The Orphans’ Friend.
WEDNESDAY. FBBKDAEY - 28, 1883.
Fvblished every Wednesday at one
dollar per annumy invariably in advance
FBESENT 0EG-4NIZATI0N OF
ORPHAN ASYLUM.
J. H. MILLS,
Miss CATHARINE McDOUG-
ALB, Teacher of First Form,
Girls.
Miss MARY SHOLAR, Teacher
of First Form, Bays.
Miss MARY 0. BOBB, Teacher
of Second Form, Girls.
Miss L. NICHOLSON, Teach-
er of Second Form, Boys.
MISS E. M. MACK, Teach
er of Third Farm, Girls.
.Miss LULA MARTIN, Teach'-
er of. Third Form, Boys.
Miss ALICE L. FLEMING,
In Charge of Hospital.
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO THE ORPHAN ASYLUM FOR THE WEEK
ENDING FEBRUARY 26TH.
Hiram Lodge, No. 98, $3 00
New Hope Baptist church, 3 00
Adiniram Lodge, No. 149, 1 00
Dr, W. Jones, Wake Forest, 1 00
IN KIND.
\From Knap ((f Beeds, Granville Comity:
A. M. Veazey, 2 bushels corn, 2 bushels
wheat, 2 busuels potatoes.
L. A. Veazey, 1 bushel potatoes.
W. D. Veazey, one bushel wheat.
Calvin Waller, one sack flour.
Mrs. M. F. Veazey, one quilt, two vests,
one pair pants.
J. H. Lyon, two bushels wheat.
Ij. a. Wilkins, one bushel wheat.
M. B. Veazey, IJ bushels com.
K. T. Baycroft, one bushel corn.
From TiUery’Sy Halifax Comity:
Parker & Gloss, 15| yds. brown domestic
Outhrell «fe Bro., 10 yds. brown domestic,
6 ha ndkerchiefs.
W, A. Nettle, 10 yds. domestic.
J. J. Garret, 2 papers pins, 5 handk’fs.
L. D. Levy, 14 yds. calico.
Nerfleet & Daniel, 8 yds. calico, 1 dozen
toilet soap.
W. H. Randolph, 26 yds. calico, 9 sp’Is
cotton, 2 cards buttons.
Mrs. M. E. Harrell, 2 bars laundry soap,
15 cakes toilet soap, 6 papers pins.
l>lrs. Blackwell, 6 cakes laundry soap.
Eustace Norfleet, 2 prs. linen pants, 1
jacket, 1 vest, 1 shirt.
Mrs. M. F. Williams, 5 prs. socks.
A friend, 6 prs. socks.
Mrs. j. Pope, dried fruit.
From Big Lick Svmday School:
Wfs. Betsy Russel, one tie.
M. H. Messenheimer, 3 rufils, 3 hand*
kerchiefs, 1 comb.
Russel & Teter, 15 yds. calico,
A. M. Cox, 16 yds. calico.
0. J. Lenzy, 1 lb. coffee.
R. H. Griffin, 16 yds. calico.
Iza Hathevek, 8 yds. calico, 2 prs, sus
penders, 1 pr. misses hose, 1 pr. child's
hose.
M. J. Lowder, 1 lb. sugar.
A. M. D. fjenzy, 1 lb. coffee.
W. D. Caude, 1 lb. coffee.
John C. I urris, 1 lb. coffee,
J. P. Austin, 6 lbs. Rice.
Ouren Family, flour, meal and coffee.
Merchants of Wilson, 1 bolt domestic, 2
bolts plaids, 36 yds. calico, 8 dresses,
3 bonnets, 2 sacks, 4 prs. suspenders,
1 vest, 6 prs. drawers, 2 chemise, 1
cap, 9 prs. girPs hose, 6 prs. boy’s
* hose, 3 yds. niokerboker, 4 shirts, 17
aprons, 3 yds. bleaching, 4 collaiettes,
3 balls cotton, 2 spools cotton, 2 prs.
shoes, 3 yds, worsted, 6 yds. Salem
jeans, 1 towelJ.
Unknown friend, Salisbury, 2 cams fruit.
Mrs. J. W. Howell, Oxford, 1 skirt, 1
cape, I pr. hose, quilt pieces, 5 ruffs,
3 cravats, hooks, eyes, etc., 1 crochet
needle.
SPECIAL MENTION.
Rev. B. R. Duval, of Virginia,
preached to tbe children at the^ Or
phan Asylum last Monday. At night
he delivered a lecture on Mexico, i:
the Methodist Church.
Rev W. P. Blake, who was re
cently anointed to succeed tho la
mented Dr. Buckner as a missionary
to the Indians, preached in the Bap
tist Church last Tuesday night.
A gentleman of culture, renewing
his subscription to the Orphans’
Friend, writes : “I would freely
pay two dollars for the paper. It
18 one of the best that comes to my
honee. May God prosper you.
Dr. Babcock, formerly a dentist,
but now agent for the Valley Mu
tual Life Insurance Company, kind
ly extracted teeth for a number of
the orphans last week without
charge.
On Monday last, Mr. W. C. Crab
tree" passed froia earth to eternity.
Mr. Crabtree was one of the oldest
citizens of Oxford, was a consistent
member of tbe Methodist Church, a
Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a highly
respected citizen. He was burned
yesterday, Tuesday, with Masonic
honors. May he'rost^^in peace.
In the Tennessee Legislature a
bill has been introduced to prevent
the circulation of obsense literature,
exciting and immoral novels, &c.
The bill is a capital one, and should
become a law, not only in Tennessee,
but iQ :very State of the Union.
There are few evils that are a great
er curse to the country !han vicious
literature. Can not the legislature
of our State afford its citizens some
relief from this intolerable evil ?
Last Wednesday night, as the
family of Mrs. Susan Hunt, near
this town, reached home from a
neighborhood prayer meeting which
they had attended, they discovered
th:/t a window, which was closed
when they left, was standing open.
As they were about proceeding to
investigate, a heavy set negro man
issued from the room through the
window, and, although -pursued by
Mr, J. P. Hunt a snort distance,
made his escape.
None are better prepared to sym
pathise with the sorrows of others
than those who have suffered the
same. We publish the following
pretty note from ConniePeyton,who,
being an orphan herself, is sympa
thetic and helpful to the little ones
at the Asylum. ^
Greensboro. N. C. )
Feb. 14th, 1883. J
Mr. Mills —
I am an orphan myself, but I am
fortunate to have a grandma and
grandpa with whom I now live. I
have been wanting to Jsend some
thing to the Asylum for sometime.
I send by to-day’s mail two aprons.
I hope you will find them useful.
Respectfully,
Connie Peyton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The only kind of vice much shunned
by the young men of to-day seems to
be advice.
Millardet, a Swiss mechanician, ex
hibited in London in tbe last century
a female figure that played eighteen
tunes on the piano with all the mO:
tions ot natural life, the eyes following
the movements of the fingers on the
keys, the pressure of which produced
the notes.
An infidel, on his death-bed, felt
himself adrift in the terrible surges ot
of doubt and uncertainty. Some of
his friends urged him to'hold on to
the end. “I have no objection,” be
replied, “to holding on ; but will you
tell me what I am to hold on by?”
An individual who wanted a person
to take care of his children advertised
in an Eastern paper ‘‘for one whose
patience is inexhaustible, whose tem
per is tireless, whose vigilance is un
winking, whose power ot pleasing is
boundless, whose industry is match
less, and whose neatness is unparal
leled.”
A youth to fortune and to fame un
known sends Dumas the manuscript
of a new play, asking the great dra-
mist to become his eollaborateur. Du
mas is for a moment petrified, then
seizes his pen and replies: “Howdare
you, sir, propose to yoke together a
horse and an ass?” The author by
return of post—“ how dare you, sir,
eall me a horse?” Dumas, by next
mail—“Send me your play, my young
friend.’’
Haroun al Raschild, the principal
hero of “The Arabian Nights Enter
tainments,” sent to Charlemagne, in
the eighth century, a water clock, in
the dial of which a door opened at
each hour, and when at noon the
twelve doors were thrown open, as
many knights on horseback issued
out, paraded around the dial, and
then, returning, shut themselves in
again.
Superstitiou prevails over the high
as well as the lowly. Bismarck, one
of the greatest men now living, is said
to be a firm beliesiqr in good and. bad
days, and does not think that any UU-
dertaking will prosper if begun on
Friday. He also dislikes exceedingly
to sit at a table where there are thir
teen. And Queen Victoria is unwil-,
ling to have her son, the Duke of Al
bany, married in May.
An Irish girl applied to the Princi
pal of the State Normal School at Sa
lem, Mass., for a situation as cook,
and exhibited with pride the following
testimonial from Gail Hamilton:
“Margaret F. has lived with me four-'
teen weeks. I have found her invari
ably good-tempered, immunda [dirtyj,
cheerful, obliging, exitiosa [destruct
ive], respectful, and incorrigible. She
is a better cook than any Irish girl I
have ever employed, aud one of the
best bread-makers I ever saw. With
neatness and carefulness and economy
she would make an excellent servant.
I heartily recommend her to all Chris
tian philanthropists, aud her employ
ers to divine mercy.”—Harper'-.-.
Vaucanson, a mechanical genius,
made an automatic fluit player and
piper in 1738, which were the wonders
of their time. The flutist was a figure
five feet high, standing on a pedestal,
within which were nine pairs of bel
lows, worked by clock work. The
motion of the* fingers, lips and tongue,
wefe all imitated by this figure, which
by various arrangements of valves,
tubes, levers and wheels, is .■^aid to
.have produced music little inferior to
the performance of a skilled flute-play
er. The piper was constructed much
on the same principal. The bellows
of his instrument required a fifty-six
pound weight to produce the highest
notes. As the fatigue of playing the
pipes usually causes the performer,
when playing rapidly, to slur oyer
some of the notes, the mimic piper, ^
impervious alike to weariness and
shortness of breath, is accredited with
having excelled a living one in the
clearness of the notes.
A Judge charging a jury had occa«
siou to make use of the words mort
gagor and mortgagee. The foreman
of the jury asked the Judge the mean
ing of the words, candidately confess
ing he did not know their importance.
His lordship facetiously explained
them thus:
“1 nod to you—you notice me:
I’m the nod-or,. you the nod-ee.”
BEIEP THOUGHTS.
Nothing will go on well iu this
world without being attended to.
Many a self-made man would have
done better by himself bad he let the
contract oui to somebody else.—Ro.?-*
ton Transcript.
Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure,
Sow peace,aud reap its harvest bright,
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find a harvest home of light.
—Bonar.
Where the peace is that Christ
gives, all the trouble and disgust
of the world cannot disturVlt. All
outward distress to such a mind is but
as the rattling of hail upoil the tiles
of him who sits withiu the house at
a sumptious banquet.—Leighton.
The Bible, as it is, is good enough
for us, The words of Jesus Christ we
will take, though the heavens fall.
There is not a particle of e\ ideiiee
that the new speculations are begun
in truth. Virchow, the great German
apostle of evUntiofiy now declares that
is an “unverified hypothesis,’’ an
unproved supposition only.
i.
PATIENCE CLIPS HER ^V^NGS.
S^.ys^ Faith,yonder, .see ^.tiic
crown
Laid up in heav'^pn abovp, • ^ '
Says Hopej It shortly shall be ipine.
I long toYear it, says Love. ' ',
But stop, Says'Patience: tvait awhile;
The crown’s for those that figlit;
The prize for those that win the Face
By faith, and .not by sight.
ITuis Faith ivould take- a pleasing
view; ^ \
Hope wait's;*Love sits and siug,^;
Desire flutters to be gone;
But'patience clips her wings.
. The truth .has- nothing to fear from
error when truth has tho same free
dom that error has. There is a moral
mbligatiou on every member.and espec
ially on, every teacher and leader in a
church or an army to do those things,
aud those only which are fitted to pro
mote i,ts, prosperity, progress, and fi
nal victory. It may not be tre.ason
to parley with the enemy, but it is a
dangerous business. The ;ause may
not be compromised aud lost by need
less concessions^ of territory or argu-
'ment, but every'point must be held in
.time of war, and to yield an out^iost
is uext'to being a traitor. This is of-
;ten exemplified in religious discus-
“Defjjr Nothing-.”—This was the.
motto of Alexander the Great. He,
iconquered the world. He accomplish-
;ed wonders in a^short time. How?
,By observing this motto: .Defer
■ing. Get the whole programme of
your day’s work iu your mind, early in
the moriiing, and then execute it with
vigor and promptuess. Defer nothing.’
Do everything exactly at the time,
and you will soon see wh at a vast
amount of work can be done in ,oiie^
day.—Raleigh Christian Advocate.
To say something startling to make
!p6ople talk, to get up*h new seusa -
jtion, seems to be the moving princi
ple or passion with men of the second
or third class miuds. The truly learm
ed and great have not occasion for
this vMse, and are above it. But , a
smaller man, couscious of his owii in
ability to instruct aud astonish the
world by any real, solid, and impof
taut addition to ifs stock of knowl
edge, by invention or research, seeks
to excite the wonder of the multitude
by the ndvelty of bis propositions,and
the nearness with Which he drives to
the edge of the precipice. • “If that
is not- heresay,’’ exclaims the reader,
“it is so very ■ n6ar it, he must be a
bold and strong nerved man who-ven
tures so near the verge.'.’, .
CHARMING GIELS.
heard fo make these remarks of
their lad\ acquaintances: “Oh 1
they h)ok well, but they don't
know Rii'.thing.” There is no
necessity Ibr such a state of
tliings: books are cheap and ac-
cessible. If you lal or all day in
shop or store, still, at odd inter
vals, you can educate yourself,
and'cWntcr (I witli/uio greater dif
ficulties diaii did Clay, Fillmore,
Webster and t)ther.s ot our great
est men. If you go through life
a flitting’bufteifly, how will you
be,spoken, of by-aud-byl It is
nice to eal, drink and be merry,
arid be' courted and flattered by
all ’ybiir friends; but how much
better to cultivate character,
sen.se and true womanliness.
Newspaper Outfit for Sale
.1 will sell, at very low liiriires, tlie typp
, aud fLxtur.(^s with which the' Free Lance was
lately printed. It is a complete outfit for a
•country paper, with the exception of press
Address L. THO-TIAS, Oxford N C
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Grass Seeds, and Seed
Irish Potatoes.
A Fresh Lot of Apples aud Orungefl.
Candies aud Confectioneries
Generally, which are
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A large supply of
School Books, Stationery
cfec., Oh hand. Auy article not iu
sl,oek will be ordered.
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please you.
WILLIAMS ^;FIIRIU».
Mitchell’s old Stand.
Whoever contributes a mite to
ameliorate the sum total of human
misery, or to improve the condition of
the criminal classes, in prison, or out
of it, s a benefactor of tho State and
deserves to be held iu honor.
Preservation is but the continuatiou
of creation, the non-interruptioii of
the first act of divine power and love.
The strong spirit of the highest angel
needs the active concurrence of God
every moment, lest it should fall back
into its original nothingness,—F. W.
Faber.
' If you are fortunate possOasing
beautvymy dear girls, be-thank-
ful for the gif(i[; '5ut dq not over
rate it. .The girl who expects 0
win her way by her bqauty, and
to be admired and accepted sim-'
ply because she is a lady, has
the wrong idea. She I’nust pos-.
se.ss a. lovable character, if she
-wishes^to be loved, arid my ad
vice toiyou all is to lay the foun
dation pf a permanent influence
To win and hold admiration, you
must cultivate the gifts that na'
'ture ha?,bestowed upon you. If
you have a talent for inusic, de
velop it; learn to singj some
clioice songs and to perform upon
‘some instrument, for many are
charmed more by music than by
handsome features. Pursue the
same course with regard to paint
ing, drawing and designing, and
if you have tbe power to obtain
useful knowledge in any direct
tion, doit. Yoiing men have been
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