The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
ABOUT ORPHANS.
Gastonia. Gazette.

GaSton1a Gazette.
Did you ever wonder what becomes of
all the orphans that are sent to orphans
homes? You've been asked, perhaps,
what goes with the millions of brass pins
made every year. But about the or
phans-there is the old Oxford asylum,
and n numerous company of younger in
stiutions both in North and South Caro-
lima, for the care of orphaned children.
We suppose that hundreds of little or
phans go to these homes every year and
hundreds are discharged.
What becomes of them? Are they bound
out to austere men who beat them, who
treat them hard, and work them long
hours? Or are they put on the stage in
singing classes to make the Masons
hustle round once year in small towns,
and then afterwards sold to the circus
people to keep for good and all? Or do
they weep their little hearts out in sor-
row for themselves and die of neglect and
get buried in a lonesome graveyard away
off on the backside of the plantation?
No; these things do not happen to any
orphans we know of. We don't know
what becomes of all of them, but we are
sure the things included in the question
ings above do not happen to them, for
the big company of strong men and low
ing women in charge of the homes for
these children spend their days and
nights and lives laboring to prevent
these very things from happening and to
cause other and better things to happen
in place of them. And they succeed.
These thoughts were suggested by an
item taken from Charity and Children,
the readable paper published at Thomas
vile Orphanage. Here it is:
One of the most beautiful and ac-
ceptable Christmas gifts that came
to the Orphanage at all was a box
from Raleigh, sent by the young
men and women who were once in
mates of the Orphanage, but who are
now living and doing well in the CAPT
tai city. Everything in the box Svas
appropriate and useful Nobody
knows better than they what the Or
phanage needs.
Their follow the names of the eleven
givers, which included MRS" and "Mr.
and Mrs. and Misses and "Messrs"
Now that's what becomes of some or
phans; and let us hope that it happens
thus to most Of them-"living and do
ing well'-which means doing well for
themselves and doing good unto others.
There was an orphan we knew once-a
grown man. He didn't have much. Just
little store. Some said he was mighty
close, but maybe ne was Just economical
had to be. Anyhow his customers liked
him SO that he got along we'll with his
store. Folks with a snrewd knack for
finding out everything managed some
how to learn that there was this about
MIN: he never turned down the Oxford
Orphan Asylum representative or the lit
lie singing class when it came TO his
own. at Oxford he and his sisters had
ound good home once. So when the
collection was taken he would in a quiet
way beat the folks giving who said he
vas close. And he didn't always wait
or the singing class to come around and
salvanize his giving nerves into activity.
But he prospered. He's married now
till living and doing WE'LL
Barrooms and orphanages-both lave
heir friends One makes sorrow, the
,ther tries to heal it. The alumni of bar
'oors stand by the bar-rooms; the gradu-
ties of the orphanages stand by the or
damages. The good tree yields good
ruit; the evil tree, evil frn... Sowing
nd reaping
What becomes of the orphans? Looks
ike they are Giving and doing we'll"
Maybe that other question needs an
wering: Where do so many orphan1
ONE from? Are there any institution
hat manufacture little orphans?'
God determines our discipline n9