RPHANS’ Friend.
Price, $1 a year.)
OXFORD, N. C., APRIL 6, 1883.
(VOL.Till. ?f0. 45-
PIFTI YEARS A&O,
’Twas a Deoeml er evening,
? The moon was shining bright;
The bare-boughed elms and maples
Were quivering in its light; ■■
Tlie lonesome country turnpike
Lay sparkling white with‘snow—
1 harnessed Jerry in ti.e pung,.
Just fifty years ago, ,
* He jogged along sedately,
: The bells made silvery chime,
^ And to their merry jingle
''**My throbbing heart kept time ;
.^eeti Mollie Lee was waiting,
! •• Her ahy face all aglow ; • ,
1 tucked her in, and off we sped',
J ust- fifty years ago.
She was a farrner’s daughter,
A^ I a./armer^s son,
Oor tfilliiig hands our fortune,
riches-we had .none.
AnI on this frosty evening,
; VV^jiile Jerry’s steps lagged slow,
I told the old, old story o’er,
Just fifty years ago.
And now our prancing chestnuts
]^ace through the city street,
Witii coachman and with footman
•In livery complete.
My. Mollie sits .beside me,
Her nut-brown curls are snow ;
But ah, her heart is warm and true
Ajs fifty years ^o.
Bni'when the wintry landscape
cL.iee bathed in moonlight’s calm,
dreanip; see it gleaming
A’e^fjaple-Hollow I arm,
fiaa long once more a ^lowboy,
' ■^herfe mountain breezes blow,
I’o 'drive old Jerry in the punig,
As ■ iifty years ago.
[Ktjth Beveee.
^?LIEPSPI^:iIQES.
The United gOTetfis
eootDb.ute.s liberally to
'fe'maihtenance of the Smith
sonian Institute, and “the
building in which its collees
tioDS are preserved is one of
the most conspicuous and im
posing edifices at the national
• capital, and is a monument
indicative of the importance
which our Government, at-
Aap^es to natural science.
GiSat 'Britain munificently
supports its scientific iiistitu-
t|.ons, ard is known.the world
.oVei' as a liberal patron of
'■sclefice. In the department of
technology we find not only
national governments,but city
corporations', ' interested in
haying such schc^ols establish-,
ei' and suita*bly maintained,
knowing that the manufactur-.
ers of their country cannot
successfully compete or excel
when such aids are neglected.
As technical knowledge is an
important factor in the indus
trial pursuits, we hope the day
is .^not far distant when we
shall have schools for techni
cal studies established in all
our large cities and manufac
turing towns.—CottQn, ^ Wool
tmd Iron, Boston. '
,• Why 'may not thfe Ubited
States government^
maintains Schools ' in which
young men' k^e trained in ihe;
art JdP.- wsuv- also establish a
school or 8c1\oo1a-W .^.whiek
fiyieuagipen may qnalify i
. seivcp. fe>r; ,RSffulnee8
the„ai’t8 of peaefet There/-is
alrp^dy at Washington much
of'th'e material for a scientific
and technical 8(^(5o]; and
among the crowd of retired or
aupernUm'erai'y offleets of thfb
army and navy, whojostle each
the streets of that
R^ought not to bfe impose
sibleto sOle'et gOntleiiiiaucom'
many of the departments
that such a school would em
brace. And as such employ
ment, would afford thOih the
satisfaction of feeling that
they were earning the money
they draw from the Governn
meut, we cannot doubt they
would prefer it to the idleness
and ennui in which they now
drone away their days. Oth
er teachers, specialists, ex**
■p'erts arid' proficients in sci
ence, cojtld easily bepbtained.
All the departments and in
stitutions of the \Government
that have ahy relation to
science and the industrial arts
could be made contributory
to the object—the Smithson-i
ian Institute, for example, the
Astromomical Observatory,
the Coast Survey, the Geolo
gical Survey, the. Botanical
Garden, the Fish'Hatcheries,
the National Museum, the Sig
nal Service, the Agricultural
Department, the Naval Work
shops, the Engineer Service,
the Bureau of Printing and
Engraving, the Congressional
Library, &c., &. Here are
many of the elements of a
great school of technical and
applied science, in which
young men could be fitted for
a ser'vice to the country yas.tly
more valuable than any ever
likely to be rendered by.the
graduates off^eljit iqiiifit and
One ‘cold morBihg a little r^-
ged, woeful looking child came
in at our baqk door,, begging for
food. j
Please ,, me ^nd the
children most .^tarven, Only a
bit o’bread.’
Have you .no father dr mother,
child?’ asked I.
Tes’m;’ and a look of shame
and despair mantled hie hollow
cheelss.
‘Don’t they work and earn
money?’
•Yes’m, little, but they moat
alluB spend it afore they gets
home, at the ‘Horn o’ Plenty.”
Immediately my heart became
adamant. The miserable drun
ken brutes, thought I, I’ll not
feed their children. Then I re
membered there was a . very stale
loaf of bread in the cupboard,
scarcely fit for toast. I gave that
,t6 the child, very glad , id .dis-l
pose of it. He reminded: bne df
the grasp of the drowning, when!
they would fiiinsave themSel'ves.i
Little Grade, our six-year old;
darling, had been a silpnt apecta-'
tor; but, after the boy departed,:
she came to me with deep.inqui-'
ry depicted upon her spintual •
countenance, saying;
‘Mamma, if Jesus Christ.'lmd
come,and said he 'was starving:
to death, would you have igiveu'
him that .awful dry loafof bread?’
‘Why, child,’ said I,‘why 4o
yo'Q k^fe'such: k qu^tion?’
‘Why, when we give to the
.poptj oiight^we not to think that
we are ,really giving; to JeSusi
himsdt. I think tie said so when;
U^dn earth.’ '
Well, Grade,’ said I, kissing:
her sweet, troubled fa(?e, ‘I think
you are ,Hght, and ^ will remem-;
ber your lesson next time. • Yesj
Grad.e? W% whom the Lord hath
blessed in our ‘granary and our
store,^ would soon relieve suffer
ing humanity, if we give our
fllma as if we really were giving
toAbft Bodeemer.’ ;
are too prone to forget this
truth.'’
‘The very best that we have
in the house isn’t too good for
him, is it, inamma?’ asked she.
‘No, no, my precious child!’
replied I, clasping her to my
heart, and thinking, ‘Out of the
mouth of babes and sucklings
hast Thou ordained strength and
wisdom.’
“I .CAN’T AEPOED IT.”
‘Just come and give me a
hand’s turn at my garden, Jem,
of a Sunday morning, will you? ’
said a working-man with his
pickaxe over his shoulder, to an
old hedger, who was trimming a
quick-set hedge.
Jem took off his cap, and
scratched his head, in his own
gountry way, and said in reply:
‘No, master; I can’t afford it.
- ‘Oh! I do not want you to do
the work for nothing. I am will
ing to pay you.’
‘I can’t afford it.’
‘Why, man, I will put some
thing in your pocket. I’m sure
you’re not too well off.’
‘That’s it; I can’t afford it.’
‘Oaa’t afford it ? What do
you mean? You don’t under
stand me.’
‘Yes, I do; but hain’t quick of
speech do you see. Howsomever,
don’t you snap me up, and I’ll
tell ye. I hain’t too well off—
that’s as true a word as ever ye
spoke. Times be mostly hard
wi' .me, but if I ain’t well off,
d’ye see, in this world, Pve a
hope, a blessed hope, nay missus
call's it, of feeing better off in the
next. My Lord and Saviour said
these words with his own lips:
‘I go to prepare a place for you,
that where I am, there ye may
be also.’ I learned that text
twenty years ago, ‘ and Fve said
it over hundreds of times, when,
things went wrong, and. me and
and my. wife wanted comfort.’
‘W^ll) well. What’s all that
got to do with yoiy saying in
answer to my offer, T can’t af
ford it?”
Why, no offence to you, but
its got all to do with it. I can’t
afford to lose my hope of a better
land. If my Lord be gone to
prepare a place for me, the best
I can do is to ask him to prepare
me for the place. And, you see,
Sunday is the only day that I
can give all my thoughts to these
holy, thiogs. , I go to God’s house
and hear about heaven, and. I
se^s to fee waiting at one of
the stations on ' the way there.
No! no! Man’s work for man's
day; but, on God’s day, I can’t
afford it.’
Reader, poor, unlettered Jem
had counted the cost of disobey
ing God’s command by breaking
the Sabbath. ‘What shall it
profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul.^’—
.The British Workman.
WATCHIN& ONE’S SELF-
‘When I was a hoy,’ said an
old man, ‘we had a school-mas
ter who had an odd way of
catching idle boys. One day, be
called out to ns—
‘Bc^, I must have closer at
tention to your books. The first
one of ypu that Sees another boy
idle, I want you to inform me,,
and I will attend to his case.’
‘Ah,* thought I to myself,
there is Joe Sinunons that I
don’t like, I will watch him,
and if I SM him look off bis hook
ITl tell.^
It was not long before I saw
Joe look off his book, and imme-
mediately I informed the mas
ter.
‘Indeed,’ said he, ‘and how do
you know he was idle?’
‘I saw him,^ said I.
‘You did; and were your eyes
on your books when you saw
him V
I was caught, and I never
watched for idle boys again.
If we are sufficiently watchful
over our own conduct, we will
have no time to find fault with
the conduct of our neighbors.
Matthew vii: 3.
, &00D LI5TENEES.
The art of hearing is as
nice an art as that of being
heard. The number of good
listeners is rare, whilst invet
erate talkers beset us on every
side, and often prove the
greatest bores society can de--
precate. We can pay no high'
er compliment to any conver
sation than to give it our un
divided tacit attention,betray
ing our interert in the kind’
ling-eye and breathless eager
ness to catch every word as it
falls from the lips of the speak
er. It evinces a disposition
to gain knowledge from anoth
er, and is a modest confession
that we are being entertained
or informed.
As all of our opinions and
possessions are more or less
tinctured by individual cir
cumstances, interests or con*
stitutiota, it would be well to
hear all we can from others,
then weigh, edmpare and di
gest the wholesome truths of
fered by opposite minds.
Many contradict merely for a
display of their argumentative
powers, or through an obsti
nate resolve to maintain their
own peculiar ten'ets, as our
self-love is apt to^ whisper
that we speak well and men
will be persuaded by our elo
quence.
The finest exponent of good
breeding is the true politeness
which teaches never to inter
rupt one when speaking, but
to listen with an air of inter
est even though the subject
under discussion prove irk
some and insipid, for the self
esteem of the speaker is often
wounded by an abstracted,
weary, listless manner on the
part of the listener.
If wholesome truths be delt
out, embrace them; if error
cast it aside as rubbish. There
may be ocasioiis.when truth is
outraged and calls for defence;
then we may feel ourselves
relieved’from the fetters of a
certain punctilio that demands
respect for the rights and
feelings of others.
Silence is older than speach
and many of our greatest men
have been noted for it. “A
word unspoken is a word in
the scabbard; a word uttered,
is a sword in another’s
hand.* The lips ol those who
tliink mueh and speak little,
are apt to drop dainties as
sweet and rich as the fabled
honey of Hymittus.—Baltic
THE SCH00I¥ASTEE OF OUE
EEPUBLIO
“Wheu our republic rose,
Noah Webstar became its
schoolmaster. There had nev
er been a great nation with a
universal language without di
alects. The Yorkshirejnan can
not now talk with a man from
Cornwall The peasant of
the Ligurian Appenines,drives
his goats home at evening over
hills that look down on six
provinces none of whose dia
lects he can speak. Here,
five thousand miles change
not the sound of a word.
Around every fireside, and
from every tribune, in every
field of labor and every facto
ry ol toil, is heard the same
tongue. We owe it to Noah
WebsteRs Spelling -Book and
Dictionaiies. He has done
for us more than Alfred did
for England, or Cadm«s for
Greece. His books have edu
cated three generations. They
are forever multiplying his
innumerable army of thinkers
who will transmit his riaire
from age to age.
Only two men have stood
on the New World^whosefame
is so sure, to last—Columbus,
its discoverer,and Washington
its savior. Webster is and
will be its great teacher; and
these three make our trinitj
of fame.*’—Ex.
Burdette of the BwrUngton
Hawkeye gives his notion
about a mean man:
Sometimes I wonder what
mean man thinks about
when he goes to bed, when
he turns out the light and
lies down. When darkness
closes in" about him and
he is alone, and compelled to
be honest with himself. And
not a bright thought,not a gen
erous impulse,Jnot a manly act,
not a word of blessing, not a
grateful* look, comes to bless
him again. Nqt a penny drop*
ped into the outstretched palm
of poverty, nor the balm of the
spoken word dropped into an
aching heal t; no sunbeam of
encouragement cast upon a
struggling life; the strong
right hand of fellowship reach
ed out to help some fallen
man to his feet—when none
of these things come to him
as the “God feleas yon” of the
departed day, how he must
hate himself. How he must
try.to roll away from nimself
and sleep on the other side of
the bed. When the only vic
tory he can think of is some
victory in whicbjhe has wrong
ed a fellow neighbor. No
wonder he always sneers
when he tries to smile. How
pure and fair and good all the
rest of the world must look to
him, and cheerless and dusty
and dreary must his own path
appear. Why, even one lone
isolated act of meanness is
enough to scatter cracker
crumbs in the bed of
the average, ordinary man,
and what must be the feeling
of a man whose whole life is
given up to mean acts? When
there is so, much suffering-and
heart-ache and misery, in the:
world anyhow,why shooldyou
add one pound of wickedness
or sadness to the general l)ur-
den. .Don^t be mean, ray
boy Suffer injustice-a thou
sand times rather than commit
it once* ,t
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.Address L. 1BMUB,-Ox£ord,N.C.
CANCERS,
STAMMERING,
—AND—
NASAL CATARRH,
CURED BY
DR. N. A. MOSES,
OP VIRGINIA.
OFFICE—Private rooms, on the, first
floor, at COOK'S HOTEL, jiear Yarbo
rough House, Raleigh, N. C.
Read the following, new certiti-
cates:
Raleigh, X, C., ilarch 7th, 1833.
Dk. N. a. .Moses :
D_ear_Slr—I take great pleasure in
stating that you have successful! y re
moved a cancer from my wife’s
check, near the eye, of fifteen years
duration, by the application of vour
vegetable plaster, and I cheerfully re
commend you to all those afllicted.
D. H. OLIVE, Cary, N. C.
Raleigh, N. C., March 3rd, 1883.
I hereby certify that Dr. N. A. Moses
has extraelcd two large tumors fr.»m
my liead without porfonniug anv sur
gical operation, and I cheerfully re
commend his treatment. The tumors
are now in my possossiofi.
S. W. COATS.
Newsoms, "Va., Feb. 2,1883.
Dr. N. a. Mosks :
The cancer on my neck cured by you
in October last is entirely well. Hop
ing you may beable to use this to ad
vantage and with much succes.s hi re
lieving suH'ei'ing liumanit}-, I am yours
most respectfully, vV m. E. MYRICK.
Raleigh, N. C., Marc]ilO,]S83.
Dr. N.A: "Moses:
Dear ftjir-^Tlii.s is to certify tliat you,
the great master of cauc«‘rs. have re
moved h'om my wife’s temple a flesh
mole without surgical operation or pain
and L cheerfully recomnumd you to all
similarly afi'ected.
W. D. UPCIITTRCH,
Morgan street.
Norfolk, Va., April 10, 1881.
Dr. N.-\. Mosks :
I take,pleasure in stating that you
have cured.me of a rose cancer under
my eye, and I have witnessed your
treatment of several others similarly
afflicted, and I take great pleasure in
recommending otiiers to your care. I
am very truly your obliged ser\-aut,*
Marshall Parks.
Norfolk. Va., May 21,1881.
This is to certify that Dr. N. A.
Moses has cured each of us of Nasal
Catarrh, and we cheerfully rec ommend
him to those likewise atfiicted.
Wm. T. Bradley,
P. J. McLean,
A. Slagle.
Raleigh, N. C., March 2,1883.
I hereby certify tliat Dr. Moses has
removed 'a large flesh mole from my
forehead. His treatment of my case
has been eminently successful, and I
cordially recommend him.
T. B, YANCY, Morgan street.
Murfreesboro,N.C., Jan. lo, 1883
Dr. N. a. Moses :
The cancer under my left eve, treated
by you, is well, and I have no'hesitation
in recommending your treatment to
those who may be afflicted.
Yours truly,
J. W. Barnes.
Raleigh, N. 0., Mar. 10,1883.
After hciiri;^ of Dr.Moses’ treatment
of Nasal Cata_%h, I concluded to put
myself under hi> treatment, and think
1 find relief in tlie short time I have
been under his care, and cheerfully re
commend him to those afflicted.
Wm. H. hughes, .
Fayetteville street.
Oxford, N.C., April 2,1883.
Hearing, of Dr. Moses’ success in
teaching the stammerer to apeak oleai'-
ly, I iligermined’to ^accpiaint myself
with bis method, wliich I find satisfac-
ioiy, bring based upon physiological
priuciple.s. His art is worthy of the
coiisideratloii of all stammerers.
. L. THOMAS.
Raleigli, X. C.. Feb. 12, 1883.
Thi.s is to c(!rtify that in 1873 Dr. N.
A. Mosos ciircid 'my sister and myself
of stammering. He is iiow in tliis city
and I advise all who are affected in a
like maimer to cull on liitu. His art
will certainly cure them, as it is very
simple and easy to learn, and 1 cheer
fully recoiiiiiu'nd him.
H. F. FESCUD,
At A. 'Willianisi'o t'o.’s Book Store,
Eemarkable Cure of a Tumor.
Haleigh. N.C., Mw.liG, 1883'.
I heveoy certify that Dr, Moses'has
extracted from iny forehead a tumor of
many yi'ars .•;tanding, by the ajiplica-
tion of a vegetable pla.ster, and that
'the cavity is healing rapidly. I cheer
fully rf'cmniiicn'l his tneitmont to all
Kiniilarlv jfi'ecLed.
R.IL JONES,
Hillsboro street. '