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Orphans’ Friend
Price, $1 a year.)
OXFORD, N. a, NOVEMBER 16,1883.
(VOL. IX. NO 26.
To the Business Public. Quaker mothers made up for
thei: little boys and girlsl—
The Friend visits about FOuB snowy whiteness.
MmJ)RFI)Post.OFces in North of richest golden, made
Carolina, thus giving adver isers from cream of sweetest clover:
ad/vmtage oj a general droulation.
OBGANISEAXION OF THE OR
PHAN A8YEUM.
j H. MilIjS—Superintendent.
VTBfl B. M. Mack—Teacher of Third
Bonn. Boys.
Miss Ltjxa Mabtin—Teacher Third
Form, Girls.
M. F. Jordan—Second Form
M^^ABOWNR Pettigrew—Second plteri'y, peach, apple,
K/.v...rr .Y....r.a rtliofot'.-
Form, Girls.
Mbs. Jordan—First Form, Boys.
Mbs. Wadker—Fir.-t Form, Girls.
VTHfi V. V. Wadton—Voeal Music and
Drawing.
Mbs. Rives—Hospital.
Mbs. Hutchinson—Boys’ Sewing
ifim FoWDBB—Girls’ Sewing Room.
Vtm M. E. McPhektebs --In charge
of Dining Rooms.
SPECIAE DUTIES.
GIRDS.
CHAPBD-Coshy, Broadway and Mattie
riland.
qttAPED Lamps—E. Kelly-
Chapel Stove—Douglass and A
Keith.
OFFICE—H. Erwin. _ „ , .
liiBBARY AND Bell—L.^dgim.
Halib—Boyd, M. No^g.
T D R.—Hood, Johnson, E. Wright.
(jJ d’ li. ^Beddingfield, Bivins, Hill,
J. Hatch, Powers, Watson.
Cush—^Lee. ^ ^ .
BOILKR—Tufford, S. Barfield.
Watbib Shed—Haywood, Woodhouse
piQS—Grady, Holmes.
Milkers—Mason. L. Hatch.
GiBiR’ Sewing RooM—Knox.
Boys’ Sewing Room—M. Hutchinson.
BOYS.
Cook Boom—^Tate, Chambers.
T. D. R.—D. Katliffe.
0 D ji, Prichard, McLeod, P. White,
Lem Lynch, Haywood, E. Woody.
BoiLBB—W. Lynch, Haywood.
Lamp-Lighter—Gibson. , ^ ^
Cow Boys-G. Poteat, Grady, W. Mc-
MotSsBoys—Parlcer. Austin, Wilson,-
Jachson, Butler. ^ .
Hog Boys—Presson, C. l oteat.
Pig Boys—Coshy, Fowler.
MAHtBOY -R. Poteat.
theSOEOOu-BOT DETECTIVES,
BY JOHN W. PRAaiEB.
My first and only experi
ence as a detective look place
when I was ten years ot age.
The piece of work given us to
do—there being another boy
about my own age also selec
ted for the job—occurred in
this way:
’i’^F^wrtm^nTausht'school hirtiio purpose of ascertaining
maduke if he wL right in his surmise.
in the one-stoned school-house
then known as the eastern-
section nxxw -rr;: -
school district of Delaw re
County, Pennsylvania
“ ■ ’’ no "
from cream of sweetest clover;
chipped dried beef tongue and
corned beaf, and such cakes
made from the freshest eggs,
sweetest butter and richest
cream. But the crowning ep
icurean glory of those farm
ers’ wives or daughters were
the pies—currant, gooseberry
black
berry, grape, custards, etc.
each in its own particular sea
son.
It was these good things
by .“Meow! Meow! Meow!”
from every
direcfioD.
“It's only Isaac?Grarreti’8
old gray cat,'’ w,as :^1 that the
girls said, and they hurried
through eating the^ood things
in their hands.
They then went on with
their sweeping,and soon fetch»
ed up in front of the basket
that contained the provender
for “Bill," Mary and Emma
Kirk; and luscious peaches,
rich sronge-cake and tempts
ing custards quickly dIsap*
peared, although they were
seriously disturbed by the
It was CUCSe gOOU iiuugs oci uiotuiwcu, txxo
the handicraft of kind-hearted sniffing and growling of “Bill
mothers—which led to the Warner’s hateful dog, hunting
. 1. J „..i. *k.,.
job of detective work that
Geoige W, Allen and I were
given to do by our teacher,
Mr- Watson,
For several weeks different
scholars had missed a portion
of their dinner, and the theft
became so vexatious that com
plaint was made to the teach
er, who, in his own way, de-
terniin'd to break it up.
In those days the fire in
winter was bu'lt by the first
boy who reached the school;
and t' e floor was swept dur
ing the noon recess 1 y two
girls, each girl in school taking
her turn at it.
On a certain day the duty
of sweeping fell to the,lot of
two sisters, tlie daughters oi
parents who had moved into
the school-district from Phil-
adelplrta a few months before
the incident orcurred which 1
now relate.
Unmedrately after dismiss-
ioj,. rl,e school for the mid-day
recess, the teacher quietly,
an.i '-vithout being observed,
took George Allen and me
aside, and, after telling its
that he feared our dinner-
baskets had been despoiled
by tlio girls whom he had de-
taileil to sweep out the school
room tliat day, he instructed
us to keep a sharp Irok-out
mwn as ttio easiciii- /> t a
of the Upper Darby it ‘b® centre of a play-ground
or LUO Ljgp J „ urtnio Size. It was very
of some size, it was very
difficult to watch operations
U1 T^ooher ever from the outside without our
iT: ~ B..
Spilsfo a greater degr ee than making a bumr
Mr. Watson did. I am po.si-
inaking a hurried survey,
Geoige and I concluded to
Mr. Watson am r am po.. in the loft,
V® "It ZTlte de above the school room, which
tivo UXJMV --
and girls was ever more de
fierving of th© conlidence and
esteem given so freely by the
laughter-loving, h e y'd ^ y,
romping boys and girls of that
school to their teacher.
With but few exceptions,
the pupils—numbering about
gixty—were the ruddy-cheek
ed sons and daughters of pros-
peroas farmers, most of whom
were Friends or Quakers.
What influence the iaith of
the parents had upon their
children I know not; but
“MasteP' Watson—who, by--
the way, is now the principal
of a boys’ grammar school m
one of the largest cities of the
Union-will bear testimony
to the fact that the scholars ot
his Upper Darby School were
models of youthful honor.
At that time it was the cus
tom for Mr. Watson’s pupils
to bring their dinners with
them, as veiy few of them i-e
sided near enough to me
8chot)I to warrant t eir going
honie dinner.
And such dinners as those
was entered by means of a
small trap-door.
From that secure point we
nervously watched the prog
ress made by the two girls,
who soon crea ted a gre^.t du t,
which, naturally escaping
through the open trap’door,
caused an almost irresistible
desire on our part to sneeze,
but we heroically smothered
all such inclinations, and in
consequence George and I
won our first and only suc
cess as amateur detectives—
for it was not long before a
raid was made on Julia KeK
ly's dinner-basket, and con-
alter Gavrett’s:,old cat,’’ as the
elder of the sisters stated.
No more raids were made
upon dinner-baskets,and soon
after the girls finished their
work of sweeping and eating,
and left the school-room to
join the other girls in play.
George and I came down
from the loft, looking like two
old gray rats, so completely
were we covered with cob
webs and duHt. We reported
the result to the teacher, who
wlio cautioned us never
to 86y a word to any of
the other scholars about what
we had seen.
Later in the day another
complaint of dinuer^stealing
was made, and the master
said in his quiet way that he
thought that would be the
last theft of t e kind, as be
intended to take measures to
stop it.
'ihie next day, as the school
was being dismissed at noon,
and i-is the pupils were passing
out, the teacher, without be
ing noticed, requested the girls
in question to remain tor a few
moments.
After all the children had
got some distance away from
the school, the teacher told the
two girls what had been missed
from Kirk’s and Kelly^s din
ner Ijaskets the day previous,
and asked them if they had
taken anything from them.
Both replied that they had
not. They were then asked if
they heard any sounds around
the school while they were
sweeping, and they said:
“Nothing but a cat and dog,
fighting each other under the
school-house lloor”
Without saying anything
further, Mr- Watson picked
up a volume that always occu
pied a conspicuous corner of
his desk, and opening it, read,
in a kindly but impressive
tone, these words:
'‘A certain man named Ananias
witli Sapphira his wife, sold a pos
session, and kept back part of the
price (his wife being also privy to
it) and brought a certain part and
laid it at the apostle’s feet.
: “But Peter said. Ananias, why
hath Satan fille 1 thy heart to lie
to the Holy Ghost, and to keep
back'part of the land!
“While it remained was it
not thine own? and after it was
sold, was it not in thine own pow
er? Why hast thou conceived
conceived this thing in thy breast?
for so much? And she said, Tea,
for so much.
“Then Peter said unto her, How
is it that ye have agreed together
to tempt the spirit of the Lord?
Behold the feet of them which
buried thy husband are at the
door and shall carry the; out.
“Then fell she down straight
way at nis feet and yielded up the
ghost. And the young men came
in, and tonud her dead, and car-
ryiog her forth buried her by her
husband.
“And great fear came upon all
the Church, and upon as many as
learned these things.”
Whether from “great fear,”
or some other cause, the girls
made a frank confession, ani
Allen and I were not called
in to confront them in what
they had done.
They never knew by what
means they were adjudged the
culprits; none of the pupils,
except. Alien and myself, ever
knew that they were the guilty
ones, and as the tlieft was
never repeated, they thus es
caped—through the high sense
of honor on the part oi kind-
hearted Marraaduke Watson,
the stigma that otherwise
would have nttached to them
through all their school-girl
days. I hope the world is full
of just such school-masters.
IV 8 aiuuer-uasii.oi, «iiu uuu- uwuucivou. uuioi —
sider hie damage done to the Thou Hast not lied unto man but
. . . A •, nnrn l-rnd.
sliced ham intended for the
noonday meal of Julia and
her two brothers, Michel and
Will Kelly.
George Allen was the most
remarkable boy I ever knew
for imitating the sounds made
by birds and quadrupeds; and
scarcely bad the two girls tak
en the eatables from the bas-
ket before they were startled
unto God.
“And Ananias bearing those
words fell down and gave up tbe
ghost. And great came on all
them that heard these things.
“And the young men arose,
wouDd him up, and carried him
out and buried him.
“And it was about the space of
three hours after, when his wife,
not knowing what was done came
in.
“And Peter answered unto her,
Tell me whether ye sold the laud
SIVAL DISCOVERERS.
It is a suggestive fact that
theie are usually twr' claim
ants for the honor ot discov
ering an important fact in
science. It is equally sug
gestive that a valuable inven
tion obliges a court to decide
who ot two persoris Is the
ofiginul inventor. Any one
familiar with the history of
discoveries and inventions can
readily recall many illustra
tions of this singular fact.
In mathematics we have
tiie German Leibnitz disput*
ing with the English Newton
as to which of the two discov
ered the method ot fluxions.
In astronomy Adams,the En>
glishman, shares with Lever-
rier, the Frenchman, the hon
or of discovering the planet
Neptune. Professor Morse,
the American, had to contend
with an Englishman for the
reward of inventing the tele-
graph-
Englishmen give the credit
ot discovering the circulation
of the blood to WilHam Har
vey, an eminent London phy
sician of the seventeenth cen
tury. This discovery, which
revolutionized the pr.ictice of
medicine,was made known ly
Harvey, it is said i i 1616, to
his classes in surgery. In
1628, he published it to the
world in a book dedicated to
Charles 1, of England,
The Italians ascribe its im
portaiit discovery to Father
Paul Sarpi, a learned Vene
tian monk, who died in 1623,
at the age ot seventy one.
Archdeacon Dixon says, in
the Chnrchman, that from per
sonal examination of the con
troversy, he is satisfied that
the world is indebted to Sarpi
for this great discovery.
Sarpi was a diligent stu
dent of natural philosophy,
medicine and anatomy. In a
journal published in 1684 the
Nouvelles de la Mepuhlique d. s
Lettres [News from the Re
public of Letters], it is stated
that Sarpi discovered the cir
culation of the blood, but did
not make i public. His reti
conce was due to his fear of
inquisition, whose hostility to
scientific discoveries was well
known, and with whom Sarpi
had had trouble on account of
liiseffor s to reform the Roman
Church.
He did, however, reveal the
secret to bis physician, Aqua'
pendente, who had saved his
life, when wounded byRoaian
assassins. The physician
wrote a book on the subject
based on Sarpi’s notes. But
he also was afraid that the
publication of such a novel
heresy would get him into
trouble with the Inquisition.
He therefore placed his manu
script in the library of St.
Mark’s.
Aquapendente atterw.ards
removed to Padua, where he
was appointed professor of
medicine. Among the stu
dents WHS a young English
man, with whom the pro
fessor became so intimate
that he revealed to liiui Sar
pi’s discovery. • This young
Englishm n was Harvey-
Oa his return to England,
and after the death of Sarpi,
in 1623, he claimed the dis
covery.
This plausible statomerit
mtifet, of course, be received
wiih the customary grain of
salt. But itfurnishes another
illustration of the singular fact
th it a great discovery usually
calls up several rivals for the
h uior of making it.
TOO LATE,
Vhen the crumbling bones
of John Howard Payne weie
cairied in state across the
ocean, and borne to their las'
resting-place amid the peal
ing of music and singing of
requiems, the whole nation
looking on, it was impossible
not to remember how much
the life of the poor poet would
iiave been warmed and bright
oned by a very little of this
late appreciation and honor.
If, instead of the universal
h'vudatif''n which has beengiv
en to the dead Poe., a hearty
genuine effort had been
made by one or tw ) friends to
keep iiim Irom ruin, be mighi
have lived happily for many
years
It has always been the hab
it of the world to neglect its
heroes and leadeis while they
are living; and heap honors
and. praise on them as soon
as they are deaf and blind to
buili. “Bailiffs,” sang poor
Moore (who himself knew the
bai'if well), “may seize his
last blanket to-day, whose
pull will be held up by nobles
to-morrow.”
When Ben Jonson lay dy-
in;( in poverty and hunger
Charles I, who had long
known of his want, sent him
a small sura, without any
kindly message-
“1 will have none of his
alms," said the poet. “He
sends it to me becaus * I liv"
in an alley, Take it back
and tell him his soul lives in
an alley ! ”
Thousands of years ago tlm
proverb was old, “Better to be
a living dog than a dead li
on.” Especially let us add
if the living dog is not starv
ed by his friends in food or
praise or love.
Americans are usually too
crowded and hurried by the
incessant struggle, to cordial
ly cheer and encourage each
other. Detraction and fault
finding followed Lincoln and
Gnrfield to the very minute
tljM ' were struck down, when
thev became popular demi
gods. Some of our public
men might be tempted t > wij^h
for assassinati'^n.ns irood juck,
compared with the perpetual
lasiies of the knout of public
opinion.
Even in our iiulividual
Hv'^s we are too apt to k^'ep
buck the expre.ssion (ff'imr ad
miration and love fVoni; our
living frlen to lavi.li it on
him when he is dead. Sis
ters and brother-s, even hus
bands wives and parents.treat
each other witii oernliioce
and selfish coldnoi^s for s ears
until death comas, when th“v
sob out on the coffin ot {he
dead an affection which wouhi
lave illuminated their lives.
“He k ows now liovv I loved
him !'■ they cry.
I’he living man he.ue .and
knows that which is told him.
But lliere-is alwa3’8 the terri-
bl ; possibility that the dead
do not know.
" .ore
A 3TRANGS K LLUCINATIO^'s, kis
CITRTD. ter the
Malebranche, a
, -I I rthe be-.-
pnitosoher of tne sevenr i
, , a life, and
ce'itury, was tor a Iona ^ •
I -v r . , ^ tail-Start,
rl'O victim ot a singular n,
Ho fancied that Im har^
1 £ .. our com-
-n; irmous Jog of mutti
{■ •ched to the end of his '
.V friend would shake "
. , I . J - . rToe farmer.
- irn Inm aim eriquire:''H
M. Malebranche tO'-d^^
Pretty wellon the whoU^*^ ^
ilils horrid leg of
getting quite uubeardblo by
bv its weight and its smell.”
“What? This leg of mut- ^
ton?" “Fes; can't you see
It hanging there in front ? "
If the friend burst into a
laugh, or ventured to deny
the existence of the stramie
phenomenon, Malebrauche
would get angry At lengtii
colleague in his, a man gif
ted with a sense of the humor
ous determined to cure him by
soaie means or other. Gall
ing upon him one day, he af
fected to see th i cause of his
trouble.and inquired about it.
The imaginary patient, over
come with giatitude, ran to
embrace this first believer,who
stopped backwards uttered a
cry. “What! have I hurt
yen, my friend? ” “Certain
ly, you have ruu your leg of
mutton into my eye. I real
ly cannot understand why
v'ou have not tried to get rid
d that awkward appendage
long since. If you will
allow me I will cut it
wi'h a razor—an opera
tion perforumd without the
slightest danger”—“My friend
,Qv friend, you will have sav
or! my life ! Oh I Ah ! Oh !”
[n the twinkling of an eye the
friend had slightly grazed the
tip of hi.s nose, and producing
I'voiM his coat a splendid leg of
mutton,be flourished it trium
phantly in the air. “Ah ! ex'*
claimed Malebrancho, “I live
I breathe! My nose is free
my head is free! But--but—it
was a raw one and this one
;s cooked! ” “Why, of
course; you have been sitting
for an hour close to the fire 1’’
From this timj Malebrauche
ceased to be haunted by his
of mutton.