The true northerner., 1899-01-25
WHOLE NUMBER 2288.

The Detroit Free Press says: Repre-
sentative Nevins thinks that drug stores
in counties where prohibition has been
adopted do too much selling of whiskey
as beverage, and he has bill which he
thinks will stop the practice. The bill
will also provide that the question of
prohibiting the sale of liquor shall be
tested at regular elections instead of
having a special election called for that
purpose.
The Van Buren, County Farmers
Institute society, organized under the
state law, will hold an institute at Hart
ford Tuesday and Wednesday, February
Z and 8. The speakers furnished by the
state board of agriculture are G.. p. Good
rich of Wisconsin, Roland Morrill, OF
Benton Harbor, Perry +. Powers of
Cadillac, DIR. f. r. Belknap of Niles, Prof
G. ID. Smith of Agricultural college, Mrs.
Ella r. lockwood of Flint. Mrs. j. j.
Woodman of this place is among the
county speakers.
Percy Ultenweiler, tramp, was tired
of the cold freedom of the outside world
and wanted to exchange it for the
warmth and plenty of w. j. Thomas
popular boarding house. He helped
himself to coat from a pile in front of
Smith & Co.'S last Monday, and did it so
ostentatiously that he couldn't help be-
ing caught at it. He promptly and
cheerfully pleaded guilty to larceny be-
fore Justice Mason, but his jaw fell when
hizzoner gave him the penalty of only
S1.OO and costs or ID days. OF course he
were not more of 'em, to keep him until
balmy spring.
The official divorce return made by
County Clerk Buck to the secretary of
state for the year 1898 was as follows:
Cases pending January l, 1898, %; bills
filed during the year, So; divorces granted
during the year, 80; cases pending De-
cember 81, 1898, A. DEGREES were granted
for the following causes: Adultery, L;
adultery, cruelty and non on-support, /;
cruelty 13; cruelty and non-support, 2;
desertion, II; desertion and cruelty, l;
desertion and non support, /; drunken
ness and non-support, /; drunkenness
and cruelty, l; non-support, l. Eleven
of the cases were contested, the others
went by default.
Harry A. Fuller, the blind graduate of
Hillsdale college, will occupy the pulpit
of the Free Baptist church Sunday
morning and evening, January 20. A col
lection will be taken for him at the close
of the evening service. The College
Herald, Hillsdale, says he addressed
very large audience in the college church
on the 'Undercurrents of Everyday Life
and to say that it was a success in every
way is only naked truth. The pleading
for nobler, better sentiment, for closer
brotherhood and higher manhood, was
worthy of the man. His poetic quota
tions, his tribute to Carleton and his
prayerful pleading for more loving kind
ness among his fellow men, all were i'm
pressive, and some passages were grand
in the true sense of the word"
The Northerner has often said it con-
sidered the practice of women wearing
large hats in public meetings of any
kind, an imposition on those unfor-
tunate enough to sit behind them. We
have been called crank" therefor
and the big hat has continued as before
to obstruct the view of people in Paw Paw
audiences. "Bystander" of the Kalama-
ZOO News has seen the hat in that
city, and relieves his feelings in this
language: Il went to church in my usual
devout frame of mind. | was gracefully
ushered into a comfortable pew L set
tied back to enjoy the words of an elo-
quent preacher, when in came a couple
of young ladies and took the pew in front
of me. / moved so as to see between
them-that worked well for about a
minute-then Miss Hat moved a little to
leeward. Ny view was shut off. / NOV
ed to windward- soon she restlessly did
the same, probably for the same reason
that had. One of those internal ma
chimes called a picture hat capped the
head in front of her also. Well, dodg
ed hither and thither until utterly worn
out trying to keep the face of the speak
er in view. One of the plumes in the
aforesaid hat fell in a most graceful
curve. / found that by closing one eye
/ could just frame in the face of the
speaker dS ionS dS hei1hoi ho hoi ehO
owner of the hat moved. Then my mind
was diverted by wondering what the
large and attentive congregation would
do if arose and demolished that hat,
and came near smiling audibly at the
thought of the CONSERVATION that would
overtake both the lady and audience at
such denouement. But, joking aside,
il the present style of hats continues and
ministers do not request ladies to remove
them while worshiping, there will be
such condition of backsliding that it
will take Moody and Sankey and all the
other great revivalists to undo the work
of the big, ugly, crooked, heavy, over
loaded, expensive headgear called by
courtesy the picture hat"