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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-08
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET

Oats are rather easy to arrive. with
trade also easy, but little changed.
Track fancy clipped, 291ac No. ?, 2S1bc.
No. 3, Use; rejected, 27%c; no grade. 27Ibc.
Hay-Hay, straw and millfeed are little
changed Good to choice hay, $160l6 40,
rye straw, $11912 so; cat straw. S709,
sack spring bran, $12Q12 %; sack winter.
Sl3 25 middlings, $13@16
Meal-Cornmeal, oatmeal and the GER
calls are steady and unchanged: Barrel
cornmeal, 81 65d1 20; bag meal, 7667Sc:
yellow graduated 81 40Q2 So: rolled and
ground oatmeal, SO 2OQ3 So; cut. S4 1O9
%; graham flour, 81 256D2 40: bolted
s. 2O@2 40; rye flour, SO 25@S so; rye, Goa
zoe per bushel.
Apples-Apples are still rather easy
though the best are selling: Craven
stems, Nova Scotia, S4@4 so per Dbl:
Missouri and Illinois Jonathans. S3a4:
pippins, SOP rs; western and Missouri.
81 50qS; pound sweet, 81 50G3.
Muttons and Lambs-Muttons and
lams are quiet and rather easy: Spring
lambs 7dS15; Brighton and fancy. On
9lsc; muttons. sac; yearlings. sac:
Brighton and fancy muttons, 6Ib6Sc.
veals, 5G9c; fancy and Brightons On
Zoe.
Potatoes-Potatoes are still easy. with
quotations slightly lower: HouIton
Aroostook and York state hebrons. 75GI
soc per bushel; Jersey double head
sweet, 81 so; Virginia, S262 25; Norfolks.
81 %.
Beef-Beef holds firm on choice. but
trade is quiet: Steers. SdS%c; kinds. On
Ike fores, 5G6c.
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Japanese theaters have their boxes so
arranged that the ladies can change
dresses, ,as it is not considered stylish
for lady to appear an entire evening
in one dress and with the same orna-
ments.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-08

was persuaded to try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and to-day,
| am feeling like a new woman
MRS. ELLA McGARvY, Neebe Road
Station, Cincinnati, o.
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wears with womb
trouble, weak
back and excre-
tions. Twas hard
ly able to do my
household duties,
and while about
my work was so
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-08

good ones The balance of forty being fine wool
breeding ewes, and good ones. I have been breed
ing Shropshire sheep for the past six years. Have
never USED anything but a registered ram. NV
reasons for selling such a flock as the above
when sheep have started the right road, is
change of business. Wool is now q cents and
above sheep will be sold in small lots 81 As 10
give all chance.
All out of town purchasers coming from a dis
lance will receive free entertainment at of the
best hotels L. Vermont. the Adnabrown. Spring.
field lies "a miles north of Bellows Falls Leave
the steam cars at Charlestown, \. H., and take
electrics for Springfield, VT. Free carringe from
the village to the farm and back, Il2 miles from
Springfield. If YOU wish good goods, come to
tins sale. Walnut Hill Farm,
W. II. LovELAND, Propr, Springfield, VT.
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1913 BREEDING EWES,
81 SHROPSHIRE WETHERS

high grade Shropshire, from one year old to four
years old, as good lot as you can find in travel
ing the State over, also
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-08
GREAT SALE OF
SHEEP
AT AUCTION.

325 of the best sheep that can be found in
the State of Vermont to be sold at public
Auction, in
SPRINGFIELD VT,
THURSDAY, OCT. ia, 1897.
The above are made up as follows;
100 HIeH GRADE SHRoPsHIRE Eve LAMBS,
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NERVOUS UNd
[ was miSer-
able. | had
also given
up in des-
Dair when |
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- sA asy to AXE
asy to Operate

Are features peculiar to Hoods Pills. Small in
size, tasteless, efficient thorough. AS one man
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beamy hide, just so surely by the time

beamy hide, just 50 surely by the time
the ball arrives will he be above or be-
low or ahead OF where he was when you
fred. Perhaps you have already learn
ed this and think you know just how far
to hold ahead of him. Bang, goes your
rifle; wheeeoooo, sings the lead from a
boulder just behind him, and on he goes.
with a new twist that makes all your
former calculations worthless. You hold
farther ahead but have no time to cal
culate the up and down motion and the
dust flies from the hillside in line with
his back and away he goes with another
twist. Bang, it goes again, better cal
culated and very close shot, just graz
ing the hair beneath him, but still on he
goes, getting farther and farther away
all the time as you are getting hisrange
Bang, goes another shot; his high bound
changes in a flash to lower run, with
head farther outstretched instead of
proudly erect, and down the hill he now
goes instead of up. Bang, whang,
slang whang, go more shots in rapid
succe ssion from your repeater, but they
strike behind, or above, or both; and
Just about the time despair begins to
overwhelm you, or the dull click of the
firing pin shows the magazine of your
rifle empty, the deer whirls over in a
heap, shot through the heart
Still hunting in the east in summer is
next to impossible. The leaves are too
dense to allow you to see at any dis
tance and they make so much noise when
you move through them that deer will
hear you long before you can get near
enough to see him. Musquitos, black
flies and punkies make hunting intol-
erable; while watching a salt lick, or
fire hunting, or driving deer into lake
with hounds is almost as bad. But all
is changed here. If you do not go toe
far from the coast the weather will be
all that Is desirable for easy hunting,
camping and travelling, and even well
back in the interior it is far better than
the hot weather of any of the eastern
states The absence of insect pests
makes camping a comfort while there
are no swamps to swear and tear
| through, no big sloughs to run between
you and fat buck. no malaria or sun
stroke to trouble you, and you can leave
your dyspepsia and insomnia at home
for you won't need them after the first
day out. T. S VAN DYKE.
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COLE IN TEXAS
He Got Mixed and Horribly Shocked
the Cultured Bostonese

Colonel Cole Of Sherman, Tex, is not
only one of the most eloquent delegates
to the supreme council of the knights of
Pythias, but is also one of the most
pulchritudinous. The colonel is, there
fore, very popular with the ladies, and at
all banquets of the order he responds to
the toast to the ladies. So often has
he done this that the task, though al
ways extremely pleasant, has become
somewhat mechanical-or at least the
gallant colonel's execution of it has.
The supreme council met in Boston a
few years ago, and the banquet which
wound up it's proceedings was attended
by the bluest blooded Brahmans of
Beacon HILL Boston's intellectual wo-
men were there in full force, and many
of them declared they were attracted
by the announcement that Col. Cole
was to respond to the toast to the
ladies' The eloquent Texans fame had
preceded him to the Hub, and the wo-
men lionized him. He was al much of a
society lion in Boston then as Col Will
lam F. Cody is now. Hence, when Col.
Cole arose to speak the ladies ceased
their chatter. fixed their eyeglasses on
him and with Boston ease and grace
leaned back in their chairs to listen.
His opening words sent thrill of de-
light through them, and they applauded
him rapturously. But his peroration
shocked them, and to this day the colonel
doesn't know what his status in Boston
society is. Had he been content to en-
poy his own words he would have come
through with fresh laurels. But Col.
Cole made the fatal mistake Of relying
on his memory to quote poetry He
started in with Scott and wound up with
Pope in this startling fashion:
| Oh, woman-in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
Yet seen too often, familiar with thy race,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Now, eir,' said Col. Cole, in discuss
ing his faux pas, IT had no more inten-
ton of mixing things up in that way
than I have this moment to commit sui
eide. And the worst of 1t was that
didn't know / had got mixed. realized
that I had made some sort of horrible
break. for some of the audience
screamed with laughter, while others
frowned menacingly at me. Anyway
the emotions excited in my listeners
were so palpably contradictory and sc
confused and embarrassed me that
sat down without finishing my speech
and It wasn't until I resumed my seat
that learned the true state Of the case
wanted to apologize. but those who
enjoyed my discontinue would not per
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NIT me, and so I had to leave Boston
without getting an opportunity to set
myself right. st. Louis Republic.
Preventing Hailstorms by Explosion

The American rainmaking experi-
ments are sufficiently fresh in the mem
ory to lend peculiar interest to a re-
port recently submitted to the state de-
partment by the consul at Zurich re-
garding a curious practice that has
grown up among the grape growers of
certain sections of Austria, which is in
effect, the exact reverse of the rainmak-
ing theory. 1t Is none other than the
prevention Of storms by aerial explo-
sions. The owner of extensive vine
yards found that his profits were disap-
pearing with the frequent destruction Of
his vines by hailstones. These storms
are common and severe in Austria, es-
pecially on the southern slopes of the
Bacher noun tains, and as the soil Is
peculiarly adapted to the growth Of the
grape the question arose whether some
means of preventing the falling of hail
could not be devised. The explosion ex-
pertinent was tried, and to the date Of
the report it had met with unbroken sue
cess. The me ethod Is simple. On each
Of six of the most prominent submits
surrounding the vineyards the owner
erected a station, built of wood, for the
shelter of battery Of heavy mortars, ten
at each station. The neighboring peas
antry, themselves small vineyard own
ers, have been trained to the duties OF
manning the batteries, and at the Slight
est sign Of the approach of storm the
men assemble and at a given signal fire
all the mortars simultane ously. Each
mortar Is loaded with about four and q
half ounces of powder; the report makes
no mention Of a projectile. The bonn
bardment of the clouds is continued un-
til the moisture is scattered and the
storm is prevented. At the first trial Of
the system last summer, after few mo-
ments' firing, the cloud wall opened up
in the form of funnel, the mouth rising
in consecutive rings, gradually expand
ing until the clouds scattered and dis
appeared. This process was accompa-
MED by no hail or even rain During
the summer the firing was undertaken
six times, and always with the same re-
suit. Thus it appears that while man
may not be able to force nature to work
at his bidding, he may at least compel
her to remain idle for time.-Washing-
ton Star
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SNUFF BOXES OF GREAT COST
Seven Thousand Dollars Paid for One
at London Sale Recently

Snuff boxes have long been mediums
of diplomacy and the favorite object
Of the collectors passion. The amount
of sentiment centered in old snuff boxes
can only be appreciated by those col
lecting them, but as virtu their artistic
attractions will appeal to the general
beholder, for the fine workmanship of
the very old boxes cannot be passed by.
In Europe to this day a enuff box is the
prize gift of royalty to courtiers deserv-
ing recognition. The snuff will be abb
sent, but the jeweled etui is the more
welcome perhaps on that account, and if
not added TO the family heirlooms is
often exchanged at the nearest silver
smiths for something more useful.
A superb collection of old French snuff
boxes, formed by an English gentleman,
has just been sold in London, the deal
ers from all parts of the continent and
Great Britain attending en- masse. The
fame Of this Mainwaring collection, it
seems. was worldwide, for its exhibit
tion previous to sale attracted large and
fashionable crowds. besides those who
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came to buy. Some history or romance

came to buy Some history or romance
was attached to every piece of the ia
lots. Among the most precious was a
Louis XVI oblong gold box. the top
ornamented with blue enamel medal
lion, that was bought for $1,000. One
Louis XIV oblong gold box, having the
top painted with q lady and two chill
dren in a room, the sides and bottom
ornamented, went for $3.50.
One of the most exquisite had, top
Of exquisite enamel, the lady'e head u
marvel Of loveliness, and surrounded
with bouquets Of flowers. 1t cost the
purchaser the tidy sum of $500. But one
Of the most costly was a large Louis
XVI oval gold box, with six panels of
green translucent enamel, top panel
with an exquisite enamel Of "Leda and
the Swan" that brought S2775. An oc-
tagonal gold box of the Louis XVI per-
iod, inlaid on top and bottom with two
panels of oriental onyx, in the upper
panel medallion of lady surrounded
by a frame composed, Of forty-four fine
brilliants, came within SIS of the "Leda."
Several of the rarest specimens had en-
amels by Durand after Greuze, Boucher
and Fragonard.
The highest figures, however, were
commanded by large Louis XVI gold
box, with six plaques Of figures, after
the latter artist, in brilliant colors, for
someone with money to burn paid $725O
for what the connoieseurs declared to be
a treasure. 1t is improbable that these
exceedingly lovely boxes ever held any
snuff, but were rather used as bonbon-
nieres, or as caskets for some yet more
precious jewel than hemselvest-Boston
| Herald.
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ENGINEER WITHOUT FEAR
The Cab Demolished, He Crawled on
the Boiler to Sound the Whistle


New York-The train on the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, which is known
as the Newark Special" and runs be-
tween Newark and Point Pleasant every
afternoon and makes the return trip
each morning, carrying scores Of
wealthy Newark business men whose
families spend the summer at the various
seashore resorts on the Jersey coast,
met with an accident this morning be-
tween Hazlet and Middletown. But for
the nerve and courage of Engineer Viii
liam r. Bennett there would have been
loss of life and serious injuries.
On the trip to Newark Thursday it left
Red Bank on schedule time, and was
travelling over a clear track at speed of
about a mile minute. Suddenly the
driving rod on the right side of the en-
gine broke, and. flying up. struck the
top of the cab directly over the window
where Engineer Bennett sat with his
hands and lever on the throttle.
Bennett was knocked from his seat
and the broken rod began to rain blow
after blow on the cab, smashing it into
splinters. Both his hands were crushed d
and bleeding, but he reversed the power
and then attempted to work the air
brakes, but only to find that the air
pump which operates them had been
smashed by the flying rod
He was badly bruised, and bleeding
from dozen wounds, but he managed
to evade the pounding rod, crawl out
lover the boiler and signal down brakes -
He had to do it in that way, because the
broken rod which was wrecking his cab
prevented his reaching the whistle cord
His fireman, George w. Roland. en-
deavored to assist him, but was help
lessly pinned in on his side of the cab
by timbers which had been crushed In
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THE OPENING OF THE SEASON FOR DEER
The 18th of July, the first day on which

The 18th of July, the first day on which
deer can be killed in California, will
see an unusual number of hunters in the
field for deer hunting is no longer con-
fined to a few but is growing rapidly
in favor with the reduced weight and
increased killing power Of the modern
nitro rifles.
The deer found south of San Fran
cisco Is the mule deer or common deer
of the Rocky mountains and Mexico. He
is not as smart as the red deer Of the
east or white tailed deer, as he is called,
but has several little pecullarities that
go far toward making up for it, while
for vension he is not surpassed.
This deer is yet found in nearly all
the rough hills from coast to mountain
top, in considerable numbers, though
you may find acres more abundant and
even rocks and bushes preponderating 6
over pelts They always stand broad
side with head erect IL nice open place
patiently awaiting shot, as you see
them in pictures SO the acreage wont
trouble you much. You might have a
little trouble at first in recognizing a
buck because deer in this country have
the popularity of wearing deer horns
instead of the elk horns that the great
American artist always puts on them
A deer's horns always point forward and
not backward, as you will discover if
you go too near wounded one.
Your outfit should be simple and not
too heavy A foot and a half is long
enough for your hunting knife and a
four pound pistol will delay a grizzly
as well as a larger one, but the pocket
pistol for snakes may be larger If snakes
are very plenty-which they generally
are. In fact, some hunters look more
for snakes than for game see no snakes
and wonder why they don't see game
Your boots should be thick enough
in ths sole to smash every
etick of an inch OF more ir
diameter, so as to flush the deer, which
may otherwise lie too close in the heavy
brush. Big nails to sound on the rocks
are also quite fashionable for this pur
pose. They can show you deer farther
off than any other invention of the age
LII the early part Of the season th'
higher mountains are not the best fot
hunting. Many Of the deer are there
lying on the high ridges up to min,
thousand feet, and on the San Bernar
dino range even. nlSner tnan tndt. Bu
they do not move much early in th
season, as the deer do lower down an(
what little moving they do is mostl.
at night, even when the moon is dark
or else it is so early in the morning o.
late in the evening that the effect is th
same This is the reason it is so yer.
easy even for the best hunter in thos'
high ranges to see so many tracks ant
SO few deer. Deer that live in sucl
mountains are also great climbers, ant
the tracks you see 30 fresh at the bot
tom of some big canyon may belong t.
q buck that was there about the tim
you were rubbing your eyes and nov
lies in the dense chapparal three thous
ard Feet or more above you.
In the lower hills, especially along tn
coast like those of Santa Margarita ant
the Santa Ana range, the deer move NOR
by daylight in the early summer an(
are thus more easy to find. But ever
here they have the common trick of tn,
mule deer Of skulking in heavy brusl
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/ and will often lie and let you pass them,
knowing you will not see them. With
out a good dog this trick is quite hard
| to circumvent. But it is hard to get a
dog that will not break shot unless tied
| to your waist with rope, and then he is
liable to break you when he sees deer
run. 1t is now hard to say just where
the best hunting is but parts Of San
Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino
counties, where settlement is not great,
still have plenty of deer. The same with
Ventura and Santa Barbara counties
Much of the widest part of Los Angeles
county is now too rough for comfortable
| deer hunting, though plenty of deer are
| yet in the brush of the heavier hills from
which they range out into more open
ground.
The mule deer runs with bound, all
four feet being grouped beneath as he
rises, and striking the earth all at once
with a thump that can be heard long
way. This makes his career stiff, high
bound. a constant richochet. Here he
twists around a big rock and there
clears another; now he smashes through
a big brush and there he swings grandly
over the whole of it, often with no two
jumps of equal length and no two on the
same course. This makes him very at
tractive game for those who love the
chase for what cannot be easily done
rather than for what any blockhead
can do.
| We have some hunters, however, who
are never troubled with any of the little
peculiarities of animated nature. Most
Of these hunters are born. OF course
| such genius could not be made. Perhaps
you are one Of them-who knows. The
only way is to try. You will need only
22-caliber rifle. The best place to hit
your game Is in the spinal cord. This
kills with neatness and dispatch. Some
like the eye, as it gives latitude fol
error-in the rifle, of course-of fully
thirty-seven thousandths of an inch
But true genius disdains such advan.
tages.
Of antseptic bullets to preserve your
game until you can reach it we have
several varieties. Arsenic filled in hole
in front is the surest and all right if yor
are hunting for market. But for ven
ison to dry we prefer creosote as it smell,
like smoke and you can just leave you
venison on the ground until you want it
Surveyors to locate your meat for yo,
aft er long shot can be had for IS da,
now on account of the hard times. Thei
high charges have hitherto been a seri
GUS drawback in this sport.
The mule deer is not nearly so afrai
Of civilization as one would suppose
and it is not always necessary to go ia
away. The deer everywhere laughs a
civilization that will finish the elk an
the moose and other large game in shor
order In the fall he raids the vine
yards and orchards, eating grapes
leaves and tender twigs at a ruinou
rate and then goes back to spend tn
day on the hill within sound Of voice
at the house. relying on his keen nos
and ears and eyes to tell when DANCE
is coming. There are few greater sur
prises on this earth than that of tn
tenderfoot who gets a fine ranch at tn
base of some big HILL whe
on some fine day the ide
strikes him that some venison Of hi
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The Czar Is Superstitious

The czar Of Russia is said to be very
superstitious and to have great conf
dence inrelics. He wears ring in which
he believes is imbedded piece Of the
true cross. 1t was originally one of the
treasures of the vatican and was pre-
sented to an ancestor of the czar for
diplomatic reasons. The value which the
czar sets upon the ring, with its inn
bedded relic, is shown by the following
fact: Some years ago the czar was
travelling from ST. Petersburg to Mos
COW. He suddenly discovered that he had
forgotten the ring. The train was stopped
Immediately and a special messenger
sent flying back on an express engine
for it. Nor would the czar allow theh
train to move until, several hours after
ward, the messenger returned with the
ring.
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upon him. After run of fully a mile
under these conditions in less thana min
ute the train came to a standstill.
Conductor Minard Knapp and his
crew. together with the half hundred
passengers, rushed to the engine, where
they found the fireman prisoner in the
wreckage, and the engineer, who is per-
sonally known to all of them, climbing
slowly down from the boiler, where he
had crawled at the risk of his life to save
theirs.
The fireman was found to be unhurt,
and Benefits injuries, while severe and
painful, were found to be not serious.
Congratulations were showered upon
the plucky engineer by the passengers,
and a committee of some of Newark s
wealthy business men was formed for the
purpose of preparing more substantial
token.-Chicago Times
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Lord Glencoe, Canada's newest peer.
is best known in Montreal as philan-
thropist. 1t was he who, in connection
with Lord Mount Stephen, gave to
Montreal the Royal Victoria hospital in
the queens golden jubilee year, 1887.