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AFl'IX'TIONATHI.Y INSCRIBED
TI.E SISTER I.OUISE.
nv MItS. CiCEJJO w.
(ir wii.MiNa’roN, n.
S.IISKIS,
(TIAl’THli rv.
Throe years lied glided bv nt
Ridley Farm, and Mary Aiken
still had charge of the ohildreu.
Rut tiiroe years liad brought
many changes. Laivyer Lennox
who hail recommended Miss Ai
ken to ilr. Ridley, was a constant
visitor, and he had brought other
friend.s, both ladies and gentoman
to see her and her kind friends.
In fact, some of the most cultur
ed and refined ];eo]ile of O.xford
olteu rode out to the Farm to
take tea and sjieud an evening.
Tiiis was gratifying to Mr. Rid
ley and very pleasant to Mi.ss
Aiken, who.Se life had been spent
with edneated peojile. Contaet
with the good society of Oxford
was also very improving to the
children, for no county seat of
tlie same size can lioast of a great
er number of reilned and educa
ted ladies and staunch. Inmost,
courtly gentlemen. 15nt, at the
the end of the third session, Mis.s
- clary was going to leave them !
I'ldward Ridley and ,Io,sepli Wil
ton, noiv manly handsome, in e’-
ligeiit boys of fifteen, wore also
going to leave the Farm ! And
in a few months Louise migbi
jc (ibabiy sjiend two or three years
trom home. The little ones wlio
ii’.id this are wondering why
lhe.se clnftiges ai’e going to liap-
]ien. May-bo some of them are
thinking as they read, that sorrow
or deatli lias invaded the ))ea('e-
fid liou.seholrl. ' Or mav-be gaunt
jioveitv had come to lireak
thedelightful homeeirele. llri
on up, little children, notliing o1
the kind liad hapiieiied. Health,
happiness and plenty had not
been afisent from tiie eheerfid
liorao, since its master bad shel
tered and clothed the ragged or
phan boy.
'I’lio cause of the change was
this: About two years after Joe
became an inmate of Mr. Ridley’s
bouse, on a cold frosty morning,
1 iawy er Lennox unexpectedly rode
n.p to the front gate. He entered
the house and bad a long coiuiul-
tation with the elder members of
the family. Th.e object of the
visit was to find out ■ndiere were
the lieirs of Joseph Wilton. A
wealthy uncle hearing of the
death of Ids brothei', Jos. Wilton,
fir., had advertiseil for the cliil-
drer. As we have said, Joe was
the only son. The faded leaf in
the wor'ii jioeket book proved
that. The old Bible and other
articles were purchased from Mr.
Judd, and Mr. Lennox found tliat
Joe was the little nepliew his cli
ent Richard AMilton sought!
Richard A’filtou lived in the city
of llaltimore. He was a rich
merchant. He had no wife or
cldldren to take care of, and when
he In a 'll wliat a good clever boy
Joe was, be oflered to pat' Air.
Ridley for his kindness, and
wrote for Joe to come and live
with him. He promised to give
Joe an education, and afterwards
to Take him
with himself.
up
ght-
mined to lot Joe accept it. Rich
ard Wilton came in person after
his nephew, and found him im
proving so ra,pidly, and .so uicelv
situated, ho proposed to Air. Kiif-
ley to alloiv tlio boys, Kdward
and Joe, to study together two
sessions longer, and then he wonhi
take both of them under his care.
This was very gratifying to
Air. Ridley, for Aliss Alain' had
already warned him to make ar
rangements for sending Eddie
elsewhere, filie thought he was
■largo enough to reipiire a more
advanced instructor, and that lie
should mingle more with bo\'s of
his own age. Joe’s uncle" also
Iieard liow kind Aliss Alary liad
been. She bad taught him since
the morning after he wa.s found
in the wood. Ricluu'd Wliton at
first urged her to receive money;
for her services. She firmly do-1
cliued, because she felt it liad j
been such a pleasant duty for her
to relievo the want of the orjihan.
Besides, Joe had been a gnidious
boy. Ills lessons were alwaj-s
recited creditably, and his con
duct wasniostexeninlarv. Richard
W iltoa was very much jileased
wiili Ids visit to the heino of
hi.s ncjihcw, for he h.-d set ou!
immediately 11 Ridlf-y Farm
when he heard Joe was the onh'
son of his dead brcilier. Ho
piomiscd Air. Ridley and Joe
that lie would return in the sum-
ma'i- when bnsiiie.ss was dull and
pay tlicm a longer visit. .Air.
Ridley, like nearly all the good
peojile of Granville, was verv
hospitable. He was alw'in'K glad
to entertain .strangers ai'd friends,
provided lie liked tliem. Anui the
whole family soon liked Joe’;
uncle. Ho was an elderly man,
it is true, but be joined the cliil-
uren in their games,
seemeii in-
tere.sted in Airs. Ridley’s lu.rlter ,
visited different parts of the farm
witli Mr. Ridley—and also learn
ed to love Aliss Alarv as rvell per
haps as the members of tlie fami
ly did. AVhen summer came he
kept his promise. He brought
the cliildron more pretty things
than they liad ever seen before,
and he brought Aliss Alar}' one of
the prettiest rings he could find—
to pay her, Joe said, for teach
ing him and for writing so man}'
letters about him to Uncle Rich
ard. llowei'er, Joe was mistaken.
”'he brilliant diamond meant
sometliing else, and as soon as
Aliss Aiken left Ridley Farm she
was to marry Rieliard A'Fiiton.
Joe and Eddie were to board
w'itli lier and go to seliool. And
fair little Louise, with her blue
eyes and sunny curls was to live
with her beloved teacher, until
she w'as prepared for womanhood,
and the duties of lile. Another
teacher was found for AA-JIlie and
Annie after Alias Alary and the
others left.
Ridle}' I’ann sloivly changed
in its appearance, and iioiv }'Ou
ivonld never recognize the white
house ivith its green blinds, gravel
w'lilks, and beautiful oak grove
as the plain, dingy-Iooking house
from W'liich Air. liidley first drove
to find a teacher for liis children.
And if yon were to look at the
couple in the vine-covered porch
}-ou w'ould not behove the elo-
man who stood near licir w'as
.Jo.sejili AVihon. And the guiitle-
maii w ho wa.s ivalking witli Air.
Ridley from ihe yeiioiving wheat
field, ivhere the}' had .goiie to ex
amine the cr"p, dill not look
much like the slender boy ndio
lent the orjihan hi.s favorite jionv
and treated him as if he had been
a brother, lint it was Edward
Ridlo}' who. Ills jiroud fatlici'
thought, could betii all the men
he had ever met at, O.xford Oourl
or aiii'wherc else.
Ldw'aid W'as a law'ver as his
father had desired ho should bo,
•and it was noticed, that when the
vnung man could got the time
from his professional duties to vis
it his father and mother, Mr. Kid-
ley w'ouid hitch tw'o horses to his
btiggy and set out for court an
hour earlier. Mrs. Ridley laugh
ingly toid liiin it xvas bectmse ho
wanted otlier jieople to know
W'hat a clever son ho had.
AVillio and Annie also liad
changed, ’i'hey ai'o with Miss
.M.ary, rather Airs. Richard AAulton,
going to tlie same school xvliidi
tlieir brother and sister had at
tended.
Air. and Airs. Ridley w'ere just
ly jiroud of them all. Joe AV'iltou
came in tor his share ot love, and
some day perhajis ho W'ill ahnnst
forget Ins orjdianage ivlicn he
calls them “father and “mother.”
Gue '.vord to the orjihans, and
ihe story i have written in the
mid.st Ilf jiressing engagements to
jiii-a.se and entertain fliem, is
done. Every orphan can note.x-
jieet jirecisel}' the good fortune
wliicli befell .Josejili Wilton. But
It i.'i in the jiowei' of ever^' one of
iliem to become useful members
ot siK'ict}'. AV hen ,bie u'as a cluld
it it had not been for tlie generos
ity ot olr. Ridley, this would have
been imjios.sible. 'J’hon there was
no Ai.s}dmu in Granville county—
or in Xorth Garolina. Now' there
IS one, and if the orjihans will try
hard to do their duty in ever}'
sense of the word, there is no
good thing the Fallier of the
tafherloss w'ill withold from them.
At the Asylum you are taught to
w'ork, you receive the foundation
for an education, and you enjoy
A TE.tT
_ant, graceful w'oman, toying
in oo-partuersh!p ! with the strings of a guitar, was
d’lii.s W'as a temiit-1 little Louise. Xor w ould x'ou be
ing ofler, and Air. Ridle}' deter-1 lievo the handsome, well-built
the benefits of religious ti’ainiiig.
You even onjo}' the opportunities
sii'perior to those of some boys
wlio, as men, have filled some of
tlie most lionorable positions in
jiublic and private life !
Suppose you had to study your
lessons wlillo you blow a black
smith bellow's ? Suppose you
bad to work liard from early
morning until nightfall, and then
in order to stud}', you had to jiile
up lightw'ood to bunt until after
midnigbt, that }'ou might see the
letters ! Alany a jioor boy and
girl has done thi.s. Alay I ask, are
you grateful for what God has
jiut it into the hearts of generous
men to do for }'0u ? And do you,
like poor little Joe, study your
lessons, obey your teachers, do
W'hat is I'ight as nearl}' as you
can! If there is one who does
not, W'ill you, for the sake of a
friend, j^wdiom many of you re
member, “turn over a new leaf’
and emulate Joe I
A M.ix of vei'}'pleasing address,
but very dislione.st in his jiriietiees,
once said to an lione.st nierclialit,
who.se w'ord was as goo-i as his
bond, “ I would give fift}' tliou
sand dollars for yourg-iiod name.’'
“AAJiy sol” asked tlie other in
some surjirise. “Because I could
make a huiuked thou.saml dollars
out of it.”
’J'lie lionoralile character wliicb
W'as at the bottom of the good
name he eared nothing for; it w as
Old}' the reputation wliicii ho
could turn to account in a monev
point of view' w liich lie coveted.
But a good name cannot be
bought with silver; it, of all other
possessions, must bo fairl v earned.
AA'hen it is jiossossod, it i.s a better
business eajiital than a great sum
of money. It is a eajiital aii}- box'
or girl itiay secure. Honesty
must be its foundation, oven in the
smallest particulars. AVlien an
employer says, “That ia a box-
1 can trust,” lie xvill alxvavs find
himseli’ in demand, provided he
joins xvith it indii.stry. “Tlio liand
of the diligent inaketh rich.”
It Boems hard at the time,
maybe this ceareless rminl oi
work, ivliile otlier lioys are loung
ing about store-steps, or jilavingon
the green. But the reiranl w:l.
come if you are faitbful. AvJiile
loungers are dragging out a mis
erable life time in jiiivation and
iiovcrty, the liard-xvorking boy
lives at liis case, rcsjiected and
honoured.
Remember this,boy3,if youde.sire
to make your xvay in the xx’orld.
There is nothing tluit can serve
j'our purpose like a name for
honesty and iiuUistry; and you
, will nox'er acquire citlier if you are
a lounger about the streets, and a
I .shirk at your business. Exerx'
body surpeets a Lid xvlio is often
seen about saloon doors or tax ern-
stejis. It undermine.s a box ’s char
acter for lioncsty very rapidly to
mix xvith the society he finds there;
and such habits tend to anvtliing
but inilustrioms ways. “A" good
name is rather to be cho.sen than
great riches, and loving favor
rather than silver and gold.” Flint
tluU text on x om- heart, and carry
it xvith you in all yoiu- walks and
ways. It is worth far more tliaii
silver and gold to you.—I'mhjte-
•rian.
T'lii: (lilll.lIKKN’s I'lllKNI) is ptlbil.-lu'.l ( V-
•■ry WolncBilay, at the' 0r|iliaii Anylimi, lii
ficM ucciijtied by
Uxfrtiil. N. 0.
ciitortt
iitlior
pitpfr, ropreseiUinir no party in p.U»
lies and no Boct in rt>li^;j,,)i; i,„t ]i(,]pin^' ,i}l
parties and all nnot.H to unite in promoting tlm
iiidicinufl etliication cf tid* ynmjg, jmd tlie eon-
rinuons improvement of th(t old. It diym.x.sm
the dutiert am! privileges of parentn ami teach
i-r?, and defends tin' riglits and denounces tlifi
wrongs of eliildrtm. It gives special attentifui
:i> poor ot'pluitis, and tells them how to escape
(heir present degradation, liow to grow np i;.»
10 Avise and virtuoim men and women, ami
liow to secure liherai AA'ages for lumost work.
Tiie oliject of tliQ pa})er is to help all ».nr peo«
pie to l>e good r.tnl fo do good. Price, oiiodol-
iar a year, always in advance. A fcAV cash
advcrti.scmrnts will be admitted, at fen cents
a line for tin* first insertion, and five rents a
line for each subftefpient htsertlon. *pl)c sauo
advertisement will not bo inserted more tliau
thirteen times, as a live paper ean not afford
to sing any one song forever. All friends of
the young are retpiested to forwanl silhacrlp|}
at onec. Address I
4JlSiL.f>lSi:i¥’S FUIEA'D,
Oxford, N. ('»
Form of Ap|>Iic2tlioit lor Afmi$iSlon
to the Orpliaai A$»}lsiiiis.
Ilaunali More says, Idleness among
children, a.s among men is the root of*
all evil, and leads to no other evil more
certain than ill temper.’'
A Beautu'UlTiiougiit.—AVheu
the summer of youth i.s slowly
wasting away on the nightfall of
age, and the sliadow of the path
becomes deeper and life weai-s to
its close, it i.s pleasant to look
through tlie vista of time upon the
sorrows and felicities of our early
years. If we h.ave a home to shel
ter and hearts to rejoice w ith us,
and friends hax'o been gathered
around our fireside, and the rough
places of xvayfaring xvill have
boon xvorn and smoothed, axvav in
the txvilight of life, and many d'ark
spots xve have passed through
xvill groxv brighter and more beau
tiful Ilajipx', indeed, are those
whose intercourse xvith the xvorld
has not changed the tone of their
holierfeelingsor broken those mus
ical chords of the heart xvhose
vibratioms are so melodious, so
tender and so touching in the eve
ning of their life.
N- C„ .1876.
Thiis i.s to certify that
—18 an orphan, withoub
esti-to, amK-,.—years of age. H ..,,
father died in 18 ; h.... mother
I, being h
hereby make appUca
tionforh,.. admission into the
— — i and I also
qiiish and convey, to V-e olllcers of the
.'Isylum, the management and control'of
tlie said orphan for... .years, in order
that... .maj'be trained and edncateil
according to the regulations prescribed
by tlie araiid Lodge of North ('itrollna.
Approved liy..
Abosit Onc’s Self.
The ohjet of brusliinn
^ , the teeth
i-s to remove tlie de}?triictive pcir-*
tides of food whicli bv their do-
—Onr duties would soldoin he disagreeable
if Avo did not perversely resolve to think so.
coioposition generate docfly. To
neutralize the acid resnltiifg from
this chemical change is the object
of dentifrice. A stiffbrush should
be used after every meal, and a
thread of silk floss'or India rubber
passed through betw'een the teeth
to remove particles. Rinsing the
mouth in lime water neutralizes
the acid.
Lix'ingand sleeping in a room in
which the Bun never enters is a
slow form of suicide. A sun bath
is the most refreshing and life-
giving bath th.at can possible be
taken.
Always keep the feet wnrm, and
thus ax’oid colds. To this end,
never sit in damp shoes or wear
foot cox'eriiigs fitting and pressimr
closely. “
Ihe best time to eat fruit is a
half an hour before breakfast,
A full bath should not be taken
less than three hours after a meal.
Never drink cold -water beftro
bathing. Ho not take a cold bath
xvhen tired.
Keen a bo,x of poxvdered .starch
on the waslLstand; and after xvasli-
ing, rnb a jiinch over the hands.
It xvill jirex'ent chapping.
If feeling cold before going to
bed, exercise, do not roast over a
fk'e.—Scientijic American,