The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-02
For the Bows and Girls.

VI Lllt DOyS duu Wits.
Steps are being taken at Lansing to form
YIN. &. A.
Over two hundred young men have joined
the temperance club in Bay City.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has daughter
Margaret. graduate from yassar, studying
medicine
A Brooklyn girl has sued FOR breach OF
promise on the ground that her lover backed
out simply because her father objected to the
match.
Mr.. Sankey. the evangelist. has son who,
though only about twelve years old, ID engaged
in evangelical work among boys. and is SAID to
DO very successful.
Wendell Philips thinks that the American
school girl is far less intelligent and cultivated
than the Scotch, Swedish or Canadian school
GIRL as her letters show.
ole Bull played for the girls at Wellesley
College the other day. They decorated the
building with flowers IN his honor, and amused
HIM with gymnastic exercises.
One Of Martin Farqushar Topper daughters
is graceful writer OF young folks stories and
an industrious translator from the Swedish.
The other daughter has the gift Of verse, and
Is pronounced by some TO be an undoubted
genius.
Mr.. w. }. Haven, son OF Bishop Haven and
one OF the number OF brilliant beings who OBJ
jected to the appointment OF class poet being
given to member OF the class because it hap
pened TO be woman has been chosen class
orator at Wesleyan.
From the Evening News.
Mr.. Editor Nov as the fight is going on in
The legislature OF this State over the medical
monopoly bill, it is refreshing to know that we
still have statesmen whom We can trust, and
feel that they bave tue interest OF the people at
heart, and are not afraid to stand up and fight
for the liberties OF their constituents, such
men as Mr.. Wood, OF Jackson, and his con-
freres
How long. pray. have those members OF this
would be privileged class enjoyed the conf
dence OF the people to such an extent that they
can claim to DO the sole guardians of our future
welfare and happiness | well remember few
short years ago when it was not an unusual
thing to find cases OF malpractice IN at least one
out Of every five families that came under their
care. But that happened in the early days of
the now great State OF Michigan, aud when the
country was sparsey settled and the fever and
ague were giants in the land, and when it OF
course required desperate means to exterminate
the DESTROYER. 1t was no unusual thing to meet
persons who had little or no use OF their teeth
or jaws lips eaten away tho features destroy
cd. the body deformed, the limbs helpless, and
breath that the stencil OF gas-house sewer
was like the balm OF thousand flowers by the
side OF it. And this all done by the medicines
prescribed by the'honored profession that claim
TO be our protectors graduates OF medical col
leges, with their sheep-skins hanging proudly
on their office walls, guarantee to the pub
lie that they (ihe NJ. ID. 81 are 10 be trusted, and
that their patients should have proper medical
attendance.
What has caused this grand transformation
scene from blood-etting, clustering, cauterlZing,
salivatlng and distiguring, to the inaugurating
OF a more simple and safe style OF treatment
Answer the opposition Of those who did not
believe In the kill or cure SYSTEM OF at least OF
those who had no license TO kill
Let the medical fraternity show us wherein
they are entitled to those special privileges be-
foro they ask US TO surrender our liberties. We
ask them IL they are any more competent nov
to take charge of the health OF the people than
they were III 1862, when the Government cur
tailed their acquisitions on the medical depart
merit for supplies. as there were strong proba-
bties that they were killing more than the
enemy. MECHANIC.