The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-23
HELD THE ORPHANS.
Arp Says a Day Should be
Set Apart For Them.
Everybody Ought to Give. Mrs. Arp Says She
is Willing to Give Dollar if Bill
Will Work it Out.

Come now, let's divide. out There
are 300 good working days in the year.
Suppose we call one of them orphans
day. We have a Labor Day and Wash
ington's birthday and independence
day and other days set apart for OBJ
seryance, why not have day for the
orphans OF Georgia? The orphanage
at Decatur is in great need and the
good men IN charge have asked the
people to give, the goth day of this
month TO their service, the labor and
earnings of one day. What better can
we do with it. Madam DeStael said
that our bank account in heaven
would be made up of the money we
gave away In charity while we lived
upon the earth. Huntington died
worth $5O,000,000, but he could not
take 1T with him, and it is feared that
he VIII have very small bank ac-
count up yonder. He could have en-
dowed hundred orphanages and had
plenty left for his kindred. Surely
we can all give something on that
day. l am going to give So. Crumley
shan't shake his Methodist locks at
me. HE that giveth to the poor lend
CDu W UuG I[OIU. Anu nOWs IL YOU
like the security, down with the
dust" as the old Scotch preacher said
when he sent around the hat for char
ity. The word fatherless means an
Orphan-a child bereft of a protecting
parent, either father or mother, or
both. The word motherless is not in
the Bible, but the word fatherless in-
cludes it, and it is found in the scrip
lures, thirty-eight times, and is al
ways coupled with a reward to those
who befriend the orphan, or some
calamity upon those who Cypress
them. job says, IF ] have lifted my
hand against the fatherless may mine
arm fall from my shoulder blade"
and ST. James says, Pure religion is
to visit the fatherless and the widow
in their affliction." Good friends, it
will not do to say you have never
wronged the orphans. Neglect of
them is wrong. If nobody gave what
would become of them? Every body
ought to give-give according to your
purse-give as the Lord hath blessed
you. 1t is a peril not to give. st.
Peter keeps the books, and | want him
to find my name on them with d
good bank account attached.
L
wife about this. She says she will
give dollar if | will work it out.
what do you want me to do?" said
/. "The window cord is broken she
said, land the sideboard lock is out of
order, and the long-handled broom
that ] brush down the spider webs
with is worn out and needs another
broom on it, rs that all?" said /.
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off and needs repasting and there is a
leak in the roof over the dining room"
rs that ALL" said T. "Well, you can
finish the day sitting the ashes and
putting some around the rose bushes.
Mr.. Berckman's book says that ashes
are a good fertilizer for the roses" l
pondered awhile and then ventured to
ask where she was going to get the
dollar to pay me. "Nhy, from you of
course" She said. "Where did you
expect me to get it? Didn't | give
you everything | had, and didn't you
promise to give me everything you
had? Didn't you say, With all my
worldly goods / thee endow" What's
mine is mine and what's yours is mine,
too, according to that" 'FBut my
dear" said l, haven't I supported
you and maintained you for all these
years and responded to every want
and wish | could?" why, yes, of
course you have; but if a wife was to
keep accounts with her husband she
would bring him into debt every time.
Board and clothing don't pay for
nursing and night watching and sew
ing and darning and housekeeping
and raising up, ten children through
infancy and childhood, = and doctoring
measles and whooping cough. and boils
and collie, etc. | made a thousand lit
tie garments for them with my needle
before there was ever a sewing ma
chine invented" YES" said l, II re-
member; and you made your own
clothes and my shirts-my plated
bosom shirts, with pearl buttons-yes,
/ remember, l can't find any as good
now" Then she remarked: You
couldn't get a good housekeeper for
less than 500 per year, could you?
And that would make over $4,000,
and the interest compounded would
make five times as much more that
you owe me, and you ask me where |
am going to get the dollar" But,
hold on, my dear" said l, you forgot
that | had to support and educate
your ten children-you always call
them yours-and that old Abe Lincoln
set all your 'niggers' free, and that the
war broke me all up and I've had to
scuffie for a living ever since, and |
give you money whenever you ask for
it and keep you in cologne and cam
phor and liver medicine and mission
airy money and little presents for the
children and grand children on their
birthdays. Didn't | give you two dol
lars last week to buy amber beads
for Mary Lou? When the cook quits
or gets sick, don't | get up and make
the fire and cook the breakfast and
move around on tiptoe to keep from
waking Observation-Disclosures
| made you marble chip walk to the
street for your number shoes to
walk on?" us thai all, said my wife,
and she laughed at me and said. 'Oh.
you know l was just joking. | know
that you have done the best you
could. | wouldn't swap you off for
anybody. Now GO and see if you can't
climb that new ladder you made yes
terday and get some squads for sup
per tonight. There must be dozen
or more up there, and the girls have
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