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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13144, 28 November 1906, Page 3

'■-; Prevent/ Despondency. ''■:■?*■:. Chamberlain's Stomach and Livir ; 1 ablets'wnl' brace up ,the ■■ banifch -sick neadaclie,. .preveno.. ;. •sysittem: />; ttii 3i^ev r^to;,piilsi/, ; ■ No _recent ;mahy better iliustrate's the absurdity, of practice than the case for by: ••-Germania." . In :& town in Hesse 'a youngofficer of jieser.vs! quarreUed,/with his friend, |; a lawyer in the employment of the State.;.' They iiKiulted one another,;;and the ofrlceri; boxed hiia Mend's ears. TJae matter; might) have ended there, but a Qourt ; of Honourj' .of officers of the .officer's regiment ' got; wind of the. affair, summoned the>officer;, to explain, , with»expal-! sion trom the regiment if he did/not chal- 1 lenge the lawyer to fight. There was riej alternative, the meeting took place, and the lawyer fell mortally wounded. When the:' officer returned home he was arrested onj the information of the president of the Court of Honour which had forced himi to fight. He was trM ; by an ordinary tribunal, and .eentenced to three months'' imprisonment. The president of the Court of Honour knew he was urging the officer to an illegal ;deed ; ; but ihonour, as he .understood S, .must- be satisfied at. all'cost.