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1 The Orphans’ Friend. WEDNESDAY, JANUAKY - - 31, 1883. Published euesy Wednesday at on dollar per annum, invariably in advance PEESENT OEGANIZATION OF OKPHAN ASYLUM. J. H. MILLS, SwperinUndent. Miss CATUAMNE McBOUG. ALB, Teacher of First Form, Girls. Miss MABY SSOLAB, Teacher of First Form, Boys, Miss MABY C. BOBB, Teacher of Second Form, Girls. Miss L. mCSOLSON, Teach er ofSeccmd Form, Boys. MISS E. M MACK, Teache- er of Third Form, Girls. Miss LULA MABTIN, Teach-, er of Third Form, Boys. Miss ALICE L. FLEMING, In Charge of Hospital. *7 'CONTEIBUTIONS TO THE ORPHAN ASYLUM FROM JANUARY 23d to JANUARY 30th, 1883. IN CASH. General Cash, $ 5 00 Collected in Kaleigh by committee oi Masonic Lodges, 28 80 Bro. Montague, for sundry Baptist churches, 50 00 Hon. J. M.Worth, Public Treasurer, 1000 00 Mebanevllle church, 5 00 Maj. R. Bingham, 20 00 Mrs. M. A. Southerland, 1 00 Goring in Greenville, 4 00 Carolina Council, Legion of Honor No. 197, Rocky Mount, Bethel Pres, church, Stonewall Lodge No. 359, J. N. Morgan and wife, Cooper, Hutchings & Co., IN KIND. Teargin, Petty & Co., one bag buttons, Capt. A. Landis, six pairs shoes. Unknown friend in Raleigh, ten hats. J. B. Hobgood, one load straw. 10 00 2 00 8 51 2 00 10 00 SPECIAL MENTION. The Asylum hospital is closed. None of the children are sick. Gustard Lore, the famous French painter and designer, is dead. See advertisement of land sale by A. S. Peace and J'. S. Amis, Com missioners. Superintendent Mills returned from the "West last Monday bringing with him seven orphans. Rev. Lr. F, H. Ivey has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church in Goldsboro. He goes to Georgia. Rev. Jeremiah Johnson died at Pantego, N. C., on the 5th inst. He was an aged member of the N. C. Conference. Both Houses of Congress have passed the bill reducing letter post age to two cents. No time has been fixed for the reduction to take eftect. Miss Lula Martin, of Winston, and Mias Lizzy Nicholson, of Warren, have been added recently to the Asylum corpse of teachers. Minstrel performances and such like are Irequently advertised, ^‘for the Ijenefit of the Orphan Asylum.” The Asylum cash book does not show any receipts from that source. All the orphans were taken to church last Sunday for the first time in several weeks. The disagreeable weather has prevented their regular attendance. Rev. Mr. Bush is the only preach er in town that visits and prays for j^the orphans. This statement is au thorized by the Superintendent. * P. S.—Since the foregoing was written, Rev. Mr. Hardiway, of the Baptist church, has visited the Asy lum and preached an interesting and appropriate sermon. The item published by us last week concerning Mr. J. A. Leach, in which it was stated that he came near be ing drowned while crossing a swollen stream, we are glad to learn was a mistake. We derived our informa tion from a reliable exchange. W e have received a. copy of an ^^Address” delivered on St. John’s Lay, Lecember 27th, 1882, by E. L. C. Ward, and published by request of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. and A. M., Edenton, N. C. It is an interesting paper We shall make extracts for the benefit of our renders From the Biblical Recorder: ^^Rev. R. H. Marsh, of the Oxford Orphans’ Friend, has vacated the editoral chair in order to give more time to his churches. He was a good editor and is a good pastor, and it is to be come a better pastor that he gives up his responsible position.^’ General W. R. Cox, Past Grand Master, and Congressman from the Raleigh Listrict, is to be married to Miss Lyman, daughter of Bishop Lyman to-morrow. General Cox is devoted friend of the Orphan Asylum, and a generous contributor to its support. We wish him great happiness. A gentleman admires a cliarmiug woman over w'hose head the swarms of seventeen year locusts have passed at least thrice. “But I say,” says one of his friends, “she is very charming, 1 know; still, you must admit that she is wrinkled.” “Wrinkled!” echoes the chivalrous lover. “No, sir! There may be the indelible impression of a smile ux)on her face here and there, but that is all!” BRIEF THOUGHTS. Science and religion, bass and so prano of the same glorious anthem! “Alas! that, so many people look upon religion simply as a fi^re escape!” exclaims a Southern preacher. That new Canadian weather prophet, who has notified President Arthur that a terrific storm will play sad havoc with our vessels next March, need not feel alarmed for the safety of our navy. The President, having received timely warning, has instructed the Secretary of the Navy to employ a few liorses and have our war vessels hauled up into a field and have a shed built over them. This precaution may entail an expense of §800 or $900, but the American Navy must and shall be preserved*—Norris town Herald. Our community was startled on Friday night last by the sudden death of Capt. 8. A. Goodwyn, Mayor of Oxford. He was in Co- zart Hall witnessing the performan ces of a baud of minstrels, and had just said to a gentleman with whom 26 was conversing on some business matter: “I will attend to it to morrow,” when he fell and with one gasp, passed into eternity. How short the step between life and death ! Capt. Goodwyn was a native of Virginia, was married some years ago to Miss Hicks, a Gran ville lady, since dead, and has been for a few years a resident of this town, engaged in the practice of law and in the Insurance business. He had impressed us as a quiet, steady, conscientious man. A few M eeks ago he was elected by the Commissioners of the town,'Mayor, to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Co- zart, and had entered actively upon the duties of that position The fu- neralservice was conducted by Rev, Mr. Primrose, of the Presbyterian church, and the remains deposited in the grave in the presence of a large concourse of persons. Twenty-six years passed before the people discovered that Edgar Allan Poe was really a poetj and then tUe pupils and teachers of the Public Schools seized hold of the idea of plac ing a marble block over the spot where bis mortal remains had lain for more than a quarter of a century, Francis S. Key, whose song has become our national anthem, would have died un known had not the brilliant circum . stance of the bombardment of Fort McHenry brought to light the genius of the true poet and patriot, Edward Choate Pinkney, a poet who is honor ed wherever our language is spoken, and whose name shines bright in the pages of Baltimore’s annals, is scarce ly remembered in the city of liis birth. ELUCATIONAL. The illiterate whites of the country number 2,256,400. The money invested by the Church for the education of women is not one fiftieth the amount expended for the college education of men. If anybody sa.ys that the Bible ac count and the evolutionist's’ account are the same, he makes an appalling misrepresentation. Prefer if you will Darwin’s account to Genesis, but know that you are an infidel. There have been various definitions of “a gentleman,” but the prettiest and most poetic is that given by a young lady of this city the other day: “A gentleman,” she said, “is a human be ing combining a woman’s tenderness with a man’s courage.” work to make them right, but never surrender. Yours has been the expe rience of thousands.—Meth. Advance. Last summer Mr. A. Bronson Alcott said : “1 early determined in life not be a slave to things; not to put my life as pledge for fine .^furui ture, for luxuries, for the material surroundings. We lived a simple life, Mrs. Alcott and I, and I have never regretted it,” The Christian religion was not de signed for the gratification of man’s intellect or mstheticism, but for the salvation of the soul, and to gratify the spiritual longings which are com mon to all. ' If our faith stops at Christ’s life, and. does not fasten upon the blood, it vrill not be justifying faith. His miracles, which prepared the world for his dpetriues; his holiness, which fitted himselt for his sufferings, had been insufficient for ns without tlie addition of the cross. In North Carolina there are 463,160 children of school age of whom 233,- 071 were last year enrolled as pupils; only about fifty per cent. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. In the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the bless- upon a piece of land, the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: “No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure,” said he. Mrs. T. A. Harrison and Miss S. B. Burwell, who have been teaching in the Asylum, left us last week. They did faithful and efficient work, and leave with our best wishes. The House committee on privile ges and elections considered the contested election case of Moore vs. 'Williams last Friday. No decision yet. Two dollars and twenty-five cents recently came to the Orphan Asylum from Goldsboro, but without any letter. Credit was given to an “un known friend.” Now brother Ham, of Harmony Lodge, No. 340, informs US that he sent the money and for got to write. Glad to see that other people forget occasionally. One of Tboreau’s volumes, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riv ers,” did not sell well, and his pub lishers returned 706 copies of an edi tion of 1,000. Thoreau stored them up in his attic, and then boasted that he had a library of nearly 900 volumes, hf which 700 were books he wrote himself. Preachers seem to vie with one an other in their selections of odd and sensational topics, as an examination of the religious notices in the New York Sunday papers will show. The trouble is, that the convictions of the pastors are not, strong and fervent; the belief of the people is not vital. Women have found vindication in an unexpected quarter. The report of the Census Bureaqshovvs that men in the United States spend more mon ey in dress than women. The figures are $498,000,000 for men and $317, 000,000 for womfen. The average is $45 a year for men and $27 for wo men. There is in the State an average school population of 45 to each white district, but the numbers enrolled av erage only 25 to a school and the av erage attendance is about 14. Lend us your ears, ye North Caro linians! Census Bulletin No. 303 shows that among all the States and Territories ot this Union the percen tage of illiteracy among the white people of North Carolina is greatest, with the single exception of New Mexico, a raw, half-civilized Territo ry. Is this not shameful? 3t.5 per cent, of the white people of the State over ten years of age unable to read; 31.7 per cent, unable to write their names. Virginia’s percentage is but 18 per cent; South Carolina’s but 22; Georgia’s 23, and Tennesse’s 27. Is there not a volume in these figures? Compare with ours the percentage of Massachasetts, 6 per cent; of Ohio, 5 per cent; of Michigan, 4 per cent of those who cannot write; of California 4 per cent. Bear in mind that we speak of the white people. Can we not remove this stigma? Is a long sermon necessary with such a text as this? Let ns seek by every means to wipe out this blot upon our State’s escutcheon. It is for us to do, and it cauiiot be done without an ef fort, without sacrifice of less impor tant things. O ye legislators-elect, here is work for you to do. Olioose a man illustrious to represent us in the councils of the nation, elect to your offices proper men, honorable men, but waste no time at this. Look at your State bowed down in shame and right this wrong. Be just''and fear not, you will be sustained.—News and Observer. Mrs. J- J. Rolf has moved her millinery es tablishment over the store formerly occu pied by Grandy & Bro, .where she will con tinue to sell her stock till April 1st, at cost. Ladies are specially invited to call and ex amine her goods. - I wish we would consider ourselves to be set in this world as a crystal which placed in the middle of the uni verse, would giye tree passage to all that light which it receives from above. —BeReuty. The Bothnia took 500 passengers safely from New York to Liverpool. None of the 500 made any excitement, but four days out we found a coat, hat, vest and boots on the deck, im plying that a man had jumped over board. There was more talk about that' one man than about all the rest. Why did he jump? Lid the fish catch him, or did he sink to the bottom of the sea? Five thousand scientists have accepted the magnificent Bible theory of the Creation, but the few who have jumped over are more talk ed aboqt than all the rest. I am asked to jump with them. I think I shall stand by the Bothnia. Huxley, Tyndall, Larwin, Spencer and 'Clifford on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean have sown broadcast the feeeds of atheism or agnosticism, while TugersoII, Prof. Adler, and Oourtlaudt Palmer are in this country breaking fresh and fertile soil for the work before them. There seems to be a flavor of dis tinction in this aristocratic unbelief. Men can defend it upon scientific grounds, for science teaches us to be - lieve in things natural and material; religion in supernatual influences. Yet while the Christain religion re mains the same, science is constantly changing. So varying are its couclu-' elusions, that a text-book on geology is practically out of date before it is in print. With all the observations of astronomers, and with such learned volumes on comets, it is declared that all the accurate knowledge of these phenomena could easily be writ ten in large hand on a sheet of fools cap. That good brother who complains of being wounded and sour, and threatens to give up the struggle is undergoing a severe lemptation. We say to him, banish all such thoughts at once. Let jiatieuce have its perfect work. Ride the waves bravely. The trial through which you are now pas sing is making a man of you. You will come to the front by and by clad in steel. If things are wrong go to Agnostics confidently believe that the religion of humanity is to supply the place of revelation and Christian creeds. This can never be. Its theo ries are too misty, its philosophy too rarefied for ordinary comprehension. In the full view ot death and the grave, of what consolation are such words as these from Victor Hugo’s funeral eulogy upon George Sand: “The human form is an occultatioh. It masks the real and divine usage, which's an idea, and that idea is im mortal.” This is the sort of immortal ity which is the foundation of the be lief held by tlie Society of Ethical Culture. It would be of but little comfort to be told that a lepavted friend or relative was an “idea.'’ The eternity of influence may be all that is desired by a few great lonely souls stauding afar olf on the frozen peaks of intclhcuial i.solatioii, but to the great mass of hiimauity it is “lilte a flame without iieat, or a rainbow without color.” It romimls us of the Colossal vanity of Tacitus when lie asserted his belief that iinmorraljlife was only granted as a special gift to a few lofty minds. TOUCHING ANECDOTE OF A SPIDER. Mr Moggridge, in liis studies in Natural History had been in the habit of iininersing, for pres ervation his different specimens of spiders and ants in bottles of alcohol. He saw that they strug- gled for a few minutes; but lie thought that sensation was soon extinguished and they were soon free from suffering. On one occa^ Sion he wished to preserve a la; ge female spider and twenty four of her young ones, that he had cap tured. He put the mother into a bottle of alcohol, and saw that after a few moments she folded Up lier legs upon lier body, and was at rest He then put into the bottle the young ones, who of course, manifested acute pain. What was his surprise to see the mother arouse herself from her lethargy-, dart around and gatlier her young ones to her bosom, fold her legs over them, again relapse into insensibility, until at last death came to her relief, and the limbs, no longer controlled by this maternal instinct, released their grasp! The effect of this exhibition of love is a les.son to our common hnmanity. He has nev* er since repeated the experiment, but has applied chloroform be fore immersion. Though nearly twenty year,s have passed since the declaration of uni versal freedom, there are 3,220,878 ot the colored population of the age of ten years and upward who cannot write. T.J.&W.D. HORNER’S Classical, Mathematical and Com^ onercial School, HENDERSON, N. 0. The Spring Session opens the 2d Mon day in January next, Tlie toaohers are tried and experienced, the tuiins uro reas onable, and the accommodations arc first class. Tlie disciiiline is good and tiie course of instruction t.liorougli. For circulars giving particulars, a idLOss the Principals, Henderson, N. 0. THE Sunday School Worker is published the 1st and loth of each inonili It is devoted to the interest of Sunday Schools and the o.hi!c]re:i geinn-ully. 11, con- tains the Inter/tational serie.s of Sunday School Lessons prepared especially for its columns, an Infant Class Department, and the Children’s Letter Box, besides much use ful reading matter. TERMS : One copy, one year. 50 cents Ten copies, one year, each....,.., 35 “ Twenty copies (cr more)! year each..30 “ To every Sup 'riuteiident sending us a club of twenty subscribers, we will send by mail a copy of the “Superintendent’s Vc.‘*t Pocket Record,’ good for two years’ serviop, REV. J. ’PRESSLEY BARRETT. 0 BAleIgtM ir. 0.
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