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s 7 r 1 r V: ?: t U 3 Eatabliahed in 1878 HILLSBORO, N, C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1885. NEW SERIES VOL- VII. NO. 8. Commit ' k Morning Call. fVTien the rpied him coming Th wore a kerchief round her hi aJ, Her papered curl to hide. Th flounce on her skirta were torn Her slippers were untied, Her jacket wrnted buttons, and Twas not exactly clean, And through hr worn-out sleeves quit? plain 2Ir elbowB could Le seen. When the received lira Upon her brow her fluffy hair I jke tangled sunshine lay, Her pretty Mother Hubbard gown Was rich in ribbons p;ay, Her little thofH were decked with bowi, Some meadow flowers cbinj; N:ur her fair throat, and from her side A email sceni-bottle hung. Jlml t' a sure thing 'I hat. never yet for conjurer Did quicker rhwne befall, Than that young man evoked who came To rnidi a morning cull. Philadelphia Anm. An Uncommon ProceediEg. "How cold it is growing," said Miss Wait, the teacher of the common ;chool in the then brisk little manu-. facturing village of Shattuckvilie, as she tied on her soft blue hood, button ed hor warm ilannel cloak, looked at the window-fastenings of the not over- ommodious or attractive but snug schoolroom, locked her desk, and care fully shut the damper of the air-tight wood stove, preparatory "to quitting her domain of labor for the night. As she picked up her rubber over- shoes and stooped to draw them over her shapely kid boot, she cogitated: "Oh, dear! Tommy Howe's red toes sticking so pathetically through those old -gaping shoes fairly haunt sue. 1 wonder if, in all this prosper ous, busy village, there is no way of getting that poor child decently clad. 1 must think it over and see what I uiii do about it." Twenty-four hours later the leading man of the village, and the owner of the little factory there, who, years be fore. When a poor boy, had stranded lown from Vermont to this little bamlet, eccentric and brusque, but kind-hearted, keen-eyed, and observ ant of all that was going on within his domain, was walking along the street and met a bright-eyed and sprightly lad of 10 speeding ahead with that amusing, unconscious, con sequential air that a boy carries with his first brand-new pair of boots. 'Old Sam" Whittier, as this gentle 'nian was familiarly called, not by reason of advanced age by any means, but because of his supremacy as the mill-owner and employer of all the help in the hamlet, took in the situa tion at a glance, and called out to the absorbed child, "Hullo, youngster! where d'ye get them fellers?" rP , . . , preacher gave them to me, sir, and the lad's tattered cap came quickly off, and ho stood with it in his hand. "Does she buy boots for all the boys hi the school?" he growled out. "(Juesa not; but she bought Joe Briggs a speller and Jane Cass an arithmetic, and she gives away stacks of slate-pencils and paper and ink. and ueh things." "What made her go and buy them nice boots for you?" "She said she wanted to, sir; and when I said I had no money to pay her for them, she said she'd rather be paid in perfect lessons; and I will try my best to pay for them in that wav. you may be sure, sir." "Pretty good sort of a teacher, is she, bub?" "Oh, yes, indeed! I guess she must be the best teacher that ever lived, sir she tells us about so many things that we never knew before; and she wants us to be good and honest and not tell lies, and she says we shall be men and women by and" by, and she wants us bovs to know something so we can own'Tactories our own selves some time. ' The other teachers v.e'e had only heard our lessons '"and let us go. but she's so different!" "Well well, bub. I shall have to think this business over a little. Now run along, and go to scratchin' over them 'perfecj lessons.' I don't sup pose you'll fjid a person in Shattuck ville a better judge of'perfect lessons, or how much they are worth, both to the teacher and to the scholar, than Old Sam' Whittier. So, bub, look after your ways, and I -shall look after you." The next morning a little note writ ten in a coarse business hand was t'.isritched to the teacher by the hand .f cn of the children. It ran as fol- "Miss Wait: I have heard of some rather uncommon proceedings on your part as a teacher toward your scholars, I would like to inquire of you person ally as to particulars. Will you do me the favor to run over to mv house directly after the close of your school this afternoon. "Samuel Whittier. "What can I have done?" thought that little teacher, in such a peturbed state of mind that she corrected John ny Snow's mistake in his multiplica tion by telling him seven times fnine was fifty-four. Indeed, she let the mistake go so long that every little hand belonging to the second primary class was stretched up 'in a frenzy of excitement. "Let me see; what is it I have done the past week? I switch ed Bobbie Baker pretty smartly, to be j sure and I kept Sam Woodruff after school and I kept Marion Fisk in from recess for whispering; but I must keep order. Well, dear me, I have tried to do my duty, and I won't wor ry;" and Miss Wait resolutely went back to "seven times nine," and so proceeded in the usual routine. But she ate no dinner that noon, and had ft decided headache as she crossed the big-bridge over the hill to the mill-owner's residence. "I shall not back down in anything where my clear duty and self-respect are involved,", thought she. "I have set up a certain ideal as to what a teacher of these little common schools ought to be, and I will, God and my mind, good courage and health not forsaking me, bring myself as near to it as possible. Moreover, 1 will not consider, in the premises, whether the scholars are children of the rich or learned, or of the poor or ignorant. For the time being God has placed in my care ragged, dirty little wretches of a factory village, as well as clean, well-dressed, attractive children." "Cood evening, good evening, ma'am," said "Old Sara" Whittier, in his gruff way, meeting the teacher at the door. "As I said in my note to you, I heard to-day of some rather un common proceedings on your part. I saw, ma'am, little Tommy Howe in a new pair of boots thi3 morning. Do you know how ho came by them?" "I bought them for him, Mr. Whit tier," wondering whether the local magnate suspected the poor child of stealing. "Oh, you did! Are you in the habit of furnishing your scholars with such articles? Was the providing of boots a part of your business contract with the committee? If it was, 1 can put you in the way of buying boots at wholesale in Boston, where I get my supply for my store." "It will not be necessary, sir," re plied the teacher, with dignity. "I f thank you for your kind offer, how- ever. "Why did yfiu. furnish boots in this particular case, if I may inquire?" " The lad is very poor. His mother has her hands ' full with the smaller children. Tommy is learning rapidly; I see marks of rare intelligence in him. It would' be a pity to have him taken out of school at this time when he is so much engaged. Should he contin ue coming clad as he was in such weather as this he would be ill soon. 1 could not take the risk in either case." "Are you able to let your heart get the better of vou in this wav?" "I have my wages only." replied the young woman, with dignity. "Then you probably will have to retrench not a little in your own ex penses." "If I do it will harm no one's purse or pride but my own. In this instance it may be the matter of pair of gloves or an ostrich tip with me. With him the little act may make a difference that shall be lasting through time and eternity." "You have been attending that school over to South Hadley, Miear?" "Yes, sir." "Have you been through it, or grad uated, as they call it?" "Oh, no; I have attended but two terms. But I am fully determined to complete the course." Hum all right Miss Wait, you seem to be doing some good work among the children over the river there. I am going to think it all over; but look here if any more of those little rascals need boots, let me know. I shall consider it a privilege to provide them. You know 1 can obtain them at wholesale-una' ha!" and the now greatly relieved teacher's interview with the mill-owner ended. "If she goes on teaching on and off, and then taking a term on and off at Mount Holyoke, she can't graduate for years," ruminated Old Sam Whit tier, as he watched her tripping on over the hill; "it's ridiculous." And so it came to pass, when Miss Wait was paid her small salary at the end of the term, she found in the en velope containing the order on the town treasurer a check with a slip of paper pinned to it, reading thus: q "This may be an uncommon pro ceeding, but I thought it over and have concluded that vou had better go right along in your studies at South Hadley until you graduate. Aitec that, with your pluck and principle, you will be able to invest in boots or books, or in any way you see fit Very truly yours, "Samuel Wiiittier." I leave this true little sketch with out comment. It carries its own les son, both to struggling young teachers with hearts and brains, and to pros pered men of affairs, who may lend a helping iiand to deserving ones. Grant's Type. "Gath" says in an article on General Grant in the Cincinnati Enquirer: In the great men of the past we find none of the tvpe of General Grant. Cromwell and Wellington suggest no resemblance to him either in origin or temperament Among modest heroes like Admiral I)e Kuyter , he might be classified but for the supreme honors he has attained. It was told of De Ruyter that on the morning after a batile of four days a visitor found him sweeping his cabin and feeding his chickens; and "when decorated with honors and titles by every Prince of Europe he never in the slightest de gree overcame his innate modesty." Both De Ruvter, who was taken out of a rope-yard, and Grant, out of a tannery, were sincere republicans, graduated by a sense of duty that sup pressed all restless, vulgar ambition. Grant is the earliest fruit of that per fected and simplified republicanism which was seeded and ripened beyond the Ohio river. He is not only Amer ican, but North-western. People who are seeking in him traces of the old Colonial gentry, like Washington, are ignorant of their country and its ex pansion. What Washington but dim ly conceived the age and locality of Grant have fully realized a powerful democracy and its home heroes. He was born on the public land, went to land-endowed Public Schools, and was the son on both sides of pioneers. The whole machinery of the Federal Con stitution and the statutes of the gov ernment of the North-western Terri tory bad gone into operation when he came upon the stage. No other Presi dent except Lincoln had been exclu sively Western grown, and Lincoln was born in Kentucky, though of Pennsylvania descent Grant's stock is Furitarf'and Penn sylvanian. He is of English Puritan stock, which came to this country in 1630, ten years after the Pilgrim Fathers. The Man with the Camellia. "L'Homme au Camellie" ( The Man with the Camellia) is the heading a French paper gave lately to a sketch of one of the many original figures to be seen on the Parisian boulevard. Though invariably clad in the shab biest attire for excellent reasons the individual in question is never without a magnificent white camellia at his button-hole. A year or two ago he had, it seems, a rare run of luck at the green table, and with eccentric prudence, he determined to ensure, in the season of his prosperity, that, whatever priva tion the turn of fortune's wheel might bring with it, he should never want for his favorite flower. He asked his fleiiriste one day accordingly what sum she would take to supply him with a white camellia every day for the rest of his life. The amount fixed upon a very considerable one, as may be sup posed was paid on the spot, and now the ruined gamester struts daily along the asphalt, rejoicing in the possession of a . camellia worth rather more than the coat it adorns. So Near and Yet so Far. Dainty Dude Melinda.how did vou ; like my serenade last night ?" Melinda "I didn't like your posi- ; tion." j . "My position ? My attitude, you j mean." j -No. your position. You weren't far enough away for me not to l.tar J you, and you weren't ts enough LAND OF THE ESQUIMAUX. Some Traits of tha People in N the Arctic Regions. A Savaee Bace who Can Draw Maps and Have Tremendous Appetites, Writing about the Esquimaux in the New York Times Lieut Schwatka gays: "They are rude topographical j engineers as well as sculptors, and are j extremely good map makers for such ' unkempt savages. Xearly every white j man. explorer or otherwise, who has visited their country and associated with them speaks of this trait being very conspicious in them. It seems especially well developed in the wom en, although many of the men, from their greater amount of journeyings over and around a country, are often in a position to make more accurate drawings in the details or particular places. I have had several occasions ; to use them as map makers, and find ' their rude charts quite accurate, good enough at least to enable me to recog-; nize the places I was trying to make out. These propensities for drawing and carving have often been utilized by ethnologists to show the origin of this great family or race which caps, the North American Continent Noth ing so pleased the little ones of the Inn u its as a pencil and a clean piece of paper on which they could draw, and quite often we would find a group of these spending hours in producing fearful hieroglyphics, until the -sheet looked like a pattern sheet from a la-,; dies' fashion magazine. The nautical almanacs and books of tables for the party were profusely ornamented with these rude drawings, and the more im-I portant records only escaped a similar fate by being kept under lock and key when not used by us. The ornamental displays in the sew ing of the women are those which are confined to the limited varieties of colors to be found on the seal and reindeer. The fur of the latter in its prime is in the darkest-colored ani mals quite a glossy black on the back, the-flanks and belly being white, and between these extremes every shade j holding nearly a quart oi ;. non -a', of gray can be found. The skin of j and poured me out a pii of the stuff the former is tanned in two wavs, one ! from one, which he tai l me to drink of which makes it black, the other a ; to drive away the cold. My repug dirty white, and their best sewers ; nance for the odor I soim overcame, combine these furs and skins in de- knowing the usual after effect,, and I signs often quite intricate, and not j downed the dose as an old toper would without pleasing effect. None of the j bis morning drink, but with a horrible men or boys know much about sewing, j grimace. I mit add taat the effect although I doubt if like other savages j of warmth, a pleasant glow all over they consider it degrading, in so many j the body, was apparent about as soor things do they assist their,, women 1 as if I had taken that amount of alco with their work. As a war party is hoi, although one would imagine that wholly unknown among them, and ; the oil would have to digest according these are the only kipU of parties j to known laws of assimilation before among most savages Brnaccompanied j producing warmth. Several times af by women, it is seldom that the In- j terward I repeated the agreeable dose, nuits have not their footgear in the- i and always found the same efTect of very best condition, and somebody al- j genial warmth. ways with them to keep it so should j w Theories Abut Eating it get otherwise. j Dr j M n))(rr,.Sf once read a paper One of the duties of the Esquimau before the Boston Society for Medical women is to chew the hides of the j Improvement, in which he touched on ook-joo'c (great seal) Out are intended for the soles and footcovering of the sealskin boots, this process rendering them more nearjy waterproof, and they may be seen thus engaged in almost every tent or snowhouse. By the time they are old crones and too weak from age to chew on the sole leather any longer, their teeth are worn down almost to their'gums with the constant attrition. They will often do this labor as a pastime while employed at some other work which onlv requires about half the attention and the use of one hand, as cooking, leaving the other hand free to roll the great bolus of seal leather around in the modth, that keeps opening and shuttingil day with the regularity of a windmill,pump, and with just such spasmodic variations, according to the intensity of the mental wind. It would hardly do for one to imag- ine that an Esquimau could tire his j appetite lor nreaKiast. inis meal ti. jaws with wagging them, so constant- j self often dissipates these sensations, ly do some of them keep them going ) It is, therfore, desirable, if not esen in eating their almost continual lunch- j tiaL when nutriment1 is to be crowded, es of raw frozen meat and hot tidbits j that the last thing before going to bed from the stone kettle hanging over the ; should be the taking of food. Sleep stone lamp. As an example of their j lessD ess is often caused by starvation, enormous appetite, an Esquimau boy, j and a tumbler of milk, if drunk in the supplied by Capt Perry, of the royal navy, while wintering among thern, devoured in one day over 10 pounds of solid food and drank of tea, coffee, and water bver a gallon and a half. A man of the same tribe, (one of those not far from North Hudson Bay, where I wintered.) ate 10 pounds of oiid material, which included a couple of candles, and drank of various liq uids a gallon and a half, and these people were only about 4 to 4 feet in; height. I might give some Instances! in my own party, but being a practi. cai convert to tne ineorv oi tne neces- i sity'of considerable food in that cli mate I shall desist. The Esquimaux have often been ac cused of eating tainted meat This is true to a limited extent. Thefat meats of seal and walrus are stored away in the Summer for future usV, and this fat is a true preservative. never allowing the meat to go beyond rancidity, that is to putrefaction, and no more in that state than is caviar. 1 i and some kinds of game and cheese, i All the lean meats, such as reindeer or musk oxen, are generally disposed of immediately " in the warm Summer and only put in caches after freezing weather has come on. The general impression of people is that they drin,k oil (rendered from fats) of all kinds almost as copiously as we drink water, and yet I have seldom seen them uo this, and understand that it is only done to avert starvation, except salmon oil. I, doubt if they use as much oil as some civilized nations. In. the shape of huge chunks of blub ber from the whale, seal, or walrus, they consume enormous quantities, but to drink it in the pure state, or tu even use it as a dressing for any other cooking, Is very rare indeed.. The Esquimaux in and around the mouth of Black's Great Fish River catch quantities of fat salmon, and a great deal of oil is obtained from these fat Ash. This oil 1 have seen them drink and have soused it myself. About the middle of December, 1879. in our midwinter sledge journey from tha Arctic Sea to Hudson Bay, our supply of toodnoo (reindeer fat) ran verv low, and so did the thermometer, and we noticed the disappearance of our fatty food very conspicuously in the greater effort that was necessary to keep warm. After matters had been running this way two or three days, one of my Innuit sledgemen came to me and showed me a couple of recep tacles, being reindeer Mai lers, pxc this ques'ion upon which doctors disa gree, and said: "It, is a common im-. prssion that to take food immediately before going to bed and to sleep is un wise. Such a suggestion is answered by a reminder that the instinct of ani mals prompts them to sleep ;is soon as they have eaten; and in summer an after-dinner nap. especially when that meal is taken at mid-day, is a luxury indulged in by many. If the ordinary hour of the evening meal is six or seVen o'clock, and of the first mo ning meal 7 or 8 o'clock, an interval of - twelve hours, or more, elapses with- out food, and for persons whose nutri- tion is at fault this 13 altogether too long a period of fasting. That such i the summer highland pasture are pre j an interval without food is permitted (" ferred if they have calved in Febru- , explains many a restless nivrht. and ; much of the head and backache, and j the languid, half-rested condition on rising, which is accompanied by no middle of the night, will often pat people to sleep when hypnotics would &Tt. rubbed with a wisp of straw fa:! of their purpose. Food before rls- j this keeps away, it is considered, ing is equally Important an 1 expedient; rheumatism. The Swiss loves hia It supplies stiength for bathing and .j cow as an Arab loves -lis horse; he ( dressing, laborious and wearisome tasks for the underfed, and is a better morning -pick-me-up' than any tonic."' Hope, Storm orerhasguii Darkens the plain! Silence most diatual Burden the brain. Tlie wind that Over the mirth Sound in the graftes Swollen and harsh. Down thro the tiarkness Cutting its wy, G.cams from the h.avena Vac single raj. There in the temix-iT. Thres'ened with bl:gh One simple flower sparkles with liU! ; Jitchard L. Unuo'i m tht Current. nrnoKous. Wanted. A sheet from an oyster bed. Hooking and lying are the fisher man's crying sins. A cyclone is like a waiter. It car ries everything before it The bird family must have a jolly time they have so many larks. Wealth screens depravity, but it isn't worth shucks as a preventive of corns. Women are not1, incentive it a rule. V They have no eagerness for new wrinkles. ' Another triumph of modern science. A firm advertises: "Artificial flower boys waned.' t' "I've lost ten pounds of flesh on your account," sighed the butcher, as a dog ran oil with a steak. "He never had but one genuine case in his life," said a lawyer of a ri val, "and that was when he prosecut ed his studies." "Never mind me." :ai 1 Mrs. Jones before she was married, ami that is exactly what her husband did after the honeymoon was over. "O where does beauty linger?" de mande 1 a Quaker City poetess. As usual thing, she lingers in the parlor until her mother has cleaned up the kitchen. Of the seven successful candidate for the Presidency during the past twenty-eight years live are dea l, while of the seven uns i!-cesful .spirants five an alive. There's a faruv r boy in Ohio, who has the making of a "funny man" In him. He recently wrote an o le to the dead mother of his pet lamb, and called it a "Ewe loyv." Dairy Cows in Switzerland. An American, who has spent some time in France, writes: Now that co operative chee.-e ai d butter "farmeries' are the order of the dav, 1 wish to draw attention to the special breed of cattle in the Canton of Appenzell. The cows are good milkers, small but well built, admirably adapted for mountainous regions, and easily cared for. They are small b'f derg, and . their milk is as rich as a Jersey, and abun dant as a Kerry or West Highland cow. They yield from fourteen to twenty quarts of milk a day, but the average dally yield for the year is about eight quarts. The cows are hiret'for the summer pasturage ..ri tie- slopes of the Alps, for 16 o. 'J"1 fran, and descend in the autumn. comparatively fat The proprietor himself, or a member of his family acts as herd, and superintends the sa! of the milk at t he central de pot, or more generally converts it him self into chew. He may have from twenty to sixty cows. The latter never exceed fmnared-weitrnt 'x Thv receive the hull wh-i IH months ; old. and when they have bad six j calves are fattened for the butcher, j Young bulls of 2 to 3 years old are j selected to serve. Cows intended for , ary, and for lowUnd grazing if in November. Calves destined for the j butcher are only allowed to suckle i their mother three or four times. They are then fed from the pail twice a day. milk and water at first, then pure milk, mixed with the refuse of the cheese factory; but they are finished ofr on goat's thilk. The cows are milked twice a dav, and receive Rait every -ecnd day. They are daily curried, and occasionally washed. When wet after a storm or rain, they j employs neither whip, stick, nor deg. j Government is all by the voice. He j addresses them as his dear beast j das lUb Ykhl I. ft ; 5-:.? 1 J .1 ii 1 :1 i a :1 ii ft
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