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.
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“ 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.”