The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-05-10
ON THE SIDE.


"The Idlers Note book" is a new de-
partment in the Chicago Inter Ocean
that is distressing. 1t is the veriest slop
that could be emptied into the columns
of great newspaper, and the young
man who conducts it and his note book
should be idler than they are.
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With "A recent performance at Me
Vickers theater, Chicago, THE Chris
tian' completed a great record of 5000
presentations in America. Few plays
have SO taken hold of the popular fancy,
aud it is "A credit to the good sense of the
people that they prefer Hall Gaines
story with its uplifting tendency, to the
morbid, sensational and degrading dramas
that lind too frequent a place on the
stage
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Mrs. Ethel Costello, the young nurse
at Kalamazoo who has fallen heir to
100000, is in receipt of enough offers of
marriage to make an old maid green
with envy. But then, most of the old
maids haven't 100000.
So
Professor A. r. Crook of Northwestern
university, VINO has gained newspaper
notoriety as the "unkissed man." says
now it isn't so; that he has both kissed
and been kissed and has even drunk
wine. All, well, thus are our idols shat
tered! The admission that he is not a
novice has saved the learned professor
from all danger of being "Hobsonized."
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George ID. Heron, the ministerial
fraud who has been SO much in the pub
lie eye of late, is becoming a seeker after
the cheapest kind of notoriety. In a
public address sunday, he says the world
is now without a religion and that the
Gods of the bible are dead. Such a
statement only verifies my judgment of
the man, that he is fraud that he has
been insincere and deceptive in his
teachings in the past. In SO far as the
civilized world is without a religion and
the God-not gods-of the bible seems
not to be SO much alive in the world as
could be wished, it is the fault of the
lives of sham and insincerity on the part
of just such men as George ID. Heron.
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Speaking of religious ideas reminds
NE of recent editorial in the Chicago
Record Herald under the caption, "Why
not preach the gospel?" Ministers have
Jumped onto" the editorial vigorously,
one man being honest enough TO admit
that he preached something else because
the newspapers do not print anything
about gospel sermons.
1t is lamentable fact that many
preachers are seekers after notoriety
rather than promoters of religion.
The question of the Record Herald is
pertinent:
"Why not preach the gospels"
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Over in Detroit, the ministers have
been trying to organize a federation for
the improvement of civic conditions and
the advancement of morals in the city.
The proposed federation is "all in the
air." because of fight over the question
admitting Universalist and Unitarian
llllDlSltIS IL 10 NODNltlluI liON illuCll VI
an Il am holier than thou" sentiment
finds place in the minds of some peo-
pie in this Doth century.
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In sporting circles, nothing is attract
ing more attention at present than the
approaching race for the Americas cup.
The Constitution is nearing completion
at Bristol, r.. l., and the Shamrock III
is undergoing preliminary trials across
the water. y great race is in prospect
and Sir Thomas Upton is hopeful of
success.
May the best boat win-and may the
best boat be the American.
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