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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20
ChiId's Empire Jacket in Yale Blue.


Among all the styles shown for lit
tie girls outer garments there is no
one that is at once more serviceable
and generally becoming than the En-
pire coat. The model shown in the
illustration is made Of smooth finished
cloth in the popular Yale blue, the
trimming being combination of rib
bon frills in the same color and black
mohair braid. While the whole effect
is stylish in the extreme the pattern is
simplicity itself, as the fitting is
effected by shoulder and under-arm
seams only. Two box-plaits are laid
at the centre back from the neck to
the edge of the skirt and the front
shows one at each side of the closing,
which is effected in the centre-front
with large pearl buttons and button
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20

must, we should imagine, always be a
prejudice against the modification of
the flesh necessary, and the custom of
having children's ears pierced has
ceased to be general for many years.
But the dictates of fashion are tickle,
and it is Just possible that we may see
leaders Of fashion wearing both ear
and nose rings before the close of the
century. Who knows?
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20
A Bee-Line.

The eyes of bees are made to see
great distances. When absent from
their hive they 60 up in the air till
they see their home, and then fly to-
XRrd 1t in straight line and with
great speed. The shortest line be-
tween two places is sometimes called .
"bee-line. ."-6t. Nicholas.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20
TROT, PACE AND RUN.
Description of the Various Motions of the
Horse When Extended.

When in full motion the runner
strides with both front feet at the
same time, following with the hind,
and leaving the ground first with the
front. In ether words it is "fore-
apj-It" action,
The PAGER moves by lifting both feet
of the same side simultaneously, and
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20
THE REALM OF FASHION.
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While no indication Of the genuine
princess gown has yet appeared, says
May Manton, there is decided ten
dency toward producing the effect by
means Of trimming carried from the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20

The returns show that the average
cotton spindle in the United States
produces more than twice as much
yarn as the average cotton spindle IN
Great Britain.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20
Thus in the Westminster drolleries we

Yet for thy sake will not bore mine care
To hang thy dustless silken shoe ties there.
And Marston, in his satires, pub
lished in 1898, has:
What maan'st thou, him that walks all
open-breasted,
Drawn threw the ear with ribands?
Az 70 whether she wearing of wires
through the ears 10 likely to come into
general fashion again in this country
ve Do not Offer any opinion. There
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-20

Skamania County. Washington.
boasts railroad four miles long which
cost 90, 900, 900 to build.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
Not to Be Cheated.

Time was when there was only one
chaise in the town of Mechanic Falls,
and that one belonged to an old man of
somewhat eccentric ways.
One day young man wanted to hire
the chaise to take his best girl to ride.
The owner agreed, but nothing was said
about the price, Toward nightfall the
young man brought the chaise back.
"Howmuch is the damage?" he asked
"Where'd ye go?" returned the old
man.
The young man named the place.
"How far do you call that?"
"Twelve miles. -
"Nope," said the old man, cts only
ten.
81 tell you it's ~ good long miles,
and I've been over it times enough to
know"
III IN, 1 travelled the road before you
was out Of dresses. tell ye faint but
ten miles"
Both Of them were losing their tenn
pers rapidly.
Never mind how far it isl cried
the young man. "You tell me how
much 1 owe you, and I'll pay you and
get out"
Catching his breath, the old man
Numbered: young Teller, ye don't owe
me cent, but by mighty, I'll be durn-
ed eff you're a-goin to cheat me ON the
distance. Lewiston journal.
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bank school district. There were also
visiting at her fathers, Lyman A. Bur-
bank, Mr.. and Mrs. William Durham
with their infant child, Mrs. Durham
is remembered as Miss Matte Marsh,
village school girl.
E. w. Ware sold some of his goods
at auction last Saturday, intending this
week to remove to Canaan, N. H.,
where he has recently bought him a
farm. There he expects to be joined
by their daughter and her husband,
Sydney r. Grant from Hamilton, Ont.
This week Monday the postotfice was
removed from the Bacon block INTO
Postmaster Willard S. Hatch's store
building, having been located at the
former place since 1861, with the ex-
ception of the four years of Cleve-
lands first administration from 1885 to
1889. The outgoing postmaster, Her
bert o. Bixby, has won the unanimous
praise of the whole community for the
faithful and efficient performance of
his official duties during his entire
term,
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
Fiction and Figures.

When one considers that l, 900 copies
is a fair sale for a novel and 5000
copies an extraordinary sale and that
about $3.50 is a pretty good honora-
rum for novelist's work-after such
time as it has cost him twice that sum
out of his own pocket and brought him
next TO nothing-then one can realize
the folly of those poor individuals who
look to a book to retrieve the fortunes
of household. And yet novels pay
best of any class of books on the whole
AS far as history and science and criti-
cism and poetry and other forms of lit
erature are concerned, their sale is uni
formly less than the sale of most novels
and their emoluments no more, if not
smaller. Royalties are pleasant addi-
ton to a steady income, but they are a
sorry dependence except perhaps in one
case out of a thousand
Children's books of good character
are in steady demand, but one would
not like to make living by them
alone. Short stories are profitable if of
fair kind. There are, however, more
publications that pay So and $40 and
less for short stories than there are pub
locations that pay more The average
writer of short stories for standard, first
class magazines gets anywhere from $25
to 500 or $50 for story of 1000
words or thereabout. Ten dollars per
1000 words is, however, the rate of
payment made to most writer's of stories,
even in the greatest Of magazines, ex-
cept where the authors popularity can
set higher price. A semioccasional
writer gets $500 for short story, but
the majority get more like $40 or $15,
and the writer who can "place" short
story every month is more fortunate
than most of his kind Self Culture.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
THE CATTLE MARKET.

Brighton, Mass, Oct. 13.-Amount of
live stock on the market: Cattle 624.
sheep and lambs 1869, swine 442 veal
calves 455, horses 10, poultry 700 lbs.
Northern and eastern beef cattle
There was a larger supply of cattle on
the market than there has been for some
weeks, but not an over supply of good
stock. Shippers were on the market
looking for choice stock and picked nm
about II head at 445c. Local slaugh-
terers were free buyers and one feeder
bought about 30 head of l and 2-year-
Olds, averaging about 800 lbs. each, at
Sc. per lb.
Swine-The offerings of hogs were not
heavy, but enough business was done TO
show a marked weakness in the market
The sales were all made at prices rang
ing from 444Ac. No western hogs were
offered.
Veal calves-Calves were in good de-
mand. While the market was in reality
no stronger than last week, the uuaIity
of the stock offered was better and
prices ruled little higher in conse-
quence Local dealers paid full prices
very freely for the best stock offered. but
would only buy lower grades at their own
figures. The receipts were about equal
to the average and clearance was made
early.
Sheep and lambs-The receipts of east
ern lambs were heavy and prices were
rather lower. Receipts have been very
heavy IN Chicago during the past week.
and this is affecting values, but local
dealers are not buying in the west. de-
pending entirely on the local supply.
While they wanted lambs. they wouid
only buy at their own prices, which were
about &c. lower than the ruling prices
of a week ago.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
CHELSEA.

A girl baby was born into the family
of States Attorney Hale X. Darling,
last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cox of Walden
were in town last week visiting her
sister, Mrs. Franklin Dearborn.
John B. Bacon accompanied by
Aaron n. King of Tunbridge, spent
the most of last week in Granville
looking after certain real estate.
Mrs. j. A. R. Corwin left town last
Thursday to spend several weeks visit.
ing her son Harry in Lowell, also Vim
ton in Boston and Charles r., who
lives with his family in Somerville,
Mass.
The Ladies Reading circle met with
Mrs. Geo. L. Stow Monday evening to
arrange a course of reading for the
winter.
Robert Inglis and F. I. Chauvin,
plumbers in the employ of Phelphs
Brothers of Barre City, who have been
engaged in putting in bath room and
water closets at the Court House, left
town last week.
F. Eugene Fuller, who has been Wis
iting his brother, Edwin D., returned
home to Lowell, Mass, Monday morn
inf after a fortnight's absence, to re-
sumo work in the Fire Department.
Mrs. James G. Atwood is in Oxford,
n. H., on a fortnight's visit among her
girlhood acquaintances and with her
sister.
William Jackson of Montpelier. ac-
companied by his wife, formerly Miss
Flora Corlss, were in town visiting her
father, John B. Corliss.
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Davis have
returned from their summer seasons
work at the Profile House in the White
Mountains and are stopping at Orange
County Hotel, spending their months
vacation before starting for their SINH
lar work at the st. James Hotel in
Jacksonville, Florida. Mr.. Davis has
been clerk at the White Mountains for
nineteen years past and at the St.
James for ten years.
Herbert J. Kingsbury and Miss Eva
Thompson were united in marriage by
Rev. W. +. Allen at the Methodist
parsonage Sunday evening. The new
couple will occupy his fathers house,
Mrs. Hiram A. Kingsbury having gone
to live with her husband in Boston.
Miss Mary A Burbank, who is teach
ing in the Spaulding Graded school i'm
Barre, was at home over Sunday ac-
companied by her cousin, Miss Helen
Burbank and Miss Kate Mehuron, the
latter former teacher in the Bur-
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
Miss Braddon's Double Handedness

To have two different kinds of hand.
writing is curious. The Academy says
Miss Braddon has two distinct hand
writings, one for correspondence and
the ordinary business of life and the
other for her novels. This latter is a
backward hand, smaller, neater and
clearer than the other The neatness Of
her manuscript is an important point
In Miss Braddon's eyes, and it makes
her unhappy to produce an unsightly
page. She makes very few corrections,
sometimes, indeed, scarcely one in a
page. With all this, the speed at which
she writes is considerable. When things
go well with her, she produces ON an
average three closely written pages of
manuscript-that is, say, about 1900
words-in an hour"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15

There is no word so powerful among women,
no influence so great and no authority so HIGH
as the utterances of a recognized leader when
speaking to her sister women for the good OF
womankind.
When, therefore, the voice of Belva A. Lock-
wood, of Washington, DC, who is recognized
among women as their mightiest leader and
champion in all woInen's movements which
mark this generation, is raised in the interests OF
women when this most eminent woman lawyer
and lecturer in the world, representative of her
sex to such an extent that she has been twice
nominated for President of the United States
by the Equal Rights Party who has heen hon
ored by membership in more American and
Foreign Societies than any other woman, pub
fishes the fact to the world that she owes her
present good health and strength to the use of
DR.. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve rem
edy. it comes as a positive proof, revelation
OF the way to health to the thousands upon
thousands of people who droop and languish
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
SUICIDES SHUN 1T.
Declining Popularity of Prussic Acid as
an Agency of Self Destruction.

DeCl1n1nR HOpularlGy VI ANuS9iO @AOhu AZ
an Agency of Self Destruction.
Twenty years ago the most familiar
method of suicide was poisoning by
prussic acid. Last year there were 1884
suicides in this city-295 men and SO
women-and of this number, as far as
the official records of the board of health
go, not one used prussic acid. All the
other poisons which are known to the
science of medicine and can be easily
procured were represented in the list
arsenic, muriatic acid, carbolio acid,
cyanide of potassium, hydrate of chic
raj, bichloride of mercury, paris green,
the favorite with female suicides; car
bon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid, lime
chloride, strychnine, morphine, nitric
acid, opium, oxalic acid and rough on
rats, but no prussic acid by separate
classification.
The term prussia acid was first ap-
piled, chemists say, to the sesquicyanide
of iron, the acid of prussian blue. 1t
was subsequently applied to the proto-
cyanide of iron, to the cyanohydric of
iron, to the hydroguret of benzyle, the
essential oil of bitter almonds and Of
the laurel cherry and to cyanogen, and
it may be possible that persons suici-
daily inclined and who accepted prussic
acid as a clear and sure cut to oblivion
from all mundane cares and griefs, be-
came perplexed at the definition of
some of the chemists and turned their
attention to other acids, the scientific
status of which is more clearly defined.
And to this reason, perhaps, may be as
cribed the growing Indifference to prus-
sic acid which is shown by suicides gen
orally, at least in the city Of New York,
for in Europe, as far as recent official
figures go, prussic acid retains its for
mer popularity, so to speak, as a means
of self destruction by suicides.
The figures of the New York board
of health show that one of the suicides
of 1896 adopted a method Of destruc-
ton which would scarcely entitle his
case to the isolation which the board of
health gives it-one suicide by the use
of alcohol. One peculiar circumstance
about suicides observable in the last
annual report which the board of health
as such in the present city Of New
York will make is the fact that though
the number of male foreigners who
committed suicide during the year is
three times greater than the number of
native born male suicides there was
very little difference between the native
born and foreign born female suicides.
OF 80 in all, 40 were natives Of this
country and 40 were foreign born. The
number of male suicides is usually
about three times greater than the num-
Der of female suicides, but between the
years of Is and 26 the number of male
and female suicides is substantially the
same. After that the number of male
suicides is, of course, much greater.
Between the ages of 45 and 65 last
year, of 1879 suicides, 105 were mem
New York Sun.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
GROTON.

Josiah Darling, wife and little daugh
ter, Josephine, from Davenport, Ia,
are visiting his father, Hon. ]. R. Oar.
ling.
Miss Mary Corruth of Topsham spent
last Sunday at George Olney's'
A. G. Welch with his wife and daugh
ter started last Monday for a two
weeks visit in Boston and Lowell.
The Methodist society are having
their parsonage repaired. putting in a
furnace and bath room, with hot and
cold water all over the house. A. n.
James is doing the work.
Miss Della Hatch is working for
Mrs. l. n Kicker.
Silas Morrison is building an addition
to his house.
James Markham, the popular conduc-
tor on the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad, was the guest of Orange Nor
rison's people over Sunday.
Mrs. Hoyt, mother of A. NJ. Heath,
is stopping with him. She is ninety
four years old and is as bright and ac-
tive as many younger lady.
EbeneZer Plummer and his invalid
wife are to live with his daughter, Mrs.
Baldwin.
George Olney and Almon James have
been making repairs on their barns.
a new sill was put in, Chas. Jones'
doing the work which Is a guarantee
that it is well done. W.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
Drugs Summon Ghosts.

A strange custom described by early
Spanish and Portuguese explorers still
fingers in the region about the headwa.
tiers of the Amazon, country rather
less known to this day than equatorial
Africa and hardly more affected by civ
ilizing influences. 1t is the custom OF
the "pa-ye," of certain sorcerers who
profess to foresee the future by the aid
of ghosts, whom they invoke by swal-
lowing toxic herb decoctions which
throw them into temporary madness.
In this condition the spirits of the de-
parted come to guide them in their de-
cisions by superhuman wisdom. Tribal
feuds, suits at law, the treatment of
disease, migrations, the treatment of
crops and other questions are submitted
to the spirits of departed sages, war
riors and medicine men.
1t is weird scene, this of the pave
By night, in the gloom of the deepest
forest, the rites begin, lighted by the
fitful glare of open fires The sorcerers
drink the nauseous steepings of the poi
son plants amid silence broken only
by the beat of the drum. The drugs
take immediate effect The sorcerers
sometimes froth at the mouth Their
eyes open wide and the pupils dilate.
They utter unintelligible cries and
yells, which are taken to be words of
deepest meaning Finally they fall
down in utter exhaustion to sleep off
the effects of their medicine.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
a REVOLUTIONARY TAVERN.
1t Was 100 Years Old and Sheltered Wash
ington, Adams and Monroe.

1t Was $50 Years Old and Sheltered Wash
ington, Adams and Monroe.
The old building on Court street
known as the Parsons tavern, which is
celebrated as the hostelry where George
Washington stopped at least once in
passing through Springfield, is now be-
ing torn down to make room for a mod
the second oldest building in town and
has been used for a tenement house of
late years.
The building was one of the taverns
Of Revolutionary days and was about
$50 years old. 1t stood when built on
the southeast corner of the present
Court square, just across from where
the Chicopee bank now is, 1t was
large structure for those days, three
stories in front with short roof slop-
ing forward from the ridgepole and a
long meandering roof sloping to the
rear and cutting the house off at the
second story just before the sheds and
"L's" began. By whom it was built is
not a matter of record. The work was
honestly done, however. Great hand
hewn timbers formed the framework
and were joined by wooden pegs Ev-
cry nail, hinge brace or other bit of
ironwork was hand forged. All the
woodwork that was meant to show was
fluted, chiseled or nodded Even the
narrow clapboards had a nodded edge
and were grooved. No paint ever touch
ed the sturdy sides or any part of the
exterior of the old house to any extent,
and the shaggy, weather worn appear
ance which resulted added much to the
attractiveness of the building,
The present site of Court square was
always the center of attraction for the
town. There were the church, the court
house, the whipping post and most of
the trading shops Auctions were held
there, and on training day all congre-
gated near the old Parsons tavern,
where the young men would try wres-
thing Consequently the tavern was al
ways q rendezvous and place where
gossip dwelt in company with flip irons
and toddy.
1t appears that Zenas Parsons was
the first host, and from him the tavern
took it's name. 1t was while he was
landlord that on Oct. 21, 1889, Wash
ington spent the night in the tavern
while on a visit to New England. The
great man slept in the second story
front room to the right as one climbed
the stairs The record in his diary reads,
"Colonel Worthington, Colonel Will
Hams, adjutant general of the state of
Massachusetts; General Shepard Mr..
Lyman, and many other gentlemen sat
an hour or two with me at Parsons
tavern, where l lodged and which is
good house" From which it would
seem that General Washington was
pleased with his entertainment.
Even before Washington came the
tavern had had a distinguished tran
silent. When John Adams returned from
the sessions of congress in Philadelphia
in November, 1775, he dined with
Landlord Parsons and Captain Pyn-
chon. Mr.. Bliss and Colonel Worthing-
ton visited him. What other famous
guests Mr.. Parsons had is untold. He |
died as the century went out, and Flea
ger Williams, slow and dignifed, sue
ceeded him. Later on, when James
Monroe as president came to Spring
field, he was cared for by Landlord John
Bennett. -Springfeld Republican.
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wise have been impossible, and seems in every
way to have blt up my general health The
attack of faintness to which l had previously
been subject have entirely disappeared. 1t in
cgeases the appetite, tends to cheerfulness and
general good feeling, and leaves 10 i'll effect.
81 can freely recommend it to all persons
afflicted with nervous disorders or that tired
feeling which is SO common. | r"ca"!mPnd ii
also to nervous people, AGED p-> 80 I'D to all
persons in delicate health.
BElVA A. LOCKWOOD. A. ". & 3. L.,
Secretary American euce bureau"
Do not suffer another moment but get DR..
Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy and
he cured. Remember it is not patent medi-
cine, but the tried and proven prescription Of
Dr.. Greene, 81 Temple Place, Boston, Mass,
the most successful physician in curing dis
ease. Consultation, examination and advice
free on all diseases at DR.. Greenes office, either
by calling personally or by writing to DR..
Greene.
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Gordon Repudiated,

The notorious money lender Isaac
Gordon, who was recently brought be-
fore the house of commons, has been ex-
PEELED from the Hebrew synagogues of
Great Britain. Not only that, but a
year before his exactions became a mat
ter of investigation strict orders were
given that no Hebrew charity or insti-
tuition should accept gifts from him on
the ground that his dealings were an
offense against Jewish morality.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15

under the burden of il'-health over-taxed
strength, nervous disorders and the weak
ne ,es, pains and aches of female complaints.
1t rings like a clarion note of hope and
health for the weakened worn out, discouraged
women Of our land, depressed alike IN nerve
power and bodily strength, who live on with
ont strength, energy or ambition. but who
will now know from the wonderful cure of
Mrs. Belra A. Lockwood, through the Use OF
DR.. Greene's Nervura, and from her enthusi-
aStic praise of this grand remedy and urgent
advice to women to seek its remarkable health
giving inviCorating and restoring powers, that
good health, strong nerves, vigorous bodies
ALWAYS follow the use Of DR.. Grecnes Nervura
blood and nerve remedy.
Mrs. Lockwood saws:
al have used DR.. Greene'S Nervura blood
and nerve remedy and am pleased to saw that
it has improved my digestion, relieved the
seeplessness under great nervous strain,
during which believe that sleep would other