The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-29


Ii the eating of ali unusually we'll pre-
pared dinner and freedom for one day
| from business cares were all that was re-
| quired Of US by the proclamation of the
| President of the United States and by
| the Governor of Wisconsin, the observa-
ton OF this Thanksgiving would
| be general. That it will be SO regarded
| by many is natural; but the idea of the
| founders of this custom Of setting aside
one day for general thanksgiving went
| much further and demanded Il full and
hearty recognition of the benefits re-
ceived at the hands of kind providence
during the year-a season free from war,
famine, pestilence and the hundred 9TH
er ills to which the human family is heir
to. AS nation we certainly have much
to be thankful for and there are probably
but few of us who will refuse to join in
an observance of the day on general
principles; yet we all know that there
are hundreds and thousands among us
who do not choose to look upon our per-
sonal misfortunes in the light il which
those of greater faith would regard them
as visitation from on high intended
for our good, and there are those in
the land to whom an invitation to forget
their grief and join in hymn of thanks
giving would be a mockery; there are
those whose hearts have been scared by
great mental or bodily suffering, and
many there are to whose very bones this
chill thanksgiving breeze penetrates and
freezes all sentiments and feelings other
than bodily distress; here at our very
doors, we doubt not, can be found those
who are in need of the meanest luxeries
and TO whom a roast turkey or mince
pie would indeed be something to be
thankful for as an addition to the fami-
~ harder which was familiar to only the
coarsest and scantiest food. When the
time comes that our people, before seat
ing themselves to ali elegant repast in
their warm and cheerful dining rooms,
Will devote few hours and quantity
of their surplus abundance to the ale
Walton of the sufferings of their fellows,
and thus give those whom distress has
taught to curse their i'll fortune occasion
to be thankful, one great object sought
by the observance of Thanksgiving Day
will lave been attained and, we believe,
the Lord will have been served to bet
ter purpose than simple attendance at
His house of worship and solemn face
would imply, for we all know that there
are many whose regular attendance at
church comprises their sole claim to Re
ligion OF religious superiority. We be-
ieve there are sincere christians-many
of them-and yet there is opportunity
to do SO much, and so little IS done in
The aggregate, that but few of us can sit
down to dinner to-day and truly say 81
have indeed made this day of Thanks
giving to one Or more Of my fellow men,"
THE first regular meeting of the
Teachers Association of Cato and vicin-
ity will be held at Cato, Dec. 9Th, 1877.
Following is the
PROGRAMME.
1000 to 10:l0-Opening
10: 10 to 10:40-PrOn. - Vowels in unaccented
SyIablcS p Ill Lynch
1910 to ELECTROMAGNETIC Motions of the
Earth. 80. Miss V Sheldon
lilo to II 20 Recess.
1la-0 TO 12G0-Arithmetic Notation and Nj
meration. ........... ,.,........-. VIM Leith
1900 to 1:30-IntermssOn.
1-;}0 to 2:G0-Grammar-Adjec Fitz-
maurice.
200 to 2:30-Penmanship-Niis r E Lawrence
$50 20 , CO. Civ Goy't.-Powers and Duties Of
the Executive -.-.....-.... -...,ThoS. Burke
500 to 3:;i0-U. s. History-Co;oEia Forms of
$3.50 to 4:}0-Discussion-''R Resolved, That whiS-
pering is detrim rental to the best interests of
mixed schools''-Aff.,. VIM. .Leith Neg, Jas.
Burke.
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