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\ 0-, Friend [ n:'! GO',. -LY IG, 1881. fioDoe .'.[oiitliv tor iv i’. ■o.'oloton ix ' . - . . . ■ ■•■IS PUBYISIl 1) oAjL.;icij--Yi;. riiiCii; l-'OR O.N . YEAH 5;i2.00; FOR SIX MONTHS $1.00. | ANOTHER POSTPOfJEMENT. Uiiox|)(‘(-n;.l lieliiys liave oc- c.urrcil in the woih on the 0. tt 11. It. M. i’lxiii.-ipoitation cannot be obtained dining the present month. 'File Corner'Stone of the new building will not be laid at the time appointed. As soon as positive assurance of transporta tion can be given, another day will be named. Publisiihrs will jilease note that Mes. Maey IJay.viu) Ol.-irke is now '"einploy-ei-Tiyr Corresponding Editor of The OiiPjtANs’ Fkiend. She will prepare notices of new books, and these notices will have the benefit oi our large circulation. Copies ot new publications nuij’ bo sent to her at the office of the Okph.vns’ Friend, Oxford, A. C., until further notice. OuE thanks arc due to our friend of the liobesoiiiini and tlie Baby- Editor of the Salisbury Frohihionisi for kind mention of ns in tlieir ool- imms. We liave received one or two let ters this week complaining of non receipt of our paper. There has been some little confusion conse quent on changes in the office that has delajnffi us in mailing ; but eve rything being now in order, we will thank any person who does not re ceive his piaper to dro]i us a postal card at once that we may find out where the fault lies. DEATH OF TUB HON. MATHIAS MANLY. On Saturday evening the Hon. M. E. Manly died very . suddenly at his residence in Kewbei’ii, of some affection of the heart. He was in his usual health, perhaps a little enfeebled by the heat, and fell dead while walking in his yard after suppier. W^e have been promised an extended notice of his. life for our next issue,' and will thei’efore only say here that Aorth Carolina has lost another landmark of the olden days of courtesy and chivalry. DEATH OF MliS. LANDIS. Owhiii’to tln^ iiidisposition ot "Mr. Mills, and th(‘ ahsonco of Mi.s.s Anderson, we were obliged to ii’o to [ircss last week with a mere mention of the tli-atli ot tins estimable lady, iutendinii’ to r'Bjuest some one of her iin- inerons triends to n'l'ite a more extended notice ot lier manr virtues and the ^’reat loss the coiiimuiiitv of Oxford has sustain ed in her death. Blit the Free Lance has anticipated us. and we te<d that, we cannot do better than clip from its columns : ••\erv i-arlv on the morning of the 5th Mrs. Mollie Landis, wite of Capt. A. Ijan- dis, was gi-iitls' ealled to her rest above. She was bidoveil hv all who knew her. I'hongh still V'luiig, Mrs. Landis was the mother of ten living cluldren. tlie younoTcst being twins aiioin two vears old. and, next to her (iod. lii-r tiiiu'. her tahmts. and a life of iinseltish and imlintig- industry were cons<*erated tf) the care and eomfort of her fannlv. I’liitlitnllv was every ehihl dedicated to God bv baptism, and by precept and exam ple she .strove to iiillil her vows. An earn est, but modest ( hi-istian.and zealousPn's- bvteriaii. the burdini ot her heart and pray ers was tliat h(‘r helovial iiiisliaiid and chil dren should partake (.)t like precious bless ings. Mrs. Landis wa.s tin' Jirst moverand Pres ident ot the • Ladies Presbvti.'riaii Society.' whic.li was organized in lier house witli (*ariH“St jiraver Tor its success bv the former jiastor, K(A'. I). L. dordan. llm- interest and (U'votioii to tlie eaus(‘ ^c^•er tlagged, and site inadi* it always her rule to give from the labor ot her own liands a miicli larger sum Ilian was required, and was e^•er rt'.ady to res]it)U(l g“nGrou.«L' to every ealt for sympathy or ludj), not only from her own elinrch. but to every object that came to her knowledge. Mrs. Landis ■\\'ill indeed bo missed by her ehiirch and the whole connmnntv : but the desolation of hi'r Inune, the crushed lius- liaiid and •weeping children, no tongue can describe. May her God he their God. and remem bering Ins pr(‘cious covmiant. gather evi'i’y landi into the fold, so in the day when he shall make up hts jewels, not one of her IovimI ones shall be imssiug. but found reioicmg. a retiinti'd. an unbroken family iii luau'en ’ IL, the Tsew \ork correspondent ot the Charlotte Denioerat, speaking of the at tempted assassination ot tlie President, says : **1 liave liesitated wlietlier to write any thing about llie horrible event of last Sat urday. not becaiKse I <lo not tecl, and feel profoundly, the violation of all personal and public I'lghts invohcd, but becau.se voiir readers, and all the world, will know all about it before I could roach them. But on my wav to church vo.stcrdav I was thinking and speaking of the mania for of- lic.e, growing out ot -the spoils doctrine,’ as the prime cause of tlie outrage^ and the minister. Lev. Dr. Potter, in an admiralile address on the neccs.sity ot government— family, ehureh. and State government—ixd- vanced the .same idea, and expressed the belief that if we cannot eradicate this abommable and demoratizingdoetrine, that • to the victors belong the spoils ot olliee,’ the country is doomed I ■When the Ausiriaii <-eiisus wa.s taken last \inter an iinmarru'd Imnale cook in \ ienna, \U‘r tlie luaidnig '’religion inthesched- \descnl)ed herseli us •• belonging to the 1 ot free- n-asoii. If tliereis aplace world where iliere should be a little reason, it is in the kitchen. 'I'llO l'<>[>u!i Jvi’\ . [Uibri.-lj (.0,.ye'W '.ore. e-.i'unJi!,') n.-i;-li li- tcreMiby i 'i- t-n 'A' readeT. d he avticie ‘Aiow to L're- I vent Drowning” by neiii-y MacC'or- i mac comes very apropos in this hot | weatbei’j and ex'ery boy "^vlio wishes ; to go swimming should be made fir.st 'j to read it. Wq haveseeu several ex- • tracts from it in our exchanges but ; no mention ot xvhence taken. The ; Warsaw Brief Mention thmkH the ; pitli ot tlie aiithor-s remain^s is con tained m the following ])aragrapli : ; "Wlien one of the inferior animals rak<-s the water, falls, or is tlmnvn in. it instantly : begins to walk as it does when out ut tlu-. i water. But when a man who cannot ; ‘’swinr’falls into the water, he makes a . few spa.siiiodic struggles, thro\^'• iqi his ! arms, and drowns. Mie brutio on llie other ' hand, tread.s water, remains on the siirtace, i and IS virtuallv insulunergible. In ordei i then to escaiie dro^vmug it is onl,\ neces sary to do as tile brute does, and fiiat is to tread or walk tlie water, llu- braii^ li;'.'' no advaniage in regard of hi.s iidaine weight. Ill respeet ot tlie water, over man: : and vet tlie man ]>enslies wljile the brute, lives. Nevertheless, anv man. any woman, : any eliihl. who can walk on the land may i also walk in tlu' water ;uist as ivadilv as the , animal does, and that without aiiv prior in- i structions or drilling A\liat<‘Vei. Ihrov a dog int<i the water, and lu' treads or 'walks • tlie water iiistantlv. and there, is no imagi- ; liable reason whv a human being under like i elr<-umstaiiees sliouM not do as the dog i does. 'Lhe brute, indeed, walks in the i water iustinctividv, whereas man has to be ' told.’- Perhaps this is the ‘-pith,'’ hut the | marrow is, we think in a paragraph whicli none of our exchanges have given, probably Ijecause they con sidered it unnecessary to the full understanding of the term ‘‘tread water,” and so it may be to the tho.iightful, but not to the heedless- boy who finds himself out of his depth. MacCormac says : “The brute in the water continues to go on all- foui s, and the man who wishes to save his life, and cannot otherwise swim, must do so too, striking alter nate!}^, one two, one two, but ■with out hurry or precipitation, with band and foot exactly as the brute does. Whether he be provided witli paw or lioof, the brute swims with the greatest ease and buoyancy. The human being, if be will, can do so too, with the furtlier immense ad vantage of having a paddle formed hand, and of being able to rest him self when tii’ed by floating. .Brid get Money, a poor Irish emigrant saved her own life and her thi’ee children’s lives, when the steamer conveying tliem took fire on Lake Erie, l)y floating lierself, and making them float, which simply consists in lying quite still, with the mouth shut and the head thrown back in the water.” ^ Inventors will do well to read the ! paper on the “Recent Advance in ; the Law of Intellectual Property,” | which describes some of the more ! salient steps—the legislation and ; lately reported decisions—which are , of interest to all friends of practical ' science. i The Biograpliical Sketch of Dr. i Charles T. Jackson contained in this | number does ample justice to one of i the prominent scientitic men of the . United States who, in life, felt him self defrauded of the credit due him > for two of the greatest discoveries | of this century the electro-magnetic ! telegraph, and the anaisthetic pro- ; perties of ethei'. The writer says | "The name of Dr. Charles T. .lack- ! son deserves to be awarded aproini- i iient place in the annals of Ameri- i can Science. It is closely associated | with the earlier geological invest!- i gations in the LTiiited States and the ‘ British Provinces, and with the ini- I tiation of discoveries which have : contributed immensely to the in- uease of the economical resources of the world and to the amelioration of the pains of suffering men. IIow- e^'er the balance of merit in the dis covery of the electro-magnetic tele graph and of anaesthesia may be awarded the fact that Dr, Jacksun conceived the ideas which embody the principles of those discoveries, and probably imparted tliem to the more practical men who made them kuo'wn to the world can hardly be disputed.” Years ago it was our good fortune to know Dr. Jackson personally, and often have we beard him speak of the conversations be had with Pro fessor Morse on the electro-magnetic telegraph when they were fellow passengers crossing the Atlantic. On one occasion Morse came to Jackson asking some further information, or some repetition of information already imparted. Being occupied at the time Dr. Jackson, according to his own account as given to us both \crbally and afterwards in a letter, tore from his note hook the leaves on which were written the notes Professor Morse desired, saying: " Aiero you have the whole thing in ;i nut shell.” Afterwards he asked jJoi’se tor these leaves but could uever get tlieni back, and beard no I'linre 'trom him when the voyage \v;;S over till the discovery of the electro-telegraph by Morse was an nounced. Dr. Jackson was as the writer of this sketch says “a great genius and had remarkable intuitive perceptions of scientitic truths, but from some peculiarities hard to com prehend, he often contented himself with enunciating what he recognized as tact, without striving to sub stantiate it. He himself admitted his short comings in this respect.” lie was the scientific discoverer of the amesthetic properties of either, and the first to siigyesi its use in surgical operations. But Morton was the first praeticallij to demon strate what his suggestion was worth to humanity. They supplemented each other, and though Dr. Jackson lelt sore about Morton receiving the lionor which he believed was bis due, lie admitted that the fact might possibly have remained dormant m his mind had not Morton sought in- Torniatiori from him and then practi cally demonstrated the truth of that mtormation. Morton gave full credit to i)r, Jackson for the discovery and only claimed to have utilized that discovejw. Morse on the contrary would not own his indebtedness, be it much or be it little, to this great scientist. We are most heartily glad therefore to see a Journal of the standing of the “Popular Science Monthly” accord to him, his due mede of honor, though it comes to the public after his death. Socially Dr. Jackson was most agreeable, but touch him on his scientific reputation and he was in deed a nettle. A warm friend but a bitter enemy, he had warm friends and bitter enemies. He died last August, having su-ft'ered for some years with an affection of his mind, which his enemies endeavoured to turn against him, saying his state ments were hut the vagaries of a diseased brain. Home Grounds, by Alexander P. Oakey. The fourth of the attractive “Home books” published by D. Ap pleton & Co. Discusses the general arrangement, walks and drives, lawns and grass-plots, planting, trees,fences and gates, summer-houses, shelters, chicken-houses, etc., in a pleasant, familiar way, with full illusti'ations. While primarily designed, doubtless, for those of wealth and taste, there is much of hint and suggestion in the volume that will prove of the most useful service to those of moderate means. Its \vhole teach ing is to add to the refinement and profit of the owner, and make the accessories of life even more attrac tive. Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century, ns Contrasted loith Us Earlier and Letter History, being the “Cunningham lec tures” for 1880, by Rev. Dr. John Caii'ns, of tlie United Presbyterian College of Scotland has been pub lished by Harper & Brother’s as one of the Franklin Square Library. Dr, Cairns is a man of large reading and sound faith, according to the Free church and Scottish theology. Ability, zeal and scholarship, each, will combine to give these lectures a permanent place on the shelves of theologues and established teachers. They are a repertory of facts and Opinion of the highest value to all inquirers. M. B. C. TRIAL OF LEJARNETTE. A report of this trial, with an ap pendix by Dr. Grissom re-printed from the North Carolina Medical Journal, has been laid on our table ; the circum stances of the homicide committed by tliis unfortunate young man are so wep known that there is no need for further allusion to them, and the interest of the pamphlet hinges on the point of his sanity or insanity, to determine which Dr. Grissom was summoned as an ex pert. From his testimony we gather that, while he does not recognize what is termed “moral insanity,” Doctor Grissom is a firm believer in hereditary insanity, which, although it may not be transmitted folly developed, transmits a susceptibility to the disease. He defines hereditary insanity as a disease developed in the parent, which had not been eradicated or cured before the act of transmission. It seems, from the testimony of 8, S. Harrison of Caswell county, that IMrs. Dejarnette’s grand father was deranged so violently that he had to be confined and guarded ; her mother was unsound, and thought to be deranged, though not violent, she her self was subject to fits of great excite ment, and in her paroxisms of rage did not appear rational. The testimony of James P. Dejar- nette, a first cousin of the prisoner, shows that his father had but one broth er, tlie father of the witness, whom the physicians had pronounced insane, and who is incapable of attending to busi ness, and that the witness had applied for a guardian at law for him. The cross examination concerning the causes, manifestations, and charac teristics of insanity, the physical effects of the disease, its hereditary transmis sion, and the responsibility of the in sane for their acts, only drew the re iterated expression of opinion fixnn Dr. Grissom that lie recognized insaaity only as mental impairment, produced by disease of the brain, and did not believe in a moral or an emotional insanity ex isting without a diseased brain, the physical basis of all mental faculties, and that his opinion was, that the pri soner suffered from ordinary insanity with delusions, the opinion being based upon the family history of the prisoner and his own history. In other words Dr. Grissom takes the scientific, if materiaiistic, view of in sanity, that a diseased brain will affect the mind, and impair its functions of thought, feeling and will; and that such a disease is as likely to be transmitted to offspring as scrofula, consumption or any other physical disease. As we often see what are called “scrofulous subjects” live for years without any out break of the disease which will suddenly develop under favourable circumstance and show the taint in the blood of an individual, so persons with an heredi tarily diseased brain may pass through life without showing symptons of in sanity unless “some cause, or combina tion of causes, should greatly depress, exalt or shock the system, especially the nervous s} stein.” Some of the Doctor’s answers to questions were—not to put too fine a point upon it—slightly sar castic, for instance, when asked, “At what time in the course of a family who by a judicious system of intermarriages has eradicated lhe hereditary taint, will the nuclei or the nucleoli of the brain, described by Dr. Gregory on yesterday, change their star-like and irregular shape, and resume that of the sphereor oval of which he spoke ?” He replied : “I cannot tell at what time. J never heard of a microscopic examination of a living brain.” When asked at what point responsi bility began ? He replied, “I would like to answer your question by asking another. Where does daylight end and night begin ?” The jury acquitted Dejarnette after fifteen minutes deliberation, and the third day after that, without order from court under tlie circumstances, and by the wish of his friends he was placed in the insane asylum at Raleigh. PECULIARITIES OF MAN. Of all peculiar and inconsisteiit beings on earth, man is the most so ; but he won’t admit it, not he. You tell him of it if you dare, and he will give you a scowl, that will make you wish the floor was all cracks that you might slip through. 1 know of only one who admitted it, and he declared in the next breath “that peculiarities and genius were inseparable,—twin sisters that go hand in hand.” He will give home folks regular fits about extravagant bills, and moralize for hours on the absurdity of fashion, and the most deplorable weakness, and folly of ladies, in following it, and declare most positively that he won’t pay the bills, (which means that he will) and yet if he should meet them in com pany plainly dressed, he would be ashamed to own them. He advocates economy at home in all things, especially ill the cooking department: thinks it all a notion, people pampering their appe tites ; but let him go to the table and not find anything he can relish, and he will tell you flat and plain “that if he were a house-keeper he would be one, and as for his part, he had to work hard he wanted something to eat, and he was going to have it too.” Go around the world, through it, and up side down it, and you can’t find any one in it, who can write, and talk more earnestly and beautifully of self denial and self sacrifice, and all that sort of thing ; but in the home circle if the slip pers are not exactly in the right place the fire burning cosily, the newspapers under his nose, and the baby perfectly quiet, you will think from the indica tions inside, that it must be raining, hailing, thundering and lightning as it never did before. A never yielding firmness is his platform; he has’nt any patience with moral weakness, thinks it unpardonable even in a woman ; and yet a pair of bright eyes, and pink cheeks, can lead him to the moon faster than a locomotive can travel. He glories in his superiority over all created things, his opinions are infallible; and woe be to any who would gainsay them. But wich a little tact (which is peculiar to the other sex) you can bring him down from his lofty heights, make him endorse, and carry out all your views, and then call on you to commend his fine judg ment, which of course you will do, therein lies the tact. Always remember that it was “me and Bettie that killed the bear,” and not Bettie alone. But to be generous there is a great deal of good in him, with all his peculi arities which you can develop by proper management. Once you have learned to do this, you have the “Open Sesame” to rich treasures. Lilly. IFOMAiY.S VICTORIES, Time ITlodifies Fi'ejudice. MARKED EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS. Those who move in a rut are allied and devoted to the past, shut their eyes to the great unrolling scroll of the future, have slight, if any, conception of the meaning of ' the popular phrase “ stream of tendency.” ■When the Shah of Persia, whom Archibald Fobes called “thegauziest fraud in tnis age of frauds,” coolly ottered to buy the wliole ttve hundred girls collected in the cotton mill of Manchester to do him honor, how (lazed would he have been at the crowd of facts in the evolution of the status of the sex ! Shoots spring up in ad vance. Feminine lawyers are working into favor. Many States now admit them to their courts after the most desperate resistance. Postmistresses are reckoned by thousands. Flourishing shoe-stores are carried on by women. Dentists are not rare. At every turn some announcement meets us. In the whole realm of art women eom- pete with men, with varying results. As architects some are quite distinguished. In the interior arrangements of dwelling- houses they must be serviceable according to their knowledge, tact and observation. The entire interior economy is specially in tlieir line. Tliey are likely to succeed in the cultivation of silkworms and the manu facture of silk. Tea-growing, coftee-rais- ing, orange-groves, may be applicable to them. Tliey can be, and are, decorators, painters of signs, designers. Artificial ttovvers have been sent to the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Mrs. Rosa Harden, of Baltimore, after many trials, succeeded ill nuikiug a flower which cannot be soiled by any liquid, and wliich, when dusty, can be cleaned in water without injury. She discovered a process of taking the skins of salmon and the sounds of codfish, dissolv ing, clarifying and aerating them by chem icals, forming a ji ily which can be given any desired color. The tools are bread- dough lubricated with lard for moulds. ■V^’anegated flowers are made by a vapor created by the jelly and chemicals. Sta mens and pistils are formed by ordinary cotton dipped in the jelly. A natural fra grance is given by a sprinkling of cologne. Shahs perish and become obsolete, but hu manity speeds on to its never-ending de velopment with clasped hands forthe genus, envy i..ore and more supplanted by frater nal ST) apathy !—Condensed from the Bos ton L vimnonwealtli. VV( rejoice to say that the South, always conservative and slow to change, is pro- gressingin the same direction. New ave nues are daily opening for Woman’s Work. Southern women, as a general rule, are opposed to woman’s sufliage; like the man who was willing to do with out the necessaries of life provided he couid have the luxuries, we don’t want our rigMs provided we can keep our privileges as women. It is certainly one of the highest privileges of a wife, a mother, or a sister, when poverty invades the house hold, to assist ill its support, and not only save, bat make money. Consequently w-e hail with joy every new mode of making a living which is opened to our sex, and honor every woman who bravely steps out to do so, though it may be in a wav that would have been frowned on by our grand-mothers. Gen. Long, one of the bravest of our Confederate Generals, having been left from the effects of wounds and ill health, totally blind and a partial cripple, his wife, finding she could not support her family by teaching school, sought and ob tained the position of a postmistress, which she still holds. Mrs. Nora Cannon, for some years a teacher at St. Mary’s during the life of Dr. Sraedes, has been appoint ed Superintendent of Public Schools in Fayette county, Tennessee, and fulfils all the duties of the position, while it is only necessary to step into the capitol at Ral eigh to see young ladies of the best North Carolina families going daily to their work as clerks in the departments. All honor to them in the noble efforts to be pecuniarily independent! M. B. C. President Garfield HIS C0«DITI01% CONTINUES FA- YORABLE—llE EXPRF.SSES IIIITISELF AS FEEEII^O QUITE COIflFOKT- ABLE. C. P. S., in the News and Observer, writ ing from Boston, says : “ Standing in Faneuil Hall next day, be fore the immense painting which represents the old Senate Chamber at Washington, the assembled Senate, and Webster delivering his immortal reply to Hayiie; one could es timate the profound and enduring influence that speech lia.s exerted on Northern minds. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” I took a chair and gazed round that old hall with very decided emo tion. Not the old South church, full as it now is of Revolutionary relics, not the his toric Common, not Bunker Hill itself so moved me as the sight of those walls—the very cradie of American independence There hang the portraits of Boston’s old- time worthies, Otis, and Warren, and Win- throp, and Adams, and many more. “Tell us about them, and about that speech of Webster’s,” said ray young companions, neither of them so well read as they might be in national history. Then I made a speech to an audience of two in Faneuil Hall, and claimed the hall as ours, these men as our countrymen, their history as a part of our inheritance and Webster’s no ble peroration to be inscribed deep on our hearts. The end of all this elopuence was tliat one of ray young ladies took my para sol. and with the point therefore wrote clear across the floor of Faneuil Hall in the line white sand that covered it : “North Carolina forever.” Then I thought it was about time to ad- j’ourn the meeting, and we came out and left our flag flying. T'he Joy of Giving.—When Samuel Budgett, a distinguished English merchant, was dying, he said : “Riches I have had as much as my heart could desire, hut I never felt any pleasure in them for their own sake, only so far as they enabled me to give pleasure unto otliers.” This dying confession of a rich man is worthy of being noted and remembered by every young as pirant after wealth. It teaches the whole some truth that none but the most sordid natures can And any pleasure in the mere possession of riches. No millionaire is happy merely because he owns a million of dollars. Ordinarily, that fact entails vex ations, cares and duties which burden and disgust him. But when he uses money to feed the liimgry, clothe the naked, instruct the ignorant and build up the cause of Christ, it becomes a fountain of blessing to his heart. He is then an imitator of Him, who, owning all things, can receive noth ing—even of God who is ever giving. Hence, the rich man by giving grows God like ill act and in nature. The i>leasures of his benevolence cause him to take higher delight ill giving than in gaining, and his charity pierces his natural covetousness with a destroying sword. But for this right use of money he could not be both rich and innocent. The Physicians Satisfied with the Progrress of the Case. AN ENGLISH MEDICAL OPINION. London, July 8.—The Lancet, the lead ing medical journal of London, says : “The accounts of the condition of Mr. Garfield are on the whole satisfastory. They give reasonable ground for hope. There are, of course, many perils still to be encountered. Secondary internal hemorrhage may occur when the bullet is surgically or accidentally displaced; extensive inflammation or blood poisoning is possible; but looking at the case as a whole, and recalling the history of similar cases, it is impossible not to feel that a fairly good hope is permissible. It may be assumed that the course taken by the bullet must have been such as to avoid injury to the most important structures. It is scarcely possible that any large vessels can have been injured, and a hypothesis of the complete severance or even of a severe injury of the great nerves is not necessary to account for the pains in the lower ex tremities. Tlie liver, if wounded, can hardly have been extensively lacerated. If Mr. Garfield survives the perils of the next few days, and the bullet can he extracted, there can he no medical reason, at lea.^t, arising out of the general character of his injuries, why lie should not do well.” A $350,000 FUND. FOR THE BENEFIT OF GENERAL GARFIELD’S FAMILY. Postmaster-General James yesterday re ceived a telegram from George Wilson, Sec retary of the New York Chamber of Com merce, in -which the latter requests the Postmaster-General to say to Mrs. Garfield that the members of the New' York Cham ber of Commerce have subscribed $250,000, to be presented to her both as a token of their sincere esteem and sympathy, and as a means of relieving the mind of the Presi dent entirely from anxiety with regard to the future of his family. To this telegram Postmaster-General James has sent the fol lowing reply: Executive Mansion, Washington, July 7, 1881. To George Wilson, Esq., Secretary of the Chanib^er of Commerce, New York City : Your dispatch has been delivered to Mrs. Garfield. On receipt of it she remarked : ’“There was so much that w'as touching and beautiful in the sympathy of the people of the whole country that she did not dare to trust herself to think of it.” Thos. L. James, Postmaster-General. New York, July 9.—The World, in an article heartily endorsing the movement for a subscription for the benefit of the family of General Garfield, proposes that the movement be made a popular one, suggest ing subscriptions of five dollars and up wards, and ofters to receive and pay over to the treasurer of the Chamber of Com merce fund all sums with wdiich it may be entrusted for that purpose. The article concludes as follo-ws : If the amount thus subscribed shall even double that originally contemplated by the Chamber of Com merce, there will be no subscriber to grudge his share of it, whether it shall prove to be a provision for the widow and orphans of the President of the United States, or, as now most happily seems much more proba ble, a thank offering for his recovery fi-oin the murderous assault. MAKING THE PRESIDENT COMFORT ABLE. The physicians of the President deter mined yesterday to resort to artificial means for reducing the temperature of the Presi dent’s bed-room, and keeping the air as pure as possible. They decided upon very simple machinery. They directed that four galvanized iron shallow troughs be manu factured, and that wires be stretched across the ceiling of the room from wall to wall in front of the windows. Under these wires they proposed to place the troughs, and upon the wires they proposed to sus pend linen sheets so that their lower ends w'ould depend in the troughs. In tlie latter they proposed placing iced water tinctured with ammonia. They confided the execu tion of their plan to the efficient private secretary, J. Stanley Brown, llis task was simple, but delicate. He executed it vvith perfect success. Throughout the day he was constantly engaged on a liigli step- ladder, noiselessly placing in position the wires upon which the absorbing linen was to be hung. This had to be done without annoying the President. It was so done. The President took a decided interest in tlie operation, complimenting his faithful secretary for his deftness, bnt he was not excited by it. In the morning Brown liad looked up a galvanized iron works and ex plained to the manufacturer what lie want ed. The manufacturer set his most skilful workmen at work, and had the hollow little troughs ready as soon as Brown was ready for them. About 7 this evening all the wires we're up, and the linen was suspend ed on them. On the floor of the private secretary’s room lay the unpainted but neatly-constructed troughs. Brown car ried them himself into the President’s room, and laid them under the depending linen sheets. Then the ice-w'ater and am monia were poured in the capillary tubes, and the linen licked it up; the soft breeze, stealing languidly through the long win dows, must fan upon it and pass through it. The temperature of the room fell at once, perceptibly, several degrees. A grateful look, a murmured “thanks” from the President and Mrs. Garfield, almost simul taneously, more than rewarded the hard- worked private secretary.”—News and Ob server. Many persons are not aware of the ne cessity of keeping the atmosphere of a sick room moist, as well as cool, in such hot weather as we are now' having. This can be accomplished in any private house by hanging cotton cloths wrung out in cold water before the windows and doors of the apartment. Put a tack on eitln'i- side of the •window, and stretch a string across it; to this string pin the cloths just wet enough not to drip too inucli on tlie floor; watch them closely, and before they are thorough ly dry dip again in cool water. By follow ing this ad^•ice of our family jihysiciau we once kept the room of a patient suflering wdth typhoid fever in tlie month of July ten degrees cooler, by the thermometer, than any other apartment of the house. MERE MENTION. IVO CJLOVES. The ungloved hand can now be extended in society without reproach, The fact illus trates the whimsical basis upon wliich con ventions rest. One day the Prince of Wales drove on in a hurry to hold a levee for the queen. On arriving at the drawdng-room he found himself gloveless. It was too late to send, and as it wouldn’t have been eti quette for tlie rest to w'car gloves when the Prince had none, the ceremony was a glove less one. After that gloves were banislied from the great social ceremonials, and even in the street. The fashion has come to this country. During the last two years gen tlemen have appeared everywhere unglov ed—in the street, the drawdng-room, the opera, and the tlieater.Ladies have also adopted the fashion, and are seen this Sum mer at the fashionable resorts in full dress, but w ithout gloves. A correspoudent of the News & Observer, writing of Dr. Satcliwell’s lecture on “Health,” delivered at the Wilson Normal School, I'cports him assaying, “Therecould be no good brain or physical work wdth imperfect cooking. He was in favor of taxation toestablishcookiiig schools in each countj’' in the Stat(‘. Said that Americans eat too fast, leaving the stomach too much to do. Sliow'ed tliat dyspepsia was hardly knowii ill Europe, because they eat slowdy. lie declared that those wdio cook our food make usudther a success or a failure. The Doctor’s speech was well received, meeting with frequent ripplause. lie coiiclnded by sliowdng that all the arts, mechanics and agriculture, were dependent on the laws of health. Showed wdiat the medical men of the county were doing and how the aver age life of man had been prolonged in modern times by reason of better hygiene. The revised Testament sells well because of Iminaii curiosity ; but the non-progres sive church people prefer the old edition of King James’ time, with its interpolations (perhaps because of it), and all other pecu liarities. After all, the old phraseology— that is, wliere the sense of the passage is not altered—might be retained, as it has a deep hold on the hearts of those wdio have heard the words from cliildhood. One Catholic priest says the revision does not concern the Catholic church—that boch' does not accept this or King James’ version —but hC;admitted the King James’ edition w'as full of errors and needed revision. The Sweclenborgians, at tlieir late conven tion holden in 'NVasliingtoii, desired the re vised Testament should be carefully exam ined, as it seems likely to be of interest to the New Church. We condense the following sensible piece of advice from the Boston Commonwealth : Editor Boston Commonwealth Jennie Collins, in the Boston Herald, says:— “I am at a loss to know what is to become of the number of highly-educated young ladies wdio are obliged to support them selves. I might say that 1 have the names of over thirty on my books at tlie present moment, all young, respectable and intel ligent, and I don't average an application a (lay for their services.” In reply, 1 would say to them : Go to work ! as your mothers and graiidmotlicrs did before you, and as the largo majority of w'omen all over the world do to-day. Your education will not harm you. On tlie contrary it w'ill prove a source of recre ation. Skilled seamstresses, cooks, liouse- keepers, mid-wives, nurses and physicians are seldom out of employment. Men want their cooking, washing and mending done, and their liomes kept in order ; sick people must be cared for ; and if you would suc ceed in life you must learn to make your self useful and be resigned to do the work nearest atliaiid. Veryfewq comparatively, of either men or women are capable of be ing orators, elocutionists or poets, or of becoming distinguished in any capacity. But work is one of tlie common blessiuys denied to none. A woman may be exquis itely beautiful, highly accomplished, and acquainted with modern and ancient litera ture, but the question will be asked': “What can she do to help in the course of human progress!'” As the good doctor says : “The true end of knowledge and w'oik is to re lieve the sufl'ering and to minister to the comfort of man’s estate, to lessen the sura of human suffering. We learn in order to act, the end of all knowledge being action, ami tiic end of all action to promote the welfare and progress of mankind.’* a. s. t. Advertising Belles.—A novel feature of the season at Saratoga and Ivong Branch, says a correspondent, will be an advertis ing belle at each of those places. I'wo liandsome girls, of good form and top lofty style, liav(! been hired for the purpose. They will be fashionably dressed, but their ' mission is not to display dry goods. \ dealer in hair, liair-cij'es, washes for the complexion, and toilet articles of a beauti fying sort employs tliem, and will pay their expenses. They wdll serve as models on which to exhibit the latest achievements in false hair and hair-drcssiiig. Their faces will b(‘ carefully “ made up ” with such preparations as he manufactures. Tlie plan is a bold one, but entirelj' feasible. The hotel halls at T.iOi)g Branch and Saratoga are open to all who come; ami tiiese two professional beauties are personally re spectable, know how to dance gracefully, can talk well enough, and will certainly eclipse most of the amateur beauties. They will stay at lirst-class hotels, lounge on the most thronged halconies, go to the horse races, and, in short, make themselves de cently conspicuous in every possible waj', 'I'here is a swindle in tlie matter, however, and I’ll tell you how. These two girls ai'e beautiful when unadorned, and the “ make up” of their faces with washes and jug- ments is not at all needed; nor is any partic ular kind of braid, frizzle, or switch requi site to make tlieir heads bewitching. But many a plain woman will foolislih' suppose that the same adornment will produce in her equal attractiveness, and in that error will lie the Iiair-dresser’s profit. It depends on the newspapers to let the public know who and what his professional beauties are, and whom they advertise, but 1 wont furtlier his cause hy giving his name. Both girls are tall, slender, delicately-molded blondes, with the air of duchesses, ami they come from east of avenue A. i'ayetteville Examiner: Last Tuesday Miss Isabella Leete, of this town, late teacher in one of the public schools at Wil mington, took the train of the Cape Fear and T'adkin Valley Railway, bound for San Francisco, where she will take jiassage on a Pacific steamer for Tokio, the capital of the Japanese Empire. She goes to fulfil an engagement to teach in a female semi nary in that distant city. Her niece. Miss Lena Lee'te, formerly of Fayetteville, is a teacher in the same school.
The Orphans’ Friend (Oxford, N.C.)
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