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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
Animals and Fire.

"Most animals are afraid of water
and will fly from ii in terror" says a
member of the fire department. ITO
others there Is a fascination about a
flame, and they will walk into 1t even
though tortured by the heat. Some Of
the men were talking the other day
about the conduct of animals during a
fire. a horse in burning stable,
they agreed. was wild with fear, but q
dog was as cool in a fire as at any
other time. A dog keeps his nose
down to the floor, where the air is
purest, and sets himself calmly to find
ing his way out. Cats In fires howl
piteously. They hide their faces from
the light and crouch in corners. When
their rescuer lifts them they are as a
rule quite doclle and subdued, never
biting or scratching Birds seem TO
be hypnotized by fire and keep per-
fectly still; even the loquacious parrot
In a fire has nothing TO say. Cows. like
dogs, do not show alarm. They are
easy 10 lead forth and often find their
way out themselves Rodents seem
never TO have any difficulty in escaping
fror' fires. Washington Star.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
Order of Publication.

state of Michigan:-In the circuit court for the
county OF Van Buren,-In chancery.
Henry A. Wells, complainant, vs., Serepta A.
Wells, defendant.
Suit pending in the circuit court for the county
OF IAN Buren,, in chancery, at the village of Paw
Paw, in said county, on the 23d day of September,
A. ID. 1903.
In this cause 1t appearing, from afidavts on file,
that the defendant, Serepta A. Wells is not a resi-
dent Of the state of Michigan, but that she resides
IN the city OF Chicago, county of Cook and state of
Illinois.
On motion of Lincoln II. Titus, complanant's
solicitor, II is ordered that the said defendant
Serepta A. Wells cause her appearance to be en-
tered herein, within four months from the date of
this order, and in of her appearance, that she
cause her answer to the complai la1t's bill of com.
plant TO be filed aud copy thereof to be served
on said compliments solicitor within twenty DAYS
after service her of copy of said bill and notice
OF this order and that in default thereof said bill
defendant.
And it is further ordered, that within twenty days
the said complainant cause notice of this order to
be published in The True Northerner newspaper
printed, published aud circulating in said county,
and that such publication be continued therein at
least once in each week for six weeks in succession
or nat he cause copy of this order to be person.
ally served on said nonresident defendant least
twenty days before the time above prescribed for
her appearance. JOHN r. CARR,
Circuit Judge.
LISCoLN II. TITUS,
Solicitor Tor complainant.
Business address: Paw Paw Michigan.
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plan. deacon. We want meeting house
here at the Corners, but we hain't been
able to build one. AS Providence seems
To have sent us this money. let's take IL
and use il that way"
Il rather like the idea" unused Dea-
con Hastings. Yes, here's enough to
build good sized Baptist meeting
house"
Methodist. you mean"
mo. | don't 1t goes for Baptist"
mot a dollar of it, I've always said
l never would give shilling to the
Baptists, and shall stick to it,
''It's Baptists or nothing. and you let
that money alonew
Then came a climax. Deacon White
his old friend and neighbor and fellow
rabbit tracker, and the virgin snow was
! flung about by the heels of their cow
hide boots. They were still struggling
when Elisha Johnson, the justice Of
the peace, came along. He had come to
buy some potatoes of Deacon White
and had been told to follow his trail.
case and seen the money he said: IF
know anything about law the state
steps in here and takes half the find.
AS I'm the only one around here repre-
senting the state I'll take charge of the
treasure till the courts decide the case.
AS for your claims, you've got TO bring
a lawsuit ag'in each other"
The justice bore away the money,
and they followed him to his house two
miles away to start the lawsuit 4
tin peddler drove up at the same time,
and when he understood the case he
asked to see some Of the. coins. He
hadn't fingered them minute before
he said:
This may be a case Of Providence,
but | should rather call it case for
the fool killer. This ere money is all
bogus!
BLESS me, but it ISL exclaimed the
justice after testing several pieces and
shaking his head. Representing the
state I'm willing to waive all claims.
Deacons, hold your hats"
But the deacons didn't uncover.
When they had slipped outdoors Dea-
con Hastings extended his hand and
whispered:
by gum, but | guess / made a fool
o. myselfr'
And so did l." replied Deacon
White.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
ON THE RABBIT
IkAII By JOHN
STRANGE
COpuriOhf 1905 bu T. a. Mr(7,irs
Copyright, 1908. bp T. G. Mcclure

1t was the first snow Of winter. and
as Deacon Hastings OF Hastings Cor
ners stood in the barn door after feed
ing his cows he saw the tracks OF u
rabbit leading across the meadow in
The direction OF the woods. He went
out and bent over them, and as no
Strengthened up after a long look be
said To himself
1T is a rabbit sure enough, and l
guess he is a buster. I'd be pretty
sure TO trail him TO boiler log down
In the woods, and rabbit pie wouldn't
be bad for dinner tomorrer-
He thought the matter over during
breakfast, and just as he finished be
came to decision and said to his wife:
Martha. I'm going to foller a rabbit
down into the woods and cut him out
or a log, and you can get ready TO
make pie Of him tomorrer"
VERY well, Samuel" she replied,
without any interest in the case, and a
few minutes later the deacon was off.
Any person who has ever followed
the tracks of a rabbit wandering about
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
Chancery sale.

In pursuance and by virtue of decree OF the
circuit court for the county of Van Buren, in chan
Gerry, in the state of Michigan, made and dated on
the 9Th day of October A. d. 1903, in a certain cause
therein pending, wherein Anna NJ Spaulding il
complainant, and James yelling aud Thomas Well
ing are defendants
Notice is hereby given, that shall sell at public
auction TO the highest bidder the front door of
the court house, in the village of Paw Paw county
of Van Buren, aud state of Michigan, said court
house being the place for holding the circuit court
in and for said county, saturday. the 2sth day of
November, A. ID. 1903, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon
of said day, all, or so much thereof as may be nee
essary TO raise the amount due TO the said corplain-
ant, for principal interest and in said cause
OF the following described lands and premises viz:
The southwest fractional quarter OF section
thrty-one. town one south, range fourteen west
Van Buren, county, Michigan, except the west
seventy acres thereof.
Dated, Paw Paw, Mich, October 14th, A, d. 1909
ORAN w. ROWLAND,
Circuit Court Commissioner in and for Van Buren,
county, Michigan.
DAVID ANDERSON. Solicitor for Complainant
Business address: Paw Paw, Mich.
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Order for Hearing Claims.

state of Michigan, Countyof Van Buren.-ss
Notice is hereby given that by an order of the pro-
bate court for the county of Van Buren,, made
on the path day of September A. ID. 1903 six months
from that date allowed for creditors TO present
their claims against the estate of Johanna Aagard
Dean, late OF said county, deceased, and that all
creditors of said deceased required TO present
their claims TO said probate court, at the probate
ONCE IN the village of Paw Paw, in said county for
examination and allowance, on or before the
Attn day of April, A, ID. 1904 and that such claims
Will be heard before said court on Monday the
attn day of January, A. ID. 1904, and on Monday the
Atm day of April, A. ID. 1904, at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon OF each of those days.
Dated, September oath, A. d. 1908.
JAMES II. JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
Order for Hearing Claims.

State of Michigan, County of Van Buren-ss.-
Notice is hereby given, that by order of the pro-
bate for the county of Van Buren,, made the
goth day of September, A. ID. 1903, months from
that date allowed for creditors to present their
claims against the estate of Catherine A. Baxter,
late of said county, deceased, and that all cred
itors of said deceased are required to present
their claims TO said probate court, at the probate
office in the village OF Paw Paw, said county, for
examination and allowance, before the %
day Of May, A. ID. 1894, and that such claims will
be heard before said court Monday, the LIST day of
February. A. d. 1904, and on Monday the % day OF
May, A. ID. 1904, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon Of
each of those days.
Dated, September Goth, A. ID. 1903.
JAMES III. JOHNSON. Judge of Probate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
The Salve That Heals

Without leaving scar is DeWitt's. The
name Witch Hazel is applied to many
salyes, but DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
is the only witch hazel salve made that
contains the pure unauthorized witch
hazel. If any other Witch Hazel Salve
is offered you it is counterfeit. f. G.
Dewitt invented Witch Hazel Salve
and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is the
best in the world for cuts, burns, bruises,
letter, or blind bleeding, itching and pro-
truding piles. Sold by r. b. Longwell. m
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
Order for Hearing Claims.

state of Michigan, County of Van Buren-ss.
Notice is hereby given, that by order of the
probate court for the county of Van Buren,, I1ade
on the oath day of September A. ID. l903 six months
from that date were allowed for creditors to present
their claims against the estate Of Charles q.
Newell, late OF said county, deceased, aud that all
creditors of said deceased are required to present
their claims 10 said probate court az the probate
once, IN the village of Paw Paw, for examination
and allowance, on or before the 4th day OF April A.
ID. 1904 and that such claims will be heard before
said court on Monday the 4th day of January, A. ID.
l9O4 and on Monday, the 4th day of April A. d. 1904
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon of each OF those DAYS.
Dated, September Gath, A. ID. 1908.
lltool5 JAMES H. JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16

DEACON WHITE sPRANG OVER THE LOG
AND PITCHED INTO HIS OLD FRIEND.
at night will be ready to affirm that
they lead everywhere in general and
nowhere in particular. This trail was
no exception. Even when Deacon Has
tings had followed it out of the mead
ow and into the sugar bush and over
or the lands of Deacon White and into
hollow log he was not sure that he
had got his victim in a hole. He was
wondering about ii when Deacon
White arrived. He was also following
rabbits trail and had been for an
hour. 1t was q trail which started at
his kitchen door and went seven times
around his barn before ii headed for
the woods. The two rabbits had made
for the same log, and thus the two
deacons had come together. There
was no trouble in arriving at an am
icable understanding. There were two
deacons and two rabbits. One rabbit
would be enough for either. Each one
carefully advanced and stopped UP an
end of the log. and then they took tyrns
at welding the ak.
TO chop. and he was making the chips
fly when the blade OF the ak went
through the solid wood and struck
something that made a grating sound.
He delivered three or four more blows,
and the hollow of the log was opened
to daylight, and the two rabbits jump
ed out and fled like shadows. Neither
deacon looked after them. Their four
eyes bulged out at sight of an earthen
Jar lying on its side in the hollow. The
AK had cracked ii, ana silver halves
and dollars were pouring out.
by gum!' gasped Deacon White as
he struck his hands together.
by gum gasped Deacon Hastings
as he stuck the AK in the log and reach
ed for the jar.
1t had been full OF silver coins.
There was q hatful apiece and some
left over 1t was found" money.
They knew by the rust on the coins
that they had reposed in the log for
years and years, and it could be figured
that the owner would never turn up.
The proper way would have been for
each deacon to fill up his hat and trou-
sers pocket and march home in tri-
umph. But, alas, human nature Is not
made that way Before Deacon Has
tings could get a second coin between
his fingers Deacon White cried out:
stop, sir-stop where you are! |
will count my own money, if you
please"
Your money! exclaimed Deacon
Hastings. why. we are going to
share and share alike, amt we, though
/ do hold I've got the best right to all
of It? / tracked a rabbit right to this
log"
80 did l."
And I was chopping when the ak
struck the jar"
This is my land. What is found on
my land / keep, and that's always
been the law"
"I'll be burned if IL has! Half OF
this money comes to me. Deacon
White, I'm surprised to see you play
ing the hog in this way"
'I'll give you a dollar and no more
You tracked a rabbit here, but that's
not worth over dollar. Lots Of folks
would track 'em for nothing"
81 say I'll have half"
81 say you shan't."
The two deacons glared at each other
across the log. while the rabbits got
together mile away and wondered
what was up.
Then Deacon White said: eve got a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16
Sea Spectacles.

The new MICROSCOPE invented by
Signor Pinos, an Italian, 1t Is said,
enables human eyesight to penetrate
the sea to an incredible depth and
for an enormous radius.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-10-16

Dyspepsia bane OF human existence.
Burdock Blood Bitters cures it promptly
permanently. Regulates and tones the
stomach.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-01-10
High Treason in England.

Col. Arthur Lynch, member Of the
British parliament for Galway, who
has been indicted for high treason by
a special grand jury Of Middlesex, will
be called on to plead to the indictment
early this month. The charge against
him is that he actively assisted the
sovereign's enemies, and is based on
the alleged fact that he commanded
the "Irish Brigade" in the army Of
the South African republic during the
recent war. Col. Lynch was arrested,
on June II, when he landed in Eng
land, on his way to take the seat in
parliment to which the voters of Gal
way had chosen him; and he has been
in prison ever since.
In receiving the bill of indictment
from the grand jury, Lord Chief JUS
tice Alverstonc remarked that it was
sixty.two years since grand jury had
had to consider charge of high trea-
son, which was the highest crime
known to British law. He referred to
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-01-10
Courtesy Of Minneapolis Tribune.

the Indictment Of John Frost. a mngis-
tlMtc of MOnmoutllshirc, Wales, who
in November, 1880 "lcvcd war"
against Queen Victoria during the
ChartiSt excitement.
Frost and his son, ut the head of
nearly 10000 Chartists, entered the
town of Ncwllart, Monmouthshirc, on
Nov. i, 1899. ana refused to dispcrsc
when ordered to do so by the mayor.
They brokc the windows of the hotel
where the magistrates had gathered,
and fired upon the officials, wounding
several. a small detachment of SOL
dicrs, thirty in all, fired upon the mob,
which fled leaving twenty dead and
many wounded. Mr.. Frost ana other
! leading Chartists were arrested the
next day, and on trial. were convicted
and sentenced to death. The punish
ment under the law was the Infamous
, and barbarons one of the Middle
Ages: they were condemned to ne
| changed, drawn and quartcrcd" or, as
the sentence reads, "tO he drawn on
/ hurdle to the place of execution, ana
there to be hanged by the neck, but
not until you be dead; and then being
vet alive to be let down. ana yOul
bowels being taken out before your
eyes, and your head to he struck of
and your body cut into four pieces
which were, with the head, at the dis
pOsal of the Crown.
The sentence was not carried out III
the case of Mr.. Frost, for an act OF
George Tvs time gave to the sovereign
the power to mitigate the punishment
The convicts under this law were
sentenced to transportation for life
and sent to Australia, where they
lived until 1856. An act OF amnesty
was granted to them i'm that year, an(
along with William Smith O'BricI
and others they returned to England
Mr.. Frost died in 1877, in the ninety
| seventh year of his age. This was tho
last trial for high treason in Eng
land.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-01-10

half a thousand years old because he
would not give surety for future good
behavior.
Some misunderstanding appears to
concerning drunkenness in Ireland. l
said that in Ballaglladarccn there
were eighty-tivc licensed publicS,
which is true, nearly every shop in the
place selling spirits, but of course, the
customers come from the surrounding
country as well as from the village
itself, with it's 1900 inhabitants. l
said the drunkenness in such Villages
as Ballaghadareen, especially on mar
Eet days, was almost as bad as in
London or Liverpool, and that many
intoxicated men and women We're to
be seen on the roads at nightfall.
Someone has tried to construe this
into statement that there is almost
as much drinking among women in
Ireland as in English citics-a con-
struction wholly unwarranted. There
is drinking by women in Ireland. but
vastly less than in England. and be-
lieve less than in the cities Of America.
For virtue and sobriety Irish women
are greatly famed the world over, but
it is absurd to pretend that no Irish
women drink, and that drunken wo-
man is never to be seen on the village
streets or country roads.
In concluding this series of letters
upon Ireland and the Irish question
wish to make acknowledgment Of the
courtesy and consideration with which
l was everywhere received while pur.
suing my investigations. Ireland is a
country in which it is a pleasure to
travel and many Americans who
spend their time and money upon the
continent would do we'll to visit tho
green isle and make the acquaintance
of it's beautiful scenery and it's polite,
warm-hcartcd. hospitable people. Es'
pccally will it be worth while to visit
Ireland ten or twenty years hence,
then to find. l hope and believe, a
wonderful improvement in the social
economic and political condition Of the
inhabitants, due to the bclatcd but
beneficent introduction Of Il sound sys
TEN of land ownership and Of self-gov'
|
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-01-10

In his New Year sermon at the
Baltimore Cathedral, Cardinal Gibbons
spoke as follows of the Irish: "You
will all, am sure, agree with me that
no country has contributed more eff
fcicntly to the establishment and
growth of the Catholic religion among
us than faithful Ireland. Whatever
may have been the unhappy conditions
that led to the expatriation of so
many of Ireland's sons and daughters
from their native land, Almighty God
has made their exile subservient to
higher and holier purposes. can
safely assert that there is scarcely n
city or town throughout the United
States where the Catholic religion has
not been preached and sustained by
priests and laymen Of Irish birth or
extraction. Ireland has certainly been
the apostle of nations"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-01-10

Says the New York Freeman's Jour-
nal: "During the decade between 1880
and 1900 twenty-five million of British
subjects in India died of want of food
and disease consequent therefrom, n
fact which needs no emphasis rs n
commentary on Anglo-Saxon civilian
ton"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-01-10

Scotland and England, for relief.
Scotland has already had her demands
granted in an arrangement which per-
mits a certain class of local legislative
measures to be disposed of at Edin-
burgh without the need of going to
London at all.
Sir Anthony MacDonnell told me at
Dublin that the difficulties in the way
of securing passage Of private bills at
Westminster were almost insuperable.
Agents and solicitors must go to Lon
don and get leave to introduce the
bill. Red tape has to he unwound by
reels and gross at every stage of the
proceeding. After the bill is intro
duced and referred to a committee the
evidence must be produced. This
means taking over to London and
maintaining there for weeks or
months all the witnesses and persons
of interest. If bill fails at one ses-
sion-as it usually does-all this work
novo. Sir Antony said he knew of
cases in which corporations had thus
had to go to parliament twenty times
before getting their measures through,
expending fortune in the pursuit of
this legislative will-o'thc-wisp. "It
is ridiculous system" said the under
| c1, 10 ;O1
parliament bother with bills about
light, railways or drainage district,
or bridge over a river, or any purely
local affair in Ireland?'
The answer is obvious; and it is
equally obvious that the Irish people
are right in demanding that their legis-
lative and administrative machinery
be set up as far away as possible from
the seat of English traditions, infiu-
ence and authority.
1t seems to the writer that full
measure of home rule, or local self
government is the logical and inevi-
table outcome of universal suffrage
and agrarian settlement. That it can
be safely granted there is no serious
question. With landlordism eradcat-
ed Ireland will become more prosper
Gus, more content, more loyal, more
composed, and vastly more conserva-
tive. Political activity she will have,
but it will be the wholesome, sane ac-
tivity of people at last permitted to
work out their future under sound and
normal conditions. The Ireland of the
future is much more likely to be too
tory than too radical. If the Industrial
millions of the great cities Of England
and Scotland show too much tendency
toward socialism, wholesome Offset
therefor may be found among the
small, thrifty farmers Of Ireland.
In an earlier letter l said all the
men now in Jail in Ireland as q result
of government prosecutions were there
because they had been tried by jury
and found guilty of conspiracy or in.
citement of others to breach Of the
law. That was slip Of the pen, and
should have read "most Of the men,
not all. In subsequent letter I cor
rected this slight misstatement by
showing how a number Of nationalist
leaders had been committed to Jail by
so.called removable magistrates y
and how William Redmond, NJ. p, had
been sent to Kilmainham for six
months without trial under statute
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-28
WARD AND WARE WON.
They VIII Play Collins and waidner,
Western Champions.

BOSTON, July IA big crowd gathered
at the tennis courts Of the Longwood Crick-
ct Club TO witness the concluding contests
IN the tournament which started on its Sec
ond week to-day Larned was pitted
against George Wrenn in the semi-final
round, and, although the latter took the
third set. he finally proved TO be no match
Tor Champion Larned After the intermis-
sion Wrenn succumbed i'm the concluding
set. o.. Neither man played a fast game
The result:
armed beat Wren, 6-4 6-3 60; Ward
b. at Wright, o.. o.. g..
These two wins in the semi-finals bring
Ward and Larned together tomorrow in
the finals The challenge match with
Ciothier will be played on Wednesday.
This morning Ward and Ware won the
Eastern doubles championship This makes
Ward and Ware the Eastern champions
and they will meet Collins and Waidner
the Western champions. at Newport on
Aug Is The winner of this contest will
be called on TO meet the Doherty brothers
at Newport for the national championship
In the finals this morning Ward and Ware
had an easy time with Holt and Merrill
who had won their way into the finals
through an easy field, and went down be-
fore the Eastern champions. rs, o. 81
In the handicap singles Watson (scratch)
beat Bishop (3-6 OF 15). Sc, 6-4 Doherty
played a set with Clothier, winning Pile
0a.ioney and Bob Wrenn broke even. each
WANING one set.