contribu tions by Mrs. Judge Gilmer, Miss Judith Mendenhall and little Anna Leak Box from unknown friends containing 3 prs. stockings, 4 prs. socks, 5 aprons, 4 shirts, 1 handkerchief, 1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 dress, 2 papers meal, 1 cake soap, 4 yds. domestic. In box from Raleigh—Heller Bros., 3 prs. shoes; J. P, Gulley, 3 prs. shoes; M. D. & J. D. Edwards, 2 prs. stockings, 10 yds. calico, 6 hats; L. Rosenthal, 6 caps, 4 vests, 1 coat; D. S. Wait, 11 vests, 4 shawls, 1 coat; Mrs. M. A. Hardie, 6 hiits, 6 prs. gloves, 3 muffs, &c. Unknown friend, one barrel of apples. R. J. Stem, one bushel wheat. R. V. Wade, one bushel wheat, one bushel com. L, Minor, two bushels wheat. C. Hobgood, one bushel meal. W. D. Kimball, 100 pounds flour. Dr. J. W. Booth, 100 pounds flour. SPECIAL MENTION. Mr. Cozart, Senator, and Capt. Williams, of the House, epent the Sabbath in town. Several of the Asylum children are at the hospital. None very sick. Bes sie Miller, who has been quite ill, is now convalescent. Superintendent Mills is on a trip to the Western part ®f the State, where he will meet a number of or phans who will return with him. Hon. John W. Shackelford, the representative in Congress from the Cape Fear District, died in Wash ington on the 18th inst. Gen. W.|^C. Pendleton, late Chief of Artillery Army^ of Northern Vir ginia, C S. A., and rector of Grace church, Lexington, V a., died sud denly on Monday night, 15th inst. Miss Addie C. Hester has opened a boarding school at the residence of her father. Rev. W. S |He8ter,on the 0. & H. Railroad. Success to the enterprise. Col. L. C. Jones of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley R. R,, has been appointed Superintendent of the Carolina Central Railroad. Sarah Lewis, an interesting girl at the Orphan Asylum, has been adopt ed by a worthy gentleman. She left last week, greatly delighted with her good fortune. W e trust that the parties will be mutually pleased and benefitted by the ar rangement. The Marquis of Lome, Governor- General of Canada, and his wife. Princess Louise, a d aughter of Queen Victoria, passed through the State last week to spend the winter in Charleston. There are many noble men and royal women wbo stay in North Carolina all the time, and we fee no mention of their names in the papers. Certain Monarchist leaders in France are trying to improve the opportunity afforded by the death of Gambetta, to start a movement against the Republic. Messrs. Williams & Furman have an important announcement in the Friend this week. It is short, but to the point. Read it. Mud' Mud!! Mud!!! Mud on the streets, mud on the sidewalks, mud in the hou8e8,mu{i in the newspapers! The subject is growing stale, and just to break the monotony, we are ready for somebody to *kick up a dust.’^ We thank Dr. Grissom ior a copy of the Annual Report of the Board of Directors and the Superintendent of the North Carolina Insane Asy lum. It is an interesting document. We have received an interesting communication from “Uncle Setab^’ for our young readers. It will appear next week. Be sure to read the touching verses headed “The Or- I)han’8 Lament,” in this issue of the Friend, selected by the same writer. Rev. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Gene’ al Agent of the Peabody fund, has re cently addressed the citizens of Ral eigh, Goldsboro and Durham. We trust his visit to the State will beget additional interest in the important work of education. Our friend, Mr. J. A. Leach, of ThoraasvilIe,came near being drown ed a few days ago, while attempt- ing to cross a stream in Davidson county. On reaching the middle of the stream his horse’s feet were swept from under him,his sulky was overturned, and he was carried some distance down the stream where he crawled out on a raft and was res cued py a passer by. The North American Review for February has been received. We always welcome this able monthly, and peruse it with pleasure. Con tents : The Revision of the Creeds ; The Experiment of Universal Suf frage; The Decay of Protestantism; The Political Situation; Physical Ed ucation in 'Colleges; The Standard Oil Company. Mrs. Elizabeth Kyle, a higbtly respected lady, died at her residence in this town on Saturday morning, the 20th inst., in the eighty-eighth year of her age. Mrs. K. as a na tive of Ireland, but had lived in Ox ford for upwards of sixty years, and was the oldest inhabitant of the pl.ace. She was a devout member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev Mr. Bush on Sunday evening, and her remains interred in the Episcopal church yard, by the side of her husband, the late Robert Kyle. Rev. W. T. Brooks, D. D., died at his residence at Wake Forest on the 16th inst., at 10 o’clock, p. m. He v! as born in Chatham county, December 6th, 1809, professed faith in Christ in his twenty-fourth year, and was ordained to the ministry in 1836. He was among the first grad uates of Wake Forest College, was afterwards a professor in the insti tution, and for many years chairman of its Board of Trus tees. He received the degree of D. D., from his alma mater in 1874. He was a preacher of rare gifts, and a devoted pastor, greatly respected and tenderly beloved. Peace to his ashes. Less Whiskey and More Educa tion.—North Carolina wants in the future less whiskey drinking and more education. North Carolinians must cease to “put au enemy into their mouth to steal away th eir brains.’ Oue-third ot our citizens over ten years of age cannot read and write; 31 out of every 100 cannot read and write; with shame*we read it in a re cent census bulletin. Our jails are full of ignorant, idle men. We paid last year $110,000 for the penitentiary. Increase educational facilities, let a School house adorn every district, educate the masses, then will North Carolina prosper. It is much cheaper and more beneficial to pay taxes to ed ucate the poor and illiterate than to pay court taxes, Jail and penitentiary bills.—Shelby Aurora. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Bro. Philip Cheatham is the oldest known English'mason. He is ninety years of age and has been sixty-six years a member of the Craft. He is still secretary of the Lodge of Peace, No. 223. The Fiji Islands can now boast a Masonic Lodge. On May 2d last a Lodge was constituted at Suva, Fiji, under the Grand Lodge of England, There are more than twenty Masons resident in Suva. The Lutheran, discoursing on church pews, mentions twelve kinds : “Old family pew, pastor’s pew, boss pew, sleepy pew, listening pew, now-aud- theu pew, empty pew, selfish pew, crit ical pew,^curious pew, bad pew, make- believe pew.’ Mrs. Lydia Maria Child and her husband lived tor a quarter of a cen tury without a servant in their pleas ant home in Wayland, Mass, Once, when he said to her, “I wish, for your sake, dear, I was as rich as Creesus,” she replied, “You are Creesus, for you are king of Lydia.” A noted philosopher had a wife who had outgrown the Scriptures. A gen tleman,arguing with herone day in the presence of her husband, said to her: “Now, I suppose you will not believe what I am saying?” Her husband broke in and said: “Oh, yes, she will; she will believe anything that is not in the Bible.” There are many wo men and more men whose credulity is ou a par with that of the philoso pher’s wife. We see the statement often repeat ed that the Mormons are making many converts in the South. We are sure there is not much truth in the statement. The only element among us to which these emissaries ot organ ized and sacrilegious lust could find access is small, and tneir departure would be a happy riddance. The Bi ble and the spelling-book will, if we do our whole duty as a people, make the existence ot any such class,a thing of the past.—Nash. Advocate. Pending the bill- to tax dogs, Mr. Morehead said: “Speaking of all the dogs of the Stale wearing collars and tags reminds me ot an old gentleman who lived west of me. He had become tired of the turmoils and misfortunes of this life, so one evening he quietly took the blind bridle from his old mare and adjusted it about his neck, but about the time he was ready to swing off from a joist m the barn some of bis friends detected his suicidal inten tions and prevented him from doing further injury to himself. He com plained very much that he was dis turbed, and said that in a few minutes he would have been in tke happy land. His friend replied: “Yes, you would have been a pretty looking thing waltzing up and down the streets of the New Jerusalem ‘wearing a blind bridle.’ ” educational ITEMS. There are 300,000 teachers in the United States. Mississippi has opened her State University to the girls as well as the boys of the State. Five millions of the people of the United States cannot read, and six and a quarter millions cannot write. Nearly fifty per cent of the people of North Carolina over ten years of age are unable to read or write. Con sider this fact, and send the children to school. Dr. S. Cox was professor in a theo logical seminary, when a student, not over modest of his own abilities, sought his advice as to the propriety of shortening his course, intimating that he might let drop a year without disadvantage. The Doctor, impatient of such nonsense, as he would call it, replied: “Young man, how much ig norance do you think it takes to make a minister of the gospel?” About fifty women graduates of va rious colleges recently met at Bosto'^ to discuss the higher education of wo men. It was decided that pbypioal culture is ^the great necessity for Americau women, aud the establish ment of a department of physical edu cation in the schools was urged. At the recent meeting of the Phila delphia School Board it was staled as a proof of the stupidity of the school system lu that city that it took twenty minutes to read over the course of instruction authorized in primary schools for pupils „in their first four mouths. Each child in the public schools of Atlanta, Ga., is instructed at an an nual cost of $9. Th© white teachers receive from $500 to $1,200 a year, and the colored teachers from $500 to $750. The coloreU schools have been placed under the exclusive charge of the sixteen colored teachers, and th© plan works admirably. Prof. Sylvester Hassell of the Wil son Collegiate Institute, lias suspen ded the operations of his school, and will devete himself for the present to writing a history of- the Primitive Baptist Church, He will re-open his school next September exclusively for girls. Davenport Female College is with. out a President.' Here is a fine op portunity for some energetic man to do a noble work.. Earnest efforts have been made to restore the buildings which were burned several years ago. but the main building is still unfiuish ed. The whole property is estimated to be worth $10,000. Among other things which tend to ennoble human nature, tliat ot rigid intellectual education, seasoned with a pure, moral training, stands pre eminent; and if the goueral press would throw its forces in this direc tion the battle would be half won. The people would soon fall into line, the politicians would follqw the peo ple with alacrity, aud the means aud appliances for the universal diffusion of knowledge would be furnished without needless delay.—N, C. Edu cational Journal. '' ' - ' ' The Greensboro Patrot says “Gov. Jarvis has waked ,up the old fogies, They are pitching iutp him for recom mending an increase of taxation for educational purposes. It is either more education or-.more ignorance. God save the State from the latter al ternative. Gov. Jarvis is Bght aud we shake hands with him across the frightful chasm of ignorance and illit eracy, and will earnestly sustain him in his praiseworthy efforts to save th© State further disgrace and humUia- tioD. Submit the question to the peo ple.” BRIEF THOUGHTS. It is very poor ,Christianity which seeks to be honest because it is the “best pplicy” Most mon call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace and the happiness of a home. Herman T. Strauss, a Milwaukee fireman rescued a dozen helpless serv ant girls at the peril of his own life. But such heroes as Strauss generally go down to death unwept, unhouored and unsung, while imposing monu • ments are piled to the memory of the young Prince Imperial of France and similar ornamental figureheads. ‘•Pour iu knowledge gently.” Plato, one of the wisest men of ancient Greece, observed that the minds of children are like bottles with very narrow mouths. If you attempt to fill them too rapidly, much knowledge is wasted and little received; whereas, with a small stream they are easily filled. Those who would make prodi gies of young children, act as wisely as if they would pour a pail of water in a piut^ measure. Words spoken in unkindness are lilie a dagger which pierces the flesh. ' p MteiRJe and forgiveness,like a poul- heal the wound, but a scar tice, ma,, ^t^^h the tears of peni- will remain i. p. lence can never w.. '-ags;’' that Charity “hopeth all tn.. im- meana that we are to be slow ^ pute evil motives to others. A man may disagree with you aud me,and yet be true in his aims and honest iu his convictions. Never impute cowardice or dishonesty until you are compelled to, and then hope that the dishonest and cowardly will soon be converted. The Christian man who is comforta ble and.prosperous will not be listened to with much patience or profit by one who is not so, unless he accompa ny his advice or admonition with prac tical help. The helping hand with the feeling heart bridges the gulf between the extremes of society. Our people pay niore,^tor the amusements than for the educa tion of their children—and most ly a very low style of amusements at that. A single circus will carry away from a town money enough to build the academy it has so long needed, aud leave nothing behind but a little fresh slang and a few stale jokes.— Nashville Advocate. It IS a proverbial saying that the great men whoso biographies consti tute the history of nations were men of few words, aud, like Cato, began to speak when they had things to say “that deserved to be known.” The smatterers do the talking. Empty 'heads make the most noise,like empty wagons. Most of the good work is. done by reserved men: An eloquent speaker, who had observed much, and was weary ot the sound of his own voice, said that if he could be trans ported back to childhood by awiz.u’d’s wand, and were asked what be would desire above all other gifts, he would say, “Let me bo a reserved man.”— N. r. Obs. Above all, thd need ot theCburch aud the State is a revival of truth, honesty, pure, undefiled religion : Ihe power of God in politics aud theology, pervading the consciences of men, and reigning supreme ip the Cv>uiicils and the conduct otRll who bear office aud all who influence public opiniou. We . trust that the year on which we now enter will be illustrious for such a revival; and that the kingdom of grace may be greatly advanced iu our country aud through the world — N. T. Obs. Parents should do all in their pow- er to sustain and assist the teachers who are conducting their children’s education. ,The teacher should be spoken of with respect, aud treated unitormly as the honored friend of the family, whose iiotice confers disLinc«« tion. There should never be at home an influence which subtly undermines what the teacher is endeavoring to do. Some sympathetic interest in the home study of boys and girls is very helpful, but parents should not be ex- l>ected to fay aside their own occupa tions and do the work for the pupils. Business Integrity.—In Mon treal, the firm of M Fisher & Sons, which failed in 1875 and afterward resumed, only paying its English creditors llsonthe pound sterling at the time, paid up in full on January 1, at a cost to the firm®of 182,000. This is an example of uprighr,ne?s to be recorded and commended, tiiough these ger»tlemen did the’r duty only. No bankrupt law was nec essary, for their creditors believ ed in them, and faith was rewar ded by the payment in full of their claims. Rev. W. P. Blake, ot Weldon, N. C., has been appointed by the Baptist Home Mission Board, of Atlanta, Ga., the successor of Dr. H. F. Buckjier as a misslouary to the Indians.
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