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The Orphans’ Friend,
FRIDAY,
MARCH 30, 1883.
industrial education.
We have been favored with
the Report on Industrial In
struction in the Dwight school
of Boston. It gives an inter
esting account of an effort to
introduce instruction in me
chanical operations into a
public school and combine it
with instiuction in the ordi
nary literary branches. A
room was provided adjacent
to the school room, and well
provided with work benches,
tools and material. A com
petent instructor was secured,
and eighteen boys from each
of the four classes, selected for
the experiment. At a certain
hour each day these were ta«
ken to the work room where
they received instruction in the
use of tools and the minutise
of carpentry, being subject to
school discipline while thus
engaged. The boys were
graded just as in their other
studies and the results were
highly satisfactory. We have
not room for the entire report
of the Principal, but append
his closing remarks. He says:
‘ “Here perhaps, I ought to
close niy report, having an-
swered the demands of the
ordev'passed by the School
Board, in giving the results
of the instruction in manual
training in the Dwight
School.
But I have aconviction,and
with permission, beg to state
it here, that this instruction is
surely in the line of the teach
ing that it is to be. I would
be glad, therefore, to see the
experiment still further tried,
and all the experience which
been gained, and all the
plans which have been essay
ed, fully formulated, availed
of, and worked out into prac*
tical details,so that by and by,
at the proper time, the best
kina srgarten work, the best
object-teaching, and the best
mei hods of manual instruction
shall be known; and, further
more, shall be ‘organically
combined with the whole
scheme ot education, and be
made to support and coalesce
with all the other studies of
the child.’
It is easy to see that this;
nand instruction may be made
the means of teaching whole
chapters of arithmetic more
thoroughly. I have seen it
made the means of teaching
geography and natural histo-;
ry effectively in our own
school.
'J'hero are high authorities
wlio believe there can be no
thoroughly clear, vigorous,
and enlightened brain without
the cultivated hand. Such
are Sir Charles Bell, the au*-
tbor of the BridgewaterTrea-
tise on the Hand, and Dr.
Win. B. Carpenter, the phys
iologist, now visiting this
country, if these men are
right,then manual instrouction
introduced into our schools
would bo a step forward; be
cause it would have a special
value of its own in developing
the mind, which is the avow
ed purpose of all schools,
'The great difficulty will be
the lack of competent teach
ers, But that difficulty may
bo met as it has been success
fully met once before. Wbat
has been done in the matter
of drawing may yet be done
in industrial work. ,A corps
of iiiiio.hers, as suggested by
Gen. Walker may be furnish
ed by the Institute of Tech
nology; and that institution
may eventually do for indus
trial, what the Normal Schools
of the State have done for
general, instrustion.”
M. W. Josiah I. Wright, in
his Annual Address before the
Grand Lodge of Georgia,held
in Macon, October 31st, 1882,
thus delivers himself on the
all-important question of Ma-
sonic Temperance:
Upon the question being
presented to me I have more
than once decided that it is
exceedingly improper and
unmasonic in a Subordinate
Lodge while calling from la
bor to refreshment to have,or
suffer to be had among such
refreshments, any kind of in
toxicating drinks, malt or
spirituous. The time was,
and perhaps within the mem
ory of some here, when this
practice, beginning in inno
cent mirth, ended in drunken
revelry, and in the disruption
and downfall of many a Lodge
in perhaps more jurisdictions
fban one, and brought upon
the whole fraternity, not un
justly, the criticism of good
men in and outof Order- Now
in this enlightened day when
the good of every Order,Faith,
and Persuasion have set their
faces against this giant evil,
drunkenness, shall w6 who
profess to walk in the light
andjdispense light, whose car-
dinal virtue is (professedly)
Temperance, shall we by ex
ample lend our influence to
this terrible curse? Think a
moment. When we affirm
ours is a moral institution—
when we would by a word of
exhortation or persuasion at
tempt to save a fellow creat -
ure from what must lead him
to enevitable ruin—when we
would point the erring, it may
be the enthralled one, to that
great virtue, temperance, and
beg him to abstain—to be a
man--he, they, tlie profane,
whoever it may be, will throw
back into our very teeth, and
in words that burn, mortify
and crucify us, our own (un-
tliQughted it may) immoral
practice, and point us to the
day—the night--the hour,
when he saw the wine, beer,
porter and the like, carried in
to our ante-rooms to be con
sumed upon our vitiated ap
petites, if not to excess, to un
becoming hilarity, . Thus are
wo jeered and taunted, be
cause of our infidelity to the
principles of our Order. I
have held, I repeat it, that to
carry spirituous, intoxicating
or malt drinks into Lodge
and ante rooms to be
usbd while at refreshment, is
not right, and if allowed will
drive from our Orderhundreds
of good men. If it must be
used let it be elsewhere when
the Lodge isclosed, and* where
each acts for himself, and not
in Lodge rooms' or Lodge ca
pacity. I present this decision
squarely. to this Grand Lodge.
If I am correct, so pronounce;
if wrong, say so. We mmt
know where we stand, and
the outside world ought to
know. Is our example noths
ing worth? Are our profes
sions sounding brass and tink
ling cymbals? Where is our
influence in this great strug
gle to free our race of every
In conclusion, your com
mittee take great pleasure in
saying that they highly ap
preciate the tone, spiiit and
style of the whole address, as
reflecting credit, as well on
tins Grand Lodge, as its Most
Worshipful Grand Masler;
and we do heartily recommend
to the members of this Grand
Lodge, and, through them, to
all the members of Subordi
nate Lodges, the eloquent and
forcible remarks upon the
evils of drunkenness and other
evils, together with derelic
tions of duty in members of
Lodges, and his strong appeal
as a remedy for the same the
enforcement of rigid discipline,
according to the by-laws, rul
es and regulations of our time-
honored institution, thereby
supporting virtue and morali
ty as our foundation stone up
on which is erected the great
Temple of Free and Accepted
Masonry.
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There are eighty-three Ma
sonic Lodges in the United
States working in the German
language. They
membership of 1,529.
The Grand Master of Ohio,
notwithstanding the prohibi
tionary and Christianity mO"
nopolizing proclivities of his
Masonic flock, seems doomed
to perpetual tribulations as to
transgressions, committed by
others than infidels and wine
dealers, with whom the craft
Ohio makes short work.
[Corner Stone.
Chicago, III., March 14.—
The Inter Oceania Carlinsville,
Ill.,special says thejury in the
case of John F. Burrell, ex-
Grand Secretary of the Grand
Lodge of Masons ofIllinoi8,re-
turned a verdict of guilty, with
punishment of five years in
the penitentiary. The charge
was embezzlement of the
funds of the Grand Lodge du
ring the year 1870. Two
more indictments are pending.
The total amount of embez
zlement is estimated at $60,
000 to $70,000.
EXAMINATION AT THE
ASYLUM.
age and sex, of this the deep
est^ darkest evil that ever curs
ed humanity?
The committee on the
Grand Master’s Address le-
ported on the above as fol
lows :
The last quarterly exami
nation of the children at the
Asylum, showed their average
grade as follows, 100 being
the highest possible.
FIRST FORM GIRLS.
Lula Allen,
Sophronia Barfield,
Neva Eatman,
Alice Erwin,
lola Fowler,
Annie Gray,
Jerinie Hatch,
Ida Halch,
Mary Haywood, '
Ella Hood,
Amilda Keith,
Roxie Keith,
Bettie Kelly,
Jennie Kelly,
Mary Lynch,
Ozeila Manning,
Lily Olmstead,
Daisy Olmstead,
Mattie Piland,
Lula Pitts,
Ella Perry,
Lucy Swink,
Lilly Tufford,
Ada Walker,
SECOND FORM GIRLS,
Daisy Austin,
Florence Ballance,
Hopie Barfield,
Annie Beddingfield, ,
Ida Black,
Annie Bobbitt,
SopiiiaBiviiis,
Edna Chambers,
Hannah Erwin,
Mary Gabriel,
Julia Gabriel,
Mittie Gibson,
Lula Grady,
Polly Griffiu.
Maggie Harrison,
Mary Harris,
Lou Hatch,
Mary Holmes,
Mary Knox,
Kate Mason,
Isabel Mays,
Missouri Piland,
Irene Turner,
Ida Watson,
Lethia Whittington,
Mary Woodhouse,
Ella Young,
Lelia Young,
THIRD FORM GIRLS.
Lizzie Boyd,
Alice Broadway,
Keturah Byrura,
Mary Cosby,
Angeline Foster,
Isabel Foster,
Bettie Garriss,
Minnie Hathaway,
Mary Hood,
Mary Hill,
Lena Hudgins,
Laura Hudgins,
Kate Johnson,
Emma Kelly,
Mollie Kelly,
Nita Lee,
Charlotte Overby,
Lucy Powell,
Chloe Sanders,
Mary Sasser,
Martha Sasser,
FIRST FORM BOYS.
Robt. Bartley,
John Bartley,
Earnest Beddingfield,
Tlomas DeLon,
Alex Cox,
James Hartley,
Thomas Hartley,
Finley Hartley,
Ernest Haywood,
Thomas Lynch,
William Lynch,
E. McConnell,
Clyde McGuire,
GideonfPoteat,
Martin Poteat,
Henry; Palmer,
James Presson,
Dennis Ratliff,
Wm. Ratliff,
Wm. Roberson,
James Swink,
Edmund Woody,
Sam’l Woody,
John Whaley,
B. Owens,
Willie Taylor,
Thos. Allen,
Willie Fowler,
SECOND FORM BOYS.
Henry Beddingfield, 82
Lucien Bishop, 89
Haywood Bobbitt, 70
RichM. Butler, 78
Edgar Chambers, 74
Willie Grady, 90
Wm, Griffin, 77
Fred Hathaway, 87
James Jones, 74
J. Knox, 87
E. Lineback, 72
Lem’l Lynch, 80
Jesse Me. Connell, 84
Wm. Me. Guire, 74
Duncan Me. Leod, 66
R. Poteat, 76
C. Poteat, 80
J. Sitterson, 84
J. Swinson, 84
Duncan Smith, • 85
T. Swinson, 82
Paran White, 87
Jno Whitington, 44
THIRD FORM BOYS.
Henry Austin, 70
Robt. Benson, 88
W. Broadway, 77
Addison Black, 88
Thos. Cosby, 75
Thos, Gibson, 93
Charles Gray, 91
Jas. Harris, 94
Jno-Holmes, 79
Chas. Jones, 83
Romulus Lee, 86
James Lineback, 80
Robt. Pritchett, 91
Geo, RDbbins, 63
Wm. Tate, 79
Wm. Tarkington, 89
Jas. Turner, 82
CHILDREN THINK.
Children see things, and
grown.-up people had better
be careful of words and deeds
when little eyes ' are upon
them and little ears are listen
ing. A friend, who is pious
enough to ask a blessing at
bis table, the other day was
either hungry or in a Iiurry,
and went through the cere
mony in very fast time. Be
fore he could handle the car
ving knife, his youngest boy
put on the brakes with the
question; “Pa, do you want
to scare God?” This is the
way the bh ssing sounded to
him, and with all the unapoiN
ed honesty of seven years of
age he spoke it out. The lit
tle fellow may not always
tell just how things iooA to
them, but we may rest assured
they are looking all the same.
—Ex.
Rights op an Orphan Child
—Mary Swem \yas one of five
orphans advertised for adop
tion after the death of their fa
ther She was adopted by
Fredericka Gress of Brooklyn
who, as alleged, beat and oth
erwise, ill-treated her in a most
brutal manner. Suit was
brought in behalf of the child
to recover $5,000^ from Mrs.
Gress and her iiusband. In
the City Court of Brooklyn,
a j ury g ave a verdict of $1,800
for the child.- Ex.
An equity suit has been brought
in Philadelphia to compel an
owner to cut down a tree whose
foots were undermining an ad
joining dwelling. Would' not
an equity suit be just as right
eous against a man whose sale
of liquor was “undermining" the
moral character of his neighbor,
the hapinesB of his wife, and the
future prospects of hw ^Udren?
The oldest chapter of Roy
al Arch Masons we have been
able to get information of is
that hold in Boston in St. Ans
drew's Lodge. This Chapter
was first formed about the
year 1764.
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