The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-12-12

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and adopt it as my own. We have 20
children, and this one will be COM
fort to ma when I get old and have to
leave the home" He was pretty boy
the youngest Of four that came there
from one family. Their mother was
dead and the father the same as dead
but they are better off now. and all of
them seem contented and happy. Ev-
cry one there has sad history, bat
they do not realize it now. Several
hundred have come and gone within
twenty-five years, and nearly all OF
them have done we'll. Many revisit
the spot in after years; many write af-
fectionate, grateful letters, and some
send tokens of their kind remem-
brance. One young man who has
prospered and receives good wages
sends So monthly out of his earnings to
help maintain some other orphan. That
is abont what it takes-$250 to $500 a
month for the sixty who are there. At
twilight there was curfew bell, aud
the children gathered in the parlor
and we had music. The girls and boys
sang some sweet songs to the lead Of
the piano. q gift from Mr.. NJ. R.
Berry. and then the supper bell rang.
The elder persons and the visitors we're
seated OF one table and the children ut
three others. and at signal from
Mrs. Taylor there was silence, land
there was reverence, too, for she made
one of the sweetest and most motherly
prayers I ever heard. It was brief,
but it was beautiful. Then came the
feast-not a display Of good things.
bnt good bread, good butter, good
coffee, and at our table good, fat,
well roasted turkey, that the girls had
cooked for Mr.. Hemphill and no let
me have some-yes, got, plenty.
That was the second turkey, Mrs. Tay-
lor said, and she had many more that
she had raised about one apiece for
each child. Good gracious! Feeding
orphans on turkey Well, why not
once in while? 7 never saw ap or
phan who didn't like turkey. There
are lots of good things about there.
While down IN the Fl sid I found some
ripe maypops, and I have not passed
liking them yet, and black haws and
red haws were in sight, and these boys
knew every tree, and where the chest
nuts and chinquapins grow.
But the home needs money. and its
wants must be kept before the public.
1t is blessed charity to give it, a
charity that is full of promises in scrip
tures. 1t should be enlarged and more
orphans sent there, for I believe that
it is the best training school in the
state, and its inmates will all make
good citizens. Old Father Jesse Bor-
ing founded it, and il there is heaven
he is in it. He was pioneer in good
works. That's the kind of paternalism
I believe in-being a father to the
fatherless. My good mother lost her
parents when she was little child.
The pestilence swept them into one
grave and she was sent to an orphanage
in Savannah. They were good to her
there and she used to tell rs the sad
story, and we would stand by her side
and listen, and our hearts get full and
our eyes overflow. But one day lady
came and chose her from among the
children and took her away. It is the
same way at this orphanage now. They
come and they 60, and are scattered
from Georgia to Texas.
Good people, this is the noblest and
sweetest kind of charity. Let us help
is.-BnL ARP, in Atlanta Constitn-
ton.