The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-10-05
WHOLE NUMBER 1859

We shall print next week the full
text of the report of Labor Commission
er Peck of New York, of which so much
has been said and written. 1t deserves
a careful perusal.
DR.. Osborne of Kalamazoo was last
week summoned to council with DIR.
Dunning regarding cutaneOus disease
with which the mother of j. w. Free
has been afflicted for the past two
years. He pronounced it an obstinate
and peculiar case not often met with,
but gave hopes of an ultimate cure.
Miss Hattie Joiner, sister of Mrs.
G.. l.. Eaton, living at Oshtemo, has
been having very unlucky trip this
summer While visiting at Quincy she
was ill for week, and on continuing
her journey to Cleveland, Ohio, was
thrown from an electric car and carried
in an unconscious state to her sisters
home there, where she still remains
under the doctors care.
Five of our teachers, Misses Hinck-
ley, Simmons, Wilson, Snow, and
Smith, together with Mrs. r. w.
Broughton and Miss Bertha Myers, are
taking lessons in physical culture of
Mrs. Gertrude Andrews. This is es-
pecially desirable on the part of the
teachers as they will thus be more on
the alert regarding the posture of the
boys and girls under their charge.
The vineyard set out three years ago
on the farm sometimes called "Durkee's
Desert" has this year come into bear
ing sufficiently to show what the sandy
land can do in the way of grapes and
has yielded 1000 baskets of as fine fruit
as any producer can boast, making an
Average yield of over eleven pounds to
each of the 5000 vines. Can any one
give better showing for three years
growth?
Last Wednesday Ed. Thayer hitched
his horse in front of Drew's harness
shop and drove smilingly off with his
bosom friend. Jay Dunning. But the
smiles vanished on his return when he
found that his steed had become un-
fastened and careered off down Kalama-
ZOO street, breaking both harness and
road-cart and finally leaving them by
the roadside, while it continued the
flight toward home unimpeded.
Mr. Howells will begin in the Novem-
ber COSmOpOtttdn,a department under
Il
Altruria" Those who have seen the
first two papers think they will equal
in interest and in their wide appeal to
all classes, the Breakfast Table Papers
of DR.. Holmes. In order to give the
necessary time to this work, Mr..
Howells has turned over the detail
editorial work to Mr.. Walker.
We count ourselves fortunate i'm hav-
ing an opportunity on next Monday
night to hear the eloquent and magnetic
young Chicago orator who has become
so celebrated. The following extract
shows what people think of him.
1t is but few times i'm lifetime that
Geneseo people can hear SO great an
orator and thinker as DR.. Gunsaulus.
A young man, brilliant. eloquent, a
giant intellect, standing far above his
compeers and still rapidly ascending
in fame and esteem, he comes as the
most entertaining lecturer that has
visited our city for a score of years. As
did Wendell Phillips, SO Gunsaulus in
spires the heart with blaver motives; as
Charles Sumner, he stimulates the mind
to more loyal purpose. "Gunsaulus'
firebrands incite the dullest of us TO
nobler deeds and more heroic life"
John S. johnson, the Minneapolis
bicyclist who has made a record of
mile in one minute, tifty-six and three
fifths seconds, has attracted renewed
interest To this comparatively new
mode of conveyance. That the bicycle
has come to stay is an indisputable
fact, and the effect it will have on our
country roads is thus foretold by one of
our exchanges: mot the least reform
the bicycle is working lies along the
line of better roads" There is a de-
mand for them in every part of the
country. Wheelmen insist upon dry,
hard, even highway between towns,
and in every direction; and, thanks to
their agitation, the literature they dis
tribute, and the legislation they apply
for, the farmers and all who are en-
gagged in road transportation begin to
realize the economics in time, wear and
tear on equipment, and in diminished
propulsive power required, that good
highways yield, and are joining the BIZ
cyclists in the road reform movement.
What well-constructed asphalt pave
ments do for the fire department, and
for users of vehicles of all descriptions
in the city, properly constructed roads
do for the farmer in the country.