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1 i The Orphans’ Friend. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1883. FOLLY VS. WISDOM. Nobod}" giving any atten^ tion to old Diogenes while discoursing of virtue and phi" losophy, he fell to singing a funny song, an I multitudes crowded to hear him. “Ye godshe exclaimed, “ how much more is folly admired Ilian wisdom !” Many certuries have elaps ed since Diogenes tried his little ruse to get an audience, and yet mankind evinces that same preference for entertain ment rather than instruction. The prayer-meeting is thinly attended, the comic theatre is crowded with auditors; the liumoi'ists are more read than the histoiiaus and philoso phers ; rlioforical grace in the pulpit Is more popular than logical truth; a beautiful sound is more desired than solid sense ; the dime novid is read by multitudes, while the Word of God lies unopen ed in many a household. . “How much more is folly admired than wisdom!” INCONSISTENT. A New York exchange in its issue ol last week contains the following: “Puffing . -One of our favorite bumoroiiH exchanges came to us last week with three of its best column . given ui> to an elaborately framed ]»'ii'tiait and “iniff” of a German ‘gin mill” proprietor of Chicago, who is described as “a successful buBiness gentleman who has succecdcHl in amas.sing a snug competence,” (at what cost it is not stated). If this putt is given wiih an eye to the ‘“'ree list” it is HI bad taste, and if it is a “paid ad” it would seem to indicate weak ness. You may photograph, eulogize, pnlT him at will, But the scent of the whiskey will cling - to him still.” We might very readily en dorse the foregoing. It has about it the ring of devotion to morality, sobriety a d truth. But would you be lieve it! Tlie leading article of this same periodical, which immediately precedes tlie ex tract printed above, is a laud atory sketch of the notorious Robert G. J ngersoll, ornament ed with a cut of tliat delecta ble individual. It is well known that Ingersoll has ac quired bad fame by blaspiie- mous attacks upon the Chris • tian religit'ii, and even for this the paper in question makes a feeble attempt to apologize. It seems to us that a regard for consistency, if no higher motive, would have led to a little more cir cumspection in selecting, writ ing and arranging matter for publication. “THE CODE.” Anolher duel in Virginia. Or rather, another proposed duel broken up by the police lialf an hour before the time appointed for tlie encounter. Tiie parties to lids liasco are leading editors in Riclimoiid. Is it not about time for men of real honor and goninuo pluck to re'raiu from thisngly practice, the relic ol an age of ignorance and barbarism, and settle their dilferencos in a more manly and sensible way*? Can wo expect a law abid ing spirit ti peimeate the whole mass of society, while prominent men slip from one hiding place to another, in the attempt to elude arrest, in order to get a shot at each other according to the “code,”^ but in violation of the law? The result is usually an ar rest by the police, as in the present instance, or a shot or two without effect, followed by an amicable adjustment, or one or both parties wound ed or killed. Is there any good in that? 11 there is one single particle of real good to the parties themselves or to the public in any such method of settling difficulties, we con- fe.88 to our inability to discov er it. Itis gratifying to know that a resort to force or vio lence in adjusting differences is becoming rarer and less popular as virtue and intelli' gftiicfi increase. May Heaven speed the day when men shall have too great regard for honor to violate law in order to secure a fancied redress of n personal grievance. A very large proportion of the criminal class is composed of comparatively young per sons. One hundred and fifty convicts at the penitentiary are under twenty years of age. It is not unusual for persons betw'Bon fifteen and twenty to be convicted of capital felo" nies a d put to death. Many doubtless go unpunished on account of their ymithfulness, or the respectability and in fluence of their connections. It is presumable that gen erally these young violators of law are not habitual and hardened criminals. In all probability they have by sliess of surroundings, by overpowering temptation, committed offences, from w'hich their better nature would, upon reflection, revolt. Is it good policy to place such persons in such intimate contact with old and harden ed criminals that it will in ef fect be to them a school of Clime? Does not sound poli cy, as well as huuuynty, dic tate the establishment of an institution where youthful criminals may bo brought un der reformatory influences? Is society more benefitted by the severe punishment usually inflicted than it would bo by giving the better nature of sucli offenders an opportunity to assert itself and assisting it to do so? By the present method the youthful criminal is compelled to spend years associated with the worst of men, and comes out at the end of his term with his self respect gone, his hopes blas ted and his coTiscience har dened. It is a notorious fact that those who have been in the state prison for a term are ready for otiier crimes and ill many instances are speedi ly returned by the criminal courts. By the method we propose, viz; a reformatory lor youthful offenders, tliere is some hope th.tt ^ootl citi zens may bo made of them. Am event of great interest transpired yesterday at Lex ington, Va,, the unveiling witli appropriate ceremonies of the I'lCiiubeiit figure of Robert E. Lee- Tlie figure is of marble, executed by Ed ward V. Valentine, of Rich mond, and is said to be a splendid work of art. Multi tudes, doubtless, were assem bled yesterday to witness the ceretnonies of this notable oc casion, and to participate therein. In this connection, we print below an old extract, which will be read with inter SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. est: “What name should be more potent with Southerners than the name of Robert Edmund Lee! It is the symbol of fidelity, de votion, fortitude. Others have won more victories in the field; or have gained more suc cesses in tlie councils of contend ing nations. But j.o man of whom history speaks has risen to the height of Lee, in both war and peace, iii triumph and disas ter. Wellington passed from the Peninsula aud Waterloo to the Cabinet, as Prime Minister. Eor Napoleon, after the laurels of Loili, -Viarengo and Austerlitz camo the willows of St. Heleftia. What student of history will hesitate to s.iy that Lee at Lex- ingtuu, in moral grandeur aud wholesome infiuence, towers above a Wellington, or a Napo leon? To neither of these, nor to any other than Lee, can the patriot turn to learn botn the sweet use of adversity and the blessedness of power wisely used. For the youth of the whule country the life of Lee, in its statuesque dignity and claBsicjpu- ritymay well serve as a model. There was no stain on his sword. In all things he was beyond re- priyuch. Conscious that, after Appomattox, Southern indepeu- denee was no longer to be dream ed of, or even to be desired, his prayer, his injunction to the Southern people, to the last hour of his life, was: ‘RememLei! we are one country now. Bis- miss from your minds all sec tional feeling, and bri,jg U[i your children to be above all-Ameri cans!’ ” THE MAQIC OF TBCHNOLOQY, The story of the enormous growth of industries in the north cantons of Switzerland is not new to you There was nothing promising in the soil, the climate, the situation of that rocky and sterile region. But an industrial school was established at Zurich, a vast school of raining, engineering chemistry, and the applied arts; and tlie immediate result of it was an industrial growth and prosperity almost unex ampled in Europe. It was all created by that school and its superb training, -That school made skilled workmen and inventive brains, and the men who came out of it trans formed that country into one of the busiest and most prof itable in the world. I can tell you another open secret. Little Connecticut, which De Tocqueville called “that leetle spot on the map,” a State where everything is manufac tured, from a pin to a steam engine, a State of wondrous inventions and ingenuity, owes much, very much, and will owe more, year by year, to the training of her youth in the Scientific School at New Haven. Charles Dudley Warner closes a sprightly speech to this toast at the Army of the Potomac dinner as follows: “A sweetheart is good; a wife is better; best of all is sweet • heart and wife in one person.” To induce the sweetheart to become a wife in the cherish ed hope that she, though con senting to become wife, would remain sweetheart still; what wooing there was, what sed ulous attentions, what grace ful and gracious courtesies, what loyal and exclusive de^ votions. How is it now that she has become wife? Has the husband remained as loy al as the lover, so that “slie can worship him without a flutter of reservation, and love him witliout a blush?” Have those delicate attentions and minor courtesies so dear to a gentle woman’s heart contin uod? Does the wife have dai ly reasons to believe that she is sweetheart still to her hus band, as to ht^r lover before marriage, brightest and best of the daughters ol Ev(4 Were more wives still wooed after they have been wedded, there would be happier homes and fewer divorces. A SNAP-DRAGON. The people in Ohio and Pensylvania are now regret ting the clearing away of tlieir great forests, aud are wishing that their hills were once more covered with trees. ^They find that the trees pi evented the snow fiom melting too rapid ly. Now, that tliey have been cut away, at the first thaw the snow melts suddenly over a great tract of country, and the rivers cannot vent the vast ex panse of water that comes in torrents. From this cause great floods are continually prevailing in these l^tes, and causing a vast amount ol damage. His object in life is to find fault with everything. He is determined that nothing shall be right. He is so like a mule that you can’t even caress liini without danger. It is easier and healthier to live in the malarial tropics, and suf fer the perils of an occasional earthquake than to live in the house of a man who is contin ually complaining, in spite of whatever you may do for his comfort. His influence over everyone who knows him is demoralizing. He can spoil the best dispositions in the world by a single week’sinter- course. I have knwwn men whose domestic life was such as to give the impression that their chief reasons for marry-- ing was to secure the constant presence of some one who could be found fault with; and the poor woman who is legal ly tied to such a man must look on the galley slave with envy There is more lionor to Christ and Christianity in breaking honestly tha i there is in making money. One of the bestnnd noblest things wo heard while in Virginia, was, that a Baptist brother of high standing who had been worth about a million dollars, had failed by political changes and depreciations of property; but had paid every cent he owed. Not a widow or or phan in the land had lost any thing by him. A sermon of this sort is worth a million dol-. lars to the cause of Christ.— Biblical Recorder. No man can rise to the gran deur of a complete Christian till he ceases to make self the centre of his thoughts aud efforts. Christian perfection is sacrificing sell for the good of others. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, be ing in the form of God, thought it not robbeiy to be equal with God: But made Himself of no reputation . . . and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Ooss.” The glory of (’hrist is soeii in the fact that He preferred to suffer rather than see others suffer. Aud to sacrifice 8elf-ini;ere8t for the good of others is to have the mind of Christ.—Raleiyh Chris- iian Advocate. Lost patience is never found again, ion may be patient next time; Imttlio spoken word cannot be called back—not with prayers and tears. • Five points of fellowship. —Masons owe certain duties of brotherly love and fellow ship to each other, the prac tice of which, as the distin guishing principles of our or der, are inculcated by the Master in the most impressive manner. First. Indolence should not cause our footsteps to halt, or wri'th turn them aside, but with eager alacrity and swift ness offoo’jWe should press forward in the exercise of charity and kindness to a dis tressed fellow creature. Secondly. In our devos tioas to Almighty God, we should remember a brother’s welfare as our own, for the prayers of a fervent and sin cere heart will find no less favour in the sight (.f heaven, because the petition for self is mingled with aspirations of benevolence for a friend. Thirdly. When a brother intrusts to our keeping the se cret thoughts of his bosom, prudence and fidelity should place a sacred seal upon our lips, lest, in an unguarded mo ment, we betray the solemn trust confided to our honour. Fourthly. When adversity has visited our brother, and his calamities call for uur aid, we should cheerfully and lib erally stretch forlh the hand of kindness, to save him from sinking, and to relieve his no-» cessities. Fifthly. While with can dour and kindness we should admonish a brother of his faults, we should never revile his charaeter behind his back, but rather, when attacked by others, support and defend it. Free Born—The constitu tions of our order require that every candidate 'hall be free born. And this is necessary, for, as admission into the fra ternity involves a solemn con tract, no one can bind himself to its performance who is not the master of his own actions; nor can the man of servile condition or slavish mind be expected to perform his ma sonic duties with that “free dom, fervency, and zeal,” which the laws of our institu tion require. Neither, accord ing to the autlu rity of Dr. Oliver, “can any one, although he have been initiated, con tinue to act as a Mason, or practise the rites of the order, if he be temporally deprived of his liberty or freedom of of will.’' On this subject, the Grand Lodge ol England, on the occasion of certain Masons having been made in the King’s Bench jirison, passed a special resolution in Novem ber, 1783, declaring “That it is inconsijteut with the prin ciples of masonry for any Freemason’s lodge to be held, for the purpose of making, passing, or raising Masons, in any prison or place of con finement.” The same usage existed in tlie spurious Freemasonry of the ancient mysteries, where slaves could not be initiated, the requisites for initiation be ing that a mail must be a free born denizen of the country, as well as of irreproachable morals. definition of our order, bor rowed from the lectures ot our English brethren,and prefixed by Dr. Oliver, as a motto to one of his most interesting works, I shall take the liberty of adding an exposition of its principles from the pen of De Witt Olinton, as pure a patriot as ever served his county, and as^ bright a Masoa as" ever honoured the fraternity. “Although,” says he, “the origin of our fraternity is cov ered in darkness, and its histo ry is, to a great extent, ob scure, yet we can confidently say, that it is the most ancient society in the world—and we are equally certain that its principles are based on pure morality—that its ethics are the ethics of Christianity—its doctrines, the doctrines of pa triotism and brotherly love—- and its sentiments, the senti ments of exalted benevolence. Upon these points, there can be no doubt. All that is good, and kind, and charitable, it encourages; all that is vicious, and cruel, and oppressive, it reprol.'ates.’’ Lily Valley Lodge, No. 252—John R. Hill, William H. Hiddiok, Bras- tus Barley. Eureka Lodge, No. 283—G. A. J. Seohler, S. G. Patterson, Charles w' Alexander. Fulton Lodge, No. 99—A Parker, vV. W, Taylor, J. Samuel McCub- bins. Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140— Henry Haley, Job a Knight, H. F. Parrett. Hiram Lodge, No, 40—Geoige M. Smedes, Theodore Joseph, John Nicliole. Evergreen Lodge, No. 303—M, Morrison, H. P. Harman, L. MoN. McDonald. Fellowship Lodge, No. 84.—Jo seph Parker, C. S. Powell, John T. Cobb. Wayne Lodge, ‘No. 112—E. A. Wright, Augustus Edward, E, vV, Cox. Cumberland Lodge, 364 Rev, A. R. Pittman, * GRAND LEOTHRBR_Dr. 0 D. Rice, Raleigh, N. 0. Freemasonry.—“A beauti ful system of morality, veiled in allegory, aud illustrated by symbols.” To tliis sublime REASONABLE AND RELIABLE The Valley Mutual Life Association of Virginia. For particulars address GEORGE C. JORDAN. State Agent, No, 6, Mahler Building, Raleigh, N.O ON THE ASSESSMENT ■AND BESEBVB FUND Pf,AN. One Thousand Dollars Will cost upon an averse as follows: At 21 years of age, $6.25, At 30 years of ^e, *7.20. At 40 years of age, $9.50. At 50 years of age, $12.50, At 60 years of age, $20,00. tyOnly three thousand dollars written on one risk. ■; Commineeson Orphan Asyloia
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