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Tfte Times. OWOSSO. FRIDAY APKIL. ft, 12. Knitted at the W Office in Oirotuto, Mirh., for trttmiHtmon through the until u sec ond class mitil matter. LOCAL KISK JUBILEE SINGERS SAT URDAY EVENING APRIL MD. RememtKT the Jubilee Singers to-inor-row eveniug. The band concert has been postponed until Mil y 5th. .Judge Turner und daughter are at Am herstberg tins week. Invitations are out for a Calico Hop at St. Johns, the 28th of this month. Mowing Machiue for sale cheap, enquire of J. Armstrong, or C. A. Baldwin, at. The Bancroft Advertiser was printed last week on tinted paper, and looked very neat. The Jolly Pathfinders will again appear at Opera Hall on Tuesday evening. April 25th. Rev. L. B. Piatt will give the first of a series of lectures on Egypt and Palestine next Sunday evening. The Lewis place on Oliver street has been sold to Mr. Bruce Buckmiuster for $1,250. It was a bargain. G. R. Lyon Esq. , has lieen spending n portion of this week at Ann Arbor, and other places in that section of the state. Mr. N. McBain returned Wednesday eveming from a short visit at Detroit and Wayne, his mother accompanying him. We have contracted for an engine to put in our office, and expect to print the nextissu;ofTiiK Times with steam power. The third of the series of the popular lectures on Turkey, by Rev. L. B. Piatt, will be found in this issue of Thk Times. Hon. T. W. Ferry, Hon. O. L. Spauld ing and Hon. H. W. Lord, have our thanks for valuable congressional favors. A council of the Insurance Organization known as the Royal Arcanum was institu ted at Corunna recently with 18 charter memlK'rs. There are quite a number of cases of Ccrebro Spinal Mentngetis in the vicinity of Elsie, Clinton county, most of them proving fatal. Rev. Seth Reed will preach next Bun day evening on "Tho cities of Refuge and Seargent Mason. It will be interesting from whatever stand point the speaker may present the subject. Wc understand that the arrangement for the early completion of the Toledo and Northwestern railroad are being perfected, :ind that there is no doubt of the final success of the enterprise. Next Sunday afternoon at :i o'clock Mr. Storrer will speak at the M. R Church of Owosso, on "Our Duty to the Growing German Population." All the Germans in the county are cordially in vited to attend. Mrs. John Mcacher who lived in the north part of Duplaiu, Clinton county, on the banks of the Maple river, drowned herself early Sunday morning, April With. Nervous debility and temporary derange ment the probable cause. The Rev. Mr. Leonurd, of Rochester, N. Y., will preach in the Baptist Church next Sabbath, morning and evening. Mr. L. is understood to be a candidate for the Pastorate, and those interested should henr him without fail. The Governor has appointed Thursday, April 27th, as Arbor day. It is to be hoped '.hat the people will cheerfully re spond, and that a large bOWW of trees may be planted along the highways, and on public and private pleasure grounds. The Editor of The Times was at Mus kegon one day this week. The city had almost grown out of his knowledge in the five years last past, and is evidently pros pering despite the strike, which to a cer tain extent has, as all strikes do, parali.ed business for the time being. Tii" LMMtng Republican tmjn : State Senator Kilpatriek, of ShiftWMMe .unity, who has bed chosen a member of I he K ccutive Committee of the Republican State Central Committee in place of W. S. George, deceased, is a staunch Republican and one of the best legislator! Michigan has ever had. Undet the able pastorate of Mr. Reed the M IE Church, in this city, isconstant ly increasing in numbers, several names having been added to the roll in the pest month. At the same time it is inert as ing its influence and power fof feeo" now takes rank as one of the more pros porous of the churches in the Detroit conference. There will be no services in Christ church next Sabbath, owing to the placing in position the memorial window to Madam LeBrun. The Sabbnth School will be held in the Rectory at IiJ0 4'dook. Mr. Mat ran will hold serviee at Corunna both morning and evening. On Apiil :0th at the 19M a.m., service the memorial widow will be unvailed. Elsie Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will celebrate the 03d annrVersary of its organization in the United States, on Wednesday, April vAtli. The (services wil! be held at the M. E. Church commencing at 10 o'clock A. M. The address will be delivered by the editor of The Times. The public are cordially invited, By order of committee of arrangcmnt. Roe G. Van Dustn, chairman. Jubilee concert to-morrow evening. Opera Hall was well filled on Tuesday evening br an intelligent audience who seemed to appreciate the "Scraps" of the merry Pathfinders, and to especially enjoy the hours of solid fun prepared for their entertainment. We hear everyone speak in their praise, ami have no doubt the public will attest their appreciation of their services, by giving them a crowded house Tuesday evening, at Opera Hall. An old fashioned New England "Fish Chowder" will be served at the Ladies Aid Rooms next Saturday for dinner. Ice cream social in the evening. All are invited by the Committke. Wedding Bells. A very pleasant party assembled on Wednesday evening at the residence of Mrs. N. Langerwisch, corner of Elizabeth and Adams streets, the occasion being the marriage of her daughter Carrie, and Will E. Hall, of Owosso township. Rev. Seth Reed officiating. The bride was beautifully attired in white figured muslin trimmed with Swiss embroidery with white and cream colored Nftt at the neck and waist. The bride's maid, Miss Carrie Mix, was dressed like the bride except she wore white and car dinal roses. After the ceremony a fine supper was served, congratulations extended, and then the happy couple left for their future home a few miles south of this city, attended by the best wisheu of their many friends. The presents were numerous and beau tif ul . Among others we note. A sllvef tea set, from the brothers and sisters nf the bride. A silver berry uish, from Mr. and Mrs. McBain. A silver castor, from Miss Carrie Mix, Miss Lou Matlock, Mrs. F. Rush, Miss Annie Brooks, Mrs. G. Matlock, Mr. and Mrs. W. Matlock and Mr. J. C. Matlock. A set of silver knives and forks, from Mr. and Mrs. Garner, of Chicago. A silver butter dish, from Mis., George and Lena Rush. A silver jelly dish, from Paul M. Roth. A silver cake basket, from Mr. and Mrs. Sayles and Miss Minnie McCready. A silver pickle dish, from Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carpenter. A set of silver knives, from Julius and Herman Frieseke. A buUcr knife, sugar spoon and pickle fork, from Charles Auiler nnd Charles Green. Three silver table spoons, from Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Augell. Pair of silver napkin rings, from Mrs. Moore and sou. Silver mustard spoon, from Miss Eva Buttertteld. A set of chairs, from Mr. and Mm. E. S. Hall and son, Louie. An extension table, on which the pres ents were neatly arranged, from A. Van Geisen, O. Crampton aud J. Laverock A majolica tea set, from Mrs. Ketchum. A majolica fruit dish, two pickle dishes and cracker basket, from Mr. and Mrs. F. Rush. A majolica fruit dMi, trom Mrs. Mix and son. A majolica cake dish, from Mr. and Mrs. Moss. A set of fruit plates, from Libbie and Minnie Krecher. A toilet set, from Fred Van Tuyle, of Bay City, A fine lot of table linen, napkins, lied spreads, tidies, towels, etc., and last but not least, a certain something (for which a name could not lie found) was presented by the employees of McBain's tailor shop. (It was too utterly utter.) Tiik Times unites with the many friends in wishing them a happy, prosperous voy age through life, and our "devil" returns thanks for the cake. a " How We Found Mr. Lee- Marash. (Concluded from the First page.) Herald during the past few years, I would like to recommend it to you and see if you are not as much sur prised and gratified as I was at the healthy, common sense and business like tone of it. So different from the "Oh,' my,"' and "Oh, dear," and "Oh, brethren pray for us ;" and all that kind of religious sentimentality and stomach-ache piety which is no more justifiable in missionary reports than in anything else, when we think of it, although we had come to expect it as a matter of course. Well, this mis sionary was going on in that sort of strain when an old lady in the audience spoke out. She said, "Now, that's all right but then I would like to know what the missionaries have to eat." It occurred to me that possibly there might be in this audience some persons of a similar practical turn of mind with this old lady, who, if they were obliged to go away irom this course of lectures without information on that particular subject, would feel that they had not been fairly dealt with, and had learned little of mis sionary life that was worth remember ing. In the first place they don't have beef steak. They don't have roast beef. They don't have potatoes except such as they can afford to im port from America at 4 or 5 dollars a bushel. Potatoes wont grow in that soil and climate. They don't have apples, nor pumpkins nor tweet po tatoes, nor b'ltter except from America. They can buy canned but ter from Italy, at 75 cts. a pound. One pound of it lasted three of us twenty-one days and we had all we wanted every day. It was about the color of the yolk of a boiled eg, which with a little encouragement might have become a chicken, and it looked and taasted like axle-grease. They don't have veal cutlets, nor asparagus, nor peaches, nor oysters, nor sugar, except as they import it, nor strawberry short cake, nor ice cream, nor molasses candy, and yet, strange to nay, they do have some thing. They have, in the first place, chicken. Probably there is no country in the world where the life of a chicken is worth so little as in Turkey. We had chickens in every conceivable shape, and at every meal, for a little less than two months, and yet when we came away we were surprised to notice how many there were left. They have ham and eggs, they have mutton which they like to trim off in thin slices, wind them around wires and roast in the fire, they call them kerbobs. They have lettuce, string beans, squash, beets, onions, and I think cabbage and turnips. Turkey they have as a matter of course, but it dosn't comfort them much without cramberry sauce, which they haven't got. They have radishes, cucumbers, watermelons, oranges, dates figs, and ponegranates, and chiefest of all they have grapes, the largest and most uscious in the world. They have canned meats and vegetables and maple syrup and butter and sugar all imported from home. They have canned oysters, which they have to open themselves, because it makes the natives sick to look at them, such is the difference in taste. They usually begin by getting flour from home but become accustomed at length to the coarser native article and like it. Upon the whole, they have enough to eat and good food, though not in any great variety. They have com fortables homes to live in, with carp ets and pictures and curtains, libraries, cabinet organs and whatever home like things they could bring with them. They have servants whom they pay from $12 to $25 a year, sometimes less, sometimes more. They have horses costing from 40 to 75 dollars. It is their only means of traveling as well as of exercise- Mr. Lee has a salary of I think 17,000 piasters equivalent to about $680. Miss Barnes and Miss Doane a salary of about $375 each. People say, "Well, I don't see that they are suffering." No, they are not At least so far as getting something to eat is concerned. And I don't know why they should. And yet there are people who seem to think they ought to, in order to realize the idea of being a missionary. And so when they hear about home com forts simple and few as they are ; about servants, which they themselves wouldn't have in their houses here in America, and lots of chicken "why" they say, "how is this?" Do you call that being a missionary there's nothing so terrible about that, I be lieve I could be a missionary at that rate And yet, strange as it may seem to such people it is nevertheless a fact, that these are those who have all they want to eat and yet are not entirely satisfied. They want some thing else. They have yearnings and aspirations and heart sickness, which all the chicken in the world could not satisfy. Now that may be hard for such folks to believe, but nevertheless it is a fact. They arc away from home not for a vacation and a holi day but forever, it maybe. Now there is something in that if you think of it. They are among a peo ple who, so long as they iive, will never understand and apprec iate them, a people of a different language and customs so far beneath them in intel lectual and every other attainment that they never can make companions of them such as they had at home. They are living in a country worst of all, where liberty, equality and broth erhood are not with no free constitu tion beneath them, and no flag of freedom above them, a country where tyranny and oppression and persecu tion arc the daily rule. Where life and property have no real security, where race dominates over race and man over man, and they are obliged to live there, and look on, and suffer and do nothing. " O, people say, but think of our home missionaries, what they have to endure. Sometimes they are all out of flour, and they have'nt any chick ens; they have to sell their books sometimes to buy bread for their fam ilies; they have to go without servants, and horses, and carpets, and pictures, and I think 1 11 send my money to them rather than to the foreign mis sionaries after this Now, I know all that as well as anybody. I was a home missionary myself, with a salary 9t $375 a year. I know something of the sacrifice every home missionary is bound to make, and I honor them for it, and I would not divert a single penny from that cause which first of' all has claims upon us, because it in volves,, as I believe, more than any other, the permar.incy ot our Chris tian civilization and the tiy existence of the Christian statt Ai.g jet, when it comes to a question 61 comparison of the degree of self denial requisite for these two spheres of one and the same activity I will say this, that per sonally I would rather be a home mis sionary and live on what I could pick up, without a single servant, without a horse, without a chicken anywhere visible in my hoiizon, with just a roof over my head and yet living in my own country among my own countrymen at home. O, I tell you ! that means everything. Where father is and mother is, where brothers and sisters are, where I can be a free man and have a free opinion, with freedom to ex press it, and the best country, and government, and people that the sun ever shone upon and that God ever made. I don't think I shall ever be a for eign missionary myself but as long as I live I shall honor that man or that woman who can be. I shall give him my money ; I shall pray for him ; I shall say, " Go on, you are a better man than I am, and may God bless you. You may not receive any reward in this life, and I know you are not working for any, but in that which is to come my life will be a flickering candle while yours will shine as the sun in the firmament and the stars, forever and ever. The next lecture, and the last of the course, will contain our parting with the missionaries and our journey to the coast by the way of Aintab. Maukkts. Wheat $1.20; oats, 40 cts. : corn, HO to M cts., a basket; barley, fl.78 per centum; clover seed, 4.00; hay, 8 to $10 a ton; pork, from 18, 00 to $8.2") ; beef. to 7 cts. by the side; chickens. 9 to 10 cts; turkevs, 10 cts; timothv seed, $H.OO. Advertised Letters. The following letters remained uncalled for in the Owosso Post-Office for the week ending April 8th, 1882. W. It. Maynard. Alex Potter, Christoph Getke, Harry Stetson, J no .lones. L. C. Jordon, Chrs. A. Bigelow, F. B. Dicker son. Persons calling for the above will please ask for "advertised letters." L. A. Hamumn, P.M. Man's Ingratitude. This is an ungrateful world to say the least. A man will act like a lunatic when he has the Itching Piles, and declare that he knows he can't live another day, yet he applies Swaync's Ointment, the intense itching is allayed at once, he gets cured, and goes down to the lodge without one whit of gratitude. When asked why he looks so cl rfnl, he dodges the question by an indifferent answer. Its just like a man though, isn't it? GRAND CONCERT By RIYlBLLBfT 21st Commandery Band, K. T., OMB4 ir owosso, FRIDAY EVE J'C, MAY 6, For the BtMtl ti New FI LL UHFiSS UNIFORM FIND. I'.nnil, Orrii'itrn, Jural tuut I out rnuirntiil Mnic, 1 maef Hi" Beel Hwtoel MmI of Owes ADMISSION, M and M Cents. Kotxtmehargi for Buffed BMta, Ttoktti dr sal- ;it I'mtntthv Shui'l "ii ami iil'tcr Monday, May I. Doors ofMi at 7 1 IB, Ooatefl mmum I'M. A L I SB LLi owosso Tuesday, April 25th, 1882, Return of the Favorites OF THE Refined Favorites and Kim: Fun Makers of All Time. THK JOLLY Pathfinders In their reeonstrui ted and incomparable Musical Oddity, 4 &sn&ifM ' Bmbmctaf Iht very strongest Vocal and Dramatic Celebrities now before the public. J. N. RENTFHOW. Manager. C. L. DURBAN, Gen 1 Agent. Adminslon 35 Sl 50 Cents. tW Reserved Seats for sale at the I. O Clothing Made lo Measure CLOTHING MEN'S YOUTH'S BOY'S & CHILDREN'S CLOTHING An Immense Stock in Great Variety, at Jffi:B,llM9W. 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