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The Children’s Friend. WEDJv'SSDAY, J-A-NGAKY 27, 1875. W13STWAIS1>, il« : Last week we left our “lively little jiavt)',” ivlio had started from Oxford for the new institution at JIars Hill, at Henderson awaiting the train. In due time the train iiove in .sight, and the little travellens, in charge of the Superintedent, and “all agog” for the pleasures of the trip, .soon got aboard and were off toward Kaleigh. (Jn the train they found boys going to the Bingham School and girls go ing to Greonsborough, and , nine “penitents” under escort, on their way to the Stockade University, to kill so man)- yeai-s of time and then be turned loose on the country as mean and as ignorant as ever.. At Wake Forest the orphans admired the Campus and building, and wondered why these bovs are allowed to car ry tlieir hands in their pock ets. One girl inquired why girls are not allowed to go to scliool at Wake I'orest; she goes to school with boys and sees no wrong in it. It is eas ier to ask than to an.swer questions. At Ealeigh they wait for the western train, but do. not have to wait long, and soon are . off again. At Morrisville the children find a good supper and Mrs. Troy is very kind. After sup per, with a crowded coach they are off for Greensborougli. This is the last we heard from them, but have no doubt they are, by this time, safe and comfortable at Mars Hill, from whence we expect to get further notes and incidents of the trip. WHAT A PITY ! republican institutions ? And not only so, but this large cla.s.s of ig-norant pop-uiation is growing up to Ijccojne the fu ture drunkards, buj-glars, iniir- ' derers and inmates of luui.se.s ; of infamy in the coimtrv ; the I ready tools of more.expert vil lains and demag>'ogues, wlio 'disturb and often destroy tlie i peace and happiness of socie- j ty, and often endanger the lib erties of otir countrv. The picture is an appalling ^ one, esp)ecially in view of tlie ; ajjparent apathv tliat seems to ; have settled down upon the public mind everywhere in re gard to educa,tional facilities for the rising generation. We hope the importance of the I subject tvill arouse the public i mind to an earl)- and vigor ous effort to remedv this de plorable condition of things. do coin-ic.t and sentence them ^ to a })enal institution, or the d'hinese, who choice them oft' ' bv .stuiiing ric.'O in their throats. ; We would add another ‘n',' and sav somstliing about "J-. ' lowing them to become sub-. jject to the control of nogi'O.-'s^ during their minority, hut it ’ might he said we were making i insinuations concerning home; i folks. WAKIJSt; UP. We find a paragrapli float ing around in our exchanges to .the effect that, in the Mas- gaclmsetts factories, sixty thousand children are grow ing np in ignorance, because of their employment at too early an age in those factories. The statement is said to ho based on the report of the of ficer whose business it is to look after the educational in terests of the children of that state. We presume this num ber of ignorant children in Massachusetts is not greater, in proportion to all the chil dren in that state, than the average of the same class in all tlie other states. If this he true, the fact is a startling one, and is calculated to arouse the energies of every patriot, philanthropist and Christian in the land, to seek a remedy for this sad state of afliair.s. How c.aii we hope for the perpetuity of our civil and religious rights, when such a large number of the future r’oting population will be im- iihle to read .the .Bible or un- The Raleigh N'ews notices the query and answer between The Childeex’s Feiexd and Petersburg Index-Ap^yeal, iir regard to white children being bound to negroes in this State, and asks, as did the Index- Appeal, “can such things ex ist in our midst ?” As the Neivs has seen onr first declar ation, as cojjiedhy our Peters burg neighbor, and our replv to his appai’ont doubt, on the subject, we can only refer to what wo said, witliout taking back or qualifying any part or parcel thereof. Such things can exist, have existed, do now exist, and are likely to exist in the future, unless our legi,slators open their eyes to the matter and make some le gal regulation to prevent it. Wo are glad to see the News awaking to the subject, and hope other papers in the State will follow tlie example. I TO EH ES'ISKBSEBD. I Porliajis we have not been snf- ' lieieiitly explicit heretofore in stat ing the terms of subscription to iTiiE CiiiLDKEX's Friend, and will, ' therefore, repeat them. The price is one dollar a year, and no name is entered on the- mail booh until i the money is in. hand. From this rule there can bo no variation. Friends soinetinies forward names j asking the piaper to bo sent, and i prcmi.iing at some indeiiiiito time I —generally “before long”—to for- j ward tlie money. In siicii cases j we forward one number and tlion j “wait a time” (about a week) ' “with patience,” and if the money don’t come we conclude the mat- 1 ter is forgotten and don’t send i any more {lapefs. It is too trou blesome to keep that sort of a list in addition to tiio regular snbscripi- tion books. Vie hope, therefore, the friends of tlie paper will re member and comply with tiie terms, and send in tiie names by ones and twos,' dozens, scores and hundreds, ^Yitll the money in tlie shape of drafts, post ollico o'rders, or greenbacks by express, and all trouble will be avoided so far as the financial feature .of the enter prise is concerned. OHE WAY TO EI5P0SB OH OEPHAKS. The Providence, (R, I.) Journal, a paper of stiflicient character to give credence to it.s statements, pnlili.slies the following in reg-ard to tlie way in which orphans are .some times disposed of in Rhode Is land, where they have no or phan asylum; ‘‘In a certain town in Rliode It-land tiie parents of two clnltlrcn, a boy and a gild, died. A meeting of tiie Itwal au thorities M'as held to decide upon some action that would relieve the town of the expense of supporting the ehildren. The matter was discussed freely, and at an adjourned meeting held at a private resi dence the children were required to be present. The boy was told to go into an adjoining room, where he would find a man asleep, in a certain pocket of whose clothing was a live cent- })iece, which he was to bring to the committee. The boy obeyed the order. The girl was sent to another room whore a woman was sleep ing, from whoso pocket a piece of money or scrip was to be taken. »Slic also obey ed the instructions given her, and the children were afterwards arrested upon a charge of petty larceny, tried, found guil ty, and sentenced to the State Keforina- tion School during their minority.” Wo don’t know wliicli are most (or least) to bo com mended for tlie maimer of getting clear of supernumera- ry young ones, the Rhode Islander.s, who first make them go through a. process of invol- derstand tlye genius -tsfrourtunte^-petty larceny in order The Rocky Mount Mail liits the nail square on the licad in the following paragraph on the re cent murder and robbery of a Mr. Cohen, at Whitaker's Turn-Out, on the Wilmington and Weldon railroad; “We have printed the resolu tions of the Whitaker’s meeting, regretting the prevalence of crime there, and ascribing the cause to vagrancy. True remoteh', Imt what produces the vagrancy ? We think the penal calendar of any county in the State will show three-fourths of the crime to have been committed under the inspi ration of poisoned whiskey. It is whiskey that points the poinard— it is whiskey that uplifts the club and aims the deadly bullet.” The Mall says the amount of these vile doctored liquors, sold ill these little towns, is ap palling. It doesn’t pay to keep a good article, so the cheapest and meanest is dealt out to besot brains, craze the individual and make crime and criminals. To what extent the perpetration of crime, under the influence of “moan whiskey” prevails over that under the influence of “a better article,” we are not pre pared to express an opinion, but we entirely coincide with the Mail in the opinion that three- fourths of .tbc crimes in the State, have been committed un der the inspiration of whiskey, and that not only is crime in creasing under this “inspiration,” but. from the same cause, va-> / ling degree. j What is the remedy ? It is not | to be looked for so much in legah enactments, as in even* iViend ofi liis country and Vns race using , Ins personal influence in discoun-; tonancing and suppressing, in his; respective neighborhood, the cs-1 tablishments whence those bane-: ful influences emanate. j EISTOEV C? A ^AIi BCT. j Several years ago, in one of the eistern counties of Xorth Caroli na, wc knew a boy by the name of John, a sketch of whose life we preposo to gi ve our little readers, Xhiv they may sec the consequen ces iif pursuing a wicked course in chiidhood. | John Vi'as sent to school and; loaniiHl to roail and wnte, and to; cyphei’ a little, but he was never i taught to fear God iind keep his! commandments, but was allowed t to roaiT. over the neigbborliood on ' the Sabbath; to play marbles, to- hunt and tish, and mix with other! bad boys ill the commission of all, sorts of n ischief on that day. lie I soon Jear.ied to phqv cards, and; got into tie habit of swearing and using ugl}* language, and was al lowed to g3 to all tlic chicken fights and ilhcr wicked gather ings in the neighborhood. When he ^rew up ho opened a shop ill the nnghborhoud, for the sale of wliiski'y mostly, and Ids place soon became noted for the gambling, drinking, fighting and other wickedne^ carried on there. After a while it was said he was engaged in trading for stolen goods and even to engage, himself, ill stealing. This was during the late war. After i. while he was caught with a qunitity of wheat and bacon that lud Ijcen stolen from a gcntlonuin '.n the neigh borhood. lie was arrested and wouhl have been pu.;islicd by the law, blithe agreed to join thej army, ami was allowi'd to go un-; puinslied on that coiuluiom After j the war, he again o})eied a store,; as it was called, where the princi-l pai article sold was whiskey, lie also again engaged in hU thieving tricks, and, with the assistance of others as bad as himself ac, for a' longtime, was engaged in rob-j bing the freight cars on a railroad | tliat ran near by h.is stpre. llej was, at length, detected, put in j jail and sentenced to the peniten tiary at Raleigh, where he re mained at hard labor for about two years. The Governor then pardoned him out on condition that he should leave the State. The last we heafd of him he had been convicted, in another state and put in the penitentiary for counterfeiting nickel five-ccut pieces. AYc knew this boy, as we have said, and in giving this account of him we have not mentioned half of the bad things he was known to be guilty of; but enough is given to show what his cluiracter was, as a boy and a man, and the punishment he has met with is what all such characters may ex pect, who pursue the course, in bovhood. that he did. J'hero arc scveiTd paths tliat lead from childhood to the jail, the penitentiary and the gallows, One i>ath is, disobedience to pa rents or those,, who have the care of another is, Sabbath breakl’ig; another is, laziness or indoleiue; another, quarrelsome ness. These paths all come to gether after a little way, and then lead into otlier “^laths, such as drnnkonness, gambling, licen tiousness, fightings and murder. When a child starts in one of these paths he is almost certain to iind himself, at last, at the gate of the penitentiary, or standing on the trapfall of,, the gallows. If any of the little readers of The Children's Friend have started out on any of these patlis, w’e en treat them to stop, turn right round and go back, and then, by the blessing cl God, they may slinn the fate of the boy we have here been telHiiirtheni aliout. Goatri2uUDn3 to the OrpliEa Asylna froa JiLuary 20ti to 2CtiL iaolusive. CASH. Ciiildren's Friend, $111.25 Wildnian Troiqie, cxhibi- bition at Fayetteville'' 30.55 Falling Creek Lodge, Xo, 325, 25.0(> . Wm. G. Hill Lodge 218, 25.00 Jonesvillc Lodge, 227,... 15.00 Citizens of Falling Creek neighliorliood,...... 12.00 Mrs. \y. C. Troy,.. G.OO Miss A. E Elliott, St. John’s Lodge, No. 3, T. I). Crawford & Co. each, $5, 15.00 .Members of Smyrna I’res-. byterian churcli,.... 5 50 Stonewall Lodge,. 296,. 2.05 N. Jf. Cohen, J, M. Mat thews, George Rosen thal, IL K. Cobb, each, §1, 4.00 Davie Lodge, 39,. 50 IN KIND. Miss Kate Meiver, 1 pair child's slioes. Mrs. Mary Mclver, 1 dress. Mrs. F. J3. Tyson, dry goods. Mrs. Duncan Vick, 2 pair sock.^, —Candy. Miss F. Patterson, 1 pair socks. Mrs. Winnie Jenkins, calico. Mrs. James McLean, dress—pair stockings, Mrs. J.F. McDonald,lbo3''sshirt. Mrs, F. M. McLean, 1 bed quilt. Mrs. Margaret Robertson, 1 bed quilt. American Bible Society, through Rev. L. IC. Wiley, 100 Bibles. T. D. Crawford & Co., Box Car bolic soap, box tar soap, lead pencils. Unknown, 1 pr. boots, home-made soap. Pescud, Lee & Co., iffedicine. It matters very little what suc cess, what titles, emoluments, or pleasures he gets here. But when you stand, at the gateway of Heaven, saying, “Here am I and those whom thou hast given me,” one look from the Divine Master will overwhelmingly repay you for all your toil and sufteriiigs. G et the best. Elliotta Housewife Prjc» $1.50. 8-46.
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