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I THE OKi'HAES’ E.R1EKD. ■WcIiiicsil.a.y, BSay 3, IgT.'S. JAPAiV PEASi ... At tlie Orpl.'an Asylum hi Ox- ferd last yeai-, some friends ad vised us to iiliuit Japan Teas, be cause they were so prolific. IV^e selected the, Ticbe.st soil and the yie.ld ivas■ tremendous, the avoi- age beiiio' more than a hundred to one. But, on ti-ial, it was found thatneither man nor beast, neither orphan nor pig could bo persuad ed to eat them. We are fond of peas; but we are done with Ja pan. Roswell C. Smith, the author of Smith’s ineYitable Grammar and of’ other school-books, is dead. Noah Webster’s Diction ary has been very much iiuproA-- ed since his death. Some first- I'lass teacher may now do a good work for. Smith’s Grammar. The earth-quake at Bald moun tain will not be repeated. It paid neither the people who got it up, nor-the'ijapcrs which seiit repor ters .there. Who wants another eainli-;piake I A PA'i'Satl' ifi. S. C. Shelton, ofAslKnilio, h.as patented a’ tobaeco-sfick. A wire is .fastened near one end of the ordinary stick and runs along- its back and terminates in a sharp point. I’lie leaves are stripped from the stalk in the field and strung on the wire, one half hanging on one side of the sfirk and :the other.lialf haug-ing on the other. In this way the bam liolds more and a good color is more easilv secured. The May numlter of Oiir TJv- wg (md'Our'Dead is exceeding in teresting-and decided]V excels the average Amencan mstg-azine.; yet some Soiitliern people ■ prefer Nortlieru literature, ju.st because, they do." ' . \Vh6n,a. mail’s, dajly deportment will not ]irove liim to bo a Mason, then he'ought to inform people ol' the fact bx' wearing a G, or a square, or some masonic ciiibletii. Wilson, N. 0., April 28th, ISTb. 'do the IF. M., Wardeyts and breth ren of the several Lodges in Isorih Carolina: I fee! it my duty to call upon you for more active effort in bc- hait ot tliat tiohle cluiritv-, at once the pride and .chief glory- of Ma.- sonic enterprise in this State, TFJE OEPILLN AiSYLUM A'f OXFOKCt. It musl be sustained ; and to the Lodges of the. State it looks for support, Our honor as indi vidual masons, our character as a great benevolent Institution, our obligation to obey the rosoiuti0.n3 ot tile Grand Lodge, all demand that you do not neglect to provide, for the support of the poor help less chiltiieii ooiumitted to our care. Resolutions of the Grand Lodge, on jiag-e 53, Proceedings..of the Atunual (dommunicatioii, Decem ber, 18T3, is still in force and le gally and morally- .binding, and Masters ot Lodges lu-e obliged to see that they are obeyed. And 1 now call upon you not oidy- to see to it that they- are obeyed in letter, but in the true spirit of Masonic cluurity-. Tiio. follo'wing is the resolution :— liesalved, Tiiat the Master of each.Subordinate I^odge aj)])oiiit a Standing Committee upon rais ing; funds tor the Orjihan Asylum, and require said committee to re port iu writing each mouth, and ihat said reports and the fuuds re ceived be forwarded nionthl-y td the Suporiuteiideiit of the Asy- hiin, and that the supjiort. of die Orphan Asylum be a regular or der of business iu each: .Subordi nate Lodge at each ooinniimiea- tiou. to Lodges the duty of requiring their Secretaries to lie inol'e active and faithful in their efforts to col lect the dues from the moinbers, which may- oftentimes be more ell'octnally- accomplished by- the qiersonal appeal tha.n by a-notice to aiqiCiir anti jiayi. ■ Such a ooui so woidd bi-iiig pro.sperily- to each Lodge and fuvnisli the mcams to enable it to meet its full jiropor- tionate share of duty and obliga tion to the Grand Lodge and to charities dependent upon it. The new- system of revenue: (fifty cents per capita) adopted by- t!ie Grand Lodge, should com mend itself to every Lodge in our jurisdiction as being the Jiiost equitable that could be .adopted, whereby every Lodge pay.s to the Grand Lodge in proportion to the number of inoinber.s: a system ■which has the eudorsoment of Tiiscarora Lodge, Noi 122, has ajipoinled a committee to make uitable preparations for the cele- hralioii of the 24th. of June next. On Tuesihiy night, in coinpanv with several gentlemen, ive at tended an exhibition at the Asy lum. The Orphans sang sever,a! songs and also tyent through tlie calisthenic_ exercises, after w-hich they- were addressed .by his Hon or Judge Watts, and Hon. J. J. Davis.. A exillectioii was then taken up and we learn quite a nice little sum was realized. When y-oti visit Oxford, be sure to go to tlie Asylum and see the great w-ork which is going on in the way- of educating and caring for the' Orjihans of our State, and we ai'O sure that your purses will open more readily- to assist in sustaining this great euterprise.— Vranidin Courier. w-onE." The resolution's'of the Gi-gud Lodge' at its last session restoring tlio 'ancient work has gliuMened many- a heart made sad by the iuuovatious of the last few- years, and I now caJl upon all to drop the "new dupiDfurd'- and fall'into the eJd system-of work as w-e had it from Stevenson and his j-upils, ■and as ratified by the, tcstipiopy' of our lathers .as the aueleut work of the or I er. .Many never depart ed from the old . w-a--,-; but thitse. wliol have, I admonish to repitii- the damage by- calling iu some one qualified to teach, and leawi to tread the pallis loavde hallowed by- the f'aitlifu! of other day-s. Bretlieni Beniiee Walker, Fraukliiiton, N, C.; Samuel II. Roundtree, Kinston; N. C.; W..F, Davis, Kittrell’s ; N. C.; Tliomas’ I’almer; Shiloh, N. C,; T. G. Gardner Wilmington;' N. C.; hold eommissions as Grand Lec- tm-erers, luid they- and- those wlioin tliey recommend have au thority to teach tlie work. nearly- every- Grand Lodge iu this country-, through ours is le.S3 in amount per capita tliau many-. It is my- sincere hope that the Lodges will appreciate the impor tance and necessity of a liberal endoi-sonieut of the hew sy-ste'm ill order to enablethe Grand Lodge to meet iu obligations, one of the greatest of which is the Orphan Asylum G. V/. Blount, Grand Master. AKOBT SSAIiS’S E«SS. BYi'KOP. 0, BK OWN GOODE. Mr. J. Hobgood luisa venrable -liii neu e'lck -ivliicli takes care of lot ot little chiek.s iu tJie mos; iiotherly manner, feeding and ilucking to tiiom and at nig-Jit qithers them as a hen gathereth ler hrriod under his wiiigs.—IFk- '‘‘On Advance. . A clergyman in one of our Eastern cities was met by- a .eedy-looking man with a flask if whisliey in his jiocket, -ivlio in- |uired : “Sir, is this the nearest pad to the almshouse?” “No, ' jn-,” replied the clergy-man, point- I niif to tilt} bottle; - “but that is.” GRAND LODGE DUES.. I have- reason to fear that some Lodges, in .view of the action of tlie grand Lodge, changing' the ey-stem of annual dues to the Grand Lodge from the specific sum of fifteen dollors to iuety. CENT.S per capita, are disposed to deal eunimarly and rigidly witli members who are not prompt in tlie payment of Lodge dues. While 1 approve of a strict coii- fomiity- to the law, and applaud those officers of Lodges w-lio insist upon obedience, yet I apjireheud the matter may- be carried to too groat a length, and 1 feel it to be my duty- to remonstrate against that which I am informed is pi-e- vailing to an alarming extent, that of almost indiscriminate dismem berment for non-pay-ment of dues, which course must re.sult disas trously to the best interests of Masonry in this jurisdiction, and embarrass the Grand Lodge in its operations. I oaniootly- commend. Mr- J. O. Giiristian, of Hunt ington, Ind., writes.- “1 have sev eral times killed water snakes, which, when bpeue'd, contains up- w-iu'ds of twenty- good sized young .snakes, from six or seven inches long. Last summer, after pulling ont a large stump, -we' founa tvi-'enty-seven eggs, which -wo broke, finding iii each a w-ell de veloped snake'about nine indies long; after -wai’ds we found and killed tw-o snakes near tlie' same place, about four feet long, and resembling the siiake.s in the eg'gs. I 'am satisfied that some snakes 1 briiig foi-tli he-r y-oiiug alive, while otlnirs lay eggs. Now is' there any- otlier olas.s of animals wliich have more than one was of rejiro- .mciiig their young-.” Mr. Clu-Rtiau lias determined for himself a fact which has long been kuo-wn to natura'iiste. Some- snakes do lay eggs, while others give birth to living yroung-, y-et' the ui-fierence is not so great ae it may- at fii-st aiipear. W.e all know that every animal, in its earliest stages of development, is euclo.s- ed witliin tlie walls of an egg. '-■That all life is produced from egg, '-‘Omns vivum ex ovo”, is an adage handed down fooin the eaj-liest lames, and modern investigations have confirmed its trutli. ’ Animals are either .viviparous, oviparous, or ovoviviparous. The first class includes all the highest- aijimals, the mammals, or those -B'hicli suckle- their' yo’arig ; and. these the y-oung animals derives itc nourishment from the' eystom of its parent, until'it is strong enough for an independent life. In tlie other two clas'sfeg, which ought really to be 'considered as one,’ tlie young animal is walled up at an early period within the outer coverings of the egg, and as it is now entirely separated .froni the iiarental system, it' is nourished by- a supply- of nutri tious mater stored up -ivithiu the egg, and which wo call the yolk. When the y-ouug animal is suffi ciently grown to care for itself, and the yolk of the egg is all us ed, it l)-ursts the envelop of the egg, and is born. To this class belongs birds,, reptiles, batrachins (frogs, toads, etc.), fishes, iiisects, crustaceans (crabs and lobsters), worms, moHu.sks, and all the lo-iv- er aniimals. Oviparous animals afo those wliicU “la.y” their eggs to be hiitelicd by the warmtli ot their pargnt’s body-, as in most birds; by the ivarmth or the soil or sun, a.s in reptiles ; or by- the warmth of the water, as in fishes. O'c'o-viuiparQiis animals, are those which do not lay their eggs, but rdtain them until the envelopes are broken, po that the young ai-e born alive. The casual obser ver -would be very- likely- to call those viviparous-, but a study- of their anatomy- shoivs us that they- are very- clo.se to the ov'ipara; in l:u.‘t, the only difference is this, that the egg is delayed a htCe longer iu the former, so that it is hatchedy'a.si! before it is laid. This point establislied, it is not very- hard to comprehend how it is “that some snakes bring forth their young alive, while otlie.s lay eggs.” I know of a case where one of our common striped snakes (JEuiaenia siriedis) -u-as kept in confinement, and having no satisfactory- place in which to lay' its eggs, retained them until The FoxeSrf' " BY PBTEK V On a wintei-’s night, As t-jiAsnooii phone hright, Two'foxes wont uttt for prey; Ah tlioy trottihl along, They ohoered the htuely wajM . Tlifoiigh ths \V()j(1 they woutj But tliry eoiild notPOeiit A nihhit or goose astray ; Blit at length tliey caiho' To some better game In R fariJior’H harii by the way. . On a roost there sat Some chickens as fat As foxcR could wish for tlieirdiiinerP, And the ]iro\vltTS found ' A hole iK’ar the ground, And they both woutiu—the. sinners. tiftei.' tliey were liatclied, tlms triv- ing birth to its young alive. The same thing has been known to occur iu the common Euglisli liz ard,(iacerfcs «^i&),which is also usually- oviparous. "We find the Bamo thing iu other group.s Of ani mals ; thus many of the bIhu-Ics and skates of our sea. coast, are ovipai-oiiSj W'hile othere bring forth their y-oung alii-e. The minnows (CyprinM'kntidce) of our brooks,-show the same differences of iitibits, and parallel cases oc,C'.u- among frogs, snails, insects, uid worms.—R-nicr. Agriculturist. OONTRIBSJTIOSIS TO THE 0-KPHAN ASYLUM J'.UOM APKLL 27tii TO MAY ixii LN'CLUSIVE. . They both wont in, A\ ith a pfjueoze and a grin, And the ohickenn were (luiekly killed j Ami ono of them lunched, . . And feasted, and rnmielit'd, ; - . • Till his stomach was.faivly filled. The other, more wise, Looked about with both eyes,. ' And scarcely would eat at all; For, as he oauie in, ' W^itli a squeeze and a grin, lie remarked that the hole was email. ' And the cniniing elf Said to himself: “If I Oat too niuch, it is plain, As the hole is small, I shall stick in the wall And uovor get ontagaiud’ ' Thus matters went on ’ . Till the night was gone, ' And the fanner came ’oht with a polo j ' '' The foxes both flew, • • ■ .• k-■ And one went through, But the greedy onoetnok iu the hole. IN CA8II. Faid S.1.7.1, collection in Enfield.- “ 17.04, collection in iJalifax. Paid 1(514.50, Collected iu .Roxboro, hy Misses Lein J Lausdoil and -itosa L(.-e Joj’dan. “ Id.tX), RdYK H G'ibboa^'eollectiou ;-4' B.inks’- ChapeJ. “ 0-00, Adoidrom Lodge Xo 149. “ 8.1o,'C'dleeTed lfy Rev J. C. Alcxaner. “ . 4.00, Fraukliu.Lodge iso 109. “ 3.0'ji3erfa I.odgo Agj 204 “ il. Curtis. “ 2.0'J each, .Mr* M S Findly, Dr R- F iiaekett, R A Sjiainlujiir. “ 1.70, eoileciion at Tally iio. “ 1.00, Rev dauios iMeY'-ili. “ 1.00 each, Mrs Kate lloldcu, S F ParUc, : W il lIui)b:u’Jj J 8 Fc’rguson, J i) Cowles,. F C liall and Wife. “ .50 cents each, J F Spaiuhour, A Ruimi- . ■ sou, J S Cnicor. “ y.j cents, R F C'iuitei- “ 25 cents each, J C 0 Hubbard, Bamucl Canter, Rev L i’ Gwaltney, Mrs ilall, Miss Fanny Rousseau. “ 10 cents each, \V' A Lj'.xtoii, S II Bobbitt. In' the hole stuck he. As stuffed a.s could he ‘ ' ' ' ’ • With the chickens ho had been eating, He could not get'out, Nov turn about And 60 he was killed by beating. Thug ibo fox, you see, ■ - . So greedy was he, Li*6t hie life for a single dinner. .' ' - i Now I.bope thnt you • - ■ ■ Will believe it true,' And never be such .a sinner. » . Seeing. jEsus.-y-A little girl lying iii licd, so ill that her disease had taken nfrriy • bci’ feigljt; Her teacher went- to seei.'her, and - said, “Ape you quite bluld, Mary 1” ■“Ycs/'-tdie replied,'“but lean see JesusJf “How d) you see Jesus p “ W-dh the eye of my heart.''' Happy child! Mary knew the Lord.’ Do you know and love Him ? and 1 bag IK EIND., Mxs A Rousseau, J calico dress. Elijah Montague, 2 pieces of bat of beaus. R J Mitchell iz. Sous, seed corn and soap, r D Ch’awi’ord &. Go., 1 lot garden seeds and one bushel ouiuus. Miss Bet-tie Meadows, 1 pair socks. The following persons have paid for The CiiiLiJUEN’b FitiEND for one year from -this date: liov.mrd Peter Jones, Miss Addic Clieta- liam, L. F. Duncan Miss Nora Johnston, J. K. Harris, S. J. Allen, ' J, T. Rogers, W. H. Jones, William O’Neal, Miss Ada Martin, Mis-s Mamie Morrciw, Franklin Lodge No 109 Henry Gibbs, T. F. Anderson, J. L. Judkins, Miss Eveliiu! Brown,'Winfield Buckner Spiers, E.;L. Cohen & Co., Miss Fminie Gi'ady, Miss Emily Gilliam, Wright Hays. SSszit to ££i!>y3. The following .‘iigiiificant ad■•■ertisement late ly appeared iu a oonnlry pajier : “An apprentice wanted,—A boy that neither drinks, uses tobac-eo or profane lan guage, can find au excellent opportunity to loapii the printing business at this office.” Whereupon a confenipo.’ary takes the op portunity to give the following bit of gocnl advice ty boys goncF-ally : No employer will accept the services of a chewing, smoking, drinking or swearing bey, -wheD a clean one can be found. Boys -who have these habits, inevitably become dub, la^y and shiftless. They do nol rise iu life to resi>ectablo posi tions, bat in a slip-sliod manner, slaiF, elulF, sliiff along, living from Inind to mouth, and fetcii up in the poorhouse, the prison, commit suicide, or dki mis(5rable vtigaboudu. J. I ought ^‘to give as God prospered,’"’^— thatis, in }iiO[i()rtiou to the means jilacod in my liauils. Tho widow, with her two mitds, i.s ' nut relieved from tlie fibligation, and the rich ' 1X0 called upon to give according to theif abundance. 2. I should give liberally, not in stinted measure. 3. I ought to give cheerfully, not grudg ingly. 4 My gifts should be the result of principle, iK>t of nuiro whim, or under the influence of oxciting iipfx'jils ; I should inform myself in respect to proper objects, and pu^os« in my hciU’t to give. 5. f ought to give frequently. This is God's plan : “On the first day of tho M’oek,. let every one of you lay by him instore ns God hath prospered him.” ■WHY SHIOULn I GIVE I L It is God’s will. He hail commanded H‘ just as-ho has coiuiuandod repentance, faith- and baptism. 2. Because God is always giving to mo. 3. God has attached large promises to giv ing. 1 must not forget this. 4 Givihg will be promotive of my own haj>- piness. 5 The subjects of nec-e-ssity aro nmncrooiH 0 The opportunity of giving will sh>oii p^ away. 7. These gifts will bo remembered in the Judgment. How unspeakably desirable is Christ’s approval. 8. Have 1 not been remiss in times paatf 9. Grathnde for the unspeakable gift of God’s dear Sou ought to move uie-to give.' Hflwas.a horse now,’ mased a big boy, Td bo stabled, rubbed down and bo fed f but I’m a boy, and I’ve got to go home, clean off snow, bring, in wood, tote water, and rock the old baby for for au liouc and a lylL’ Li i
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