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■itt m •'V*! The Orphans’ Friend. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1883. For tne Orphans’ Friend, Mr Editor :—I have been delighted and instructed by two editorials that recently appeared in the Orphans’ Friend. One of these editO' rials was headed “A Grood In-* vestment,” and the other “Care For Orphans.” I agree with you that mon ey invested by the State in caring for “helpless orphan^* age,” is dictated by good State, policy independent of the higher cl-dms of benevo lence and philanthropy. One bright orphan saved from pan perism and crime, transformed into a useful and thrifty citi zen, tlius becoming a valuable factor in building up himself, his family and those within the sphere of his Influence, is of a value to the State trom an economic and patriotic stand-point that would bafHo the ablest statesman to C'^m- pute. The influence of a bright intellect, guided by moral worth is not merely felt during the term of the natural life of its possessor, but is felt, and produces good fruit to succeedii ig generations. The Oxford Orphan Asylum has trained and educated many bright children of Lotli sexes that reflect credit on themselves and on tho.'-e who we^e their teachers and cus todians while they were at the Asylum. Some of tliese, who are now useful men and women, contributing their quota to the material prosper ity of the State, and helping to build up its waste places, would, butHor the maternal linnd of the Asylum have long si ce been plunged into the vortex of crime and degrada tion, the direful consequemses of which, in ir,s present and prospective influence for bad to society and to the State,no Imman mind could conceive. Tile cost of detecting crimo and jvunishing the crininal i.s one of the heaviest drafts on the Exchequer of the State. The money thus expended by North Carolina would moro than provide for the educa tional and moral training of all the orphans in its borders. The fact does not admit ol controversy, that rs a flnan- rnal question, the proper care and training of the helpless orphans of a country would lessen the expenditures of the the government tenfold more than the investment necessary to bring about such a result, when the fact is borne in mind tiiat crime is an expensive luxury and that the prope. care and training oi children i.s tlio true remedy for check ing the propensity in luniuin r-aUire to violate the laws of God and man. In conclusion, may God guide and prosper the cause t/iou ropiesent, and may your V luable paper exercise its beneficial influence through out (he land, until tlio mission ol the Friend is consummated W. A. J. Mr. I.(.\ McLaughlin, WoloIcsvilU*, N. wiyx : “1 iisi'ii Rrowii's Iron Bil lers for vertigo, aiul I now tuel like a I Uew luau.” • NEVER OPENED THE BOOK. The folly and fraud of rich young men, whom their pa rents or guardians s^^^pose are studying hard in Paris, are shown up rather forcibly in this grim little story of expos ure and rebuke: One November an old mer chant, on sending his nephew to study law at Paris, presen • ted him with an old copy of the Code, with the remark: “I will come to see you in March, and if you have been diligent I will make you a handsome present.’^ At the appointed time the old gentleman was on hand. “Well, my boy,’’ said he, “have you worked hard?” “0 yes,’’ answered the young man, confidently. “In that case you have al ready got your reward.” “1 do n’t know what you mean, uncle.” ‘Hand me the Code, my boy*’’ He opens the volume, and between the first two leaves finds a fivehundred- franc note, which he had in- teuded for his nephew, but which he forthwith put into his own pocket—Youths Com panion. TRUE GENTLEMEN. I “beg your pardon!” and with a smile and a touch of his hat Marry Edmon handed to an old man, against whom ho had accidentally stumbled, the cane which he had knock ed from his band. “I hope I did not hurt you? We were playing too roughly.” “Not a bit,” said the old man, “Boys will be boys, and it’s best ■ they should be. You did’t harm med’ “I’m glad to hear it;” and lifting his hat again Harry turned to join his playmates witli whom he had been frol icking at the time of the acci dent. “What did you raise your bat to that old fellow for?” asked his companion, Charlie Gray. “He’s only old Giles, the huckster.’’ “That makes no difference,” said Harry. “The question is not whether he is a gentle^ man, biU. whether I am one; and no true gentleman will be loss })olite to a man because lie wears a shabby coat or hawks vegetable# through the streets instead of sitting in a counting-liouse.” “Which was right?” The season of commence ments is to be followed quickly by the obening of the normal schools. The Uni versity Normal will be still be more attractive than last year, wliile the Wilson Nor ma! also bids fair to excell its former record. We hope that equal progress uniy bo noted at the otlier normal scliools. Tliey serve a most excelent purpose and are healthful signs of growth in the art of teaciung. When our teachers come to regard their occupation as a life vo'* cation, as a profession of the liigliest order, entitled to take rank with the otlmr learned professions, they will demand and receive that public cou- rideration which they so just ly merit and the cause of ed ucation will be greatly ad vanced. But the art of teach ing is never wholly learned. 'PliG oldest and the best, professor can still learn some-: thing in the line of his business. It is because these normals furnish practical in formation that they are so valuable. Every teacher should avail himself of the ad- viiniHges presented by them.- Netvs and Ohs. In a school at Waterbury, Conn., one day last month, a dull boy struggled with the sentence “iJea; fugit,'' which he at last rendered “The King flees.'” “But in what other tense can the verb fugii be found?” asked the teacher. There was a long pause and, owing to a whispered prompting, a final answer of “The perfect tense.’' “And how would yon trans late it then?’’ “Dunno.’’ “Why, put a ‘has’ in it.” Again the boy drawled out; “The king has flees.’’ “What time does the Chat tanooga train leave?” asked a lady, of a railroad man at the Union depot, in Atlanta Ga. “Two forty-five,” was the reply. “Well, I declare!’’ she said, “Atlanta is the strangest place I ever saw about obtaining correct information!’’ “Why so?” asked the rail road man. “Because justj now I asked a gentleman what hour the same train would leave, and he said a quarter to three; now you tell me two forty-five!” Those within hearing smil ed, but the lady walked away indignantly. “The boy clam the tiee and made the coon git,” wrote a t. acher in the wilds of Mon tana. Then, stepping away from the blackboard, he said: “Children, where’s the bad grammar in that sentence?” None dared guess. “You are all wooden heads,” said the teacher; “see how simply I can make it read ac cordin’ to grammar!” And rubbing out the “i’’ in “git,” he placed an “e” there. Two youthful highway robbers Mere recently brought before Justice Massery in Brooklyn, neither of them over twelve years of age. One had a pis tol and the other a large knife. In both of their pockets were several dime novels containing glowing accounts of the deeds of youthful highwaymen. The boys had robbed a lad of their own age of a silver watch and some other articles of trifling value • Workmen who wtre recently repairing the residence of Parker Morse, in Chester. N. H. •’ found a sealed letter in the wall, m scribed to “Mrs. Sarah Taylor, Lichfield, N. H.,” and marked “in haste.” The letter was fold ed in the ancient form, without envelope, and closed with red sealing wax, unbroken. It was dated Rumford. A; ay ye 18,1748, and was signed by John Taylor A passion for flowers is, 1 think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. Often, dur;^ iug a weary illness, I have looked upon new books with perfect apathy, when if a friend has sent me a few flowers, my heart has leapt up to their dreamy hues and odors, with a sudden sense of renovated childhood,which seems to me one of the mysteries of our being.—Mrs. Hemans. Wliat Goethe says of the charac ters of Shakespeare should be truthfully said of all pure-minded souls—they are “like a clock with a crystal dial-plate which lets men see all the machinery within.” will Rrowii’B Iron Bitters ciire? It will care Ifeart IJisease, raralysls, Dropsy, itidiiey Disease,.Consumption, Dyspepsia, Rhematism and uH similar diseases. Its wonderful curative pow er is simply beoause it purifies and en riches the blood, thus beginning at the foundation and by building up the sys tem, drives out all disease. For the pe culiar troubles to whieli ladies are sub ject, it is Invaluable. It is the only pre paration of iron that does not color the teeth and cause headache. * A new chart, is now in the market for the use of Masonic Lodges. It is in a convenient form, each degree being mounted upon a separate sheet, thus enabling the W. Master to exhibit the emblems of the degrees being conferred, the sheets of the other two degrees being rolled up and laid away until needed. Each degree is in map shape, size 32 by 40 inches, mounted on rollers. The emblems were arranged by an experienced Past Master, having in view a plan by which they follow each other in proper order, conforming admirably to the several lectures. The em blems are all fresh, modern, articles and elegantly color ed. A dispach from Wa8liin_ ton published recently an nounced that Captain Hosea Ballon, who died there on Tuesday, aged ninety years, was the oldest Free Mason in the United States, having been made one in Rising Sun Lodge at Wonsocket, R. I., in 1813, and held continuous membership ever since* This is not the fact, the Captain’s record as a Mason being beaten by the Rev. John Brown, D. D., ofNewberg, N. Y. The Doctor was made a Mason in Hiram Lodge No. 131, Newberg, N. Y., on June 19, 1817, and will there fore be, on the 16th of the present mouth, a Mason with sixty-six years’ continuous membership to his credit He still acts as Chaplain of his Lodge and besides being the oldest Mason is probably the oldest minister living. Tile following is an extract from the Annual Address of Thomas Mathews, Grand Master of Texas. It is worthy the perusal of every Mason of our land : I wish yet to urge upon you one other thought and I shall be done. Guard more closely than ever the outer door of the Temple. Scrutinize with more care the material you work into the walls of the building. In endeavoring to impress this idea I cannot do better than to adopt the thought, if not in truth the exact lan guage used not many years since, by one of my predeces- ors in commenting upon tlio same subject, which, appro priate then, is even much more so now. Let me, tay bretheren, urge you to greater zeal in the noble cause of Freemasonry. Do not, I beg you, slumber over its great moral virtues, its lofty aims, its pure teach ings, and its soul ennobling principles. Strive to arouse the whole Fraternity for the full and complete accomplish ment of its high and holy mission. Freemasonry. like our holy religion, whose hand tpaid it is, should stand as a bulwark immovable, against which the filthy, polluting tidal wave of vice, coiTuptiou and immor ality now sweeping with the speed of the wind all over the laud may harmlessly break and exhaust itself. Following the tracks of more than a hundred railroads, 'tis ramify ing aud permeating into ©vs ery nook and corner of our great State, and among the good, brings also upon its crest much of the very “off- scouring of creation.” To guard against such, therefore, let us redouble our vigilance and increase our usefulness. Let us draw more tightly about our own wayward and forgetful brethren the lines o( duty, and examine witli the most rigid scrutiny the moral character of all those who seek to pass our portals, to be instructed in our arcana, and to enjoy our privilegs, “With the cautery of purity and truth, let us burn out a d eradicate forever the un - healthy, fungous growth from our own bodies, and with morality, brotherly love aud relief fortify against the ap proach of every life-suckiiig vampire, that Masonry be not consumed within her own temple.” Let us drive out jorever from within our sacred walls, the vicious, the pro fane, the backbiter, the drunk ard and the gambler—the moral lepers who are sapping the foundation of our heaven- inspired institution. Having done this, be sure that we ac cept none as stones for our building save only such as can stand the most scathing 8crutiny“-who having blem ish nor flaw can pass the or deal of the “Master Over seer’s Square,’’ and then stand forth before the world,models of purity, virtue, truth and excellence. Do these things, my bretliren, and then—but mark it, not till then—will Freemasonry, as was intend ed by its founders, be the wonder and the admiration of the age—a monument of moral grandeur and sublimity, the beauty and symmetry of which will, as did the first temple, dazzle the eyes of the beholder. So wotb it be! ! Committees on Orphan Asylum Lily Valley Lodge, No. 262—Joba R. Hill, William H. Riddick, Eras- tas Ba'/ley. Eureka Lodge, No. 283--G. A. J. Secbler, S. G. Patterson, Charles W. Alexander. Fulton Lodge, No. 99—Parker, vV. W, Taylor, J. Bamuel McCub- blns. Mount F)nergy Lodge, No. 140— Henry Haley, Joba Knight, H. F. Parrett. Hiram Lodge, No. 40—George M. Smedes, Theodore Joseph, John Nichols. Evergreen Lodge, No. 303—M, Morrison, U. P. Harman, L. MoN. McDonald. Fellowship Lodge, No. 84.—Jo seph Parker, C. S. Powell, John 1'. Cobb. Wayne Lodge, No. 112.—E. A. Wright, Augustus Edward, E, W, Cox. Cumberland Lodge, 364—Rev. A. R. .littman. GRAND LECTURER—Dr. G. D. Rice, Raleigh, N. 0. PUBLIC SALE OF TOWN LOTS IN HENDERSON, N. C. About three acres of land, divided into small lots, on Chestnut, Montgom ery, Olive ami Young Streets will be sold ut auction on JUNE 20. 1883. Terms—Oae-third cash, remainder iu six and twelve mouths, vith interest at 8 per cent. Capt. D. D. Overton will show the property. WILL. E. WYCHE. LUTHER SHELDON, DKALBRIN SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STAIR RAILS, NEWELS, BUILDERS’ hardware, P I! Its, '>lls Ui.isi. Putty AND BIJILDING ^lATEUIAL OF EVCKY DESCUIPriON. Noe. 16 W. Side Markot Sqr. ami 49 Roanoke fc-* t-* g DO o o to I- f- |2| O CD (0 c O 2 C3 ^ X 15 o. 1 0) O 3 1 O 1 f 5 i. X 0 § § 1 ts) ? 0 o r" S A . o O " o GO o REASONABLE AND RELIABLE The Valley Mutual Life Association of Virginia. NORFOLK, Va. febTyl C. FORTrril.' U SURGEON DENTIST, OXFORD, N. C. I iiave permanently located in the town of Oxford, N. C., and respectful ly tender my services to tiie citizens of the place aud surrounding country up on the most reasonable and satisfactory terms. Office over Grandy & Bro.’s itore. For particulars address GEORGE C. JORDAN, State'.Ageilt, No, 6, Mahler Building, Raleigh, N.O ON THE ASSESSMENT AND EESERYB FUND PLAN. One Thousand Dollars Will cost upon ah average as follows: At 21 years of age, $6^25, At 30 years of age, $7.20. At 40 years of age, $9.5D.; At 50 years of age, $12.50. At 60 years of age, $20,00. i^Only three tiiousand dollars written on one risk,. MOSELEY’S Is the plaoe for ladies and gentlemen to take refreshments. Oysters and Ice Cream Call and see what is in store, as we cater to first-class trade, and furnish families, pic-nics and parties at short notice with all the delicacies of the season; So^a water.and ice cream will be specialties this season. S^’Everything on the European Plan. A few rooms to let: M. J. MOSELEY, Proprietor, Fayetteville St., Raleigh,8N. C. J.F. EDWARDS. | W.F. ROGERS. EDWARDS&R0GERS GENERAL HartaVercliaits OXFORD, NjG. We keep on hand well selected stock of HARDWARE of every des cription, embracing CROCKERY AND GLASS-WARE, Vr^-- COOKING AND HEATING ,, STOXTES, POC KET AND TABLE CUTLERY, WOODEN AND WfLLOW-WARB, Guns and Pistols, Cartridges, Amnmnition AND SPORTING GOODS. We invite attention to our stock of m\m MACHP^'ES, OILS, NEEDLES AND ATTACHMENTS. We also carry a heavy stock of ' Paints Oils, BRUSHES AND VARNISHES. Lamps ahdLampSoods
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