Price, $1 a year.)
OXFORD, N. a, OCTOBER 12,1883.
(V0L.IX.no 21.
The Friend visits about FO UR
EU'^AFF Fok-O^^' in Hiorth
Carolina, thus giving dvvsrtisers the
advantage of U gekeratf 'ei^cuUtlon.
. OBOA^IZATIOJVOF THE OR>
J. H. Mills—Superintendent.
Miss E. M. Mack—^Teacher of Third
Form, Boys.
Miss Lula Martin—Teacher Third
Form, Girls.
MTRa M. F. Jordan—-Second Form,
"iffil!^6Rl:):£N-^Tlrst Fonn, Boys.
Mbs. Walker—^First Form, Girls.
"WTR-a V. V. Walton—Vocal Music and
Drawing.
Mbs. Rives—Hospital.
Mrs. Hutchinson—Boys’ Sewing
Room.
Mbs. Fowler—Girls’ Sewing Room.
SPECIAL DETIES.
“GIBLS.^
CHApir^Cosby, Broadway and Mattie
Piland.
• Ghapel lyAMPS—E. Kelly.
Chapel Stove—Douglass and A
Keith.
Office—H. Erwin..
.Lirrabt^nd BEH.r-L. Hudgins.
-Halls—Bovd,M. Gabriel, Young.
T. D, B.—llcod, Johnson, E. Wright.
C. D.'R.—Beddingfield, Bivins, Hill,
J. Hatch, Powers, Watson.
Cush—Lee.
Boiler—Tufford, S. Barfield.
Water SHBPT4Hsywood, Wobdhouse
Pigs—Grady, H(dmes.
Milkers—Mason, L. Hatch.
Girls’ Sewing Room—Knox.
Boys’ Sewing Room—M. Hutcliinson.
BOYS.
Cook Room—Tate; Chambers.
T. D. R —D. Batliffe.
. Gi &.jB»r7priehard, McLeod, P. White,
liem Lynch, Haywood,' E. Woody.
Boiler—W. Lynch, Haywood.
Lamf-Xi&KTER—Gibson. .
Cow^^s^^’Grady, W. Mc
Guire.
Mule Boys—^Parker, Austin, Wilson,
•Jackson, Butler.
HoG;Bovs—^Pressou, Poteat.
Pig Boys—Cosby, Fowler.
Mail Boy-E. Poteat.
.^THB-FBINQ'Er-rND CLOSED •
: &BNTtAlT.
^WD sisters dwelt beside a Jarook,
■^lue-G^ntiro was 1 heir lif.me,—
All this was centuries ago.
Ere both were Itpown to iame;
And kkh fooS as beautiful, ; .
The other proud and airy.
'And in -a, Vpnd^n^r by, theib lived;
■ ■ ' A tricksyH^ttre 4iry.
It chanfe^TinjpBinwraatiMBii day
This'^iry‘18^4 tfee twH
And feigning weariness, he^ .begged
0- them a sip of dow :•
The one held up her tiny cup.
g0*jjie4aii'y; drfl^M it l^htily .;..; , ;
The other cried, “Begone, thou elfl”
And clutched ,Jier drop mor^
tightly.
T^en,.
sprite
..quoth .the. cunning.
Shall bring ye forth renown.
Sweet maid,.accept this lairy fringe^
j aiure goWn;
But thou, rude, selfish one, now take
Thy la^loolAl^lie sky, '
For nevermore stuv^t thou or thine
Ga^;e into mortal eye!”
' The days sped on : the sisters twain
Passed'silontly • away,
But' ‘' ■ y
^ . ■■y'e&t,
The fairy will obey ;
ilinfie, of iiatcliless
hue,
•' Rarer than ’COstly laces.
' While others fold their garments
■ close.
And ever hide their faces,
—t^Mabel 0. Fowd,
We dad- 'ffecaHon, ^soi
.time ago, to allude to ike fact
, that very few people, in pub^
lie or in private, keep the rules
of'l^ammar in the same invi
olate praolad^Hihat a merchant
preserves the. multiplication
T'&lfe is -aftei?'ail,
very much a matter of arbitra*
.ry decision, and it happens
very often that “points of
controversy’’ remain unsettled
for^^ 8imp%;%cairSe no^
: bent
speakers and writers”^ have
decided to do in certain cases.
For example, it is plain
enoug-h that the word“hone'’i8
a contraction of the two words
“no one.’’ Of course, then
‘‘;ione” is in the singular num
ber' 'Nevertheless, we can
scarcely lay our bands upon a
book that does not use the ex
pression “none of these men
Afl«e‘tvrttten a sentence,’’ or a
similar form, clearly removing
the w6rd from the distributive
to the collective class of terms
and giving it a plural signifi
cation.
Another class of phrases we
fihd pointed out by the critics
as pure “Soutoernisms.^’ But
a -laig-O ' number of these
"Southernisms” we meet con
stantly in English magazines,
review’^s, and books, not in the
form of colloquial phrase’s,
merely, but in grave criti-
icisms of literary works, and
in iScientific treatises. Let us
name a few of them.
We are strongly inclined, in
this Southern country, to
make an adverb out of the
adjective ‘^‘might).’^ We have
heard not a few persons say
that they were “mighty,"
weak,'’’ awd now and then this
state of health is said to be
“powerful weak,” This is
very amusing, doubtless, but,
far from being peculiar to the
South, or even to America,
we can find this adverbial use
of the word.‘ mighty” in quite
a number of the London peri
odicals.' Forinstance, the Lon
don Saturday ICeview “which is
nothing, if not critical^” tells
us in h^ecent number, that a
certain book is “mighty little”
better than, the first/Tproduc
xfioivof its- alitborr - 'Between
‘mighty^ and ‘little'’ there is. as
^^$at a contrast as hftw^en
the ‘powerful’ and ‘weak’ of
the Southerner,so tha^t the En
glish wi'iteria as tauch at fault
as his American cousins.
■ *I-l)aVe’ beam tell’ is not a
graceful expression, but in a
^avH'W6j>k‘of''8eiteficfe^.a:^i:^nt-
ly published in London, the
accomplished writer says:
IWon'tefal tbings, Ihave heard
tell, were ‘done by Qpekett,’
S6, also;- in the'sam'o book, we
'fitrd the''’phra8e, ‘pfelty strong
muscles,’ which ie precisely
the sacne errof;' ‘p'etty^being
transformed into an adverb
and qualifying ‘Strong.’’ In
deed we seern to be grovying
tired of the bid adverb^ ‘very^
and substitute a,long list of
words for it, probably for the
sake of variety.
But the English man of scL
enco comes still closer to our
Southern .^peculiarities,’ and
tells us that ajcertaih skeleton
of a mastodon ‘would pretty
nearly fill tho whole space.’
Here .the adjective character
of ^prHtty’ is wholly lost, and
it is employed to qualify an-
othcF&dverb. “At Newder-
sey,’ lie tells us, a curtain dis
covery was made, and quotes,
ill another place, the follow
ing, as a question current in
England: ^Whatever is the
good of ^-uch an animal?^
'We leave it to the reader to
determine tlje grammatical
statics of ‘whatever . iti- this
sentence, expressing our per
sonal dislike to the use of the
phrase, and assuring him t|iat
we could fill this page with
f similar quotations from the
'vitorks of English authors,who
rre among the very best rep
resentatives of English
thought. The sum of the
matter is, that there is u strong
teudeiicy toward the oorrup
tion o- the English language,
and that this tendency is not a
development peculiar jto
Southern society, but may be
found in every country in
w hich the language is spoken.
■Lr, H P. Harrison.
MEETING- ONE’S OWN INFLU
ENCES.
Good influences in youth are
the angels of later years.
They come back. They min
ister. They have the gold
of lie^iven on their wings
As Tennyson says, ‘I am a
part of all that 1 have met.’
Mr. Longfellovv sent a rauls
titude of good influences, like
song-birds, into the world
They returned in the autumn
of life-
He loved the young. His
pen sought their highest good.
No child was repelled from
his door.
Only the day he was taken
sick when a little girl came
asking for his autograph, he
hastened to the door himself,
and said that her smiling
thanks were refreshing.
Often during the last win
ter of his life his health was
so delicate that his friends ob
jected to this hospitality, and
plead with him to be more
chary. But he replied earn-
estl)%—
‘Oh, I liketo see my friends:
it does me good. And lal.
ways think a child that comes
to see me is a siue'ere friend.’
Few accounts of the return
of good influences' to life are
more beautiful than that which
the poet gives of a Scene uni-
der the old Cambridge chest
nut tree where the black-
'Sniith’s sbop used to be. It
was written for children: ‘
‘Cambridge was by no
means thickly settled for
many years after I came here,
and the village was rather
straggling, so that the'smithy
was quite a prominent object
in my daily walk to and from
the college, especially, as of-
te ,' the children running down
the court from their school
would cluster round the door
way, their f right faces and
attitudes i s they stood, group
ed under the chestnut tree,
forming a strong contrast to
the scene within, enhancing
the [ucture and the lesson so
that tho song came to me-
(‘Tlie Village Blacksmith.’)
‘But after the school was
moved down on to the street,
as I was going home one
morriiog, I heard you scholars
singing my ‘Psalm of Life,’
and 1 remained uncovered,
except for the shade of the
chestnut tree, till the music
ceased, feeling that it was
Holy Ground.’
‘Holy Ground!’ Tes, the
place where the good influ-
ences of life meet us again is
holy. They will all meet us
on ho’y ground at last.
Maay persons who seemingly have
consumption have perfectly sound
lungs, and their distress originates al
together from disordered kidneys and
liver. .How there'are thousand of rem
edies that will relieve kidney,and liver
diseases, but there is only dh'e that Can
be depended upon for effecting a, per
manent cure, and'that is Brown’s'Iron
Bitters.' Its efficacy has been satisfac
torily proven in thousands of instances
after ail Other remedies failed. '
OHOIOB IHOU&HTS OP THE
BEST AtJi'HOES.
Doing good is the only cer
tainly happy action of a man’s
life.
Tho censure of those that are
opDosito to US is tho nicos!, com-
ivieiidation that can be given us.
As tliey who, for every slight
infirmity, take physic to repair
their health,do rather impair it;
BO tht y who, for every trifle, are
eager to vindicate their charac-
ler, do rather weaken it.
To be happy, tho passion must
he ch«erf(il and gay, not gloomy
and melancholy. A propon. ity
to liopo and joy is real riches;
one to fear and sorrow, real pov
erty.
, A tender coneeience is an in
estimable blessing; that is, a con-
cience not only quick to discern
what is evil, hut instantly to
shim it, as tho eyelid closes it
self against a mote.
It is very often more necessary
to conceal contempt than
resentment, the former being
never forgiven, but the latter
gemetimes forgot.
To make others’ wit appear
more than one's own, is a good
rule in conversation; a necessary
one, to lot others take notice of
your wit, and never do it your-
self.
Some men are as covetous as
if they were to live forever; and
others as prefuse as jf they were
to die the next moment.
Tho certain way to be cheated,
is to f .ncy one’s self more cun
ning than others.
Where necessity ends, desire
aiid curiosity begin; no sooner
are we supplied with everything
nature-can command, than we
’Bit down, .to coni rive ar'.ificial
•appetites.
It is certain that either wise
bearing or ignorant carnage is
caught as men take diseases one
of another; therefore, let them
take heed of their company.
Nothing is so great an instance
of ill-manners as flattery. If you
flitter all the company, you
please none li-you flatter only
one or two, you aflront the re^^t.
A sbrewe i observer once said
that in walking the streets of a
slippery morning, one might see
where the good iiatured people
lived, by tho ashes thrown on
the ice before the doors.
There are a set of malicious,
prattling, prudent gossips, both
malo and female, who murder
character to kill time; and will
rob a young fellow of his good
name before he has ye- D’, to know
the value of it.
If you cannot be happy in one
way be in another, and this fa
cility of disposition wants but
little aid from philosophy, for
health and good humor are al-
n.ost the whole affair. Many
run about after felicity like an
absent man hunting for his hat,
while it is in bis Land or on his
head.
If Satan ©vor laughs it must
bo at hypocrites. They pro the
g eatest dupes ho has They
sc-rve him better that any other,
but receive no wages. 'Nay,what
is^^till'more extraordinary, they
submit to great ,r mortificatioDS
than the sincercst Christian,
Mr. S. A. Womble» Ne.wbem, N. C-:
sayg, “I tried bi-owii’sTron Bitters and
consider it an excellent tonic and appe
tizer.” "
FAME AND RECOGNITION.
Two geutleaien met in
Washington ' last . winter and
pissed a week together. T e>
had been cbisamates at ool-
lego; one was now an obscure
farmer, the other is a well-
known leader in national af-
urs, and had been a candi
date for the Presidency.
After obsorving his friend
carelully for some days, the
farmer said, ‘I honestly be-»
lieva tint your fame is only an
annoyance to you*’
‘Suppose, G ,’ was the
reply, ‘you were to enter a
slroit'Car full of sirangors,
vulgar, gojsipping folks, and
that lh(iy should call out 3 our
name loudl}', and state that
you liad an idiot brother and
that 3’ou had been suspected
of stealing in your youth, and
that your son was going head-
ioi g to the dogs? -Sbouldyou
like it? Well, the C( autry is
onl3' a big street-car, and
fame in it is just such personal
gossip from vulgar mouths.’
This was a new -rtnd .start'-
lin > view of the subject to the
farmer, which he took home
to think over.
A poor invalid girl, confin
ed for many y-errs to a bed oi
suffering, wrote, out of' a full
heart, the- poem ‘Nearer, my
G’d, to thee!’ Befoie she
died, that cry of a human soul
to its Maker wa echoed all
over the world T have lieard
it,’ a friend wrote to her, ‘in
China wnd from the lips oi
Polynesian converts.’ Yet it
vva.s not until she was in her
grav that even the name of
^liy writer.was known. If the
gossip of the street-car repre?-
suuts lame, tins echo of a true
word is typical of-recogni
tion.
Every Sophomore at; coU
h ge dieamii of becoming, fa
mous some lay. , Yet it is
probable, if lie is made of he-^
roic stuff, that this noisy bruit,
once . gain^-,-. would be dis-
tastefu-i to*liim.
But every man w)io is gi.y-
011 a mu^'/s port to play has
the con:-ciinisoeas tliat he has
n word to , speak, which per.'
h^ps his own friends or
townsmen do not understand.
When it is spoken, and the
answer comes back to liim
fi( la the great world, that he
lias been understood and has
won recognition from his
pee s,ene ot the keenest,high
est pleasures which life yields
becomes bis. Fame is ther
senseless echo of his own
name; the otoer a harmony
wlioh tells him that he too
has stiuck a chord in the di-
vino song of humanity.
STUDY OF THE POETS*.^-
Mr. Adams, in his address
at Harvard, . asserted that
mental discipline might be
ai qu'red as effectively by the
slud}^ of the modern lan
guages, as by that of the an
cient classics. John Jlright is
next to Mr. Gladstone, the
most eloquent speaker in Par
liament, and is noted for the
English stvle. The Premier
of etjurse, is a master of L itin
and Greek, and his style
shows that lie. has been train
ed b}’ iiis classical studies
But Mr. Briglit has had nO
uiiiversit\' education, and no
discipline from either ancient
or modern languages. But
he has studied tho English
Bible, Pilgrim’s Progress,
the E-’glish and Americm
with -great care, and
made himself familiar with
their finest passages. He once
told an American gentleman
that Mr. Longfellow is one of
his favorite poets, and that he
had given many evenmgs to
reading his poems aloud, and
c nnmitting them to memory.
He ascribes ins facility in the
choice of woid.s to his familiar
ac-|uaintaiica with tiie po«ts,
and to his habit of reading
aloud their passages
Young people, therefoie,
need not think it indispensa
ble to study the cl. ssics, or
evuri the modern iauguages,in
order to acquire a c-omm-uid
>f the English tongue. This
may be done i 1 an easier way,
i)y a ;:thorougli study of the
great Englisli^writers in prose
find poetry. B it it is better to
on lerstand the classics if one
can; the classics are the foiin-^
ladon of a broad edaeatiou.
SICKNESS IN FARMERS'
FAMILIES.
A Massachusetts Health re
port gives ihi.s sugsicstive
•'U.iitiiary of ill ■ priiicipal
‘•auses of sickness in families
-t farmers: 1. Overwork and
exposure; the women being
UK re frequently overworked.
2- Injproper ami improperly
c')r>ked food. 3 Damp loca
tion of dwellings. 4. Waiitof
cleanliness about their houses,
especially in reference to
drains, privies, cellars and
proximity to barn'-3’ards and
hog-pens, 5. Impure drink-
eg wafer,'largcdy due to tiie
l‘/r« edding cau^e. ' 6. B
rouiiis imperfectly ventilated,
indAn the ground floor, with
liie too general use of leather
beds. 7. Insufficient recrea
tion.
The friendship of a dog that eau
be relied ui)oii is of more account
tljan the friendship of a man who
mint be bo'ught with gifts.
S-
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