The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-08-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1850

. Frank Bryant, editor of the Eau
Claire Leader has suspended the publ
cation of his paper and is patronizing a
jag institute at Benton Harbor He in
tends, as soon as he gets his nerves into
good working order, to remove his
plant to Coloma and buck against the
Boomer man. Don't do it, Frank; you'll
have relapse, sure.
The annual meeting of the Spiritual
ist association of Van Buren, and ad-
joing counties will be held at Lake Cora,
commencing Saturday next at go p. m.
and continuing over Sunday. Mrs
Adah Sheehan of Cincinnati will be
the principal speaker, and the music
will be furnished by the Paw Paw Glee
club and Mrs. Ida Hudson as organist
$50 q. m. and 2 p. m.
We desire to direct the attention and
thoughtful consideration of our charta-
able readers to an article found else
where in this paper headed away to
Green Fields" which explains itself
We trust the publication of this will be
the means of many invitations being
sent to the Daily Nel0S for visits from
the city waits to the pleasant homes
which abound in our midst. How richly
one would be repaid for the trifing adj
ditional family expense incurred by see
ing the pallid cheeks of these little
boys and girls taking on fresh rose
tint by exposure to pure country air
and two-weeks' banquet on the whole
some food of our rural homes. You
will see that these children are landed
at your door without cost to you, and
when their visit is concluded they are
sent back to their city homes. The
present month is the time to give them
nice country visit.
The Decatur Republican of last week
charges this journal as being "the lead
ing advocate of the open saloon in this
county," ''as friend of the opening of
the worlds fair on Sundays" "as one
that does not dare deny the charge that
it has sold its influence to the whisky
cause" and that the NORTHERNER twas
sold and the deal nearly consummated"
only few weeks ago, and then advises
that 'its owner should Immediately
wire hack from the seashore and call
off his hired man." Now will the
animated mushroom who conducts the
Decatur sheet kinly inform its readers
whom he is driving at? Is it the "hired
man" who has sold the influence of the
paper? Is it the "hired man" who "'only
a few weeks ago sold the property" ?
Or is it ''its owner" who has done all
these things9 And if it is the owner,
why "wire back from the seashore"?
We fear "Algernon" made mistake in
burying SO brilliant an intellect in so
small town as Decatur.
We would rather have two dollars in
money than the temper of the fellow
who prints his name in capital letters
at the head of the editorial columns of
of the Paw Paw Courier. The rage he
flew into just because we referred to
him in a little local squib as creme
gade Republican" was terrible to be-
hold. He fairly frothed at the mouth,
| (Which is a dangerous symptom when
t Sirius rises and sets with the sun. Hy-
drophobia, you know Is he ashamed
that he was always a Republican until
somebody let him have that sheet to
run? We are; and glad that he is not
now. But his rage was terrific He
made personal attack on the publisher
of this paper, the "hired man." and
probably would have attacked the dog
had there been such an adjunct to this
establishment. Then he pats on the
back certain parties, especially those
who told him how to write it up, and
| finally winds up with more froth-lead-
ed. Dog-days, my boy; dog-days.
Publishers of newspapers have one
thing TO sell and one thing to rent.
They have the newspaper to sell and
the space in the columns to rent. Can
anyone inform us why they should give
away either one or the other? They
can do SO If they choose, and they do as
matter of practical fact, furnish "a
great deal of space rent free. But it
does not follow that they ought to do
it. 1t ought to be recognized us con-
tribution exactly as would be the giving
away of coffee or sugar by the grocery
man. But strange to say, it is not
looked upon in that light at all; yet
everybody knows that the existence
of a newspaper depends as much upon
the rent of its space and sale of the
paper as the merchants success de-
pends on selling his goods instead of
giving them away. And no one thing
draws trade to town like good active
advertisements in the local newspaper,
besides every card in the paper shows
up the town as to what it possesses
Allegdn Journal.
The Dowagiac Times of last week
copies from this journal of July 18th an
article on the present local option law,
introducing it in the following Ian
guage: "Among the graces that con-
tribute to the development of a noble
manhood and sweet womanhOod, tenn
perance is not the least important. In
using this much abused term we do so
in its best and broadest sense There
are many things in which people may
be grossly Incorporate and yet never
taste of that which inebriates. That
the abuse of intoxicants has been the
cause of woe, and want, and shame, no
one will deny. How best to prevent
such abuse is a question which has been
canvassed by the best and wisest of the
race, and upon which equally good peo-
pie fail to agree. The Times is still of
the opinion that wise regulation of
the liquor traffic is productive of bet
ter results than the attempt to suppress
it by anything short of national prohi-
bition. For more than two years our
Van Buren county neighbors have been
trying the experiment of prohibition.
Public sentiment was overwhelmingly
in lie fox- NH x~f 81