Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-01-29
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 20. 1885.
A Little Incident.

An incident occurred here in Lansing |
last summer during the meeting Of the
association for the promotion of holiness |
at the fair ground, that the Republican !,
has had on its mind for long while.
but has not breathed to anybody until
now for reasons that must be apparent
to all, and which well illustrate the sad
fact that there are great many bag
gagemsn who deserve killing on general
principles.
1t seems that one of our most respect
cd citizens returned from his wedding
tour with the beautiful and accomplish
ed lady he had so lately won just as the
wheels Of the camp meeting were getting
into good running order, and the trunk
containing the brides surplus apparel
was jammed up in one corner Of the bag
gage room at the depot, side by side with
one of the same size and make. belong
ing to a Methodist minister who had
come IN that night TO attend the meet
ing, and whose name, as shown by the
card neatly pasted on the promenade
deck OF the trunk, was the same as that
Of the newly-made husband.
Well, the minister IN quel ton tOok
hack for the fair grounds, aftet leaving
orders that his baggage should be sent
up in the morning, and the very Erst
persons that he saw after handing out
his ticket to the gate keeper were seven
or eight brother preachers who had been
classmates of his at college and whom
he hadn't seen for years before. 1t wasn't
two minutes before he had them all by
the hand, and they were just as glad TO
see him in return, and insisted that he
should accompany them TO their tent and
make that his stopping place for time,
ut least.
1t was natural that this meeting should
revive memories of the past, and af Ell
evening services the old boys drew their
camp stools close together and told stO-
ries Of the pranks they worked when
they were tough young cOllegians, and
laughed until they cried, and shook
hands oyer "reminiscences of deyiltry
that they would not have had their fiOcks
at home hear Of for three years salary.
One OF their number was about to depart
| for the purpose of carrying the glad It'd
iHgs to the unclad bat appreciatlve hea-
then in Central Africa, and after a time
this fact naturally caused the converse.
ton to drift around TO the subject OF
missionary work. The minister who had
just arrived said that he had brought
|
that he should be pleased to show them
when his trunk arrived, and which seem
ed to him to he the most valuable and
satisfying work of that nature he had
ever seen.
When the trunk was brought into the
tent in the early morning the minister
had his mouth full of tooth brush and
sapolio suds, and couldn't hold a CONVEX
satiOn, bat as soon as he had completed
his toilet he called his friends 10 look al
the volumes he had spoken of the night
before. The trunks had been wiekedly
changed, however, by some one who had
the handling of the baggage, and 1t was
the brides trunk which stood on tho
ground before him, but as they were both
manufactured by the same firm one key
of course would open both, and the min
lister unlocked tt and threw the lid bael
with q confidence he would have been fal
from feeling had he known the Gircum
stances OF the case.
Just then something outside the ten
attracted his attention, but he knew JUS
where the books were located. and as III
reached his hand down into the interior
Of the trunk and mechanically ,grasped :
black silk stocking by the neck and helC
1t up to view, he said: This, dear broth
ers, will illustrate what may be accom-
plished by earnest. unceasing mission
airy work in the great field before u.s."
The other ministers looked at each o h
or in open mOuthed wonder and painet
surprise, but the speaker was uncOR
sei0us of it all, and as he took hold of {
beautiful night-dress with lace yoke ant
trimmed with bsws of blue ribbon witt
the other hand and drew it out, he re
marked: Here is a work that | priZ
very highly, and which seems to me t.
be the best of its class ever presented T.
the public. do not think world TAX
$1,000 for this If the edition was eX
hausted."
The speaker reached out the elegan
garment for some one to take, bnt tn
by-standsrs all recOiled from it as thong
il was contagious, and this reused hin
, from his fit Of abstraction, and as h
looked around and saw what he wa
dangling In his hand, and gaZed dow
into the open trunk containing skirts
and lace collars, and jaunty hat with
red plume, and a jersey, besides a goo
many other feminine garments, Of whic
we don't know the names any more tina
did the other good man, and then oh
served the look Of horror on his compaI
9 ions faces and noticed that they plainl
! regarded him as moral leper and
d black sheep he felt as though he shout
faint.
1t is difficult to imagine more en-
barrassihg position for minister Of I'll
gospel to be placed in. His friends lOol
ed at the trunk and groaned, and the
gazed at him with mingled aversion an
!. pity, and groaned again, and then sto
another glance at the trunk and i
| scandalous contents, and walked sad
. out without saying word, and If he hi
not been able finally to prove that Il
trunk was not his property by the In
tials Of the name on its side, there 10 !
falling what the end would have been.