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; fThe Orphans’Friend. Friday, - MARCH 30, 1883. Published every Friday at dollar per annum, in advance. PRESENT 0RG-4NIZATI0K OF ORPHAN ASYLUM. •7, H. MILLS, EDUOATIONAl'. Dr. J. L. M.;Ourry, agent of the Peabody Edacatioiial Pand is do- 0*^® ing good service in the cause of c-duoation by delivering lectures on that subject. He is in New- berne this week. Mss. Catharine McDougaM, leacher of First Form, Girls. Miss MART SBOLAR, Teacher of First Form, Boys. Miss MARY C. DODD, Teacher of Second Form, Girls. Miss L. NICSOLSON, Teacher of Second Form, Boys. MISS B.M. MACK, Teacher of Third Form, Girls. .Miss LULA MARTIN, Teacher of Third Form, Boys. Miss ALICE L. FLEMING, In Charge of Hospital. OONTEIBBTIONS TO THE OKPHj^N asylum FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 21ST. IN CASH. Charity Lodge, No. 5, Wind sor, $10 00 Rosses (.-hurch, Bertie, 1 00 Corinth Baptist Church Northampton County, Frank Weston, by I, R, Strayhorn, Stonewall Lodge, No. 296, Greensboro Lodge, No. 76 G^he total number of illiterates in the Union is 'five millions, two millions of whom are voters, about equally divided between the white and colored. 1 ‘A statue has been erected at Poix to the memory of Lakanal. who created in France the system of primary education, organized secondary and technical schools, and founded the great public schools and the Institute. The city of Chihuahua, Mexico, supports ten schools from the pub lic funds, and there are also eight private schools in the city. The public school .teachers get from $42 to $120 a month. 3 00 7 85 3 00 5 05 IN KIND. Unknown Friend, 1 bbl flour. Hiram Sibley & Co„ Rochester, N. T., per W. S. Moore, Greensboro, N. C., 100 papers of Garden Seeds, worth, $5.25 Ladies Benevolent Society, David son College, N. 0., 1 quilt, 1 pr. socks. Jnnius Hnnt, 1 load shucks, 1 load straw. SPECIAL meittion: There are one hundred and fifty orphans at the Asylum. The new corn milll at Turner’ foundry is a great convenience to the citizens of the town. The Oxford Female Seminary has a larger number of pupils than at any previous session. We are informed that special services with reference to a re vival of religion are to bo in augurated in the Oxford Baptist Church soon. Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Post master General of the United States, died of pneumonia, at his home in Wisconsin last Sun day. The Charlotte Journal has bought out the Charlotte Observ er, and is hereafter to be pub lished as the Journal-Observer, Interesting revivals of religion are reported at several points in this State. Raleigh, Greensboro, Warrenton, Littleton and per haps some other places have been thus favored. In a lecture on pedagogy, deliv ered by Prof. Stanley Hall before the Johns Hopkins University, on Wednesdayjevening last, the speak er, among other things, said: “The fundamental idea of modern edu cation must be that the peculiar traits of each individual must be sought out, and his natural sphere of thought—that is, the class of ideas on which it is easiest for him to think—developed by the teacher, who is not the master, but rather the minister, to the one taught.” * In an institution of the highest pretensions we have known stu dents to be burdened with thirty studies per week! Allowing three hours for each (two for prepara tion and one for recitation), we hai'e ninety hdurs per week, or fifteen hours per day. Some may call this education but we call it murder. It may be replied that the studies did not require half the time we asigns to them—then we call it humbug.—The Gliristtan Index. Men in the mass only are consid ered. Presently the greatest gen ius will be counted simply as au item in a census table. Lincoln’s face is now engraved only gfor cheap chromos. Garfield’s biog raphy is already moved to the rear of bookstores among second hand volumes. The Nation, the Church, society, are all in ail. The citizen, the apostle, the individual shrinking in importance. The world is moving abreast, and not in Indian ^l^.^-Lafferty. ciety, the salvation from ruin of the young, must all give way to rum and ruin tor the sake ofparty. Were men so enlightened and studious of thsir own good, as to act by the dictates of their reason and reflection, and not the opinion of others, conscience would be the steady ruler of human lifej and the words truth, law, reason, equity, and religion, could bo but synon ymous terms for that only guide which makes us pass our days in our own favor and a])probatioii.— Sir Richard Steel. The joys and sorrows of this world are so strikingly mingled! Our mirth and grief are brought so mournfully in contact! We laugh while others weep, and others rejoice when we are sad! The light heart and the heavy walk side by side and go about together! Beneath the same roof are spread the wedding-feast and tlie funeral pall! The bridal song mingles with the bur ial hymu! One goes to the mar riage-bed, another to the grave; and all is mutable, uncertain, and •transitory.— Who, in early life, were Virgil, Milton, Demosthenes, Shakes peare, Columbus, Franklin, Wool- sey, Cromwell, Burns, and a host of others? Despite the protest of vulgar pride, the humble occipa- tion is never degrading. Are not all tlie royal family of Germany compelled to learn a trade? And was not the Divine Son at Naza reth himself a carpenter, and also tl e reputde son of a carpenter? Dr. Oiiyler, gives in a.seutence the secret of all true living when, speaking of the late William E. Dodge, he says: “The secret of Mr. Dodge's power lay in the first hour of every morning. That hour he gave to God with his Bible and on his knees, and if he came down among business men with his face shining with cheerfulness and loving kindness, it was because he had been up in the mount in com munion with his Master.” Almost before we realizept the world will J^be called upon to wit ness two gigantic engineering feats. It is estimated that wPhin a year and a half the tunnel from England to France will be com pleted, and })robably in the course of five or six years DeLesseps’ Panama canal will be open for business. Modern engineering will ere long change the face of the world. and if any children are grow' ing up in ignorance, the State should interpose and send them to school,if parents neglect to do so • Experience has shown that voluntary associational enters prise is not adequate to secure general education; a'^d that education will not become general unless it is fostered by a wise system of laws. It is the duty of the state to provide by law for a thor* ough and efficient system of schools which shall be equally open to all. The State should compel the location, establishment and maintenance of a suffi-* cient number of schools for the education of all its children. It each locality is allowed to decide whether good schools be established or not, the sys tem will in no sense become a general one because in those localities where good schools are ffiost needed the people will see the least need of them. A permissive system will soon become no system at all.— American Journal of Education. SPRM 1888. WH ERF BRIEF THOUGHTS. , Follow after holiness, it will re pay your pursuit. Let not thy tongue say what thy heart denies. An honest man is believed with out au oath, for his reputation swears for him. When we propose to do a thing, and'have not full faith in its recti tude and propriety, then it is a thing not to be done. During the changeable weath er of the early spring, persons in this climate are specially liable to pneumonia. Take due no tice and govern yourself accor dingly. Some members of the Metho dist congregation are preparing for an entertainment,to raise funds for the purpose of improv ing their house of worship. Graded schools are well spoken of in the yanoue North .Carolina towns where they have been es tablished. Oxford so long an educational centre cannot afford to be behind in so good a work. Prayer is an errand to God—it must be reverent, earnest and def inite. When you do errands of this kind for other people, forget your self. Duty is the only thing really worth living for. The only thing which will pay a man, either for this life or the next. The only thing which will give a man rest and peace, manly and quiet thoughts, a good conscience, and a stout heart in the midst of hard labor, anxiety, sorrow and disap pointment; because he. feels at least that he is doing his duty, that he i% obeying God and Christ, that he is working with them, and for them, and that therefore they are working with him,and for him. God, Christ and duty, these, and more, will a man see if he will awake out of sleep and consider where he is by the light of God’s Holy Spirit.— Charles Kingsley. The Hillsboro Observer wittily says; One of the bosses at the State penitentiary, asked an Or ange county darkey, who had serv ed faithfully his sentence and was leaving the prison walls behind him, how ho felt? “Boss,” said he. “I feel sad. One year ago when I entered these walls I felt good, I knew for twelve months I had the whole jState ofNorth Carolina to ^ack me. Now I go out into the world with no one to work for me.” MISCELLANEOUS. Prof. W, C. Kerr is again ap pointed State Geologist, an office he has held for twenty years, not withstanding the change of par- ties and officers of the State every term. God does not delay to hear our prayers because he has no mind to give, but that, by enlarging onr desires, he may give us more lar-gely. We might enjoy much peace if we Would not busy ourselves with the words and deeds of other men, which appertain not to our charge. If divine love ever seems par - tial, it is when it redeems with so many yearnings the life of one who has shamefully slighted it. Mr. James H. Horner, Princi pal of the Horner School has re turned from a recent visit to the eastern portion of the State. "We understand that his school is do ing well. A heavy fall of snow on Mon day the 26th instant. It seems to have been pretty general, and may be said to be the greatest March snow storm ever known, in this-State. It was at least 12 inches deep in Oxford. The Asylum has received from Hiram Sibley & Co., Rochester, N. Y., through Mr. W. S. Moore, of Greensboro, N. C., a handsome donation of garden seeds, which it dnly tppredatod. Bishop Whipple recently re marked: “As the grave grows nearer, my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begings and ends with Christ as the only refuge for the lost.” The population of Dakota Ter ritory has doubled in two years, and now reaches 300,000. The amount of taxable property is $50,000,000. Gen. Robert Toombs is in very feeble health. He is entirely blind in one eye and the sight of the other is fast failing. The Princess Louise is very glad that her husband’s term as Gov ernor General of Canada, will ex pire next month, and has already directed that her apartments in Kensington Place to bepnt in or der. The original South Carolina or dinance of secession is preserved in the office of Secretary of State at Columbia. It is written on parch ment, is entitled ^.n “Ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States, united with her under the compact entitled the Constitution of the United States of America,” and is very brief, containing be sides the title, date, etc., but little more than one hundred words. Our hope is not hung on such an untwisted thread as “I imagine so,’’ or “it is likely;” but the strong cable of our fastened anchor is the promise and oath of Him who is eternal verity. Seek not to please the workbbut your owu conscience. The man who has a feeling within him that he has done his duty upon every occasion, is far happier than he who hangs upon the smiles of the great, or the still more fickle fa vors of the multitude. Civilization is minifying the man. The individual is dwindling. Tennessee proposes to protect its youth. It has passed a law prohibiting proprietors of billiard, bagatelle and pool tables from al lowing minors to play on their ta bles without the consent of parents or guardians. Now let the law be enforced and Tennessee will be benefitted. “As the twig’s bent, &c.”—News and Ohs. Rome, March 23.—The eruption of Mount jEtna continues. Anew crater has opened and a stream of lava is flowing down the moun tain. Several of the villages on the slope are threatened and the villagers have abandoned their homes and fled to places of safety. The earthquake shocks are almost constant over an area more than twenty miles in circuraterence. A lady residing in this village, the mother of a bright little boy, was^alking the other night, just as she was putting him to bed, about the efficacy of prayer, and told him that if he would ask God •for anything that he particularly desired she had no doubt his re quest would be granted. The lit tle fellow knelt at his mother’s knee and prayed God to send him fiftyJittlo sisters and one hundred little brothers. The prayer was neyer finished, for the mother, aghast at the prospect oFhaving her house turned into an orphan asylum, lifted the boy to his feet and tucked him into bed without a moment’s, delay Ex. Ignorance in office often brings disappointment to Lodge, and so apathy comes in, and dimits, non affiliation, and other evils ensue. The duty is to make Lodges interesting, not simply by conferring degrees well, but by dispensing light on all of the 8ymbols,emblems, and allegories of the intitu- tion, by thoroughly investiga- ing all of the principles of the fouudati'jns and of the sujjerstruoture, and endeavor ing to solve the mystery of the entire edifice. In this way alone the wisdom, trength and beauty of Free' masonry can be made plain to its devotees, and non-atten dance'of Lodges be overcome. This will necessitate profound study, but will bring great re ward here and hereafter. Let it no longer be neglected.— Exchange. TO BUr YOUR GOODS.; I still offer the “Bes Goods for the Least Money]!” RECEIVED TO-DAY, February 19th, 1883, 1,000 yards best 4-4 Percals. 7,600 yards best New Style Prints. 1,000 yards best New Style Chambray Ginghams. 10-4 Brown and Bleached Sheeting. 25 CLUBiaOIfT qinisTS. 2,000 yards 4-4 sheeting. 20 pieces assorted plain' and plaid Pop. lins. 20 pieces assorted Cottonades for Panto and Coats. 20 pieces Piques—BIG BARGAINS. 20 pieces checked piques—BlgBargaloa There is a provision in the act of the late Legislature amending the public school law, under which teachers of private schools may contract to teach all pupils between the ages of six and twenty years, and receive com pensation from the public school fund. This is a good idea, and we hope that it will often be put into praotice.—and Obs. Committees on Orphan Asylum COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Tlie politician says you must not bring the temperance question in to ])olicics; it will rum our party prospects. Ahl there’s the trouble: social order, the well-being of so- The following are some of the strong points urged in fa vor of a compulsory system of education: If the State may say to a rich man as it does, and as it has a right and is bound to do, “Give me of your money that I may train arid educate those who are soon to be my mas ters,” surely it may say to a poor man, though it cause him some inconvenience, a:\dtoa vicious nian, even though it may diminish his means of in dulgence, “Give me of your children’s time, that I may qualify them rightly to dis charge the duties of citizen ship and wisely to exercise the power of government.” Tax-payers have a right to demand that the opportunities for education which they pro • vide shall be fairly improved, Lily Valley Lodge, No. 252—John R. Hill, William H. Kiddick, Eras- tus Baidey. Eui%ka Lodge, No. 283—G. A. J Sechler, S. G. Patterson, Charles W. Alexander. Fulton Lodge, No. 99—A Parker, -V W, Taylor, J. Samuel McCub bins. Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140 Henry Haley, Job a Knight, H. F. Parrett. THE REV. C. T. BAILY SAYS: Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 11,1882. I am insured In the Valley Mutual Insurance Company of Virginia, and regard my policy in said company the safest and cheapest insurance I have. It affords me pleasure to commend the Jompady, and its agent, Mr. George C, Jordan, to any of my friends and ac quaintances he may chance to meet. C, T. Baily. DR. EUGENE GRISSOM SAYS. Raleigh, N. C., Peh. 17,1883. George C. Jordan, Esq., State Agent, Dear Sir—I am much pleased wdth my investment in a policy in the Val ley Life Insurance Association of Vir ginia. It has the convenience of small assessments at a time, which can be most easily met. Yours truly, Eugene Grissom. LUTHER SHELDON. DEALERXN SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STAIR RAILS, NEWELS, BUILDERS' HARDWARE, Paiute, Oils, Glass, Putty AND BUILDING MATEBIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Nos. 16 W. Side Market Sqr. and 49 Roanoke Ave. &b7yl NORFOLK, Va. Spring* 1883. A LANDIS, Jr., NEW STYLE Corsets, Braids, Hosiery: Needles, Pins, Spool Cotton. I^rge stock split and single Zephyrs. NEW STOCK OF THE Celebrated Shaw’s Gilt Lustre, Band land Sprig China, Complete Tea and Dinner Sets. LargeHstock of Wood & WiRow Ware, Tinware, Crockery, Ac. Large stock of HARDWARE, FARM BELLS, AC. New stock] of CENTS’ Hats. Large stock of Spring and-Summer Clothing. sPRuo im 1SS3. A. LAllS, J1 By authority I announce that I am SOLE AGENT for this county for the celebrated Connecticut State Penitentiary Men’s and Women’s Shoes. These goods will be 'ready for sale by the 16th of jJarcb. I am authorized to warrant every pair. I will also add that they are the cheapest goods ever offered In this market. Nothing fancy, but plain, substantial goods. -Don’t purchase until you see them._^ —ALSO^ am sole agent in this county for the celebrated ZEIGLER BROS’ LADIES’ and ITIEN’S SHOES, Without doubt the best goods sold any where for the money. A LANDIS, Jr. '■^*1 J.i I i! 11*
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