The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-09-25
HELD THE ORPHANS
Arp Says a Day Should be
Set ApartFor Them.
Everybody Ought to Give. Mrs. Arp Says She
is Willing to Give Dollar if Bill
viii Work il Out.

are 800 good working days in the year.
S~uppose we call one of them orphans
dav. We have a Labor Day and Wash
ington's birthday and independence
day and other days set apart for OBJ
s~eryance, why not have q day for the
orphans of Georgia? The Orphanage
at Decatur is in great need and the
good nen in charge have asked the
people to give, the 29th day OF tins
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 dled
worth 500 600. coo, bat he could not
take it with him, and it is feared tpat
he will have q very small bank ac-
count up Wonder. He could have en-
dOHed q hundred CrphanageS and had
plenty left for his kindred. Surely
we IAN all give something on that
day. | am going to give 81. Crumley
shan't shake his Methodist locks at
me. He that giveth to the poor lend
eth to the Lord" And now, if you
like the "~security, down with the
DUST as the old Scotch preacher said
when he sen around the hat for char
ity. The word fatherless means am
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
cludcs it. and it is found in the scrip
lures, thirty-eight times, and is al
ways coupled with a reward to those
VINO befriend the orphan, or some
=, l., 49, ,,~op thocn who ,1nJ.a
them. Job says, "if I 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 affiictiOn.' Good friends, it
will not do to say you have never
wronged the orphans. Neglect Of
them is a wrong. II nobody gave what
would become of them? Everybody
ought to give-give according to your
purse-give as the Lord hath blessed
you. It is a peril not to give. ST.
Peter keeps the books, and | want him
to find my name on them with a
good bank account attached.
[ had a funny conference with my
wife about this. SIC says she will
give a dollar if | will work it out.
what do YOU want me TO do said
I. ''Ihe window cord is broken" she
said, land the sideboard lock is out of
order. and the long-iandled broom
that I brush down the spider webs
with is worn out and needs another
broom on it, rs that all?' said /.
ooh. no. The hall papering is peeling
off and needs repasting and there is 4
leak III the roof over the dining room
us that all?" said I. We'll, YOU can
finish the day sitting the ashes and
putting some around the rose bushes.
Mr.. Berckman's book says that ashes
are q good fertilizer for the roses 1
pondered awhile and then ventured to
ask where she was going to get the
dollar to pay me. "N n from 0 Of
course she said. "yNhere 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 NY
worldly goods l thee cndow?' What's
mine is mine and what's yours is mine,
too, according to that But my
dear" said J, haven't I supported
you and maintained you for all these
years and responded to every want
and wish / could?' 'NVhy, yes, OF
course you have; but if a wife was to
keep accounts win 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 doctor!ng
measles and Whooping cough and boiis
and collie, etc. | made q thousand lit
tie garments for them with my needle
before there was ever Il sewing ma
chine ~invented.' Yes" said /, Il re
member; and YOU made your "
clothes and my shirrs-my plated
bosom shirts, with pearl butt0ns-yes.
| remember, | ant find any as good
now Then she remarked: - on
couldn't get Il good hOusekecper for
less than 500 per year, could you?
! And that would make over $1,000,
make five times as much more that
YOU owe ne, and YOU ask me where
am going to get the dollar But.
hold on, my dear" said /, You forgot
that | had to support and educate
your ten children-you always call
them yours-and thai old Abe Lincoln
set all your 'niggers' free. and that the
war broke me all up and I've had to
scuffe for a living ever since, and
Give YOU money whenever you ask for
ii and keep 0 in cologne and cam
phCr and liver medicine T MISSION
ary 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 MISUNDERSTANDING
made YOU q marble chip walk to the
street for your number 2 SHOES TO
walk on" rs that all. said my wife,
and she laughed at me aud said. on.
YOU know I was Just Joking. | know
that vou have done the best you
could. I wouldn't swap YOU of Tor
ANYBODY. Now 90 and see if you can
climb that new ladder yoH madc yes
terday and get some squads for sup
pcr tonight. There must be 3 dozen
or more MP there, and the girls lave
invited company 10 tea.
Well. tried the Dcw lad
der. It is fourteen feet ionC and
reaches up to the gable end OF the
smokchoffse, where tho pigeons live
and by -hc time | GOT nearly within
reach ! didn't know whether my head
49, -.,,,,r or tho ladder corcpn-