The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-17
Townsville Seen by Rev.
Hight C. Moore.
VIVID WORD PAINTING
With Characteristic Ability the Every.
day Events Of a Great Baptist
Institution are Told of in a
Style Breezy With the
Touch of Nature.

of orphanage work in North Carolina and
tire South, you know of the Orphanage at
Thomasville. You already know that the
nifcent plant for orphanage iwork-twenty
brick buildings, two frame residences.
a $50 acre farm with stock and imple-
nents, good teaching force and about
275 orphans here assembled from every
corner of our State. You know Nj.
Boone, the General Manager, as one of
the wisest and safest men in all the land,
a man who without trick of oratory al
ways goes direct to the mark in every
public utterance and one who has firm
ness among and fondness for children
enough to make him a vertable father
to the hundreds of fatherless ones. You
know that Charity and Children guided
by the steady and forceful hand of Archibald
JcEnsongis perhaps the brightest orphan
age paper in the world and that it goes
into nine thousand homes every week.
You know the Orphanage as the object
lying nearest to the hearts of North Car
DINA Baptists who give from twelve to
fifteen thousand dollars year to feed
and clothe the little ones here, and tnat
tEey have gone into their pockets for
permanent equipment and endowment UNI
til the entire property is now worth $780,
OO0 And you know how this institution
has taken care of from eight hundred to
a thousand children during it's history.
All this and much more you know OF the
Orphanage at brownsville. great insti-
tuition yet on the threshold of It's use
fulness, matter sor pride for the State
and the very apple OF his eye to The
loyal North Carolina Baptist.
But did you ever get off the train at
this thriving town ard make your way
afoot unheralded and unexpected to the
Orphanage grounds and find things just
as they are in real everyday life? What
matter if Mr.. Wilson is out here IN ms
shirt sleeves manipulating a genuine old
fashioned tar-kiln i'm the interest OF his
shoe factory? Or if the printing force is
somewhat scattered-the editor away
making speech, the foreman under the
weather, and the devil in bed with
the measles? Who minds being met at the
door of the General Managers house and
sized up by the young lady who responds
TO the door-beli as a book agent, when
he merely holds in his hand as his late
train companion copy of Dr. Greene's
And what if the General Manager himself
is found directing three or four boys in
the removal of the brick from an old fur
mace once used for making molasses?
These and such things you may expect
when unexpected; and, after all, when
you go to see those you love do you not
really prefer to find them just this way?
Would you not be much more hampered
if they were to cage you IN parlor
and talk like parrots to you in the Ell
fort to entertain you?
And so in the free sweet atmosphere OF
the Orphanage life l spent day last
week; it, was my second visit to this
sacred spot and the one opportunity !
have had for seeing the children in their
customary garb, work and play. And
here arc some of the things that Tor
me possessed a real and human inter
est.
WINDING THE COWS.
The Orphanage herd numbers about fiji
teen cows This afternoon they were as
signed the strip of meadow between the
Fannie Miller and the Rowena Whltty
buildings The special guards appointed
to keep them in bounds were RUFUS Sni-
der and Grover Person, each armed with
a whip which he cracked loudly when
one of the cows headed Tor the nearby
wheat field or crossed the branch or in
Vaded the plowed ground eastward |
asked Rufus the size of his herd. He re-
Piled accommodatingly: I'VE are mindlng
thirteen COWS and one steer!" And then
pciutine in the direction of the barn ne
said, but we have whole lot of calves
down yonder" And when, a little later,
/ strolIed in that quarter, sure enough
there were six young calves cooled up on
tn, grassy lot in the bright spring sum
shine and few rods farther on 1 found
ten larger calves in the woodland pasture.
And when the afternoon grazing was over
and the milking had been done, | saw two
oil the boys coming from the barnyard,
each having two buckets of milk and
followed a little way by an envious cali.
''Eow much milk did you get?' And
one of them responded: I'VE got seven
gallons tonight, but we have gotten as
much as twenty-five gallons day. Good,
thought / and blessings on the boys who
mind the cows in the pasure, love and
play with the calves in the barn lot, and
at eventide bring to the dairy the well
contest food to their mates!
A PEEP IN PLAY HALL
Thirty-eight little girls are today beng
cared for in the Fleming Nursery. They
were not expecting visitors when Mr..
Boone and I appeared at the door OF the
spacious hall, which, 1 believe, is called
their Play Hail. for here the wee girls
of the institution can find recreation dur
ing all kinds of weather And what a
bright covey of little girls we found, Here
they were some with dolls, at least one
with a little dinner set, others with
games, and there were some picture
books As soon as we entered the dear
little things gathered about us, looking
10 Mr.. Boone as father and with the
cordality which only a child can show
for the stranger. How interested and
interesting they were Here two little
dolls an inch long had been crudely
dressed by their diligent owner. One was
eating imaginary ice cream out o. tiny