ORPHANS’ FRIEND. %Vodiies(iay, July IS. 1877. lOUU DEPAIt'ri:i> WOUTlllES. lecently North Carolina lias lost four useful mon. J. G. Elliott died at the age of 84. His life had been devoted to the instruction of the youth of Wayne, Hnplin, Samson and Cumberland. His two hobbies were Latin accent and Mental Arithmetic. The former he ex- jdained on the fingers. The lat ter he taught by incessant drills. When the Educational Associa tion met in Warrenton, Mr. Elli ott went there on foot, accompa nied by several of his students, and was invited to deliver an oration on the fourth of July. His subject was “ Mental Arith metic,” and he repeated more truth than was ever before uttered on such an occasion; but the audience considered tiie subject a little inappropriate. The boys who went with him were rustic in appearance; but after tlie first day, the teachers dodged them, to escape their unexpected ques tions. They were his “ shorter catecliisms.”- Mr. Elliott never married, and his style of living was peculiarly simple. Dr. Lam bert, while lecturing in our schools on Physiology, a subject on which be had written an excellent text book, determined to breakfast with the famous teacher. The table was crowned with a firkin of butter, and bordered with a plate of bread and a pot of coffee. Dr. Lambert was very fond of high living; but he had no desire to board any longer with the bachelor teacher. In teaching geometry, Mr. E liott often used sticks and strings instead of a black-board. In this way the nature and properties of solid angles and spherical figures were clearly comprehended. His first lesson to every student was on humility. On one occa sion a pompuous Sophomore from the University was suspended for six weeks. His father wishing him to keep up with his class, ordered him to spend the time with Mr. Elliott. The young man’s hair was cut out of the reach of the brush, and he stood in the middle of the school-room. Mr. Elliott.— '' Mr. Smith, do you know that you are a fool 1” Mr. Smith.—“ I do not profess to be very wise, nor admit that I am quite a fool.” Mr. Elliott.—“ Mr. Smith, when is a man a fool V Mr. Smith.—“ When he knows nothing at all.” Mr. Elliott.—“ Mr. Smith, is there any tiling in the world that you know?” Mr. Smith named several facts and truths with which he thought himself familiar. Mr. Elliott took them up one by one and con vinced Mr. Smith that he did not know them, and at last the blush ing student admitted himself a fool, not knowing any thing at all. “ Now,” said Mr. Elliott, “ that you have learned my first lesson, and know what a fool you are, I will assign you another lesson and teach you.” When Mr. Smith returned to Chapel Hill, his scholarship was much improved, and he took a high stand in his class. Mr. Elliott could hardly be called a religious man ; once under the powerful preaching of Dr. Deems he joined the Metho dist church; but his peculiar habits and opinions made him rather an annoyance than an ornament. J. M. Ijovejoy, a man of North ern birth,' devoted his life to teaching in Raleigh and in Scot land Neck. Ho was an enthusi astic educator, and prepared for College many boys who have since done high honor to their early training. Sometimes when strangers visited Raleigh, Mr. Lovejoy took the trouble to in quire after their sons and daugh ters, and make suggestions in regard to their education. He once said to a visitor: ‘‘I have talked with your daughter in re gard to her studies, and find her head unusually clear in the dem onstrations of geometry. Be sure to give her a thorough education. When nature furnishes good ma terial, we ought always to make sometliing valuable.” Mr. Love- joy w'as sometimes suspected of infidelity. Just before his death we talked with him in regard to his religious views and feelings. He stated the articles of his creed, and they were mainly those of the Episcopal church, including faith in Jesus Christas his Savior; but his few peculiar opinions he kept in the back-ground as un important compared with the doctrine of sovereign grace. Judge Bailey, a just and up right judge on earth, has gone to be judged in the Supreme Court of the Universe. As he tempered justice with mercy below, so may mercy attend him above. Adam Empie W'as known as a lawyer untainted by corruption, and as the owmer of a large school building at High Point. He was very indulgent to those who, laboring under many disadvan tages, have been struggling to build up a school there. GEN. CEINGMAN’S BOOK. One hundred and eighteen or phans now answ'er to their names when the roll is called, and sev eral others have been authorized to come. AVhen these shall arrive, we w'ill not have room for any more, and will admit those only who are in extreme distress or degradation, and discharge some now present to make room for them. We would take pleasure in sending a dozen to the Asylum in Asheville (in charge of Rev. L. M. Pease) if not also full. It is true that our contributions have been very light and our prosperous people seem forgetful ot the orphans. But the farmers in Granville and a part of Person, have supplied us with bread and we have bought but little. We hope for better times as soon as the good people lay by corn and gather their crops, and have leis ure to reflect on their obligations to the Giver of every good and perfect gift. WHY NOT 1 If a hundred boys (some of them old boys) and sixty-five girls (some of them girls several years ago) can board in the same houses, eat at the same tables, recite on the same benches, and cut each other down from head to foot in the same classes, why not let both sexes attend the regular University ? If 165 go to school together, who not 105? Mr. McLendon has opened tlie doors of the Central Carolina Academy to both sexes, and de clares he was injured in his youth by not going to school with the girls. We are not advocating the coeducation of the sexes— only noting current events. But we venture to advise brother Me Lendon to employ one grown girl even now to take him in perma nent charge, and we assure him that he will learn faster than he ever did before. The.“ SpKECitES A\D Writixg.s ”. of Gen. J'hnmas L. Clingman are now published in a volume of 623 pages. As wo have alread}' given a description of the work, and made copious extracts from advance sheets, we will briefly return our thanks for a copy- of the book complete, and say^ that we still find it a store-house of valuable information. We take it up as often as we can spare the time, and never tire of its perusal. We commend it especially to young men who love their coun try^ and wish to understand its history. But the volume touches so many topics—the meteors of the sky, and the minerals down in the earth, and all things that intervene! We are sorry that Judge Badger, Judge Mangum, Governor Graham, Hon. A. W. Venable, Hon. W. N. Edwards, and other illustrious statesmen failed to prepare similar volumes. It is from just such books as these that the true thread of histoiy must be spun. so SORRY : “Ten years ago a poor wliite boy drove a wagon into Sj)artanbm'g' from tlie mountains of Sortli Carolina. Two weeks ago, amid the iilaudits of the siiectators, he was graduated at Wof ford College. By industry, energy and economy he saved and kept enough to pay his way and earned and received his diidoma. What Mr. Z. T. White- sides, of Itutherford, S. C., has done, thousands of others can do, if they are eiiually willing to labor and practice self-denial.” Many- papers have published the foregoing; but not one has explained how the latch of the Campus gate was raised, nor how the ponderous door of the College was made to open. We know some promising boys (and some of them have driven wagons on long and perilous journey's) anx ious to learn; but every gate seems to be latched and every' door seems to be locked before them. Did Mr. Whitesides find a friend to open his way' ? Will any one open the way before other boys in our State I Where is the College at which a boy- may' find employment, so that “by' industry, energy and economy, he may pay- his way and earn a diploma?” Must a boy go out of his State to find such a College ? COE. POEIt’S JUNE REPORT. Let us glean a few facts : Corn, promising. Wheat, the best crop ever known in the State. Cotton, uncertain. Oats, crop short. To bacco, full crop planted. Millet, giving satisfaction. Fruit, crop abundant. Ry'e, very fine. Stock, in good condition. Sheep, mostly killed by dogs; but profitable w'hen they escape. Population, less than half at work. In several counties the farmers make their O'tt'n molasses. Dr. Ledoux gives formulae for making fertilizers for wheat, turnips and clover, and explains the method of making vinegar. We once more advise the farm ers to correspond freely with Col. Polk and make his office useful to the entire State. WAG'S HEAD. A pleasant village, on a narrow neck of land, betrveen the Atlan tic and the Sound. The breezes are refreshing and the bathing is as good as old Ocean affords. The steamer Chowan starts to-day from Franklin and runs to Nag’s Head to spend two days. Return ticket $3, meals 50 cts. We ought also to have an excur sion by Newbern to Nag’s Head and Manteo. The subscriptions of a large number of our readers expire about this time. We hope they will all promptly renew, and send the names of their friends along with their ow'n. Of course they cannot expect us to use the or phan funds to supply them with a free paper. THE TEMUERA’TURE OF OX FORD. According to the observations made by the late Dr. W. R. Hicks, and published in Prof Kerr’s Ge ological Report, the average tem perature of V xford foi July is 81 degrees. December is one de gree colder than January', and four degrees colder than Februa ry, March and November meet at 47 degrees; April and October meet at 57 degrees, August is 10 degrees hotter than May', and 4 degrees cooler than July. But Dr. Hicks made his observations in one of the warmest spots in Oxford, and the figures will be found lower in cooler localities. The Pan Presbyterian council at Edinburgh has just closed an interesting session. Three hun dred and thirty'-three I'epresenta- tives of forty-eight shades of Presbyterianism were present. Dr. Prime, of New York, made a prime hit at Presby'terian perse verance. He said: “ Presbyterians in America bave sliown as great capacity for divisions and subdivisions as Scotiand or else- wliere. Tliey are tlie same set of men, and set in tlie same way—tliatis, tlieir own way. Always ready to give uj) when convinced; but never convinced if tliey can lielp it. Willing at any time to part witli their beat friend rather tlian to yielii a point in dispute. We liave a tradition that one of our Presbyterian fathers in Scotland, wlien moderator, prayed: “Grant O Lord, tliat we may be riglit, for thou knowest we are ver\- decided.” ROYAE EDUCATION. The grand children of Queen Victoria attend school six hours a day. They are not allowed to eat between meals, nor to ask for what is not on the table. They go to bod early, rise early-, and dress themselves without the help of servants. What a sensible old grand mother these children have. HOG CHOEERA. A Sunday School in North Carolina once drove away the children by discussing a Consti tution and By-laws, and so there was no use for rules and regula tions. Now the Church Union say's: “ Our backwoods Sunday Schools need constant watclilng and instruc tion. Bni'ing the past montli I found a .school in which a discussion was in lirogress that had been continued tlirough three preceding Sabbaths, in which the question at issue was: ‘ Bid Noah have fishes with him in the Ark, as well as beasts, birds, etc. V Another school had been broken up by a bitter discussion between leading members on the question ‘ whetlier Solomon had gone to heaven or to hell.’ ” So writes a missionary of the American Sunday School Union in Missouri. —Gen. Key has opened post offices at some very- small places, so small that y-ou can hardly see them when you stand in the cen tre, and has locked the doors of the post offices in several pros perous and growing villages. We are sorry especially on account of Palmy-ra and Roxobel. These are centres of business and their citizens are so kind and clever ! Children that are remarkable for what they know at five y-ears old, are more remarkable for what they don’t know at twenty- five. Col. Polk mentions three rem edies for hog cholera. 1. Give each hog, in his food, half tea-spoon-fu! of spirits of turpentine twice a week, and keep salt always accessible. 2. Feed twice a week on cooked onions. 3. Give poke salad or root once a week. With these remedies all abun dant and so easily applied there ought not to be any more hog cholera. Alamance Gleaner: Prauk Warner, near Prospect Hill, in Caswell county, lias a fSni, twelve years old, who weighs 225 pouiuhs, and is about twelve feet ten inches high. Thi.s item is clipped from the Bihli- cal Kecorier. If we had found the statement in the Gleaner only, wo should have been disjiosed to deduct some six or seven feet horn the height of the child; but as if is copied and endorsed by the Recorder, there is an end of the matter. “About twelve feet ten inches high, and only twelve years old! Won’t he be a whopper when he gets his growth ?—Keie Rforth State. We spent a niglit at Mr. War ren’s and saw that boy, rather overgrown for his age. He may have the pounds; hut he certain ly has grown, or the papers have stretched him about seven feet ’since we saw him. The Normal schools at Chapel Hill and Greensboro seem to be prosperous. One hundred and sixty-five attend the former and seventy the latter. A lively en thusiasm attends them botli. Tlie “Tileston Normal School” at Wilmington, supported by Mrs. Hemmingway of Boston and conducted by Miss Bradley-, has been in continuous operation for several y'ears and has imparted new life, hopes and aspirations to a large number of boys and girls. THE SEANG “BRICKS The English U niversity men often compliment each other witli the expression “a good brick.” Now a brick is deep red, hence a deep read man is “ a good brick.” One who reads diligently is deep- read, and so a hard student is “a good brick,” and “reads like a brick.” Such logic is not compli mentary to modern scholarship; but it is no worse than using “tandem,” the Latin for at length, (after a long time,) to describe two horses hitched one before the other. Nor is it half so bad as making “plenum sed” mean a full butt. REAVARD OF MERIT. The Charlotte Democrat, in spite of the hard times, is able to say : “ With this issue of tlie “ Democrat” the paper enters upon its twenty-sixth Volunie. The “ Democrat ” is now as well sustained as it ever was, for which the Editor is thankful.” “ And ye shall hear of wars and ru mors of wars: see that ye be not troub led ; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”—Matt, xxiv; C. Two wars are now raging and the papers are constantly report ing “ rumors,” and but little else. The Americans are fighting the Indians in the Indian Territory, and the Russians are fighting the Turks in Asia. These wars are both without sufficient cause, and during the last month have been void of any important results. jv V 1 “ Married couples resemble a pair of shears,” says Sydney Smith, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in op posite directions, yet always pun ishing any one who comes be tween them.”

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