The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

j vas invited % rarlako, There were
no idle hands, save, perhapa. tho two
Youngest, one % whom was an infant
Ia arms and one only three yoara old.
All bad some duty 10 perform, and
we're doing IL willingly, aud oil we're
comfortably clothed
But there were two master spirits
about The place-Mr. Taylor and his
wife had plenty 10 do. The outdoors
and farm work aud the cattle aud get.
ting wood and keeping the boys en-
pl0yed In their working hours took Ell
his time But Mrs Taylor has the
greater responsibility, aud sho meets
Il. She looks after The needs Of ali,
both boys and girls, their food and
clothes and health and conduct. She
has one OF those large, benevolent faces
that a child could not help loving.
Her tender care Of the little ones and
their affection for her was plainly viai-
BILE. The little boy of sixteen months
was ia her arms az che walked around
with us and called up the turkeys and
chickens ~ don't believe / can ever
give up this one, she said. 'frbefo
orphans are coming and going al tho
time. As fast rs they get old enough
the Lord seems 90 iud places for them,
and IL alwavB grisvsa no to 500 fhan,
60, but 1 arm going to keep this one
and adopt 1t 90 my own. We have no
children, aud this one will be q COM
fort TO me when 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 90 dead;
but they are better OF now, and all Of
them seem contented and happy. Ev-
/ cry one there has a sad history, bat
they do not realize it now. Several
hundred have come and gone within
twenty-five years, and nearly ell Of
them have done we'll. Many revisit
the spot 10 after years; many write af-
/ fectionate, grateful letters. and some
send tokens Of their kind remem-
branee. One young man who has
prospered and receives good wages
sends 50 monthly out Of his earnings to
help maintain scme other orphan. That
is about what it takes-S250 to $500 q
month for the sixty who are there. At
twilight there was a curfew 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 we're
seated at one table and the children at
three others, and at a signal from
Mrs Taylor there was silence, and
there was reverence, too, for she made
one of the sweetest and most motherly
prayers / ever heard. II 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 he let
me have some-yes, l got a plenty.
That was the second turkey, Mrs. Tay-
Tor 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 a while? l never saw an or
phan. who didn't like turkey. There
are lots Of good things about there.
While down in the field I found some
ripe maypops, and 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
lures. 1t should be enlarged and more
orphans sent there, for believe that
! it is the best training school in the
state, and its inmates will all make
, good citizens. Old Father Jesse Dor.
ing foundedit, and if there is q heaven
he is in it. He was pioneer in good
works. That's the kind of paternalism
: l believe in-being a father to the
,, fatherless. My good mother lost her
parents when she was little child.
: The pestiIence 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 us 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
I came and chose her from among the
: children and took her away. 1t is the
; same way at this orphanage now. They
come and they go, and are scattered
!, from Georgia to Texas.
Good people, this is the noblest and
3 sweetest kind of charity. Let us help
Z. it.-BILI ARP, in Atlanta Constitu.
9 ton.
4 CARELESS FELLOW.