Mee, $1 a year.)
OXFORD, N. C., APRIL 13, 1883.
(VOL. VIII. NO. 46
A EBPLI.
[Anold^oem hy Rev. N. B. Cohb.']
FutfmjBj ’ a gem of purest ray serene^
The aark, unfathomed caves of ocean
M-b^ar;
Full’inafiy a flower is born to blush un-
' seen,
And'waste its sweetness on the desert
air.
, —Geay’sEIjEgy.
No fceah -‘gem of purest ray serene”
Is planted in the deep to perish
there;
No flower on earth is “born to blush
unseen,'
And “waste ‘ its sweetness “on the
desert air.”
The e^j-e bf man may ne’er beheld
that gem,
“The dark, unfathomed caves of
ocean bear
His'Keenest sense ne’er note“the
sweet perfume
That rose distils upon the desert
Still, not one sparkle of that gem is
lost,
And not one breath of fragrance
from the rose,
For round about them are a count
less host,
Who in their splendor revel or
repose.
Those “dark, unfathomed caves” of
ocean deep
Are mot So dark as poets some
times write;
There’ “ myriadsj moving, mingling
monsters creep,
And; doubtless to them all that
gem is bright.
WitKin the caverns of the grains of
sand,
That lie around' that desert rose’s
feet,' ‘'
A thousand‘-living things, fed by
God’s hand,
Fin^ joydhs homes. To them, that
rose is sweet.
And still,' if not a creature where
Th^“ rose is blooming or that gem
is laid,
The great Creator, God, who placed
them there,
" Would take delight in work his
hands have made.
Think not thy worth and work are
all unknown,
I Beoausenopartialpensmanpaints
thy praise;
Mai may not see nor mind, but
God Will' own
^ Thy Worth,and work,and thoughts,
and words, and ways.
The desert rose, though never seen
by man,
Is nurtured with a care divinely
good;
The ocean gem. though ’neath the
rolling main,
Is ever brilliant in the eyes of God..
THE CHEEOKEE OEEHAN
ASYLUM.
From the G-rand Saline it is
but a mile or two to the Or
phan Asylum. This was es
tablished in its present loca--
tioE'a few years ago, and was
oriijinaUy the house and es-
tftteF‘bf Lewis Ross, a brother
of Chief John Ross. He de
voted himself to trade and ac
cumulated a large fortune,
ha’ving more than fifty slaves,
and conducting stock-raising
and'farming on a very large
scale'. He had built for his
residence a large brick man
sion in the old plantation
style, and laid out extensive
grounds with native exotic
trees and shrubbery. Around
were the offices and buildings
necessary for so large an es-
tabiii|hment, compelled to be
coinplete in itself. Such of
these as were of wood were
biiliit daH&g the war, but the
mansion remained intact, and
was enlarged by putting on
an additional story and two
wings, the whole forming a
roomy and substantial build
ing. The superintendent, Rev.
W. A. Duncan, a Cherokee,
was ill with the rheumatism ;
but to his bed in the parlor,
warmed by..a hospitable fire
in the wide stone fire place,
camd the children at will, the
larger receiving directions
about the farm-work, and the
younger with their complaints
or with inquiries about his
health. The scene had the
aspect of a large family raths
er than a charitable institu
tion, and the impression was
strengthened by the freedom
and familiarity with which
the childien roamed through
the building, followed the
teachers about, and played
noisily in the yard. They
are not compelled to wear any
distinguishing uniform, but
were dressed in the ordinary
rough clothing of the frontier.
The furniture of the building
was rude in comparison with
that of an Eastern institution,
and there was a lack of the
prim neatness and impression
of perpetual white wash char-i
acteristic of civilized charity ;
but the appearance of home
like freedom more than conn-
tef-balanced th^e defects.
The supper hour was early,
and, as the children marched
in at the sound of the bell and
took their places at the tables,
the scene was a striking one,
and there was more than one
notable face among them.
Here was one with flaxen hair
and blue eyes, the scion of
some wild border rover, to
whom, like the hero of Words
worth’s “Ruth,’^‘ who ‘dwelt
among the Chefokees,” a life
of wild adventure was the only
endurable existence, and of
whom it was also true that
The wild men’s vices ho received,
And gave them back his own.
The bold gaze, tempered
somewhat by the restraints of,
education, and the., supple,
restless motions, gave unmis
taken tokens of a heritage of
wild blood that promised an
untamable youth and reckless
manhood. Here, in strong
contrast, was the dark face of
a little Indian girl, with raven
hair, and black solemn eyes,
and an aspect of grave melan
choly too settled not to be
habitual, reminding one of
Matthew Arnold’s gypsy girl
in the Isle of Man, The older
girls were helpful, waiting on
the tables and all wore orderly
and well mannered under the
eyes of their teachers. These
are all native Cherokees, edu
cated in the schools ; of the
Nation, aud manifest not only
zeal and interest in teaching,
but a strong affection for the
children. It was especially:
touching to see the way in
which a little waif, crippled
by the neglect of its parents,
clung around the skirts of Mrs.
Jane Nave, the matron ,and
housekeeper, and seemed vis
ibly to warm himself in an af
fection which he had never
known before, and which this
kindly lady, herself, acquain
ted with grief through a very
afflicting experience during
the war, radiated upon all
around her.
The Cherokee Orphan Asy
lum does^not compare with
the institutions at Hampton
and Carlisle, in the corpplete-
ness and extent of the educa
tion of Indian children. It
was the intention to have the
boys taught mechanical trades
as well as the work on the
farm; but the shops have not
been put in operation, and,
with the exception of a small
press on which the school pa
per is printed, there is no
means of instruction in handi
craft. This it is to be hoped
will be remedied, but in any
event,]the advantages of being
educated at home and as a
family, instead of in exile and
among strangers, are very
great, and altogether, the or
phan children of the Cherokee
Nation are more fortunate
than those of communities
that boast a more scientific
p h i I a nthropy.—LippincoWs
Magazine.
SAVE mFnEST,
A beantiful little incident
is told of a child upon a lately
wrecked steamer. The boats
were taking the passengers
away as fast as they could.
Every one was crowding for
ward, intent on his salvation.
One after another was passed
down, while the neglected
child stood waiting her turn.
The vessel rocked to and fro
on the eve of going to the
bottom. Seeing no cliance
of escape, the little one
stretched out her hands and
cried, “Save me next.”
It is a cry that ought to go
up from millions of hearts.
The bark of life will go down
some day, and if we are not
saved, we must be eternally
lost. It is a cry that those of
us who are saved might bear
on every hand. It comes
from that miserable,trembling,
half-palsied debauchee who
“must have; will have rum.’’
He curses his fate and drinks
again, even while he cries
out in agony against the
chains that bind him as with
fetters of brass, “Save me
next.” Strong arms must be
held out to such. We can
but pity though we blame,
and knowing that none but
God may save the rum^^craz-
ed wretch, we may do much
by bringing him to that Fa
ther who turns no one away.
The cry comes again from
that gaudily-dressed woman
whose words are possibly
louder than her dress. She
may not ask to be saved, she
may not want to be saved,
but she needs to be—none
but hersell knows how much.
The calls are to some Chris
tian woman to lead her to him
who will say, “Thy sins are
forgiven thee.”
The cry, “Save me next,”
comes from a down-trodden
nation of freedmen, which
darkens our own fair land.
The superior white man is re
sponsible for their being here;
can we shrink altogether the
responsibility of their salva
tion? ^The dusky red man
beckons us toward the setting
sun with the same cry to be
saved next.
The whispering breezes waft
the cry over from the Orient,
from nations sitting in dark
ness, bowing down to gods of
wood and stone.
It comes to Christian men
and women^ “Come, and save
next.” It must be dull
ears that cannot hear any of
these cries. Some will har
den their hearts, aud go on as*
if they heard them not.
AN IMPOETANT QUESTIOH.
The great coudemnatiou of
our present system of education
must attract the attention of all
interested in this subject.
The March number of the
North American Review in one of
a series of articles called “Edu
cational Needs,” gives some
strong and sensible views and
suggestions from a number of
distinguished educators—the con
cluding pages furnished by the
most eminent female member of
the medical profession in this
country—Dr. Mary Putnam Ja
cobi, of New York city.
The objections urged by all
against the existing methods of
instruction are practically the
same; all agree that they must
result in mental and physical
deterioration.
Our English word educate is
derived from the Latin verb
“edueere”—to lead out, and is
defined as “a leading out of the
mind.’^ This is the original,aud
the only true purpose or result
of education— to lead the mind
out—not to overburden it with
unimportant facts and unintelli
gible theories.
There is nothing more absurd
than the fashionable and intri
cate process of graduation.—
Young girls are pushed through
a superficial course of study—the
brain overtaxed—the me y
burdened with facts which can
have no practical relation to their
duties—the constitution often
wrecked by lack ot proper mus
cular exorcise, loss of sleep, aud
general disregard of hygienic
laws.
At the beginning of summer,
when scientists tell us that ani
mal vitality is at its lowest ebb,
these young martyrs to a false
educational system, are brought
forth to exhibit to the world
their intellectual accomplish
ments
It is well that beneath their
bright eyes and smiles, the flow
ers and ribbons and lace3,we can
not see the aching brains, the
constitution weakened if not
incurably diseased. So much
for the physical being; how is it
with the mind?
A prominent teacher says:
“The fruit of education is the
desire tp learn.’’ But we see
girls rejoicing in their freedom
from the thraldom of the school
room, emerging radiantly from
the book-worm to the society
butterfly. So far from having
been made capable of pursuing
their studies unaided, with
pleasure and advantage, the
the very sight of old textbooks
is distasteful.
Teachers are not alone respon
sible for these errors—we might
say crimes. Many parents, es
pecially the uneducated encour
age this intellectual oppression
of youth; at least they fail to
rebel against it as strongly as
they should. The remedy is in
the hands of the public, if they
choose to administer it.
In the free schools, the Board
of education often establishes a
course of study to which wise
teachers seriously object, but
from which they dare not devi
ate.
That this question has been
so generally agitated is an eu-
coiirageiug indication, and wo
trust that the many able and
earnest discussions which it is
provoking may result in per
manent educational reform.—
Bvltimorean.
“WHAT OUE PEOPLE ESAD.”
“What do our people raedl-”
The subject is one of vital
importance both to the homo
and society. Southern men
and women who resent indig
nantly the slanders against
their section when uttered in
their hearing, will oiten sub
scribe for Northern publica
tions whose pages are filled
with misrepresentations of
Southern life. They will
supply their families with
secular papers often filled
with flings at Christianity
and sneers at the professors of
religion, aud yet refuse to
place in the hands of their chil
dren the religious paper pub
lished by their own Church.
They would be outraged at the
druggist who blunders in a
prescription on which depends
the health or life of son or
daughter, but carelessly sup'
ply them with a literature
which is full of deadly poison.
LEARNING A TRADE-
Referring to the recent in
auguration of a class in the
science of plumbing, under the
auspices of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art of New York,
a correspondent of the Phila
delphia Record, says;
“If this will diminish the
number of young men whose
highest ambition seems to be
to stand behind the counter
and wear good clothes, it will
be a public benefaction.
There is a great deal of mon
ey in trades and very little in
counter'jumping, and yet only
one young man in a hundred
is willing to black his hands
with tools. It is not always
the boy’s fault, however. A
gentleman of my acquain
tance, who is a broker in Ex
change Place, said to me re
cently: “I ought to have
been a machinist; I would
have been rich by this time.
When I was a boy I wanted
to go into the Allaire Works,
but my father was afraid it
would soil my hands. He
wanted me to be a gentleman.
The resnlt is that I have nev
er liked my business and nev
er made more than a living
at it Had he let me go in as
an apprentice in the machiii'*
ist trade, I would have been
building engines and coining
money by this time, and my
whole heart would have been,
in it.” The fathers of to-day
in New York are the same.
They would almost as soon
bury their sons as make them
apprentices. The result is a
race of mediocre clerk’s and
book-keepers, who part their
hair in the middle, smoke cis
garettes of paper, and find
their intellectual level in th©
flashy newspapers of the day."’’
An aesthetic pig desired
not to grow into a hog. “The
most a pig can come to is a
good hog,” was the reply.
A dog after a rabbit, being
asked whether he caught it
answered; “I succeeded in
driving that rabbit clean
away.”
CANCERS,
STAMMERING.
—AND—
NASAL CATARRH,
CURED BY
DR. N. A. MOSES,
OF VIRGINIA.
OFFICE—Priviite room.5, oil the tirst
floor, at COOK’S HOTEL, near Yarbo
rough House, Raleigh, N. C.
Read the followiug new certifi'
cates:
Raleigli, N. C., March 7tli, 1SS3.
Dii. N. A. Moses ;
Dour Sir—I take great pleasure in
stating that you have successfully re
moved a cancer from uiy wife’s
cheek, near the eye, of fifteen years
duration, by the appliciuion of your
vegetable plaster, aud 1 clieerfully re
commend you to all those atllicted.
D.H. OLIVE, Cary, N. C.
Raleigh, N. C., March3rd, 1S83.
I hereby certify th.at Dr. N. A. Moses
has extracted two large tumors fr.nu
my head without performing any sur
gical operation, and I cheerfully re
commend his treatment. Tltotuinoia
are now in my possession.
S. W. COATS.
Newsoms, Va.,Fob. 2,1883.
Da. N. A. Moses :
The cancer on my neck cured by you
in October last is entirely well. Hop
ing you may be able to use this to ad-
vaiuage and with much success in re
lieving suttering humanity, I am yours
most respectfully, Wm. E . MYRICK,
Raleigh, N. C., March 10,1883.
Dk. N. a. Moses :
Dear Sir—Tiiis is to certify tliat you,
the great master of cancers, have re
moved from my wife’s temple a flesh
mole without surgical operation or pain
and r cheerfully recommend you to all
similarly affected.
W. D. UPCHURCH,
Morgan street,
Norfolk, Vu., April 10, 1881,
Db. N. a. Moses :
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 others to your cjire. I
am very truly your obliged servaiir,
Marshall Parks.
Norfolk, Va., May 21,1881.
This is to certify that Dr. N. A.
Moses has cured each of U& of Nasal
Catarrh, and we cheerfully recommend
him to those likewise afllLeted.
Wm. T. Bradley,
P. J. McLean,
A. Slagle.
Raleigh, N. C., March 2,1883,
I hereby certify that Dr. Moses has
removed a large flesh mole from my
forehead. His treatment of my case
has been eminently successful, and I
cordially recommend liim.
T. B. YANCY, Morgan street.
Murfreesboro,N.C., Jan. 15,1883
Dr. N. a. Moses:
The cancer under my left eye, 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. C.. Mar. 10,1883,
After hearing of Dr.Moses’ treatment
of Nasal Catarrh, I concluded to put
myself under his treatment, aud think
1 And relief in the short time I have
been under ids care, and cheerfully re
commend him to those afflicted.
Wm. II. HUGHES,
Fayetteville street,
Oxford, N. C., April 2,1883.
Hearing of Dr. Moses’ success in
teaching the stammerer to speak clear
ly, I determined ;to ;aciuafnt myself
with his method, which I And satisfac-
iory, being based upon physiological
principles, llis art is worthy of the
consideration of all stammerers.
L. THOMAS.
Raleigli, N. C., Feb. 12, 1883.
This Is to certify that in 1873 Dr. N.
A. Moses cured my sister aud myiell
of stammering. He is now in this city
and I advise all who are affected in a
like manner to call on him. His art
will certainly cure them, as it is very
simple and easy to learn, and I cheer
fully recommend him.
E.F. PESCUD,
At A. Williams & Co.’s Book Store.
Eemarkalile Cure of a Tumor.
Raleigh, N. C-, Mar. 20,1883.
I hereby certify that Dr. Moses has
extracted from my forehead a tumor of
many years standing, by the ajiplicu-
tion of a vegetable plaster, and that
tlie cavity is healing rapidly. 1 cheer
fully r(‘Commend Ills treatment to ail
similarly atleeted.
R.H. JONES,
Hillsboro street.