The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-12-14
EDIIoR TRUE NoRIHERNER :

EDIIOh lhUE NORIHEhNEh
1 have friendly criticism fer a remark IN
the last published sermon OF Mr.. Sesrles.
where he comments on the widow In these
words "She will shed few tears at your
funeral and then in year or two she, too,
will 60 the way OF all the eaIth-go after an
other mani" How little the speaker knew the
train OF thought his careless words would send
thrilling through the visit Of years to many a
heart. with its covered, but unhealed, grief,-
sending the memory back with the swiftness
Of thought to the darkened room where the
last remains OF the husband and father lay
cold and lfeless ready for the burial. He can
never know the depth of woe, the unutterable
loneliness and depression that is known only
to those who have experienced 1t, although, as
the years 60 by, other ties maybe formed; for
the kind Father knows our needs and has go
provided that our usefulness shall not be i'm
paired by hopeless sorrow, and has constituted
us and made 1t lawful for us to cover our lone
illness by forming other ties. But those who
have never suffered cannot know how TO those
who have, things are never the same again.
il enjoyment comes, 1t must ever come in .
subdued form; never the old elasticity again.
For that reason those who have occasion to
speak OF such should use care, as they know
not the wounds they may open and make
to bleed afresh.
| hope the Rev. Sir will pardon me If it
seems bold to make this criticism, but IN JUS
tice to the many OF my sex felt must so ad-
dress him through your columns, as his re-
marks we're twice brought before the public
and are reflection on the truthfulness and
fidelity Of women generally. **
A case has recently been determined in Cir
cult Court for Kalamazoo county, wherein one
G. z. Bailey, was plaintiff and the Kalamazoo
Telegraph Cor Publishing Company was defend
ant. The charge was libel, and the damages
laid at thirty thousand dollars. Bailey had
been resident and Justice OF the Peace Of
Cass county. He subsequently removed to
Ncksburg Kalamazoo county, and thereafter
became the Prohibition candidate for Congress
from this District. During the progress of the
canvass the Cass Co. Republican, Cassopohs
Nigilant and Kalamazoo Telegraph published
articles charging Bailey with malfeasance in
Office, i'll that he had ap proprlated fines imposed
by himself as Justice and paid 20 him when
collected, to his own use, etc. Whereupon
would be- congressman Bailey commenced an
action against the Telegraph for defaming his
character whereas it turns out that as we'll
as the other papers had but told what was true
Of him, and he stands in worse plight than
before, Tor he has all the costs to pay.
AS a rule libel suits against newspapers are
brought either by politicians lawyers or Judges,
who know themselves 70 be knaves, and when
a newspaper, knowing their unworthiness and
dishonesty holds them up to the public gaze
in their true light, rush to the Courts, not to
establish their integrity, but to throw dust in the
eyes of the people, as well as to inhmidate
other papers from exposing dishonesty. 1t Is
gratifying to know that they generally fail in
their designs, as they deserve to.