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POETRY
Wo were UoysTogether
BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.
we were boys together,
And never can forget
The school-house on the heather,
In childhood where we met—
The humble home, to memory dear;
Its sorrows and its joys;
Where woke the transient smile or tear,
When you and I were boys.
We were youths together,
And castles built in air;
Your heart was like a leather,
And mine weighed down with eare.
To you came wealth with manhood's
prime,
To me it brought alloys
Foreshadow'd in tlie primrose time;
When you and ! were boys.
Wc'rc oul men together;
Tire friends we loved of yore,
With leaves of autumn weather,
Are gone forever more.
How blest to age the impulse given—
The hope time ne’er destroys—
Whieli led our thoughts from earth to
heaven,
When you and 1 were boys!
THE SABBATH
SCHOOL.
Miirkn of a Good Hunduy
ISeliool Scholar,
1. Promptness. He, or she, is at
school ami in his seat on time, lie
does not hang round the door, or lag
behind, or creep in after the exercis
es have begun. Punctuality is hit
motto, and he sticks to it.
2. Regularity. He is never absent
unless for the best of reasons.
3. Readiness to take part in the ex
ercises of the school. In singing, h»
sings, and sings heartily. In reading,
he finds his place and reads distinct
ly. He is not afraid to have In
voice heard.
4. Perfect lessons. His recitation.-
show tout lie lias studied, that lie un
derstands, am! that he wants to lean
more about them.
fl. An attentive ear.
6. A lender conscience.
7. A willing In-art.
8. Remembering lus contribution
money. If the school have a weekly
penny collection, as 1 hope it has, tu
bas. bis money on i and, and never
forgets to bring it.
9. He is devout in prayer, and
tries to make the words of the su
perintendent in prayer his own words
10. When the school closes, he
leaves Ills eiass and tfie school in an
orderly manner; not pushing, gigling
elbowing, or rushing, as gome schol
ars do. He remembers that it is the
i-ord's day and the Lord’s house, and
behaves accordingly.
11. He cherishes a grateful and af
fectionate remembrance of his teach
cr and superintendent, and often
thinks how kind it is in them to care
for and take so much pains for his
good.
12. He thanks God for his birth in
a Christian land, knowing how many
children in pagan lands have none of
the opportunities which be has of
knowing and loving and serving the
Lord.
Have you these marks, my child ?
Examine yourself and see. — H. C. K.
Two Somebodies.— l know some
body who always appears to be mis
erable; and this is the way she con
trives to be so— think always about
herself; constantly wishing for that
she hug not got; idling away her
time; fretting and grumbling.
I know somebody who is much
happier; and this is the way she con
trives to be so—thinking of otbeis;
satisfied with what her Heavenly
Father has judged best for her; work,
iug; caring for somebody else be
sides herself; and thinking how she
can make others happy.
My little “somebody,” which kind
of a “somebody” are you?
The Educator.
YOL.I. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., DECEMBER 19, 1874. NO. 13.
Bleauod to Give.
“Fifty cents to do just what you
please with I” exclaimed little Allie
Flint, her cheeks glowing, and her
bright eyes beaming joyfully, “Oh,
what shall I get with it? Oh, how
splendid! I’ll get me a picture book.
Just think! Mother, can’t I go to the
store this afternoon, and get some
thing with my fifty cents?”
“Yes, if you will be a good girl.”
“I will, I will! What shall I get?”
“I would get something useful,”
said her mother.
“Well, I try.”
So after dinner Allie put on her
cloak and hat and started off.
As she was walking along, happen
ing to look over on the other side of
the street, she saw a poor, ragged
girl. She did not stop, but kept look
ing at the girl as if site was thinking
about her, until she turned a corner
which hid her from sight.
“I guess I know what I will get.”
She soon arrived at the store, and
inquired how much print she could
get for fifty cents.
“Five yards,” said the merchant.
“Well, I will take five yards of
that, said she, pointing to a pretty
piece of calico.
As soon as she had received the
calico and paid for it, she tan back
to the little girl on the side walk.
“This is for you,” said site, putting
the calico into her hands, and run
ning away before the little girl had
time to thank her.
The. next Sunday, what was her
joy to see her young friend come in
to the Sunday school in her nice new
dress. O, young readers, is it not
more blessed to give than to receive!
Oh, what blessedness there is in giv
ng to tl.o poor.— Yount/ PiU/rim.
RELIGIOUS INTEL
LIGENCE.
We respectfully invite any minister
d the gospel to communicate to us
promptly any items suited lor this
department of the Educator. Eve
ry minister should subscribe. Ad
tress
Waddell A Smith.
Fayetteville N. C.
A Mliort Method with si
Muteriolist,
The London Spectator tells a good
story: A meterialistic lecturer and a
city missionary met before an intelli
gent audience to discuss the question
of responsibility. The lecturer’s
main point was the absurdity of the
scriptural notion of judgment to
come for deeds done in the body, in
asmuch as all the matter of the body
changes every few years, arid it is
unjust to hold the new man, who is
formed from the new matter, respon
sible for the sms of the old man,
who has passed out of existence.
Then arose the city missionary,
whose wits must have been lively,
and said: “Ladies aud gentlemen, it
is a matter of great regret to me
that I have to engage in a discussion
with a man of questionable charac
ter—with one, in fact, who is living
with a woman to whom he is not
married.”
Up rose in wrath agaiu the mate
rialist. “>Sir, this is shameful, aud I
repudiate your insolent attack on my
character; I defy you to substantiate
your charge. I was married to my
wife twenty years ago, and we have
lived happily together ever since.
This is a mere attempt at evading the
force of my argument.”
“On the contrary,” replied the city
missionary, “I reaffirm my charge.
You wcce never married to the per
son with whom you are living.
Twenty years ago two other people
may have gone to Church, bearing
your names, but there is not one
atom in your bodies remaining of
those which were then married. It
lollows inevitably that yon are living
in concubinage, unless you will admit
that you are the same man who was
married.
l’l-ot. Tynilull In ll Nut
shell.
Prof. Tyndall’s laborious address
to the British Association may be
readily summed up in the simple re
statement of a very old argument.
An egg contains all the material nec
essary to lorm a chick. It holds also,
for a time at least, the force requisite
to construct the animal out of its
component elements. The only tiling
needed is to set the formative pro
cessive in action by the application
of another form of force or motion,
called heat. But this last must be
supplied from without. The sum of
Prof. Tyndall’s researches is precise
ly analogous. He finds in matter
“the promise and potency of every
form and quality of life,” just as the
naturalist and organic chemist find
the organic materials of a chick, and
the promise and potency to form one,
within the eggshell.—But neither the
philosopher nor the experimentalist
can go one step beyond the iacts.
They are wholly unable to explain
the something from without, in
whose absence neither an eggful nor
a world of life can be called into a
palpable existence. This is the point
at which philosophy again arrives—
the old point at which it has been
arriving by various paths ever since
the first effort to penetrate an inscru
table mystery. The Egyptians sym
bolized the difficulty, and their inabil
ity to surmount it, by offering the
mysterious egg reverently to their
gods. They laid the unsolved prob
lem of the finite at the • feet of the
Infinite Prot. Tyndall and the Brit
ish Association might learn wisdom,
without humiliation, from the ancient
idolators, and emulate their not igno
ble submission. —London Globe.
A Grecian Leoest. —When
Bacchus was a boy he journeyed
through Ilellas to go to Xaxia; and
as the way was very long, he grew
tired and sat down upon a stone to
rest. As lie sat there with his eyes 1
upon the ground, he saw a little
plant spring up between bis feet, and
was so much pleased with it that be
detemined to take it with him and
plant it in Xaxia. He took it up
and carried it away with him; but,
as the sun was very hot, he fear
ed it might wither before he reached
h s destination. He lound a bird’s
skeleton, into which ho thrust it,
and went on. But in his hand the
plant sprouted so fast that it started
out of the bones above and below.
This gave him fresh fear of its with
ering, and lie cast about for a reme
dy. He found a lion’s bone, which
was thicker tbau the bird’s skeleton,
and he stuck the skeleton with the
plant in it into the bone of the lion.
Ere long however, the plant grew
out of the lion’s bone likewise. Then
he found the bone of an ass larger
still than that of the lion; so be put
it into the lion’s containing the birds
skeleton and the plant, into the ass’s
hone, thus made his way to Naxia.—
When about to set the plant, Lo
found that the roots had entwined
themselves around the bird’s skele
ton; and the lion’s bone, aud the ass’s
bone, and as he could not take it out
without damaging the roots, he
planted it as it was, and it came up
speedily, and bore to his great joy
the most delicious grapes, from which
he made the first wine, and gave it
to man to drink. But behold a mir
acle! When men first drank of it,
they first sang like birds; next, alter
drinking a little more, they became
vigorous and gallant like lion’s; but
when they drank more still they be
gan to behave like asses.
Faith.— lt is said that one day,
when Bonaparte was reviewing some
troops, the bridle of bis horse slipped
from bis hand, and the horse gallop
ed off. A common soldier rau, aud
laying hold of the bridle, bronght
the horse to the Empeior’s hand, he
said to the man:
“Well done, Captain - ”
“Os what regiment, sire?” inquired
the soldier.
“Os the Guards,” answered Napol
eon, pleased |rith his instant belief
in his word.
The Emperor rode off, the soldier
j threw down his musket, and though
i iie had no epaulets on his shoulders,
no sword by his side, nor any other
mark of advicement, ho ran and
joined i lie staff of commanding offi
cers. They laughed at him, and said:
“What have you to do here?”
I am the Captain of the Guards,?”
he replied.
They were amazed, but he said:
“The Emperor has said so, and there
fore I am.”
In like maimer though the word
of God. “lie that befieveth lias ever
lasting life,”is not confirmed by the j
feeling of ihe believer; be ought to j
take the word of God as true; be- j
cause he said it, and thus honor him
as a God of truth, and rejoice with
joy unspeakable.
Ton Buies to Farmers.
1. Take good papers aud read
them.
2. Keep an account ol farm opera
tions.
3. Do not leave implements scat
tered over the farm, exposed to
snow, rain and heat.
4. Repair tools and buildings at a
proper time, and do not suffer sub
sequent threefold expenditure of time
and money.
5. Use money judiciously, and do
not attend auction sales to purchase
all kiudsof trumpery because it is
cheap.
6. See that fences are well repair
ed, and cattle uot grazing iu the
meadows, grain fields or orchards.
7. Do not refuse correct experi
ments, in a small way, of many new
things.
8. l'lant fruit trees well, care for
them, and get good crops.
9. Practice economy by giving
stock shelter during the winter, also
good food, taking out ail that is un
sound, half rotten, or mouldy.
10. Do not keep tribes of dogs and
cats around the premises, who eat
more in a month than they are worth
all their life time.
Large Requests. —A story is
told of a poor woman who went to
a Governor and told him a very mov
ing tale of her poverty aud her need.
The Governor was touched, and said
to her, “My good woman, how much i
do you think would be necessary to
meet jour wants? I wish very much
to help yon.”
“O, sir,” shc>said, “if I only had a
hundred dollars, I should be perfect
ly happy. That would buy all I
want.”
“Xow think,” said the Governor,
“are you sure you do uot want any
more?”
“O yes, sir, I am perfectly sure
that a hundred dollars would be e
nough for me.”
The Governor generously gave
her the sum she asked for, and lor
a time she was full of ecstacv. Butl
after awhilu she begau to think that
she might have had more for the ask
ing, and she said, sadly, “ah me! why
did I hot say two hundred?”
When our God, the possessor of
infinite resources, whom giving does
uot impoverish, says, “Ask and ye
shall receive," we ought to make large
requests. “Open wide thy mouth,”
Bays He, “and I will fill it.”
Panthers, Lions and Snakes.—
There was great excitement in New
York, last week, by a newspaper
hoax announcing that the wild beasts
of Central Park had got out. The
story grew until our own servent,
with white cheeks, told us that “two
thousand people had already been
“killed, and they were still shovell
ing them up.” It wss probcbly got
up by a reporter who had been tak
ing a little too much the night before.
It is said that bad whiskey taken in
undue quantities will make a man
see a whole menagerie, even when
there is nothing there.
But there are snakes, panthers, and
lions innumerable on every street, in
the shape of bad books and unclean
newspapers. Anthony Comstock
has shot more of them than any oth
er hunter. We wish we had many
likfc him to throw body, aud mind,
and soul into the efforts for knocking
out the teeth and extracting the sting
of these cobras. Let parents espeiai
ly be armed. See that none of those
vile creatures hide in your children’s
trunks. Be watchful tiiat not so much
as a scrap cf a bad newspaper come
in bound round aparcle of dry-goods
( One drop of foam from a mad dog’s
I tooth may produce hydrophobic con
j vulsion. One picture evilly - suggest
ive, or a sentence charged with dou
ble entendre, may do the work of
moral devestation. Where are our
police aud mayors that they pass up
aud down perpetually in presence ofj
news-stands reeking with the vomit
of hell? Surely the sewers of tile lost
world have broken lose. Glad would
we be if nothing worse than panthers
lions, and snakes were ranging the
streets. — Christian at Wort.
JL>isupi>ointinciit aud
Disgust.
A young man who was in Cov
ington on Friday, in the interest of
a new heating apparatus, heard that
Maj. P. was building a new
house and speedily hunted up the
veteran.
“I heard you are building a new
house,” he said to Mr. P .
“I ain’t exactly building one,”
said the major in the tone of a man
who don’t care to commit himself;
“I have built it."
“Exactly! Glad to hear it, 3 said
the agent. “Have you made any ar
rangements for heating the new
building?" and the agent looked
anxious.
“Well, no,” muttered the major
with a stare, as if the heating of the
building was a subject that had en
tirely slipped his mind.
“So much the better for you,” ex
claimed the agent, “as I think I have
just the article you want, combining
ec momy, heat and cleanliness. We
have sold thousands'of them through
out the country, and have yet to hear
of a single failure on the part of the
heater to do all that is claimed for
it. It is the sum total of every ex
cellence yet produced in the numer
ous devices patented for heating
buildings, and I am confident that I
can demonstrate to you the superior
advantages which the heater enjoys
over all others?” Where is your
house?”
“On Essex street,” said the major.
“Suppose you jump in the carriage
with me, and take a drive over there
I should like to see it.”
The major consented, and getting
his overcoat he mounted the seat
with the hopeful aiul eloquent agent
! and they drove off. On the way the
agent rapidly went over the many
1 favorable points of the admirable
heater, and was much gratified at the
impressions he iiad evidently made
on his companion.
Arriving in front of the new build
ing, a large and rather unpretending
structure, the agent said:
“Wbat are you going to do with!
this, major? Make a tenement or a
boarding house of it?”
‘•Oh no,” said the major, as he care
fully reached the ground aud look
!ed innocently around, “it’s an icc
house."
“What?” screamed the agent.
“It is an ice house,” replied the
Major blandly.
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The last seen of that agent he was
applying the lash to his home, and
tearing out of the neighborhood at a
marvelous pace.
A Bomauce of Two Con
tinents.
Fifty years ago a young English
officer named Hendricks was travel
ing with hio sister la Italy, vriieWr
he met, wooed, won and run off with
I the charming daughter of a rich an I
proud nobleman. Even as the father
of Desdemoua disowned her, so ti/e
Italian count swore never again to
acknowledge his recreant daughter.
Nothing, disturbed thereat, she ac
companied her husband to the Brit
ish dominions in North America,
thence to New York, where, r.l' .v
giving birth to a daughtef, She
Hendricks, having thus lost his w ire,
gave himself up to dissipation, l«t
was so far mindful of his tnotbcrivsss
infant as to marry a German wonum
who had taken a fancy to the chit !.
The girl grow to maidenhood, receiv
ing little education, for the family
was poor, and when still young >-s
married at Vincennes, Indiana, to an
Ohio river mate named Iliram T«'»m
They lived happily enough uni ii Ti
tus died, when she removed to L 'i
isville, where she led a desolate !' .
Now the count, her grandfather, L s
yielded to heaven his vital truH, as
sole lineal heir she has gone to I’aly
to claim his title and his wealth. The
fortune which thus falls to her Is va
riously estimated from S2OO,(KW to
SBOO,OOO. _______
A Mexican Grotto.—Amog
the recent discoveries of ancient ru
ins in Mexico is that of an artificially
executed grotto, fifteen miles from
Tancitaro, in the state of Michoacnn.
The grotto is represented to be of
immense depth and vast extent; the
remains of walls and arched corri
dors are still to bo seen, and many
curious specimens of the handiwork
of an unknown race has been brought
from this subterranean palace.—-T*o
citizens of a neighboring village re
cently penetrated into the cavernous
depth of the grotto and lost their
way. Three days and nights Were
spent in wandering through the lu >-
yrinthinc passages of this wonderful
place before they found an outlet
from their strange imprisonment.
Subsequent to this competent per
sons made a more thorough exami
nation of the grotto, when the tact
that at some unknown period in the
past it had been shaped by human
skill, and walled in on overy side by
human hands, was revealed. It is a
dark labyrinth, surpassing in extent
and intricacy the fabled one construc
ted by Diedalus. The walls arc cf
masonry, and the passago walls,
| which connect vast chambers, ai-e
| arched over with stone. These evi
dences of human labor and i-.ntn
j vance lead to the supposition that it
lis the work of an aboriginal race
j which long ago perished.
j One of the jurors in a late murder
' trial, after being excused from set
; vice because of his opposition to
j capital punishment, was asked bv a
j neighbor how he came to go'. ».i.
I lie answered, ‘Oh! I'm opposed to
capital punishment.’ ‘Are you in
i -Iced? Why what would you tie
! with a - man who should dellberAu ’y
waylay ami shoot down one of h.s
! neighbors 0 ‘lTang him, sir! I'd ncv -i
1 -cud him up to the capital to be pm •
I ished.'
Uesisti ng Falsehood. —When
the immortal Sydney was told tl at
he might save his life by telling r
falsehood, by denying his handwrit
ng, l.ejanswered, “When God hath
brought mo iuto a dilemma, in which
I must assert a lie, or lose my life,
he fives me a clear indication of my
duty; w hich is to prefer death to
falsehood. — Gray.