VOL VIII.
OXFORD, N. 0., FEBRUARY 7, 1883.
NO. 37.
ENDURANCE.
’Tis bitter to endure the wron^
Which evil hands and tongue commit;
The bold enroachments of the strong,
Tl»e .shafts of calumny and wit;
The scornful bearing of the proud,
The sneers and laughter of the crowd.
And harder still is it to bear
The censure of the good and wise,
Who ignorant of what you ai*o,
Or blinded by the slanderer’s'Iies,
Look coldly on, or pass you by
In silence, with averted eye.
Hut when the friends in whom you trust,
As steadfast as the mountain rook,
Fly, and are scattered like the dust,
Before misfortune’s whirlwind shock,
Nor love remains to cheer your fall,
This is more terrible than all.
But even this, and these—raye! more—
Can be epdured, and hope survive;
The noble spirit still may soar.
Although the body fail to thrive,
Disease and want may wear the frame,
Thank God ! the soul is still the same.
Hold up your head, then, man of grief.
Nor longer to the tempest bend ;
Or soon or late must come relief—
The coldest, darkest night will end.
Hope in the true heart never dies!
Trust on ! the day star yet shall rise.
Conscious of purity and worth,
You may, with calm assurance, wait
The tardy rrecOmpense of eiarth ;
And e’en should jiistice come too late
To soothe the spirit's homeward flight,
Still Heaven,'at last, the wrong shall
right.
OUR BDUCATIONAl, REQUIRE-
MKNTS.
If the Southern States are to
have a fair share of the manufac-
taring establishments of the
country, there must be a great
change in the ambition of our
young men of the South~of the
entire country, for that matter--
for they have what Mr. Atkinson
calls a ‘disdain’ for labor. As
soon as they leave the high
school or college, they turn to
the,law offices, or medical or the
ological schools, or news^ papers,
or the retail stores, or other av^
enues to genteel employment.
They are willing to work for a
song at anything that does not
involve manual labor. No mat-
tei how uninviting the prospect
may be or how overcro. ded the
occupation co ifessedly is, if it be
genteel, thousands will seek it,
when avenues to wealth and hon
orable effort in industrial em
ploy _.ent ^re unsought. Even
this form of folly is seen in the
Northern States, and the New
England papers con^plain of its
existence in’t^eir towns,
It certainly is the height of fol
ly in a yogng man of the South,
equipped by the schools for au
active and honorable course, to
resort to the stpres and offices for
employment. We! have an over
supply of clerks, lawyers and pol
iticians and we always will have ;
but we are sadly deficient iu men
whose hands are cultivated as
well as their brains. We lack in
telligent mechanics and civil en
gineers, and foremen, as mana
gers of machinery. If we gather
enough money to start a factory,
we have to send to other States to
■ get men competent to guide the
machineryliand conduct the inside
operations of the factory. If we
build a railroad, we mast at the
outset import engineers, and af
terwards men skilled in operating
a railroad.
This is all wrong. The young
man of the future in' the South-—
the best in the land---should
study.^as,soon as he can, some de
partment of manufacturing. He
must first, of coarse, make him
self a skilled mechanic—learn a
trade, in other words—-and he
need not and should not dislike
the phrase. It is certainly as hon
orable and as pleasant to set a
horse’s shoe as to pettifog a case
in a justice’s court,‘or to sell rib
bons in a retail store, or serve in
any halfpaid and precarious em
ployment. We must get rid of
the sham gentility labor, and
seek that in which brain and skill
are harmoniously and effectively
united. If the South is to become
independent—if her industrial in-
terevsts are ever fully developed,
her young men must abandon old
time notions df labor and prepare
themselves to take charge of mat
ters that are now necessarily the
spoil ol strangers. The best and
most inviting places in the South
ern country now go, as they do
in Mexico and in Egypt,to skilled
men from other and more sensi
ble States. The better the boy
is educated, the better mechanic
or superintendent or engineer he
will make. The high school is as
useful to the future mechanic as
to the future lawyer or merchant.
All boys need all the schooling
they can get; but, after they leave
school, let them turn to industrial
rather than profesional avenues.
To effect this we need, asiu all
other reforms, a change in public
sentiment. We need a sentiment
that will condemn the,folly of the
past in this respect. We need a
se' itiment that will repognize the
fact thatgreat industries furnish
the best field for the young man
who has a career to make—that in
them is to be found both good
wages and the most promising
and desirable employment that
the land affords. If we can once
secure such a public sentiment;
we can safely trust the remain
der of the problem to the cour
age and skill of the Southern peo-
'^\Q.^'Atlanta Constitution.
QUEEN VICTORIA’S TEN
DERNESS.
When I was in England I heard
several pleasant anecdotes of the
Queen and her family from a lady
who had received them from her
friend, the governess of the royal
children. This governess, a very in
teresting young lady, was the or
phan daughter of a Scottish clergy
man. During the first year of her
residence at Windsor her mother
jdied. When she first received the
news of her mother’s serious illness,
she applied to the Queen to be al
lowed to resign her situation, feel
ing that to her mother she owed
even a more sacred duty than to her
sovereign.
The Queen, who had been much
pleaded with her, would not hear of
her making this sacrifice, but said,
in a tone of the most gentle sympa
thy :
“Go at once to your mother, child;
stay with her as long ao she needs I
you, and then come hack to us. ^
Prince Albert and I will hear the
children’s lessons; so, in any event,
let your mind be at rest in regard
to your pupils.’’
The governess went, and had sev*
eral weeks of sweet, mournful com
munication with her dying mother.
Then when she had seen that dear
form laid to sleep under the daises
in the old kirkyard, she returned to
the palace, where the loneliness of
royal grandeur would have oppress
ed her sorrowing heart beyond en
durance had it not been for the gra
cious, womanly sympathy of the
Queen, who came every day to her
school-room, and the considerate
kindness of her young pupils,
A year went by, the first anniver
sary of her great loss dawned upon
her, and she was overwhelmed as
never before by the utter loneliness
of her grief. She felt that no one
in all the great household knew how
much goodness and sweetness pass ed
out of mortal life that day a year
ago, or could give one tear, one
thought, to that grave under the
Scottish daises.
Every morning belore breakfast,
which the elder children took with
their father and mother in the pleas
ant crimson parlor looking out on
the terrace at Windsor, her pupils
came to the school-room for a brief
religious exercise. This morning the
voice of the governess trembled in
reading the Scriptures of the day.
Some words of divine tenderness
were too much for her poor, lonely,
grieving heart—her strength gave
way, and, laying her head on the
desk before her, she burst into tears,
murmuring, “0 mother, mother!”
One after another of the children
stole out of the room, and went to
their mother to tell her how sadly
their governess was feeling, and
that kind-hearted monarch, ex
claiming, ‘^Oh, poor girl, it is the
anniversary of her mother’s death!”
hurried to the school-room, where
she found Miss struggling to re
gain her composure.
“My poor child,” she said, “I am
sorry the children disturbed you
this morning. I meant to have giv
en orders that you should have this
day entirely to yourself. Take it
as a sad and sacred holiday—I will
hear the lessons of the children.”
And then she added. “To show you
that I have not forgotten this
mournful anniversary, I bring you
this gift,” clasping on her arm a
locket with her mother’s hair, mark
ed with the date of her mother’s
death. What wonder that the or
phan kissed, with tears, this gift,
and the more than royal hand that
bestowed it!—Grace Greenwood.
MARRY A^EN i'LEMAN,
It was excellent advice, I saw
lately, given to young ladies, ur
ging to marry only gentleman,
or not to marry at all. The
word was used in its broadest,
truest sense. It did not have
any reference to those who had
fine raiment and white hands,and
the veneering of society polish,
merely to entitle them to the dis
tinction, but to those posessed of
true manly qualities, however
hard their hands and sun-brown
their faces. A true gentleman is
generous and unselfish. He re
gards another’s happiness and
welfare as well as his own. ^You
will see the trait running
through his actions. A man who
is a bear at home among bis sis
ters, and discourteous to his
mother, is just the man to avoid
when you come to the great
question which is to be answered
yes ^ or nc. A man may be ev
er so rustic iu his surroundings,
if he he a true gentleman he will
not tiring a blush to your cheek
in any society by his absurd be
havior. There is an instinctive
politeness inherent to such a
character, which everywhere
commands respect, and makes its
owner pass for what he is—one
of nature’s noblemen. Do not
despair, girls; there are such men
still in this world. But wait till
the prince passes by. No harm
in a delay. You will not be apt
to find him in a ball-room, and 1
know he never will be seen walk
ing from a liquor saloon. Nor is
he a champion billiard player.
He has not time to become a
“champion,’^ for he has had too
much honest, earnest work to do
in the world. I have always
observed that these “champions”
were seldon good for much else.
Be very wary in choosing, girls,
when so much is at stake. Do
not mistake a passing fancy for
undying love. Marrying in haste
rarely ends well. Do not resent
too much the “interference” of
parents. You’ll tiavel long and
far in this world before you will
find any one who has your truest
interest at heart more than your
father and mother; age and ex
perience have given them an in
sight into character which i
much beyond your own. It i
very unsafe to marry a man
against whom so wise a friend
has warned you I never yet
knew a runaway match that was
not followed by a deep trouble
in one way or another, and
matches made “in spite” are
pretty sure to end in life-long
repentance.— Woman at Work.
THE COLDEST TOWN ON THE
GLOBE.
Jakutsk (or Yakootsk), chief
town of the province of that name
in eastern Siberia, is on the
left bank of the Lena river. 62
degrees, 1 minute north; longi
tude 149 degrees, 40 minutes,
east; and distant from St. Peters
burg 5915 miles. The ground
remains frozen to the depth of 2,
000 feet, except in midsummer,
when it thaws three feet at the
surface. During ten days in Au
gust, the thermometer marks 85
degiees, but from November to
February it ranges from 42 to 68
degrees below zero, and the river
is solid ice nine months out of the
twelve. The entire industry of
the place—population about 5,*
000—is comprised in candle
works, and yet it is the principal
market of eastern Siberia for
traffic with the hunting tribes of
Buriats. The former having
large herds of horses and cattle,
bring to market butter, which is
sent on horse back to the port of
Okhotsk. The Buriats, also no
madic, bring quantities of skins
of sables, foxes, martens, bares,
squirrels and the like, and many
ot them aie sold at Okhotsk.
Lord Ellenborough was once
on the bench when a young law
yer trembling with fear, rose to
make his first speech, and began:
•‘My Lord, my unfortunae client
— my Lord—my unfortunate cli
ent my Lord”—“GrOon,8ir,go on,”
said Lord Ellenborough; “as far
as you liave proceeded hitherto,
the court is entirely with you.”
Hope softens sorrow, brightens
plain surroundings, and eases a
harh lot.
OLD BOB.
That white-faced bay horse
you see looking at us from
among that bunch of mares and
colts is qnite a celebrated charac
ter in the neighborhood,and if the
Royal Humane Society gave gold
medals to dumb animals, I am
sure Old Bob deserves one. One
rough stormy day, after a sue-*
cession of heavy rains, which had
swollen the Little Laramie Riv r
till it became a broad,raging tor
rent, running level witli the top
of its bank, O’d Bob, who was
close to the river cauglit sight of
a little colt which had fallen into
the river and was being carried
rapidly down stream, in spite of
its struggles. Old Bob trotted
to the edge of the river, and, with
a loud neigh, plunged in. swam
to the poor little chap, and seized
him as a dog wouldja rabbit, and
after a fight with the storm, lan
ded with the little fellow safe and
sound, not much the worse for
his bath. I think Old Bob is en
titled to unlimited freedom and
grass as long as he lives and the
happy hunting gronnds lieroafter.
—London Field.
THU’. ELECTRIC AGE.
A remarkable instance of the
utility of the Atlantic Cable and
connections was evidenced to day
in the sending of a message to
Liverpool by a Water street
firm at 9.45, to which they re
ceived a reply in Wilmington at
10,45 the message having been
sent from Wilmington bv'- way
of New York to Liverpool, the
business referred to transacted
and a reply confirming the same
received in just one hour, nearly
7,000 miles having been trav
ersed in that short space of time.
It is simply wonderful even in
this electric age.— 1
Review.
Sale
OP A VALUABLE VANCE COUNTY
PLANTATION.
As Commissioner of the Superior Court
of Vance County, I will sell to the highest
bidder on Monday, Febuary 5th. 1883, at
12 o’clock, m., in front of the Superior
Coui’t Clerk’s office, in Henderson, that
valuable tract of laud, of the estate of Mrs.
Lucy E. Love, deceased, on the waters of
Nut Bush Creek, in Vance county, adjoin
ing the lands of W. H. Boyd, R. B. Hen
derson and others, and is the tract upon
which the late Richard Owen lived, con
taining four hundred and forty-two (442)
acres. Said tract contains, among other
improvements, a large dwelling house, and
all necessary out-houses—all in splendid
repair. The land is in good condition, and
produces well corn, wheat, fine tobacco and
all the grasses. Terms made known on day
of sale.
A. R. WORTHAM, Commissioner.
THE
Orhpans’ Friend,
Organof the Orphan Asylum at Oxford, and
of the Grand Lodge of Masons
in North Carolina.)
IS PUBMSHBD EVERY WEDNESnAYA'i'i
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
It is designed to promote the entertain
ment, instruction and interests of
THE YOUNG;
especially those deprived of the benefits of
parental and scholastic training. It also
seeks to increase the soul-growth of the
prosperous by suggesting proper objects of
charity and true channels of benevolence, in
order that they may, by doing good to oth
ers, enlarge their own hearts and extend
the horizon of their human sympathies, as
they ascend to a higher plane of Christian
observation. Address
ORPHANS’ FRIEND,
OXVOBS, N. 0|