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VILLAGE NoTiCE-Notice IS hereb

VILLAGE RoTiCE-Nouce is hereby
. given by the village council OF the village OF
Paw Paw in the county Of Van Buren and state of
Michigan. by its clerk, that application by petit
ton will be made to the board of supervisors of
said county Of Van Buren at the court house in
said village the nth day of October A. D. 1900,
at one O'Clock in the afternoon, for anorder :
tending the boundary lines of said village as TO
embrace within the territorial limits of said viii
lage the following pieces or parcels of land lying
contiguous and adjoining thereto, viz:
on the north of said village, the north half ~
Of the northeast Al quarter of section twelve
lI2 r. the south half ~ of the southeast quarter
~ Of section one lIl-the southeast quarter of
the southwest quarter "a Of section one ~ ly-
ing and being east of the Paw Paw river, and the
northeast quarter "a Of the northwest quarter
"a of section twelve (I2) lying and being east of
the Paw Haw river.
On the west the southwest quarter n Of the
northeast quarter "a Of section elevenL IIl-the
northwest quarter "a of the southeast quarter
Ilil of section eleven lIl and the west half =
OF the northeast quarter ca OF section fourteen
IItL
ON the south, the southeast quarter ~ of the
northeast quarter % Of section fourteen [It},
and the south half la Of the north ~ Of section
thirteen t3l all IN town three 81 south of range
fourteen - west.
And on the east by the southwest fractional quar-
ter ca Of section seven j IN town three south, of
range thirteen ,I3l west, all in said county and
state
Any person or persons Interested in any of the
foregoing described piece OF pieces of land are
hereby notified 10 be present at the time and
place aforesaid and show cause if he or they can
why the prayer Of the said petitioner should be
granted. This notice is given in pursuance TO a
resolution passed by said council on the 18TH day
of September, 1900. WIN. II. MASON,
1881 Village Clerk.
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pRoshTE oRDER.-state of Michigan

Il County OF Van Buren,-ss.
At session of the probate court for the county Of
Van Buren, holden al the probate office In the viii
lage OF Paw Paw, on Thursday, the goth day OF
September, in the year one Thousand nine hundred
Present, Hon. James II. johnson, Judge of
Probate.
Ia the matter of the estate OF Alexander Mar
tin, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified. OF
Elan l.. Warner, party IN interest in said estate,
praying for reasons therein stated that sdninistra-
tion OF said estate may b. granted 10 Milton j. Coy
or some other suitable person.
Thereupon IL IL ordered that Monday, the 18th day
of October 1900, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, be
assigned for the hearing of said petition and all per-
sons interested in said estate required to appear
at session of said court, then To be holden az the
probate office, in the village of Paw Paw, and show
cause If any there why the prayer OF the petitioner
should not be granted.
And II is further ordered that SAID petitioner
give notice the persons interested in said estate of
the tendency of said petition, and TIE hearing there
OF, by causing copy of this order TO be published
IN the True Northerner, "A newspaper printed and
circulating IN said county of Van Buren, for three
successive weeks at least previous to said day Of
hearing.
74t4o77l JAMES Ii. JOHNSON. Judge OF Probate.
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Young Man Killed Himself.

Jackson, Mich, Sept. 26.-Robert w
McCieery, aged 10, painter by trade.
shot and killed himself yesterday
morning at $50 in a room over Per
kins' barber shop ON East Main street
Yesterday morning McCleery said in
the barber shop that he had had row
with his father and was "all broke up. g"
McCleery's father denies the sons
story Of quarrel, and believes he was
insane from the effects OF an injury
to the brain received i'm infancy.
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MORTGAGE SALE-wl

II m ] = = =
vi ing been made ia the conditions of a certain
indenture of mortgage bearug date the 18th day Of
April "A, ID. 1887, made, executed and delivered by
Charles A. Geer and Mary Geer, his wife of Waverly,
Van Bnren county, Michigan, TO Cynthia A. Van
Deusen, which said mortgage was the 19th day
of April, a. ID. 1887, filed for record in the Of
fee OF the register OF deeds in and for Van
Buren county, Michigan, ana by said register OF
deeds duly recOrdedm Liber ~ of mortgages on page
40; Oh which said mortgage there is claimed To be
thousand aght hundred and forty-nne dollars and
eighty-three cents ,Si9. .S3 aud suit at law
proceeding in equity having been instituted to re-
cover the amount due on said mortgage, any part
thereof.
Now therefore. notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of the power OF sale in said mortgage con-
tanned, and the statutes I'm such made and
provided, L shall, on Saturday, the 22d day of De-
cember A. D. 1906, at nine O'Clock ia the forenoon,
at the north 'front.' door of the court house, the
village of Paw Paw Van Buren, county, Michigan,
iha being the place Tor holding the circuit court
Tor said Van Buren county, sell to the highes, bid
der the premises described I'm said mortgage, so
much thereof as may be necessary 20 pay the
amount then cue thereon with the legal costs of
this proceeding and OF said sale, The premises so
described In said mortgage and TO be sold are
known and described all that certain piece par
Gel of land lying and being situate In the township of
Waveriy, In the county of Van Bureu, and state OF
Michigan and described as follows to-wit:
The east sixtyseven 67l acres of the east half OF
the south east quarter of section twentythree (23),
town two GU south, of range IL west; excepting
therefrom one acre In square form in the. north
west corner thereof now used cemetery, together
with the teneinents, hereditaments and appurten-
ances thereunto belonging or in anywse appertain-
ing.
Dated this 2lst day of September, A. D. 1900.
2375tl3o23S71 CYNTHIA A. VAN DECSEN,
L. A. x ROBERT b. CRANE, Attys. for Mortgagee,
Chase Blk, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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BANKRUPTCY NOTICED the a

- trct court of the United States, for the west
ern district OF Michigan, southern division.
In the matter of George w. Crawford, bank
rupt-In bankruptcy.
To the creditors of George w. Crawford of Law
renee IN the county OF Van Buren, and district afore-
said, a bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of
September, A. ID. 1900. the said George w. Crawford
was duly adjudicated bankrupt. aud that the frst
meeting of his creditors will be held AZ the ONCE
OF Benz. +. Heckert, I'm the village of Paw Paw
I'm Van Buren county, In said district on the 9th day
noon, at which time the said creditors NAV attend
prove their claims, appoint trustee, examine the
bankrupt and transact such other business as NAV
properly come before said meeting.
HENRY G. BRIGGS,
'otll Referee IN Bankruptcy.
Dated, Kalamazoo, Mich.. September 18TH A. d.
Creditors may send proofs Of claims to referee at
Kalamazoo, Mich. "
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Rntcs Got EiNc Nenrs

Lansing. Mich. Sept. 2G-Edwir :
Bates. the former private detective VIII.
pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court
Monday to the charge of forging n
mortgage. was yesterday sentenced by
Judge West 10 five years imprison-
ment i'm the state house of correction
and reformatory at Lonia where Bates
was at one time a guard. The court
gave the prisoner severe talking TO.
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Chinese are dangerous enemies, for
they are treacherous. That's why all
counterfeits of DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve are dangerous. They look like De
Wits, but instead of the all-healing
witch hazel they all contain ingredients
liable to irritate the skin and cause
blood poisoning. For piles, injuries and
skin diseases use the original and genu-
inc DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. +. B.
Longwell. If
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Drank Gasoline and Died

Lansing. Mich, Sept. 26.-Charles
Wigle. the 3-year-old son Of ]. G. Wigle.
died at the city hospital yesterday az
ternoon as result Of having drunk \
quantity of gasoline. The child was
playing with the bottle Monday, and
before its parents were aware Of what
had happened 1t had partaken Of the
fiery fluid. The little one fingered In
great pain nearly two hours.
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Millions will be spent in politics this
year. We can't keep the campaign go
ing without money any more than we
can keep the body vigorous without food.
Dyspeptics used to starve themselves.
Now Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what
you eat and allows you to eat all the
good food you want. 1t radically cures
stomach troubles. f.. B. Longwell. II
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A good many consumptives would be
cured and the worst cases confronted and
relieved by using Foley's Honey and Tar.
Suggest it to those afflicted. You should
do this as a friend. Il. b. Longwell. IN
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Allen Halverson of West Prairie, Wis,
says: people come 10 miles to buy
Foley's Kidney Cure" while j. a. Spero
of Helmer says: ut is the medical won
der of the age" Il. B. Longwell. IN
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Ulcers, open or obstinate sores, scalds
and piles, quickly cured by Banner Salve,
the most healing medicine in the world.
f.. B. Longwell. IN
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Quiet in the schuyIkin.

Harrisburg. Pa, Sept. 24.-The sit
uation in the Schuylkill strike region
is very satisfactory to the officers on
duty at the national guard headquar-
ters in Harrisburg. The advices from
there yesterday were that every
thing was uiet and ono serious trouble
was anticiDated
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DROsATE oRpEE FOR HEARING
i FINAL ACCOUNT.-state of Michigan

L. A. ROBERT b. CRANE, Attys. for Mortgages,
Chase Blk, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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CAPITAL $35O,OOO.

Accounts of banks. merchants. corpora
tons and individuals solicited.
Savings Department, interest paid
quarterly.
Safety Boxes and Storage Vaults for
rent.
Collections made on all points at rea-
sonable rates.
Drafts sold on all the chief cities of the
world.
Correspondence invited.
JOSEPH d. WEED. President.
JOHN c. ROWLAND, Vice President.
w. G. CAM, Cashier.
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For nce trial bottles address or call
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Copyright 1900 by Morgan Robertson(
New York, April 21.-An unsigned book
review in recent number Of the Chicago
Dial treating of Alex ]. Boyds The
Shelback," contains the following:
There is at all events this 20 be said
for the officers of a deep water ship;
They are very commonly under the abso-
lutte necessity of aweing into subsection
rufianly crews of potential muuneers
who outnumber them twenty to one; and
II they resort to rough measures it is fair
10 presume that they do so quite as much
from a knowledge Of the men they have
90 deal with as from mere wanton cruel
ty."
The writer of this says few other
things to the same effect and of no ac-
count beyond the labored correctness Of
his style. This correctness. his cock
eureness and his habitat. would indicate
that he is young and a student of W
Clark Russell; if SO the years viii prob
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periors, and the punshments to be dealt
him for insolence, INSTRUMENTATION, deser-
ton. smuggling. mutiny, murder and sucn
crimes, while the little that is enacted for
his benefit has usually been twisted so as
TO work to his harm-for instance, the law
requiring advance wages or allotment CT
wages as IL now stands, which o5tensibly
procures him an outfit of clothing TO go
10 sea with, has for generations kept him
in the power of the boarding masters, or
Crimps.
Forced to Desert.
Again, deeming it a hardship for sail
or to be paid off at foreign port, Tar
from home. some wiseacres now dead,
once passed law that he be brought back
to an American port of discharge. This
compact was Of necessity binding upon the
sailor as we'll; he could not leave his ship
in a foreign port without mourning the
penalties of deserton. loss of money due
and effects left behind, as well as impris-
onment if caught. So, in foreign ports
where men are plenty and wages low, the
sailor who has a goodly sum due him and
would like TO stay by his ship, finish the
voyage, and be paid off with mis- own, Is
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matter will be adjusted when this country
needs sailors to man her growing navy;
that then, wide awake to the necessity OF
nourishing and protecting a reserve TO
draw upon, an aroused and anxious popu-
lace will rise up in all the force of its oft
quoted public sentiment" and insist upon
justice to the merchant sailor.
No such exigency will occur, unless we
go back to the Old type of wooden men
cf-war. For, as raw material for the float
ing machine shops which we call warships
the merchant sailor has but two points
of advantage over carpenters, machin-
lists, clerks and other wage earners his
immunity fr- m sea sickness and his abll-
ity to handle an oar.
Other observers are willing to leave the
matter TO Providence, saying that the
wrongs of she sailor are only a part of
the general social and labor problems,
and must be left 10 work themselves out.
Exactly; but social evolution comes only
of human effort and until the two stat
utes mentioned above-those relating to
discharge in foreign ports, and 90 allot-
ment of wages-are repealed. the sailor
will be robbed by the crlmp on shore, and
by the captain and owner at sea.
Public Sentiment Must Change.
Yet such repeal will in no wise effect
"a mitigation of his treatment at the hands
Of brutal shippers and mates. He will
still be cursed, beaten and worked, up to
his extreme limits of endurance until
his average life of twelve years at sea
expiring. he will find rest and immunity
in a weighted canvas shroud. And for
this state of affairs in view of the lax
ity of official action and the present pain
full estimate placed upon sailors by a Rus
sell taught public, there is no remedy in
this generation. As long as the public
believes that the harmless, inoffensive
hard working merchant sailor is a "po-
tential mutineer a scoundrel seeking OPP
portunity to mutiny and murder, TO burn,
sink and destroy" just so long will il be
safe for a consul, a commissioner or a-jus-
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WINTER RESORTS.
DE SOTO HOTEL.

First-class accommodations for 500 guests
Among the improvements the past summer o.
new bath rooms were added Tourists ma
Savannah The most interesting city IN th9
South An ideal winter resort SneclaI rates
for families remaining week or more
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ably bring him punishment, tutelage and
wisdom, and what follows here is in no
sense an answer to him; only as the par
agraph quoted above crystaiizes a very
common and popular opinion of sailormen
1t is used as a text for this argument
and fatty denied to begin with.
The deep water sailor does not outnum-
Der his officers twenty to one, nor is he
Q potential mutineer." With twenty be
fore the mast there are at the other end
OF the ship a captain, two or three mates,
o steward and cabin boy, and, as allies
from the forward end, one or two boat
SWANS, cook and a carpenter-the last
very handy with a broadaxe. Here are
at the most, ten men to awe potential
mutineers, at the least six. There arc
arms enough in the cabin-aside from the
broadaxe men tioned-to equip this police
force while the sailors have none and
are seldom allowed to carry sheath
Knives. AS testimony to the efficiency of
the system and the safety of the after
guard, at sea with large number of
men in the forecastle, consider the few
cases of i1utiny, or even mild insubor-
dination, tnat have occurred In American
ships in the past generation. The deep
water sailor Is the last man on earth TO
wish mutiny. He is rough, ignorant
hard working man, with large endurance;
and, never having received his share of
good treatment, his patience goes hand
and hand with his endurance, and his re-
spect for authority is matter of faith.
Trained sailors Rarely Mutiny.
Potential mutineers can be drawn from
the rest Of humanity. but not from train
ed sailors. IL is safe to predict that If
an American ship put out from a New
York dock with crew of landsmen, gath
cred from any grade in life, there would
take place this side of Sandy Hook one of
the liveliest mutinies ever imagined. 1t
would be based upon the common self
respect and sense Of injury displayed by
tormented kittens, spanked babies bisect-
ed angle worms, and other units of Or
ganic life in the presence of wrong-which
IS all but trained out of the soul of the
able seaman. He will resent an injury
on shore, but al sea. while willing 60
risk his life daily for the good Of the ship
he will submit tamey 10 bestial insult
and cruelty that would gOad the average
landsman TO murder.
There is something strange in the apn-
thetic submission 10 wrong Of a man with
muscles of steel and courage above the
average - something ineomprehensihle
from the ordinary viewpoint, and only
plain to him who has worked before the
mast long enough 70 become imbued with
the ethics Of his calling The sailor real
ly suffers from diverted development; his
pride in himshelf as man gives was to Il
pride in himself as a seaman. He Is
prouder of his ability 20 do as he IS told
90 perform an almost impossible and use
less task at tho behcst Of an ofiiccr-than
ho would be Of his ability to thrash the
officer. Many "A man goes 10 what hc
Knows IS bis death-oyer the side in a
gale, out forward on "a sprung 1.b-boom.
on aloft 10 rotten and stranded foot
ropc-from pure inability TO rcallze that
ne h7s a human right 10 his lifc. 10
him tho fire. o. a %, .I
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murder only one Of the seven convictions
showed q result that looked IN any way
hopeful for the sailor. First Mate smith
OF NE ship Benjamin SoWall. who pcrs,-
'ut'd "a sailor until he committed suicide.
Wns a.rtenccd 10 Fort Townsend. Wash.
10 % years imprisonment ana - a nuo
ot $1,000 aud costs. Nci the maxlmum pom
uiY for this mans crime d. nye years'
imprisonment ana an equal nn.. Where
were me oNtouuatlua Circumstance which
INDICATED the oncnsc? lie was not con.
Flctel ~ murder. yof is deliberate muir
dDr, punishable hy death worse than the
driving Of "a man 90 tuicldoR
D. fho other eiEhty-nFe cases The accus-
- cariains nrd officers wore either "eA-
Operated or acquitted on fhs ground Of
"lark ~ evidence" 'JusunahIe discipline"
or lecaufc mo omaiu" charge bad been
made. AHl rnt ihia horrd ilst ~ torture
ar1 1saW contains ouly recorded enfes.
isB much u unIe-Ql9ed. accomplished
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first refused shore leave. then hunte7
bounded and hit with fists and clubs, un-
I'll he is glad to desert 10 preserve h,
Wilderness of his sldn-which is just VIVA,
the captain wants him to do: for the back
wages and clothing left behind are forfait
to the owners, and a man can be shipped
in his place at a lower rate of pay. Yet
in the face of this distinct advantage 20
the captain, he will often appeal to he
local authorities, put that recreant sailor
in Jail for desertion, and go to sea without
him.
But these two statutes merely conduce
to robbery-of his money and his liberty;
and strange as it may seem, considering
that his pay seldom rises above eighteen
dollars month, ii is the least of his trou-
b es, for he rarely enjoys the luxury of
spending his own money, and most jails
are as roomy as a ship at sea. 1t is his
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of murder and assault has occurred in
that ten ysdrs?
There are people so constituted men
tally that If this bare record of crime
were PLACED before them TO read and d.
3est, they could not bring themselves 40
believe ID, because X lacks the local
color" generally given to accounts of
crime in the newspa pers. To such Is rec
commended Paul Eve Stevenson's book,
by Way of Cape Horn" 1t is a journal
written from day to day, on voyage with
his wife during the summer Of 1897, around
the Horn from New York to San Francis
co, IN one of the fnest American shlps
ahoat. II is written well. and it rivals
the Red Record in realism.
The Present Law.
On Feb. 20, 1890, new seamen's law
went into effect, which contains a very
few good and quite number of inane and
ridiculous provisions-some of the latter
contradicting and annulling each other.
Allotment of wages Is reduced from four
payments of $40 each to one payment of
a months wages. This lessons the amount
that the crimp can obtain when a sailor
signs from his boarding house, and this
provision can only be improved upon by
abolishing allotment altogether
In place of the naval war ration allow
ed by the former law and which was gen
orally superseded by a full and plenty"
allowance at masters option" which
privilege was always inserted and signed
20, in the shipping articles, of food, In
sufficient in quantity and quality, to nour-
ish small-sized dog, there has been sub
in lis variety and generosity. If property
cooked mis- LET would RIM an ordinary
boarding house, and it is difficult to con-
ceiVe how owners will eVade this scale.
Coffee Is rrescribed In the .'green berry g"
wi,h sugar eno,rh 20 eyaeten Il This
eliminates tbe boot leo decoction hereto
for served TO sailors water is stilI
limited 10 four Quarts a dav which is
not eno1.gb in hot weather If his chean-
eet of earthly, cons+itnorss. but in Wow
of the snlendjd sc,lora meals (nrovided
tha cook is cool,l now coming 10 a
e1ase Of stor,-ad ,,,5 so,,r,,o,,toiptod mon
who would talsa evcantion to one item -
The law maters y-bo cosnniIed ,bis ,fst
-nle+ hove done ca before dinner when
o,,,,,!,, ,,to,,,aohe o,,lt,-e,,a1 tbatr iynagina
,ia,, pu4 ~, o,,,l1 nat ba,o bfen aud
IN OH nrobabilitv ,bev wore NOT very
thirsty. Good luck ia them. MAY they
- -, - '''i> ~
Nh ,or - ,on,,s,. t,a i,,,rriso,,ad in an
>i,arioa,, ,,.,,.f 60 ,,,,i+ti,s tboir bortbs.
49,, ,.e.rtt,r r. - 1o-. 80 49, ,os o,1
,,,o,-s, A. II faroie.n ,or+s tbo in,,rts.
-.r,oert ie losearo1 f,,7r, fl,ree ,,,ontbe IN
o1n-o dist,nct ir,,,,o,,or,e,t b,,t ubirh
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An e,,,, ae -, ,,,,rieb ort oro
,L,,iebod wbicb nol,re ++at = is no 1one,-
~, tare,1i ~ 1,,,,.iah - 49,, ,,,itb az -;
,t,a-,oiE 60 ll,,.t,, ,,t,, -. oo,s+ =,
han. - rs ll,,r,,o, or r.,,,1
coino to sea Ia, Who vii coy,cern bin,-
so,t With tbis rortrio+ta, a,,o, tt,o,,b ~
otbcr nrovi .si of ,be law makes me ca
tain ,iable in civiI damoees for. hermit