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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.

Society Woman's Advice to Young Men,
with Opinions on Their Manners.
Mrs Sherwood, whose opinions as we'll
known society woman are received with
consideration advises the young men of our
free country, no matter how humble their
station, to study manners and proper dress
and proper courtesy, for there is no knowing
where they will land as they climb the hill
of life. Their tailors and their observation
will tell them how to dress. Neatness should
be their first and firmest ally, no matter how
plain their clothes A young man should never
be too fine for his Neutrality-suspicious. for walk
ing, plain clothes for morning, and a change
for dinner and evening. Fresh stockings
and neat looking feet are indispensable, and
clean linen is the very alphabet of good
dressing. A gentleman's dress should always
be so quiet as not to excite attention.
According to Mrs. Sherwood, there are no
young men in the world with better manners
than the best type of American men. Manly,
simple, unaffected, respectable and remarka-
bly, graceful, so bright "that, if they turn
themselves on, you can see to read by them,"
the young American man is conceded to be
agreeable the world over. Many youth has
worked his way up from poverty to good po-
sition. They are wonderful fellows. There
is something in this air of equality and free
dom and of liberty which makes a gentle
man. They behave much better as a class
than do the young women of America, for
they are SO chivalrous that they have partly
spoiled the young women. They are incom-
parably better hammered than either young
Englishmen or young Frenchmen as class.
There is, to be sure, an occasional Miss
Nancy, a girlish young man, who is as alb
normal as mannish young woman. Both
are fortunately rare. So are the ''untaught
knaves unmannerly." The American men
are a chivalrous race. They respect women;
they are the noblest men in the world.
There are, to be sure, American savages.
One class who use the bowie knife, who
drink like the hippopotamus, play cards,
fight duels, are wildly furiously passionate,
unsafe and desperate. There is another
class, who pretend to despise fashion and
etiquette, who dress like fiends wearing con-
glomerates Of frock coat and white tie in the
evening, dress coat in the morning They
neither know nor care for etiquette, and
they think it is noble to be thus ignorant.
But even these two classes have respect
for women. Their speech becomes decent,
their manners kind, and their excuses are
restrained if woman approaches them. It
is splendid national popularity. The Lon
don rough has no such soft spot. 1t is to be
feared that the London man of fashion is not
sufficiently imb~ed with it. AS for the polite
Frenchman, his external politeness toward
the "beau sexe" is very marked when he
wishes, but his contempt for them is equally
marked when be does not.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
EXCELLENT KNOTS.

On the end to which the horses are
This is shown at A and c. A being the
knot before frightened, showing how it is
tied. 1t is hard to describe how the knot
is made, but by studying the illustration
and using stiff string you can learn in a
few minutes. When a clevis is hooked
in the large loop at the right hand side
and pulled, it will tighten and make as
firm knot as any known. The one shown
at B is excellent for tying to the fork 1t
is made by passing rope twice through
ring and returning the end around rope
and under both coils
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
3H#64z

FIG. 1-DEsIGN OF DISCS AND CREsCENTs.
French darning in shades of yellow, olive,
greens or terra Gotta. Place the strip on
your curtain, eight or ten inches from the
bottom. Cross stitch the piece down. Make
a similar one for the top, but narrower, place
it the same distance from the top and fasten
down. Hang the curtain by rod and let it
hang straight, just escaping the floor.
You may have an open bookcase and want
a curtain to hang in front. Get some sateen
and outline one of these patterns, or any
other, in dark shades. Across the top and
bottom fill in with French darning, Use
crewel or filoselle for filling. Hang the cur
tain on brass rod and you will have really
pretty decoration and an excellent protection
for your books.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Selecting Seed Corn.

Professor Johnson, of the Michigan
Agricultural college, has practiced the
following method of selecting seed corn
for number of years with satisfactory
results
When husking. the most perfect ears
are selected and sent to the drying room
A second sorting follows, when all ears
not up to the standard are rejected. The
corn is then tied up with wool Irvine in
lots of fifty ears or more, or strung on
wire with Smiths device for hanging up
corn" The ears are then hung up in the
drying room. The room below the drying
room is heated by coal fire, and the
chimney from this room passes through
the drying room. thus securing dry and
even temperature. First-Selection of
perfect ears when corn is husked. Sec
ond-A careful second selection. Third
The hanging up of the corn. Fourth
A dry and even temperature in the dry
ing room.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
A Year of Plenty.

Corn leads the cereals in general i'm
portance and promised abundance of the
crop. Spring wheat has not fully main
tanned it's high promise in June.
Full estimates of winter wheat cannot
yet be made, but the results of threshing
so far as known promise larger yield
than was expected early in the season.
Cotton has passed through the season
with but little injury from climatic
changes, rust or insects. Pasturage in
the main has been excellent, and In the
states and territories forming the great
pasturage belt exceptionally good.
The apple and peach crops are large, es.
pecially in states where scarcity existed
last year. 1t is a satisfaction to know
that importations of potatoes will not be
needed. every state reporting a high av'
erage. Hay is generally satisfactory.
clover standing high in quality There
has been large increase in acreage OF
oats, and the crop is probably the largest
ever grown
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
The Dear Dolls.

So far as I have been able to discover, says
Olive Thorne Miller in st. Nicholas, there is
not girl from the snow huts of the north
pole to the leaf huts of the equator, who has
not had some sort of doll. Even Laura
Bridgeman, born deaf and dumb and blind,
even she had her doll, with a ribbon over its
eyes las though blind.
Among the wild Indians of our country is
surely the last place one would look for toys,
but the little Indian girls must have their
dolls, for in the cut are shown two dear crea-
lures from Dakota territory.
They were made by some loving mother
of the Gros Ventre tribe of Indians But the
unfortunate little red skin girl for whom
they were intended never received them after
all, for they were bought by white man,
and sent to New York to sit for their picture
for St. Nicholas boys and girls. They are
queer looking pair, dressed in the most ee-
CANT Gros Ventre style. They are eighteen
inches tall, made of cloth, with their noses
sewed on, and their faces well colored; not
only red, like the skin, but with painted
features. Both have long hair with braid
over each ear, but the brave has also guam
tity hanging down his back, and a crest
standing up on top-perhaps as ''scalp lock"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Personal.

Mr.. n. II. FrOhlichStein, of Mobile, Ala,
writes: take great pleasure in recommend
ing DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, having used it for a severe at
tack of Bronchitis and Catarrh. 1t gave
me instant relief and entirely cured me and
have not been afflicted since. l also beg
to state that had tried other remedies with
no good result. Have also used Electric
Bltters and DIR. Kings New Life Pills, both
of which | can recommend.
DIR. Kings New Discovery for COnsump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, is sold on positive
guarantee. Trial bottles free at
A. T. CLARKE's Drug Store.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26

Now that we are hearing so much about
the bandana handkerchief. says Golden Days,
perhaps the boys and girls may like to know
what the term means.
Most people think that It means red
handkerchief of cotton or silk, but that is a
mistake "Bandana" refers to the figure and
not to the goods, color, size or quality of the
handkerchief.
The bandana figure is an arrangement of
white blocks about quarter of an inch
square, each with round or square hole in
the center, upon a background or solid color
The blocks are grouped in diamonds, squares,
circles and other geometrical figures, scat
tered over the handkerchief in any fashion
that pleases. A border of white lines, dots
bars or bands surrounds the whole. They
are made of either cotton or silk and come
chiefly in yellow, red and chocolate oolors,
with occasionally lot of blue ones. The
colors are always very deep and vivid.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
PLAN FOR MEASURING HOGS.

Now" explains the swine breeder, If
1t fit the entire length, and would give
the animal full score on back, and If the
lower line of the side were straight
would also score full. If the ham was
Deep thick and even curve down on to
the hook and square on the back (part or
nearly SOY would score full and would take
all parts that were even, round and square
where required and give full score. Now
take the No. cut. 1t is almost straight
on the back, but not entirely so. Score
seven points or cut one point; lower line
not quite so important part of the hog,
cut one point although is more off from
straight line than line of back. The ham
in No. would call good, while in No. Q
the ham is off at least three points, the
dotted lines showing where it is off
the worst The line of back shows also
bad measurement The distance from
back line of No. 2 is four times as much
as on No. l. I would want the heart
measurement as much or more than the
flank measurement The shoulder l
would want more like No. 1. The dotted
line on No. shows deficiency as we'll as
showing by lines that back and lower line
are deficient several points"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
CRICKET A CENTURY AGO.

There was no cricketing costume at that
time, neither fannels, leggings, gloves nor
cricketing Shoes The gentlemen threw off
their three cornered cooked hats, pulled Off
their gold laced coats and waistcoats, and
played in their rufiied shirts, knee breeches,
silk stockings and high heeled shoes. Their
pigtails would not be much in the way; but
fancy receiving five ounce ball on your
shins with nothing to protect them but thin
silk stocking. However, it was not quite so
dangerous then as it would be to defend your
wicket in such a costume now, for all the
bowling was underhand and the fastest
bowling of those days would be thought very
slow indeed at the present time
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
BUTTER PACKAGES.
Description Of -Four Kinds Ut Packages IN
(aenaral una for Creamery Nutter.

Description Of -Four Kinds NJ Packages In
General Use Tor Creamery butter.
There are four kinds Of packages In
general use for creamery butter Three
OF these are made OF wood the remain
ing one Is OF tin
form very commonly used Ii known
as the Welsh tub. although 1t Is made In
America The Welsh tub Is made OF
white ash and Is bound with black ash
hoops The slaves are made by machinery
and the bottom Is fitted In like Y barrel
head Either Ave or six hoops are used,
more generally five II only five, two are
placed at each end and one In the middle
II six are used. three are placed at each
end. The weight OF the tub Is eight or
nine pounds. and 1t holds 6fty.f or
sixty pounds of butter.
The frkin Is also largely used. It 10
made of white oak. with hickory hoops.
1t Is headed. top and bottom. like barrel,
and Is the same size at each end, being
twelve and one. half inches in diameter at
the ends and fifteen inches In the middle.
The slaves are thirty inches long. The
firkins are very often sawed In two and
used as half firkin tubs, with white oak
covers, which are nailed on. The frkin
holds about a hundred pounds of butter.
The creamery pail holds from sixty to
eighty pounds 1t Is made of white oak
and bound with iron hoops. either gal.
vanized or not. These pals are painted
and are fitted with patent fastenings for
the ash or oak covers, and make the hand.
soonest packages in the trade, They are
not popular with commission merchants.
as they are so expensive that they have to
be returned to the creameries.
Tin packages are growing in favor and
are used by the government, but are
long way from superseding wood in the
markets, notwithstanding that they seem
to be equally as good as wood in all re-
spects and better in some. They are non
absorbent, of course, and do not flavor the
butter, while they keep it much better.
Tin packages are made Of all sizes, in
cylindrical shape, and are cased and Gov
cred at the top with wood. The wooden
cover rests on the salt brine which lies on
the butter
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Vaccination Against Cholera.

M. Gamaleia, of Odessa, has created some
by a method of preventing cholera by inocu-
lation, which he claims to have established
He cultivates the bacillus or cholera germ in
order to increase its virus (Which is not great,
and then sterilizes it by exposure to heat.
The resulting chemical vaccine" may, ac-
cording to NJ. Gamaleia, be inoculated with
out causing the usual cholera symptoms and
affords entire protection against the disease.
So sanguine is M. Gamaleia of the value Of
his discovery that he proposes to ascertain by
experiment upon himself, under the observa-
ton of a committee of the French academy,
the amount of this vaccine matter requisite
in vaccination against cholera.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Asleep on the Railroad Track,

A little child, tired of play, had pillowed
his head on rail and fallen asleep. The
train was almost upon him when passing
stranger rushed forward and saved him
from horrible death. Perhaps you are
asleep on the track, too. You are, if you
are neglecting the biliousness snd cOnstipa-
tlon which trouble you, i'm the hope that
you Will ''come all right" Wake up. or
the train will be Upon you! Constipation
Is TOO often the fOrerunner of general
breaking up DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pur-
gatlve Pellets will regulate your liver.
stomach and bowels. and restore your sys-
tenn to its normal condition.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.


New and Surprising Inventions and Dis
coveries In Surgery and Medicine.
1t Ia claimed that surgical operations for
the removal of sections Of bone will soon be
robbed Of much OF the terror which they now
inspire, by the use Of newly invented In
strument, the osteotome which will take the
place Of the present brutal methods OF operat-
ing with mallet, chisel, gouges, etc.
London Electrical Engineer describes the
osteotome as an instrument holding circu-
lar saw at its extremity, revolved with
lightning speed by an electric motor. This,
when held against bone, makes clean cut
through it In few seconds; in fact, its action
is instantaneous By holding the osteotome
in slanting position, wedge shaped pieces
can be cut out with equal promptitude. There
is no danger Of the saw cutting the soft parts,
as they are protected by retractor-an in.
strument which is passed down and under
the bone
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Artistic Home Made Draperies.

Nothing gives prettier finish and attrac-
tiveness to a room than tasteful drapery
The large number Of ladies who do their own
"home furnishing" and are always interested
in anything that is at the same time artistic
and of moderate cost, will find useful sugges-
tions in this line in the following designs for
curtains, illustrated and described by Good
Housekeeping.
For one set of curtains brown jeans, which
answers well for the fashionable terra Gotta
color, furnishes material. Take twice the
length of the window. that you may have
two halves to the curtain. Then for the Or
namental band or border represented in Fig.
I take a strip of blue jeans, twenty inches
deep and draft on it, with cup or glass,
discs and crescents in an irregular pattern.
Outline the pattern in etching in dark
color and fill in the discs and crescents with
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26

If you want curtain to hang in front of
some shelves in your bedroom, simple un-
bleached muslin treated in the same manner,
only using paints instead of the needle, will
give you surprise and pleasure. In painting.
as in darning, the outlines of the figures
must be darker than the filling to be effect
i've, and no shadows attempted, simply the
solid colors The fine lines in Fig. are
painted brown to initiate water lines and the
flower to suit the color of the roorl
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Poor But Honest.

Charlie Sullivan is a poor but honest Irish
lad who, while walking down Washington
street, found wallet containing checks
and money to the value of several hundred
dollars. Although almost destitute, he re-
turned it to its owners, Messrs A. p. Ord
way & Co.; proprietors of Sulphur Bitters.
gave him six bottles of Sulphur Bitters for
his mother, who has been a terrible suffer
er with rheumatism, and who returned
many blessings after being cured by theiI
use.-[ Weekly World.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Corn the Great American Crop

c-c6fe1, or maize, is the great American
tillage crop. There is no other of half it's
area. Wheat has nearly half and cotton
a quarter of it's breadth 1t Is sufficient
to cover Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with q
slice of Iowa in addition. Its area last
year, though reduced by drought was 81
per cent of that of all cereals together,
and it's product was 55 per cent It is
now grown in every state and territory in
the Union, though sparingly in those of
high elevations, In the Rocky Mountain
region. The supply as population in
creases is enlarged rather than dimin-
ished 1t was 255 bushels per head in
1850, $3.50 in 1860. 29.7 in 1870 and 35 in
1880.
The crop, large as it is, is exported in
small proportion. Only per cent. Of the
production of seventeen years has gone
abroad for market. The home market
is 96 per cent. of all, and its relative
abundance Or scarcity makes the price.
If scarce, the price is high, and foreigners
decline to buy; if low enough to compete
with foreign feeding stuffs larger guam
tity is exported Neither Liverpool nor
Chicago makes the price, but the farmers
and country feeders, who use five-sixths
of all. 1t is q crop of which railways
carry but small part. Less than one
fifth crosses state lines. Half is used for
feeding for milk or flesh. one-tenth for
human food and four tenths for the food
of working animals. For spirits scarcely
per cent. is used.
The prospect for the present year is for
the largest area ever grown Of this dis
tinctively American crop. Aside from the
area intended for grain there are millions
of acres drilled for forage, the silo and
the summer dairy. No other plant will
produce so much nutritious feed on
given area No other is worth so much
for American tillage.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve In the world for cuts, bruis-
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corn and
all skin eruptions, and positively, cures piles
or no pay required. 1t Is guaran teed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 20 cents per box.
4. u. CI,ARKE's Drug Store
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Creamed Potatoes.

Cut pint cold boiled potatoes into dice.
cover with cold milk; when hot add heap
ing teaspoonful -four, moistened with little
cold milk; cook 10 minutes, then add table,
spoonful butter, l tablespoonful chopped
parsley, one-half teaspoonful salt and IN salt
spoonfuls pepper.
About four large potatoes are needed for
this, the quantity to be measured after being
cut into dice
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
TRUSTWORTHY MATTER PERTAIN
ING TO A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS.

A Swine breeder Describes = Plan for
Measuring swine In Connection with tho
Score Card That May BE Practiced by
Any Farmer.
In the annexed cuts are given plan
for measuring swine In connection with
the score card that was recently described
and illustrated In Swine Breeders Journal.
Swine breeder says: II would take
straight edge and rule. Lay straight on
the back of hog No. l. It will fit his back
almost the entire length.
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Hin Disease.

Hip disease is q cause Of defOrmity and I'M
told suffering for children, and it is import
ant that its earliest symptoms should be re-
cognized and the disease arrested in its first
stage. 1t is oftenest seen among delicate
children or those of scrofulous tendencies
and usually does not begin until the child
walks.
DR.. A. A. Whitfield states that in the be-
ginning, in the usual FORM the hip is not
complained of at all; it is the knee that Of
tends. When standing, the child rests the
toes of the affected limb on the foot Of the
other. 1t lies on the other side and avoids
long walks and all active games These
symptoms seem very slight and too often
even severe leg ache is attributed to "grow-
ing pains" Oh, those growing pains! When
child complains as above, have him extend
the limb, holding the knee stiff; strike the
sole of the foot sharply, squarely 1t will
not be the knee but the hip that will cry
out. Now is the time of salvation in this
disease. Rest, good air, good food, early in
stituted proper treatment are necessary to
insure q perfect cure in the above complaints
Sulphur Treatment of WhOoping Cough.
DR.. Manly expresses the opinion in The
Practitioner that if the treatment of whoop-
ing cough by sulpurous acid were carried
out in every case the disease would be I'M
known at the end of six months. He uses the
following method: The patient is in the
morning put into clean clothes and removed
elsewhere. All his clothes and toys, etc, are
brought into the bedroom, and sulphur is
burnt upon a few live Goals in the middle of
the room. The fire is allowed to remain in the
room for five hours, and then the windows
and doors are thrown open. The child sleeps
in the room the same evening. About twen-
ty-five grams IA little under an ounce of
sulphur to every cubic meter may be burnt;
this is equivalent to rather more than ten
grains per cubic foot. The room is fumigated
in a like manner during the night; the pa
tient practically living in an atmosphere Of
diluted sulphurous acid gas for some days,
while in several cases the process is repeated
at the end of a week.
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Derivation of the Word Salary

The derivation of our word "salary" is
very curious. In ancient times Roman SOL
diers received daily portion of salt as part
of their pay. Sal, in Latin, is salt, and when
the salt was, in course Of time, committed
for money, the amount was called salarium,
or salt money. Hence our SALARY" and
hence, no doubt the expression, mot worth
his salt'-i. e., his salary.
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Two Views of q Day.

Two Views of q Day.
Pretty Polly Petulant
Sighed, ''Oh, deary me!
Why does everybody seem
Cross as cross can bef
Res$I> itrHlAf out Of doors,
Everything goes wrong.
Why do all the dismal days
Stay SO very long'"
Sunny Sadie Smiley-eyes
Laughed right cheerily:
"Why does everybody seem
Very nice to me?
Really, in and out of doors,
Everything's in tune.
Why do all the happy days
Go so very soon!"
M. Thayer Rouse.