The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-10-30

lt. She looks after the needs of al! ,
10Th boys and girls, their food and
,lotbes and health and conduct. She
aas one Of those large, benevolent faces
hat obild could not help loving.
Her tender care of the little ones and
heir affection for her WAS plainly visi-
Die. The little boy OF sixteen months
VAS in her arms a. she walked around
With US and CALLED up the turkeys and
shickens. II don't believe I can ever
give up this one," she said. 'Thess
orphans are coming and going all the
lime. As fast as they get old enough
;he Lord seems to fiud places for them,
and it always grieves me to see them
20, but I am going to keep this one
md adopt it as my own. We have no
,hildren, and this one will be COM
Tort to me 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
Head and the father the same as dead
but they arc better off now. and all Of
them seem contented and happy. Ev-
Dry one there has q sad history, but
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-
tectionate, grateful letters, and some
send tokens of their kind remem-
branoe. One young man who has
prospered and receives good wages
sends IS monthly out of his earnings to
help maintain some other orphan. That
is about what it takes-$25O to $500 q
month for the sixty who are there. At
twilight there was a ourfew bell, and
the children gathered in the parlor
and We had music. The girls and boys
sang some sweet songs to the lead of
the piano, a gift from Mr.. M. r.
Berry, and then the supper bell rang.
The elder persons and the visitors were
seated at ono table and the children ut
three others, and at signal from
Mrs. Taylor there was silence, and
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,
but good bread, good butter, good
coffee, and at our table good, fat,
well roasted turkey, that the girls had
cooked for Mr.. Hemphill and ho let
me have some-yes, L got plenty.
That was the second turkey, Mrs. Tny-
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 q while? I never saw an or
phan who didn't like turkey. There
are lots OF good things about there.
While down In tho field I found some
ripe mnypops, 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 q blessed charity to give it, 6
charity that is full of promises in scrip
tures. It should be enlarged and more
orphans sent there, for I believe tha
it is the best training school in the
state, and it's inmates will all max,
good citizens. Old Father Jesse Bor
ing founded it, and if there is HEAVIER
he is in it. He was pioneer in gooG
works. That's the kind of paternalisn
I believe in-being q father to tn,
fatherless. My good mother lost hel
parents when she was little child
The pestilence swept them into one
grave and she was sent to an orphanag,
in Savannah. They were good to hel
there and shc used to tell us the sal
story, and we would stand by her side
and listen, and our hearts get full ant
our eyes overflow. But one day dlad,
came and chose her from among tn
children and took her away. 1t is tn
same way ut this orphanage now. The.
come and they 60, and are scattered
from Georgia to Texas.
Good people, this is the noblest ant
sweetest kind of charity. Let us hell
it.-BILL ARR, in Atlanta Constitu
fiOn