THE DEFLECTOR Through 1801 for only I. ONE DOLLAR But is order to get it you must -----PAY t IN X ADVANCE. THE REFLECTOR JOB Department that can be surpassed no where In this Our work always fires satisfaction. EDITORIAL NOTES. There are Free Maine. General Wade U amp ton his from politics- has bought the race horse Tournament for It is said to cost to gild the dome of the State House in ton. than one hundred Indians in the State or Washington have died of the grip. Colonel John A. has severed bis conned ion with New York World. Gyros F. a printer, has fallen heir to the death of an uncle. II Harrison he made I it w not be- that Mr. would be. overwhelmed with grief. If and lock over the from Ohio it will make it possible to give Senator a Democratic col- league. Miss Peggy the celebrated English who is now filling her American engage- is making a decided hit in New York City. The Eastern Reflector. GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1891. NO. D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Proprietor. TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. TERMS Per Year, in Advance. ODD FELLOW'S ADDRESS. A Chicago syndicate wants to sell the Colosseum at world fair purposes. It will next be in order to negotiate for the chase of Calvary. It would interesting to know where the administration finds its authority for meddling with the civil war in Chili; it is certainly not the Constitution of the United States. The skin of Henry Welch, a pa- at the Presbyterian has turned ill six months from white to a color as dark as that of a mulatto. The case attracts great interest among physicians. Emperor William, of Germany, should hire a managing editor for his tongue and if he is smart he will offer the job to Bismark before that gentleman takes the seat to which he has been elected in the German The price of beef meat in general has been taking jumps since the first of March and promises to go still higher. The causes of the advance are the high price of grain and the scarcity of good cattle. If all the tin plate factories were that the Republican have told their readers would be built we could supply the entire world with that very useful mate- rial, but building factories on pa per supplies nothing, but disgust. and yet, even this splendid audience might be thrown into a panic by I. J, at ed by the alarming act of one wick- ed man. Many or you, no doubt, will re- member the I am tow going to relate. In one of the mountain sections of our great country dam had been thrown across a great valley. Below this mighty dam the fertile valley was thickly populated. Above it the waters or a great lake were Two lads for sport and play cut a small trench across the dam and the glee they saw a stream shoot across it into the mighty This little channel was the opening, weakening point, and when the rains descend- ed the dam was able to resist tho pressure above. It away and the long confined waters rushed madly through this opening into valley below, sweeping man and beast before them leaving desolation behind them. When the Southern people were nearly exhausted by four years of devastating war and were to resume allegiance to the their lath rs, Abraham Lincoln stood ready with his big heart and outstretched aims to welcome them home. Had he lived the South had been spared the dark days reconstruction and country that dark page in its but in a moment or madness he was stricken and for long a id weary years the military and the politicians plundered and cursed an unarmed people. In her weakness the South needed tho warm heart, the -at brain and the mighty influence of the one man who bad tho will and the power to stay the tide pus- ion which was ready to be turned loose upon by those who kepi out of way while the battle raged. But, alas he had I alien, and that too at the moment when the South most needed him, and six of people were made to drink the very dregs of the bitter cup of reconstruction. God, His Goodness, made the the rye, barley the corn to sustain human lite and to feed His creatures, bat man has made out of these a which sets the brain on Ore, barns up the vital energies and destroys soul and body. God made these things to give growth and form and beauty to the body. Man uses them to destroy it. God intends them for a sing, man has converted them into a curse. Our merciful Father, provisions for us, has given these things in great abundance that plenty might dwell in every on the Occasion of the Cele- of the Anniversary of the Order. Grand, Brothers. and I have heard it said that the first writes his story and names it; and the more high sound- the selected, the more ho hopes to make his book. As I do not come to you to day with a I shall not follow tho example of the writer of tier ion. I have prepared a simple simple that it may understood by a child and yet, I hope it may not be entirely void of interest, even to those who have told it better. It is designed to be a faithful of human affairs, as are felt and seen actual life. Some one has said that the World needs to be reminded more to be instructed. II this ad- dress shall promote reflection and tend to remind us of our obligates and to stimulate us to a more faithful performance them our meeting to-day will not have been in vain. With these remarks, and without further introduction to it, announce my subject to be. MAN S OBLIGATION TO MAN. This as any one must readily see, opens up a broad field for thought and investigation and it. at first, I shall seem to be wan- away from the we have assembled I shall hope, before close to make ray appear appropriate to the occasion. Another may not be out of place just here. It may be that during the progress of my address I may say something which, in opinion of some, may not lie in harmony with the occasion, and with which each one cannot agree. If so I beg that I shall be held for it. as my individual act, that the order to belong whose anniversary we celebrate shall not in wise be held ac- countable. say this my address is not a told story of the aims and splendid achievement of Odd Fellowship. It is rather designed to some practical lessons growing out. of the subject I have Whether men admit their i ions to each other or not they exist, a reflection must press one with the fact, that no man unto himself. From the day Cain asked his father the I my brother's the sacred Scriptures have taught the lesson of the great brother- hood of man ; end the best guides to human thought human ac- house, but by man's wicked use of Gov. Hill, bf New Y has spoil- ed a good many campaign by stating that he being in bis seat in the United States Senate when that body meets in December, and that has no idea of again being a candidate for gov- He ought to know some- thing about this. Great Scott Is the country again to go through what so the average newspaper reader daring the first half of 1838; when, one day flaming headlines would tell as that Blame was at deaths door, and I he next we would be In- formed by the same methods that be was good health There are indications that Mr. Blaine's health is again to be made footfall of sensational press. the name of humanity lot up. We are politically opposed to Mr- Blame, bat that i no reason for torturing him to death by a of the of bis death from a of all the imaginable diseases. There is no man so strong that be cannot be killed by such but the methods worthy of ravages. f an sys Kaiser William, of Germany, to himself, as discretion M the better part or valor, I'll just the gets a chance to take teach us of its binding Yea more. Our own good sense and our conscience, if it be not seared as with a hot iron, teach us that these obligations will be greater or less in proportion to our ability to perform them. ladies and human society is so constituted that evil which one man does often affects scores of others and the good which another does, brings comfort and happiness to hearts homes of many. relations we sustain to each other in our social political and life are so in- interwoven that one bad man has it in his power to in- effect the lives for- of hundreds of his fellow men, and a good may set in mo- forces which shall live and grow bless world long after he has been to his fathers I. a me give a few striking illustrations which will enforce the lessons I am seeking to emphasize, better than any general of them could do. We have here a building and a beautiful ball. It is an to your cultured town a credit to the liberality and pro- spirit of those who project- ed it. It did net spring ex- in a moment nor was it paid with a song. by day it grew under handiwork of the and at no trifling cost to good people Tarboro, The care- less use of a match or a nasty little cigarette may destroy it in an boar and its charred and blackened may speak mutely of injury that may be done a whole by the recklessness or wickedness of a Single Again. We here a gather- of beauty and bravery to which community might point with pride and, like mother of the says are my ginning on earth and which shall have Us ending Heaven. From what has already been said I draw two important lessons which I wish to emphasize. first is we live for good or evil. There is such thing in this life is stand- still. cannot, if would, shut ourselves up and live entirely to ourselves. Day by day and year by year we are influencing the lives of those with whom we come in contact and so they ours. While it is true that we are all largely creatures of circumstances it is also true that some one has much to do with making these circumstances; and that they must be held in this life and in the life to come the circumstances and in- by which they surrounded us. so are we to be held re- the sight of God and for the circumstances in- by which we others. The second lesson which I wish lo emphasize grows naturally out of the first and it is this, we are deep- interested each If we influence or effect each other's lives we. are interested each other. Yea Society is interested, and deeply in the. daily ten life conduct each individual member or that community, and as society is but an aggregation individuals so each individual is interested ii the the whole in each- There is not this entire community a single person so humble, so poor, so or so abandoned, whose life conduct, the whole community does emphasize as a safe guide fulfill-; bids hint go out In the world and our obligations to our fellow administer to tho wants of those who most need hr ministration. Truth, with its lull light turned upon exposes false ex- the true amid scenes he can forget, teaches him that brother men, unlike the first, requires ac- and it is to do good to It is here that the true secret of genuine pleasure is to he found. Those who simply re- from doing harm take a low I view or human existence and must his duties to brother their obligations to their fellow friendship love. Such persons can never j He outers upon his life as an Odd inward joy of a noble life. They j fellow with Friendship, Love and will be dwarfs in character and pig Truth as his companions and if he fails to grow and develop in the order it is because he has not caught its true spirit; growth and development progress are its watch-words. In the Lodge room, as he attends upon its from time to time, his to his fellow men arc kept deeds be evil we develop bad char- j constantly him and if ho is If they good we better by his connection good and this with the order because he has mies in name, with but few to love them living and fewer to mourn over them when dead. is growth in character as well as in and as the body does not grow without food exercise so character does not develop without opportunity and activity. If our the sick, the dead and ed- the living. And now, brethren, a word with you and am done. You and I know that in lodge room all we see, hear or learn is elevating, in- spiring and I know and yon know that our work fills us with aspirations and noble poses. But the outside world does Special Notice. In adopting the Cash in tern for this year The will be continued to no one for a time than it is paid for. If you find just after your name on the margin paper the subscription expires two weeks this it is to give you notice that unless re- newed in that time The will MM going to you at the of the two weeks. fear of the aforesaid In another district, also adjoin- a brother-in-law of one or runs a machine, and tho whole or the school funds for that district goes into the pockets of these two brothers-in-law. One gets a salary for teaching, the other gets his part for board. This thing has gone on for years, the know of these things, ,, , judge our order as they judge us. to ll do DOt know what to do to break it surround growth and development will be just in proportion to the proven thy himself member. to be an ladies scope we give to our noble impulses j and gentlemen, I do not hesitate to our generous deeds. Two say that no man can be a Odd live the same Both faithful to nil his duties, without being a are blessed with property. The observes the of doing no harm, the other that to do good. The one dies in n day never visited the bur dead nor educated the or- The other did all of these i hough his body sleeps the earth his and is dear to the living. In his obligations to his low men be sought to do good and to make them better. He was ever ready to assist lifting up the I to help tho needy, to ad- ladies gentlemen, that some of you are beginning to inquire what has this to d Odd Fellowship. If so it has much to do with it. Odd husband and lather have been destroyed want misery hold and children in their horrid grasp. In this business one man can slay his hundreds and a can destroy their thousands, and women and innocent, are the chief sufferers. But, ladies and gentlemen, generous acts and deeds of good men are no less in shaping and directing the lives of others and I need only dwell a moment this branch my In fact we see so much happiness and joy and brightness in homes and lives of fellow beings may be traced direct- lo the good deeds of the noble men and women around them that we almost forget the evil which some men do. over our land and country hospitals for sick, homes for the indigent, colleges tor and schools for the stand as monuments to those whose broad philanthropy embraces every condition and want man- kind. Their liberality is bounded only by their means and their good deeds only by their opportunities. But need not go to these to sea the beautiful pictures wrought by bands or to hear the touching songs by grateful tongues. In daily walks we see women, her missions of mercy carving light into darkened homes and gladness to heavy hearts; and generous men giving of means- large and small, to enter, prises for the uplifting of Immunity. It is beyond the power of human capacity to compute the good which may flew from one noble act. A man saved to-day saves another to-morrow. A child rescued from vice grows up to noble manhood and become a great for the elevation of human good deeds of unborn genera- of the mi-numbered ages shall form golden links the chain of our bad be- not have interest; because that minister to the sick, to sustain the person may do something to effect the whole community. If this be true then it follows that the whole community is interested every organization and effort and which has its object the elevation, advancement and improvement or the of that community. It is upon this principle that we may be In the property of one man to educate man's child man is interested ill the life and conduct development of each child in tho community and so is community at large. Hence tax properly of the whole community to educate of that community that they may grow v;. to become better and id better lives j and com- which comes the nearest to fulfilling i ins obligation will be most distinguished for prosperity, peace and power of its people. Man's obligation to man being, as I a well established fact. I propose to point out may safely be observed by who desire to recognize and fulfill these The first of these is of a negative kind but it is a very affective rule if observed. It is engage in or do any- thing which will injure your fellow remember picking up a little book while I was living in the city de Janeiro which had the unique title of The book was to be a treatise on etiquette and to teach good man- in polite but it did not lay a single rule to be followed. It simply told reader what he mast not do. We carry about with u , not a little book but a watchful monitor, our which is constantly whispering to as when we attempt to invade the rights of others; it is only after we hare silenced this monitor i lint seriously injure them. If tins sentinel has been lulled to rest in the bosom cf one I would that I bad the power to arouse him from his slumbers for a man with- out conscience is not a MAN, lie is animal. And at this point I address myself especially to the young who are present. Habit is a terrible master when it is evil and youth is the time when con- science is the quickest to warn you becoming its slave, Its I beg you, when, it says t will fell yon of your ob- ligations your fellow men. Lies ten to its pleadings and do not dis- regard its admonitions. Yon have your temptations and bad examples. Do not yield to them. Some of your associates think it is manly to go about with a package of cigarettes in one pocket and a pistol in other. Do not imitate them. The cigarettes are injurious to health and their use leads to other bad, habits and the pistol is no badge of bravery. The. last session of Legislature passed a law for- bidding sale of cigarettes to minors, and if injurious to minors, it must be more or less so to other which I wish to better citizen, a better husband, a better father, a better neighbor, a better man. It is largely duo to this that our noble order has had its unprecedented growth. It is in years but great in numbers and old in good it had its beginning, its birth, its organization, as you have already told, in the city of Baltimore 1819. it then numbered bat five members. It now marshals under its banner over six hundred and fifty thousand, active working who, linked and covenanted public, to the aspiring, j together are moving forward to in providing for the widow and the needy, provide for the the orphan. His noble , educate the orphan, lilt up character was growing and establish tho great all his life and it lives as brotherhood of mankind. Its in-. crease in contributions to these a it or he has passed away. The ancients said it was has been equal to its sweet to die for ones in numbers. Starting with Modern civilization says it is sweet j it gone from year to to live for humanity. He who does its collections and it has a reward worth more than its disbursements till according to rubies and precious stones and i of the secretary el not speak in language Sovereign Grand of the when say that one noble act gen tempts for the year and well performed fives ending December 31st, was more pleasure and joy content- This vast sum is to the human heart than M each work sack full o gold hid away in some ; the erection of fem- place. and asylums, in relieving the needy, in providing for the widows in the education of the orphans. Commencing with but one Lodge, which met in an room under the dim light tallow deals directly with man's. candle, lodges have been organized obligations to man. The relation ; n city and country, in State and in between man and form the i Territory, in the new and in the old bed rook, foundation up- world till tho order, on this, Its on our beautiful 72nd anniversary, for purposes has been reared upon which it of its subordinate lodges, its securely rests. It commands faith and its and in God encourages meets in more than ten thousand submission to His holy will, but it j magnificent temples, splendidly In no wise attempts to dictate the lighted halls r comfortable lodge method or manner In he; rooms. It has its subordinate It therefore behooves us that our lives shall be in harmony of our noble order. When we appear in public with our ban- we emblazon them in bold letters, Friendship, Love and Truth. We print these holy words on our pages and we ask the world to believe that they are our mottoes. If we show by our acts that we are friends to the poor, that love virtue, and honor the truth then in- deed will the world believe us. It is ours, will to pet form a great part in the noble work of uplift- of humanity, the elevation man and the growth of a universal brotherhood. If be lint true to the our obligations our beloved go forward till its banners are seen and Us voice is heard in every land home where man needs to be blessed. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Special to Mil. you will grant us the space, we desire your columns to submit a few re- the heading of this article. We take be an ad- free speech, while yon may not agree with us the opinions herein expressed, you will not therefore exclude our views from the public. We will say in tho outset that are not opposed to public schools and a free of them may tend to a correction of some abuses that is known to all to exist, and they are of such a nature as to impair their usefulness and These are doubtless manifested around the towns where institutes for benefit of There is a subdued, but intense and bitter feeling existing, not in all of course, but many districts, against public schools, and neigh- broils and fends are not uncommon. It was proposed by one in our last Legislature to so change the law as to have one Committees man for each school district, instead or three. We think it would have been better this change had been adopted. It would bate saved teachers a good deal o time and trouble. The applicant a school goes to see Mr. A-, a Committee- man. He refers him to Mr. B. and U. and he will agree to what- ever they may say about it. He goes lo see Mr. B. lie not at home, off goes in search or Mr. C. lie is informed that he is down in the swamp, or somewhere on back side of the plantation and will be home before night. If he tarries, the good wife entertains him with a history of tho free school that district, its ups and downs, trials and tribulations and finally winds up by pronouncing, in a very emphatic manner, her anathemas upon it, or he may hurry on and seek a night's lodging in the neighborhood, and the next day repeats same thing over again. Often applicant is a delicate lady and she can tell you the trouble and annoy- she has experienced in hunt- up three Committeemen and them to agree upon em ploying her, the price to be. paid, and the time for the school to com If by possible means they can all gotten together, they will talk and talk, one level hour, upon every conceivable subject, except the they have met to discuss, teachers arc held; but is the same interest shown in the rural waiting for the other to bring up the subject. If one is written among masses, those for shall his obligations to his Maker. It leaves him absolute- to pursue such course in these matters as his conscience shall dictate. does it interfere with a man's political principles. It teaches love of country and to law but it leaves a man's lodges, us lodges, its en- Us cantonments, its Grand Lodge and its Sovereign Lodge. It has its various degrees in its subordinate and degree lodges, its encamp mints and its It has these schools were, especially in- tended f We are sincere and can- did in that they have not to tho of generally claimed for them Their advance in usefulness is not proportion to the increase of money expended for them. The State officers, who manage this department, are in the discharge of their duties, and have correct ideas as to what these schools ought to be; but it is too often the case that those upon whom an equally great responsibility rest are, though their totally unfit for the position occupy. This remark must not be applied to all who till this place, there are among them some good, men; but if you believe they arc not hampered and in trying to do fair and right, forced to resign to preserve their self-respect, go and ask them your- self. are generally three pointed for each school district, and its official heads from the Noble politics like his religion to the die- i Grand the Subordinate Lodges of his own conscience. In a; to the Grand Sire of the Sovereign word Odd Fellowship deals Grand Lodge of world. And with man's obligation to it's no small honor, ladies gen- man. Here it plan is its standards, to be at the head of a great j it is seldom they all agree upon fights its battles and wins its whose membership is rapidly the selection a teacher. One has It instructs its members in j approaching a million of earnest children wants a lady these obligations and on his, workers and whoso revenues for i teacher, has big boys and wants doing something in tho cause charitable purposes are near seven a still another some of humanity. From the time the millions of dollars annually and all their kin folks. To such extent who to I dedicated to the pious work of has this family favoritism been i's mysteries, stands before And for one, and asks admittance till he I rejoice that this high lakes his last be passes i office Is now held by a citizen of through impressive scones beloved State, never forget. Each has its in j A beautiful feature of lesson which no wan can i see or hear without more to change. Everything closely drawn to his fellow according to a well in all ceremonies and j system. Our revenues, incident to his initiation the . as they arc under a well de- is made to understand vised plan, are certain, we more clearly than ever his j know just what we can do in to his fellow men. Sacred j work. The each and profane history speak to him , pays is small bat as each is the lives and deeds of some Mm to pay, the aggregate is large; carried some counties that Prof. to he will not reply until he has seen all Hie others, very when ho does see them he forgets to mention it to them, and the letter remains unanswered. We are decidedly of the opinion that it would be improvement convenience to have only one Committee for each school district, Let him be a of intelligence, energy and enough public spirit about him to make feel an in- in his All teachers, who have certificates and desire a situation, should be required to give then names and addresses to tho County Let Committeemen make application for a teacher to and his recommendation employ such a teacher as he may think mil salt his neighborhood, him or her in getting a convenient place to hoard, sec that the school house is made comfortable and the children have pure water to drink, etc Taxation for the support or these school has been increased, and people demand that improve- be made. Of coarse there will be some complaint at whatever changes may be made, bat If we have only one Committeemen in- stead of three, we may reasonably hope to have at least one-third less grumbling than at present. recognize the fact that public or even Maj. Finger, the only dependent of all their learning and to obtain MM would stand a slim chance in of mg a position in our public schools M in competition with Cousin Ann or Josh's son Gust us. In three adjoining districts, a gentleman, behalf of a teacher, made application for a school. In the first he was told by a reckon my daughter will teach it this year. She has teaching it some The ma- of the patrons wore opposed of the heroes whose con- M with disbursements, to her, yet as she was a visiting of tho sick the re- lief or the distressed is left to the whims and caprices or members. In lodge, at every tho question is asked any brother or a sick may do their fellow men. Friend-1 brother or a brother in distress teach the free In the shin, simple and pare, and eternal, and the attention or relief required i third, is going to teach your lays her obligations open him all cases, provided in a school this was asked of the demanding of him loyal service tern a tic, orderly way. It is thus a j Chairman or the Committee. rich rewards. i harmoniously organized system, j son Hilly. I have seen of the duct noble example have come down to through cycles the past. in which he lives opens before him its record or charity and benevolence bids him read and learn of the good men hood girl, they hated to do any- thing to bring about hard feelings. next, a Committeeman said, son will soon be home from school as I have nothing else for him to do, I thought I'd let him Love and gentle, in her ; moving forward, without friction in sweetest accents tells of him oil its mission of Mercy, Benevolence country, home and and land among men, visiting Committee and he says he will not The third one would not publicly avow any opposition for by public sentiment. When per- and correctly managed they will accomplish ranch good. 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