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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
DUELING IS ANCIENT CUSTOM
Had Its Origin in the Judicial Combat
and Found Favor with
All Nations.

Dueling in the proper sense Of the
word was handed down from the early
Germans, Danes and Franks, all of
whom carried the practice of the
judicial combat to such an extreme
that only women, sick persons, Grip
pies and men more than so years old
were exempt from it. The judicial
combat was especially authorized by
Gundebald, king of the Burgundians,
as early at sol A. d.
Finally the practice of dueling was
carried into France, where it soon be-
came so common that it is estimated
that 5000 persons fell in mortal com
bat in the ten years of the reign of
Henry ".
Single combats are said to have
been introduced in England by the
Normans. During the period Of
chivalry in that country they were in
common practice, but in the strict in
depreciation of the word they could
not be called duels In the literal
sense of the word, the duel was intro
duced in England about the time that
the practice became prevalent in
France.
Dueling began in this country in
the early days Of its settlement. In
fact, the code of honor was brought
to the new world by the first settlers.
The first encounter of this kind took
place at Plymouth, Mass, in 1921, two
of the settlers deciding a question of
honor with the heavy swords that
were carried in those days.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
Wild Flowers in the South

one morning you drive through the
woods and see nothing but the usual
green of winter; two days after on
the same road you behold afar what
seems to be a huge white sheet show
Ing through the tree trunks and
bushes. 1t is not a sheet. merely
solid curtain of Cherokee roses. waxy
white, fragrant and blooming so
thickly that only here and there ia
any green to be seen.
A big dead tree that has been show
Ing gray and hideous for months turns
over night into an enormous purple
bouquet; 1t is the work of a wistaria.
sending down showers of lavender
sweetness with every puff of wind.
Sweet olive, bridal wreath, wild las
samine and so others rush into a
prodigality of bloom that seems a
wicked. delightful extravaganza to
northern eyes. and the noble army of
lilies marches up the side of each
path and waves its banners beneath
every wall.-Pass Christian CORE
spondence St Louis Globe Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
Broader for YOUNG Chicks.

The colony style of brooder, fitted
with a portable hover, is far the best
for young chicks. II can be made out
of a piano box by anyone who can
WELD hammer and saw, or can be
built from the ground. This style of
brooder provides the greatest amount
of floor space. and will accommodate
100 chickens where but so are enough
for the commercial brooders. When
the chickens no longer need heat the
hover can be removed and the brood.
er used for a colony house where it
Is, or drawn out on the field or placed
anywhere desired. 1t thus serves a
double purpose.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09

and tricks of fitting fowls for the
show, and they have so many ways of
doctoring up what an amateur would
believe to be an irreparable defect
that the latter finds it difficult to win
even a highly-commended at a show
of moderate size. An amateur
breeder has to keep everlastingly
showing and seeking information, and
then he is likely to get caught in the
gate. If his stock is high quality
and simply unplaced because it is i'm
properly fitted or conditioned he may
some time learn how to place his
goods on dress parade.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
HIGH-CLASS CHICKENS PAY.
Poultry Business Grown to Such an
Extent That Amateur Must Keep
Busy TO Make Showing.

High-class fowls in perfect show
condition are necessary for capturing
the blue at any of our modern poultry
shows. The standardized business
has grown to such a large and i'm
portant industry that the competition
in the more popular classes is keen
and interesting in all the others. The
older members of the poultry frater-
nifty have learned so many secrets
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
Closed After Entering.

narrow piece of board is nailed
back of which the nest is made
To set the trap simply raise the Stats
inward from the bottom eight or nine
inches high All place a small stick
under one of the Stats AS the hen
enters the door is raised off the stick
which falls 10 the floor There should
be about fyr Stats for a box u or IA
inches in width Stats close against
inch strip at bottom.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
IN THE POULTRY YARD.

Impure water is a fruitful cause Of
disease.
The Indian Runner duck does not
fatten so readily as other varieties.
If we'll fed and cared for a Pekin
duck will nearly reach it's matured
weight at ten weeks of age.
Better poultry aud more profit may
mean smaller focks. Most farm focks
are too large.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
PAGAN Idea Of Death.

Death-a stopping of impressions
through the senses, and of the pull
ing of the cords of motion, and of the
ways of thought, and of service to the
flesh Marcus Aurelius.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
PLAN FOR SIMPLE TRAP NEST
One Can Be Made Cheaply Out OF
Common Box by Following Direc-
tions Herewith Given.

The accompanying plan of trap nest
is quite simple and can be made from
a box of suitable size, 1t should be
10 or ii inches square by 20 or "a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
HOUSE FOR HUNDRED HE'S.
Good Poultry Shed Can Be Construct
ed for $1oo-Plans by an Ex-
pert for Its Erection.

T. e. Orr, the poultry expert. says
good poultry house for 100 hens can
be built for 500. lie suggests that
1t should be AZ feet long. II feet
wide. Az feet high at the rear, ga
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
Need Of PLAY for Children.

Play is the great social stimulus,
and It is the prime motive which
unites children and draws them into
comradeship.-Jane Adams.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
Theft.

Whether we force the mans prop
erty from him by pinching his stom-
ach, or pinchiug his fingers, makes
some difference anatomically; morally,
none whatever-Ruskin
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
THROUGH Strife TO Hioher Thlnos.

The law of worthy life is fundamen-
tally the law of strife. 1t is only
through labor, painful effort, by grim
energy and resolute courage that we
move on to better things.-Roosevelt.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
PIANO AND ORGAN LESSONS.

N1Rs. CLAIRE c. HARRIsoN ON, TEACHER. r.
Ni ementary and advanced work. Studio ~ NJ
Kalamazoo street, Paw Paw II.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
BOARDING AND LODGING.

BOARDING AND LODGING Large rooms,
d bath hot and cold water, lawn and shade
trees,-eood table reasonable rates.
MRS. T.. !. MUIR,
1914 163 T.. Main st.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09

inches long The Stats should be
nailed TO a crosspiece about one
quarter the distance from the top. A
couple of nails are driven through the
box and into the crosspiece to swing
on. Half way back, on the inside,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
AUCTIONEER.

THIRTY years experience. Terms rea
1 sonable aud satisfaction guaranteed. kibbie
Phone for dates. .,.nr
IT. H. W. NSSADL'
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-07-09
LOST AND FOUND.

OST-Wnl party who picked up on the X. l..
l. s & c. train from the east last Friday evening,
a parcel containing towels, kindly return same TO
1of1 True Northerner Office, Paw Paw.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-09-10

T. A. Way anc S. K. Way left
Tuesday for Britt. la. !, to attend
the funeral of their father &C.
Way, who died at Dubuque, Ia,
Monday Of paralysis. Mr.. Way,
was we'll known to many residents
of Watertown, as he was resident
of this city in 1906 and 1907, He
leaves a wife, three sons and one.
daughter to mourn his loss.
Almost every city or town of any
Importance is having Its county
fair and races this year with the
exception of Watertown. Here we
have one of the best farming
counties in the state, oceans of
| fine bred cattle and horses, poul-
TRY, etc., good fair grounds, plen-
| ty Of fast horses, splendid reee
track but no ambish When
Twill Watertown awaken from It'll
lslumber and get busy on the coun,
lty fair proposition?
4 Every one who has seen a pail
lof our tension shears which we art
lgiving away free with the Satur,
day News, declare that they arr
1.-THE finest thing they have evel
s seen in the line Of shears and thai
4 they are we'll worth 81. 90. You'c
Ibetter hurry il you want a pair al
! we are going to quit giving then
slawap pretty soon. Come in ant
q pay your subscription and get /
Ipair now before you are too late
4 a dollar saved IL 4 dollar earned.
! Mrs. John Welter who resides
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-09-10

on one of the best and prettiest
farms in Codington county, located
about two miles and a half east Of
Watertown was in the city last
Saturday and called at the Satur-
day News office and renewed her
subscription to the Saturday News
and took home a pair of our ele-
giant premium shears. Mrs. We'll
ter says her husband has just sold
his two quarter sections of land
near Kranzburg and will hereafter
devote his whole time to the home
farm.
Huron is just now claiming a
population of S,009 as determined
by the new directory by the use
of the multiple of %. The Huron
lite figures this population and says
the multiple used is ID, but o. bit
of inspection of the figures shows
that the larger multiple is used.
Directory populations are some
times little too enthusiastic and
while we rejoice in the splendid
growth of Huron we would advise
the Huronite against too big
claims on the eve Of the taking of
the census. Argus Leader.
A new series of two cent stamps
will arrive in the city about Sept.
Gath, celebrating the discovery of
the Hudson river by Hendrick
Hudson three hundred years age -,
/ and also the introduction Of the
/ steam boat one handred years ago.
The new design shows the Pali-
sades on the Hudson river as a
background, with Hudson's boat
] the Half Moon and Fulton
steamboat the 'Clearmont' in the
foreground. Only one edition Of
the stamps will be issued and the
i number to be received here will
/ be limited.
DR.. Magee has purchased one Of
the Franklin automobiles from A.
4 M. Poulson. The doctor says that
E|he once rode over five thousand
miles in a Franklin car while re.
siding in Chicago and the only
stops the party made on account d
d the machine was to raise the hooe
]. and replenish the gasoline and cyl
y inder oil. While the Franklin i:
1, a high priced car it is admitted by
q those who know. that it will give
4 less trouble and outwear any three
4 cheap cars On the market. Mr..
Z Poulson is the exclusive agent fol
1.-THE Franklin car ia this part 81
1.-THE state and expects tosell q large
number Of cars next season. Wher
lit comes TO hign-grade car they
i all have to take off their hats to
1.-THE Frank in.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-09-10
LOCAL. ITEMS

Chester Ecker who has been one
of the valued employees Of the Sat-
urday News office for a couple Of
years has severed his connection.
with this paper and accepted a
similar position on the CastleWood
Republican. He is succeeded in
the Saturday News office by George
Klinge, one of Watertown's bright
young printers.
The memb ars Of Vesta Chapter
No. Il o. e.. S. who have been en-.
Toying three months vacation
will again resume their pleasures
and duties on Tuesday Sept. Id.
An interesting program has been
prepared and refreshments will be
4 served. All members are request
ed to be present. yisitors vel
come. Sect'y %. .. NJ
Dr.. E. 6. Fischer will ship his
trotting stallion Dug B I. to the
state Fair at Huron this week fol
exhibition purposes He will MOI
enter him ii the races there thu
season as he does not wish to Civ
him mark LIS y; sar s Dug b.
Is said to be goiij e consid erabl,
q faster this seasO han he eve
went IA his ifsst @fore
ne cure app dicitis without TIL
mil DIS school craft Osteo'
aEhs 1877
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-09-10
Mrs. Anna Hunter Passes Away.

AZ At the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
II. Gum, 511 7th st. n. e., last
Sunday morning occurred the
death of Mrs. Anna Hunter at the
age of 70 years. Mrs. Hunter
was Mrs. Gums mother. The
deceased lady has been a resident
Of this city since 1884. She leaves
one son, Robert, and several daugh-
ters. The funeral services were
held Tuesday from the residence at
1.3D, and from the Congregational
chnrch at 2 o'clock.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
MORE ABOUT SLNECNRES.

The editorial on "A Social Sec.
retary' in last issue has elected
several favorable comments from
readers. One gentleman in
Jackson said: 1T is the best
piece of sarcasm | have seen in a
long while" From the Atchafa-
laya one of our brightest woman
subscribers writes: Allow me
to offer most sincere praise to
the writer of the spicy editorial,
which shows the urgent need of
a Social Secretary now existing
in the Mansion second to none
in these United States :!
Commentator from Sir HUI
bert Stanley is praise indeed.
In more serious vein, the
Times Democrat comments edi.
tOrially on our and the ThibOdaux
COmmercial-JOurnal'S structures
on sinecureS, adding these force.
full words:
1T is some months before the
Louisiana Legislature meets, but.
to arouse public sentiment so as
to have any effect or influence on
that body these points must re.
Ceive serious consideration and
discussion in the meanwhile.
The chances are that the next
session of the General Assembly
will grind out a number of new
offices and new SineCures, unless
it receives a very firm and dis |
tinct warning from the people
not to do so. 1t took a long cam.
paign to arouse the voters to the
fact that the official system which
had grown up in Louisiana was a
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
MOVENENT' TO SECURE WMI
GRANTS.

For it's future prosperity West
Feliciana needs more than any
thing else:-peOple. More white
citizens. Divided mostly into
large plantations, portions of
which could not be had for love
or money, it was inevitable that
its population should be small.
And this sparseness of pOpula-
ton initiated against almost
every form of industry. This
has been evident enough these
many years, but the present
agricultural crisis has brought
the truth home to those who
have hitherto been most blind.
The big landowners now realize
that to secure results they must
have, not the happy-go,lucky Ia
Dor of the past, but intelligent
brain as we'll as Drawn. The
plan outlined on page one of this
issue shows the method by which
they propose to introduce here
intelligent and Industrious peO-
pie from the north and west.
Either by Offering land rent free
or at merely nominal rental with
privilege to purchase later, they
are adopting a liberal policy that
will not only be successful in
bringing good people into this
parish, but by settling up small
farms enhance the value of all
contiguous property.
The only suggestion that seems
pertinent to make is that the
best references should be requir.
ed as to the moral and industrial
standing of prospective immi,
grants. No one who looks as if
he had hookworm should be Civ.
en- the glad hand.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
THE INCIDENTAL WOMAN.

A scholarly editorial in the
Times.Democrat of Sunday last
bears the above title and reviews
certain late novels in which hus-
bands have been depicted as tir-
ing of their middle-aged wives.
The writer shows what has been
at fault in these conjugal rela-
tons to produce such painful re-
suits and comes to the conclusion
that other interests may come
into a mans life but she remains.
However, there is a long.es-
tablished misunderstanding be-
tween men and women on this
question. A woman in a modern
novel, referring to the typical
business. absorbed man, says,
Marriage doesn't mean much in
a mans life. He has his bust
ness or profession. He is mar
ried only part of each day. Had
the speaker but realized it,
these practical workers are mar.
ried every minute of their lives.
Underneath all they do or say or
strive for is the subconsciOus-
ness of the motive of their labOrs,
the wife, the child, the home.
They do not pirate about it; but it
is there, nevertheless. In Il true
marriage, and these are not so
infrequent as noyelists repre-
sent,-the wife is not an Incl
dent, but the other half of her
husbands being
To clinch the argument, the
writer might have shown that in
one of the novels reviewed, so
close was that relation between
man and wife, that the husband
sacrificed the woman he after
wards loved for the sake of the
woman he married and who bore
his name.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20

menace to their liberties and
good government; and it took
several elections and Legislative
sessions to abolish, in part, the
old centralized system and eX'
ceSsive gubernatOrial patronage.
This work, as we haye noted, al,
though auSpiciOusly begun, has
never been completed, and a
number of Louisiana papers see
a strong reactionary tendency to
undo much of the good work that
has been done. tn we'll for the
voters then to be warned, to keep
on with their campaign, to re-
duCe the number of offices, to
abolish all sinecures, and to re-
store to the voters the choice of
all their officials, instead of Civ
ing these positions to the Gov
ernOr to be filled by appointment,
and thereby helping to build up
a dangerous political machine
the evils of which we have so
fully recognized in the past"
1t can be truly said that the
last legislature undid all that
was previously done to reduce
the appointive offices of the
state. This legislature, it is
well understood, was dominated
by the Governor, hence the final
responsibility rests upon the lat
ter, as well as for the creation
without warrant of law of such
SinecureS as a social secretary.
If the people are satisfied with
all this no more need be said for
the present, but if they still
have the old fashioned notion
that legislators should put their
ear to the ground to hear what
they, The People, have to say
rather than to bow in Obeisance
to the extending of a guherna-
torial sceptre, then the time is
ripe to instruct Legislators that
the pruning knife must come in.
to play in 1910 to lop off these
offices, so many of
which are wholly sinecureS.
Mass meetings should take
place in every parish to outline
what is desired in the way of
legislation and to indicate in no
voice!what will not be
tolerated.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
Wait for our Big December Sale
M. & E. WOLF.

High school teachers and pu.
pills! The very thing for your
notes and letters are the tablets
at Mumford's with each sheet
headed julius Freyhan High
School. They are cheap and
pretty, good paper and are manu-.
featured at home. They mark
The True Democrats debut into
that class of work. Buy one and
help home industry. Then you'll
buy another, because they are
good.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
REPUTATION BAD BUSINESS
POLICY.

a very serious situation tinan,
cially cOnfrOnts the State OF
Louisiana. The bonded debt,
which falls due in 1914, and
which, with fatuOus optimism
Mr.. Sanders when a candidate
promised, if elected, to retire on
maturity, it is now apparent will
have to be met by the issue of
new bonds. In expectation of
this, the banks and brokers
sound the warning that it will be
difficult, if not impossible to float
these bonds in view of the uncer-
tain status now affecting the
Baby Bonds,' which in turn af,
feet LOuiSiana's reputation for
reliability. The fear is that
Louisiana may repudiate these
bonds, and that if she should,
may with equally as easy a con.
science repudiate future bond is
sues.
Concerning the baby bonds,
issued during State Treasurer
Burke's regime, opinion is divid-
ed. The politicians are notably
silent, but many men, like Judge
Moore, think that Louisiana is
under moral, if not a legal OBJ
legation to pay them. Without
going into the history of these
bonds, which is complicated
enough, it is evident that some
legal obligation attaches siAce
the State Auditor has regularly
included them in his formal re.
port of fiscal conditions.
But apart from all legal and
moral obligations to recognize
these bonds, it is evident that as
a matter of good business policy
it is imperative that the bonds
should receive recognition. The
future, as well as the present, |
credit of the state is involved, |
and whether or no the debt is
just, 1t must be met. No state
can afford reputation of it's OBJ.
legations, certainly not, when on
the eve of proposal for new in
debtedneSs. This is plain bust
ness logic that must influence
the Legislature when the ques-
ton of deciding upon the status
of the baby bonds comes before
that body at the next session.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
THAT TENSAS BOARD,

Governor Sanders is standing
by the action of Lieutenant Gov
ernOr Lambremont in institutine
sultfOr the recovery of the Ten
saS levee lands, which were prac.
tically given away by a former
levee board, and for this he must
receive approval. And this, de.
spite his appointment of a mem.
Der on the present board to
break the deadlock" it is said.
but who broke the said dead.
lock in a way which was sup
pOSedly contrary to the Cover
nOr'S expectations. This is an
enigma, for which no one as
sumes the correct answer, al.
though the new appointee has al.
aeady resigned in order he says
not to embarrass the Govern.
Or" Very likely he knows. He
further makes the suggestion
that an entire new board is need
ed, which is true, if one could
be-eleCted.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
Wait for our Big December 0''
NJ. & E. WOLF.

Traffic was delayed Sa'uiu =
over the W. F. Branch rOsa y, y
the partial burning Of . 0f, y
near ThompsOn's creek. -. -
fire was discovered by the D' ~,
Sara Accommodation tram =.
morning. Conductor LaErsnp'
the train crew and the mae III.
sengers all went to work T s.,ors
ly and put out the fire. Os'S
backing to Bayou Sara " WIZ 4.
all trains we're delayed unlu =. =
bridge was repaired .s,s,
gers were conveyed to Sia'. .,.ju
in a caboose. The nlgne y" :,
crossed safely. The nls
suspicious, occurring VIZ
did.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
NERVE.

When a client freely uses his
services but is very slow in pay
ing balance on the fee, the law.
yer says in his mind, What
nerve"
When a never-knOwn- to.pay
patron rings the physician up at
midnight's holy hour with the
plea; "Oh DR.. come quick, John,
ME has the Group" And after
hustling to the sufferer and ad-
ministering a dose of ipecac, the
weary doctor exclaims as he
crawls back into bed: "Of all the
nerve"
When Milady goes shopping
and has half the goods pulled
down, and then says sweetly:
iii take a spool of No. 100 white
thread that takes nerve.
But when a nOn-subscriber
sends the village paper a page of
personals concerning his family
that is nerve indeed. 1t beats
the Dutch!
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-11-20
Wait for our Big December Sale.
M. & 4. WOLF

The new schoolhouse at Wake.
field will be ready for occupancy
on Monday. The building is not
only attractive in itself, but is
ideally located, with good drain.
age, and grounds, two acres in
extent. Misses Garrett and
Lobdell, the principal and assist,
ant as well as the pupils are in.
spired to their best work by the
new surroundings.