0HIM1AN8’ FHIKND.
y, Assails*:’;:?,
W4SiiI^«ri S'rR£ua>.
i\v!-iv!!’g' at Wiliiiiiinion wo
V, cie ail kiixiiy cared for at the
luaciniig ISoHse, and our hig-
soi'ifi: liost refuses any conipen-
sadoi; for the havoc we itiako on
i'res-h fish, &c. Ora" entotaui-
n-ent is given in Jlasorje liall,
iuui i)r. Everett and otJiors arc
verv attentive but tlio llall is too
snsal!, and tiio ladies occupy near-
!v ali the room.
It is thono'ht best not to at-
tenir.t a collection, but to repeat
and do so hi some more spacious
Ilsli so that all the people may
lisvo the opportunity. Still some
feel so anxious to oontribnto that
they hand money tO Dr. Everett
as tl’.ey pass out at the door.
.hlariy on Saturday we start for
luimbortou. Maj. Pope meets us
:;t the train and has all things
ready. Our ontertaininent is giv-
e-n in t-so Prefhytorian Ctuircii.
Eh'-e i t K. Ijcimett prays lor the
i.‘." The house is soon full
ai..d .all tilings pass off pleasantly
C':;:»pt that one good brother
conii/k.iiis tliiit ho is not allo.wed
t(> ajipiaiid by clapping with bis
feet. A dUrcrent kind of applause
.1.1 ueedoe and is more appropri
ate. On iSufiday we hoar a good
Btiimon ffsa Elder Bonnott and
rest under tire hospitable roof of
0:;r esteesnoii brother, B. Good
win.
On Monday wo are off to Laii-
lii.burg.
Leaving so nwny kind frioiids
in Lumberton is ® sonreo of re-
grot, lint tho train lumbers heav
ily along and vve are off for Lau-
I'inburg, as wo suiiposo : but a
frienii on tbo train ini'oniis ns that
iPrraivgcinents are complete for r>s
- t(i stoji at Shoe Heel. Wo give
.an entertainment in a largo Ilall
.and besides the liberal collection,
..all our bills are paid and imuiy
j resents are niadoto llie children,
■f h-or '’n.:,; ' .'ms a cufio.sity in the,
saw miii. The
oidy
tivo teeth and will
■cut 1600 ft in a day. With grato-
■ful I'.earls wo leave Shoo iieel,
but will visit Lauriuburg as we
.letuni. liockiiigham lues been
f.iKli.li'eront to tho orphan work,
and ive stoyi tiiero. The Poo i)ee
Courky ami The Spirit of the South
^ire’uunlished hero. Wo give our
(.nteita'iimeiit inthc Presbyterian
(.Jimrcii, but find it too Email for
/he andioMco. llev. Mr. O’Bryan
pravs for tho Orphans, and tho
>eoj;lo aro very attontive in spite
of a long speech not in tlio pro-
yariimo,
Richmond County has no .Or-
^ at Oxford. W'hero are the
,oy« and girls whoso parents are
. oiul ? >rp!ia,ns and yearlings
ave seen .^tard limes since the
p;voos wore sot free. But tlie
oeoplo are \eiy kind. Now we
u-f off for \V'iti'fi*8l«.w
>Cxiuiaples SiliitissSsOii.
a\ cot-re,spor.dont writin.g to
.Dihiieul Jtrrordcr frotn East-
. .W! North C:iroH!i;i, iu regard to
thnaUy .Hchool and Missioti work,
says ri' Ikithel OLiurch Sunday
')!,k(X:li “Mthough it has not
.alsod as .mur.h inonoy as some
ticlioeb, it is doing a good
.111(1 i.s coiiinbutin.g to more
-ts than 'eort schools. 'I’wo
■eioes havo been fonvard-
.) Oxford Orplnau. Asylum
.. tlie last low montlis.”’
.('o clip the following para-
.eli from tlio Ucairdcr of tlie
■ j he Sabbath School of the
■ v-'di! Street (Second) Baptist
r ^ ts . ■( / pas rosol.vwJ
I he Orphan Asylums at Oxl'ord
and Mars Hill—a charity worthily
bestowed.”
Other Ohuvciies and Sunday
Scliof,!.-! havo recently forwarded
contributions to the Asylnm.
Others arc moving, slowly, in the
same direction, while many, very
many, seem not to have thought
of the matter at idl. The work
will go on ; it is God’s work and
ho will .sustain it ami bless those
who engage in it and contribute
to ifo Bucoess. It is a matter for
every Churcii and every Chri.s-
tian to decide whotber they will
have a hand in it or not. Hero
is tho Asylum with the bereaved
and destitute Orphans, assembled
by God’s providence to be taken
care of and educated .and made
to fed that they are not utterly
cast off from Imm.anity, without
friends and without sympathy.
Who desires to bo excused from
his or her part in this groat and
good work ?
tlOKrTMKSiAO.
Tliis is a homely subject for a
newspaper article but it is a very
important one in household econ
omy, and porliap,s a good deal
more niay be said on it than one
would at first think. Indeed there
ax'O very few of the ordinary cooks
who can make good corn bread,
whether plain, raised ivith yeast,
or luaito into wliat is commonly
c,a!led “batter-bread”.
There are many modes of mak
ing corn Oread—toavos or pones,
hoe-cakes, ash-cakes, jolmny-
c.akes and “corn-dodgers”, all of
which would'oo mot with, except
tliojoliny cake, (tho best of all ivheii
properly baked) iu a week’s so
journ in the country among tho
i'armers, and periiaps vve should
lind the degrees in quality as va
rious as tho sorts of bread.
Tlie hoaUh of the eater depends
a gre.at deal upon the quality of
bread he eals, hence it is very
important in a family to under
stand how to make good bread.
We remomber, with mouth in
clining to moisture, the large
brown loaves of “risen bread” our
iimtlior i;.iid gr.a.ndmother used to
make. How the-y made it we do
imk'Luow, but how we relished it
with hi bowl of good milk as an
accompaniment, is a distinct re
collection. There are a few of
tlio thrift)', old-fashioned house-
v.'ives iu the country who make
this sort of bread yet, but it is go
ing- out of vogue, and perhaps vve
may never face a loaf of it with
the keen relish and hearty satis-
faetioii we felt iu partaking of it
iu boyliood.
Perhaps the best corn bi-oad
o.ver baked iu this country used
to be !uad.o by tho negro women
of the Soiilh, hoforo tho days of
enianeipatioii. (The weather is
too hot or t'lvo cold for them to do
so' since.} The way they did it
may be understood {perhaps) from
tl-.o follo-w'iug' receipt giveii by
some o.ld aunt Dinah to a young-
lady who ioquir'jd lior inetljod of
making goivd corubread: “Wh)',
darlin, soinetimes generally I take
a little meal, and souietiuies gen-
c.niHy I take a little Hour, and I
kind o’ mixes ’em up with hot wa
ter, .-ind 1 puts iu eggs enough,
and a little .s-alt, anc [ 1 bakos it
i(»ng oiiong'b, and/if you’n cu:t
jo)s.s iso you (*.aii make it ax^ good as
i klo.” Practico makes porCect,
and Ik was Dinah’s long practicev
no donbtj tluit eiiabled licrto make
palatable and healthy bread..
To good corn breads it is
os'senthii to have good meal. Then
tho dough must ho made k^aip'op-
or-conKistonc.y—noitlier too stitb-
j>ov t/-'o rliin—worked until ev*ry
t ( ,
baked, as aunt Dinah says; “just
long enough,’’and you will have
bread lit tor Christian [moplo to
eat. d'lic subjec.t is not cxluutst-
ed but tho weather is too hot to
pursue it further toda^^
It is well known to ouffcaders
with how much iiderest and care
tho transit of tho planet Venus
across the sun’s disc, which oc
curred last year, w'as observed, in
order tliat the sun’s distance from
tho earth might be finally deter
mined. The important material
obtaineel ]}y the numerous expe
ditions sent out to observe the
transit has not yet been averaged
and published. For this reason,
the qi-iestion of Sol’s remoteness
cannot yet bo fully satisfied.
Prof. Jieis, of Municli, liow'-
ever, writes tliat a preliminary
and approximate conclusion may
be obtained, on the basis of two
successful -observations at Peking
in China and the island of St.
Paul in tiio Indian Ocean.
Accordi ng to these observations,
the sun’s parrallax is 8 871) sec
onds or 8.88 seconds. Thi.sis so
nearly correct that the second fig
ure or lirst decimal v/ill not need
any alteration. The old value
given by Kuke was 8.571. This
is said to agree wonderfully with
the experiments of Cornn on tho
speed of lights and also wdth the
results of the observations by Gal
lo, ill Preslau, on the planet Flo
ra.
Prof, lleis accordingly erJea-
latcs tho mean distance of the sun
to be about y 1,819,855 geograph
ical miles.' This mean distauce
is somewhat nearer than the old
calcula-tion. of 95,,000,.000, but it
is the one general]}-’ adopted i-n
tliose days. Venus has thus no
tified us that old Idol k so iimcli
neai’cr; though, judging by the
vveatlier lately, we should have
su))posed iiim farther off than
ever. 91,000,000 miles is,, how
ever, quite a respectable distance.
M.r. Proctor says if an infant
had an arm just that long, so that
ho could touch the sun with hi.s
finger, lie ^vouid of course got his-
finger burnt;, but ho w'ould have
to live to be Ido years before he
would feel tlie pain, according to
the calculated rateof nerve motion.
If, however, ho could sec hisiiogor
on fircy he woultl bocoiiie aware
of it ill eig]i-£ minutes.
SWJEU'i’ OLi> 1.00.
The Meade Couniy (Ivy.) Afjmwgi-restliia
iM-.couiit-uf all old whii;!i, uu- behig.cut up,
watt found to coutiuii a most uutepected trea^
uit' d i
Wo li-.i'Yo frequenlly read of ''ttweetnesa
Wiittted on thi' dottort air,’’ hut tho bout illusira-
liou of tbitt-siiyiug was brought to light ro-
coiitly om Ithio River Jula-ud. For tea- or
twelve years piusf, di
cumulatiug on-said-isiaiKl in such large quan
tities tus to nccc-ssitate ityde.sti^ielion. A-^:eorvI-
ingiy the owner jfthe island, M-r. Klijfth Dau
gherty, fired the-huge pile. Tho top of tho
dj'ift biu'u-ed very readily, but at the l>oMoin
lay a huge sugar tree, half_burio(l in tliO aabd,-
aiid so l otted and watorsoaked as to prevent
it being destroyed very easily. This old tree,
or log, sobbed and smoked for several days,
and seemed deterniined-not to burn. Finally
Mr. 1>. dcteriniued to break It npj and thus
as.sist iu. Us dostru'dion. After ttphttiiig it
o]»en he dlsi'()V('i'e4 in its* centra about U-n
foot oi the i)i;ro.st lunieyoomb, ].'0.rfootly jire-
servoUj-aad nice-looking lunu'y as-was ever
seen. tasting of- it ho Ibund it to bo ax- lit
tle fitr-ong.
V'hmrh no way of'asc.eitaimiig'.how iong-
tlio-bo’^py had Itce-n hi the-obldreo, as it was
on th? isFais^^i^iwy yeiu'S btiforo tlKi p«i‘«!>Tit
.(WHiH'caino into-posKoasioia. Ifhad ^biubtloss
.Ikiattx] (town during hi.fli waterTnun soniai
lihieo aKovo,.ar>ddhnd-^i on tho idaml. Tiiis
siUhO dd log.bad for yonr.s IkLin u.scd as seats
for pieiih^ parlie.-^-visitiiJg tlie i;daud: rfoh.i-
t tl'is arcoiiii!.-; for ‘•[sweat” crij.iyirieiit L./vei':i
A story is tqhl of an ohl man
who lived long au'O. Forcible
was tho way in which ho spoke
of tho struggles he had to carry
on. A friend aslvcd him the cause
of his complaints, since in the
evening lie so often complained
of great weaihiess and pain.
“Alas ! Tliave every day sonuicli
to do. I have two falcons to
tame, two haves to keep from run
ning awa}q two hawks to manage?
a serpent to coniine, a- lion to
chain, and a sick man to tend
and wait upon.” “Why this is
only folly,” said the friend ; “no
man has all these things to do at
once ”
“Yes-indeed,” he answered, “it
is with me as I liave said. The
two falcons are my two eyes,
which 1 must dilligently guard,
lost something should please them
which may lie hurtful to my sal
vation ; the hares a.ve my feet,
which I must Imkl back, lest they
should rim after evil objects, and
walk in tho ways of sin ; the two
hawks are my two liands, ■which
I must train ami keep to Avoi'k,
in order tliat I that I may beablo
to provide for my brethren wlio
are in need; the serpent is my
tongue, which I must always
keopin with a bridle, lest it should
speak anything unseemly ;■ the
lion is my heart, with which I
havo to maintain a continual fight,
in order that vanity and p'fidemay
not till it, Invt that the grace of
God may dwell and work tliero;
tho sick man mj o-wn l)ody,
wliich is ever needing my ■watch
fulness and care. All tills dail}-
■wears out my strengili.” The
friend listened in wonder, and
then said; “ Dear brother, if all
men labored ami struggled after
this manner, tlie times would be
better, fmd more according to
tlie- will of Qoi}.''^Nehcmiah the
Tirshatha.
Froui the .th-Pt-bytcviaii.
A Wife’s rrolest.
Mr. lidltor :—You li.-i-ve a spoc-
iiil-eoluinii for young-'ladies, and
frequeiiil)! useful liiiit,-) to wives.
I beg leave to send yon a iir.o or
two addressod io husbamls, wiio I
rrai sure need .as many linos upon
liii'os and precepis upon pracopt.s
as eitlioi- of the .aljovo d.asscs. I
do not mean this for what the
world (-alls bad liusbaiids, bxitfor
tsiat class of husbaii'J.s ealled
“good,” who vYOa'.ld be shocked at
being calli.id anything else. XVa-
tor Wears away rocie, not by li.ard
slTC.Wor.s, blit by oonliuual driii-
piiig. I have iievoi- been in print
before and want it kept a jiro-
found secret noiv, but I have so
la.any complaints from ovortiuslo-
cd women, I feel coti.-rti-aiiied to
speak. If I can awaken the dbr-
mi-tot eonsideratioii of one lius-
b.and in regard' to an uncomplain
ing and selfsacrificing wife, I am
amply repaid. I hope )-ou will
not regard it as a strike at your
business, altlioue-Ii' newspapers
will be my tlieme. Newspapers
.are a niosl; cxceller.-t- iiisfitution in
general. Every faiuiiy s-hould
havo one or two ivcoklies to bo
road aloud for tho beiiofit of the
family, by the ono most at leisw-o
in- dm hou'seiiold. 1 have bSen
thinking for some fiuio nev.'Epa-
por reading ivas' being carried’to
excess,■ and becoming 5i nuisance
to some-wives' -.vlio would appre
ciate under other eircimistauces a
good newsjyqier- as nrdoh as their
husbasids.
Tliose aro jieculiar- and- t'vving
times- on wives alidt mothers;
'i'iio)*' need all thy comfort ami
sup|ii)rt which can be roudered
■ ^ d'' ffoiu their L iis-
bands whose .s\mpatliy is worth
ill! tiie world beside, idaivanls
ai'e very annoying' and are need
ing continnally a rejielition of or
ders, which is nioet trying. In
short every thing well done must
pass und-er the immediate eye of
the misfress, hence her life is
a drudge. -Imagiuo to yourself
an over worked wife hurriedly
fiiiisliing up the day, duties iu
order to get ready for tho recep
tion of her husband, -who lias
walked, rode, sat on tho street
convoi-sing with numerous comers
and goers, until fully satisfied
ivith so'sisl intercom's©--—in short
luxuriating generally as best suits
his taste, irrespective of his means..
She is- done .at last, scats lieselt,
the first time'pcrhajis in several
houi'S, to await hfs refiirn. Her
heart gives a bounsl, as she hears,
his familiar step. She still hojios
against hope for a cliange in his
ways. Ilo'miters voi')'e-srelessly,
enquires, -‘How are ymi P mere
words of co-urso to break the si
lence,. (perhaps ho left her quite
unwell iu tiio morning); Tho re
ply he nevci- heard, nor glanced
at the haggard, anxim-is expres
sion vfbicli was answer enough
v/ithout a word spo-ken, throws
his hat on tire bed, sits down ou
a comfoi'tab'le chair, takes a fresli
cIkwv,. which, lie rolls like a sweet
morsel from cheek to cheek,
squirting the juice indiscriminafe-
ly over shirl-bosom, beard, and a
nicely polised grate or aridirons,
ns the cas.'t niay be—'dlie heartir
alraos-S a- running stream—and
takes out h:ie newspaper,, which is-
oueofah,a?f dozen. (The pile sick
ens the waitino- wife) reads reads,-
never emse raising ins- eyes, even
when lie answers hurriodly and
rather curtly some (luostions ven
tured by the wife, with a imirmur
every now and then, T w-isli I
could read without intoi-riiption.’
She f;'ei|:uent!y sees-him-sulfirsod-
iii tears at some put off- pathetic
story, not half so patlfeticas hers,
and wishes lie could to-id h.er
heas-t, and perhaps chafity would
begin n-t- iiome. You must re-
member .-.dm has not spoken one;
n'ord during ?he Jav, except '.vlmt
duf}' dictated. Her heart is brim-
fug of what should liy’of jnntmil
iulercst to liotlx-and she'longs to
tatk witli him ribout it. Huno-or-
iiil she i.s, mid tWrsti-.ig iu the
midst of plenty t'l siilis.fy her lov
ing 'near!.- .At lengtli, every at
tempt proving abortive, she is-
wearied out, rises, makes prepa-
nitic-li to retire at a laLo'hoiir, at
'.yiiicli jitOT'omer.t fee sta-rts up-
(perhaps comseienco is aroused)
surprised and- .asks : ‘Yfhat! tu
bed. It iiuLSt bo early.’ Gets up
with a yawn, iboics at tire clock,-
and says, ‘I li.ad no idea it was so-
late,’ imdr-asscs himself, goes to-
bed- and slee-is as soundly as
though he had performed'to the'
letter his marriage' vows to chdr-
ish, su-ppoi't and comfoi-t under
all cireuniBtfi-nces. This, Sir. Ed
itor, is a faint jiicturo' of tho wear'
an-ct tb.e tear of many wives iu
our midst, w ho live oirih spite of
iiegle-ef, fulfilling all tlfoi-r duties
ci'edita-bly wl-silst others seek their
own amCi-sem-snf at theatres, balls
and aliiiost any place that will
servo tS) while a Way tho' tedious ■
hours.
These vvives wh.sS widows, in
stead' of feeling like their lights-
had gone out, miss-tliem it is-triio,-
fiom sSlieii- looeustomed- place, but
-^•shall 1 siiy'it'l-^'-can do vv-ithout
them'now-, ua tlrey did when'they
were living. Do- you relish this-
picture good husband V I# not,.
III.ND YOlIR'toAY.S. B.-’W'f
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