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The Orphans’ Friend. FRIDAY, -AUGUST 17, 1883. DROUGHT. At the present time a very large extent otour countiy is suffering from protractrd drought. In almost any average crop-year, one who mingles with the farmers will find tJnat rain is a subject of general interest and conver sation. “Have you had rain?’’ is heard on 'all hands during the summer months. This leads to the thought that one of the most important factors of successful cropping is a suf» ficiency of moisture in the soil. One of the practical problems of agriculture is the question of overcoming or counteracting the effects of drought. There is no ques tion, that the skilled agricul turist can study, that is of greater importancej there is no point in which we are so ignorant and helpless. Wo know how to drain our fields so as to get rid of surplus wa ter, we are tolerably well skilled in the art of fertilizing, of supplying plant food,where there is a deficiency, and wo know how to discover precise ly what element is lacking and how that element may be in corporated into the soil so that a special fertilizer may be applied to every special crop. But when all this is done, if the rain be witheld, the soil cannot produce boun tifully. We are utterly help less in^this matter. True, ir rigation may be practiced in n few places, but these places are so rare that it is practical ly unavailable. Proper cul tivation is useful in counter acting the effects of drought, but we have not yet learned the art so that it is entirely effectual. What can be done? This is a problem well worthy of the study of the most astuto scientist. In it is involved the question of food supply, and in an important sense, our material prosperity is affected by it. Here is something for our Agricultural Bureaus and experiment stations to take hold of and to think about, and we believe that there h no matter of greater practical importance. CO-EDUOATION. J. H. Mills in News and Observer. SHINING. Our business is, not to talk about shining, not to have theories about the way of do ing it, but by our good works to sMne, and so to bear testi mony to the Lord. The sim ple thought meets a thousand difficulties. “I am very poor; my candlestick is tin instead of silver. If I were richer I should be of more use.” Let vour Wght shine. “I am fee ble in health; half my time i.s passed within a sick room. My candlestick is a broken one.’’ Let your light shine, even it there is no more can • dlestick than to hold the can dle from falling over, “I am very much out of the way—in a very obscure corner; far off from the general eye and ob servation. I wish I were in a better position.” Let your light shine', the Lord knows why he has placed you where you are. Be sure he has a purpose worthy of being ac- 04 mplished.—Lr. James CuU OSS. Hon. John Eaton, Commis*. sioner ofEducation, at Wash ington, D. C., has issued a cir cular of information contain ing answers of educators in many States to his inquiri is concerning the propriety of sending boys and girls to the same schools, In his “concluding remark he assorts that the welfare of the nation “depends on the prevalence of coseducation Let us look at some of the an' swers: Gr. J. Luckey says: “It natural/’ Yes, boys and gir naturally like to attend tl same school. They naturally like each other. But does ‘ follow that they will study more together than when sep arated? It seems “natural” for some men to lie, to steal, to gormandize. The great du' ty of life is to restrain, regu late and subdue the “natural.” man. Francis Cogswell speaks of co-education as “God^s plan Now no one has ever de^ nied that brothers and sisters mutually benefit each other. But the question is whether girl is benefitted by associa ting with all sorts of boys or whether a boy is benefitted by associating with all sorts of gills. “God’s plan puts brothers and sisters the same family, but it does uot follow that good and bad girls should be put in the same school with good and bad boys. J. M. Fish says: “Co'*edu cation, cultivates a respect and esteem in each sex for the other,” Exactly so. But in our country thi8“e8teem^’ between the boys and the girls is a plant which grows luxuriantly without any special cultiva tion. Our children attend school for a purpose entirely different. If girls must go to school to learn to esteem the boys, then the danc ing master is preferable to the most profound scholar. One response comes from North Carolina. M. C. S. No ble, president of the North Carolina teachers’ association, says: “Better results can be secured with ‘co-education.’ ” He does not name these better results, neither does he specify the particular meth* ods by which they can be se cured. One thing is certain: The most efficient, successful and permanent schools in North Carolina are those to which only one sex is admit ted. It is also true that the many teachers, now in charge of mixed schools, would glad' ly separate the sexes if they had the means to erect the necessary buildings. The Bible tells of a teacher whoso boys requested the privilege of building him a larger school house. But in our day that class of liberal boys seems to be extinct, Mr. Garnett, of Virginia, says: “Co-education is thought to be the most eco nomical and convenient plan.” And here lies the secret; chil dren are sacrificed to econo** my. If the object, is to save the most money, then why not abolish the schools and save it all? If the object is the greatest good of the chil dren, then e !onomy and con venience must be sacrificed. But where are the argu ments agai st co-education? 1 In mixed schools boys and girls see and hear many things they ought not to see and hear. Girls should al ways begin their association with boys under the sus pervisiou of mother.j or dis creet female friends. They should not associate with bad boys till forty years of age. Boys may also safely give their time to their studies till their school days are over. Those who divide their time between books and belles,sel dom succeed in solid learn ing, and are the partial-couse men, advocates of “practical education.’’ So when a school girl is ev ery day with a beau, the mat rimonial problem is so easy to solve and the mathematical problems are so obscure that she is easily persuaded to worship at the altar of Hymen. 2 Girls, passing from girl hood to womanhood, go through a period of bodily growth and mental stagnation During this period they want rest and should avoid excite ment. They are not in con dition to be classed with young men. They need indulgenco and friendly guidance. Com petition with vigorous men is liable to do them permanent injury. Now, let it be dis tinctly understood that there is no objection to male and female schools in the same town, and that no one has said the boys should be bach elors and tho girls old maids. But the school room is not the place for courting. And no one proposes to discon tinue co-education. Mixed schools (objectionable as they are) certainly lift a great bur den of ignorance from our people, and are infinitely bet ter than none. Separate schools are better; but if we cannot have them, by all means let us have the best we can get. Sin is a curse to any ^ eople, blit ignorance is dead weight which a people cannot afford to carry. Mr. Eaton invites criticism. have candidly given my opinion. DOES BEE-EEBPING Pi^Y. Mof’t assuredly it does, and Mr, "W. H. Hall, of Salem,has furnished us with some facts which we cheerfully put print. Mr. H. is an apiarest of some note and has at present some 50 stands of bees. He uses the Langstrotli hive and Italian stock witli great success. From 30 of his stands the past week* he took 1,200 pounds of honey, and from several stands as high from 75 to 100 pounds each. This large quantity of the sweetest of the sweets was made by the busy little insects ; during the sour wood season just closed and within a pe riod of three weeks. During the bloom of this tree and tho oeplar tree is Hie harvest timo for the honey gatherers in this section. From the first tho beautiful white honey is made and from the latter the dark variety. For his supply of honey Mr. Hall will|realize 15 cents per pound. Figure it out and see ii you too don’t think that bee-keeping pays.— Win ston Sentinel. A child’s observation is confined to the appearance of things; it does not reflect. The following illustrates its way of looking on: A little three year old, whose father did not use a ra-* zor, was recently, while on a visit to an aunt, greatly in terested ill seeing her undo shave. After watching him tently for a few minutes,aho said, “Uncle, what do you do that for? Papa don’t wash his face with a little broom, and wipe it with a knife.” There is no doubt that thinkers govern the world; and it is quite as certain that the world governs potentates. Grand Master Frederick Speed, of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi, opened his last Annual Address to the Bretlr ren with the following beauti ful and expressive exordium which we commend to careful reading: Brethren of the Grand Lodge. Suspending, for a season, the ordinary vocations of life, we have again been permitted to assemble for the purpose of drawing designs upon the trestle board whereby tl Craft may pursue their labors, To us, as the Master Work men, has been entrusted the important duty of laying out the work for another year, What has been done is, per haps, of less importance than that which remains to be ac complished. It is not enough that we have wrought a task in the quarries and brought UT) our work for inspection agreeably to the designs laii down for us by those whom we have succeeded in the la bor of building up the walls of our Masonic Temple, for having reached a stage of Ma sonic preferment when it has been allotted to us to design that others may execute, the Craft have a right to demand that the plans we shall con ceive shall correspond, in the grandeur and breadth of their conception, with the exalted honors which we enjoy* If the high dignities and sound ing titles we possess be our only qualifications to enlight en the Craft and the world in respect to the aims and the object of Freemasonry, we shall merit the denunciation so justly pronounced against those who assume duties they are not able to perform. It is not given unto all of us to accomplish some great work, by which our names shall be perpetuated after we are dead, but there is no man so hum* ble or so devoid of talents, that he may not accomplisli something to make the world the better for his having lived in it, and to impress “Foot-prints on the sands of time, Which even, although they may be effaced by the first rising of the tide, shall, while they remain, mark the path trod in the performance of du ties rendered, not unwillingly and solely because they tend to the accomplishment of a noble end, and some one, it may chance to be a stranger and an ingrate, is to be bene fited thereby. It is said that a celebrated Egyptologist dis covered a tomb of the god Apis, which had never been opened- On entering, he says, for the first time, he be held distinctly marked on the delicate bed of sand which covered the soil, the impress ion of the foot-prints of the workmen who, three thou sand seven hundred years ago, had placed the image of the god on his couch and then retired. As no one knows, or cares to know, the names 6f the workmen who, nearly for^ ty centuries ago, left this, the only record of their existence, so it may be that no one will know, or care to know, our names, but it is possible for us to accomplish, in the few years which are allotted to us to labor in the Lodge terres trial, that which, forty centu ries hence, aye, for all etern ity, will work for good or evil, and thus it happens that our deeds are of more importance to those who shall come after us than we ourselves are. Men seldom pause to inquire whose hand traced or whose brain in spired a statute which confers a benefit or works an injury, but the consequences result ing from its enactment make the law itself the object of re spect or denunciation, W)-at we may do here this year may be undone by those who shall stand in our place another year, but the consequence of our acts are for .all time and cannot be undone. Thus it becomes us to consider well the results which are to follow our acts and judgments, lejt we inflict an injury where we intend conferring a benefit, or render a judgment which, shall work an irreparable ong where we -design ad ministering impartial and ex-- act justice. Committees on Orphan Asylnm Lily Valley Lodge, No. 252—John R. Hill, William H. KIddick, Erae- tus Bagley. Eureka Lodge, No. 283 G. A. J. Sechler, S. G. Patterson, Charles w! Alexander. Fulton Lodge. No. 99 A Parker, VV. W, Taylor, J. Samuel McCuli- bins. Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140 Henry Haley, Job a Knight, H. F. Pai-rett. Hiram Lodge, No, 40—George JL Smedes, Theodore Jo,3eph, John Nichols. Evoigreen Lodge,’No. 303—M, Morrison, U. 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, W Cox. Cumberland Lodge, 364—Rev. A R. Pittman, Salem Lodge, No. J289—J. W Hunter, 0. A. Fogle, Chas. Hauser. Oobarie Lodge, No. 379—A. J. Butler, J. D. 0. Oulbreth and R. "W. Howard. Winston Lodge, No. 167—J. Q. A. Barl am, W. H. Miller, E. B. Whitsell. w O I—I tr* tri e DO O , ! pi i g |zi CO c a > ■ GO O X o o r m o o M o o o o o c/> Wheeler & Wilson SEWING MAOHINB With straight Needle and Improved Bobbin, is, beyond all doubt, the Most Perfect and Sat isfactory Sewing Machine in the WORLD. #®“Sold on easy terms. Agents an Dealers wanted. Address WHEELER & WIL80N; M’P’G CO., Raleigh, N. C. JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOL, Jonesboro, Moore Co,, N. C. The next Session of this School will begin July 30th, 1883. For eifciilars or information apply to Prop. William C. Doub, A. M. Principal. grand LBOTUBBR—Dr. C D. Rice, Raleigh, N. 0. LAND FOR SALE A CHANCE FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO GROW FINE TOBACCO. Over 600 acres of Beaver Dam Fine Tobacco land for sale. As good as there is. It lies in one body and will be sold all together, or cut up into small tracts to suit purchasers. Is sit uated in Brassflelds Township, Gran ville county, N. C., two and a half miles sputh-west of Wilton. Has a large portion of original growth on it, is well timbered, and has a large bbdv of bottom land. There are upon the premises a two story dwelling, containing four com fortable rooms, four flue curing tobac co barns, with other necessary ont- buildings. Only part of the purchase money will be wanted in cash, for the rest two or three rears will be given. Apply to W.R.AVALTERS, or S.H.CANNADY, 12-Ct. Wilton, N. C. THE-HARTFORD SEWING MACHINE. JUST PERFECTED. The Largest Under Aim. The Lightest and Quickest. The Host Lavishly Decorated. The Least Vibration of Any. A Galaxy of New Patents. Simplicity Simplified. DURABILITY DETERMINED. Reliability Re-As$eited. Ball-Bearing Balance Wheel. Knife Edge Treadle-bearing. Newest and most Elegant Designs in Stands and Wood-work. Positive take up. Perfect Stitch. IS WANTED BY EVERYBODY, For finely illustrated description, ap ply to WEED SEWING MACHINE C0„ HARTFORD, CONN. For sale by A. M. JONES, Oxford, N. C. JOHN A. WILLIAMS. OXTOPD, N. C. Dealer in Eeal Estate. He solicits the patronage of persons having land, mining oroperty or Town lots to sell or who may wish to purchase the same. 5i,tl AND Farming Implements. EDWARDS&R0GERS GENERAL HardiaieUils OXFORD, N, C. Will supply Flue Iron or Tobacco Flues prepared, ready for use, ai LOW RATES. We keep on hand a; well selected stock of HARDWARE of every deSj cription, embracing CROCKERY AND GLASS-WARE, i COOKING AND HEATING STORES, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY, WOODEN AND WILLOW-WAR Guns and Pistols, Cartridges, Ammunition AND SPORTING GOODS. We invite attention to our stock of SEWnC MICBWES, OILS, NEEDLES AND ATTACHMENTS. We also carry a heavy-stock of Paints Oils, BRUSHES AKD VABNISHSS.
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