^1
Orphans’ Friend.
Rrica $1 a year.)
OXFORD, N. C., APRIL 27, 1883.
(VOL. VIII NO. 48
THE TWO. CLASSES.
T!ierft.wt two glasses, filled to the
brim,
. On a 4ch man’s table, rim to rim;
One wasinddy and red as.lfiood.
And a3 clear aathe crystal flood.
Said tj^ glass of wine to the paler
4)r0^er,
“Let ^t^l the tales of th.e past to
each other.
:1 osn tell of the banquet, and revel
ftnH mirth,
And the proudest and grandest
souls on, earth
FeU my touch, as though
struck by blight,
Where 1 was a king, for I ruled in
might.
.heads of ^kings I have
tom the crown
Fromf^he ^f fame 1 have
hurled men down;
I have blaat^ .^a^ an honored
name;
I have taken virtue and given
shame;
1 have tempted the youth with a
sip, a taste,
That has made his future a barren
waste.
For greater than a king am I,
Or than any army beneath the sky ;
Othave.roaA© the .arm of , a driver
And sent the train from the iron
rail;
I have made good ships go down at
And the shrieks of the lost were
sweet to me.
For they said, ‘Behold, how great
you be;
Fame, strength, wealth, genius, i)e-
fqre ypo fall.
For your might and power is over
alir
Ho 1 ho I pale brother,'’ laughed the
wine,
. fCan. you boast of deeds as great as
Said .itike (Water ;glass: ‘‘I .cannot
i boast
Of. a .klB& ^pthfOBiad, or a murdered
host,
Bat I can tell.of a heart once sad,
By my crystal drops made light and
glad;
Of tbiists I've quenched, of brows
•I’ve laired.
Of hands I kave cooled, and souls I
have saved.
I^ye.leaped thro' t,he
, .«d (^WBthe moantain,
Flowed in . the river,, and played in
the fountain,
Slept in the snnshine, and droppe^
from the sky,
And everywhere gladdened the land-
scape and eye;
I have eased the hot forehead of fe*-
ver and pain;
I have made the parched meadow
grow fertile with grain
I can tell 'of the powerful wheel of
the mill,
That ground out flour and turned at
my will;
I cam tell of manhood, debased by
THOnOUGHUESS.
yoQ»
That I lifted up and crowned anew^
I cheer, I help, I strengthen and
aid;
I gladden the heart of man and
foitid;
I set the wine-chained captive free,;
And all are better for knowing toe.”
Chas^jm^: the tales .they h»ld
other—
rhe glass of wine and its paJer
{.bfother—
ks they, .sat together,. filled, to this
brim,
5nthe rich man’s table, rim to rin .
-^Seleeted.
The wrord jOf P^mpden, who
was lulled while waving it to
cbeerhiBtneu.’for a charge.agaiust
Prin.ce.Bupert, has recently been
Boldiat.a^otio*^ for £60. It is a
i^flf.iof steel, , wi^h (^-oss hilt
and, scroll guard, and is thirty-
ei|^t inches long from the hand
Our system of home-train
ing and school-life are very
imperfect. We care so much
more for the polished outside
than we do for the purity and
depth of the inner life. Our
boys and girls are seldom
thorough in anything; they
are neglected or entrusted to
careless teachers in the early
years, when the foundation of
education, ought to be laid—•
the strong and sure foun
dations of correct spelling
fluent reading, graceful pen"
manship, grammar, arithme
tic and in .short, , ^1 those
practical branches styled
“Common English,” and yet
too often proving to be the
most uncommon kind of En
glish* At an .age, .however
when boys and girls are sup
posed to know these things,
tiiej are promoted tp higher
classes, and the rest of the
school-life goes on with the
perpetual draw-backs of ill
spelling, indistinct elocution,
bad grammar and awkward
composition.
This want of thorpughqf^s
in mental and moral framing
accounts, in many instences,
for the wrecked lives over
which parents and friends
grieve, and with which satir
ists “ppmt a,moral:^n4i4^o^^
a t^ej’^’.asfthey give ah omin
ous head-shake and point an
uncharitable.fif\ger at some sad
failure in the ^ life the man
or woman whom they remem
ber as the bright,' promising
boy or girl, once the pride and
joy of the - home^circle,'"ex-
claiimng,in, triumphant -tones.
“That’S what comes of a fine
education!^’ .Say, .rather,
“That’s what comes from a
lack of the ri^ht kind of teach
ing and training.’* As,a.class,
parents and guardians are
wonderfully careless.,. and,de
not properly investigate these
things. . Many children,. ac*
customed to pleasant and re
fined homes, catch an outside
tone, of intelligence and. re
finement from those with
whom they associate, .and suc
cessfully conceal their real ig-
.norance from the 8Uperfi.cial
gaze. Numbers of mothers
will practice ,any. amount pf
self denial to dress a daughter
fashionably, unmindful tbajt
this daughter cannot write ^
plain English letter correctly^
It is true that many teachers
are careless and inefficient’,
yet even when the teacher is
well educE-ted and conscien'*
tious^. few children appreciate
the advantage; of a school
room; tiiey not only fail to
prepare their lessons, but are
sadly wanting in the respect
and courtesy due to teachers.
Parents are often to blame for
this. They are careless in their
selections of schools, thinking
their duty well accomplished,
when they give their children
an .opportunity to learn ; and
to their shame, sometimes
teaching sons and daughters
to regard the most iutelligeht
.and refined teachers as inere
hirelings, whom they are at
liberty to tease and annoy in
every possible way.
This state of things is very
wrong, and the. necessity for
a change is great. The future
success, or nonsucoess of chil
dren lies in a great measure
in the hands of parents and
' teachers. Let not parents
imagine that any kind of
teacher will do for children,
because they are young.
None but a good teacher can
teach even the primary
branches as they ought to be
timght. Let paren s be pur-
suaded to take an interest in
this subject; “with eyes that
see, and listen with ears that
hear.’’ Fathers, be not wholly
engrossed with farms and
ledgers, mothers, be not so
careful and troubled about the
superficial needs of the house
hold—cling not so tenaciously
to the fashions of a world
which passes away as some
winged breeze which sweeps
over hill and valley. The
fragrant freshness of the early
morning will give place to the
feverish glare and heat of the
noon-tide; the noon will be
followed by the shadowy
evening*’—that evening when
father, mother and children,
shall, each in turn, stand upon
the borders of the dark ocean
which separates humanity
from immortality—not wait
ing for the silvery gleam of
the fair sails from heavenly
lands; but looking back to the
wrecksstrewn shore of time,
where “low on earth their
treasure lies.”
Educate the children carefully
Let them rather be thoroughly
trained in the practical bran
ches of “Common English,”
than superficially accomplish
ed in all the grace! ul accom
plishments and polished su
perficialities of. the most dis;
tinguished colleges of the land.
Outside shows and humbug-
gery—-pitiful, pitiful sham!
Grod help those, and there are
many, who all their lives
walk about fhe world wrap
ped .in their close mantles,
which are never removed,
lest the meagerness of th$
forms which theiy cover be
revealed!
In teaching the children to
hate and , avoid these shams
by giving them that which is
solid and satisfying, you will
be enriching them with treas;
ures of which ^no after time
can rob them; and when you
sleep in grass-covered graves,
your name will be loved and
and ho lored.by these valiant
soldiers, as they fight life’s
b; ttles long and well.
To the.yoi^th of the land,
w^ would say: “Do not negf
lect these ppporiunities fol*
moral and rnental. training. In
the coming years you will re,-
mem her them as the . golden
seaso of your lives—lives
that are too precious to be
^ .stedin senseless drawing-
rooui gO''.sip, dreaming over
se isational novels and idle
promenading.” Let tfie youths
of our land live so well and
gallantly as to bring back in
renewed beauty the olden
days of chivalry, over which
the great Burke once chant
ed so sublime a dirge.
And may the maidens be as
true as truth itself, and, as
pure and sweet as the
white-robed snow-drops and
purple^eyed violets ‘that are
kissed into existence by the
softest breaths of .spring, of
the starry jessamines and
graceful eglantines, which
only lift their heads to
send out showers of fragrance
on the wings of journeying
winds.Mrs. W.M.
in at Som and Airoad.
A BOSTON SCENE.
“Who is this well dressed man
with sealskin overcoat, hat and
gloves? He carries a gold head
ed cane and is followed by a bull
dog in a scarlet blanket? Do
you know him?,’,’
“Oh yes; that is S the pug
ilist. Fine man. Hard hitter..
Very popular. Always surroun
ded by a crowd of admiring
friends as you see him now. He
is very well ofi:*; was given a
benefit tbe other night that net
ted him |500.’'
“Indeed he is very fortunate.”
“Oh, yes, a very fortunate fel
low; ranks high in his profession,
you see.”
‘fWho is that white-headed,
weary looking old man close be
hind the pugilist andhisfriends!
Poor man, he seeins thinly clad
for this wintry weather. Do
you know him?
“Oh, yes; that Isold Faithful,
the country clergyman. Very
learned man. Been a preacher
of the gospel all his life. But
poor as a rat. He had a benefit,
too, the other nght.'^
“Qh, indeed! Did it net him
much?”
“I don’t think it did. You
see it was a sort of surprise party
His parishioners called upon him
in a body, ate up everything
there was in the house, and left
him presents to the amount of
sixty cents.”
.Private liberality is doing
noble work in the world.
Thrones . are ^^embling, ,and
science and charities are re
ceiving at the han^s of un-
crp.wnedSsubjects more prince
ly legacies than ; royal
patronage ever bestowed.
Enormous fortunes have been
making these latter years.
They soar far away from the
wealth of kings and, Indian
nabobs. The treasure of ru
pees and jewels that Clive
carried home to England
sounds gorgeous in the extrav
agance of narration, but if
compared with standard val
ues in that age and this, it is
really • humbled beside the
vast wealth squandered by
the deposed Khedivelof Egypt.
We complain of money kings
and fear, their power in this
free.country. But God is sL
lently moving the hearts of
these money gatherers into
broad channels leading to his
glory-
dashed out upon the plains of
science and lassoed that more
powerful and fascinating
force—electricity—and they
are now engaged in taming
it and teaching it the tricks
that are in demand in tbe
great arena of human indus
tries. They gain thereby,
fcrce, swiftness and delicacy,
and as their understanding o!
the action of the new servant
broadens and deepens man
is to 1 e made tbe gainer in
ways little dreamed of now.
The great value of the new
:?o_’ce in all its possibilities of
development will be its uni
versal application to com’
mon things* Let it be kn'>wn
to you, happy and fortunate
lad of the not remote future,
that it will churn the cream,
rock the cradle and turn the
grindstone, among its more
prosaic duties, and it will
utter no complaint of aches in
iis back, or weariness of the
limbs. The Pall Hall Gazette
recently said: “Electricity is
now entering the field against
the horses as a means of trac
tion. Two eminent electricians
claim to be able to bottle up
12 horse po;Ver in a strong
battery, weighing 300 weight
and they ' promise in a few
months, a perfectly practical
electric tricycle, capable of
runing 15 or 20 miles without
recharging the accumulators,
arid able to ascend all such
hills as are now possible for
the foot tricycle, and even
steeper gradients, if auxiliary
foot gearing be used to help
the electromotor, when the
incline is great.” This is no
measure of what is coming.
It is merely a hint of what
science expects to accomplish.
But the youth of to-day
will not be an old man be
fore. he can see the public
traveling ovei suburban
roads, up hill and down hill
drawn by an unseen but not
an unknown force. Tire
horse has qualities that will
make him a favorite, no mat
ter to what more capable and
tireless servant his burdens
may be transferred, but he
will not long remain the nee--
essity that he is to day. Elec
tricity is awakening the world
and giving an impulse to the
development of a grand civ
ilization that has never before
been available.—-Ba:.
TRAVELLING BY ELECTRICITY
When steam was first
brought into general use as a
motor, a great deal of atten-
tiori was paid by inven
tors to the problem of making
its use universal instead of
confining it to certain condi
tions that had to be prepared
expressly tor it at great labor
and expense. They felt it
was desirable to make it
draft force upon common
highways, as wefi as upon
railways but the weight of
the machines that would have
to be used and the difficulty
of making engines that would
traverse the natural obstruc
tions of ordinary roads were
found to be so great that no
satisfactory results were ever’
obtained. But steam is looked
upon in its turn as too cum
bersome and too slow and,
leaving that to do its work in
the channels where it is now
operating, the inventors have
great glass blocks became his
property—a decidedly queer and
3ostly investment. The next year
a noted firm in York, Eng., de
voted fifteen hundred and sixty
hours, or nearly five months in
the aggregate, 'to the exquisite
work of grinding and polishing
these enormous lenses, until
clear of blemish, limpid as run
ning water, and glowing with
virgin purity and prismatic ra
diance, they were at length fixed
in this pla';e in a mammoth, ci
gar-shaped tiling known as the
great Newhall telescope at Lates-
Uead. This was then the largest
and most powerful telescope in.
tbe world. The lens measured
twenty five inches in diameter.
It was a great glory for the as
tronomers, who wanted it trans
ported to Malta, in the clear
Mediterranean atmosphere. But
befogged England it rested.
It is old Mr. Newhall’s pride,*
he loves its fame, and takes in
nocent pleasure in reverential
stargazing at a cost to his purse
that brings to mind what Horace
Greely complained of his straw
berry patch.
The use of the word struck
for surprised or impressed is
not elegant though well
enough* A writer in Cham-
hers Journal^ describing the
ponderous steam hammer,
says he “was which its
operations,” which is very
probable if he was struck at
all, for its weighs twenty tons.
Again, he was ^^strueJe with
the workmanship.” And a
third time he says “a happy
idea struck'’ him; and finally
he writes “he was particular**
iy struck with the excellence
of a large wrought-iron ma
rine engine.
” As these four
strokes befell the writer with"
in four pages, it is to be fear
ed he suffered much.
ffiais & Fmaii,
OXFORD, X. O.
PURE
DRUGS.
All STANDARD Preparations.
PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY
COldPOUNDEB.
Twenty years ago at the Lon
don Exposition one might have
noticed two huge, circular blocks
of rough glass, almost as large as
the end of a hogshead, and per
haps two inches thick. It
took thousands of pounds of
sterling gold to purchase these
great disks, although any such
extraordinary value put upon
them would have been scouted
by ordinary sight seers. An el
derly gentleman one day saun
tering along the corridors spied
these neglected trophies of one
of the rarest arts of the old
world. The oldgeutleman hail
ed from the same town whore
De Poe wrote “Robinson Cru
soe,” which has come to be mod-
ernly famous for grindstones,
glass bottles, and tubular bridges
and ship anchors. The more this
visitor pondered over the great
glass blocks the more mutely
eloquent they seemed to appeal
to his munificence; like Benja
min Franklin when he first heard
John Wesley preach. Thus the
all new 1 NO OLD STOCK
ON HAND! WARRANTED
THE BEST!
also;
Clover and Orchard
Grass Seeds, and
Seed Irish Potatoes.
A Fresh Lot of Apples and Oranges
Candies and Confectioneries’
Generally, which are
VERT FINE!
A large supply of
School Books,
Stationery, &c.,
on hand. Any article not in
stock will be ordered.
j^Oall and see us, we KNOW we
can please you.
W1L11AK& FIIMAII.
Mitolieirs old Staad.