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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10
X LEGAL. II

PROBATE COURTS AND COURTS OF INsOL-
NENCY-BRADFoRD DISTRICT 1886.
Probate Courts and Courts of Insolvency
within and for said district will be holden the
ensuing year as follows:
braulOlu-At j. II, WATSON s Office in Brad
ford on the second Tuesday of every month
West Fairlee-At the Eagle Hotel in West
Fairlee on the last Saturday of May, July.
September and November.
Also at the Probate Office in Thetford or
the first Wednesday of every month.
Also at East COrinth on the third Thursday
of May, July and September.
S. NJ. GLEASON, Judge.
Thetford Centre, VT, April /, 1876
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10
Estate of Alice Barrett.

Cambridge. Mass. Sept. s.-Among the
wills allowed in the Middlesex probate
court yesterday was that of Alice Bar
r. tt, late of Waltham, the bookkeeper
of Boston, who killed herself, and whose
accounts were afterwards found to be
wrong. The estate inventoried at $140O
beside S2500 life insurance. The will
of Alexander w. Thayer of Natick. who
left $50, 900 to Harvard to found the
Thayer scholarship. was also allowed.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10

The largest electric sign in New Eng
land, that OIL the Washington street ia
cade of the New Grand theater, Boston,
is composed of 1000 incandescent
lamps of 80 candle power each, and the
letters which they make are four feet
high. It took four men a month to
make the sign, and it cost the company
that erected it about So, 600.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10

some progress. The telegraph and tele.
phone, the photograph, the electric light
all were once impossible, and once it was
impossible to cure consumption. That was
before the time of DR.. Pierce's Golden Med.
ical Discovery, Taken according to direc!
tons, this standard remedy will cure % per
cent. of all cases ofconsum ption. Consun1p-
ton is caused and fostered by impurity in
the blood. 1t is cured by purity and rich
ness of the blood-surely, certainly cured
by the Medical Discovery" It builds up
solid healthy flesh and vigorous strength.
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser,
a 1905 page medical work, profusey illustrated,
to cover postage only. Address Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, Buffalo. N. Y.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10
The Good Out of 1t.

Landlady-I believe in letting coffee
boil for 80 minutes; that's the only
way to get the goodness out of it.
New Boarder Casting his and leaving
it)-You succeeded admirably. ma 'am.
London Fun.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
holding orders against the Town of YER
ed, Treasurer of said Town, for payment,
on or before Oct. 9th, 1897, as they will
cease to draw interest after that date.
Dated at Vershire, VT, Sept. 9th, 1897.
B. F. FULLER,
40, Treasurer of the Town of Nershire.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10

New Orleans, Sept 7-Raoul Gelpi,
who had been spending the summer at
Ocean Springs, was brought to this city
Thursday and died yesterday DR..
Wamsley. acting president of the board
OF health, after an autopsy, announced
that the man had died of yellow fever.
The board of health will take all steps
to prevent a spread of the disease. The
bouy was buried last evening and no
one was allowed to attend the funeral.
Gelpi was 10 years of age. Dr. Walmsley
says this is the only case in the city.
Nj ,st HIVE Certificate.
Jacksonville, Fla, Sept S.-The state
beard of health has issued proclama-
ton excluding from the state all per-
sons and baggage from the yellow
fever infected points in Louisiana and
Mississippi unless accompanied by GER
tificates that they have not been eX-
posed to the disease within Is days from
the time of departure.
Vetoed by the Mayer.
Fall River, Mass, Sept. Sat the
meeting of the board of aldermen last
night, Alderman Halfway introduced
an order for the appointment of a special
committee to investigate the election of
city officers last Inauguration day, which
was adopted. 1t was returned later with
the veto of Mayor Greene on the ground
that it was too general and that the
questions involved every member.
Advance In Silver.
London, Sept. THE advance in the
price of silver is supposed to be due to
the holding back of supplies by Amer
lea, and by the idea that silver currency
VIII be wanted in India. The purchases
were chiefly for immediate shipment
by people having contracts to fulfill in
India and China. The Times and The
Standard concur in the opinion that the
impression that India will buy silver is
a mistaken one. The currency depart
ment in India holds 10 crores of rupees
which would be released against gold in
the event of goa being exported to India
Blockade Raised.
Canea, Sept. THE admirals in COM
inand of the fleets of the powers in
Eretan waters have decided to raise the
blockade of that island on Friday, Sept.
10, the cause necessitating a blockade
having disappeared and the insurgents
having accepted an autonomous form of
Therefore the admirals
have requested the governor to disarm
everybody except the regular troops.
DIR. Andrew,' Friends.
Providence, Sept. S.-President An
drews has made public letter sent him
by large number of the professors and
members of the Brown university fac
ulty, now in the city, asking him to re-
main at the university. The communi-
cation is signed by % gentlemen. includ-
ing several whose names have not been
appended to any of the previous papers
in this case.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10

Seems as If con.
: i m p tion always
picks out the bright.
est and best. Fully
one sixth of all the
deaths that occur in
the world are caused
by con sum ption.
J any things were
once considered i'm
possible. 1t would
be strange if med
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snain strengtheDing Her Navy.

An interesting item in the last pub lioation by the naval intelligence office is the statement of the naval construc' ton that the Spanish government has in hand. Orders have been given to 6 big Italian firm near Genoa to build i'm mediately an armored cruiser, which will be named the Pedro Aragon. She will be on the lines of the crack cruiser Guiseppi Garibaldi II, which Spain has purchased and rechristened the Cristeba! Colon. The latter is to be delivered hy the builders to the Spanish government complete next February. Only la months are allowed for tine construction of the Aragon. Beth of these cruisers are to be supplied with the tubular boilers in vogue in the French navy. When finished, the vessels will he slight ly more formidable than our best or. mored cruiser, the New York
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Her Gift to Science.

Before her death, which occurred il New York city in 1878, Mrs. M. K. Benchley, the widow of former lien- tenant governor of Massachusetts, wiHed her body to the Woman's Medical col lege. According to the provisions of thls queer will the body of Mrs. Benchley was to be carefully dissected and her skeleton hung in the college museum. As far as we have been able to leafn, this is the only instance on record where .an educated woman has deliberately sent her booty to the dissecting rool1 and her bores to the showrooms of a museum. We can cite several instances where the progressive class of women thinkers have given orders that their bodies should be cretaated, but this Is the only instance on record where a tai s.nted woma-I has made such gift to science
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MAD FOR COCAINE.
Residents of Manchester, Conn.,, Afflicted With General Craze For the Drug.

Residents of Manchester, Conn.,, Afflicted With General Craze For the Drug.
 The cocaine habit has taken such a hold on the residents of Manchester, Conn, that steps are being taken to ob- tain legislative restriction on the sale uf the drug. The evil had it's inception when local druggist a year ago made preparation of cocaine and menthoI Which could be used ;.s a snuff. It was intended as specific for asthma, but tle prescription was passed around. and p3w hundreds of persons have become ,iAves to the stuff.
 One prominent druggist said that while he had made lot of money on li1e sale of the compound, he was one sf the prime movers ill trying to check she evil habit. 1t had got to such a point that well known men and women went to his house at all hours of the aight and made him go to the store and get the stuff for them, threatening if he did not that they would break into the place He says their condition is pitia- ble.
 The persons affected with this vicious habit can be seen on the streets at night "pinchingi gi-as it is called-and at al most any public entertainment they can be seen getting in dark corner, where they can enjoy good 'pinch As q rule, there are three CT four together, and they all have their turn at treating
 The pre eparation costs 90 cents all ounce. Some of the habitues consume as much as 50 worth in week.
 An experienced physician said that he never heard of d place where the abuse of the drug had become so general and chat the future prosperity of the town was involved.
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rne Cnuntess of peaconsfleId.

Speaking of his wife shortly after he1 death, the late Lord Beaconsfield said to a friend, ''She was an excellent woman, but she did rot know who was first, tfe Greeks or the Romans Benjamin Dis raeli has only been dead 10 years, but men no longer consider historical or oth- CT ignorances the test of woman's s excel. fence. At the same time, men would probably not be attracted by the late Countess of Beaconsfeld, i'll spite of her well known goodness of heart, for she neither sacr. iced to the Sraces nor to the muses. There it q happy medlu:n' and the voters who Were so systematic ally silent OF fashion and dress have ap- parently not been abii; to hlt ol ls'
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HERRMANN's GREAT TRICK.
How He Caught Bullets Fired by Expert marksmen Of the National Guard.

Sstsat Astilets tlred by Expert
 markslnen of the National Guard.
 Now that Hermann the Great is gone there can be no harm in explaining how hls wonderful trick of catching the bull. lets shot at him by six national guards. men was done.
 On both occasions the famous presti. digitateur stood alone upon the stage while six picked marksmen from the New York state national guard fired point blank upon him from platform bullt ln the audience On both occasions Hermann pale uf face and painfully alert caught the bullets, previously marked by committee of noted army men, aLd handed them back hot from the barrels for identification.
 or course 1t was trick, but it was dangerous trick, and one that Hermann dlsllked to do. But even he was less nervous than the marksmen, who, act Ing ln perfect good faith. feared that they might kill the pluoky magician.
 Of course there was an aeeomplice. and this aaeompliee was not one of the harksmen, but the sergeant in charge of them. This sergeant took the six.reg. ulation army bullet cartridges on siI, yer platter to tirs committee.
 The committee examined them. made sure they Were genuine, marked them plainly and replaced them on the plat. ter. The sergeant instantly raised the platter in plain sight at arms length above his head, walked over to tha marksmen, and they themselves each took cartridge, examined it and placed it Ill the rifle. Then came the shooting.
 The trick lay i'll the platter, which tad false bottom. Under this bottom lay six other cartridges, identical in size, weight and appearance, but hold. ing bullets made of composition of plumbago an1 mercury. When the ser geant held the platter aloft, he touched a spring and by clever mechanism these six fake" cartridges jumped into the platter, while tho genuine cartridges disappeared beneath the false bottom.
 So it was the composition cartridges that the marksmen unkowingly put into their rifles, and on firing this com. position was instantly melted hy fric. ton through the barrels and dissipated in the air
 Meantime, however, tho supposedly empty platter was taken behind tho wings, where the genuine cartridges were drawn out, quickly heated anc carefully placed bY all attendant on table, where Hermann, just before th firing, carelessly picked them up ant palmed them. Holding them in hi hands during the firing, he immediate ly produced them as the smoke cleared
 A simple trick, but very dangerou one, for if the platter's mechanism fail ed to work completely one CT moro 0 the genuine cartridges might have go into the rifles of the marksmen anc thence into Herrmann's body.-NeY York Herald.
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 It's Amusing Sitle.

There is an amusing side to the story of how the female suffrage bill came to pass the New Zealand parliament. The governments promoted the bill in ae. cordanee with electoral pledges and supported it irG every show of enthusi- asm i'll t.1o assembly. But they did not want i5 to lass and relied upon the up- per house to tmowi- out. The majority of life senators ara in the scar and vel low leaf. some of then. having sat since the colony obtained self government. and have to Ee trundIed down to the house il bath chairs when occasion ari-es. Unfortunately the female suf. frage bill came on at an hour when the veterans on whom ministers relied for rejecting it ad hobbled off te bed Be. fore they copld be brought back to the house in ble akets the matter had gone too far, and the bill for female suffrage became law, to the consternation of tii;r7a who had enly made q show of de : s=ir. r,1r tI
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Yomen.s Wages.

Out of 450 college women recently ,rtarrogated lG9 of t,lem are teachers s8 stenographers, 1T librarians, ~ ,urses 10 journalists and 19 are clerks, while the remainder are distributea around in various unclassifed positions, The majority of | gwen number o' women. asked in regard to the matter. said they received tess pay for the san lind of work in whic h mea are engaged A small ri.Ilnber were found to get the same pay, ard ver,- tiny Traction ', - = . number received maIa lGosley sn''u tueA 4u similar positionA
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caiear". o.aan's Temple.

Mrs. Matilda E. Carse, who planned .he Temple ill Chicago which is used for headquarters of the National Wom- ans Christian Temperance union. The Union Signal and many other important offices, has taken to the platform in order to raise money to liquidate the debt of the Temple Miss Shentz, an able elo- cutionist, accompanies her. Any one de. string to perpetuate the memory of q temperance worker can, by che payment of sl00 to the building fund, have suck name inscribed on the tablet in Willard hall in the Templa.
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sPANlARDs WEAR BUTTONS
Express Their War Spirit by Peculiarly
 Marked Badges.

Marked Badges.
 Henry D. Pierce, relative of the late Vice President Hendricks, who has just returned from Europe, says that in all the cities in Spain he saw persons wear. ing buttons much the same as they are worn here.
 These badges show small dog run ning away. The dog represents Cuba and is so marked. Following the dog aF Hull speed is an immense pig, which 's marked with the word America Following the pig in turn is large une bull, running after the pig and eVl. dently highly infuriated. The pig IS supposed to be ru ming away from the bull, which is goring him with his horns In most energetic manner. The bnis is marked "Spain.
 MT Pierce added that ill every con eeiYable way the hatred of the spapish people for the United States IS made ap. parent He thinks that the Spanlards are only too anxious for an opportuhits 10 get into fight with this country = Vhlcago Times Herald.
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pnroness Rnr,letl.Contts.

.rons ss BurGott- Coutts seems to be z 0i,,,lst.ess in her plans of social an4el- ion. She is said to be great ad-
 of tho pluck of Cecil Rhodes in
 !. forts to develop Rhodesia For ey- .sry elected young man who promises ettle in that possession and who : shcases Il wife from among the young y,men in her charitable institutions he will present then with e10o. Mr. Rhodes will undertake to find employ .ment for the husband The baroness is the youngest looking of all the aged la dies who still appear in general London society. She is as straight as rush and recalls the grace and charms of the most elegant ladies to be met with ill '1i9 country Of her three private secretari@s two are ladies' Proverbially kind heart, ed as is the baroness. she has not tas ( for pets Perhaps they would take up teo much of her time.
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Newspap.rs as aa.es ,aecn-rs.

Some hint as to how ex-Chief Byrne' or New York was successful as thlei taker comes out ill the claim of an ex, uetectiye. Tom Adams who asks $lo,' ooO for the press clippings he had fur nished Byrnes. It seems these clippings are an essential to the rognes gallery, and contain pictures and descriptions oi every we'll known rascal the world over. So it seems the newspapers are the best 'snlef catchers after all.
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THE BED ROLL.
Combinations of Drapery Which p.o,
 Pleasing Effects In ti,e I,q.iebs,,,,,a. ,'.'''s

Dts'ssetons - or Drapery Which Produca
 Pleasing Effects In fi.e Iledohamber.
 Beds arc very dressy affairs these days, An object of great admiration re. gently ln store window was q bed made up with bluo silk and blue nous seline do soie. The spread fell over fba sides nearly touching the floor. the Dor. der ru1fie being of ihe mousseIine over the silk. In this cas-, there were sonaTa down pillows, instead of roll. each fin. ished with a wide rufle Marie An tolnette lace spreads over a color are sumptuous, and, when possible, window curtains should match A combination of renaissance lace and Marie Antoinette effects produces a gorgeous drapery or spread. Irish point bed sets have been selling as low IS S5. h Frenchy look
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ing bedrooms the favored spread is one of chintz or eretoDne ill colors to match the decorations. Cotton fabrics for this purpose are a great speciality of uphol. stery sections and range from 48 cents to $l per ysrd. These spreads should be lined and finished round the mattress edge with heavy cotton cord They may hang over the sides finished with a fringe Or tuck in according to fancy. Very dainty youthful bed covers are of silk or satin covered with made up spreads of lace insertion and outings The roll shown is covered with one of these fancy arrangements and finished at the ends with wide fri1ls of lace and ribbon bows. Satin coverlids i'll deli. cate silks, hand embroidered, are also fashionable luxuries.
The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17

a short time ago man who had seen
better days approached several bcncyo-
lent looking gentlemen nt we'll known
hotel, asking for IL meal Iinch ono ro-
pulsed him, until finally reporter,
who had just been paid Off invited
him to bayo a snack with him II was
u good snack, too and it took all the re
porter's money, but he said it was IL
satisfaction to him to know that tho
poor man had one square meal at last.
The incident reminded me Of tho rich
man who told the poor man to work.
He said he couldn t get work. but still
the rich man SAID, You must work.
Some time after tho rich man fell into
the water and called to tho poor man to
rescue him. Swim, said tho poor
man But can t swim, said tho rich
man Well said the poor man. you
must SWIM When Il man asks aims,
1t Is always well to con taer that some
day tho situation may bs reversed, and
then the man who can't swim must
drown Boston Traveller
The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17

The story is told Of young married wo-
man, who asked another young married
woman how She managed TO get along so
amicably with her husband The answer
was 1 feed the brutc-his stomach with
food and his mind with hattery' Even
man will have 10 admit that this young wo-
man had solved about two-thirds of the art
Of making the average man happy The
other third consists Of keeping his body iu
such condition that he will eujoy his food
and his mind in such condition that he Will
be susceptible 20 tlattcry. 1t isn't much use
to PIT tempting food before a man who
hasn an appetite. 1t doesn't pay to lavish
smiles on a man whose nerves are racksd
and ovcrworked.
The average man pays very little attention
to his health, and won't take medicine of
his own accord until he is fiat on his back.
shrcwd wife will keep an eye ON her hus-
bands welfare in this respect, aud whctt
She sees that lie is bilious or suffering from
Indigestion OF is generally out Of sorts, will
sec that he resorts 20 that most wonderful
OF all invigorators, Or. Pierce 5 Golden
Medical Discovery. IL is the best of all
appetite shatpemeTs, blood makers aud
flesh builders. 1t corrects all disorders Of
the digestion and makes the liver active
and the blood pure. 1t tones the nerves
and cures all cases of nervous exhaustion
and prostration. 1t cures oS per cent, OF all
cases of consumption, bronchial. throat aud
kindred ailments. Medicine dealers sell It.
Mrs. Rebecca L. Gardner. of Grafton, York Co.
Va writes, =" was sick with dyspepsia thatI
could not eat anything for four months.
thought was going to die. weighed only 30
pounds took two bottles of the Golden Med-
ical Discovery 1 am now as well as ever aui
weigh I25 pounds
For constipation = DR. Pierce's Pellets.
The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17
Oh FOR SOMETHING TO REAoi

And it's oh for Bible or saving tract,
A history, novel or two
Tho ponderous tones of the sages Of old
Medicine, law would do:
paper, pamphlet. n magazine
To stite tho thoughts that rise
For the mind must teed, as the body does,
OR, like the body, diesl
Then it's oh for Dickens, Thackoray, sue
And Lever and Lover fun,
The stately style of the scholarly Burke
OR Hugo by the tom
There's Shakespeare, Lytton and Dumas pere,
And fills of famed Camille"
lengfellow, Whittier. Bryant and Poe
They ring of the truest steel.
Then it's oh for book of seme kind tonight
This slave is my only friend
Like friendship, too, il IL brittle and thin;
Once broken, hard 20 mend
But with friends in books YOU ne'er fall out
They re true in hour of need
Sc come, add year To my time il you Will
but give me u book to read
Philadelphia Times
The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17
Lambcrtvillc Public schools.

Report Of the lamhertville Public
Schools for the tseeond) month ending
Nov. Isl. ISq1
The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17
Oil of Peppermint

The oil Of peppermint is widely used
In the east and IS becoming well known
in this country for external application
in cases Of neuralgia or Of rheumatism
Internally. greatly diluted, it is Of
value i'll gastric disorders or for cold
or cough The orientals likewise EN-
ploy the pungent oil as an antiseptic
for wounds or burns For the latter ae-
eident it would seem tho harshest of
remedies. and yet is no more so than
ammonia, which has most magical
effect if touched lightly to tho scared
ekin
The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17

Williston Palmer is tho name of a
white man against whom there are sen
tences Of 209 years in the Georgia peni'
Tertiary Palmer was originally sent up
for II years from south Georgia for bur
ghry Shortly afterward. while work
ing in the mines Of Dade county, ho at
tempted, with other conyicts, to escape,
and in the melee that followed he killed
two of the guards He was tried some
timo ago for the killing of the first
guard and got 80 years He was then
put on trial for the killing OF the other
man and got 90 years more. Exchange
The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17

Barnes Tofmer Every seat was taken
at our last performance
Roscius de Hamme--I heard about it,
was told that the audience carried Off
the benches as the only way Of getting
any return FOR their money. y.-IndiaDap-
oils journal