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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29

Up at Vassar they have a peculiar way
of rewarding impertinence, as tor in
stance, last week two spring bed peddlers
used insulting language to lady who
refused to buy of them, whcreupon she
drew pistol and shot one of them in
the cheek. After this she had them
both arrested, and finally compromised
the matter by accepting $l5 costs of ar
rest, and an humble apology.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29

Miss: A word in your ear. The next
fine afternoon you saunter out buy a box
of GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP. That ad-
mirable purifier will remove every one of
those plmples which detract so much
from your beauty. Sold by all druggists
There is Youth in every bottle of HILLS
HAIR DYE. 23w4
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29
Notice..

Everyone is invited to attend the fire.
mems dance next Tuesday night. Special
invitations may have failed to reach
some, but it is hoped that none will re-
main away on this account. ALL are in
vited. II. A. BLAKE, Foreman.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29

MONTIETH AND ALLEGAN BRANCH.
Trains leave Montieth 90 A N, and 10 p NJ,
arrive Alegan 25 A M, and 30 M. Leave
Allegan IL 30 M and 80 p M, arrive Montieth
II 80 p n and 5 As r M.
DIRECT TRAIN CONNECTIONS FOLLOWS {:
Nos. 2, 3, and 8, at Forr Wayne with
Fast express trains of the P, f W b
@ Ry, to and from Pittsburg, Harrisburg. Balti-
more, Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
Nos and at Fort Wayne with express
trains on Waba-h railway, to and from
Quincy, st. Louis. Kansas City. and Texas points.
Nos. and at Kalamazoo with Michigan Gen.
trail r B. to and from Chicago, and at Reed City
with b M Ry for Ludington.
No. 8 connects at ID q M Junction with ID q M
railroad, and at Grand Rapids with III X II for
Detroit and all points east.
Nos 2, 8 and connect Richmond with Pitts
burg Cincinnati q st Louis r r to and from In.
dianapolis Louisville, st Louis and all points south
west. Also Tor Dayton, Xenia, Columbus, &c.
tDaily except Sundays. daily
B-Dreakfast. D-Dinner. @Supper.
A. B. LEET,
Gen. Passenger Agent.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 30. 1877.
Christmas Festivities.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

1t would almOsr seem that after the
number of years that this church has
been decorated for the annual Christmas
festival, that the ingenuity of the ladies
could not devise anything new in the
way of decorating, but this year i'm some
respects the trimming excelled in taste
and beauty that of previous years. The
festoons and evergreen trimmings were
so arranged as to produce very new and
pleasing effects.
Two Christmas trees We're provided and
tastefully and literally dressed with the
presents for the members of the Sunday
school and others. From the top and
between the two trees was suspended the
motto, "Merry Christmas" An eptertain-
ment had been provided by the Sunday
school, which was rpndprpd nc fellows :.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29

A vessel passed through the straits,
bound down, on Christmas day.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The International Sunday school Les
SON for December 3O-Iseview.
From New York Observer.

BY REV. E. p. RODGERS, d. d.
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heal Estate.

TARMING LANDS AND TOWN LOTS tor
ID sale and houses to rent by
nol.tt X. PATTERSON, Cheboygan.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16

rare fun by the crowds of spectators,
and even the holy Bishop enters hearth
ly into the jest by making repeated
feints of throwing in the cross, so as to
get the poor fellows to plunge into the
cold water, while he still holds it in his
hand. The one.who succeeds in getting
it, holds it up out of the water, and
then triumphantly brings it ashore.
He is then permitted to go around
among the crowd with plate for their
presents, and with the cross borne be-
fore him he afterwards goes from house
to house for the same purpose. In the
evening he is expected to treat his un-
successful rivals to big drunk.
And SOFAS well as in many other ways,
the cross is brought into contempt by
those who bear the name of Him who
hung upon it, in the eyes of the be-
levers ill the false Prophet and the
revilers of Christ. G.. A. S.
Robert College,
Constantinople, Feb. 10, 1877.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16
A Woman Throws Herself from the
Column Vendome.

Leaning on my husbands arm, l was
walking on the Rue de la Paix, about
one block from the Vend6me column,
and was looking up at the column itself,
admiring the effect produced by the
dark bronze of the shaft against the
gOld-fushed hue of the sunset sky, the
hour being about in the afternoon.
Suddenly down the face of the column
fell a human form with white and black
draperies futtering in the air; it struck
the wreath of immortelles that sur
rounds the column at it's juncture with
the pedestal, and rebounded with such
force that it was thrown clear over the
railing that surrounds the base, and fell
into the center of the outside pavement.
| could not realize for moment that |
had really beheld that awful spectacle
"A human being self-hurled into eter-
nity-but such was indeed the meaning
of what | had seen. In a moment the
PROSTATE figure was surrounded by a
dense crowd. The emotion of the spec
tatOrs was extreme, and one old lady
burst out crying in her agitation. The
victim was young and neatly dressed
woman. She lay prone on the pave
ment as she had fallen, but no trace of
blood OF mutilation was visible, as one
of the bystanders had drawn her water
proof cloak around her shattered head,
that having been the point that first
struck the pavement. Her shoes, a
neat pair of black lasting boots, had
been forced from her feet by the fall,
showing clean white stockings of a
quality never worn in France by the
working classes. One of her garters,
also .jerked off by the fall, lay near her
"a dainty blue silk affair, with gilded
clasp. She had, as l afterward learned,
gone most deliberately to work to exc
cute her purpose. She had concealed Il
camp-stool under her waterproof be-
fore making the ascent. Arrived at the
top, she had profited by a moment when
the guide was busted in pointing out
certain objects of interest in the view
to another party, had then gone around
to the opposite side, had placed her
camp-stoOl there, mounted upon it, and
so contrived to Chamber over the high
railing. passed by the spot an hour
later. The body had long since been
removed, and the crowd was gone but
a few bystanders fingered under the
darkening sky, looking alternately up
at the summit of the gigantic shaft that
lowered above them and down at two
crimson stains upon the pavement, up
on which gravel had been hastily strwen,
but which still revealed dusky and
ominOus red through the pebbles and
sand that tried to hide them.-Lucy III.
HOOper's Letter from Paris IN NeaU York
World
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16

ALL WAsHED.-A few days ago, a
lady rOOming at a fashionable lodging
house got struck with the bed-quilt
mania. She determined to manufacture
a bed-quilt for some of the church fairs,
to be composed of 6543 pieces, ire
spective of the edging. Full of this
sublime feminine conception, she gath
cred up all the old calico rags that her
neighbors were glad to get rid of, and
spent whole day cutting them up into
pieces then about five o'clock she went
out to dine. When she returned the
rags were gone. The way that woman
fretted and worried about those old
pieces of patchwork was especially en-
livening to the roomers on the same
floor. She went to see the chief of
police, called on the mayor, all the al
dermen, and bored the head of the fire
department almost to death, to get some
kind of redress. She wanted every room
in the house searched. Yesterday after
noon her Chinese wash-boy appeared
with big bundle, which he proceeded
to deposit on the floor. "How muchee,
John ?" ''Eighty-seven dollar and six
teen bittee." A shiver went through
that wOman's frame. The Chinaman
unfOlded the washing, and there were
those 6843 pieces Of patchwork, and
2689 ragged edges which had been cut
off, all neatly washed, irOned and fold
ed. DR.. Harris was called to attend the
wounded man, and says that the fiat
iron wounds on his head will take him
off if erysipelas sets in Virginia (NeU. }
Chronicle.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16
Nothing Lost by Charity.

One of those toil-hardened, true
hearted chaps we often read of in ro-
nance made his appearance on the
Champus Martins yesterday and his
sympathies were at once aroused by
the sight of three or four old men stand
ing around with their buck saws and
waiting for work.
''I'll be hanged if this isn't tough" he
replied, when they told him that they
hadn't had any work for month.
GLOW would you like some oysters ?"
They smacked their lips by way OF
reply, and he gathered up crowd OF
eight, marched them to "a restaurant and
ordered oyster stews fol each one.
at just does my soul good to see
them eat ~ he said to the owner of the
place as the eight got to work.
eyes it's a beautiful sight" was the
reply.
'.It makes me feel good right in here,
continued the stranger, laying his hanC
on his heart.
ga good deed brings its own reward, :
was the soft answer of the restauranteu
as he calculated his profits.
81 can't rest here. / must do furthe
good" said the big-hearted strange
and he rushed out and brought in three
negroes and chimney sweep, two boy
and an old woman, and ordered mOr'
oysters.
The fifteen people went for oyste
soup in manner to amaze, and thei
guardian nudged the Iestauranteur il
the ribs and said:
''See the gentle lambs Oh, that
could feed the poor of all America !"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16
Prayer-Meetings of Women.
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.


Meetings of women for prayer have
always been regarded with dignified
approval by church authorities, yet have
seldom been popular among women
themselves. In most congregations the
ladies' devotional meeting, whether
meant for old or young, is attended by
only few of the sisters. The audience
on Sunday is largely composed of wo-
men, but not one in every ten considers
it her duty to go to her own special
pIayer-meeting. Of those who do go,
two-thirds, if they were candid, would
confess that they went with feeling of
bearing cross, and that there was no
joy connected with the hour. 1t was,
instead, serious responsibility, which
had to be met and faced, because con-
science commanded.
Believing, as do, that prayer-meet-
ings of women, of mothers, sisters,
daughters, and friends, may be sweet,
restful and profitable, have wondered
of late why they need ever be stupid.
Why need ladies,-bright, graceful, at
tractive and charming i'll society,-push
open the prayer-meeting door with a
deprecating gesture, creep half timidly
in, and act, in the presence of the other
half-frozen people, as though they were
themselves frozen Is there any need
that the name, prayer-meeting, should
be a spell to turn flesh and blood, for
the time, into something mute and cold
as marble
Admitting the fact that many women
find it an impossibility to pray in the
hearing of others, there should not in
that be reason to keep them away
from the meeting. Isuppose the death
like Journalism of the affair is, after all
the trouble. Nobody looks or speaks
in the ordinary way. A profound mel
ancholy chills the atmosphere. The
leader reads the customary portion OF
Scripture in a solemn tone. The hymns
given out are sung as though they were
doleful sounds, not with life, nerve, anC
spontaneity. The prayers are very
nearly inaudible, so softly and timOr
ously are they breathed forth. The
meeting drags its slow length along
and everybody is relieved when it il
over.
! Two minutes after the concluding
prayer, what changei What a buz
and chatter of voices What ripplin.
breeze of laughter! What pleasant in
quiries for friends and neighbors Yol
would hardly believe that these alert
mobile, glad, interested faces, thes
silver-sweet, clear voices belonged t.
the same persons who sat in portentOu
propriety in their places, a little whil'
ago.
Do you desire to have in yOsr churcl
this fall and winter an earnest and help
, full gathering of the wOmanly elemen
every week for prayerP Then, first o
all, ask, you who are at the beginning
of it, for the presence and power o
God. Ask in faith, expecting an answer
) But do not be satisfied with having ask
J ed. Go to work. Enlist numbers t
attend, and bind them by personal so
T licitation and promise. There is th
r enthusiasm that kindles in a large mum
! Der assembled for any purpose. Yo
will find it easier to hold a good meet
[ ing if you have forty than if you hav
five.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16

"You are good man, and heaven
will reward you, replied the proprietor,
as he filled the dishes up again.
The stranger said he wanted to bring
in just five more, SO as to say that he
had fed an even score, and he rushed
out after them, while the restauranter
sent after more oysters and crackers.
The stranger didn't return. He was last
seen climbing into farmers sleigh on
State street and guiding his team to the
west. The fifteen i'll the restaurant
licked their plates clean and departed
in joyful procession, and the last one
had passed out before the man who fur
nished the soup had got through wait
ing for the return of the big-hearted
stranger. There were Oaths and slang
phrases and watchwords and expressions
delivered in the purest of English, but
what mattered it to the fifteen soup de-
vourers who drew up in line opposite
and 'Resol0ed, That them oysters just
touched the spot" Detroit Free Prees-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16
Incidents of the Inauguration.

Among the pleasant incidents of the
inauguration, was the fact that when,
after the delivery of his inaugural,
President Hayes was approached by
the dignitaries, and, with Outstretched
hands, offering congratulations, he took
no notice of them until he had first
lovingly shaken hands with Mrs. Hayes
who had sat near him. After this ex-
change of domestic courtesies, the Pres
ident cordially shook hands with those
on the platform.
President Hayes received, on Satur-
day, postal card on which was writ
ten, exodus XVIII, 2l,-23.n There
was no signature and the post-mark
could not he made out. The text, how
ever, will be recognized as appropriate.
and it received full attention. The
verses thus indicated are as follows:
81. Moreover thou shalt provide out
of all the people able men, such as fear
God, men of truth, hating covetousness,
and place such over them to be rulers
of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers
of tifties, and rulers of tens.
%. If thou shalt do this thing, and
God command thee so, then thou shalt
be able to endure, and all this people
shall also go to their place in peace.
The Bible used at the Inauguration
has been pl esented by Mr.. Middleton,
Clerk of the Supreme Court, to Mrs.
Hayes. The verses at the spot where
President Hayes kissed the book are as
follows:
They compassed me about; yea, they
cOmpassed me about; but in the name
of the Lord l will destroy them.
They compassed me about like bees
they are quenched by the fire of thorns;
for in the name of the Lord | will de-
stroy them.
Thou hast thrust sore at me that /
might fall but the Lord helped me.
When these words were pointed out,
Mrs. Hayes remarked: "Oh, no, guess
he wont destroy anybody !" Lincoln,
Grant and several other Presidents
were sworn in on the Bible used by
Washington, now the property of the
st. Johns Masonic Lodge, New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16
Innocent Mark Twain.
A NEVADA STORY ABOUT THE ORIGINAL
INNOCENCE OF THE AUTHOR OF "IN
NOCENTS ABROAD.n


NEVADA STORY ABOUT THE ORIGINAL
INNOCENCE OF THE AUTHOR OF ''IN-
NOCENTS ABROAD"
When Mark Twain lived in Virginia
he roomed with Dan De Quille. All
the miseries that guile ever endured,
and all the bad characters he ever got
dated from that time. They lived in
several different lodging houses, and
were turned out of them all, one after
the other, all on account of Dan, who
soon acquired bad reputation, second
to none in Virginia. No respectable
family would harbor Dan, who knew
anything about him, and the very men,
tiOn of his name would cause a land
lady to hold up her hands in virtuous
horror. One morning Mark woke up
and heard the landlady's cat mewing
about the door which was open. Dan
was fast asleep and Mark grabbing one
of his heavy boots, threw it with fatal
precision at the intruder. The cat
limped off with broken leg 1.-THE boot
weighed five pounds,) the landlady Sc
cured the missile and waited for its
owner to appear. Mark got up, dressed,
and went out with both boots on. The
landlady greeted him with a pleasant
smile, and when Dan got up and was
walking about in his stocking feet hunt
ing for his left boot, he received a
scathing dressing down from the land
lady who without allowing him to ex-
plain ordered him to leave the house.
Mark cOndoled him in his trouble and
said, "I'll stick to We, Dan" The next
house they moved into had pantry
close to the room consigned to them.
Every night Mark would steal two or
three mince pies and eat them entire
without giving Dan a sight at them.
In the morning the landlady would be
brushing about near the door, Dan
would be asleep and Mark would open
out in loud voice as follows: 'Dan
this business won't do. Those pies
don't belong to you. In the first place
it's petty larceny and then in the next
it gets crumbs in the bed. Well get
notice to quit pretty soon. faint the
square thing on the landlady. Now
this is the last time propose to speak
of this" The landlady, who took in
every word, would give poor Dan notice
to quit and never hear word of ex-
PLANTATION. "Well, you go | go, Dan,"
tiii n NOuiu say
fidelity touched Dan to the very core.
The next place was an intensely re-
spectacle private family. When Mark
expected to be out all night he would
slip up to the room and stTew a few
hair-pins around promiscuOusly, and
scatter few down in the foot of the
bed where they would be found when
the landlady was making it up. 1t
would all be laid TO Dan of course.
'Tve got family here, and want to
bring my daughters up respectable" :"
would be the landlady's remark, as she
ordered Dan to pack up. "When they
fire you out, Dan, it means me, too"
Mark would say in tones of brotherly
affection that melted Dams inner ma
ture, and caused him to think there was
some true men in the world after all,
and he used often to remark in speak
ing of Twain, ga man who never shakes
friend in adversity is the nOblest work
of Cod VirginidR Chronicle.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16

A RUFFIAN WELL SERVED.
latest and most effective cOunterblast
against tobacco was delivered by lady
in Sixth avenue car on Saturday. One
of those noble specimens of manhood
who chew the weed and with impartial
mind distribute saliva upon everything
and everybody within range, was sitting
opposite the lady. From his capacious
mouth, at regular intervals, a stream of
amber-iuice fell upon her dress. Her
look of blank amazement soon gave
place to one of wrath frown blacker
than midnight gathered upon her face.
Patience ceasing to be virtue, she at
last rose, carefully gathered up her
dress so as to lose not a drop of the fra
grant liquid, and, leaning toward him
vis-a-vis, wiped his face with the gar
ment he had desecrated, and then de-
liberately resumed her seat. The as
tonished man roared with rage and pain,
vainly tried to wipe the tobacco juice
from his smarting eyes, and at last rush
ed from the car, followed by rOars of
laughter from the passengers.-Ne
York Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-16
VOLUME 4O---NUMBER 2O68.

A great deal depends upon the leader
Let her dispense with any unnatural
formality. The ceremony should be
that of the parlor to some extent. Wei
come the ladies as they enter, with a
pleasant word, present strangers to each
other and look happy and alive, not as
though you were posed for photo
graph. After the meeting is launched
do not allow it to lose itself in long,
embarrassed pauses. Have plenty OF
singing. Try to get up conversation,
not succession of stilted or hesitating
speeches, but free and animated talk
in which views may be exchanged on
some subject of everyday interest. Ii
is as well to appoint the subject at each
meeting for the next one. Then, ladies
who do not care to talk can bring some
thing short and appropriate to read OH
the theme, or perhaps cluster OF
bible-texts, or sheaf of verses from
the hymn book to enrich the occasion.
Do not tTemble lest somebody is crit
icising you. There is really very little
unkind criticism or malevOlence in such
places of meeting. If there is anybody
of whom you are really in dread, for
once borrow some of the wisdom of that
much derided bird, the ostrich, and sit
where you cannot see her.
When we are lifted into that peaceful
state of mind in which we see Jesus
only, it is wonderful how remote and
slight the things come to be that were
lately stumbling blocks. We are no
longer afraid of each other. We no
longer feel the burden of ourselves. 1t
is this dreadful consciousness of self,
of the impression we may make, of what
Others may think of us, that weighs us
down and fills us with dread. Let us
forget that there is any one near but
Jesus, and the remembrance of him will
make us strong. Christian Union.