The Orphans’ Friend.
FBIDAY,
- JUNE 1, 1888.
Published every Friday at one
dollar per annum, in advance.,
PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF
ORPHAN ASYLUM.
J, E. MILLS,
Miss A. L. FLEMING,
leacher of First Form, Girls.
Miss MARY SSOLAB,
Teacher of First Form, Boys.
Miss MALY C. DODD,
leacher of Second Form, Girls.
Miss L. mCSOLSON,
Teacher of Second Form, Boys.
MISS E.M. MACK,
leacher of Third Form, Girls.
Miss LULA MARTIN,
leacher of Third Fyrm, Boys.
Mrs. RIVES,
hi Charge of Hospital.
Mrs. HUlCmi^ON,
Mrs. JONES,
In Charge of GhrVs Sewing
Rom.
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO THE OllinaN ASYLUM FOB THE
WEEK ENDING MAY 30TII.
\N CASH.
Hon. S. S. Cox’s lecture in
Kaleigh, 78 64
The Gruber family in Hertford, 9 00
SPECIAL MENTIOIT.
The quarterly examinations of
the different forms in the Asy
lum have closed, but the
teachers have not yet made their
reports. We hope to publish the
result in our next issue.
Strong tar-water is used on
the young plants at the Asylum
to prevent the ravages of insects,
and is said to answer a good pur
pose Our tobacco farmers would
do well to try it on their plant
beds.
Mr. Whit. Myers, of Hertford,
has for warded us a club of sub
scribers, for which he will please
accept our thanks. We com
mend his example to others.
We have been shown a sample
of linseys, as handsome as we
ever saw, manufactured by
Messrs. Kramer & Jacobsen, at
All Healing Springs, Gaston
county. We underetand that
the same firm is making an ex
cellent quality of carpeting, also.
Good for this North Carolina
enterprise.
Some of the papers are telling
about the new enterprise of
mining barytes in Wesl ern North
Carolina. We presume it is not
generally known that barytes is
a kind of soft rock, and that it
is used largely for the adultera
tion of sugar; in fact, no other
use for it is known to us.
Thanks to our friends who ren
dered assistance to Miss Smith,
our canvassing agent, while at
Harrellsville during the meeting
of the Chowan Association. She
sends a good list of subscribers,
and pleasant words for the kind
friends she met.
Our young friend, Walter P.
Stradley, has been a pupil of the
Homer School for three years,
and during that period has not
been absent from a recitation or
received a demerit. A good re
cord, truly.
Bee advertisement of the New
No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson Sewing
Machine in this issue. It is a
standard machine, and those
wishing to purchase would do
well to examine its merits.
Frpm Washington City we
have intelligence of the death
of Capt. Hosea Ballou, on the
28th inst., aged 90 years. He
was made a Mason in Bising Sun
Lodge, at Woonsociet, B. I., in
1818, and was Master of his
Lodge in 1821. He was the old
est Mason in continuous mem
bership in the United States.
Richard Saunders. Second Distinction
to €rawf>rd Cooper, Robert W. Win-
bome, Lemuel Wetmore, Alanson
Capeliarc, J. M. Garrett, Willie Gulick,
B. F. 'I’vson and Charlie Br3'an. Wiilie
Biggs, who took only a partial course,
is entitled to First Distinction in all
hia studies. IL C. Braswell and Clifton
Cohen are first in Mathematics. F. B.
Satterti:waite is first in Geography
and History.
After the reading of the foregoing
As a matter of interest to the
colored people who were depos
itors in the Freedman’s Bank
we will state that the last divi
dend is now being paid, and
those having pass books should
forward them on and get what
has been recovered from the
debris of mismanagement.
We are gratified to see the
commendatory notices of Ur. W.
R. Wilson, an eminent physician
of Vance county, with reference
to his able address before the
Medical Convention at Tarboro.
While the doctor is a gentleman
of modest mien and retiring dis
position, he is an eminent and
successful practitioner. We are
therefore the more pleased at the
new laurels he has gathered on
the field of oratory.
The convict, Robert Hender
son, is be hanged to day. We
commend the course of the au
thorities in deciding upon a pri
vate execution. Whenever it is
neceiisary, for the public good,
that a criicinalbe put to death,
lot it be done, but let it be done
privately, so that it may not min
ister to a depraved taste or sub
ject the public to the hardening
influences of such a revolting
scene.
Horner School Commencement.
The occasion of tiie week in Ox
ford has been the closing .-xercises
(►f the Horner School, Monday
night was set apart for the annual
literary address by Col. Walter
Clark, of Raleigh, Much to the re
gret of all parties the speaker was
detained at b ime by family affliction.
Tuesday was devoted to an exami
nation of the various classes in the
presence of invited spectators. The
editor regrets that he could not be
present. On Tuesday night a bril
liant audience assembled to (njoy
the exercises by the young gentle
men of the school, which were con
ducted according to the following
PKOGBAMME :
Speech on the affirmative ^ide of the
query, “Which has the greater influ
ence over man, woman or money':'” by
the winner of Debater’s medal in the
Franklin Society, H. H. Ransom, of
New Berne.
Oration—“Southern Heroes and their
Cause,” by the winner of Oiator’s
medal in the Franklin Society,” W. A.
Phillip.s, of Kinston.
Essay—“A Voyage to Another Plan
et,” by the winner of Essayist’s medal
in the Franklin Society, W, A. Reade,
of Raleigh.
Declamation—“Tlie Color Bearer,”
by Willie L, Pittman, of Scotland Neck.
Declamation—“The September Gale,”
by Willie Biggs, of Oxford.
Declamation—“The World Transi
tory,” by B. F. Tyson, of Greenville.
Declamation—“Spavtacus to the Ro
man Envoys,” by E, E. Thompson, of
WUmington.
Declamation—“Tlie Fireman’s Pray
er,” by W. P. Stradley, of Oxford.
Declamation—“Carl, the Martyr,”
by W. A. Reade, of Raleigh.
All did well. Borne evinced de-
Next Monday afternoon at 3i
o'clock there will be a public in
stallation of the ofiicers of Tus-
earora Iiodge for the current
term. The ceremony of installa
tion will be conducted iu thf»
Hail of the Lodge.
the veteran Princrpal, Mr. J. H.
Horner, announced that the next
session would begin on the last
Monday in Joly ; that the next an
nual commencement would witness
a re-union of th; old pupils of the
institution, and that the hall would
be enlarged to accommodate the
large crowds that attend the public
exercises. The exercises were in
terspersed with music by t!ie Siderio
Italian band from Raleigh, and it
was altogether an occasion of great
enjoyment.
Two leading features in the
work of this school arethorouglme'ss
in instruction and firmness in dis
cipline. It is doing good work, and
we feel that we cau with safety
commeud it to public patronage.
Mav it have enlarged success.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Work on the railroad from Rich
mond to Ridgeway is to begin at
once.
Rev. J. B. Boon, of Salisbury,
has been elected to the Presidency
ot Hudson College, located at Hen
dersonville, N. C.
0.1. Edmund Richardson, who
has been elected President of the
World’s Industrial and Cotton Ceu
teunial Exposition is a native of
Caswell county, North Carolina.
Alexander, autocrat of all the
Riissias, was invested with the
insignia ot royalty at Moscow, on
the 27th ^inst., with great pomp,
amid the rejoicings of the popu
lace. No dynamite, no disaster.
There was quite a fire in Raleigh
on Sunday night last. Several
wooden buildings on Salisbury
street were bn ued. Loss $8,700,
Insurance $3,725. The largest fire
that has occurred at our capital
city for years.
was freely and fully discussed, and
the Convention determined to di
vide by a line formed ot the Eas
tern boundaries of Northampton,
Edgecombe, Wilson, Johnson, Har
nett, Moore and Richmond coun
ties. The following were elected
delegates to the General Conven
tion : Rev. Hr. Watson, Rev. Dr.
Huske, Rev. Dr. Marshall, Rev.
W. 0, Hughes. Maj. Jno. Hughes,
Dr. DeResset, John C. Henderson,
Esq., and Col. J. W. Atkinson,
THOU&HTS.
A single grateful thought to
ward heaven is the most effective
prayer.
There are some people whose
whole wisdom consists in hiding
their want of it.
True friends visit us in prosper
ity only when invited, but in ad -
versity they come without invita
tion.
When you give alms there are
two that know all about it—the
Master of the treasury, aud the
giver.
A distinguished living au
thoress said of her first pro
ductions, ‘my first storv
brougiitfive dollars, the sec
ond ten dollars, with a re
quest for more.’ When she
saw the publisher’s announce'
meet of her story she was de
lighted, and said to herself,
'this is fame*’
The experience of that gif -
ted woman, Harriet Martineau
is set forth in the following
words, “there is certainly
something entirely peculiar
in the sensation of seeing
one’s self in print for the first
time. The lines burn them
selves in upon, the brain in a
way of which black ink is in
capable in any other-mode.’’
Longfellow speaks of his
first venture in the following
language: “I don’t think any
other literary success in my
life has made me quite so hap
py since.’'—Rev. Robert H.
Williams in New York Ohs.
A devout Arab woman was ask
ed in her last illness bow she en
dured such suffering, and replied,
“They who look upon God’s face
do not feel his band.”
No man can force tbe harp of
bis own individuality into the peo
pie’s heart; but every man may
play upon the chords of the peo
ple’s heart who draws his inspira
tion from the people’s instincts.
Nothing is surer than that the
soul will win what it wants, If it
desires God, it will gain him. The
principle of constancy in heavenly
as in earthly affairs is greater than
the greatest mood.
Talk of “higher civilization’’ aud
the elevating effects of educating
the head, when tw elve thousand
people, Roscoe Coukliugaud Chas.
A. Dana among them, pay $2
each to see two disreputable bruis
ers mangle each other. Whew!—
Wil. Star.
At the recent commencement at
Rutherford College the honorary'
degree of D. D. was conterred up
on Rev. W. M. Robey, ot Golds
boro, and Rev. J. T. Bagwell, of
Charlotte. President Abernethy
announces that the College had
never been more prosperous, 278
students having matriculated du
ring the year.
cided|oratorical talent. The med- ^
als were bestowed as follows : Es- •
sayist’s medal, W. A, Reade; Ora
tor’s medal, V. A, Phillips ; Deba
ter’s medal, H. H. Ransom. These
were delivered in fitting and grace
ful terms by the following gentle
men, respectively: Prof. F. P. Hob-
good, Rev. J. S. Hardaway and Rev
I. W. Primrose.. Mr, J. C. Hor
ner then read the following report:
On the roll of punctuality the follow
ing young gentlemen have not been,
absent from school during the present
session:—Alaiiscn Capehart, Clifton.
Cohen, Walter G. Cooper, Willie Gii-•
lick, Hemy A. Joyner, Willie Pittman.,
Willie Reade, W. W. Simms, Walteir
Stradley, Eugene Tliompson, B. F.
Tyson and-Robert W. Winberiie.
In this connection it might be men -
tioned that for the session just ended
the average number of days lost by
boys who board at the school has been
nearly two, wliile the average numbe r
lost by day scholars has been- nearly
six each, or three times the average los t
by boarders.
Willie .Biggs, Archie Braswell, Alan-
sou Capehart, Henry Hunt, Walter
Stradley and B. F. Tj’son received ni»
demerits.
In scholarship the First Distinctio n
is awarded to—Henry Ransom, Walter
Stradley,Willie Reade, Eugene Thomi >.
son, Archie Braswell, W. Z. Mitcheli
Wake Forest Commencement
will take place June 12th—14th.
Rev. A. C. Dixon will deliver the
Alumni address; Rev. Dr. Mc
Donald, of Georgia, the address
before the Literai-y Societies; and
Rev. Dr. Lorimer, of Chicago, the
Baccalaureate sermon. The ses
sion has been prosperou,.. Profes
sor Taylor hopes to secure the one
hundred thousand dollars endow
ment by the meeting of the Con
vention in November.
At the trial of a keeper of a pri
vate lunatic asylum the judge was
much struck with the high intel
ligence with which a lunatic gave
evidence.
“You seem well,” said the judge.
“Yes, some days better than
others. To-day I am perfectly
well.”
“What were you before you came
to an asylum?”
“A banker’s coacliman, my lord.”
“And what was the nameof your
employer?”
“The devil, my lord.”
“Ah,” said the judge, conscious
that he had “spotted the weak
point, “X advise you never to re
turn to him; they say he is bad
pay.”
The warm sunshine and the g^en-
tle zephyr may melt the glacier
which has bid defiance to the howl
ing tempest; so the voice of kind
ness will touch the heart which no
severity could subdue.
VAST RICHES WITHOUT
HAPPINESS. •
Tender words and loving deeds
which we scatter for the hearts
wuich are nearest to us are im
mortal seed, that will spring up
in everlasting beauty, not only in
our own lives, but iu the lives of
those born after us.
He that will not permit his
wealth to do any good to others
while he is alive, prevents it from
doing any good to himself when
he 18 dead; and by an egotism
that is suicidal and has a double
edge, cuts himself off from the
truest pleasure, and the highest
happiness hearafter.
The recent death by his
own hand of Hou. Amasa
Stone, at his residence in
Cleveland, Ohio, is cited to
prove that riches do not in
sure happiness. Mr. Stone is
said to have been rendered
temporarily insane by illness
and recent financial losses.
He had still remaining, how**
ever, all of S6,000,000,enough
to have saved a man past mid
dle life from want the remain
der of his days. Despite such
vast wealth he deliberately
concealed a pistol about his
person, retired to his bath
room, locked himself in, and
there terminated his existence.
Besides building several local
institutions lor llie poor in
Cleveland, he founded AdeL
bert Cellege in memory of his
only son, who was drowned
at Yale College in 1865. It is
stated that ho did not brood
to any great extent over his
financial losses, but they
wounded his pride. Mr. Stone
considered liimself one of the
ablest financiers in the coim"
try, and !us recent losses un'
nerved him.—Baltimorean.
mST LITERARY VENTURE.
At the Episcopal Convention
held last week in Charlotte, the
question of a division of the dio-*
case was the absorbing topic. It
Some entered upon the
work which g; ve them their
fame under great discourage
ment. Carlyle speaks of an
article he had forwarded to a
magazine editor, which van
ished without sign, and an
other from which he received
no answer, and no notice of
any kind, “a form of catas*
trophe more complete than he
had auticipa'ted.” Then he
says, “it must be owned my
first entrances into glorious
‘literature’ were abundantly
stinted and pitiful; but a man
does enter if, even with a
small gift, he persists; and
perhaps it is no disadvantage
if the door be several times
slammed in his face, as a pie-*
limiuary.”
Victor Hugo fared a little
better in his early efforts, for
his manuscript was] returned,
but with the remark that“poe'
try was a drug in tlie market.”
Not in the least discouraged
by the announcement of an
overstocked market, he re
plied to the publisher, “I am
sorry for your sake. I was
about to propose to you a con*
tract by which 1 would have
assured to you the right to all
the future productions of my
pen. It was a fortune that I
was about to offer you; but
you refuse, and no more need
be said.”
aUARRELING.
precious store, for coiiveiiient
use upop every occasion
wlien the matter of religion
is to undergo any con8'dera>
tion.
Gren. Znehary^Taylor’a re^
mama have rested in an un-
maiked grave at Louisville,
Kentucky, for thirty-three
years. On Wednesday last a
fine monument to his memory
was to be unveiled, with ap
propriate ceremonies and an
address by Major Jacob of
Louisville.
Queen Victoria is in a very'
precarious state of liealth.
Her illness is of a nervous
type and is beyond the reach
of ordinary remedies, and even
her physicians and personal
attendants, are somewhat
alarmed.
In Grand Rapida, Mich., one
night not long ago, an owl flew
along Monroe Street, and perch
ed on a lamp-post at the corner
of Monroe a*jd Ottawa Streets.
The officer on duty at that cor
ner saw the bird, and was seized
with a desire to catch the crea
ture. He did not like to use his
revolver, for ho might kill the
owl, rnd his wish wf's to capture
it al've. So be picked up a big
stone, stood off a few paces, and
cast the stone at the owl. The
owl did rot so much as blink,
but the poUcentan did, for the
stone struck a largo plate-glass
window in a store-front, and
smashed the glass into bits. Now
the bad boys of that town all
ask the officer to show them
“how to hit an owl.^’
The Youth’s Companion.
When selecting your papers and mag
azines for the family, don’t fail to put
the Youth’s Companion at the head
of the list, We know of no periodical
in the land that combines so much in
struction TOth healthful amusement,
especially for the young, and which at
the same time contains something to
interest the whole household, from the
baby, who crows over the beautiful
pictures, to the head of the family, who
reads the excellent articles on history,
finance, and the science of government,
all written in such plain and simple
language that none can fail to under*
stand. Perry Mason & Uo., of Boston,
Mass,, are the publishers.
If anything in the world
will make a man feel badly,
except pinching his fingers in
the crack of a door, it is a
quarrel. No man fails to
think less of himself after
than he did before, it degrades
him in the eyes of others, and
what is worse, tends to blunt
his ^sensibilities, and iner.nise
his irritability. The truth is,
that the more peaceably and
quietly we get on the better
tor our neighbors. In nine
cases out of ten the better
course is, if the man cheats
you, to quit dealing with liim;
if he slanders you take caie
to live down bis slanders. Let
such persons alone, for there
is nothing better than this
way of dealing with those who
injure us.
CONSISTENCY.
‘ What is that to thee-, follow
thou me.'—Some men look at
religion as they look at the
sun—when it is undergoing an
eclipse. And even then they
make their examination
through a well-smutted glass.
We stumble upon men daily
who keep by them a sort of
museum of mediums through
which they invariably gaze
when they assume to make
up an opinion, or pass ajudg
ment, respecting any doctrine
or truth pertaining to the gos
pel. If there is a very crook*.
ed or^a highly inconsistent
professor within theiangeof
either his acquaintance, or his
bear-say, then, rely upon it,
that inconsistent professor is
sure to be laid by, in very
LUTHER SHELDON.
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