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The Orphans’ Friend. - MAY 25, 1883. FBIDAT, Published every Friday at one dollar per annum, in advance. PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF ORPHAN ASYLUM. J, H. MILLS, Miss A. L. FLFMING^, Teacher of First Form, Girls. Miss MJRT SHOLAM, Teacher of First Form, Boys. Miss MALY C. BOLD, Teacher of Second Form, Girls. Miss L. NICHOLSON, Teacher of Second Form, Boys. MISS E.M. MACK, Teacher of Third Form, Girls. Miss LULA MARTIN, Teacher of Third Form, Boys. Mrs. RIVFS, In Charge of Hospital. Mrs. HUICIIINSON Mrs. JONES, In Charge of GirVs Sewing Room. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THR OaiTtlN ASTIXTM FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAT 23D. IN CASH. Mt. Mourne riOdge,No.344, 1 00 B. P. Montague, for sundry Baptist olinrches, 106 72 Mrs. H. W. Reinhardt, 5 00 A bereaved friend, 7 00 A happy friend, 1 00 TN KINI). Baptist Sunday School, Youngs- ville—50 yds. calico, 26 yds. un bleached domestic. 5 yds. pique, 16 aprons, 7 prs. stockings, 6 prs. socks, f yds. bleached domestie, 3 J yds. crochet trimming, 4 neck ties, 1 dozen buttons, 2 spools thread, 29 cakes soap. Mrs. Susan 0. Hunt—3 prs. socks, THE 24TH or JUNE. For reasons of no interest to the public, I have decided not to celeste the Twenty-Fourth, of June this year at the Orphan. Asylum. The Quarterly Examinations began Thnrsday, May 24th, and will terminate next Monday. After that day, several boys and girls will leave. Definite propo sitions will be submitted to them, and they will decide and con tract for theruselvps. J. H. MILLS, Sup’t. SPECIAL MENTION. Our Asylum authorities be lieve in “making h:jy while the sunshines.*’ We saw a squad of 19 lively boys, in charge of a la dy teacher, in a meadow raking hay behind the mower, one day this week. The m jst picturesque haying we have ever witnessed. Little Eddie, infant son of Mr, and Mrs. E. T. Rawlins, died in this town last Saturday night. May the bereaved parents profit by his gain, remembering that “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.*’ He was buried in the Oxford cemetery on the follow ing day, Rev. J. S. Hardaway officiating. We have been requested by Rev. J. W. Primrose, pastor of the Oxford Presbyterian church, to announce that he will hereaf ter occupy his pulpit on the Ist Sunday night in each month, iu the place of the 4th Sunday morningy which will be given to- Geneva church. June 9th, there will be an Open Meeting of the Olio Society, and exercises consisting of Music, Es says and .Recitations. The An nual Address before the Society will be delivered on the same dvcning by Rev. W. E. Hatcher p. lb, of Richmond, Va. On Thursday, June 7th, at 10:30 a, til., the graduating exercises will take place, and at 8:30 p. m.,the Annual Concert. The Bacca laureate Sermon will be preached on Sunday night, June 3d, by Rev. J. S. Hardaway, in the Bap tist church. We call special attention of the thoughtful to the article in our educational column headed, A Wonderful Calculation.’’ In a nutshel the writer presents the money |value of education, and its addition to the productive capacity of the laborer. Two colored prisoners broke jail at Roxboro a few days ago. One was Adolphus Harris, con victed of burning A. G. Hester's stables, and under a sentence of eighteen years imprisonment in t^ openitentiary. Theother,John Farrow, under sentence of four years. We acknowledge the courtesy of an invitation from the Mana gers and Marshals, to the Com mencement Party at Trinity Col lege on Thursday evening, June 14th. Trinity is famous for large crowds and entertaining exer cises at its Commencements. We publish this week an in teresting paper from Fred. H. Wines, President of the National Oonferense of Charities and Cor rections, concerning the tenth annual meeting of that body, which is to be held at Louisville, Ky., September 24th, 1883. Su perintendent Mills is one of the Corresponding Secretaries, and is also a member of the standing committee on “Preventive Work Among Children.” A letter from Miss Smith, our canvasser, gives a glowing ac count of her experiences in Hyde. She has never met more refined or hospitable people, than she found in that land of beauty and plenty. This accords with the observation of the editor, who has had opportunity to know what manner of men they are. Just as we expected she met with a cordial reception, and received quite an addition to our list of subscribers. The N. C. Medical Convention met in Tarboro last week. The Examining Board gave license to 31 young physician, and order ed that their names be published in the newspapers, together with the laws requiring such exami nations. The following officers were elected; President, Dr. A. B Pierce; 1st Vice President, Dr. F. W. Pottei’; 2d Vice Pres ident,Dr.G.W. Graham; 3d Vice President jDr.R.Dillard ;4th Vice President,DrG. W.Long ;Secreta- ry,Dr. L. Julian Picot; Treasurer, Dr,AG,Carr;Orator Dr.Julian M. Baker. The next session is to be held in Raleigh the 3rd Tuesday in May, 1884. The Commencement exercises at Davidson Colledge are on the 20th of June. Col. Bennett H Young, of Ky., is the Annual Orator. If the exercises are en tertaining in proportion to tho beauty of the invitation cards, it will be a rare occasion. Prof. F. P. Hobgood, Presi dent of the Oxford Female Sem- inery, has favored us with an in vitation, to be present at the Commencement exercises of his school, on the 6th and 7th of June. Oil Wednesday evening, The Commencement exercises of the Hornor School, Oxford, N. C , will take place May 28th and 29th. Col. W alter Clark, of Ral eigh, will deliver the annual ad dress before the Franklin Liter ary Society, on Monday, May 28th, at 8 : 30 o’clock, P. M. The following gentlemen have been awarded medals, H. H. Ransom, Debater’s Medal; W. A. Phil lips, Orator’s Medal; W. A. Reade,- Essayist’s Medal. Mar shals, W. W. Sims, Chief; E. C. Cohen, Rob’t W. Winbourn, jr., F. B. Satterthwaite, jr. and W. Me. K. Gulick. We have been requested by Mr. Horner to state that the exercises are pub lic, and the citizens of the com munity are requested to come promptly at 8 : 30, P. M., each evening. MISCELLANEOUS. The Presbyterian family is divi ded in this country into at leii*t nine br-\nches. The total statistics are as follows: Churches, 13,331; ministers, 9,919; members, 1,146,- 65'J. It doesn’t follow that you must do a mean thing to a man who has done a mean thing to you. The old proverb runs : “Because the cur has bitten me, shall I bite the cur?” It is a noticeable fact that all contributions to the “conscience fund” are made anonymously. Can it be that the man with a con« science is always ashamed of it? One politician says of another in North Carolina: “I know him well. He wouldn’t give the nut" meg of his noonday toddy toCliris- tinnize the Burmese Empire.” Gail Hamilton says a woman may have been originally one step iu advance of man in evil doing, but he very soon caught up with her, never again to labor under a similar disadvantage. The women of the • poorer class make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise pa tience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did kno v. A liquor-seller presented his bill to the executor of a deceased customer’s e- tate, asking, “Do \ ou wish my bill sworn to?” “No,” said the executor, “the death of the deceased is sufficient evidence that he h.‘d the liquor.” The family of Merode was dis tinguished in the history of the Netherlands. It had one member who made incursions into the ene my’s country from which healvvays returned laden with spoils. From this time they who wander in quest ot plunder have been termed Aferoefe-ers, “marauders.” A very good story is told of Lord Rolle. He commanded a troop of yeomanry cavalry, and when they were up for training it was reported to him that some of the meu had been flighting. He called the offenders before him, and sternly told them that he didn’t want any fighting men in his regiment. No aid wanted : A woman re cently applied for State aid, and the blank was produced and the usual questions asked. She an swered them freely, until it came to “Your agel” “Have I 'got to tell that?’’ she asked. “The blank requires it, ma’am,” was the reply. “Well, then,” she said, “I don’t want any State aid,” and she flounced out of the office in high dudgeon.”—Boston Transorvpt. A juryman at Deer Lodge, Mon tana, being examined for the panel to try an Indian for the murder of another redskin, was asked if he had any prejudice against Indians which would influence his verdict, and naively answered: “Well, no, not when one Indian kills another!” He was excused from serving on the jury. A professor was examining a student iu physics once upon a time, and the young man, being nervous, failed utterly on the first question put to him—a very simple one. “Bring this gentlemau a bundle of hay for his breakfast,” remark ed the disgusted professor to one of the attendants. “Bring two—the professor and I will breakfast together,” added the student, who thus suddenly re gained and asserted his self-pos session.—Paris Paper. THOU&HTS. If you would create something, you must be something. There is no time so miserable but that a man may be true.— The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. Those who rei)eat evil reports frequently invent them. So act that your principle of ac tion would bear to be made a law f. r the whole world.—Kcinf. Love, like a creeper, withers and dies, if it has noihing to embrace. From the B.ngali, The consciousness of duty per formed gives us music at midnight. George Herbert. “You cannot move the boat from within; but you may obtain a purchase from without. You can not create life iu the soul by force within itself; but you may move it from a point outside itself. God’s love is the point from which to move the soul.” The tendency of unusual attain ments is to adopt simple forms of expression, to present thoughts rathftr than high-sounding expres sions. Every man’s work, pursued steadily tends to become an end in itself; and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.—Silas Marner. Nothing is rich but the inox. haustible wealth of Nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.^FTnerson. The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. The akillful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.—Juvenal. There is no harm in making a mistake, but groat harm in making none. Shon me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who h.!8 done nothing.— Liebig. Homes are like harps, of which one is finely carved, and bright Aith gilding, but ill-tuned, and jarring the air with its discords, while another is old, and plain, and worn, but from its chords float strains that are a feast of music.— Advanee. Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downwardfrom the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies. For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. —Longfellow. Lord, all thy works are lessons. Each contains Some emblem of man’s all-con taining soul: Shall he make fruitless all thy glo rious pains, Delving withiu thy grace an eyeless mole? Make me the least of thy Dodona grove; Cause me some message of thy truth to bring; Speak b t a word through me, nor let thy love . Among my boughs disdain to • perch and sing. —J. jR. Lowell. EDUCATIONAL. A •WONDERFUL CALCULATION. Can we determine how much knowledge adds to thejvalue of hu man labor? In 1870, the Commissioner of Education at Washington sent out a series of carefully drawn, com prehensive and searching ques tions, to the great centres of labor in all parts of the United States. These centres were so selected as to represent every kind of labor; from the rudest and simplest up to the’most skilled. The.object of the questions was to determine the relative productiveness of lit erate and illiterate labor. When the answers came back they were tabulated, reduced and generalized, so as to get at the average result over the whole country. This in- vestigatiou—one of the mosfih- terestmg ever made—brought clearly to light the following facts: Ist. That an average free com mon school education, such as is provided in all the States where the free common schoolhas become a permanent institution, adds fifty ^er cent, to the prod-uctive power of the laborer considered as a mere ifiachine of production. 2d. That the average academic education adds one hundred per cent. 3d. That the average collegiate or univer ity education adds from two to three hundred pep cent, to his annual productive capacity, to say nothing of the vast increase 10 his manliness—to his God like-, ness. By the census of 1880 we had in the United States four million two hundred and four thousand three hundred and sixty-two (4,204,362) illiterate adults—white and color ed. Now putting their labor at the minimum annual value ot one hundred dollars each—which is far below the average for t!^ wages of manufacturing operatives inclu ding fifteen per cent, of women and children, as shown by the cen sus of 1880, average ^346 each per year—and the annual loss to these persons—from the lack of at least acommon schooleducatiou—would be fifty dollars each. This for tlie whole number of tour millions two hundred and tour thousand three hundred and sixty two, is two hundred and ten millions of dol lars per year; a sum twice as large as the entire annual expem diture for public education in the whole country. This sum—two hundred and ten million of dollars —is a clear annual loss to these illiterates and to the cotnmuoii y by reason of their illiteracy. Lesbon reviews—Dr. Vincent says: “We review to know, to make sure of what we know; to know it better; and to make others know.” The review secures fre quent repetition; repetition makes remembrance. No teacher expe riences so much difficulty in ena bling his scholars to compreliend a lesson as he does iu impressing it upon their memories after it is explained. The review gives a clearer understanding ot what is already'known. It will deepen the impression, will aid the memory to retain and recall what has already been learned, and will often in re peating the old present new views of truth. It will also give a deep er insight into the truth, a more comprehensive vien of it. We mus*-. also review for the sake of irregular scholars, and because tbe scholars are not always equally susceptible to impressidns. 0A,ED PLAYINOAT HOME. ' Playing" cards for ‘pakime’ or as an innocent amusement’ soon becomes a passion, and when once fixed a man will forget home, fafnily, business, and suifer the loss of his all for the exciting scenes of tlie. card-table. That accomplished writer, the late Dr. Holland,of Spring- field, Mass., said: 1 have all my days had a card-playing community opeu to m)/ obser vation, and I am yet uiutble to believe that which ,is the universal resort of the starv ed in soul and intellect, which has never iu any way linked to itself tender, eleyaiing, or beautiful associations-tlie ten dency of which is to unduly absorb the attention from more weighty matters, can re commend itself to the favor of Christ’s disciples. The pres-- ence of culture and genius may embellish,|but can nev-* er dignify it.'. ‘I have this moment,’ said Dr. Holland, ‘ringing in niy ears the dying injunction of my father’s early friend,‘Keep your son from cards. Over them 1 have murdered time and lost heaven.’ Fathers and mothers, keep your sons from cards in the home circle.’ Wiiat must a good angel think of a mother at the pray ef-meeting, asking prayers for the conversion of her son whom she allowed to remain at home playing cards for ‘pasfimeT Tl.e late Bishop Bascom, in denouncing all forms of in iquity, speaks of the gambler who, rather than not to grati-» fy his passion for play, would stake the throne of eternity upon the cast of a die—who, unmooved by the tears and entreaties of her that boro him, the wife of his bosom, and the children of his ()wn bowels,- continues ti) indulge his hated passion, until the i)ifatuated reprobate would table his ■game on the tomb of his fath er, or shuffle for infamy unon the threshold of hell’ Now and then we have a valnaide suggestion from the East, in the line of refreshing fi-anknesk • Orientals do not hesitate to' 'lip, if there seems any gain iu lying, but when they tell the truth they tell it squa'rely. It is said that one . of the Japanese papers recently appeared, with a space left entirely blank in its columns. Tlio editor’s expla nation ot this was, that at the last minute he found that what be had written for his paper was ail a mistake; so he left it out ttiinking that it was better to say nothing than to say what ought not to be said, What a gain there would be to the world, if this idea prevailed iu all personal conversation. Better a blank space anywhere, than falser hood or error.—S. S Times. One sultry Sunday a min ister was thundering away at, bis drowsy cougiegation, the majority of which would go to sleep in spite of all his ef forts. At last he shouted, ‘Wake up here! There is a man preaching to you who has only half a shirt on his back!’ It woke them tremen dously. The next day a d jl- egation of ladies visited the parsonage and presented the preacher with a package con - taining some very nice shirts, saying ‘that it was a shame that he should be reduced to half a shirt to his back.’ He replied, after accepting tbe shirts with thanks, “that he was not liteiuliy reduced to half a shirt, although he wore only a half on his back; he wore the other half in front of hifli-’—Rome Sentinel. Relaxation—Often recom mended—much .sought tor-.- little realized. Phe correct appreciation of the etymology of the word would save many a headache, ifen seek for re^ laxation in Europe,at Saratov ga, Newport—anywhere at a distance. Meanwhile they knit their brows, compress their Ups, and ’set their teeth together to meet what tuey call a strain. Half the real strain lies in those taut and rigid muscles of the face. Re lax them. Rub care’s wrink les off. Slacken the tension, even for a minute, andrefcura to the work vvlth a smile. It is relaidiion realized. The relief is simple and surprising. Old ide.ar fade. New the" Dries rule*. It seems but yes'* terday when every fashiona" ble girl must learn-orattemp'' to learn-^to play on the pi ano. 'Fhere was no other ac complishment. The less taste the more practice, and the pi ano was pounded in a vain effort to create musical ability To day, afrhough music has advanced in popularity tbe old idea of forced music »s dead, and otlier forms of ac complishments—although that very wordjias grown antiqua ted—have become more fash ionablethan piano-pounding.