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OXFORD, N. C., OCTOBER 5,1883.
(V0L.IX.no 20,
To the Business Public.
The Friend visits about FO UR
EUNDBEF Fost-Offices in North
Carolina, thus giving avvsrtisers the
ad/vcmtage of a general circulation.
ORGANIZATION OF THE OR
PHAN ASYEVH.
J. H. MiLiiS—Superintendent.
Mbs. Walker—Teacher Fir.t Form,
Girls.
Miss Kate MoDougald—Teacher of
First Form, Boys.
Miss Mary C. Dodd—Teacher of Sec
ond Form, Girls.
Mrs. Bives—Teacher of Second Form,
Boys.
Miss Lula Martin—Teacher Tliird
Form, Girls.
Miss E. M. Mack—Teacher of Third
Form, Boys.
special' DITTIES.
GIRLS.
Chapel—Coshy, Broadway and Mattie
Pilaud.
Chapel Lamps—E, Kelly.
Chapel Stove—Douglass and A.
Keith.
Oppice—H. Erwin.
Library and Bell—^L. Hudgins.
Halls—Boyd, M. Gabriel, Young.
T. D. R,—Hood, Johnson, E. Wright.
C. D. R.—Beddingfield, Bivins, Hill,
J. Hatch, Powers, Watson.
^Mm^Tufford, S. Barfield.
Water Shed—Haywood, Woodhouse,
PiG^—Grady, Holmes.
Mtt.tcers—Mason, L. Hatch.
Girls’ Sewing Boom—Knox.
Boys’ Sewing Boom—M. Hutchinson.
BOYS'.
Cook Boom—Tate, Chambers.
T. D. B.—D. Batliffe.
C. D.R.—Prichard, McLeod, P. White,
Lem Lynch, Haywood, E. Woody.
Boiler—W. Lynch, Haywood.
Lamp-Lighter—Gibson.
Cow Boys—G. Poteat, Grady, W. Mc
Guire.
MulbIBoys—^Parker, Austin, Wilson,
Jackson, Butler.
HOG Boys—Presson, C. Poteat.
Pig Boys—Cosby, Fowler.
Matt. Boy —R. Poteat.
And so big—'^hy,
half its size.
the. shell wasn't
“Mam-
Tom gave a loug whistle,
ma, now .1 se ;
That an egg is a chic!ven—though
the how beats ^e.
An egg isn’t a chicken, that I know
and declare
Yet an egg is a chicken—see the
prooi of it there.
J^obody can tell.
How it came in that shell;
Once out, all in vain
Would [j^pack it.^ain.
1 think ’tis a miracle, mamfiia inine.
As much as that of the water and
Mamma kissejd hey boy; “It may be
that we try
Too much reasoning about things,
sou'etimes^.ypu j^d I,
Tliere f.re miracles^, wought every
day, for our eyes,
That we see without seeing, or feel
ing surprise:
And oft n we must
Even take on t^st
What we cannot explain
Very well again
But from the flower to the seed,from
the seed to the flower,
’Tis a .world of miracles every hour.”
Selected.
MISAOLBS-
‘‘An egg a chicken ; don’t tell me,
For didn’t i break an^^^to see ?
There was nothing inside but a yel
low ball.
With a bit of mucilage round it all—
Neither beak nor bill.
Nor toe nor quill,
Not even a feather
To hold it together:
Not a sign of life could any one
sec.
An egg a chicken? You can’t fool
me.
‘‘An egg a chicen; didn’t I pick
Up the very shell that had held 1 he
chick,-
So they said, and didn’t I work half
a day
To pack him in where he couldn’t
stay?
Let me try as I please,
With squeeze upo.i squeeze.
There is scarcely space to
meet
His bead and bis feet.
No room for any thereat of him—so
That egg never held that chicken, 1
know.”
Mamma heard the logic of her little
man.
Felt his trouble, and helped him, as
mothers can;
Took an egg 'rom the nest—it was
smooth and round.
“Now, my boy can you tell me what
makes this sound?”
Faint and low, tap, tap;
Soft and low, rap, rapj
Sharp and quick,
Ifike a prisoner’s pick.
“Hear it peep, inside there 1” cried
Tom, with a shout;
‘‘How did it get i:, and how can it
get out?”
Tom was eager to help—ie could
break the shell.
Mamma smiled as she said : “All’s
well that ends well.
Be patient a while yet, my boy.”
Click, click.
And out popp ed the bill of a little
chick.
No room had it lacked,
Though snug i' was packed
There it was all complete,
SUSIE’S
The town, clock, struck
two. School was over tor the
day. After stopping, tor a few
moments in thh shawl-room,
to piit on hats and cloaks, the
girls ran out of the house,
down the streets leading to
their homes.
Maria, Bogarfc,.SB8>e . Rob
erta and. two jot ithfen other
girls, went together, along
Mainistreet. .jAs,.. usual, Jhey
had a great say t6 one
another.
Susie tellipg
about her cousin, lately arriv
ed from
steamer had justeSeaped strike
ing against an icebergs—how
Ij^’Tijilbaght sever
al^ i^PcniKg, ' full of beautiful
things, ^and what a time she
had getting them through the
Custptfcfiouse! , ;
She is a grand lady,’ said
Susie. ‘She knows all about
frea^h, and Grerman, and
it^ian, a!^d she has just the
whitest little hands tha| J ever
Siiiw!' j dd....nblLlfifp^o^ that
she knows how to do a bit of
housework. ^T - got. .up.; .early
this morning,' So that I coiild
get my roojn ia^4er, and do
my dusting she came
down to breakfast.’
‘Why,Susie,are you asham
ed to have her l^ow thaf you
dust the parlors,. %ke
cure of your own room!’ aSted
Maria Bogart,; laughing. ,
‘Oh, i would_ not have her
know it, bn'^y ac&tmt,'said
Susie. ‘As it is, I dare say
she will think my hands very
brown.'
‘I would not care,’ ermd pi-
la Redman. ‘My mother says
that .beafttiful hu^ds are the
hands that obey that Bible
verse:—‘Whatsoever thy hand
hndeth to do do.it with all thy
might,’ The king who. said
that, was very rich, and very
great.'
Susie tossed her Lead, and
assumed what she considered
a grand air.
‘I think the sei’vants should
do all the house^work,' she
said*
Little. Mary' Jamison won
dered if it really were not
From its head to its feet. _ _ _ _
TUe softest of down and the bright- j ' jaWe’ to Sweep and dust
eat of eyes, ^
a room, and wash the break
fast china! She took a peep
at her brown hands, and drew
on her gloves as quickly as
possible. The girls were quiet
for the remainder of the walk.
Susie's words had set them all
to thinking.
That evening, when Edith
Grey’s mother reminded her
that, as Ellen the hoasemaid
was out, it was time for hev to
set the tea-table, instead of
running to do so with her
usual willingness, she pouted,
d muttered something
about doing a servant's work!
She handled the pretty chi
na so carelessly that two cups
fell, and broke into ever so
many pieces? They were the
first of the set to be broken
It was a set of china, too,thnt
her mother vrized very rnucli,
because it had come to her
irom her grand'^mother I
I:, am a ^lorrid, careless
girl!’ Edith said, bursting into
tears, and ready to put the
blame'on some one else—‘it
all comes from listening to
that foolish Susie Robert’s ri
diculous notions. My grand
mother was a lady, aud yet I
dare say that she'took'care of
he china, and liolished hor
furniture!’
Meanwhile Susie was hav
ing what she thought a very
hard time! She was in the
sitting-room, with her moth
er and cousin, when Mrs.
Roberts said:—
‘By the way, Susie, before
I forget it, after you have done
your dusting, to-morrow^ if
you have time before School,
I would like you to polish the
dining-table. You have neg
lected this a great deal lately.
I do not know what your
grandmother would say if she
could see her old furniture?’
Susie's cheeks Hushed. Site
did not dare to look at her
courin, she could only trust
that she had Lot heard.
Next morning Susie waj^up
very early, determined to get
ail ' dene before breakfast-
With dust-'Cap and apron on,
she was working away very
industriously,when,to her dis^
may, she saw her cousin pass
the door, on her way to Ihe
library.
♦Gobd morning. Susie, she
said, ‘let me help you, I shall
forget, my skill if I do not get
to housekeeping soon.'
Susie was so much surpris
ed by this remark that she
stood for a moment in silence,
looking at her cousin.
‘You see,’ continued that
bright little lady, ‘It is quite
two years since I made a cup
of coffee or a loaf of bread,—
just think of it I I dare say,
Susie, that you know a good
dealabout house-work? "When
I was a little girl I was deligh
ted to help my mother’—slio
began to rub the old-fashion
ed side^board so vigorously
that Susie was sure it would
outshine the table—‘I have a
great fancy for women who
*are good housekeepers,* con
tinued the lady, talking and
laughing, and using the wax
and the brush—all at the same
time. ‘My favorite heroine
is'that queen Bertha who liv
ed in Burgundy aboiit nine
hundred years ago. Sbe kept
house so beautifully that they
stamped her likeness on a
coin; they j’cpresented her as
sitting at her spinningswheei.
Susie could scarcely believe
hor ears.
‘I have heard of persons
who are ashamed of work, but
I consMer them very silly,—
don't you, Susie? I think
that they forget that nice chaps
ter in P overbs about the in
dustrious woman. There is a
very pretty verse in that chap
ter,—I went hunting through
it once for a birthday verse—
and I was ever o much
pleased to find this: ‘She
looketh well to the ways of
her household,’ and, ‘She is
not afraid of the snow for her
household, for all her house
hold are clothed with scarlet.’
CROSS-EXAMINED- I properly of ab.sorbing
The weakest link ia the cable ! is pos^es^ied b
. • most as great a degree bv tbe
18 the one on which the strain is • ® -
iho
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SELFISH DAVY.-
Davy was a very pretty little
boy. He had light curly hair,
dark blue eyes, and rosy cheeks.
But he was very stingy. He did
not like to share any thing with
his brothers and sisters. One day
he went into the kitchen where
his mother was at work, and saw
on the tah'le a saucer of jelly.
“Can I have that jelly?^’ asked
Davy.
“Mrs. White sent it to me,”
said Davy's mother. “She has
company to dinner, and made
this jelly very nice. But I don’t
care for it; so you may have it if
you won't be stingy with it.’'
Davy took the saucer of jolly
and went out into the yard; but
ho did not call his little brothers
and sisters to help him eat it.
“If I divide with them there
won't be a spoonful apiece,'* ho
thought. “It is better tor one
to have enough than for each to
have just a little !'’
So he ran to the barn and
climbed up to the loft, where he
was sure no one would think of
looking for him.
Just as he began to eat the
jelly he heard his sister Fannie
calling him. But he did not an
swer her. He kept very still.
“They always want some of'
everything I have,” he raid to
himself. “If I had just a ginger-
snap they think I ought to give
each a piece.’’
When the jelly was all eaten,
and he had scraped the, saucer
clean, Davy, went down into the
barnyard atkl played with the
little; white calf and hunted for
eggs in the shed where the cows
were. He was ashamed to go
into the house, for he knew he
had been very stingy about the
jelly.
‘O Davy!” said Fanny, run
ning into the barnyard, “where
have you been this long timo?
We looked every where for you.”
“What did you waut?'* asked
Davy, thinking that, of course,
his sister would say she had wan
ted him to share the jelly with
her.
“Mother gave as a party,'’ sai'.l
Fanny; “we had all the dolls'
dishes set out ou a little table
under the big tree by the porch;
and we had strawberries, cake
aud raisins. Just as we sat down
to eat, Mrs. White saw us from
the window, and sent over a big
bowl of ice-cream and some jel
ly, left from the dinner; we had
a splendid time; you ought to
have been with us.'*
Poor Davy! How mean he
felt! And he was well punished
for eating his jelly all alone.-
Our Little Ones.
Mr. J. B. Fiver, Morebead City, N.
C., says: “Brown’s Iron Bitters is the
best remedy for indigestion I ever
used.”
sure to come. Toe point which
the teacher has overlooked in
his preparation of the lesson is
the one that some boy will be
anxious to know about. The
petty detail that the lawyer has
not mastered is the one that may
trip him up before he is through
with the case. An amusing il
lustration of this total depravity
in neglected things occurred some
years ago to Rufus Choate,while
he was tryinga caseof assault com
mitted on board the clipper aliip
Challenge while the vessel was
at sea. He was cross-examining
the chief mate, Dick Barton,who
had said that the night was
dark as Egypt, and raining like
seven bells,’'
“Was there a moon that
night?" asked Choate.
“Yes, sir.”
“Ah, yes! a moon'’
“Yes, a full moon.”
“Did you see it?”
“Not a mite.’'
“Then how do you know that
there was a moon?"
“The nautical almanac said so,
and I’ll believe that sooner than
any lawyer in Boston."
Even that “shot’’ din’t warn
Mr Choate that he was dealing
with a smart craft which might
prove dangerous
“What was the principal lumi
nary that night, sirhe contia-
ued.
“Binnacle lamp aboard I lie
Challenge.’’
“Ah, you are growing sharp,
Mr. Barton.”
‘‘What in blazes have you been
grmding me thiri hour for? To
make me dull?”
“Be civil, sir! And now tell
me what latitude aud longitude
you crossed the equator in?”
“Sho! you’re joking.”
“No, sir, I am in earnest, and
I desire you to answer me.”
“I sha'n’t!”
“Ah! you refuse, do you?”
“Yes; I can't.”
“Indeed! You are the chief
mate of a clipper ship aud are
unable to answer so simple a
question?”
“Yes, ’tie the simplest question
I ever had asked me. Why, I
thought every fool of a lawyer
knew that there aint no latitude
at the equator.”
The great advocate conclndod
the man was too sharp for him,
THE TEAVELEE’S PALM.
Among the great variety of
banana. The leaves are used
to beat llie roofs in case of
lire, on account of
the amount, of water they
contain, and tho main stem is
full of small cliainbers (illed
with water, which has lieeu
distilled by the smooth cool
'eaves of . the tree. 'rir-
leaves are also used for
thatching arid for lining
the houses; the bark is
beaten out fiat and forms the
fiooring, w'hile the
trunk supplies timber for the
framing and planking, Quan--
titles ( f the iresh loaves •. re
sold every morning in tho
markets, and take tho plnco of
plates and dishes. AttlieKew'
Year’s festival and upon some
other occasions, the jaha or
meat killed at these times is
always served up, together
with rice, upon pieces of the
leaves ol the “traveler’s tree”
or tho ban; na; a kind of spoon
or ladle is also formed by
twisting up part of the leaf
and tying it with tho tendrils
of some climbing plants.
HABIT-
There was once a horse
that used to pull around a
sweep which lifted dirt from
the d prhs of tho earth He
was kept at the business for
nearly 20 years, until he be
came old, blind, and too stiff
in tho joints to he of further
use. So he was turned into a
pasture, or left to crop the
grass without any one to dis
turb or bother him. But the
funny thing about the old
horse was, that every morn
ing, after grazing a while, he
would start on a tramp, going
round and round in a circle,
just as he had been accustom
to do for so many years. He
would keep it up for iiMiirs,
and people often stopped to
look and wonder wiiat had
got into the head of the ven
erable animal to make h m
walk around in such a soL
emn way, when theie was no
earthly need of it. Bat it was
the force of habit. And the
boy who forms bad or good
habits in his youth, will be
led by them when he becomes
old, and will be miserable or
happy accordingly.--i’a;.
The writer once knew a
horse to do a trick that seem
ed to indicate reasoning pow-
the lot in
palms in the East is one
known as The Traveller’s
Tree. It has a graceful
crown of broad green leaves,
arranged at the top of its
trunk in the shape of a fun.
The leaves are from twenty
to thirty in numi er, from
eight to ten feet long and a
foot and a half broad. The
name of “traveler’s tree” is
given on account of its afford
ing at all times a supply of
cool pure water upon piei c-
ing the base of the leaf-stalk
with a spear or other pointed
instrument. This supply is
owing to the large broad
leaves which condense the
moisture of the atmosphere,
and from which the water
trickles down into the hollow
where tho leaf-stalk joins tlie
stem. Each of these forms a
little reservoir in which water
may always be found. This
which stood the corn crib.
With his tongue he worked
out an ear of corn irom be-
tween theilogs, and attempted
to eat it on the ground. Some
pigs, howev'^, more than
once ran away with liis prize.
Tired, at length, of this, he
licked out another ear, and,
picking it up with his teeth,
he carried it to a feed trough
high enough to be out of reach
of the pigs. Then returning
to the crib he repeated tiiis
until he had as much com as
he wanted. He then munch
ed his food in peace.
“I liad’eni all,” said a rubicund liap-
py-faced gentleman. “All wliati'”
asUed hie friend. ’“Why allthe syiup-
toms of malaria, viz: lame back, aching
joints, sleeplessness, indigestion, di'/zy
fits cold extremities, rush of blOod to
the head, constant fatigue, no appet.iLe
pains in the breast after eating, uiglit
sweat?, alternate cliills aud levers, etc.
etc., but ISrowji’i Irun JiilUrs cured me
andli-ecommeiiil 't as being the only
perfect tonio made,”