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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

DIR. JAMES b. BRADLEY made
his first visit to Van Buren,
county last Wednesday. The
people were all glad to meet the
genial doctor and all expressed
regret that he could not remain
longer here and meet every
voter in the county. During his
short stay he met many people
and made friends on all sides.
The third term proposition is
not popular in Van Buren, county
and it is safe to say that DR..
Bradley will poll big vote for
Governor on primary day Sep.
tember 1.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

The Detroit Journal is author.
ity reinstatement that Malcomn
j. Mcleod present State Labor
Commissioners has been appoint.
ed collector of intern al revenue
at Detroit to take the place of
David Meginnity resigned. Mr..
McLeod's appointment will meet
the approval of his many Mich.
gan friends. Dick Fletcher of
Bay City is prominetly mentioned
Mr. McLeod's successor as State
Labor Commissioner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
The Idle Chickens.

Little Margie on her first visit to a
farm was told to wander about the
barn and search for eggs. Some time
later the child returned almost in
tears.
Couldn't you find any eggs, dearie?"
asked her mother.
NO" replied Margie, YEARLY. q
think it's mean, too, cause lots of
hens were standing around doing
nothing. Equipments.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

The Masonic Fraternities of
Allegan county held a picnic at
Cook park last Monday. Why
wouldn't it be fine idea for the
Masonic bodies of Van Buren,
county to plan for a big picnic
at Maple Lake?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

ONLY a short time now to make
up your mind.

THE Council have taken steps
to secure large consignments of
fish for Maple Lake. A local
sportsmen' club would be the
right thing now.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
Brains on the Farm.

Agriculture is everywhere being
recognized as the coming industry"
The old notion that the man who
works with his intellect more than
with his muscle is not a real farmer,
but only an imitation, is fast be-
coming relegated to the background
Business Mans Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
Thought TO be Insane.

Ellis Wheeler, colored man of Deca-
tur, wandered from his home and was
picked up by the Allegan officers at
Pullman last week. IL was thought
that he was insane and Under sheriff Sir
rine brought him to Paw Paw last Fri
day. He was locked up on writ of
detention issued out OF the probate
court, and will be kept until his sanity
can be determined.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

The last Saturday in August
is enrolment day. Republicans
who are not enrolled can do so
on that day. You cannot vote
on Primary day September /, un-
less enrolled under the primary
law.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Under this head will appear from time TO time
such communications from our friends and pat
rons may seem to be Of public interest. The
Norherner expresses no opinion in this column
and neither approves nor disapproves of the mat
tiers that appear therein,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING RATES
Display advertising, rates furnished appli-
cation.
Classified advertising, three lines or less, 25
cents. All over that number, cents per line
extra.
Gard OF thanks rs cents each.
Obituary, poetry and resolutions, cents .
line.
Notices OF births, deaths or marriages will be
printed free as news matter
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

The political pot in Van Buren,
county begins to boil.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
sihle.

One cannot talk constantly without
,aying foolish things.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24

Coco Results Of Irrigation.
Irrigation is charging tAs GASES OF
the Sahara desert.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
Friday, August IA

PICNIC DAY IN SCHOOL HOUSE SOUARE>>County
History by F. G. HUDSON Address by Vim. L.
Fitzgerald of Kalamazoo. Hon. O. N. Hilton of
Denver, Colorado has been invited to be present on
that day. Young Peoples Dance in the evening.
County Officers Banquet in the evening
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
Thursday, August Is

MERCHANTS DAY>>>Ba Game at New Athletic Park
in afternoon. Fellowship entertainment at Opera
House in the evening.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-07-24
Sunday, August 16
Monday, August II

AND EVENING Thayers Riverside
Basket Supper. Old Fashioned School entertain
ment in the evening; program in charge of c. W.
Reynolds, M. J. Coy and Dollie Ollie Conner
Music in charge of Jerome Warner and J. w. Free.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
CUTTING STEEL.
With oxyhydrogen and With Pure
Oxygen.

The process OF cutting metals by a
stream OF oxygen, patented by the
German OXhydrc Company, has
been employed with success in numer.
Gus establishments for several years.
The operation Is performed by means
of a blowpipe with two nozzles, of
which the first delivers an ignited
Jet Of nike oxygen and hydrogen,
and the secons a stream OF pure oxy-
gen. The pressure is regulated by a
gauge attached to the oxygen tank
The oXyhydrogen flame and the
stream OF oxygen strike the same part
of metal, which after being heated by
the flame, Is rapidly cut, or rather
burned through by the oxygen. the
temperature ~eing raised to 1900 tC
400 deg. +. by the combustion OF
the metal. The cut is as smooth as
sheared cut and requires little OF
no finishing, The chemical compo
sition and physical properties of the
material are hot affected beyond {
distance of hoo inch from the cut
| The precision of the cut varies from
| les inch in plates less than two
inches thick 20 l.6 inch in the thick
est objects, and the width of the GU
varies from Y to Is of the thickness
Armor plates can be cut in one-twen
tieth of the time required for mechani
cal cutting, and the sharply local
lied heating probably causes les
strain than punching and shearinl
develop. II oxygen costs cents ant
hydrogen two-thirds of a cent pc
cubic foot, the cost of cutting an irol
plate AS inch thick Is about ~
cents per running foot-about hal
the cost OF mechanical cutting.
The advantages of the process ar
we'll illustrated by the following e'
amples, taken from actual practice
In the dust catcher OF blast furnace
made of k-inch plates, seven eper
ings for branch pipes, each 8 fee
In diameter, and four holes over
feet In diameter. were cut by ~
men in six hours ct . total cost. 10
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18

labor. gas, etc., OF $3.50. II would
have taken two men ct least two
days to cut one Of the large holes
with hammer and chisel.
A brace plate for locomotive base
was cut out Of a steel plate 3.5 inch
thick in one hour. The aggregate
length of cutting was 20 feet.
A sinkhead inches thick and Is
inches long was removed from steel
casting in 4 minutes with 40 cents
worth Of gas. A sinkhead IN inches
thick and 10 inches long was cut from
the fange of a valve case in three
minutes. Three runners about 2
inches thick and with an aggregate
length of 30 inches, were cut neatly
from the fanges of another valve case
in eleven minutes, at a cost OF 81
cents. The removal Of runners and
sinkheads with planning and shaping
machines is a very difiicult, tedious
and expensive operation; and after
1t is completed It is necessary to
send the castings back from the ma.
chine shop to the foundry to be an
nealed. The oxhydric process is ap.
piled In the foundry to castings from
the mould. which are annealed before
they go to the machine shop for fin
ishing.
The dome Of blast furnace was re.
moved by cutting 1t into four parts
with the oxhydric apparatus. The
actual cutting was done in seventy
minutes, and the furnace, with Its
new dome, resumed operations two
days sooner than would have been
possible with the methods usually
employed. An old cruiser, containing
14.inch armor and guns feet in ex.
ternal diameter, was reduced to scrap
ready for the furnace in two and a
half months. The old method would
have required eighteen months.
In cutting up scrap precision Is
not required. and consequently very
rapid progress can be made. Four
tons Of scrap can be cut up in a day
by apparatus controlled by one man
With the oxhydric process the work
can be done at any place, thus saw
ing transportation chaDes, and fas
more cheaply than by the old meth
DDS. The process has already been
adopted, for cutting scrap. by nearly
300 railroad machine shops, shipyards
and other establishments.--Scientiflt
American,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
Driven out BY . Ghost.

NJ, Constans, who has been for
many years the Ambassador OF France
at Constantinople, has asked Tor MS
recall.
1t Is no secret Mt the Foreign or
Ace that NJ. Constans Is being driv'
en- out OF Turkey by ghost. The
Red Palace, where he passes the
summer, Is haunted. Some time ago
certain Prince Ypsolanti hanged
himself there. Since then the palace
has been uninhabitable. The nights
are filed with sinister noises. with
bowling and wailing. =.
NJ. Constans, who Is large, old
man OF great weight. declares he has
been shaken out of his bed by un'
seen hands. lie adds that upon one
occasion the bed was tilted up almost
to perpendicular. The ambassa'
dress herself has not escaped. once
It Is asserted, she was thrown from
the top to the bottom Of the stair
| case.
Another time she was attacked IN
| the gardens of the palace by some
thing dark and goatish; 1t butted
her over and caused serious injury
There was neither goat nor ram IN
| the garden, and NJ, Constans con
siders the attack incxplicable.
! At the embassy in Constantinoplf
things are no better. Four OF the
attendants have died mysteriously In
the last month or so-the dragoman
the butler, a porter named Rigo, anc
also the man chosen to replace him
a FrenGhman named Pierre.
The ambassador declares that he II
not superstitious, but he has ha'
enough OF Turkey, 'and especially o
the kind of ghost they have In tina
part Of the world,-Paris Gable Il
New York American.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
. Samuel Dc ChampIa,n.

.0dUVueI " SVuWpIdvUs
- the burning log
He smet the breath Of pines that
blackly loom
On flaming compact OF the sunset
clouds.
Piline the mountains, where white
winter shrouds
Dumb waters In q solitary gloom.
So dreamed he, and with spring his
fantasy
Was winged to see the unfettered
land rejoice,
Reused as a giant; to hear tho
myriad voice.
A noise of waters hurrying to the
sea,
The snow.fed torrents heavy plung
ing spray,
The duller rumble where the ice
grew worn.
The swift continuous dropping all the
day.
The gurgle of the tundras. Many
morn
He heard the crash Of hurting stalac.
tite
shivering to atoms; in the sharp sun.
light
The first wild geese came honking
up the vale.
Again the Red Man called him, and
the trail.
Threading the labyrinthine forest
| through
10 the sudden lake. He saw through
| city bars
elow-dipping paddles OF the birch
Spill silver on the silver shining
| stars
Reflected oversize. Still called the
wind.
Luring his further. further yet
again,
10 pierce the serried ranges or to
The mystery OF the illimitable plain
Beneath the chestnut avenues at
There came vision Of white cold
moon
Above dark and frowning cliff
Thrice called
He came. rs built his fort, his pail
SADIE.
Between the waters and that dark
cliff. walled.
: And sowed a nation where his bones
Fl are laid.
w. p. Osborne. in Montreal univer
sity Magazine.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
hAlOs IN REAL LIFE.
French Scientist Discovers Luminous
Rays Over Patients Heads.

U0y0 Ov0V VONISUbD bVS0VOs
As a sequel to the recent discovery
Of M. Dumas, an eminent French sa'
want, that the "odor Of sanctity" Is
a scientific fact, DR.. Fere OF the
Bicetre Hospital has Just published o
treatise in which he proves that the
halo ordinarily attributed to saints
actually exists In nature. He tends
to prove that the circle Of light which
artists old and modern always repre-
scented about the heads Of sacred per.
sonages was not mere matter Of i'm.
agination, but that It really was there.
and In certain circumstances could
even have been photographed. He
carefully points out. however. that
the halo 10 rather indicative Of Ger.
tain pathological conditions than OF
extraordinary morality.
DR.. Fere. after long and careful In
vestigation, discovered that cases
were not rare In which halos appear
ed about the heads Of his patients.
He cites the case OF q neurasthenic,
who, during a severe attack Of brain
fever, protected from his scalp lumin'
Gus rays some 10 inches In length.
The nimbus was SO clearly marked
that the physician himself and the
trained nurse easily distinguished 1t.
Another patient. prey to an over
whelming emotion, suddenly had not
only his head but his hands susround'
ed by>a peculiar orange light. The
| doctor points out that this Is very
similar to some OF the golden halos
that old masters put about the heads
OF their sanity subjects.-Paris Cor
respondence The New York Times.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
Mad Dogs.

"This Is the time Of year when the
old fallacy connecting hot days and
mad dogs begins to show new signs
of life," said a physician. "As mat
ter OF fact, hydroprobia has no more
to do with the temperature than 1t
has with the climate OF Hawaii. lily.
drophobia Is a germ disease and the
germ Is Just as active In January as 1t
Is in July. Dogs go mad" In the win.
ter Just as frequently as they do On
the summer, all popular superstition
to the contrary Notwithstanding. Dog
days" in the latter part OF summer.
have nothing to do with hydrophobia
but are SO called because that Is the
season when Sirius, the dog star.
rises in conjunction with the sun.
"The germ OF hydrophobia attacks
the throat OF the animal, irritating the
glands and finally closing the passage.
Hydrophobia means, literally, afraid
of water and 1t Is commonly suppos'
ed that mad dog breads the touch
and sight OF 1t. The contrary Is true.
The animal Graves water and will run
any distance after 1t, but an attempt
to swallow increases its agony and
often results in death. This Is the
only connection between water and
dog madness. OF course hydrophobia
Is q real and dangerous disease. and
the greatest care should be taken to
avoid an animal apparently afflicted;
but many useful and valuable dogs are
needlessly killed every year by panic,
stricken people. Take on chances, but
don't kill your dog just because he
Is hot and dusty and his tongue IL
hanging out. "-Birmingham News.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
Habits of Americans.

every tourist from our country
who comes here" says a writer In the
Fremdenblatt, tells what the Ameri'
cans wear, what they read, what they
eat and how they do business, but
they give little information as to- what
the Americans drink. In the four
weeks of my sojourn here ! have dis
covered that the American, he who
can lay claim to the title by virtue
of a three OF generation resi-
dence In the country, Is temperate
and drinks much water and compare
lively little alcohol. Much OF the
water Is made bad by the liberal use
of Ice. In the great restaurants where
the fashionable world assemblies It
Is not unusual to see tables whore
there ID no wine Of any kind"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
THE GOD
BILLIKIN
How . Chicago Idol
Came To Be
Born.

Some day you will see a queer idol
grinning at you from the top OF an
once desk or from some altar In
your friends den, or from the win.
dow OF the arts and crafts shop.
You may or may not see his crea.
tor, Miss Florence Pretz, q young
Chicago artist, but her history Is tied
up with that OF the god Billikin In
q way that proves his claim to being
q mascot. And, what Is stranger,
whenever the friends OF Miss Pretz
look at him and then look at her
they declare that there Is hint OF
family resemblance In the smile, and
they wonder II there is not some
strange. faraway kinship between
them. in spirit at least.
"He Is the god OF things as they
ought to be-" said Miss Pretz, as she
set him up for her best girl friend
10 look at after moulding him out OF
clay and getting him cast in plaster.
There. smile for the lady, Billy"
Then the two friends began burning
incense before him and worshipping
htm, and It was not long before he
began to prove his credentials as
mascot by bringing them good luck.
First the friend came 10 Chicago
a. a stenographer, bringing a plaster
edition OF Billy with her and setting
him up In her own little bachelor girl
nat. The next thing she knews her
small book OF poems, which she had
been writing and dreaming in girl
fashion, found a publisher-you may
know tit is called the Book OF the
Singing Winds" Then, seeing her
own good luck, she had courage to
take the copy OF her friends little
god Billikln forth to publishers, ar.
lists and other formidable people
anybody who would launch him in
Chicago.
With the god she took some Japa'
nese sketches that her friend had
made-but here the story must jump
back to the queer ideas which made
Miss Florence Pretz think Billy in
the first place-ideas from which
some of her friends who believe In
reincarnation declare that she must
have had an existence in an age and
country corresponding more nearly
with the style of the god and other
queer things that she does.
To spend your school days dream
ing OF things Japanese and have your
pencil run away with you, making
queer little sketches of anything
and everything Oriental, all the
way from idols down TO funny
little laps, might in itself be @
bit uncanny in a schoolgirl who
looked so much like little Jap her
: self that she only needed to do III
her own black hair in Japanese fash
ion and slip on kimono to imperson
ate the howery maidens TO perfec
4 ton.
you surely must have Jap o.
some strange Oriental man for al
ancestor back somewhere, Florence
Pretz," said her little Kansas Cit!
school friends.
And the little girl would run hom'
and as her mother, How ] got jar
anese blood, mammal"
mo, dear. indeed YOU have not
you are pure Holland Dutch on boil
sides, and way back as far as yo'
want to CO."
The little schoolgirl would go bacl
satisfied. and the first thing she knew
she would again be doing Japanes
drawing in study time as well a
drawing Cine.
Then along came new supervise
with a new system to introduce 4
ne Kansas City schools In which tn
Japahass principles were more a. les
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18

The statistics Of violent deaths IN
the State Of New York. kept at Al
bany, show that in 1907 there were
9,625 violent deaths, of which 1,207
we're suicides. OF this number, the
New York Board of Health oflcials
think small percentage were Of
young children-that Is, between ten
and fifteen years.--New York World.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18

Brigadier-General Barry, command.
ing the Army of Cuban Paciflcation.
has been granted leave OF absence for
one month, with permission to visit
the United States.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18

The number of ties purchased by the
steam and electric roads of this coun.
try during the year 1906 was 102,S3t,.
040. The demand of the steam roads
amounted to Is per cent. of the total.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18

An interesting product shipped 70
gently from we'll known New En-.
land plant was a three-ply leather
belt. t41 feet long and ssventy-two
jpches wide.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18

A 13-year-old negro girl won the
spelling championship of the United
States. Mr.. Joe Cans is the champion
lightweight fighter of the world. Book.
er r. Washington is undoubtedly the
most successful uplifter going Let us
however, proudly herald the fact tina,
the one-armed man who recently swan
the Niagara rapids was white.
~e~
A tramp recently prevented wrecl
on New England railroad and ex
planned that he did 1t Ms a mark of hi
gratitude for many free rides. Still
| 1t is not likely that there will be an!
attempt to make the bumpers NOR,
comfortable than they have been in til,
past.
~HA
King Edward has begun to punish
members Of parliament who do no
vote to suit him. 1t may be that dur
ing his recent conference with thu
Car Edward got few pointers OF
constitutions and how to fool will
them.
~e>
If the man who says that he own
Chicago will let It grow few NOR
years II will become valuable propert!
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-12-19
SURPRISED THE POSTWAR.
Expected a Christmas Present Which
He Didn't Get.

1t was the day after Christmas, and
the hardworking postman ploughed
his way through snow and cold winds,
a sack of unusual size on his back.
He assembled the spacious steps of a
West-end residence, and in answer to
his ring manservant in rich livery
appeared.
wait a moment. please" said the
servant, as he took the letters. 1.-THE
mistress wishes to speak to you"
The postman's eye frightened. 1t
was the holiday season. He had done
his duty with fidelity. Now, no doubt,
in recognition of his regular and faith
full
Il shall be glad" he said politely,
ito await your mistress pleasure"
In few minutes the lady appeared.
Are you,' she asked, "our regular
postman?"
Yes. madam" he answered, bow
ing.
DO you come in the morning?"
Yes. madam"
"And in the afternoon and evening? 2"
Again he assented, smiling eagerly.
Then the lady said
"Well. was it you who broke our
bell?"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-12-19
Under the MlstIetoe.

Young Jones was coming down the stairs
A night not long ago.
And saw figure in the hall
Beneath the mistletoe.
He chuckled softly to himself.
And said. NOV, here's larll
Whoe'er 1t Is. TIL creep behind
And kiss her In the dark"
He did-but on her face the light
Fell suddenly aslant; 81
He looked, and to his horror saw
It was his maiden aunt!